If that is the case, then so is Printing a relic of the age of Paper.
I think your post misses the point completely.
Although you can read pdf's online, a PDF is made to port your propietary format document to a file that can be printed on all printers driven by device drivers on all OS's that can host applications that know how to read PDF's and talk to the printer driver(s). And there are many.
The PDF specs are open, en well documented, and anyone can implement a PDF reader/writer to be compatible with his technical environment. Thanks to Gimp print and GhostScript
[ http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Prin ters.php3 ],
I can hook up age-old printers to an operating system that "does not support" them. So if you want to select all text, you can. There are free (as in beer and speech ) PDF converters all over the globe. Go and pick one.
And finally, PDF is not bound to pages either. You can have slideshows in PDF, photo's in PDF. There is a PDF for the display device (screen) too. Look at Mac OS X, since the beginning, *six* years ago, everything could be saved or printed to pdf, right under your nose with Cmd-P. PDF is part of the operating system in Mac OS X. Unless you want the advanced features, you have more portability than you need. Adobe has nice extra features for PDF if you need them. Go check it out.
The article is suspiciously trolling for a professional journalist. For me the author gets way too emotinal and is aiming at Google as a player too much, instead of the ball. Sounds like this article is not about webmail, but about the company Google. Well let me think... who declared war on Google lately? I expected to begin read such articles in the near future, and here they come. Watch out for the weapons, and who is using them. Mercenairies!
What I don't understand is that lots of people know that a burglar will break in the houses which require the least effort.
And no, again no, market share has very little to do with exploitability.
Given the amount of *different* *ageold* IIS exploits my Apache webserver is still logging at a daily basis - whereas IIS has rougly only 30% market share. Now give me a list of those so called "etc." Apache exploits and worms.
Currently there is a campaign to keep Europe free from a software patent system similar to that of the US. You will find all the explanation, arguments and links you need (even of the Pro lobbyists) at http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/basics/index .html
As for my explanation: software is merely a compilation of thousands of smaller expressions in order to mimic something that already exists in real life. It's an idea, and idea's can not be patented, only manufacturing processes. Even if you would be granted to write software covered by a patent, then you will have to go thru all the research, exerimenting, analysis, coding, testing, debugging, and refining steps to get your product out of the door. This is not the case with regular manufacturing related patents. Software has -and needs only - Copyright. That's enough.
Of course there is the GPL [ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ] or "Copyleft". And my guess is that Open Source and GPL is are two of the reasons why the Powers That Be want Software Patents so bad.
Of course it is stupid to think of a patent for the idea to issue a "Gift Certificate". There is no such patent. So why should the idea of delivering a "Gift Certificate" through a web application (=software) be patented? Insane.
I systematically keep a paper catalog of my Compact discs. And I have a page where I consistently keep a list up to date with all songs from 1975. So I have prior art to a smart playlist.
Someone on this topic posted a nice comment: "You'll die through your own weapons."
Cheepnis... lemme tell you something: do you like windows, anybody? I love windows. I simply adore windows. And the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheapness, in case of windows, has nothing to do with the piracy or the price -- althought it helps but true cheapness is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of the giant windows programmer... I tell you, a good one that I saw one time... I think the name of the software was "It Conquered The World"... and... Did you ever seen that one? The window looks sort like an inverted ice-cream cone with teeth around the bottom...
I can remember very well in 1975, as a 18 yr old student, we wrote a fortran program for a PDP8. We let the program run, and when ok, we were allowed to go for greater precision, and load the instructions via punchtape and phone line remotely on a bigger computer, located in Brussels, from which the school rented cpu cycles. Now the teacher was busy too, giving his time to each students in turn. My program ran , but there was no output on the teletype. So I tried to warn the teacher that something went wrong... he told me to wait my turn... when he finally got my attention he nerveously halted the program with some voodoo like instruction. it was too late. The school would have to pay a huge amount for running my program, that ran all that time in a never ending loop. It took a while before I made another punchtaped program for that remote computer.
Remember, Mac OS X is mainly a friendly, safe and stable CONSUMER product. If it wants to keep it that way, it should not easily allow adventured and experimental hardware hacks and tweaks going in those consumer's direction. It should protect that brand and image of ease and reliablilty. Mac OS (X) users are still the most demanding computer users out there... It's Microsoft that lowered the users expectations, not Apple.
I think it is utterly wrong or even illegal to sing out loud, the same very song you just heard on the radio. Although you could eventually, maybe not in public, only at home, or in the bathroom or shower or so. Or only when you can't remember who' song it is... or where you heard it before... But then again, you should pay someone, to sing it to, so he could look up the one you should pay for singing his or her song... Nah. Forget it.
the review gives props to Apple for OS X but in the end, TFA's author is unable to keep himself from borg-like Apple bashing
This is so typical and a facet of the propaganda machine. Attract open minds with a promising title, take them along positivly. But a cold bashing shower leaves the reader confused and in subconscious doubt, everything but smarter.
