The high dpi (about 200) is quite useful for image editing but can be problematic for text.
I work with text and I'd want as high a resolution (DPI-wise) as possible; my eyes aren't the greatest so I crank up the fontsize, but more DPI means smoother text.
I was thinking of putting together a Shuttle system or similar instead of getting my iBook g4; but then adding a screen made it more expensive than the iBook.
it just allows more freedom as to how you license the code you choose to distribute.
Not really. The OSI tries to work with debian-legal and the FSF to make sure that the three groups licence-lists are the same; there's been a few mistakes and (thus) disrepancies over the years, such as the VIM license which was at one time approved by the FSF but not the two other groups, but mostly Open Source and Free Software amounts to the same thing. (Two very different presentations of that thing though, and two different groups.)
But there is a lot of people that mindlessly graze CNN and Fox News, and I guess this movie is meant for them.
I still want to check it out. Maybe it doesn't have anything in it that isn't already known, but it can present it in a coherent fashion.
Maybe I won't like the movie (I didn't like Bowling for Columbine much) and maybe I will (I thought his first two books were ok, haven't read the third one yet). But I'm withholding judgement until I see it.
Reconsidering my post; left, center, right are all simplifications of positions - "scales" and compasses are bad, regardless of the number of dimensions. We're all human.
Also do remember that for every one of us who want information free, there are three who stand to lose money at free information
I find that ratio hard to believe. Even those who (think they) would lose some money at free information would also benefit, in their consumer role if not in their professional career.
Now, what I've subjectively and non-empirically experienced is that on my first screen, an old CRT-thing, white on black was the only thing that worked, and I set my browser to override the color selection on all pages.
On my second screen, a notebook TFT, black on a pastel (say black on light yellow) was the way to go.
On my last two notebook screens (they've been of the same make) black on white works just fine; and the subpixel rendering makes white on black almost unworkable - that algo seems optimized for black on white. Or maybe it's just my screen, but pages with white on black are much harder to read.
So while I do understand the "I love white on black"-position, since I've been there, I'd rather want all web pages out there to be consistent. No one is going to change them all over at the same time.
We're also talking about a market niche (web browsers) that's in very high demand; this is an area where a commodity solution makes even more sense than usual.
Hardware makers investing in free browser technology definitely makes sense at this time point. Maybe it'll take another ten years for Opera to go away (or shift its business model) but I can't currently see a sustainable developement in it's longterm future.
I'm not suggesting that Opera voluntarily roll over and die - far be it from me that I'd give "market advice" to a non-free software company - what I'm saying is that a free browser makes sense, and is beneficial, to a lot of individuals and groups.
I'm not saying that whatever free browser replaces Opera will necessarily be based on Moz. Just that one will eventually emerge because everyone would win out that way.
Well... I don't. But if I had to right click and select an entry in a submenu... Ay be annoyed
The non-spatial nautilus is in Start Here -> Programs -> Browse the file system. Drag that icon to your desktop. No right-clicking needed. No gconf-editing needed. No preferences/options box needed.
Yeah, bad example - I did manage to salvage them a couple of years ago - but they were unavailable for me for quite a while, and when I needed them. I did get out of the situation, but I learned a lesson.
Anyway, thanks for finally flipping to a sane reason not to use Quicktime. "It doesn't run on my OS" sounds a whole lot less lame than "I don't have the source code."
But the reasons are connected. If the source code was available it'd run on anything. Open source == open algo == future-proof files.
Everyone benefits from a free embeddable browser being available. It only makes sense for hardware makers to invest in this. Mozilla is currently somewhat far from that goal, footprint wise (I guess that's where the name Mozilla came from!) but sooner or later, some free browser (maybe Mozilla-based, maybe KHTML-based, maybe something else) will be there to topple Opera's throne.
(Afraid this'll get modded "Duh, redundant" but didn't see something like it posted, so I hope it'll be fine.)
I'm a writer (but dabble in sound/graphics/video for fun). I had a lot of old writings in Microsoft Works.wps-format that's lost to me. I don't want to lose something even more important, like a movie. That's the reason.
OTOH, there's also practical impediments for me to currently use QuickTime. It's not available for my favourite OS, I would have to run it through an emulator.
Yeah, but I don't have to. That's an imperfect analogy. The discussion was about encoding digital material. If I encode it with free software, I know that I can always use that codec if I want to. It's future safe.
Butt breath.
You misspelled "butter". Unless you intended to write butt, in which case I would suggest you get your face off my ass.
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I agree - in fact, this shouldn't be a crime regardless.
Yes. Yes, it is.
