It seems to be losing count of comments when some of them are below your browsing threshold. The behavior (showing already-read comments on subsequent pages) never happens if you browse at -1.
the F or the L is entirely redundant It's trying to deal with the notion that "free" and "libre" are different things, hard to express in English. "Free" as in free beer that you don't have to pay for; "Libre" as in you can have the recipe for the beer, make your own, improve the recipe, and distribute the improved recipe.
It was over 200k in spring of 2003 when the MNG-removal took place.
I spent a good deal of last summer reducing it to about 100k (partly by rewriting space-inefficient code and partly by removing unused features), and also reduced libpng from 105k to about 45k by removing unused features.
That appeared to meet the criteria set by the Mozilla drivers, but still it never got back on trunk due to lack of a suitable maintainer.
plus IE shifts the PNG palette 1 shade brighter (or is it darker) so you can never accurately match up the edge of an image with page colours (specified using HTML colour codes).
you can make it look good in IE (by compensating) or good in other browsers (by doing it properly) but not good in both.
I believe you can make it look in both by using the SRGB colorspace (you have to do that anyway because HTML backgrounds are in SRGB) and putting an sRGB chunk, but no gAMA or cHRM chunk, in the PNG file.
I'm curious how anyone would know in a neighborhood. I can see the stigma of listing a felony on a job application, but how would I know that my neighbor has committed any variety of crime?
In my county you get your picture, name, address, and nature of your crime in the local paper once or twice a year.
They just sit there, willingly running anything given to them
My recently-coined name for them is e-rubes. After "rube", an awkward unpolished usually gullible rustic ignorant of urban ways (Webster's 3rd Intl). "I-rubes" is another possiblity but I prefer "e-rubes".
What amazes me is how many of them there are, evidenced by the spread of social-engineering trojans, one after another.
But I've got to vote for my mother's books. She discovered POD (Print On Demand) publishing this year and published 5 novels, three of them being a trilogy starting with "Stones for a Crumbling Wall". http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_de tail.asp ?isbn=0-595-26582-0
Iuniverse is quite generous with their "browse before you buy" which allows you to read the entire book.
>what's the problem with just using the GIF format?
GIF only offers binary transparency and 256 colors. PNG/MNG offers 256 levels of transparency and millions of colors. For a comparison of PNG and GIF handling of a simple drop shadow, look at pmt.sf.net/opossum You probably won't be able to see the JNG images there, but they are visually indistinguishable from the PNG.
There used to be an explanation on the Mozilla.org home page, but now it's buried in the roadmap (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html). Mozilla-1. 4.x is the "stable" version and Mozilla-1.5, 1.6 is the path with riskier, more aggressive development.
The LZW compression patent expired in the US in June 2003. In Europe, Japan, and Canada it runs until next summer. GIF will always be technically inferior though.
I cant dig up the slashdot post, but here is The Inquirer article from Jun 18th. Someone did this well before esr did.
Its not new, Its not esr's Idea, Its almost 3 months old!!!
Not new, 3 months old, yes. But how can you conclude that the anonymous correspondent to the Inquirer is not ESR? The correspondent describes ESR's algorithm in detail. The only significant difference is in June he was using 5-line shreds instead of 3-line shreds.
Our company has one better. They delete ALL executable email attachments
My ISP has one better than that. Since Tuesday morning they have been returning ALL of my incoming email along with a message claiming I'm a spammer. Evidently they don't understand that viruses forge the From address.
I got about 300 during the first hour or so on Tuesday, then my ISP (mail2world, who recently took over alum.rpi.edu) terminated my address. Same deal: my address appears in the README for an open source library in millions of computers.
mail2world cancelled my lifetime email account after the first hour or so (300 messages about evenly divided "from" me and "to" me). The account is/was a simple forwarding account... Hopefully they will restore it sometime.
The best use of an animated GIF I've seen is at : http://www.ibanez.co.jp/world/guitar/uv_jem/pages/ uv777p.html - the little animation of the selector switch and pickups at the bottom is a fantastic way of conveying a large amount of information in a very small space.
Try this, if you have ImageMagick installed:
save the little animation--it's called hsh_5w_split5.gif
Type convert -quality 90 hsh*.gif hsh.mng Then view hsh.mng with Mozilla-1.0 through Mozilla-1.4b
Also type ls -l hsh* and note that it's smaller, even without any hand-tuning.
