How LO lays things out varies depending on the version installed and the typefaces you have installed. Some of the formatting issues are simply typeface issues. (but not all, of course)
Something like a flyer or pamphlet can be especially problematic. Of course, one might suggest that one ouoght to be using a better tool, such as Scribus for something like that,
You should be using Scribus....or Print Shop for something like that. Word is not the right tool for that job.
but the reason people distribute files in Office format is because of its near ubiquity./quote
If people need documents to appear the exact same way on every platform they should be using PDF.
Pretty much all Bluray players require an HDCP compatible TV,
No, they don't. Some are HDMI only, some are not.
so whilst you might have a perfectly good TV you're going to have to replace it in order to use Bluray
No, you don't.
Ok, I don't have a PS3, have absolutely zero interest in playing PS3 games, and why would I spend money to replace a SD DVD player with an SD Bluray player?
Preparing for the time when you DO get a new TV? The fact that Blu-Ray has better image and sound? Adding some of the "smart TV features" some blu-ray players have to your existing TV?
You say you have DVD's, did you complain about "having to replace kit" when DVD's replaced VHS tapes?
Also, spending money on something that can be blacklisted at the whims of the content industry isn't exactly something I'm interested in doing.
You don't have to replace it all at once. start off with a player. Gee, with a PS3 you can even output video to SD and the audio to digital optical.
If you produce content in a format that artificially prevents me from using my existing equipment to watch
But it doesn't restrict you that much, at least not here in the US. Yeah if you're not using HDMI you'll be stuck with 1080i over component, but you CAN watch it. Heck, many blu-ray players still support SD output, so what's the problem?
I get shown lots of warnings and there's lots of unskippable propaganda sequences, I've even seen unskippable ads. Even worse, the player shows an obnoxious "this operation is illegal" when I attempt to skip these things and this warning requires an extra click to get rid of.
Blame that on the movie studio, not the player. All of that is optional. There are Blu-ray movies where trailers and whatnot are fully skippable, or the disc goes straight to menu. Some discs also only do the unskippable thing once..(it uses local storage to know if it's been played before, of course in that circumstance if you have a blu-ray player without bonus view it will always be unskippable)
I'm not going to spend $1000 on a DRM compliant TV so that my $100 BD-RW can do what I bought it for.
$1000 is an exaggeration, since I know that you simply CAN'T buy non-HDCP compliant TV's, and that you can get HDTV's at many price levels below $1000.
See I mirror my video signal, one goes to the monitor for display, one goes to the soundcard to provide clock for the audio. That isn't allowed, even though every device is HDCP compliant.
That's your problem, connect the thing to ONE device using HDMI and ignore the soundcard. With HDMI audio you don't need it anyway.
I know one person without home internet who bought one only to find out that new discs would refuse to play on the stock firmware. Great job Sony.
Sony doesn't make all the Blu-Ray players. Besides, people should research stuff and KNOW that it's better to have one hooked up to the network.
Also, even if you don't have the thing hooked up to a network, the manual will tell you how to acquire updates without a connection. You just call them up and they send out a disc.
[quote] Netflix is better because they'll stream you 4K video if your TV (and connection) will support it. [/quote]
You, my fellow Slashdot commenter, are a geek. That means you are more likely to have that high -end setup...but the masses are not. Because that needs an expensive 4K TV and a faster than average net connection. (they recommend 25Mbps!)
Welcome to Sony, where DRM comes first and customers a distant second.
Blu-Ray is a consortium format, it wasn't created by Sony only.
Just because they sold the bluray player, and made the new disks in some "version X" format doesn't mean one should expect them to release a firmware which allows you to the newer disks.
Sony doesn't make every blu-ray player. PS3's for example don't have any troubles with newer disks because updating the AACS keys is transparent to the user. Sony can't help it if some early adopters bought some pre BR profile 2.0 player that wasn't the PS3.
Sony still supports it's first standalone player, the BDP-S1.
Ever try running blu-ray outside of a PlayStation?
Yes, but I do have a a PS3.
I have a blu-ray drive in my media computer. (The one hooked up to the TV and sound system.) When I try to play a newer blu-ray disk, I am told it won't work and I need to buy a new player.
The error message more likely states you need to update the AACS keys. Read the documentation to find out how to do that for your player.
