NeoOffice is by far the best office suite on the Mac.
Except for the slow startup time. Oh and the non-standard interface. And then there's the fact that no matter how many copies of a document I tell it to print, it prints one. And if that's not enough to be annoying, there's always the stupid web page it brings up to tell you about itself. Disable it, you say? That took me about an hour to figure out, it requires editing of configuration files. Yea, real smart not to put that one in the menus, guys. NeoOffice is written by people who obviously don't get the whole Mac thing.
And, everytime I quit, is OS X supposed to say it crashed and ask me if I want to restart it?
The paper doesn't fade, the inks\film fade the paper at worst yellows.
With photo paper the two are one and the same. There is no "ink." The dye is embedded in paper and revealed by chemical processes using silver halide crystals. Snapfish isn't as transparent as what they use as Shutterfly. But, I would bet Snapfish uses traditional photo processes as well.
Secondly how do you color match/Profile you colors and get them printed accurately?
Shutterfly calibrates to sRGB, so if you are calibrated to sRGB, you should match with them. Here is information about their use of Crystal Archive paper. While Shutterfly is more expensive, knowing how they print is worth the extra money.
Snapfish is useful if you went on vacation and printed out all 300 photos to bore your friends. there is a lack of detail and once again as far as i know snapfish photos besides looking as poor as polaroid photos aren't archival either.
First off, you need to use punctuation and capitalize things. Second, while I cannot speak directly to Snapfish's technology (though I would bet it's similar if not identical), Shutterfly uses Fuji Frontier printers which "paint" light on traditional photographic paper. Specifically, Shutterfly uses Fuji Crystal Archive paper. It is then developed like it was a print made from film. Notice "Archive" in the name. When properly fixed and washed, Crystal Archive prints will last longer on average than inkjet. If you could take prints off the wall in galleries and museums, you would see that most color prints are on Crystal Archive paper. This should tell you something.
I am also concerned that the current Mac Mini might not have quite enough CPU power to decode high quality 1080I bitstreams. I would love to be able to stream 1080P too.
Minis are due for an update. I'll probably buy one for the same reason when they do get updated. In the next rev, 1080 should not be an issue. BTW, 1080i and 1080p are equivalently sized data streams and 1080i can be converted to 1080p.
Isn't that the fault of Apple or the dealers for not participating and not selling outside it's own narrow distribution channel?
For Apple it wasn't a failure, because apparently it was the best selling software. The magazine is at fault for publishing figures without using a statistically significant sample. It's Experimental Science 101.
Jobs and Apple (no longer "Apple Computer" I might add) are selling shiney crap to the masses.
So shinyness aside, I fail to see how what is being sold is crap. Obviously music players are a matter of preference, but some of us bought iPods before they were "cool" simply because they were the most straightforward and logical devices to use as far as portable music players go. And you seem to imply "selling to the masses" is bad. Is Apple only successful if they have only a cult following? As a shareholder, I would answer that with a resounding "no." I don't use Apple because it's cool, I use their products because they work.
Your comments do not make you sound intelligent. Here's a quote; maybe you have heard it before.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. --Alan Kay
A lot of people would agree with that.
Until it can be run on non-dongle-ridden hardware, it is not versatile.
The claim is that the hardware is versatile. Your comment does not apply.
In fact, depending on how Jobs' current 'selling sugar water to the kids' (iPod/iTunes) initiative goes
I'm not even quite sure what this means. Why does everyone fight against iTunes and the iPod? If you don't like it, don't use it. No one is forcing you.
Comcast scrambles all HD content and disables the firewire connector on the back of the set top boxes around here.
While it's expected that some content is encrypted, by law, they must enable the Firewire connector. So, you can get it enabled. It will only help for unencrypted content, but it's still useful.
"...To accommodate these interfaces, effective April 1, 2004, upon consumer request, MSOs must provide functional 1394 outputs to HD STBs, either by downloading the necessary software to STBs with existing 1394 ports, or by replacing a deployed HD STB for one which includes 1394. These leased HD STBs must be controllable by a TV or other device equipped with a 1394 port for the tune function, mute function, restore volume function, power on, power off, and status inquiry. (Under the MOU, the STB will be provided at no additional cost to the customer, but MSOs may charge, as appropriate, for delivery and installation of the new STB.)..."
