Whose responsibility should it be to select a religion for those children?
I'm going to say it's the children's responsibility, somewhere after their 18th birthday. How about Mom and Dad just concentrate on making sure their kids are decent well adjusted human beings, then if the kids want to choose to join some mind warping cult they can do that on their own later.
It's not completely arbitrary. For a long time Macs truly were better for graphics than Winows PCs. They had better support for postscript fonts, color management, and high resolution screens among other things. Windows has for the most part caught up but when a whole industry has standardized on a platform there's little reason to switch if the only benefit is a very slight decrease in initial cost for hardware. The software costs pretty much the same but you would have to factor in the higher cost of having to hire more PC techs to handle all the unproductive busy work you get when you run Windows.
I'm not sure why your situation is such a nightmare since you didn't really say but maybe if you were a computer tech instead of a PC tech you might see it as an opportunity to learn something new. You might eventually also find that supporting Macs is pretty easy and once you get settled in you'll have a lot more free time to read Slashdot.
Anybody that works in Photoshop for a living knows he meant 8 bits per channel. While RGB adds up to 24 bit and CMYK adds up to 32 bit you may have several alpha channels or masks that add another 8 bits per pixel. Should I call the image I'm working on right now a 72 bit image? What he's saying is that most filters don't work in 16 bits per channel.
I think it's unlikely Apple would include a usb port explicitly for a keyboard. If they want you to use an external keyboard at all it's more likely they'll expect you to use bluetooth. Jobs hates wires and tries to reduce or eliminate them wherever possible. For that reason I will be surprised if there are any ports at all, other than power.
Ok, that link does seem to have an air of truthiness to it so I guess I will have to stand corrected. At some point though I did read on one of the aviation sites (aviationweek or flightglobal or someplace like that) that the pilot in question had a habit of kicking the rudder around like crazy and was warned about it previously. If AA was actually training its pilots to do that on purpose then I'm glad they also have shitty service to go along with their poorly trained pilots and I had already given up flying with them.
Actually, IIRC that pilot was not trained by American Airlines to wag the rudder like a jackass. That was his own dumb idea and he'd been warned about it in the past.
Actually the retail version of iWork 09 doesn't have any activation or serial numbers. The downloadable version does. Anyone planning on buying iWork would be far better off getting the packaged version just to avoid the hassle of entering in the stupid 28 character license key. $150 got me iWork 09, iLife 09 and the latest version of Leopard, no serial numbers or activation on any of them.
We know you can write but can you read? Go read the captions under the pretty pictures at that cnet page.
"Don't look for a full-size version right away, however. Boeing has a long horizon for the R&D effort, envisioning the larger successors to the prototype serving as a multipurpose military platform--from cargo transport to bomber--in 15 to 20 years."
Ok, but I did buy my copy from Microsoft, or at least through a retailer, newegg and that was only about a year ago. Is it ok to end support for a product you still sell? What about all the netbooks still being sold with XP?
I guess it depends on your definition of support. I wouldn't expect them to add any new features but if after 8 years they still haven't gotten the original set of features working right then I think that's their problem. It's not like they aren't still selling it on netbooks.
But isn't ActiveX the reason or at least one of the reasons a lot of people don't want to use IE in the first place? If the OS is broken then you need to download updates to fix it but the only mechanism you can use to do that it is itself broken.
But then if you have the source code you can hire someone else to fix it if necessary. If you paid money to Microsoft for their software it's not unreasonable to expect them make sure it actually works and to fix it if they screwed something up.
Yeah, that's definitely the miniStacks biggest flaw. I have my Airport Extreme Base Station stacked on top of mine and the fan runs all the time. Newer should have included some stand offs on top to allow better airflow between the top of the miniStack and the bottom of the Mac mini or AEBS.
The Volt isn't much different that the Prius or Civic hybrid in that you don't have to ever plug it in if you are really that lazy. But, since it has a larger battery you have the option of charging it up at night or while you are parked at work and then running on electric only for the next 40 miles or so and at highway speeds. That's not an option with the current hybrids.
