A cliff? At sea level? Wow, you must be a geographic genius!
The Wrights used Kill Devil Hill as the launching hill for their 3 years of glider tests (1899-1902). The 1903 flyer was launched from level ground, along a track. It was not launched from Kill Devil Hill.
The first flight lasted ~12 seconds. The forth (and last) flight that day was almost 4x longer.
The 1903 flyer was not trading forward velocity for left. It pushed itself along the track and lifted off when the wings were generating enough lift to carry the aircraft. It proceeded forward under its own power and the pilot's control.
There was no need to "improve" their design after 12/17/1903. They took four years to make teh design and it worked for the first flight. I don't know where you are getting your incorrect history. You need to read some other books or, better yet, take a trip to Kitty Hawk. The memorial and the visitor's center are outstanding. The Park Guides will talk your ear off about what the Wright brothers went through and accomplished.
The funny thing is, when I read the headline to this article my first reaction was, "What the *heck* is Vonage?". They must be some upstart west coast thing, I'm figuring, because I've never seen any advertisements for them here on the east coast. I've also never seen any ads for them on any DirecTV channels I get.
They're not that big.
Then you'll have to remove the HD before you can change channels.
(for those of you scratching your heads at the joke -- The nGage phone/hand-held game device is so badly designed that you have to remove the battery in order to change game cartridges)
running around going, "THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!! THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!!" whenever I see someone make an excited news post about a 0.1 rev to a *mail client*?
mettle ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mtl)
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Inherent quality of character and temperament.
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n.
Abbr. M Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another.
An alloy of two or more metallic elements.
An object made of metal.
Basic character; mettle.
Broken stones used for road surfaces or railroad beds.
Molten glass, especially when used in glassmaking.
Molten cast iron.
Printing. Type made of metal.
Music. Heavy metal.
Apple's guidelines were born of a lot of time, R&D effort, and sheer determination. The were an excellent source for Apple developers up through MacOS 9.x.
With OSX Apple themselves seem to be turning their back on the HIG and doing things in a haphazard, way with no thought towards re-use of GUI ideas or code or following any sort of standard UI practice.
Apple's HIG documents are quickly becoming useless dinosaurs----by no one's fault but Apple's.
What graphics package does Corel have in it's portfolio that is suited for movie industry work? Vector graphics (e.g. CorelDRAW) aren't big in movie production. Corel PhotoPAINT is good, but can only do a maximum of 8 bits of color data per channel, which makes it ill suited for movie work. Plus, it works on single images, not multiple frames. Corel doesn't have an industrial grade editing package. I don't even thing they have a professional, prosumer, or consumer level editing package.
How exactly would Corel make Hollywood interested in them?
Wow. I know that Slashdot readers don't read the linked articles, but you take the cake. Not only did you not read the article synopsis, you didn't even read the headline.
It's the new ATi FireGL X1 that the review is using, not the extremely old and outdated Diamond FireGL1.
A new 'SyncManager' screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?)
So now the idea of synchronizing data between 2 computers is something that Apple invented and everyone else ripped off? Well go tell that PalmSync and all of the other applications that came before it.
Jeebus H. you turtleneck wearing, latte sipping, Mac zealots make the Amiga fan-bois of old look like a friggin' bridge club by comparison. "OOOH, THE MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS BREATH AIR!! THEY STOLE THAT FROM APPLE!!!!!!!
The Unisys patent on LZW expired in early August. There is no "tiny problem.
And, even if the patent did still exist all OSDN (e.g.Slashdot) would have to do to be legal would be to own a piece of graphics software that wrote gifs and had a license for the patent.
The big level packages (Shake, et. al.) are moving to Linux because most major motion picture studios are moving to Linux.
There is a HUGE spread of graphical industry jobs and the Motion Picture stuff is arguably at the high end of that spread. That means that the tools used in those jobs are probably too high powered and too high priced (in terms of up front software costs, hardware costs, maintenance, etc...) for other professional graphics jobs.
It's at this other level, the one where OTS software like Premiere, AfterEffects, FinalCutPro, Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDRAW, etc...are used that Linux is lacking. It is an area where good Linux software just doesn't exist.
Actually, the BattleTech Center pods (the last generation---the roundish ones) passed their display output through the same optics used in F16 HUDs. The purpose was to impose a psuedo 3D effect on the output so that you would focus on things that were 'deeper' into the screen. It worked amazingly well, actually.
What really saddens me about this story, though, is finding out that someone like this has children.
Is that because he has the capability to raise more people with his ammoral views or is it because it proves that spammers get to have sex while UNIX using geeks don't?
You're kidding, right?
At least MP3 sounds edgey and 2/3rds of it rhyme. Ogg Vorbis could be a caveman, a mechanical part, a hungarian food dish.
