Except that it's not stable: settings for placement, size, hiding, etc get rest with no apparent reason, especially if you have more than one toolbar (as I have). Two can be manageable, but three or four are not. And when you have a multiline taskbar... *shiver*
In your view, then, "freedom of speech" means "right to force other people to distribute what you have to say"?
And exactly which logical steps do you take from my post to that conclusion?
Right protection precisely means "not preventing you from".
So if I don't actively prevent you from doing something, but there are piles of insurmuntable obstacles for you to express a particular right, I'm protecting that particular right of yours?
I think the key is in the term protection. "Not stealing" is not the same as "guarding".
Possibly freedom of religion means you have a right to sacrifice chickens if you want to; it certainly doesn't mean the rest of us have to buy chickens for you to sacrifice.
No, but it meast I shouldn't be obstructed from buying chickens or raise them on my own.
The case of freedom of speech is however different, in that freedom of speech is not about being able to speak your ideas aloud in the seclusion of a remote chamber in a dungeon; it's about the possibility to freely communicate those ideas to other people, to communicate with them.
If there are practical insurmuntable obstacles to doing this, is the right protected?
What you are doing is stretching my remarks on the need of all kinds of "Speaker's Corner"s to some "Everybody should be given a personal channel on cable TV"
What's this "allow" nonsense? In America there's this thing called "the Constitution". Everyone is allowed to have air time. They have to convince someone to actually broadcast it, but we have this other thing called "money" that's good for that.
An interesting aspect of "freedom of speech" in the Western world: the constitutionally-protected "freedom of speech" only gets concretized if you have enough money to get to the media. In other words, this "freedom of speech" only gets as far as somebody's money can take you... in yet other words, it's not a right, it's a privilege.
True right protection does not limit itself to "not preventing you from" and "not punishing when you do". True right protection comes when the ability to do something is guaranteed, at least at a minimum level, by the res publica in the original meaning of the word. For example, good health and a decent education are a protected right when a nation has good quality, free or extremely low cost, health and educational services (hospitals, schools)
In a sense, blogs are a very good step in that direction (at least where electricty and Internet are widespread enough to be considered of common availability).
Well, I don't agree that OOo is a MS Office clone.
There is obviously a humongous overlap in functionality, and that's for two reasons at least
some features are obvious components of the various components of the suite
and
unless the various components have a superset of the features MSO componets have, migration will not be possible.
What is true, however, is that as the versioning progresses, there is a "dumbing down" in features and interface to (apparently) "appeal" to the common user, and (allegedly) satisfy some "Ready for MS Windows" guidelines dictated by MS and that MS itself doesn't follow. The kind of crap you expect from a marketind-driven something.
What I do find interesting is that people are all enthusiastically jumpy about how MS "innovates" the UI from version to version, but as soon as a competitor develops a different UI it's "too different from MS to be comfortable". This is really saddening.
And finally, there is another suite that focused too much on MS-imitation, and this greatly contributed to its demise, causing it to lose its (sadly few) affectionate customers at an incresingly fast rate, and it's Corel's WordPerfect Office.
Say what you want, but "despite" all efforts from Novell first and Corel after, WordPerfect remains the best wordprocessor around, at least for Western languages. Too bad it isn't in the right hands.
Oh well, luckily, we still have TeX and friends...
OOo Calc from version 2 (currently in beta) will handle 65K rows. The only electronic worksheet I know of that supports more than that is QuattroPro from the Corel Office suite. It's not free in any sense of the word, though.
What about Mozilla Seamonkey? Is the browser code the same as Firefox? IIRC it was different enough to create incompatibilities for the extensions... what about security situation?
Games like Bejeweled and co. can easily suck up your whole afternoon or day (24hrs) if you choose to give them a spin for an "a few minutes break"... trust me, I talk out of experience. These things are addictive
There is a file format which is specifically created for this kind of stuff, and it's called DjVu. There is a free (as in open source) reference library, and proprietary tools by LizardTech.
