Bittersweet Symphony isn't by Coldplay. It's by The Verve.
Personally, I don't understand people that only buy 2-3 songs from an album. Usually the tracks they say are the best ones are the commercial singles whereas often the better tracks are the album only tracks that aren't radio fodder. Not buying the album presents a very one sided view of a band's work.
It's not going to make that much of a difference in idiots emailing word documents since it's built in to Office 12 and not the OS. I imagine even people upgrading to Vista may still be running Office97 because it does all they need and arguably has a nicer interface than anything that came after it.
This would seem to be little more than a ploy by Microsoft to show they are open to new document formats but only if you buy a whole new Office suite. So with regards to the MA government thing, Microsoft can say they support PDF and satisfy MA and then sell them hundreds of thousands of copies of Office 12, turning their biggest PR disaster into their biggest PR coup.
The same thing was happening in Europe where it was likely many states were shifting to open document formats.
PDF export in Office 12 at least has the potential for less people sending me Word documents and then having to email them back asking for a non-Word version and that no, I don't have Comic Blippo New Helvetica font installed so your doc looks like shit and none of the html links work.
But Microsoft have put this in the wrong place. It should be in the OS, not in Office. Then PDF creation would be available to all applications including those people who haven't upgraded to the latest version of Office yet.
It's a pity they copied OpenOffice and not Mac OSX, in other words. Redmond's photocopiers have been copying the wrong thing. Don't the Windows Office team ever talk to the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. MacBU often come up with much better software than their Windows counterparts.
The PDF printer driver though is part of the full Acrobat product costing hundreds of dollars although occasionally it gets bundled in with scanner software or other printer drivers. It's not part of the free to download Acrobat reader.
PDF Printer is only really a small fraction of the native PDF support in the Mac. There's a whole PDF workflow including conversions between PDF formats, other image formats, colorspaces and pre-flighting for the print industry, all scriptable via Applescript and Automator. Again, all native in the OS. If Microsoft are putting this in Office, it's in the wrong place as it should be at the OS level to be useful.
I think you're trying to back yourself out of looking like an ass here, and failing.
Microsoft Office on the Mac has had PDF creation abilities since Ofice v.X in 2001/2. And even has some import abilities too. Microsoft would be rightly laughed off the Mac platform if they didn't support PDF. Just because OSX supports PDF so easily is beside the point. Office's users have been demanding PDF support for years. It's a common document format that people know is open, cross platform and doesn't require a copy of Word or Excel to read.
Turning this into a debate about Mac users 'crowing' about something an OS should do instead of rightly bashing Microsoft for not responding to it's users requests for years is simple bait-and-switch.
I've a 2001 500Mhz G3 iBook which has only an 8MB VRAM Rage 128 graphics chip in it. It doesn't support Quartz Extreme. The only things I notice are missing are the animations in Dashboard, the cube rotation in Fast User switching and Exposé can get a bit crunchy scaling it's windows and some of the realtime adjustments in iPhoto aren't available. Otherwise it looks identical onscreen to the 64MB FX5200 equipped iMac I also have.
It probably IS fair to compare Quartz Extreme to Windows Vista requirements so that's 16MB to 256MB. Hmm.
It really amazes me that Benny Hill is liked abroad and even mentioned in the same sentence as Monty Python. Here in the UK we generally thought it the lowest form of TV possible and were glad to see the old dinosaur finally get axed.
Microsoft make the most popular browser on the market. If you're a web developer trying to create websites and applications then you really have to care about what Microsoft does.
We rightly wrag on Microsoft for holding back the internet by not supporting modern web standards that would allow developers to develop richer websites more quickly and that would render across any browser.
We'd love to boycott IE for those reasons but sadly not everyone understands that.
I've a couple of manuals for software which are copy protected from photocopying - black ink on red paper. It just comes out as a horrible grey smudge on most photocopiers.
And I'm sure there's colour photocopiers out there which will stop you doing perfect copies of certain kinds of green printed paper.
IMHO, both Apple and Windows got disk handling wrong. If you want to see how it should be done, the Amiga is where to look.
You put a disk in and it mounts on the desktop, you press the eject button and it unmounts and disappears from the desktop. No need to leave it up to the OS to eject a disk like the Mac or silly A: floppy icons for disks that aren't there which Windows STILL has to this day. If MS could have controlled the hardware and insisted on suppliers implementing disk change signals, they'd not need to be as clunky as old DOS 5.25" systems.
Furthermore, on a 1 floppy system you could use any number of floppies by name on the Amiga and the OS would ask you to insert the relevant floppy and it'd know you'd inserted it without having to click OK. Macs and PCs were painful to use as 1 floppy systems by comparison.
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They can sabotage a phone all by themselves.
Ropey old OS, crap user interface, USB1 interface and a CPU so slow you wonder if the phone has stopped working. You can't polish a turd.
Bittersweet Symphony isn't by Coldplay. It's by The Verve.
Personally, I don't understand people that only buy 2-3 songs from an album. Usually the tracks they say are the best ones are the commercial singles whereas often the better tracks are the album only tracks that aren't radio fodder. Not buying the album presents a very one sided view of a band's work.
