Hmmm, last time I tried, RTF worked just fine under KWord... actually, I use a lot the RTF filter so that my coworkers can read my documents in MS Word. And it works fine.
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If they are really lying, they did a nice job changing the pictures... This is supposedly a picture of Palestinians celebrating on Tuesday. Notice the little boy. He's wearing a Brazilian national soccer team shirt. And this shirt is quite different from the ones used in 1991. Actually, this one is pretty recent, I think it was used the first time around the 1998 world cup.
I can't say if the picture is really from Tuesday, but it really can raise some questions about this "indie" article. That, and the fact that I live in Brazil and haven't heard a word from anyone at the University of Campinas about this.
The hardest part of working on a notebook is putting it back together when you're done.
And the best part is, after hours of restless work and when you finally say "It's done!", you look at the table and see you have some spare parts that were not there before...
"Fight Club" is not nearly a good comparisson. Try watching "New York Under Siege" (I think this is the original name; I hate translations!). That one paints a much closer scenario to what we have seen today. And it's god damn scary (aside from the "in the end all is fine" ending).
You could write a wrapper that makes Berlin CORBA calls out of the gtk function call. That way you'd get a berlin-button when asked to draw a gtk button.
Yes, that's perfectly reasonable, and really would kill the "look and feel" problem. But one of the problems in X is that you have many widget libraries loaded to run your applications (one needs GTK, other needs Qt, etc etc), and this would not be different in Berlin in such a case.
But, if the library overhead can be kept within limits, it's a nice approach.
There's nothing out there for it! People are working on porting Gtk/Glib over.
In their X vs Berlin page the say that one of the advantages is that all applications have the same "look & feel" because they use the same widget set.
So, if to have applications in Berlin you have to port your widget set so applications that use that set can run on Berlin, what's the point of their point?
I think that it will be extremely difficult for them to have as much applications as you have with Motif/GTK/Qt, even if the speed is good (has anyone really tested it?). The code base of other projects is big, and a lot of time has been spent on them, so it's not really going to be dumped that easily...
My favorite thing was to construct vast cities, and then launch billiards balls at them,
pretending it was meteors coming down.
I understand you. A friend of mine had these fancies also. But he was more in the asteroids business, specially those big asteroids in the shape of his little brother.
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There were these two intelligent alien races. They didn't know each other's language, but they did have a universal translator that could translate between them; however it was somewhat buggy and didn't always do a terribly good job, but it was good enough most of the time.
So Douglas Adams was right after all! Babel fish is really alien technology!
when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password.
Are you sure this is not some reprint of a BOFH episode?
Blame the game makers, movie makers, music makers, blame em all. However don't you dare say a fscking thing about the good parents who teach kids right from wrong.
Well, in a last and desperate attempt, we can always blame Canada.
Actually, they didn't lie.:-) The page says "praticamente do tamanho do seu rato", which means "almost the size of your mouse".
But, taking the word "rato" to the other meaning (the animal), generally in portuguese there's no distinction between rat and mouse, "rato" being used in both situations. So... (g)
I change channels on the tv and radio and kill the volume
Talking specifically about Brazil here (open and cable TV, rare exceptions), you'd be missing the only thing that can be saved from the TV schedule.:-)
Following your line of thought, really poor people can't buy anything.
But, considering that most part of the Brazilian population fit in the lower class *and* in the lower middle-class, it is still a pretty valid approach.
If you have been following the news recently, much is being said about how the drop in phone line prices (which you can buy for about US$ 40 now, when they used to be above the US$ 600 line before) brought phone for very poor towns. Why can't the same thinking be applied to a computer?
About connecting public schools, the project can (and probably will) help this; as has been pointed out, the schools will be able to buy these more affordable PC's. Not to talk about the many schools in south Brazil that are already investing in using Linux as an attempt to bring computers at a somewhat lower cost.
Not only that, but one of the pages (the only I visited) is some kind of "form validation techniques" using probably JavaScript.
And even that is IE specific! The code won't run on Konqueror. (And don't start yelling Konqueror has no good JS support, because I have some pretty complex JS form validation that works like a charm on every browser - including Konqueror).
You now have a QT with render support, anything you compile against it will get anti-aliased text including the whole of KDE2.
It seems I'm missing something in the process... aside from compiling Xfree86 (I got the ready made binaries), I did all steps you mentioned, and nothing has changed here.:-/
libqt.so.2 is evend linked to libXrender.so (according to ldd), but the fonts are just like they were before.
Has someone got things working with the released binaries?
That hitting up, up, down, down, square, circle, square, circle, start, he wont' be granted unlimited ammo or enter some "god mode" or something. --
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Hmmm, last time I tried, RTF worked just fine under KWord... actually, I use a lot the RTF filter so that my coworkers can read my documents in MS Word. And it works fine.
If they are really lying, they did a nice job changing the pictures... This is supposedly a picture of Palestinians celebrating on Tuesday. Notice the little boy. He's wearing a Brazilian national soccer team shirt. And this shirt is quite different from the ones used in 1991. Actually, this one is pretty recent, I think it was used the first time around the 1998 world cup.
I can't say if the picture is really from Tuesday, but it really can raise some questions about this "indie" article. That, and the fact that I live in Brazil and haven't heard a word from anyone at the University of Campinas about this.
