The government is trying MS as a monopoly on the wrong grounds, and so are you guys who point to incompatible file formats, viruses, and crashes as proof of a monopoly.
The proof lies in how they killed OS/2.
The proof lies in how they killed DR-DOS.
No Dr-dos machines can easily run win3.1 or newer.
In fact, the install for win3.x checks to see if you have DR-DOS and complain if you do.
Similar issues for IBM PC-DOS.
the proof lies in how they punished small and large oems alike for what apps they chose to bundle on the computers they sold (no smartsuite, no netscape or you pay more for windows.)
The proof lies in how difficult it is to purchase a computer with anything other than Windows. Want os/2? tough, IBM has to pay for Windows for the machine shipped with os/2 or else Microsoft raises the cost of Windows for IBM.
Want Linux? tough, same rule. Microsoft even used to say, no other operating systems allowed or we'll either sell you Windows at so high a price you'll go under, or we won't even sell it to you at all.
Microsoft is a monopoly, but bringing them to court for greed and ancillary issues that came from them being monopolistic is not the proper path to justice.
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The Dock Clock gets its time settings from NTP, Network Time Protocol. The xclock gets its settings from the local hardware (Macs don't have BIOS like you'd expect.)
That accounts for the 6 minute difference. The two hours is due to inconsistent time zone settings.
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This really depends on your beliefs, and those of your partner/spouse.
Is emotionally investing yourself in someone other than your partner cheating, even if no sex occurs? Is it different if you've never met face to face?
Then ask your partner/spouse for their answers to these questions.
Cheating is really decided by the person who feels cheated upon. If your partner/spouse feels you're cheating when you cyber, then you are, even if you don't think anything significant happened.
Once that hurt is established and the cause is believed to be cheating, it is. You can't fight feelings with logic. They just don't respond.
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Read the following statement:
When the Nazis took over, they siezed control of all German business. Either businesses played ball with the Nazis, or failed and were destroyed. I don't defend Nazis.
If you're going to accuse IBM, at least go to NYU and get the facts rather then rely on this questionable new report floating around and the book on which it is based.
A recently published book, as well as a recently filed lawsuit against the company, speculate on the uses of Hollerith equipment by the Nazi government and IBM's role.
IBM finds the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime abhorrent and condemns any actions which aided their unspeakable acts. It has been known for decades that the Nazis used Hollerith equipment and that IBM's German subsidiary during the 1930s -- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag) -- supplied Hollerith equipment. As with hundreds of foreign-owned companies that did business in Germany at that time, Dehomag came under the control of Nazi authorities prior to and during World War II. It is also widely known that Thomas J. Watson, Sr., received and subsequently repudiated and returned a medal presented to him by the German government for his role in global economic relations. These well-known facts appear to be the primary underpinning for these recent allegations.
IBM does not have much information or records about this period or the operations of Dehomag. Most documents were destroyed or lost during the war. The documents that did exist were placed in the public domain some time ago to assist research and historical scholarship. The records were transferred from the company's New York and German operations to New York University and Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany -- two respected institutions with academic credentials in this area. Independent academic experts at these universities are now the custodians of these records and supervise access to the documents by researchers and historians.
IBM remains interested in any new information that advances understanding of this tragic era, and looks to the appropriate scholars and historians to verify it.
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Actually, this story is not by a Jewish conspiracy to extort monies from IBM...
And anyone who can seriously combine the words occupied and palestine in the same sentence reveals that they know nothing about history or current events.
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Wilfredo Sanchez still has commit access on FreeBSD and Darwin, so even if he's gone to work for someone else, he still has the power to effect the code of major projects.
Provided that FreeBSD remains as popular in the server market, and provided that Apple continues to integrate improvments in Darwin into their commercial release of OsX, then I expect we'll be seeing more work from Wilfredo Sanchez in the products we use.
No cause for alarm.
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This is only cool until someone builds the encoder/decoder into an email app that gains popularity.
Then the Spooks this attempts to confound will build its' functionality into their DCS1000's and Echelon apps, putting us right back where we started, except that the spooks will be using a little more processing power and wait a split second longer to see our mail.
This is a nice toy, but not a long term security measure. That's the problem with obscurity- if it has functionality, it can gain popularity. If it gains popularity, the obscurity quickly fades away, rendering it useless.
