Sounds like a not too subtle excuse to send every URL you type back to your targeted advertising file at Google. Were there a separate search box, I'd be less cynical, but one has to wonder if this was always their vision for what the browser bar should do.
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.
I installed one of these cables between my gigabit ethernet switch and my Canon Pixma 6700 color printer. I know it's not a sanctioned use, but I was looking for the ultimate in speed and color fidelity. I'm freaky that way.
The first time I downloaded a picture to the printer over this cable, the bits moved so fast the printer collapsed into a naked singularity, right there in my office.
Since then, I can't find the cat, and my entire set of VAX/VMS 4.7 documentation (DEC Will Rise Again!) (Mmmmm, orangey!) has gone missing.
Please, for the love of God, please, do not use these cables! The very existence of Earth may depend on your decision!
Most of those people could get by with Photoshop Elements instead of Photoshop, and there are even cheaper alternatives if that's still too much. Honestly, I'd prefer it keep working the way it does rather than getting a $10 gutted version with in app sales or "software as a service" model feature rentals.
Photoshop CS6 now optionally supports Content Aware Fill for $1 a use or $15 a month!!!
Check out 1:28 in the video here for an illustration of the difference between Seam Carving and PatchMatch, which I believe is what the content aware fill demo is based on.
But finding where it's broken on a 500m cable is a pain in the ass. If you don't mind the initial investment, conduit does have benefits in the long run. Nobody wants to be replacing a long cable like that every few years, it's just another little thing to worry about.
Despite what you may have heard about most of Pennsylvania, this stereotype doesn't really hold true for University Park and State College (yeah, I know it's a lame name for a town). It's a fairly liberal area, but if you go 10 miles in any direction, you're likely to find what you described.
Penn State's spring semester game is just getting underway (stealth zombies period ends at noon tomorrow), and it's fucking awesome, just like last semester's was. Yes, they let us use nerf guns, and nobody's been injured except for one guy who broke his foot while falling down some stairs last game. That's why we make people sign waivers.
It's the best game ever. Hope they get the issues cleared up, as nerf guns and the associated modifications (yeah, I'm an engineering student) are a really fun aspect of it. If your college doesn't play, go get it started. I recommend talking it over w/ the campus cops first though, just to make sure you won't have problems like this.
Well, they're not all that bad. It's mostly smaller projects, like PCGen that are the worst offenders, and some more widely used ones like Azureus never really got good Mac interfaces. For example, when you make the Azuerus window smaller, instead of adding a scrollbar it just covers stuff up bit by bit. So you can make it small, but if you want all of the statistics to be available you have to leave it at a fairly large size. Azureus's interface is the main reason that everyone I know has switched to Transmission.
And I don't want to sound all negative, because there are plenty of good Java based programs on Mac. For example, Lux does a great job with the interface (maybe because it started on Mac and was ported the other way), but I'm still worried. The prospect of hundreds of developers jumping on the iPhone thinking "I already know Java, so I don't have to learn anything new" seems like it could end badly. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens, if Sun does go through with this.
Now that the Mac is overrun with terrible ports of Java apps with Windows interfaces and menus at the top of windows instead of in the menubar, we can send the iPhone down the same road! Horray for inefficient power wasting slow ports! But at least it's easy to go cross platform with Java, as long as you don't want it to look right or run fast.
Ok, I'm a tad cynical. We can hope that iPhone users will demand a higher standard of usability than the "hey, I bet we could make this run on Macs with a few hours of work" that are fairly common in the software market. Otherwise it's going to be overrun with bad versions of apps thrown over from other java capable mobile platforms.
Is it some kind of surprise that most people don't bring laptops to lectures? Text notes are easy to take, but god forbid your professor draws a diagram and you don't have a tablet. Also, considering how much willpower it takes me to sit at my computer for an hour without firing up Tetris, I can see that it might have a bad influence on my grades. If it's not going to help me learn more I see no reason to have it with me.
Apple did it too, remember? Cue people whining about how the fanbois ignore Apple's flaws so that they can pretend Creative is satan in 3.... 2.... 1....
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Sounds like a not too subtle excuse to send every URL you type back to your targeted advertising file at Google. Were there a separate search box, I'd be less cynical, but one has to wonder if this was always their vision for what the browser bar should do.
I think he said you can't have pizza delivered without giving out your address.
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.
I installed one of these cables between my gigabit ethernet switch and my Canon Pixma 6700 color printer. I know it's not a sanctioned use, but I was looking for the ultimate in speed and color fidelity. I'm freaky that way.
The first time I downloaded a picture to the printer over this cable, the bits moved so fast the printer collapsed into a naked singularity, right there in my office.
Since then, I can't find the cat, and my entire set of VAX/VMS 4.7 documentation (DEC Will Rise Again!) (Mmmmm, orangey!) has gone missing.
