Because PDF's were designed to be PRINT files. They are NOT screen friendly at all. Unless you're screen is a printer. If you really want to read PDF's on your screen, then good for you, but PDF's are not web friendly. PDF's are also not small screen friendly (i.e. - portable devices) unless the PDF is specifically formatted for the specific screen you're viewing it on.
I can understand why Mozilla wants to add a PDF viewer, but I do not agree with them doing it. Quite frankly, a plug-in that loads an external viewer is fine (I use Foxit and have yet to have ANY problems with it). The reason I would prefer Mozilla to not do this is that it isn't needed and as such, takes away time resources from more important improvements to Firefox.
From an economic P.O.V. how effective would this tech be for countries that do not have a decent power infrastructure? This may not be viable for those ensconced in the comfortable western economies, but perhaps if you live in a hut on the edge of a desert in Africa..?
I'm all for it. A world government based around the notion any law you pass MUST apply to EVERYONE in the world. It might result in victimless crimes being wiped out and death penalties for those that commit atriocious acts of war.
Or just a bunch of laws that allow you to take out teh other countries leaders...
Let's have a browser that supports add-ons to allow customization, but keep the browser itself from adding "social" features or any other use specific crap (aside from accessing the web). And if this fork was run by a non-profit, they might realize that Firefox doesn't need to compete with other browsers at whatever game those developers are doing. Make a solid, bug-free browser and damn the noise.
I agree. I store all the movies I've acquired on an older 160 GB drive. If it dies, I really don't care. That stuff never gets backed up. In fact, I should say that I DID store movies on an older drive that never gets backed up because it died last week. And I haven't missed it or the files on it n the slightest.
The important stuff is backed-up either to a local drive or to the cloud (for strange values of "the cloud").
"they are a much harder company to interface with than Microsoft"
This. And typical for programmer and engineer driven projects, the end-user is the last considered aspect of the system. Consider the Nexus 1 customer service fiasco. That's Google all over.
F U C K tablets. I just bought a netbook. Guess what? It does everything on the go AND has a better keyboard. ANd I didn't have to sell a kidney to buy it.
"Because they get paid a fortune to do so"
I don't think this is true across the board. I just bought an HP Mini 110 and it came stock with XP and a LOT of HP apps/tools. It ran like a dog and I sort of assumed it was just the Atom processor (my first time with an atom and expected it to be sluggish).
After playing with it for a couple of hours, I decided that I wanted to put Win 7 on it just to see how it would run. So I did. A clean install of Win 7 Ultimate. The little netbook now runs like a slippery fish (I did some minor tweaking to remove unwanted Win 7 services). I'm using it within 30 seconds of a cold start. Sweet.
Part of performance boost is just Win 7 over XP, but a LOT of that boost is the removal of the HP bloatware. The thing to keep in mind here is that this isn't 3rd party stuff HP is being paid to include, but HP tools that for the most part "replaces" functionality built-in to Windows.
The only reason I can see for having that junk is to keep a team of coders at HP employed. It actually costs HP money to include the performace crushing software.
I don't think tablets are the future. let me explain it this way; I just bought a netbook because I want to be able to get some work done while I'm mobile. So not only so I have keyboard, but I have the same OS that runs the same apps I use when I'm at a desk. Someone can make the "It goes to 11" argument that you can add keyboards and mice, etc. But I've got it all in a 10" form factor.
So glad I don't live in the U.S. anymore. You'll find idiots everywhere, but I notice a distinct lack of "teach children to be fearful and paranoid" going on where I live now.
I'm aware of the nature of the galaxy rotation problem. I was simply throwing that into the pot.
The bigger issue with the Dark Matter/MOND debate is that we need more and better data to probe the universe at large scales. What would be extremely useful is to get a better understanding of how "rigid" spacetime is at galactic scales and how massive collections of matter (i.e. - galxies) distort spacetime. Gravitational lensing could yield this information provided we could collect enough data points (density and scale compared against the amount of lensing distortion compared against the distance of the object whose light is being lensed). I'm not an astrophysicist, but I don't think this type of study has been done on a large scale (no pun intended).
