I'm sorry, but I do have to jump into the fray here.
I read people on this board constantly talking about the need to have options when it comes to software and hardware. Then I read this post and the author wants to lessen the available options for processors by advocating Apple dropping the PowerPC and going with X86. Would the author be upset if Apple dropped PPC and went with Transmeta? Or with Power4 (or it's offspring the PPC 970)?
Apple is making money (read profits) with their current business strategy. $4 billion in the bank is hardly hurting them. They are kicking Avid's ass all over the place in the realm of non-linear video editing because they are the lowest cost option with a very high level of quality.
Also OS X on Intel would bring down the wrath of the 800 lb gorilla like no one has seen before. Bang! Office v.X.... Gone! Bang! No more development of IE for the Mac. Right now OS X on Intel would be pure suicide for Apple. I know they're keeping their eye on the possibility of some such move, but in the near future it just isn't going to happen.
As for games... pshaw. All I really need in terms of apps are Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator and I'm happy. I GET SHIT DONE with those apps. How productive can one be playing Unreal Tournament or "insert inane first person shooter title here" anyway?
And who really cares if we don't have some OSS Barbie's Makeover complete with source code or any of the other cheapo games that comprise the ever so rich tapestry of entertainment that is PC gaming?
I've been with the Speakeasy since 1996. I started out with a simple email account, moved up to a dial up account, moved my business' web site over to them, then got 768/384 DSL (turned out to be 768/768! Only paid for the 768/384 though) and had the DSL for about two and a half years. Soaring student loan payments forced me over to AT&T for my broadband connection, but I still keep my @speakeasy.org email because I love the company. Their tech support has always been top notch and they never got snotty when I said I was on a Mac. Major points there!
My actual first internet experience was at the little internet café that could. Bummer it burned down. They are a great company and do a lot to support social and cultural causes around the Seattle area.
I would not go so far as to say it's obviously satire. If you look at the lengths they went to to provide links to other Christian sites and texts is pretty extensive. I checked out a lot of the links, especially the ones on the Christian roots of the US and of the US and various state and township Constitutions. On the surface I can see where one might think it is satire, but the level of research and effort that went in to build this monstrosity definitely goes beyond satire.
Some people just are that zealous. Make a subtle, sarcastic anti-linux comment here and see what happens!
The section on what to do if you discover that there is a grumpy old atheist in the neighborhood is hilarious. Also the little cartoon about how dinosaurs and humankind used to walk the earth together because the earth is only 10,000 years old is beyond compare. Evolution as a tool of Satan! I love it! Almost as funny as good ole Elron's theory about intergalactic genocide 75,000,000 years ago being the cause of all suffering for humans.
There are ads all over this site for a true Christian ISP. Then the lunatic that runs this site talks about how UNIX is a tool of the devil and that free software is another word for communism. Then there are all the rants about how the internet is an American invention and that the government should suppress freedom of speech for people critical of the Christian faith. Whoever is behind this site is as bad as the Scientologists!
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Operating System and Web Server for www.truepath.com
The site www.truepath.com is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.
Linux users include Rackspace, www.dialtone.com, www.sphera.com and www.vasoftware.com
Apache is also being used by Rackspace, www.sphera.com, www.dialtone.com and website.oreilly.com
I'm not a macromedia diehard, but I've generally used fireworks over ImageReady because the end product was so much better. Better HTML, better Javascript, better image compression.
That's a very interesting point. Being a UI and usability designer, I have a hard time with Macromedia products in general. They make good products in general. Dreamweaver and Flash are irreplaceable, but Fireworks and Freehand I could do without. Illustrator and Photoshop more than meet my needs and I just plain find them easier to work with.
I do do a lot of HTML coding, mostly in BBEdit and Dreamweaver, but all of my image editing is done in Photoshop and now I do a lot of it in Illustrator now that they have the "save for web" feature built in. Fireworks has always been counteruintuitive to me. But then again since I do no JavaScript whatsoever (other than simple Dreamweaver level stuff like rollovers), I don't need that technical end of an image editing app. Just raw usability and flexibility.