Fortunately there are some free alternatives, coupled with AnyDVD, that will still decode and play the newer disks.
Then it isn't a problem then.
When I try to play a blu-ray in the dedicated blu-ray player, it simply boots up as unreadable and asks for a firmware update... but there are no firmware updates to be had for the device any more.
Yeah, some standalones bundle AACS key updates into firmware updates. You did buy an internet enabled BR player, right, makes that process much easier. What brand/model is it?
Some players were/are slower than others, which is one reason why the PS3 was a good BR player. It had what was probably the fastest/most powerful CPU in any non-PC Blu-Ray player.
CD's were a joint Sony/Phillips venture, as the very wikipedia link says:
[quote]Collaboration and standardization
Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. Led by Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology that began independently by the two companies.[5] After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the Red Book CD-DA standard. First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996.
Philips contributed the general manufacturing process, based on video LaserDisc technology. Philips also contributed eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM), which offers a certain resilience to defects such as scratches and fingerprints, while Sony contributed the error-correction method, CIRC.[/quote]
And Blu-Ray owes a large part of its success to Sony bundling players with Play Stations.
Yes, and the fact that the PS3 was a better (and less expensive) Blu-Ray player than the early standalone Blu-Ray players were.
I could actually play them legally, I might buy BluRay stuff
You can play them legally, on a Blu-Ray player. Even if you run Linux on your PC you can pick up a standalone BR player inexpensively.
California could solve a lot of problems (water, pollution, crowding, traffic) by saying to all the snowbirds/wannabe actors/wannabe silicon valley hipsters:
MOVE BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
I know, for many years California was "dreamland" to America. Where people would go to try to make it big, make their dreams come true, start over in life. But simply put, there are too many people doing that and it's made California's population unsustainably large.
Jobs and the collective was clearly of the opinion that "most people don't need trucks".
They don't. Most of the guys, and it is mostly guys who own trucks, use them as penis compensators driving to their cubicle jobs.
"Commercial" trucks owned by businesses are a different story.
Same goes for PC's. Most people are content consumers. While they might have a PC for some purposes, it doesn't have to be a high end "Ferrari" PC, it can be a sub-compact "Hyundai" PC, and they can do a lot of their computing on a tablet or phone.
To me, it's not a personal computer unless the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. This makes these platforms not general-purpose.
Fine, if you're going to be THAT literal, they are "special purpose personal computers. They don't HAVE to be general purpose.
Nintendo has rejected games such as The Binding of Isaac,
BoA's developers were stupid to even try to port to the 3DS. Nintendo, far more than Sony or Microsoft tries to portray itself as "the choice for families who want their games to be 'safe' ". Nintendo's portables skew a bit younger than average. BoA's religious content would be considered too risky to publish by Nintendo. BoA's developers would have been better off going for the PS4 and Vita.
Let's replace "Japanese" with "black" and see how that reads:
Alright, it was badly worded. But how else can I say:
Square-Enix and other japanese developers don't get/understand the gaijin market outside of Japan in ways they should if they're wanting to sell games to us gaijin.
It's not racial, it's cultural. Kind of like how us Yanks don't get "Branston Pickle"
While Japanese gaming culture has some marked differences when compared to, say, N.A gaming culture,
There are a LOT of differences gaming culture wise which affects the mindset of Japanese developers. While I'm not 100 percent agreement with Phil Fish's opinion, I think Japanese Development houses simply haven't adapted well now that they have to compete on a level playing field with top of the line formerly PC-only US/UK/CAN developers like Bioware, Blizzard or Bethesda.
it is just plain racist (and factually incorrect) to say "they're Japanese so they didn't really understand what people liked/didn't like about the early MMO's".
But they didn't understand, at least they didn't understand the tastes of us Gaijin. While there may have been Japanese MMO's those tended to stay in Japan, while FFXI was one designed for the world...and Square-Enix didn't do a good job of it or informing their player base. Let me give you an example.
I played WHM and as you know the WHM has some nice weaponskills, which means you need to be up front using your weapon battle-cleric style. The WHM can equip armor and weapons to play that style. But...the crazy conformist heavily Japanese player base think healers are dress wearing Aeris style staff-chicks cowering in back,
And Square-Enix never went out of their way to say to the Japanese players. "Hey quit being so god-damned conformist, there are MULTIPLE ways to play characters, the game is designed that way, so lighten up". So people who played WHM's in a way that the game actually supported were often "cursed out" by Japanese players for playing their own characters the way that worked best for them. Admittedly, battle-cleric was a better option for Hume WHM's than Taru-Taru ones.
