I am far more concerned about Islamic censorship of the internet within the U.S. and other free countries, as well as intimidation of bookstores, publishers, and news outlets.
In the West, we find censorship abhorent, a crime against liberty. Capitulation simply to avoid controversy is the very antithesis of free exchange of ideas. This is essentially giving in to a mobocracy kind of situation, where a militant group successfully bullies someone into their way of thinking.
But this capitulation, specifically to offended Muslims, is becoming routine. Borders and Waldenbooks take magazines off their shelves if they contain articles that might upset some Muslims. YouTube removes videos that discuss Islam if Muslims complain. What we see and know, what we are allowed to discuss, is already in part determined by these mobs.
Yes, it looks like the animation is briefly displaying the still frame between each animation frame. This is on a new 1.2 GHz iMac, which has a decent video card, and using Adobe Reader v. 7.something.
I just tried xpdf v. 3.01 on the pdf made with \animate, and it did not work (must page through the frames manually, in both normal mode and fullscreen).
You make a very good point. Locally I know that our presentation machines can play any movie I put into the pdf, but it's a risk when you're going to use an unknown laptop at a conference. I suggest using codecs that are widespread on Windows and Macintosh (but I'm still not sure what those are). Mainly I was concerned that your animations (which are very cool otherwise) played back in a non-smooth fashion on my machine, due, I assume, to the javascript button-shuffling technique.
Actually beamer has an \animate command built-in, which, I think, gives slightly smoother results that the pdfanim package, at least the one time I used it. This shares the advantage of being cross-platform but has the disadvantage that all the frames of the animation are separate slides (that are flipped through rapidly when in full-screen mode). But you can put a hyperlink in to skip over the movie.
I looked at one of your examples and at the pdfanim documentation and I would strongly suggest that people interested in embedding "animations" (actually any movie) into a beamer (or other latex) presentation try out the movie15 package instead.
After reading Intel's description of their product I have no interest, but the mashup idea, despite the stupid name, had its early expression in some really brilliant and useful work. Check out http://www.chicagocrime.org/ for a superb example. Of course, this was created by programming (using the nifty django framework, which uses python, by one of its creators) rather than by clicking on a toolbar.
Shortly after arriving in Tokyo for a brief visit I was waiting in a line outside the train station for a bus to the suburbs, with mostly businessmen. A guy in the line put his black leather briefcase on the ground and went in to the station. A few minutes later he came back with a newspaper and stood next to his briefcase, which he had left there to hold his spot. He didn't seem to worry or think twice about it, and nobody around batted an eye. It was then that I (a New Yorker by birth) realized I was in a very different kind of society.
It wasn't so many years ago that it used to be safe to leave a car with the keys inside
You must either be very much older than I or are talking about parts of the USA with which I am not familiar.
No, you don't. Your website fails to declare a doctype and fails to validate (17 errors on the home page alone). Also, it rudely opens new windows when I click on links. And it's ugly.
Reminds me of a rotund college friend who descended upon an all-you-can-eat lobster restaurant in New England. He had prepared for his onslaught by fasting for the day. After a while the owner gave him his money back and asked him to leave.
I'm using it as my main browser, but I do have to use Camino or Safari for certain javascript-heavy interactive sites. This may not be Opera's fault, as these sites appear to be defective - if a site with syntax errors in its html or javascript fails to work correctly in a browser, I don't think it's fair to blame the browser, but not everyone agrees with this (they regard the ability to figure out how to parse incorrect markup or code a responsibility of the browser). I like it because it is great at displaying pages and navigating without making me touch the mouse. I can turn images on or off, fit the page to the window width, turn the stylesheet off, follow links, etc., all with the keyboard, and all the shortcuts can be customized. On the other hand some people love Opera because of its support for mouse gestures!
Actually I have encoutered one example: emails to colleagues at the government research laboratory where I work are sometimes rejected, depending on which server they happen to go through, if I use my laboratory email address in my From: header but am mailing from outside the lab (the server's error message complains about "spoof" email and specifically mentions the From: header). I don't know if they are using a custom made system here or (more likely) it's some off-the-shelf server product.
