You know, that's pretty simple-minded thinking. And the direct causes of native peoples' subjugation at the hands of marauding, murderous Europeans were swords, guns and terrible diseases.
But what made us turn from wild near-apes with rather large foreheads into what we are now was farming, which led to writing, political centralization, and the rest of civilization.
So, our ancestors (culturally, if not genetically) beat up everyone else's ancestors because, at the start of it all, they were better farmers.
And we're not even really evolved from predators! We evolved from small, squirrelish lemurs who, if I remember right, were pretty much omnivorous, certainly not anything like the species of Carnivora. More recently, some of the Australopithecus apes were even vegetarian. Even when they hunted, our ancestors were much better gatherers than hunters, no matter what those cave paintings would have you believe.
But I suppose you were just making a point off the top of your head, which sounded good at first blush.
... and that person is paying taxes on the income they receive from that ownership.
Yeah, right. Tell me another. Do you know how far the tax rate of the wealthiest has fallen since 1950? Not to mention offshore tax shelters, loopholes and associated bullshit.
Dude. Take a deep breath. Then repeat the word "modularity" to yourself until you understand it. Then go install tiny-linux, and also---I only say this because I care---consider switching to decaf, 'kay?
... is how "This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel." Take that, proprietary software! Linux is so advanced, it writes itself!
The only possible advantage I can think of is the possibility that Microsoft will include a "print to Metro" printer driver with Windows. Adobe snookers scads of people into buying Acrobat Exchange or whatever instead of using free PDFCreator (which I'm told has issues, but I've never run into them); if Microsoft can capitalize on that, they can make the creation of Metro documents extremely popular, especially among people who aren't already savvy about generating PDFs.
I worked in a math department relatively recently. Everyone there spoke TeX, and even though the department moved from Red Hat to OSX, they just installed TeXShop and kept on using it.
Because OSX prefers PDF so much, pretty much everything was then generated in that format. But folks would still get papers in PS format. Hell, people frequently post their theses as DVI files. (Which have the small problem of requiring a TeX distribution installed to view them, since they don't include fonts. Mad tiny, though.
It's still not built-in. You'd still have to download a reader or an update or whatever, and since XP/2000/98 don't use the graphics model Metro will be an encapsulation of, there's no speed to be gained there. There is, thus, no damned benefit over Acroread on those platforms, even if you make the viewer free and available and everything.
Huh. Worked like a charm on Acrobat 5 as well. (Except plug_ins only contains EWH32.api and search.api; I suppose printing is built into this version, since it seems to work just fine.)
I tried out Foxit, but it mangled some of the font display. Not as bad as what happens when you try and view a PDF produced via tex--dvips--ps2pdf file, but still not pretty. I wish I could use it---I loathe Acroreader bloat as much as the next fellow---but it was too much work to decipher the garbled text.
Ah, I remember what it was; it was on the Gentium type specimen. Barely legible, but certainly no good for evaluating a typeface.
I'm going to go see it, and drool like all the rest of y'all, but...
Total length of all three movies, if they get made, in the best case: six hours. Total runtime of the three full seasons (or so) we'd have if Fox hadn't killed the show: fifty hours.
It'll be nice to see them all again, but the universe once promised is dead, and dead for good. This just makes it hurt a little more. There's a kind of world-building you can do in television that you can't do in movies. We won't be seeing any more of it.
For fuck's sake, just compare the best Babylon 5 eps to the TV movies. Some stories are better told in certain formats.
When I went to get my DSLR, I remember telling people who asked me why I was making such a big deal out of it that it's like getting married. That every lens I get (well, except for those Tamron or Sigma interchangeable-mount lenses) represents a further buy-in to the system, every expensive flash with fifty options and tie-ins, every accessory, means that I've dug myself further into being inextricably attached to the brand, since chucking all that equipment becomes ever more unthinkable.
I still kinda miss the feel of the satisfyingly metal-cased Nikon FE-2 I was using, and the huge hunk of glass on the front, the 50mm f/1.4. And I especially miss the split-prism focusing screen.