(Of course, you will still need to spend lots of time scanning, naming and classifying those pages. The ADF and 10yo nephew suggested in another post might be useful for that.)
DjVu offers very compact representation without the need to OCR the document (I've converted a 13 megs scanned PDF into a 600K DjVu which was much faster and easier to read), and optionally a "hidden text layer" if you want to OCR it to make it searchable.
True, it's quite a matter of taste, although it might be also a matter of habit... personally, I prefer it by much for games too (touchpads, otoh, are quite a horrible thing for that...)
While I don't consider my post wildly funny nor something to laugh your guts out (ok, I was hoping to raise a smirk at least), I do see, while metamoderating, that there are some funny posts which do get marked as Troll. Guess it's only fair I get my share of this.
Obvious question is, is it a trend of modern times, some humourless (pardon the British spelling) dork, or a troll?
It depends on application. If you had read the article, you'd have seen that they do not intend to market the thing directly, but rather
the Readius was created in order to demonstrate the viability of the rollable-display concept in mobile applications and to gain customer feedback at the IFA 2005.
There are things that could benefit from this kind of advancement, even at the current state of things: GPS devices, for example, and even cell phones: even though these days we're used to colorful thingies which can do everything but guarantee you can make phone calls, there some of us (*raises hand*) which want nothing more than the ability to make phone calls and write and read SMS. The ability to do it on a wider screen extensible on purpose would be an extremely nice thing. Think about a one- or two-lines display that can roll up to enclose an entire SMS or addressbook without the need to scroll.
Another major selling point could be the ability to stay 'on' the whole time while still sucking up less battery. How much battery is sucked up by current displays? After all, there is a reason why all cellphones have screen savers or at least the ability to choose for how long after the key presses the display has to stay bright. Of course you might not be able to use your cellphone or iPod as nightlamp anymore...
While an extensible, always-on display could be a selling feature of some such portable device (oh yeah, did I mention portable music players?) it would still need to be priced reasonably. In-between the current B&W braindead displays and the current fancy color displays of phone-cams.
I prefer the sound of WMA-encoded files to MP3s at the same bitrate.
It doesn't take much for something to sound better than MP3. The point is, what have you compared it with, other WMA? Have you tried Ogg Vorbis? Have you tried MusePack (MPC)? What about other proprietary formats, like AAC? If you ever did such comparisons, when was it? Have you ran such comparisons recently?
Corel is not really in the "don't have a look at our file format" field, at all.
With the SDK, which you can download for free, you get full reference of the file formats of WP, Presentation and QuattroPro.
The problem is rather that nobody is interested in creating the conversion filters. For WordPerfect, there is now libwpd, which was built with the aforementioned reference. For QuattroPro, there isn't enough interest.
A secondary problem is that Corel Office programs have, for most of their programs, more powerful/flexible/numerous features than their competition, which can make conversion clumsy.
I must say that I'm barely surprised by the news. After all, these are the kind of games you can play for five minutes (or 24 hours) without getting bored, without thinking too much... they're perfect for the five minutes coffee break from work and for the "I don't feel like doing anything" days.
They have the power and magic and elegance of simplicity without being too dumb. They cater for the widest variety of consumers...
And though I wouldn't personally shell out a single cent for any of them (the free versions being enough for the casual break) I'm not surprised they do get people to pay up.
Semi-seriously, I was going the slow affiliate ways of getting the registration key (please click here), and now that I got it via the birthday party and finally registered...
Heck, you guys aren't going to believe it, but I miss the ad banner!... I had grown so accustomed to it, as if it were part of the UI...
There was actually a time, shortly after BitTorrent's release, that its use soared at the expense of other p2p networks. It's just a bubble bursting, now.
There are some excellent comics online which are also available in "dead wood" format. UserFriendly, of course (who doesn't know about it on/.?) (nice punctuation sequence there, uh?), Piled Higher and Deeper...
