Unless Elements has changed vastly recently then I'd not give it as an alternative. The UI sucks and there's far less functionality than a combination of inkscape (or XaraLX or possibly sK1 [soon]) with Gimp (or Krita which uses lcms to do colour profiles).
As for web stuff - it depends what you're after. I hate dreamweaver (but haven't tried the very latest incarnation) even after you've tamed it to stop attacking your code - it does have some useful stuff. The greatest for me was the checkout and uploading system - Quanta is now close (if not better) on the easy uploading but I've not found any OSS that does web coding with a preview (not-quite-WYSIWYG is fine) and handles multiple users. Nvu was quite servicable for a clicky-click editor (the table creation is really rather good) last I looked but development seems to be slow.
IMHO (I've only designed about 20 commercial sites however) web design is both coding and visual design - they are so entwined as to be inseparable. Sure you can create any image as a web page but it won't necessarily work, be standards compliant, light to download (some people still use dialup) and accessible nor integrate the latest bells and whistles that users want.
I was using JEdit but have moved on to Quanta, it's come on in the last two releases and for me is now as stable as JEdit, it doesn't have all the plugins but does have a "html tidy" function and does code hinting (eg for PHP, html) plus the upload and project system is quite good once you get the hang of it.
What I miss from JEdit is the global S&R, Quanta uses Kreplace (or whatever it's called) which I've never seen work properly on my system (KDE 3.5.6). Quanta does allow perl scripting but I'm not a perl-y guy.
YMMV.
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Haa-haa.
You guys in the US are royally screwed by your legislation sometimes.
So by law when congress changes the tax levels you have to buy new software?
I use one of the more prolific accounting packages in the UK (SAGE, a PITA if ever there was one, it's the worst designed software I've ever used and if I had half a clue about accounting when I got it I wouldn't' have!!) and you just have to go in and change the settings for the different tax codes. You can buy an update that does it too. Tax legislation is in constant flux, buying upgrades all the time? Is that for real??
>>> "I live in a city of 50,000 but do a good portion of my shopping online --- and it isn't to dodge the sales tax."
Them Americans on this BB need to remember that not everyone in the World has an in depth knowledge of US culture and government!
I assumed (no I didn't RT-Flipping-A) that the moaning was about an additional purchase tax on internet transactions only. The parent was the first post that mentioned no purchase tax on internet goods. That's awesome.
In the UK purchase tax, called VAT, is levied on (nearly) all purchases at 17.5% (except children's clothes, non-luxury food - plain bsicuits, no tax; chocolate biscuits, taxed!) there's definitely no let up for internet purchases. Indeed importing goods that no tax is paid on often means a levy is made by customs.
No purchase tax (I think you call it "sales tax") on internet goods... that's simply unbelievable. It's amazing any non-internet stores are open still unless you have a really-really low "sales tax"?
One other point: please put "In the US..." or "In Korea..." or whatever in the abstract if it's geo-specific.
>>> "i don't know how to rebuild an engine. i don't know anything about tax law. i can't separate waste from water to make it drinkable again. i can't start or fly a commercial airplane. i wouldn't know the first thing about properly laying a brick sidewalk. i am completely incapable of stitching up a wound..."
But if you tried to rebuild an engine, submit a companies tax forms, recycle water, fly an airliner, brick a pavement or stitch a wound and failed to do it successfully and they had to bail you out... then they'd definitely call you a g**dam-f**k**g-idiot.
>>> "people who use this line usually don't mention why the other choices are so few and so bad. It's due to economic policy and the pressure of foreign multinationals to "modernize" the economy of third world nations"
This is why the Fairtrade movement is so awesome. It puts the power in the hands of the consumer (where it always has been really)... don't want the blood of child slaves in your chocolate? Well buy chocolate with the fairtrade logo (from a reputable source that's not likely to be just nicking the logo).
The game concept seems like something you'd work up for a school project.
The kids are clever, no doubt. It's quite impressive; but what's been done? Just made a cute little game using chemistry knowledge as the subject matter - sounds like a cross between chemistry and Pokémon.
Quoting paganizer (later in comments) >>> "[My son] can tell you everything that is written on any Pokemon or Digimon card ever made."
So you think that writing something on a pokémon card will mean that he will learn it? Sure some will find it an interesting distraction but it's not going to replace textbooks.
Oh and the website says that they took pre-orders at the show; so it's not a business yet just a concept.
Property taxes are usually a percentage of the value if the item were to be sold.