Again, Firework's scripting level stuff can be a huge asset. For raw, multi purpose image editing though, I'm gonna stick with Photoshop.
I know I'll get used to it. Like I said, old habits die hard. Once I get my copy of Photoshop 7 and a carbon version of Dreamweaver comes out the only reason I'll ever have to switch back to OS 9 is to use Quark XPress. Then I'll be able to retrain myself more efficiently because I won't be switching back and forth between the two to get my work done. However, if InDesign keeps improving the way it has, I may never need to use XPress again.
Well, first off, contextual menus are almost completely abandoned. Spring loaded folders. Tabbed folders. Click and a half fodler navigation. The "put away" feature. I'm sorry, but cmd+n opening a new window rather than creating a new folder drives me absolutely furious. I guess it makes sense seeing as all programs use the same command to create a new document which is essentially a new window, but damn after 17 years of using Mac OS, it's hard to get used to!
Don't get me wrong, OS X is a fantastic OS and it was a good move for Apple. 17 years of familiarity with certain functions is a hard habit to break.
Uh, sorry man, but that post was seriosuly lacking in sarcasm, sincere irony or any overt sign of humor. It honestly sounded as if you might have thought that Apple had succumbed to M$ pressure and had woven IE into their system as well. I responded with a relatively thoughtful account as to why that would never happen and what actually did happen. Sorry to offend your sensitive sensibilities.
IE is still included with OS X, but it is no way shape or form integrated into the finder. The current Mac OS finder is an evolutionary step in the NextStep file browser with some of the functionality of the OS 9 finder... though not nearly enough of it. Should be more in OS X.2 later this summer.
Why would Apple use M$ technology as a core part of the Finder? Steve Jobs would never go for such a thing!
Adobe really doesn't have a monopoly of any sort. Sure, Photoshop is THE dominant leader in the field of image editing programs. However, it is the leader because it offers a set of features that no other application comes close to matching. However, Adobe does not wield their dominance in the field of image editing to crush competition or create a barrier to entry in the market. Many people use the GIMP and Graphic Converter. The Macromedia diehards use FireWroks, but for the life of me I'll never understand why.
In terms of Adobe's target market as a whole, they have a lot of competition. Quark and Macromedia really give them a run for their money. Illustrator leads the pack for vector graphics, but Freehand is nipping at it's heels. Quark XPress singlehandedly destroyed PageMaker and Adobe was forced to design a better program, InDesign. Even though it is easily the better program of the two, it is having a difficult time penetrating the market that XPress has dominated for so long. Real, honest competition from a determined and strong competitor is the only reason that we have InDesign now. Freehand keeps getting better with each rev and consequently Adobe has to make Illustrator that much better just to retain their lead.
Macromedia has Dreamweaver which is hands down the leader in visual web page layout. Adobe has GoLive which has improved over the years and offers some features that Dreamweaver doesn't, but still has yet to garner a large market share despite being the leader some 5 years ago.
Macromedia has Flash. Adobe has LiveMotion. Although, in many ways, LiveMotion is easier to use, Flash is still the 800 pound gorilla of the web/vector animation market.
Adobe has Premiere for prosumer level video editing. Suddenly Apple comes out with Final Cut Pro (3 in particular) and just blows Adobe out of the market. Now there's Cinema Tools! Oh yeah, and then there are Avid and Media100!
Adobe has AfterEffects which is doing quite well, but has to compete with products from Discreet and Nothing Real (now folded into Apple.) Essentially, AfterEffects is relegated to the prosumer level again and must improve with each rev.
Anyone remember Persuasion? Fabulous presentation software that was totally crushed by PowerPoint.
So, yeah, Adobe is a huge company with a near monopoly of the graphics market, but they are besieged on all sides by fierce competitors and if they get complacent for a single version of their applications, a large chunk of their market can be taken from them. I continue to use Adobe products and willoingly fork out large sums of hard earned cash because their products are so comp[elling. However, I have given up on PageMaker altogether in favor of Quark and am waiting for InDesign to be a bit more polished before I start using it as a regular publishing tool.
I'm sure the people involved in developing Premiere are more than a little pissed at Apple right now. I know I will never willingly go back to Premiere ever again... not after using FCP 3!
