Ha - and instead of the government protecting your doors from crooks, they are tied up with chasing clueless users of wi-fi routers. The world has gone nuts...in just a few decades.
Disappointing article lacking substance. I was hoping for news on a better facebook. Instead, distributed vaporware in the NYT? I like FB, and so do all my family and friends. My dog even has a page, with over 200 of his own friends. But personally I just use it as one big twitter site, without having to tweet (share on FB). Having an FB userid/pw also speeds up creating accounts on many more sites these days (my big use #2). What would be better is some integration with Gmail accounts, so there was some real email client to use, instead of the limited message threads currently on FB. In fact, if Google and FB just merged, that would be alright by me:)
Well that site just got a lot better. One down, millions more to go...including my own which may never switch over after all the pain spent building the flashes; why would a small company with limited resources and very little iphone/ipad traffic spend the money to change?
As a retired IBM developer, I can tell ya if there is money to be made, they are going to go there, and you could call it Cumulonimbus.Calvus or DogPoopV1 - no one in their cloud-like management cares as long as it will bring in bucks. If there is 8Bil of low hanging fruit for 2013 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10097450.stm), then it would be prudent for IBM to open a division and start selling it, whatever it is or isn't. I'm just hoping for stock's sake that those customers keep falling for the scam (or as some would say "business").
I did this in just 3 minutes using CS5 (results on the left). Whoever did the test did a really sloppy job. I am confident that this photo could be repaired to near perfection using other PS tools in about an hour or so. Content-aware fill is just a good starting point. See:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4581718360_e2ea3500bd_o.jpg
Yes, I totally agree with u. I actually despise Adobe's pricing and rollout practices, but what to do? I have to eat, and I can't make any money unless I use many of the programs in the suite: PS, AI, ID, and Flash in particular. On some level, I am also dependent on AE, but not so much these days. At least there is FCP, so I don't have to use PremierePro anymore. The current 64-bit plugin problem is just a fiasco, as here is another "upgrade" tax from most of the plug vendors to be able to use PS in 64-bit mode. Anyway, I think if users would just punish Adobe for thier crazy pricing, they might lower their prices, but I am not holding my breath.
do u use iTunes? the tax is included at checkout and shown there on the receipt. for example, for a 1.29 song, the tax is 8 cents. this is just like any other brick n' mortar store.
@timholman, I think you raise a unique point not often mentioned. PC mfgs have distributed machines for decades that people can't handle. But it spurred an enti
Maybe this will cease and desist with the crap Gizmodo articles pushed off as news. That website is like a TMZ for bored geeks and should be taken out.
i finally got it to work, just barely on a P3 i820...i think the AGP 4mb is the problem, but turning off hardware acceleration in VLC player makes the play acceptable for my pal who has nothing as it is. I tried installing Ubuntu but what a nightmare there just to get a DVD player to work at all...
I was trying to fix a Celsius 440 workstation for a pal today who only makes a few hundred dollars a month walking dogs. He needs something to play DVDs on, so I was trying to get the DVD player to play smoothly on a P3 with 128MB and an old SIS AGP with 4MB. Pretty sure it needs a bios update but can't find a floppy to do it. I had to tell him it's a no go without a floppy, so I he's going out for a walk to try and find one. I don't have the heart to tell him that I think the floppy in the beast is dead...at least it's not making that all too familiar but not missed horrible groaning noise on boot. I used Mubi to put Ubuntu on his XP dinosaur, and that helped just a tad. Didn't DVDs play smoothly back in the P3 days?
