Unless you do support at coworkers' desks, that is. If the only one using your computer is yourself, the only bacteria on your computer are your own (either before or after you get them).
RedHat has suddenly decided to treat the other Linux distributors as competitors. That's great. At least there's one platform where we can see some healthy competition leading to real innovation.
If RedHat were opposed to competition (or SuSE, etc.), then I'd worry.
When considering the fact that unless my sources are mistaken Spiderman made MORE money on opening weekend than Episode One (in fact I heard that Spidy set some records) and there is MUCH LESS hype about Episode 2 than Episode One I think that might just be a somewhat safe bet.
Not really. There's this little thing called inflation, see, and well, you know . . . if tickets cost 7.50 in 1999 and cost 8.00 in 2002, which is likely to make more money?
Well, it's only been a little more than a decade since I got my degree in Latin, and take my word for it, the average Roman of the classical period would have thought of the word "lex" as representing the concept we call "law." See Perseus's Lewis and Short entry for lex
if you don't believe me.
lex , lgis, f. [perh. Sanscr. root lag-, lig-, to fasten; Lat. ligo, to bind, oblige; cf. religio] , a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill (cf. institutum).
I see that I was wrong, though, in thinking that it was from an IE root *leg-, it's from *lig-
Acrobat can do this. Just scan it in with Acrobat, then "capture text." Works well with good, clear fonts, and a straight scan (not crooked) from a good scanner, though there's like a 0.05% fail rate per character. Yes, I know that sucks, it's one error a page, but it's survivable.
If you're going to be pedantic, then so am I! Just because it's compiled with GCC, that doesn't make it part of the GNU project. Using a GPL'd compiler does not make the compiled output GPL'd. Hah, I out-pedant thee! A pox on thy inferior pedantry!
No, but given the fact that the compiler is part of the operating system, and that so many of the other more-or-less default packages are GNU software, he has a point.
On the other hand, wouldn't saving the name "GNU" for an OS featuring the HURD be more appropriate?
Lex is Latin for "law," and is related to the indo-european root for "speak," *leg- (hence "lexical"). Sed is Latin for "but." The "lex sed lex" part of the quote is the part that means "but [the] law [is] [the] law" (explaining why there are no words for "the" and "is" in there, and why the word for "but" comes between the two words in Latin, rather than before both as in English, would be very complicated).
It should be noted that David Packard the younger has been a huge supporter of the study of Latin, helping to design the Ibycus computer that was used for early Greek and Latin lexical research, among other things.
For a full browser suite, the latest Mozilla was the most impressive and like Netscape, has the best looking interface, is available on multiple platforms and includes a good help system. But unlike Netscape, Mozilla is rapidly developing, is easy to upgrade, is better than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express and includes some great features: it can use Tabs by default and saves complete Web pages perfectly.
See above. The codex form is basically a way of using both sides of a sheet of paper conveniently, while also keeping the "book" convenient to hold. Using both sides is an economic thing. You don't have that problem with an electronic display. And so the comprimise between size and economy is out of balance: a two-monitor computer-book is actually more expensive, as well as being harder to use, than a single-monitor book.
This reminds me of the incunabula, many of which were typeset to look like real (handwritten) manuscripts: you see, people thought of printed books as cheap and hard to read . . .
Actually, no, it isn't just your personal preference. A lot of study has gone into this, and medium-to-narrow columns are more readable; serif type is more readable at small point sizes (assuming high resolutions) and sans-serif at large point sizes; a decent amount of white space more readable than too much or too little, etc. But I don't see why that has to be replicated in the screens.
See Jane C. Ginsburg, "Copyright Without Walls," Representations (don't remember the year or volume, but it's from like 1992). She said all this back then.
I mentioned proper typesetting because they made that mistake in the PR. As for me, the last time I read a book online was last night. I do it all the time. Can't read for as long as I can on paper, but I do it.
All screens have this problem, though. The issue for me is that the shape of this particular "book" is inconvenient. Books are the shape they are because of the technology behind them. The codex is a more convenient way to store paper than e.g. a scroll, especially when it's more economical to use both sides of the paper. But there's no reason why an electronic screen should be shaped like a codex. It's just a bad design.
This is twice as heavy as necessary, and twice as big as necessary.
"The 2-VU's two, portrait-mode, full-color screens allow the user to read and work in the format of the traditional book, which has proven to increase reading speed, compre-hension and retention,"
Proper typesetting has proven to increase reading speed; why is there a hyphen in "comprehension?" Probably because the web designer didn't realize that not everyone would be using the same display he is?