So then Microsoft would be taxed a percentage of the value of their entire IP portfolio (sold individually!) on the open market. That should net a few governments a healthy sum for starters.
Writers, such as the journalist proposer, would be charged for articles that they didn't even release - it's still property even if you don't sell it. Unreleased articles would presumably be valued at the same as released ones (why not?). So write 10 articles, release one, pay all your profit in taxes.
Sounds fine to me!
PS: Nominal value of this post is zero, released in public domain. CC with attribution.
>>> "Zango is trying to clean up its tarnished reputation. In November it paid $3 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software was being installed deceptively on PCs."
Well they may be trying to clean their reputation but shouldn't they do that by either exonerating themselves in court or by admitting their "sins" and repenting (not doing it again). Paying someone off so they don't get found out doesn't sound to me like cleaning up their reputation.
So you're not allowed to discriminate because you're a landlord?
Some guy comes to look around with needle marks up his arm and swastikas tattooed on his forehead. He says he's not going to pay any rent just rip out the carpets, steal your white goods and leave a dump in the porch... and you just have to hand over the keys?
You Americans have some weird laws.
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Or a more realistic one: The landlord is black and the tenant is a white separatist.
Or: The landlord has previously targeted poor families that have a problem finding accommodation; and offered higher quality accommodation than they would normally receive. Now they have to let anyone in including the time-served "rehabilitated" paedophile and his friend that got off a charge of selling narcotics to minors on a technicality (let say the officer sneezed reading the Miranda rights... things like that seem to cancel out justice over the pond).
I had some recollection along the lines of non-commercial use not being infringing.. but can't recall the specific section of The Act (in the UK).
>>> "The only possible safeguard for private persons is that at least in Europe, patents can only be infringed in a commercial environment (so private not for profit use is never an infringement). I don't know whether this is the case in the US as well though."
I think you're right except for the "so private not for profit use is never an infringement" being perhaps a little too broad. Private non-commercial use is never an infringement (IIRC). But, not-for-profit and non-commercial are not equivalent. If it damages Microsofts revenue, for example, then it can be considered to be commercial use if it's promoted by some enterprise or other.
>>> "Releasing their driver source would be like giving away the agp spec."
Well, no it wouldn't.
Assuming you're right and the spec is proprietary - then releasing source would probably depend on the wording of any agreement that AMD (or it's partners / subsiduaries) signed.
I can readily imagine that the AGP folks didn't anticipate open-sourcing of driver code in the agreement - in which case AMD should be fine. IANAL.
>>> "Do you have any evidence that the company itself sent out the spam?"
No, but I'm guessing that the company itself will and governments tend to have ways of finding this type of information. They can run a tax audit and look for the source of transactions and look for the payments to "MadIgorsSpamporium@moscownet.ru". They can send in an undercover agent to gather intel that spam is a main revenue winner.
I'd hazard that taking down a few companies - and imprisoning the bosses - that are using spam will cure a lot of the sources of spam (financing by bricks and mortar companies).
This doesn't work (generally) for companies beyond your borders but being able to rank all non.fr emails as just below your spam threshold will probably work in most spam filtering situations.
[goes to run brute force attacks using initial strings in James Joyce novels and futurama episodes against your IP]
Seriously it's a good idea. When I went to a LUG meeting once a Debian lover there was typing for ages, seems he was using the whole novel as his passphrase!
Seriously. Your website is very "geek", like "it doesn't need to look good if it works".
Thing is that people respond, with their wallets, to nice looking sites. At the very least the clunkiness will lose click-through because users won't trust it.
You should brand your sites too (think stamping cattle with a hot metal stamp!) so people recognise that it's the same company from one site to the next and that you're not just advertising other peoples sites.
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thanks for clearing that up, just 5%, wow.
Unless Elements has changed vastly recently then I'd not give it as an alternative. The UI sucks and there's far less functionality than a combination of inkscape (or XaraLX or possibly sK1 [soon]) with Gimp (or Krita which uses lcms to do colour profiles).
As for web stuff - it depends what you're after. I hate dreamweaver (but haven't tried the very latest incarnation) even after you've tamed it to stop attacking your code - it does have some useful stuff. The greatest for me was the checkout and uploading system - Quanta is now close (if not better) on the easy uploading but I've not found any OSS that does web coding with a preview (not-quite-WYSIWYG is fine) and handles multiple users. Nvu was quite servicable for a clicky-click editor (the table creation is really rather good) last I looked but development seems to be slow.