The whole article is a dishonest statement.
Most Windows "ecosystems" defend their interests this way. Which means: You can see this same pattern in lots of writings from Windows-oriented journalists.
Too bad I did not find any references to a Java 1.5 upgrade. Does anyone know if this is to be expected in the near future? There is for instance good SmartCard Token Support in Java 1.5 (PKCS#11) amongst other important language and framework features...
If you have the opportunity to vote, you should vote.
Whatever each of you American people do, from the heart, will seem insignificant. But it is extremely important that you do it.
Yet Another Object Relational Mapping Framework
on
Hibernate in Action
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· Score: 1
I don not want to start a "this is better than that" discussion, I simply want to add something of my experience to this topic, because good ORM can be a time or life saver for any project.
I have some experience with EOF (Enterprise Object[1] Framework) and was looking at Hibernate. Now i'm using Cayenne[2]. There is not so much difference between the two latter, taking simplicity and elegance into account. But here is why we choose Cayenne for our situation: - a friendly open userbase - a project which got its priorities right - it resembles, and, can import the model files of EOF - it reverse engineers existing databases with ease. - I get a *great* cross platform modeling/mapping GUI tool which saves me lots of work. - I could write my own database adaptor by subclassing the work already done. - inheritance is used to separate business logic from persistence and mapping logic. You never need to touch the latter.
etcetera...
From the Cayenne website: Bill Dudney posted a Cayenne vs. Hibernate[3] entry in his blog. This ended up as a pretty long thread discussing the merits of GUI tools for ORM among other things. It is interesting because Bill fooled around quiet a bit with the frameworks, and you get a quick idea of what your code will look like in both. Also it gave me the right strategic insight.
The main maintainers of Cayenne got there first with a good introduction to their creation[4]. Another quote: Unfortunately popular feature-for-feature comparisons[5] of such frameworks provide as much information about the substance as nutrition labels about the food taste. So this is a bit like choosing a dish in a restaurant - its all about the flavor.
I wonder if anyone stands still at the fact that many of the classic press' articles do not contain relevant links to support their statement, (except when those links seem to be there only to support those statements;-)). No facts, no webpages, no resumés, nothing. Just confidential sources and the like. Even Wired had more supporting links in the good ol' days. At least on slashdot you get modded up when you add extra referencial material to articles and comments. So FT: modded down for me. FUD ratio: high. Noise ratio: high. Signal ratio: low Spyware has no borders to deal with.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Jade \Jade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jaded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jading.]
1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak.
2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.]
I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
--Shak.
3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any
kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to
harass.
The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power,
. . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
--Locke.
Syn: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.
Usage: To Jade, Fatigue, Tire, Weary. Fatigue is the
generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the
strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by
exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a
long and steady repetition of the same act or effort.
A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person;
a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body
and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on
a long journey by a continual straining of the same
muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of
work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant
attention to business.
Shouldn't widespread adoption of PGP be the best solution? For me any implementation of PGP sig IS a Caller ID, only it is not XML, but it could easily be wrapped.
IMHO MS is reinventing a wheel, or trying to own it.
So, if everybody should become aware of the sense of a PGP sig, maybe with a service like "pgp://pgpserver.domain.tld" the problem is on its way to its solution... It shouldn't be part of SMTP sendmail or... but is should be easy to hook it up anything.
Maybe the idea that mail could potentially be completely private (read:encrypted) is not that appealing to everyone.
So, tell them you read it here first. (Or point me to a similar idea.)
Since it has been made public that Microsoft is after Google, it is possible it'll start raining articles like these. A few drops at first, with scattered hailstormz (sic). A pity we'll have to detect ourselves the more funded arguments on the benefits and drawbacks of Google's success.
Propaganda and antipropaganda are subtle weapons.
Given M$ weapons of mass distraction, Google will need to be very good to survive.
The text you'll find at Omnigroup where they present themselves as a company hasn't changed much over the years. I also like their job opportunites page... too bad I don't live in Seattle (6000 miles from where I live)
Slashdot Mirror
open source CAD program linux
I think the links listed here to linux installable CAD oriënted development projects is worth following.
http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html
To http://gmail.co.uk/ I went.
A webmail front I saw.
Contensis CMS product I read.
To http://www.contensis.net/ I went.
For gmail I searched.
Nothing I did find.
If that is the case, then so is Printing a relic of the age of Paper.
n ters.php3 ],
I think your post misses the point completely.
