And KOffice can open PDFs for editing. Awesome. Sure, the layout rendering is not always exact, but it does a tremendous job of converting the PDF to paragraphs, with the occasional embedded images. Scribus is also nice to import PostScript (why not PDFs?...) and respect the layout, but the text is usually broken down into individual characters. KWord does a great job with it. All in all, they each do their own job. It has allowed me to save some documents whose original editable copies got lost somehow... and for which I only had the PDF left. It's not as good as OOo at opening MS Office documents though, and the equations from ODF files aren't imported yet, but it's awesoooome.
What I love from the specs of the OLPC is the cranking recharging, and networking abilities. From a civil engineer's perspective, it's great for lots of field tasks where you may want to syncronize the compilation of guys working in different ends of the field, while at the same time giving them the ability to keep the device working with occasional cranking ups when the battery is dead and it is not practical to go running back and forth to the truck for recharging. It's ideal for civil engineering field work where you spend 12 hour shifts on site.... Add to it solar cells in ADDITION to the crank and it's wonderful. There are many tasks where you don't need the ultra PC. But the ability to turn into a TABLET added to those other features that I mentioned make it an ideal field computer.
Yes. It is image resizing. Not image rescaling. It is GREAT for general web layout (images that should be scaled this way should have a new property set in the image tag). It's not good when you want to actually rescale an image while preserving aspect ratios of all components. But for web page component layout, this is Awesome. As well as for desktop wallpaper resizing. Rescaling doesn't always produce the desired results in those cases. Aesthetics are more important there than fidelity of original image.
What province was this in? We had something like that back when I was in high school (Ontario) but I think more than just the advanced classes got a shot at university. Of course, that was a long time ago. Beginning of those programs.
Naaa. As a teenager, I was fully aware that the music in the 80s was crap. As a teenager, I only listened to oldies because of that knowledge. As the 80s music is finding its way to the oldies now, a lot of the oldies are crap. Very sad. I was old even when I was young.
I'm not an expert on trademarks, but as far as I know, the Red Cross is older than Johnson & Johnson, and has ALWAYS used the red cross as a trademark. J & J could only have begun using it to associate ITSELF to the already well known Red Cross organisation, that would have ALREADY been associated with health. If anyone is infringing anyone else's trade mark, it would have to be J&J. I don't remember seeing a red cross on J&J products. I know what EVERYBODY associates the red cross with: RED CROSS. dugh. Count me in the J&J boycott. I'll spread the word.
Which is one of the most desirable features of the OLPC. Plus, the meshing technology, of course. Does this one Include it? I saw nothing about something similar. I'd still rather have the OLPC.
Most of those "rich" features don't belong in a wordprocessor or spreadsheet application. That's why there are desktop publishing applications like Scribus.
That's what I was thinking. In the best case scenario, cloning maintains current traits. Selective breeding strengthens traits. There might be some use of cloning good sniffer females (although I'm sure they could do all sorts of implantation of embryos in other females) if there is a shortage. Anyways, I'm not a breeding expert, so maybe they know best.
We should start a Slashdot poll on to what distro name would be good. Red Hat penguins would be well suited if we found out they had some kind of red crest like rooster, hehehe. What other thoughts are out there as to the best distro name for the species?
Well, since God created Adam and Eve naked, and that's how they were BEFORE the original sin... how could God have thought that being naked when he created them naked? Had God perceived it as wrong, they should have been programmed to try to get dressed before having been soiled by the original sin. Therefore, the perception of nakedness as wrong, does not stem from God, but from the sin. Hence we persist in the sin while keeping our clothes on. Let's all get naked and participate in God's true design....
(by the look on their faces, I think my coworkers are not aware of God's true design).
I think that NHL teams should have the first 3 draft choices in a geographical area close to their home city. Yes it would create "powerhouse" teams, but only in those areas where people are interested in hockey. The NHL's interest in expanding in areas where no matter what people couldn't care less for hockey is becoming quite damaging in areas where people used to be fanatics of the sport. It kills the local pride, and interest. Eventually the interest will dim down even where it used to be a passion, without ever having gotten any increase in interest where the goons leading the NHL have been opening new franchises. They are killing the sport, not making it more relevant. The NHL needs to be put out of its misery. We need new leagues to take over.
