i'm no expert, and nyc banking has a decidedly police state flavor, but... my wife bounced the rent check more than once because the japanese do not really use checking, everything is done via fund transfers.
(she would deposit checks without understanding the bank could take over a week to credit the account)
so the (japanese) landlord demands cash every month. i think its common for many people to carry tens of thousands of yen (hundreds of dollars) *all the time* with *zero fear* of being robbed in japan, but here in manhattan it's a different story.
so the japanese carry more cash than typical americans, and seemingly use more automated money transactions as well... what about other cultures and money, anything to be learned?
just bought my sister an imac to replace a centris 650 i bought in 1992.
the centris is running, but it's down to one internal hard drive and rather than wasting gigabytes of storage on a machine with limited capabilities, i got a flower power on the cheap. add one gig and it will last into the next decade.
guess the standard slashdotter will sustain half a dozen motherboard gashes in that time, but i have enough scars.
reading lots of this shit is so irritating... seems everybody keeps thinking of working in text or word, this sounds like hell to me. depending on microsoft tools in your workflow is asking for headaches. this from experience.
yeah, might cost you money, but what about framemaker, indesign or quark. you will have trouble, but if you are a *programmer*, you can easily extract tagged text from documents, store them as xml in a database and translate for presentation on the way back out.
doing this now to publish about 16000 pages per year, reducing price errors on catalog pages (saving upwards of 15 million dollars according to some marketing wonk), it just works. the editors basically get it, not hard.
we preserve not just style, but meaning. able to handle all sorts of funky evolving business/presentation policy via simple parsing. got people around here wondering if i'm a genius.
(if anyone wants to do something like this in another publishing shop, write me and we can talk about challenges... fair warning: this is macos based workflow, getting something going on windows should be easy though)
dozens of workflow/asset management vendors charge upwards of 500000$ to introduce simple database technology to clients, closed solutions that put mis programmers out on the street and force client groups to work according to a prefab plan.
the only thing some of these assholes have going is some glue code to move data in-and-out of word/quark/whatever...
thinking of writing up a general open solution, something like the arsdigita system, for publishing workflow/asset management, give it away and sell consultant programming. do me a favor, beat me to this pipe dream!
what are you fucking talking about? malicious executable README displayed as what, a *text* file?
no, the file will have an *application* icon. how many text files are distributed as applications?
and even if the asshole who would try something like this uses a custom icon (and giving up a big clue, why distribute a macbinary text file?), he would be foiled by the power macos users, who do not always double-click documents.
many of us drag files on top of the running app icon, because we need to deal with files using different applications.
look, if it is so fucking easy to dupe mac users, why isn't there a vbs-outlook-microshit-virus insanity on macos? outside of office, viruses on macos are nearly extinct.
to be clear, such files without special macintosh formatting to preserve file metadata/resources will open harmlessly as gibberish in a text editor... and if a trojan does sneak by a user, it will almost certainly be vulnerable to a quick force-quit, if not being shut down by virex or another utility.
judge jackson made comments to the press, bfd! listen up, he doesn't want to face these lying fuckers yet again, can't you get that?
how dare you dredge up jackson's own concerns about the application of anti-trust law in this matter as your own. how dare you offer his humility at the enormous challenge of summarizing the relevant technical and business facts as a weakness.
do us a favor katz. if you are going to argue the case, show the fucking findings of fact to be baseless. THAT'S THE BIG JOB. not copping out like the appellate court will do... oh what is the precedent, there is none, punt.
this is hack journalism at it's worst. got a question for you, the omission of a conflict of interest, that was intentional, right?
saying there was not enough food grown in ireland to feed the population during the "potato" famine(s) is like saying the armenians committed mass suicide in 1918.
programs still don't quit unless you choose "quit" from the file menu, which bothers me
you will get used to this, and someday, working with win2k will be more irritating... (i nearly ground my teeth when watching a winnt user spawn another instance of netscape just to visit a second website.)
mac users usually keep between two and twelve applications open, ready and waiting... often with only one or two windows open with any content.
