Not at all like the Kleenex thing. You can't legally call non-Kleenex-brand tissue paper "Kleenex," and *NO ONE* does... not in any commercial situation.
Find me a novel in which the lead character blows her nose into a Kleenex. Find me a TV show where a character asks someone to "pass the Kleenex." Or a computer monitor-cleaning product named "Kleenex."
Good luck. Because Kimberly-Clark is a company which has learned its lesson from Bayer: those who don't retain control of their trademark, lose their trademark. If you'll please go to your local magazine shop and look at one of the "Writers Guide"-style magazines, you'll soon find advertisements from K-C telling authors exactly how to use the Kleenex trademark.
Microsoft's protection of the Windows brand is exactly unlike Kimberly-Clark's protection of the Kleenex brand. To wit, it appears that Microsoft has done bugger all to ensure that the term "Windows" is not used in conjuction with computer software of any sort.
I'm subscribed to Telus (nee Sympatico) DSL in British Columbia. I pay $45 per month, modem-included. If you're getting it for $25, then I'm being screwed, and I want to know why, and how I can get unscrewed.
You notice one feather on the clown's shoulder is overlapping the gun? I'm not sure whether the clown is holding the gun, or if the viewer is holding it...
For starters, the comparison table does show XPress, and shows that it's a piece of shit.
It doesn't do tables. It has endless colour control problems. It fucks up PDFs. It doesn't do ToCs, doesn't do indexes, doesn't do equations, doesn't let you anchor graphics to text. Doesn't do bullets, doesn't do relative indents. Freaking list of what it can't do goes on and on and on.
It would take $10,000 (that's ten thousand dollars! [see below]) in third-party extensions to gain functionality comparable to that of Ventura or FrameMaker.
Finally, it has one of the worst user interface that's ever been foisted on users.
Quark is a good enough application if all you're doing is laying out a magazine advertisement. But for god's sake, no sane and informed individual who is attempting to do long-document publishing would ever use it.
Quark is definitively NOT a long-document publishing application. It simply does not have the functionality that such a task requires. Period.
Footnote: extensions required to make Quark as functional as FM or Ventura 8.
Ventura 7 was an unmitigated disaster. Typical of Corel: they can fuck things up so royally, yet turn around and release pure heaven. CorelDraw 10 seems to be one of those cases, if the bits I've heard are true: the release sucks shit through a straw, while the service release patches have made it well worth using.
Ventura 8 is the same way: it took all that was so borked in Ventura 7, and fixed it. It's a joy to use now, and its capabilities are beyond belief.
You might want to check into Ventura 10 when it's released. Should be a cheap upgrade for you, and stands a good chance of blowing you away.:-)
There are currently only two good long-document solutions:
FrameMaker, from Adobe.
Ventura, from Corel.
They both have roughly equivalent functionality. FrameMaker is more accepted in the technical writing world. Ventura has a much, *much* better user interface. Ventura also has an incredibleuser support group. The latter two aspects put Ventura in the lead by several lengths, in my opinion. A feature comparison is available here. (Its automatic database publishing engine is worth it's weight in gold!)
Ventura is currently in beta-testing for a next-edition release. This edition is going to include XML support, presumably integrated with SoftQuad's products. Given that WordPerfect has had good SGML support for years, I find this to be very, very exciting news.
If you can get over any misgivings over the Corel name, you'll find that Ventura is the ultimate in long-document publishing. It's been around since 1986, and is more feature-complete than Quark, PageMaker, InDesign, and FrameMaker. And of those, FrameMaker is the only application that can be considered to be in the same class. Quark, PageMaker, and InDesign are short-document (ie. magazine advertisement layout) programs, and are absolutely horrible for use in long-document publishing.
FrameMaker and Ventura both fully satisfy your needs. Both can take in XML/SGML. Both produce PDF. Both can create HTML. Both handle documents thousands of pages in length with thousands of images. Both kick the living shit out of MSWord!
You only need to decide which is going to be easier to use, how much you'll want community support, which set of functionality you need, and how much you want to spend.
My money is on Ventura.
(It is, in fact, the only application I've ever used that I look forward to using. Every time I start it, I'm delighted!)
(Ventura users tend to be very enthusiastic about the product. We also tend to wonder why anyone would ever use anything else: we've tried the rest, and figure this is the best.:-) )
Looks like the Game of Life, gone amiss. Whattabuncha gobbledegook. I think an enterprising alien would stand a good chance of understanding that there was some meagre form of intelligence involved in the making of this data, but I doubt it's going to be very much impressed...
"At one point we had 18 dead monitors lined up in the hall (which were slated for a massive roof disposal, but I convinced management to have them recycled instead)."