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And you contradict yourself. You first say that an expensive room is necessary. then you say that Les had mics over the kitchen sink. I really doubt that kitchen sinks are conducive to good acoustics.
My answer is, you can put anachoic tile and foam anywhere and get a good room, but if you just try mics in different locations in your house, you'd be surprised at how good some creative locations can sound!
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In a dedicated room in my house, I have put acoustic damping tile on the ceiling and the anachoic foam on the walls. On a budget, a mattress or cardboard eggcrate works as well.
2) Decent microphones.
Decent microphones are fairly affordable. I don't mean the $50 budget mics, but the Shure SM58 and 58b series of mics go for under $200, and are the same microphones used both on the road and in the studio by a large number of bands. Now, if I were recording a large orchestra, I might want to have spent a bit more on the microphones, but for the money, these are affordable mics that sound *good*.
In a home environment with the PC, what comes after the mic is every bit as important. You MUST have a mic preamp before the computer, and it pays to have a good one. Fortunately, Mackie produces mixers with good preamps, and have an affordable mixer. the 12vlzPro cost me under $300, and really contributes a lot to the quality of sound I get.
The sound card in the PC must be of high quality. Some people get away with using soundblasters and such, but the best way is to get a dedicated card for this purpose. Event makes the Gina, Darla, and Layla series, Lexicon makes the Core2, and E-MU Ensoniq makes the Paris system, which is 16 channels of simultaeneous 24bit wonder. (If only I had the money for that one! I bought the core2, it was under $500. the Paris was over $1000 at the time.)
www.lexicon.com/core2
www.emuparis.com
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consists of my PC, 16 mics, four AKG, four Electro-Voice, four Shure SM58B, and two antique Electro-Voice, and two antique Shure mics, the chrome ones you always see in old movies.
The old mics have a warm sound to them that just can't be replicated with equalization and effects.
I run the mics into a Mackie 12-VLZ-PRO mixer because it has great mic preamps, and then use its outputs to go to the PC.
My PC setup consists of win98se, (and Mandrake, but where are the good digital recording apps for Linux?) a lexicon core2, which gives me 24bit 48khz with 8 inputs (4 stereo). Add Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with plug-ins, and I've got a studio.
I then use SoundForge to make the CD from the work I've done in CakeWalk. It sounds every bit as good, and sometimes better than CDs made by the large companies that manufacture groups and music.
For all those who say recording must be done by the big companies because they hold the locks to distribution, I say there's a way to do it yourself.
Ani DiFranco has been successful distributing her own music on her own label. Online distribution methods are becoming more prevalent despite what the Big Companies/RIAA want-
Besides, if you love making music, there's nothing wrong with satisfying the urge to record without having to shell out large amounts on studio time.
It's very gratifying to be able to hand out demo cd's or make cd's for friends.
Last year, I made a cd where I played covers of my friends' favorite songs, and gave it to him for his birthday... he said it was the best present he ever got.
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The standards don't aim at eliminating graphics and animations, but <quoting> Generally, this means use of text labels or descriptors for graphics and certain format elements. (HTML code already provides an "Alt Text" tag for graphics which can serve as a verbal descriptor for graphics). This section also addresses the usability of multimedia presentations, image maps, style sheets, scripting languages, applets and plug-ins, and electronic forms </quoting>
What if the whole site were transformed into text which could then be read aloud?
IBM's WebSphere Transcoding Publisher was designed as a helper to servers for wireless devices, because it takes normal websites and transforms the *ml into something a wireless devices' browser can handle. It does this on the fly with little or no performance hit, changing sites to text, to voice, resizing and altering images for whatever device you may be browsing from.
In this case, it could transcode a normal website like yours into VoiceML and be read aloud, or into text and be read using the blind users' screen reader. You wouldn't have to redesign anything about your site, except to ensure that disabled users got the properly transcoded site.
It really appears to me as though Transcoding Publisher running on your server would solve your problems.
Look at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/transcodi ng/
and http://www.research.ibm.com/networked_data_systems/transcoding/ibmtranscoding/html/proxydemo.htm
email me if you want to talk more about it.
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First off, I just noticed how similar most/.ers arguments in favor of Mp3 sharing resembles the Israeli attitude regarding warez.
