For people doing print work, CMYK is definitely important. For everyone else, it doesn't matter one bit. And people doing print work should be using a vector format anyway!
Really? Tell us, how does one make a vector format of a photograph?
If open source costs more in man hours (don't be foolish....you know as well as I it can), retraining and possibly hardware, it could very well mean it could cost more than say sticking with Microsoft or IBM OS/390.
As opposed to the retraining that's needed when upgrading Microsoft software (XP, Office, etc)?
First the Mozilla party on a Wednesday and now the EFF Benefit on a Thursday. How about doing this sort of stuff on a weekend so people can actually attend?
What will it take to marginalize ICANN? Isn't ICANN only an issue because we can't collectively agree on using new root nameservers? A huge task, I realize, but ICANN only has power because everyone in the net community continues to give them power. There's no technical reason that we can't take that power away from them, is there not?
Seriously, the name is so stupid and embarrassing to say or read that I wonder if people won't resist it for that reason alone.
You have a point although Ogg Vorbis doesn't sound as bad as GIMP. I have a hard time convincing people that they should use a program called GIMP. It has negative connotations to most people. I think the strange names that some projects have or will be a barrier to Linux being accepted on the desktop.
Why do you think a school that can't afford books can afford a VCD player?
Since you didn't pay attention to the original article, I'll quote this part for you:
An interesting angle to the video cd story is that in the next year or two most of the laptops entering the donation stream will have built-in CD-ROM drives. Law firms, corporations and government offices that upgrade their laptops will pass along to charities and the nonprofit sector a very usable, portable multimedia access device.
Remember that each book is expensive to produce and duplicate. Digital media, by contrast, is cheap to duplicate. If you combine this with royalty free content you create educational materials that are far easier to multiply among students than books alone.
I can't believe that your post got modded up. You sound like some privileged, middle-class kid from America who's never left his country. The original article, which you quote, states that he's talking about not only his own country but others as well.
You begin to make sweeping statements that students need to have more of a will to use the opportunities that they already have. Please, tell us about those opportunities that they have in, say, poorer parts of India, Brazil, or even the United States. Why do you feel those opportunites are enough? Don't you think that choice is good? Don't you think that having more educational options available to people is a good thing? Do you think that everyone has access to the same materials that you do? That the libraries throughout the world or even your country have a wealth of materials such as the ones you have access to? You know, there's a lot of places in the world where quality education isn't ubiquitous.
You also make the mistake of thinking that education can only be gained by sitting through a lengthy class and not from watching a 70 minute video. Who says that one VCD, or many, have to teach you French or calculus? And why do you think they can't? Sure, interaction is important, but haven't you ever sat down with a book and learned something from it? There's plenty of people who've taught themselves things from reading a book on how to do it. I learned how to draw and paint from reading a book. I also learned to program Perl from a book. There's no reason that a video makes it any different, it's just a different medium.
Thankfully, there are people such as ADUni that continue to make quality educational programs accessible in spite of your defeatist attitude. Not only do they provide the videos but they also provide the materials so that people can learn by practicing.
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i dunno, it just seems like a waste to me.
There are a lot of less foutunate people than yourself who are quite thankful that others in this world such as Phil Shapiro do not share your views.
I am pontificating but not pointlessly. You assume that I'm talking about KDE in particular and therefore missed my point. KDE does now have short descriptions but it didn't when I first started to use it. GNOME didn't have these either. There are still many GUI based programs that are not KDE- or GNOME-based that don't provide a summary of what they do.
Also, something as brief as "KDE Advanced Text Editor" may be enough to describe a text editor but it's still rather skimpy on the details. As another poster pointed out, it would help to have some more detail so that the end user could make a better decision about which program to use.
An example of a better description for Kate:
Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of KDE, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own including unicode support, syntax highlighting, and a plugin interface.
There's one thing about pretty much every GUI program that I really hate. It's the About menu item. It never tells me about the program. It just tells me who wrote it and what the copyright is. That sort of stuff should be moved into a Credits menu item and the About menu item should devote a few sentences to telling me what the program does.
I ran into this problem a lot when I first started using both GNOME and KDE. I had no idea what half the programs did and there was no clue within the program itself. After a while it became too much of a drag to go find the docs just to read a one paragraph summary of what a given program was. I would hope that in the future developers would start putting a small description of their program within the About menu item.
He didn't need a job before considering the fact that he was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems. He made a killing from the stock he had and used that to start up a lot of different things including Cygnus.
You'll want to have a decent grasp of regular expressions as procmail is centered around them. Also check out the faq that the other poster linked to.