Thank-you. There's a couple pounds of lead in computer monitors. One hardly needs that going into the landfills.
We all want to do that. But the make-or-break point isn't going to come at the difference between 1.7 and 2.0GHz, or even 1Ghz and 2.5GHz.
IOW, spending twice as much isn't getting you twice the performance... and it's usually not even getting you a substantially appreciable difference in performance.
IMO, the bottleneck these days isn't so much with the CPU as the busses.
Frankly, I just don't see any value in being able to search for key phrases out of old Welcome Back Kotter episodes, The King of Kensington, or Three's Company. There's nothing worth looking for in The Electric Company, Rompus Room, or Friendly Giant. The Mutual of Omaha programs were all staged, and aren't worth searching, and The $64,000 Question was rigged, and isn't worth searching.
Good lord. Here we are, supposedly at the height of human civilization, and Survivor and Friends are the message we're beaming to the future.
Two hundred years from now, if humanity should last that long, I hope against hope that our descendents look back at us and think "What a bunch of fookin' retards!"
God help us if they look back and wish for the good old days...
Let's emphasis an important point from the parent post: contact Rick Bouche and let him know that there should be no royalty on blank media that's being used for data archival purposes.
Canada already went down that road, and we all now pay an extra $0.20-odd cents -- damn near 20%!!! -- on each and every g.d. data CD-R we purchase.
"And disillusioned customers stop buying music, so the record companies have the worst year in a long time... Also this attracts the attention of the Senate... Now who wins?"
Not the consumer, that's for sure: the Senate will legislate mandatory music purchasing for all citizens!
Are the police allowed to break into your home and plant "bugs"? Are they allowed to sneak in, read your snail mail, without your permission or knowledge? Can they pop the lock on your car trunk, riffle through its contents, all without you knowing?
If they're already granted rights like this, then I suppose the keyboard bug isn't much different.
One of the challenges in bottle cap technology is designing a device that is guaranteed to seal despite rather gross variations in the bottle top.
Some of the designs to compensate for these variations, while still ensuring a positive seal against outgassing, are pretty darn innovative. Certainly worthy of patenting.
You seem awfully panicky. Have you stopped dumping PCBs into the creek, yet?
Yes, CDP is an overwrought sort of reaction. But, dammit, the legal fiction of Monsanto is going to walk away from this whole thing completely unscathed.
There's no justice in that.
If you read the source article, you know that Monsanto executives worked deliberately and maliciously to deny that a problem existed, to prevent the thorough investigation of the problem and its risks, and to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
CDP may not be practical or possible but, dammit, something needs to change. Many corporations have proven time and again that "doing the right thing" comes down to a simple cost-benefit analysis that ignores the consequences to consumers and the environment.
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Isn't that exactly what I said? "Microsoft's protection of the Windows brand is exactly unlike Kimberly-Clark's protection of the Kleenex brand."
Not at all like the Kleenex thing. You can't legally call non-Kleenex-brand tissue paper "Kleenex," and *NO ONE* does... not in any commercial situation.
Find me a novel in which the lead character blows her nose into a Kleenex. Find me a TV show where a character asks someone to "pass the Kleenex." Or a computer monitor-cleaning product named "Kleenex."
Good luck. Because Kimberly-Clark is a company which has learned its lesson from Bayer: those who don't retain control of their trademark, lose their trademark. If you'll please go to your local magazine shop and look at one of the "Writers Guide"-style magazines, you'll soon find advertisements from K-C telling authors exactly how to use the Kleenex trademark.
Microsoft's protection of the Windows brand is exactly unlike Kimberly-Clark's protection of the Kleenex brand. To wit, it appears that Microsoft has done bugger all to ensure that the term "Windows" is not used in conjuction with computer software of any sort.
Where the hell are you getting DSL for C$25?
I'm subscribed to Telus (nee Sympatico) DSL in British Columbia. I pay $45 per month, modem-included. If you're getting it for $25, then I'm being screwed, and I want to know why, and how I can get unscrewed.
You notice one feather on the clown's shoulder is overlapping the gun? I'm not sure whether the clown is holding the gun, or if the viewer is holding it...
For starters, the comparison table does show XPress, and shows that it's a piece of shit.
It doesn't do tables. It has endless colour control problems. It fucks up PDFs. It doesn't do ToCs, doesn't do indexes, doesn't do equations, doesn't let you anchor graphics to text. Doesn't do bullets, doesn't do relative indents. Freaking list of what it can't do goes on and on and on.
It would take $10,000 (that's ten thousand dollars! [see below]) in third-party extensions to gain functionality comparable to that of Ventura or FrameMaker.
Finally, it has one of the worst user interface that's ever been foisted on users.
