Lack of NNTP support isn't hold Evolution back from competing with the likes of Outlook. Outlook has never had NNTP support.
The best you can do is configure an Exchange server to take an NNTP feed and file it into public folders. That's a hack at best and nowhere near as convenient as a real NNTP interface in Outlook would be.
Outlook Express has NNTP, yes. But, there are so many other Windows based newsreaders that are better (e.g. Agent and Gravity).
Inside the unit, there is a 40 GB Samsung drive, 128 MB of memory (8 MB of which is shared as video), and 52x LG CDROM Drive. The motherboard is a Microstar MicroATX motherboard model MS-6378. It has 2 DIMM slots (1 used), 3 PCI slots (one of which is occupied by a modem card), and 1 unused CNR slot. Sound and ethernet are handled on the motherboard, which also sports an Award BIOS dated 2/25/2002.
I'm not quite sure why you think people should take your side in that argument. Personally, I think you're as much to blame as the SmoothWall folks.
You repeatedly ask for a feature in IRC. When you're told that they won't add such a feature because it would compromise their product you repeatedly ask for the feature until you become a nuisance and they ban you.
Then you email the owner of the company, without the IRC log to back up your claims, and state that a member of the company was mean to you.
The owner of the company, who has probably looked at the IRC log and noticed that you're not telling the whole story. Asks you to not mail him any more. Maybe he didn't do it in a very civil manner, but he did ask you to not mail him any more.
How do you respond? You repeatedly mail him, his team, an ISP that has no connection to the problem, and try to make submissions to Slashdot.
Then you have the audacity to get upset when the SmoothWall owner doesn't honor your request to stop emailing you.
What gives you the right to expect a certain level of respect that you didn't give to him? In the very first emails from the SmoothWall owner you were asked to never mail him again. You ignored that. Anything that happened after that is pretty much your fault.
And just why were you rude? Had you tried before and been denied a new registration number, or are you just someone with a geek-chip on his shoulder?
Honestly, the person you talked to had absolutely nothing to do with the design or implementation of Microsoft's licensing strategy. Berating him did nothing except upset an anonymous individual. Well, it also worked to lessen people's view of you.
>>and its near total absence of traditional >>TV fare like sex
I guess Katz must be a eunic. It's the only explanation for his comment. How many times in one show can they show Marg Helgenberger in a low cut, tight shirt, bend over, exposing the majority of her 'hidden-assets' to the camera?
Please don't take my statement as a critique of the show---it's not. I like the show, just the way it is!
"You know that SSSCA? Well/I/ heard that its being pushed by a bunch of porno giants to protect their movies from being distributed online" I think there could be a major backlash from that. That is not a bad idea.
They way you word it, people will see it as a good thing. To the masses, currently, online = bad. Online = pedophiles. Online needs to be cleanedup.
If you tell them this prevents pr0n from being destributed online they will see it as a first step to cleaning up that nasty "internet thing".
Just say that it is being passed because the pr0n0graphic movie industry is paying money to Congress to protect their profits.
Legend of the Rangers was not short lived or a spin-off, it was a one-off movie that just air recently.
The short lived spin-off, staring Lumberg from, "Office Space" as the captain of the Excalibur was, "Crusade". It had potential, but I don't think it was given the necessary production budget to make it worthwhile.
So the Taiwanese and other Pac Rim mb companies don't make motherboards with copy protection on them. Ok.
Well, now that those MBs are in violation of the DMCA (they could be considered content protection circumvention devices) they will no longer be allowed inside the US. The shipments of them will be stopped by customs.
I heard that version 1.0 was done as a dodecahedron. When that didn't work too well they tried the classic "Circle with some pie-slices" approach and found success.
This is the online equivilent of the idiotic frat-boy who buys a towed banner that says "Marry Me, " and has it flown over a college football game for 50,000 people to see.
