Well, if you look at the document properties what do you find? It was created with PScript.dll under Windows. I hope they have learned their lesson from their study themselves...:-/
> If by something stupid you mean, knock in a window, spray graffity, rob someone then guess what. I > don't give a damn if your scarred for life by being caught.
Well if you spray graffity and are caught on video and are punished and went to jail, etc... than what? Will be the scene deleted from the tapes? Somehow, I think that by saying that you give a damn if somebody who did something wrong and has been punished is scarred for life does not interest you seems to me like you lost your ability to... forgive. In former times when you did something terrible and you were punished (went to jail, worked social duties, etc.) your dept to society was paid. You probably would leave the city and go to another place, but you had the possibility to start a new live if you really wanted to. Now, that we have surveillance and storage for nearly everything, nothing is ever forgotton. You never get a second chance..., because wherever you go the web, security agency, and so on is already there.
I agree and at the same time disagree. It is true that the file extensions are there to help the programmer, but imagine that the program does automagically finds out which graphics format the image is in. Apparently a program can not know all possible graphics format, so if an unknown format is encountered it will have to be reported. What is the error message? Example:
Error! A file with the first few bytes "464f 524d 0000 4030" was encountered and I do not know what to do with it...
Does this help the user more than saying:
Error! This program does not know how to open IFF-Files!
No, I do not think so. Unfortunetaly there are a lot of graphic formats (please forget the argument that some of them are not used frequently -- you *will* find the strangest stuff in the net) and without knowledge of what actually is happening, when your program does its magic and displays your image, the user is lost. I do not see how you could make an uneducated user 'D. Au' really understand why a program can not open a file without going into at least some detail.
The problem is that computers are multipurpose machines and 'D. Au' actually likes it this way, *but* with flexibility comes the prices of complexity. An oven is purpose build -- it does a single thing. A computer has to do, well, everything the user wants it to do. And if a web page tells D. Au that this piece of software will make his music sound better he will install it, whether it will transfer his credit card details or not. D. Au needs an oven: a computer which does a single thing, e.g. word processing and nothing more. Everything is locked down. If he likes an additional function, he calls support and the tech guys do it for him -- or tell him, why this is a bad idea. And they will check that the user can cope -- ever seen an oven with fan, grill and microwave build in and how many people have problems with those? If D. Au likes flexibility than he must learn, no way around it! Otherwise he is guy who wants to speak a foreign language without learning the vocabulary. And the grammar... This will not work either.
Mousemovements over WiFi? Ok, so you want to move your mouse while being more than dozen or so meters away from your laptop? And you seem to have really quick fingers, needing all the bandwidth, are you not? Make sense, really... WiFi is for long range, high speed network transfer. For everything else I use bluetooth (mouse/keyboard connection, navigating my presentation on my Linux laptop using my mobile, small network connection from my Palm), which is a nice, short range, fast enough for me multiple purpose standard.
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...but nobody *forces* you to wait with the replacement of a harddrive until it breaks. You may do it earlier and regularly.
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Some people use DocBook, though.
Well, if you look at the document properties what do you find? It was created with PScript.dll under Windows. :-/
I hope they have learned their lesson from their study themselves...
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> If by something stupid you mean, knock in a window, spray graffity, rob someone then guess what. I > don't give a damn if your scarred for life by being caught.
Well if you spray graffity and are caught on video and are punished and went to jail, etc... than what? Will be the scene deleted from the tapes?
Somehow, I think that by saying that you give a damn if somebody who did something wrong and has been punished is scarred for life does not interest you seems to me like you lost your ability to... forgive.
In former times when you did something terrible and you were punished (went to jail, worked social duties, etc.) your dept to society was paid. You probably would leave the city and go to another place, but you had the possibility to start a new live if you really wanted to.
Now, that we have surveillance and storage for nearly everything, nothing is ever forgotton. You never get a second chance..., because wherever you go the web, security agency, and so on is already there.
I agree and at the same time disagree. It is true that the file extensions are there to help the programmer, but imagine that the program does automagically finds out which graphics format the image is in. Apparently a program can not know all possible graphics format, so if an unknown format is encountered it will have to be reported. What is the error message? Example:
Error! A file with the first few bytes "464f 524d 0000 4030" was encountered and I do not know what to do with it...
Does this help the user more than saying:
Error! This program does not know how to open IFF-Files!
No, I do not think so. Unfortunetaly there are a lot of graphic formats (please forget the argument that some of them are not used frequently -- you *will* find the strangest stuff in the net) and without knowledge of what actually is happening, when your program does its magic and displays your image, the user is lost. I do not see how you could make an uneducated user 'D. Au' really understand why a program can not open a file without going into at least some detail.
The problem is that computers are multipurpose machines and 'D. Au' actually likes it this way, *but* with flexibility comes the prices of complexity. An oven is purpose build -- it does a single thing. A computer has to do, well, everything the user wants it to do. And if a web page tells D. Au that this piece of software will make his music sound better he will install it, whether it will transfer his credit card details or not. D. Au needs an oven: a computer which does a single thing, e.g. word processing and nothing more. Everything is locked down. If he likes an additional function, he calls support and the tech guys do it for him -- or tell him, why this is a bad idea. And they will check that the user can cope -- ever seen an oven with fan, grill and microwave build in and how many people have problems with those?
If D. Au likes flexibility than he must learn, no way around it! Otherwise he is guy who wants to speak a foreign language without learning the vocabulary. And the grammar... This will not work either.
Mousemovements over WiFi? Ok, so you want to move your mouse while being more than dozen or so meters away from your laptop? And you seem to have really quick fingers, needing all the bandwidth, are you not? Make sense, really...
WiFi is for long range, high speed network transfer. For everything else I use bluetooth (mouse/keyboard connection, navigating my presentation on my Linux laptop using my mobile, small network connection from my Palm), which is a nice, short range, fast enough for me multiple purpose standard.
I like the idea, and remember DRM means Digital Restriction Management! And nothing else..., because it is nothing else.
Well, just include worms into the .doc. There must be a reason why they are using it..