I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part.
Do you really think that someone at Adobe just decided to announce this on a whim? Or that maybe the interns are playing a practical joke on the webmaster perhaps?
Please. If Adobe is going to say something like this, I'm quite certain they've had their financial and marketing braintrusts run the numbers more than a few times, to see what kind of impact this could potentially have on their business in a "worst case scenario" (i.e., Mac users get all bitchy).
In other words, your righteous indignation has been accounted for and factored into their budget, thank you very much.
Yes, thank God the iMac showed the computing industry that they should focus on style and asthetics over features and functionality. I'm so fucking glad that Dell, IBM, and HP now feel the need to change the form factors of their machines every 3 months, and in the process give me some of the most horrible, badly designed machines ever made. iMac can kiss my ass. Anyway, my favorite iMac story:
I'm working at CompUSSR as a technician. It's a slow day, and I happen to be up at the front counter of the tech department, filling out some paperwork or something. A lady walks in the front door carting an iMac in hand, and from 10 feet away I can see the anger in her eyes. She steps up to the counter, and with one emphatic push, heaves the iMac up onto the counter, where it lands with a deafening *THUD*, loud enough the whole store takes notice. She takes a few moments to catch her breath from the effort, then looks me straight in the eye, and says...
"Jeff Goldblum is a fucking liar!"
It was a good 5 minutes before I could compose myself enough to speak.
Translation from Hollywood-ese: "We know we just stuck it to you for $11 large, but our client has his $10,000 a day Fabrege Egg habit to support, so we thought we'd try and up the price by another $3 million. OK?"
Many other jobs are not as exciting or glorious as they sound, and are in reality full of hard work and problems. Jobs such as rock star, astronaut, candy taster, fireman, and porn star.
Wow. Talk about scaping the bottom of the story idea folder.
Some guy gets a pre-release or beta version (check the post dates, 2-16) to run on a certain version of Linux via Wine, and suddenly it's "runs on Linux right out of the box".
Well, as so many around here are so fond of pointing out, 99% of the computer buying public has no choice what operating system they get with their computer.
And don't give me this crap about "you should have read up on it". There's reading up on something, and then there's being an expert in the field. I could go buy every trade magazine I can find at the bookstore, and not learn half of the devious things MS has ever tried. Only by keeping up with niche (yes, niche) sites and publications like Slashdot do I learn "the real truth", for lack of a better term.
Look at it this way. If you went out and bought a Dodge, and it turns out that the transmission in this model is flaky, you'd be pissed. Would you accept it then if someone came up to you and said, "Well, you should have done your research, it's well known that Dodge transmissions have been flaky for years."?
While researching the issue of why this is the case, he determined that some potential CS degree seekers are forming opinions from portrayals in movies and cinema.
So once again we take the opinions or ideas of the Galactically Stupid, and assume that it is a problem for the population in general. Nice job.
I would have ranked Marge v. Monorail higher (2 probably), but Last Exit to Springfield is #1 for sure.
Dentist: How often do you brush, Ralph?
Ralph: Three times a day, sir.
Dentist: Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
Dentist: These braces are painless, invisible, and periodically release a delightful burt of Calvin Klines Obsession, for Teeth!
Cameraman: Come on honey, I bet you have a beautiful smile. Why don't you share it with the world?
*Lisa with ugly braces smiles*
Cameraman (shocked):There is no God!
Homer: Hey, how much does this job (Union President) pay?
Carl: Nothin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Carl: Unless you're crooked!
Homer: Whoo-Hoo!
Plus there's a "Yoink", Lisa plays Classical Gas, Burns does The Grinch, The Big Book of British Smiles, "A green cookie on St. Patricks Day"...Jesus, this episode has it all.
Curse you Season 3, 4, and 5 DVD's, where are you?
This is the funniest part of this whole thing. If someone is in the position that they actually find Jim's site, let alone understand what he's trying to do at all, they're probably intelligent enough to determine the difference between Jim and the PCI-SIG organization.
I mean, it's not like Ma and Pa Kettle are out there trying to write device drivers and shit.
There may not be safety issues to the consumer to consider when working on their machines, but there are safety issues to consider to the machine itself. Very easy to needlessly fry a board with static, or spill Pepsi in a power supply, etc.
The point was that maybe the author should have eliminated the obvious possibilities before running to Slashdot screaming about secret DRM releases and how the end of freedom was nigh. Chicken Little and all of that.
1. Dad's new CD player doesn't play some of our Sony CD's that have CD-Extra on them.
2. These CD's play fine on our other CD players.
Conclusion: DRM!!1!! OMFG!!!1! D00d, that Sux0r!!1!
In other news, my new Dell with Windows XP had trouble recieving Groupwise email the other day. Clearly M$ has decided to secretly break all other mail programs besides Outlook.
