Check out PrinceXML [princexml.com]. It actually adds footnotes, page number, and all that stuff to standard XHTML+CSS. It has already been used to typeset a book, and it looks quite nice.
Thanks for posting that on here, I've been looking for something decent to convert between html+css and pdf. I've been stuck manually creating pdfs in php with pdfliblite (which really sucks and has horrible documentation on php.net). This might be what I need though, since it has a php module and a bunch of other languages as well.
Solar isn't competing against oil unless you a solar powered car. Solar power is competing against coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear for electricity generation.
Lots of people use heating oil for their homes, especially in the US. According to the Dept. of Energy, over 8 million of the 107 million homes in the US use heating oil (roughly 7.5%) and rougly 4.1% in Canada. Typically, they have to refill their tanks 4 to 5 times a year. Heating oil accounts for about 25% of the yield of a barrel of crude oil, the second largest "cut" after gasoline (petrol). With solar generated heat/power in place, heating oil would no longer be needed
Tortise isn't an issue tracker, it's a front end to Subversion. The OP wants an issue tracker (Think Trac, Bugzilla, Redmine, etc) which is a different beast.
Oh, I guess I missread, thanks for letting me know. In that case, I'd reccomend Mantis. You can directly integrate it into SVN if you want. Here's the tutorial I used to integrate them together
Not sure how well you looked at TortoiseSVN's site, they have quite a bit of documentation, faqs and such on there. There's also alot of 3rd party documentation/tutorials on it floating around the web at places such as here
Probably the most user friendly one I've found (assuming you are working in the windows enviroment and sshing into a linux box). It's very similar to TortoiseCVS, if you have ever tried that. TortoiseSVN integrates right into explorer as well for ease of use. Link to their site: tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Also, isnt the concept of opensource to share information to better the overall technology? If nvidia feels that giving out their driver code will give ATI better video cards than their own, it would be insane for Nvidia to release them (which implies that ATI cards are more or less hardware equivilant to Nvidia). It may improve the overall tech, but only in favor of ATI (assuming ATI's own drivers do not improve from their own advancements not related to what they could potentionally gain from nvidia's). Hey, maybe there is a chance that Nvidia opening their drivers will cause ATI to go through some sort of breakthrough in drivers themselves, thus improving both their own drivers and nvidia's (if nvidia chooses to impliment it). Giving away the key to your company's flagship product would be economic suicide, the equivlant to Windows giving up its source code to XP, Vista and Office (as much as anyone here would like Windows to go opensource). On a final note, Nvidia probably has put too much money and time into their drivers to give them up, whereas ATI mostly invested more money into R & D of their hardware.
You are claiming ATI will outright steal from Nvidia, whether one driver is better than the other doesn't matter, I want you to back up your claim that they would do something like that.
Would you like me to call up ATI and ask them?
ATI Customer Service: What can I help you with today. Me: If Nvidia made their drivers OSS, would you borrow from them? ATI Customer Service: I'm sorry sir, we cannot answer that at this time. Is there anything else I can help you with? Me: Nope, thanks.
If someone makes a better product and the product's is available for all to see, then most likely, similar products from competitors will borrow from the concept. Especially when it's legally allowed depending on the open source license. If nvidia published their drivers and going on the fact they are generally (I said generally in my previous post as well, so please do not pidgen hole me) better than ATI's, what would stop ATI from borrowing ideas or code from them other than scout's honor or just stubborness? I am not debating the ethics of it, since how is it wrong if it's not stealing? Aside from that, they could if they wanted without recourse, as I stated depending on what license Nvidia would choose for their open source drivers.
Tom's Hardware did a pretty good job detailing the ups and downs of ATI and Nvidia with many of the major games of last year (BioShock, World in Conflict, etc). Overall, both companies faired well, but they reported quite a few crashes due to the ATI drivers. I've had an ATI card before, the 9800xt when Nvidia was producing their horrible 5xxx series back in 2003-04 that was totally worthless. The 9800xt was a good card for everything (gaming, graphical aps, etc). Sorry, I should have cited sources. Wasn't trolling on purpose, though I know that writing anything positive about Nvidia on slashdot is borderline blasphemy.
AMD/ATI have released the specs for their hardware. Why haven't the proprietary NVIDIA engineers done the same? What do they have to hide?
