Unfortunately I think he is talking about literally videoing a book. Pointing a camera at a book and turning the pages. One way to get the information in your library into your computer I guess.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
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RE: Where do you stand on Licensing? (Flame advisory in effect)
If you wanted to frase it in terms of freedom I guess you would say the gpl is all about the freedom of the person using the software. The belief that the user should have access to the source for any programs they use is the goal behind the GPL. In order for such a system to work one freedom a person can not have is the freedom to take GPLed code and use it in a closed source program.
Latest posts made by stinch
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RE: Boring Thursday! Here's a link
@blakeyrat said:
One of the problems with the Linux community are they they think all these stupid pointless implementation details actually matter. They don't.
The thing is these implementation details actually do matter. Nowadays open source development is largely the result of money changing hands. If someone is prepared to pay for something then it obviously is not useless from their perspective.
So you have all these interested parties paying for the creation of these implementation details to solve problems they have. How do you determine which of these implementations gets blessed as the "official" ones? That is a hard question to answer but not an uncommon situation. It's a problem that occurs whenever you develop something openly.
Since this problem is one that is common to openly developed projects you can compare linux against them other projects and see the results different approaches have.
As openly developed projects go linux is very successful, one of if not the most successful. So I think it is reasonable to argue it is doing something right, at least compared to everybody else. I mean really how else could they manage it? and still get the participation which is key to their success?
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Libgweather xml copy pasta
I was looking at the size of the packages I had installed and noticed libgweather took 80Mb. libgweather apparently "Provides access to weather information from the net", not something you expect to take 80Mb.
I found most of the space was taken up by xml files.
$ ls -sh /usr/share/libgweather/ total 76M 916K Locations.ang.xml 964K Locations.et.xml 976K Locations.lt.xml 1000K Locations.ru.xml 960K Locations.ar.xml 948K Locations.eu.xml 952K Locations.lv.xml 916K Locations.rw.xml 1.1M Locations.as.xml 952K Locations.fa.xml 1.1M Locations.mai.xml 1.0M Locations.si.xml 932K Locations.az.xml 972K Locations.fi.xml 948K Locations.mg.xml 916K Locations.sk.xml 948K Locations.be.xml 976K Locations.fr.xml 968K Locations.mk.xml 976K Locations.sl.xml 1000K Locations.be@latin.xml 920K Locations.ga.xml 1.1M Locations.ml.xml 964K Locations.sq.xml 1004K Locations.bg.xml 976K Locations.gl.xml 932K Locations.mn.xml 972K Locations.sr.xml 984K Locations.bn.xml 1.1M Locations.gu.xml 1.1M Locations.mr.xml 968K Locations.sr@latin.xml 1.1M Locations.bn_IN.xml 976K Locations.he.xml 916K Locations.ms.xml 972K Locations.sv.xml 936K Locations.bs.xml 1.1M Locations.hi.xml 972K Locations.nb.xml 1.1M Locations.ta.xml 972K Locations.ca.xml 948K Locations.hr.xml 996K Locations.ne.xml 1.1M Locations.te.xml 976K Locations.cs.xml 976K Locations.hu.xml 972K Locations.nl.xml 996K Locations.th.xml 948K Locations.cy.xml 948K Locations.id.xml 948K Locations.nn.xml 972K Locations.tr.xml 972K Locations.da.xml 972K Locations.it.xml 916K Locations.oc.xml 976K Locations.uk.xml 972K Locations.de.xml 996K Locations.ja.xml 1.1M Locations.or.xml 976K Locations.vi.xml 1012K Locations.dz.xml 956K Locations.ka.xml 1008K Locations.pa.xml 916K Locations.xml 980K Locations.el.xml 1.1M Locations.kn.xml 972K Locations.pl.xml 960K Locations.zh_CN.xml 952K Locations.en_CA.xml 976K Locations.ko.xml 976K Locations.pt.xml 976K Locations.zh_HK.xml 988K Locations.en_GB.xml 936K Locations.ku.xml 988K Locations.pt_BR.xml 976K Locations.zh_TW.xml 972K Locations.es.xml 956K Locations.ky.xml 972K Locations.ro.xml 4.0K locations.dtd
Lets take a look a couple of these xml files.
