This can also be seen as a response to Microsoft's recent purchase of ProClarity (makers of front-end software for the Microsoft BI products). Both Microsoft and Oracle are gobbling up companies that fill gaps in their offerings to allow them to sell an entire BI solution instead of just widgets that other companies assemble into complete solutions.
Yep. The MacBook has a significantly different case from the iBooks. It may look similar to the iBooks, but sit them next to each other and you see how much spit and polish has been put into the whole thing.
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I'm using NFS on a couple of my Macs talking to FreeNAS without any issues. I switched to NFS after getting cranky at how slow Netatalk and Samba were for my daily backup operations.
I've found NFS works better than Netatalk for my 2 Mac home LAN. File transfer speed is considerably faster and I've had many fewer configuration/compatibility headaches. In the case of FreeNAS, I literally turned the box on, pointed my Macs to nfs://boxname and went on with my life.
Now it's just a matter of time until some enterprising developer creates a browser extension that allows this data to be used by the end user during a surfing session. A consistent, complete, trustworthy, and easily-parsed site map definition could allow for some really interesting new paradigms in navigation around a site. Just off the top of my head I imagine a simple tree view of where you are in relation to the rest of the site could be very handy when navigating some of the gigantic maze-like corporate-sites.
You hit the nail on the head: GIMP's interface sucks. There are no two ways about it. At work we use Photoshop every hour of every day. Being locked in to one vendor--especially Adobe--makes me nervous so we looked at the GIMP as an alternative. Our designers laughed it out of the shop because the interface was so badly designed.
Instead of bitching about the GIMPshop guy, the GIMP developers need to hire him and have him start reworking the standard interface; anything is better than the cobbled together mess they have now. The interface is so bad it completely eclipses all of the hard work they have done on the core features.
As others have pointed out, the life cycle on the G4s was actually fairly long for a desktop processor. We have a studio full of G4s ranging all the way back to 2000; we are still actively doing real work with them in an efficient manner. The later G4s have tended to be somewhat finicky for us, but the earlier models have chugged along like tanks for years.
At this year's Penny Arcade Expo they demo'd a short (7ish minutes) animated Cardboard Tube Samurai cartoon. It was pretty damn cool and the crowd really got into it. As I recall, they did not do the animation themselves but had another creative team do the animation work.
We need a voter-verifiable paper receipt printed out by these machines that ensures manual recounts and spot-checks can occur without any hint of vote count fraud. The fact that there is any controversy in this area is indicative of just how sloppy we as a country have become in protecting our fundamental processes of government. We've put men on the moon, we have the expertise to put printers in voting machines.
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This can also be seen as a response to Microsoft's recent purchase of ProClarity (makers of front-end software for the Microsoft BI products). Both Microsoft and Oracle are gobbling up companies that fill gaps in their offerings to allow them to sell an entire BI solution instead of just widgets that other companies assemble into complete solutions.
Yep. The MacBook has a significantly different case from the iBooks. It may look similar to the iBooks, but sit them next to each other and you see how much spit and polish has been put into the whole thing.
I'm using NFS on a couple of my Macs talking to FreeNAS without any issues. I switched to NFS after getting cranky at how slow Netatalk and Samba were for my daily backup operations.
I've found NFS works better than Netatalk for my 2 Mac home LAN. File transfer speed is considerably faster and I've had many fewer configuration/compatibility headaches. In the case of FreeNAS, I literally turned the box on, pointed my Macs to nfs://boxname and went on with my life.
Now it's just a matter of time until some enterprising developer creates a browser extension that allows this data to be used by the end user during a surfing session. A consistent, complete, trustworthy, and easily-parsed site map definition could allow for some really interesting new paradigms in navigation around a site. Just off the top of my head I imagine a simple tree view of where you are in relation to the rest of the site could be very handy when navigating some of the gigantic maze-like corporate-sites.
True that!
You hit the nail on the head: GIMP's interface sucks. There are no two ways about it. At work we use Photoshop every hour of every day. Being locked in to one vendor--especially Adobe--makes me nervous so we looked at the GIMP as an alternative. Our designers laughed it out of the shop because the interface was so badly designed.
Instead of bitching about the GIMPshop guy, the GIMP developers need to hire him and have him start reworking the standard interface; anything is better than the cobbled together mess they have now. The interface is so bad it completely eclipses all of the hard work they have done on the core features.
As others have pointed out, the life cycle on the G4s was actually fairly long for a desktop processor. We have a studio full of G4s ranging all the way back to 2000; we are still actively doing real work with them in an efficient manner. The later G4s have tended to be somewhat finicky for us, but the earlier models have chugged along like tanks for years.
Since OS X is BSD UNIX one could say that the battleship engine was already there in the first place. Hmmm...
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At this year's Penny Arcade Expo they demo'd a short (7ish minutes) animated Cardboard Tube Samurai cartoon. It was pretty damn cool and the crowd really got into it. As I recall, they did not do the animation themselves but had another creative team do the animation work.
We need a voter-verifiable paper receipt printed out by these machines that ensures manual recounts and spot-checks can occur without any hint of vote count fraud. The fact that there is any controversy in this area is indicative of just how sloppy we as a country have become in protecting our fundamental processes of government. We've put men on the moon, we have the expertise to put printers in voting machines.
Have you donated to the EFF lately?