In terms of actually being totally non-proprietary, Nvidia has to worry about ATI stealing their drivers (which they would or at least "borrow" alot from them), since Nvidia generally has that as their trump card over ATI no matter who has the better hardware. On the other hand, Nvidia has no interest in "borrowing" from ATI's drivers. ATI knows that, and that's why their drivers are open. Yes, it may suck for wanting to run anything multimedia, graphical or gaming wise on Linux if you have Nvidia card (I have an 8800gt and I feel the pain at times on KDE), but in this case, I think Nvidia's rationale for not giving up their specs is reasonable. Now, if they only cared more about their drivers for Linux, proprietary or not.
Actually, there is a fairly legit criticism of the US post office that would probably have some support on slashdot if it were more widely known. Until 1912, mail was delivered on Sundays in the United States. However, religious leaders felt that it was hurting their attendence (and subsequently, their collection plates) and appealed to the government to stop delivery on Sunday. Post offices at that time doubled as public gathering places to socialize. Supporters of no-Sunday delivery still claim that the post office is closed to prevent a government subsidized agency from forcing Christians to work on Sunday, a protection of religious freedom. That however is obvious bullshit, since the post office does not close for any other religion. Even using that reasoning, it's a clear violation of the seperation of church and state.
For more details search google or check out this article.
No one seems to complain on here that much about the National Retirement Fund, the post office (though Canada's partial privitization of it has had lackluster results) or spoke out against the possibility of nationalized of health care in the US (by no means an endorsement by me of the job insurance companies do now). If one is going to critique monopolies, they have to look at both the private and public sector though. After all, slashdot of all places should know that just because something is solely in the hands of the "public" does not mean it has much more of an interest in the public than a private corporation.
You can assume that being in prison, there is most likely not much to do there. As such, think of the situation as being like a small town, only worse. In small towns, everyone knows everything about everyone and gossip is everywhere. Imagine what that situation would be in prison. Most have little to nothing better to do than dig up or make up gossip/rumors about others to see how far they will go. Aside from that, camps are not quite club fed. There are plenty of drug traffickers and those who were once in low and medium security areas. White collar convictions might be only 10%, if that. Then you have a bunch of uneducated low lives who will just go along with the mob mentality. Who knows what they might have done for fun just to see this guy snap. Most likely not physically beaten or harmed, but there are plenty of other ways to get to someone.
Start a search on him. If he's given out enough info about who he is through his postings/username/etc, use that to lead to other details about him, such as addy, phone number, myspace/facebook, etc. With that, you can just show up at his house one day, tell him to STFU and leave it at that or just call him and let him know he can't hide on the Internet. If he doesn't have a trail, social engineer something out of him.
Either way, it'll probably scare the shit out of him that someone figured out where he lives. I'm guessing he'll think twice about it the next time he tries something like that online. Most "internet bullies" are cowards in real life, so I'd say revealing who he is will put a quick stop to his "rein of terror."
Back in 2000, Bell Labs came out with something similar. They produced n and p type transistors out of plastic based materials and could be printed on with techniques used for paper.
Plastic circuits that have both n-type and p-type transistors would be useful in certain high-volume applications. Besides roll-up display screens and smart cards, other potential uses include luggage tags that help airport personnel locate lost suitcases, or tags on groceries that verify whether they were transported under the right conditions to the supermarket.
As a resident of Ohio, let me assure you our barracks are only full of life saving supplies in case the apocalypse. After all, we may need 1 million copies of AutoCad to rebuild the earth after a major disaster.
Any browser can induce a boatload of headaches to those who are uninformed on how to use it. Aside from Vista and all of it's obvious headaches such as drivers and legacy software not working, XP and 2k were not quite as bad.
I think anyone will agree that even Linux can cause plenty of headaches as well if one is not careful. Sendmail was one of those battles I had a while ago.
My issue is that "No one cares when Opera or Safari have a similar release. [or Internet Explorer, or Konqueror...]" but they do when its Firefox.
Opera 9.51 went through a few RC's and a final and is on 9.52RC/Snapshot, Safari has gone through a couple *.*# and a whole #.0 in the last few months for Mac, Win and Mobile...
Your post is sorta worded as flamebait to some, but it does have truth. It doesn't take a statistician or a complex algo to add up how many postings have been about FireFox in the past 6 months compared to all other browsers combined. I applaude the openness that Mozilla chose for it's flagship browser. However, their product seems to have drawn some rather fervent users as well. Don't mind them, they're to Firefox as Fundies are to religion. That is, ignore/condemn anything that doesnt parallel their own viewpoint.
