I recently needed 3 days to convert my 7 year old thesis to PDF.
I had a similar experience years ago (originals typed into a proprietary mainframe based program). I learned to _always_ save a plaintext version a formatted copy of any document I think will ever be read again. Since I learned it long ago, I've seen that I tend to keep the plaintext versions and the formatted versions get discarded. Thanks to this, documents that are over 10 years old are a double-click away and perfectly readable (ok, two if they're zipped).
Too many people think it's OK just to use rows of spaces for formatting.
What's always bugged me are people on the other end of the sectrum - the ones that make up for a lack of content in a document by formatting the living hell out of it. No, a bullet list is not a paragraph! No, a three page table of contents does not make the content itself three pages longer!
I guess the worst is people who do both such as a title page that has linebreak characters and spaces to center the title on the otherwise blank page.
I had no idea what Plugfest was, so I googled... MS has their own version of the event, which is free. ITSC seems to put on the one referenced in TFA, but their server is slower than most rocks. They mention that it's the "ITSC PlugFest 2006 on Linux", so I wouldn't expect MS to show in the first place.
Unfortunately you (and the rest of the jerking knees in this thread) missed the point. That little AP logo on the story (you looked at the story, right?) means the story was sourced from AP. It's not an MSNBC story, it was written by AP, and simply published by MSNBC.
Actually, you didn't read my post. Go back and read the last sentence again... The part where I point out exactly what you are saying and provide a link to see where it was picked up from. Read the complete post before you get inflamatory please.
One might wonder why this (non-)story is featured on the front page of MSNBC...;-)
MSNBC is a member of the Associated Press. They're probably hoping that the FUD will spread via other news agencies picking up the story from AP feeds. Since it's Monday morning, I'm sure at least one groggy editor has picked it up. From the looks of a Google News Search, MSNBC actually picked the story up from April 24 (The San Jose Mercury News and the Daily Breeze).
OH NOES!! TEH TEROORISTS IS COMING!!!one1! WITH PIRATED DVD'S
It's worse than you know. They're coming on PONIES. Freekin' TERRORISTS ON PONIES! PINK PONIES! Be afraid.... you will be killed if you giggle at them.
The *real* definition of terrorism is Islamic fascism.
Wow. The Provisional Irish Republican Army was a bunch of Catholic Islamic fascists. And the KKK was a bunch of Protestant Christian Islamic fascists. I didn't know that acts of violence make someone an Islamic fascist. That means that this list can be narrowed down quite a bit. Thanks for enlightening us. There I was thinking that fanatics were the cause of terrorism. Turns out it's fascists - Muslim ones to boot. Wow. Boy will the skinheads be pissed when they find out they're muslims.
That's me testing a cron script for eventual use and editing my spamassassin rules (yesterday). If I screwed something up, I'll what I did as root because sudo will log the command (look in/var/log). If anyone else did something, I'll know at 1AM when logwatch emails me the reports.
I know for a fact that the state of California still deploys token ring, but I can't give you my direct source (sorry). A Google search for "token ring" at ca.gov will give you some ideas though. This PDF adted January 7, 2005 says:
6.6.7.5 Managed Frame Relay (M-O) ... The Contractor shall provide tailored comprehensive WAN solutions for
each location based on traffic load, usage patterns, transport requirements,
and economics.
Provide design for routed solutions for many LAN protocols in the
Ethernet or token ring LAN environments
...
I bet it's government usage in the US, if not the world, is still pretty high.
Not sure if you've ever used Macromedia Fireworks, but not only does it save layered PNGs, that's its native file format.
The Macromedia method of layering (stacked metadata) is out of spec and should not be used to distribute PNG files. When Adobe merged with Macromedia I actually wondered if Adobe would create a new format or rename the PNG modification for Fireworks because of their normal adherance to standards. I figured it was too esoteric a thought back then...
* Here's an example of what I mean. To save a.png file after editing it, I should just be able to hit "save". Instead, it takes no fewer than 6 clicks to get the darn file saved. Adobe does little or no usability testing, I'm convinced.
This may sound like a cliche, but that's a feature! It's not letting you save instantly because you've created layers and PNG doesn't support layers. I do things to single layer PNGs all of the time. All it takes is a simple ctrl-s to save. If you've got layers, hit ctr-shift-e before ctrl-s to merge all of the visible layers and flatten the image. You can even undo (ctrl-z) the flattening after your save if you want to continue editing with layers as long as Photoshop is still open. If using three key combinations is too much, you can use save for web (alt-shift-ctrl-s) and save your layered original as a PSD (complete with your save for web settings from the operation) seperately.
CS is all about workflow andnon-destructive editing. That's why production shops (and I) like it. Even if you did have something that took "6 clicks" to do, you could record it as an action, highlight at which points it should ask you questions if at all and assign it to a key such as F5. Sorry, but your usability problem lies with the user on this one.
Has Adobe ever given an official position about porting to Linux?
No. Customers (especially high-end shops with a *nix production pipeline) have wanted it for a long time. The closest yet to an answer is an old Dvorak article in which he claims that the Adobe CEO holds a grudge against open source over GhostScript.
The solution is to stop whining and actually become politically active.
Though you are in many ways correct, that is an idealistic point of view to hold here in the US. To ask a typical american to be "active" for anything sounds too much like work to them. Then come the mental justifications and excuses such as "I don't have time" or "well it really isn't my problem - it's waaaayyy over there". Further, to say "just participate" and not hand someone the tools to do it is a cop-out too many intelligent americans use.
