A pally insulting a lock... I think that's considered heresy in the game and is actually in violation of your terms of agreement to play the game. I'm sure there's a line in the Blizzard agreement that states that "All classes must agree to be wtfpwned at any time if requested by a player character who is playing a warlock".
Guild members of mine of mine went to Blizzcon and learned that pretty much the entire development team at Blizz plays horde locks and shammies.
Yeah, Ron Paul is a Libterarian running as a Republican which no doubt pisses of lots of Republicans because this guy is actually in support of personal freedoms... and wants to put his money where his mouth is in terms of smaller government, etc. I can't say I necessarily agree with Ron Paul, but I respect him for being a straight shooter even if he had to join a party other than his chosen one to get some visibility.
A Republican representative will not resign his/her post if the person choosing his/her replacement is a Democrat governor who will replace this person with a Democrat instead of a Republican. If there's a Republican governor in power, The Grand Ole Party has no problem throwing one of their own to the wolves.
So, sorry not to give you a "yes" or a "no", but you didn't ask that sort of a question.
Ok... again... people think so black and white here. It IS possible to criticize the Israeli government and not be an anti-semite. If you do not agree with the policies of a government, it doesn't mean that you necessarily hate their people.
Socialism is not an all or nothing idea. Just like democracy is not an all or nothing idea. What we have in the states is very far from true Greek Democracy(TM). Democracy is government by the people... literally by the people. It's a process of debate leading to consensus. The United States is a Democratic Republic... a representative government which uses aspects of democracy in choosing the representatives.
Also, there are aspects of socialism current in our country. Welfare and basic education are socialist ideals. Using tax payer money to provide public services is socialist at it's very core.
Socialism can be measured in degrees... just as democracy can. And no country in the world has actually pulled off what Marx and Engels outlined in the Communist Manifesto. They get to the revolution and get stuck at the military state phase and turn into dictatorships. They never actually reach the ideal of handing the government and the economy back to the people. They become oppressive socialist states.
The world should look to places like Scandinavia which successfully blend, capitalism, democracy via a representative government and a measure of socialism to create the highest quality of living in the world.
The world needs to stop thinking in these black and white terms about inherently utopian ideas that can never come to pass as written because people are inherently territorial, selfish and afraid. There is good to be found in Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Democracy and Republicanism. Take the good and ignore the flawed.
As long as religion is kept out of the halls of government and officials work on the behalf of the people, the world could actually be a decent place to live in.
As long as government remains and old boys club where it is seen as a moneymaking career and not a civic duty... the world is in trouble.
They only resign if they know they will be replaced by another Republican. If there is no viable Republican candidate to replace them, they will stay in office and scream bloody murder that they did nothing wrong.
Do people not realize that God, Yaweh and Allah are all the same spiritual entity and they all spring from the same source historically... only peoples' interpretations of whether or not Jesus was actually the son of God or the high prophet is what's really differentiates these religions?
Do Christians not realize that Jesus is actually a prophet in Islam... just not viewed as the son of god?
Jimmy Carter is a superb human being... which is why he was a lousy president. He didn't have the stomach to play the Machiavellian games that the office seems to require. He'd rather be building homes for poor people.
Interesting point. I finished college about 15 years ago at a VERY liberal school. UC Santa Cruz. As I've meandered into my late 30, I can honestly say that I have become far more socially liberal and outspoken, but my fiscal views have become less than way out there "left-wing". Interesting thing is, my interest in things fiscal even applies to this war which seems to be a colossal waste of money when it could have been spent on feeding, educating and generally taking care of our society, so my fiscal swing toward the middle served to shore up my social political values.
The libertarians seem to be in the right general area, in my opinion, but why do they have to be such extremists? Fiscal conservatism can lead to great social benefits of a very progressive nature. Money's part of the equation in our bastardized version of democracy. I don't understand the overwhelming urge of the populace to spend our money on destructive things like war when there is a far greater need at home for medicare, education and food.
