What is the problem with EPS? No one in OS seems to be putting any great efforts into supporting one of the most important file formats in the world. There is not a single decent EPS editing system for Linux (decent: imports and exports EPS and can cope with TrueType fonts). But SVG, there's plenty. Why? What's the advantage? Does nobody use Linux for designing logos for use in the real world?
OOo is a decent product, but I was half-expecting a grammar checker.
Since no one has managed to make a working grammar checker there seems little point in including something like the sort of crap that MSOffice has had bundled with it for the last ten years.
The product with a non-zero marginal cost to produce (hardware) will be free, yet the product with a zero marginal cost will not be free? Something seems a bit wrong with that logic.
Which is why big companies are always pushing for stronger, more draconian IP laws and abusing the patent system: that's the only way this insane system can be made to work. Ultimately, as you imply, such a system is unstable and will eventually collapse. But long term views are not common in industry generally and the computer industry particularly.
Yeah, parent's all over the world will be able to save a fortune by not taking their kids to the cinema and instead stick them in front of their 19" TV and play a DVD. Kid's are well known for making do with a half-arsed version of something all the other kids are talking about in school and is being marketed wall-to-wall in their television programmes.
If it was truly a free market there, you'd have other companies competing for these workers.
Only with full, or near full, employment. Which is one reason all current western governments WANT a certain level of employment (flexible workforce they call it): it keeps the employed people in line to know that they can be dumped at a whim.
Slavery is a crime in the US and the UK, and in most civilized places.
So is drug dealing but smuggling people is a bigger global business now than drug smuggling. Huge numbers of these people are used as slaves of one kind or another.
If an employee is free to choose another place of employment, then the company they work for should be free to offer them whatever wages they wish to offer.
But this is not a situation which exists in the real world. When there are literally millions of people living off the garbage they can gather in open tips the notion of employee barganing power is a joke. One has to instead rely on the decency of those in power to make sure that the fear of having to live in places like "Dogs Go Hungry" in Mexico city (where the air is brown from the dried shit blowing off the open sewage from the city) is not exploited to make the top 1% of the world's population rich on the back of the utter misery of the bottom 20%.
Are you saying RTZ and whoever Alan Cox works for is employing slave labor?
In fact I'm saying that slaves would be better off than RTZ's employees in some ways - slaves generally get bed and board. As to AC's work placement; they are engaged in seeking out places where workers will work for peanuts for rich western companies who are happy to lay off workers while keeping upper management in telephone-number salaries. That's not illegal but its not very moral either.
Yep. The market is totally free and unregulated. If RTZ wants to pay their African workers one bag of rice a week for 50 hours in dangerous conditions (which they do) nothing's going to stop them. If India call centre workers want a decent wage there's nothing stopping the work going to China or, indeed, to slaves in any country. There's plenty of slavery in the US and the UK let alone shit-holes like China, or did you not know that? Did you think work gang members were free to come and go as they please?
Anyone can get ripped off at any level. The good thing is that someone at least *noticed* this one and is now beating restitution out of the victims.
Fine talk from someone working for a company that's entire reason for existance is to keep management in high paid jobs while finding the lowest possible wage for the people doing the actual work.
I never thought I'd see the day Alan Cox became a PHB.
I think you're wrong because the memory pages are not a single byte, so if an address space of 32bits is working in units of, for example, 10bit blocks (ie, 1024 byte pages) the total capacity might be 32bits+10bits=42 bits. So long as no individual process can have more than 4GB of address space I can't see why this can't work. But I don't know for sure if Linux works this way.
I'm beginning to think that this couldn't have been done by Microsoft, simply because it's so bad for their position. In order to have effective FUD, you have to make vague claims that people might worry about. If you make specific false claims, they can be refuted.
What you're forgetting is that the target audience for this crap is not even going to be aware of the fact that/. and other techy sites and publications have ripped it to shreds. They probably don't even know the address of their IT department let alone what its educated evaluation of all this is. But you can bet they know their legal department's address and what its totally uneducated evaluation of the "risks" of OS, based on M$ black propaganda like this, is.
You could also try my greylister: Coherent Mail Gateway at Freshmeat. It works pretty well as long as it runs on all your mail servers (otherwise the spammer will just send to the lower priority servers instead).
There'll be an update this summer but the current version can run Clamav and check Spamhaus for blacklisting.
All written in Perl so it should run fairly easily on everything.
You must be misinformed, 99% of all magazines here are in A4 size.