"I'll buy it after I've tried it and liked it"
What I remember most from the globes.co.il news item where M$ threatened to stop localization for the Hebrew market was their comment that A) they weren't making any money from it since development cost more than their sales were generating, and B) they expected this sort of behaviour from developing nations that were only beginning to become technologically aware, but that in a country that was technologically ahead as Israel, this was simply unacceptable.
My own take was, some Israelis have no shame, think the software market is the Shuk, and if they want to buy at a lesser price at the Bus Station, they will. Again, I expect that if Linux distributions become comparably simple to set up in Hebrew and are well known for it, Israelis may switch to Linux just so that they don't have to worry about software audits.
Other people that use linux are the small percentage of folks that work with UNIX in the army. I set up a RedHat 6.2 box for just such a soldier.
I know most businesses that use warez probably don't concern themselves much with the legality of their software, but in the public school I worked at in Tel-Aviv (Beit Sefer Ayalon, Rehov Emek HaBracha, say hi for me!) they were continually sweating the notion that some authority, from the schools, or from the company that sold them the Gateway boxen I'm not sure, would come and audit their software licenses and they'd be in big trouble.
That's all I know.
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MSIE 5.5 has four different Hebrew fonts at its aid.
Hebrew ISO Visual
Hebrew ISO Logical
Hebrew Dos
Hebrew Windows
If you don't have MSIE auto select the best encoding, then you have to manually pick whichever choice will display Hebrew in the correct word and letter order. You also have the option to display the page as right to left instead of left to right, and this too will flip the letter and word order as it shifts the vertical scroll bar to the other side of the
screen.
This is NOT what I'd call a clean solution.
Hebrew text entry is only valid in IE because they did manage to set the default proportional font and fixed-width font correctly. With minimal adjustment, this can be done in any browser.
(My in-laws seem to favor Netscape.)
In Konqueror, on my Mandrake 7.2 system using defaults in the install (okay, it was quick and dirty), the ISO 8859-8 setting works perfectly. I selected it and like magic, the page was instantly readable.
As you say, bidi support is due to Localized Windows, not IE. IE handles Hebrew text input only because the OS does. Netscape (non-localized)
supports this just fine.
I really need to try my mandrake install again, to see how far along they are in localizing the whole distribution. I normally shy away from being distribution specific in my comments, but Mandrake and TurboLinux seem to be among the farthest along in terms of Internationalization.
(TurboLinux does well with Chinese and other Eastern Languages.)
I highly recommend that you make contact with the Israeli LUGs. They have meetings in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. (Install party in Jerusalem coming up!) www.iglu.org.il
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Hebrew is essential for web browsing for local financial news in israel as well as current events (CNN and BBC get the news wrong a suprisingly high number of times!)
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I lived in Tel-Aviv for two years, and still support my in-laws computer there.
I know *exactly* what you're going through.
If you're looking at linux as an alternative, GTK2 is going to have right-to-left support, and KDE2 has it.
Web browsing is perfect at handling msIE html and their version of Hebrew, if you use Konqueror.
I believe Kword works for editing the Hebrew, but I haven't tried it recently enough to remeber how well it does right to left text entry.
Have you gotten in touch with the Linux User Groups in Israel? You have two: Haifux and IGLU.
go to www.iglu.org.il and join the e-groups list. They have lectures now and again, given in Hebrew, both at Technion and Tel-Aviv University.
As for the email attachments, half the time Outlook Express in Hebrew in windows on my machine can't read emails generated by OE on another machine.
My machines are running:
win98 Hebrew-enabled,
Mandrake 7.2 (KDE2 has the hebrew fonts already in it... hebrew is an install option for a completely localized system)
and MacOsX public beta. the full release will have hebrew as an option for localization.
My wife's laptop runs win98 localized hebrew. someday when I get the energy, I'll make her an x-client and spawn the display of my kde2 to her machine.
I've always been surprised that Linux hasn't taken off wildly in Israel-- I expect that when right-to-left wordprocessing and presentation composing is complete, that people will jump to linux in Israel, because of its free nature.
(Many Israelis 'warez' MS products, so much so that last year Microsoft threatened to stop localizing for Hebrew languages unless the piracy diminished. I remember reading that news item at www.globes.co.il)
You CAN do everything you want to do, in Hebrew, without MS.
b'hatzlecha!
