Pictures and text are already resolution independent, just size in relative units (like ems) instead of absolute units (like px). Try it, it even works with raster images. Vector images would be nice too, but that's not a limitation of CSS, as usual, IE's worthlessness makes everyone suffer.
CSS is actually an excellent standard, both very practical and very powerful. The main problem with CSS actually has nothing to do with CSS and everything to do with IE. The buggy and incomplete implementation of CSS1 (only) in IE6 is still the biggest problem with web design today, as IE6 still has >50% market share in most demographics. However, even with IE's stillborn support of CSS, making pages that degrade gracefully in IE is far from intractable, provided you already know about IE's deficiencies.
Yes, fixed width designs fail miserably, but there's nothing stopping you from making nice liquid designs (Slashdot is a good example) with pure CSS. The reason there's so many fixed width designs around is because there's so many print designers around (and few web designers, in comparison), who by definition expect to have precise control of every last pixel on the screen, whereas web designers know that that's not applicable to the web and design accordingly.
speaking of that, video codecs are a WAY bigger problem than flash. Anyone can live without flash. I'd put codecs and games way before flash any way. And if Red Alert 2/Oblivion/Generals/Starcraft can't run on Linux, I'm installing Windows.
I guess it's a good thing they allruninWine then. I was just playing Starcraft less than an hour ago, actually.
As for video codecs, I've never run into a video I couldn't play before.
Any modern CPU can play 1080p h.264 easily, purely in software. My 2.5 year old Athlon X2 4200+ (2x 2.2 Ghz) can play 1080p h.264 content perfectly, with only ~85% CPU usage of one core (the other being entirely idle).
Clearly you have not used LCDs. I would never go back to a CRT.
Or, (much more likely), he's only used an LCD with a TN panel. TN panels have only 6-bit colour per channel, terrible viewing angles (vertical in particular) and are extremely common in any LCD smaller than 24" or that costs less than $500.
Needless to say, LCDs with TN panels are trash. LCDs with IPS or PVA panels are quite nice, though. Unfortunately, TN panels are infesting higher and higher up in the LCD market, 2 years ago it was hard to find a TN panel in anything larger than 19". At the same time, widescreen LCDs are taking over as they're cheaper to produce, so anyone who wants a monitor with a useful aspect ratio has to look pretty hard to find it.
All in all it's a pretty dismal time for LCD technology, I'm hoping the next generation of display technology (LED from the looks of it) fixes the above problems.
Unless you're hopelessly brainwashed by some cult (religion and/or political) then theres absolutely nothing wrong with kids seeing porn.
So if you went to your local park and started showing the local kids your pr0n stash, or your own kids (if you had any) started bragging loud and wide at school about how 'dad' let's them look at dirty pix all the time, how long would it take before your face and a mugshot card got plastered on the evening news, d'ya figure?
I know that this might put a lot of jobs at risk, which is bad...
No, it really isn't. It's called progress. There is (and always will be) an infinite amount of work to do.
Once a problem is solved, there's no reason to solve it again, except if it can be solved in a better way. Jobs that disappear were solving problems in suboptimal ways. New jobs will inevitably be created that solve problems in better ways. Indeed, creating new jobs is a job in and of itself, it's often called entrepreneurship.
Would you propose that we outlaw email, as it puts a lot of jobs in the snail mail industry at risk?
Of course, there's also a couple thousand hammers you can pick from to learn. Probably a very small portion of those will offer a tangible improvement over your current hammer, and most of the others will just waste a month of your time.
Hold down your "alt" key and press "x". Now type "viper-mode" and press enter. Bingo, now all your old tools are exactly where they've always been!
Lies! I just tried it, and it didn't even support visual mode. It also doesn't support macros, folding, or multiple windows (at the very least, I only tried it for about a minute). A lot of other things are wrong too, backspace doesn't work correctly, for example (it won't cross lines).
