And beat them to it as well. The Google Translate Blog notes that G+ has had this ability from late August and has been at the crowdsourcing translations game a lot longer, and offers more languages.
I love linux and I've been using Ubuntu since 5.10 - but let's not forget that it's not just evil corporations that do this! Ubuntu has a plugin that's installed when you install firefox, without asking.
to be crying foul when you make your money from other people's technical ignorance. I also distribute MSE when it's needed - because it is the best and free.
...but I'd take this with a grain of salt. I grew up hearing about this stuff 20 years ago - my father worked with Mark von Itzstein in the development of Zanamivir in the 80s. I heard the statement "Cure For the Common Cold" so many times since then that I'm dubious now. Note that the wiki article above notes "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), no flu, seasonal or pandemic, has shown any signs of resistance to zanamivir.[1]" so presumably, it's already the case that we have a "Cure For the Common Cold". Hell, as a young teenager I was proud that my father was involved in that exercise.
Until, of course, I saw my father interviewed with tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE and Etta Cetera where he noted "of course, now that the cold is cured, it can no longer be used as an excuse for that age-old Australian work shirker, the sickie". That was when the full reality of my father's complicity in teh capitalist sytem struck (and horrified) me.
I've not read the article, but as a long term linux and ubuntu user, I would say their contribution to community building and documentation that is the ubuntu forums kicks all kinds of kernel arse, to be honest.
1. The probability of you being the first or only person to have experienced this problem is approaching 0. 2. The probability of the problem either [solved] or in the process of being solved, by nerds that speak human, is approaching 1.
This is the Ubuntu forums. This is why you can put moderately techy people on linux and let them troubleshoot themselves.
Maybe those human rights groups should spend their time more vigorously fighting the wars, corruption and shenanigans that make wikileaks such a required global asset.
It's true. I teach Translation Studies and one of the main pieces of software that's needed is OCR. I use OOo, Poedit, Lokalize, Jubler and OmegaT in my class, I teach Creative Common's Licensing, I promote sites like http://pootle.locamotion.org/ and http://www.transifex.net/
I *really* *really* wish I could give my students a best of the bunch free OCR link. But the reality is, ABBYY Finereader is the best that's available. And since it's relatively cheap (compared to some of the translation software like Trados) I don't think it's too onerous.
But hot diggity, I wish there was a better FLOSS OCR program.
So what am I meant to do? I'm never going to click on an ad, ever, full stop. I just don't work like that. Don't feel special, internet, I similarly ignore ads in daily newspapers and magazines as well as on television. The truth is, I spend more time on the internet because my filtering system is better.
I hear what you are saying Ars, but it presumes that ads are effective on all of your readers. They're not.
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And beat them to it as well. The Google Translate Blog notes that G+ has had this ability from late August and has been at the crowdsourcing translations game a lot longer, and offers more languages.
+1 - pandoc and github combined make for an easy option - I do the same, hosting the github locally
While I mostly agree - why hasn't anyone just forked Gnome2 and run with it - it is under the GPL isn't it?
I love linux and I've been using Ubuntu since 5.10 - but let's not forget that it's not just evil corporations that do this! Ubuntu has a plugin that's installed when you install firefox, without asking.
to be crying foul when you make your money from other people's technical ignorance. I also distribute MSE when it's needed - because it is the best and free.
...but I'd take this with a grain of salt. I grew up hearing about this stuff 20 years ago - my father worked with Mark von Itzstein in the development of Zanamivir in the 80s. I heard the statement "Cure For the Common Cold" so many times since then that I'm dubious now. Note that the wiki article above notes "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), no flu, seasonal or pandemic, has shown any signs of resistance to zanamivir.[1]" so presumably, it's already the case that we have a "Cure For the Common Cold". Hell, as a young teenager I was proud that my father was involved in that exercise. Until, of course, I saw my father interviewed with tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE and Etta Cetera where he noted "of course, now that the cold is cured, it can no longer be used as an excuse for that age-old Australian work shirker, the sickie". That was when the full reality of my father's complicity in teh capitalist sytem struck (and horrified) me.
Confluence is easy and looks pretty, but face it - the permissions controls are _abysmal_.
Indeed, The University of Victoria is, in fact, in Canada. They are welcome to take PM Gillard off our hands if they would like.
I've not read the article, but as a long term linux and ubuntu user, I would say their contribution to community building and documentation that is the ubuntu forums kicks all kinds of kernel arse, to be honest.
1. The probability of you being the first or only person to have experienced this problem is approaching 0.
2. The probability of the problem either [solved] or in the process of being solved, by nerds that speak human, is approaching 1.
This is the Ubuntu forums. This is why you can put moderately techy people on linux and let them troubleshoot themselves.
More Or Less is off air atm, but is a wonderful podcast that is probably best described as "Myth Busters for Statistics". Highly recommended.
Maybe those human rights groups should spend their time more vigorously fighting the wars, corruption and shenanigans that make wikileaks such a required global asset.
It's true. I teach Translation Studies and one of the main pieces of software that's needed is OCR. I use OOo, Poedit, Lokalize, Jubler and OmegaT in my class, I teach Creative Common's Licensing, I promote sites like http://pootle.locamotion.org/ and http://www.transifex.net/ I *really* *really* wish I could give my students a best of the bunch free OCR link. But the reality is, ABBYY Finereader is the best that's available. And since it's relatively cheap (compared to some of the translation software like Trados) I don't think it's too onerous. But hot diggity, I wish there was a better FLOSS OCR program.
+1 for digiKam over either F-spot or Shotwell - one of the first things I do on a new machine for the relatives is to install digikam.
um. Did you try google? http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/
So what am I meant to do? I'm never going to click on an ad, ever, full stop. I just don't work like that. Don't feel special, internet, I similarly ignore ads in daily newspapers and magazines as well as on television. The truth is, I spend more time on the internet because my filtering system is better. I hear what you are saying Ars, but it presumes that ads are effective on all of your readers. They're not.