The obvious question (at least to me) is that other than creating a gravitational lens, how did the dark matter gravitational interact with the normal matter? Shouldn't there be some deviation in the path of the normal matter due to the gravitational effect of the dark matter? Did it simply slow the normal matter down more than would be expected in a normal matter to normal matter collision?
The article you link to mentions that this example does not shed any light on the galaxy rotation problem that gave birth to the idea (not theory!) of dark matter.
In any case, this is a just a data point. For this to be a useful data point, we need examples (at the same scale) of pure normal matter interactions. Or a whole new idea.
Yes! Just this week end my four year old got bored with "Up To Ten" (kids website) and decided to load up Minecraft. He managed to destroy my undefloor lava lighting and yelled out, "Dad I'm on fire!". After I respawned him he (accidently) built a semi-functional mob trap (ahe dug himself into a big pit and monsters jumped on him). He loved it!
It would be interesting to track the credit card transaction in order to locate the front company for the credit card transactions. Surely these peoples/companies/criminals are leaving a trail of some kind in the credit card companies databases?
"I wanna vote for someone who might win."
Why? So what if that guy or this guy wins. If they're out to fuck you in the ass, then you're still fucked no matter which one of them wins.
The real shame is that we can't vote with apathy. You should only be able to be elected if a set percentage of the REGISTERED voters cast a vote for you, not just a percentage of who bothers to vote.
And the losers should have to actually lose something.
Maybe a limb. . .
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Thanks for the thrice daily dose of Apple propaganda. Stop being Apple's shill. They do not do news worthy things everyday.
Because PDF's were designed to be PRINT files. They are NOT screen friendly at all. Unless you're screen is a printer. If you really want to read PDF's on your screen, then good for you, but PDF's are not web friendly. PDF's are also not small screen friendly (i.e. - portable devices) unless the PDF is specifically formatted for the specific screen you're viewing it on. I can understand why Mozilla wants to add a PDF viewer, but I do not agree with them doing it. Quite frankly, a plug-in that loads an external viewer is fine (I use Foxit and have yet to have ANY problems with it). The reason I would prefer Mozilla to not do this is that it isn't needed and as such, takes away time resources from more important improvements to Firefox.
Yes, Jacques Valee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vallee
Yes. Now the world must look to France for intelligent use of nuclear power. We're fucked.
From an economic P.O.V. how effective would this tech be for countries that do not have a decent power infrastructure? This may not be viable for those ensconced in the comfortable western economies, but perhaps if you live in a hut on the edge of a desert in Africa..?
Yes. Gregory Benford's 'Timescape'. An excellent novel. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
Especially on an HP machine.
I'm all for it. A world government based around the notion any law you pass MUST apply to EVERYONE in the world. It might result in victimless crimes being wiped out and death penalties for those that commit atriocious acts of war. Or just a bunch of laws that allow you to take out teh other countries leaders...
Let's have a browser that supports add-ons to allow customization, but keep the browser itself from adding "social" features or any other use specific crap (aside from accessing the web). And if this fork was run by a non-profit, they might realize that Firefox doesn't need to compete with other browsers at whatever game those developers are doing. Make a solid, bug-free browser and damn the noise.
Well said, Sir.
I agree. I store all the movies I've acquired on an older 160 GB drive. If it dies, I really don't care. That stuff never gets backed up. In fact, I should say that I DID store movies on an older drive that never gets backed up because it died last week. And I haven't missed it or the files on it n the slightest. The important stuff is backed-up either to a local drive or to the cloud (for strange values of "the cloud").
"they are a much harder company to interface with than Microsoft" This. And typical for programmer and engineer driven projects, the end-user is the last considered aspect of the system. Consider the Nexus 1 customer service fiasco. That's Google all over.