My 2p.
IMHO (I've only designed about 20 commercial sites however) web design is both coding and visual design - they are so entwined as to be inseparable. Sure you can create any image as a web page but it won't necessarily work, be standards compliant, light to download (some people still use dialup) and accessible nor integrate the latest bells and whistles that users want.
I was using JEdit but have moved on to Quanta, it's come on in the last two releases and for me is now as stable as JEdit, it doesn't have all the plugins but does have a "html tidy" function and does code hinting (eg for PHP, html) plus the upload and project system is quite good once you get the hang of it.
What I miss from JEdit is the global S&R, Quanta uses Kreplace (or whatever it's called) which I've never seen work properly on my system (KDE 3.5.6). Quanta does allow perl scripting but I'm not a perl-y guy.
YMMV.
Haa-haa.
You guys in the US are royally screwed by your legislation sometimes.
So by law when congress changes the tax levels you have to buy new software?
I use one of the more prolific accounting packages in the UK (SAGE, a PITA if ever there was one, it's the worst designed software I've ever used and if I had half a clue about accounting when I got it I wouldn't' have!!) and you just have to go in and change the settings for the different tax codes. You can buy an update that does it too. Tax legislation is in constant flux, buying upgrades all the time? Is that for real??
>>> "I live in a city of 50,000 but do a good portion of my shopping online --- and it isn't to dodge the sales tax."
... that's simply unbelievable. It's amazing any non-internet stores are open still unless you have a really-really low "sales tax"?
..." or "In Korea ..." or whatever in the abstract if it's geo-specific.
Them Americans on this BB need to remember that not everyone in the World has an in depth knowledge of US culture and government!
I assumed (no I didn't RT-Flipping-A) that the moaning was about an additional purchase tax on internet transactions only. The parent was the first post that mentioned no purchase tax on internet goods. That's awesome.
In the UK purchase tax, called VAT, is levied on (nearly) all purchases at 17.5% (except children's clothes, non-luxury food - plain bsicuits, no tax; chocolate biscuits, taxed!) there's definitely no let up for internet purchases. Indeed importing goods that no tax is paid on often means a levy is made by customs.
No purchase tax (I think you call it "sales tax") on internet goods
One other point: please put "In the US
>>> "What he did was in fact not a crime."
The Judge clearly disagreed and so (pending appeal) this is _in_fact_ a crime. It may not have been a crime before but it is now.
>>> "i don't know how to rebuild an engine. i don't know anything about tax law. i can't separate waste from water to make it drinkable again. i can't start or fly a commercial airplane. i wouldn't know the first thing about properly laying a brick sidewalk. i am completely incapable of stitching up a wound..."
... then they'd definitely call you a g**dam-f**k**g-idiot.
But if you tried to rebuild an engine, submit a companies tax forms, recycle water, fly an airliner, brick a pavement or stitch a wound and failed to do it successfully and they had to bail you out
You're right the moral corruption of capitalism is extreme.
>>> "people who use this line usually don't mention why the other choices are so few and so bad. It's due to economic policy and the pressure of foreign multinationals to "modernize" the economy of third world nations"
... don't want the blood of child slaves in your chocolate? Well buy chocolate with the fairtrade logo (from a reputable source that's not likely to be just nicking the logo).
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This is why the Fairtrade movement is so awesome. It puts the power in the hands of the consumer (where it always has been really)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1272522.s
We say that businesses are corrupt, and they are, but we buy their products so we are guilty too. Have any computers got a fairtrade mark? I doubt it.
[But Greenpeace has a ranking for electronics producers that lists Dell and Nokia at the top and companies like LGE near the bottom.]
Good catch.
The game concept seems like something you'd work up for a school project.
The kids are clever, no doubt. It's quite impressive; but what's been done? Just made a cute little game using chemistry knowledge as the subject matter - sounds like a cross between chemistry and Pokémon.
Quoting paganizer (later in comments)
>>> "[My son] can tell you everything that is written on any Pokemon or Digimon card ever made."
So you think that writing something on a pokémon card will mean that he will learn it? Sure some will find it an interesting distraction but it's not going to replace textbooks.
Oh and the website says that they took pre-orders at the show; so it's not a business yet just a concept.
>>> "It is much more easier for children to be engaged in business than adults."
You must have been too busy to learn to write properly?
>>> "while in general few adults retain it after they turn 22-23"
Unclear antecedent. Picked number out of your ass.