nice observation, but it has nothing to do with the thread.
i gave two concrete examples of cmdrtaco making factual errors that are obvious to anybody who cares enough to check sources.
did you go to animefu and compare the card captor sakura reviews? did you look at the newtype website, in english, and note character art from the cowboy bebop movie.
rob is not just a common-fan, he has a podium, and i say fanfare be withheld until he adopts ethical writing habits, i.e. do not write something provably false by any moron with ten minutes to spare surfing the web!
look, he has spent hundreds of hours enjoying anime, by his own admission, and he has devoted resources to promoting anime. i am talking about two things, and only two:
1. cmdrtaco needs to care enough about his reputation, audience, dog, whatever, just so long as he checks some facts.
2. he is out of touch with that segment of fandom driven to dvd's due to economics and the vanishing of the subtitled vhs market--that is the only cultural difference i am talking about...
and yeah, maybe it has something to do with how much more "hardcore" some of us are, but nowhere did i say cmdrtaco sux and i rool.
we probably have a lot in common, the three of us, but i do know one thing, i hurt when i misrepresent facts in writing. i am ashamed of myself in so many ways, but as far as writing (and to a lesser extent, discussions) goes, stupid statements are more humiliating than my lapses into immature flaming.
so to get personal--yeah, i have played the bragging game in flames here (not about anime though), but i have no fucking toys, i have never been to japan, i will always love anime, and
any hardcore fan knows the cowboy bebop movie is happening.
that's just the way it is, and if you think this is some kind of a witch hunt against newbie anime otaku who cannot pronounce hiragana correctly, you have a pathetic fucking agenda--please don't put it on me.
if i know something about anime, it's very easy to find out. i hardly have any time to talk to my anime crew anymore, and do not keep up with the news.
while your argument has some obvious merit, it is off-topic and facile in this context. don't let the lapses in decorum and use of colloquialisms fool you, this thread is about intellectual integrity, and if you are not addressing that, you are part of the problem, and essentially concede the issue.
Let's take for example the highly acclaimed film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Called Best Picture by lots of folks, this film wouldn't be seen by anyone if Sony Pictures Classics (God bless em) didn't buy the rights to distribute it.
sorry, that is patently absurd. i have shaken chow yun-fat's hand, played body-guard at a sammo hung appearance (before the u.s. television show). film fans and otaku see the great films. period.
in a theater no less, it's true.
uh, seen dozens of hong kong films... projected on a screen... never a single one at a film festival.
so are basing your sorry arguments on what the masses will do? here you obviously fail. masses of europeans would probably head off to the theater to see an american film dubbed into their language (or subtitled) before struggling through another foreign-language lesson.
why not just prove that american dvd's suppress american film distribution in europe? for that matter, you could start with something easier perhaps, do you think fan subtitled versions of mononoke hime have ruined the market for the princess mononoke dvd? why not prove that? help us out here.
laws should have some basis in fact, shouldn't they? film distributors claim other-region dvd's endanger their profits. where is the proof, any proof would be nice.
look, this is ridiculous, i am hereby claiming that every italian who doesn't buy the american titanic dvd is a goat-fucker.
and there is no technical reason a subtitled version of any film cannot be released anywhere prior to the american dvd. subtitling is cheap.
so i think your arguments are hogwash, not some regal business sense. your statements are money-this, theater-attendance that--but you initially claim italians rush out to buy american dvd's as if american english held some compelling anti-papal allure.
so where is your fucking proof? please stop telling us what you know, no one cares except some clueless moderators. prove something.
real numbers, now, okay? from a source with at least a hint of integrity? you have nothing like that and yet you drag a potential flame-war from the depths of usenet with your naive babbling. how long would it take a pebble to plumb the depths of your intellect?
i do not want another well-reasoned, didactic dialog out of you fucker. i want some proof, any proof would be nice. you make a claim, now back it up with something more than sweet airs.
you say a law is good. a law will protect film distributors. prove there is a threat. quantify that threat. enlighten us obiwan, the force is strong within you.
movies don't come out at the same time all over the world. While we Americans love to think the world revolves around us... why would the Italians bother seeing it at all if they could get the DVD in a few weeks?
