(garbage in, garbage out) have you noticed that the original is not in "correct" English? I went to the site and tried with:
I know it's fairly accurate because I have fooled my Spanish-speaking friends once in an IM conversation. I told them that I learned Spanish via hypnosis and basically just copied and pasted everything Spanish into IM. The conversation went on fully in Spanish for approximately 15 minutes before I told them I was using the website. They were pissing in their pants.
and I had:
Sé es bastante exacto porque he engañado a mis amigos Hispanohablantes una vez en una conversación de IM. Dije ellos que aprendí español vía el hipnosis y todo español básicamente apenas copié y pegué en IM. La conversación pasó completamente en español para aproximadamente 15 minutos antes yo los dije utilizaba el sitio web. Ellos meaban en sus pantalones.
which is nice translation (some pronouns are missing, ok), and putting it back to English brought me:
I know is quite exact because I have deceived my Spanish-speaking friends once in a conversation of IM. I said they that I learned Spaniard way the hypnosis and every Spaniard basically barely I copied and I hit in IM. The conversation passed completely in spanish for approximately 15 minutes before I said utilized them the website. They meaban in its pants.
(what's up with it not knowing that "mear" is "to piss" and "Spaniard"???)
* Drawing your windows quickly. You say your windows are drawn without draining your productivity. Mine (AthlonXP 1800+, 1/5GBRAM, doubles as workstation and firewall, runs some services which are important to me [mldonkey]) aren't. I can take some 100x acceleration in the rendering (RTFA).
* Speeding screen udpating in power-demanding apps. My PC does NOT play DVDs full screen without acceleration... not even with xv it does play DVDs full screen without skipping some frames.
* Freeing your CPU... Ok. I do like some eye candy. And I'll go further: for some applications, I need some eye candy (transparent windows), especially for geo-referenced ones (which I do work with from time to time). And for those applications, the slowness of the rendering is a productivity drag for me.
* Making your screen convey more information... this is just another, special case of the last point. One example: I need to know what is my CPU/Board temperature, and if the program monitoring those data is grabbing 2% of my CPU just to sit in the background, updating a small display, something is wrong and can be improved.
All my answers are based on what improves my experience.
(to both your questions) Drawing your windows quickly; Speeding screen updating in power-demanding apps (e.g. video); Freeing your CPU to concentrate in your programs' data instead of in the screen's eye candy; Making your screen convey more information about your computer's and your data's status.
Six months ago, when I (re-)installed my Kubuntu Warty workstation/server/firewall (dead HD), it was the last time I edited a.conf file. IIRC, I had to edit by hand the dnsmasq conffile and the FireHOL conffile. Since then, I installed a lot of software via kinaptic, it asked me some configuration questions and voila. Ah, it's been on ever since (except for this week, when the power went down in my building, and the UPS couldn't cope).
Brazilian Authors's Rights Act (Lei 9610/98): Art. 46, I, d: "it does not constitute copyright infringement the reproduction of literary, artistic or scientific works, for the exclusive use of the visual deficients, whenever the copying, without commercial purposes, is done in Braille or other media that support said people" (translation -- terrible -- mine). This means libraries can copy audiobooks to the blind user without worrying with infringement.
But incomplete: there are 3 types of countries -- the ones which are powerful enough and screw the others, the ones which are are not powerful enough and whine, and the ones which are not powerful enough and send suicide bombers to blow up really big buildings -- consequently screwing not only thousands of innocend "screwer country" citizens, but also its democratic institutions (like the rights to privacy and due process of law)
Remeber: we do have 100 years of cinema to take advantage of:-) Really, I like some classics, so Telecine Classic is nice to me... and my videoclub has bought this month a new DVD collection with Chaplin works (15 DVDs) Notice that only those make for a month... We did have an interesting, and good national (Brasil) movies in the 1950's (nice chanchada comedies), some very artsy stuff in the 1960's-1970's -- and some nice stuff came out in the last 10 years (Central do Brasil [which I have already watched], Cidade de Deus [which I haven't]). After I lived in Spain (1998) and perfected my Spanish, I have being watching a lot of Spanish, Mexican and Argentinian movies, too (feels good not needing the subtitles). So, no, I think I did not exhaust my movies yet. As a matter of fact, what I feel like I am exausting is TV -- I watch 2-4 hours/day of series (mainly SF shows, but some nice ones like House, Desperate Housewives) and I download a lot of SF shows to watch on my DVD player. I watched all Trek shows, B5+Crusade, SG-1, SGA,... and sometimes I run out of shows to watch, and it can happen that I am not in the mood for a 2h movie that day.