If you don't typically drive more than 40 miles between charges then you may get away with never having to use gas. You could, in theory, go months without buying gas at all but if you take a long road trip you don't have to worry about range because you can put gas in it every 3 or 4 hundred miles like any other car.
Back when the iPhone only supported web apps Safari enabled windows users to write them, so I guess it was there to tell Windows people it was ok to buy an iPhone.
Congratulations. How do you interact with the interface though? The answer is what defines a power user, not your mistaken idea that it depends on what your duties are around the office.
I'm not sure how to answer that. I don't really think about the interface, I just get my work done fairly effortlessly and have plenty of time left over to surf slashdot. Isn't that the point?
And if you're MIS department can't keep an email system up that's just bad management. It's not like it's the operating system's fault. Do YOU run a heavily trafficked email or MIS server with Macs?
Well, no I don't need to run an email or MIS server yet but I have been slowly forced to replicate a lot of it's functionality on my Xserve in Filemaker in my spare time so we can get our job done without the IT dept's "help". You may be right about bad management being part of the problem but when I look at how little I have to actually work to do my job I wonder if everything else would be such a mess if it were run on something other than windows. I'm really not that bright.
Nope. You could get a video card long before any AGA machines came out permitting all the usual color modes.
And you were completely dependent on the video card vendor for the retargetable graphics driver because Commodore hadn't gotten around to that yet.
Amiga never really did have anything comparable to QuickDraw, Quicktime or Colorsync.
Uh, at the time Quicktime was a video codec, container, and player. Whoopdedoo? It wasn't even the best thing going at the time. Quickdraw is just a set of drawing routines, which ran entirely on the CPU on almost every machine until well into Macintosh history. (Practically into the effing present.) I might add that today Quicktime is mostly a DRM platform. There's nothing it does otherwise that isn't done better elsewhere, except perhaps display wraparound images. I don't know what Colorsync is, but if it has to do with color correction, I have no idea if anyone had a working color calibration system for the Amiga, but I would be surprised to find out that they didn't.
Quicktime was a rich API as Lars T. below mentioned. Something that again, Commodore never got around to.
Quickdraw may have run on the cpu but if you had a Nubus Mac and some cash you could get a video card from multiple vendors with a hardware quickdraw accelerator. The last one I had went up to 1360x1024x24bit. Agnes was great for it's time but in the end just held the Amiga back. Not having an extensible graphics system prevented Amigas use for anything other than home hobby use and low end video use.
Colorsync is for color calibration and as far as I can remember Commodore never got around to the either.
The Mac was the dominant desktop publishing platform because the Adobe stuff was crap on Windows for a very long time. But you're right that the Amiga wouldn't have taken that position, regardless of the reason.
Adobe stuff was crap on Windows for a long time because there was no system level color calibration system comparable to Colorsync and font rendering was crap.
I think you'll need to explain those differences for me understand what you are talking about. I've been using Macs at work for almost 20 years now. I'm a prepress operator at a mid-size printing company and in addition to my normal duties I also maintain all the workstations, servers and network infrastructure for my department in my spare time. Does that make me a power user or am I still a lowly "regular user"? Most of the rest of my company runs on windows and has a dedicated IT staff larger than my whole department. Presumably they would be considered power users in your eyes, yet they can't seem to keep our Windows based email or MIS systems up for more than a day or two without interruption. I find it funny how Windows users puff themselves up as some kind of genius for their imagined mastery of such a crappy OS and then have the balls to denigrate others for choosing another platform based on it's utility.
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Whose responsibility should it be to select a religion for those children?
I'm going to say it's the children's responsibility, somewhere after their 18th birthday. How about Mom and Dad just concentrate on making sure their kids are decent well adjusted human beings, then if the kids want to choose to join some mind warping cult they can do that on their own later.