Like many others, I miss some parts of the old ways. Unlike most others, these things have nothing to do with the switch from film to digital.
It seems, I think, that the RAW conversion Canon provides is nowhere near optimal, but that there's software you can get to work around that. Because, really, Canon isn't a software company, they're a camera company. I'd rather have them making better cameras, and letting someone else fiddle with the software.
'Course, dcraw decrypts Nikon's WB data anyway. So the whole point's semi-moot, except on principle.
Hmm. The only problem I've run into converting PS to PDF with GS was the ugly-font problem caused by using the tex--dvips--ps2pdf workflow; this was fixed by just using pdftex.
What are you feeding to GhostScript? Though it might be a pain for you to do so, I encourage you to hop on over to http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and file a bug, with testcases and such, if one hasn't been filed already.
It's never been a problem for me, but I've only fed it particular types of files. I would be curious to know what "serious" PDF work is, so I don't run into the same problems you have.
Yeah, but this was for a Windows-using supervisor of mine, who wanted to just be able to print to PDF from Windows. PDFCreator is simply a printer driver that acts as a wrapper for an included copy of GhostScript (which I think is missing some fonts). It's one-step as opposed to printing to a ps file and then doing a command-line conversion to PDF.
It's not the Linux Way, but it's a drop-in replacement for the Distiller driver that Adobe charges through the nose for.
The whole purpose of DNG is to encapsulate the exact same raw data in a clearly-defined, portable way. If DNG is designed right---and I assume it is---it's simply a better, more portable way of encapsulating the same data.
Any lossy recoding of the lossless data is a boneheaded idea, and whoever thought of it should be spanked.
I think you meant "ALL YOUR PHOTOS ARE BELONG TO NIKON". But this is the kind of crap we somehow tolerate in EULAs, but wouldn't begin to think of tolerating for actual physical devices. I wonder where we went wrong.
What, exactly, has happened with PDFs that Adobe doesn't like?
Hell, they've managed to make most people think you need horribly expensive "Distiller" software, when they could just use GhostScript and PDFCreator. What a racket...
You're saying that overly permissive parenting leads to lowered self-esteem? You lost me, there. If, as a sibling post to this one said, what you mean by permissive parenting is submissive parenting, avoiding confrontations with the kids, it seems like you'd end up with spoiled children, with inflated self-esteem, too damn full of their own egos.
People with low self-esteem aren't a threat or a problem to anyone but themselves. It's people with inflated self-esteem that are the problem.
The primary components in farts are nitrogen, oxygen, and other odorless gases. The smelly bits, if it smells like "rancid butter", is butyric acid, along with hydrogen sulfide and carbon disulfide.
Thank you for the response! This explains quite a bit. So it's really the applications which are bad about interoperability. What could distributions do to fix this? It seems that
And for people insisting on rolling their own everything, I think D. J. Bernstein is the king of that, what with his daemontools and all. I suppose it's a good idea, though I can't say that with any authority... it just seems a bit odd that he's decided to add things to the root directory. To the root directory! What balls!
Anyway, this all seems like it's a problem that application developers simply don't use the tools provided for them to make their programs platform-independent. How would changing the platforms themselves fix the problem---at least, the one you were having?
Sir? Sir? There's a vast cadre of angry lesbians here to see you about your statement that homosexual sex transmits HIV readily. And a whole lot of straight folks who just happen to like to do each other in the butt.
Just sayin'. The "AIDS IS GAY" idea breaks down under real scrutiny.
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You know, that's pretty simple-minded thinking. And the direct causes of native peoples' subjugation at the hands of marauding, murderous Europeans were swords, guns and terrible diseases.
But what made us turn from wild near-apes with rather large foreheads into what we are now was farming, which led to writing, political centralization, and the rest of civilization.
So, our ancestors (culturally, if not genetically) beat up everyone else's ancestors because, at the start of it all, they were better farmers.