Where is "here"? In the UK I have never seen a professional magazine or book which was A4 despite almost all paper, binders, laminators etc. in shops being A-sizes for many years. I don't think I ever saw an A4 publication in France either and I do tend to notice these things.
There's a reason most publications even in metric countries don't come in "A" sizes: it looks shit. The golden ratio makes for much better looking pages and layouts. A4 in particular is a dog of a size for anything serious.
If you can't be bothered following the link then at least read what the poster said.
In other words stop with the "You have no right to a secure system if you have a pirated copy" responses already!
What about the right of the rest of the world to have an Internet which is not a breeding ground for worms and spam-relays?
No one would realistically allow functional updates but I can't see that allowing security updates does anything other than help everyone else, including Microsoft.
No, this has nothing to do with "fair use". That doesn't cover viewing licensed encrypted material on non-licensed players.
It does, in the US. The text of the law specifically allows this in black and white. The problem is that old Jack got a trail in front of a judge who happened to be an old friend (the boss used to be his boss) and the judge ignored the law as a favour for his mate and now everyone thinks that fair use is negated by encryption. That's the problem with legal systems based on prescedent (sp?): it's a lot easier for a good law to be screwed up by one bad or, in this case, corrupt judge than it is for a bad law to be improved by good decisions.
BTW, I don't like it and I don't consume it but that doesn't change the statutes.
The fact is if you CONSUME their material (yes, it is THEIRS) they have every right to tell you how you can use it.
In fact that is not true; the law limits THEIR rights too. That's what fair use is all about; Jack wants us all to forget our rights and only talk about his rights. The fact that he's a lying cunt is just a side issue.
take away rules - and it might as well be acting not a game.
I agree but after 25+ years I don't know anyone that isn't now using a version of Bob Alberti's rules (Bob created the Internet Gopher too): roll percentile dice; high is good, low is bad. The GM will tell you what that means in context (some people use 3d6 or 1d20 instead of d%, personally I prefer 3d6 for that nice bell curve). That's it. No hit points, no falling-damage rules no critical hit tables etc.
Obviously that's no good for newbies but after role playing for decades you should be somewhere close to that point because ultimately role-playing is too complicated for any set of rules to really grasp. That's why no one had managed to produce a computer based role playing game that isn't a farce yet: you can never produce a rule set big enough to replace a human GM even for something as small as combat between two characters.
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The second and third editions did nothing to fix the problems in first edition AD&D (I do have the little brown books but we hardly ever used them). That problem was that most DM's never developed to the point where the rules are left behind. The rules lawyers jumping up and down with moist panties in response to the posting show that this is still the case.
The "rules" are guidelines like stabilisers on a kid's bike: once you get the hang of role playing you can take them off. In that sense there never was any need for second and thrid edition, although TSR generated that need by producing more and more "Modules for Dummies" that encouraged lazy play by DM's and players alike.
1: it should actually consist of the entire physical desktop I work on (say 5 by 2 at least). The mouse and keyboard would sit along the near edge but the surface would be touch sensitive to allow me to organise the apps and docs I'm using at the moment with my finger.
2:When I iconify a document it should sit on the desktop where I originally put it; when I close it the system should put it back in whatever folder it originally came from (or ask, if its a new file).
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But I work across the hall from a Mac user who does this all day every day and has done for at least 15 years. How does a Mac doe it?
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Since no one has managed to make a working grammar checker there seems little point in including something like the sort of crap that MSOffice has had bundled with it for the last ten years.
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Yeah, next time I see crappy wedding photos I can comfort my friends with the thought that at least the phtographer's camera probably "felt right".
Get a life, for a serious photographer the output of the camera is what it's all about and the hardware that produced it is just froth.
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The product with a non-zero marginal cost to produce (hardware) will be free, yet the product with a zero marginal cost will not be free? Something seems a bit wrong with that logic.
Which is why big companies are always pushing for stronger, more draconian IP laws and abusing the patent system: that's the only way this insane system can be made to work. Ultimately, as you imply, such a system is unstable and will eventually collapse. But long term views are not common in industry generally and the computer industry particularly.
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Only with full, or near full, employment. Which is one reason all current western governments WANT a certain level of employment (flexible workforce they call it): it keeps the employed people in line to know that they can be dumped at a whim.
Slavery is a crime in the US and the UK, and in most civilized places.
So is drug dealing but smuggling people is a bigger global business now than drug smuggling. Huge numbers of these people are used as slaves of one kind or another.
If an employee is free to choose another place of employment, then the company they work for should be free to offer them whatever wages they wish to offer.