To be fair, Sam was involved in the writing of the Hudsucker Proxy and did do a good job of directing The Gift. I haven't seen the Quick and the Dead or A Simple Plan, but from everything I've read they aren't that bad.
Take a look at Peter Jackson. Bad Taste, Brain Dead, Forgotten Silver, The Frighteners.... all three books of The Lord of the Rings! And he's not doing a bad job so far.
Directors can get better with experience... Ed Wood being the obvious exception that proves the rule. Some directors can start at such an appalingly low level and work their way up with experience. Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson are proof of that.
p.s. My cat's name is Ash, my iBook is Bilbo Baggins and my G3 tower is Legolas. I might be a bit biased.
Hallelujah! I think this is the single most convincing and lucid explanation of the MS monopoly and how it affects the populace at large I've ever read on/.
I have atrocious handwriting. That's part of the reason I got a Visor and an accompanying keyboard for it. I can input text much more quickly with the keyboard than I can using the stylus and Grafiti. The stylus definitely has it's uses though.
On my computer I really rely on my keyboard and mouse. For the same reasons I relay on the keyboard on my Visor. My handwriting is atrocious. I don't think any company (especially M$) is capable of overcoming this huge obstacle.
I do have a Wacom tablet, one of the cheaper ones with 512 levels of pressure sensitivity. It's useful for some of the Photoshop work I do, but very little else. I can't imagine using a stylus for all of my computer input needs. Seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.
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No no no. That's just Darwin; not the enirety of OS X. Darwin is a CLI only BSD variant.
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Actually, the guts of iTunes is Soundjam. Apple bought it a while back. If you look really carefully at iTunes you can see Soundjam under the hood.
I'm with you though. Soundjam was a hot shit mp3 player. I still use it when I'm in OS 9.
No no no no... you're describing a Linux zealot! Not a Mac zealot!
Linux zealots (of which I count myself one), seem to think that everything should run on their old 286 and be free.
I'm sorry, but I do have to jump into the fray here.
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I read people on this board constantly talking about the need to have options when it comes to software and hardware. Then I read this post and the author wants to lessen the available options for processors by advocating Apple dropping the PowerPC and going with X86. Would the author be upset if Apple dropped PPC and went with Transmeta? Or with Power4 (or it's offspring the PPC 970)?
Apple is making money (read profits) with their current business strategy. $4 billion in the bank is hardly hurting them. They are kicking Avid's ass all over the place in the realm of non-linear video editing because they are the lowest cost option with a very high level of quality
Also OS X on Intel would bring down the wrath of the 800 lb gorilla like no one has seen before. Bang! Office v.X.... Gone! Bang! No more development of IE for the Mac. Right now OS X on Intel would be pure suicide for Apple. I know they're keeping their eye on the possibility of some such move, but in the near future it just isn't going to happen.
As for games... pshaw. All I really need in terms of apps are Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator and I'm happy. I GET SHIT DONE with those apps. How productive can one be playing Unreal Tournament or "insert inane first person shooter title here" anyway?
And who really cares if we don't have some OSS Barbie's Makeover complete with source code or any of the other cheapo games that comprise the ever so rich tapestry of entertainment that is PC gaming?
Please please please please please!
I've been with the Speakeasy since 1996. I started out with a simple email account, moved up to a dial up account, moved my business' web site over to them, then got 768/384 DSL (turned out to be 768/768! Only paid for the 768/384 though) and had the DSL for about two and a half years. Soaring student loan payments forced me over to AT&T for my broadband connection, but I still keep my @speakeasy.org email because I love the company. Their tech support has always been top notch and they never got snotty when I said I was on a Mac. Major points there!
My actual first internet experience was at the little internet café that could. Bummer it burned down. They are a great company and do a lot to support social and cultural causes around the Seattle area.
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I wouldn't even call it beta. More like pre-alpha
No. The "G" in SKG is for Geffen, not Gates.
This is the page that got me.
Not even part of their site. Man, do I feel like a sucker now!