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Singing is real work. Having spent 8 years training with private teachers and professors at conservatories, Singing is a real career, and real work.
Granted, the manufactured spice girls/britney spears, etc... only work there is the choreography, which is no small task... I don't like their music, and don't really respect them as musicians, but they do know how to dance.
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At one job, I had the choice of choosing linux or M$.
I knew I was leaving the country, but could be reached for advice on maintaining whichever solution I recommended.
I wasn't about to recommend a solution that they couldn't get service on easily.
In the end, I got them Dell Hardware, with the option of going linux in the future, but preinstalled with M$. Why? I didn't trust the Dell people who would be providing the Linux service, after questioning them personally. (This was in another country, outside of the US. I have since moved back.)
Yes, I was conflicted about recommending an M$ solution, but I had to take the clients' needs into account. Which box could I have turned on and forgotten behind a hardware firewall, and know that it works, and it if doesn't, know that MSCE's are a dime a dozen?
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The government is trying MS as a monopoly on the wrong grounds, and so are you guys who point to incompatible file formats, viruses, and crashes as proof of a monopoly.
The proof lies in how they killed OS/2.
The proof lies in how they killed DR-DOS.
No Dr-dos machines can easily run win3.1 or newer.
In fact, the install for win3.x checks to see if you have DR-DOS and complain if you do.
Similar issues for IBM PC-DOS.
the proof lies in how they punished small and large oems alike for what apps they chose to bundle on the computers they sold (no smartsuite, no netscape or you pay more for windows.)
The proof lies in how difficult it is to purchase a computer with anything other than Windows. Want os/2? tough, IBM has to pay for Windows for the machine shipped with os/2 or else Microsoft raises the cost of Windows for IBM.
Want Linux? tough, same rule. Microsoft even used to say, no other operating systems allowed or we'll either sell you Windows at so high a price you'll go under, or we won't even sell it to you at all.
Microsoft is a monopoly, but bringing them to court for greed and ancillary issues that came from them being monopolistic is not the proper path to justice.
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The Dock Clock gets its time settings from NTP, Network Time Protocol. The xclock gets its settings from the local hardware (Macs don't have BIOS like you'd expect.)
That accounts for the 6 minute difference. The two hours is due to inconsistent time zone settings.
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This really depends on your beliefs, and those of your partner/spouse.
Is emotionally investing yourself in someone other than your partner cheating, even if no sex occurs? Is it different if you've never met face to face?
Then ask your partner/spouse for their answers to these questions.
Cheating is really decided by the person who feels cheated upon. If your partner/spouse feels you're cheating when you cyber, then you are, even if you don't think anything significant happened.
Once that hurt is established and the cause is believed to be cheating, it is. You can't fight feelings with logic. They just don't respond.
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http://reswat5.research.ibm.com/projects/linux/dev driver.nsf
Linux Hardware Configuration and Compatibility Database.
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MWave is not winmodem in the traditional sense.
Mwave worked with os/2 and windows, only because these were the operating systems IBM provided drivers for originally.
MWave relies on a programmable DSP which can be made to do anything.
there are mWave sound cards, modems, ISDN cards (WaveRunner, my dad designed it), and ROM drives.
The Rom drive is interesting, it's a mwave controlled cd-rom drive that can be reprogrammed into a dvd-rom drive. Very flexible.
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Read the following statement:
When the Nazis took over, they siezed control of all German business. Either businesses played ball with the Nazis, or failed and were destroyed. I don't defend Nazis.
If you're going to accuse IBM, at least go to NYU and get the facts rather then rely on this questionable new report floating around and the book on which it is based.
A recently published book, as well as a recently filed lawsuit against the company, speculate on the uses of Hollerith equipment by the Nazi government and IBM's role.
IBM finds the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime abhorrent and condemns any actions which aided their unspeakable acts. It has been known for decades that the Nazis used Hollerith equipment and that IBM's German subsidiary during the 1930s -- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag) -- supplied Hollerith equipment. As with hundreds of foreign-owned companies that did business in Germany at that time, Dehomag came under the control of Nazi authorities prior to and during World War II. It is also widely known that Thomas J. Watson, Sr., received and subsequently repudiated and returned a medal presented to him by the German government for his role in global economic relations. These well-known facts appear to be the primary underpinning for these recent allegations.
