First of all: Valencia is the most indebted region of Spain in relation to it's GDP (and second in monetary value) . Having spent billions on ill-fated projects (F1 track, Americas Cup, Arts and Science City) that have failed to meet economic returns. The former President resigned over corruption charges, Majors being investigated for contract mishandling and enrichment, a former governor in jailed this same week, etc... No thing that comes from this region is out of suspect.
This said, What it is commonly spoken about these projects is that they do not exist to leverage libre/opensource software on the school. They exist to praise regionalism of the different autonomies(regions) of Spain by local politicians, so, instead of viable ecosystems, they become second-choice-dual-boot-distros that exist to fill the pockets of several local companies (distro makers, maintainers, call-centers, certifiers...) that do literaly nothing contributing to the communities they get their software from.
Also, every region spent millions on creating their own distro, duplicating efforts (which is a clear indicator that it is a national-regionalist issue rather than a techno-economical one). If Extremadura has it distro, Andalusia also wants it and Valencia too.
Moreover, I put in doubt the claim that a somewhat high amount of Euros were saved whatsoever because educational licensing is usually done on a gubernamental level and not on a seat level.
I think that mixing the concept of a Web based desktop and a programable PIM could be the right thing, where programable PIM means that you could program yourself custom node types that appear on the web Desktop as icons and windows, and of course, share them
I think you didn't get it yet. The "problem" here is that if what they wanted is to only display the image, an IMG tag would be enough (and most browsers do support it, btw, my FF on Ubuntu asks me for a plugin), but by using the EMBED tag, what they seek is to allow the browser to use any other type of plugin that handles it. Imagine a Photoshop ActiveX Control that registers itself as being able to handle tiffs. Here, instead of using the browser's included TIFF loading capabilities, it would load the ActiveX control to handle the tiff file, adding some sort of interaction:).
I suppose they have done it this way 'cause they would have some internal-obscure-tiff-handling plugin for doing something. I don't see any other purpose for doing it this way.
That's exactly what it's under discussion: The EMBED tag tells the browser to find whatever it has to handle that document. If you have an ActiveX object that handles that tiff it could rotate, flip, blur, whateveryouwant it (And that's interaction). It's counterpart is to use a IMG tag, that tells the browser to just display the image (if it can)
When Novell Linux Desktop was released, we as Novell Partners started using it, and used it's default desktop (Gnome 2.6) as our desktop. Having used Gnome in the past year or so is my biggest computing life's error. Everything have been problems for us. Nothing works as expected, session management is a mess, gconf crashes a lot, esd is still there and nautilus is inflexible. Gnome is being guided towards being a Desktop for dummies, but it's weird behaviour only make users unconfortable with that Desktop. Now I'm going back to KDE, and I am currently remembering what was to have fun in the desktop.
Also, we support some clients with NLD9, and everything are problems, from mime types to gconf. Our support team has started to hate Gnome a lot. Our roadmap for our clients is to switch them to KDE, but with this decision, it will not be a Novell "official" product, it will be probably OpenSuSE.
With Novell having bought Ximian, it's logical that Novell standarizes on Gnome, but with this decision, SuSE only losses, and so does Novell. Will have to think twice before suggesting a partner renewal... They still have cool products, but they are taking the grown decisions (again and again)
For video you have pretty professional apps like Shake ($4999 ~ like softi) Actually, I have run Maya and Softimage on Linux natively . In fact, Softimage come from an Unix world (Irix)...
Read the article, we are not talking about alternatives, we are talking about running GNU/Linux. On the other hand, what you don't get is that if I want to run 3DS Why do I have to pay the Microsoft tax? With either Softi or Maya, I can get them running on GNU/Linux and pay only for the app I want to run (in the case I didn't like Blender, that I do like).
I live in Spain. I voted No. But it's irrelevant. The referendum is non-vinculating, so even if it was a majority of No, politicians would do whatever they want.
AFAIK, UPS backup is meant to shut the server down safely, not to make uptime numbers look better:)... On the other hand, Why reboot a machine once a month? Memory Leaks? 4 min rest time?
Uh, I forgot that those Patches required rebooting the system (not the service involved), sorry.
First of all; Everytime I see the term "Scalation", the narrator writes as If scalation was only a term for "bigger". We have to think not only of being bigger, but being smaller.
PHP has a wide support for many RDBMS, APIs and Operating Systems, but it is only a Language. A language doesn't scale, it's the platform that scales.
That's why I see the PHP/Apache/Unix to scale far better than (for example) ASP/IIS/NT: The first platform can run from a PDA to a high-perfomance Minicomputer; The second can run from an I686 (pentium support was removed?) to the best PC-Architecture based computer you can buy. That's the difference: A wide option platform versus a closed option platform.