Please, for the love of God, please, do not use these cables! The very existence of Earth may depend on your decision!
Pretty sure the American Constitution doesn't work that way. If you're looking for rights that we claim apply to everyone, check out the UDHR.
Most of those people could get by with Photoshop Elements instead of Photoshop, and there are even cheaper alternatives if that's still too much. Honestly, I'd prefer it keep working the way it does rather than getting a $10 gutted version with in app sales or "software as a service" model feature rentals.
Photoshop CS6 now optionally supports Content Aware Fill for $1 a use or $15 a month!!!
Fuck no.
Check out 1:28 in the video here for an illustration of the difference between Seam Carving and PatchMatch, which I believe is what the content aware fill demo is based on.
True, but that's probably a few years off. Oh wait, it's in After Effects CS5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCr96ldClz4#t=6m
I believe the official solution in your case is the Mac Box Set, which gets you 10.6, iLife, and iWork for $130, the price of previous 10.x updates.
Saw them on Penn State main campus in June, but last I checked we didn't have street view available yet.
http://imgur.com/kq2WY
The message you should get out of this is "buy Sins of a Solar Empire."
While you're at it, I've got a bridge to sell you.
From now on, Microsoft's success will be due to their relationship with developers, developers, developers, developers.
But finding where it's broken on a 500m cable is a pain in the ass. If you don't mind the initial investment, conduit does have benefits in the long run. Nobody wants to be replacing a long cable like that every few years, it's just another little thing to worry about.
They should just cut to the chase and pay google to redirect some percent of users to MSN search results.
Seagate was. The rest still haven't, so you're free to go after WD, Hitachi, or whoever else seems like they might have some money for you.
It's slashdot.org! /Wrong site?
Despite what you may have heard about most of Pennsylvania, this stereotype doesn't really hold true for University Park and State College (yeah, I know it's a lame name for a town). It's a fairly liberal area, but if you go 10 miles in any direction, you're likely to find what you described.
Penn State's spring semester game is just getting underway (stealth zombies period ends at noon tomorrow), and it's fucking awesome, just like last semester's was. Yes, they let us use nerf guns, and nobody's been injured except for one guy who broke his foot while falling down some stairs last game. That's why we make people sign waivers.
It's the best game ever. Hope they get the issues cleared up, as nerf guns and the associated modifications (yeah, I'm an engineering student) are a really fun aspect of it. If your college doesn't play, go get it started. I recommend talking it over w/ the campus cops first though, just to make sure you won't have problems like this.
You could make a pretty fun Star Wars game using this.
Well, they're not all that bad. It's mostly smaller projects, like PCGen that are the worst offenders, and some more widely used ones like Azureus never really got good Mac interfaces. For example, when you make the Azuerus window smaller, instead of adding a scrollbar it just covers stuff up bit by bit. So you can make it small, but if you want all of the statistics to be available you have to leave it at a fairly large size. Azureus's interface is the main reason that everyone I know has switched to Transmission.
And I don't want to sound all negative, because there are plenty of good Java based programs on Mac. For example, Lux does a great job with the interface (maybe because it started on Mac and was ported the other way), but I'm still worried. The prospect of hundreds of developers jumping on the iPhone thinking "I already know Java, so I don't have to learn anything new" seems like it could end badly. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens, if Sun does go through with this.
Now that the Mac is overrun with terrible ports of Java apps with Windows interfaces and menus at the top of windows instead of in the menubar, we can send the iPhone down the same road! Horray for inefficient power wasting slow ports! But at least it's easy to go cross platform with Java, as long as you don't want it to look right or run fast. Ok, I'm a tad cynical. We can hope that iPhone users will demand a higher standard of usability than the "hey, I bet we could make this run on Macs with a few hours of work" that are fairly common in the software market. Otherwise it's going to be overrun with bad versions of apps thrown over from other java capable mobile platforms.
Perhaps it's a request for a feature similar to OS X's "Ignore trackpad when mouse is present" setting.
Though for all I know Vista already has that, since I'm sticking with XP on my MBP. Anyone with Vista care to chime in on this?
Then you'll like this one:
AutoFS
Automatically mount and dismount network filesystems on separate threads to improve responsiveness and reliability.
Is it some kind of surprise that most people don't bring laptops to lectures? Text notes are easy to take, but god forbid your professor draws a diagram and you don't have a tablet. Also, considering how much willpower it takes me to sit at my computer for an hour without firing up Tetris, I can see that it might have a bad influence on my grades. If it's not going to help me learn more I see no reason to have it with me.
Apple did it too, remember? Cue people whining about how the fanbois ignore Apple's flaws so that they can pretend Creative is satan in 3.... 2.... 1....