Right. Is there some AppleScriptable method for converting an otherwise worthless composite PDF to a prepress ready color separated PDF?
If so, write the script, throw it in the directory, and any application can produce those PDFs nice and easy-like.
I, personally, don't do anything with PDFs so regularly as to need this feature. I would imagine that folks with established graphics workflows (such as yourself) would be the ones to benefit from this sort of thing. Maybe I'm wrong.
Then I guess the silence is due to the fact that all that marketing hype over what code morphing was supposed to do ended up being pure crap.
No, the whole point is that code morphing does exactly what they hoped it would do. The only people that said any different were idiots (and were not employed by Transmeta).
Of course, their chips aren't as fast as they might have liked, but that may improve.
A homeless man wandered into a bank near where I live, and asked the teller for some money. The teller thought she was being held up, and gave him all the cash in the register.
They later found him, took the money back, and did not arrest him. Of course, in that case, he was given the money. I think he should have sued the cops for stealing it from him:)
I remember way back before they released anything, their major claim to fame so to speak was their code morphing tech where it would just emulate whatever cpu you needed.
No, their claim to fame was that their code morphing allowed them to run x86 instructions on a VLIW chip, which may turn out to be more scalable/efficient than either RISC or CISC architectures. The R&D on the code morphing was just as expensive as the R&D for the rest of the chip, so I can't imagine they'd go repeating that for some less popular architecture.
They never said they were about to release code morphing packages for other platforms. Idiotic journalists (and slashdot readers) were the ones that pointed out that the code morphing could work for other platforms.
You make the point that more kiddie porn will be produced if more free kiddie porn is found in one sentence but wait you said "The people that create kiddie porn now are the kinds of dangerous psychos that would do it under absolutely any circumstance. "
So if they will do it anyway what difference does it make if the masses can see it or not?
The difference is, if it were legal to access, then there would be an increased amount of money (imho) involved, and the field would be attractive to other dangerous psychos that would only do it for money.
The reason you are wrong is completely different from the reason all the "You sicko" types are suggesting.
Illegalizing the ownership of kiddie porn, unlike the illegalization of drugs, really does seem to discourage the creation of kiddie porn.
The people that create kiddie porn now are the kinds of dangerous psychos that would do it under absolutely any circumstance. They don't necessarily make any money at all. Kiddie porn can be acquired for free, right now. If the trade of kiddie porn were legalized, it would open more venues for the sick fucks to make money, and the price of kiddie porn would not decrease (since it can be had for free right now).
Sure, if someone downloads kiddie porn, they aren't actively harming the child. However, legalizing the trade of kiddie porn would increase the amount of harmed children.
There is still a big brother implication. Your metrocard is not linked to you, but it does have a UID that's recorded on every ride. If the cops arrest you, they take your metrocard, and check where you've been with it.
They've used it to disprove people's alibis so far. That seems like a pretty acceptable use, to me. It also seems like they might easily slip into less acceptable uses. I don't even know what that might be, but it makes me nervous.
Write me an OS kernel in Pascal, and then we'll talk.
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For that matter, just running linux applications unchecked would be just as dangerous. We should have a confirmation screen that makes sure you intend to be using/bin/ls and not/usr/bin/ls or/usr/local/bin/ls.
Running code is dangerous. Your account privs must be in place. It doesn't matter if the app needed winelibs or not.
No, what's stupid is offering the "personal" plan at all. Metered access isn't evil. Calling specific services on specific ports "servers" is kindof stupid, imho.
Sure, they also offer a business account that has limited bandwidth and allows servers, but that account costs the same amount as the personal account.
So, I think they're being trustworthy. They're just saying, if you want to run servers, you have to pay for bandwidth. If you want to download pr0n, gobble away. It's a stupid model, but it doesn't seem duplicitous.
The vast majority of our energy comes from fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel cells are orthogonal to that issue. They are an energy storage device. If we use hydrogen fuel cells to store the energy from fossil fuels, we may, at some point, figure out a better source for the energy. Currently, if we figured out hot fusion generators tomorrow, it still wouldn't wean us off of fossil fuels.
Of course you're right. The two coders at my job are managers before coders. And they're really good managers.
