Although FrameMaker is listed as a supported CrossOver application, and it indeed runs without a problem, you can't do anything meaningful with it. There's no support for PostScript fonts and there's no way to generate a PDF worthy of going to press with. That pretty much guts the program of any usefulness, and support for these is in the "don't hold your breath" category.
Since Adobe has axed FrameMaker for Mac, that means I am stuck on Windows for ever. And no, Scribus is not a replacement for FrameMaker, and neither is KWord. I wish they were, but they're not.
I doubt the maker of the movie had an unlimited budget and could hire actors fresh out of Hollywood. Give the guy a break, he's trying.
Indeed, it would be foolish to condemn any part of this effort. Sure, the acting isn't awesome, but there can be a lot of reasons for that, including inexperience at directing. It's definitely good enough to carry the show, and some of the lines are delivered quite convincingly.
Now the special effects...Holy cow! Those are fantastic.
"The system has to work for everybody," said David Kaefer, director of Microsoft's IP Licensing Program. "It's only a system that works for the largest companies."
Concidering that MS is one of the largest companies, the reform they are pushing for is not in their best interest.
Not so! Microsoft has historically explicitly valued the startup. Vast amounts of Microsoft's offerings started out as brilliant external startup companies that MS later bought and put their name on. Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer...the list goes on for quite some time. The last thing they want is for that source of new, purchasable ideas to dry up.
This is good business sense -- let someone else do the R&D and prove the concept. Of course, the methods by which MS acquires these startups are often, well, shady to say the least. But that doesn't change the fact that they like startups. Therefore, they want to cultivate a market in which these startups are happening, which means dispelling the cloud of patent litigation that is currently suppressing new ideas.
(It's also true that one of the biggest threats to a company like MS is this new crop of IP holdings companies that don't make products. But that has already been well stated by others.)
It's probably a very personal thing and depends a lot on your personality. I myself have left 4 jobs without another lined up (only once out of disgust, the rest was when I decided to travel).
I have always found good employement again (though the last time I had to spend a few months looking and I admit this has made me hesitant about doing it again). In retrospect all of those decisions were good for me, some of them amazingly so.
It's amazing that this is not modded higher. If you are single, and especially if you are single and young you should immediately quit a job that sucks. If you can muster a pleasant personality and view life's obstacles as challenges that you can and will overcome, you will always land on your feet. Do anything that feels right. Follow your bliss. This is the time in your life when these things are possible.
Regardless of how we feel about Microsoft as a corporation and Bill Gates as a ruthless evil business-demon, he has done wonderful things through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
You mean he's done something more wonderful than what could have been done if all those billions had not been siphoned out of the economy? This is the "breaking windows creates profit" line of thinking. It's total crap. How about not ripping people off in the first place? Coercing people to give you $40 billion and then giving $10 million back is not charity.
"Until you can get people to stop breaking the law voluntarily (via fair pricing and good business practices)"
Yes, heaven forbid we ask people to stop breaking the law because it's WRONG.
But I forgot, in today's society of instant gratification and moral relativism, anything can be justified by our wants.
I was doing the old WTF? as I was reading each of these comments. The only thing "wrong" with the Napster technique is that people are abusing a free trial period. There is nothing unethical in dumping the output of a piece of software to any device you like. If someone sends you a Word file that they wrote, and you dump its contents to a PostScript, that is NOT unethical behavior.
Now if you're refusing to pay for a legitimate copy of a commercial work, that's one thing. But directing your computer to use a different output stream is NOT wrong.
I've talked to numerous people who have owned/run/worked in games shops, they all tell the same story.
Like I said, it's always "My fourth cousin's flatmate's uncle's wife knows someone who heard it from a friend."
When asked for proof you gave this link. Yes. Games Workshop has tried to put restrictions on online discount sales. The reason for doing so is to prevent undercutting of brick and mortar stores. Where is the evidence that Games Workshop is trying to put poor Mom and Pop out of business? Oh, right. They're not. They're protecting the business interests of those shops by keeping store-less Internet ops from dumping product on the market at 5% markup (far below what a real store can compete with).
So the point stands. Stop making phony claims about Games Workshop's business practices.
However, when sales in any geographic region reach a certain saturation level, GW moves in, installing a Games Workshop store, undercutting the retail stores they supplied to by about 25%. If Warhammer was the primary source of income for the local Mom-n-Pop stores (which it probably was, if sales reached the saturation level), the Mom-n-Pop stores die. The local Warhammer market dries up, and the GW store moves out.