This entire thread is mostly hyperbole and not relevant to the average Indian or anyone living in the region. There is very little, if any, copyright protection or enforcement, and if there is, it's because someone pissed someone off in higher places. Books, CDs, DVDs, full of programs, movies, songs, are cranked out perpetually and sold in the market for less then a buck a whack. No one cares really... really. The new law is trying to put a face on India, to show it a good corporate citizen, bla bla bla bla, but for all of us living in the area, we know it's a farce and most of us could care less. There are much more pressing matters at hand. Like electricity, clean water, decent food, etc. Allowing the masses to listen to their favorite bollywood diddle or watch the latest blockbuster on their cheap Chinese DVD for less then rs.30 is not something the goverment wants to be seen cracking down on. For businesses who want to load up on 100,000 USD of software for less then rs.1000 - no one cares - if they can bring in some rice, more power to them. China, Nepal, Bhutan, and some extent Thailand and surrounding countries operate in the same way...a blind eye to IP, and a silent snub to anyone who disagrees with the practice of blatantly ripping of everything digitial under the sun.
I agree with you and Steve McConnell. This is old school, and represents a day gone by, where employers spent the money on floorspace for productive employees, and actually trusted them to get the job done by giving them an office of their own. Newbs will never know this fringe benefit of working for a decent company because its no longer the case. I now own my own small business and work from a home office, that has a door, and a desk that faces that door. This is good feng shui and preferred strategy (see The Art of War). I feel sorry for all those that work in other configurations...Buddha help them.
Mine is jailbroke, runs Backgrounder, and works fine...seems even faster as the multi-tasked apps that I need fast are ready, like Zoom In and the like. Try that... don't get all the blather on this, it's already fixed if you truly own your iPhone:)
I really don't get all of this "LCD screens are going to make your eyes cry out in pain while E-ink is just about the same as paper" stuff floating around. Reading pulp fiction paperbacks in low light is surely the cause for my need of glasses today - way before LCDs ever hit the market. Since then I have done all my reading on a CRT or an LCD and I think my vision has actually improved. Living in Nepal, I hardly ever see anything printed on paper anymore and certainly don't read it. I don't miss paper and have never seen E-ink...who needs it. Books and magazines on my iphone, laptop, and iMac look grand, and read just fine. Blaming LCDs for eyestrain sounds like thousands of people whining about nothing...or how WiFi gives them headaches.
Well, living in a land where 90% of the rural population shits on the ground (Nepal) I don't see this idea coming to fruition here. As noted, no one is going to pay for it, and if given away by the UN and other agencies, it will be dismantled and used for parts (biodegradable shopping bags and water containers?). Currently, there are numerous projects building sanitation systems that look like better ideas then distributing millions of peepoo bags. Back to the drawing board on this one!
As a resident of Nepal, I can tell you we don't believe these reports anyway. In a city where there are more NGOs per captia then people (a slight exaggeration), it's easy to see what the business is all about anyway. For example, why has WWF Nepal gone from protecting Rhinos and Dolphins to protecting the "climate"? Follow the money trail...
Living in the NGO capital of the World, Kathmandu, I can tell you this: one week of work is a nice gesture but not particularly useful, considering the resources it takes to train anyone new. I agree with those that say just relax on your one week off a year. But another way to handle a professional service donation is what we do as an A/V studio, where we do one project per business area: audio, video, website, etc. probono for some needy organization. This is done during the course of our working time, and appreciated well by receiving NGOs. Good luck!
And besides that, it will put a heck of a lot of cyber cafes outta business! Feel sorry for the young Indian male...they might have to do something else...like work.
Herojig in Nepal
@ Peter303: That would be slowed down bio-terror research using animals as guinea pigs, so to speak. As one of those people, I take a little credit for that: http://www.animalnepal.org/campaigns.htm#monkey . But the primate situation is one of economics. The US liked Nepalese Rhesus (they were being exported for less then 100USD per (shipping not included), until we quashed that. They even tried to start a breeding center here in Lele, but the new government said no way. Vietnamese/Chinese/etc. Rhesus cost far more, and if ur just gunna gas them once and throw them away, that can get costly. I have a feeling that was also a consideration.
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Ha - and instead of the government protecting your doors from crooks, they are tied up with chasing clueless users of wi-fi routers. The world has gone nuts...in just a few decades.
