This is the problem. Your monitor still works in RGB, and probably will be for some time to come. So even if the program your using, supports CMYK, and your printer does CMYK (some are only CMY), then the colours that show up on your screen are going to be different than what is printed out. I don't think that having a program that works in CMYK is going to solve any colour problems, because there will always be a conversion done when showing something on the screen, and printing something. So it seems like you'd be better off trying to perfect the color conversion process, since a conversion is going to have to be done anyway. Which is what is being done. Most programs, printers, monitors, and scanners (which again are RGB, more conversion) have color profiles to make this conversion as perfect as possible.
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And still it seems that Farmer's Almanac is much more accurate at predicting the weather than the local tv station, the weather network, or environment canada. All who seem to change their forcast for tuesday from rain to sun, and back to rain again, and on monday finally settle on rain, only for tuesday to end up being 30 degrees without a cloud in the sky.
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What? Don't you remember the Apollo 13 movie? Tons of engineers going crazy with slide rules, trying to figure out how to save the space ship. It wasn't until very recent that computers came down in price enough that they could be used by mere mortals for simple calculations
Yes, and in many countries, the government is not allowed to offer software to do your taxes because they would be competing with businesses, which is disallowed for some reason. What I would want is something in the middle. Something that provides minimal functionality. Basically electronic tax forms where you fill in the numbers and the fields which are calculated based on the numbers you fill in are done for you. Even something simpler where you fill in all the numbers yourself, no calculations, would be sufficient. I don't know if there could be any liability in this model. You see exactly what is in the paper forms, you fill it in, and it is filed electronically. As long as it allowed me to e-file it without paying some company a bunch of money for software that I don't even need, I would be happy.
But how do you get those CMYK colors to display on your RGB monitor? There must be some process for accurately going from one system to another. Otherwise, if you used CMYK software, then it would print out the way it was supposed to, according to the color mix, but it wouldn't display properly on your monitor. In a perfect system, you would see exactly on your screen what you see on paper, and it wouldn't matter that it was CMYK, RGB, or some other process. Wikipedia gives a formula for going from CMYK to RGB, and from RGB to CMYK.
But tax software really should be open. Anything dealing with personal or corporate finances would benefit greatly from being open source. I wouldn't trust software that is proprietary to handle my finances. I still do my taxes by pencil and paper. Some of the tax software is really bad. Installing stuff in the boot sector to make sure you don't make illegal copies. Plus most of it is very overpriced. Taxes are mostly just a spreadsheet where you fill in a couple numbers and it does a bunch of calculations. I'm sure the Open Source community could throw together something. That's definitely and itch that many of us would like to scratch. Certainly better than paying $40 a year for a piece of software you can only use once.
That's because MS missed the boat on image editing software. I still don't think they have a good graphics program. At this point, it would be hard for them to break into this area, especially if they used proprietary formats. However, if they would have focused on this 15 years ago, like they did with word processors and operating systems, then we'd probably see their version have proprietary formats with vendor lock in.
I'm with the sibling poster. I don't think most branches of government pay year-to-year. Most branches i've worked in were 2-3 versions behind current. I couldn't imagine them paying yearly for an out of date product. Even if some departments are paying yearly, then it still makes the transition easier. The departments that switch can switch without worrying about not being able to cooperate with those still using MS Office. It isn't even about stopping people from using MS Office. It's about letting people have a choice about which office suite they use, based on more than just whether it can read some proprietary format. Once all the word processors speak the same language people will be able to choose a word processor which fits their needs and budget. Currently, it's get MS Office, or risk not having your documents read by others. I still think that MS Office will continue to thrive, even if it adopts ODF on it's own, simply because it's a good word processor, people already know how to use it, and because people are familiar with the Microsoft name.
But with the ODF plugin, there's no retraining necessary and the government can continue to use their old copies of word. This is even cheaper than trying to switch everyone over to OpenOffice. Then when it comes time to upgrade their version of Word, they can either upgrade, which requires retraining, especially with the direction office 12 is taking, or choose to go with OpenOffice/KOffice, or any other tools available at the time that support ODF. The ODF plugin isn't about helping microsoft. It's about helping the break the Microsoft cycle, that forces them to buy MS Office year after year because of proprietary formats.