It's still business, I'll freely admit, but it's also a question of loyalty and how far you'll go (all the way to the theater) to support the directors/actors/writers you like.
does this make any sense?
what i get is that this moron thinks italians should be supporting his favorite american directors/actors/writers.
why, that's brilliant. fuck world cinema, hollywood is all that matters.
sql rdms might be nice, but design is a pain, and the web interface adds many layers of technology that might go wrong.
that said, you could use 4d for that, but what 4d really gives you are cool rad tools and a network client you can fall back on if your browser dreams don't pan out.
i currently develop/administrate a 4d publishing system that is used to publish some 16000 catalog pages per year... yeah, and i too would love migration to oracle and xml and blah-blah, for a chance to cash-in on a consulting gig someday, but i serve editors/writers/art directors well and lord over buckets of code, routinely passing a dozen or more parameters through a chain of methods indirectly via pointer to a blob, this is not filemaker pro! you can code quick and stupid, or commented and clever, with complete control of scope in a multi-processing/multi-user client-server system with an awesome debugger...
uh, the bottom line: you can be a compsci guru and not puke, and then have some confidence the organization won't fall apart when you leave--it just ain't that tough to work with, otoh 4d is not a popular platform.
mit anime, harvard anime, boston u. anime... anime crash, tokyo kid, the brattle, hfa... stuck in new york, it's okay, but i really miss boston and mit!
never even heard of adobe capture... why would you even consider this if you are not a corporation? seems stupid.
raise your hand if you think this software is somehow magic?
will adobe capture give you flawless electronic documents? if so, how. and if it does not really improve on mainstream pro ocr applications, what are you paying for?
while my solution would not be free, it would be easy on a personal scale (and this is mac-think, just to counter your cli mumbo-jumbo): -- get a good ocr (thinking omnipage pro) -- get adobe acrobat (or page-layout app that will convert the ocr docs)
(pay once for licenses--paying by the page with your own money is insane)
hell, you can even script the whole thing up using applescript or perl, but if you want documents which are really searchable, you will have to proof results (otherwise you could use searching software which can handle misspellings, not such a good idea).
of course, i could be wrong, adobe acrobat could really be magical, but do you trust magic? (the reality last time i checked was that you could not get from paper to text on screen without mistakes, and frankly, you will never get error-free translation, humans cannot even read what is literally on the page without introducing errors: identifying every word is error prone as our attention span is weak, but standard reading using context allows all manner of optical illusion and cultural training to stain transcription).
i work on editorial database systems for print and web... editors use quark for print and word for the web (text eventually gets shipped from smallish rad-rdms fourth dimension to informix--save the sarcasm, 4d is truly great for small systems development).
during the winter, i created a system for web promotional text, fun system where stuff can be edited as copy on screen (where the user has to input any tags they want, mainly just bold and italic) or using a wysiwyg html exported document. they use word--and when you construct the html, word does not actually pile in a truckload of shit (as when creating a document itself).
ah, after initial testing, i though everything would be okay (i never fucking use word 2000, and i am becoming increasingly more ashamed to be using word 5.1, even though it is/was a truly great application)... of course, i was foolish to think microsoft could do anything right, the modification of meta tags was not such a big deal, but here's what word 2000 does to valid html...