Quark is a good enough application if all you're doing is laying out a magazine advertisement. But for god's sake, no sane and informed individual who is attempting to do long-document publishing would ever use it.
Quark is definitively NOT a long-document publishing application. It simply does not have the functionality that such a task requires. Period.
Footnote: extensions required to make Quark as functional as FM or Ventura 8.
Quark PC-version Xtensions Quark PC-version Xtensions
AdTracker $ 80
AutoLink $ 60
AutoSave $ 40
Azalea C39 Tools $150
Azalea I2of5 Tools $100
Azalea PostTools $ 60
Azalea UPC Tools $150
Bookletizer $ 70
BoxStyles $ 50
BureauManager $130
Class $ 90
Colbut'ns $ 80
ColorManager $150
CopySet $130
CropsXT $ 50
Dashes (Hyphenation) $300
Digital Pilot $100
DiHyph XT (Custom Hyph.) $200
DocLock $ 50
EDGAR Filter $400
File Manager $150
FlexScale $ 60
FlightCheck (tester) $400
FontIncluder $100
FourColors and One Image $ 20
fXT (footnotes) $300
GridMaster $ 50
HexWeb $350
IndeXTension $100
INposition Lite $400
Ishadow $100
JobSlug $ 60
KeepTool $ 50
KeyFinder (cheatSheet) $ 30
LinkWalker $ 40
Managing Editor XT Pro $120
MasterMenus $ 70
MultiSpec (cut'n'paste) $100
Navigator XT $ 70
NotePad (Electronic Post-its) $100
PageCopy $ 90
PageShot $ 90
Photoshop Import $100
PianzHang (large Doc Mgmt) $900
Picture Manager $200
PM-Q XT (PMkr 5-6.5 -> QXP) $100
PowerBalance $ 70
PowerRules $ 70
Printer's Spreads $180
PrintGrabber XT $ 70
PrintShop Mail (mail merge) $400
Quark Design $ 35
QuarkImmedia (multiMedia) $995
QuarkXpress $995
QuarkXpressPassport $1495
Multi-language doc creation
QXPress Visual Quickstart $ 30
Resize XT $100
Sydney XT (filing system) $300
Sonar Bookends (index) $200
Sonar TOC $100
Spellbound (spellChecker) $200
Story Editor $165
TakeNote (stickyNotes) $ 60
TB Grids $150
TeXTractor (export filters) $150
Tiff Export $100
TimeStamp $ 50
Vision Contents (TOC) $150
vjXT (vertical justification) $150
Web-Ready Art $165
Windows Design Collection $100
Windows Text collection $100
Xnudge $ 30
Xspec $100
Xdata $300
Xtags $200
York's XTable $300
York's Xmath $400
Zoom Tool $ 40
____________________________________
All PC Xtensions plus
QuarkXPress $12,845
or QuarkXPress Passport $13,345
Ventura 7 was an unmitigated disaster. Typical of Corel: they can fuck things up so royally, yet turn around and release pure heaven. CorelDraw 10 seems to be one of those cases, if the bits I've heard are true: the release sucks shit through a straw, while the service release patches have made it well worth using.
:-)
Ventura 8 is the same way: it took all that was so borked in Ventura 7, and fixed it. It's a joy to use now, and its capabilities are beyond belief.
You might want to check into Ventura 10 when it's released. Should be a cheap upgrade for you, and stands a good chance of blowing you away.
There are currently only two good long-document solutions:
:-) )
FrameMaker, from Adobe.
Ventura, from Corel.
They both have roughly equivalent functionality. FrameMaker is more accepted in the technical writing world. Ventura has a much, *much* better user interface. Ventura also has an incredible user support group. The latter two aspects put Ventura in the lead by several lengths, in my opinion. A feature comparison is available here. (Its automatic database publishing engine is worth it's weight in gold!)
Ventura is currently in beta-testing for a next-edition release. This edition is going to include XML support, presumably integrated with SoftQuad's products. Given that WordPerfect has had good SGML support for years, I find this to be very, very exciting news.
If you can get over any misgivings over the Corel name, you'll find that Ventura is the ultimate in long-document publishing. It's been around since 1986, and is more feature-complete than Quark, PageMaker, InDesign, and FrameMaker. And of those, FrameMaker is the only application that can be considered to be in the same class. Quark, PageMaker, and InDesign are short-document (ie. magazine advertisement layout) programs, and are absolutely horrible for use in long-document publishing.
FrameMaker and Ventura both fully satisfy your needs. Both can take in XML/SGML. Both produce PDF. Both can create HTML. Both handle documents thousands of pages in length with thousands of images. Both kick the living shit out of MSWord!