They already had stuff like this when CDs first came out. There was really bad games that were mostly video to make up for the lack of game play. What you end up with when you mix video games and movies is a video game with tons of videos you have to sit through. I don't think anybody wants that. If you make it more movie, then you don't really have much of a game at all. Maybe just a movie with multiple endings. Kind of interesting but not something we haven't seen before. If you go the other way, then you just have a game, with more than usual cut scenes. If you got all the way, you just get a game with a really good story. Which is exactly what we want in a game, but isn't anything new, because we already have that.
I recall the "Master" lock company had an ad years ago which was only a couple seconds long, and showed a lock getting shot by a bullet, and still staying closed. Very effective.
But people still spend hundreds of dollars on 3D cards. They aren't good for much other than games. Maybe if you're doing some 3D design work then they come in handy. But the majority people use them only for video games. You can easily buy a new $700 card every year. People buy these things because it gives them bragging rights.
I use spam assassin, and I found it only blocked stuff that was actually spam. I set it to 4, and it still let things like marketing emails from Nintendo and Sony though (I like being on the mailing list), and other newsletters I subscribed to. It rarely if ever blocks anything that I want to see. It's very good at blocking stuff that I didn't want to see. I don't really see a problem with spam blockers. And I had mine set pretty low.
This is what bothers me most about RPM. If RPM didn't install it, then it doesn't exist. Sure you can force the install, but if the package wasn't installed where it was expected to be, then things often won't work properly. It doesn't help that a lot of things aren't available as RPM. I'm using Mandrake(iva) 2006, and it still only has Firefox 1.0.6 available.
I think it has more to do with having the distro do it for you. If we want Joe User to be able to use linux for their desktop needs, then we are going to have to make it as easy as possible for them to use. Of course the people in control of the distro are the ones making the decision. If they don't want to include it because of some ideological values, then that's their business. If they feel the people using the OS has can just install it themselves, then that's their business. But if they're trying to put out an easy to use desktop distro, then they'd probably be smart thinking twice about including it.
Maybe they should allow editing your post, provided, either there was either no moderation or replies to your post. Or in the case that their was, you could only append to your post, and it was clearly marked that it was appended after the original post. It might be good to do this, even in the case of no moderation/reply.
But you aren't allowed to patent recipes. You can't even trademark them or copyright them. Well you could probably copyright them, but it doesn't stop people from using your recipe. You're also not allowed to patent mathematical formulae. Just because your formula has a really good application, doesn't mean you should be able to patent it. Imagine of Georg Ohm had patented the V=IR. Well, then anybody who wanted to use any kind of electical circuit would be out of luck.
How do you get a patent on a mathematical formula? Really that's all any encryption is. I don't understand how the NSA could own a patent on the DSA algorithm.
Meanwhile, all the criminals who really know what they're doing will send messages PGP encrypted, or use even more sophisticated methods of encrypting their files, and hiding who the messages are travelling between. Wow, so they can tap Joe sixpack's phone. It's bad that they are mandating this. It's doubly bad that it won't stop any really dangerous criminals.
In order to get the point accross, some reporter bought the Canadian Privacy Minister's phone records and sent them to her. She was amazed that this kind of information was available. It amazes me that a lot of the time the people in charge don't even know what is going on, or what is even possible. By the time the press had gotten wind of bittorrent, I had already been using it for a year.
I think it has more to do with the quality of games produced. They can't expect to make money year after year releasing Madden, NHL games, and Movie spinoffs which don't really bring anything new to the gaming world.
You can store the images after the text, and then put a placeholder in the document for where the image goes. This is what ODF does. The text is stored in one file, and the image is stored in a seperate file. Then they are zipped together into 1 file.
I would like to know who came up with the idea of using binary files to store text documents. If Microsoft used something more sane, like the ODF format, we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. fewer people are pushing for 100% standard HTML everywhere because it's not such a hard task to figure out what the blink tag does, and how to implement it.