I'm not sure of the original source of that, but there ya go.
At Rutgers University, we have a home grown tool called NetDB that we use to manage IP allocations, assignment of networks to individual departments, corresponding DNS, and custom Access Control Lists. It works rather well. Network Operations allocates a network for a department and assigns it to the appropriate Network Contact Group (NCG). From that point, the people who have certain privileges on that NCG have the ability to add/remove DNS for it and create custom access lists. The tool knows what OSPF areas to allocate addresses from based on zones, and all in all is pretty neat. Here is some documentation (including screenshots) for ideas should you decide to ever work on your own tool.
The CCNA is a great cert to have, it give you the fundamentals of networking, which, like it or not, is a must these days.
While there's usefulness associated with it, I feel the same way about that as you do about A+. If you require a CCNA, I don't want to work for you. You can find out in 10 minutes of an interview if someone could pass a CCNA.
Just do me one favor. Don't look at the CCNA as an end, but more of a means to an end. The fact of the matter is those tests rely on memorization and memorization doesn't mean a damn thing in the real world. Understanding underlying things does. Learn about TCP/IP, about routing protocols' operation in general. Learn about graph theory and where the term "Spanning Tree" comes from in Spanning Tree Protocol. Learn about who Dijisktra is and what his Shortest Path algorithm is about.
I haven't looked at a CCNA exam in a while, so I don't know if I'd pass it. If it's memorization and has questions about frame relay on it still, I'd probably fail. Unfortunately, though, CCNA tends to distract you from really learning. It doesn't have to, but it can.
Where I'm from, you're worthless if you don't have a certification.
Come to the financial industry. Lots of people have certs; no one cares. People I know who have certs generally got them before they work where I am or just because they wanted to. Plenty of people with EE, MechE, CS, and Math degrees, however.
Uhh... it does a lot more than just email. While I am no fan of MS, they have built the best available corporate messaging system to handle scheduling, email, tasks, shared calendars, public this and public that. I would personally love to replace the Exchange/Outlook combo. However, there is really no other simple option for admins that would please the non-tech managers yet.
I [reluctantly] can't agree more with this. I started a new job in the financial industry in June, having previously worked a university. I never had used Outlook for more than 10 minutes in the past 5 years and I was hesitant to use it. The fact of the matter is that it is the only solution in the space. Nothing has email, calendaring, meeting requests, and real time push to my BlackBerry. It's sad, but true. IMAP and IMAP IDLE come close for email, but for calendaring, we'll have to see what CalDAV does--right now it's not an over-the-counter product. In addition, all of these technologies are moot if BlackBerry won't support them.
I believe 1729 was mentioned in the movie Proof which contained not enough math to make the average math geek enjoy and just enough math to make the average girlfriend annoyed. Still an awesome story about Ramanujan though:-)
Ramanujan was so amazing. His work on integer partitions was enough to be revolutionary, yet he hardly stopped there--all before dying at such a young age.
With unsecured purchased files, people will be way more likely to email mp3's to their friends, etc. It's an issue of lost potential revenue. They'd rather you tell a friend to pick up a track off of (Insert Music Store you don't hate) than simply having them send the file.
You mean like they can do with MP3s ripped from CDs? CDs that have no copy protection whatsoever and make up the lion's share of the market? Your argument doesn't hold water.
It's actually grounds for a mass slander / libel lawsuit. If they are doing this under the "assumption" that all of us will infringe, and at least one of us doesn't - boom - instant suit.
Hi, welcome to Canada's recordable media tax. Oh, and the Universal/Microsoft deal over the Zune. Why are you throwing out random ideas with no legal basis? Oh, this is slashdot; sorry, I forgot.
We are only talking 36Mbps a second tops for HD/blueray top data rates. A cheap re-encryption chip within 10 years that can do that is quite possible.