IBM does not have much information or records about this period or the operations of Dehomag. Most documents were destroyed or lost during the war. The documents that did exist were placed in the public domain some time ago to assist research and historical scholarship. The records were transferred from the company's New York and German operations to New York University and Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany -- two respected institutions with academic credentials in this area. Independent academic experts at these universities are now the custodians of these records and supervise access to the documents by researchers and historians.
IBM remains interested in any new information that advances understanding of this tragic era, and looks to the appropriate scholars and historians to verify it.
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Actually, this story is not by a Jewish conspiracy to extort monies from IBM...
And anyone who can seriously combine the words occupied and palestine in the same sentence reveals that they know nothing about history or current events.
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This was easy to predict, and expected.
IBM has been releasing drivers and support for all their laptops with linux.
If Taco had posted which problems he has with his T20, I could point him to IBM's Linux Technology center where they have the answers.
I will come back and reply to this with the correct link where t20 support can be found.
(I thought Rob liked Vaio's! good on him for using a thinkpad!)
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Wilfredo Sanchez still has commit access on FreeBSD and Darwin, so even if he's gone to work for someone else, he still has the power to effect the code of major projects.
Provided that FreeBSD remains as popular in the server market, and provided that Apple continues to integrate improvments in Darwin into their commercial release of OsX, then I expect we'll be seeing more work from Wilfredo Sanchez in the products we use.
No cause for alarm.
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Moderators, ths was cool!
A troll, using the technology from the article... Amazing that he even *read* the article!
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This is only cool until someone builds the encoder/decoder into an email app that gains popularity.
Then the Spooks this attempts to confound will build its' functionality into their DCS1000's and Echelon apps, putting us right back where we started, except that the spooks will be using a little more processing power and wait a split second longer to see our mail.
This is a nice toy, but not a long term security measure. That's the problem with obscurity- if it has functionality, it can gain popularity. If it gains popularity, the obscurity quickly fades away, rendering it useless.
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I listen to Les Paul all the time-
And you contradict yourself. You first say that an expensive room is necessary. then you say that Les had mics over the kitchen sink. I really doubt that kitchen sinks are conducive to good acoustics.
My answer is, you can put anachoic tile and foam anywhere and get a good room, but if you just try mics in different locations in your house, you'd be surprised at how good some creative locations can sound!
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1) Environment.
In a dedicated room in my house, I have put acoustic damping tile on the ceiling and the anachoic foam on the walls. On a budget, a mattress or cardboard eggcrate works as well.
2) Decent microphones.
Decent microphones are fairly affordable. I don't mean the $50 budget mics, but the Shure SM58 and 58b series of mics go for under $200, and are the same microphones used both on the road and in the studio by a large number of bands. Now, if I were recording a large orchestra, I might want to have spent a bit more on the microphones, but for the money, these are affordable mics that sound *good*.
In a home environment with the PC, what comes after the mic is every bit as important. You MUST have a mic preamp before the computer, and it pays to have a good one. Fortunately, Mackie produces mixers with good preamps, and have an affordable mixer. the 12vlzPro cost me under $300, and really contributes a lot to the quality of sound I get.
The sound card in the PC must be of high quality. Some people get away with using soundblasters and such, but the best way is to get a dedicated card for this purpose. Event makes the Gina, Darla, and Layla series, Lexicon makes the Core2, and E-MU Ensoniq makes the Paris system, which is 16 channels of simultaeneous 24bit wonder. (If only I had the money for that one! I bought the core2, it was under $500. the Paris was over $1000 at the time.)
www.lexicon.com/core2
www.emuparis.com
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I have a home recording setup.
consists of my PC, 16 mics, four AKG, four Electro-Voice, four Shure SM58B, and two antique Electro-Voice, and two antique Shure mics, the chrome ones you always see in old movies.
The old mics have a warm sound to them that just can't be replicated with equalization and effects.
I run the mics into a Mackie 12-VLZ-PRO mixer because it has great mic preamps, and then use its outputs to go to the PC.
My PC setup consists of win98se, (and Mandrake, but where are the good digital recording apps for Linux?) a lexicon core2, which gives me 24bit 48khz with 8 inputs (4 stereo). Add Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 with plug-ins, and I've got a studio.