Disappointing article lacking substance. I was hoping for news on a better facebook. Instead, distributed vaporware in the NYT? I like FB, and so do all my family and friends. My dog even has a page, with over 200 of his own friends. But personally I just use it as one big twitter site, without having to tweet (share on FB). Having an FB userid/pw also speeds up creating accounts on many more sites these days (my big use #2). What would be better is some integration with Gmail accounts, so there was some real email client to use, instead of the limited message threads currently on FB. In fact, if Google and FB just merged, that would be alright by me:)
Best post I've read on /. today!
Well that site just got a lot better. One down, millions more to go...including my own which may never switch over after all the pain spent building the flashes; why would a small company with limited resources and very little iphone/ipad traffic spend the money to change?
As a retired IBM developer, I can tell ya if there is money to be made, they are going to go there, and you could call it Cumulonimbus .Calvus or DogPoopV1 - no one in their cloud-like management cares as long as it will bring in bucks. If there is 8Bil of low hanging fruit for 2013 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10097450.stm), then it would be prudent for IBM to open a division and start selling it, whatever it is or isn't. I'm just hoping for stock's sake that those customers keep falling for the scam (or as some would say "business").
I did this in just 3 minutes using CS5 (results on the left). Whoever did the test did a really sloppy job. I am confident that this photo could be repaired to near perfection using other PS tools in about an hour or so. Content-aware fill is just a good starting point. See: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4581718360_e2ea3500bd_o.jpg
Yes, I totally agree with u. I actually despise Adobe's pricing and rollout practices, but what to do? I have to eat, and I can't make any money unless I use many of the programs in the suite: PS, AI, ID, and Flash in particular. On some level, I am also dependent on AE, but not so much these days. At least there is FCP, so I don't have to use PremierePro anymore. The current 64-bit plugin problem is just a fiasco, as here is another "upgrade" tax from most of the plug vendors to be able to use PS in 64-bit mode. Anyway, I think if users would just punish Adobe for thier crazy pricing, they might lower their prices, but I am not holding my breath.
do u use iTunes? the tax is included at checkout and shown there on the receipt. for example, for a 1.29 song, the tax is 8 cents. this is just like any other brick n' mortar store.
@timholman, I think you raise a unique point not often mentioned. PC mfgs have distributed machines for decades that people can't handle. But it spurred an enti
Maybe this will cease and desist with the crap Gizmodo articles pushed off as news. That website is like a TMZ for bored geeks and should be taken out.
i finally got it to work, just barely on a P3 i820...i think the AGP 4mb is the problem, but turning off hardware acceleration in VLC player makes the play acceptable for my pal who has nothing as it is. I tried installing Ubuntu but what a nightmare there just to get a DVD player to work at all...
very cool, thx for that link...will try it out soon...
I was trying to fix a Celsius 440 workstation for a pal today who only makes a few hundred dollars a month walking dogs. He needs something to play DVDs on, so I was trying to get the DVD player to play smoothly on a P3 with 128MB and an old SIS AGP with 4MB. Pretty sure it needs a bios update but can't find a floppy to do it. I had to tell him it's a no go without a floppy, so I he's going out for a walk to try and find one. I don't have the heart to tell him that I think the floppy in the beast is dead...at least it's not making that all too familiar but not missed horrible groaning noise on boot. I used Mubi to put Ubuntu on his XP dinosaur, and that helped just a tad. Didn't DVDs play smoothly back in the P3 days?