I would not go so far as to say it's obviously satire. If you look at the lengths they went to to provide links to other Christian sites and texts is pretty extensive. I checked out a lot of the links, especially the ones on the Christian roots of the US and of the US and various state and township Constitutions. On the surface I can see where one might think it is satire, but the level of research and effort that went in to build this monstrosity definitely goes beyond satire.
Some people just are that zealous. Make a subtle, sarcastic anti-linux comment here and see what happens!
The kids section.
The section on what to do if you discover that there is a grumpy old atheist in the neighborhood is hilarious. Also the little cartoon about how dinosaurs and humankind used to walk the earth together because the earth is only 10,000 years old is beyond compare. Evolution as a tool of Satan! I love it! Almost as funny as good ole Elron's theory about intergalactic genocide 75,000,000 years ago being the cause of all suffering for humans.
There are ads all over this site for a true Christian ISP. Then the lunatic that runs this site talks about how UNIX is a tool of the devil and that free software is another word for communism. Then there are all the rants about how the internet is an American invention and that the government should suppress freedom of speech for people critical of the Christian faith. Whoever is behind this site is as bad as the Scientologists!
From netcraft.com
Operating System and Web Server for www.truepath.com
The site www.truepath.com is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.
Linux users include Rackspace, www.dialtone.com, www.sphera.com and www.vasoftware.com
Apache is also being used by Rackspace, www.sphera.com, www.dialtone.com and website.oreilly.com
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a simple act to help fight those criminal nut jobs!
I'm not a macromedia diehard, but I've generally used fireworks over ImageReady because the end product was so much better. Better HTML, better Javascript, better image compression.
That's a very interesting point. Being a UI and usability designer, I have a hard time with Macromedia products in general. They make good products in general. Dreamweaver and Flash are irreplaceable, but Fireworks and Freehand I could do without. Illustrator and Photoshop more than meet my needs and I just plain find them easier to work with.
I do do a lot of HTML coding, mostly in BBEdit and Dreamweaver, but all of my image editing is done in Photoshop and now I do a lot of it in Illustrator now that they have the "save for web" feature built in. Fireworks has always been counteruintuitive to me. But then again since I do no JavaScript whatsoever (other than simple Dreamweaver level stuff like rollovers), I don't need that technical end of an image editing app. Just raw usability and flexibility.
Again, Firework's scripting level stuff can be a huge asset. For raw, multi purpose image editing though, I'm gonna stick with Photoshop.
I know I'll get used to it. Like I said, old habits die hard. Once I get my copy of Photoshop 7 and a carbon version of Dreamweaver comes out the only reason I'll ever have to switch back to OS 9 is to use Quark XPress. Then I'll be able to retrain myself more efficiently because I won't be switching back and forth between the two to get my work done. However, if InDesign keeps improving the way it has, I may never need to use XPress again.
Well, first off, contextual menus are almost completely abandoned. Spring loaded folders. Tabbed folders. Click and a half fodler navigation. The "put away" feature. I'm sorry, but cmd+n opening a new window rather than creating a new folder drives me absolutely furious. I guess it makes sense seeing as all programs use the same command to create a new document which is essentially a new window, but damn after 17 years of using Mac OS, it's hard to get used to!
Don't get me wrong, OS X is a fantastic OS and it was a good move for Apple. 17 years of familiarity with certain functions is a hard habit to break.
Uh, sorry man, but that post was seriosuly lacking in sarcasm, sincere irony or any overt sign of humor. It honestly sounded as if you might have thought that Apple had succumbed to M$ pressure and had woven IE into their system as well. I responded with a relatively thoughtful account as to why that would never happen and what actually did happen. Sorry to offend your sensitive sensibilities.
Well, there's a couple of lost karma points!
IE is still included with OS X, but it is no way shape or form integrated into the finder. The current Mac OS finder is an evolutionary step in the NextStep file browser with some of the functionality of the OS 9 finder... though not nearly enough of it. Should be more in OS X.2 later this summer.
Why would Apple use M$ technology as a core part of the Finder? Steve Jobs would never go for such a thing!
