I work in the mostly-Mac design department of a large (otherwise PC) publishing company. We use a lot of MS authentication on various intranet sites. If IE never improves (safari is way better already) and Safari never gains the ability to authenticate (moz1.4.1/win does it with a common DLL) then we're screwed.
If Explorer 7 will be tied to the new OS, it will take at least another two years (and probably three) before it becomes available.
The famous talk show transcript says: "Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS." I tentatively translate this line as "We cannot improve IE any more" because it fits with an idea I've had in the back of my mind for two years now.
Why is Microsoft unwilling to fix the CSS bugs that everyone's been asking it to fix for ages? I think it's not unwilling but unable to do so. Explorer's code engine cannot be updated any more.
Good, maybe the'll do a ground-up rewrite, falter for a few years, and give someone else a chance to get on top (see this article.) Someone standards-compliant and not in bed with every large company on the planet.
Damn right. 38 +5 comments right now. Maybe 10 re: carrier technology, info from people who've served on them, etc. The remaining ~30 are all rehashing 20-year-old politics that I didn't care about when I was 10 and don't care about now that I'm 30. This is News for Nerds, not Weak Political Discourse from Crybabies.
why is everyone flipping out over the screen? first of all, it's 17", 1440x900, which is exactly the same as an Apple 17" PowerBook or 17" iMac. Secondly, if you do the math (a^2+b^2=c^2 and all that) you'll learn that the screen is exactly 14.4"x9", so the screen is exactly 100 dpi. Nice round number, and most screens are anywhere from 85 to 115, so what's the big deal? I don't remember hearing companints about the 17" Apple's resolution. Besides, 100 dpi is very nice--mock somehting up in Photoshop at 100 dpi, view it at 100%, and it'll be shown onscreen at its exact actual size. Make a final file at 300 dpi, zoom out to 33%, same effect. BTW, I work with a 20" (16"x12") 1600x1200 Dell flat panel with the same 100dpi resolution and it's great.
Serial: the best modem you can get (many in this day and age are still broadband-less) is an external 56k. Works great on serial. A friend had a USB modem and every so often his computer would 'forget' it was there, *while* he was online downloading stuff. Unplug it, plug it back in, reconnect, all is fine. Screw that.
And then there's the Macs we have at work. My favorite trick: KB plugged into comp, mouse plugged into KB. KB stops working. Mouse still works. wtf?!?!? unplug, replug, all is fine.
USB is mostly good... but ADB and PS/2 are perfect. Given the choice, which would you pick? And, in all honesty, it's not like they could make the whole box smaller by taking off those ports. Look at the back of an ATX box--you can get 1 parallel, 2 serial, and 2 PS/2 in about 1"x1"x3" along the edge of the box. (Don't have one in front of me to measure exactly.)
Oh, and I once had a USB-only PC. The BIOS would see the keyboard always--I could press DEL at POST and get into it--but then Windows would boot and not see it at all sometimes. Nothing had moved since the last shutdown. Again, wtf?!?!?
top 3 google matches for 'iwill zpc'--japanese, sweedish, and russian pages. then I saw that google has a 'would you prefer to search for english results only?" they never cease to amaze me.:-)
this thing is super-sweet. in case of slashdotting, here are the two coolestpics. anyone know what these things cost? I didn't see it mentioned in the review and iwillusa.com is also down.
I think you'd hit your first roadblock trying to make 'printf' work.
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Then look no further: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie wItem&item =2738025507 do an ebay search for 'compaq deskpro en sff', my personal favorite machine. That one is a PII/400 and can be had for $90. It has 128 MB RAM, CD (optional, worth $40 on its own; bootable), floppy, and two PCI slots (one shared ISA) *plus* onboard PS/2, serial, parallel, and Intel 10/100. It's about 1/2 the volume of a typical desktop--20-30% shorter on each side. Few things have a longer lifespan than a corporate Compaq.
You're one of those people who moans about the Gimp's UI. (It doesn't suck. It just isn't like Photoshop's.)
It does so suck. Photoshop has keyboard shortcuts for all the tools. No matter where you are in the app, you can press 'M' and get the marquee tool. Gimp? Gimp has keyboard shortcuts as well. You just have to click on the damn toolbar to first to use them! Accept it: Photoshop is a nice product with a buttery UI. If you don't miss it, great. Gimp is free, Photoshop isn't. That's great too. But Photoshop's UI is just better in a million small ways. And don't tell me I'm just used to it or don't like change. I have 3 computers in my cube--Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows 2000. I spend all day switching among them, using Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, BBEdit, Homesite, Office 2000, Office 2001, and Office X. (I do intranet design for a publishing company, in case you're wondering.) I even use Apple's X11 to run GUI apps (like Bluefish) from my Linux box at home for little odds & ends. So there.
Hey, that reminds me--bad UIs aren't just limited to free apps. Quark XPress blows goats, too.
