There is actually a work around for IE's lack of transparency support in PNGs. It depends on some clever tricks with CSS and the fact that IE 6's CSS is broken. The only catch is that it is limited to images defined in divs.
#site_header_name {
height: 100px;
width: 702px;/* Mozilla ignores crazy MS image filters, so it will skip the following */
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImag eLoader(enabled=true, sizingMethod=scale src='../images/name.png'); }/* IE ignores styles with [attributes], so it will skip the following. */.site_header_name[class] {
background-image:url(../images/name.png); }
If you are buying a compact computer then you take limited upgradability as a given. Heck, its not any different with a portable, Mac or PC. You need to understand that these solutions are designed for a crowd that isn't really interested in upgradable options, unless they can it on, on the outside ( memory being an exception ). For them its like a video player: they'll replace it when they need something better. The only real upgradable computers are towers, and they are available on the Mac side too.
Trusting Gartner's eval is a bit like listening to the white house or congress speak about Iraq; You just know that they have their own agenda and worse, the ones behind it, have zip experience or education.
Then again they are probably using Alexa for their stats;)
Application should not have to deal with HTML rendering on their own
I totally agree with this. The OS provides a libraries to make application developers life's easier, so they should be using what is on offer. On MacOS X you have WebKit, based in KHTML for this and with KDE you have KHTML. Since so many people clamour about Firefox, is Gecko available as an easily linkable stand alone library? I know for sure that the guys working on WebKit are trying to make it work on other platforms as a standalone library.
Why is a Windows machine ever connected to an iPod during manufacturing? I'd think for a high volume product like the iPod, there would be dedicated disk duplicators to format/populate the drives, and testing would likewise be done with purpose-designed hardware. Using a Windows PC to do either seems like a crude, inefficient way to do things.
This is China and you would be surprised how much this happens. In many cases its only because of QA imposed by the international clients that any of this gets sorted.
Not to mention that PDF has reader implementations on many platforms. How long before this is true for XPS. I find it difficult to imagine that Microsoft will actually put any effort into making their XPS reader and and content creation tools to any other platform that Windows. So like WMA and WMV, its portable as long as you are using Windows, for everything else trawl the internet until you find some open source developers who have the time to port it elsewhere. I am being cynical, but this is Microsoft we are talking about. Apple would be just as bad, but at least they have decided to use document formats defined elsewhere.
If you want to allow your users to do this, instead of adding form fields to your PDF document, it's better to use Word/OpenOffice. Then the user can e.g. cut and paste properly, use rich text markup, and save what he's written in the form on the hard drive (Acrobat may be able to do some of those things now -- I haven't used its form feature in a long time -- but there's a whole pile of problems like this, you get the idea). Not having the form feature would force people to switch to a superior format for these applications.
The problem here is that this allows the user to easily modify the rest of the document, which is not usually what is wanted. When it comes to Word and OpenOffice, then one you have to pay for and the other is not always the nicest thing to use. PDF have a free viewer and anyone can implement one if they wish (spec available). The truth is I just want something that works and allows me to easily share documents with other people, without them having to fork out money in order to view my documents. Format wars only help the people fighting them and eveyone else just ends up being losers.
This sound like BluRay and HD-DVD, in the sense that the improvements are marginal and you have to wonder whether it is really necessary. PDF has published spec, so its not as if its undocumented. Why does Microsoft always need to spend their time one uping the competition instead of providing something really useful? The only reason I can image is that Adobe is wanting to charge MS licensing fees, that they would rather not pay.
Given my general observation at work places that most people don't even bother switch to stand-by power and just leave their computers on, I think encouraging people to put the computers is a good start, even if not perfect. Ideally it would be nice to be able to have computers hibernate, but then if you want to work from home, then there is no solution to wake them up. The wake-on-Lan solutions that I have seen only work on computers in stand-by.
At one of the places where I worked I implemented a web page which you could access from the VPN, and type in your PC name and it would wake up your office computer, if in stand-by.
What constitutes a signed driver? For example can any old Joe sign it or does have to be signed with the help of Microsoft? If it is the former, how much are we talking about to be able to buy a key to be able to sign stuff?
And how is this the fault of spamhaus? They're clear about what their listing criteria are, it's up to mail admins to decide how to use it.
This is true. Maybe Spamhaus could also add a grey list which lists what they believe are Spammers, but the so called spammers have claimed they are not, but have yet to prove they are not. Mail admins could then decide whether or not they want to include their grey list.