As for EQOA being "better and more enjoyable" than FFXI, I totally disagree, and I guess I'm not the only one; EQOA is long gone, but FFXI is still going strong.
FFXI is much more annoying and grindy than EQOA was. The economy was also ruined for us Gaijin because we got thrown in there with the heavily Japanese player base instead of on our own servers with an economy that wasn't @#$@# up after NM campers, and obsessive grinders messed it up for the years they had it before we did. Sure it had some features EQOA lacked, but overall EQOA was a better "game". I mean after all you could actually de-level in FFXI and lose the ability to use the equipment you're wearing! And the way subclasses worked meant you had to fill up bank space with equipment you needed to level the sub-classes.
Sure FFXI is still running, but it's because Japanese players, more than most, are stuck in gaming's past. Playing 2D RPG's on their PSP's and FFXI on their PS2's. The vast majority of japanese FFXI players are playing it on the PS2.
That'd be an easier solution than getting every email provider and every server in the transportation chain (including local area networks) to never look at the messages.
Slashdot Mirror
As said documents contain much personal information that isn't necessarily my own, I'm afraid I can't do that.
That's fine, I understand that, but can you do some kind of mockup we can use as an actual test?
and I'm surprised you would need to see proof of it.
I need to see proof of it because of:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/...
How LO lays things out varies depending on the version installed and the typefaces you have installed. Some of the formatting issues are simply typeface issues. (but not all, of course)
Something like a flyer or pamphlet can be especially problematic. Of course, one might suggest that one ouoght to be using a better tool, such as Scribus for something like that,
You should be using Scribus....or Print Shop for something like that. Word is not the right tool for that job.
but the reason people distribute files in Office format is because of its near ubiquity./quote
If people need documents to appear the exact same way on every platform they should be using PDF.
Pretty much all Bluray players require an HDCP compatible TV,
No, they don't. Some are HDMI only, some are not.
so whilst you might have a perfectly good TV you're going to have to replace it in order to use Bluray
No, you don't.
Ok, I don't have a PS3, have absolutely zero interest in playing PS3 games, and why would I spend money to replace a SD DVD player with an SD Bluray player?
Preparing for the time when you DO get a new TV? The fact that Blu-Ray has better image and sound? Adding some of the "smart TV features" some blu-ray players have to your existing TV?
You say you have DVD's, did you complain about "having to replace kit" when DVD's replaced VHS tapes?
Also, spending money on something that can be blacklisted at the whims of the content industry isn't exactly something I'm interested in doing.
What are you talking about? Blacklisted?
My ATI drivers from 2011 will not work on a modern distro.,
Why are you trying to run 2011 drivers on a 2014 distro, why not u se the drivers included in the modern distro.
prove it, link us up with a complex word document and have some of us LO users open it up and post screenshots.
A/V kit
You don't have to replace it all at once. start off with a player. Gee, with a PS3 you can even output video to SD and the audio to digital optical.
If you produce content in a format that artificially prevents me from using my existing equipment to watch
But it doesn't restrict you that much, at least not here in the US. Yeah if you're not using HDMI you'll be stuck with 1080i over component, but you CAN watch it. Heck, many blu-ray players still support SD output, so what's the problem?
I get shown lots of warnings and there's lots of unskippable propaganda sequences, I've even seen unskippable ads. Even worse, the player shows an obnoxious "this operation is illegal" when I attempt to skip these things and this warning requires an extra click to get rid of.
Blame that on the movie studio, not the player. All of that is optional. There are Blu-ray movies where trailers and whatnot are fully skippable, or the disc goes straight to menu. Some discs also only do the unskippable thing once..(it uses local storage to know if it's been played before, of course in that circumstance if you have a blu-ray player without bonus view it will always be unskippable)
I'm not going to spend $1000 on a DRM compliant TV so that my $100 BD-RW can do what I bought it for.
$1000 is an exaggeration, since I know that you simply CAN'T buy non-HDCP compliant TV's, and that you can get HDTV's at many price levels below $1000.