Probably, the first platform will have perfomance leaks and will not take every perfomance point from the machine it runs within, but its scalability potential resides that it can run in whatever you throw it at. Maybe J2EE or other platforms will run faster on the same hardware than PHP, but PHP will scale there and will be looking shoulder to shoulder to it.
That's why I don't like to valuate Scalability from the "speed" point of view, but the "where it runs" point of view.
Can anyone explain why 3 separate B/W images are taken? If it is because of bandwidth... 3 grayscale images weights (more or less) like one color image... so why B/W and filters?
Microsoft says it will be switching back to.COM memory executable format. "EXEs had lots of security issues in the past, so we think this will be more secure, but with less functionality" a Microsoft employee said.
I cant trust a company that says they cannot patch their own enterprise-level Operating System (only to force customers to buy a new one, because, IMHO "technical" excuses like that are ridiculous).
If Microsoft says they cant patch, then open the source for us to patch it for free:)
Doesn`t the whole OS slow programs? I mean, since whe are running an OS, we know it will slow down our apps. Is the counterpart to run only an app, no network, and so on, but Why cant be developed critical apps for the PC (or other cheap platforms) with no OS? (I mean, apps that boot themselves) It would make OS crashes less critical for that critical apps and make response speed (since no scheduler, context switches, etc...) increased. It would be a pain to work in one of those apps from scratch, but they would not rely in nothing but hardware. I remember playing a game for the PC (80286 era) that selfbooted from a 1.44 Mb Disk....
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First of all: Valencia is the most indebted region of Spain in relation to it's GDP (and second in monetary value) . Having spent billions on ill-fated projects (F1 track, Americas Cup, Arts and Science City) that have failed to meet economic returns. The former President resigned over corruption charges, Majors being investigated for contract mishandling and enrichment, a former governor in jailed this same week, etc... No thing that comes from this region is out of suspect.
This said, What it is commonly spoken about these projects is that they do not exist to leverage libre/opensource software on the school. They exist to praise regionalism of the different autonomies(regions) of Spain by local politicians, so, instead of viable ecosystems, they become second-choice-dual-boot-distros that exist to fill the pockets of several local companies (distro makers, maintainers, call-centers, certifiers...) that do literaly nothing contributing to the communities they get their software from.
Also, every region spent millions on creating their own distro, duplicating efforts (which is a clear indicator that it is a national-regionalist issue rather than a techno-economical one). If Extremadura has it distro, Andalusia also wants it and Valencia too.
Moreover, I put in doubt the claim that a somewhat high amount of Euros were saved whatsoever because educational licensing is usually done on a gubernamental level and not on a seat level.
So, this is only one more sample of PR-BS for me.
I think that mixing the concept of a Web based desktop and a programable PIM could be the right thing, where programable PIM means that you could program yourself custom node types that appear on the web Desktop as icons and windows, and of course, share them
I think you didn't get it yet. The "problem" here is that if what they wanted is to only display the image, an IMG tag would be enough (and most browsers do support it, btw, my FF on Ubuntu asks me for a plugin), but by using the EMBED tag, what they seek is to allow the browser to use any other type of plugin that handles it. Imagine a Photoshop ActiveX Control that registers itself as being able to handle tiffs. Here, instead of using the browser's included TIFF loading capabilities, it would load the ActiveX control to handle the tiff file, adding some sort of interaction:).
I suppose they have done it this way 'cause they would have some internal-obscure-tiff-handling plugin for doing something. I don't see any other purpose for doing it this way.
I thought I wouldn't have to explain it on slashdot, but, well, here it goes.
2 41B610AE&ImgFormat=tif" width="570" height="840" type=image/tiff></embed>
If you click on the "Images" red rounded-corner imagebutton on the top of the page linked in my parent comment you will go to a page that uses exactly the <EMBED> tag described in the patent application. Being more accurate, if you look at the HTML source of that page, you will see:
<embed src="/.DImg?Docid=US005838906&PageNum=1&IDKey=4EE
That's exactly what it's under discussion: The EMBED tag tells the browser to find whatever it has to handle that document. If you have an ActiveX object that handles that tiff it could rotate, flip, blur, whateveryouwant it (And that's interaction). It's counterpart is to use a IMG tag, that tells the browser to just display the image (if it can)
Oh, btw, it's a tiff file, not a GIF.
Has anybody noticed that for seeing the patent's application images you have to use a plugin? Will be the patent office get sued too? Curious ...
When Novell Linux Desktop was released, we as Novell Partners started using it, and used it's default desktop (Gnome 2.6) as our desktop. Having used Gnome in the past year or so is my biggest computing life's error. Everything have been problems for us. Nothing works as expected, session management is a mess, gconf crashes a lot, esd is still there and nautilus is inflexible. Gnome is being guided towards being a Desktop for dummies, but it's weird behaviour only make users unconfortable with that Desktop. Now I'm going back to KDE, and I am currently remembering what was to have fun in the desktop.