1) convert iso characters to string entities on save (no option to control this?) 2) implements the obscure entity (what were they thinking?) 3) and the gotcha, you have typographic quotes in your copy? not after the editor saves changes! (now this damage can be fixed most of the time... um, what that really means is the damage cannot be fixed reliably in post-processing.)
and the average joe on the street thinks microsoft engineers are the queen's fucking bees? oh please. working with quark is hard, but the company has been improving (adobe competition will force the company to work with customers, or go without work) and page layout is complex, but html?
microsoft is fundamentally corrupt--two parts arrogance, three parts malice, one shot stupidity, and some base fizz, that's all. i will never use a microsoft product i am not being paid to use, even then i will protest there is a better, safer solution (only after the company is broken apart will i consider using anything developed by microshaft ).
roughly eight years ago, i was taking plasma physics, and the professor, who i had a long relationship with (after grading homework for his pascal classes) revealed that galactic simulations (work done at boston university/harvard) had finally achieved something remarkable...
entropy. though most simulations suffer from reversibility (i.e. the system dynamics can be reversed: the simulated system evolves from state_x to state_y, but state_x can be determine exactly from state_y), researchers finally designed simulations that were not reversible (and the entropy correlated so well with theory you could derive boltzman's constant).
anyway, that's how i remember it, a passing comment from a class i really dug, but somewhere after debye shielding, i got lost--tensors can be rather difficult if you've spent most of your time writing code and designing circuits (hohlfeld, bless you, wherever you are ^_^;)
Pity the cop whose job it is to enforce existing copyright -- tracing and punishing violators -- online.
doesn't it bother anybody that katz is confusing civil with criminal law enforcement?
this should be obvious--it is generally impossible for a "cop" to ascertain if a copyright has been violated... only the copyright holder knows if a party has been granted the right to copy (in a manner not allowed by fair use).
oh yeah, ianal, but copyright is a huge ethical issue with fans of mainstream/pop cultural works from other nations (copy and distribution of television programming, for instance)... civil law and copyright are *constant* topics in certain usenet newsgroups. how could katz get this wrong?
macintosh real player clients suck, they always have and always will. when i encounter a site has given untold amounts of money to those morons and do not provide quicktime as an alternative, i hit command-[ (that's back).
we need a quicktime player for *nux, but that does not sound like an easy project, and apple is busy with mac os x, hopefully next year;)
many l337 posters have a windows box around just to play games, and yet never consider having an imac or g3 box to surf the net? hmmm.
quicktime server is open-source, and (i hope) will strangle real.
microsoft wants to check the growth of quicktime and challenge real, but it's too late, only the lamest windows users will ever fully rely on windows media player.
you asshole... and when you pay for the necessary equipment and time, i'm sure mr. zeldman will have every beta-class browser characterized, until then shut up.
jeffery zeldman said his platform of choice is mac os, and as an opera expert advocate, you certainly know the fucking thing is available to *nearly everyone else* but those of us using a real operating system;)
"You've got a choice!" (opera download page)--indeed.
as to your thirty bucks, wait until microsoft is split apart... mozilla will be the only *free* browser available, and will (fingers crossed) someday be the best.
the idea of a hard limit is what bothers most people. offer some glimmer of loop-hole, and you will hear the herd grow quiet... that's how our ludicrous tax system continues to evolve, ever more convoluted.
for instance, i barely reached 1300 on the sat, but that did not stop me from getting 700 on the ap calculus ii exam (think that was a good percent score, but maybe everybody did well that year). of course, i would be a perfect candidate, except for that darn sat;)
um, then again, mit rejected me *twice*, even though i earned summa cum laude in electrical engineering at bu--so i must be loser.
the birth of my son, a typical more-than-full-time loser rdms job and nagging wife has kept me from finishing philip and alex's guide, but my killer web site might get built someday;)
photo.net has been a gift, and i really enjoy your seminars, so if you are listening philip, thanks!
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i'm no expert, and nyc banking has a decidedly police state flavor, but... my wife bounced the rent check more than once because the japanese do not really use checking, everything is done via fund transfers.
