PDF isn't about cross platform, it is about the ability to print anywhere; from a Windows box to a inkjet printer, an Apple box to an HP proofing printer, even from a Creo/Windows 2000 Workstation to litho plates to the press, it will always be the same size, position and close to the same color (nothing can match a press and a trained crew for high quality).
And as said in before, There are plenty of PDF readers for Unix/Linux
like this one
The promoter of the Concert must get permission from the Tour Management of the band, if they say Go ahead, there is NOTHING the RIAA can do since the Tour manager is giving the promoter a right to copy and sell the CD's. Im sure the promoter has a deal setup where the band will get a kickback from each CD sold.
I would imagine that more CD's will sell this way than anyone would think.
perhaps the author of the article did research and picked out the componants of the system BEFORE contacting vendors and buying them.
you dont order food or car parts without knowing what is there and what you want/need do you??
Oh, and if you also notice that the rest of the site is based on new hardware reviews and performance, you'd think that they would have good experiances with what works and what doesn't.
If you went out and researched companies or people for a project you where doing, would you not include them in a `special thanks to' section of the paper?
What had happened was Microsoft licensed Java from Sun to include in Windows. However, Microsoft violated the contract by adding in new extensions and other features to the Java VM. Now Sun got all pissed off about that and sued MS and broke their contract saying that Microsoft was frozen at whatever version of java they last modified. Now, along with that, Microsoft dominating the OS market has everyone stuck at Java VM version 1.2 (or whatever) and people dont need to download a newer Java version from Sun.
So, what does Sun do now?? They sue MS again and order that Microsoft can no longer distribute a Java VM with Windows (XP). But Microsoft has the whole.NET and C# deal, which is a massive compeitor to Java.
So, what does Sun do this time? They sue MS yet again and order that Microsoft MUST INCLUDE the most recent version of Sun Java with Windows.
i've ran Netscape 4.1 on my pentium 133 with a 28.8 kps modem, but web pages load instantly on my box. whats my secret??
Well i'll tell you !!
i upgraded to IE 6.0* and the web pages popped up instantly !! even the pop-ups where there just as quickly
using IE increased the speed of web browsing on the internet for me, it can for you too !
*Note: to run IE 6.0 i also had to upgrade to a more recent AMD XP system running Windows XP and a 1.5mbs Cable Modem service which had a 98% impact on page load and rendering times.
I would say ` I cant beleive anyone with half a brain would mod this down' , but then this is slashdot.
anyways, the post itself is totally true and real issues in Linux that MUST get address if anyone is to beleive that they could tople the Microsoft User market
now will come all the usual "we dont need stupid M$ drones" and "linux doesnt need to conquor the world" posts.
Let's see. How could my company, as a hardware manufacturer, get on the good side of the Linux community? How about we GPL our device drivers? What a great idea! It would work too.
Accountant: but Mr CEO person, our research shows that only 200,000 people use Open Source software that would have a use for our super-deluxe hardware. at the same time, 4.5 million Windows users have a potential need for our super-deluxe hardware. in addition to that, the cost of creating and maintaining and Open Source driver would cost us an extra 15% on the development of super-deluxe hardware. If we dont have OpenSource compatible drivers, we can lower the cost of super-deluxe hardware by 15% and still make profit on it.
The driver layer break between Windows XP and Windows 98 was the total removal of the 16 bit hardware layer that the Windows 98 kernel ran on.
The Windows 98 kernel was a 32 bit GUI and interface wrapped around a 16 bit DOS based Kernel.
Windows 2000/XP are 100% 32 bit Kernels and Windows XP has NO DOS 16 bit driver compatibility.
These are (to some extent:) techinical advances, not changes because of some idealology that they might follow.
Dis-allowing binary only drivers is just absurd, Linux was about `Freedom and Choice, the freedom to run whatever software I want, how ever i want.'
Now the Kernel developers see fit to make Linux about `Freedom and Choice, the freedom to run whatever software i want, how ever i want, as long as everything on the system is 100% open source. '
I wonder when they will remove the ability to run non-open source applications in User-space land so that things like UT2003 wont work anymore (which it probably wouldnt because the nvidia drivers wont work).
Where, and even how, do you get off that nvidia develops Linux drivers before Windows drivers, then PORTS them to Windows! when
a) many many people complain about how shady linux drivers are (in stability, not GPL-wise)
b) Any game that my system has played, plays in Windows XP (40.72's) at LEAST 40 fps faster EVEN with 4xFSAA and 4x Ansioscopic filtering
c) it took nvidia a really long time to get decent (incredable at that) drivers for Linux. Who made nvidia chipset drivers for XFree86 3.x.x ? and even some of the X 4.x series where not nVidia produced drivers
nVidia drivers are NOT GPL'd because of copyrighted driver code that they have purchased from SGI to include in their drivers (there is a lot of information about this, even on/.)