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This is the problem. Your monitor still works in RGB, and probably will be for some time to come. So even if the program your using, supports CMYK, and your printer does CMYK (some are only CMY), then the colours that show up on your screen are going to be different than what is printed out. I don't think that having a program that works in CMYK is going to solve any colour problems, because there will always be a conversion done when showing something on the screen, and printing something. So it seems like you'd be better off trying to perfect the color conversion process, since a conversion is going to have to be done anyway. Which is what is being done. Most programs, printers, monitors, and scanners (which again are RGB, more conversion) have color profiles to make this conversion as perfect as possible.
And still it seems that Farmer's Almanac is much more accurate at predicting the weather than the local tv station, the weather network, or environment canada. All who seem to change their forcast for tuesday from rain to sun, and back to rain again, and on monday finally settle on rain, only for tuesday to end up being 30 degrees without a cloud in the sky.
What? Don't you remember the Apollo 13 movie? Tons of engineers going crazy with slide rules, trying to figure out how to save the space ship. It wasn't until very recent that computers came down in price enough that they could be used by mere mortals for simple calculations
Yes, and in many countries, the government is not allowed to offer software to do your taxes because they would be competing with businesses, which is disallowed for some reason. What I would want is something in the middle. Something that provides minimal functionality. Basically electronic tax forms where you fill in the numbers and the fields which are calculated based on the numbers you fill in are done for you. Even something simpler where you fill in all the numbers yourself, no calculations, would be sufficient. I don't know if there could be any liability in this model. You see exactly what is in the paper forms, you fill it in, and it is filed electronically. As long as it allowed me to e-file it without paying some company a bunch of money for software that I don't even need, I would be happy.
But how do you get those CMYK colors to display on your RGB monitor? There must be some process for accurately going from one system to another. Otherwise, if you used CMYK software, then it would print out the way it was supposed to, according to the color mix, but it wouldn't display properly on your monitor. In a perfect system, you would see exactly on your screen what you see on paper, and it wouldn't matter that it was CMYK, RGB, or some other process. Wikipedia gives a formula for going from CMYK to RGB, and from RGB to CMYK.
But tax software really should be open. Anything dealing with personal or corporate finances would benefit greatly from being open source. I wouldn't trust software that is proprietary to handle my finances. I still do my taxes by pencil and paper. Some of the tax software is really bad. Installing stuff in the boot sector to make sure you don't make illegal copies. Plus most of it is very overpriced. Taxes are mostly just a spreadsheet where you fill in a couple numbers and it does a bunch of calculations. I'm sure the Open Source community could throw together something. That's definitely and itch that many of us would like to scratch. Certainly better than paying $40 a year for a piece of software you can only use once.
That's because MS missed the boat on image editing software. I still don't think they have a good graphics program. At this point, it would be hard for them to break into this area, especially if they used proprietary formats. However, if they would have focused on this 15 years ago, like they did with word processors and operating systems, then we'd probably see their version have proprietary formats with vendor lock in.
I'm with the sibling poster. I don't think most branches of government pay year-to-year. Most branches i've worked in were 2-3 versions behind current. I couldn't imagine them paying yearly for an out of date product. Even if some departments are paying yearly, then it still makes the transition easier. The departments that switch can switch without worrying about not being able to cooperate with those still using MS Office. It isn't even about stopping people from using MS Office. It's about letting people have a choice about which office suite they use, based on more than just whether it can read some proprietary format. Once all the word processors speak the same language people will be able to choose a word processor which fits their needs and budget. Currently, it's get MS Office, or risk not having your documents read by others. I still think that MS Office will continue to thrive, even if it adopts ODF on it's own, simply because it's a good word processor, people already know how to use it, and because people are familiar with the Microsoft name.
But with the ODF plugin, there's no retraining necessary and the government can continue to use their old copies of word. This is even cheaper than trying to switch everyone over to OpenOffice. Then when it comes time to upgrade their version of Word, they can either upgrade, which requires retraining, especially with the direction office 12 is taking, or choose to go with OpenOffice/KOffice, or any other tools available at the time that support ODF. The ODF plugin isn't about helping microsoft. It's about helping the break the Microsoft cycle, that forces them to buy MS Office year after year because of proprietary formats.