Riiiight. So Games Workshop's business plan is to make the market for their product disappear. How cunning! Something tells me you can't show any evidence to back this up. Oh wait, let me guess. You either you "heard it from someone whose brother's cousin's best-friend's sister-in-law knew a guy who owned a store like that" or you just made it up entirely.
Next time you feel like fabricating claims against a company, at least summon enough imagination to invent something that sounds plausible.
Vonage et al don't want to be taxed like telephone companies, but want the same (FCC) protections as to access to the network?
Maybe because the FCC is supposed to oversee the regulated monopoly that is the offspring of the old AT&T? It's a business competitiveness issue, not a what-travels-on-the-wire issue. Any new communications service that is perceived as a threat to the Bells can be stopped cold by anticompetitive means, and the FCC is charged with watching that.
Wow, is this a kind of an april's fool or something? I don't even think I need to comment much on the infeasibility of this...
Agreed. The story makes it seem like this could be implemented next month or something. The technical and legal hurdles here are huge. Even if this fingerprinting technique is the cat's meow, building a database of fingerprints by itself might take years (those masters need to be found, loaded, queued, etc.). And that says nothing about the challenge of keeping this database current! The logistics of that alone are staggering.
In addition, think about the kind of act that Congress would pass (assuming it ever did get passed over the strenuous objections of giants like SBC). It would provide a timeline, like "All ISPs have until 2012 to implement a system that can handle this." The market will be completely changed by the time anyone is actually forced into implementing this kind of scheme.
On my first professional interview, I was given an exam in a group with (IIRC) five other candidates. I thought I did well, but I know I choke on exams. So I said to the interviewer: "Yeah, I thought I did OK, but I am a terrible test taker." He keyed into that, and I got the job.
this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside
I have an idea for another contest. Design a sentence for the FreeBSD logo contest page that is comprehensible.
Amen. We've thrown billions of dollars at kids so they can have live Internet connections in all their classrooms. Yet the average U.S. student is a dunce at math, grammar, and geography, and has no concept of the scientific method and formal logic.
(Not to mention the fact that every one of the schools that has implemented a "high technology" plan is committed to spending obscene amounts of money on Microsoft licenses for the next 15 years.)
How about we try teaching kids facts and thinking skills? Wouldn't that be something?
heaven forbid they decide to buy a digital camera, or even just the latest ATI video card for little Johny... best of luck getting that to work outta the box on linux as easily as you would if you were running windows.
The next time you buy a digital camera or a video card, plug it into a Windows box but don't install any of the drivers. Best of luck getting that to work. At all.
I hate it when the failings of a hardware vendor are made out to be failings in Linux. If the device maker refuses to supply drivers or even so much as a spec sheet, somehow that is construed as a strike against Linux. Well, see how your Windows works if all the drivers are witheld.
And please, you dorks who are typing as quickly as you can "But little Johnny doesn't know that!" -- no kidding, but that has no bearing on the fact that it is a hardware vendor problem.
This guy should so obviously go to jail. I mean, you can't tell me those printer cartidges are authorized by the printer's manufacturer. This kind of wanton breaking of the DMCA has to stop if we want companies to continue making the high quality printers we've come to expect. Now someone's family at Lexmark is going to go hungry because Mr. Cantu stole their IP.
Unfortunately, none of these aspirations will materialize. IT in the U.S. and Europe is going to stagnate for the next 10-15 years, because the RIAA and MPAA (and their European equivalents) will continue doing everything they can to bring technology back to 1996 levels; and patents on algorithms and business methods will confound any new technology ventures.
"The theft of intellectual property victimizes...the American people, who shoulder the burden of increased costs for goods and services."
So shall we assume that drug patents, which definitely cause the American people to shoulder the burden of increased costs, are the next target of the Justice Department? Or how about the cost to the American public of being deprived of free access to 50-year-old ideas and expressions?
In fact, let's just declare the intarweb illegal and impose fines for anyone who uses it. Then, we can begin our slow, painful descent into obscurity and technological darkness.
Actually, this is probably what it will take to turn this around. In ten years, we'll have businesses begging the government to ban imports of Asian technology and we'll be at a 1996 tech level. Ten years after that, we'll all be using that Asian technology. The market will slowly, inexorably press us into change, just like it did with the auto industry 1975-1995.
It'll be great when we finally get so anti-progress that we're back to accusing people of being witches and burning them in the town square again.
"Evolution is a theory, not a fact." Yep. Better invest in charcoal for all the bonfires we'll be having.