If conservatives are supposed to be fiscally responsible why the hell are we wasting so much of the riches this country has on misguided ideologies and destruction? Profit without conscience is just greed and not a sign of fiscal responsibility.
It won't just be the Intel Mac build of WoW with the video capture utility. I have a dual 2.7Ghz G5 and on the public test realm I can use the built in video capture utility. It's pretty slick... now if I could only get my hands on the uncompressed DV stream, I could really use it for purposes other than posting it on YouTube.
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects... these are all high end products that a niche market absolutely needs in order to do work. A word processor and internet browser on the other hand are useful to the vast majority of computer users. Since M$ controlled the desktop OS market, it was VERY easy for them to inundate the masses with cheap or free tools and undercut their rivals and get themselves yet another monopoly.
When most of the creative types out there are using Macs and Adobe software, M$ doesn't have the same leverage... they don't don't have Windows to tip things in their favor and gain the dominance they want.
When M$ wants into the niche markets, they always have a hard time. When they want to get into a field that every average user is in, they just make it free in Windows and BANG! Instant market domination.
They're getting their asses handed to them in the video game console war... they're a non-entry in the portable entertainment device arena and they're struggling in search services.
They're not invincible and in the niche markets, where people care about quality. They really really struggle because they a) don't care about those customers and b) just don't understand them. Making a tool cheap or even free isn't going to make people flock to it. If that were the case we'd all be singing the praises of GIMP on Linux and have no clue what Photoshop is.
People who need the tools and a high standard of reliability will flock to the tools that provide that. Adobe is a company that provides tools of that caliber.... and they are worth every penny! Microsoft doesn't give a rats ass about quality, all they care about is market share and income streams... if they had their way, they'd give up software altogether and find a way to have congress force us to pay them money for no reason.
Basically windows and OSX do not cater to my needs. In price and performance. They just have the software i need which is definately grounds to complain on.
Sorry, there just aren't enough of you out there to justify the expense of porting the software. Again, Mac users like myself are in the same boat when it comes to video games. Unless a VERY low maintenance, preferably self-maintanable version of Linux is developed... one that doesn't require a certain level of geek savvy to run and maintain... Linux just isn't going to get the good graphics apps. It's simple economics and a basic understanding of who your core audience is. People who flock to Linux just aren't in Adobe's sights.... and people who flock to Linux typically are not graphically minded people... if you were, you wouldn't burden yourself with the cumbersone UI's that people develop for Linux. Linux is developed for Linux users. Now, if someone developed a version of Linux that the average pixel jockie or art director could use reliably... then you'd see some interest from Adobe. Linux is a fine OS and serves the needs of it's users well... it just doesn't meet the needs of the bulk of the graphic professionals. When Limux begins to develop for the average user... who just wants to get shit done and not poke around under the hood... you'll stand a chance with likes of Adobe. Otherwise, stick to GIMP and the other free OS graphics apps. Chances are, they are going to do 99% of what you need them to given your predilection for Linux.
Again, if, from a business standpoint, you cannot make a business justification for Adobe apps on either Windows or OS X, you really can't say you need them. If you're in a business that NEEDS these apps, they pay for themselves almost instantly.
Face it, you just want fun toys to play with, but aren't willing to pay for them because your business does not really NEED them. Go pay a pixel jockey to do the job for you for a week at freelance rates. You could have bought Photoshop AND an iMac... or 2 really crappy cheap Dell's.
Face it. You're not in their target market. If you and the others want to play with the good graphics apps currently out... you have 2 options. Work in Windows on your cheap ass homemade or cheap ass Dell box and grumble about it's performance or fork out and get a real graphics production machine... otherwise known as a Mac. The Mac is the domain of the graphics world... Windows can keep it's gaming dominance and Linux can retain it's dominance in... well, keeping hardcore geeks happy... we Macheads will always enjoy the fact that the graphics, video and audio developers cater to us because we know that their software really isn't that expensive when a single job performed by a professional can pay off the investment in no time at all. No one who actually makes a living as a professional pixel monkey actually complains about the price of Photoshop. One day's work is all it takes to recoup that cost.
