"Why so short-sighted? Why is it so important that something pay off tangibly within 25 years? Some of the great strides in medication today are applications of HEP-ph of the 30s and 50s that we continue to refine. Who knows what the future holds?"
Because the money in the here and now is finite, and decisions about allocating it need to be made with that in mind. E.g, not all states in the US fund deep brain stimulation treatment for Parkinson's disease; if the US federal money spent on nuclear research were distributed to the states for the sake of DBS, then thousands of people and their families would have a hugely-improved quality of life for months on end, something that is preferable, for most people, to years of research without any significant advance.
What a wildly inappropriate slashdot article. Eight thousand pictures of dogs on the internet? Wow, that's really stretching what's possible with our infrastructure in a geek-friendly way.
Heh. Well, the thing about Airbus' subsidies is that their net market effect is exactly equivalent to the massive cross-subsidising that results from the defence contracts that Boeing gets, and that aerospace companies in the EU don't get, choosing as their governments tend to do not to prioritise weapons of mass destruction over the wellbeing of their citizens.
I haven't checked, but I assume they're doing what the FSF does and requiring that bug-fixers assign them ownership of the copyright of the patch before they accept it. Whence their right to relicence it.
Ghostscript can use operating system specific APIs for rendering, but it doesn't have to, and it gets much better results with the X Window System if it doesn't.
T1Lib does Type 1 font rendering. Does it use Adobe's algorithms?
That's the only place memcpy is called from FTGetEnglishName, and that would seem to be fine. If, on the other hand, srcpp contains the name of a font, and its length is less than name.string_len, that would cause the problem you're seeing; that would be a problem with FreeType, though, and not specific to XFree86.
Dude, portability. As Zawinski put it, writing as an SGI user;
"Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!"
XFree86 is conservative & lazy with regard to new features; as long as it implements the X protocol, who cares?
Btw, mkfontscale(1) is better than ttmkfdir (more character sets supported, Type1 fonts supported too), and will ship with XFree86 4.3.0 (Real Soon Now).
"Pseudo"-Communist country. And, Chinese people get money from working, more than they would from begging. Where's the problem? Or would you prefer to be on an assembly line, yourself?
And then there's the issue of the Qt licensing. I hate to dig out this hoary old chestnut, but it really is a problem. I'm not trying to be ideologically purer than anyone else, but it's just not free software.
Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of that "GPL" myself. "Free software"? Jeez, you can't keep the source if you distribute binaries. How sucky is that?
V. little of that is germane here; China is a Communist country in name only. Of course, that doesn't necessarily make it identical to any capitalist country you are familiar with--chunks of industry are owned and ran by the army, for example.
To be honest, no university can teach computer science; anyone who will be successful in this field has to have enough interest to persue it as a hobby, if not a lifestyle, in order to succeed. Right on. I don't understand why this kind of reasoning is acceptable in some disciplines (particularly the arts) but not in engineering in general and CS in particular.
In my experience of language classes, it's not. Do only what's mandated in class, and you might pass; you have to be into the literature & speaking the language in your spare time to do well.
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"Why so short-sighted? Why is it so important that something pay off tangibly within 25 years? Some of the great strides in medication today are applications of HEP-ph of the 30s and 50s that we continue to refine. Who knows what the future holds?"
Because the money in the here and now is finite, and decisions about allocating it need to be made with that in mind. E.g, not all states in the US fund deep brain stimulation treatment for Parkinson's disease; if the US federal money spent on nuclear research were distributed to the states for the sake of DBS, then thousands of people and their families would have a hugely-improved quality of life for months on end, something that is preferable, for most people, to years of research without any significant advance.
"Spam" is the unsolicited bulk email, "SPAM" is the spicy canned meat.
For those of us outside the US, it's just another newspaper, and its rankings are about right for that.
What a wildly inappropriate slashdot article. Eight thousand pictures of dogs on the internet? Wow, that's really stretching what's possible with our infrastructure in a geek-friendly way.
Heh. Well, the thing about Airbus' subsidies is that their net market effect is exactly equivalent to the massive cross-subsidising that results from the defence contracts that Boeing gets, and that aerospace companies in the EU don't get, choosing as their governments tend to do not to prioritise weapons of mass destruction over the wellbeing of their citizens.
Yeah, given OSS's robust and pervasive support for right-to-left, Arabic script languages, it'll be a cinch to get a foothold in Iran.
I haven't checked, but I assume they're doing what the FSF does and requiring that bug-fixers assign them ownership of the copyright of the patch before they accept it. Whence their right to relicence it.
Ghostscript can use operating system specific APIs for rendering, but it doesn't have to, and it gets much better results with the X Window System if it doesn't.
T1Lib does Type 1 font rendering. Does it use Adobe's algorithms?
Ctrl-PgDown and Ctrl-PgUp work fine in Mozilla, as they do in most Windows tab dialogs.
Umm, Dutch uses the Roman script. "ij" is the standard Dutch way of transcribing the sound that in English is heard in the word "I."
In all other languages Roman-script languages, "i" sounds like the i of "hit" or the "ee" of "sheen," and never like the i of "I."
if(FTGetName(face, nid, TT_PLATFORM_MACINTOSH, FT_MAC_ID_ROMAN, &name)) {
len = name.string_len;
if(len > name_len)
len = name_len;
memcpy(name_return, name.string, name_len);
return len;
}
That's the only place memcpy is called from FTGetEnglishName, and that would seem to be fine. If, on the other hand, srcpp contains the name of a font, and its length is less than name.string_len, that would cause the problem you're seeing; that would be a problem with FreeType, though, and not specific to XFree86.
Dude, portability. As Zawinski put it, writing as an SGI user;
"Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!"
XFree86 is conservative & lazy with regard to new features; as long as it implements the X protocol, who cares?
Umm, I think you misunderstand what "leech" means. Unless said user is making his own Linux distributions available, they are leeching, by definition.
Btw, mkfontscale(1) is better than ttmkfdir (more character sets supported, Type1 fonts supported too), and will ship with XFree86 4.3.0 (Real Soon Now).
Umm, yeah. And that would be the place where you frequently have to pay for *incoming* calls. How insane is that?
Use predictive text, you troglodyte. [--> Sure, it's not perfect, but It'll Do, most of the time.
"Cliquetez." Bless their illiterate hearts.
Or, maybe, Russia has a tendancy towards bad government no matter what the system. It's like the anti-Sweden.
And what is that apostrophe doing there?
Hehe. Probably better. American workmanship isn't German workmanship, or even Japanese workmanship.
"Pseudo"-Communist country. And, Chinese people get money from working, more than they would from begging. Where's the problem? Or would you prefer to be on an assembly line, yourself?
Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of that "GPL" myself. "Free software"? Jeez, you can't keep the source if you distribute binaries. How sucky is that?
V. little of that is germane here; China is a Communist country in name only. Of course, that doesn't necessarily make it identical to any capitalist country you are familiar with--chunks of industry are owned and ran by the army, for example.
In my experience of language classes, it's not. Do only what's mandated in class, and you might pass; you have to be into the literature & speaking the language in your spare time to do well.