They already had stuff like this when CDs first came out. There was really bad games that were mostly video to make up for the lack of game play. What you end up with when you mix video games and movies is a video game with tons of videos you have to sit through. I don't think anybody wants that. If you make it more movie, then you don't really have much of a game at all. Maybe just a movie with multiple endings. Kind of interesting but not something we haven't seen before. If you go the other way, then you just have a game, with more than usual cut scenes. If you got all the way, you just get a game with a really good story. Which is exactly what we want in a game, but isn't anything new, because we already have that.
I recall the "Master" lock company had an ad years ago which was only a couple seconds long, and showed a lock getting shot by a bullet, and still staying closed. Very effective.
But people still spend hundreds of dollars on 3D cards. They aren't good for much other than games. Maybe if you're doing some 3D design work then they come in handy. But the majority people use them only for video games. You can easily buy a new $700 card every year. People buy these things because it gives them bragging rights.
That's why spam filters based on blacklist/whitelist are so bad. You'd be better of trying a good spam filter like spam assassin.
I use spam assassin, and I found it only blocked stuff that was actually spam. I set it to 4, and it still let things like marketing emails from Nintendo and Sony though (I like being on the mailing list), and other newsletters I subscribed to. It rarely if ever blocks anything that I want to see. It's very good at blocking stuff that I didn't want to see. I don't really see a problem with spam blockers. And I had mine set pretty low.
I wasn't specifically talking about Java, moreso about RPM in general
This is what bothers me most about RPM. If RPM didn't install it, then it doesn't exist. Sure you can force the install, but if the package wasn't installed where it was expected to be, then things often won't work properly. It doesn't help that a lot of things aren't available as RPM. I'm using Mandrake(iva) 2006, and it still only has Firefox 1.0.6 available.
I think it has more to do with having the distro do it for you. If we want Joe User to be able to use linux for their desktop needs, then we are going to have to make it as easy as possible for them to use. Of course the people in control of the distro are the ones making the decision. If they don't want to include it because of some ideological values, then that's their business. If they feel the people using the OS has can just install it themselves, then that's their business. But if they're trying to put out an easy to use desktop distro, then they'd probably be smart thinking twice about including it.
Maybe they should allow editing your post, provided, either there was either no moderation or replies to your post. Or in the case that their was, you could only append to your post, and it was clearly marked that it was appended after the original post. It might be good to do this, even in the case of no moderation/reply.
But you aren't allowed to patent recipes. You can't even trademark them or copyright them. Well you could probably copyright them, but it doesn't stop people from using your recipe. You're also not allowed to patent mathematical formulae. Just because your formula has a really good application, doesn't mean you should be able to patent it. Imagine of Georg Ohm had patented the V=IR. Well, then anybody who wanted to use any kind of electical circuit would be out of luck.
How do you get a patent on a mathematical formula? Really that's all any encryption is. I don't understand how the NSA could own a patent on the DSA algorithm.
Meanwhile, all the criminals who really know what they're doing will send messages PGP encrypted, or use even more sophisticated methods of encrypting their files, and hiding who the messages are travelling between. Wow, so they can tap Joe sixpack's phone. It's bad that they are mandating this. It's doubly bad that it won't stop any really dangerous criminals.
In order to get the point accross, some reporter bought the Canadian Privacy Minister's phone records and sent them to her. She was amazed that this kind of information was available. It amazes me that a lot of the time the people in charge don't even know what is going on, or what is even possible. By the time the press had gotten wind of bittorrent, I had already been using it for a year.
I think it has more to do with the quality of games produced. They can't expect to make money year after year releasing Madden, NHL games, and Movie spinoffs which don't really bring anything new to the gaming world.
You can store the images after the text, and then put a placeholder in the document for where the image goes. This is what ODF does. The text is stored in one file, and the image is stored in a seperate file. Then they are zipped together into 1 file.
I would like to know who came up with the idea of using binary files to store text documents. If Microsoft used something more sane, like the ODF format, we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. fewer people are pushing for 100% standard HTML everywhere because it's not such a hard task to figure out what the blink tag does, and how to implement it.