*Tons* of people will use it. Heck, it'll come default with Windows and MacOS, and most people will never know and would never care about the DRM.
Which is fine. Those people don't have any good music anyway, or they'd be out there looking for more of it, and would have learned that the DRM stuff isn't in their best interests.
So it all works out fine. Auntie Sue can rip her Celine Dion to her MP3 player, and we'll never be offered the opportunity to have a copy ourselves. Thank goodness.
Seems to me that most blue-collar workers put down their tools at the end of the day and walk away from the work.
Seems to me that most blue-collar workers damn well do get paid for their overtime, and if the boss doesn't want to pony up the bucks, he can do the work himself.
Seems to me that most professional blue-collar workers, like plumbers and carpenters and such, make upwards of six-figure incomes.
A: Yes. You'll have a bitch of a time getting anyone to actuall pay for your work.
Reality is, PHBs and the minions want point-and-click. It may be slower, it may require more resources, it may make things more complicated, but it means they don't have to think.
Which, really, is probably for the best. Who wants a PHB that thinks?!
You plug the CD Player into the back of the amp. You punch the amp's power button, the CD player powers on. You put the CD in, bump the drawer closed, and it plays. Punch a button, and it ejects. I rather doubt your gramma is going to be skipping songs and such, so the other buttons are irrelevent.
Paint the front of the tray red, paint the eject button bright yellow.
If you can't find a CD player that works as I describe, I've got an old Toshiba player that I'd probably be willing to donate to her, if you pay shipping.
There are several free PDF-creation tools out there. At least two of them are dead easy for even the most inept user to install -- I know, because I've told a few of those inept users to install 'em, and they succeeded.
PDF isn't a cure-all, but it's "good enough". Good enough presentation, good enough file size, good enough security, good enough compatibility between systems.
I find that most people actually *want* to send PDF: they know it's what the pros would do, and they know it's better than sending the raw, editable source file.
So I suggest sending this:
Your mail of [date], subject: [subject], was rejected by my virus scanner because of the [filename].DOC attachment. It considers the risk of virus infection from that type of file to be too high.
Please use [freepdf?], [pdf995?], or other PDF-creation software to print that document to a PDF file. PDFs will be accepted by my virus software without any problem at all.
I can not emphasize this enough: use ReST and DocUtils. I've been doing technical publishing to PDF using it, and have been delighted all the way through.
ReST is output to XML which then flows through a proprietary XSL:FO to become PDF using XEP. (Whee! TLAs!)
ReST is plaintext. It's exactly the sort of thing you'd do in plain ol' email to *emphasize* a point or `show a link`_.
It does sections, sidebars, classes, everything you need for probably 95% of the technical documentation out there, and does it all using such ordinary tools.
There are some ReST-supporting wikis, too, which can be used in a similar workflow.
Keep you eye on it. ReST is about to hit critical mass.
When will Windows get such full featured scanning/ocr software by default? How about a decent cd burner app?
Er... isn't it true that when Microsoft included a full-featured browser by default, there was a terrible outcry? Isn't it true that when they included a full-featured A/V package, there was a terrible outcry? Ditto the hard drive defrag?
I thought the big thing here was to decry Microsoft's tendency to put good software in the package with its OS!
Better yet would be Python's pickle serialization library, which stores anything from strings to classes, all in printable ASCII... ie. a freakin' cookie.
If you want to increase your boot time, simply purchase Windows, Office, and Norton, and then install a bunch of task-tray doohickies. Oh, and do this on an old Pentium-90 box.
I guarantee you'll have increased boot times, measured in godawful long minutes.
You should see the newest version of Ventura. It's all that was good about the old version, and then some.
FrameMaker and Ventura are about even-steven on functionality, with Ventura coming with a few more gadgets, a much *much* better UI, and a supportive user community.
Slashdot Mirror
Any reasonably smart person would just "disappear" the spammer. No body, no trace, no suspicion. We wouldn't hear about it at all.
And therein lies the problem: evolution simply isn't working on the dolts who purchase from spam advertisers.
We need to up the ante.
Well, Sun Myung Moon has been crowned in Congress.
Not that this was covered by the media.
Congress coronated Sun Myung Moon -- it's important to all Americans, and you need to know about it.
Dude, if you're up at 4AM wondering about circuits half the country away, you're in need of a new hobby!
*Tons* of people will use it. Heck, it'll come default with Windows and MacOS, and most people will never know and would never care about the DRM.
Which is fine. Those people don't have any good music anyway, or they'd be out there looking for more of it, and would have learned that the DRM stuff isn't in their best interests.
So it all works out fine. Auntie Sue can rip her Celine Dion to her MP3 player, and we'll never be offered the opportunity to have a copy ourselves. Thank goodness.
[rolls eyes]
I can't believe you would even phrase that question. No one halfway informed doubts the veracity of the original statement.