And we're not even really evolved from predators! We evolved from small, squirrelish lemurs who, if I remember right, were pretty much omnivorous, certainly not anything like the species of Carnivora. More recently, some of the Australopithecus apes were even vegetarian. Even when they hunted, our ancestors were much better gatherers than hunters, no matter what those cave paintings would have you believe.
But I suppose you were just making a point off the top of your head, which sounded good at first blush.
--grendel drago
... and that person is paying taxes on the income they receive from that ownership.
Yeah, right. Tell me another. Do you know how far the tax rate of the wealthiest has fallen since 1950? Not to mention offshore tax shelters, loopholes and associated bullshit.
--grendel drago
Could it be that NASA is finally giving up on Ada and embracing the safety, reliability, and simplicity of Java?
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Oh, man. I needed a good laugh today.
--grendel drago
Dude. Take a deep breath. Then repeat the word "modularity" to yourself until you understand it. Then go install tiny-linux, and also---I only say this because I care---consider switching to decaf, 'kay?
--grendel drago
... is how "This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel." Take that, proprietary software! Linux is so advanced, it writes itself!
--grendel drago
The only possible advantage I can think of is the possibility that Microsoft will include a "print to Metro" printer driver with Windows. Adobe snookers scads of people into buying Acrobat Exchange or whatever instead of using free PDFCreator (which I'm told has issues, but I've never run into them); if Microsoft can capitalize on that, they can make the creation of Metro documents extremely popular, especially among people who aren't already savvy about generating PDFs.
--grendel drago
I keep thinking that too, hoping against the impossible hope...
I'm so pathetic. But at least I'm not alone.
--grendel drago
I worked in a math department relatively recently. Everyone there spoke TeX, and even though the department moved from Red Hat to OSX, they just installed TeXShop and kept on using it.
Because OSX prefers PDF so much, pretty much everything was then generated in that format. But folks would still get papers in PS format. Hell, people frequently post their theses as DVI files. (Which have the small problem of requiring a TeX distribution installed to view them, since they don't include fonts. Mad tiny, though.
--grendel drago
It's still not built-in. You'd still have to download a reader or an update or whatever, and since XP/2000/98 don't use the graphics model Metro will be an encapsulation of, there's no speed to be gained there. There is, thus, no damned benefit over Acroread on those platforms, even if you make the viewer free and available and everything.
--grendel drago
Frickin' sweet! I gotta try this out now...
Huh. Worked like a charm on Acrobat 5 as well. (Except plug_ins only contains EWH32.api and search.api; I suppose printing is built into this version, since it seems to work just fine.)
--grendel drago
I tried out Foxit, but it mangled some of the font display. Not as bad as what happens when you try and view a PDF produced via tex--dvips--ps2pdf file, but still not pretty. I wish I could use it---I loathe Acroreader bloat as much as the next fellow---but it was too much work to decipher the garbled text.
Ah, I remember what it was; it was on the Gentium type specimen. Barely legible, but certainly no good for evaluating a typeface.
--grendel drago
I'm going to go see it, and drool like all the rest of y'all, but...
Total length of all three movies, if they get made, in the best case: six hours. Total runtime of the three full seasons (or so) we'd have if Fox hadn't killed the show: fifty hours.
It'll be nice to see them all again, but the universe once promised is dead, and dead for good. This just makes it hurt a little more. There's a kind of world-building you can do in television that you can't do in movies. We won't be seeing any more of it.
For fuck's sake, just compare the best Babylon 5 eps to the TV movies. Some stories are better told in certain formats.
Just makes me so damn sad.
--grendel drago
When I went to get my DSLR, I remember telling people who asked me why I was making such a big deal out of it that it's like getting married. That every lens I get (well, except for those Tamron or Sigma interchangeable-mount lenses) represents a further buy-in to the system, every expensive flash with fifty options and tie-ins, every accessory, means that I've dug myself further into being inextricably attached to the brand, since chucking all that equipment becomes ever more unthinkable.
I still kinda miss the feel of the satisfyingly metal-cased Nikon FE-2 I was using, and the huge hunk of glass on the front, the 50mm f/1.4. And I especially miss the split-prism focusing screen.