Procmail rule to catch Klez
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I use this procmail rule to catch Klez viruses:
:0 B * ! ^Received: * 9HyTO130D42FAAAAU1bo5RoAAGoAi9joFC4AAIvwi0UIg.YBVm hmB0EAjbgsAQAA6MMaAABQ klez
The lameness filter is putting a space in the string of characters above so be sure to remove it when you put this in your procmailrc file. Also remove the space before the:0 B in the first line.
They feel they are the "inventors" and hence shouldn't have to let anyone else in on their network.
Get real. It's their network and their bandwidth. You same hypocrites complain about spammers using your network and taking your bandwidth yet you feel as if some perceived right is being violated when you can't use AOL's AIM servers for your own purpose.
It's their network and their program, so they set the rules. If you don't like it, you can use one of the other instant messenger programs. If you really don't like it, then there's nothing stopping you from creating a server that uses the AIM protocol and hosting that on your server sucking up your bandwidth. Maybe, if you are creative enough, you'll make a better IM protocol. That's what the Jabber people did.
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What you've described is exactly what TMDA does.
Actually it stands for Private Branch eXchange as it acts as a private telephone switchboard.
Read SQL for Web Nerds. It's done from the perspective of someone using Oracle, but you should be able to get the idea.
Wrong. Freedb.org was started as a replacement for CDDB not the other way around. Maybe you should read up on why this project exists in the first place.
First the Mozilla party on a Wednesday and now the EFF Benefit on a Thursday. How about doing this sort of stuff on a weekend so people can actually attend?
Department of Commerce? Don't you mean Ministry of Commerce? Or some other country? Remember, the Internet shouldn't be run by a country.
Please comment.
But can't we just recompile?
gimp
n : disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
You begin to make sweeping statements that students need to have more of a will to use the opportunities that they already have. Please, tell us about those opportunities that they have in, say, poorer parts of India, Brazil, or even the United States. Why do you feel those opportunites are enough? Don't you think that choice is good? Don't you think that having more educational options available to people is a good thing? Do you think that everyone has access to the same materials that you do? That the libraries throughout the world or even your country have a wealth of materials such as the ones you have access to? You know, there's a lot of places in the world where quality education isn't ubiquitous.
You also make the mistake of thinking that education can only be gained by sitting through a lengthy class and not from watching a 70 minute video. Who says that one VCD, or many, have to teach you French or calculus? And why do you think they can't? Sure, interaction is important, but haven't you ever sat down with a book and learned something from it? There's plenty of people who've taught themselves things from reading a book on how to do it. I learned how to draw and paint from reading a book. I also learned to program Perl from a book. There's no reason that a video makes it any different, it's just a different medium.
Thankfully, there are people such as ADUni that continue to make quality educational programs accessible in spite of your defeatist attitude. Not only do they provide the videos but they also provide the materials so that people can learn by practicing.
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There are a lot of less foutunate people than yourself who are quite thankful that others in this world such as Phil Shapiro do not share your views.Maybe they mean free as in free beer not as in free speech.
Silly Pudge. 5.10 is less than 5.8. Didn't you take math classes?
Silly Pudge. 5.10 5.8. Didn't you take math classes?
Also, something as brief as "KDE Advanced Text Editor" may be enough to describe a text editor but it's still rather skimpy on the details. As another poster pointed out, it would help to have some more detail so that the end user could make a better decision about which program to use.
An example of a better description for Kate:
I ran into this problem a lot when I first started using both GNOME and KDE. I had no idea what half the programs did and there was no clue within the program itself. After a while it became too much of a drag to go find the docs just to read a one paragraph summary of what a given program was. I would hope that in the future developers would start putting a small description of their program within the About menu item.
He didn't need a job before considering the fact that he was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems. He made a killing from the stock he had and used that to start up a lot of different things including Cygnus.
man procmailrc
man procmailex
You'll want to have a decent grasp of regular expressions as procmail is centered around them. Also check out the faq that the other poster linked to.
* ! ^Received:
* 9HyTO130D42FAAAAU1bo5RoAAGoAi9joFC4AAIvwi0UIg.YBV
klez
The lameness filter is putting a space in the string of characters above so be sure to remove it when you put this in your procmailrc file. Also remove the space before the :0 B in the first line.
It's their network and their program, so they set the rules. If you don't like it, you can use one of the other instant messenger programs. If you really don't like it, then there's nothing stopping you from creating a server that uses the AIM protocol and hosting that on your server sucking up your bandwidth. Maybe, if you are creative enough, you'll make a better IM protocol. That's what the Jabber people did.
If you'd have bothered to read the article you'd have seen that it does have source and it's licenced under the GPL.