(she would deposit checks without understanding the bank could take over a week to credit the account)
so the (japanese) landlord demands cash every month. i think its common for many people to carry tens of thousands of yen (hundreds of dollars) *all the time* with *zero fear* of being robbed in japan, but here in manhattan it's a different story.
so the japanese carry more cash than typical americans, and seemingly use more automated money transactions as well... what about other cultures and money, anything to be learned?
just bought my sister an imac to replace a centris 650 i bought in 1992.
the centris is running, but it's down to one internal hard drive and rather than wasting gigabytes of storage on a machine with limited capabilities, i got a flower power on the cheap. add one gig and it will last into the next decade.
guess the standard slashdotter will sustain half a dozen motherboard gashes in that time, but i have enough scars.
reading lots of this shit is so irritating... seems everybody keeps thinking of working in text or word, this sounds like hell to me. depending on microsoft tools in your workflow is asking for headaches. this from experience.
yeah, might cost you money, but what about framemaker, indesign or quark. you will have trouble, but if you are a *programmer*, you can easily extract tagged text from documents, store them as xml in a database and translate for presentation on the way back out.
doing this now to publish about 16000 pages per year, reducing price errors on catalog pages (saving upwards of 15 million dollars according to some marketing wonk), it just works. the editors basically get it, not hard.
we preserve not just style, but meaning. able to handle all sorts of funky evolving business/presentation policy via simple parsing. got people around here wondering if i'm a genius.
(if anyone wants to do something like this in another publishing shop, write me and we can talk about challenges... fair warning: this is macos based workflow, getting something going on windows should be easy though)
dozens of workflow/asset management vendors charge upwards of 500000$ to introduce simple database technology to clients, closed solutions that put mis programmers out on the street and force client groups to work according to a prefab plan.
the only thing some of these assholes have going is some glue code to move data in-and-out of word/quark/whatever...
thinking of writing up a general open solution, something like the arsdigita system, for publishing workflow/asset management, give it away and sell consultant programming. do me a favor, beat me to this pipe dream!
what are you fucking talking about? malicious executable README displayed as what, a *text* file?
no, the file will have an *application* icon. how many text files are distributed as applications?
and even if the asshole who would try something like this uses a custom icon (and giving up a big clue, why distribute a macbinary text file?), he would be foiled by the power macos users, who do not always double-click documents.
many of us drag files on top of the running app icon, because we need to deal with files using different applications.
look, if it is so fucking easy to dupe mac users, why isn't there a vbs-outlook-microshit-virus insanity on macos? outside of office, viruses on macos are nearly extinct.
to be clear, such files without special macintosh formatting to preserve file metadata/resources will open harmlessly as gibberish in a text editor... and if a trojan does sneak by a user, it will almost certainly be vulnerable to a quick force-quit, if not being shut down by virex or another utility.
judge jackson made comments to the press, bfd! listen up, he doesn't want to face these lying fuckers yet again, can't you get that?
how dare you dredge up jackson's own concerns about the application of anti-trust law in this matter as your own. how dare you offer his humility at the enormous challenge of summarizing the relevant technical and business facts as a weakness.
do us a favor katz. if you are going to argue the case, show the fucking findings of fact to be baseless. THAT'S THE BIG JOB. not copping out like the appellate court will do... oh what is the precedent, there is none, punt.
this is hack journalism at it's worst. got a question for you, the omission of a conflict of interest, that was intentional, right?
irish potato famine?
saying there was not enough food grown in ireland to feed the population during the "potato" famine(s) is like saying the armenians committed mass suicide in 1918.
programs still don't quit unless you choose "quit" from the file menu, which bothers me
you will get used to this, and someday, working with win2k will be more irritating... (i nearly ground my teeth when watching a winnt user spawn another instance of netscape just to visit a second website.)
mac users usually keep between two and twelve applications open, ready and waiting... often with only one or two windows open with any content.
nice observation, but it has nothing to do with the thread.
i gave two concrete examples of cmdrtaco making factual errors that are obvious to anybody who cares enough to check sources.
did you go to animefu and compare the card captor sakura reviews? did you look at the newtype website, in english, and note character art from the cowboy bebop movie.
rob is not just a common-fan, he has a podium, and i say fanfare be withheld until he adopts ethical writing habits, i.e. do not write something provably false by any moron with ten minutes to spare surfing the web!
look, he has spent hundreds of hours enjoying anime, by his own admission, and he has devoted resources to promoting anime. i am talking about two things, and only two:
1. cmdrtaco needs to care enough about his reputation, audience, dog, whatever, just so long as he checks some facts.