"They are thumbing their nose at an order of the court," Loethen said. "What else can we do?"
How about trying to sue them in the UK, unless they are just interested in taking advantage of the way the US legal system works - which seems more like the case.
It's fantastic that eggheads can find that teeny tiny rover on all the face of Mars when on most nights I have a hard time finding the ignition in my car after I leave the bar.
If they can do this maybe they will finally find Beagle 2?
Now we did move an OS from one box to another very often and this whole activation garbage would be annoying.
Actually makes me wonder whether this would complicate ghosting? Many companies which I have worked at create a ghost image and then install that on all new PCs. Maybe corporate versions would work differently?
Now, I hate repugnantcans more than democraps, but both are enemies of the state. DMCA was under Clinton's watch. Just wanted to point that out.
Not going to argue the point, but will say that the USA suffers a few issues which compound the problem:
- lack of parties to choose from, so we end up with the issues
- people not thinking about their freedoms
- people not giving a damn
- too expensive to start a new party
- people not willing to take a risk and maybe see what the alternatives have to offer.
- Inprisoning people for years without due process - DMCA - Warantless wire-tapping
Looks like its a good start. Now what other rights are people going to allow to be taken away from them? USA the land of the free: get it while its still available.
Anything that would get George Bush to actually read a newspaper would be a step forward.
Of course asking for proper investment into the education system is asking far too much, especially with the prison system being so demanding on the budget;)
Its all down to semantics. Basically this is like the existing portables which play video and MP3 while the portable is 'off'. In all reality the 'off' element only describes the main OS not running. Existing solutions that play MP3 and video actually use an embedded Linux to do the job. Since the embedded Linux is small enough to put on a chip and is embedded it not described as system, since from the average user's point of view, its as much system as you find in your average stereo system.
The truth is this sounds more like an overhyped technology that anything that it truely useful - of course maybe I am just nothing imagining well enough.
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There is actually a work around for IE's lack of transparency support in PNGs. It depends on some clever tricks with CSS and the fact that IE 6's CSS is broken. The only catch is that it is limited to images defined in divs.
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#site_header_name {
height: 100px;
width: 702px;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaIma
}
background-image:url(../images/name.png);
}
If you are buying a compact computer then you take limited upgradability as a given. Heck, its not any different with a portable, Mac or PC. You need to understand that these solutions are designed for a crowd that isn't really interested in upgradable options, unless they can it on, on the outside ( memory being an exception ). For them its like a video player: they'll replace it when they need something better. The only real upgradable computers are towers, and they are available on the Mac side too.
One man's polish is another man's useless eye candy... Some of us enjoy having a simple, uncluttered, low color, high contrast GUI. And a terminal.
Well some of us are still dealing with punch cards and are crazy about it ( or is that because of it? ), so there!!
You'll just be able to buy more of those $300 jeans with all the money you will save not buying games.
Woah and I thought I had some money left money for a PS3. Actually not that it matters, my PC friend didn't either.
A: "I own this"
B: "Own what? There's nothing there!"
Damn, that flag keeps on floating away.
Trusting Gartner's eval is a bit like listening to the white house or congress speak about Iraq; You just know that they have their own agenda and worse, the ones behind it, have zip experience or education.
;)
Then again they are probably using Alexa for their stats
Or getting McDonalds making Filet Mignon. ;)
Application should not have to deal with HTML rendering on their own
I totally agree with this. The OS provides a libraries to make application developers life's easier, so they should be using what is on offer. On MacOS X you have WebKit, based in KHTML for this and with KDE you have KHTML. Since so many people clamour about Firefox, is Gecko available as an easily linkable stand alone library? I know for sure that the guys working on WebKit are trying to make it work on other platforms as a standalone library.
Why is a Windows machine ever connected to an iPod during manufacturing? I'd think for a high volume product like the iPod, there would be dedicated disk duplicators to format/populate the drives, and testing would likewise be done with purpose-designed hardware. Using a Windows PC to do either seems like a crude, inefficient way to do things.
This is China and you would be surprised how much this happens. In many cases its only because of QA imposed by the international clients that any of this gets sorted.
Not to mention that PDF has reader implementations on many platforms. How long before this is true for XPS. I find it difficult to imagine that Microsoft will actually put any effort into making their XPS reader and and content creation tools to any other platform that Windows. So like WMA and WMV, its portable as long as you are using Windows, for everything else trawl the internet until you find some open source developers who have the time to port it elsewhere. I am being cynical, but this is Microsoft we are talking about. Apple would be just as bad, but at least they have decided to use document formats defined elsewhere.