It's a horrible horrible name. Which, unfortunately, is an endemic problem with a lot of OSS.
The first XBox game Rare has said will be out is a port of Conker's. They also said, pre-sale a year ago, that they had already been working with XBox development hardware. Where are the games?
(I'll give you a hint, Rare is always overbudget and late...especially now that the people behind the Rare N64 titles have left for other endeavors)
Nintendo stated that when they sold Rare the income from Rare titles only accounted for (something like) 1.1% of their 2nd/3rd party revenues. Rare games, while great, were always late and over budget. GoldenEye was outstanding, yes, but no other Rare game on the N64 approached the sales of that one game.
Rare has yet to prove themselves as a benefit for Microsoft. You can't claim that Nintendo selling Rare was a hindrance to them until Rare proves themselves on the XBox.
Since Microsoft bought Rare how many Rare games have been released for the XBox?
(I'll give you a hint...it's zero.)
Or, more likely, they didn't want to spend the $ to port their internal toolkit (Adobe products have always used an internally developed custom toolkit) to Carbon/Cocoa, since the payback they'd get from the Apple side of things isn't all that great.
So, they adopted QT, which gives them OSX and Windows native look and feel and allows them to easily create new custom widgets that work on both OSes. They were able to recreate the functionality of their internal toolkit and now don't have to worry about Carbon/Cocoa.
I'd put the chances of Adobe moving to QT so they could port to Linux at about 0, personally.
Face it, the only people buying photoshop are companies, and people who do graphics for a living.
Thank you for backing up my argument. If the purchasers of Photoshop are corporations and graphic designers that equates to an even smaller number of potential Linux Photoshop purchasers. Corporations aren't going to switch their design departments over on a whim, and designers aren't geeks who will just immediately switch to Linux for Photoshop and give up all of the other apps they need and use in the process.
Why, because the few scores or hundreds of users at the three movie studios use it on Linux? I'm sorry but that's nowhere near enough justification.
The majority of Linux users balk at having to (gasp) pay money for commercial games (reference the fall of Loki and the horrible sales of id's boxed Linux offerings). What makes you think Linux users are going to line up to pay $600 for Photoshop?
Do you honestly believe that being able to run a containerless instance of a remote program on your local desktop is a feature that anyone outside of hardcore geeks and/or sys admins needs?
It's not a useability improvement at all, it's a limited scope feature that could arguably decrease the ease of use of the operating system.
Your average Best Buy customer isn't going to go, "Wow, that systray app for is running on my cousin's machine 3K miles away!". Instead they're going to go, "Huh?"
How do I continue to list marginalized features that have no bearing on how the majority of people use their computers in a vain attempt to discredit the useablity of Windows?
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A cliff? At sea level? Wow, you must be a geographic genius! The Wrights used Kill Devil Hill as the launching hill for their 3 years of glider tests (1899-1902). The 1903 flyer was launched from level ground, along a track. It was not launched from Kill Devil Hill. The first flight lasted ~12 seconds. The forth (and last) flight that day was almost 4x longer. The 1903 flyer was not trading forward velocity for left. It pushed itself along the track and lifted off when the wings were generating enough lift to carry the aircraft. It proceeded forward under its own power and the pilot's control. There was no need to "improve" their design after 12/17/1903. They took four years to make teh design and it worked for the first flight. I don't know where you are getting your incorrect history. You need to read some other books or, better yet, take a trip to Kitty Hawk. The memorial and the visitor's center are outstanding. The Park Guides will talk your ear off about what the Wright brothers went through and accomplished.
The funny thing is, when I read the headline to this article my first reaction was, "What the *heck* is Vonage?". They must be some upstart west coast thing, I'm figuring, because I've never seen any advertisements for them here on the east coast. I've also never seen any ads for them on any DirecTV channels I get. They're not that big.
(for those of you scratching your heads at the joke -- The nGage phone/hand-held game device is so badly designed that you have to remove the battery in order to change game cartridges)
running around going, "THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!! THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!!" whenever I see someone make an excited news post about a 0.1 rev to a *mail client*?
mettle ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mtl) n. Courage and fortitude; spirit: troops who showed their mettle in combat. Inherent quality of character and temperament. metal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mtl) n. Abbr. M Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another. An alloy of two or more metallic elements. An object made of metal. Basic character; mettle. Broken stones used for road surfaces or railroad beds. Molten glass, especially when used in glassmaking. Molten cast iron. Printing. Type made of metal. Music. Heavy metal.
Apple's guidelines were born of a lot of time, R&D effort, and sheer determination. The were an excellent source for Apple developers up through MacOS 9.x. With OSX Apple themselves seem to be turning their back on the HIG and doing things in a haphazard, way with no thought towards re-use of GUI ideas or code or following any sort of standard UI practice. Apple's HIG documents are quickly becoming useless dinosaurs----by no one's fault but Apple's.