2. he is out of touch with that segment of fandom driven to dvd's due to economics and the vanishing of the subtitled vhs market--that is the only cultural difference i am talking about...
and yeah, maybe it has something to do with how much more "hardcore" some of us are, but nowhere did i say cmdrtaco sux and i rool.
we probably have a lot in common, the three of us, but i do know one thing, i hurt when i misrepresent facts in writing. i am ashamed of myself in so many ways, but as far as writing (and to a lesser extent, discussions) goes, stupid statements are more humiliating than my lapses into immature flaming.
so to get personal--yeah, i have played the bragging game in flames here (not about anime though), but i have no fucking toys, i have never been to japan, i will always love anime, and
any hardcore fan knows the cowboy bebop movie is happening.
that's just the way it is, and if you think this is some kind of a witch hunt against newbie anime otaku who cannot pronounce hiragana correctly, you have a pathetic fucking agenda--please don't put it on me.
if i know something about anime, it's very easy to find out. i hardly have any time to talk to my anime crew anymore, and do not keep up with the news.
while your argument has some obvious merit, it is off-topic and facile in this context. don't let the lapses in decorum and use of colloquialisms fool you, this thread is about intellectual integrity, and if you are not addressing that, you are part of the problem, and essentially concede the issue.
your brilliant. what is an anime-wannabe? people will cherish anime long after the stain of you is utterly forgotten.
anatanounchikugaunchida.
sorewatabetekieuseru!
yosho is being entirely too reasonable.
pretty sammy is awesome in both the tv series and ova's. junk? no. fucking jerk...
argh, if only avatars where here and now, i would be choking you to death with my love-love monster.
Let's take for example the highly acclaimed film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Called Best Picture by lots of folks, this film wouldn't be seen by anyone if Sony Pictures Classics (God bless em) didn't buy the rights to distribute it.
sorry, that is patently absurd. i have shaken chow yun-fat's hand, played body-guard at a sammo hung appearance (before the u.s. television show). film fans and otaku see the great films. period.
in a theater no less, it's true.
uh, seen dozens of hong kong films... projected on a screen... never a single one at a film festival.
so are basing your sorry arguments on what the masses will do? here you obviously fail. masses of europeans would probably head off to the theater to see an american film dubbed into their language (or subtitled) before struggling through another foreign-language lesson.
why not just prove that american dvd's suppress american film distribution in europe? for that matter, you could start with something easier perhaps, do you think fan subtitled versions of mononoke hime have ruined the market for the princess mononoke dvd? why not prove that? help us out here.
laws should have some basis in fact, shouldn't they? film distributors claim other-region dvd's endanger their profits. where is the proof, any proof would be nice.
look, this is ridiculous, i am hereby claiming that every italian who doesn't buy the american titanic dvd is a goat-fucker.
and there is no technical reason a subtitled version of any film cannot be released anywhere prior to the american dvd. subtitling is cheap.
so i think your arguments are hogwash, not some regal business sense. your statements are money-this, theater-attendance that--but you initially claim italians rush out to buy american dvd's as if american english held some compelling anti-papal allure.
so where is your fucking proof? please stop telling us what you know, no one cares except some clueless moderators. prove something.
real numbers, now, okay? from a source with at least a hint of integrity? you have nothing like that and yet you drag a potential flame-war from the depths of usenet with your naive babbling. how long would it take a pebble to plumb the depths of your intellect?
i do not want another well-reasoned, didactic dialog out of you fucker. i want some proof, any proof would be nice. you make a claim, now back it up with something more than sweet airs.
you say a law is good. a law will protect film distributors. prove there is a threat. quantify that threat. enlighten us obiwan, the force is strong within you.
does this make any sense?
what i get is that this moron thinks italians should be supporting his favorite american directors/actors/writers.