Although you can read pdf's online, a PDF is made to port your propietary format document to a file that can be printed on all printers driven by device drivers on all OS's that can host applications that know how to read PDF's and talk to the printer driver(s). And there are many.
The PDF specs are open, en well documented, and anyone can implement a PDF reader/writer to be compatible with his technical environment. Thanks to Gimp print and GhostScript
[ http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Pri
I can hook up age-old printers to an operating system that "does not support" them.
So if you want to select all text, you can. There are free (as in beer and speech ) PDF converters all over the globe. Go and pick one.
And finally, PDF is not bound to pages either. You can have slideshows in PDF, photo's in PDF. There is a PDF for the display device (screen) too. Look at Mac OS X, since the beginning, *six* years ago, everything could be saved or printed to pdf, right under your nose with Cmd-P. PDF is part of the operating system in Mac OS X. Unless you want the advanced features, you have more portability than you need. Adobe has nice extra features for PDF if you need them. Go check it out.
The article is suspiciously trolling for a professional journalist. For me the author gets way too emotinal and is aiming at Google as a player too much, instead of the ball. Sounds like this article is not about webmail, but about the company Google. Well let me think... who declared war on Google lately? I expected to begin read such articles in the near future, and here they come. Watch out for the weapons, and who is using them. Mercenairies!
What I don't understand is that lots of people know that a burglar will break in the houses which require the least effort.
And no, again no, market share has very little to do with exploitability.
Given the amount of *different* *ageold* IIS exploits my Apache webserver is still logging at a daily basis - whereas IIS has rougly only 30% market share.
Now give me a list of those so called "etc." Apache exploits and worms.
Currently there is a campaign to keep Europe free from a software patent system similar to that of the US.x .html
You will find all the explanation, arguments and links you need (even of the Pro lobbyists) at
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/basics/inde
As for my explanation: software is merely a compilation of thousands of smaller expressions in order to mimic something that already exists in real life. It's an idea, and idea's can not be patented, only manufacturing processes. Even if you would be granted to write software covered by a patent, then you will have to go thru all the research, exerimenting, analysis, coding, testing, debugging, and refining steps to get your product out of the door. This is not the case with regular manufacturing related patents. Software has -and needs only - Copyright. That's enough.
Of course there is the GPL [ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ] or "Copyleft". And my guess is that Open Source and GPL is are two of the reasons why the Powers That Be want Software Patents so bad.
Of course it is stupid to think of a patent for the idea to issue a "Gift Certificate". There is no such patent.
So why should the idea of delivering a "Gift Certificate" through a web application (=software) be patented? Insane.
I systematically keep a paper catalog of my Compact discs. And I have a page where I consistently keep a list up to date with all songs from 1975. So I have prior art to a smart playlist.
Someone on this topic posted a nice comment:
"You'll die through your own weapons."
Cheepnis... lemme tell you something: do you like windows, anybody?
. htm
I love windows. I simply adore windows. And the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheapness, in case of windows, has nothing to do with the piracy or the price -- althought it helps
but true cheapness is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of the giant windows programmer...
I tell you, a good one that I saw one time... I think the name of the software was "It Conquered The World"... and... Did you ever seen that one? The window looks sort like an inverted ice-cream cone with teeth around the bottom...
Adated from Zappa'z Cheepnis
http://www.cupandblade.com/cheepnis/mst/fzoncheep
I can remember very well in 1975, as a 18 yr old student, we wrote a fortran program for a PDP8. We let the program run, and when ok, we were allowed to go for greater precision, and load the instructions via punchtape and phone line remotely on a bigger computer, located in Brussels, from which the school rented cpu cycles. Now the teacher was busy too, giving his time to each students in turn. My program ran , but there was no output on the teletype. So I tried to warn the teacher that something went wrong... he told me to wait my turn... when he finally got my attention he nerveously halted the program with some voodoo like instruction. it was too late. The school would have to pay a huge amount for running my program, that ran all that time in a never ending loop. It took a while before I made another punchtaped program for that remote computer.
Dell Dumps WebObjects - Wanna read the the news: postings from that time (summer 1997), and feel a little more close to the shockwave?j ects&hl=en
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=Dell+webob
Remember, Mac OS X is mainly a friendly, safe and stable CONSUMER product. If it wants to keep it that way, it should not easily allow adventured and experimental hardware hacks and tweaks going in those consumer's direction. It should protect that brand and image of ease and reliablilty.
Mac OS (X) users are still the most demanding computer users out there... It's Microsoft that lowered the users expectations, not Apple.
...and helping the thief see what to steal.
No worse yet, they are blaming the bulb!!!
I think it is utterly wrong or even illegal to sing out loud, the same very song you just heard on the radio. Although you could eventually, maybe not in public, only at home, or in the bathroom or shower or so.
