It does graffiti excellently and you've obviously never used it.
I don't want "graffiti;" I want better than (or at least equal to) Microsoft! You must have never used Windows Journal, because if you had, you'd know how genuinely amazing Microsoft's handwriting recognition is. I can write in my normal handwriting, I can write in cursive... Hell, I can even scratch out words as fast as I can without taking any care at all and it'll still recognize it almost 100% correctly! It's light-years ahead of graffiti.
Suck, completely unusable, slightly comparable and anger... now I'm starting to feel like I'm talking to some kind of hyperbolic M$ troll.
First of all, it sounds no worse than you doing your usual anti-MS ranting. Second, I've talked with you enough that you should know I'm not a MS troll. In fact, it absolutely kills me that this one particular aspect of the system keeps me from putting Ubuntu on my Tablet PC, because you're right in that Windows sucks compared to Linux in every other way.
Of course there are plenty of games available...
Ink games (like sudoku, crosswords, tic-tac-toe, and other pen-and-paper games)?
...as well as sticky notes and all that jazz...
Ink sticky notes (that you write, rather than type, on)?
KDE's PIM blows everything else away, so I'm not sure what applications you are after and where you get your quality standards.
KDE's PIM apps have Ink input? (Okay, granted, Windows PIM stuff doesn't have ink input either, but I think we can both agree that the goal is for Free Software to be superior to Windows, not merely equal to it.)
The little drawing program from GPE and KDE protable are both good. Inkscape, which ports from Debian, is better.
I don't recall ever saying I had a problem with drawing programs. However, it doesn't even matter because I don't get much cause to use them in my engineering or programming classes.
I imagine you've tried those note taking applications about as much as you have xstroke. All of these applications work with xstroke because xstroke just take the place of a keyboard and mouse when you want it to...
I'm not stupid, Twitter -- I know how xstroke works! It superimposes the stroke on a 3x3 grid, figures out which grid squares the stroke passed through in which order, matches that against a list of defined gestures, and outputs the corresponding text event (it's all described in the man page).
However, it's still vastly inferior (oops... there's that "trollish" language again!) to the Tablet Input Panel in Windows, which not only allows you to input single characters, but also allows you to input entire recognized sentences at a time. This is both faster and much more accurate, because it allows the recognition engine to match entire words (instead of single characters) so that you don't end up with l33t speak (i.e., recognizing the word "Slide" instead of the characters "$" "1" ";" "d" and "e").
I've watched people try to use one note don't think very much of it, but to each his own.
Were they using it to take handwritten notes, keep them organized (by class and topic), and search them? If not, then they were missing the point.
I still think it's easier to use paper and pencil for lecture notes and then to take a picture to get it onto the computer then mark it up with a keyboard.
Exactly, which is why I'm so concerned with being able to take handwritten notes on the Tablet PC and have them
You know, you really need to work on your reading comprehension. I was (and still am) complaining about lack of APPLICATIONS, not libraries or hardware support. Xstroke doesn't do anybody any damn good, because there aren't any good applications to use it with! (Not to mention the fact that Xstroke is designed to recognize mouse gestures and single characters, not whole words, which makes it really bad at actually recognizing handwriting! Oh yeah -- and it's barely maintained, to boot. What a wonderful solution!)
From my searching, there's a grand total of about four note-taking applications (Xournal, Gournal, Jarnal, NoteLab) for non-Windows systems. They all suck. Not only do they not have handwriting recognition (or it doesn't work), but even the basic task of drawing with the stylus results in jagged strokes (compared to Windows Journal or OneNote). They're uniformly completely unusable. And those are about the only things that exist. There's nothing even slightly comparable to all the other tablet applications for Windows (e.g. ink-based games, music notation programs, sticky notes, calculators/equation editors, etc.).
Your link is completely irrelevant. How's a bunch of software designed for PDAs going to help people who have full-size Tablet PCs, which need full-size yet stylus-friendly applications?
Why not? He just replaced his freaking operating system, you know! If we're going to assume he's willing to consider that, I think it's safe to assume he might do the same for mere applications too.
After all, the whole point is to let Internet radio exist at all...