I learned 3D on 3D Studio (DOS) R4. Without the hardware lock installed it would run as a render-slave. Another guy in class was also one of the student admins of the campus network. The machines in the computer labs would be forced to wipe their HDs every day and reinstall a fresh copy of the OS. He inserted a copy of 3DS R4 into the "clean directory". The next night all of the machines on campus had 3DS ready to go.
The renderfarm for 3DS R4 was driven by a batch script. The script had the IP addys of all the machines you wanted to use. He wrote a script that slaved the entire IP range of the campus network.
One morning, at about 2am, in the graphics lab we fired it up. Worked like a charm. We actually made use of it every night for about a week before a paid admin tweaked to it and made us shut it down.
AdAware 5.62 does remove VX2. You have to get the latest signature file, though. The easiest way to do that is to get their new(er) Refupdate program. When you run Refupdate it connects to the Lavasoft servers and pulls down the latest signature file.
The newest sig file is 005-16.01.2002. That file will allow AdAware to detect and remove VX2 and all of its variants.
Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote. They're all there. They've done that for years.
I've seen American Express application forms at the Post Office for as long as I can remember.
I really don't see much wrong with this.
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In 1992 I started playing an online game, Air Warrior. it was the first graphical massively multiplayer game available on a commercial service (GEnie).
It's now 2002. I've been an Air Warrior for ten years. Just recently, though, Electronic Arts shut down Air Warrior for good. I've been a member of the community, an employee of the company that made Air Warrior, and a friend to litterally hundreds of people that I met on line in that game. The community and game move to different platforms, it moved to different online services, it eventually moved to the internet. But the community always went with it. Air Warrior is a touchstone that brought together thousands upon thousands of people who would probably never have met one another in meat-space.
The one thing that will endure long after the demise of Air Warrior the game is Air Warrior the community. I have friends that I met online a decade ago that I know better than my next door neighbor. Is that a bad thing? In my completely honest opinion, no. Meeting online removed *all* of the social prejudices normally exhibited in making and keeping friendships. I've been to Air Warrior conventions(held every year, religously) where I've seen investment bankers embracing car mechanics as if they were long lost brothers. In normal circles such things wouldn't happen. In an online space, though, the friendship was made because of a shared passion (Air Warrior) and by getting to know the person and not the outward appearance of the person. Those are the friendships that will endure.
I know more people online, because of this one game, that I would bend over backward for than I do in a two mile radius around my house. I'm comfortable with that. It's not where you know people that matters. It's the people you really know that matter.
>>you can bet someone will come to extend GIMP
>>to Photoshop standards.
I'll take that bet any day of the week. If there are so many people out there that want a low-cost/free, open source image editing program, then why hasn't the GIMP surpassed Photoshop by now?
This constant attitude of, "if the need is there, the programmers will come" that seems to be pervasive in the open source community confuses me. It's as if people believe a magic corps of software engineers will just materialize any time an underdog program needs to surpass a superior commercial product. Just where are these programmers going to come from? If no one is extending the GIMP now, who is just one night going to get the bug in their head (and the knowledge that needs to go along with it), to transform the GIMP into the greatest image editing program ever seen? Who is going to pony up the large amounts of money to license the Pantone ink library and then let anyone/everyone who needs it just use it?
>> Adobe is not thinking long term.
Adobe is most definately thinking long term. Finding a market that isn't giving them a return on their investment and making the decision to shift their development process away from that market is very much long term thinking.
If Adobe is willing to give up a potential, but failing, market in China do you really think the specter/geek pipe dream of having the GIMP displace Photoshop is anything that even enters into the collective thinking of the management there? They could care less about the GIMP.
Photoshop Elements != Photoshop. It's a severly GIMP'd version (all puns intended).
The GIMP is ok for making web graphics. You're never going to do any serious photo retouching, CMYK color correction, under color removal, trapping, or any other necessary pre-press operation with the GIMP, though. It just isn't ready to handle the complex, precise, and finicky nature of real four-color (or more) offset press preproduction work.
Does the GIMP have monitor color calibration? Does it have color profiles for myriad pre-press proofing machines and/or offset presses? Does it have Pantone (TM) licensed color libraries? Last time I checked it didn't.
