You fool! Corel Draw is a vector design app, while gimp is not (or it was not, last time I used it). You should compare gimp with Corel Photopaint, instead
I distinctly remember having made a cat exercise, by reflecting sunlight on my watch and directing the lightspot in the vicinity of the cat.
Also used it to annoy people by directing it to their eyes.
Yeah I know, sunlight is everything but coherent, but i think this would classify as prior art... of course I'm not USian, so...
1. I wanted to know about the CDs, I don't care for the DVDs. That's why I ask without RTFA
2. I wanted to know where to buy them. Where in the article says where are they for sale? I haven't been able (last time I checked, ~2 yrs ago) to find them.
Does anyone know whether the soundtrack for the series was ever published as a CD? And if it was, where could I buy it online?
I've got the vinyl, but I'd like to listen to it when on the road, and I've been unable to find it on CD:(
Of course, knowing that the editors favour GNOME over KDE, do you really supose they will lose an opportunity to boggle down their (KDE's) servers? The load on their network is probably slowing CVS commits down by now...
So what if you boycott Guinness. More beer for the rest of us!
I really like Guinness [beer], so I could be biased, but if this person is so infantile so as to set up a domain without real content (as opposed to the kid who got harassed by Mattel) just to villify Guinness, he deserves the domain being pulled.
You could say Guinness also deserves guinesssucks.com being pulled on the same grounds, but I say they can keep it because they are not using it with bad intention.
If the squatter had offered some surveys or something, or a parody site, I'd say go on with it, but as it is, I side with Guinness here. The guy was just pissed of, and since he was smart enough to register a few thousand domains, he decided he could get off with this shit.
I don't usually comment on Slashdot quality (it just adds to the noise) but Jaime, you botched it up!
Just before you reply: this is not a personal attack, so don't attack me personally either
Oh! I didn't know the name of this release, but I think I'm gonna switch to redhat again (I just moved to mandrake) just to have this 'guinness' release. That and the fact that having bought a brand new computer last week, mandrake's sndconfig doesn't seem to be able to configure the integrated soundcard.
Now, the only thing that I have to do is learn to use debian while in vmware...
Because those TLDs are American TLD's. A historical quirk of the fact that the USA started the Internet.
Then, all TLD's are also american. Or was there a non-american internet (non capitalized so as not to confuse it with the actual Internet) that was later merged in?
TLD's existed to break up the namespace based on geographic location, not user base. Of course, domain names and IP's no longer represent actual geographic location.
they should use the lowest-common denominator character set usable by all users and input methods: ISO-8859-1
Well, I don't use any chars that are not in this set. If i wanted to register víctor.com (which I don't) I would just need ISO-8859-1.
My machine supports entering characters in several alphabets
when I said you don't have special characters, I was not speaking about your machine, but about your language. If English had had accented characters in the first place, ASCII would have them by now. And not only just those that were necessary but the ones pertaining to other languages as well, because the creators would have had the sensibility to consider them.
BTW, I'm not attacking you. Please refrain of doing it yourself.
Why not for.com,.org and.edu? What makes you think non-US netizens are not entitled to use such TLD's?
the target audience for a given domain can always have the input method to support accessing hosts in that domain
What if the target audience is on vacation in some other foreign country? Will they have to go to a cyber-ethnic-café to browse their local paper?
The DNS system is the same for all domains, so if one certain TLD can use certain encoding, what's to stop the rest of TLD's to use it? Nameservers don't know the difference, they just hold the data. Many.es,.se,.de etc. are hosted on the US, and viceversa.
The fact that you can't make sense of the names is irrelevant. As long as someone might get benefited (domain registrars, for example) it will eventually happen.
The problem is not that we have language-specific characters, is that you don't. We don't consider them special, except for the fact that we can't use them normally (without kludges like i18n features) on a computer.
i18n should be about content, not about presentation.
Can a company expose services openly available on the internet and then restrict me from using them for their stated purpose?
Well I haven't seen CueCat's EULA (or whatever they have) mainly because I'm in Europe (though I might try to get a copy of wired if they bundle a scanner as rumored on another thread), but I guess it has near the end a paragraph on all caps which reads:
NO WARRANTY: CUECAT COMES WITH NO WARRANTY... blah... blah... INCLUDING THE FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE...
