I had ceased reading sci-fi novels (having read nearly all of Heinlein's books) since my late teens, but a few years ago I came across a few novels by Lois McMaster Bujold, and I got hooked and bought the whole Miles Vorkosigan saga. Very addictive.
--E-Mail: Check. Linux has Thunderbird, which is what I use under Windows.
My offtopic 2 cents : Actually I've gotten tired of Thunderbird's sluggishness (maybe related to the way its spam filter works but I'm not sure) ; also, I don't like its rigid mail import mechanism, which does not allow you to specify where you want to import your mail from. This is really important to me since I often upgrade my Linux distros on various partitions of my HD and I like switching from one to another.
I prefer KMail/Kopete (very responsive, lots of possibilities -- although it's not been ported to Windows) and I like Claws-Mail as well. But let's not start a mail-client war here...
Uuuuh, can't let you say that. It *is* way more powerful than MS Publisher. The problem is that it has a complex user interface, quite difficult to master, and requires an advanced understanding of color profiles (ICC) to set up the pre-press capabilities properly, and to produce X-PDF files.
But if I were a publisher who did not have $2500 to spare every 4 years for a new QuarkXPress license, I would certainly give Scribus a try.
can anyone tell me if Scribus can import RGB Tiff's (for example) and colour separate them for print?
Yes it can, and it also outputs coulour-separated, print-ready X-PDF files. BUT setting up Scribus with the appropriate ICC color profiles to produce those X-PDF files is still pretty tricky. Certainly not something that is provided out of the box, and the Scribus community might want to concentrate on that, in order to capture more professional audience...
Apart from that, this is the perfect tool for generating complex typesetting documents and feature-rich PDF files.
if the Arabs could use it for making soap in the 7th century there may be other processes available
Actually, burning dried algae and seaweed produces ashes with a very high concentration of NaOH. If you take a walk to a few places on the northern coast of Brittany (France), you will find carved rocks which were used as fireplaces to burn the seaweed and collect the ashes. The ashes were sold to soap industries in the 19th century.
> if the Arabs could use it for making soap in the 7th century there may be other processes available
Actually, burning dried algae and seaweed produces ashes with a very high concentration of NaOH. If you take a walk to a few places on the northern coast of Brittany, you will find carved rocks which were used as fireplaces to burn the seaweed and collect the ashes.
If this had been a Windows flaw, where every machine natively understands WPA and no work at the command prompt is needed, this would be disastrous.
I know you said that tongue in cheek, but I do wish every Windows box natively understood WPA and WPA2. My GF has "Win2k professional" on her laptop and she can't connect to my private WiFi network using WPA2, she has to use the good ol' RJ45 cable instead. I'm not sure any upgrade is provided for Win2k Wifi drivers any more...
But if you simply put a video on YouTube, then everyone can simply ignore it. In fact, most politicians are probably unaware of the existence of YouTube. How does that advance your cause?
Do they need to know YouTube ? Actually, how does a YoutTube video get really popular ?
It does not get popular thanks to millions of people spending their time hooked on YouTube and trying to sort the best videos out of the flowing mess that's being uploaded everyday.
It gets popular because of a few people who upload their videos, then spread the word around them, mailing the URLs to tens of people, who in turn post those URLs on their blogs or mail/post them around for the whole world to discover them.
So if your average politician has somebody on his PR staff doing his job, they will surely get the message, sooner or later. In France, there has already been public outrage among teachers because one of the candidates had stated in a video that they should be working more. And this is thanks to DailyMotion. Meanwhile, her main opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy, is doing his best to get a few embarrassing video off the Net, and has succeeded twice in taking down a MySpace account to shut up dissenting voices.
... political statements, partisan criticisms and campaigning too.
Here in France as the presidential elections are coming near, the two main candidates, Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, have more than their fair share of partisan and protest videos on YouTube.
If you want to have a try at assembly programming, working on Menuet OS might be a good idea. It was designed for development in assembly language and makes an interesting environment to work with.
Take a look at the "programming" section on this page.
If google, a party to the communication, decides to divulge the nature of the data, that's their business.
Right. So, some day, you go to see you doctor, and he finds you terribly ill. You know the disease will evolve into a really crippling illness, and your health insurance is just about to be renewed. Question : do you mind if your doctor, "as a party to the communication" you just had with him, "decides to divulge the nature" of the disease to your insurer ? Is that "their business" and theirs only ?
It is only reasonable to expect some degree of privacy between your service provider (Google) and you as a client.
Point is, if you don't want people knowing your secrets, don't broadcast them for all to see.
When you are querying Google, you don't expect your queries to be "broadcast" on public display. If you did expect such a thing, why not set up a home page with your real name on it, and a "My dirty secrets" column, listing all the queries you've submitted to Google since you first used it ? Now that is broadcasting secrets, overtly and knowingly. Google is not expected to do that.
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I also liked what I read from Neil Gaiman.
Yup, like cattle.
I prefer KMail/Kopete (very responsive, lots of possibilities -- although it's not been ported to Windows) and I like Claws-Mail as well. But let's not start a mail-client war here...
But if I were a publisher who did not have $2500 to spare every 4 years for a new QuarkXPress license, I would certainly give Scribus a try.
Apart from that, this is the perfect tool for generating complex typesetting documents and feature-rich PDF files.
C'mon, parent deserves better than a "Funny" mod. This really has some insight.
> if the Arabs could use it for making soap in the 7th century there may be other processes available Actually, burning dried algae and seaweed produces ashes with a very high concentration of NaOH. If you take a walk to a few places on the northern coast of Brittany, you will find carved rocks which were used as fireplaces to burn the seaweed and collect the ashes.
Gotta feed those hamsters too... with the price of corn rising sky-high these days, you're not even sure you'll make it.
It does not get popular thanks to millions of people spending their time hooked on YouTube and trying to sort the best videos out of the flowing mess that's being uploaded everyday.
It gets popular because of a few people who upload their videos, then spread the word around them, mailing the URLs to tens of people, who in turn post those URLs on their blogs or mail/post them around for the whole world to discover them.
So if your average politician has somebody on his PR staff doing his job, they will surely get the message, sooner or later. In France, there has already been public outrage among teachers because one of the candidates had stated in a video that they should be working more. And this is thanks to DailyMotion. Meanwhile, her main opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy, is doing his best to get a few embarrassing video off the Net, and has succeeded twice in taking down a MySpace account to shut up dissenting voices.
Here in France as the presidential elections are coming near, the two main candidates, Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, have more than their fair share of partisan and protest videos on YouTube.
Now let me guess how this works out in America, land of the Free...
Bon, les gars, on passe aux choses sérieuses. Fetchez la vache !
Oh, well...
Though personally I would edit s/hyper-chiants/débiles/ but it's only a matter of taste, I think we agree overall...
;-)
Not toads (toxic) -- but frogs and snails, yup, definitely.
Take a look at the "programming" section on this page.
Loved it.
Yup. Talking of cavern entrances in your Arsia gets pretty damn close to that kind of joke, though...
When you are querying Google, you don't expect your queries to be "broadcast" on public display. If you did expect such a thing, why not set up a home page with your real name on it, and a "My dirty secrets" column, listing all the queries you've submitted to Google since you first used it ? Now that is broadcasting secrets, overtly and knowingly. Google is not expected to do that.It is only reasonable to expect some degree of privacy between your service provider (Google) and you as a client.