An interesting one is Girl Genius Online. This was a traditional printed comic. Recently, the authors put up the website. New pages are put online on MWF, and when a volume willl be complete it'll get published in paper format. At the same time, they're rehashing their old issues (GG101), again one page every other workday.
I don't know if it's fit for "pro" use, but you might consider the Getting Things Done TiddlyWiki. It's an extension/spinoff of Jeremy Ruston's TiddlyWiki, with enhancement specifics to getting things done.
A single GTD might be enough to manage all the projects, using Tiddlers for notes and such. It's a single file that can be carried around on a stick, and needs a browser to be edited, so it might be simpler to set up than a more complex server-side tool like Trac (which you might look into, although I don't know how good it is for non-software projects).
Biggest drawback of GTD TiddlyWiki seems to be the lack of timelines. These might be implementable via macros if/when GTD will use the most recent version of Jeremy's TiddlyWiki.
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Except that it's not stable: settings for placement, size, hiding, etc get rest with no apparent reason, especially if you have more than one toolbar (as I have). Two can be manageable, but three or four are not. And when you have a multiline taskbar ... *shiver*
I think the key is in the term protection. "Not stealing" is not the same as "guarding".
No, but it meast I shouldn't be obstructed from buying chickens or raise them on my own.The case of freedom of speech is however different, in that freedom of speech is not about being able to speak your ideas aloud in the seclusion of a remote chamber in a dungeon; it's about the possibility to freely communicate those ideas to other people, to communicate with them.
If there are practical insurmuntable obstacles to doing this, is the right protected?
What you are doing is stretching my remarks on the need of all kinds of "Speaker's Corner"s to some "Everybody should be given a personal channel on cable TV"
An interesting aspect of "freedom of speech" in the Western world: the constitutionally-protected "freedom of speech" only gets concretized if you have enough money to get to the media. In other words, this "freedom of speech" only gets as far as somebody's money can take you ... in yet other words, it's not a right, it's a privilege.
True right protection does not limit itself to "not preventing you from" and "not punishing when you do". True right protection comes when the ability to do something is guaranteed, at least at a minimum level, by the res publica in the original meaning of the word. For example, good health and a decent education are a protected right when a nation has good quality, free or extremely low cost, health and educational services (hospitals, schools)
In a sense, blogs are a very good step in that direction (at least where electricty and Internet are widespread enough to be considered of common availability).
There is obviously a humongous overlap in functionality, and that's for two reasons at least
and
What is true, however, is that as the versioning progresses, there is a "dumbing down" in features and interface to (apparently) "appeal" to the common user, and (allegedly) satisfy some "Ready for MS Windows" guidelines dictated by MS and that MS itself doesn't follow. The kind of crap you expect from a marketind-driven something.
What I do find interesting is that people are all enthusiastically jumpy about how MS "innovates" the UI from version to version, but as soon as a competitor develops a different UI it's "too different from MS to be comfortable". This is really saddening.
And finally, there is another suite that focused too much on MS-imitation, and this greatly contributed to its demise, causing it to lose its (sadly few) affectionate customers at an incresingly fast rate, and it's Corel's WordPerfect Office.
Say what you want, but "despite" all efforts from Novell first and Corel after, WordPerfect remains the best wordprocessor around, at least for Western languages. Too bad it isn't in the right hands.
Oh well, luckily, we still have TeX and friends ...
OOo Calc from version 2 (currently in beta) will handle 65K rows. The only electronic worksheet I know of that supports more than that is QuattroPro from the Corel Office suite. It's not free in any sense of the word, though.
What about Mozilla Seamonkey? Is the browser code the same as Firefox? IIRC it was different enough to create incompatibilities for the extensions ... what about security situation?