Like many others, I miss some parts of the old ways. Unlike most others, these things have nothing to do with the switch from film to digital.
--grendel drago
I've seen a few comments that the JPEGs that Canon cameras come up with are a lot nicer than Nikon's.
Check this: http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/digicam/dcraw/
It seems, I think, that the RAW conversion Canon provides is nowhere near optimal, but that there's software you can get to work around that. Because, really, Canon isn't a software company, they're a camera company. I'd rather have them making better cameras, and letting someone else fiddle with the software.
'Course, dcraw decrypts Nikon's WB data anyway. So the whole point's semi-moot, except on principle.
--grendel drago
And when you derive a moral equivalence between slavery and proprietary software---that's real mainstream.
--grendel drago
Hmm. The only problem I've run into converting PS to PDF with GS was the ugly-font problem caused by using the tex--dvips--ps2pdf workflow; this was fixed by just using pdftex.
What are you feeding to GhostScript? Though it might be a pain for you to do so, I encourage you to hop on over to http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and file a bug, with testcases and such, if one hasn't been filed already.
It's never been a problem for me, but I've only fed it particular types of files. I would be curious to know what "serious" PDF work is, so I don't run into the same problems you have.
--grendel drago
Yeah, but this was for a Windows-using supervisor of mine, who wanted to just be able to print to PDF from Windows. PDFCreator is simply a printer driver that acts as a wrapper for an included copy of GhostScript (which I think is missing some fonts). It's one-step as opposed to printing to a ps file and then doing a command-line conversion to PDF.
It's not the Linux Way, but it's a drop-in replacement for the Distiller driver that Adobe charges through the nose for.
--grendel drago
The whole purpose of DNG is to encapsulate the exact same raw data in a clearly-defined, portable way. If DNG is designed right---and I assume it is---it's simply a better, more portable way of encapsulating the same data.
Any lossy recoding of the lossless data is a boneheaded idea, and whoever thought of it should be spanked.
--grendel drago
I think you meant "ALL YOUR PHOTOS ARE BELONG TO NIKON". But this is the kind of crap we somehow tolerate in EULAs, but wouldn't begin to think of tolerating for actual physical devices. I wonder where we went wrong.
--grendel drago
What, exactly, has happened with PDFs that Adobe doesn't like?
Hell, they've managed to make most people think you need horribly expensive "Distiller" software, when they could just use GhostScript and PDFCreator. What a racket...
--grendel drago
You're saying that overly permissive parenting leads to lowered self-esteem? You lost me, there. If, as a sibling post to this one said, what you mean by permissive parenting is submissive parenting, avoiding confrontations with the kids, it seems like you'd end up with spoiled children, with inflated self-esteem, too damn full of their own egos.
People with low self-esteem aren't a threat or a problem to anyone but themselves. It's people with inflated self-esteem that are the problem.
--grendel drago
The primary components in farts are nitrogen, oxygen, and other odorless gases. The smelly bits, if it smells like "rancid butter", is butyric acid, along with hydrogen sulfide and carbon disulfide.
--grendel drago
I'm sure this is the last thing on anyone's mind, but for those of us who use ffdshow, this is nice news.
--grendel drago
Thank you for the response! This explains quite a bit. So it's really the applications which are bad about interoperability. What could distributions do to fix this? It seems that
And for people insisting on rolling their own everything, I think D. J. Bernstein is the king of that, what with his daemontools and all. I suppose it's a good idea, though I can't say that with any authority... it just seems a bit odd that he's decided to add things to the root directory. To the root directory! What balls!
Anyway, this all seems like it's a problem that application developers simply don't use the tools provided for them to make their programs platform-independent. How would changing the platforms themselves fix the problem---at least, the one you were having?
--grendel drago
Sir? Sir? There's a vast cadre of angry lesbians here to see you about your statement that homosexual sex transmits HIV readily. And a whole lot of straight folks who just happen to like to do each other in the butt.
Just sayin'. The "AIDS IS GAY" idea breaks down under real scrutiny.
--grendel drago