You assume without cause that there won't be a more data intensive format in those 10 years. There are already really fast implementations of AES and they have enough trouble keeping up with HD. We're just starting to see DRM being questioned by the powers that be as far as audio is concerned. Eventually, all these questions will come up for video too. DRM doesn't have 10 years to sort itself out. It's on its way out already.
Not a point that I disagree with, really, but it doesn't change the fact that I think the East fears the West...
I don't think so. The east has Wall St. Unless you've worked there, you (not you, you, but people in general) will probably underestimate the tech talent that resides on Wall St.*
* - I use the term Wall St. loosely, since nowadays it refers to most of lower Manhattan as well as the Jersey City water front.
The only restriction is that you can't discriminate based on a fairly narrow set up criteria, such as race or gender (and even those have exceptions).
Narrow? You have to be completely kidding me. Apartment buildings that have elevators are forced to have handicap accessible apartments on floors reachable by the elevator because if they didn't, they wouldn't be complying with the American Disabilities Act. *That is ridiculous* If I'm building an apartment building, why should I have to pay extra money for the extra thought necessary to design ADA compliant kitchens and bathrooms? It should be completely at the discretion of the owner/builder. But it's not. Buildings with such features would be sought out by the handicapped, and other buildings would be avoided. Welcome to the free market. But unfortunately, it's more like saying welcome to the nanny state.
Unfortunately, the mapping of phrase -> acronym is not an injective function, and therefore is not invertible. This means the same acronym will generally be used for multiple things. But, when I used the term CAD above, it apparently was clear as another poster who replied to me used it as well. Its definition is understood by context.
No... not so be it. When corporations center back to a single source, the community at whole is effected. Now I understand that this Walmart action isn't devastating, it does effect us. Do you want to become South Korea?
Educate yourself. Oh, and learn the difference between effect and affect.
Usually, roadside, the cop will radio in to the dispatcher to have them run an NCIC check, although increasingly they have the infrastructure to put this on a laptop in the car.
I used to work for a company who did CAD (computer aided dispatch, in case the acronym isn't universal) and RMS for police. Years ago, cops were doing NCIC queries from their MDTs. So I'm kinda surprised that it's not more universal by now.
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NeoOffice is by far the best office suite on the Mac.
Except for the slow startup time. Oh and the non-standard interface. And then there's the fact that no matter how many copies of a document I tell it to print, it prints one. And if that's not enough to be annoying, there's always the stupid web page it brings up to tell you about itself. Disable it, you say? That took me about an hour to figure out, it requires editing of configuration files. Yea, real smart not to put that one in the menus, guys. NeoOffice is written by people who obviously don't get the whole Mac thing.
And, everytime I quit, is OS X supposed to say it crashed and ask me if I want to restart it?
The paper doesn't fade, the inks\film fade the paper at worst yellows.
With photo paper the two are one and the same. There is no "ink." The dye is embedded in paper and revealed by chemical processes using silver halide crystals. Snapfish isn't as transparent as what they use as Shutterfly. But, I would bet Snapfish uses traditional photo processes as well.
Secondly how do you color match/Profile you colors and get them printed accurately?
Shutterfly calibrates to sRGB, so if you are calibrated to sRGB, you should match with them. Here is information about their use of Crystal Archive paper. While Shutterfly is more expensive, knowing how they print is worth the extra money.
Snapfish is useful if you went on vacation and printed out all 300 photos to bore your friends. there is a lack of detail and once again as far as i know snapfish photos besides looking as poor as polaroid photos aren't archival either.
First off, you need to use punctuation and capitalize things. Second, while I cannot speak directly to Snapfish's technology (though I would bet it's similar if not identical), Shutterfly uses Fuji Frontier printers which "paint" light on traditional photographic paper. Specifically, Shutterfly uses Fuji Crystal Archive paper. It is then developed like it was a print made from film. Notice "Archive" in the name. When properly fixed and washed, Crystal Archive prints will last longer on average than inkjet. If you could take prints off the wall in galleries and museums, you would see that most color prints are on Crystal Archive paper. This should tell you something.
I am also concerned that the current Mac Mini might not have quite enough CPU power to decode high quality 1080I bitstreams. I would love to be able to stream 1080P too.