I then use SoundForge to make the CD from the work I've done in CakeWalk. It sounds every bit as good, and sometimes better than CDs made by the large companies that manufacture groups and music.
For all those who say recording must be done by the big companies because they hold the locks to distribution, I say there's a way to do it yourself.
Ani DiFranco has been successful distributing her own music on her own label. Online distribution methods are becoming more prevalent despite what the Big Companies/RIAA want-
Besides, if you love making music, there's nothing wrong with satisfying the urge to record without having to shell out large amounts on studio time.
It's very gratifying to be able to hand out demo cd's or make cd's for friends.
Last year, I made a cd where I played covers of my friends' favorite songs, and gave it to him for his birthday... he said it was the best present he ever got.
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I thought for CERTAIN I had my email address in my slashdot user info-
email victor at ripal.co.il
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Here's a possible solution.
i ng/
s /transcoding/ibmtranscoding/html/proxydemo.htm
The standards don't aim at eliminating graphics and animations, but <quoting> Generally, this means use of text labels or descriptors for graphics and certain format elements. (HTML code already provides an "Alt Text" tag for graphics which can serve as a verbal descriptor for graphics). This section also addresses the usability of multimedia presentations, image maps, style sheets, scripting languages, applets and plug-ins, and electronic forms </quoting>
What if the whole site were transformed into text which could then be read aloud?
IBM's WebSphere Transcoding Publisher was designed as a helper to servers for wireless devices, because it takes normal websites and transforms the *ml into something a wireless devices' browser can handle. It does this on the fly with little or no performance hit, changing sites to text, to voice, resizing and altering images for whatever device you may be browsing from.
In this case, it could transcode a normal website like yours into VoiceML and be read aloud, or into text and be read using the blind users' screen reader. You wouldn't have to redesign anything about your site, except to ensure that disabled users got the properly transcoded site.
It really appears to me as though Transcoding Publisher running on your server would solve your problems.
Look at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/transcod
and http://www.research.ibm.com/networked_data_system
email me if you want to talk more about it.
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Where's that crystal ball RMS has been hiding?
I never did think we'd find ourselves moving towards a Stallman-Ray Bradbury world.
Of course, I'd never have read Farenheit 451 if it hadn't been in my elementary school's library.
If that isn't irony, I don't know what is.
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First off, I just noticed how similar most /.ers arguments in favor of Mp3 sharing resembles the Israeli attitude regarding warez.
"I'll buy it after I've tried it and liked it"
What I remember most from the globes.co.il news item where M$ threatened to stop localization for the Hebrew market was their comment that A) they weren't making any money from it since development cost more than their sales were generating, and B) they expected this sort of behaviour from developing nations that were only beginning to become technologically aware, but that in a country that was technologically ahead as Israel, this was simply unacceptable.
My own take was, some Israelis have no shame, think the software market is the Shuk, and if they want to buy at a lesser price at the Bus Station, they will. Again, I expect that if Linux distributions become comparably simple to set up in Hebrew and are well known for it, Israelis may switch to Linux just so that they don't have to worry about software audits.
Other people that use linux are the small percentage of folks that work with UNIX in the army. I set up a RedHat 6.2 box for just such a soldier.
I know most businesses that use warez probably don't concern themselves much with the legality of their software, but in the public school I worked at in Tel-Aviv (Beit Sefer Ayalon, Rehov Emek HaBracha, say hi for me!) they were continually sweating the notion that some authority, from the schools, or from the company that sold them the Gateway boxen I'm not sure, would come and audit their software licenses and they'd be in big trouble.
That's all I know.
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MSIE 5.5 has four different Hebrew fonts at its aid.
Hebrew ISO Visual
Hebrew ISO Logical
Hebrew Dos
Hebrew Windows
If you don't have MSIE auto select the best encoding, then you have to manually pick whichever choice will display Hebrew in the correct word and letter order. You also have the option to display the page as right to left instead of left to right, and this too will flip the letter and word order as it shifts the vertical scroll bar to the other side of the
screen.
This is NOT what I'd call a clean solution.
Hebrew text entry is only valid in IE because they did manage to set the default proportional font and fixed-width font correctly. With minimal adjustment, this can be done in any browser.
(My in-laws seem to favor Netscape.)