Suggesting that I knew 2% of "what it means to be a programmer" when I graduated is quite optimistic. I won't get to 2% due to on-the-job learning, either. Not at this job. After six months, I don't think I have a whole lot more to learn here. It's quite a meal ticket, though, so I'll be staying for at least another year or so.
Also, the myriad OSS projects are often 10x more interesting from a CS standpoint than anything any IT department has any business building. I'll ride out the storm wading through VB, and I'll hone my skills on MacOnLinux or giFT. It should be great.
I'm 22, and a recent graduate from a theory focused (albiet crappy) CS department. I work in a small IT dept writing dumb VB to do reporting for our accounting department. The other two programmers here have decades of experience in a variety of languages, although they've been on VB for quite a while.
Through years, and years, and years of experience, they have arrived upon many solid principles of software engineering, and a few principles of computer science.
In the six months I've been here, I've learned a whole lot about our specific development environment. I had never used VB before. Every "principle" that they've taught me, on the other hand, was covered in my first year at school. I've already lived and breathed these principles for four years. Of course, I don't tell them that. I smile and thank them. They give me my paycheck, after all.
Judging by my extremely small sample size, I'd say... you've got to be out of your mind. Sure, smarter people are worth more than dumber people, independent of their education. However, given two coders of equal intelligence/aptitude, the one with a good degree and 1 year of experience beats the hell out of the one with 5 years of experience. Maybe this is not the case when comparing two Carmack-level geniuses, but it certainly is when comparing mere mortals. Even most stars.
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Right. Is there some AppleScriptable method for converting an otherwise worthless composite PDF to a prepress ready color separated PDF?
If so, write the script, throw it in the directory, and any application can produce those PDFs nice and easy-like.
I, personally, don't do anything with PDFs so regularly as to need this feature. I would imagine that folks with established graphics workflows (such as yourself) would be the ones to benefit from this sort of thing. Maybe I'm wrong.
Should it be illegal for me to put banner ads on my kiddie porn webpages?
"What? Are you going to start talking to the refrigerator with this?"
Good old dad. Never has understood what "machine language" really means, and still doesn't care.
Of course, depending on the design of the refrigerator, couldn't he be correct? Sure, you'd need a serial interface, but...
Then I guess the silence is due to the fact that all that marketing hype over what code morphing was supposed to do ended up being pure crap.
No, the whole point is that code morphing does exactly what they hoped it would do. The only people that said any different were idiots (and were not employed by Transmeta).
Of course, their chips aren't as fast as they might have liked, but that may improve.
A homeless man wandered into a bank near where I live, and asked the teller for some money. The teller thought she was being held up, and gave him all the cash in the register.
:)
They later found him, took the money back, and did not arrest him. Of course, in that case, he was given the money. I think he should have sued the cops for stealing it from him
This was a local news item. I doubt it's a hoax.
My next system will be either an Athlon XP or a Crusoe/Astro.
My next car will either be an RX8 or a Prius.
I remember way back before they released anything, their major claim to fame so to speak was their code morphing tech where it would just emulate whatever cpu you needed.
No, their claim to fame was that their code morphing allowed them to run x86 instructions on a VLIW chip, which may turn out to be more scalable/efficient than either RISC or CISC architectures. The R&D on the code morphing was just as expensive as the R&D for the rest of the chip, so I can't imagine they'd go repeating that for some less popular architecture.
They never said they were about to release code morphing packages for other platforms. Idiotic journalists (and slashdot readers) were the ones that pointed out that the code morphing could work for other platforms.
You make the point that more kiddie porn will be produced if more free kiddie porn is found in one sentence but wait you said
"The people that create kiddie porn now are the kinds of dangerous psychos that would do it under absolutely any circumstance. "
So if they will do it anyway what difference does it make if the masses can see it or not?
The difference is, if it were legal to access, then there would be an increased amount of money (imho) involved, and the field would be attractive to other dangerous psychos that would only do it for money.
The reason you are wrong is completely different from the reason all the "You sicko" types are suggesting.
Illegalizing the ownership of kiddie porn, unlike the illegalization of drugs, really does seem to discourage the creation of kiddie porn.
The people that create kiddie porn now are the kinds of dangerous psychos that would do it under absolutely any circumstance. They don't necessarily make any money at all. Kiddie porn can be acquired for free, right now. If the trade of kiddie porn were legalized, it would open more venues for the sick fucks to make money, and the price of kiddie porn would not decrease (since it can be had for free right now).