Linux is a massively complex work when the subject is copyright. Basically, the kernel as a whole is GPLv2, and Linus (who has the copyright on a lot of code and has indirect copyright on almost the whole kernel [much kernel code which is not his is still derivative on his original linux v0.01]) says he -- like other intelligent people -- do not consider the FSF GPL FAQ as correct about linking (especially dynalinking) and the GPL. IOW: when you GPLv2 some code, you are probably granting the right to dynalink proprietary modules to your work. Linus only stated this explicitly, thus estopping himself from suing anyone (nVidia?) who makes proprietary loadable kernel modules.
license your code under the GPL, and grant an additional exception that plugins can be proprietary. It would work, too... supposing the GPL really forbids dynlinking to proprietary modules, which is disputed.
Movie going for two (*): Parking: R$ 3 Good theatre: R$ 30 Coke: R$ 3 Popcorn (small): R$ 3 --- Total ---: R$ 39 (~US$ 15 per movie).
Now, let's assume no interest. If I only use my home theatre for 15 months, I will have spent US$ 2200. If I go see 10 movies per month (easily done in your own home theatre) for the same period, I will have spent US$ 2250. hehe.
Now, my Sky plan has 5 Telecine movie channels and other channels bring movies. My videoclub let me stay with 5 movies at all times on me, and I have 48-72 hours to bring them back (and it's in my workplace). The three of us easily watch 20 movies/month, with brings the time-to-pay-for-itself of my home theatre down to 5 months. Make it 6 months and we still can catch one blockbuster per month in the theatre, especially the ones Lucas likes (he's 6yo).
(*) actually, we're three (me, Ivana and Lucas), with the fourth one coming, but whatever.
Every single movie I know fits in a DVD (some fit in a DVD9, but nontheless). Some things (TV shows seasons) come in a DVD-pack but we don't have to watch 18 hours straight of Smallville season 4, do we? And do we REALLY want a scratch to make all of your collection unreadable? Do we really want to put a gazillion eggs in the Super Size basket? I, for one, welcome my old DVD overlords as long as I can.
He, he, he. I hope this is your attempt of humour:-)
Really (annotated versions of codelaw):
Constitution (República Federativa do Brasil): 600 pages Civil Code: 1200 pages Administrative Law Compendium: 1600 pages Representative House of MG's Regiment: 200 pages (no annotations) Civil Law textbook: 300 pages Constitutional Law textbook: 300 pages Legislative Process textbooklet: 150 pages
total: 4350 pages (approximately 6.64 MiB of text)
plucker does gzip its pages, and my PalmIII had a TRG memory board (total 8MB of memory), so this may answer your parent post, too.
I loved it. Focus, hit the and let it roll (slower for codelaw, faster for textbooks...). Stop when need to consult some xref, back to start over...
I do agree with you. Even if computers are a good way to find informations, they don't offer a good reading comfort. Imagine yourself reading a 500-pages book in front of a screen : you soon get tired and disturbed. I'd rather read it layed down on my bed or sat in a comfortable chair. Well, I don't. I read at least 200 pages from screen each and every day. And I have a very good experience with reading codelaw and textbooks from a palmtop. Actually, I've been wanting to buy one of those, but they are somewhat expensive at the moment.
that grabbing and flipping the pages is not an extra step? My anedocte (it's probably the 2nd time I posted this): I am a public employee, and I had to pass a rather difficult test to get my job (500 candidates, 5 openings, I was #3). And I studied all of the test's subjects (civil law, constitutional law, legislative process, administrative law) off a Palm III's screen -- translated all texts and codelaw into HTML and plucker'ed them: autoscroll was my friend. With some smart indexing and x-refing. Now, if I was to carry all this with me (I studied a lot while commuting) I would have to carry appoximately 20kg of books, instead of 200g in my pocket. And I obviously have no problem reading from a screen.
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have you noticed that the original is not in "correct" English?