I'm sorry, but Freehand was garbage compared to Illustrator after AI7 hit the market. AI8 is what officially killed Freehand. Freehand peaked at version 5.5 and then languished in the "complement Flash" area until it finally met it's well deserved end in the Adobe acquisition.
Freehand was a legacy Aldus app. It tried to be an illustration AND page layout program and was not terribly well suited to either task. I've worked in multimedia, design and print shops and we always cringed when we were handed a multi-page Freehand file that needed to be output.
Sure, it was a little more user friendly at first, but once Adobe adopted a universal interface format and made the pen tools work identically in PS and AI, Illustrator furthered it's lead and pounded Freehand into the dirt.... and rightly so.
If the price of Adobe software is too much for you... you really don't need it. In my line of work. All I need is one solid day of paid work, and I've recouped my investment. The quality of their software allows me to recoup my investment many times over before the next upgrade cycle. If Photoshop is too damn expensive for your tastes, you don't need it... your business doesn't require it because you can't recoup the expense using it. Go play with GIMP in the kiddies corner and leave real image editing to the pros.... where a days work is all it takes to pay for a copy of photoshop.
If I were Adobe and wanted to stay fiscally viable.... I would steer clear of porting content creation tools over to Linux and just provide the tools necessary to playback Adobe authored content. There simply aren't enough of you Linux types out there to justify the expense of porting these tools to all 8 of you.
Linux users are the "Mac Gamers" of the design and content creation world.
And I'm sure they're really worried about the sour grapes from all 800 Flash viewing Linux users out there. Seriously, the linux faction really needs to understand that, from a business standpoint, worrying about this insanely small user base simply doesn't make sense. Now you know how it feels to be a Mac user who likes to play video games.
Adobe most certainly could use some competition, but whoever decides to charge this windmill has a big fight ahead of them as the Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash and AfterEffects products are are incredible. Apple, who basically sold hardware to video editors, really has been putting the fires to Avid in the NLE space and video editors could not be happier. Avid and Apple are both putting out great products as a direct result of the competition.
Quark was FORCED to finally improve their product once InDesign came onto the market.
Macromedia kinda gave up on Freehand and tried to make it a supplement to Flash, but Illustrator trounced it... and for good reason. It was the better application.
Fireworks suffered the same fate going against Photoshop. LiveMotion and GoLive lost out out to Flash and Dreamweaver... even though both programs were a lot easier to use... but they lacked the raw power that the users demanded of them and could be found in Flash and Dreamweaver.
I won't even go into Premiere. Premiere ranks about as high among professional editors as iMovie.
So, Adobe does actually have some stiff competition that forces them to create better products. Really, the only competition for Photoshop is GIMP... and using GIMP today... well, it's a lot like using Photoshop 3. ZOMG! Layers! Neat!
Being a monopoly is not illegal. It's how you use that monopoly power that gets you in trouble with the feds. Right now, Adobe isn't abusing it's power. Some of you may not like that their business practices do not cater to Linux... but then again, you're not really their target audience either. Dumping tons of of millions of dollars into developing for Linux would be a total money pit for them.... bad business.
Only seen Boot Camp and Parallels in action. Gotta say Parallels working in coherence mode is pretty stunning. When I actually get an Intel Mac I'm most certainly going to weigh all my options regarding virtualization for Windows. They all seem to be coming along rather nicely.
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A pally insulting a lock... I think that's considered heresy in the game and is actually in violation of your terms of agreement to play the game. I'm sure there's a line in the Blizzard agreement that states that "All classes must agree to be wtfpwned at any time if requested by a player character who is playing a warlock".
