Serious problems with CorelDRAW in a real (pre-)press environment: 1) Custom shading effects that can't be represented correctly in any format other than CDR, although it pretends to do so with PDFs. 2) Crashes more than PageMaker on complex (> 8 pages with 4 elements per page...) documents (even on the recently updated X3) 3) A confused sense of colour management where colour spaces aren't simply unavailable, but misrepresented, often to the point that it looks like someone sent a l*a*b document through the RIP... 4) Horrible object frame rendering, such that contents only appear on certain zoom levels, even though clicking or selecting the objects will highlight the conents... 5) Poorly implemented file backup strategy that decides to randomly automatically backup a 100 MB file without warning, by saving a complete copy of it under a different name 5a) Poorly implemented file recovery strategy such that it locks itself into a repeating crash/recovery cycle after crashing to multiple borked files 6) Poorly implemented file structure which borks an entire document if some kinds of external linkages/files aren't immediately available 7) Poorly implemented typeface/font substitution strategy which does not appear to know about TTF/ODF hinting 8) Files not previewable at more than 96x96 DPI by any non-Corel app 9) Exported EPS files that are somehow neither postscript, nor enhanced postscript 10) Poor handling of latin-1, especially j/k on glyphs outside of those in common use in Western Europe.
I would have to disagree that it's "very high quality, at a quarter of the price", especially when poor software design/implementation choices would cost me as much in lost productivity in one day as purchasing CS3.
If you're going to attack the fidels, at least give them a fighting chance. All it would take to disprove all that big bang physics stuff is a single act of a god, i.e., the observable creation of another universe or a life form ex nihilo. It's just that the probability of such things happening is rather low.
But even if we note the creation of new universes by one or more gods, somehow proving that a god created the universe wouldn't help us understand the one we're in, so creation science wouldn't enhance our understanding of our world, nor help us predict what this god thing will do next.
"Make it cool & they will come with cash in their hands."
Yes, but not everyone in MCC works with the same business model, and not in the segment where the media produced is the media consumed. Many of the gfx people I know don't care how well the movie or CD does, they get their cut up front.
Also, your sig: "WinDOS: The nature of Microsoft engineering still resides within XP."
Which engrish site did that come from? I didn't find it in Google.
I know we've done other kinds of deployments into schools, libraries, Internet Cafes and other places, but the tattoo shop is new to me.
Also, the dual-head video cards aren't a strict requirement. As long as you can get it onto the bus, the majority of ATI and nvidia cards with 1-4 heads will work fine.
OP: Depending on what your requirements are, you may find interest in the basic Desktop Multiplier which provides multiple workstations from each PC, DiscoverStation which includes Desktop Multiplier and a managed desktop layer, or a solution from our education partners at Omni who combine Desktop Multiplier with SLED and groupware.
Almost any measure which dings domain tasters and related phisers without hurting legitimate business or regular citizens is a good thing.
I would even go as far as requiring initial registrations of 5 years or so at a total cost of $40 to squish some of the harmful spamming/phising activities based on the relative ease of obtaining domain names.
congress critters no[t] controlling their own bills, or reading them prior to voting for them is exactly why sweeping security bills are very bad for the U.S... Constitutional Amendments that are no longer needed because we no longer have slavery, prohibition, and etc.
There is generally no slavery in the U.S. _because_ of the broad-reaching, rights-granting amendments such as the thirteenth. Amending away that amendment would effectively empower government and persons to resume enslavement.
A receipt with a price of zero is strong evidence that there was no exchange of valuable consideration, which puts into question the legitimacy and enforcability of any contract that generated the transaction documented by the receipt.
The right thing to do might be for beneficiaries of this mistake to pay a correct, reasonable price for the items received, so that they, and all other customers, don't end up paying more in the future. But that would require thinking and acting like a non-exploitative member of a broader community.
This is a creative way to get consumers to argue for the validity of click-through contracts where: a) there is no meeting of the minds, and b) one (or more) parties did not read the contract in full. It's interesting that some are threatening to take this to their AGs to argue in favour of a concept they otherwise strongly complain about when the contracts are in the producers' favour.
1) It has not been established that YouTube is a public accomodation. 2) If there is discrimination here, it is not based in race or faith.
McDonalds can (and should be allowed to) kick you out if you start spewing pro-this or anti-that without their permission. First Amendment rights enjoin the government from restraining most forms of speech, it does not grant a right for your opinions to be heard on private property or through the use of others' resources.
Your unencumbered ability to post a video and You Tube's unencumbered ability to remove it derive from the same source and are equal in standing.
Yes, reverse engineer, practice, but importantly since web design isn't just art for art's sake, remember your audience. Even the best tabloid print ad in the world is likely to suffer from usability issues if copied directly into a web page...
Building a website right takes one competent programmer who will probably cost the same as one incompetent programmer.
You fail to grasp the scope of this problem, or have never worked with a significant multi-tiered application, or both.