I work with text and I'd want as high a resolution (DPI-wise) as possible; my eyes aren't the greatest so I crank up the fontsize, but more DPI means smoother text.
Monitorless, too.
I was thinking of putting together a Shuttle system or similar instead of getting my iBook g4; but then adding a screen made it more expensive than the iBook.
Not really. The OSI tries to work with debian-legal and the FSF to make sure that the three groups licence-lists are the same; there's been a few mistakes and (thus) disrepancies over the years, such as the VIM license which was at one time approved by the FSF but not the two other groups, but mostly Open Source and Free Software amounts to the same thing. (Two very different presentations of that thing though, and two different groups.)
But there is a lot of people that mindlessly graze CNN and Fox News, and I guess this movie is meant for them.
I still want to check it out. Maybe it doesn't have anything in it that isn't already known, but it can present it in a coherent fashion.
Maybe I won't like the movie (I didn't like Bowling for Columbine much) and maybe I will (I thought his first two books were ok, haven't read the third one yet). But I'm withholding judgement until I see it.
You are correct; most cheeses doesn't have as much lactose as, say, fudge.
The great worm that RTM wrote in the eighties was pretty interesting..
Reconsidering my post; left, center, right are all simplifications of positions - "scales" and compasses are bad, regardless of the number of dimensions. We're all human.
Huh. Some of the places where I've been hanging around, Moore would be considered annoyingly centrist.
Still planning on seeing the movie, though.
I find that ratio hard to believe. Even those who (think they) would lose some money at free information would also benefit, in their consumer role if not in their professional career.
Is that factually correct?
Even if it is, is it something that we all should have to live with for all eternity?
Now, what I've subjectively and non-empirically experienced is that on my first screen, an old CRT-thing, white on black was the only thing that worked, and I set my browser to override the color selection on all pages.
On my second screen, a notebook TFT, black on a pastel (say black on light yellow) was the way to go.
On my last two notebook screens (they've been of the same make) black on white works just fine; and the subpixel rendering makes white on black almost unworkable - that algo seems optimized for black on white. Or maybe it's just my screen, but pages with white on black are much harder to read.
So while I do understand the "I love white on black"-position, since I've been there, I'd rather want all web pages out there to be consistent. No one is going to change them all over at the same time.
Haven't you heard of XMPP?
We got a compiler, a set of binutils, two editors, fileutils, textutils...
I visited the US for a shorter period and I found that helpful, since I'm only used to the metric system.
...it's probably pre-calculated. I figure that it took them longer the first time around.
We're also talking about a market niche (web browsers) that's in very high demand; this is an area where a commodity solution makes even more sense than usual.
Hardware makers investing in free browser technology definitely makes sense at this time point. Maybe it'll take another ten years for Opera to go away (or shift its business model) but I can't currently see a sustainable developement in it's longterm future.
I'm not suggesting that Opera voluntarily roll over and die - far be it from me that I'd give "market advice" to a non-free software company - what I'm saying is that a free browser makes sense, and is beneficial, to a lot of individuals and groups.
"Hey, Bender! Gonna make some noise
with your hard drive scratched by the Beastie Boys!"
I'm not saying that whatever free browser replaces Opera will necessarily be based on Moz. Just that one will eventually emerge because everyone would win out that way.
The non-spatial nautilus is in Start Here -> Programs -> Browse the file system. Drag that icon to your desktop. No right-clicking needed. No gconf-editing needed. No preferences/options box needed.
But the reasons are connected. If the source code was available it'd run on anything. Open source == open algo == future-proof files.
Everyone benefits from a free embeddable browser being available. It only makes sense for hardware makers to invest in this. Mozilla is currently somewhat far from that goal, footprint wise (I guess that's where the name Mozilla came from!) but sooner or later, some free browser (maybe Mozilla-based, maybe KHTML-based, maybe something else) will be there to topple Opera's throne.
(Afraid this'll get modded "Duh, redundant" but didn't see something like it posted, so I hope it'll be fine.)
I'm a writer (but dabble in sound/graphics/video for fun). I had a lot of old writings in Microsoft Works .wps-format that's lost to me. I don't want to lose something even more important, like a movie. That's the reason.
OTOH, there's also practical impediments for me to currently use QuickTime. It's not available for my favourite OS, I would have to run it through an emulator.
Yeah, but I don't have to. That's an imperfect analogy. The discussion was about encoding digital material. If I encode it with free software, I know that I can always use that codec if I want to. It's future safe.
You misspelled "butter". Unless you intended to write butt, in which case I would suggest you get your face off my ass.