This entire thread is mostly hyperbole and not relevant to the average Indian or anyone living in the region. There is very little, if any, copyright protection or enforcement, and if there is, it's because someone pissed someone off in higher places. Books, CDs, DVDs, full of programs, movies, songs, are cranked out perpetually and sold in the market for less then a buck a whack. No one cares really... really. The new law is trying to put a face on India, to show it a good corporate citizen, bla bla bla bla, but for all of us living in the area, we know it's a farce and most of us could care less. There are much more pressing matters at hand. Like electricity, clean water, decent food, etc. Allowing the masses to listen to their favorite bollywood diddle or watch the latest blockbuster on their cheap Chinese DVD for less then rs.30 is not something the goverment wants to be seen cracking down on. For businesses who want to load up on 100,000 USD of software for less then rs.1000 - no one cares - if they can bring in some rice, more power to them. China, Nepal, Bhutan, and some extent Thailand and surrounding countries operate in the same way...a blind eye to IP, and a silent snub to anyone who disagrees with the practice of blatantly ripping of everything digitial under the sun.
I agree with you and Steve McConnell. This is old school, and represents a day gone by, where employers spent the money on floorspace for productive employees, and actually trusted them to get the job done by giving them an office of their own. Newbs will never know this fringe benefit of working for a decent company because its no longer the case. I now own my own small business and work from a home office, that has a door, and a desk that faces that door. This is good feng shui and preferred strategy (see The Art of War). I feel sorry for all those that work in other configurations...Buddha help them.
Where is Siskel when you need him?
Mine is jailbroke, runs Backgrounder, and works fine...seems even faster as the multi-tasked apps that I need fast are ready, like Zoom In and the like. Try that... don't get all the blather on this, it's already fixed if you truly own your iPhone:)
I really don't get all of this "LCD screens are going to make your eyes cry out in pain while E-ink is just about the same as paper" stuff floating around. Reading pulp fiction paperbacks in low light is surely the cause for my need of glasses today - way before LCDs ever hit the market. Since then I have done all my reading on a CRT or an LCD and I think my vision has actually improved. Living in Nepal, I hardly ever see anything printed on paper anymore and certainly don't read it. I don't miss paper and have never seen E-ink...who needs it. Books and magazines on my iphone, laptop, and iMac look grand, and read just fine. Blaming LCDs for eyestrain sounds like thousands of people whining about nothing...or how WiFi gives them headaches.
Well, living in a land where 90% of the rural population shits on the ground (Nepal) I don't see this idea coming to fruition here. As noted, no one is going to pay for it, and if given away by the UN and other agencies, it will be dismantled and used for parts (biodegradable shopping bags and water containers?). Currently, there are numerous projects building sanitation systems that look like better ideas then distributing millions of peepoo bags. Back to the drawing board on this one!
As a resident of Nepal, I can tell you we don't believe these reports anyway. In a city where there are more NGOs per captia then people (a slight exaggeration), it's easy to see what the business is all about anyway. For example, why has WWF Nepal gone from protecting Rhinos and Dolphins to protecting the "climate"? Follow the money trail...
Living in the NGO capital of the World, Kathmandu, I can tell you this: one week of work is a nice gesture but not particularly useful, considering the resources it takes to train anyone new. I agree with those that say just relax on your one week off a year. But another way to handle a professional service donation is what we do as an A/V studio, where we do one project per business area: audio, video, website, etc. probono for some needy organization. This is done during the course of our working time, and appreciated well by receiving NGOs. Good luck!
Don't forget Nepal! No government whatsoever to deal with...and the bribes are lower then in both China and India...
I miss my Swinn "chicken" and banana seat 3speed stick models...
And besides that, it will put a heck of a lot of cyber cafes outta business! Feel sorry for the young Indian male...they might have to do something else...like work. Herojig in Nepal
@ Peter303: That would be slowed down bio-terror research using animals as guinea pigs, so to speak. As one of those people, I take a little credit for that: http://www.animalnepal.org/campaigns.htm#monkey . But the primate situation is one of economics. The US liked Nepalese Rhesus (they were being exported for less then 100USD per (shipping not included), until we quashed that. They even tried to start a breeding center here in Lele, but the new government said no way. Vietnamese/Chinese/etc. Rhesus cost far more, and if ur just gunna gas them once and throw them away, that can get costly. I have a feeling that was also a consideration.