Guild members of mine of mine went to Blizzcon and learned that pretty much the entire development team at Blizz plays horde locks and shammies.
Well, said! In all sincerity, I applaud you, sir! :)
You're going to make me do actual research while I'm goofing off at work? Where's the fun in that?
Yeah, Ron Paul is a Libterarian running as a Republican which no doubt pisses of lots of Republicans because this guy is actually in support of personal freedoms... and wants to put his money where his mouth is in terms of smaller government, etc. I can't say I necessarily agree with Ron Paul, but I respect him for being a straight shooter even if he had to join a party other than his chosen one to get some visibility.
A Republican representative will not resign his/her post if the person choosing his/her replacement is a Democrat governor who will replace this person with a Democrat instead of a Republican. If there's a Republican governor in power, The Grand Ole Party has no problem throwing one of their own to the wolves.
So, sorry not to give you a "yes" or a "no", but you didn't ask that sort of a question.
Ok... again... people think so black and white here. It IS possible to criticize the Israeli government and not be an anti-semite. If you do not agree with the policies of a government, it doesn't mean that you necessarily hate their people.
Socialism is not an all or nothing idea. Just like democracy is not an all or nothing idea. What we have in the states is very far from true Greek Democracy(TM). Democracy is government by the people... literally by the people. It's a process of debate leading to consensus. The United States is a Democratic Republic... a representative government which uses aspects of democracy in choosing the representatives.
Also, there are aspects of socialism current in our country. Welfare and basic education are socialist ideals. Using tax payer money to provide public services is socialist at it's very core.
Socialism can be measured in degrees... just as democracy can. And no country in the world has actually pulled off what Marx and Engels outlined in the Communist Manifesto. They get to the revolution and get stuck at the military state phase and turn into dictatorships. They never actually reach the ideal of handing the government and the economy back to the people. They become oppressive socialist states.
The world should look to places like Scandinavia which successfully blend, capitalism, democracy via a representative government and a measure of socialism to create the highest quality of living in the world.
The world needs to stop thinking in these black and white terms about inherently utopian ideas that can never come to pass as written because people are inherently territorial, selfish and afraid. There is good to be found in Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Democracy and Republicanism. Take the good and ignore the flawed.
As long as religion is kept out of the halls of government and officials work on the behalf of the people, the world could actually be a decent place to live in.
As long as government remains and old boys club where it is seen as a moneymaking career and not a civic duty... the world is in trouble.
They only resign if they know they will be replaced by another Republican. If there is no viable Republican candidate to replace them, they will stay in office and scream bloody murder that they did nothing wrong.
"Your Allah"?
Do people not realize that God, Yaweh and Allah are all the same spiritual entity and they all spring from the same source historically... only peoples' interpretations of whether or not Jesus was actually the son of God or the high prophet is what's really differentiates these religions?
Do Christians not realize that Jesus is actually a prophet in Islam... just not viewed as the son of god?
Jimmy Carter is a superb human being... which is why he was a lousy president. He didn't have the stomach to play the Machiavellian games that the office seems to require. He'd rather be building homes for poor people.
Interesting point. I finished college about 15 years ago at a VERY liberal school. UC Santa Cruz. As I've meandered into my late 30, I can honestly say that I have become far more socially liberal and outspoken, but my fiscal views have become less than way out there "left-wing". Interesting thing is, my interest in things fiscal even applies to this war which seems to be a colossal waste of money when it could have been spent on feeding, educating and generally taking care of our society, so my fiscal swing toward the middle served to shore up my social political values.
The libertarians seem to be in the right general area, in my opinion, but why do they have to be such extremists? Fiscal conservatism can lead to great social benefits of a very progressive nature. Money's part of the equation in our bastardized version of democracy. I don't understand the overwhelming urge of the populace to spend our money on destructive things like war when there is a far greater need at home for medicare, education and food.