I think adults have plenty of imagination they just lack the time to exercise it.
E&OE
Property taxes are usually a percentage of the value if the item were to be sold.
So then Microsoft would be taxed a percentage of the value of their entire IP portfolio (sold individually!) on the open market. That should net a few governments a healthy sum for starters.
Writers, such as the journalist proposer, would be charged for articles that they didn't even release - it's still property even if you don't sell it. Unreleased articles would presumably be valued at the same as released ones (why not?). So write 10 articles, release one, pay all your profit in taxes.
Sounds fine to me!
PS: Nominal value of this post is zero, released in public domain. CC with attribution.
He studies
>>> "... self-motion perception, from basic-science vestibular processing to the role of real-motion cues in flight simulation".
So basically he tries to work out "am I moving, am I dizzy, can I see".
I figure he's a professional drunk.
>>> "We can easily compete with amusement parks"
The queue for the water cooler must be horrendous.
>>> "Zango is trying to clean up its tarnished reputation. In November it paid $3 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its software was being installed deceptively on PCs."
Well they may be trying to clean their reputation but shouldn't they do that by either exonerating themselves in court or by admitting their "sins" and repenting (not doing it again). Paying someone off so they don't get found out doesn't sound to me like cleaning up their reputation.
FUD
So which one of those links was a goatse video?
Does this mean now that you can hack the kernel to steal from NYSE ... you can fill in the details yourself.
So you're not allowed to discriminate because you're a landlord?
... and you just have to hand over the keys?
... things like that seem to cancel out justice over the pond).
Some guy comes to look around with needle marks up his arm and swastikas tattooed on his forehead. He says he's not going to pay any rent just rip out the carpets, steal your white goods and leave a dump in the porch
You Americans have some weird laws.
---
Or a more realistic one: The landlord is black and the tenant is a white separatist.
Or: The landlord has previously targeted poor families that have a problem finding accommodation; and offered higher quality accommodation than they would normally receive. Now they have to let anyone in including the time-served "rehabilitated" paedophile and his friend that got off a charge of selling narcotics to minors on a technicality (let say the officer sneezed reading the Miranda rights
Sad.
I had some recollection along the lines of non-commercial use not being infringing .. but can't recall the specific section of The Act (in the UK).
>>> "The only possible safeguard for private persons is that at least in Europe, patents can only be infringed in a commercial environment (so private not for profit use is never an infringement). I don't know whether this is the case in the US as well though."
I think you're right except for the "so private not for profit use is never an infringement" being perhaps a little too broad. Private non-commercial use is never an infringement (IIRC). But, not-for-profit and non-commercial are not equivalent. If it damages Microsofts revenue, for example, then it can be considered to be commercial use if it's promoted by some enterprise or other.
Now take a large pinch of salt.
>>> "Releasing their driver source would be like giving away the agp spec."
Well, no it wouldn't.
Assuming you're right and the spec is proprietary - then releasing source would probably depend on the wording of any agreement that AMD (or it's partners / subsiduaries) signed.
I can readily imagine that the AGP folks didn't anticipate open-sourcing of driver code in the agreement - in which case AMD should be fine. IANAL.
>>> "Do you have any evidence that the company itself sent out the spam?"
.fr emails as just below your spam threshold will probably work in most spam filtering situations.
No, but I'm guessing that the company itself will and governments tend to have ways of finding this type of information. They can run a tax audit and look for the source of transactions and look for the payments to "MadIgorsSpamporium@moscownet.ru". They can send in an undercover agent to gather intel that spam is a main revenue winner.
I'd hazard that taking down a few companies - and imprisoning the bosses - that are using spam will cure a lot of the sources of spam (financing by bricks and mortar companies).
This doesn't work (generally) for companies beyond your borders but being able to rank all non
... bit too obscure a dilbert reference for me!
Nice though.
What a good idea.
[goes to run brute force attacks using initial strings in James Joyce novels and futurama episodes against your IP]
Seriously it's a good idea. When I went to a LUG meeting once a Debian lover there was typing for ages, seems he was using the whole novel as his passphrase!
Seriously. Your website is very "geek", like "it doesn't need to look good if it works".
Thing is that people respond, with their wallets, to nice looking sites. At the very least the clunkiness will lose click-through because users won't trust it.
You should brand your sites too (think stamping cattle with a hot metal stamp!) so people recognise that it's the same company from one site to the next and that you're not just advertising other peoples sites.
YMMV.