I went to the site and tried with: and I had:which is nice translation (some pronouns are missing, ok), and putting it back to English brought me:(what's up with it not knowing that "mear" is "to piss" and "Spaniard"???)
I have some observations:
... Ok. I do like some eye candy. And I'll go further: for some applications, I need some eye candy (transparent windows), especially for geo-referenced ones (which I do work with from time to time). And for those applications, the slowness of the rendering is a productivity drag for me.
... this is just another, special case of the last point. One example: I need to know what is my CPU/Board temperature, and if the program monitoring those data is grabbing 2% of my CPU just to sit in the background, updating a small display, something is wrong and can be improved.
* Drawing your windows quickly. You say your windows are drawn without draining your productivity. Mine (AthlonXP 1800+, 1/5GBRAM, doubles as workstation and firewall, runs some services which are important to me [mldonkey]) aren't. I can take some 100x acceleration in the rendering (RTFA).
* Speeding screen udpating in power-demanding apps. My PC does NOT play DVDs full screen without acceleration... not even with xv it does play DVDs full screen without skipping some frames.
* Freeing your CPU
* Making your screen convey more information
All my answers are based on what improves my experience.
HTH
(to both your questions)
Drawing your windows quickly;
Speeding screen updating in power-demanding apps (e.g. video);
Freeing your CPU to concentrate in your programs' data instead of in the screen's eye candy;
Making your screen convey more information about your computer's and your data's status.
so, no one can know where are you pointing at.
unless this is an attempt of humour (in which case, it didn't work at all).
HTH,
Massa
Six months ago, when I (re-)installed my Kubuntu Warty workstation/server/firewall (dead HD), it was the last time I edited a .conf file. IIRC, I had to edit by hand the dnsmasq conffile and the FireHOL conffile. Since then, I installed a lot of software via kinaptic, it asked me some configuration questions and voila. Ah, it's been on ever since (except for this week, when the power went down in my building, and the UPS couldn't cope).
Brazilian Authors's Rights Act (Lei 9610/98):
Art. 46, I, d: "it does not constitute copyright infringement the reproduction of literary, artistic or scientific works, for the exclusive use of the visual deficients, whenever the copying, without commercial purposes, is done in Braille or other media that support said people" (translation -- terrible -- mine).
This means libraries can copy audiobooks to the blind user without worrying with infringement.
But incomplete: there are 3 types of countries -- the ones which are powerful enough and screw the others, the ones which are are not powerful enough and whine, and the ones which are not powerful enough and send suicide bombers to blow up really big buildings -- consequently screwing not only thousands of innocend "screwer country" citizens, but also its democratic institutions (like the rights to privacy and due process of law)
Remeber: we do have 100 years of cinema to take advantage of :-) ... and sometimes I run out of shows to watch, and it can happen that I am not in the mood for a 2h movie that day.
Really, I like some classics, so Telecine Classic is nice to me... and my videoclub has bought this month a new DVD collection with Chaplin works (15 DVDs) Notice that only those make for a month...
We did have an interesting, and good national (Brasil) movies in the 1950's (nice chanchada comedies), some very artsy stuff in the 1960's-1970's -- and some nice stuff came out in the last 10 years (Central do Brasil [which I have already watched], Cidade de Deus [which I haven't]). After I lived in Spain (1998) and perfected my Spanish, I have being watching a lot of Spanish, Mexican and Argentinian movies, too (feels good not needing the subtitles).
So, no, I think I did not exhaust my movies yet.
As a matter of fact, what I feel like I am exausting is TV -- I watch 2-4 hours/day of series (mainly SF shows, but some nice ones like House, Desperate Housewives) and I download a lot of SF shows to watch on my DVD player. I watched all Trek shows, B5+Crusade, SG-1, SGA,
There is no exception.
read this.
Linux is a massively complex work when the subject is copyright. Basically, the kernel as a whole is GPLv2, and Linus (who has the copyright on a lot of code and has indirect copyright on almost the whole kernel [much kernel code which is not his is still derivative on his original linux v0.01]) says he -- like other intelligent people -- do not consider the FSF GPL FAQ as correct about linking (especially dynalinking) and the GPL.