F U C K tablets. I just bought a netbook. Guess what? It does everything on the go AND has a better keyboard. ANd I didn't have to sell a kidney to buy it.
"Because they get paid a fortune to do so" I don't think this is true across the board. I just bought an HP Mini 110 and it came stock with XP and a LOT of HP apps/tools. It ran like a dog and I sort of assumed it was just the Atom processor (my first time with an atom and expected it to be sluggish). After playing with it for a couple of hours, I decided that I wanted to put Win 7 on it just to see how it would run. So I did. A clean install of Win 7 Ultimate. The little netbook now runs like a slippery fish (I did some minor tweaking to remove unwanted Win 7 services). I'm using it within 30 seconds of a cold start. Sweet. Part of performance boost is just Win 7 over XP, but a LOT of that boost is the removal of the HP bloatware. The thing to keep in mind here is that this isn't 3rd party stuff HP is being paid to include, but HP tools that for the most part "replaces" functionality built-in to Windows. The only reason I can see for having that junk is to keep a team of coders at HP employed. It actually costs HP money to include the performace crushing software.
I don't think tablets are the future. let me explain it this way; I just bought a netbook because I want to be able to get some work done while I'm mobile. So not only so I have keyboard, but I have the same OS that runs the same apps I use when I'm at a desk. Someone can make the "It goes to 11" argument that you can add keyboards and mice, etc. But I've got it all in a 10" form factor.
Charles Stross has posted a clear, concise description of how teh publishing industry actually works. You can read it here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-misconceptions-about-pu-1.html The short answer is that the costs you cite (editor, marketing, typesetting still applies, etc) are the major cost factors.
Short answer: No.
So glad I don't live in the U.S. anymore. You'll find idiots everywhere, but I notice a distinct lack of "teach children to be fearful and paranoid" going on where I live now.
I'm aware of the nature of the galaxy rotation problem. I was simply throwing that into the pot. The bigger issue with the Dark Matter/MOND debate is that we need more and better data to probe the universe at large scales. What would be extremely useful is to get a better understanding of how "rigid" spacetime is at galactic scales and how massive collections of matter (i.e. - galxies) distort spacetime. Gravitational lensing could yield this information provided we could collect enough data points (density and scale compared against the amount of lensing distortion compared against the distance of the object whose light is being lensed). I'm not an astrophysicist, but I don't think this type of study has been done on a large scale (no pun intended).
The obvious question (at least to me) is that other than creating a gravitational lens, how did the dark matter gravitational interact with the normal matter? Shouldn't there be some deviation in the path of the normal matter due to the gravitational effect of the dark matter? Did it simply slow the normal matter down more than would be expected in a normal matter to normal matter collision? The article you link to mentions that this example does not shed any light on the galaxy rotation problem that gave birth to the idea (not theory!) of dark matter. In any case, this is a just a data point. For this to be a useful data point, we need examples (at the same scale) of pure normal matter interactions. Or a whole new idea.
Yes! Just this week end my four year old got bored with "Up To Ten" (kids website) and decided to load up Minecraft. He managed to destroy my undefloor lava lighting and yelled out, "Dad I'm on fire!". After I respawned him he (accidently) built a semi-functional mob trap (ahe dug himself into a big pit and monsters jumped on him). He loved it!
It would be interesting to track the credit card transaction in order to locate the front company for the credit card transactions. Surely these peoples/companies/criminals are leaving a trail of some kind in the credit card companies databases?
"I wanna vote for someone who might win." Why? So what if that guy or this guy wins. If they're out to fuck you in the ass, then you're still fucked no matter which one of them wins. The real shame is that we can't vote with apathy. You should only be able to be elected if a set percentage of the REGISTERED voters cast a vote for you, not just a percentage of who bothers to vote. And the losers should have to actually lose something. Maybe a limb. . .
Merge Conversation has been requested for years and NOTHING has happened. I want MERGE!
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