Non free? I believe you mean they have a proprietary source code, as opposed to open source like firefox. I don't recall paying to download either Opera or Safari for my desktop and laptop. Yes, I do know opera charges now for the Wii browser, but I don't have a Wii.
Only complaint I have about 2003 is no DirectX 10, though it's not really important at the moment. 2008 does have dx10, though and hypervisor looks somewhat interesting.
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Thanks for posting that on here, I've been looking for something decent to convert between html+css and pdf. I've been stuck manually creating pdfs in php with pdfliblite (which really sucks and has horrible documentation on php.net). This might be what I need though, since it has a php module and a bunch of other languages as well.
Lots of people use heating oil for their homes, especially in the US. According to the Dept. of Energy, over 8 million of the 107 million homes in the US use heating oil (roughly 7.5%) and rougly 4.1% in Canada. Typically, they have to refill their tanks 4 to 5 times a year. Heating oil accounts for about 25% of the yield of a barrel of crude oil, the second largest "cut" after gasoline (petrol). With solar generated heat/power in place, heating oil would no longer be needed
Oh, I guess I missread, thanks for letting me know. In that case, I'd reccomend Mantis. You can directly integrate it into SVN if you want. Here's the tutorial I used to integrate them together
Not sure how well you looked at TortoiseSVN's site, they have quite a bit of documentation, faqs and such on there. There's also alot of 3rd party documentation/tutorials on it floating around the web at places such as here
Probably the most user friendly one I've found (assuming you are working in the windows enviroment and sshing into a linux box). It's very similar to TortoiseCVS, if you have ever tried that. TortoiseSVN integrates right into explorer as well for ease of use. Link to their site: tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Also, isnt the concept of opensource to share information to better the overall technology? If nvidia feels that giving out their driver code will give ATI better video cards than their own, it would be insane for Nvidia to release them (which implies that ATI cards are more or less hardware equivilant to Nvidia). It may improve the overall tech, but only in favor of ATI (assuming ATI's own drivers do not improve from their own advancements not related to what they could potentionally gain from nvidia's). Hey, maybe there is a chance that Nvidia opening their drivers will cause ATI to go through some sort of breakthrough in drivers themselves, thus improving both their own drivers and nvidia's (if nvidia chooses to impliment it). Giving away the key to your company's flagship product would be economic suicide, the equivlant to Windows giving up its source code to XP, Vista and Office (as much as anyone here would like Windows to go opensource). On a final note, Nvidia probably has put too much money and time into their drivers to give them up, whereas ATI mostly invested more money into R & D of their hardware.
Would you like me to call up ATI and ask them?
ATI Customer Service: What can I help you with today.
Me: If Nvidia made their drivers OSS, would you borrow from them?
ATI Customer Service: I'm sorry sir, we cannot answer that at this time. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Me: Nope, thanks.
If someone makes a better product and the product's is available for all to see, then most likely, similar products from competitors will borrow from the concept. Especially when it's legally allowed depending on the open source license. If nvidia published their drivers and going on the fact they are generally (I said generally in my previous post as well, so please do not pidgen hole me) better than ATI's, what would stop ATI from borrowing ideas or code from them other than scout's honor or just stubborness? I am not debating the ethics of it, since how is it wrong if it's not stealing? Aside from that, they could if they wanted without recourse, as I stated depending on what license Nvidia would choose for their open source drivers.
Tom's Hardware did a pretty good job detailing the ups and downs of ATI and Nvidia with many of the major games of last year (BioShock, World in Conflict, etc). Overall, both companies faired well, but they reported quite a few crashes due to the ATI drivers. I've had an ATI card before, the 9800xt when Nvidia was producing their horrible 5xxx series back in 2003-04 that was totally worthless. The 9800xt was a good card for everything (gaming, graphical aps, etc). Sorry, I should have cited sources. Wasn't trolling on purpose, though I know that writing anything positive about Nvidia on slashdot is borderline blasphemy.
In terms of actually being totally non-proprietary, Nvidia has to worry about ATI stealing their drivers (which they would or at least "borrow" alot from them), since Nvidia generally has that as their trump card over ATI no matter who has the better hardware. On the other hand, Nvidia has no interest in "borrowing" from ATI's drivers. ATI knows that, and that's why their drivers are open. Yes, it may suck for wanting to run anything multimedia, graphical or gaming wise on Linux if you have Nvidia card (I have an 8800gt and I feel the pain at times on KDE), but in this case, I think Nvidia's rationale for not giving up their specs is reasonable. Now, if they only cared more about their drivers for Linux, proprietary or not.