Point taken. But have you ever submitted a story here and gotten to the stage of having to choose a "topic" from the pop-up list, and found that none of the choices apply? I was like, "Well, let's see here....crashes, people dying: not funny. But a molasses tidal wave? Kind of amusing: ok, choose 'Funny'."
Can you forgive me?
For now, Schubert|it's PDF Browser plugin seems to be the best workaround.
I'm not clear why a "workaround" is needed here, given what you've pointed out. Is there a danger in having Acrobat (reader) automatically open a PDF? Also, the last time I tried this plugin it was pretty good, but didn't handle enough of the PDF spec for me to want to use it.
The solution would be a "WebServices" counterpart to "LaunchServices", for handlers of "Unsafe Files"
I use a System Preferences plugin called "RCDefaultApp" (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) that lets you make arbitrary associations between file types and applications. Is that what you mean?
Can someone remind me what is the point of a browser allowing "driveby downloads" and automatically launching the content of the download?
The point for me is PDF. In science it is very common to enounter links to papers and other material in PDF form; I can click and there it is in Acrobat (Preview is not good enough). If the PDF has links, I can click on them and be back in Camino (Safari is not good enough). The browsing between HTML and PDF is thus pretty seemless, but only if you allow the PDFs to open without intervention.
The comment that you reply to was so very well expressed that I feel a need to defend it. He did not say that Nazism was Christian. Read it again. What he did say is very rarely brought up, because it is so potentially troubling to Christians. It is also practically self-evident. Nazism did not arise in a vacuum; it was adopted by a community of Christians with a horrible history of violent antisemitism that preceded Nazism. Read about the treatment of Jews in 19th century Germany. The Nazi policy toward Jews was an elaboration and formalization of that preexisting attitude. Without that Christian kernel of hatred toward the Jews, Nazism could not have taken hold.
[...] look at the history of immoral scientific experiments that could have used a bit more moral supervision
He was not arguing against moral restraint. Religious influence is not moral influence, it is religious influence. Morality must overcome religion; ethics must not be usurped by superstition.
When I used dialup and had an Earthlink email address, I regularly received spam from Earthlink advertising great deals on printers and other stuff I didn't want. The usenet groups dealing with Earthlink were full of complaints about this spam, but they never responded. So what do you do when your own ISP insists on spamming you?
Slashdot Mirror
http://lee-phillips.org/primary/ yes, my graphical skills are weak.
I am far more concerned about Islamic censorship of the internet within the U.S. and other free countries, as well as intimidation of bookstores, publishers, and news outlets.
But this capitulation, specifically to offended Muslims, is becoming routine. Borders and Waldenbooks take magazines off their shelves if they contain articles that might upset some Muslims. YouTube removes videos that discuss Islam if Muslims complain. What we see and know, what we are allowed to discuss, is already in part determined by these mobs.
No, it isn't. Read the interview here: Scott seems to think it should be pretty obvious.
Of course you do.
Yes, it looks like the animation is briefly displaying the still frame between each animation frame. This is on a new 1.2 GHz iMac, which has a decent video card, and using Adobe Reader v. 7.something.
I just tried xpdf v. 3.01 on the pdf made with \animate, and it did not work (must page through the frames manually, in both normal mode and fullscreen).
You make a very good point. Locally I know that our presentation machines can play any movie I put into the pdf, but it's a risk when you're going to use an unknown laptop at a conference. I suggest using codecs that are widespread on Windows and Macintosh (but I'm still not sure what those are). Mainly I was concerned that your animations (which are very cool otherwise) played back in a non-smooth fashion on my machine, due, I assume, to the javascript button-shuffling technique. Actually beamer has an \animate command built-in, which, I think, gives slightly smoother results that the pdfanim package, at least the one time I used it. This shares the advantage of being cross-platform but has the disadvantage that all the frames of the animation are separate slides (that are flipped through rapidly when in full-screen mode). But you can put a hyperlink in to skip over the movie.
I looked at one of your examples and at the pdfanim documentation and I would strongly suggest that people interested in embedding "animations" (actually any movie) into a beamer (or other latex) presentation try out the movie15 package instead.