why, that's brilliant. fuck world cinema, hollywood is all that matters.
sql rdms might be nice, but design is a pain, and the web interface adds many layers of technology that might go wrong.
that said, you could use 4d for that, but what 4d really gives you are cool rad tools and a network client you can fall back on if your browser dreams don't pan out.
i currently develop/administrate a 4d publishing system that is used to publish some 16000 catalog pages per year... yeah, and i too would love migration to oracle and xml and blah-blah, for a chance to cash-in on a consulting gig someday, but i serve editors/writers/art directors well and lord over buckets of code, routinely passing a dozen or more parameters through a chain of methods indirectly via pointer to a blob, this is not filemaker pro! you can code quick and stupid, or commented and clever, with complete control of scope in a multi-processing/multi-user client-server system with an awesome debugger...
uh, the bottom line: you can be a compsci guru and not puke, and then have some confidence the organization won't fall apart when you leave--it just ain't that tough to work with, otoh 4d is not a popular platform.
sigh, after standing in line for hours, i might be anxious or dulled, and just might be inclined to rely on forty years of voting experience...
let's see your friend's fucking children do that.
mit anime, harvard anime, boston u. anime... anime crash, tokyo kid, the brattle, hfa... stuck in new york, it's okay, but i really miss boston and mit!
nike asked these idiots to re-route nike traffic until network solutions could fix the problem.
they did.
nike says thanks for letting us fuck you hard, but you deserve nothing more than our gratitude.
nike gets sued.
slashdot roars into action about frivolous lawsuit.
anyone here stupid enough to advocate apple buying out the codecs and releasing source?
apple cannot practically create quicktime for unix (not going to happen, period).
does that mean you won't have a quicktime for linux (or any other unix)?
no. you will have access to quicktime in less than twelve months for every unix alive and kicking.
could be misinterpreting apple developer seeding files... but really, isn't it obvious what will come?
how would you create a CROSS-PLATFORM media player?
Intel, magnificently I might add, is playing this beautifully
uh, i feel sick.
how many of you saps have been burned by intel and are wondering if these assholes will deliver a working rambus memory controller this century?
"beautifully"? maybe if you read only business news everyday, but not if you know chips and boards.
never even heard of adobe capture... why would you even consider this if you are not a corporation? seems stupid.
raise your hand if you think this software is somehow magic?
will adobe capture give you flawless electronic documents? if so, how. and if it does not really improve on mainstream pro ocr applications, what are you paying for?
while my solution would not be free, it would be easy on a personal scale (and this is mac-think, just to counter your cli mumbo-jumbo):
-- get a good ocr (thinking omnipage pro)
-- get adobe acrobat (or page-layout app that will convert the ocr docs)
(pay once for licenses--paying by the page with your own money is insane)
hell, you can even script the whole thing up using applescript or perl, but if you want documents which are really searchable, you will have to proof results (otherwise you could use searching software which can handle misspellings, not such a good idea).
of course, i could be wrong, adobe acrobat could really be magical, but do you trust magic? (the reality last time i checked was that you could not get from paper to text on screen without mistakes, and frankly, you will never get error-free translation, humans cannot even read what is literally on the page without introducing errors: identifying every word is error prone as our attention span is weak, but standard reading using context allows all manner of optical illusion and cultural training to stain transcription).
i work on editorial database systems for print and web... editors use quark for print and word for the web (text eventually gets shipped from smallish rad-rdms fourth dimension to informix--save the sarcasm, 4d is truly great for small systems development).
during the winter, i created a system for web promotional text, fun system where stuff can be edited as copy on screen (where the user has to input any tags they want, mainly just bold and italic) or using a wysiwyg html exported document. they use word--and when you construct the html, word does not actually pile in a truckload of shit (as when creating a document itself).
ah, after initial testing, i though everything would be okay (i never fucking use word 2000, and i am becoming increasingly more ashamed to be using word 5.1, even though it is/was a truly great application)... of course, i was foolish to think microsoft could do anything right, the modification of meta tags was not such a big deal, but here's what word 2000 does to valid html...