It's not completely arbitrary. For a long time Macs truly were better for graphics than Winows PCs. They had better support for postscript fonts, color management, and high resolution screens among other things. Windows has for the most part caught up but when a whole industry has standardized on a platform there's little reason to switch if the only benefit is a very slight decrease in initial cost for hardware. The software costs pretty much the same but you would have to factor in the higher cost of having to hire more PC techs to handle all the unproductive busy work you get when you run Windows.
I'm not sure why your situation is such a nightmare since you didn't really say but maybe if you were a computer tech instead of a PC tech you might see it as an opportunity to learn something new. You might eventually also find that supporting Macs is pretty easy and once you get settled in you'll have a lot more free time to read Slashdot.
Anybody that works in Photoshop for a living knows he meant 8 bits per channel. While RGB adds up to 24 bit and CMYK adds up to 32 bit you may have several alpha channels or masks that add another 8 bits per pixel. Should I call the image I'm working on right now a 72 bit image? What he's saying is that most filters don't work in 16 bits per channel.
I think it's unlikely Apple would include a usb port explicitly for a keyboard. If they want you to use an external keyboard at all it's more likely they'll expect you to use bluetooth. Jobs hates wires and tries to reduce or eliminate them wherever possible. For that reason I will be surprised if there are any ports at all, other than power.
No, it's true.
Only if he floats. Quick! Someone toss him in the pond!
Ok, that link does seem to have an air of truthiness to it so I guess I will have to stand corrected. At some point though I did read on one of the aviation sites (aviationweek or flightglobal or someplace like that) that the pilot in question had a habit of kicking the rudder around like crazy and was warned about it previously. If AA was actually training its pilots to do that on purpose then I'm glad they also have shitty service to go along with their poorly trained pilots and I had already given up flying with them.
Actually, IIRC that pilot was not trained by American Airlines to wag the rudder like a jackass. That was his own dumb idea and he'd been warned about it in the past.
That was his point. Your whole post seems to demonstrate a lack of reading comprehension skills. Play nice.
Actually the retail version of iWork 09 doesn't have any activation or serial numbers. The downloadable version does. Anyone planning on buying iWork would be far better off getting the packaged version just to avoid the hassle of entering in the stupid 28 character license key. $150 got me iWork 09, iLife 09 and the latest version of Leopard, no serial numbers or activation on any of them.
We know you can write but can you read? Go read the captions under the pretty pictures at that cnet page.
"Don't look for a full-size version right away, however. Boeing has a long horizon for the R&D effort, envisioning the larger successors to the prototype serving as a multipurpose military platform--from cargo transport to bomber--in 15 to 20 years."
Your comment about engine placement is complete nonsense. Watch the youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4URaQgltJA
Ok, but I did buy my copy from Microsoft, or at least through a retailer, newegg and that was only about a year ago. Is it ok to end support for a product you still sell? What about all the netbooks still being sold with XP?
I guess it depends on your definition of support. I wouldn't expect them to add any new features but if after 8 years they still haven't gotten the original set of features working right then I think that's their problem. It's not like they aren't still selling it on netbooks.
But isn't ActiveX the reason or at least one of the reasons a lot of people don't want to use IE in the first place? If the OS is broken then you need to download updates to fix it but the only mechanism you can use to do that it is itself broken.
So you're saying I could use Firefox or Opera instead of IE for Windows Update?
But then if you have the source code you can hire someone else to fix it if necessary. If you paid money to Microsoft for their software it's not unreasonable to expect them make sure it actually works and to fix it if they screwed something up.
man pages, see the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_page_(Unix)
And how much would gas cost at the pump if the budget for Central Command were reflected in the price of oil?
F-117s were retired last spring and they hadn't built any new ones in ages.
Yeah, that's definitely the miniStacks biggest flaw. I have my Airport Extreme Base Station stacked on top of mine and the fan runs all the time. Newer should have included some stand offs on top to allow better airflow between the top of the miniStack and the bottom of the Mac mini or AEBS.