For a while they were pretty close but price wars have made those sandalone DVD players more economical. DVD laptops are down to ~$700 and those players are below $300. Just depends what you want--big screen + general purpose or small size + battery life. Lot sof DVD laptops barely have the battery to play one medium-long movie, and a year or two of average battery (ab)use can really shorten their life.
Oh yeah, now I remember...
Lambert: Excuse me, sir, but before I go, I ought to have told you that Mr Verity does tend to exaggerate. Every figure he gives you will be ten times too high.
Husband: I see.
Verity: Mr Lambert, what is the
length of the Comfidown Majorette?
Lambert: Ah. Two foot long.
Husband: Two foot long?
Verity: Yes, remembering of course that you have to multiply everything Mr
Lambert says by three... when he says a bed is two foot long, it is in
fact sixty foot long, all right?
Privacy? When you're driving, you're in *public*. These black boxes are just recording what witnesses would say if they were around to see. (Automatically and more accurately.) I don't think you have any expectation of privacy on a public road. Slippery slope and so on, but for now, just using them in case of accident, I have no problem at all. Do you think someone should get away with this kind of driving just because there were no witnesses and he was a good liar?
Note: IANAL, but I watch a *lot* of Law & Order.:-)
By skipping commercials, I can watch 2 "1-hour" shows in 1.5 hours. Watching 10 "hours" of TV programming can be done in 7.5 hours with Tivo. I do a lot of things that interest me with an "extra" 2.5 hours of time!...
Yes.. I skip commercials.. BUT, I would say that I have absolutely no interest in > 90% of the commercials being shown:...
-I'm not looking to buy a new car...
I hear you, dude. I spend my extra 2.5 hrs/day deleting SPAM. Because, you see, I don't need herbal viagra, a low interest mortgage, a...
Yup, and it'll remain un-broke until a competitor is able to produce magazines with more recent images and complex layouts in less time thanks to InDesign's ability to work with native, layered Illustrator and photoshop documents.
I agree, Quark hasn't done much new stuff since 3.32, just as MSIE has stagnated since 4. (According to macworld's review, they didn't even update their type engine for this release, nor did they for any recent releases.) If you're already a Photoshop and/or Illustrator user, use InDesign for an hour and you'll be hooked. A bundle of PS-Ill-ID-Acrobat is only $999.
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I work in the mostly-Mac design department of a large (otherwise PC) publishing company. We use a lot of MS authentication on various intranet sites. If IE never improves (safari is way better already) and Safari never gains the ability to authenticate (moz1.4.1/win does it with a common DLL) then we're screwed.
Damn right. 38 +5 comments right now. Maybe 10 re: carrier technology, info from people who've served on them, etc. The remaining ~30 are all rehashing 20-year-old politics that I didn't care about when I was 10 and don't care about now that I'm 30. This is News for Nerds, not Weak Political Discourse from Crybabies.
people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables...
So, you'd be happy with a population made up of 50% MS and 50% UNIX variants?
Bad caption. I thought it was Jimi Hendrix.
why is everyone flipping out over the screen? first of all, it's 17", 1440x900, which is exactly the same as an Apple 17" PowerBook or 17" iMac. Secondly, if you do the math (a^2+b^2=c^2 and all that) you'll learn that the screen is exactly 14.4"x9", so the screen is exactly 100 dpi. Nice round number, and most screens are anywhere from 85 to 115, so what's the big deal? I don't remember hearing companints about the 17" Apple's resolution. Besides, 100 dpi is very nice--mock somehting up in Photoshop at 100 dpi, view it at 100%, and it'll be shown onscreen at its exact actual size. Make a final file at 300 dpi, zoom out to 33%, same effect. BTW, I work with a 20" (16"x12") 1600x1200 Dell flat panel with the same 100dpi resolution and it's great.
Serial: the best modem you can get (many in this day and age are still broadband-less) is an external 56k. Works great on serial. A friend had a USB modem and every so often his computer would 'forget' it was there, *while* he was online downloading stuff. Unplug it, plug it back in, reconnect, all is fine. Screw that.
And then there's the Macs we have at work. My favorite trick: KB plugged into comp, mouse plugged into KB. KB stops working. Mouse still works. wtf?!?!? unplug, replug, all is fine.
USB is mostly good... but ADB and PS/2 are perfect. Given the choice, which would you pick? And, in all honesty, it's not like they could make the whole box smaller by taking off those ports. Look at the back of an ATX box--you can get 1 parallel, 2 serial, and 2 PS/2 in about 1"x1"x3" along the edge of the box. (Don't have one in front of me to measure exactly.)
