I take your point, but I think 'unmititgated' is a bit strong. I bet she's kept a lot of artistic control. If she'd sold Time Warner the right of approval over the final two Harry Potter works, while allowing them to independently produce their own, then perhaps you could call her an unmitigated sell-out. But so far as I can tell, all she's done is permit Time Warner to sell figurines and other film merchandise. Which seems reasonable enough, considering they've made two major films of her books and are presumably intending to produce at least a further five (though I understand the longer books may be split across than one film).
I gave my my old P-120 (that I got in 1996) to my mum, and it still runs all the apps she needs with performance at least comparable to a Mac from the same era. I'd say the useful lifespan of a PC isn't visibly shorter than that of a Mac. But people do upgrade them a lot more often, simply because PC upgrades are so much more available and affordable than Mac upgrades. Stop me if I'm wrong.
Well, to be fair he was posting on Slashdot, not putting together the final copy for a global advertising campaign.
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At my company we also feel that piss-poor spelling makes us look incompetent to our potential clients. That's why we only hire literate people. Spell-checking is a time-saver for picking up typos, but a person that can't be trusted to write without a safety net is not somebody I want to work with.
It's also a fine thing to end a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with with.
I admit the figures aren't fantastic. But now we can say "if you write for IE, you're shutting out millions of Mac users; whereas if you follow standards, you can reach that market for free." That's a nice, clear, simple statement that even our bosses can grasp.
IE 5.5, and IE6 have fantastic new functionality for web designers, if they only want to run in IE.
Thing is, many users don't run IE. And many more wouldn't choose to if Microsoft hadn't illegally made IE the path of least resistance. However great IE may be as an application platform, I have very little time for people who think IE-only code is suitable for a public website.
For this reason, I think it's great news that they're discontinuing IE for the Mac. This will make ignoring the standards less attractive to designers / developers, and that's good news for for everyone.
Amen to that. The US loves to brag about the ideals of its constitution, but on the international stage it consistently betrays them. It teaches its children that "all men are created equal", but in practice it exploits many millions of people worldwide for its own benefit. I find it sickening.
This isn't intended as a dig at any ordinary American citizen; the many Americans I've met have generally been intelligent, genial, generous and self-effacing. But I have nothing but contempt and hatred for the arrogance and hypocrisy of the US government.
I'm inclined to argue that xBASIC is a good starting language for people to learn
Sorry to be pedantic, but it looks to me like you're arguing that it's a bad starting language for people to learn. Since you're obviously a literate and intelligent person, I hope you'll take this comment in the spirit in which it's intended.
I think what he's getting at is in the fairyland where this 'automobile copying system' exists, the single original automobile could be hand crafted by skilled artisans the way a Steinway Piano is made.
At last! Someone who gets it! And these people wouldn't need to spend their time designing this car, because they'd have all the food and amenities they wanted, courtesy of the replicators. So new cars would be designed and developed by a self-selecting group of hobbyists who really cared about cars, mostly with no agenda beyond helping the community - rather like OSS software now. I really am finding it hard to see a downside here, except perhaps not having a rich corporation to sue when your wheel falls off.
Speaking as a design contractor, I have - and every shop I go into that hasn't, I do my best to persuade to change. Some already have plans to do so (e.g. Elsevier Science, publishers of The Lancet). I can't think of anything QuarkXPress 5 did that InDesign 2 didn't do better; and though version 6 adds a few of the more embarrassingly missing features (e.g. full-res previews, multi-level undo), I figure there are still four absolutely killer reasons to ditch Quark and use InDesign:
1. Its ability to natively create PDFs quickly and without fuss. The Quark method (create a PS file, then send it to Acrobat Distiller) is far more complicated to set up, far slower, and demands ridiculous amounts of spare disk space - many hundreds of megabytes for a document that will eventually end up as a 15Mb PDF.
2. Perfect support for Illustrator and Photoshop files. After all, 99% of people who use QuarkXPress use these two programs to fix up their images before placing them. It's bliss just to be able to use the original.PSDs and.AIs, and not having to save flat TIFF versions with 1-bit alpha channels for Quark's benefit.
