"Scribus is a Page Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe® InDesign, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.
With the release of Scribus 1.1.6, Linux and Unix desktop users have a user friendly, but powerful Desktop Publishing application capable of a broad set of DTP needs. Started with humble beginnings as a Python program to make menus, Scribus has been transformed into a young but rapidly maturing DTP application with numerous professional features, as well as some unique capabilities. Already, in use from everything to club newsletters to small newspaper production to animated interactive PDF presentations a la Power point. or Open Office Impress. Other uses are creating corporate stationery and brochures, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment."
I agree that the iMac played a significant role in the revival of Apple's fortunes. It was announced in May '98 along with the PowerBook G3, driving Apple to a $101 million profit in the 3rd quarter of the year.
The infamous Jobs 'reality distortion field' may have contributed to your belief that he started the project. When Jobs returned to Apple, the iMac project was already under way. The 'all in one' design had been established, although it was only a conceptual polystyrene moulding.
(Read all about it in 'The Second Coming of Steve Jobs' by Alan Deutschman - an excellent account of the recovery of the company)
Kurzweil argues that strong AI will preceed the ability to download minds, which does not seem logical. It has been reasoned (by Pinker and others) that AI will be developed by reverse-engineering the brain, and artifically replicating its processes. The evolution of strong AI is thus dependent on technology to copy, and trace the functions of the human mind.
You are wrong about the Australian Constition in regard to freedom of religion - Section 116 reads: "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion..."
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"Scribus is a Page Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe® InDesign, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.
With the release of Scribus 1.1.6, Linux and Unix desktop users have a user friendly, but powerful Desktop Publishing application capable of a broad set of DTP needs. Started with humble beginnings as a Python program to make menus, Scribus has been transformed into a young but rapidly maturing DTP application with numerous professional features, as well as some unique capabilities. Already, in use from everything to club newsletters to small newspaper production to animated interactive PDF presentations a la Power point. or Open Office Impress. Other uses are creating corporate stationery and brochures, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment."
The infamous Jobs 'reality distortion field' may have contributed to your belief that he started the project. When Jobs returned to Apple, the iMac project was already under way. The 'all in one' design had been established, although it was only a conceptual polystyrene moulding.
(Read all about it in 'The Second Coming of Steve Jobs' by Alan Deutschman - an excellent account of the recovery of the company)
Kurzweil argues that strong AI will preceed the ability to download minds, which does not seem logical. It has been reasoned (by Pinker and others) that AI will be developed by reverse-engineering the brain, and artifically replicating its processes. The evolution of strong AI is thus dependent on technology to copy, and trace the functions of the human mind.
You are wrong about the Australian Constition in regard to freedom of religion - Section 116 reads: "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion..."