Well if that's the idea, then all they have to do is just not require any royalty payments at all! At least then it won't be enriching some undeserving third party...
The point I'm trying to make is that I see a distinction between consulting a lawyer and "siccing" the lawyer on the "enemy." First of all, there's not actually a dispute yet; the submitter is just trying to figure out what the situation is. The dispute only occurs if it turns out that his company doesn't have the rights it thought it had.
Second, I'm not arguing against the end result of Bruce's advice (i.e., hiring a lawyer); I'm objecting to the adversarial mindset he's advocating. At this point, the submitter should hire a lawyer with the (defensive) goal of covering his ass, not with the (offensive) goal of attacking the contractor, who may well be acting entirely in good faith. Going on the offensive can come later, if indeed the submitter turns out to have any grounds to act.
You're exactly right that we don't have enough details yet, which is why I was surprised at your rather rabid suggestion to (effectively) "sic the lawyers on them!" Like I said in my other reply to you, advising them to get a lawyer to explain the contract is one thing (and makes perfect sense), but advising them to get a lawyer to try to forcibly extract the copyright whether the contract allows it or not is another (and is what you actually did, unless I misunderstood your post).
Amendment 1 -- the Bush administration has violated freedom of speech (censoring scientists, among other things), assembly (arresting protesters at the Republican convention a while back), and probably religion (pushing "Christian" agendas, although I can't think of a particular example right now).
Amendments 9 and 10 -- every President since Lincoln has ignored these.
So yeah, Bush has (as far as I know) managed to uphold the right to bear arms (he's a Texas Republican; what'd you expect?) and not quarter troops in people's houses. That must have been a real effort for him to manage... but I'm not impressed.
2) Hollywood has agreed to not use ICT before 2012 at earliest if at all
Right, they're waiting for more sheeple to buy into their shit before tightening the noose. And yet you're somehow trying to spin that as a good thing?!! FUD, indeed!
He has done everything he can to subvert the intent of our constitution. He has appointed people who call the most important document in our country a mere piece of paper.
Not an impeachable offense.
He's also acted like it's a "mere piece of paper," by failing to uphold many of the rules in it (including violating almost every amendment in the Bill of Rights). And that is an impeachable offense!
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I don't want "graffiti;" I want better than (or at least equal to) Microsoft! You must have never used Windows Journal, because if you had, you'd know how genuinely amazing Microsoft's handwriting recognition is. I can write in my normal handwriting, I can write in cursive... Hell, I can even scratch out words as fast as I can without taking any care at all and it'll still recognize it almost 100% correctly! It's light-years ahead of graffiti.
First of all, it sounds no worse than you doing your usual anti-MS ranting. Second, I've talked with you enough that you should know I'm not a MS troll. In fact, it absolutely kills me that this one particular aspect of the system keeps me from putting Ubuntu on my Tablet PC, because you're right in that Windows sucks compared to Linux in every other way.
Ink games (like sudoku, crosswords, tic-tac-toe, and other pen-and-paper games)?
Ink sticky notes (that you write, rather than type, on)?
KDE's PIM apps have Ink input? (Okay, granted, Windows PIM stuff doesn't have ink input either, but I think we can both agree that the goal is for Free Software to be superior to Windows, not merely equal to it.)
I don't recall ever saying I had a problem with drawing programs. However, it doesn't even matter because I don't get much cause to use them in my engineering or programming classes.
I'm not stupid, Twitter -- I know how xstroke works! It superimposes the stroke on a 3x3 grid, figures out which grid squares the stroke passed through in which order, matches that against a list of defined gestures, and outputs the corresponding text event (it's all described in the man page).
However, it's still vastly inferior (oops... there's that "trollish" language again!) to the Tablet Input Panel in Windows, which not only allows you to input single characters, but also allows you to input entire recognized sentences at a time. This is both faster and much more accurate, because it allows the recognition engine to match entire words (instead of single characters) so that you don't end up with l33t speak (i.e., recognizing the word "Slide" instead of the characters "$" "1" ";" "d" and "e").
Were they using it to take handwritten notes, keep them organized (by class and topic), and search them? If not, then they were missing the point.
