Yes, and it's MUCH better for handling huge images. I've had ImageMagick choke on large TIFFs because it tries to load the entire image into RAM, which can be a mess (e.g. with multipage image files). NCONVRT -- and its related API for Windows, GflSDK -- handles large files much better.
Its international support (for East Asian languages, at least, which I use heavily) really doesn't seem to be up to snuff. It's better than Office 97, by far, and probably better than Office 2000, but not as good as Office 2003 with the Proofing Tools pack installed (adds fonts and utilities for a variety of language needs). OOo basically cloned some of the Chinese/Japanese formatting from MS Office, but not all of it and not well enough. There are lots of very specific things it's nice to be able to do with East Asian text (notably vertical text and interlinear/supralinear comments) that OOo doesn't do very well.
Not a big thing for everyone, but essential for some.
I do a lot of library research, and the LIDE 30 is light enough to put into a backpack with my laptop, sit down in a reference room, and scan in materials without even needing to plug in.
If I write some poems, print them myself on my old-fashioned movable type press (not that I do this myself, but I know folks who do), and distribute 100 copies, why the heck should I have to submit an electronic copy to anyone?
It matters for a simple reason: if they lie today about what they were doing 30 years ago, it's not a dead issue. If in 1980 or 1990 or even 2000 W had said, "Sure, I got out of serving in Vietnam, I blew off some of my duties, but everyone was doing it then," that would be one thing. But he didn't; he has misrepresented what he did and that makes it a live issue.
Sounds like a good idea but isn't. There are lots of times I have a site bookmarked that I *KNOW* I will need again, but only irregularly. Perfect example: a site with information useful for preparing my income tax. It won't be sitting in my history because I only go there once a year (right about now, better get cracking on that...), but if I google it I'd just end up having to pick through dozens, even thousands, of similar sites to find the one I need. As it is, I have a Business -> Taxes section in my bookmarks, and the bookmark sits there waiting to be used every April. Exactly as it should be.
One reason: Because any message not in English (of which some of us receive many) would get flagged. Of course one could set language preferences, but that could be tricky (a lot of computing to compare one email to multiple dictionaries).
There needn't be a single, universal answer to this. It depends on the alternatives to recycling and the costs of each. For example, it may not make much sense to recycle steel if you live between an iron mine and a coal mine, but if you're in Japan, and have domestic supplies of neither raw material, recycling may make sense.
Another fact is the cost of the inputs, key among which is labor. If labor is cheap, picking through garbage to find glass, metal, and specific kinds of plastic makes sense. If it costs US$20/hr, it probably doesn't.
And finally, you need to consider the cost/benefit of your alternative, landfill or incineration. In some places, potentially recyclable materials, including some plastics, are burnt to generate electricity; this might make more sense than recycling. And if you're in Japan, recycling can also save valuable land from the dumps. That probably matters less in Montana.
I've successfully done this, bring a camera to library/archives and taking pics.
Some suggestions: - Get a camera that has a B&W (really greyscale) mode. Some do, some don't. It matters because it makes the files much smaller and you can fit a lot more pages onto the memory card.
- Don't use the USB or even firewire connection to transfer pictures. It's infinitely easier and battery-saving as well to get an adapter (if you have a laptop, a PCMCIA one) that can read the memory card directly; the OS will just treat it like a disk.
- If you can, put a sheet of non-reflecting glass over the page you're photographing. This is what they do when they make microfilm form books. But if you are going to carry around a sheet of glass, you might as well lug a scanner.
I use M$Office. I don't like to, but bcause I have to. Not because I'm working in a cubicle panopticon for an overseer who has mandated it, but because it's the only package on the market, so far as I know, that handles Unicode well.
I need to use various European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese characters. You can do that in Linux -- with effort, some very beta parts of the OS, and none of the office suites I know of. For all its faults, MS Office 2000 handles these things like a charm. I can have single-byte (ASCII) and double-byte (Chinese, Japanese) characters in the same document or database, and it knows what to do with them. StarOffice and Wordperfect get the heck confused out of them by such things.
The reason is simply that MS has (finally, after much hesitation) come over to Unicode as a standard. Linux isn't there yet. Even Apple, which for a long time was ahead of Windows on these things, hasn't made it so easy to combine multiple script.