Oh, and I once had a USB-only PC. The BIOS would see the keyboard always--I could press DEL at POST and get into it--but then Windows would boot and not see it at all sometimes. Nothing had moved since the last shutdown. Again, wtf?!?!?
top 3 google matches for 'iwill zpc'--japanese, sweedish, and russian pages. then I saw that google has a 'would you prefer to search for english results only?" they never cease to amaze me. :-)
OK, one more cool pic--one of the inside to answer all the "how do they fit all that $#!+ in there?" posts. :-)
this thing is super-sweet. in case of slashdotting, here are the two coolest pics. anyone know what these things cost? I didn't see it mentioned in the review and iwillusa.com is also down.
I think you'd hit your first roadblock trying to make 'printf' work.
Then look no further:e wItem&item =2738025507
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi
do an ebay search for 'compaq deskpro en sff', my personal favorite machine. That one is a PII/400 and can be had for $90. It has 128 MB RAM, CD (optional, worth $40 on its own; bootable), floppy, and two PCI slots (one shared ISA) *plus* onboard PS/2, serial, parallel, and Intel 10/100. It's about 1/2 the volume of a typical desktop--20-30% shorter on each side. Few things have a longer lifespan than a corporate Compaq.
I was only trying to refute his point that people don't like the Gimp because it's different. Different doesn't bother me. Bad does.
You're one of those people who moans about the Gimp's UI. (It doesn't suck. It just isn't like Photoshop's.)
It does so suck. Photoshop has keyboard shortcuts for all the tools. No matter where you are in the app, you can press 'M' and get the marquee tool. Gimp? Gimp has keyboard shortcuts as well. You just have to click on the damn toolbar to first to use them! Accept it: Photoshop is a nice product with a buttery UI. If you don't miss it, great. Gimp is free, Photoshop isn't. That's great too. But Photoshop's UI is just better in a million small ways. And don't tell me I'm just used to it or don't like change. I have 3 computers in my cube--Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows 2000. I spend all day switching among them, using Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, BBEdit, Homesite, Office 2000, Office 2001, and Office X. (I do intranet design for a publishing company, in case you're wondering.) I even use Apple's X11 to run GUI apps (like Bluefish) from my Linux box at home for little odds & ends. So there.
Hey, that reminds me--bad UIs aren't just limited to free apps. Quark XPress blows goats, too.
For a while they were pretty close but price wars have made those sandalone DVD players more economical. DVD laptops are down to ~$700 and those players are below $300. Just depends what you want--big screen + general purpose or small size + battery life. Lot sof DVD laptops barely have the battery to play one medium-long movie, and a year or two of average battery (ab)use can really shorten their life.
Oh yeah, now I remember...
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Lambert: Excuse me, sir, but before I go, I ought to have told you that Mr Verity does tend to exaggerate. Every figure he gives you will be ten times too high.
Husband: I see.
Verity: Mr Lambert, what is the length of the Comfidown Majorette?
Lambert: Ah. Two foot long.
Husband: Two foot long?
Verity: Yes, remembering of course that you have to multiply everything Mr Lambert says by three... when he says a bed is two foot long, it is in fact sixty foot long, all right?
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that's "Attornies General". :-)
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Privacy? When you're driving, you're in *public*. These black boxes are just recording what witnesses would say if they were around to see. (Automatically and more accurately.) I don't think you have any expectation of privacy on a public road. Slippery slope and so on, but for now, just using them in case of accident, I have no problem at all. Do you think someone should get away with this kind of driving just because there were no witnesses and he was a good liar?
:-)
Note: IANAL, but I watch a *lot* of Law & Order.
"The first film had about 400 special effects shots. The second had 800 and this film will have at least as many as the first two combined."
Apple likes to build up stocks of computers before selling them.
So why is it that, most of the time, Apple announces a new product but it isn't available for 2 weeks to 2 months? 17" PB is the most recent example.
"your future home... will recognize you, communicate with you, and anticipate your every need."
:-)
Cool. I'm looking forward to coming home to a smart house full of hookers and beer.
about the only thing I remember was that on the movie, they had cool buzzing voices but on the series they didn't do that effect.
By skipping commercials, I can watch 2 "1-hour" shows in 1.5 hours. Watching 10 "hours" of TV programming can be done in 7.5 hours with Tivo. I do a lot of things that interest me with an "extra" 2.5 hours of time! ... ... ...
Yes.. I skip commercials.. BUT, I would say that I have absolutely no interest in > 90% of the commercials being shown:
-I'm not looking to buy a new car
I hear you, dude. I spend my extra 2.5 hrs/day deleting SPAM. Because, you see, I don't need herbal viagra, a low interest mortgage, a...
Yup, and it'll remain un-broke until a competitor is able to produce magazines with more recent images and complex layouts in less time thanks to InDesign's ability to work with native, layered Illustrator and photoshop documents.
I agree, Quark hasn't done much new stuff since 3.32, just as MSIE has stagnated since 4. (According to macworld's review, they didn't even update their type engine for this release, nor did they for any recent releases.) If you're already a Photoshop and/or Illustrator user, use InDesign for an hour and you'll be hooked. A bundle of PS-Ill-ID-Acrobat is only $999.
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