Also, we support some clients with NLD9, and everything are problems, from mime types to gconf. Our support team has started to hate Gnome a lot. Our roadmap for our clients is to switch them to KDE, but with this decision, it will not be a Novell "official" product, it will be probably OpenSuSE.
With Novell having bought Ximian, it's logical that Novell standarizes on Gnome, but with this decision, SuSE only losses, and so does Novell. Will have to think twice before suggesting a partner renewal... They still have cool products, but they are taking the grown decisions (again and again)
For video you have pretty professional apps like Shake ($4999 ~ like softi) Actually, I have run Maya and Softimage on Linux natively . In fact, Softimage come from an Unix world (Irix) ...
... http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp
For "legal" DVD
Read the article, we are not talking about alternatives, we are talking about running GNU/Linux. On the other hand, what you don't get is that if I want to run 3DS Why do I have to pay the Microsoft tax? With either Softi or Maya, I can get them running on GNU/Linux and pay only for the app I want to run (in the case I didn't like Blender, that I do like).
I live in Spain. I voted No. But it's irrelevant. The referendum is non-vinculating, so even if it was a majority of No, politicians would do whatever they want.
AFAIK, UPS backup is meant to shut the server down safely, not to make uptime numbers look better :) ... On the other hand, Why reboot a machine once a month? Memory Leaks? 4 min rest time?
Uh, I forgot that those Patches required rebooting the system (not the service involved), sorry.
Also, Mr Ballmer, the most common Software format on Windows is also "Stolen".
First of all; Everytime I see the term "Scalation", the narrator writes as If scalation was only a term for "bigger". We have to think not only of being bigger, but being smaller.
PHP has a wide support for many RDBMS, APIs and Operating Systems, but it is only a Language. A language doesn't scale, it's the platform that scales.
That's why I see the PHP/Apache/Unix to scale far better than (for example) ASP/IIS/NT: The first platform can run from a PDA to a high-perfomance Minicomputer; The second can run from an I686 (pentium support was removed?) to the best PC-Architecture based computer you can buy. That's the difference: A wide option platform versus a closed option platform.
Probably, the first platform will have perfomance leaks and will not take every perfomance point from the machine it runs within, but its scalability potential resides that it can run in whatever you throw it at. Maybe J2EE or other platforms will run faster on the same hardware than PHP, but PHP will scale there and will be looking shoulder to shoulder to it.
That's why I don't like to valuate Scalability from the "speed" point of view, but the "where it runs" point of view.
Windows users have been using (different versions of) the GDI since 90's ... and I think windows is on the desktop momentum :D
Can anyone explain why 3 separate B/W images are taken? If it is because of bandwidth... 3 grayscale images weights (more or less) like one color image ... so why B/W and filters?
A Microsoft Windows 9X with a label "Virus Free" on it :D, even if it is an update
that comments are of them. Great then! my *compiled* kernel has not any SCO comments!
*laugh* *laugh* $600 *laugh* *laugh*
is also Slashdot blue ... mathematically :
RGB green value == RGB blue value
Am i right?
to the kernel team. I hope this release makes my system faster, since it uses a lot of disk I/O. Will *try* to download it now.
:D
The question is: Will slashdot be slashdotting the kernel mirrors more than they are slashdotted after mail is sent to the kernel list?
Good luck mirror's sysadmins
that E 1.0 was the funniest... but this is by far more funny!
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Now lets see if Bush stops war on Irak after reading
Too much for an Aprils Fool. Next thing will be : OS/2 and NT codebase merged again :D
Microsoft says it will be switching back to .COM memory executable format. "EXEs had lots of security issues in the past, so we think this will be more secure, but with less functionality" a Microsoft employee said.
I cant trust a company that says they cannot patch their own enterprise-level Operating System (only to force customers to buy a new one, because, IMHO "technical" excuses like that are ridiculous).
:)
If Microsoft says they cant patch, then open the source for us to patch it for free
Are Photoshop & Internet Explorer >CRITICAL (as in mission) apps? nope.
Oh... right, you are talking about E.A. ... go on please ...
Doesn`t the whole OS slow programs? I mean, since whe are running an OS, we know it will slow down our apps. Is the counterpart to run only an app, no network, and so on, but Why cant be developed critical apps for the PC (or other cheap platforms) with no OS? (I mean, apps that boot themselves) It would make OS crashes less critical for that critical apps and make response speed (since no scheduler, context switches, etc...) increased. It would be a pain to work in one of those apps from scratch, but they would not rely in nothing but hardware. I remember playing a game for the PC (80286 era) that selfbooted from a 1.44 Mb Disk....