I've tried using Linux to do what I now do in Windows and Office (write a dissertation and maintain a database of Chinese- and Japanese-language materials). To do it in Linux, I would need to write a lot of C. Or wait a few years for others to do so. I consider myself computer literate -- but don't think that adapting to new software means writing it yourself.
Have you noticed on English Windows that all MS programs stuff up JIS/EUC encodings when you try to copy them to the clipboard? You end up with ?????????? when you do a paste.
I have had the same experience (using Chinese text rather than Japanese. But it is not a bug, it is a feature, and a good one (sort of...). What's happening is that Windows (96/8, at least, and in some respects NT; 2000 is different, they say) is sort-of Unicode-compliant, but not entirely. What happens is that when you copy the text out of IE (4 or 5) it sits in your clipboard in Unicode rather than in pairs of bytes representing each kanji. This is ia good thing. It means that if the application into which you are pasting understands Unicode encoding, it will treat the kanji as individual, two-byte characters rather than pairs of characters that happen to get rendered on your screen/printout as a single kanji.
The problem is that most Windows software doesn't deal with Unicode properly. It can't handle the string it's getting from the clipboard, and can only render it with ????s. At the moment, Word 97 and all the Office 2000 apps can handle Unicode, so if you paste from IE into one of them it should work fine (assuming you have Japanese fonts installed; in Access you need to specify an alternate font to display mixed text). You can also test this by pasting text from one IE window into a form in another (e.g., on a Japanese site).
Overall, it's a good thing that the newer MS apps support Unicode. They've now outpaced MacOS in some respects (Worldscript is dead). And Linux is still finicky about Unicode (I've given up on Redhat 6.1 and am going to try Madrake 7.0 which seems cleverer about it). But the downside is that older apps won't understand text from the newer ones (be it pasted from the clipboard or imported from a file). There are workarounds (usually involving 3rd parties or roll-your-own).
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, and it's MUCH better for handling huge images. I've had ImageMagick choke on large TIFFs because it tries to load the entire image into RAM, which can be a mess (e.g. with multipage image files). NCONVRT -- and its related API for Windows, GflSDK -- handles large files much better.
What if you have a pacemaker?
Its international support (for East Asian languages, at least, which I use heavily) really doesn't seem to be up to snuff. It's better than Office 97, by far, and probably better than Office 2000, but not as good as Office 2003 with the Proofing Tools pack installed (adds fonts and utilities for a variety of language needs). OOo basically cloned some of the Chinese/Japanese formatting from MS Office, but not all of it and not well enough. There are lots of very specific things it's nice to be able to do with East Asian text (notably vertical text and interlinear/supralinear comments) that OOo doesn't do very well.
Not a big thing for everyone, but essential for some.
That really shouldn't be within the purview of the Air Resources Board.
Just to third this opinion:
I do a lot of library research, and the LIDE 30 is light enough to put into a backpack with my laptop, sit down in a reference room, and scan in materials without even needing to plug in.
That's an absurd, dangerous proposal.
If I write some poems, print them myself on my old-fashioned movable type press (not that I do this myself, but I know folks who do), and distribute 100 copies, why the heck should I have to submit an electronic copy to anyone?
It matters for a simple reason: if they lie today about what they were doing 30 years ago, it's not a dead issue. If in 1980 or 1990 or even 2000 W had said, "Sure, I got out of serving in Vietnam, I blew off some of my duties, but everyone was doing it then," that would be one thing. But he didn't; he has misrepresented what he did and that makes it a live issue.
I doubt this will work; it's more of a hardware issue.
I've throttled my Windows box many times, sometimes while it was still booting the BIOS, and I don't think any patch to the OS will change that.
Sounds like a good idea but isn't. There are lots of times I have a site bookmarked that I *KNOW* I will need again, but only irregularly. Perfect example: a site with information useful for preparing my income tax. It won't be sitting in my history because I only go there once a year (right about now, better get cracking on that...), but if I google it I'd just end up having to pick through dozens, even thousands, of similar sites to find the one I need. As it is, I have a Business -> Taxes section in my bookmarks, and the bookmark sits there waiting to be used every April. Exactly as it should be.