Actually Remembrance day WWI not WWII. The poppy is a reference to "In Flanders Fields". The battle of Vimy Ridge and the battles of the Flanders were defining moments in Canadian history and the transition from British colony to nation.
Actually, geology of different worlds can be quite different. As far as I know, there are not many (if any) bodies outside of earth that has plate tectonics in the solar system (although I think I remember hearing that there might be evidence that similar processes might be taking place on Titan).
Trust me... it happens less than with Windows. The best thing I ever did was switch over my aunt and my parents to Linux. It went from weekly calls that things weren't working to just check things out and update when I'm visiting, and having it done in the background. Plus, there is Ubuntu now. I love passing around those CDs to friends. They know BEFORE installing if they are going to have trouble with their hardware. Thank God for Live CDs.
I always thought that operating systems and time-critical systems should always use Universal Time internally. It's fine to display stuff to the user in local time, but all the innards should be UTC. I loved my first Debian install when it told me how my computer clock was going to stay on UTC, and the display time would be acoording to whatever time zone I chose. Then I wondered why the heck Windows actually went and changed the hardware clock. That seems so stupid in retrospect. I'm sure some stuff would still be broken at some point, but keeping the hardware clocks on UTC and timestamps on UTC should avoid lots of trouble.
Never forget that those who laid the foundation of discrete computing and many basic algorithms that today have proven useful lived in an era where computers were not even dreamed of. Their research could also have been called pointless. Because you cannot see the purpose of some bit of knowledge does not make it useless per se. It may one day prove to be that little tidbit that makes something **apparently** totally unrelated and wonderful be possible. Understanding the "WHY" of one thing makes possible the "WHAT IF..." of another thing.
LCD screens CRT screens are not comfy for everyone. I can use them, but nobody else I know feels comfortable reading a book on them. Now, when e-ink and e-paper become the norm for small form tablet PCs and handhelds, then lots of people are going to adopt the reflective screen for reading books.... as their entire collection can fit in a single device. But reflective displays (at reasonable resolutions) are the key for this to happen any time soon. Even though I am one of those who won't shy away from reading a book on a computer, I can still recognize that these screens just don't feel very comfortable. There is something inherently less aggressive about reading long text from a reflective display instead. That's why books are still much more comfy.
The sewer system would have to be redesigned. Those paddles will kill the hydraulic properties of your sewer system... causing backups and possibly overflowing sewers. Might as well plug a couple of sewer pipes. Not a bad idea... but it needs to be taken into consideration in the design from the ground up... (i.e. sizing and sloping the pipes etc.). It's not the kind of thing you can just add later on.
I personally think it is stupid to ban it as a reference. The point is that you cannot rely on any ONE source of references for anything... They should require a minimum number of references for material on any given research and see where agree or disagree. Wickipedia is actually great to foster critical thinking and realising that what's written is not necessarily right... be it in Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Britannica. By banning once source of material, the profs are actually discouraging critical thinking. They might want to encurage their students to 1- discover and use the discussions pages and history in wikipedia articles. They are actually great places to see what the major points of disagreement might be on a given subject and help focus the research. Using those, Wikipedia becomes much more powerful than traditional encyclopedias that only provide the final digested "accepted" version of facts. The consensus about the truth at any given time is not necessarily the truth. Being able to follow other threads is also important. Using a single source of material is never a good research policy.
Actually, the issue is not just gas consumption and obesity. What really had people panicking is that farmland is giving way to this urban srpawl. Obesity may not be a problem for long at this rate. Cities are rarely built in inhospitable places, therefore it's good farmland that usually becomes suburbs.... and that is a very real problem. Urban sprawl is a bad idea from any angle you look at it: health, energy consumption, or food production.
and for the less tech savvy, Ubuntu has a nice Add/Remove programs menu item that handles everything in the repository. And if you get a foreign debian package gdebi will do the work that apt-get does when you click on it, resolving dependencies. That seems to handle most of the stuff from both CNR and InstallShield (though a real installshield lookalike is probably autopackage). The difference between CNR and Distro-specific packaging system is that CNR makes available (for a fee) binary-only commercial third party programs that you will most definitely not find in any of the distro's repositories. If you want to mix and match free-software and propriatory software then that would be the way to go.