Not only that, but there's the question of what to do with all the people currently in the Matrix. Remember that removing Neo from the Matrix at his age was a big sticking point; "Normally they do not remove a mind after a certain age" or something like that. Presumably this means that the vast majority of adults in the Matrix would not want to be "freed".
So do you leave them all in the Matrix to live out their lives? What happens if your freedom fight takes down the Matrix (the physical contructs of it I mean, all the tubes and pods and stuff); is your freedom worth the genocide of much of the human race? If you defeat the machines but are able to preserve the Matrix (and the adults inside), how do you care for them afterwards? Presumably you are not going to be adding new children to the Matrix after you win, so I would imagine at some point the Matrix reaches a point where the people inside are no longer sufficient battery power to operate the Matrix itself, because of people dying, etc.
But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular, and why these two movies are going to be the event of 2003. Questions. The Matrix captured our imaginations, and we all can't wait to see what happens next. Been a long time since a movie can truly say that.
Exactly. The company I work for has a habit of giving out "gifts" during Employee Appreciation Week, which of course are typically cheap, plastic, and not really wanted. One year they gave out license plates with "(Company)'s Employees are the Best!" printed on them. Another year we got these little clocks that are supposed to look like those fancy executive-type desk clocks with the stands and "minimal" black design, except these were plastic and tend not to keep very accurate time.
This past year we got roll-up blankets, which from what I hear is the best Employee Appreciation Week gift ever. This must be a techie thing: I know some people probably get off on stuff like this, but I could really care less. You want to "Appreciate" me, give me a half-day off or something.
But you gotta admit, you can probably count on one hand the number of top-shelf games ported for Linux. And as the story submitter implied, they're mostly all FPS's. You're probably right in that it's mostly just developer apathy, but I still think that if someone made a strong push, a lot of these companies would be very interested in working with someone on ports of higher-calibur games.
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Seems clear that this is going to be a running gag throughout the day. Any bets on how many total we'll have?
I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part.
Do you really think that someone at Adobe just decided to announce this on a whim? Or that maybe the interns are playing a practical joke on the webmaster perhaps?
Please. If Adobe is going to say something like this, I'm quite certain they've had their financial and marketing braintrusts run the numbers more than a few times, to see what kind of impact this could potentially have on their business in a "worst case scenario" (i.e., Mac users get all bitchy).
In other words, your righteous indignation has been accounted for and factored into their budget, thank you very much.
Yes, thank God the iMac showed the computing industry that they should focus on style and asthetics over features and functionality. I'm so fucking glad that Dell, IBM, and HP now feel the need to change the form factors of their machines every 3 months, and in the process give me some of the most horrible, badly designed machines ever made. iMac can kiss my ass. Anyway, my favorite iMac story:
I'm working at CompUSSR as a technician. It's a slow day, and I happen to be up at the front counter of the tech department, filling out some paperwork or something. A lady walks in the front door carting an iMac in hand, and from 10 feet away I can see the anger in her eyes. She steps up to the counter, and with one emphatic push, heaves the iMac up onto the counter, where it lands with a deafening *THUD*, loud enough the whole store takes notice. She takes a few moments to catch her breath from the effort, then looks me straight in the eye, and says...
"Jeff Goldblum is a fucking liar!"
It was a good 5 minutes before I could compose myself enough to speak.
Translation from Hollywood-ese: "We know we just stuck it to you for $11 large, but our client has his $10,000 a day Fabrege Egg habit to support, so we thought we'd try and up the price by another $3 million. OK?"
Many other jobs are not as exciting or glorious as they sound, and are in reality full of hard work and problems. Jobs such as rock star, astronaut, candy taster, fireman, and porn star.
Wow. Talk about scaping the bottom of the story idea folder.
Shouldn't that be "3. Profit"? Or did the original SouthPark thing morph into some weird internet meme I'm not aware of?
So that's how Junis was powering his C-64...
Yes, I couldn't agree more. No show has done more for vest wearing in the past 50 years than Buffy the Vestpire..er, Vampire Slayer.
Some guy gets a pre-release or beta version (check the post dates, 2-16) to run on a certain version of Linux via Wine, and suddenly it's "runs on Linux right out of the box".
"If I read it on the Internet, it must be true!"
Well, as so many around here are so fond of pointing out, 99% of the computer buying public has no choice what operating system they get with their computer.
And don't give me this crap about "you should have read up on it". There's reading up on something, and then there's being an expert in the field. I could go buy every trade magazine I can find at the bookstore, and not learn half of the devious things MS has ever tried. Only by keeping up with niche (yes, niche) sites and publications like Slashdot do I learn "the real truth", for lack of a better term.
Look at it this way. If you went out and bought a Dodge, and it turns out that the transmission in this model is flaky, you'd be pissed. Would you accept it then if someone came up to you and said, "Well, you should have done your research, it's well known that Dodge transmissions have been flaky for years."?
