Ghostscript had to deal with this problem years ago, because PostScript is actually a programming language, not a page description language.
Ghostscript had to deal with what problem? Yes, PostScript is a programming language with built-in graphics primitives. What does that have to do with search engines?
Postscript is a programming language, not a page description language; you need to write a language interpreter, not just a data parser, to get the most from it. HTML + Javascript also requires an interpreter, not just a parser.
Kahvi Collective -- ambient / electronic / chillout; 700 tracks, all free as in beer, mix of ogg and mp3 (much of the archive is available in both). This free music is the only stuff I've insisted on paying for in the past year:P
The Scene had some great backing music; each episode has links to artists' sites, which tend to have more of the same, for free. I can't seem to find season 1 though, and season 2 sucked:(
scene.org (a different scene to the one above) has a huge archive of demoscene music; typically electronic / dance
I'm sure there must be more huge archives of free music, and genres other than electronic; anybody know of any?
Joomla - descendant of Mambo, factually it's successor. My and many others favourite.
Mind if I ask why? I've been looking for a CMS for a website I run; I tried several, giving them a few hours each. In the two hours I gave Joomla, I was unable to figure out how to edit the contact details bit, I couldn't see how to edit existing articles, nor how to change the layout of the page. In fact, after a couple of hours, I'd basically achieved absolutely nothing.
Then I tried Drupal; within two hours I had created placeholders for all the things I wanted (eg "company description goes here"), logically laid them out, added some other admin and editor users to help with content writing, and was looking into creating my own themes...
Good! There are far too many people on this course who have no idea what they're doing -- about 90% of them, I'd say -- and the course has to slow down to accomodate them:( Just the other day I was in a math lecture, being introduced to the idea of straight lines. I thought "we're in uni, surely it's assumed that we know this already?", and then someone behind me stuck up their hand to ask what y=mx+c was about...
Isn't the EXISTENCE of Linux evidence that OS communism DOES WORK in practice?
Would vim and emacs be as good as they are without competing against eachother? GNOME and KDE? KHTML and Gecko? Linux and the hundreds of other unix-like OSes?
Can you name a single widely used project where everyone is working towards one goal, and nobody's ever felt the need to create any alternatives?
Where as if everyone had stopped being dicks and gone "screw this, lets just make a great OS" together we could have the most amazing thing ever.
Newsflash: Communism doesn't work in practice. Competition is the biggest motivation for improvement; with only one OS, we'd have all the problems of a monopoly, but worse~
(PS. I can't believe I need to say this, but that site is satire, ie, it is a joke... It's not making fun of black or white people, but of racism itself:P)
Why can't open source companies just go around patenting everything, then locking up the Evil(tm) ideas forever and releasing the Good(tm) ideas for free use by anyone?
Unless they live in the UK (which I assume they do, if it's a BBC article) -- Over here we get free medical treatment, we just have to queue for it:P (Private healthcare is still available, if you want to pay for it)
One world is physical and the other digital, but how is the latter "fake"? Just because it's made out of data rather than atoms doesn't mean it doesn't exist~
How many services support publishing / subscribing to RSS feeds just as easily as to internal accounts? I see depressingly few, even though this would be an easy and effective way of making things more connected...
musicbrainz automatically checks a given chunk of audio against a database of known songs -- it's designed for automated MP3 tagging, but similar tech could be used by youtube
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A 2.5D FPS is basically the same game as a 3D FPS; Turning sprites into models is a very small jump compared to the jump of "nothing" to "FPS"
Postscript is a programming language, not a page description language; you need to write a language interpreter, not just a data parser, to get the most from it. HTML + Javascript also requires an interpreter, not just a parser.
http://www.xensource.com/xen/
I'm sure there must be more huge archives of free music, and genres other than electronic; anybody know of any?
Mind if I ask why? I've been looking for a CMS for a website I run; I tried several, giving them a few hours each. In the two hours I gave Joomla, I was unable to figure out how to edit the contact details bit, I couldn't see how to edit existing articles, nor how to change the layout of the page. In fact, after a couple of hours, I'd basically achieved absolutely nothing.
Then I tried Drupal; within two hours I had created placeholders for all the things I wanted (eg "company description goes here"), logically laid them out, added some other admin and editor users to help with content writing, and was looking into creating my own themes...
$5 says criminals find a way around this in the first week or so, and the only people who continue to be bothered by it are the legitimate users...
If you're going to reply to a question with a command line command, at least make sure it's the right one... (you want "apt-get install rosegarden")
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(Both ati and nvidia drivers are point & click installable nowadays)
You're entirely right. Thank god that with closed source, there's only one media player to choose from. And only one web browser. I'm so happy that there's only one closed source mail client too!
I would make my point further, but my comment would be rejected as spam...
Good! There are far too many people on this course who have no idea what they're doing -- about 90% of them, I'd say -- and the course has to slow down to accomodate them :( Just the other day I was in a math lecture, being introduced to the idea of straight lines. I thought "we're in uni, surely it's assumed that we know this already?", and then someone behind me stuck up their hand to ask what y=mx+c was about...
More market share = more incentive for games programmers and hardware manufacturers to officially support it
It's right there, in the article. You did read the article, right?
Would vim and emacs be as good as they are without competing against eachother? GNOME and KDE? KHTML and Gecko? Linux and the hundreds of other unix-like OSes?
Can you name a single widely used project where everyone is working towards one goal, and nobody's ever felt the need to create any alternatives?
Newsflash: Communism doesn't work in practice. Competition is the biggest motivation for improvement; with only one OS, we'd have all the problems of a monopoly, but worse~
Since when is "what I personally use" the definitive list of "programs that are professional"?
More importantly (for the future); is making a move on your clone incest or masturbation?
Let's make friends with black people too!
(PS. I can't believe I need to say this, but that site is satire, ie, it is a joke... It's not making fun of black or white people, but of racism itself :P)
Why not just use VLC / MPlayer; both of which have support for every audio and video format I've ever come across built in?
Why can't open source companies just go around patenting everything, then locking up the Evil(tm) ideas forever and releasing the Good(tm) ideas for free use by anyone?
Unless they live in the UK (which I assume they do, if it's a BBC article) -- Over here we get free medical treatment, we just have to queue for it :P (Private healthcare is still available, if you want to pay for it)
No, but you just made me lose the game.
Bastard.
One world is physical and the other digital, but how is the latter "fake"? Just because it's made out of data rather than atoms doesn't mean it doesn't exist~
That's what they want you to think ;)
How many services support publishing / subscribing to RSS feeds just as easily as to internal accounts? I see depressingly few, even though this would be an easy and effective way of making things more connected...
musicbrainz automatically checks a given chunk of audio against a database of known songs -- it's designed for automated MP3 tagging, but similar tech could be used by youtube