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And KOffice can open PDFs for editing. Awesome. Sure, the layout rendering is not always exact, but it does a tremendous job of converting the PDF to paragraphs, with the occasional embedded images. Scribus is also nice to import PostScript (why not PDFs?...) and respect the layout, but the text is usually broken down into individual characters. KWord does a great job with it. All in all, they each do their own job. It has allowed me to save some documents whose original editable copies got lost somehow... and for which I only had the PDF left. It's not as good as OOo at opening MS Office documents though, and the equations from ODF files aren't imported yet, but it's awesoooome.
What I love from the specs of the OLPC is the cranking recharging, and networking abilities. From a civil engineer's perspective, it's great for lots of field tasks where you may want to syncronize the compilation of guys working in different ends of the field, while at the same time giving them the ability to keep the device working with occasional cranking ups when the battery is dead and it is not practical to go running back and forth to the truck for recharging. It's ideal for civil engineering field work where you spend 12 hour shifts on site.... Add to it solar cells in ADDITION to the crank and it's wonderful. There are many tasks where you don't need the ultra PC. But the ability to turn into a TABLET added to those other features that I mentioned make it an ideal field computer.
I'm burntout with all those image ads, and yet google ads have never bothered me. Google may be alienating the surfers with that plan.
Yes. It is image resizing. Not image rescaling. It is GREAT for general web layout (images that should be scaled this way should have a new property set in the image tag). It's not good when you want to actually rescale an image while preserving aspect ratios of all components. But for web page component layout, this is Awesome. As well as for desktop wallpaper resizing. Rescaling doesn't always produce the desired results in those cases. Aesthetics are more important there than fidelity of original image.
What province was this in? We had something like that back when I was in high school (Ontario) but I think more than just the advanced classes got a shot at university. Of course, that was a long time ago. Beginning of those programs.
Naaa. As a teenager, I was fully aware that the music in the 80s was crap. As a teenager, I only listened to oldies because of that knowledge. As the 80s music is finding its way to the oldies now, a lot of the oldies are crap. Very sad. I was old even when I was young.
I'm not an expert on trademarks, but as far as I know, the Red Cross is older than Johnson & Johnson, and has ALWAYS used the red cross as a trademark. J & J could only have begun using it to associate ITSELF to the already well known Red Cross organisation, that would have ALREADY been associated with health. If anyone is infringing anyone else's trade mark, it would have to be J&J. I don't remember seeing a red cross on J&J products. I know what EVERYBODY associates the red cross with: RED CROSS. dugh. Count me in the J&J boycott. I'll spread the word.
Which is one of the most desirable features of the OLPC. Plus, the meshing technology, of course. Does this one Include it? I saw nothing about something similar. I'd still rather have the OLPC.
Most of those "rich" features don't belong in a wordprocessor or spreadsheet application. That's why there are desktop publishing applications like Scribus.
That's what I was thinking. In the best case scenario, cloning maintains current traits. Selective breeding strengthens traits. There might be some use of cloning good sniffer females (although I'm sure they could do all sorts of implantation of embryos in other females) if there is a shortage. Anyways, I'm not a breeding expert, so maybe they know best.
We should start a Slashdot poll on to what distro name would be good. Red Hat penguins would be well suited if we found out they had some kind of red crest like rooster, hehehe. What other thoughts are out there as to the best distro name for the species?
Well, since God created Adam and Eve naked, and that's how they were BEFORE the original sin... how could God have thought that being naked when he created them naked? Had God perceived it as wrong, they should have been programmed to try to get dressed before having been soiled by the original sin. Therefore, the perception of nakedness as wrong, does not stem from God, but from the sin. Hence we persist in the sin while keeping our clothes on. Let's all get naked and participate in God's true design. ...
(by the look on their faces, I think my coworkers are not aware of God's true design).
I think that NHL teams should have the first 3 draft choices in a geographical area close to their home city. Yes it would create "powerhouse" teams, but only in those areas where people are interested in hockey. The NHL's interest in expanding in areas where no matter what people couldn't care less for hockey is becoming quite damaging in areas where people used to be fanatics of the sport. It kills the local pride, and interest. Eventually the interest will dim down even where it used to be a passion, without ever having gotten any increase in interest where the goons leading the NHL have been opening new franchises. They are killing the sport, not making it more relevant. The NHL needs to be put out of its misery. We need new leagues to take over.
