> What if someone else gave me a copy of Emacs without the GPL mentioned anywhere, could I distribute it in any form I wish? No, but you are free to publish screenshots of it and tell everyone how utterly obfuscated it is
By the way, did macnn give away free copies of Photoshop6 beta?
> Photoshop 6 is going to be nothing special, and the screenshots basically sucked.
I agree.
Adobe Systems are such ninnies that they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. They should be grateful for a fan site that is even willing to give them free publicity, and I guess they don't remember how to milk that publicity for their own benefit.
Adobe's cash model has depended on charging customers huge upgrade prices for yearly bigfixes and minor feature updates.
Over at their website, we see them touting Illustrator 9 as a $149 upgrade, which only features catch-up additions to help them compete with Freehand's, CorelDraw's, etc. feature creep. $149 for a copy of a disk and a book is literally a license to print money.
If you are a graphic artist, sooner or later some client will send you a disk from another graphic artist with a file done in Illustrator 9 and you may be required to buy or warez version 9 in order to complete his job. What a racket for Adobe!
They have their huge, unnecessary iceberg of bloated corporate infrastructure to support, and they NEED that $149 to finance all that fat.
Yet, Warnok and friends have become such greedy sons of bitches that they let Display PostScript DIE over them charging too much money for licenses.
I have used the FREE beta of Canvas for Linux (deneba.com). I hadn't used Canvas for years, and am surprised how WELL IT WORKS now. It is a great substitute for Illustrator and I recommend anyone who is considering buying or upgrading Illustrator to reconsider and buy Canvas instead (for ANY platform, Windows, Mac or Linux), and let Adobe keep on their precious Illustrator disks and books.
And Corel's Photopaint for Linux is very, very good now, even though it is just in the Beta 2 cycle. It is good enough to COMPLETELY REPLACE PHOTOSHOP for much less money. And we all know how much Corel needs a few bucks in their coffers right now.
THen their is Gimp for great web work. Free... No lawsuits!
So, it's too bad Adobe is tryiung to kill somebody who is just trying to report some news. I hope the site survives, but since they pulled the article (admitting 'guilt' without waiting to talk to a judge) they have already lost the case.
By the way, how come so few news websites don't know shit about 1st ammendment law? These sites are accorded the same rights as print newspapers, but if they cave in to corporate felchers, they lose those rights by their own hand.
We've got some really cool announcements about some great, great new Apple technology today at the Santa Clara Fresh Choice restaurant.
But first, I want to thank all our great fans who have supported our cool Bondi Dinnerware. Without you, we would have had someone else eating dinner with us tonight.
Now... I'm going to tell you about Apple's great new product. Our VP of Pasta Technology, Randy Whince-Dockers, will demonstrate some really great Zitti with Onion Powder and Tomato Juice. Thanks to our new electric can opener technology, Randy is preparing this fabulous sauce in much less time than our competitors at Burger World could ever hope to imagine... and they don't... even... OFFER a great pasta meal like the one Randy is preparing here right now. (applause)
Tonight, and tonight only, you can buy this incredible pasta meal RIGHT NOW. Just grab a green tray and slide it down to the pasta counter.
We're offering this really cool meal only to qualified guests at the show tonight. We will begin selling a public beta of this really cool new pasta meal this summer.
> i use debian on my server because of the power of dselect and dpkg...
I tried to compile a dpkg.tar.gz package I fetched from debian.org, but it didn't have a configure script and I didn't feel like figuring out how to generate one, so I had to use stupid rpm to install Corel's beta draw.
Anyway, Debian is like an Old Lady's Fussy Society of the open source movement. I find it hard to believe that their 2.1 is still the current release: The latest release of Debian is 2.1. It was released on 9 March 1999 says their website. Being that this Debian uses Linux 2.0.36, I gotta laugh...
I guess we may well see Micros**t Linux soon after the breakup. Since the apps division will own all the development software, they could quickly turn up a WINE-style api lib and once again achieve Total Dominance within a couple of years.
I think the OS division will wither away, unless they use their cash hoard to buy up apps.
Micros**t is stupid to appeal this judgement. They still have the EU breathing down their neck vis-a-vis monopoly abuse. If they win on appeal, the Europeans will kick their ass.
Absolutely. Getting a first-time novel picked up by a publishing house is quite rare. Going into the publishing business yourself, count on an expenditure of $30,000 to get you 5,000 and a place with a distributor. Distributors get around 55% of the gross, by the way.
I've had an idea in the back of by head about using php to publish a book online with pure html. Javascript menus at the top of the page allows the viewer to select the font, font size, etc.