Minis are due for an update. I'll probably buy one for the same reason when they do get updated. In the next rev, 1080 should not be an issue. BTW, 1080i and 1080p are equivalently sized data streams and 1080i can be converted to 1080p.
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Isn't that the fault of Apple or the dealers for not participating and not selling outside it's own narrow distribution channel?
For Apple it wasn't a failure, because apparently it was the best selling software. The magazine is at fault for publishing figures without using a statistically significant sample. It's Experimental Science 101.
Jobs and Apple (no longer "Apple Computer" I might add) are selling shiney crap to the masses.
So shinyness aside, I fail to see how what is being sold is crap. Obviously music players are a matter of preference, but some of us bought iPods before they were "cool" simply because they were the most straightforward and logical devices to use as far as portable music players go. And you seem to imply "selling to the masses" is bad. Is Apple only successful if they have only a cult following? As a shareholder, I would answer that with a resounding "no." I don't use Apple because it's cool, I use their products because they work.
Your comments do not make you sound intelligent. Here's a quote; maybe you have heard it before.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. --Alan Kay
A lot of people would agree with that.
Until it can be run on non-dongle-ridden hardware, it is not versatile.
The claim is that the hardware is versatile. Your comment does not apply.
In fact, depending on how Jobs' current 'selling sugar water to the kids' (iPod/iTunes) initiative goes
I'm not even quite sure what this means. Why does everyone fight against iTunes and the iPod? If you don't like it, don't use it. No one is forcing you.
Comcast scrambles all HD content and disables the firewire connector on the back of the set top boxes around here.
While it's expected that some content is encrypted, by law, they must enable the Firewire connector. So, you can get it enabled. It will only help for unencrypted content, but it's still useful.
"...To accommodate these interfaces, effective April 1, 2004, upon consumer request, MSOs must provide functional 1394 outputs to HD STBs, either by downloading the necessary software to STBs with existing 1394 ports, or by replacing a deployed HD STB for one which includes 1394. These leased HD STBs must be controllable by a TV or other device equipped with a 1394 port for the tune function, mute function, restore volume function, power on, power off, and status inquiry. (Under the MOU, the STB will be provided at no additional cost to the customer, but MSOs may charge, as appropriate, for delivery and installation of the new STB.)..."
I'm not sure of the original source of that, but there ya go.
At Rutgers University, we have a home grown tool called NetDB that we use to manage IP allocations, assignment of networks to individual departments, corresponding DNS, and custom Access Control Lists. It works rather well. Network Operations allocates a network for a department and assigns it to the appropriate Network Contact Group (NCG). From that point, the people who have certain privileges on that NCG have the ability to add/remove DNS for it and create custom access lists. The tool knows what OSPF areas to allocate addresses from based on zones, and all in all is pretty neat. Here is some documentation (including screenshots) for ideas should you decide to ever work on your own tool.
The CCNA is a great cert to have, it give you the fundamentals of networking, which, like it or not, is a must these days.
While there's usefulness associated with it, I feel the same way about that as you do about A+. If you require a CCNA, I don't want to work for you. You can find out in 10 minutes of an interview if someone could pass a CCNA.
Just do me one favor. Don't look at the CCNA as an end, but more of a means to an end. The fact of the matter is those tests rely on memorization and memorization doesn't mean a damn thing in the real world. Understanding underlying things does. Learn about TCP/IP, about routing protocols' operation in general. Learn about graph theory and where the term "Spanning Tree" comes from in Spanning Tree Protocol. Learn about who Dijisktra is and what his Shortest Path algorithm is about.
I haven't looked at a CCNA exam in a while, so I don't know if I'd pass it. If it's memorization and has questions about frame relay on it still, I'd probably fail. Unfortunately, though, CCNA tends to distract you from really learning. It doesn't have to, but it can.
Where I'm from, you're worthless if you don't have a certification.
Come to the financial industry. Lots of people have certs; no one cares. People I know who have certs generally got them before they work where I am or just because they wanted to. Plenty of people with EE, MechE, CS, and Math degrees, however.