Unless China only ever produces web sites I doubt the GIMP will be a 100% useable solution.
Corel could step in with Corel PhotoPaint. It's not as good as Photoshop for the items I mentioned above. but, it's worlds better at those chores than the GIMP is. It's still not a 100% solution, though, as I will explain below.
Assuming that since the GIMP is vaguely similar to Photoshop Elements it will be able to replace Photoshop is a very slanted view on the whole situation.
Even if the GIMP could do 100% of what Photoshop does that doesn't solve the problem of providing all of the functionality of all Adobe products to China. That is, unless the GIMP has gained the ability to do short document layout (Pagemaker), long document layout (InDesign), SGML based technical document publishing (Frame), vector illustration with 100% PS3 compatibility (Illustrator), motion graphics (After Effects), video editting (Premiere), web based vector animation (Live Motion), and PDF creation and editting (Acrobat series). That list isn't all inclusive, either.
Just like GIMP != Photoshop, Photoshop != All Adobe Products.
If you don't defend your trademark rights you will lose them. You can sit on your patents up until n-1 days before they expire and then go after anyone/everyone who has been violating them.
The file format for.DOC and.XLS hasn't changed since Office 97. That's why newer versions of Office and StarOffice have the doc type as Office 97/2000/XP in their file requestors.
Oh. Those are "Liberal Arts" students on this side of the pond. I'm not exactly what they're liberal with, besides cigarette smoke, black turtle-neck sweaters, live mike poetry night at the coffee house, and angst.
...since art students will be able to stick with word...
Yeah. When I took computer graphics in college we only ever used Word. We did entire 30 minute CGI mpg movies in Word. It rocked. Photoshop, 3ds max, Maya, Lightwave, AutoCAD, DeBabelizer, Premiere, and After Effects are for pussies!
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Not that there was much of a void. AfterEffects on the low end and Discreet products for the high end.
http://www.discreet.com/
Forget even buying it. No big-box store (Circuit City, Best Buy, etc...) will waste the shelf-space to stock both the game and that controller.
At best you'll be able to mail-order it. Whatever marketing-rep thought that mondo-controller would be a good idea is soon to be working on their r
He's also good friends with J. Michael Strazinski and was a writing consultant on all Babylon 5 episodes and TV movies.
Lack of NNTP support isn't hold Evolution back from competing with the likes of Outlook. Outlook has never had NNTP support.
The best you can do is configure an Exchange server to take an NNTP feed and file it into public folders. That's a hack at best and nowhere near as convenient as a real NNTP interface in Outlook would be.
Outlook Express has NNTP, yes. But, there are so many other Windows based newsreaders that are better (e.g. Agent and Gravity).
Ah, the power of reading the article...
This will make my little purple Gamecube console useful until games actually start appearing for it, right?
Right?
(sigh)
I'm not quite sure why you think people should take your side in that argument. Personally, I think you're as much to blame as the SmoothWall folks.
You repeatedly ask for a feature in IRC. When you're told that they won't add such a feature because it would compromise their product you repeatedly ask for the feature until you become a nuisance and they ban you.
Then you email the owner of the company, without the IRC log to back up your claims, and state that a member of the company was mean to you.
The owner of the company, who has probably looked at the IRC log and noticed that you're not telling the whole story. Asks you to not mail him any more. Maybe he didn't do it in a very civil manner, but he did ask you to not mail him any more.
How do you respond? You repeatedly mail him, his team, an ISP that has no connection to the problem, and try to make submissions to Slashdot.
Then you have the audacity to get upset when the SmoothWall owner doesn't honor your request to stop emailing you.
What gives you the right to expect a certain level of respect that you didn't give to him? In the very first emails from the SmoothWall owner you were asked to never mail him again. You ignored that. Anything that happened after that is pretty much your fault.
And just why were you rude? Had you tried before and been denied a new registration number, or are you just someone with a geek-chip on his shoulder?
