Why do you use gifs? Unisys's submarine patent on LZW, and sue-happy lawyers have made them a company-non-grata in the/. community (second only to Microsoft). Why not use jpeg or (better yet) png? All modern browsers support them, and they are generally smaller in size than gif images. You can use gif2png (or similar commandline utilites) to convert them with minimal effort?
CmdrTaco:
Submit a patch. Or better yet, fuck off and start your own web site.
Hemos:
90% of our viewers are using IE. IE has problems displaying 24-bit png with alpha channels. Complain to Microsoft, not us.
Neither... it's a set of macros for TeX. TeX is the actual program, though the latex command runs TeX with the LaTeX macros. LaTeX/TeX take an ascii text file with markup commands and convert it into a DVI file, postscript, or pdf.
is the LaTeX markup to create an ordered list, for example.
Can LaTeX create spreadsheets, access databases, interface with e-mail, and create clip-art?
No. LaTeX/TeX are typesetting programs. They can do some fancy stuff (like generating a list of figures, cross references, table of contents, mathematical equations, etc), but it's a command-line unix tool, not a GUI office software package.
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has finally spotted spokes cutting across the planet's rings, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped their plucky orbiter might find.
While flying past the dark side of Saturn's B ring, Cassini's camera eye photographed the spokes - which appear as radial markings - in a series of three images taken over about 27 minutes. The find is a gem of sorts for mission imaging scientists, who have been hunting for the ring spokes since Cassini arrived at Saturn.
"We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, CO, of the spokes in an e-mail interview. "Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding."
Saturn's odd ring spokes were photographed during NASA's Voyager mission, which swung passed the planet in the 1980s, and later observed by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope.
But spokes were noticeably absent when Cassini made its final approach toward Saturn in February 2004, and are a prime target for astronomers because of their role and formation within the planet's rings are not fully understood.
"These are among the things we hope to learn," said Porco, who participated in the Voyager mission as well. "[The spokes] are obviously related to a host of processes...and may point to some important effects in understanding the magnetic field and the planet's magnetosphere, and how these systems interact with the rings and atmosphere."
Porco and her imaging team did not initially expect to observe ring spokes until about 2007, when certain models predicted spoke formation and visibility.
"Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low," Porco said of the spokes. "So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along."
While the images were released on Sept. 13, Cassini actually photographed the ring spokes on Sept. 5, 2005, using clear filters and its wide-angle camera from a distance of about 198,000 miles (318,000 kilometers) from Saturn. The spokes themselves are fairly faint, and are about 60 miles (100 kilometers) wide and 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) long, researchers said.
Unlike Voyager or Hubble, Cassini is in a unique position to study ring spoke phenomena at Saturn, Porco said.
"Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit," Porco said, adding that Cassini is a vastly superior observation platform when compared to Voyager. "We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear."
By observing the spokes on the dark side of Saturn's rings, Cassini recreated a bit of space exploration history. Its predecessor, Voyager, also first observed the ring spoke phenomena while photographing the unilluminated side of the Saturn's rings.
"It felt like the old days, when we first saw the spokes," Porco said. "They are one weird phenomena and it was a joy to see them again...especially since we hadn't seen them yet and were eager to know why CmdrTaco's ass has such smelly klingons."
Well, what I want to know is: How do I get to this metadata?
In BeOS, often the application would provide some of the extra metadata. An MP3 Player could save the id3 info as metadata, etc. an imageviewer might save the image dimension metadata, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Tip: What the RIAA is doing is legal.
i was thinking the same thing! Her last name should be "Anderdatter".
No! Next you'll be telling me that moderators sometimes label "informative" posts "insightful"
It seems to matter to you.
My only real complaint is that they don't use TeX or LaTeX for the typesetting, but they generally look good enough.
Dead people don't need money.
actually, you can. search within a book for a common word, you can then read the entire book (minus the 1 or 2 pages they keep off limits).
I'm still waiting for Mr O'Reilly to make all his books available for free. (and not just the ones that are reprints of unix man pages).