Exactly, which is why I'm so concerned with being able to take handwritten notes on the Tablet PC and have them
You know, you really need to work on your reading comprehension. I was (and still am) complaining about lack of APPLICATIONS, not libraries or hardware support. Xstroke doesn't do anybody any damn good, because there aren't any good applications to use it with! (Not to mention the fact that Xstroke is designed to recognize mouse gestures and single characters, not whole words, which makes it really bad at actually recognizing handwriting! Oh yeah -- and it's barely maintained, to boot. What a wonderful solution!)
From my searching, there's a grand total of about four note-taking applications (Xournal, Gournal, Jarnal, NoteLab) for non-Windows systems. They all suck. Not only do they not have handwriting recognition (or it doesn't work), but even the basic task of drawing with the stylus results in jagged strokes (compared to Windows Journal or OneNote). They're uniformly completely unusable. And those are about the only things that exist. There's nothing even slightly comparable to all the other tablet applications for Windows (e.g. ink-based games, music notation programs, sticky notes, calculators/equation editors, etc.).
What the fuck? The post immediately above yours disputes that!
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Your link is completely irrelevant. How's a bunch of software designed for PDAs going to help people who have full-size Tablet PCs, which need full-size yet stylus-friendly applications?
Why not? He just replaced his freaking operating system, you know! If we're going to assume he's willing to consider that, I think it's safe to assume he might do the same for mere applications too.
...and Tablet PC applications.
Awww, only ~1,000 hits so far. Surely we can do better than that, Slashdot!
Why would they want to? For most things a home user would want to do, Ubuntu comes with better software anyway!
Well if that's the idea, then all they have to do is just not require any royalty payments at all! At least then it won't be enriching some undeserving third party...
Of course, they were also using these same machines in '04 when the Republicans did win...
No. They were, but not anymore (unless I'm mistaken, the current human-power plan involves a foot pump).
No, what I meant was that both the PS3 and Challenger technically "launched," but were equally unsuccessful. See also: "Titanic."
The point I'm trying to make is that I see a distinction between consulting a lawyer and "siccing" the lawyer on the "enemy." First of all, there's not actually a dispute yet; the submitter is just trying to figure out what the situation is. The dispute only occurs if it turns out that his company doesn't have the rights it thought it had.
Second, I'm not arguing against the end result of Bruce's advice (i.e., hiring a lawyer); I'm objecting to the adversarial mindset he's advocating. At this point, the submitter should hire a lawyer with the (defensive) goal of covering his ass, not with the (offensive) goal of attacking the contractor, who may well be acting entirely in good faith. Going on the offensive can come later, if indeed the submitter turns out to have any grounds to act.
You're exactly right that we don't have enough details yet, which is why I was surprised at your rather rabid suggestion to (effectively) "sic the lawyers on them!" Like I said in my other reply to you, advising them to get a lawyer to explain the contract is one thing (and makes perfect sense), but advising them to get a lawyer to try to forcibly extract the copyright whether the contract allows it or not is another (and is what you actually did, unless I misunderstood your post).
So what? You're Bruce Perens; we expected better of you. Just because it's "basic" doesn't make it right!
Yeah, but that's a Hell of a lot different then getting a lawyer to bully the poor contractor, which is what you advocated in your previous post!
Yep, but so did the Challenger.
Please don't demean everyone else named Jack by failing to use his last name as well. Thanks.
So yeah, Bush has (as far as I know) managed to uphold the right to bear arms (he's a Texas Republican; what'd you expect?) and not quarter troops in people's houses. That must have been a real effort for him to manage... but I'm not impressed.
You correct him on "blueray" but not "terrabyte?"
Right, they're waiting for more sheeple to buy into their shit before tightening the noose. And yet you're somehow trying to spin that as a good thing?!! FUD, indeed!
No it's not. A Free Software author will never be able to write a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player legally (at least not in the United States).
...with Diebold voting machines in a key state (Ohio).
He's also acted like it's a "mere piece of paper," by failing to uphold many of the rules in it (including violating almost every amendment in the Bill of Rights). And that is an impeachable offense!