The server throws the selected attributes, then the text of the book a chapter at a time with <pre>.
The real problem with formats like glassbook and pdf is they have a fixed size and aspect ratio, which is unsuitable for on-screen reading.
My advice is to publish the book on the web, which might garner attention from a decent agent or publishing house. Don't go into the publishing business to showcase your single book. It takes at least five titles per year for any publishing house to make a go.
Tell me that Joe Average-end-user uses CMYK more heavily than is supported by Gimp.
Joe average user doesn't buy or use photoshop and doesn't know what CMYK is (neither do the otherwise-talented developers of gimp). So, I digress... Gimp rules 'cause you can make web dings and put some fine sparkle in Gramma's eyes.
But Gimp is a big pig, too big for joe average user who is better served by the 'light' program that came with his digital camera. And if anyone needs to bill clients for time spent with big bitmaps, that big pig called Photoshop will put food on the table.
As for LaTex vs. Word... well apart from them both producing ugly crap only suited for academic papers, I think we have MacWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) which is actually very good, lean and mean. And for Linux, there are tons of fine word processors.
LaTex is '80s technology. Go download Framemaker for Linux.
What I kept asking myself as I read the article was, what makes the two main commenters experts?
Nothing. Somebody at the office (idg-zdnet) knew them or somebody that knew them. They needed words, not necessarily experts. ZD is a funny business. They are always of the journalist bent, rather than the computer-expert-who=writes-well bent. That's why everybody hates ZDnet.
Ziff-Davis has managed to always make lots of money. Their magazines are always tier two when it comes to design, paper quality, etc. but they are mostly tier-one when it comes to circulation and ad sales. Go figure!
In case you don't understand it yet, if you don't like that $15 price tag, DON'T BUY IT! That's right! Don't buy it, download it! Let the bastards keep their precious overpriced jewel-cased CD's.
Before the record was invented, music was given away free... usually at pubs and amongst family. People created and played and generally enjoyed music without cost.
Those who made money off music were concert players who would play with exceptional virtuosity before audiences for a fee.
When the recording industry was born, records were sold for money because it cost money to manufacture them. There was a genuine scarcity caused by the expense of record manufacture.
Now the distribution of music is brought into the realms of little or no cost. Any scarcity of the artist's recording is very arbitrary. We are being asked to ignore the actual cost of download a file over the internet and to continue to believe that recorded music is worth a LOT OF MONEY. And that recording artists deserve to be paid for these facsimilies of their performances.
I wish humanity would learn to free their minds and let the changes in technology free our love of music from the dregs of physical encumbrance. Let those who love to make music record it and let those who love to listen to their music download it for free. Times change. There is no priesthood of recording artists and their recording industries. It is illusion to go on pretending that recorded performances are worth money.
You can't expect everything to be perfect. Wait 'till the final release in January before you start your bitching. Apple had a perfect OS when they bought it from NeXT in... 1996? Or was it 1995? What has taken Apple all this time is the de-evolution of NeXTStep into that awful legacy compatibility kludge AKA Carbon. The pretty interface is simply a natural, timely progression vis-a-vis interface design. Aqua is fashionable, to be sure.
Apple is under a tremendous amount of pressure in releasing, not merely a good OS, but a GREAT OS, because of all the super-hype surrounding OS X. ...Apple's own manufactured super hype to be exact. In hindsight, Apple should have released NeXTStep for PowerPC about 6 months after they aquired NeXT, then released upgraded version along the way as they added the legacy MacOS trash. It would have kept the then-current NeXTStep software developers eating.
The big problem is what the problem with NeXTStep always has been: Objective C and what is now called cocoa. NeXTStep was a wonderful API and Ojective C was wonderful (for me), but very few developers made the leap. It seems few more are, and will do tyhe Carbon thing, but I don't think we will see very many cocoa apps.
You have to consider that they're practically building a new OS for the Mac from scratch... Shill! SHILL!
I read an article today that hints Intel may be dropping the Celery entirely later this year. It is at http://www.techextreme.com/hardware/cpu/metlon/ (too lazy to do a A/A)
Anyway, I think the Duron is going to equal the current crop of flip chip pentium 3s clock for clock.
> Apple is spending the time building dual versions of MacOS X. Expect it on intel.
Nope, those rumours only come around when it looks like Micros**t isn't going to do another Office for Mac.
OS whatever for Intel was a reality until MS threatened to stop developing Office. Things got 'straightened' out between Jobs and Gates at the time of the Micros**t $150 million Apple stock investment.
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-Natalie Portmap.
As long as the passed legislation is constitutional.
By the way, did macnn give away free copies of Photoshop6 beta?