What graphics package does Corel have in it's portfolio that is suited for movie industry work? Vector graphics (e.g. CorelDRAW) aren't big in movie production. Corel PhotoPAINT is good, but can only do a maximum of 8 bits of color data per channel, which makes it ill suited for movie work. Plus, it works on single images, not multiple frames. Corel doesn't have an industrial grade editing package. I don't even thing they have a professional, prosumer, or consumer level editing package.
How exactly would Corel make Hollywood interested in them?
It's the new ATi FireGL X1 that the review is using, not the extremely old and outdated Diamond FireGL1.
So now the idea of synchronizing data between 2 computers is something that Apple invented and everyone else ripped off? Well go tell that PalmSync and all of the other applications that came before it.
Jeebus H. you turtleneck wearing, latte sipping, Mac zealots make the Amiga fan-bois of old look like a friggin' bridge club by comparison. "OOOH, THE MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS BREATH AIR!! THEY STOLE THAT FROM APPLE!!!!!!!
The Unisys patent on LZW expired in early August. There is no "tiny problem. And, even if the patent did still exist all OSDN (e.g.Slashdot) would have to do to be legal would be to own a piece of graphics software that wrote gifs and had a license for the patent.
There is a HUGE spread of graphical industry jobs and the Motion Picture stuff is arguably at the high end of that spread. That means that the tools used in those jobs are probably too high powered and too high priced (in terms of up front software costs, hardware costs, maintenance, etc...) for other professional graphics jobs.
It's at this other level, the one where OTS software like Premiere, AfterEffects, FinalCutPro, Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDRAW, etc...are used that Linux is lacking. It is an area where good Linux software just doesn't exist.
Actually, the BattleTech Center pods (the last generation---the roundish ones) passed their display output through the same optics used in F16 HUDs. The purpose was to impose a psuedo 3D effect on the output so that you would focus on things that were 'deeper' into the screen. It worked amazingly well, actually.
Oooh, tough crowd. I meant for that to be funny, not a troll.
Is that because he has the capability to raise more people with his ammoral views or is it because it proves that spammers get to have sex while UNIX using geeks don't?
You must get all the chicks at parties.
You're kidding, right? At least MP3 sounds edgey and 2/3rds of it rhyme. Ogg Vorbis could be a caveman, a mechanical part, a hungarian food dish. It's a horrible horrible name. Which, unfortunately, is an endemic problem with a lot of OSS.
Marketing folks must hate putting "Ogg Vorbis" on things. It could easily be confused with onomatopoeia for vomitting.
The first XBox game Rare has said will be out is a port of Conker's. They also said, pre-sale a year ago, that they had already been working with XBox development hardware. Where are the games?
(I'll give you a hint, Rare is always overbudget and late...especially now that the people behind the Rare N64 titles have left for other endeavors)
Rare has yet to prove themselves as a benefit for Microsoft. You can't claim that Nintendo selling Rare was a hindrance to them until Rare proves themselves on the XBox.
Since Microsoft bought Rare how many Rare games have been released for the XBox?
(I'll give you a hint...it's zero.)
Personally, I think it just looks like a large truncated pyramid built out of window screen...
So, they adopted QT, which gives them OSX and Windows native look and feel and allows them to easily create new custom widgets that work on both OSes. They were able to recreate the functionality of their internal toolkit and now don't have to worry about Carbon/Cocoa.
I'd put the chances of Adobe moving to QT so they could port to Linux at about 0, personally.
Thank you for backing up my argument. If the purchasers of Photoshop are corporations and graphic designers that equates to an even smaller number of potential Linux Photoshop purchasers. Corporations aren't going to switch their design departments over on a whim, and designers aren't geeks who will just immediately switch to Linux for Photoshop and give up all of the other apps they need and use in the process.
Why, because the few scores or hundreds of users at the three movie studios use it on Linux? I'm sorry but that's nowhere near enough justification. The majority of Linux users balk at having to (gasp) pay money for commercial games (reference the fall of Loki and the horrible sales of id's boxed Linux offerings). What makes you think Linux users are going to line up to pay $600 for Photoshop?
Do you honestly believe that being able to run a containerless instance of a remote program on your local desktop is a feature that anyone outside of hardcore geeks and/or sys admins needs? It's not a useability improvement at all, it's a limited scope feature that could arguably decrease the ease of use of the operating system. Your average Best Buy customer isn't going to go, "Wow, that systray app for is running on my cousin's machine 3K miles away!". Instead they're going to go, "Huh?"
How do I continue to list marginalized features that have no bearing on how the majority of people use their computers in a vain attempt to discredit the useablity of Windows?