It's not like they can't buy licenses just for the machines they want, it's that if they want to save some money they have to include all the machines.
I suspect the idea is to let it sit a year or two, until someone in each institution says "why are we paying for these licenses when we can't use them? Let's just upgrade all the Mac systems to Windows; that way we won't be wasting so much money!"
Uhm, ok, semantics. Call it what you will. The fact is that the bank enabled the creation of more wealth than the laborer.
No, it didn't. The bank corrected the distribution of capital to allow the laborer to take advantage of his labor and his raw materials to create wealth.
If this is an example of typical conversative economic thought, I'm damnned glad I'm not a conservative!
I'd suggest that you stop posting on the subject of economics until you've taken a good macroeconomics course.
1) liberal that believes in a finite amount of money
Don't be stupid, liberals do not believe in a "finite" amount of money. They believe that wealth is created through labor, unlike conservatives, who believe that wealth is created through interest, forgetting that wealth created through interest is destroyed through inflation.
For someone who made a crack about a/. reader not having taken any economics classes, you obviously don't know your macro economics very well either.
See George Dyson's book on Project Orion for more details into nuclear propulsion ideas in the 50s and 60s. The original designers (including George's father, a little-known scientist whose first name is Freeman - as in the Sphere guy) intended a quite large interplanetary vessel (1 kT payload - that's right, boys and girls, one KILOTON payload, and I don't mean bombs, I mean passengers) powered by the ignition of relatively small fission charges (kiloton range, I think, and this time I do mean bombs) every half second or so; their motto was "Saturn by 1970". It is apparently quite plausible, technically, but it died because there was no way to eliminate the risk of fallout from atmospheric launches, and really no cheap way to haul the 4,000 ton beast (payload, propellant, and mechanism, including a 1,000 ton pusher plate to deflect the plasma and provide radiation protection) into LEO where it might be safer to use.
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http://www.apple.com/xserve/design.html
Unless you do support at coworkers' desks, that is. If the only one using your computer is yourself, the only bacteria on your computer are your own (either before or after you get them).
RedHat has suddenly decided to treat the other Linux distributors as competitors. That's great. At least there's one platform where we can see some healthy competition leading to real innovation.
If RedHat were opposed to competition (or SuSE, etc.), then I'd worry.
The record they're talking about is for revenue, not for profit.
When considering the fact that unless my sources are mistaken Spiderman made MORE money on opening weekend than Episode One (in fact I heard that Spidy set some records) and there is MUCH LESS hype about Episode 2 than Episode One I think that might just be a somewhat safe bet.
Not really. There's this little thing called inflation, see, and well, you know . . . if tickets cost 7.50 in 1999 and cost 8.00 in 2002, which is likely to make more money?
SW2 would actually have to be worse than SW1 for it to make less money than Spider-Man, while it looks as if it is at least marginally better.
Well, it's only been a little more than a decade since I got my degree in Latin, and take my word for it, the average Roman of the classical period would have thought of the word "lex" as representing the concept we call "law." See Perseus's Lewis and Short entry for lex if you don't believe me.
lex , lgis, f. [perh. Sanscr. root lag-, lig-, to fasten; Lat. ligo, to bind, oblige; cf. religio] , a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill (cf. institutum).
I see that I was wrong, though, in thinking that it was from an IE root *leg-, it's from *lig-
Acrobat can do this. Just scan it in with Acrobat, then "capture text." Works well with good, clear fonts, and a straight scan (not crooked) from a good scanner, though there's like a 0.05% fail rate per character. Yes, I know that sucks, it's one error a page, but it's survivable.
Emacs is just a nightmare
A nightmare for some . . . a dream for others!
Sorry, couldn't help it (gratuitous Excalibur reference).
Seriously, some of us LIKE emacs.
If you're going to be pedantic, then so am I! Just because it's compiled with GCC, that doesn't make it part of the GNU project. Using a GPL'd compiler does not make the compiled output GPL'd. Hah, I out-pedant thee! A pox on thy inferior pedantry!
No, but given the fact that the compiler is part of the operating system, and that so many of the other more-or-less default packages are GNU software, he has a point.
On the other hand, wouldn't saving the name "GNU" for an OS featuring the HURD be more appropriate?
Lex is Latin for "law," and is related to the indo-european root for "speak," *leg- (hence "lexical"). Sed is Latin for "but." The "lex sed lex" part of the quote is the part that means "but [the] law [is] [the] law" (explaining why there are no words for "the" and "is" in there, and why the word for "but" comes between the two words in Latin, rather than before both as in English, would be very complicated).
