I have exactly the same problem, I'd choose free software over closed source any time, but AFAIK there is no libre pdf reader that support reading (not to mention writing) comments, that's why I keep an old copy of acrobat 7 around (much faster and less bloated that newer versions)
I use evince for almost everything now (but a few years ago it was a pain in the arse)
Unfortunately my supervisor keeps correcting my thesis with comments embedded in the pdf file. No open source reader (that I know of) let me read all of them. That's why I keep an old copy of Acroread 7 (8 is too slow) around.
On a side note, do you know of any open source application that let you _write_ comments on a PDF file?
Yes but the battery does not last 120h, it does not work inside buildings... and you don't have to carry another gizmo in your pocket just to track your walk in a city.
This thing has the potential of turning your laptops wifi card in a poor man's GPS. Just check what wifi networks you see, check for them in the db and find your position using signal strength to weight the AP positions.
It would work quite well in densely populated areas.
I have been thinking for long about doing something similar with your cell phone. Just check the visible towers, ask google their coordinates and geolocate yourself (if only the symbian API gave you info on other cells apart from the one you are connected to).
In my experience being marked as troll in slashdot does not depend on _what_ you say, but on _how_ you say it.
The first times I came here and dared to speak I was modded down half of the time because I was too exited to write clearly and taking the time to justify my reasoning and not to offend the poster I was replying to (or at least to clearly justify why I was offending them).
I looked back at my "Troll" posts and I realized that I was assuming everyone did agree with me from the beginning.
Then I learned and built my karma up. Your post was, more or less, a good argumented post (except for the final provocation, of course), and it was not marked as Troll.
So, no, you are not a troll if you disagree with the crowd, you are a Troll if you treat people who disagree with you like dumb ignorant and insult them. Explain what you mean to them and they will mark you "Interesting" (or maybe just ignore you) most of the time.
VirtualBox is based on qemu, they had no choice but to release all the sources together with the binary. That said, InnoTak kept the OS add-on (the small programs and extension that let you share mouse, keyboard, folders and so on) closed source, but free as in beer, I do not know about Sun, possibly they will release the add-on sources too.
Price is the intersection of supply and demand curves.
Are you really so naive?
If text messages cost to the user a lot more than what they cost to carriers the normal laws of economics would make new carriers appear on the market that offer competitive prices and drive the cost down to the _real_ service cost. Why doesn't it happen? Well first entering the wireless carrier business require a huge initial investment and second: *monopoly*. The current american carriers are a cartel that agrees to keep the sms prices over a certain price so that the business is profitable for all the players.
quoting from a comment:
So you wonder, why do I pay so much for a SMS or a MMS or even a Call: after the debts for the initial hardware infrastructure have been paid by the carrier you are still paying because of market segmentation (You wonâ(TM)t change the carrier on the fly) and a little monopoly (Almost impossible to start a new carrier from 0).
A very similar thing is happening in Italy where a new carrier (Wind, but later Blu did the same thing) entered the field offering free sms, then started to charge for them after it established a position in the market.
[...] What, no Linux version? Does it at least run well under Wine? No, it does not, I just tried:( It's a shame because it sounds like a quite interesting concept.
Why is it that in every damn RTS game you have this stupid mission where you have to take a bunch of your critters through a lenghty, winding corridor? Is there anyone who really enjoys those missions? Nobody I talked to does. Everyone wanted to play RTS games to harvest resources, spend them on an army and drown the enemy in a mass battle. Does anyone really like those "I have only 10 infantery men and need to bring them home safe" missions? sorry to contradict you, but I actually liked those mission, they add a lot to the rpg element of the game. Have you ever considered that usually variety is a _good_ thing in a game, since it makes it more likely to attract different players? Besides, it's just a freaking mission! If you can't be bothered to go through it just use the cheats!
That said I have to agree with your subject. A lot of games would profit from being "designing like a player":)
You should have posted as AC. Your complimentary forget-your-civil-liberties free tour offered by the USSS will begin shortly, just STFU and do shat the men in black tell you.