Without considering any parts of the interface that even look like AJAX, the main MBTA page alone contains functionality ties into at least four different back-end data stores. Consider that each of the five main functional units need to be tested needs to be tested on both the client and server side for each browser, and it becomes clear that a single competent or incompetent programmer can have no significant effect on whether a particular browser is supported.
A website this complex will have at least one software engineer behind it, especially since it touches public works, backed by a team of programmers and designers.
If someone makes a successful business case that adding support for a particular browser or configuration would provide sufficient benefits to the public to justify the cost, they will use the existing design/implementation/LCM process to handle the revision.
Also, your contention that incompetent programmers and competent programmers "cost the same" is complete and utter fantasy unless your determination of competence excludes the ability to do useful work. If your contention were true, we would be able to hire "competent" electrical enginners to design an electrical infrastructure that handles any voltage and frequency combination without any additional cost, rendering your hardware argument moot.
Go one step further. Apply RBL-style tactics to all Internet traffic. Disallowing connections to/from infected botnet machines disconnects the botnet controllers AND draws the individual infected machines' owners' attention to a problem with their computers AND stops them from spamming.
Yes, wombats have been suppressing "Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory" for years now, to the point that some doubt that he theory ever existed. Evidence _for_ the single impact extinction theory, however, appears plentyful.
How does that differ from the current situation? Adding protection against execution does not on its own render current spyware detection methods unusable.
"Microsoft is attempting... eradicate Linux, sabotage it..."
So the best option is react with:
"Novell/SUSE users and customers should wipe Novell/SUSE off their disks and install virtually any non-Novell/SUSE alternative in its place."
Also:
"I seem to recall Microsoft made five year (or similar length) deals with Sybase, Symantec, Corel, Borland, Citrix, and other companies that thrived before the deals only to be reduced to insignificant gnats afterward."
It's the same plan that they used to kill Apple. Oh, wait...
That would be 1% plagiarized from things Google indexes. There are many paper books and journal articles, and other on-line sources which aren't in Google but which can be just as easily copied.
Simple solution: Bin/hide any post with more than three URLs unless it's from a verified registered account. If you have a non-phpBB syntax for URLs, bin/mark anything with a link that doesn't follow the regular syntax. And also make generous use of rel="nofollow".
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Serious problems with CorelDRAW in a real (pre-)press environment:
1) Custom shading effects that can't be represented correctly in any format other than CDR, although it pretends to do so with PDFs.
2) Crashes more than PageMaker on complex (> 8 pages with 4 elements per page...) documents (even on the recently updated X3)
3) A confused sense of colour management where colour spaces aren't simply unavailable, but misrepresented, often to the point that it looks like someone sent a l*a*b document through the RIP...
4) Horrible object frame rendering, such that contents only appear on certain zoom levels, even though clicking or selecting the objects will highlight the conents...
5) Poorly implemented file backup strategy that decides to randomly automatically backup a 100 MB file without warning, by saving a complete copy of it under a different name
5a) Poorly implemented file recovery strategy such that it locks itself into a repeating crash/recovery cycle after crashing to multiple borked files
6) Poorly implemented file structure which borks an entire document if some kinds of external linkages/files aren't immediately available
7) Poorly implemented typeface/font substitution strategy which does not appear to know about TTF/ODF hinting
8) Files not previewable at more than 96x96 DPI by any non-Corel app
9) Exported EPS files that are somehow neither postscript, nor enhanced postscript
10) Poor handling of latin-1, especially j/k on glyphs outside of those in common use in Western Europe.
I would have to disagree that it's "very high quality, at a quarter of the price", especially when poor software design/implementation choices would cost me as much in lost productivity in one day as purchasing CS3.
If you're going to attack the fidels, at least give them a fighting chance. All it would take to disprove all that big bang physics stuff is a single act of a god, i.e., the observable creation of another universe or a life form ex nihilo. It's just that the probability of such things happening is rather low.
But even if we note the creation of new universes by one or more gods, somehow proving that a god created the universe wouldn't help us understand the one we're in, so creation science wouldn't enhance our understanding of our world, nor help us predict what this god thing will do next.
Dawkins is fun.
Thank you for persisting in spite of the ideologues.
"Make it cool & they will come with cash in their hands."
Yes, but not everyone in MCC works with the same business model, and not in the segment where the media produced is the media consumed. Many of the gfx people I know don't care how well the movie or CD does, they get their cut up front.
Also, your sig:
"WinDOS: The nature of Microsoft engineering still resides within XP."
Which engrish site did that come from? I didn't find it in Google.
Ob. plug:
I know we've done other kinds of deployments into schools, libraries, Internet Cafes and other places, but the tattoo shop is new to me.
Also, the dual-head video cards aren't a strict requirement. As long as you can get it onto the bus, the majority of ATI and nvidia cards with 1-4 heads will work fine.
OP: Depending on what your requirements are, you may find interest in the basic Desktop Multiplier which provides multiple workstations from each PC, DiscoverStation which includes Desktop Multiplier and a managed desktop layer, or a solution from our education partners at Omni who combine Desktop Multiplier with SLED and groupware.
