quicktime is much more than just a media player. while it may try to play you're avi's for you after installing, it will also give you incredible authoring capabilites.
actually, windows 2000 has full transparency support, and programs to manipulate the opacity of a given window are already available. microsoft just doesn't use it as cheezy eye-candy like apple does.
I noticed that you can put in anything you want in place of slashdot, and even another directory after it and the page will still load. Wired News has some strange things going on.....
This open letter to Microsoft campaign is a good idea to participate in wether you support microsoft or not. One standards complient browser (mozilla) isn't enough - since at least half of the users will use IE us web programmers will still have to write for them too. Any pressure there can be for all browsers to render pages the same is good for everyone.
this quickly turns into a domain name buy up situation, where people start buying up as many patents as they can for products that don't exist yet. soon everything is bought up and everthing new is infringing on somebodies patent. crazy. lets hope it doesn't come to anything near this.
This is changing so fast, it'll all be history before you realize it. Caldera is making rapid inroads to desktop viability of linux. MS is on the wane (their marketers and PR reps are bailing as fast as they can, but the ship is still sinking).
it will be history - implying that it is true right now. history is facts of actually events that have passed us by, and your statement bascially admits that right now and for some time people have relied on microsoft products to get their work done on the consumer and client side business market. you can't point to something that will happen in the future as a rebuke about a statement concerning the present or past.
i'm not saying there isn't something better coming, or that microsoft's glory days aren't over. my point is simply what it started out to be, that microsoft is essential to *something* - if that will be true in the future is something that neither of use will be able to know until it happens.
I just added the name 'Ron Johnson' to my list of people apparently owned by MS. Whoever he is, he just started his 15 minutes of fame with a -1 credibility rating, IMO. How could anyone truly believe that MS is essential to *anything*?
well, i can think of one thing that microsoft is essential for - the home computing market. As much as it's "cool" to hate microsoft these days, and for as much as you might be able to get around using just linux and not any microsoft products, it would be ignorant to forget that consumers and businesses (client side) rely on microsoft everyday to do what they need to do.
this story is about microsoft contributing money to a project that could use it, not taking it over.
this isn't a attack on you, it's just that alot of people here need to grow up and realize that not everything microsoft does is evil. home and business computing - and i dare say the amount of consumers using the web now - wouldn't be anywhere near what it is right now without microsoft.
JPG2k seems more useful for print then for the web
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From the discription of it, it seems as if this file format is really more suited for print. The ability to work with a low res image in your document while simply specifying that it become higher res when you print it is very valuable, adn something that designers have to similate with seperate lower res images right now. the extra channels, the losless compression, the support for programs like acrobat, and InDesign all seem like it's a print oriented format.
The advantages for the web could be many, but with the assumed slow lack of support in the browsers, and the need to be backward compatable with older browsers, i think this format might give tiff a run for it's money, but not jpeg.
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quicktime is much more than just a media player. while it may try to play you're avi's for you after installing, it will also give you incredible authoring capabilites.
actually, windows 2000 has full transparency support, and programs to manipulate the opacity of a given window are already available. microsoft just doesn't use it as cheezy eye-candy like apple does.
I noticed that you can put in anything you want in place of slashdot, and even another directory after it and the page will still load. Wired News has some strange things going on.....
This open letter to Microsoft campaign is a good idea to participate in wether you support microsoft or not. One standards complient browser (mozilla) isn't enough - since at least half of the users will use IE us web programmers will still have to write for them too. Any pressure there can be for all browsers to render pages the same is good for everyone.
i'd like to get a good copy of the video of the total for archiving -
this quickly turns into a domain name buy up situation, where people start buying up as many patents as they can for products that don't exist yet. soon everything is bought up and everthing new is infringing on somebodies patent. crazy. lets hope it doesn't come to anything near this.
This is changing so fast, it'll all be history before you realize it. Caldera is making rapid inroads to desktop viability of linux. MS is on the wane (their marketers and PR reps are bailing as fast as they can, but the ship is still sinking).
it will be history - implying that it is true right now. history is facts of actually events that have passed us by, and your statement bascially admits that right now and for some time people have relied on microsoft products to get their work done on the consumer and client side business market. you can't point to something that will happen in the future as a rebuke about a statement concerning the present or past.
i'm not saying there isn't something better coming, or that microsoft's glory days aren't over. my point is simply what it started out to be, that microsoft is essential to *something* - if that will be true in the future is something that neither of use will be able to know until it happens.
I just added the name 'Ron Johnson' to my list of people apparently owned by MS. Whoever he is, he just started his 15 minutes of fame with a -1 credibility rating, IMO. How could anyone truly believe that MS is essential to *anything*?
well, i can think of one thing that microsoft is essential for - the home computing market. As much as it's "cool" to hate microsoft these days, and for as much as you might be able to get around using just linux and not any microsoft products, it would be ignorant to forget that consumers and businesses (client side) rely on microsoft everyday to do what they need to do.
this story is about microsoft contributing money to a project that could use it, not taking it over.
this isn't a attack on you, it's just that alot of people here need to grow up and realize that not everything microsoft does is evil. home and business computing - and i dare say the amount of consumers using the web now - wouldn't be anywhere near what it is right now without microsoft.
From the discription of it, it seems as if this file format is really more suited for print. The ability to work with a low res image in your document while simply specifying that it become higher res when you print it is very valuable, adn something that designers have to similate with seperate lower res images right now. the extra channels, the losless compression, the support for programs like acrobat, and InDesign all seem like it's a print oriented format.
The advantages for the web could be many, but with the assumed slow lack of support in the browsers, and the need to be backward compatable with older browsers, i think this format might give tiff a run for it's money, but not jpeg.
i don't really believe that the option to do anything is ever overkill. the more options the better.
great in theory, but i don't think it would ever work in practice. the potential for abuse is too high.