"Under the accord, 0.81 Enix share will be exchanged for one Square share, with Enix emerging as the surviving entity. "
and
"The postmerger entity, to be called Square Enix, "
while you where correct in that Enix is going to absorb square assets,
"Square, in its current company structure, will be disbanded, and (on paper, anyway) Enix will absorb Square's assets and liabilities. However, Yoichi Wada, current president of Square, will head up the new company, suggesting that Square will have more power than Enix in the merger's final structure. "
not that they are `copyrighted' prices. the DMCA is probably being used (incorrectly) because it focuses on a website.
For anyone that has ever worked in a retail outlet and has met customers with incorrect , or even worse, 2-3 week old advertisements to merchandise knows that it usually leads to reducing the price to meet the incorrect ad.
If Bestbuy prints the Ad wrong, of course they will correct the issue as quickly as they can and honor those that have made notice of the incorrect price (well, most of the time).
However, what is Best Buy sopposed to do if some customer sees an advertisement for a 27" sony Vega TV on www.xyz.com for 349.99$?
They do not have to honor the advertised price because xyz.com is not a Best Buy affiliated advertiser. At the same time, they would also have to deal with angry customers complaining about this and that (beleive me, they WILL THINK of something)
I've worked at Circuit City for a while and seen all kind of people come in and say stuff like "my freinds daughters boyfreinds uncle said that you had a Sony TV advertised for 100$" which would be kind of correct, but it wasnt a Sony TV, it was some peice of crap Daewoo TV, when the correct item was shown the customer (along with the weeks Ad) , they would get all pissed saying "Well, i dont think this is right because i've known my freinds daughters boyfreinds uncle for 3 months and he wouldnt lie to me like that".
dont say it doesnt happen because it does.
again the issue isnt about `copyrighted prices', it is about unauthorised advertisement of goods.
Actually, as its referenced in another comment, debian has surpassed 10,000 packages.
however, how many debian packages are there for XFree86 4.2.1 ?? dozens at least
Gentoo? has one(1) package.
Now, lets see how many packages debian has for KDE, Gnome and other big applications like that. Gentoo has far less packages.
most any single software package in gentoo has at least 2 packages in Debian.
that the 8 hour, 4 way p3, 50 gig drive compile was the OLD WAY of doing Windows 2000 based on how the developed Windows NT.
the later slides describe the NEW project resource management and development processes for the continuing development of Windows 2000 (before and up until after the release?)
Slides 23 and up tell you what they did and how well everything works on a project as large as Windows 2000 is.
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NTFS encryption and protected files prevent anyone but the UID that created them from reading/writing them.
even administrator.
And as said in before, There are plenty of PDF readers for Unix/Linux like this one
The promoter of the Concert must get permission from the Tour Management of the band, if they say Go ahead, there is NOTHING the RIAA can do since the Tour manager is giving the promoter a right to copy and sell the CD's. Im sure the promoter has a deal setup where the band will get a kickback from each CD sold.
I would imagine that more CD's will sell this way than anyone would think.
perhaps the author of the article did research and picked out the componants of the system BEFORE contacting vendors and buying them.
you dont order food or car parts without knowing what is there and what you want/need do you??
Oh, and if you also notice that the rest of the site is based on new hardware reviews and performance, you'd think that they would have good experiances with what works and what doesn't.
If you went out and researched companies or people for a project you where doing, would you not include them in a `special thanks to' section of the paper?
What had happened was Microsoft licensed Java from Sun to include in Windows. However, Microsoft violated the contract by adding in new extensions and other features to the Java VM. Now Sun got all pissed off about that and sued MS and broke their contract saying that Microsoft was frozen at whatever version of java they last modified. Now, along with that, Microsoft dominating the OS market has everyone stuck at Java VM version 1.2 (or whatever) and people dont need to download a newer Java version from Sun.
.NET and C# deal, which is a massive compeitor to Java.
So, what does Sun do now?? They sue MS again and order that Microsoft can no longer distribute a Java VM with Windows (XP). But Microsoft has the whole
So, what does Sun do this time? They sue MS yet again and order that Microsoft MUST INCLUDE the most recent version of Sun Java with Windows.
Will Sun ever learn ?
i've ran Netscape 4.1 on my pentium 133 with a 28.8 kps modem, but web pages load instantly on my box. whats my secret??
Well i'll tell you !!
i upgraded to IE 6.0* and the web pages popped up instantly !! even the pop-ups where there just as quickly
using IE increased the speed of web browsing on the internet for me, it can for you too !
*Note: to run IE 6.0 i also had to upgrade to a more recent AMD XP system running Windows XP and a 1.5mbs Cable Modem service which had a 98% impact on page load and rendering times.
I would say ` I cant beleive anyone with half a brain would mod this down' , but then this is slashdot.
anyways, the post itself is totally true and real issues in Linux that MUST get address if anyone is to beleive that they could tople the Microsoft User market
now will come all the usual "we dont need stupid M$ drones" and "linux doesnt need to conquor the world" posts.
