Keynote and Powerpoint allow people to work harder and be more productive in their usual line of work. Most people have actual jobs where the powerpoint creation is secondary. Being able to do more (and have it look better) in less time is a win-win.
Flashy presentations is a sign of a lack of design sense. That's not a prerequisite to being smart.
And which government is going to accept responsibility for wiping out millions of people (kids too, oh the horror!) when something goes wrong due to poor planning, human error, lacking budget, etc etc?
These things are called an 'act of god' for a reason.
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By encumberance you mean that it doesn't work with any other program that a digital artist would find useful;-)
Seriously though, more power to Gimp - I love it, it's a great program and I do use it just about daily for the simple cut and crop jobs.
But abandoning or dismissing a file format of one of the most used graphics programs in history because it's a proprietary, or rather *you can't get it for free* product smacks of all sorts of ignorance and/or just plain poor and noncompetitive thought process.
Photoshop is where it is for a reason. If Gimp replaces it, hoorah for gimp - but it hasn't dethroned Photoshop yet. Graphics houses, print shops, photographers, digital artists of all makes and kinds everywhere have toolchains and production methods that require Photoshop/PSD. Dismissing all that because it's proprietary is just silly and a tad illogical.
It's not exactly the same, the principles are there. All you really need is the flexy cable, a marble, some ties to put the tracks together and something to mount it with. Back in the day there was a motorized stairstepper thing that was supposed to lift your marble to the top.. but it never worked (at least not for my bassackwards yet functioning! designs).
I loved this thing as a kid.. I don't remember what sets I had (2 of them) - I don't even remember if I knew if there were different sets back then.. but man oh man, these kits were awesome. My 9th or 10th? grade year of high school I did a whole science project on rollercoaster physics and gforces and inertia (fairly involved project for a HS student) using my spacewarp kits as part of the testing, etc. Solid hypothesis, conclusion, the whole thing. I actually made it to the regional and state science fairs with the thing.
I keep telling my gf to buy me one of the Discovery store kits for christmas stocking stuffer and she thinks I'm joking;-)
I don't think it was Return to Zork, that came a few years later after MPC systems were pretty common. It was Zork Nemesis (and I just reinstalled it the other day to play it again) IIRC.
When cable first was in development (@home was betatesting in Baltimore at least 7-8 years ago), just about anything other than straight up web browsing was a violation of the terms of service. Gaming (qworld, etc) was something you'd get suspension notices for because of how much of an impact it had then to the local 'community' network (all the pinging to servers, etc).
Fast forward a bit and highspeed gaming is now a major selling point for ISPs.
It's just funny to see how companies used to make huge problems out of things that later turn into total 180degree policy shifts.
If you're rock climbing, you really don't want to be listening to an ipod (at least with headphones) at the same time. Nothing like a 12 foot lead fall because of a misstep on a 5.12b-c because the earbud popped out after the wire got snagged when reaching for chalk...
Talk about flirting with death! A heart stopping fall and tearing the gf's headphone cable all in one swift move. Not speaking from experience or anything;-)
Professionals (and anyone interested in video more than just the 'lets tape xmas' crowd) prefer black and white viewfinders because it makes it simple easy to check overexposure, focus, white balance, a whole host of other overall good broadcast picture related things quickly.
(US-centric view; idealist) but aren't we innocent until proven guilty? And we're only proven guilty after all traces of doubt are gone or it's conclusively proven fact?
In the real world things cost money and aren't uber-fast. But as long as the punishments/verdicts are being cast out into that same real world, I think all efforts available should be followed simply because we're required to by the 'innocent until proven guilty' mandate.
This was already marked +Informative, but I'll offer up my agreement with this anyway.
Even if you have no artistic ability (conception, composition, etc), having a wacom table - just like pen and paper - makes blocking out your ideas much easier and clearer than using a mouse or text document alone. Keyboards require us to compose and ponder.. they don't really allow freeform abstract creativity.
Get a table, create at the speed at which you think (and write by hand). Then use the keyboard to clean things up.
And as the original poster stated, even if you can't draw but you can chicken scratch with a pencil, it's a lot easier to do that with a tablet than a mouse.
Because technical people who have the skills to develop these tools and create great game engines generally are not artsy creative people with the ability to create interesting game stories.
[quote]Doesn't the above imply that a supercomputer should really be just a single computer, and not a network or cluster of many computers ?[/quote]
But if all of the networked/clustered computers are all working on the same task with information flowing between nodes dependant on other nodes processing , doesn't that make them all effectively one large computer?