So, assuming my assumption is right, doesn't this mean they can't pretend you to C&D using their product if they cannot prove themselves that their intended usage is better than yours? Or for the same reason, if they claim their stated purpose is more legit, isn't this contradicting the warranty (or lack thereof)?
Maybe Linux PDA's will have some success with the geeky crowd, but I've seen what will turn the Pocket PC into a mainstream product:
MS Reader. You can forget Pocket Word, Pocket Excel an Pocket whatever, they are a pain to use. But unless someone develops an ebook reader capable of reading (not necessarily open)standards compliant ebooks, MS will have for itself this portion of the pie. MS Reader is really the killer app for this kind of devices.
And I doubt gecko would fit on a PDA (though they made it fit on a floppy... maybe there's still hope)
Leaving apart the fact that all those apps are not really being ported to linux, let me tell you what I think.
Of course I'd like to use IE and Office under linux (I've come to like IE recently at work) but I think there are yet other apps no one has mentioned that would make my life easier were they going to be ported to Unix/Linux.
I'm thinking of MS Reader. If I had MS Reader for Linux, I could run it on an iPAQ after exorcizing it from this CE/Pocket PC thing. My company is into ebooks, and I have resisted until now to buy a (windows) PDA, but I'm realizing I will have to sooner or later (even just to test the books), so I'd prefer to be able to install linux on it without loosing the ability to read ebooks on MS propietary format.
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You fool! Corel Draw is a vector design app, while gimp is not (or it was not, last time I used it). You should compare gimp with Corel Photopaint, instead
Victor
I distinctly remember having made a cat exercise, by reflecting sunlight on my watch and directing the lightspot in the vicinity of the cat.
Also used it to annoy people by directing it to their eyes.
Yeah I know, sunlight is everything but coherent, but i think this would classify as prior art... of course I'm not USian, so...
Victor
Yeah! Don't you remember Microsoft was cracked? They stole the code from Microsoft's CVS ...err... SourceSafe, I mean
.NET?
Or it's just that they are using WINE? Or Corel's port of
Victor
1. I wanted to know about the CDs, I don't care for the DVDs. That's why I ask without RTFA
2. I wanted to know where to buy them. Where in the article says where are they for sale? I haven't been able (last time I checked, ~2 yrs ago) to find them.
Victor
Does anyone know whether the soundtrack for the series was ever published as a CD? And if it was, where could I buy it online? :(
I've got the vinyl, but I'd like to listen to it when on the road, and I've been unable to find it on CD
Victor
Of course, knowing that the editors favour GNOME over KDE, do you really supose they will lose an opportunity to boggle down their (KDE's) servers?
The load on their network is probably slowing CVS commits down by now...
Victor
I stayed at mcdonalds for a year
...
The best thing about fast food is that the sex is great.
No wonder why you stayed a year...
Victor
Hey! You are scaring me!
(Mine happens to have some beauty in addition to being low, or so I like to think)
I should add to my sig: (most of the time)
Victor
Obviously, IBM have offices in St Petersburg, yeah?
Oh yes! I saw it in a movie, Goldeneye!!
Victor
So what if you boycott Guinness. More beer for the rest of us!
I really like Guinness [beer], so I could be biased, but if this person is so infantile so as to set up a domain without real content (as opposed to the kid who got harassed by Mattel) just to villify Guinness, he deserves the domain being pulled.
You could say Guinness also deserves guinesssucks.com being pulled on the same grounds, but I say they can keep it because they are not using it with bad intention.
If the squatter had offered some surveys or something, or a parody site, I'd say go on with it, but as it is, I side with Guinness here. The guy was just pissed of, and since he was smart enough to register a few thousand domains, he decided he could get off with this shit.
I don't usually comment on Slashdot quality (it just adds to the noise) but Jaime, you botched it up!
Just before you reply: this is not a personal attack, so don't attack me personally either
Victor
Yeah, just imagine what could the agents have thought if he happened to have one of O'Really shirts...
I was going to buy them at copyleft, but now I'm not so sure. I think I'll wait till I return to my country (I'm flying to the USA in a few days)
Victor
I was hoping they would name the new fork something along the lines of tango (from TNG). Now I see they already have a samba-tng domain :(
Better luck next time?
Victor Jalencas
Oh! I didn't know the name of this release, but I think I'm gonna switch to redhat again (I just moved to mandrake) just to have this 'guinness' release. That and the fact that having bought a brand new computer last week, mandrake's sndconfig doesn't seem to be able to configure the integrated soundcard.