Uhh... it does a lot more than just email. While I am no fan of MS, they have built the best available corporate messaging system to handle scheduling, email, tasks, shared calendars, public this and public that. I would personally love to replace the Exchange/Outlook combo. However, there is really no other simple option for admins that would please the non-tech managers yet.
I [reluctantly] can't agree more with this. I started a new job in the financial industry in June, having previously worked a university. I never had used Outlook for more than 10 minutes in the past 5 years and I was hesitant to use it. The fact of the matter is that it is the only solution in the space. Nothing has email, calendaring, meeting requests, and real time push to my BlackBerry. It's sad, but true. IMAP and IMAP IDLE come close for email, but for calendaring, we'll have to see what CalDAV does--right now it's not an over-the-counter product. In addition, all of these technologies are moot if BlackBerry won't support them.
I believe 1729 was mentioned in the movie Proof which contained not enough math to make the average math geek enjoy and just enough math to make the average girlfriend annoyed. Still an awesome story about Ramanujan though :-)
Ramanujan was so amazing. His work on integer partitions was enough to be revolutionary, yet he hardly stopped there--all before dying at such a young age.
With unsecured purchased files, people will be way more likely to email mp3's to their friends, etc. It's an issue of lost potential revenue. They'd rather you tell a friend to pick up a track off of (Insert Music Store you don't hate) than simply having them send the file.
You mean like they can do with MP3s ripped from CDs? CDs that have no copy protection whatsoever and make up the lion's share of the market? Your argument doesn't hold water.
It's actually grounds for a mass slander / libel lawsuit.
If they are doing this under the "assumption" that all of us will infringe, and at least one of us doesn't - boom - instant suit.
Hi, welcome to Canada's recordable media tax. Oh, and the Universal/Microsoft deal over the Zune. Why are you throwing out random ideas with no legal basis? Oh, this is slashdot; sorry, I forgot.
We are only talking 36Mbps a second tops for HD/blueray top data rates.
A cheap re-encryption chip within 10 years that can do that is quite possible.
You assume without cause that there won't be a more data intensive format in those 10 years. There are already really fast implementations of AES and they have enough trouble keeping up with HD. We're just starting to see DRM being questioned by the powers that be as far as audio is concerned. Eventually, all these questions will come up for video too. DRM doesn't have 10 years to sort itself out. It's on its way out already.
Not a point that I disagree with, really, but it doesn't change the fact that I think the East fears the West...
I don't think so. The east has Wall St. Unless you've worked there, you (not you, you, but people in general) will probably underestimate the tech talent that resides on Wall St.*
* - I use the term Wall St. loosely, since nowadays it refers to most of lower Manhattan as well as the Jersey City water front.
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Can I return 4'33" then? Only half kidding. Hah.
The only restriction is that you can't discriminate based on a fairly narrow set up criteria, such as race or gender (and even those have exceptions).
Narrow? You have to be completely kidding me. Apartment buildings that have elevators are forced to have handicap accessible apartments on floors reachable by the elevator because if they didn't, they wouldn't be complying with the American Disabilities Act. *That is ridiculous* If I'm building an apartment building, why should I have to pay extra money for the extra thought necessary to design ADA compliant kitchens and bathrooms? It should be completely at the discretion of the owner/builder. But it's not. Buildings with such features would be sought out by the handicapped, and other buildings would be avoided. Welcome to the free market. But unfortunately, it's more like saying welcome to the nanny state.
Unfortunately, the mapping of phrase -> acronym is not an injective function, and therefore is not invertible. This means the same acronym will generally be used for multiple things. But, when I used the term CAD above, it apparently was clear as another poster who replied to me used it as well. Its definition is understood by context.
No... not so be it. When corporations center back to a single source, the community at whole is effected. Now I understand that this Walmart action isn't devastating, it does effect us. Do you want to become South Korea?
Educate yourself. Oh, and learn the difference between effect and affect.
Usually, roadside, the cop will radio in to the dispatcher to have them run an NCIC check, although increasingly they have the infrastructure to put this on a laptop in the car.
I used to work for a company who did CAD (computer aided dispatch, in case the acronym isn't universal) and RMS for police. Years ago, cops were doing NCIC queries from their MDTs. So I'm kinda surprised that it's not more universal by now.