Almost any measure which dings domain tasters and related phisers without hurting legitimate business or regular citizens is a good thing.
I would even go as far as requiring initial registrations of 5 years or so at a total cost of $40 to squish some of the harmful spamming/phising activities based on the relative ease of obtaining domain names.
The subject is slightly below the charter, but many great links get posted.
http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist.html
congress critters no[t] controlling their own bills, or reading them prior to voting for them is exactly why sweeping security bills are very bad for the U.S... Constitutional Amendments that are no longer needed because we no longer have slavery, prohibition, and etc.
There is generally no slavery in the U.S. _because_ of the broad-reaching, rights-granting amendments such as the thirteenth. Amending away that amendment would effectively empower government and persons to resume enslavement.
The death of a technology does not require any alternative to exist. See Internet appliances.
A receipt with a price of zero is strong evidence that there was no exchange of valuable consideration, which puts into question the legitimacy and enforcability of any contract that generated the transaction documented by the receipt.
The right thing to do might be for beneficiaries of this mistake to pay a correct, reasonable price for the items received, so that they, and all other customers, don't end up paying more in the future. But that would require thinking and acting like a non-exploitative member of a broader community.
This is a contract, it's been digitally signed.
This is a creative way to get consumers to argue for the validity of click-through contracts where: a) there is no meeting of the minds, and b) one (or more) parties did not read the contract in full. It's interesting that some are threatening to take this to their AGs to argue in favour of a concept they otherwise strongly complain about when the contracts are in the producers' favour.
Your attempt at analogy or trolling is poor.
1) It has not been established that YouTube is a public accomodation.
2) If there is discrimination here, it is not based in race or faith.
McDonalds can (and should be allowed to) kick you out if you start spewing pro-this or anti-that without their permission. First Amendment rights enjoin the government from restraining most forms of speech, it does not grant a right for your opinions to be heard on private property or through the use of others' resources.
Your unencumbered ability to post a video and You Tube's unencumbered ability to remove it derive from the same source and are equal in standing.
Yes, reverse engineer, practice, but importantly since web design isn't just art for art's sake, remember your audience. Even the best tabloid print ad in the world is likely to suffer from usability issues if copied directly into a web page...
Oh, shut your iHole.
Building a website right takes one competent programmer who will probably cost the same as one incompetent programmer.
You fail to grasp the scope of this problem, or have never worked with a significant multi-tiered application, or both.
Without considering any parts of the interface that even look like AJAX, the main MBTA page alone contains functionality ties into at least four different back-end data stores. Consider that each of the five main functional units need to be tested needs to be tested on both the client and server side for each browser, and it becomes clear that a single competent or incompetent programmer can have no significant effect on whether a particular browser is supported.
A website this complex will have at least one software engineer behind it, especially since it touches public works, backed by a team of programmers and designers.
If someone makes a successful business case that adding support for a particular browser or configuration would provide sufficient benefits to the public to justify the cost, they will use the existing design/implementation/LCM process to handle the revision.
Also, your contention that incompetent programmers and competent programmers "cost the same" is complete and utter fantasy unless your determination of competence excludes the ability to do useful work. If your contention were true, we would be able to hire "competent" electrical enginners to design an electrical infrastructure that handles any voltage and frequency combination without any additional cost, rendering your hardware argument moot.
That would make NetBSD the most competetive operating system ever!
Go one step further. Apply RBL-style tactics to all Internet traffic. Disallowing connections to/from infected botnet machines disconnects the botnet controllers AND draws the individual infected machines' owners' attention to a problem with their computers AND stops them from spamming.
The best OCR tool is the one that the spammers use to break captchas...
Not yay!
Seeking and receiving an exemption validates and legitimizes the DMCA. This is very similar to answering "no" to "Did you steal software today?"
Yes, wombats have been suppressing "Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory" for years now, to the point that some doubt that he theory ever existed. Evidence _for_ the single impact extinction theory, however, appears plentyful.
How does that differ from the current situation? Adding protection against execution does not on its own render current spyware detection methods unusable.
Interesting that you can replace "Linden items" with "pharmaceuticals" in every instance while retaining a good approximation of reality...
"Microsoft is attempting ... eradicate Linux, sabotage it..."
So the best option is react with:
"Novell/SUSE users and customers should wipe Novell/SUSE off their disks and install virtually any non-Novell/SUSE alternative in its place."
Also:
"I seem to recall Microsoft made five year (or similar length) deals with Sybase, Symantec, Corel, Borland, Citrix, and other companies that thrived before the deals only to be reduced to insignificant gnats afterward."
It's the same plan that they used to kill Apple. Oh, wait...
That would be 1% plagiarized from things Google indexes. There are many paper books and journal articles, and other on-line sources which aren't in Google but which can be just as easily copied.
Simple solution: Bin/hide any post with more than three URLs unless it's from a verified registered account. If you have a non-phpBB syntax for URLs, bin/mark anything with a link that doesn't follow the regular syntax. And also make generous use of rel="nofollow".