FYI you can detect the presence of steganographed information by statistical means
You can only detect the presence of week steganography by these means... Good steganographers will ensure that they run those statistical analysis themselves to make sure nothing looks suspicious;) not really, You can quantify the information contained in a document and if there is information stganographed in it the information displayed will be suspiciously less than the information encoded.
There are *many* ways to hide informations in.png and.jpg that make fun of these statistical verifications;) I'd really like to see an algorithm that can encode information in a pattern without adding information (read entropy if you know what I'm talking about) to it. That'd be extremely zen:)
Don't forget by good steganography is, by definition, coupled with good cryptography and hence you're looking for *random* data. Good luck when it's a tiny amount of data (an important text message) hidden in a big picture: all you see is noise from the picture and noise from the message looking alike. You hit the nail here: you have to hide a short message in a huge amount of data not to rise any suspicion. Just be careful not to transmit too much data or you'll rise some suspects:)
Buy vs Pirate are not the only options. Ever try a rental store? Used games? No, I never tried a rental store, it's just that it's so much easier get a torrent, go to sleep and find the game ready the next morning, and I don't even have to leave my cosy basement! (I do not leave in a basement... I just wanted to play the stereotype:)
Or are you just making excuses so you feel better about ripping people off? You maybe right:) Maybe I'm just too cheap to actually pay for my games. But to tell you the truth there are very few games I'd be willing to pay their full price to get them. 60 E for Paper Mario? Who's ripping off who?
I am not a gamer, I can count on one hand the number of games I actually completed. I get easily bored and only keep play if the game is really amazing me.
I actively pirate games and I am looking forward to mod my new wii because there is no way I am going to spend 60 euros for a game I play for 3 times and then forget about. If I really like a game I usually end up buying it sooner or later, even if I pirated it the first time. Most games cost too much and are total crap, if I could not download and try them I wouldn't even have bought my console in the first place.
I hope Nintendo starts giving away demos in their online store just as MS and Sony do (I mean _real_ demos, not stupid trailers like Metroid)., then I would have very little reason to pirate them.
You can still find in the stores PSP with fw 2.x (one friend of mine bought a 2.80 a while ago).
I understand you like your DS a lot and I hope someone writes a wikipedia browser for it but, please, be real! You are not going to find many PSPs with fw 3.51 on the US market for the next few months. It's not like they update them all the same night a new fw comes out:)
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I have exactly the same problem, I'd choose free software over closed source any time, but AFAIK there is no libre pdf reader that support reading (not to mention writing) comments, that's why I keep an old copy of acrobat 7 around (much faster and less bloated that newer versions)
Does anyone know an alternative?
I completely agree, Achievements are fun! Since you have some working code already why not keep it?
Cheers,
Emme
I use evince for almost everything now (but a few years ago it was a pain in the arse)
Unfortunately my supervisor keeps correcting my thesis with comments embedded in the pdf file. No open source reader (that I know of) let me read all of them. That's why I keep an old copy of Acroread 7 (8 is too slow) around.
On a side note, do you know of any open source application that let you _write_ comments on a PDF file?
corporations reflect ANY human attributes only trough extensive marketing efforts
there, fixed that for you :)
As for easter eggs in my own code... no, it's against company policy as part of the antitrust settlement.
Wait, what?
Mhmmm I'm confused, could you make a car analogy?
You should probably try http://www.lyx.org/
Yes but the battery does not last 120h, it does not work inside buildings... and you don't have to carry another gizmo in your pocket just to track your walk in a city.
This thing has the potential of turning your laptops wifi card in a poor man's GPS.
Just check what wifi networks you see, check for them in the db and find your position using signal strength to weight the AP positions.
It would work quite well in densely populated areas.
I have been thinking for long about doing something similar with your cell phone. Just check the visible towers, ask google their coordinates and geolocate yourself (if only the symbian API gave you info on other cells apart from the one you are connected to).
In my experience being marked as troll in slashdot does not depend on _what_ you say, but on _how_ you say it.