After reading Intel's description of their product I have no interest, but the mashup idea, despite the stupid name, had its early expression in some really brilliant and useful work. Check out http://www.chicagocrime.org/ for a superb example. Of course, this was created by programming (using the nifty django framework, which uses python, by one of its creators) rather than by clicking on a toolbar.
... that I got in snail-mail this week and reproduced at http://lee-phillips.org/ameritrade/ with my reactions.
No, you don't. Your website fails to declare a doctype and fails to validate (17 errors on the home page alone). Also, it rudely opens new windows when I click on links. And it's ugly.
I did not see that episode, and I promise this is a true story.
Reminds me of a rotund college friend who descended upon an all-you-can-eat lobster restaurant in New England. He had prepared for his onslaught by fasting for the day. After a while the owner gave him his money back and asked him to leave.
... are regions where I can print money by feeding the electric company's output back into their system, no?
I'm using it as my main browser, but I do have to use Camino or Safari for certain javascript-heavy interactive sites. This may not be Opera's fault, as these sites appear to be defective - if a site with syntax errors in its html or javascript fails to work correctly in a browser, I don't think it's fair to blame the browser, but not everyone agrees with this (they regard the ability to figure out how to parse incorrect markup or code a responsibility of the browser). I like it because it is great at displaying pages and navigating without making me touch the mouse. I can turn images on or off, fit the page to the window width, turn the stylesheet off, follow links, etc., all with the keyboard, and all the shortcuts can be customized. On the other hand some people love Opera because of its support for mouse gestures!
Actually I have encoutered one example: emails to colleagues at the government research laboratory where I work are sometimes rejected, depending on which server they happen to go through, if I use my laboratory email address in my From: header but am mailing from outside the lab (the server's error message complains about "spoof" email and specifically mentions the From: header). I don't know if they are using a custom made system here or (more likely) it's some off-the-shelf server product.
And really, the humor section?
Point taken. But have you ever submitted a story here and gotten to the stage of having to choose a "topic" from the pop-up list, and found that none of the choices apply? I was like, "Well, let's see here....crashes, people dying: not funny. But a molasses tidal wave? Kind of amusing: ok, choose 'Funny'." Can you forgive me?
For now, Schubert|it's PDF Browser plugin seems to be the best workaround.
I'm not clear why a "workaround" is needed here, given what you've pointed out. Is there a danger in having Acrobat (reader) automatically open a PDF? Also, the last time I tried this plugin it was pretty good, but didn't handle enough of the PDF spec for me to want to use it.
The solution would be a "WebServices" counterpart to "LaunchServices", for handlers of "Unsafe Files"
I use a System Preferences plugin called "RCDefaultApp" (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) that lets you make arbitrary associations between file types and applications. Is that what you mean?
Can someone remind me what is the point of a browser allowing "driveby downloads" and automatically launching the content of the download?
The point for me is PDF. In science it is very common to enounter links to papers and other material in PDF form; I can click and there it is in Acrobat (Preview is not good enough). If the PDF has links, I can click on them and be back in Camino (Safari is not good enough). The browsing between HTML and PDF is thus pretty seemless, but only if you allow the PDFs to open without intervention.
Isn't "as" commutative?
If you can't locate it how do you know you're 10 miles away?
The comment that you reply to was so very well expressed that I feel a need to defend it. He did not say that Nazism was Christian. Read it again. What he did say is very rarely brought up, because it is so potentially troubling to Christians. It is also practically self-evident. Nazism did not arise in a vacuum; it was adopted by a community of Christians with a horrible history of violent antisemitism that preceded Nazism. Read about the treatment of Jews in 19th century Germany. The Nazi policy toward Jews was an elaboration and formalization of that preexisting attitude. Without that Christian kernel of hatred toward the Jews, Nazism could not have taken hold.
He was not arguing against moral restraint. Religious influence is not moral influence, it is religious influence. Morality must overcome religion; ethics must not be usurped by superstition.
When I used dialup and had an Earthlink email address, I regularly received spam from Earthlink advertising great deals on printers and other stuff I didn't want. The usenet groups dealing with Earthlink were full of complaints about this spam, but they never responded. So what do you do when your own ISP insists on spamming you?