But Photoshop costs $500+ dollars. That means that most of the people using it (or at least the ones that paid for it) really, trully need it's features.
You've out-caveated your own argument. The people with whom I have worked who have paid for photoshop use it for pre-press work. The original poster's assertion related to those users who also wanted eye-candy, ie, not professional users. In that context, photoshop is Yet Another Application, and, within that context, my argument is more than valid.
1) A company called QSP has had a 3 tier finacial suite around for the last 15 or 20 years. I dunno about the x-windows interface, tho.
character gui -> mainframe broker -> database.
2) XDM. That's right, the X display manager. Login Screen -> PAM ->/etc/passwd
3) IBM's callup application. It's a program to look up info on IBM employees, and it has every interface known to man. I'm willing to be that some Unix dork back in the day wrote an X front end to it. It's prolly even more than 3 tiers.
as an aside, who cares why she wants the patent shut down? it's a software patent on obvious technology, and it can foad.
no, india has an usually high density of people, period. i would actually posit that the percentage of computer literate or skilled to non-skilled in india is much, much smaller than say, northern europe.
slashdot will be printing a retraction of this story in the next copy of slashback. if not, they will do a full-blown 'expose' of contentville, ending with 'so i guess they're not really doing all this bad stuff we said they were, after all.'
how many times do you have to be bitten by the same hook? slashdot's modus operandi is, "print something REALLY controversial without checking facts, get tons of hits, print responsible sounding retraction, snicker all the way to bank."
And C# is the first language to incorporate XML comment tags that can be used by the compiler to generate readable documentation directly from source code.
buuuuuullshit. (except for the XML qualifier) this is exactly what perldoc does.
Enum is in the.NET base-class library. An enum of type "foo" is not interchangeable with an enum of type "bar" without a cast. I think that's an important difference.
he managed to fit some nice hype in there, aye? the.net base class in-fucking-deed. warning bell: anyone who talks this much about enums (which ARE cool, but not all that friggin' cool) is talking out his butt. how many times have you been writing a C program and thought, well, shit, if only i needed to typecast this enum before i could interchange it, this language would really be much nicer..
When you write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files, IDL files (Interface Definition Language), GUIDs and complicated interfaces.
so? aren't all of those things methods used to make code portable? if you're interpreting it all anyways, of course you don't need headers.
Developers are building software components these days. They're not building monolithic applications or monolithic class libraries.
what fucking planet is this guy from?
ok, so maybe it won't be a shitty language, but this interview is 100% market-driven spin-filled drivel. M$ is trying to replace 'object-oriented' with 'component-oriented' as the next language buzzword, and then be the only kid on the block with a buzzword compliant language.
it's highly compressed, thus losing some degree of quality which may or may not be significant.
it's exactly as compressed as you want it to be. in comparison with analog soundwaves, even the 16bit, 44khz signal used for CDs is suboptimal. there are now many commercial 20 bit recorders which achieve a much more 'full' sound - not that you'll ever hear it on a CD.
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i'd go point-by-point, but none of your arguments have any merit at all.
long flame short, music is art, a CD is a saleable item. lack of cds != lack of music, nor does it equal lack of access to music, it simple means lack of easily controllable conduit from musician -> record label -> listener.
it doesn't say how many w2k boxes are being used to replace the BSD boxes. if they're putting in 400 w2k machines in place of 200 BSD ones, of course it will prolly work, but that isn't much of a reason for using w2k.
eh? i assume you actually mean Nick Dalius, and if you do, you're still incorrect. it is originally attributed to Napoleon, in response to an accusation of treason aimed at a subordinate, captain straight-fact.
try a search for Fletcher Pratt's books.
the malicious thing was just a troll cuz i needed a good 'second.'
no, they cull it from that cookie you have. if you've ever signed up for a yahoo anything, you have a yahoo account. they know who you are, or who you at least claim to be.
