From the featured article: "Installing the most recent Windows version of Acrobat in Wine. This worked and the application opened, but it refused to load my PDF file. Probably some Wine bugginess."
All I get in Firefox is a black screen with light gray text saying "Symantec Connect Loading Your Community Experience". Checking the error console reveals a JavaScript error that "occurs when $compile attempts to fetch a template from some URL, and the request fails." If Symantec's web site is fragile enough to completely break when a JavaScript file fails to load, why should I trust Symantec with anything?
Because I disagreed with points X, Y, and Z in Adobe's EULA as well as Adobe's poor security record
So run it in a vm.
Use of a copyrighted computer program in a virtual machine does not excuse the user from the user's obligations under the EULA. And with common virtual machine software, how does the user allow only those Internet connections required to submit the form without also allowing the Adobe Reader software to phone home to its publisher?
Can the U.S. Treasury's foreign bank account form be submitted on a copy of Adobe® Reader software installed on a PC at a public library, or does it have to be submitted from a PC that you own?
Windows, OS X & GNU/Linux are all, generally speaking, the PC platform as you can very often run 2 or more of those operating systems on the same hardware.
For a Windows-exclusive game, each player on OS X or GNU/Linux will need to buy a Windows license. For a Mac-exclusive game, each player on Windows or GNU/Linux will need to buy a Mac.
But my point is that even though AMD won the eighth console generation, a lot of games don't target consoles because the organizational overhead isn't worth it, especially games from a smaller developer that hasn't already released three pay-to-play games. And if the NVIDIA-specific libraries are also available for the Tegra chipsets, then a multi-platform release across Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android can still make use of NVIDIA-specific libraries.
But recently it seems to go the wrong way again. I wonder if this is due to the "app" concept on phones making developers thinking in special solutions for each client platform?
If someone over on the red site is to be believed, the "app" concept is reviving the concept of making a program that fits well into each operating system's GUI paradigm, as opposed to poorly into all of them the way a web app does.
It depends on whether you set the subjective bar for "insignificant" before GNU/Linux or between GNU/Linux and AmigaOS in your list. Besides, Linux isn't "insignificant" when it's the kernel of the most widespread smartphone and tablet OS.
They're pushing the government to change to a system that's not only more 'convenient' for a minority, but also fits that minority's particular philosophical and political beliefs.
What do you think the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act are? They're cases of government providing for recognition of basic rights of minorities. The alternative is to require all citizens to deal with a particular for-profit company, and I thought the government had moved away from that policy in the mid-1980s when it broke up AT&T.
Besides, linux scanning/printing software sucks unless you'e ready to pay for it
That's why I paid for it. Having been burned in the past by the likes of Canon and Microtek, I chose an HP Officejet 4500 specifically because of HP's positive track record of CUPS and SANE support.
I... have to look very hard for computers not sold without Windows or MacOS
"not sold without" doesn't mean what you intended. I'll assume you meant "sold without".
"computers" includes devices with Android or iOS. I'll assume you meant "desktop or laptop computers".
A few months ago, I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop on eBay that came with Windows 10 and had its Certificate of Authenticity torn off because it was from a lot of computers that were on a volume license. After a system update, it failed to activate because it couldn't connect to the volume license server. I asked the seller, and he said the whole lot was like that, and I could either provide my own Windows license or mail it back. Instead, I kept it and put on Debian.
Javascript should not be part of standards to be relied upon.
JavaScript is the combination of ECMAScript and the HTML DOM. ECMAScript is a standard published by Ecma International, and the HTML DOM is a recommendation published by W3C. Yes, some implementations fail to conform, but some implementations of PDF/A likely also fail to conform.
I can't see how going without a watch entirely is practical when you have to catch a bus at a particular minute, and if you miss one, it's an hour wait for the next. Or did you already have a car and enough income to fuel and insure it by 18?
Could you have obtained a paper form and used that instead of Adobe software to file a New Jersey income tax return? I'm trying to rule this out because I'm looking for evidence for the claim that governments' revenue departments have gone paperless and proprietary.
I am having the same problem with the EU, trying to submit a funding application to the ERC. They also require the same Adobe form process... and Adobe only support Windows and OSX software.
Have you made a more public complaint that the EU is requiring the purchase of a proprietary foreign product? Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe are all foreign.
Slashdot Mirror
Or maybe Wine will do the trick.
From the featured article: "Installing the most recent Windows version of Acrobat in Wine. This worked and the application opened, but it refused to load my PDF file. Probably some Wine bugginess."
Will Slashdot, the self-styled site for GEEKS ever update to UTF?
No. The last time Slashdot tried Unicode, it led to moderation score spoofing. SoylentNews supports it though.
All I get in Firefox is a black screen with light gray text saying "Symantec Connect Loading Your Community Experience". Checking the error console reveals a JavaScript error that "occurs when $compile attempts to fetch a template from some URL, and the request fails." If Symantec's web site is fragile enough to completely break when a JavaScript file fails to load, why should I trust Symantec with anything?