If conservatives are supposed to be fiscally responsible why the hell are we wasting so much of the riches this country has on misguided ideologies and destruction? Profit without conscience is just greed and not a sign of fiscal responsibility.
It won't just be the Intel Mac build of WoW with the video capture utility. I have a dual 2.7Ghz G5 and on the public test realm I can use the built in video capture utility. It's pretty slick... now if I could only get my hands on the uncompressed DV stream, I could really use it for purposes other than posting it on YouTube.
And 8 years of Bush the Second only drives that point home further.
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects... these are all high end products that a niche market absolutely needs in order to do work. A word processor and internet browser on the other hand are useful to the vast majority of computer users. Since M$ controlled the desktop OS market, it was VERY easy for them to inundate the masses with cheap or free tools and undercut their rivals and get themselves yet another monopoly.
When most of the creative types out there are using Macs and Adobe software, M$ doesn't have the same leverage... they don't don't have Windows to tip things in their favor and gain the dominance they want.
When M$ wants into the niche markets, they always have a hard time. When they want to get into a field that every average user is in, they just make it free in Windows and BANG! Instant market domination.
They're getting their asses handed to them in the video game console war... they're a non-entry in the portable entertainment device arena and they're struggling in search services.
They're not invincible and in the niche markets, where people care about quality. They really really struggle because they a) don't care about those customers and b) just don't understand them. Making a tool cheap or even free isn't going to make people flock to it. If that were the case we'd all be singing the praises of GIMP on Linux and have no clue what Photoshop is.
People who need the tools and a high standard of reliability will flock to the tools that provide that. Adobe is a company that provides tools of that caliber.... and they are worth every penny! Microsoft doesn't give a rats ass about quality, all they care about is market share and income streams... if they had their way, they'd give up software altogether and find a way to have congress force us to pay them money for no reason.
When WordPerfect was relevant... 12+ years ago, Microsoft was not nearly the giant they are today. Your argument, though clever, is deeply flawed.
Using this logic... there should be WAY more video games available for the Mac AND Linux. Your logic is idealistic at best.
Basically windows and OSX do not cater to my needs. In price and performance. They just have the software i need which is definately grounds to complain on.
Sorry, there just aren't enough of you out there to justify the expense of porting the software. Again, Mac users like myself are in the same boat when it comes to video games. Unless a VERY low maintenance, preferably self-maintanable version of Linux is developed... one that doesn't require a certain level of geek savvy to run and maintain... Linux just isn't going to get the good graphics apps. It's simple economics and a basic understanding of who your core audience is. People who flock to Linux just aren't in Adobe's sights.... and people who flock to Linux typically are not graphically minded people... if you were, you wouldn't burden yourself with the cumbersone UI's that people develop for Linux. Linux is developed for Linux users. Now, if someone developed a version of Linux that the average pixel jockie or art director could use reliably... then you'd see some interest from Adobe. Linux is a fine OS and serves the needs of it's users well... it just doesn't meet the needs of the bulk of the graphic professionals. When Limux begins to develop for the average user... who just wants to get shit done and not poke around under the hood... you'll stand a chance with likes of Adobe. Otherwise, stick to GIMP and the other free OS graphics apps. Chances are, they are going to do 99% of what you need them to given your predilection for Linux.
Again, if, from a business standpoint, you cannot make a business justification for Adobe apps on either Windows or OS X, you really can't say you need them. If you're in a business that NEEDS these apps, they pay for themselves almost instantly.
Face it, you just want fun toys to play with, but aren't willing to pay for them because your business does not really NEED them. Go pay a pixel jockey to do the job for you for a week at freelance rates. You could have bought Photoshop AND an iMac... or 2 really crappy cheap Dell's.
