Yea the article (and def summary) are clueless. As a network architect for a tier1, I assure you its pure FUD... EVERYONE uses ACLs on their edge... and definitely prefix limits too.
Lol I love when people quote this as reasons why Apple has a monopoly... it just means 3rd party apps are successful on iphone instead of other devices...
You cannot compare transit costs at hosting facilities to broadband costs. Its really an apples/oranges thing.
What should be noted is that Bell's network is so poorly managed (many smaller links) and lacks a heavy focus on peering so they're traffic surely does cost more than Rogers (All 10gig, heavy % of peering).
Yep, this is why all those community colleges in screenplay writing (and likely game design) churn out THOUSANDS of very successful writers (designers) right?
I'm not a Photoshop fan, it happens to be one of the tools I make a living using...
GIMP's UI is not just 'different' its bad. If it blazed some new trail and had focus on workflow that would be one thing. But in actuality it's just evolved from the work of many coders. It's a coders UI, not a designers UI.
And yes I agree, the capabilities are great, free price point aside. I don't think any professional photographer will tell you that GIMP is 'as' powerful as Photoshop though, even if the only reason is the slower workflow. Stuff like masking, and adjustment layers in Photoshop *really* speed up going through hundreds or thousands of photos to do touchups then proofs for print...
GIMP has great tools, but the workflow is unintuitive. Linking to a university article does not make me believe its professional. Thats academic. Professionals care about workflow because time is money and all that crap. GIMP is a great too bogged down by a UI designed by coders. Adobe hires countless designers to make Photoshop work intuitively, which is why it is better.
Don't get me wrong, I like GIMP, and if I was a UI designer I'd totally donate my time to the project...
My 16bit tiffs from my camera are regularly 120+MB. Photoshop CS5 (i7, 8gb ram), slices them.... (Professional landscape photographer here). The reason I don't like GIMP? The UI is bothersome, and photo editing is tough work, a bothersome UI is not acceptable at a professional level...
I find it funny that your sig states "intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it" yet you savagely attack people blocking ads. Some people consider ignoring intellectual property law to be theft too... Pot calling kettle black?
I dunno why you are so angry, if you are a recently out of work web developer, you have my sympathy. I work for an internet marketing company, and I for one enjoy my ad blocking.
Joke? You do realize a Linux 'build' would not be as trivial as setting some flags to GCC, it would require a substantial porting effort, and likely not one Blizzard will do. The Mac port is surely running under native Cocoa/CoreGraphics and not some QT or SDL middleware, won't help a Linux build in the slightest sadly.
Sadly I bet you still cannot play 720p flash videos on your Ubuntu laptop, while someone running Windows on the same laptop can. That is why I hate Adobe (Macromedia)...
The HTM5 wrapper is beta, but the direct h264 support is used by many devices including smartphones, to get around flash... i.e. even after Androids get flash they won't be using it instead of their built in Youtube player...
Blackberry OS is actually definitely less open. While yes you can deploy your own apps without paying a fee, thats not the way it always was. Aside from their awful Java SDK, the actual OS is very closed. Can't update your software on Linux, in fact Mac support was new to late 2009 for that. I'd always hoped Blackberry would goto a Linux OS, but maybe RIM's purchase of QNX will at least give them UNIX under the hood, even if it isn't an open UNIX... The rest of your mobile platforms are great though:)
No actually I understood your first post quite well, and find your follow up to be exceptionally arrogant, keeping in mind your claim to fame is a mediocre Diablo Fanfic... oh sorry its an official ebook! its not a fanfic at all...
You make me ashamed to be a fellow Queen's graduate...
Holy youngins! What are you doing on my internet? Crap I was probably online (well boards) before you were born... I certainly feel old... Get off my lawn?
Shhh nobody likes to hear that here. For the people that would either pirate PS or use the Gimp to create logos for their blog or apply filters and color shifts to their phone and low-end camera pics, sure GIMP might be enough. But any of us who actually do graphics work or actual photo editing will attest that GIMP isn't even a weak competitor to Photoshop, its a competitor to the Photoshop Elements user base maybe, but Photoshop is really an impressive feat, and CS5 even more so.
Sorry it doesn't quite work that way. I'm not sure you understand how SMP works. Your ^^ smiley indicates to me that you like anime and Japan though, so kudos for being so cute and clever!
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Huhuh anyone who buys *anything* from Apple must be dumb. Me make slashdot funnay joke.
Yea the article (and def summary) are clueless. As a network architect for a tier1, I assure you its pure FUD... EVERYONE uses ACLs on their edge... and definitely prefix limits too.
As an American ex-patriot I get this treatment using my non US passport all the time in the states...
