I don't beleive that we need laws to protect culture. But there must be people willing to stand up and say "No" to certain things.
In these days of Mad cow disease a Macdonalds advert that says "We only put beef, salt and pepper in our burgers" makes me puke. Fighting to preserve French culture is taking foreign visitors out and teaching them about real food. You know that actually tastes of something other than sugar.
Litterare, films all art must be able to stand up for themselves. Bad art is bad art, and subsidized art is some of the worst there is... Defending French culture would be getting Hollywood to put up a title that says "remake of a film by French director X" in larger that 6pt font... Getting people to say "Hey! I wouldn't mind seeing the original even if it is dubbed".
Why does French culture need to be protected? Because this culture is giving interesting things back to the world at large even though it is a rather small part of global population.
America doesn't have a culture. It is a melting pot of various cultures. Often the sum of these cultures is so based on compromise that what comes out it too bland to be called "culture". America gave the world marketing, hype, vapor ware, buggy OS's...
Sure there is some art - but independant movies don't get here. We only see the worst of what you have to offer the rest doesn't get exported.
To see the best there is only one way - go to the USA.
Does this help you understand why some of us are standing in front of the bulldozers?
They are ignoring the monetary system. If they don't obey other directives they get fined. If they don't pay fines in theory they would be chucked out.
SECAM is a standard that was an attempt to improve upon NTSC - you know better color, better definition...
PAL won in Europe because there were more clients who had the cash to buy a VHS in the UK and Germany. And second reason there were many more television chanels in those countries.
When I got an e-mail address in 1994 I fought for european language support on the Internet. I will fight to save French culture even though I am not French. But I don't think that this law is the right way to save French culture.
It is easy for you guys to rant on laws such as this, but you do not understand what is at stake here. I think that this law stinks BUT zoning was put in place by the US motion picture industry to protect their bottom line, not by the French governement.
BTW Hollywood buys French scripts by the ton to do remakes. Being bilingual I may tell you that the remakes stink big time.
The food and wine are great and cheap.
The women are - well French...
Just don't come here to do business or get rich (unless you are a world class chef - see above).
Boeing's switch to MS was documented on the Web. Suits decided, not IT.
Local town hall has 1800 seat intranet running on Exchange and the 9 a.m. effect I have witnessed in person. Running on Compaq bi-PIII server.
These guys are not lazy - they are overloaded. They may be doing things wrong, then again that is very easy with MS translated dialogue boxes - their french is not very good...
Understaffed IT departments have loads of time to follow security patches for Exchange, apply them and guarantee no downtime in the process. All corporations have woads of cash to throw at highend hardware so that the server won't implode every morning at 9 a.m. when every body logs in at the exact same time.
Legal if you own the source CD and you use the MP3 in the familly circle (guess that if you can prove you are someones 42 cousin by marrage it's OK...).
Else illegal under copyright law.
Re:Dave != Samba. And Samba on OS X is okay, but..
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My other half does desktop publishing on Mac and on Windows. She scans on one machine. She has Mac text she needs to transfer to Windows and vice versa. She needs to open Win Pagemaker files in Mac and vice versa...
We will be trying Samba / OS X in order to have a little less noise in the living room (no file server running 24/24...)
Both OS print native to the Laserjet.
The windows machine double boots into Linux for connecting to the outside world (it is forbidden to use Windows on the Internet at home for obvious reasons) and burning CD-Roms.
After a weekend with OS X I think that Apple may have a winner.
Strange. I have used an Apple 15" LCD on various machines/cards with no problems. I am running XFree 3.xx and various RedHats from 5.1 -> 6.2
I have a Vaio C1XD Picturebook with NeoMagic. If any one could tell me how to run 1024x768 on external monitor _or_ 1024x480 on internal I would be much obliged.
I would like to be able to switch from one to the other not run bothe displays at the same time.
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I don't beleive that we need laws to protect culture. But there must be people willing to stand up and say "No" to certain things.
In these days of Mad cow disease a Macdonalds advert that says "We only put beef, salt and pepper in our burgers" makes me puke. Fighting to preserve French culture is taking foreign visitors out and teaching them about real food. You know that actually tastes of something other than sugar.
Litterare, films all art must be able to stand up for themselves. Bad art is bad art, and subsidized art is some of the worst there is... Defending French culture would be getting Hollywood to put up a title that says "remake of a film by French director X" in larger that 6pt font... Getting people to say "Hey! I wouldn't mind seeing the original even if it is dubbed".
Why does French culture need to be protected? Because this culture is giving interesting things back to the world at large even though it is a rather small part of global population.
America doesn't have a culture. It is a melting pot of various cultures. Often the sum of these cultures is so based on compromise that what comes out it too bland to be called "culture". America gave the world marketing, hype, vapor ware, buggy OS's...
Sure there is some art - but independant movies don't get here. We only see the worst of what you have to offer the rest doesn't get exported.
To see the best there is only one way - go to the USA.
Does this help you understand why some of us are standing in front of the bulldozers?