My personal opinion is that theres something wrong with society when society is breaking laws at such an extent that it requires an automated process to identify and punish those offenders.
At first I thought you were saying something sensible. But it turns out you've got rectal-cranial inversion.
If society is breaking a law on a scale so massive that automated processes are required to file lawsuits against them all, then the proper attitude, at least in the U.S., is that the law is broken. The government and the marketplace must bend to the wishes of the people. It may take a few years for it to happen, but it will happen.
While I'm on a roll: I'm getting quite tired of law-worshipers like you. At one time it was illegal for women to vote. You would probably say it is therefore immoral for women to vote, because breaking the law is "wrong." Luckily, most people have more sense than that, and have a moral compass that goes beyond the way the government wants you to behave. Just because a law is on the books does not make it right. In fact it is nothing less than socially responsible to break bad laws.
I see you got your karma for fashionably bashing the Nintendo and GameCube. It reminds me a lot of the 1980s when "real men" running MS-DOS 4.0 gleefully bashed the "babies" who used Macintosh.
the two enhancements I'm looking forward to are: Augmented memory [and] Direct connect to the net
I don't doubt this will be possible in less than 20 years, thirty easily. But think about it for a second. You're talking about your memory being a node on the network. A server. The data stream from your eyes and ears can be online, instantly, replicated, stored in petabyte RAIDs somewhere. Likewise, you will be able to "remember" sights and sounds by pulling them off the network.
What we're going through now viz. intellectual property is just the warm-up round to the main event, where big IP holders try to regulate your eyes, ears, and brain. The Thought Police are going to have their day.
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Since Adobe has axed FrameMaker for Mac, that means I am stuck on Windows for ever. And no, Scribus is not a replacement for FrameMaker, and neither is KWord. I wish they were, but they're not.
Note to self, shave before taking face pic.
Aaaaaand I'm spent.
Indeed, it would be foolish to condemn any part of this effort. Sure, the acting isn't awesome, but there can be a lot of reasons for that, including inexperience at directing. It's definitely good enough to carry the show, and some of the lines are delivered quite convincingly.
Now the special effects...Holy cow! Those are fantastic.
Concidering that MS is one of the largest companies, the reform they are pushing for is not in their best interest.
Not so! Microsoft has historically explicitly valued the startup. Vast amounts of Microsoft's offerings started out as brilliant external startup companies that MS later bought and put their name on. Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer...the list goes on for quite some time. The last thing they want is for that source of new, purchasable ideas to dry up.
This is good business sense -- let someone else do the R&D and prove the concept. Of course, the methods by which MS acquires these startups are often, well, shady to say the least. But that doesn't change the fact that they like startups. Therefore, they want to cultivate a market in which these startups are happening, which means dispelling the cloud of patent litigation that is currently suppressing new ideas.
(It's also true that one of the biggest threats to a company like MS is this new crop of IP holdings companies that don't make products. But that has already been well stated by others.)
I have always found good employement again (though the last time I had to spend a few months looking and I admit this has made me hesitant about doing it again). In retrospect all of those decisions were good for me, some of them amazingly so.
It's amazing that this is not modded higher. If you are single, and especially if you are single and young you should immediately quit a job that sucks. If you can muster a pleasant personality and view life's obstacles as challenges that you can and will overcome, you will always land on your feet. Do anything that feels right. Follow your bliss. This is the time in your life when these things are possible.
You mean he's done something more wonderful than what could have been done if all those billions had not been siphoned out of the economy? This is the "breaking windows creates profit" line of thinking. It's total crap. How about not ripping people off in the first place? Coercing people to give you $40 billion and then giving $10 million back is not charity.
I was doing the old WTF? as I was reading each of these comments. The only thing "wrong" with the Napster technique is that people are abusing a free trial period. There is nothing unethical in dumping the output of a piece of software to any device you like. If someone sends you a Word file that they wrote, and you dump its contents to a PostScript, that is NOT unethical behavior.
Now if you're refusing to pay for a legitimate copy of a commercial work, that's one thing. But directing your computer to use a different output stream is NOT wrong.
Like I said, it's always "My fourth cousin's flatmate's uncle's wife knows someone who heard it from a friend."
When asked for proof you gave this link. Yes. Games Workshop has tried to put restrictions on online discount sales. The reason for doing so is to prevent undercutting of brick and mortar stores. Where is the evidence that Games Workshop is trying to put poor Mom and Pop out of business? Oh, right. They're not. They're protecting the business interests of those shops by keeping store-less Internet ops from dumping product on the market at 5% markup (far below what a real store can compete with).