3. The ability to set each item's blending mode and transparency individually. Heaven.
4. The simple fact that Quark are a slow, arrogant, customer-contemptuous company, still too used to being the only game in town, and in need of a sharp shock.
That was my point. If no one knows how it's done, a third party program can't support it. And if/when a third party does become able to support it, it stands to reason that Nico Mak will equally be able to support it. Unless you assume that the WinZip team are simply incapable of equalling or replicating the feats of other programmers.
If they do make themselves incompatible, a third party will come along, incorporate both compressions and will win the market.
Any particular reason why a third party can do it and Nico Mak can't? Or is it just that open source developers have no money, so they can release things real companies would get sued for?
I don't have a "Read" tab in the options. Where is it, please? I'd love such an option.
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Yeah, except - when you actually browse to that registry branch, this entry isn't there! You have to create it before you can turn it on. Who knows what other useful things you might be able to do if you only knew what registry keys to create??
So yes, you can often find a program's settings in the registry - but this is a lot less helpful than it sounds.
How about for every stinkin' NIC in production? What about the ones that come out after the BIOS is made?
I rather imagine the motherboards for these would have onboard Ethernet. Of course that's easy to get round by simply not using it; but it's another trap for the unwary. And hey, even if no one falls for it, IT executives will go for this over another identically-priced BIOS.
Thing is, it wouldn't take me very long to copy all the data off a hard disk, especially if I feared it might become inaccessible at some point. So unless it had to check in every hour, odds are I'd have everything of interest safely backed up by the end of this song.
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The fact she's an unmitigated sellout...
I take your point, but I think 'unmititgated' is a bit strong. I bet she's kept a lot of artistic control. If she'd sold Time Warner the right of approval over the final two Harry Potter works, while allowing them to independently produce their own, then perhaps you could call her an unmitigated sell-out. But so far as I can tell, all she's done is permit Time Warner to sell figurines and other film merchandise. Which seems reasonable enough, considering they've made two major films of her books and are presumably intending to produce at least a further five (though I understand the longer books may be split across than one film).
KaZaA to RIAA/MPAA: "Why not? We're already giving out the unique IP of all your members."
It already does!
Wait. I mean, it crashes quitting.
I gave my my old P-120 (that I got in 1996) to my mum, and it still runs all the apps she needs with performance at least comparable to a Mac from the same era. I'd say the useful lifespan of a PC isn't visibly shorter than that of a Mac. But people do upgrade them a lot more often, simply because PC upgrades are so much more available and affordable than Mac upgrades. Stop me if I'm wrong.
Well, to be fair he was posting on Slashdot, not putting together the final copy for a global advertising campaign.
<flamebait>
At my company we also feel that piss-poor spelling makes us look incompetent to our potential clients. That's why we only hire literate people. Spell-checking is a time-saver for picking up typos, but a person that can't be trusted to write without a safety net is not somebody I want to work with.
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It's also a fine thing to end a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with.
And a fine thing to end a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about ending a sentence about using prepositions to end sentences with with with with.
etc.
(Ladies and gentlemen, generative grammar!)
I love this, from their user page:
"I hate sexiest men, who are afraid of intelligent women."
Yeah, but this guy is project leader at mozdev.org.
Aren't there any countries in Europe that aren't populated entirely by morons?
Britain isn't entirely populated by morons: a small proportion of us are smartarses.
Crazy deal from a crazy dude?
Crazy hoax from a bored kiddy, more like. "Forward this message to everyone you know who will appreciate free music"?? Hmmmm.
(Besides which, if that code really did work for everybody, what would stop me using it a hundred times?)
I admit the figures aren't fantastic. But now we can say "if you write for IE, you're shutting out millions of Mac users; whereas if you follow standards, you can reach that market for free." That's a nice, clear, simple statement that even our bosses can grasp.
IE 5.5, and IE6 have fantastic new functionality for web designers, if they only want to run in IE.
Thing is, many users don't run IE. And many more wouldn't choose to if Microsoft hadn't illegally made IE the path of least resistance. However great IE may be as an application platform, I have very little time for people who think IE-only code is suitable for a public website.
For this reason, I think it's great news that they're discontinuing IE for the Mac. This will make ignoring the standards less attractive to designers / developers, and that's good news for for everyone.