You rock
Accountant: but Mr CEO person, our research shows that only 200,000 people use Open Source software that would have a use for our super-deluxe hardware. at the same time, 4.5 million Windows users have a potential need for our super-deluxe hardware. in addition to that, the cost of creating and maintaining and Open Source driver would cost us an extra 15% on the development of super-deluxe hardware. If we dont have OpenSource compatible drivers, we can lower the cost of super-deluxe hardware by 15% and still make profit on it.
Mr CEO: Ok, that sounds even better.
The driver layer break between Windows XP and Windows 98 was the total removal of the 16 bit hardware layer that the Windows 98 kernel ran on.
:) techinical advances, not changes because of some idealology that they might follow.
The Windows 98 kernel was a 32 bit GUI and interface wrapped around a 16 bit DOS based Kernel.
Windows 2000/XP are 100% 32 bit Kernels and Windows XP has NO DOS 16 bit driver compatibility.
These are (to some extent
Dis-allowing binary only drivers is just absurd, Linux was about `Freedom and Choice, the freedom to run whatever software I want, how ever i want.'
Now the Kernel developers see fit to make Linux about `Freedom and Choice, the freedom to run whatever software i want, how ever i want, as long as everything on the system is 100% open source. '
I wonder when they will remove the ability to run non-open source applications in User-space land so that things like UT2003 wont work anymore (which it probably wouldnt because the nvidia drivers wont work).
W00t
Where, and even how, do you get off that nvidia develops Linux drivers before Windows drivers, then PORTS them to Windows! when
/.)
a) many many people complain about how shady linux drivers are (in stability, not GPL-wise)
b) Any game that my system has played, plays in Windows XP (40.72's) at LEAST 40 fps faster EVEN with 4xFSAA and 4x Ansioscopic filtering
c) it took nvidia a really long time to get decent (incredable at that) drivers for Linux. Who made nvidia chipset drivers for XFree86 3.x.x ? and even some of the X 4.x series where not nVidia produced drivers
nVidia drivers are NOT GPL'd because of copyrighted driver code that they have purchased from SGI to include in their drivers (there is a lot of information about this, even on
And this has to do with SquareEnix How ?
Here's the story from Yahoo
"Under the accord, 0.81 Enix share will be exchanged for one Square share, with Enix emerging as the surviving entity. "
and
"The postmerger entity, to be called Square Enix, "
while you where correct in that Enix is going to absorb square assets,
"Square, in its current company structure, will be disbanded, and (on paper, anyway) Enix will absorb Square's assets and liabilities. However, Yoichi Wada, current president of Square, will head up the new company, suggesting that Square will have more power than Enix in the merger's final structure. "
all of this was also repeated here
No, think of it as a self-illuminating christmass tree !!
think of the money on electricity you'd save !
not that they are `copyrighted' prices. the DMCA is probably being used (incorrectly) because it focuses on a website.
For anyone that has ever worked in a retail outlet and has met customers with incorrect , or even worse, 2-3 week old advertisements to merchandise knows that it usually leads to reducing the price to meet the incorrect ad.
If Bestbuy prints the Ad wrong, of course they will correct the issue as quickly as they can and honor those that have made notice of the incorrect price (well, most of the time).
However, what is Best Buy sopposed to do if some customer sees an advertisement for a 27" sony Vega TV on www.xyz.com for 349.99$?
They do not have to honor the advertised price because xyz.com is not a Best Buy affiliated advertiser. At the same time, they would also have to deal with angry customers complaining about this and that (beleive me, they WILL THINK of something)
I've worked at Circuit City for a while and seen all kind of people come in and say stuff like "my freinds daughters boyfreinds uncle said that you had a Sony TV advertised for 100$" which would be kind of correct, but it wasnt a Sony TV, it was some peice of crap Daewoo TV, when the correct item was shown the customer (along with the weeks Ad) , they would get all pissed saying "Well, i dont think this is right because i've known my freinds daughters boyfreinds uncle for 3 months and he wouldnt lie to me like that".
dont say it doesnt happen because it does.
again the issue isnt about `copyrighted prices', it is about unauthorised advertisement of goods.
Actually, as its referenced in another comment, debian has surpassed 10,000 packages. however, how many debian packages are there for XFree86 4.2.1 ?? dozens at least Gentoo? has one(1) package. Now, lets see how many packages debian has for KDE, Gnome and other big applications like that. Gentoo has far less packages. most any single software package in gentoo has at least 2 packages in Debian.
the later slides describe the NEW project resource management and development processes for the continuing development of Windows 2000 (before and up until after the release?)
Slides 23 and up tell you what they did and how well everything works on a project as large as Windows 2000 is.
This slide gives a sumary of the new build processes http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invite dtalks/lucovsky_html/sld033.htm