It's not going to make that much of a difference in idiots emailing word documents since it's built in to Office 12 and not the OS. I imagine even people upgrading to Vista may still be running Office97 because it does all they need and arguably has a nicer interface than anything that came after it.
This would seem to be little more than a ploy by Microsoft to show they are open to new document formats but only if you buy a whole new Office suite. So with regards to the MA government thing, Microsoft can say they support PDF and satisfy MA and then sell them hundreds of thousands of copies of Office 12, turning their biggest PR disaster into their biggest PR coup.
The same thing was happening in Europe where it was likely many states were shifting to open document formats.
I'm half impressed.
PDF export in Office 12 at least has the potential for less people sending me Word documents and then having to email them back asking for a non-Word version and that no, I don't have Comic Blippo New Helvetica font installed so your doc looks like shit and none of the html links work.
But Microsoft have put this in the wrong place. It should be in the OS, not in Office. Then PDF creation would be available to all applications including those people who haven't upgraded to the latest version of Office yet.
It's a pity they copied OpenOffice and not Mac OSX, in other words. Redmond's photocopiers have been copying the wrong thing. Don't the Windows Office team ever talk to the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. MacBU often come up with much better software than their Windows counterparts.
PDF parser, XML Metro parser. It makes no difference. You've still got to create the output.
You still need an API above that raw data layer unless you really like pain.
The PDF printer driver though is part of the full Acrobat product costing hundreds of dollars although occasionally it gets bundled in with scanner software or other printer drivers. It's not part of the free to download Acrobat reader.
PDF Printer is only really a small fraction of the native PDF support in the Mac. There's a whole PDF workflow including conversions between PDF formats, other image formats, colorspaces and pre-flighting for the print industry, all scriptable via Applescript and Automator. Again, all native in the OS. If Microsoft are putting this in Office, it's in the wrong place as it should be at the OS level to be useful.
I think you're trying to back yourself out of looking like an ass here, and failing.
Microsoft Office on the Mac has had PDF creation abilities since Ofice v.X in 2001/2. And even has some import abilities too. Microsoft would be rightly laughed off the Mac platform if they didn't support PDF. Just because OSX supports PDF so easily is beside the point. Office's users have been demanding PDF support for years. It's a common document format that people know is open, cross platform and doesn't require a copy of Word or Excel to read.
Turning this into a debate about Mac users 'crowing' about something an OS should do instead of rightly bashing Microsoft for not responding to it's users requests for years is simple bait-and-switch.
Totally with you there. If you're going to copy something, copy Apple at least.
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Well, one of the Apple interface styles anyway.
How odd.
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It's even a bicycle...
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Never, ever come across it as a referral to disabled people although I guess that might fit in with the S&M thing.
I've a 2001 500Mhz G3 iBook which has only an 8MB VRAM Rage 128 graphics chip in it. It doesn't support Quartz Extreme. The only things I notice are missing are the animations in Dashboard, the cube rotation in Fast User switching and Exposé can get a bit crunchy scaling it's windows and some of the realtime adjustments in iPhoto aren't available. Otherwise it looks identical onscreen to the 64MB FX5200 equipped iMac I also have.
It probably IS fair to compare Quartz Extreme to Windows Vista requirements so that's 16MB to 256MB. Hmm.
Thames.
It really amazes me that Benny Hill is liked abroad and even mentioned in the same sentence as Monty Python. Here in the UK we generally thought it the lowest form of TV possible and were glad to see the old dinosaur finally get axed.
Unless it's some plan to swell Paul's head until it explodes then please don't refer to everyone's favourite brown nosing idiot as a 'Windows Guru'.
The guy's a hack who can type quicker than he can think.
Huh?
Microsoft make the most popular browser on the market. If you're a web developer trying to create websites and applications then you really have to care about what Microsoft does.
We rightly wrag on Microsoft for holding back the internet by not supporting modern web standards that would allow developers to develop richer websites more quickly and that would render across any browser.
We'd love to boycott IE for those reasons but sadly not everyone understands that.
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I've a couple of manuals for software which are copy protected from photocopying - black ink on red paper. It just comes out as a horrible grey smudge on most photocopiers.
And I'm sure there's colour photocopiers out there which will stop you doing perfect copies of certain kinds of green printed paper.
IMHO, both Apple and Windows got disk handling wrong. If you want to see how it should be done, the Amiga is where to look.
You put a disk in and it mounts on the desktop, you press the eject button and it unmounts and disappears from the desktop. No need to leave it up to the OS to eject a disk like the Mac or silly A: floppy icons for disks that aren't there which Windows STILL has to this day. If MS could have controlled the hardware and insisted on suppliers implementing disk change signals, they'd not need to be as clunky as old DOS 5.25" systems.
Furthermore, on a 1 floppy system you could use any number of floppies by name on the Amiga and the OS would ask you to insert the relevant floppy and it'd know you'd inserted it without having to click OK. Macs and PCs were painful to use as 1 floppy systems by comparison.
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