Viper mode might be tolerable for a Vi user, but it's completely worthless for a Vim user, and we all know how much better Vim is (than both Vi and especially Emacs).
However, I think they also use Linux in their search appliances that they do sell. If they use Linux in those machines, don't they have to release the source code under the GPL?
-the performance hit is significant, so don't expect to run the very latest games on WINE yet
There's no inherent performance hit with using Wine, indeed many programs/games run at the same speed (or faster) than on Windows itself. The places where you see slowdown is typically where support is incomplete, possibly causing software fallbacks.
They're conformance tests, so they check the behaviour of various API calls to make sure that a) Windows does what it's supposed to, and b) Wine does what Windows does.
The first point is significant because MSDN is wrong quite often, and the API often changes behaviour from one Windows version to the next. So the only way to find out what Wine should really be doing is to write conformance tests and run them everywhere you can.
Are you serious? A release candidate for a random open source project is released, and that's news you care about?
Perhaps if you were paying attention, you'd know that Wine 1.0 has been 15 years in the making. Furthermore, Wine is hardly "a random open source project", Wine reaching 1.0 is a very significant milestone.
You don't want an emergency service to run as a business. If business gets slow, they may decide to create emergencies. That's been the business plan at half the consultancies I've ever known.
So, I've been slowly writing a script that converts anything in the pictures folder into jpegs and THEN uploads them... but I've been working on that for quite some time now and still haven't finished.
You mean like this?
for i in *tiff; do convert "$i" $(basename "$i".tiff).jpg; done
Where can I download the PPD driver for the HP Color LaserJet CP3505x printer?
I emailed HP and they said flat out that they will not support Linux or Mac.
You don't need to, it ships with HPLIP. I have it right here in v2.7.10:
$ ls -l/usr/share/ppd/HP/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP3505.ppd.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17568 Mar 4 23:54/usr/share/ppd/HP/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP3505.ppd.gz
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The only problem on my part is that I find VIA products mediocre when it comes to gaming.
Well, what do you expect from an integrated video card? They're hardly speed demons.
A Grue? I don't give a damn about any stinkin' Grue. Unless it happens to be a MSLE Grue.
But only in 1.09, after that it was high HP FEs that you worried about.
Not even the same version on the same platform.
Wouldn't that be the same programme? So you're saying if you open it up n different times it'll render it n different ways??
Yes, but that's primarily an IE feature.
Linux (with KDE) has both system wide mouse gestures and system wide spellchecking. Both have been around for many years now.
Pictures and text are already resolution independent, just size in relative units (like ems) instead of absolute units (like px). Try it, it even works with raster images. Vector images would be nice too, but that's not a limitation of CSS, as usual, IE's worthlessness makes everyone suffer.
CSS is actually an excellent standard, both very practical and very powerful. The main problem with CSS actually has nothing to do with CSS and everything to do with IE. The buggy and incomplete implementation of CSS1 (only) in IE6 is still the biggest problem with web design today, as IE6 still has >50% market share in most demographics. However, even with IE's stillborn support of CSS, making pages that degrade gracefully in IE is far from intractable, provided you already know about IE's deficiencies.
Yes, fixed width designs fail miserably, but there's nothing stopping you from making nice liquid designs (Slashdot is a good example) with pure CSS. The reason there's so many fixed width designs around is because there's so many print designers around (and few web designers, in comparison), who by definition expect to have precise control of every last pixel on the screen, whereas web designers know that that's not applicable to the web and design accordingly.
speaking of that, video codecs are a WAY bigger problem than flash. Anyone can live without flash. I'd put codecs and games way before flash any way. And if Red Alert 2/Oblivion/Generals/Starcraft can't run on Linux, I'm installing Windows.
I guess it's a good thing they all run in Wine then. I was just playing Starcraft less than an hour ago, actually.
As for video codecs, I've never run into a video I couldn't play before.
Are you intentionally trying to earn their (completely justified) wrath?
