Acrobat has a feature called "convert web pages to PDF" from within Acrobat that is quite useful to archive websites digitally while preserving the formatting and keeping things searchable (with OS X Spotlight, for example). When you install Acrobat, Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) even gains an Adobe PDF toolbar that you can use to generate PDF from within IE. I guess most Slashdotters use different browsers, but at least on OS X you can easily print to PDF natively.
...McAfee screaming: "I want some piece of the cake, too?"
Microsoft has made supplemental software (defrag, disk compression, zips, etc.) obsolete in the past by including it into the system. They will do it again.
I know it is fashionable among the Slashdot crowd to discount Acrobat as bloatware. Working as a healthcare professional, however, I really appreciate many of the features geeks may discount as bloat:
Virtually all medical papers are available as PDFs. After downloading these, I can annotate them in Acrobat with comments; Acrobat allows me to highlight important passages. I know geeks do not like DRM, but Acrobat's DRM is why some biomedical e-books are available. Thanks to Acrobat, I carry a little library on my 12" Powerbook complete with my own comments/annotations.
While it is true that Acrobat lacks a command-line interface and crashes occasionally:) it has revolutionized the way I archive things. I do not keep copies of print journals anymore. Acrobat runs all the time on my machine.
The whole problem with the Microsoft "experience" is that their products are viral---not in the social engineering sense, but from a security standpoint. If it is as viral as Windows, I'll gladly pass on:)
>> filesharing thing, which [...] won't even be any useful until there's enough people with the Zune.
Exactly. About 10 years ago, I bought a Palm IIIx back in Germany. One of the features was infrared connection with other Palm IIIx users. Few people I knew in medical school owned such a device. AFAIR, I exchanged data wirelessly twice over the lifetime (!) of my Palm IIIx with other users.
It is interesting that everyone is blaming Sony and no one talks about Toshiba here. Back when Apple recalled batteries, quite a few people in this forum bitched about Apple. Now that Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba have recalled batteries, people do realize who's fault it is.
If I had been Sony, I would have asked the manufacturers to recall batteries all at the same time. Instead, they are getting bad press four times in a row as all the reputable manufacturers recall their batteries. What a PR disaster!
I write this on a 12" Powerbook G4 1.5GHz; Apple recalled my first battery a year ago (it was an LG battery) and replaced it with a faulty Sony. I am currently awaiting the second replacement battery for this faulty Sony.
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Acrobat has a feature called "convert web pages to PDF" from within Acrobat that is quite useful to archive websites digitally while preserving the formatting and keeping things searchable (with OS X Spotlight, for example). When you install Acrobat, Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) even gains an Adobe PDF toolbar that you can use to generate PDF from within IE. I guess most Slashdotters use different browsers, but at least on OS X you can easily print to PDF natively.
...McAfee screaming: "I want some piece of the cake, too?"
Microsoft has made supplemental software (defrag, disk compression, zips, etc.) obsolete in the past by including it into the system. They will do it again.
I know it is fashionable among the Slashdot crowd to discount Acrobat as bloatware. Working as a healthcare professional, however, I really appreciate many of the features geeks may discount as bloat:
:) it has revolutionized the way I archive things. I do not keep copies of print journals anymore. Acrobat runs all the time on my machine.
Virtually all medical papers are available as PDFs. After downloading these, I can annotate them in Acrobat with comments; Acrobat allows me to highlight important passages. I know geeks do not like DRM, but Acrobat's DRM is why some biomedical e-books are available. Thanks to Acrobat, I carry a little library on my 12" Powerbook complete with my own comments/annotations.
While it is true that Acrobat lacks a command-line interface and crashes occasionally
>> The Zune is social and viral.
:)
The whole problem with the Microsoft "experience" is that their products are viral---not in the social engineering sense, but from a security standpoint. If it is as viral as Windows, I'll gladly pass on
>> filesharing thing, which [...] won't even be any useful until there's enough people with the Zune.
Exactly. About 10 years ago, I bought a Palm IIIx back in Germany. One of the features was infrared connection with other Palm IIIx users. Few people I knew in medical school owned such a device. AFAIR, I exchanged data wirelessly twice over the lifetime (!) of my Palm IIIx with other users.
It is interesting that everyone is blaming Sony and no one talks about Toshiba here. Back when Apple recalled batteries, quite a few people in this forum bitched about Apple. Now that Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba have recalled batteries, people do realize who's fault it is.
If I had been Sony, I would have asked the manufacturers to recall batteries all at the same time. Instead, they are getting bad press four times in a row as all the reputable manufacturers recall their batteries. What a PR disaster!
I write this on a 12" Powerbook G4 1.5GHz; Apple recalled my first battery a year ago (it was an LG battery) and replaced it with a faulty Sony. I am currently awaiting the second replacement battery for this faulty Sony.
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