A renderfarm is similar in many ways to a supercomputer, but I wouldn't think of it as one. Renderfarm nodes generally work on a specific task that is assigned to them. They can be of a larger over all project (like rendering for a film), but really they only process what is given to them then spit the info back. There's a queue manager that sends out tasks, but very little of the information that gets processed by a node is dependant on information that is in use by another node. A renderfarm basically gives out raw processing for a task when requested, it doesn't do much beyond that.
You can still have multiple terminals for data in/out, and in the VT case these are definitely systems that are exclusive of peripheral devices (remote device doesn't make sense - a connected terminal is a remote device).
I do think that definitions have blurred from what they used to be thanks to improving technology, but I do think that the generalities of what they represent are still valid.
That problem here is that the artists all signed contracts that allows them to effectively get beat'n bout the head and shoulders should the RI|MP/AAs desire.
Hard to be sympathetic to the abused housewife who knowingly returns to the abuser.
1) Just out of curiosity, have you needed your battery replaced? I've got the original scrolly wheel 10gb, I use it for 4-5 hours daily 7 days/week, I'm still going fine with the original battery. If and when it ever dies I'll get a new battery and replace it myself. Anyone who actually enjoys posting at Slashdot should be more than techy enough to replace an ipod battery.
2) One of my DVD players doesn't play back divx or ogm or WMV. Sure, it plays back normal DVDs fine - which is was advertised to do, but I'm bitter that this one doesn't so I'm going to bitch and moan and complain about a company (let's say Phillips) not keeping an antiquated *limited by hardware* product up to spec with what other modern DVD players can do.
Please.
3) Why are you abusing the headphones and putting them someplace where you know they would break? If you know that the cold is breaking them, why are you going right back to putting them in the cold?
Sorry, but you're clearly a dumbass with a mentality of you being owed everything by anything that displeases you.
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Keynote and Powerpoint allow people to work harder and be more productive in their usual line of work. Most people have actual jobs where the powerpoint creation is secondary. Being able to do more (and have it look better) in less time is a win-win.
Flashy presentations is a sign of a lack of design sense. That's not a prerequisite to being smart.
And which government is going to accept responsibility for wiping out millions of people (kids too, oh the horror!) when something goes wrong due to poor planning, human error, lacking budget, etc etc?
These things are called an 'act of god' for a reason.
By encumberance you mean that it doesn't work with any other program that a digital artist would find useful ;-)
Seriously though, more power to Gimp - I love it, it's a great program and I do use it just about daily for the simple cut and crop jobs.
But abandoning or dismissing a file format of one of the most used graphics programs in history because it's a proprietary, or rather *you can't get it for free* product smacks of all sorts of ignorance and/or just plain poor and noncompetitive thought process.
Photoshop is where it is for a reason. If Gimp replaces it, hoorah for gimp - but it hasn't dethroned Photoshop yet. Graphics houses, print shops, photographers, digital artists of all makes and kinds everywhere have toolchains and production methods that require Photoshop/PSD. Dismissing all that because it's proprietary is just silly and a tad illogical.
It's not exactly the same, the principles are there. All you really need is the flexy cable, a marble, some ties to put the tracks together and something to mount it with. Back in the day there was a motorized stairstepper thing that was supposed to lift your marble to the top.. but it never worked (at least not for my bassackwards yet functioning! designs).
I loved this thing as a kid.. I don't remember what sets I had (2 of them) - I don't even remember if I knew if there were different sets back then.. but man oh man, these kits were awesome. My 9th or 10th? grade year of high school I did a whole science project on rollercoaster physics and gforces and inertia (fairly involved project for a HS student) using my spacewarp kits as part of the testing, etc. Solid hypothesis, conclusion, the whole thing. I actually made it to the regional and state science fairs with the thing.
;-)
I keep telling my gf to buy me one of the Discovery store kits for christmas stocking stuffer and she thinks I'm joking
Silicom Graphics? Nope, don't remember a company by that name...
8*)
Yep, you're right! (doh!)
I don't think it was Return to Zork, that came a few years later after MPC systems were pretty common. It was Zork Nemesis (and I just reinstalled it the other day to play it again) IIRC.
Using the example from the site (Citibank), this vulnerability doesn't work in Safari.
When cable first was in development (@home was betatesting in Baltimore at least 7-8 years ago), just about anything other than straight up web browsing was a violation of the terms of service. Gaming (qworld, etc) was something you'd get suspension notices for because of how much of an impact it had then to the local 'community' network (all the pinging to servers, etc).
Fast forward a bit and highspeed gaming is now a major selling point for ISPs.
It's just funny to see how companies used to make huge problems out of things that later turn into total 180degree policy shifts.