Why GIF?
by stinky_pink
Why do you use gifs? Unisys's submarine patent on LZW, and sue-happy lawyers have made them a company-non-grata in the /. community (second only to Microsoft). Why not use jpeg or (better yet) png? All modern browsers support them, and they are generally smaller in size than gif images. You can use gif2png (or similar commandline utilites) to convert them with minimal effort?
CmdrTaco:
Submit a patch. Or better yet, fuck off and start your own web site.
Hemos:
90% of our viewers are using IE. IE has problems displaying 24-bit png with alpha channels. Complain to Microsoft, not us.
Neither... it's a set of macros for TeX. TeX is the actual program, though the latex command runs TeX with the LaTeX macros. LaTeX/TeX take an ascii text file with markup commands and convert it into a DVI file, postscript, or pdf.
\begin{enumerate}
\item Collect underpants
\item ????
\item Profit!
\end{enumerate}
is the LaTeX markup to create an ordered list, for example.
Can LaTeX create spreadsheets, access databases, interface with e-mail, and create clip-art?
No. LaTeX/TeX are typesetting programs. They can do some fancy stuff (like generating a list of figures, cross references, table of contents, mathematical equations, etc), but it's a command-line unix tool, not a GUI office software package.
if you're using inetd or ucspi-tcp or some other front-end that sets up stdin/stdout to the sockets, then yes you could.
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has finally spotted spokes cutting across the planet's rings, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped their plucky orbiter might find.
While flying past the dark side of Saturn's B ring, Cassini's camera eye photographed the spokes - which appear as radial markings - in a series of three images taken over about 27 minutes. The find is a gem of sorts for mission imaging scientists, who have been hunting for the ring spokes since Cassini arrived at Saturn.
"We've been on the lookout for them since February, 2004," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, CO, of the spokes in an e-mail interview. "Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding."
Saturn's odd ring spokes were photographed during NASA's Voyager mission, which swung passed the planet in the 1980s, and later observed by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope.
But spokes were noticeably absent when Cassini made its final approach toward Saturn in February 2004, and are a prime target for astronomers because of their role and formation within the planet's rings are not fully understood.
"These are among the things we hope to learn," said Porco, who participated in the Voyager mission as well. "[The spokes] are obviously related to a host of processes...and may point to some important effects in understanding the magnetic field and the planet's magnetosphere, and how these systems interact with the rings and atmosphere."
Porco and her imaging team did not initially expect to observe ring spokes until about 2007, when certain models predicted spoke formation and visibility.
"Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low," Porco said of the spokes. "So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along."
While the images were released on Sept. 13, Cassini actually photographed the ring spokes on Sept. 5, 2005, using clear filters and its wide-angle camera from a distance of about 198,000 miles (318,000 kilometers) from Saturn. The spokes themselves are fairly faint, and are about 60 miles (100 kilometers) wide and 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) long, researchers said.
Unlike Voyager or Hubble, Cassini is in a unique position to study ring spoke phenomena at Saturn, Porco said.
"Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit," Porco said, adding that Cassini is a vastly superior observation platform when compared to Voyager. "We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear."
By observing the spokes on the dark side of Saturn's rings, Cassini recreated a bit of space exploration history. Its predecessor, Voyager, also first observed the ring spoke phenomena while photographing the unilluminated side of the Saturn's rings.
"It felt like the old days, when we first saw the spokes," Porco said. "They are one weird phenomena and it was a joy to see them again...especially since we hadn't seen them yet and were eager to know why CmdrTaco's ass has such smelly klingons."
i read it and wondered if "taking a shower" was some sort of rare occurance.
no, the manager is a post-op (formerly male) transsexual.
$40 is average for all chips, not just x86 chips. Intel also pumps out a lot of ARM chips.
No it doesn't.
however, it's a poor alternative for people that like to eat dogs.
you spank your dog?
Just be glad he wasn't tossing salad!
Looks more like a free advertisement.
they'll make it up on volume
Or would you enjoy recompiling the kernel every time there's an update or security fix for mp3, ogg, png, gif, etc etc.?
In BeOS, often the application would provide some of the extra metadata. An MP3 Player could save the id3 info as metadata, etc. an imageviewer might save the image dimension metadata, etc.
look dumbass, niggers rape, kill, and pillage. That's what they do.