The hardest part of working on a notebook is putting it back together when you're done.
And the best part is, after hours of restless work and when you finally say "It's done!", you look at the table and see you have some spare parts that were not there before...
"Fight Club" is not nearly a good comparisson. Try watching "New York Under Siege" (I think this is the original name; I hate translations!). That one paints a much closer scenario to what we have seen today. And it's god damn scary (aside from the "in the end all is fine" ending).
You could write a wrapper that makes Berlin CORBA calls out of the gtk function call. That way you'd get a berlin-button when asked to draw a gtk button.
Yes, that's perfectly reasonable, and really would kill the "look and feel" problem. But one of the problems in X is that you have many widget libraries loaded to run your applications (one needs GTK, other needs Qt, etc etc), and this would not be different in Berlin in such a case.
But, if the library overhead can be kept within limits, it's a nice approach.
There's nothing out there for it! People are working on porting Gtk/Glib over.
In their X vs Berlin page the say that one of the advantages is that all applications have the same "look & feel" because they use the same widget set.
So, if to have applications in Berlin you have to port your widget set so applications that use that set can run on Berlin, what's the point of their point?
I think that it will be extremely difficult for them to have as much applications as you have with Motif/GTK/Qt, even if the speed is good (has anyone really tested it?). The code base of other projects is big, and a lot of time has been spent on them, so it's not really going to be dumped that easily...
My favorite thing was to construct vast cities, and then launch billiards balls at them, pretending it was meteors coming down.
I understand you. A friend of mine had these fancies also. But he was more in the asteroids business, specially those big asteroids in the shape of his little brother.
There were these two intelligent alien races. They didn't know each other's language, but they did have a universal translator that could translate between them; however it was somewhat buggy and didn't always do a terribly good job, but it was good enough most of the time.
So Douglas Adams was right after all! Babel fish is really alien technology!
Still it doesn't say you must, distributing the source with the binaries is one option, not the only one.
when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password.
Are you sure this is not some reprint of a BOFH episode?
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Marcelo Vanzin
At least with Konqueror:
Not as straight-forward as clicking a link, but, it's there. :-)
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Marcelo Vanzin
Blame the game makers, movie makers, music makers, blame em all. However don't you dare say a fscking thing about the good parents who teach kids right from wrong.
Well, in a last and desperate attempt, we can always blame Canada.
(/me ducks)
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Marcelo Vanzin
Actually, they didn't lie. :-) The page says "praticamente do tamanho do seu rato", which means "almost the size of your mouse".
But, taking the word "rato" to the other meaning (the animal), generally in portuguese there's no distinction between rat and mouse, "rato" being used in both situations. So... (g)
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They even made ESR and RMS agree on something!
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The article says that Microsoft "plans to alert customers as soon as possible with an e-mail bulletin...
which will automagically install a patch when read with Microsoft® Outlook®.
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The one and true answer is separation of content vs. application, and total pluggability between the two.
Velocity.
Anyone who does servlets like described in the article needs a brain wash...
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I change channels on the tv and radio and kill the volume
Talking specifically about Brazil here (open and cable TV, rare exceptions), you'd be missing the only thing that can be saved from the TV schedule. :-)
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Marcelo Vanzin
There's a movie that discuss this very same point of view, called "Inherit the Wind" or something like that.
The "darwinist" in the movie discusses the Adam and Eve tale as if it was an over-simplification of the Darwin theory.
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Following your line of thought, really poor people can't buy anything.
But, considering that most part of the Brazilian population fit in the lower class *and* in the lower middle-class, it is still a pretty valid approach.
If you have been following the news recently, much is being said about how the drop in phone line prices (which you can buy for about US$ 40 now, when they used to be above the US$ 600 line before) brought phone for very poor towns. Why can't the same thinking be applied to a computer?
About connecting public schools, the project can (and probably will) help this; as has been pointed out, the schools will be able to buy these more affordable PC's. Not to talk about the many schools in south Brazil that are already investing in using Linux as an attempt to bring computers at a somewhat lower cost.
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Marcelo Vanzin
Not only that, but one of the pages (the only I visited) is some kind of "form validation techniques" using probably JavaScript.
And even that is IE specific! The code won't run on Konqueror. (And don't start yelling Konqueror has no good JS support, because I have some pretty complex JS form validation that works like a charm on every browser - including Konqueror).
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Marcelo Vanzin
so why not work the electronics into the walls and surfaces
Well, at least that way you would only need to buy an air conditioner that does cooling... the walls would have "built-in" heat pumps. :-)
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And one would wonder what Cobol programmers would come up with after the Y2K craze, only to make some bucks.
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You now have a QT with render support, anything you compile against it will get anti-aliased text including the whole of KDE2.
It seems I'm missing something in the process... aside from compiling Xfree86 (I got the ready made binaries), I did all steps you mentioned, and nothing has changed here. :-/
libqt.so.2 is evend linked to libXrender.so (according to ldd), but the fonts are just like they were before.
Has someone got things working with the released binaries?
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Marcelo Vanzin
That hitting up, up, down, down, square, circle, square, circle, start, he wont' be granted unlimited ammo or enter some "god mode" or something.
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Oops, I fscked up the URL.
Try http://www.lge.com.br/html/produtos/informatica.ht ml. Slashdot seems not to be understaing my URLs... :-/
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Marcelo Vanzin