And I suppose you'd rather go without DVDs, watching your crappy deteriorated to crap tapes, just because the MPAA is a "big bad evil corporation" too, right?
actually, you're much better off just not watching MPAA-branded movies at all.
or TV.
or the radio, while you're at it. nothing there but major-label shit.
live a little.
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i needed another one?
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* LD50 = dose which will kill 50% of the tested animals.
Second, I don't know what the hell timothy is talking about with the Mac statement. Maya is being ported to OS X (again using the previous UNIX version). Photoshop is still around, and kicking major ass with G4 Altivec acceleration.
He was making reference to the mid-90's "apple is dead" media fad, in light of Apple's strong current position.
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But Photoshop costs $500+ dollars. That means that most of the people using it (or at least the ones that paid for it) really, trully need it's features.
You've out-caveated your own argument. The people with whom I have worked who have paid for photoshop use it for pre-press work. The original poster's assertion related to those users who also wanted eye-candy, ie, not professional users. In that context, photoshop is Yet Another Application, and, within that context, my argument is more than valid.
See ya!
Blue
The Gimp is great, but there are still plenty of places where Photoshop simply outshines.
Name five - and remember that the gimp can read and use external photoshop plugins.
I can think of one, and only one - pantone/CMYK support. Until someone coughs up $10k for it, though, there's nothing to be done about it.
See ya!
Blue
Obviously Comet Cursor and Webshots is a joke as they are both bandwidth wasting pieces of crap.
If they're what people want, then there's no harm done. Would you rather bandwidth go unused?
And please, continue replacing the word "the" with "da" as your street smarts have impressed me again and again.
If I had any street smarts at all, I'd know better than to reply to a known troll..
See ya!
Blue
it sounds like a terrible way to sell media - no one will buy it. :)
1) A company called QSP has had a 3 tier finacial suite around for the last 15 or 20 years. I dunno about the x-windows interface, tho.
/etc/passwd
character gui -> mainframe broker -> database.
2) XDM. That's right, the X display manager. Login Screen -> PAM ->
3) IBM's callup application. It's a program to look up info on IBM employees, and it has every interface known to man. I'm willing to be that some Unix dork back in the day wrote an X front end to it. It's prolly even more than 3 tiers.
as an aside, who cares why she wants the patent shut down? it's a software patent on obvious technology, and it can foad.
good luck,
blue
With a publisher who screws up a book on a simple subject that much, would you really buy from them?
perl is a simple subject? *looks at mass of spaghetti code written over the last two months*..
dammit. i'm just going to kill myself now.
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Linus's wife, Tove, is some kind of european death-goddes karate champion, so don't talk bad about her or she'll kill you.
I remember a great interview with his parents, where his dad was talking about how all he ever thought about in school was getting laid.
Now THAT is the kind of guy I want heading up my OS development.
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no, india has an usually high density of people, period. i would actually posit that the percentage of computer literate or skilled to non-skilled in india is much, much smaller than say, northern europe.
slashdot will be printing a retraction of this story in the next copy of slashback. if not, they will do a full-blown 'expose' of contentville, ending with 'so i guess they're not really doing all this bad stuff we said they were, after all.'
how many times do you have to be bitten by the same hook? slashdot's modus operandi is, "print something REALLY controversial without checking facts, get tons of hits, print responsible sounding retraction, snicker all the way to bank."
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eh. what is it with the need to naysay every new technology? would you apply the same logic to 8 track tapes, cassettes, and CDs?
:)
being blind to problems with license leads to things like the RAM and GIF debacles.
you'll get moderated up anyways, no doubt.
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And C# is the first language to incorporate XML comment tags that can be used by the compiler to generate readable documentation directly from source code.
.NET base-class library. An enum of type "foo" is not interchangeable with an enum of type "bar" without a cast. I think that's an important difference.