Honestly, the person you talked to had absolutely nothing to do with the design or implementation of Microsoft's licensing strategy. Berating him did nothing except upset an anonymous individual. Well, it also worked to lessen people's view of you.
>>and its near total absence of traditional
>>TV fare like sex
I guess Katz must be a eunic. It's the only explanation for his comment. How many times in one show can they show Marg Helgenberger in a low cut, tight shirt, bend over, exposing the majority of her 'hidden-assets' to the camera?
Please don't take my statement as a critique of the show---it's not. I like the show, just the way it is!
"You know that SSSCA? Well /I/ heard that its being pushed by a bunch of porno giants to protect their movies from being distributed online" I think there could be a major backlash from that. That is not a bad idea.
They way you word it, people will see it as a good thing. To the masses, currently, online = bad. Online = pedophiles. Online needs to be cleanedup.
If you tell them this prevents pr0n from being destributed online they will see it as a first step to cleaning up that nasty "internet thing".
Just say that it is being passed because the pr0n0graphic movie industry is paying money to Congress to protect their profits.
Legend of the Rangers was not short lived or a spin-off, it was a one-off movie that just air recently.
The short lived spin-off, staring Lumberg from, "Office Space" as the captain of the Excalibur was, "Crusade". It had potential, but I don't think it was given the necessary production budget to make it worthwhile.
So the Taiwanese and other Pac Rim mb companies don't make motherboards with copy protection on them. Ok.
Well, now that those MBs are in violation of the DMCA (they could be considered content protection circumvention devices) they will no longer be allowed inside the US. The shipments of them will be stopped by customs.
>> the client looks exactly like the dartboard
I heard that version 1.0 was done as a dodecahedron. When that didn't work too well they tried the classic "Circle with some pie-slices" approach and found success.
This is the online equivilent of the idiotic frat-boy who buys a towed banner that says "Marry Me, " and has it flown over a college football game for 50,000 people to see.
Romance is dead.
Pah, we did this in college.
I learned 3D on 3D Studio (DOS) R4. Without the hardware lock installed it would run as a render-slave. Another guy in class was also one of the student admins of the campus network. The machines in the computer labs would be forced to wipe their HDs every day and reinstall a fresh copy of the OS. He inserted a copy of 3DS R4 into the "clean directory". The next night all of the machines on campus had 3DS ready to go.
The renderfarm for 3DS R4 was driven by a batch script. The script had the IP addys of all the machines you wanted to use. He wrote a script that slaved the entire IP range of the campus network.
One morning, at about 2am, in the graphics lab we fired it up. Worked like a charm. We actually made use of it every night for about a week before a paid admin tweaked to it and made us shut it down.
What part of "Linux based render farm with G4 front end "(i.e. workstations) didn't you understand?
AdAware 5.62 does remove VX2. You have to get the latest signature file, though. The easiest way to do that is to get their new(er) Refupdate program. When you run Refupdate it connects to the Lavasoft servers and pulls down the latest signature file.
The newest sig file is 005-16.01.2002. That file will allow AdAware to detect and remove VX2 and all of its variants.
Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote. They're all there. They've done that for years.
I've seen American Express application forms at the Post Office for as long as I can remember.
I really don't see much wrong with this.
In 1992 I started playing an online game, Air Warrior. it was the first graphical massively multiplayer game available on a commercial service (GEnie).
It's now 2002. I've been an Air Warrior for ten years. Just recently, though, Electronic Arts shut down Air Warrior for good. I've been a member of the community, an employee of the company that made Air Warrior, and a friend to litterally hundreds of people that I met on line in that game. The community and game move to different platforms, it moved to different online services, it eventually moved to the internet. But the community always went with it. Air Warrior is a touchstone that brought together thousands upon thousands of people who would probably never have met one another in meat-space.