The start of Locations.en_GB.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE gweather SYSTEM "locations.dtd"> <gweather format="1.0"> <region> <name xml:lang="en_GB">Africa</name> <country> <name xml:lang="en_GB">Algeria</name> <iso-code>DZ</iso-code> <fips-code>AG</fips-code> <timezones> <timezone id="Africa/Algiers"/> </timezones> <tz-hint>Africa/Algiers</tz-hint> <city> <name xml:lang="en_GB">Adrar</name> <coordinates>27.900000 -0.283333</coordinates> <location> <name>Adrar</name> <code>DAUA</code> <coordinates>27.883333 -0.283333</coordinates> </location> </city>
The start of Locations.fr.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE gweather SYSTEM "locations.dtd"> <gweather format="1.0"> <region> <name xml:lang="fr">Afrique</name> <country> <name xml:lang="fr">Algérie</name> <iso-code>DZ</iso-code> <fips-code>AG</fips-code> <timezones> <timezone id="Africa/Algiers"/> </timezones> <tz-hint>Africa/Algiers</tz-hint> <city> <name xml:lang="fr">Adrar</name> <coordinates>27.900000 -0.283333</coordinates> <location> <name>Adrar</name> <code>DAUA</code> <coordinates>27.883333 -0.283333</coordinates> </location> </city>
Looks like every file contains the exact same data just with localised place names.
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RE: Aren't We Supposed To Be Smarter Than Microsoft?
@tdb said:
I'm interested to know what other value did you get out of the upgrade besides being able to open your friends documents?
I have a copy of office 97 I keep around because very occasionally I need to create a spreadsheet for work that uses macros. It's easy to forget but there have been big overall improvements in software since 97. For example when I open a file in excel it loads everything ok then shows an error saying a sheet with that name is already open and it can't open the file. Gets annoying pretty quickly. I expect there are dozens of similar issues that have been fixed in later versions of office. Software from that era is generally a lot buggier than current software.
While on the topic of office software I never understood why openoffice gets so much praise. I've found abiword and gnumeric to be much nicer and a heck of a lot less resource intensive. gnumeric in particular has to be one of my favourite pieces of open source software. On the other hand I don't think they run as well on windows as open office,
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RE: You can lead a horse to water...
You can lead a horse to water...
I think this proverb is perhaps more appropriate.
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RE: Cuil?
I searched for "A20 line" and 5 out of the first 11 results where wikipedia clone sites with the same content. Not exactly what I look for in a search engine.
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RE: The Oracle iPro
@boomzilla said:
This just sounds like the "Pro" part, which is to say, writing with a more professional voice.
I'd say the problem is more how absolute the statements are about decisions that could be quite subjective. Someone that really hates messy wires might find the extra costs of wireless mice and keyboards completely reasonable.
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RE: WOW - What a Page File
@KenW said:
You were born with no intelligence, and have gradually declined from there until your current state of slightly above vegetative state.
Your flames are very formulaic. If your not telling someone they are too stupid to use a computer then it's a lame attack on there maturity. I'm stating to cringe every time I read one of your posts. Please try and come up with some new insults, you're letting the side down.
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RE: Cafeteria Drone WTF
@Huf Lungdung said:
$11.14 - $10.89 = $0.25 (fixed) isn't immediately obvious. I have to think about it for a few seconds.
Took me 1 and a half minutes with the help of knowing the answer. If the numbers where not written down next to each other and I was under some pressure there is a good chance I would not be able to work it out.
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RE: A short thread, a big wtf
I have a hashtable in which some of the values are exactly the same. I want to remove the duplicates so that for one value there is only one copy in the hashtable.
How does that not make sense?
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RE: I think I want to cry - Javascript linking
@Weng said:
I enjoy that page significantly - I get a HUGE BLACK RECTANGLE on my config.
They have created a html version. You just can't see it because they use css to position it at -5000px, 30px.
I guess working out how to hide the html when flash is present was too difficult.