If you want to allow your users to do this, instead of adding form fields to your PDF document, it's better to use Word/OpenOffice. Then the user can e.g. cut and paste properly, use rich text markup, and save what he's written in the form on the hard drive (Acrobat may be able to do some of those things now -- I haven't used its form feature in a long time -- but there's a whole pile of problems like this, you get the idea). Not having the form feature would force people to switch to a superior format for these applications.
The problem here is that this allows the user to easily modify the rest of the document, which is not usually what is wanted. When it comes to Word and OpenOffice, then one you have to pay for and the other is not always the nicest thing to use. PDF have a free viewer and anyone can implement one if they wish (spec available). The truth is I just want something that works and allows me to easily share documents with other people, without them having to fork out money in order to view my documents. Format wars only help the people fighting them and eveyone else just ends up being losers.
This sound like BluRay and HD-DVD, in the sense that the improvements are marginal and you have to wonder whether it is really necessary. PDF has published spec, so its not as if its undocumented. Why does Microsoft always need to spend their time one uping the competition instead of providing something really useful? The only reason I can image is that Adobe is wanting to charge MS licensing fees, that they would rather not pay.
MacOS X used Display PDF from what I remember.
Given my general observation at work places that most people don't even bother switch to stand-by power and just leave their computers on, I think encouraging people to put the computers is a good start, even if not perfect. Ideally it would be nice to be able to have computers hibernate, but then if you want to work from home, then there is no solution to wake them up. The wake-on-Lan solutions that I have seen only work on computers in stand-by.
At one of the places where I worked I implemented a web page which you could access from the VPN, and type in your PC name and it would wake up your office computer, if in stand-by.
What constitutes a signed driver? For example can any old Joe sign it or does have to be signed with the help of Microsoft? If it is the former, how much are we talking about to be able to buy a key to be able to sign stuff?
And how is this the fault of spamhaus? They're clear about what their listing criteria are, it's up to mail admins to decide how to use it.
This is true. Maybe Spamhaus could also add a grey list which lists what they believe are Spammers, but the so called spammers have claimed they are not, but have yet to prove they are not. Mail admins could then decide whether or not they want to include their grey list.
e360 asks:
"They are thumbing their nose at an order of the court," Loethen said. "What else can we do?"
How about trying to sue them in the UK, unless they are just interested in taking advantage of the way the US legal system works - which seems more like the case.
It's fantastic that eggheads can find that teeny tiny rover on all the face of Mars when on most nights I have a hard time finding the ignition in my car after I leave the bar.
If they can do this maybe they will finally find Beagle 2?
Would be nice if they could get such a probe to the moon and then we would be able to show people that the Eagle really had landed.
On a slightly related note, it appears that my XP installation is on its last legs; every Windows update makes it slower and slower.
;)
Nah, this is the prototype RFM implementation which requires you to reinstall Windows once a year.
Now we did move an OS from one box to another very often and this whole activation garbage would be annoying.
Actually makes me wonder whether this would complicate ghosting? Many companies which I have worked at create a ghost image and then install that on all new PCs. Maybe corporate versions would work differently?
Now, I hate repugnantcans more than democraps, but both are enemies of the state. DMCA was under Clinton's watch. Just wanted to point that out.
Not going to argue the point, but will say that the USA suffers a few issues which compound the problem:
- lack of parties to choose from, so we end up with the issues
- people not thinking about their freedoms
- people not giving a damn
- too expensive to start a new party
- people not willing to take a risk and maybe see what the alternatives have to offer.
Let's see:
- Inprisoning people for years without due process
- DMCA
- Warantless wire-tapping
Looks like its a good start. Now what other rights are people going to allow to be taken away from them? USA the land of the free: get it while its still available.
Anything that would get George Bush to actually read a newspaper would be a step forward.
;)
Of course asking for proper investment into the education system is asking far too much, especially with the prison system being so demanding on the budget
Its all down to semantics. Basically this is like the existing portables which play video and MP3 while the portable is 'off'. In all reality the 'off' element only describes the main OS not running. Existing solutions that play MP3 and video actually use an embedded Linux to do the job. Since the embedded Linux is small enough to put on a chip and is embedded it not described as system, since from the average user's point of view, its as much system as you find in your average stereo system.
The truth is this sounds more like an overhyped technology that anything that it truely useful - of course maybe I am just nothing imagining well enough.