If Adobe Systems can find the Joe who showed the site the feature list, then Adobe can sue the beta licensee, but not the website.
And the website doesn't have to reveal the source of the feature list. That's the law.
I agree.
Adobe Systems are such ninnies that they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. They should be grateful for a fan site that is even willing to give them free publicity, and I guess they don't remember how to milk that publicity for their own benefit.
Adobe's cash model has depended on charging customers huge upgrade prices for yearly bigfixes and minor feature updates.
Over at their website, we see them touting Illustrator 9 as a $149 upgrade, which only features catch-up additions to help them compete with Freehand's, CorelDraw's, etc. feature creep. $149 for a copy of a disk and a book is literally a license to print money.
If you are a graphic artist, sooner or later some client will send you a disk from another graphic artist with a file done in Illustrator 9 and you may be required to buy or warez version 9 in order to complete his job. What a racket for Adobe!
They have their huge, unnecessary iceberg of bloated corporate infrastructure to support, and they NEED that $149 to finance all that fat.
Yet, Warnok and friends have become such greedy sons of bitches that they let Display PostScript DIE over them charging too much money for licenses.
I have used the FREE beta of Canvas for Linux (deneba.com). I hadn't used Canvas for years, and am surprised how WELL IT WORKS now. It is a great substitute for Illustrator and I recommend anyone who is considering buying or upgrading Illustrator to reconsider and buy Canvas instead (for ANY platform, Windows, Mac or Linux), and let Adobe keep on their precious Illustrator disks and books.
And Corel's Photopaint for Linux is very, very good now, even though it is just in the Beta 2 cycle. It is good enough to COMPLETELY REPLACE PHOTOSHOP for much less money. And we all know how much Corel needs a few bucks in their coffers right now.
THen their is Gimp for great web work. Free... No lawsuits!
So, it's too bad Adobe is tryiung to kill somebody who is just trying to report some news. I hope the site survives, but since they pulled the article (admitting 'guilt' without waiting to talk to a judge) they have already lost the case.
By the way, how come so few news websites don't know shit about 1st ammendment law? These sites are accorded the same rights as print newspapers, but if they cave in to corporate felchers, they lose those rights by their own hand.
Whew.... what a rant
(applause)
We've got some really cool announcements about some great, great new Apple technology today at the Santa Clara Fresh Choice restaurant.
But first, I want to thank all our great fans who have supported our cool Bondi Dinnerware. Without you, we would have had someone else eating dinner with us tonight.
Now... I'm going to tell you about Apple's great new product. Our VP of Pasta Technology, Randy Whince-Dockers, will demonstrate some really great Zitti with Onion Powder and Tomato Juice. Thanks to our new electric can opener technology, Randy is preparing this fabulous sauce in much less time than our competitors at Burger World could ever hope to imagine... and they don't... even... OFFER a great pasta meal like the one Randy is preparing here right now.
(applause)
Tonight, and tonight only, you can buy this incredible pasta meal RIGHT NOW. Just grab a green tray and slide it down to the pasta counter.
We're offering this really cool meal only to qualified guests at the show tonight. We will begin selling a public beta of this really cool new pasta meal this summer.
And that's not a bad thing.
blessings,
Master Bait
I tried to compile a dpkg.tar.gz package I fetched from debian.org, but it didn't have a configure script and I didn't feel like figuring out how to generate one, so I had to use stupid rpm to install Corel's beta draw.
Anyway, Debian is like an Old Lady's Fussy Society of the open source movement. I find it hard to believe that their 2.1 is still the current release: The latest release of Debian is 2.1. It was released on 9 March 1999 says their website. Being that this Debian uses Linux 2.0.36, I gotta laugh...
I think the OS division will wither away, unless they use their cash hoard to buy up apps.
Micros**t is stupid to appeal this judgement. They still have the EU breathing down their neck vis-a-vis monopoly abuse. If they win on appeal, the Europeans will kick their ass.
I've had an idea in the back of by head about using php to publish a book online with pure html. Javascript menus at the top of the page allows the viewer to select the font, font size, etc.
The server throws the selected attributes, then the text of the book a chapter at a time with <pre>.
The real problem with formats like glassbook and pdf is they have a fixed size and aspect ratio, which is unsuitable for on-screen reading.
My advice is to publish the book on the web, which might garner attention from a decent agent or publishing house. Don't go into the publishing business to showcase your single book. It takes at least five titles per year for any publishing house to make a go.
The country with the largest middle class is... India. Realizing that there are 1 billion people living there might drive the point HOME.
I'm very happy that Malaysians and Philipino dregs can log onto the internet and piss you off with their bad English and their bad manners.