The Volt isn't much different that the Prius or Civic hybrid in that you don't have to ever plug it in if you are really that lazy. But, since it has a larger battery you have the option of charging it up at night or while you are parked at work and then running on electric only for the next 40 miles or so and at highway speeds. That's not an option with the current hybrids.
If you don't typically drive more than 40 miles between charges then you may get away with never having to use gas. You could, in theory, go months without buying gas at all but if you take a long road trip you don't have to worry about range because you can put gas in it every 3 or 4 hundred miles like any other car.
Back when the iPhone only supported web apps Safari enabled windows users to write them, so I guess it was there to tell Windows people it was ok to buy an iPhone.
Congratulations. How do you interact with the interface though? The answer is what defines a power user, not your mistaken idea that it depends on what your duties are around the office.
I'm not sure how to answer that. I don't really think about the interface, I just get my work done fairly effortlessly and have plenty of time left over to surf slashdot. Isn't that the point?
And if you're MIS department can't keep an email system up that's just bad management. It's not like it's the operating system's fault. Do YOU run a heavily trafficked email or MIS server with Macs?
Well, no I don't need to run an email or MIS server yet but I have been slowly forced to replicate a lot of it's functionality on my Xserve in Filemaker in my spare time so we can get our job done without the IT dept's "help". You may be right about bad management being part of the problem but when I look at how little I have to actually work to do my job I wonder if everything else would be such a mess if it were run on something other than windows. I'm really not that bright.
Nope. You could get a video card long before any AGA machines came out permitting all the usual color modes.
And you were completely dependent on the video card vendor for the retargetable graphics driver because Commodore hadn't gotten around to that yet.
Amiga never really did have anything comparable to QuickDraw, Quicktime or Colorsync.
Uh, at the time Quicktime was a video codec, container, and player. Whoopdedoo? It wasn't even the best thing going at the time. Quickdraw is just a set of drawing routines, which ran entirely on the CPU on almost every machine until well into Macintosh history. (Practically into the effing present.) I might add that today Quicktime is mostly a DRM platform. There's nothing it does otherwise that isn't done better elsewhere, except perhaps display wraparound images. I don't know what Colorsync is, but if it has to do with color correction, I have no idea if anyone had a working color calibration system for the Amiga, but I would be surprised to find out that they didn't.
Quicktime was a rich API as Lars T. below mentioned. Something that again, Commodore never got around to.
Quickdraw may have run on the cpu but if you had a Nubus Mac and some cash you could get a video card from multiple vendors with a hardware quickdraw accelerator. The last one I had went up to 1360x1024x24bit. Agnes was great for it's time but in the end just held the Amiga back. Not having an extensible graphics system prevented Amigas use for anything other than home hobby use and low end video use.
Colorsync is for color calibration and as far as I can remember Commodore never got around to the either.
The Mac was the dominant desktop publishing platform because the Adobe stuff was crap on Windows for a very long time. But you're right that the Amiga wouldn't have taken that position, regardless of the reason.
Adobe stuff was crap on Windows for a long time because there was no system level color calibration system comparable to Colorsync and font rendering was crap.
I think you'll need to explain those differences for me understand what you are talking about. I've been using Macs at work for almost 20 years now. I'm a prepress operator at a mid-size printing company and in addition to my normal duties I also maintain all the workstations, servers and network infrastructure for my department in my spare time. Does that make me a power user or am I still a lowly "regular user"? Most of the rest of my company runs on windows and has a dedicated IT staff larger than my whole department. Presumably they would be considered power users in your eyes, yet they can't seem to keep our Windows based email or MIS systems up for more than a day or two without interruption. I find it funny how Windows users puff themselves up as some kind of genius for their imagined mastery of such a crappy OS and then have the balls to denigrate others for choosing another platform based on it's utility.