See I mirror my video signal, one goes to the monitor for display, one goes to the soundcard to provide clock for the audio. That isn't allowed, even though every device is HDCP compliant.
That's your problem, connect the thing to ONE device using HDMI and ignore the soundcard. With HDMI audio you don't need it anyway.
I know one person without home internet who bought one only to find out that new discs would refuse to play on the stock firmware. Great job Sony.
Sony doesn't make all the Blu-Ray players. Besides, people should research stuff and KNOW that it's better to have one hooked up to the network.
Also, even if you don't have the thing hooked up to a network, the manual will tell you how to acquire updates without a connection. You just call them up and they send out a disc.
[quote] Netflix is better because they'll stream you 4K video if your TV (and connection) will support it. [/quote]
You, my fellow Slashdot commenter, are a geek. That means you are more likely to have that high -end setup...but the masses are not. Because that needs an expensive 4K TV and a faster than average net connection. (they recommend 25Mbps!)
Most people don't have both.
DVD kiosks are in the grocery stores or they're being sold at the drug store, and video rental shops are still around.
I live in a small town in the midwest, one of the grocery stores has a redbox and so does the Walgreens. We also have a "Family Video" franchise.
I really don't "understand" the folks that have their nice new HD sets hooked up to non-HD cable/satellite boxes/DVD players/Wii's.
They don't even use component connections!
Until you get hit with the overages while trying to stream high-definition video outside of an urban area.
#define urban. Every little town here has high speed internet available.
Welcome to Sony, where DRM comes first and customers a distant second.
Blu-Ray is a consortium format, it wasn't created by Sony only.
Just because they sold the bluray player, and made the new disks in some "version X" format doesn't mean one should expect them to release a firmware which allows you to the newer disks.
Sony doesn't make every blu-ray player. PS3's for example don't have any troubles with newer disks because updating the AACS keys is transparent to the user. Sony can't help it if some early adopters bought some pre BR profile 2.0 player that wasn't the PS3.
Sony still supports it's first standalone player, the BDP-S1.
Ever try running blu-ray outside of a PlayStation?
Yes, but I do have a a PS3.
I have a blu-ray drive in my media computer. (The one hooked up to the TV and sound system.) When I try to play a newer blu-ray disk, I am told it won't work and I need to buy a new player.
The error message more likely states you need to update the AACS keys. Read the documentation to find out how to do that for your player.
Fortunately there are some free alternatives, coupled with AnyDVD, that will still decode and play the newer disks.
Then it isn't a problem then.
When I try to play a blu-ray in the dedicated blu-ray player, it simply boots up as unreadable and asks for a firmware update... but there are no firmware updates to be had for the device any more.
Yeah, some standalones bundle AACS key updates into firmware updates. You did buy an internet enabled BR player, right, makes that process much easier. What brand/model is it?
Some players were/are slower than others, which is one reason why the PS3 was a good BR player. It had what was probably the fastest/most powerful CPU in any non-PC Blu-Ray player.
CDs were invented by Phillips, not Sony.
CD's were a joint Sony/Phillips venture, as the very wikipedia link says:
[quote]Collaboration and standardization
Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. Led by Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology that began independently by the two companies.[5] After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the Red Book CD-DA standard. First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996.
Philips contributed the general manufacturing process, based on video LaserDisc technology. Philips also contributed eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM), which offers a certain resilience to defects such as scratches and fingerprints, while Sony contributed the error-correction method, CIRC.[/quote]
And Blu-Ray owes a large part of its success to Sony bundling players with Play Stations.
Yes, and the fact that the PS3 was a better (and less expensive) Blu-Ray player than the early standalone Blu-Ray players were.
I could actually play them legally, I might buy BluRay stuff
You can play them legally, on a Blu-Ray player. Even if you run Linux on your PC you can pick up a standalone BR player inexpensively.
California could solve a lot of problems (water, pollution, crowding, traffic) by saying to all the snowbirds/wannabe actors/wannabe silicon valley hipsters:
MOVE BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
I know, for many years California was "dreamland" to America. Where people would go to try to make it big, make their dreams come true, start over in life. But simply put, there are too many people doing that and it's made California's population unsustainably large.
Jobs and the collective was clearly of the opinion that "most people don't need trucks".