OMG, feds read slashdot? *hides*
Actually, there is a fairly legit criticism of the US post office that would probably have some support on slashdot if it were more widely known. Until 1912, mail was delivered on Sundays in the United States. However, religious leaders felt that it was hurting their attendence (and subsequently, their collection plates) and appealed to the government to stop delivery on Sunday. Post offices at that time doubled as public gathering places to socialize. Supporters of no-Sunday delivery still claim that the post office is closed to prevent a government subsidized agency from forcing Christians to work on Sunday, a protection of religious freedom. That however is obvious bullshit, since the post office does not close for any other religion. Even using that reasoning, it's a clear violation of the seperation of church and state.
For more details search google or check out this article.
No one seems to complain on here that much about the National Retirement Fund, the post office (though Canada's partial privitization of it has had lackluster results) or spoke out against the possibility of nationalized of health care in the US (by no means an endorsement by me of the job insurance companies do now). If one is going to critique monopolies, they have to look at both the private and public sector though. After all, slashdot of all places should know that just because something is solely in the hands of the "public" does not mean it has much more of an interest in the public than a private corporation.
You can assume that being in prison, there is most likely not much to do there. As such, think of the situation as being like a small town, only worse. In small towns, everyone knows everything about everyone and gossip is everywhere. Imagine what that situation would be in prison. Most have little to nothing better to do than dig up or make up gossip/rumors about others to see how far they will go. Aside from that, camps are not quite club fed. There are plenty of drug traffickers and those who were once in low and medium security areas. White collar convictions might be only 10%, if that. Then you have a bunch of uneducated low lives who will just go along with the mob mentality. Who knows what they might have done for fun just to see this guy snap. Most likely not physically beaten or harmed, but there are plenty of other ways to get to someone.
Since when is 25 old? I just turned 25 and have yet to tell kids to "Get off my lawn", "Turn down that music" or say "Back in my day..."
Start a search on him. If he's given out enough info about who he is through his postings/username/etc, use that to lead to other details about him, such as addy, phone number, myspace/facebook, etc. With that, you can just show up at his house one day, tell him to STFU and leave it at that or just call him and let him know he can't hide on the Internet. If he doesn't have a trail, social engineer something out of him.
Either way, it'll probably scare the shit out of him that someone figured out where he lives. I'm guessing he'll think twice about it the next time he tries something like that online. Most "internet bullies" are cowards in real life, so I'd say revealing who he is will put a quick stop to his "rein of terror."
That reminds me:
Personally it's not God I dislike, it's his fan club I can't stand.
Back in 2000, Bell Labs came out with something similar. They produced n and p type transistors out of plastic based materials and could be printed on with techniques used for paper.
Good ole pidgeon hole theorem, havent seen that since discrete mathematics.
As a resident of Ohio, let me assure you our barracks are only full of life saving supplies in case the apocalypse. After all, we may need 1 million copies of AutoCad to rebuild the earth after a major disaster.
I believe insurance companies give discounts to drivers (especially young ones) for having gps tracking installed in their cars.
Any browser can induce a boatload of headaches to those who are uninformed on how to use it. Aside from Vista and all of it's obvious headaches such as drivers and legacy software not working, XP and 2k were not quite as bad.
I think anyone will agree that even Linux can cause plenty of headaches as well if one is not careful. Sendmail was one of those battles I had a while ago.
Your post is sorta worded as flamebait to some, but it does have truth. It doesn't take a statistician or a complex algo to add up how many postings have been about FireFox in the past 6 months compared to all other browsers combined. I applaude the openness that Mozilla chose for it's flagship browser. However, their product seems to have drawn some rather fervent users as well. Don't mind them, they're to Firefox as Fundies are to religion. That is, ignore/condemn anything that doesnt parallel their own viewpoint.
Non free? I believe you mean they have a proprietary source code, as opposed to open source like firefox. I don't recall paying to download either Opera or Safari for my desktop and laptop. Yes, I do know opera charges now for the Wii browser, but I don't have a Wii.
Only complaint I have about 2003 is no DirectX 10, though it's not really important at the moment. 2008 does have dx10, though and hypervisor looks somewhat interesting.
Kinda like a high priced callgirl...and just as expensive to purchase.