530 linear miles, assuming 100 pages (200 sides) per inch, mostly black-and-white, average 6x9 inch pages, works out to about 1.5MB per side, which would correspond to something like 150dpi, 1-bit b/w scans.
Since a fair amount of the LOC is text, compressed OCR could cut the size of an LOC by a factor of 1000.
OTOH, if everything is hypothetically rescanned with a nice 48-bit, 2400dpi scanner into PNG format, it could go up by a factor of 500.
> I am not exactly sure why the images are not > showing, but it would be nice if the pages > actually had <html>, <head> and <body> tags > to make them valid HTML documents.
They are all optional according to the HTML spec. The only required HTML elements are <!doctype> and <title>...</title>.
> I am not exactly sure why the images are not > showing, but it would be nice if the pages > actually had , and tags > to make them valid HTML documents.
They are all optional according to the HTML spec. The only required HTML elements are and....
I agree. I took a "structured programming" course from him in 1977 at New Jersey Institute of Tech and it was one of the best courses I ever had. The text was his "The Elements of Programming Style" and some mimeo sheets of another book he was working on.
Only problem is, Qmail isn't "FOSS". It doesn't fit in with either of the Free Software or Open Source definitions. You're allowed to look at the source code of Qmail but not touch. Distributing modified versions isn't allowed.
FOSS is Free (as in beer) and Open (you can look at it) but not necessarily Free (as in speech). You are thinking of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).
The license says that if you sue another open source project, you can't use the product any more.
It's both more powerful [sp?] and less powerful than that.
It says: This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
It's more powerful because you don't have to sue "the project" to activate the clause. You only have to file a lawsuit. It could be against anyone. This is important because open source developers generally don't have enough money to attract a lawsuit, but users of our software might have.
It's less powerful because the license doesn't grant (or withhold) the right to "use" the software, other than by copying it, or performing it or displaying it publicly. The latter two may have implications on using it as a part of a web site, but IANAL.
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It seems to be losing count of comments when some of them are below your browsing threshold. The behavior (showing already-read comments on subsequent pages) never happens if you browse at -1.
the F or the L is entirely redundant
It's trying to deal with the notion that "free" and "libre"
are different things, hard to express in English. "Free" as
in free beer that you don't have to pay for; "Libre" as in you
can have the recipe for the beer, make your own, improve the
recipe, and distribute the improved recipe.
Sorry to reply to my own posting, but would this imply that the administrator is
1. suffering from a multiple personalities disorder
2. a siamese twin
3. undergoing a sex-change at this very moment
4. a monarch
5. God
?
6. author was using nonsexist language.
It was over 200k in spring of 2003 when the MNG-removal took place.
I spent a good deal of last summer reducing it to about 100k (partly by rewriting space-inefficient code and partly by removing unused features), and also reduced libpng from 105k to about 45k by removing
unused features.
That appeared to meet the criteria set by the Mozilla drivers, but still it never got back on trunk due to lack of a suitable maintainer.
ImageMagick binaries offered only *uncompressed* GIF support.
Now that the patent has expired everywhere, LZW compression has
been enabled.
plus IE shifts the PNG palette 1 shade brighter (or is it darker) so you can never accurately match up the edge of an image with page colours (specified using HTML colour codes).
you can make it look good in IE (by compensating) or good in other browsers (by doing it properly) but not good in both.
I believe you can make it look in both by using the SRGB colorspace
(you have to do that anyway because HTML backgrounds are in SRGB) and
putting an sRGB chunk, but no gAMA or cHRM chunk, in the PNG file.
I'm curious how anyone would know in a neighborhood. I can see the stigma of listing a felony on a job application, but how would I know that my neighbor has committed any variety of crime?
In my county you get your picture, name, address, and nature of your crime in the local paper once or twice a year.
-1 wrong. Government employees cannot get off the hook by redirecting an illegal gift to a charity. They must return it to the giver.
They just sit there, willingly running anything given to them
My recently-coined name for them is e-rubes. After "rube", an
awkward unpolished usually gullible rustic ignorant of urban ways
(Webster's 3rd Intl). "I-rubes" is another possiblity but I
prefer "e-rubes".
What amazes me is how many of them there are, evidenced by the spread
of social-engineering trojans, one after another.
More like 30,000,000kg. There are about a million kg of TNT in a kt,
not a thousand.
But I've got to vote for my mother's books. She discovered POD (Print On Demand) publishing this year and published 5 novels, three of them being a trilogy starting with "Stones for a Crumbling Wall".e tail.asp ?isbn=0-595-26582-0
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_d
Iuniverse is quite generous with their "browse before you buy" which allows you to read the entire book.