IOW: when you GPLv2 some code, you are probably granting the right to dynalink proprietary modules to your work. Linus only stated this explicitly, thus estopping himself from suing anyone (nVidia?) who makes proprietary loadable kernel modules.
license your code under the GPL, and grant an additional exception that plugins can be proprietary. It would work, too... supposing the GPL really forbids dynlinking to proprietary modules, which is disputed.
a comparison between the two would be great.
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Babysitting for FREE !!! :-)
Fixed costs:
TV Set: R$ 1500
Sound System: R$ 1000
DVD player: R$ 300
--- Total ---: R$ 2700 (~US$ 1150 fixed)
Monthly costs:
SKY: R$ 130
Videoclub: R$ 28
--- Total ---: R$ 158 (~US$ 70 monthly)
Movie going for two (*):
Parking: R$ 3
Good theatre: R$ 30
Coke: R$ 3
Popcorn (small): R$ 3
--- Total ---: R$ 39 (~US$ 15 per movie).
Now, let's assume no interest. If I only use my home theatre for 15 months, I will have spent US$ 2200. If I go see 10 movies per month (easily done in your own home theatre) for the same period, I will have spent US$ 2250. hehe.
Now, my Sky plan has 5 Telecine movie channels and other channels bring movies. My videoclub let me stay with 5 movies at all times on me, and I have 48-72 hours to bring them back (and it's in my workplace). The three of us easily watch 20 movies/month, with brings the time-to-pay-for-itself of my home theatre down to 5 months. Make it 6 months and we still can catch one blockbuster per month in the theatre, especially the ones Lucas likes (he's 6yo).
(*) actually, we're three (me, Ivana and Lucas), with the fourth one coming, but whatever.
the formats are physically incompatible (think 8 track tape versus cassete tape).
But then again, I could be wrong.
Every single movie I know fits in a DVD (some fit in a DVD9, but nontheless).
Some things (TV shows seasons) come in a DVD-pack but we don't have to watch 18 hours straight of Smallville season 4, do we?
And do we REALLY want a scratch to make all of your collection unreadable? Do we really want to put a gazillion eggs in the Super Size basket?
I, for one, welcome my old DVD overlords as long as I can.
Down here your US$ 40 is the MONTHLY (48h/week) minimum wage. Deal with it.
AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger... and KDE (no GNOME libraries for me, please)
(the viral marketing) after all, they had to put it on /. so we could hear about it :-)
Google never has a website that sucks
Have you ever used Orkut?
He, he, he. I hope this is your attempt of humour :-)
Really (annotated versions of codelaw):
Constitution (República Federativa do Brasil): 600 pages
Civil Code: 1200 pages
Administrative Law Compendium: 1600 pages
Representative House of MG's Regiment: 200 pages (no annotations)
Civil Law textbook: 300 pages
Constitutional Law textbook: 300 pages
Legislative Process textbooklet: 150 pages
total: 4350 pages (approximately 6.64 MiB of text)
plucker does gzip its pages, and my PalmIII had a TRG memory board (total 8MB of memory), so this may answer your parent post, too.
I loved it. Focus, hit the and let it roll (slower for codelaw, faster for textbooks...). Stop when need to consult some xref, back to start over...
I do agree with you. Even if computers are a good way to find informations, they don't offer a good reading comfort. Imagine yourself reading a 500-pages book in front of a screen : you soon get tired and disturbed. I'd rather read it layed down on my bed or sat in a comfortable chair.
Well, I don't. I read at least 200 pages from screen each and every day. And I have a very good experience with reading codelaw and textbooks from a palmtop.
Actually, I've been wanting to buy one of those, but they are somewhat expensive at the moment.
that grabbing and flipping the pages is not an extra step?
My anedocte (it's probably the 2nd time I posted this):
I am a public employee, and I had to pass a rather difficult test to get my job (500 candidates, 5 openings, I was #3). And I studied all of the test's subjects (civil law, constitutional law, legislative process, administrative law) off a Palm III's screen -- translated all texts and codelaw into HTML and plucker'ed them: autoscroll was my friend. With some smart indexing and x-refing. Now, if I was to carry all this with me (I studied a lot while commuting) I would have to carry appoximately 20kg of books, instead of 200g in my pocket. And I obviously have no problem reading from a screen.
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