Face it. You're not in their target market. If you and the others want to play with the good graphics apps currently out... you have 2 options. Work in Windows on your cheap ass homemade or cheap ass Dell box and grumble about it's performance or fork out and get a real graphics production machine... otherwise known as a Mac. The Mac is the domain of the graphics world... Windows can keep it's gaming dominance and Linux can retain it's dominance in... well, keeping hardcore geeks happy... we Macheads will always enjoy the fact that the graphics, video and audio developers cater to us because we know that their software really isn't that expensive when a single job performed by a professional can pay off the investment in no time at all. No one who actually makes a living as a professional pixel monkey actually complains about the price of Photoshop. One day's work is all it takes to recoup that cost.
No need to flame. Congratulations! Welcome to 1992!
I'm sorry, but Freehand was garbage compared to Illustrator after AI7 hit the market. AI8 is what officially killed Freehand. Freehand peaked at version 5.5 and then languished in the "complement Flash" area until it finally met it's well deserved end in the Adobe acquisition.
Freehand was a legacy Aldus app. It tried to be an illustration AND page layout program and was not terribly well suited to either task. I've worked in multimedia, design and print shops and we always cringed when we were handed a multi-page Freehand file that needed to be output.
Sure, it was a little more user friendly at first, but once Adobe adopted a universal interface format and made the pen tools work identically in PS and AI, Illustrator furthered it's lead and pounded Freehand into the dirt.... and rightly so.
If the price of Adobe software is too much for you... you really don't need it. In my line of work. All I need is one solid day of paid work, and I've recouped my investment. The quality of their software allows me to recoup my investment many times over before the next upgrade cycle. If Photoshop is too damn expensive for your tastes, you don't need it... your business doesn't require it because you can't recoup the expense using it. Go play with GIMP in the kiddies corner and leave real image editing to the pros.... where a days work is all it takes to pay for a copy of photoshop.
If I were Adobe and wanted to stay fiscally viable.... I would steer clear of porting content creation tools over to Linux and just provide the tools necessary to playback Adobe authored content. There simply aren't enough of you Linux types out there to justify the expense of porting these tools to all 8 of you.
Linux users are the "Mac Gamers" of the design and content creation world.
And I'm sure they're really worried about the sour grapes from all 800 Flash viewing Linux users out there. Seriously, the linux faction really needs to understand that, from a business standpoint, worrying about this insanely small user base simply doesn't make sense. Now you know how it feels to be a Mac user who likes to play video games.
Adobe most certainly could use some competition, but whoever decides to charge this windmill has a big fight ahead of them as the Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash and AfterEffects products are are incredible. Apple, who basically sold hardware to video editors, really has been putting the fires to Avid in the NLE space and video editors could not be happier. Avid and Apple are both putting out great products as a direct result of the competition.
Quark was FORCED to finally improve their product once InDesign came onto the market.
Macromedia kinda gave up on Freehand and tried to make it a supplement to Flash, but Illustrator trounced it... and for good reason. It was the better application.
Fireworks suffered the same fate going against Photoshop. LiveMotion and GoLive lost out out to Flash and Dreamweaver... even though both programs were a lot easier to use... but they lacked the raw power that the users demanded of them and could be found in Flash and Dreamweaver.
I won't even go into Premiere. Premiere ranks about as high among professional editors as iMovie.
So, Adobe does actually have some stiff competition that forces them to create better products. Really, the only competition for Photoshop is GIMP... and using GIMP today... well, it's a lot like using Photoshop 3. ZOMG! Layers! Neat!
Being a monopoly is not illegal. It's how you use that monopoly power that gets you in trouble with the feds. Right now, Adobe isn't abusing it's power. Some of you may not like that their business practices do not cater to Linux... but then again, you're not really their target audience either. Dumping tons of of millions of dollars into developing for Linux would be a total money pit for them.... bad business.
Only seen Boot Camp and Parallels in action. Gotta say Parallels working in coherence mode is pretty stunning. When I actually get an Intel Mac I'm most certainly going to weigh all my options regarding virtualization for Windows. They all seem to be coming along rather nicely.