Actually Remembrance day WWI not WWII. The poppy is a reference to "In Flanders Fields". The battle of Vimy Ridge and the battles of the Flanders were defining moments in Canadian history and the transition from British colony to nation.
Well, they could have them down while in parking orbit around earth... So you would still get to say "Shields UP" when starting yoru journey.
Actually, geology of different worlds can be quite different. As far as I know, there are not many (if any) bodies outside of earth that has plate tectonics in the solar system (although I think I remember hearing that there might be evidence that similar processes might be taking place on Titan).
Trust me... it happens less than with Windows. The best thing I ever did was switch over my aunt and my parents to Linux. It went from weekly calls that things weren't working to just check things out and update when I'm visiting, and having it done in the background. Plus, there is Ubuntu now. I love passing around those CDs to friends. They know BEFORE installing if they are going to have trouble with their hardware. Thank God for Live CDs.
I always thought that operating systems and time-critical systems should always use Universal Time internally. It's fine to display stuff to the user in local time, but all the innards should be UTC. I loved my first Debian install when it told me how my computer clock was going to stay on UTC, and the display time would be acoording to whatever time zone I chose. Then I wondered why the heck Windows actually went and changed the hardware clock. That seems so stupid in retrospect. I'm sure some stuff would still be broken at some point, but keeping the hardware clocks on UTC and timestamps on UTC should avoid lots of trouble.
Never forget that those who laid the foundation of discrete computing and many basic algorithms that today have proven useful lived in an era where computers were not even dreamed of. Their research could also have been called pointless. Because you cannot see the purpose of some bit of knowledge does not make it useless per se. It may one day prove to be that little tidbit that makes something **apparently** totally unrelated and wonderful be possible. Understanding the "WHY" of one thing makes possible the "WHAT IF..." of another thing.
You're right. I guess if we just used duck (duct) tape, it should work out just fine.
LCD screens CRT screens are not comfy for everyone. I can use them, but nobody else I know feels comfortable reading a book on them. Now, when e-ink and e-paper become the norm for small form tablet PCs and handhelds, then lots of people are going to adopt the reflective screen for reading books.... as their entire collection can fit in a single device. But reflective displays (at reasonable resolutions) are the key for this to happen any time soon. Even though I am one of those who won't shy away from reading a book on a computer, I can still recognize that these screens just don't feel very comfortable. There is something inherently less aggressive about reading long text from a reflective display instead. That's why books are still much more comfy.
The sewer system would have to be redesigned. Those paddles will kill the hydraulic properties of your sewer system... causing backups and possibly overflowing sewers. Might as well plug a couple of sewer pipes. Not a bad idea... but it needs to be taken into consideration in the design from the ground up... (i.e. sizing and sloping the pipes etc.). It's not the kind of thing you can just add later on.
I personally think it is stupid to ban it as a reference. The point is that you cannot rely on any ONE source of references for anything... They should require a minimum number of references for material on any given research and see where agree or disagree. Wickipedia is actually great to foster critical thinking and realising that what's written is not necessarily right... be it in Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Britannica. By banning once source of material, the profs are actually discouraging critical thinking. They might want to encurage their students to 1- discover and use the discussions pages and history in wikipedia articles. They are actually great places to see what the major points of disagreement might be on a given subject and help focus the research. Using those, Wikipedia becomes much more powerful than traditional encyclopedias that only provide the final digested "accepted" version of facts. The consensus about the truth at any given time is not necessarily the truth. Being able to follow other threads is also important. Using a single source of material is never a good research policy.
Actually, the issue is not just gas consumption and obesity. What really had people panicking is that farmland is giving way to this urban srpawl. Obesity may not be a problem for long at this rate. Cities are rarely built in inhospitable places, therefore it's good farmland that usually becomes suburbs.... and that is a very real problem. Urban sprawl is a bad idea from any angle you look at it: health, energy consumption, or food production.
and for the less tech savvy, Ubuntu has a nice Add/Remove programs menu item that handles everything in the repository. And if you get a foreign debian package gdebi will do the work that apt-get does when you click on it, resolving dependencies. That seems to handle most of the stuff from both CNR and InstallShield (though a real installshield lookalike is probably autopackage). The difference between CNR and Distro-specific packaging system is that CNR makes available (for a fee) binary-only commercial third party programs that you will most definitely not find in any of the distro's repositories. If you want to mix and match free-software and propriatory software then that would be the way to go.