Now, the only thing that I have to do is learn to use debian while in vmware...
You may like BeanShell too (www.beanshell.org)
It's scripting Java, with the semantics of Java (because it is)
Because those TLDs are American TLD's. A historical quirk of the fact that the USA started the Internet.
Then, all TLD's are also american. Or was there a non-american internet (non capitalized so as not to confuse it with the actual Internet) that was later merged in?
TLD's existed to break up the namespace based on geographic location, not user base. Of course, domain names and IP's no longer represent actual geographic location.
they should use the lowest-common denominator character set usable by all users and input methods: ISO-8859-1
Well, I don't use any chars that are not in this set. If i wanted to register víctor.com (which I don't) I would just need ISO-8859-1.
My machine supports entering characters in several alphabets
when I said you don't have special characters, I was not speaking about your machine, but about your language. If English had had accented characters in the first place, ASCII would have them by now. And not only just those that were necessary but the ones pertaining to other languages as well, because the creators would have had the sensibility to consider them.
BTW, I'm not attacking you. Please refrain of doing it yourself.
Las time I checked, there were non-US universities under .edu
Check www.unica.edu for an example
So would you use something like vvvvvv.domain.se? :-) (assuming you use vv instead of w)
Well, we don't host all of our domains in Spanish ISP's, you know.
Ummm... I thought there were a lot of european-descent people among the US. Wouldn't for example the irish americans prefer to type fáilté.com?
Why not for .com, .org and .edu? What makes you think non-US netizens are not entitled to use such TLD's?
.es, .se, .de etc. are hosted on the US, and viceversa.
the target audience for a given domain can always have the input method to support accessing hosts in that domain
What if the target audience is on vacation in some other foreign country? Will they have to go to a cyber-ethnic-café to browse their local paper?
The DNS system is the same for all domains, so if one certain TLD can use certain encoding, what's to stop the rest of TLD's to use it? Nameservers don't know the difference, they just hold the data. Many
The fact that you can't make sense of the names is irrelevant. As long as someone might get benefited (domain registrars, for example) it will eventually happen.
The problem is not that we have language-specific characters, is that you don't. We don't consider them special, except for the fact that we can't use them normally (without kludges like i18n features) on a computer.
i18n should be about content, not about presentation.
Can a company expose services openly available on the internet and then restrict me from using them for their stated purpose?
... blah ... blah... INCLUDING THE FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE...
Well I haven't seen CueCat's EULA (or whatever they have) mainly because I'm in Europe (though I might try to get a copy of wired if they bundle a scanner as rumored on another thread), but I guess it has near the end a paragraph on all caps which reads:
NO WARRANTY: CUECAT COMES WITH NO WARRANTY
So, assuming my assumption is right, doesn't this mean they can't pretend you to C&D using their product if they cannot prove themselves that their intended usage is better than yours? Or for the same reason, if they claim their stated purpose is more legit, isn't this contradicting the warranty (or lack thereof)?
Maybe Linux PDA's will have some success with the geeky crowd, but I've seen what will turn the Pocket PC into a mainstream product:
MS Reader. You can forget Pocket Word, Pocket Excel an Pocket whatever, they are a pain to use. But unless someone develops an ebook reader capable of reading (not necessarily open)standards compliant ebooks, MS will have for itself this portion of the pie.
MS Reader is really the killer app for this kind of devices.
And I doubt gecko would fit on a PDA (though they made it fit on a floppy... maybe there's still hope)
Leaving apart the fact that all those apps are not really being ported to linux, let me tell you what I think.
Of course I'd like to use IE and Office under linux (I've come to like IE recently at work) but I think there are yet other apps no one has mentioned that would make my life easier were they going to be ported to Unix/Linux.
I'm thinking of MS Reader. If I had MS Reader for Linux, I could run it on an iPAQ after exorcizing it from this CE/Pocket PC thing. My company is into ebooks, and I have resisted until now to buy a (windows) PDA, but I'm realizing I will have to sooner or later (even just to test the books), so I'd prefer to be able to install linux on it without loosing the ability to read ebooks on MS propietary format.
At first glance I read: invent the wheel mice
But those already are invented! it'd be like inventing the wheel twice... oh nevermind
If it has demand, please by all means don't keep it to yourself!
They could use Interbase just as well, it has most of the features that MySQL lacks. Of course it's still in beta, but it's Open Source