Instead, I've found it's better to encourage people to simply question everything - especially motivation. Then teach them to link up where they were right and be willing to laugh when they are wrong.
For example, someone I knew was addicted to celebrity life and tabloid-ish who's hot and who's not type things. Any mention of politics would get his pat answer: "That may be life, but that's not living. Next Subject." It really bothered me that someone who was intelligent, cynical and funny could be that closed-minded.
So I started pointing out that someone who was getting press in a slow crescendo (ie:"hot pictures" then "shocking scandal" then "heartfelt interview") probably had something like a movie or a book in the works. He eventually began to see when particular celebrity marketing machines were accelerating to generate buzz as well. Finally, he learned that he could apply those observation skills to anything. Today, he loves to talk politics as much as music. (Note: I didn't plan for this, but learned from what was happening over the course of months).
"Question everything" is a cliche for a reason. Good advice is often repeated. Luckily it turns out that people actually like to be sceptical, but most don't know how to do it critically. Once they know how, they can't help but participate in some way.
Microsoft bought the internet, remember? You can visit their new site at http://http/
That's plain weird. How the hell does that resolve? I'm using FF on XP and sure enough I was forwarded to http://www.microsoft.com/. I don't have a *nix box handy, so I can't tell if it's my OS doing it or if that's really a resolvable address. I tried a couple WhoIs searches, but then again the http is filtered out of most forms. Others just say it's invalid. Ping and other tools say it's invalid. WTF?
So, you are scheduled to attend a meeting and that meeting will be billed to Project A.
Yep so far...
Bill and Dave are also scheduled for the meeting, but something else comes up and they can't make it.
Client will be billed for them anyway. They were "dedicated to in office only tasks relevant to the project."
Because they are important people on the project, the meeting wraps up in 15 minutes instead of the scheduled 1 hour.
We don't bill partial hours. You spend 1 minute, we bill the whole hour.
So now you have to go through and re-work the numbers so the correct people get billed to the correct project with the correct times.
And cut into the project's bottom line? The hell you will. Adjust those numbers and you're fired. Like you seriously expect the two clients to compare notes and billing? Nobody knows what really happened
This sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
Exactly!
It may not happen to the small business like you or I, but that's not who this product is targeted to. It's targeted to mid to large businesses. I'm not saying this situation is good, but if a mistake is made that can be billed for it will be. Especially if later that "billing error" can be blamed on an IT vendor.
"Online _____ is the new ____!" If there was some way to monetize every time I hear this.... It would be the new money. Thus, online bullshit is the new bullshit - only digitized!
So if you don't know how to code at all, how did you settle on that choice of infrastructure?
Don't stop him - many a dot-com got started with this kind of "the new hotness" thinking. Of course they're mostly out of business, but the geeks involved made a grip of cash proving it would suck. PHBs everywhere, don't listen to this guy. You need the hotness to compete!! If it's not new, then it's old and everything old sucks right?
Slashdot Mirror
Not if Juggernaut or Blob is on the other side. Man I wanna see Blob, Juggy and Hulk throw down... from a distance... a big distance.
I guess the worst is people who do both such as a title page that has linebreak characters and spaces to center the title on the otherwise blank page.
Thanks for clarifying. I figured that the point of it was filesystems and that's why I thought the MS one was relevant.
I had no idea what Plugfest was, so I googled... MS has their own version of the event, which is free. ITSC seems to put on the one referenced in TFA, but their server is slower than most rocks. They mention that it's the "ITSC PlugFest 2006 on Linux", so I wouldn't expect MS to show in the first place.
I was thinking the M-Audio Firewire 1814 would be perfect for this. I have a 410 and am pretty happy with it.
Dude! That's the best way to explain token ring to stoner geeks I have ever heard. Not just funny, but informative too. Awesome.
CS is all about workflow andnon-destructive editing. That's why production shops (and I) like it. Even if you did have something that took "6 clicks" to do, you could record it as an action, highlight at which points it should ask you questions if at all and assign it to a key such as F5. Sorry, but your usability problem lies with the user on this one.
Instead, I've found it's better to encourage people to simply question everything - especially motivation. Then teach them to link up where they were right and be willing to laugh when they are wrong.
For example, someone I knew was addicted to celebrity life and tabloid-ish who's hot and who's not type things. Any mention of politics would get his pat answer: "That may be life, but that's not living. Next Subject." It really bothered me that someone who was intelligent, cynical and funny could be that closed-minded.
So I started pointing out that someone who was getting press in a slow crescendo (ie:"hot pictures" then "shocking scandal" then "heartfelt interview") probably had something like a movie or a book in the works. He eventually began to see when particular celebrity marketing machines were accelerating to generate buzz as well. Finally, he learned that he could apply those observation skills to anything. Today, he loves to talk politics as much as music. (Note: I didn't plan for this, but learned from what was happening over the course of months).
"Question everything" is a cliche for a reason. Good advice is often repeated. Luckily it turns out that people actually like to be sceptical, but most don't know how to do it critically. Once they know how, they can't help but participate in some way.
Like the other poster said, the rights to Peter Pan belongto the Children's Hospital. Here's some info.
It may not happen to the small business like you or I, but that's not who this product is targeted to. It's targeted to mid to large businesses. I'm not saying this situation is good, but if a mistake is made that can be billed for it will be. Especially if later that "billing error" can be blamed on an IT vendor.
"Online _____ is the new ____!" If there was some way to monetize every time I hear this.... It would be the new money. Thus, online bullshit is the new bullshit - only digitized!