The first times I came here and dared to speak I was modded down half of the time because I was too exited to write clearly and taking the time to justify my reasoning and not to offend the poster I was replying to (or at least to clearly justify why I was offending them).
I looked back at my "Troll" posts and I realized that I was assuming everyone did agree with me from the beginning.
Then I learned and built my karma up. Your post was, more or less, a good argumented post (except for the final provocation, of course), and it was not marked as Troll.
So, no, you are not a troll if you disagree with the crowd, you are a Troll if you treat people who disagree with you like dumb ignorant and insult them. Explain what you mean to them and they will mark you "Interesting" (or maybe just ignore you) most of the time.
VirtualBox is based on qemu, they had no choice but to release all the sources together with the binary.
That said, InnoTak kept the OS add-on (the small programs and extension that let you share mouse, keyboard, folders and so on) closed source, but free as in beer, I do not know about Sun, possibly they will release the add-on sources too.
Price is the intersection of supply and demand curves.
Are you really so naive?
If text messages cost to the user a lot more than what they cost to carriers the normal laws of economics would make new carriers appear on the market that offer competitive prices and drive the cost down to the _real_ service cost. Why doesn't it happen? Well first entering the wireless carrier business require a huge initial investment and second: *monopoly*. The current american carriers are a cartel that agrees to keep the sms prices over a certain price so that the business is profitable for all the players.
quoting from a comment:
So you wonder, why do I pay so much for a SMS or a MMS or even a Call: after the debts for the initial hardware infrastructure have been paid by the carrier you are still paying because of market segmentation (You wonâ(TM)t change the carrier on the fly) and a little monopoly (Almost impossible to start a new carrier from 0).
A very similar thing is happening in Italy where a new carrier (Wind, but later Blu did the same thing) entered the field offering free sms, then started to charge for them after it established a position in the market.
I have always been fascinated by automated data analysis techniques applied to politics, are your results available anywhere?
BTW there are some interesting studies on the web, for instance:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/ is very interesting (and open source based) but unfortunately is uk only...
If you are interested in the topic, take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics (notice the absence of any U.S. initiative)
What, no Linux version? Does it at least run well under Wine? No, it does not, I just tried
It's a shame because it sounds like a quite interesting concept.
If you, or the author, want to help the wine compatibility issues, look at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6868
Asking for advices on Slashdot is just like asking an infinite number of monkeys.
Besides, it's just a freaking mission! If you can't be bothered to go through it just use the cheats!
That said I have to agree with your subject. A lot of games would profit from being "designing like a player"
You should have posted as AC. Your complimentary forget-your-civil-liberties free tour offered by the USSS will begin shortly, just STFU and do shat the men in black tell you.
It's not perverse, it's exactly what happened when someone proposed to pay the 2 Debian Release Managers to get Etch out in time.
You can only detect the presence of week steganography by these means... Good steganographers will ensure that they run those statistical analysis themselves to make sure nothing looks suspicious
I am not a gamer, I can count on one hand the number of games I actually completed. I get easily bored and only keep play if the game is really amazing me.
I actively pirate games and I am looking forward to mod my new wii because there is no way I am going to spend 60 euros for a game I play for 3 times and then forget about. If I really like a game I usually end up buying it sooner or later, even if I pirated it the first time. Most games cost too much and are total crap, if I could not download and try them I wouldn't even have bought my console in the first place.
I hope Nintendo starts giving away demos in their online store just as MS and Sony do (I mean _real_ demos, not stupid trailers like Metroid)., then I would have very little reason to pirate them.
The article is just saying that they found steganographic software on some criminal's pc.
FYI you can detect the presence of steganographed information by statistical means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis).
I really don't know... here in europe you can (in principle) return anything within a week without any explanation.
You can still find in the stores PSP with fw 2.x (one friend of mine bought a 2.80 a while ago).
:)
I understand you like your DS a lot and I hope someone writes a wikipedia browser for it but, please, be real! You are not going to find many PSPs with fw 3.51 on the US market for the next few months. It's not like they update them all the same night a new fw comes out