While researching the issue of why this is the case, he determined that some potential CS degree seekers are forming opinions from portrayals in movies and cinema.
So once again we take the opinions or ideas of the Galactically Stupid, and assume that it is a problem for the population in general. Nice job.
I would have ranked Marge v. Monorail higher (2 probably), but Last Exit to Springfield is #1 for sure.
Dentist: How often do you brush, Ralph?
Ralph: Three times a day, sir.
Dentist: Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
Dentist: These braces are painless, invisible, and periodically release a delightful burt of Calvin Klines Obsession, for Teeth!
Cameraman: Come on honey, I bet you have a beautiful smile. Why don't you share it with the world?
*Lisa with ugly braces smiles*
Cameraman (shocked):There is no God!
Homer: Hey, how much does this job (Union President) pay?
Carl: Nothin'.
Homer: D'oh!
Carl: Unless you're crooked!
Homer: Whoo-Hoo!
Plus there's a "Yoink", Lisa plays Classical Gas, Burns does The Grinch, The Big Book of British Smiles, "A green cookie on St. Patricks Day"...Jesus, this episode has it all.
Curse you Season 3, 4, and 5 DVD's, where are you?
Last Exit to Springfield, Marge v. Monorail, and Cape Feare all in the Top 5? I hate to say it, but EW actually seems to have gotten things right.
This is the funniest part of this whole thing. If someone is in the position that they actually find Jim's site, let alone understand what he's trying to do at all, they're probably intelligent enough to determine the difference between Jim and the PCI-SIG organization.
I mean, it's not like Ma and Pa Kettle are out there trying to write device drivers and shit.
Please. If the RIAA wants your personal information, they'll simply purchase it from the thousands of companies that already have it.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
What couldn't you do? No one needs more than 640k of memory, after all.
He mentions both of these, incidently.
There may not be safety issues to the consumer to consider when working on their machines, but there are safety issues to consider to the machine itself. Very easy to needlessly fry a board with static, or spill Pepsi in a power supply, etc.
...but does this mean *BSD really is dying, and all those trolls have been right all along?
Rambus patent bitching is soooo 2001. All the cool Slashdotters are now bitching about In Soviet Russia jokes.
The point was that maybe the author should have eliminated the obvious possibilities before running to Slashdot screaming about secret DRM releases and how the end of freedom was nigh. Chicken Little and all of that.
1. Dad's new CD player doesn't play some of our Sony CD's that have CD-Extra on them.
2. These CD's play fine on our other CD players.
Conclusion: DRM!!1!! OMFG!!!1! D00d, that Sux0r!!1!
In other news, my new Dell with Windows XP had trouble recieving Groupwise email the other day. Clearly M$ has decided to secretly break all other mail programs besides Outlook.
Not only that, but there's the question of what to do with all the people currently in the Matrix. Remember that removing Neo from the Matrix at his age was a big sticking point; "Normally they do not remove a mind after a certain age" or something like that. Presumably this means that the vast majority of adults in the Matrix would not want to be "freed".
So do you leave them all in the Matrix to live out their lives? What happens if your freedom fight takes down the Matrix (the physical contructs of it I mean, all the tubes and pods and stuff); is your freedom worth the genocide of much of the human race? If you defeat the machines but are able to preserve the Matrix (and the adults inside), how do you care for them afterwards? Presumably you are not going to be adding new children to the Matrix after you win, so I would imagine at some point the Matrix reaches a point where the people inside are no longer sufficient battery power to operate the Matrix itself, because of people dying, etc.
But of course, all of this is the exact reason why The Matrix is so popular, and why these two movies are going to be the event of 2003. Questions. The Matrix captured our imaginations, and we all can't wait to see what happens next. Been a long time since a movie can truly say that.
...another pedestrian attempt at holiday humor!
Exactly. The company I work for has a habit of giving out "gifts" during Employee Appreciation Week, which of course are typically cheap, plastic, and not really wanted. One year they gave out license plates with "(Company)'s Employees are the Best!" printed on them. Another year we got these little clocks that are supposed to look like those fancy executive-type desk clocks with the stands and "minimal" black design, except these were plastic and tend not to keep very accurate time.
This past year we got roll-up blankets, which from what I hear is the best Employee Appreciation Week gift ever. This must be a techie thing: I know some people probably get off on stuff like this, but I could really care less. You want to "Appreciate" me, give me a half-day off or something.
UT I wasn't aware of, my bad.
But you gotta admit, you can probably count on one hand the number of top-shelf games ported for Linux. And as the story submitter implied, they're mostly all FPS's. You're probably right in that it's mostly just developer apathy, but I still think that if someone made a strong push, a lot of these companies would be very interested in working with someone on ports of higher-calibur games.