Tell U wuht, sport. Jus du no more bagg'n those ppl dat rn't a wimpie looser lik U.
blessings,
Master Bait
> It doesn't. They're hoping to get bought out.
They sell download counts to radio, MTV and even record companies for marketing purposes.
Joe average user doesn't buy or use photoshop and doesn't know what CMYK is (neither do the otherwise-talented developers of gimp). So, I digress... Gimp rules 'cause you can make web dings and put some fine sparkle in Gramma's eyes.
But Gimp is a big pig, too big for joe average user who is better served by the 'light' program that came with his digital camera. And if anyone needs to bill clients for time spent with big bitmaps, that big pig called Photoshop will put food on the table.
As for LaTex vs. Word... well apart from them both producing ugly crap only suited for academic papers, I think we have MacWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) which is actually very good, lean and mean. And for Linux, there are tons of fine word processors.
LaTex is '80s technology. Go download Framemaker for Linux.
Nothing. Somebody at the office (idg-zdnet) knew them or somebody that knew them. They needed words, not necessarily experts. ZD is a funny business. They are always of the journalist bent, rather than the computer-expert-who=writes-well bent. That's why everybody hates ZDnet.
Ziff-Davis has managed to always make lots of money. Their magazines are always tier two when it comes to design, paper quality, etc. but they are mostly tier-one when it comes to circulation and ad sales. Go figure!
CMYK.
Should all laws be permanent?
Do you drive 55 mph in the fast lane?
That's right! Don't buy it, download it! Let the bastards keep their precious overpriced jewel-cased CD's.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
blessings,
Master Bait
Those who made money off music were concert players who would play with exceptional virtuosity before audiences for a fee.
When the recording industry was born, records were sold for money because it cost money to manufacture them. There was a genuine scarcity caused by the expense of record manufacture.
Now the distribution of music is brought into the realms of little or no cost. Any scarcity of the artist's recording is very arbitrary. We are being asked to ignore the actual cost of download a file over the internet and to continue to believe that recorded music is worth a LOT OF MONEY. And that recording artists deserve to be paid for these facsimilies of their performances.
I wish humanity would learn to free their minds and let the changes in technology free our love of music from the dregs of physical encumbrance. Let those who love to make music record it and let those who love to listen to their music download it for free. Times change. There is no priesthood of recording artists and their recording industries. It is illusion to go on pretending that recorded performances are worth money.
blessings,
Master Bait
Like WINE.
Carbon is the MacOS 9 API with the old cruft removed.
Like WineLib.
Apple had a perfect OS when they bought it from NeXT in... 1996? Or was it 1995? What has taken Apple all this time is the de-evolution of NeXTStep into that awful legacy compatibility kludge AKA Carbon. The pretty interface is simply a natural, timely progression vis-a-vis interface design. Aqua is fashionable, to be sure.
Apple is under a tremendous amount of pressure in releasing, not merely a good OS, but a GREAT OS, because of all the super-hype surrounding OS X.
...Apple's own manufactured super hype to be exact. In hindsight, Apple should have released NeXTStep for PowerPC about 6 months after they aquired NeXT, then released upgraded version along the way as they added the legacy MacOS trash. It would have kept the then-current NeXTStep software developers eating.
The big problem is what the problem with NeXTStep always has been: Objective C and what is now called cocoa. NeXTStep was a wonderful API and Ojective C was wonderful (for me), but very few developers made the leap. It seems few more are, and will do tyhe Carbon thing, but I don't think we will see very many cocoa apps.
You have to consider that they're practically building a new OS for the Mac from scratch...
Shill! SHILL!
There -will- be slotA TBirds.
Yep, and ebay is a great place to sell my kx133 slotA mobo.
Anyway, I think the Duron is going to equal the current crop of flip chip pentium 3s clock for clock.
Look, folks, the Dialectizer creates parody.
Parody is protected in the US (but not in stupid countries like France). See Copyright, Fair Use, and the Law (opens in new window).
Some people are way too scared of lawyers....
Their contribution to WINE development is a great thing, but the idea of using it for selling Windows apps as Linux apps is piss poor.
Contrast this method (CorelDraw for Linux) to Deneba's (Canvas) method of using WINE just for the APIs, but compiling as a native Linux app.
I'm beta testing Draw and have also downloaded the Canvas beta. Canvas wins hands down.
Nope, those rumours only come around when it looks like Micros**t isn't going to do another Office for Mac.
OS whatever for Intel was a reality until MS threatened to stop developing Office. Things got 'straightened' out between Jobs and Gates at the time of the Micros**t $150 million Apple stock investment.