So the point stands. Stop making phony claims about Games Workshop's business practices.
According to IMDB:
John Malkovich's character, a religious leader, was created especially for the movie by Douglas Adams.
Riiiight. So Games Workshop's business plan is to make the market for their product disappear. How cunning! Something tells me you can't show any evidence to back this up. Oh wait, let me guess. You either you "heard it from someone whose brother's cousin's best-friend's sister-in-law knew a guy who owned a store like that" or you just made it up entirely.
Next time you feel like fabricating claims against a company, at least summon enough imagination to invent something that sounds plausible.
Maybe because the FCC is supposed to oversee the regulated monopoly that is the offspring of the old AT&T? It's a business competitiveness issue, not a what-travels-on-the-wire issue. Any new communications service that is perceived as a threat to the Bells can be stopped cold by anticompetitive means, and the FCC is charged with watching that.
Agreed. The story makes it seem like this could be implemented next month or something. The technical and legal hurdles here are huge. Even if this fingerprinting technique is the cat's meow, building a database of fingerprints by itself might take years (those masters need to be found, loaded, queued, etc.). And that says nothing about the challenge of keeping this database current! The logistics of that alone are staggering.
In addition, think about the kind of act that Congress would pass (assuming it ever did get passed over the strenuous objections of giants like SBC). It would provide a timeline, like "All ISPs have until 2012 to implement a system that can handle this." The market will be completely changed by the time anyone is actually forced into implementing this kind of scheme.
Whats strange about using a neutrino generator to modulate a tachyon field to create a holographic reconstruction ?
You forgot to reverse the polarity. Dummy.
I have an idea for another contest. Design a sentence for the FreeBSD logo contest page that is comprehensible.
(Not to mention the fact that every one of the schools that has implemented a "high technology" plan is committed to spending obscene amounts of money on Microsoft licenses for the next 15 years.)
How about we try teaching kids facts and thinking skills? Wouldn't that be something?
The next time you buy a digital camera or a video card, plug it into a Windows box but don't install any of the drivers. Best of luck getting that to work. At all.
I hate it when the failings of a hardware vendor are made out to be failings in Linux. If the device maker refuses to supply drivers or even so much as a spec sheet, somehow that is construed as a strike against Linux. Well, see how your Windows works if all the drivers are witheld.
And please, you dorks who are typing as quickly as you can "But little Johnny doesn't know that!" -- no kidding, but that has no bearing on the fact that it is a hardware vendor problem.
"The theft of intellectual property victimizes...the American people, who shoulder the burden of increased costs for goods and services."
So shall we assume that drug patents, which definitely cause the American people to shoulder the burden of increased costs, are the next target of the Justice Department? Or how about the cost to the American public of being deprived of free access to 50-year-old ideas and expressions?
Actually, this is probably what it will take to turn this around. In ten years, we'll have businesses begging the government to ban imports of Asian technology and we'll be at a 1996 tech level. Ten years after that, we'll all be using that Asian technology. The market will slowly, inexorably press us into change, just like it did with the auto industry 1975-1995.
It'll be great when we finally get so anti-progress that we're back to accusing people of being witches and burning them in the town square again.
"Evolution is a theory, not a fact." Yep. Better invest in charcoal for all the bonfires we'll be having.
At first I thought you were saying something sensible. But it turns out you've got rectal-cranial inversion.
If society is breaking a law on a scale so massive that automated processes are required to file lawsuits against them all, then the proper attitude, at least in the U.S., is that the law is broken. The government and the marketplace must bend to the wishes of the people. It may take a few years for it to happen, but it will happen.
While I'm on a roll: I'm getting quite tired of law-worshipers like you. At one time it was illegal for women to vote. You would probably say it is therefore immoral for women to vote, because breaking the law is "wrong." Luckily, most people have more sense than that, and have a moral compass that goes beyond the way the government wants you to behave. Just because a law is on the books does not make it right. In fact it is nothing less than socially responsible to break bad laws.
I don't doubt this will be possible in less than 20 years, thirty easily. But think about it for a second. You're talking about your memory being a node on the network. A server. The data stream from your eyes and ears can be online, instantly, replicated, stored in petabyte RAIDs somewhere. Likewise, you will be able to "remember" sights and sounds by pulling them off the network.
What we're going through now viz. intellectual property is just the warm-up round to the main event, where big IP holders try to regulate your eyes, ears, and brain. The Thought Police are going to have their day.