Games like Bejeweled and co. can easily suck up your whole afternoon or day (24hrs) if you choose to give them a spin for an "a few minutes break" ... trust me, I talk out of experience. These things are addictive
(Of course, you will still need to spend lots of time scanning, naming and classifying those pages. The ADF and 10yo nephew suggested in another post might be useful for that.)
DjVu offers very compact representation without the need to OCR the document (I've converted a 13 megs scanned PDF into a 600K DjVu which was much faster and easier to read), and optionally a "hidden text layer" if you want to OCR it to make it searchable.
True, it's quite a matter of taste, although it might be also a matter of habit ... personally, I prefer it by much for games too (touchpads, otoh, are quite a horrible thing for that ...)
If your problem is the cord interfering with your movements, use a trackball.
Obvious question is, is it a trend of modern times, some humourless (pardon the British spelling) dork, or a troll?
for things like collapsing articles to header only and expanding them to full article? (And user options for the initial view)
I thought Google used pigeons ...
Another major selling point could be the ability to stay 'on' the whole time while still sucking up less battery. How much battery is sucked up by current displays? After all, there is a reason why all cellphones have screen savers or at least the ability to choose for how long after the key presses the display has to stay bright. Of course you might not be able to use your cellphone or iPod as nightlamp anymore ...
While an extensible, always-on display could be a selling feature of some such portable device (oh yeah, did I mention portable music players?) it would still need to be priced reasonably. In-between the current B&W braindead displays and the current fancy color displays of phone-cams.
I prefer the sound of WMA-encoded files to MP3s at the same bitrate. It doesn't take much for something to sound better than MP3. The point is, what have you compared it with, other WMA? Have you tried Ogg Vorbis? Have you tried MusePack (MPC)? What about other proprietary formats, like AAC? If you ever did such comparisons, when was it? Have you ran such comparisons recently?
With the SDK, which you can download for free, you get full reference of the file formats of WP, Presentation and QuattroPro.
The problem is rather that nobody is interested in creating the conversion filters. For WordPerfect, there is now libwpd, which was built with the aforementioned reference. For QuattroPro, there isn't enough interest.
A secondary problem is that Corel Office programs have, for most of their programs, more powerful/flexible/numerous features than their competition, which can make conversion clumsy.
They have the power and magic and elegance of simplicity without being too dumb. They cater for the widest variety of consumers ...
And though I wouldn't personally shell out a single cent for any of them (the free versions being enough for the casual break) I'm not surprised they do get people to pay up.
Lots of small change makes for a fortune ...
Semi-seriously, I was going the slow affiliate ways of getting the registration key (please click here), and now that I got it via the birthday party and finally registered ...
Heck, you guys aren't going to believe it, but I miss the ad banner! ... I had grown so accustomed to it, as if it were part of the UI ...
The MUTE net was designed do be anonymous. I don't think it has reached critical mass, though.
There was actually a time, shortly after BitTorrent's release, that its use soared at the expense of other p2p networks. It's just a bubble bursting, now.
Google Maps uses the .kml extension (.kmz if compressed), where KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language, and XML format documented here
Is there a site explaining the differences between RSS and Atom feeds?
An interesting one is Girl Genius Online. This was a traditional printed comic. Recently, the authors put up the website. New pages are put online on MWF, and when a volume willl be complete it'll get published in paper format. At the same time, they're rehashing their old issues (GG101), again one page every other workday.
Talk about the best of both worlds :)
A single GTD might be enough to manage all the projects, using Tiddlers for notes and such. It's a single file that can be carried around on a stick, and needs a browser to be edited, so it might be simpler to set up than a more complex server-side tool like Trac (which you might look into, although I don't know how good it is for non-software projects).
Biggest drawback of GTD TiddlyWiki seems to be the lack of timelines. These might be implementable via macros if/when GTD will use the most recent version of Jeremy's TiddlyWiki.
Yes, definitely to be taken with a pinch of snuff. Or at least with an eye for interesting typos :)