Seems to me that most blue-collar workers put down their tools at the end of the day and walk away from the work.
Seems to me that most blue-collar workers damn well do get paid for their overtime, and if the boss doesn't want to pony up the bucks, he can do the work himself.
Seems to me that most professional blue-collar workers, like plumbers and carpenters and such, make upwards of six-figure incomes.
Maybe I'm wrong.
A: Yes. You'll have a bitch of a time getting anyone to actuall pay for your work.
Reality is, PHBs and the minions want point-and-click. It may be slower, it may require more resources, it may make things more complicated, but it means they don't have to think.
Which, really, is probably for the best. Who wants a PHB that thinks?!
What's the challenge of using a CD player?
You plug the CD Player into the back of the amp. You punch the amp's power button, the CD player powers on. You put the CD in, bump the drawer closed, and it plays. Punch a button, and it ejects. I rather doubt your gramma is going to be skipping songs and such, so the other buttons are irrelevent.
Paint the front of the tray red, paint the eject button bright yellow.
If you can't find a CD player that works as I describe, I've got an old Toshiba player that I'd probably be willing to donate to her, if you pay shipping.
There are several free PDF-creation tools out there. At least two of them are dead easy for even the most inept user to install -- I know, because I've told a few of those inept users to install 'em, and they succeeded.
PDF isn't a cure-all, but it's "good enough". Good enough presentation, good enough file size, good enough security, good enough compatibility between systems.
I find that most people actually *want* to send PDF: they know it's what the pros would do, and they know it's better than sending the raw, editable source file.
So I suggest sending this:
Your mail of [date], subject: [subject], was rejected by my virus scanner because of the [filename].DOC attachment. It considers the risk of virus infection from that type of file to be too high.
Please use [freepdf?], [pdf995?], or other PDF-creation software to print that document to a PDF file. PDFs will be accepted by my virus software without any problem at all.
Thank you kindly,
me.
I'm guessing not.
ReSTructured Text and DocUtils
I can not emphasize this enough: use ReST and DocUtils. I've been doing technical publishing to PDF using it, and have been delighted all the way through.
ReST is output to XML which then flows through a proprietary XSL:FO to become PDF using XEP. (Whee! TLAs!)
ReST is plaintext. It's exactly the sort of thing you'd do in plain ol' email to *emphasize* a point or `show a link`_.
It does sections, sidebars, classes, everything you need for probably 95% of the technical documentation out there, and does it all using such ordinary tools.
There are some ReST-supporting wikis, too, which can be used in a similar workflow.
Keep you eye on it. ReST is about to hit critical mass.
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ReSTructured Text and DocUtils
When will Windows get such full featured scanning/ocr software by default? How about a decent cd burner app?
Er... isn't it true that when Microsoft included a full-featured browser by default, there was a terrible outcry? Isn't it true that when they included a full-featured A/V package, there was a terrible outcry? Ditto the hard drive defrag?
I thought the big thing here was to decry Microsoft's tendency to put good software in the package with its OS!
Depends whether it's a Pentium with an FDIV bug, I imagine...
That's not cold fusion, it's smooooove cool fusion!
One page, no annoying Flash advertisements, no tedious space-filling fluff, solid information.
It's the antithesis of a Tom's review!
Quagmire wars are, like, all the rage these days. Simply everybody has gotta have one! Popular game for popular times.
Better yet would be Python's pickle serialization library, which stores anything from strings to classes, all in printable ASCII... ie. a freakin' cookie.
So this is all bullshit!
I know damn well you could light up a city for a year with the energy that went into making that 1kJ.
And their big goal is to get 1.1kJ back out.
That's like using an entire tree to make a toothpick.
"Allowing your senior DoJ/government lawyers to be in hock to major corporations might not be a very wise idea."
I suppose that very much depends on what your goal is and whether it furthers your efforts to reach that goal.
I rather suspect that for the people who are in power, allowing the senior lawyers to be owned by corporations is a very good idea.
Oh, when I was a child we used to dream of having sixteen switches.
No, we had to make do with a Velveeta box, an old Q-tip, and one of mom's buttons!
If you want to increase your boot time, simply purchase Windows, Office, and Norton, and then install a bunch of task-tray doohickies. Oh, and do this on an old Pentium-90 box.
I guarantee you'll have increased boot times, measured in godawful long minutes.
Ventura Publisher. All you want and more. My god, if it's db integration you want, you'll be blown away by Ventura's DBPublisher.
However, I've moved to using ReST, DocUtils, and proprietary XSL:FO to create PDFs. It rules.
You should see the newest version of Ventura. It's all that was good about the old version, and then some.
FrameMaker and Ventura are about even-steven on functionality, with Ventura coming with a few more gadgets, a much *much* better UI, and a supportive user community.
I installed Plone-2.0-final some time last week. WTF is this "now released" BS about? Have I ended up with some misbegotten proto-release?