Trying again based on clarifications provided in your other posts:
if you're targeting the major consoles then any nVidia-specific tools/libraries are not an option.
But if a dev isn't yet eligible to target consoles, it's more likely to get suckered into this crap.
Or slashdot could allow someone to add to, but not delete from, the comment
Equivalent functionality exists in Slash and Rehash. It's called a reply to self.
Because I disagreed with points X, Y, and Z in Adobe's EULA as well as Adobe's poor security record
So run it in a vm.
Use of a copyrighted computer program in a virtual machine does not excuse the user from the user's obligations under the EULA. And with common virtual machine software, how does the user allow only those Internet connections required to submit the form without also allowing the Adobe Reader software to phone home to its publisher?
Can the U.S. Treasury's foreign bank account form be submitted on a copy of Adobe® Reader software installed on a PC at a public library, or does it have to be submitted from a PC that you own?
Windows, OS X & GNU/Linux are all, generally speaking, the PC platform as you can very often run 2 or more of those operating systems on the same hardware.
For a Windows-exclusive game, each player on OS X or GNU/Linux will need to buy a Windows license. For a Mac-exclusive game, each player on Windows or GNU/Linux will need to buy a Mac.
But my point is that even though AMD won the eighth console generation, a lot of games don't target consoles because the organizational overhead isn't worth it, especially games from a smaller developer that hasn't already released three pay-to-play games. And if the NVIDIA-specific libraries are also available for the Tegra chipsets, then a multi-platform release across Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android can still make use of NVIDIA-specific libraries.
But recently it seems to go the wrong way again. I wonder if this is due to the "app" concept on phones making developers thinking in special solutions for each client platform?
If someone over on the red site is to be believed, the "app" concept is reviving the concept of making a program that fits well into each operating system's GUI paradigm, as opposed to poorly into all of them the way a web app does.
Can that particular form be filed on paper instead?
You can spend an hour in a comment's preview if you want.
The only substantive power under the clause to which you refer is the power to grant copyrights and patents.
It depends on whether you set the subjective bar for "insignificant" before GNU/Linux or between GNU/Linux and AmigaOS in your list. Besides, Linux isn't "insignificant" when it's the kernel of the most widespread smartphone and tablet OS.
If you bought a computer in the last 20 years, you will have noticed it comes with Windows
The process only works with Windows 7.
What, computer operating systems can't be upgraded?
PC hardware manufactured 20 years ago is unlikely to meet the system requirements of any currently supported Windows operating system.
Paid Microsoft to license the existing proprietary fix, if you want to get technical.
They're pushing the government to change to a system that's not only more 'convenient' for a minority, but also fits that minority's particular philosophical and political beliefs.
What do you think the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act are? They're cases of government providing for recognition of basic rights of minorities. The alternative is to require all citizens to deal with a particular for-profit company, and I thought the government had moved away from that policy in the mid-1980s when it broke up AT&T.
Besides, linux scanning/printing software sucks unless you'e ready to pay for it
That's why I paid for it. Having been burned in the past by the likes of Canon and Microtek, I chose an HP Officejet 4500 specifically because of HP's positive track record of CUPS and SANE support.
I ... have to look very hard for computers not sold without Windows or MacOS
"not sold without" doesn't mean what you intended. I'll assume you meant "sold without".
"computers" includes devices with Android or iOS. I'll assume you meant "desktop or laptop computers".
A few months ago, I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop on eBay that came with Windows 10 and had its Certificate of Authenticity torn off because it was from a lot of computers that were on a volume license. After a system update, it failed to activate because it couldn't connect to the volume license server. I asked the seller, and he said the whole lot was like that, and I could either provide my own Windows license or mail it back. Instead, I kept it and put on Debian.
Javascript should not be part of standards to be relied upon.
JavaScript is the combination of ECMAScript and the HTML DOM. ECMAScript is a standard published by Ecma International, and the HTML DOM is a recommendation published by W3C. Yes, some implementations fail to conform, but some implementations of PDF/A likely also fail to conform.
I can't see how going without a watch entirely is practical when you have to catch a bus at a particular minute, and if you miss one, it's an hour wait for the next. Or did you already have a car and enough income to fuel and insure it by 18?
Could you have obtained a paper form and used that instead of Adobe software to file a New Jersey income tax return? I'm trying to rule this out because I'm looking for evidence for the claim that governments' revenue departments have gone paperless and proprietary.
Does "Because I disagreed with points X, Y, and Z in Adobe's EULA as well as Adobe's poor security record" sound less whiny?
If the bidding was rigged in favor of one particular supplier you'd have a right to complain
It is rigged in favor of Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems.
Also, there are alternatives to Acrobat/Reader.
Which such alternatives support XFA forms?
I am having the same problem with the EU, trying to submit a funding application to the ERC. They also require the same Adobe form process... and Adobe only support Windows and OSX software.
Have you made a more public complaint that the EU is requiring the purchase of a proprietary foreign product? Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe are all foreign.