Apple has 99.4% of the mobile application market.
Lol I love when people quote this as reasons why Apple has a monopoly... it just means 3rd party apps are successful on iphone instead of other devices...
You cannot compare transit costs at hosting facilities to broadband costs. Its really an apples/oranges thing. What should be noted is that Bell's network is so poorly managed (many smaller links) and lacks a heavy focus on peering so they're traffic surely does cost more than Rogers (All 10gig, heavy % of peering).
Agreed. FF12 wasn't worth the plastic it was printed on. Repeat for all other recent Square titles...
Or the fact that I need to root (jailbreak) my Android to install a version better than the shitty one from my carrier....
Hah not if you actually plan on signing your code and you know... publishing it.
Yep, this is why all those community colleges in screenplay writing (and likely game design) churn out THOUSANDS of very successful writers (designers) right?
I'm not a Photoshop fan, it happens to be one of the tools I make a living using... GIMP's UI is not just 'different' its bad. If it blazed some new trail and had focus on workflow that would be one thing. But in actuality it's just evolved from the work of many coders. It's a coders UI, not a designers UI. And yes I agree, the capabilities are great, free price point aside. I don't think any professional photographer will tell you that GIMP is 'as' powerful as Photoshop though, even if the only reason is the slower workflow. Stuff like masking, and adjustment layers in Photoshop *really* speed up going through hundreds or thousands of photos to do touchups then proofs for print...
GIMP has great tools, but the workflow is unintuitive. Linking to a university article does not make me believe its professional. Thats academic. Professionals care about workflow because time is money and all that crap. GIMP is a great too bogged down by a UI designed by coders. Adobe hires countless designers to make Photoshop work intuitively, which is why it is better. Don't get me wrong, I like GIMP, and if I was a UI designer I'd totally donate my time to the project...
My 16bit tiffs from my camera are regularly 120+MB. Photoshop CS5 (i7, 8gb ram), slices them.... (Professional landscape photographer here). The reason I don't like GIMP? The UI is bothersome, and photo editing is tough work, a bothersome UI is not acceptable at a professional level...
I find it funny that your sig states "intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it" yet you savagely attack people blocking ads. Some people consider ignoring intellectual property law to be theft too... Pot calling kettle black? I dunno why you are so angry, if you are a recently out of work web developer, you have my sympathy. I work for an internet marketing company, and I for one enjoy my ad blocking.
Joke? You do realize a Linux 'build' would not be as trivial as setting some flags to GCC, it would require a substantial porting effort, and likely not one Blizzard will do. The Mac port is surely running under native Cocoa/CoreGraphics and not some QT or SDL middleware, won't help a Linux build in the slightest sadly.
I make bank, feed my wife and kids well, have nice toys, nice cars. Nuff said.
Sadly I bet you still cannot play 720p flash videos on your Ubuntu laptop, while someone running Windows on the same laptop can. That is why I hate Adobe (Macromedia)...
The HTM5 wrapper is beta, but the direct h264 support is used by many devices including smartphones, to get around flash... i.e. even after Androids get flash they won't be using it instead of their built in Youtube player...
Blackberry OS is actually definitely less open. While yes you can deploy your own apps without paying a fee, thats not the way it always was. Aside from their awful Java SDK, the actual OS is very closed. Can't update your software on Linux, in fact Mac support was new to late 2009 for that. I'd always hoped Blackberry would goto a Linux OS, but maybe RIM's purchase of QNX will at least give them UNIX under the hood, even if it isn't an open UNIX... The rest of your mobile platforms are great though :)
No actually I understood your first post quite well, and find your follow up to be exceptionally arrogant, keeping in mind your claim to fame is a mediocre Diablo Fanfic... oh sorry its an official ebook! its not a fanfic at all... You make me ashamed to be a fellow Queen's graduate...
But but but Apple is evil!!!1
The FUD from the Apple haters is strong on slashdot today!
Holy youngins! What are you doing on my internet? Crap I was probably online (well boards) before you were born... I certainly feel old... Get off my lawn?
Hooray, more thinly veiled smug anti-americanism modded up!
Shhh nobody likes to hear that here. For the people that would either pirate PS or use the Gimp to create logos for their blog or apply filters and color shifts to their phone and low-end camera pics, sure GIMP might be enough. But any of us who actually do graphics work or actual photo editing will attest that GIMP isn't even a weak competitor to Photoshop, its a competitor to the Photoshop Elements user base maybe, but Photoshop is really an impressive feat, and CS5 even more so.
Sorry it doesn't quite work that way. I'm not sure you understand how SMP works. Your ^^ smiley indicates to me that you like anime and Japan though, so kudos for being so cute and clever!