Not to mention... Israel and Palestine with the Gaza strip.
If you're rock climbing, you really don't want to be listening to an ipod (at least with headphones) at the same time. Nothing like a 12 foot lead fall because of a misstep on a 5.12b-c because the earbud popped out after the wire got snagged when reaching for chalk...
;-)
Talk about flirting with death! A heart stopping fall and tearing the gf's headphone cable all in one swift move. Not speaking from experience or anything
MSBlaster was nothing... WinNuke... now that was a nightmare!
:)
Ahhh, the BSOD days at their finest
Professionals (and anyone interested in video more than just the 'lets tape xmas' crowd) prefer black and white viewfinders because it makes it simple easy to check overexposure, focus, white balance, a whole host of other overall good broadcast picture related things quickly.
Put the emphasis on the 'ex-' part and we've got no problems ;-)
(US-centric view; idealist) but aren't we innocent until proven guilty? And we're only proven guilty after all traces of doubt are gone or it's conclusively proven fact?
In the real world things cost money and aren't uber-fast. But as long as the punishments/verdicts are being cast out into that same real world, I think all efforts available should be followed simply because we're required to by the 'innocent until proven guilty' mandate.
They gave accurate information about Iraq and it was ignored?
The reason we are *in* Iraq is based on CIA information. The reason the head of the CIA resigned was because of the inaccuracy of that information.
Don't be suckered by the 'try-to-not-make-it-look-so-bad-after-the-fact' idealist wackos.
This was already marked +Informative, but I'll offer up my agreement with this anyway.
Even if you have no artistic ability (conception, composition, etc), having a wacom table - just like pen and paper - makes blocking out your ideas much easier and clearer than using a mouse or text document alone. Keyboards require us to compose and ponder.. they don't really allow freeform abstract creativity.
Get a table, create at the speed at which you think (and write by hand). Then use the keyboard to clean things up.
And as the original poster stated, even if you can't draw but you can chicken scratch with a pencil, it's a lot easier to do that with a tablet than a mouse.
a complete set of development tools
They're available as a separate download - the vast majority of Windows users neither want nor need them.
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But most Linux users do...
My G5 never randomly crashes or locks up. Neither does my PC for that matter...
Sounds like you have some bad memory on your hands.
Workin' on it! Tomato Torrent (OSX) is spewing out at 370 K/s (guesstimate average).
Because technical people who have the skills to develop these tools and create great game engines generally are not artsy creative people with the ability to create interesting game stories.
[quote]Doesn't the above imply that a supercomputer should really be just a single computer, and not a network or cluster of many computers ?[/quote]
But if all of the networked/clustered computers are all working on the same task with information flowing between nodes dependant on other nodes processing , doesn't that make them all effectively one large computer?
A renderfarm is similar in many ways to a supercomputer, but I wouldn't think of it as one. Renderfarm nodes generally work on a specific task that is assigned to them. They can be of a larger over all project (like rendering for a film), but really they only process what is given to them then spit the info back. There's a queue manager that sends out tasks, but very little of the information that gets processed by a node is dependant on information that is in use by another node. A renderfarm basically gives out raw processing for a task when requested, it doesn't do much beyond that.
You can still have multiple terminals for data in/out, and in the VT case these are definitely systems that are exclusive of peripheral devices (remote device doesn't make sense - a connected terminal is a remote device).
I do think that definitions have blurred from what they used to be thanks to improving technology, but I do think that the generalities of what they represent are still valid.
$.02, etc
That problem here is that the artists all signed contracts that allows them to effectively get beat'n bout the head and shoulders should the RI|MP/AAs desire.
Hard to be sympathetic to the abused housewife who knowingly returns to the abuser.
1) Just out of curiosity, have you needed your battery replaced? I've got the original scrolly wheel 10gb, I use it for 4-5 hours daily 7 days/week, I'm still going fine with the original battery. If and when it ever dies I'll get a new battery and replace it myself. Anyone who actually enjoys posting at Slashdot should be more than techy enough to replace an ipod battery.
2) One of my DVD players doesn't play back divx or ogm or WMV. Sure, it plays back normal DVDs fine - which is was advertised to do, but I'm bitter that this one doesn't so I'm going to bitch and moan and complain about a company (let's say Phillips) not keeping an antiquated *limited by hardware* product up to spec with what other modern DVD players can do.
Please.
3) Why are you abusing the headphones and putting them someplace where you know they would break? If you know that the cold is breaking them, why are you going right back to putting them in the cold?
Sorry, but you're clearly a dumbass with a mentality of you being owed everything by anything that displeases you.