>what's the problem with just using the GIF format?
GIF only offers binary transparency and 256 colors. PNG/MNG offers 256
levels of transparency and millions of colors. For a comparison of
PNG and GIF handling of a simple drop shadow, look at
pmt.sf.net/opossum
You probably won't be able to see the JNG images there, but they
are visually indistinguishable from the PNG.
There used to be an explanation on the Mozilla.org home page, but now. 4.x is the "stable" version and Mozilla-1.5, 1.6 is the
it's buried in the roadmap (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html).
Mozilla-1
path with riskier, more aggressive development.
The LZW compression patent expired in the US in June 2003. In Europe,
Japan, and Canada it runs until next summer. GIF will always be technically inferior though.
I cant dig up the slashdot post, but here is The Inquirer article from Jun 18th. Someone did this well before esr did.
Its not new, Its not esr's Idea, Its almost 3 months old!!!
Not new, 3 months old, yes. But how can you conclude that the anonymous
correspondent to the Inquirer is not ESR? The correspondent describes
ESR's algorithm in detail. The only significant difference is in June he was using 5-line shreds instead of 3-line shreds.
Our company has one better. They delete ALL executable email attachments
My ISP has one better than that. Since Tuesday morning they have
been returning ALL of my incoming email along with a message claiming
I'm a spammer. Evidently they don't understand that viruses forge
the From address.
I got about 300 during the first hour or so on Tuesday, then my ISP
(mail2world, who recently took over alum.rpi.edu) terminated my address.
Same deal: my address appears in the README for an open source library in
millions of computers.
mail2world cancelled my lifetime email account after the first hour or so (300 messages about evenly divided "from" me and "to" me). The account is/was a simple forwarding account... Hopefully they will restore it sometime.
The best use of an animated GIF I've seen is at : http://www.ibanez.co.jp/world/guitar/uv_jem/pages/ uv777p.html - the little animation of the selector switch and pickups at the bottom is a fantastic way of conveying a large amount of information in a very small space.
Try this, if you have ImageMagick installed:
save the little animation--it's called hsh_5w_split5.gif
Type convert -quality 90 hsh*.gif hsh.mng
Then view hsh.mng with Mozilla-1.0 through Mozilla-1.4b
Also type ls -l hsh* and note that it's smaller, even without
any hand-tuning.
530 linear miles, assuming 100 pages (200 sides) per inch, mostly black-and-white, average 6x9 inch pages, works out to about 1.5MB per side, which would correspond to something like 150dpi, 1-bit b/w scans.
Since a fair amount of the LOC is text, compressed OCR could cut the size of an LOC by a factor of 1000.
OTOH, if everything is hypothetically rescanned with a nice 48-bit, 2400dpi scanner into PNG format, it could go up by a factor of 500.
Glenn
> I am not exactly sure why the images are not
> showing, but it would be nice if the pages
> actually had <html>, <head> and <body> tags
> to make them valid HTML documents.
They are all optional according to the HTML spec.
The only required HTML elements are <!doctype>
and <title>...</title>.
> I am not exactly sure why the images are not
....
> showing, but it would be nice if the pages
> actually had , and tags
> to make them valid HTML documents.
They are all optional according to the HTML spec.
The only required HTML elements are
and
I agree. I took a "structured programming" course from him in 1977 at
New Jersey Institute of Tech and it was one of the best courses I ever had. The text was his "The Elements of Programming Style" and some mimeo sheets of another book he was working on.
Only problem is, Qmail isn't "FOSS". It doesn't fit in with either of the Free Software or Open Source definitions. You're allowed to look at the source code of Qmail but not touch. Distributing modified versions isn't allowed.
FOSS is Free (as in beer) and Open (you can look at it) but not necessarily Free (as in speech). You are thinking of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).
Glenn
The license says that if you sue another open source project, you can't use the product any more.
It's both more powerful [sp?] and less powerful than that.
It says:
This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
It's more powerful because you don't have to sue "the project" to
activate the clause. You only have to file a lawsuit. It could be against anyone. This is important because open source developers generally don't have enough money to attract a lawsuit, but users of our software might have.
It's less powerful because the license doesn't grant (or withhold) the right to "use" the software, other than by copying it, or performing it or displaying it publicly. The latter two may have implications on using it as a part of a web site, but IANAL.
Glenn