Respectively... No. Yes. No. Maybe.
Any modern CPU can play 1080p h.264 easily, purely in software. My 2.5 year old Athlon X2 4200+ (2x 2.2 Ghz) can play 1080p h.264 content perfectly, with only ~85% CPU usage of one core (the other being entirely idle).
Clearly you have not used LCDs. I would never go back to a CRT.
Or, (much more likely), he's only used an LCD with a TN panel. TN panels have only 6-bit colour per channel, terrible viewing angles (vertical in particular) and are extremely common in any LCD smaller than 24" or that costs less than $500.
Needless to say, LCDs with TN panels are trash. LCDs with IPS or PVA panels are quite nice, though. Unfortunately, TN panels are infesting higher and higher up in the LCD market, 2 years ago it was hard to find a TN panel in anything larger than 19". At the same time, widescreen LCDs are taking over as they're cheaper to produce, so anyone who wants a monitor with a useful aspect ratio has to look pretty hard to find it.
All in all it's a pretty dismal time for LCD technology, I'm hoping the next generation of display technology (LED from the looks of it) fixes the above problems.
Wouldn't that be "Atheists to become Pro-Reason post Apocalypse"?
No.
So if you went to your local park and started showing the local kids your pr0n stash, or your own kids (if you had any) started bragging loud and wide at school about how 'dad' let's them look at dirty pix all the time, how long would it take before your face and a mugshot card got plastered on the evening news, d'ya figure?
...and your point is?
No, it really isn't. It's called progress. There is (and always will be) an infinite amount of work to do.
Once a problem is solved, there's no reason to solve it again, except if it can be solved in a better way. Jobs that disappear were solving problems in suboptimal ways. New jobs will inevitably be created that solve problems in better ways. Indeed, creating new jobs is a job in and of itself, it's often called entrepreneurship.
Would you propose that we outlaw email, as it puts a lot of jobs in the snail mail industry at risk?
Of course, there's also a couple thousand hammers you can pick from to learn. Probably a very small portion of those will offer a tangible improvement over your current hammer, and most of the others will just waste a month of your time.
Lies! I just tried it, and it didn't even support visual mode. It also doesn't support macros, folding, or multiple windows (at the very least, I only tried it for about a minute). A lot of other things are wrong too, backspace doesn't work correctly, for example (it won't cross lines).
Viper mode might be tolerable for a Vi user, but it's completely worthless for a Vim user, and we all know how much better Vim is (than both Vi and especially Emacs).
Surely you mean d/y/p Cut and Paste... (I don't know if that's an option, but I assume it is, it is Emacs after all.)
Yes, and they do.
There's no inherent performance hit with using Wine, indeed many programs/games run at the same speed (or faster) than on Windows itself. The places where you see slowdown is typically where support is incomplete, possibly causing software fallbacks.
They're conformance tests, so they check the behaviour of various API calls to make sure that a) Windows does what it's supposed to, and b) Wine does what Windows does.
The first point is significant because MSDN is wrong quite often, and the API often changes behaviour from one Windows version to the next. So the only way to find out what Wine should really be doing is to write conformance tests and run them everywhere you can.
Perhaps if you were paying attention, you'd know that Wine 1.0 has been 15 years in the making. Furthermore, Wine is hardly "a random open source project", Wine reaching 1.0 is a very significant milestone.
No.
Furthermore, you can't use the native versions of the D3D dlls in Wine even if you wanted to, unlike some other more mundane dlls.
Only half?
You mean like this?
You don't need to, it ships with HPLIP. I have it right here in v2.7.10:
Also see http://hplip.sourceforge.net/models/color_laserjet/hp_color_laserjet_cp3505.html.What year are you living in? My HP Deskjet 6540 has been working flawlessly in Linux using HP's drivers for a good 3 or 4 years now...
That's not even including the Deskjet (870cxi or something like that, I forget now) I had before that, which was also in the same situation.