Or only when you can't remember who' song it is... or where you heard it before...
But then again, you should pay someone, to sing it to, so he could look up the one you should pay for singing his or her song...
Nah. Forget it.
the review gives props to Apple for OS X but in the end, TFA's author is unable to keep himself from borg-like Apple bashing
This is so typical and a facet of the propaganda machine. Attract open minds with a promising title, take them along positivly. But a cold bashing shower leaves the reader confused and in subconscious doubt, everything but smarter.
The whole article is a dishonest statement.
Most Windows "ecosystems" defend their interests this way.
Which means: You can see this same pattern in lots of writings from Windows-oriented journalists.
Too bad I did not find any references to a Java 1.5 upgrade.
Does anyone know if this is to be expected in the near future?
There is for instance good SmartCard Token Support in Java 1.5 (PKCS#11) amongst other important language and framework features...
M.I.C.R.O.S.O.F.T.
Most Innovations Come Ripped-Off Some Other Firm's Technology
If you have the opportunity to vote, you should vote.
Whatever each of you American people do, from the heart, will seem insignificant.
But it is extremely important that you do it.
I have some experience with EOF (Enterprise Object[1] Framework) and was looking at Hibernate. Now i'm using Cayenne[2]. There is not so much difference between the two latter, taking simplicity and elegance into account. But here is why we choose Cayenne for our situation:
- a friendly open userbase
- a project which got its priorities right
- it resembles, and, can import the model files of EOF
- it reverse engineers existing databases with ease.
- I get a *great* cross platform modeling/mapping GUI tool which saves me lots of work.
- I could write my own database adaptor by subclassing the work already done.
- inheritance is used to separate business logic from persistence and mapping logic. You never need to touch the latter.
etcetera...
From the Cayenne website:
Bill Dudney posted a Cayenne vs. Hibernate[3] entry in his blog. This ended up as a pretty long thread discussing the merits of GUI tools for ORM among other things.
It is interesting because Bill fooled around quiet a bit with the frameworks, and you get a quick idea of what your code will look like in both. Also it gave me the right strategic insight.
The main maintainers of Cayenne got there first with
a good introduction to their creation[4].
Another quote: Unfortunately popular feature-for-feature comparisons[5] of such frameworks provide as much information about the substance as nutrition labels about the food taste. So this is a bit like choosing a dish in a restaurant - its all about the flavor.
Evolution will tell. But this is my bell.
I wonder if anyone stands still at the fact that many of the classic press' articles do not contain relevant links to support their statement, (except when those links seem to be there only to support those statements ;-)).
No facts, no webpages, no resumés, nothing. Just confidential sources and the like.
Even Wired had more supporting links in the good ol' days.
At least on slashdot you get modded up when you add extra referencial material to articles and comments.
So FT: modded down for me. FUD ratio: high. Noise ratio: high. Signal ratio: low
Spyware has no borders to deal with.
Can't buy me looo-ove...
(sic the Beatles)
There's no way she's going to comprehend PGP.
Well yes, I agree, and that's obvious.
What I mean is that the PGP paradigm could -maybe- be implemented in a way that she shouldn't have to comprehend it.
Getting an email account from a mail admin, should implicitely be accompagnied by a key tied to that mailbox.
So the signing should be done by the first relayer and verifying should be done by the last mailhost or the mail client...
Shouldn't widespread adoption of PGP be the best solution? For me any implementation of PGP sig IS a Caller ID, only it is not XML, but it could easily be wrapped.
... but is should be easy to hook it up anything.
IMHO MS is reinventing a wheel, or trying to own it.
So, if everybody should become aware of the sense of a PGP sig, maybe with a service like "pgp://pgpserver.domain.tld" the problem is on its way to its solution... It shouldn't be part of SMTP sendmail or
Maybe the idea that mail could potentially be completely private (read:encrypted) is not that appealing to everyone.
So, tell them you read it here first. (Or point me to a similar idea.)
Since it has been made public that Microsoft is after Google, it is possible it'll start raining articles like these. A few drops at first, with scattered hailstormz (sic). A pity we'll have to detect ourselves the more funded arguments on the benefits and drawbacks of Google's success.
Propaganda and antipropaganda are subtle weapons.
Given M$ weapons of mass distraction, Google will need to be very good to survive.
Where do they think they are going, if they want to prevent me from using My Own Work in any way I prefer to?
Once I save the document, it is mine. If I want to read or even change it, using my own software, I should be able to do just that.
So please architect, hand over the plans so someone else can fix the house I've built with it!!
The text you'll find at Omnigroup where they present themselves as a company hasn't changed much over the years. I also like their job opportunites page... too bad I don't live in Seattle (6000 miles from where I live)