But this is not a situation which exists in the real world. When there are literally millions of people living off the garbage they can gather in open tips the notion of employee barganing power is a joke. One has to instead rely on the decency of those in power to make sure that the fear of having to live in places like "Dogs Go Hungry" in Mexico city (where the air is brown from the dried shit blowing off the open sewage from the city) is not exploited to make the top 1% of the world's population rich on the back of the utter misery of the bottom 20%.
Are you saying RTZ and whoever Alan Cox works for is employing slave labor?
In fact I'm saying that slaves would be better off than RTZ's employees in some ways - slaves generally get bed and board. As to AC's work placement; they are engaged in seeking out places where workers will work for peanuts for rich western companies who are happy to lay off workers while keeping upper management in telephone-number salaries. That's not illegal but its not very moral either.
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Yep. The market is totally free and unregulated. If RTZ wants to pay their African workers one bag of rice a week for 50 hours in dangerous conditions (which they do) nothing's going to stop them. If India call centre workers want a decent wage there's nothing stopping the work going to China or, indeed, to slaves in any country. There's plenty of slavery in the US and the UK let alone shit-holes like China, or did you not know that? Did you think work gang members were free to come and go as they please?
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Fine talk from someone working for a company that's entire reason for existance is to keep management in high paid jobs while finding the lowest possible wage for the people doing the actual work.
I never thought I'd see the day Alan Cox became a PHB.
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What you're forgetting is that the target audience for this crap is not even going to be aware of the fact that /. and other techy sites and publications have ripped it to shreds. They probably don't even know the address of their IT department let alone what its educated evaluation of all this is. But you can bet they know their legal department's address and what its totally uneducated evaluation of the "risks" of OS, based on M$ black propaganda like this, is.
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To be fair, that sounds quite exciting.
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SCO couldn't and they spent a lot of Bill's money trying to convince people that they could.
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There'll be an update this summer but the current version can run Clamav and check Spamhaus for blacklisting.
All written in Perl so it should run fairly easily on everything.
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You must be misinformed, 99% of all magazines here are in A4 size.
Where is "here"? In the UK I have never seen a professional magazine or book which was A4 despite almost all paper, binders, laminators etc. in shops being A-sizes for many years. I don't think I ever saw an A4 publication in France either and I do tend to notice these things.
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That's a load of wank.
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In other words stop with the "You have no right to a secure system if you have a pirated copy" responses already!
What about the right of the rest of the world to have an Internet which is not a breeding ground for worms and spam-relays?
No one would realistically allow functional updates but I can't see that allowing security updates does anything other than help everyone else, including Microsoft.
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It does, in the US. The text of the law specifically allows this in black and white. The problem is that old Jack got a trail in front of a judge who happened to be an old friend (the boss used to be his boss) and the judge ignored the law as a favour for his mate and now everyone thinks that fair use is negated by encryption. That's the problem with legal systems based on prescedent (sp?): it's a lot easier for a good law to be screwed up by one bad or, in this case, corrupt judge than it is for a bad law to be improved by good decisions.
BTW, I don't like it and I don't consume it but that doesn't change the statutes.
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In fact that is not true; the law limits THEIR rights too. That's what fair use is all about; Jack wants us all to forget our rights and only talk about his rights. The fact that he's a lying cunt is just a side issue.
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I agree but after 25+ years I don't know anyone that isn't now using a version of Bob Alberti's rules (Bob created the Internet Gopher too): roll percentile dice; high is good, low is bad. The GM will tell you what that means in context (some people use 3d6 or 1d20 instead of d%, personally I prefer 3d6 for that nice bell curve). That's it. No hit points, no falling-damage rules no critical hit tables etc.
Obviously that's no good for newbies but after role playing for decades you should be somewhere close to that point because ultimately role-playing is too complicated for any set of rules to really grasp. That's why no one had managed to produce a computer based role playing game that isn't a farce yet: you can never produce a rule set big enough to replace a human GM even for something as small as combat between two characters.
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The "rules" are guidelines like stabilisers on a kid's bike: once you get the hang of role playing you can take them off. In that sense there never was any need for second and thrid edition, although TSR generated that need by producing more and more "Modules for Dummies" that encouraged lazy play by DM's and players alike.
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2:When I iconify a document it should sit on the desktop where I originally put it; when I close it the system should put it back in whatever folder it originally came from (or ask, if its a new file).
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Thanks for the answer. Following it up I can see that he had a slightly dubious claim on it, but apparently asking about it is "Flamebait"!?