Amen to that. The US loves to brag about the ideals of its constitution, but on the international stage it consistently betrays them. It teaches its children that "all men are created equal", but in practice it exploits
many millions of people worldwide for its own benefit. I find it sickening.
This isn't intended as a dig at any ordinary American citizen; the many Americans I've met have generally been intelligent, genial, generous and self-effacing. But I have nothing but contempt and hatred for the arrogance and hypocrisy of the US government.
I'm inclined to argue that xBASIC is a good starting language for people to learn
Sorry to be pedantic, but it looks to me like you're arguing that it's a bad starting language for people to learn. Since you're obviously a literate and intelligent person, I hope you'll take this comment in the spirit in which it's intended.
Re: your sig
Shouldn't that be "to whom will you speak it"? Dangling participles are quite ugly.
I think what he's getting at is in the fairyland where this 'automobile copying system' exists, the single original automobile could be hand crafted by skilled artisans the way a Steinway Piano is made.
At last! Someone who gets it! And these people wouldn't need to spend their time designing this car, because they'd have all the food and amenities they wanted, courtesy of the replicators. So new cars would be designed and developed by a self-selecting group of hobbyists who really cared about cars, mostly with no agenda beyond helping the community - rather like OSS software now. I really am finding it hard to see a downside here, except perhaps not having a rich corporation to sue when your wheel falls off.
Who the hell would need to sell any items at all? If you want money, just replicate some!
This device would revolutionise society rather more profoundly than some people seem to have grasped.
Speaking as a design contractor, I have - and every shop I go into that hasn't, I do my best to persuade to change. Some already have plans to do so (e.g. Elsevier Science, publishers of The Lancet). I can't think of anything QuarkXPress 5 did that InDesign 2 didn't do better; and though version 6 adds a few of the more embarrassingly missing features (e.g. full-res previews, multi-level undo), I figure there are still four absolutely killer reasons to ditch Quark and use InDesign:
.PSDs and .AIs, and not having to save flat TIFF versions with 1-bit alpha channels for Quark's benefit.
1. Its ability to natively create PDFs quickly and without fuss. The Quark method (create a PS file, then send it to Acrobat Distiller) is far more complicated to set up, far slower, and demands ridiculous amounts of spare disk space - many hundreds of megabytes for a document that will eventually end up as a 15Mb PDF.
2. Perfect support for Illustrator and Photoshop files. After all, 99% of people who use QuarkXPress use these two programs to fix up their images before placing them. It's bliss just to be able to use the original
3. The ability to set each item's blending mode and transparency individually. Heaven.
4. The simple fact that Quark are a slow, arrogant, customer-contemptuous company, still too used to being the only game in town, and in need of a sharp shock.
That was my point. If no one knows how it's done, a third party program can't support it. And if/when a third party does become able to support it, it stands to reason that Nico Mak will equally be able to support it. Unless you assume that the WinZip team are simply incapable of equalling or replicating the feats of other programmers.
If they do make themselves incompatible, a third party will come along, incorporate both compressions and will win the market.
Any particular reason why a third party can do it and Nico Mak can't? Or is it just that open source developers have no money, so they can release things real companies would get sued for?
I don't have a "Read" tab in the options. Where is it, please? I'd love such an option.
Yeah, except - when you actually browse to that registry branch, this entry isn't there! You have to create it before you can turn it on. Who knows what other useful things you might be able to do if you only knew what registry keys to create??
So yes, you can often find a program's settings in the registry - but this is a lot less helpful than it sounds.
This is an EXE, not a VBScript.
.exe files again.
That's OK. Just go into the registry and delete this branch:
My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe
Reboot, and I guarantee that computer won't have a problem with rogue
How about for every stinkin' NIC in production? What about the ones that come out after the BIOS is made?
I rather imagine the motherboards for these would have onboard Ethernet. Of course that's easy to get round by simply not using it; but it's another trap for the unwary. And hey, even if no one falls for it, IT executives will go for this over another identically-priced BIOS.
Thing is, it wouldn't take me very long to copy all the data off a hard disk, especially if I feared it might become inaccessible at some point. So unless it had to check in every hour, odds are I'd have everything of interest safely backed up by the end of this song.