Excuse me for butting in like this but a G4 Cube doesn't make any noise other than hard disk (no fan). To play a DVD drop it in the slot.
OK QuickTime may not be the best MP3 software out there but there will be other alternatives on OS X.
Plug in a nice DLP video projector and run the sound out through your stereo amplifier.
The 22" Apple flat display is quite nice too...
They are ignoring the monetary system. If they don't obey other directives they get fined. If they don't pay fines in theory they would be chucked out.
SECAM is a standard that was an attempt to improve upon NTSC - you know better color, better definition...
PAL won in Europe because there were more clients who had the cash to buy a VHS in the UK and Germany. And second reason there were many more television chanels in those countries.
Look at the map of countries using SECAM today...
Maybe you should travel outside of your ghetto more often...
Like say a trip into East LA or (shudder) south of the Rio Grande.
Get real - no way are a billion Chinese going to read this...
When I got an e-mail address in 1994 I fought for european language support on the Internet. I will fight to save French culture even though I am not French. But I don't think that this law is the right way to save French culture.
It is easy for you guys to rant on laws such as this, but you do not understand what is at stake here. I think that this law stinks BUT zoning was put in place by the US motion picture industry to protect their bottom line, not by the French governement.
BTW Hollywood buys French scripts by the ton to do remakes. Being bilingual I may tell you that the remakes stink big time.
The food and wine are great and cheap.
The women are - well French...
Just don't come here to do business or get rich (unless you are a world class chef - see above).
If they follow EU directives this should change on midnight december 31st like here in France.
If they don't maybe the competition will / should take them to the european court and have them flogged...
Get the very best sheilded video cables money can buy (speaking from experience)
Belkin people showed me one at Interop in Paris. They _said_ Linux USB keyboard was supported. I could not test though.
Programs/Settings/Imlib Configuration Options
My screen is set to match the gamma of the Macs in the office. That way things don't go bad when exchanging pics between the two OS.
After that we look at them in Windoze to see if they are too dark.
Et Voila
Who said "real" graphics people don't use Linux!!!
Gimp rocks!!!
Boeing's switch to MS was documented on the Web. Suits decided, not IT.
Local town hall has 1800 seat intranet running on Exchange and the 9 a.m. effect I have witnessed in person. Running on Compaq bi-PIII server.
These guys are not lazy - they are overloaded. They may be doing things wrong, then again that is very easy with MS translated dialogue boxes - their french is not very good...
Where is Boeing exactly?
Why do they use it do you think?
Understaffed IT departments have loads of time to follow security patches for Exchange, apply them and guarantee no downtime in the process. All corporations have woads of cash to throw at highend hardware so that the server won't implode every morning at 9 a.m. when every body logs in at the exact same time.
Exchange is a pain in the butt.
pgaccess.
Tcl/tk and in the distribution
Rocks
SVM Macintosh did an article this month.
Legal if you own the source CD and you use the MP3 in the familly circle (guess that if you can prove you are someones 42 cousin by marrage it's OK...).
Else illegal under copyright law.
Real world use:
My other half does desktop publishing on Mac and on Windows. She scans on one machine. She has Mac text she needs to transfer to Windows and vice versa. She needs to open Win Pagemaker files in Mac and vice versa...
We will be trying Samba / OS X in order to have a little less noise in the living room (no file server running 24/24...)
Both OS print native to the Laserjet.
The windows machine double boots into Linux for connecting to the outside world (it is forbidden to use Windows on the Internet at home for obvious reasons) and burning CD-Roms.
After a weekend with OS X I think that Apple may have a winner.
And I didn't read to the bottom wher in clear english...
Strange. I have used an Apple 15" LCD on various machines/cards with no problems. I am running XFree 3.xx and various RedHats from 5.1 -> 6.2
I have a Vaio C1XD Picturebook with NeoMagic. If any one could tell me how to run 1024x768 on external monitor _or_ 1024x480 on internal I would be much obliged.
I would like to be able to switch from one to the other not run bothe displays at the same time.
The webs best kept secret is called Tcl/Tk...
I agree 100% that it is by far the best way to go.
But... there are not as many programmers available as there are for Java.
Strange that both of these languages came from Sun isn't it.
Read my lips: GIMP on Mac = death of Photoshop...
Nothing happens until it's real...
You mean you don't know much about the kernel numbering scheme...
2.4 is needed by those of us running Linux on the Vaio C1Xx series of Picturebooks.
2.4.0-test8 has fixed most of my problems with USB and IDE.
I am using a Sony Vaio C1XD at 1024x480(768 virtual) on a 8.9" TFT.
1. you sit closer to a laptop screen
2. there is no flicker
3. in the right conditions backlit LCD is brighter than CRT
I was scared at first, but is very readable with no apparent eye strain.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of ITS life...
Yes!
This is the MacOS9 version of IE which is carbonized. It has nothing to do with UNIX. It is MacOS9 running in avirtual machine on MacOSX