I am still not convinced. In fact, I think the human evolution stalls, since there is no ‘survivial of the fittest’. Medical care makes most people survive, and abstinence from having children is often in successful people.—How can humans evolve in this case? There is only diversity in my eyes.
You simply use "pdflatex" in place of the "latex" command to generate pdf output instead of dvi output, with much better quality than latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf (which unfortunately people who don't know better still use).
I have no clue at all with your ‘quality’ problems. With pdflatex, latex+dvips+ps2pdf, and latex+dvipdfmx I get exactly the same quality. Maybe you system is not configured correctly for using Type 1 fonts?
PDFLaTeX is convenient, but my experience shows latex+dvipdfmx generates the most compact PDF files. The LaTeX system I use is MiKTeX 2.5, for the record.
There are more alternatives than just FoxIt. Search for Sumatra PDF, eXPert PDF for the Windows solutions. On Linux, one should already knows about evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc.
This said, Adobe Reader is still the most powerful one. It is the only one that displays non-ASCII symbols in the bookmarks correctly on my Chinese-locale Windows. It is the only one that allows me to copy Chinese characters in the PDF to the clipboard.
Konyin keyboards have Shift2, while OLPC only uses the traditional AltGr. The only thing similar is the layout of special characters like Æ. I hardly see that as a patent infringement.
I would rather think this company wants to make its name (in)famous....
Much easier on the hard drive and RAM -- but taking that approach means you have to manually export the resulting file to send it to a friend; not necessarily the best approach for consumer software.
As another poster said, Picasa does it. And it does it well. It is very easy to e-mail the picture to a friend from inside Picasa, and you do not need to export it. Newer versions of Picasa also provide the capability to save the modified picture—and the original version is saved in a hidden directory, increasing disk usage as iPhoto does.
I mean it. TurboLinux need not pay much to Microsoft, if its main users are in China and India. I do not think Microsoft has many valid patents in China and Inda. (Anyone has data?)
Nope- Slashdot RSS works fine for me. Just have to pass it through another site (I personally use Livedoor Reader, but any other web-based RSS reader works, as does Opera Mini on my cellphone).
I do not see anything in your post contradict with mine. What I said was that the IP of the site rss.slashdot.org is blocked from China, and there did not seem to be keyword filtering on "rss". Your report only confirmed this.
I think the fact is wrong. China is not blocking all RSS feeds. Some are blocked, though, including the Slashdot RSS. However, the CNET RSS is still accessible.
Also, the phenomenon I observed seems to indicate the IP address of a related site is completely blocked. It is not like keyword filtering at all, which will involve RESET packets and some obvious browser actions.
I have also found that rss.slashdot.org and feeds.arstechnica.com share the same IP address, whose name is feeds.feedburner.com. I would rather think the problem is that this site also hosts some anti-Chinese Government information, and is the home of many RSS feeds.
So, while I regret that many RSS feeds are not accessible, it seems not true that China is blocking all rss URIs.
PDF is not Turing-complete, and that was an intelligent, intentional design decision. I think it had less to do with concerns about security than with not wanting to run a program on your printer without having any possible way to tell whether the program would ever terminate.
Interesting. However, there are printers that directly support PostScript, and I have not yet known of a printer that directly supports PDF.
Many famous blogging sites are blocked because people are free to post politically sensitive information on it. Since one part of the firewall is the IP blocking, your site is blocked along with the sensitive ones.
Linus T. made some very bad comments about C++ [gmane.org] this week.
If you had read that thread, you would have noticed that many other agreed with him, to the extent I can hardly tolerate.
I love C++, and I believe C++ is a better language than C. However, Linus apparently had some bad experience with C++, and he definitely had some valid points.
bullshit. open source was around when your mom was pissing in diapers.
Total nonsense. Open source as a movement began after Linus Torvalds was successful with the development of Linux. Linus was the first person who learned how to play by the new rules that pervasive Internet access made possible.
Free software began much earlier. As the grandparent says, it was still cathedral style. Read ESR’s ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ first, please.
My feeling is that this guy has principles but no common sense. The world is complicated and the laws do not govern everything (probably never will). Is it unreasonable for the store employee to check customers’ receipt? Is that really an offence? Are the de facto behaviour of stores so bad that are worth such kind of challenging?
The company does not provide a postal address. It uses "Japan" where "Japanese" should be used, which suggests the owner is not a native English speaker. So it seems the owner is in a country where it is difficult to file such lawsuits.