You only need to decide which is going to be easier to use, how much you'll want community support, which set of functionality you need, and how much you want to spend.
My money is on Ventura.
(It is, in fact, the only application I've ever used that I look forward to using. Every time I start it, I'm delighted!)
(Ventura users tend to be very enthusiastic about the product. We also tend to wonder why anyone would ever use anything else: we've tried the rest, and figure this is the best.
Have you done so since 9/11? I'm curious as to whether our borders are still so open.
His web sites, here and especially here have images that are surely copyrighted.
I wonder if the copyright owner would be interested in a lawsuit?
Looks like the Game of Life, gone amiss. Whattabuncha gobbledegook. I think an enterprising alien would stand a good chance of understanding that there was some meagre form of intelligence involved in the making of this data, but I doubt it's going to be very much impressed...
The chances are so close to 100% as to be 100%: you're obviously flipping with a two-headed coin. Odds are 1:2^12 that you're not cheating!
...y'know what I say: "Fuck the courts!"
"At one point we had 18 dead monitors lined up in the hall (which were slated for a massive roof disposal, but I convinced management to have them recycled instead)."
Thank-you. There's a couple pounds of lead in computer monitors. One hardly needs that going into the landfills.
[HTML version of PDF provided courtesy Google.]
We all want to do that. But the make-or-break point isn't going to come at the difference between 1.7 and 2.0GHz, or even 1Ghz and 2.5GHz.
IOW, spending twice as much isn't getting you twice the performance... and it's usually not even getting you a substantially appreciable difference in performance.
IMO, the bottleneck these days isn't so much with the CPU as the busses.
Good god, they're probably getting government funding for this "art" project! Sick, sick, sick.
Frankly, I just don't see any value in being able to search for key phrases out of old Welcome Back Kotter episodes, The King of Kensington, or Three's Company. There's nothing worth looking for in The Electric Company, Rompus Room, or Friendly Giant. The Mutual of Omaha programs were all staged, and aren't worth searching, and The $64,000 Question was rigged, and isn't worth searching.
Good lord. Here we are, supposedly at the height of human civilization, and Survivor and Friends are the message we're beaming to the future.
Two hundred years from now, if humanity should last that long, I hope against hope that our descendents look back at us and think "What a bunch of fookin' retards!"
God help us if they look back and wish for the good old days...
Let's emphasis an important point from the parent post: contact Rick Bouche and let him know that there should be no royalty on blank media that's being used for data archival purposes.
Canada already went down that road, and we all now pay an extra $0.20-odd cents -- damn near 20%!!! -- on each and every g.d. data CD-R we purchase.
DON'T let that happen to you!
"And disillusioned customers stop buying music, so the record companies have the worst year in a long time... Also this attracts the attention of the Senate... Now who wins?"
Not the consumer, that's for sure: the Senate will legislate mandatory music purchasing for all citizens!
Gotta keep Hollywood happy, you know.
Opps. Both of us are schmucks, then: z4ce for being American-centric, and me for being Canuck-centric!
What part of "at least in Canada" didn't you understand?
In Canada, *ALL* CD media is surtaxed (er, "levied"). Regardless Audio versus Data.
Are the police allowed to break into your home and plant "bugs"? Are they allowed to sneak in, read your snail mail, without your permission or knowledge? Can they pop the lock on your car trunk, riffle through its contents, all without you knowing?
If they're already granted rights like this, then I suppose the keyboard bug isn't much different.
Show how much you really care: send an electronic card. Because there's nothing like a unique gift with the personal touch.
[+1 irony]
You're at least somewhat off the mark.
One of the challenges in bottle cap technology is designing a device that is guaranteed to seal despite rather gross variations in the bottle top.
Some of the designs to compensate for these variations, while still ensuring a positive seal against outgassing, are pretty darn innovative. Certainly worthy of patenting.
You seem awfully panicky. Have you stopped dumping PCBs into the creek, yet?
Yes, CDP is an overwrought sort of reaction. But, dammit, the legal fiction of Monsanto is going to walk away from this whole thing completely unscathed.
There's no justice in that.
If you read the source article, you know that Monsanto executives worked deliberately and maliciously to deny that a problem existed, to prevent the thorough investigation of the problem and its risks, and to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
CDP may not be practical or possible but, dammit, something needs to change. Many corporations have proven time and again that "doing the right thing" comes down to a simple cost-benefit analysis that ignores the consequences to consumers and the environment.
We need to start looking out for number one.
The security doors to the cockpit are going to ensure that no commercial airliners are slammed into buildings any more.
There will be absolutely no point in attempting to hijack an airliner.
Which leaves luggage bombs, in the hopes of dropping the plane into the middle of a city. Facial scanning isn't going to do bugger all there.