Sure, if someone downloads kiddie porn, they aren't actively harming the child. However, legalizing the trade of kiddie porn would increase the amount of harmed children.
Please, show me wrong.
Shock and amazement:
A white man stealing credit from a black man.
And I'm just teasing Hektor. Not only do I not know you're a white man, but you also aren't exactly stealing credit.
There is still a big brother implication. Your metrocard is not linked to you, but it does have a UID that's recorded on every ride. If the cops arrest you, they take your metrocard, and check where you've been with it.
They've used it to disprove people's alibis so far. That seems like a pretty acceptable use, to me. It also seems like they might easily slip into less acceptable uses. I don't even know what that might be, but it makes me nervous.
Lexan fogs irrepairably. Plexiglass is probably a better solution.
What does C do that Pascal doesn't?
Write me an OS kernel in Pascal, and then we'll talk.
For that matter, just running linux applications unchecked would be just as dangerous. We should have a confirmation screen that makes sure you intend to be using /bin/ls and not /usr/bin/ls or /usr/local/bin/ls.
Running code is dangerous. Your account privs must be in place. It doesn't matter if the app needed winelibs or not.
Don't forget masturbation. Every time you masturbate, a terrorist gets his wings.
Oh boy! Now I can buy socks!
I read that as "stocks," as in "stocks and bonds," which, of course, is also true.
And Sammy Jenkis is much closer to the reality of anterograde amnesia.
No, what's stupid is offering the "personal" plan at all. Metered access isn't evil. Calling specific services on specific ports "servers" is kindof stupid, imho.
You got modded as funny, but the disorder in Memento is exactly the disorder that's caused by massive damage to the hippocampus, IIRC.
Internet Service is defined as TCP/IP networking with server capability. internet ACCESS is being able to download from servers to view web pages etc.
Internet Service is defined that way... by you. They're being perfectly clear about what your money buys you.
Sure, they also offer a business account that has limited bandwidth and allows servers, but that account costs the same amount as the personal account.
So, I think they're being trustworthy. They're just saying, if you want to run servers, you have to pay for bandwidth. If you want to download pr0n, gobble away. It's a stupid model, but it doesn't seem duplicitous.
The vast majority of our energy comes from fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel cells are orthogonal to that issue. They are an energy storage device. If we use hydrogen fuel cells to store the energy from fossil fuels, we may, at some point, figure out a better source for the energy. Currently, if we figured out hot fusion generators tomorrow, it still wouldn't wean us off of fossil fuels.
Of course you're right. The two coders at my job are managers before coders. And they're really good managers.
Suggesting that I knew 2% of "what it means to be a programmer" when I graduated is quite optimistic. I won't get to 2% due to on-the-job learning, either. Not at this job. After six months, I don't think I have a whole lot more to learn here. It's quite a meal ticket, though, so I'll be staying for at least another year or so.
Also, the myriad OSS projects are often 10x more interesting from a CS standpoint than anything any IT department has any business building. I'll ride out the storm wading through VB, and I'll hone my skills on MacOnLinux or giFT. It should be great.
Well... if someone is smart and knows it, does that make them arrogant? Are they only arrogant if they say it?
I'm 22, and a recent graduate from a theory focused (albiet crappy) CS department. I work in a small IT dept writing dumb VB to do reporting for our accounting department. The other two programmers here have decades of experience in a variety of languages, although they've been on VB for quite a while.
Through years, and years, and years of experience, they have arrived upon many solid principles of software engineering, and a few principles of computer science.
In the six months I've been here, I've learned a whole lot about our specific development environment. I had never used VB before. Every "principle" that they've taught me, on the other hand, was covered in my first year at school. I've already lived and breathed these principles for four years. Of course, I don't tell them that. I smile and thank them. They give me my paycheck, after all.
Judging by my extremely small sample size, I'd say... you've got to be out of your mind. Sure, smarter people are worth more than dumber people, independent of their education. However, given two coders of equal intelligence/aptitude, the one with a good degree and 1 year of experience beats the hell out of the one with 5 years of experience. Maybe this is not the case when comparing two Carmack-level geniuses, but it certainly is when comparing mere mortals. Even most stars.