Wait... let's see the registrant of the domain name. Michael Show, in Hong Kong. Oh god, a shameless Chinese. I am so sad about it (I am Chinese). But the technical contact, Michael Shaw, has a Canadian address. I wish he were still in Canada. Sue him down.
If I can buy licensed and legit American music cheaper by importing it from Russia than I can buy it from the local retailer (ala iTunes, eMusic), then I'd be foolish for doing anything else.
How can you say it is “legit”, when the “owner” does not authorize the Russian vendor to do so? Take your car analogy, can you legally import a car that claims to be a Chevrolet, while the brand owner does not authorize the factory to do so, even if the factory can replicate the car exactly like the real one?
When I, under the same logic, buy a tune from a foreign web site that's supposed to be a criminal act and fraudulent.
It is not per se. When you buy things manufactured in China, for example, it is legal if it is: 1) China branded, or 2) non-China-branded but properly licensed by the brand holder. Similar analogy here: It is OK to buy songs from Russia if: 1) it is Russian songs; 2) it is properly licensed non-Russian songs.
I am not a big fan of either globalization or intellectual property. I do think AllOfMP3 is conducting unfair business. Rights holders should not have unlimited rights over their productions, but letting a foreign government dictate the price is not the solution.
Why might it be unfair to engage in commerce with our overseas friends under their laws, and them to engage in commerce with us under our laws?
I would say it is fair if one buys Russian songs from AllOfMP3 according to Russian laws. Now people are buying American songs (mostly I suppose) with a price tag dictated by a foreign government. Is it fair?—Assume a poor country where the price for a song is only one cent (fair there if people only get a few hundred bucks a year), and somebody set up a business to sell songs from that country to USA.
For your info, I am not American (let alone associated with RIAA). I am in China indeed.
No, it's more like he walks into your store and offers you $0.01 for a case of beer, you refuse, a passing police officer reminds you that the $0.01/case price is fixed by law and declared to be fair , and he walks out of the store with the beer.
...and that's exactly the way it should be, since AllOfMP3 wasn't committing it, according to Russian law -- which, incidentally, is the only law that matters in this discussion, whether you like it or not!
The problem here is: AllOfMP3 is selling songs not only to Russians, but also to Americans. So the Russian law affected the pricing in the U.S. Is it fair? I can't say it is, though I hate RIAA.
Wow... apparently you know more than I expected on this topic. I re-read the original post that I replied to, and had to admit it contained more truth than l liked.
What I really wanted to express is: Openness and co-operation is better than isolation. Accusing Google or Microsoft of co-operating with the Chinese government does not make sense to me. I believe it is especially true about Google. Maybe less so with Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
Only in full daylight. I am not joking. Turning off the backlighting makes it hardly readable for indoor usage. It cannot compare to e-Ink.
I am still not convinced. In fact, I think the human evolution stalls, since there is no ‘survivial of the fittest’. Medical care makes most people survive, and abstinence from having children is often in successful people.—How can humans evolve in this case? There is only diversity in my eyes.
I have no clue at all with your ‘quality’ problems. With pdflatex, latex+dvips+ps2pdf, and latex+dvipdfmx I get exactly the same quality. Maybe you system is not configured correctly for using Type 1 fonts?
PDFLaTeX is convenient, but my experience shows latex+dvipdfmx generates the most compact PDF files. The LaTeX system I use is MiKTeX 2.5, for the record.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
There are more alternatives than just FoxIt. Search for Sumatra PDF, eXPert PDF for the Windows solutions. On Linux, one should already knows about evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc.
This said, Adobe Reader is still the most powerful one. It is the only one that displays non-ASCII symbols in the bookmarks correctly on my Chinese-locale Windows. It is the only one that allows me to copy Chinese characters in the PDF to the clipboard.
Konyin keyboards have Shift2, while OLPC only uses the traditional AltGr. The only thing similar is the layout of special characters like Æ. I hardly see that as a patent infringement.
I would rather think this company wants to make its name (in)famous....
No, you broke the rule with your spelling of "who", "as", and "can". You did not keep the first and last letters. :-)
As another poster said, Picasa does it. And it does it well. It is very easy to e-mail the picture to a friend from inside Picasa, and you do not need to export it. Newer versions of Picasa also provide the capability to save the modified picture—and the original version is saved in a hidden directory, increasing disk usage as iPhoto does.