Adobe really doesn't have a monopoly of any sort. Sure, Photoshop is THE dominant leader in the field of image editing programs. However, it is the leader because it offers a set of features that no other application comes close to matching. However, Adobe does not wield their dominance in the field of image editing to crush competition or create a barrier to entry in the market. Many people use the GIMP and Graphic Converter. The Macromedia diehards use FireWroks, but for the life of me I'll never understand why.
In terms of Adobe's target market as a whole, they have a lot of competition. Quark and Macromedia really give them a run for their money. Illustrator leads the pack for vector graphics, but Freehand is nipping at it's heels. Quark XPress singlehandedly destroyed PageMaker and Adobe was forced to design a better program, InDesign. Even though it is easily the better program of the two, it is having a difficult time penetrating the market that XPress has dominated for so long. Real, honest competition from a determined and strong competitor is the only reason that we have InDesign now. Freehand keeps getting better with each rev and consequently Adobe has to make Illustrator that much better just to retain their lead.
Macromedia has Dreamweaver which is hands down the leader in visual web page layout. Adobe has GoLive which has improved over the years and offers some features that Dreamweaver doesn't, but still has yet to garner a large market share despite being the leader some 5 years ago.
Macromedia has Flash. Adobe has LiveMotion. Although, in many ways, LiveMotion is easier to use, Flash is still the 800 pound gorilla of the web/vector animation market.
Adobe has Premiere for prosumer level video editing. Suddenly Apple comes out with Final Cut Pro (3 in particular) and just blows Adobe out of the market. Now there's Cinema Tools! Oh yeah, and then there are Avid and Media100!
Adobe has AfterEffects which is doing quite well, but has to compete with products from Discreet and Nothing Real (now folded into Apple.) Essentially, AfterEffects is relegated to the prosumer level again and must improve with each rev.
Anyone remember Persuasion? Fabulous presentation software that was totally crushed by PowerPoint.
So, yeah, Adobe is a huge company with a near monopoly of the graphics market, but they are besieged on all sides by fierce competitors and if they get complacent for a single version of their applications, a large chunk of their market can be taken from them. I continue to use Adobe products and willoingly fork out large sums of hard earned cash because their products are so comp[elling. However, I have given up on PageMaker altogether in favor of Quark and am waiting for InDesign to be a bit more polished before I start using it as a regular publishing tool.
I'm sure the people involved in developing Premiere are more than a little pissed at Apple right now. I know I will never willingly go back to Premiere ever again... not after using FCP 3!
To be fair, Sam was involved in the writing of the Hudsucker Proxy and did do a good job of directing The Gift. I haven't seen the Quick and the Dead or A Simple Plan, but from everything I've read they aren't that bad.
Take a look at Peter Jackson. Bad Taste, Brain Dead, Forgotten Silver, The Frighteners.... all three books of The Lord of the Rings! And he's not doing a bad job so far.
Directors can get better with experience... Ed Wood being the obvious exception that proves the rule. Some directors can start at such an appalingly low level and work their way up with experience. Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson are proof of that.
p.s. My cat's name is Ash, my iBook is Bilbo Baggins and my G3 tower is Legolas. I might be a bit biased.
Hallelujah! I think this is the single most convincing and lucid explanation of the MS monopoly and how it affects the populace at large I've ever read on /.
Definitely MOD THIS UP!
Think! Think, man! I know that on the surface it seems like the right thing to do, but all it will get you is some Celine Dion MP3's! Don't do it!
The real trick would be for her new CD to not play in ANY cd players at all!
I have atrocious handwriting. That's part of the reason I got a Visor and an accompanying keyboard for it. I can input text much more quickly with the keyboard than I can using the stylus and Grafiti. The stylus definitely has it's uses though.
On my computer I really rely on my keyboard and mouse. For the same reasons I relay on the keyboard on my Visor. My handwriting is atrocious. I don't think any company (especially M$) is capable of overcoming this huge obstacle.
I do have a Wacom tablet, one of the cheaper ones with 512 levels of pressure sensitivity. It's useful for some of the Photoshop work I do, but very little else. I can't imagine using a stylus for all of my computer input needs. Seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.
No no no. That's just Darwin; not the enirety of OS X. Darwin is a CLI only BSD variant.