1) convert iso characters to string entities on save (no option to control this?)
2) implements the obscure entity (what were they thinking?)
3) and the gotcha, you have typographic quotes in your copy? not after the editor saves changes! (now this damage can be fixed most of the time... um, what that really means is the damage cannot be fixed reliably in post-processing.)
and the average joe on the street thinks microsoft engineers are the queen's fucking bees? oh please. working with quark is hard, but the company has been improving (adobe competition will force the company to work with customers, or go without work) and page layout is complex, but html?
microsoft is fundamentally corrupt--two parts arrogance, three parts malice, one shot stupidity, and some base fizz, that's all. i will never use a microsoft product i am not being paid to use, even then i will protest there is a better, safer solution (only after the company is broken apart will i consider using anything developed by microshaft ).
roughly eight years ago, i was taking plasma physics, and the professor, who i had a long relationship with (after grading homework for his pascal classes) revealed that galactic simulations (work done at boston university/harvard) had finally achieved something remarkable...
entropy. though most simulations suffer from reversibility (i.e. the system dynamics can be reversed: the simulated system evolves from state_x to state_y, but state_x can be determine exactly from state_y), researchers finally designed simulations that were not reversible (and the entropy correlated so well with theory you could derive boltzman's constant).
anyway, that's how i remember it, a passing comment from a class i really dug, but somewhere after debye shielding, i got lost--tensors can be rather difficult if you've spent most of your time writing code and designing circuits (hohlfeld, bless you, wherever you are ^_^;)
Pity the cop whose job it is to enforce existing copyright -- tracing and punishing violators -- online.
doesn't it bother anybody that katz is confusing civil with criminal law enforcement?
this should be obvious--it is generally impossible for a "cop" to ascertain if a copyright has been violated... only the copyright holder knows if a party has been granted the right to copy (in a manner not allowed by fair use).
oh yeah, ianal, but copyright is a huge ethical issue with fans of mainstream/pop cultural works from other nations (copy and distribution of television programming, for instance)... civil law and copyright are *constant* topics in certain usenet newsgroups. how could katz get this wrong?
this here is the macintosh user's perspective...
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macintosh real player clients suck, they always have and always will. when i encounter a site has given untold amounts of money to those morons and do not provide quicktime as an alternative, i hit command-[ (that's back).
we need a quicktime player for *nux, but that does not sound like an easy project, and apple is busy with mac os x, hopefully next year
many l337 posters have a windows box around just to play games, and yet never consider having an imac or g3 box to surf the net? hmmm.
quicktime server is open-source, and (i hope) will strangle real.
microsoft wants to check the growth of quicktime and challenge real, but it's too late, only the lamest windows users will ever fully rely on windows media player.
you asshole... and when you pay for the necessary equipment and time, i'm sure mr. zeldman will have every beta-class browser characterized, until then shut up.
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jeffery zeldman said his platform of choice is mac os, and as an opera expert advocate, you certainly know the fucking thing is available to *nearly everyone else* but those of us using a real operating system
"You've got a choice!" (opera download page)--indeed.
as to your thirty bucks, wait until microsoft is split apart... mozilla will be the only *free* browser available, and will (fingers crossed) someday be the best.
the idea of a hard limit is what bothers most people. offer some glimmer of loop-hole, and you will hear the herd grow quiet... that's how our ludicrous tax system continues to evolve, ever more convoluted.
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for instance, i barely reached 1300 on the sat, but that did not stop me from getting 700 on the ap calculus ii exam (think that was a good percent score, but maybe everybody did well that year). of course, i would be a perfect candidate, except for that darn sat
um, then again, mit rejected me *twice*, even though i earned summa cum laude in electrical engineering at bu--so i must be loser.
the birth of my son, a typical more-than-full-time loser rdms job and nagging wife has kept me from finishing philip and alex's guide, but my killer web site might get built someday
photo.net has been a gift, and i really enjoy your seminars, so if you are listening philip, thanks!