I mean it. TurboLinux need not pay much to Microsoft, if its main users are in China and India. I do not think Microsoft has many valid patents in China and Inda. (Anyone has data?)
Check for this. I do not think it is a design patent. So the expiry date is 10 December 2008. Still more than a year to go.
I do not see anything in your post contradict with mine. What I said was that the IP of the site rss.slashdot.org is blocked from China, and there did not seem to be keyword filtering on "rss". Your report only confirmed this.
I think the fact is wrong. China is not blocking all RSS feeds. Some are blocked, though, including the Slashdot RSS. However, the CNET RSS is still accessible.
Also, the phenomenon I observed seems to indicate the IP address of a related site is completely blocked. It is not like keyword filtering at all, which will involve RESET packets and some obvious browser actions.
I have also found that rss.slashdot.org and feeds.arstechnica.com share the same IP address, whose name is feeds.feedburner.com. I would rather think the problem is that this site also hosts some anti-Chinese Government information, and is the home of many RSS feeds.
So, while I regret that many RSS feeds are not accessible, it seems not true that China is blocking all rss URIs.
Interesting. However, there are printers that directly support PostScript, and I have not yet known of a printer that directly supports PDF.
So you do not use Vim? Damned evil member of the Church of Emacs.
Many famous blogging sites are blocked because people are free to post politically sensitive information on it. Since one part of the firewall is the IP blocking, your site is blocked along with the sensitive ones.
If you had read that thread, you would have noticed that many other agreed with him, to the extent I can hardly tolerate.
I love C++, and I believe C++ is a better language than C. However, Linus apparently had some bad experience with C++, and he definitely had some valid points.
I am not sure the creator of GNU will like what you say. He has argued for years why free software is a better philosophy/movement than open source.
Total nonsense. Open source as a movement began after Linus Torvalds was successful with the development of Linux. Linus was the first person who learned how to play by the new rules that pervasive Internet access made possible.
Free software began much earlier. As the grandparent says, it was still cathedral style. Read ESR’s ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ first, please.
My feeling is that this guy has principles but no common sense. The world is complicated and the laws do not govern everything (probably never will). Is it unreasonable for the store employee to check customers’ receipt? Is that really an offence? Are the de facto behaviour of stores so bad that are worth such kind of challenging?
For me, the answer are all Nos.
The company does not provide a postal address. It uses "Japan" where "Japanese" should be used, which suggests the owner is not a native English speaker. So it seems the owner is in a country where it is difficult to file such lawsuits.
Wait ... let's see the registrant of the domain name. Michael Show, in Hong Kong. Oh god, a shameless Chinese. I am so sad about it (I am Chinese). But the technical contact, Michael Shaw, has a Canadian address. I wish he were still in Canada. Sue him down.
How can you say it is “legit”, when the “owner” does not authorize the Russian vendor to do so? Take your car analogy, can you legally import a car that claims to be a Chevrolet, while the brand owner does not authorize the factory to do so, even if the factory can replicate the car exactly like the real one?
It is not per se. When you buy things manufactured in China, for example, it is legal if it is: 1) China branded, or 2) non-China-branded but properly licensed by the brand holder. Similar analogy here: It is OK to buy songs from Russia if: 1) it is Russian songs; 2) it is properly licensed non-Russian songs.
I am not a big fan of either globalization or intellectual property. I do think AllOfMP3 is conducting unfair business. Rights holders should not have unlimited rights over their productions, but letting a foreign government dictate the price is not the solution.
I would say it is fair if one buys Russian songs from AllOfMP3 according to Russian laws. Now people are buying American songs (mostly I suppose) with a price tag dictated by a foreign government. Is it fair?—Assume a poor country where the price for a song is only one cent (fair there if people only get a few hundred bucks a year), and somebody set up a business to sell songs from that country to USA.
For your info, I am not American (let alone associated with RIAA). I am in China indeed.
The problem here is: AllOfMP3 is selling songs not only to Russians, but also to Americans. So the Russian law affected the pricing in the U.S. Is it fair? I can't say it is, though I hate RIAA.
Only that the C library is replaceable (there are other free and high-quality C libraries), while the Linux kernel is not (Hurd, are you there?).
Wow ... apparently you know more than I expected on this topic. I re-read the original post that I replied to, and had to admit it contained more truth than l liked.
What I really wanted to express is: Openness and co-operation is better than isolation. Accusing Google or Microsoft of co-operating with the Chinese government does not make sense to me. I believe it is especially true about Google. Maybe less so with Microsoft.