In Konqueror, on my Mandrake 7.2 system using defaults in the install (okay, it was quick and dirty), the ISO 8859-8 setting works perfectly. I selected it and like magic, the page was instantly readable.
As you say, bidi support is due to Localized Windows, not IE. IE handles Hebrew text input only because the OS does. Netscape (non-localized)
supports this just fine.
I really need to try my mandrake install again, to see how far along they are in localizing the whole distribution. I normally shy away from being distribution specific in my comments, but Mandrake and TurboLinux seem to be among the farthest along in terms of Internationalization.
(TurboLinux does well with Chinese and other Eastern Languages.)
I highly recommend that you make contact with the Israeli LUGs. They have meetings in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. (Install party in Jerusalem coming up!) www.iglu.org.il
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hebrew support in MacOSX is ready and will be released March 24th.
The MS Office suite for OsX is scheduled for summer release.
MS Office will, by virtue of its Mac app status using the new implementation of WorldScript, work with Hebrew in right-to-left format and font.
On March 24th, my PowerMac will run OsX in Hebrew, alongside my KDE2 in Hebrew, alongside my Os/2 in hebrew.
There's more than one answer to this question besides Mac.
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The hebrew web is populated with hebrew only sites, or hebrew sites that have english counterparts, but all the latest info is on the hebrew side.
www.walla.co.il
www.tapuz.co.il
www.globes.co.il
www.haaretz.co.il
www.bezeq.co.il
www.yp.co.il
Hebrew is essential for web browsing for local financial news in israel as well as current events (CNN and BBC get the news wrong a suprisingly high number of times!)
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I lived in Tel-Aviv for two years, and still support my in-laws computer there.
I know *exactly* what you're going through.
If you're looking at linux as an alternative, GTK2 is going to have right-to-left support, and KDE2 has it.
Web browsing is perfect at handling msIE html and their version of Hebrew, if you use Konqueror.
I believe Kword works for editing the Hebrew, but I haven't tried it recently enough to remeber how well it does right to left text entry.
Have you gotten in touch with the Linux User Groups in Israel? You have two: Haifux and IGLU.
go to www.iglu.org.il and join the e-groups list. They have lectures now and again, given in Hebrew, both at Technion and Tel-Aviv University.
As for the email attachments, half the time Outlook Express in Hebrew in windows on my machine can't read emails generated by OE on another machine.
My machines are running:
win98 Hebrew-enabled,
Mandrake 7.2 (KDE2 has the hebrew fonts already in it... hebrew is an install option for a completely localized system)
and MacOsX public beta. the full release will have hebrew as an option for localization.
My wife's laptop runs win98 localized hebrew. someday when I get the energy, I'll make her an x-client and spawn the display of my kde2 to her machine.
I've always been surprised that Linux hasn't taken off wildly in Israel-- I expect that when right-to-left wordprocessing and presentation composing is complete, that people will jump to linux in Israel, because of its free nature.
(Many Israelis 'warez' MS products, so much so that last year Microsoft threatened to stop localizing for Hebrew languages unless the piracy diminished. I remember reading that news item at www.globes.co.il)
You CAN do everything you want to do, in Hebrew, without MS.
b'hatzlecha!
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Singing is real work. Having spent 8 years training with private teachers and professors at conservatories, Singing is a real career, and real work.
Granted, the manufactured spice girls/britney spears, etc... only work there is the choreography, which is no small task... I don't like their music, and don't really respect them as musicians, but they do know how to dance.
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At one job, I had the choice of choosing linux or M$.
I knew I was leaving the country, but could be reached for advice on maintaining whichever solution I recommended.
I wasn't about to recommend a solution that they couldn't get service on easily.
In the end, I got them Dell Hardware, with the option of going linux in the future, but preinstalled with M$. Why? I didn't trust the Dell people who would be providing the Linux service, after questioning them personally. (This was in another country, outside of the US. I have since moved back.)
Yes, I was conflicted about recommending an M$ solution, but I had to take the clients' needs into account. Which box could I have turned on and forgotten behind a hardware firewall, and know that it works, and it if doesn't, know that MSCE's are a dime a dozen?
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May I ask the obvious question:
Why didn't your dad get you to do the work from the start?
It sounds like you're on top of what your dad's needs are enough to make solid recommendations with his, not your, needs in mind.
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