It should be noted that David Packard the younger has been a huge supporter of the study of Latin, helping to design the Ibycus computer that was used for early Greek and Latin lexical research, among other things.
Good post, man, but
folks are in fact working on scanning software for handwritten manuscripts; it would be a boon to humanities computing, for instance. See This paper.For a full browser suite, the latest Mozilla was the most impressive and like Netscape, has the best looking interface, is available on multiple platforms and includes a good help system. But unlike Netscape, Mozilla is rapidly developing, is easy to upgrade, is better than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express and includes some great features: it can use Tabs by default and saves complete Web pages perfectly.
Says it all, doesn't it?
Posted with Mozilla 2002050208.
http://www.robval.com/linux/2002/browsers.htmlSee above. The codex form is basically a way of using both sides of a sheet of paper conveniently, while also keeping the "book" convenient to hold. Using both sides is an economic thing. You don't have that problem with an electronic display. And so the comprimise between size and economy is out of balance: a two-monitor computer-book is actually more expensive, as well as being harder to use, than a single-monitor book. This reminds me of the incunabula, many of which were typeset to look like real (handwritten) manuscripts: you see, people thought of printed books as cheap and hard to read . . .
Actually, no, it isn't just your personal preference. A lot of study has gone into this, and medium-to-narrow columns are more readable; serif type is more readable at small point sizes (assuming high resolutions) and sans-serif at large point sizes; a decent amount of white space more readable than too much or too little, etc. But I don't see why that has to be replicated in the screens.
See Jane C. Ginsburg, "Copyright Without Walls," Representations (don't remember the year or volume, but it's from like 1992). She said all this back then.
I mentioned proper typesetting because they made that mistake in the PR. As for me, the last time I read a book online was last night. I do it all the time. Can't read for as long as I can on paper, but I do it.
All screens have this problem, though. The issue for me is that the shape of this particular "book" is inconvenient. Books are the shape they are because of the technology behind them. The codex is a more convenient way to store paper than e.g. a scroll, especially when it's more economical to use both sides of the paper. But there's no reason why an electronic screen should be shaped like a codex. It's just a bad design.
This is twice as heavy as necessary, and twice as big as necessary.
"The 2-VU's two, portrait-mode, full-color screens allow the user to read and work in the format of the traditional book, which has proven to increase reading speed, compre-hension and retention,"
Proper typesetting has proven to increase reading speed; why is there a hyphen in "comprehension?" Probably because the web designer didn't realize that not everyone would be using the same display he is?
I'll pass.
It's not like they can't buy licenses just for the machines they want, it's that if they want to save some money they have to include all the machines.
I suspect the idea is to let it sit a year or two, until someone in each institution says "why are we paying for these licenses when we can't use them? Let's just upgrade all the Mac systems to Windows; that way we won't be wasting so much money!"
Uhm, ok, semantics. Call it what you will. The fact is that the bank enabled the creation of more wealth than the laborer.
No, it didn't. The bank corrected the distribution of capital to allow the laborer to take advantage of his labor and his raw materials to create wealth.
If this is an example of typical conversative economic thought, I'm damnned glad I'm not a conservative!
I'd suggest that you stop posting on the subject of economics until you've taken a good macroeconomics course.
1) liberal that believes in a finite amount of money
Don't be stupid, liberals do not believe in a "finite" amount of money. They believe that wealth is created through labor, unlike conservatives, who believe that wealth is created through interest, forgetting that wealth created through interest is destroyed through inflation.
For someone who made a crack about a /. reader not having taken any economics classes, you obviously don't know your macro economics very well either.
More to the point, better performing, less buggy browser. There's only one answer: LYNX.
See George Dyson's book on Project Orion for more details into nuclear propulsion ideas in the 50s and 60s. The original designers (including George's father, a little-known scientist whose first name is Freeman - as in the Sphere guy) intended a quite large interplanetary vessel (1 kT payload - that's right, boys and girls, one KILOTON payload, and I don't mean bombs, I mean passengers) powered by the ignition of relatively small fission charges (kiloton range, I think, and this time I do mean bombs) every half second or so; their motto was "Saturn by 1970". It is apparently quite plausible, technically, but it died because there was no way to eliminate the risk of fallout from atmospheric launches, and really no cheap way to haul the 4,000 ton beast (payload, propellant, and mechanism, including a 1,000 ton pusher plate to deflect the plasma and provide radiation protection) into LEO where it might be safer to use.