They don't. Most of the guys, and it is mostly guys who own trucks, use them as penis compensators driving to their cubicle jobs.
"Commercial" trucks owned by businesses are a different story.
Same goes for PC's. Most people are content consumers. While they might have a PC for some purposes, it doesn't have to be a high end "Ferrari" PC, it can be a sub-compact "Hyundai" PC, and they can do a lot of their computing on a tablet or phone.
To me, it's not a personal computer unless the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. This makes these platforms not general-purpose.
Fine, if you're going to be THAT literal, they are "special purpose personal computers. They don't HAVE to be general purpose.
Nintendo has rejected games such as The Binding of Isaac,
BoA's developers were stupid to even try to port to the 3DS. Nintendo, far more than Sony or Microsoft tries to portray itself as "the choice for families who want their games to be 'safe' ". Nintendo's portables skew a bit younger than average. BoA's religious content would be considered too risky to publish by Nintendo. BoA's developers would have been better off going for the PS4 and Vita.
Let's replace "Japanese" with "black" and see how that reads:
Alright, it was badly worded. But how else can I say:
Square-Enix and other japanese developers don't get/understand the gaijin market outside of Japan in ways they should if they're wanting to sell games to us gaijin.
It's not racial, it's cultural. Kind of like how us Yanks don't get "Branston Pickle"
While Japanese gaming culture has some marked differences when compared to, say, N.A gaming culture,
There are a LOT of differences gaming culture wise which affects the mindset of Japanese developers. While I'm not 100 percent agreement with Phil Fish's opinion, I think Japanese Development houses simply haven't adapted well now that they have to compete on a level playing field with top of the line formerly PC-only US/UK/CAN developers like Bioware, Blizzard or Bethesda.
it is just plain racist (and factually incorrect) to say "they're Japanese so they didn't really understand what people liked/didn't like about the early MMO's".
But they didn't understand, at least they didn't understand the tastes of us Gaijin. While there may have been Japanese MMO's those tended to stay in Japan, while FFXI was one designed for the world...and Square-Enix didn't do a good job of it or informing their player base. Let me give you an example.
I played WHM and as you know the WHM has some nice weaponskills, which means you need to be up front using your weapon battle-cleric style. The WHM can equip armor and weapons to play that style. But...the crazy conformist heavily Japanese player base think healers are dress wearing Aeris style staff-chicks cowering in back,
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
not Western style battle-cleric.
http://dnd.jeffandeden.com/lin...
And Square-Enix never went out of their way to say to the Japanese players. "Hey quit being so god-damned conformist, there are MULTIPLE ways to play characters, the game is designed that way, so lighten up". So people who played WHM's in a way that the game actually supported were often "cursed out" by Japanese players for playing their own characters the way that worked best for them. Admittedly, battle-cleric was a better option for Hume WHM's than Taru-Taru ones.
As for EQOA being "better and more enjoyable" than FFXI, I totally disagree, and I guess I'm not the only one; EQOA is long gone, but FFXI is still going strong.
FFXI is much more annoying and grindy than EQOA was. The economy was also ruined for us Gaijin because we got thrown in there with the heavily Japanese player base instead of on our own servers with an economy that wasn't @#$@# up after NM campers, and obsessive grinders messed it up for the years they had it before we did. Sure it had some features EQOA lacked, but overall EQOA was a better "game". I mean after all you could actually de-level in FFXI and lose the ability to use the equipment you're wearing! And the way subclasses worked meant you had to fill up bank space with equipment you needed to level the sub-classes.
Sure FFXI is still running, but it's because Japanese players, more than most, are stuck in gaming's past. Playing 2D RPG's on their PSP's and FFXI on their PS2's. The vast majority of japanese FFXI players are playing it on the PS2.
So, how would you prevent them from using email?
You don't.
That'd be an easier solution than getting every email provider and every server in the transportation chain (including local area networks) to never look at the messages.
Let them. http://www.gnupg.org/
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Since there aren't as many women and girls in Video Gaming
Who says there aren't? The ESA begs to differ with you:
http://www.theesa.com/facts/pd...
Adult women are a larger gaming demographic than teenage boys!
You can most certainly get a smartphone without a contract, even as pay as you go. BH hasn't been paying attention.