The one thing that will endure long after the demise of Air Warrior the game is Air Warrior the community. I have friends that I met online a decade ago that I know better than my next door neighbor. Is that a bad thing? In my completely honest opinion, no. Meeting online removed *all* of the social prejudices normally exhibited in making and keeping friendships. I've been to Air Warrior conventions(held every year, religously) where I've seen investment bankers embracing car mechanics as if they were long lost brothers. In normal circles such things wouldn't happen. In an online space, though, the friendship was made because of a shared passion (Air Warrior) and by getting to know the person and not the outward appearance of the person. Those are the friendships that will endure.
I know more people online, because of this one game, that I would bend over backward for than I do in a two mile radius around my house. I'm comfortable with that. It's not where you know people that matters. It's the people you really know that matter.
>>you can bet someone will come to extend GIMP
>>to Photoshop standards.
I'll take that bet any day of the week. If there are so many people out there that want a low-cost/free, open source image editing program, then why hasn't the GIMP surpassed Photoshop by now?
This constant attitude of, "if the need is there, the programmers will come" that seems to be pervasive in the open source community confuses me. It's as if people believe a magic corps of software engineers will just materialize any time an underdog program needs to surpass a superior commercial product. Just where are these programmers going to come from? If no one is extending the GIMP now, who is just one night going to get the bug in their head (and the knowledge that needs to go along with it), to transform the GIMP into the greatest image editing program ever seen? Who is going to pony up the large amounts of money to license the Pantone ink library and then let anyone/everyone who needs it just use it?
>> Adobe is not thinking long term.
Adobe is most definately thinking long term. Finding a market that isn't giving them a return on their investment and making the decision to shift their development process away from that market is very much long term thinking.
If Adobe is willing to give up a potential, but failing, market in China do you really think the specter/geek pipe dream of having the GIMP displace Photoshop is anything that even enters into the collective thinking of the management there? They could care less about the GIMP.
Photoshop Elements != Photoshop. It's a severly GIMP'd version (all puns intended).
The GIMP is ok for making web graphics. You're never going to do any serious photo retouching, CMYK color correction, under color removal, trapping, or any other necessary pre-press operation with the GIMP, though. It just isn't ready to handle the complex, precise, and finicky nature of real four-color (or more) offset press preproduction work.
Does the GIMP have monitor color calibration? Does it have color profiles for myriad pre-press proofing machines and/or offset presses? Does it have Pantone (TM) licensed color libraries? Last time I checked it didn't.
Unless China only ever produces web sites I doubt the GIMP will be a 100% useable solution.
Corel could step in with Corel PhotoPaint. It's not as good as Photoshop for the items I mentioned above. but, it's worlds better at those chores than the GIMP is. It's still not a 100% solution, though, as I will explain below.
Assuming that since the GIMP is vaguely similar to Photoshop Elements it will be able to replace Photoshop is a very slanted view on the whole situation.
Even if the GIMP could do 100% of what Photoshop does that doesn't solve the problem of providing all of the functionality of all Adobe products to China. That is, unless the GIMP has gained the ability to do short document layout (Pagemaker), long document layout (InDesign), SGML based technical document publishing (Frame), vector illustration with 100% PS3 compatibility (Illustrator), motion graphics (After Effects), video editting (Premiere), web based vector animation (Live Motion), and PDF creation and editting (Acrobat series). That list isn't all inclusive, either.
Just like GIMP != Photoshop, Photoshop != All Adobe Products.
If you don't defend your trademark rights you will lose them. You can sit on your patents up until n-1 days before they expire and then go after anyone/everyone who has been violating them.
The file format for .DOC and .XLS hasn't changed since Office 97. That's why newer versions of Office and StarOffice have the doc type as Office 97/2000/XP in their file requestors.
Oh. Those are "Liberal Arts" students on this side of the pond. I'm not exactly what they're liberal with, besides cigarette smoke, black turtle-neck sweaters, live mike poetry night at the coffee house, and angst.
...since art students will be able to stick with word...
Yeah. When I took computer graphics in college we only ever used Word. We did entire 30 minute CGI mpg movies in Word. It rocked. Photoshop, 3ds max, Maya, Lightwave, AutoCAD, DeBabelizer, Premiere, and After Effects are for pussies!