.net base class in-fucking-deed. warning bell: anyone who talks this much about enums (which ARE cool, but not all that friggin' cool) is talking out his butt. how many times have you been writing a C program and thought, well, shit, if only i needed to typecast this enum before i could interchange it, this language would really be much nicer..
buuuuuullshit. (except for the XML qualifier) this is exactly what perldoc does.
Enum is in the
he managed to fit some nice hype in there, aye? the
When you write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files, IDL files (Interface Definition Language), GUIDs and complicated interfaces.
so? aren't all of those things methods used to make code portable? if you're interpreting it all anyways, of course you don't need headers.
Developers are building software components these days. They're not building monolithic applications or monolithic class libraries.
what fucking planet is this guy from?
ok, so maybe it won't be a shitty language, but this interview is 100% market-driven spin-filled drivel. M$ is trying to replace 'object-oriented' with 'component-oriented' as the next language buzzword, and then be the only kid on the block with a buzzword compliant language.
blah! shut up and use perl.
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i read at -1. i like reading the internet at -1, too.
moderation is stupid because people are not moderate. we are all driven by our own suspicions, paranoias, and prejudices.
COPA is stupid, censorware is stupid, welcome to america.
methinks taco needs to get some nads and just not post shit he knows is BS.
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sir, assuming you are not a troll.
I am, but I wasn't trolling when I wrote that.
'digital music.'
compact discs are digital music.
it's highly compressed, thus losing some degree of quality which may or may not be significant.
it's exactly as compressed as you want it to be. in comparison with analog soundwaves, even the 16bit, 44khz signal used for CDs is suboptimal. there are now many commercial 20 bit recorders which achieve a much more 'full' sound - not that you'll ever hear it on a CD.
...
i'd go point-by-point, but none of your arguments have any merit at all.
long flame short, music is art, a CD is a saleable item. lack of cds != lack of music, nor does it equal lack of access to music, it simple means lack of easily controllable conduit from musician -> record label -> listener.
i want cd's to go away because i like music.
it doesn't say how many w2k boxes are being used to replace the BSD boxes. if they're putting in 400 w2k machines in place of 200 BSD ones, of course it will prolly work, but that isn't much of a reason for using w2k.
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i want cds to go away.
eh? i assume you actually mean Nick Dalius, and if you do, you're still incorrect. it is originally attributed to Napoleon, in response to an accusation of treason aimed at a subordinate, captain straight-fact.
try a search for Fletcher Pratt's books.
the malicious thing was just a troll cuz i needed a good 'second.'
hand!
no, they cull it from that cookie you have. if you've ever signed up for a yahoo anything, you have a yahoo account. they know who you are, or who you at least claim to be.
actually, i have not seen the x-men.
now... how does that fit in with your world view?
And I suppose you'd rather go without DVDs, watching your crappy deteriorated to crap tapes, just because the MPAA is a "big bad evil corporation" too, right?
actually, you're much better off just not watching MPAA-branded movies at all.
or TV.
or the radio, while you're at it. nothing there but major-label shit.
live a little.
the very simple argument that killing a being capable of feeling pain and fear by pumping it full of caffeine is goddamned disgusting.
i needed another one?
:(
* LD50 = dose which will kill 50% of the tested animals.
:(
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blue, who just had his day fucking ruined.
UNIX (IRIX) != Linux (well... not without a bunch of work).
Nice phrasing. What you're implying is that unix has a long way to go to catch up with linux, which is absolutely true.
Thanks for being so on the ball, now if everyone else would just realize it..
obPort: Linux has pleeeenty of GL support, and, as someone else has said, the rendering engine already works.
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Second, I don't know what the hell timothy is talking about with the Mac statement. Maya is being ported to OS X (again using the previous UNIX version). Photoshop is still around, and kicking major ass with G4 Altivec acceleration.
He was making reference to the mid-90's "apple is dead" media fad, in light of Apple's strong current position.
It was a joke, see?
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whups, did not mean to post that anono-cowardly. feel free to moderate this response for carma retaliation.
:P
too much trolling today, that button is getting to be a habit.
thanks,
blue