Not true. There's also the tinkertoy contraption that plays tic tac toe (built at MIT).
One reason: Because any message not in English (of which some of us receive many) would get flagged. Of course one could set language preferences, but that could be tricky (a lot of computing to compare one email to multiple dictionaries).
National Geographic and dictionary maker still do this.
There needn't be a single, universal answer to this. It depends on the alternatives to recycling and the costs of each. For example, it may not make much sense to recycle steel if you live between an iron mine and a coal mine, but if you're in Japan, and have domestic supplies of neither raw material, recycling may make sense.
Another fact is the cost of the inputs, key among which is labor. If labor is cheap, picking through garbage to find glass, metal, and specific kinds of plastic makes sense. If it costs US$20/hr, it probably doesn't.
And finally, you need to consider the cost/benefit of your alternative, landfill or incineration. In some places, potentially recyclable materials, including some plastics, are burnt to generate electricity; this might make more sense than recycling. And if you're in Japan, recycling can also save valuable land from the dumps. That probably matters less in Montana.
I've successfully done this, bring a camera to library/archives and taking pics.
Some suggestions:
- Get a camera that has a B&W (really greyscale) mode. Some do, some don't. It matters because it makes the files much smaller and you can fit a lot more pages onto the memory card.
- Don't use the USB or even firewire connection to transfer pictures. It's infinitely easier and battery-saving as well to get an adapter (if you have a laptop, a PCMCIA one) that can read the memory card directly; the OS will just treat it like a disk.
- If you can, put a sheet of non-reflecting glass over the page you're photographing. This is what they do when they make microfilm form books. But if you are going to carry around a sheet of glass, you might as well lug a scanner.
Not really. They should have been zero-indexed, not one-indexed.
I need to use various European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese characters. You can do that in Linux -- with effort, some very beta parts of the OS, and none of the office suites I know of. For all its faults, MS Office 2000 handles these things like a charm. I can have single-byte (ASCII) and double-byte (Chinese, Japanese) characters in the same document or database, and it knows what to do with them. StarOffice and Wordperfect get the heck confused out of them by such things.
The reason is simply that MS has (finally, after much hesitation) come over to Unicode as a standard. Linux isn't there yet. Even Apple, which for a long time was ahead of Windows on these things, hasn't made it so easy to combine multiple script.
I've tried using Linux to do what I now do in Windows and Office (write a dissertation and maintain a database of Chinese- and Japanese-language materials). To do it in Linux, I would need to write a lot of C. Or wait a few years for others to do so. I consider myself computer literate -- but don't think that adapting to new software means writing it yourself.
There's another link at: http://www.latimes.com/news/ nation/20000514/t000045621.html
I have had the same experience (using Chinese text rather than Japanese. But it is not a bug, it is a feature, and a good one (sort of...). What's happening is that Windows (96/8, at least, and in some respects NT; 2000 is different, they say) is sort-of Unicode-compliant, but not entirely. What happens is that when you copy the text out of IE (4 or 5) it sits in your clipboard in Unicode rather than in pairs of bytes representing each kanji. This is ia good thing. It means that if the application into which you are pasting understands Unicode encoding, it will treat the kanji as individual, two-byte characters rather than pairs of characters that happen to get rendered on your screen/printout as a single kanji.
The problem is that most Windows software doesn't deal with Unicode properly. It can't handle the string it's getting from the clipboard, and can only render it with ????s. At the moment, Word 97 and all the Office 2000 apps can handle Unicode, so if you paste from IE into one of them it should work fine (assuming you have Japanese fonts installed; in Access you need to specify an alternate font to display mixed text). You can also test this by pasting text from one IE window into a form in another (e.g., on a Japanese site).
Overall, it's a good thing that the newer MS apps support Unicode. They've now outpaced MacOS in some respects (Worldscript is dead). And Linux is still finicky about Unicode (I've given up on Redhat 6.1 and am going to try Madrake 7.0 which seems cleverer about it). But the downside is that older apps won't understand text from the newer ones (be it pasted from the clipboard or imported from a file). There are workarounds (usually involving 3rd parties or roll-your-own).