Are you kidding? Generally it's the end-user. A doctor here had $30,000 transferred from his online banking accounts. Everyone screamed bloody murder at the banks for their "shockingly incompetent" security - until the bank pointed out that the doctor had Back Orifice installed on his PC...
Or also, why is it okay for us to ignore other people's copyrights with music etc, but not okay for them to ignore ours? I smell the waft of a hypocrisy!
The issue is probably also as much to do with pre-press and print house support. Anywhere you go in the world, you can go into a print house and give them AI/APS, EPS, and know they'll be able to print from it.
Adobe at least does do this, as do Macromedia, etc et al. And some of the software that Adobe doesn't make available online *can* be gotten by speaking to the nearby Adobe distributor...
I still have to scratch my chin at comparisons between gimp and photoshop - the latter is overpriced, but when gimp can do cmyk separations and the like, prepress stuff, then I might listen more.
That, to me, is a joke that has the rest of the world laughing. We don't pay to get anything. Someone calls you, why should you pay. Someone sends you a text message or a cellular fax, why should you pay?
And don't say it's to get lower calling rates, because most cellular rates here in Australia at least would make your jaw drop with their (low) cost.
I'm here in Australia, and I've used both CDMA and GSM. CDMA sucks ass. It degrades more gracefully than GSM, fading away rather than chopping in and out. America is still *way* behind the curve. I call someone regularly in the US whose cell drops out with Sprint whenever she leaves the interstate - in Michigan. You want to talk about population density? Australia's population density is 9% that of the US but the major players have still covered 92% of the population, and with a service so good and cheap that 63% of the population has a cellular service.
I'd probably argue a lot of Gen 3 stuff is heavily influenced by the Asian markets, a lot more on the uptake than the American cellular market, and where they already have cellulars with data capacity of 2mbps.
I did some freelancing work for one, and one day a female recruiter rang me:
"You mention here you did freelance work. Do you have any URLs I can give clients?" "Well, I do, but they're actually adult sites..." "Oh, wow! I always wondered who did those, you see so many of them, but no-one ever admits to it! How cool!"
On this note, my father's CD player (fairly old) states it has 18 bit resolution, would this mean better quality on those CDs you mention? (genuine question!)
Also one in San Francisco... very nice, nightclub-like. The Sheraton Rittenhouse in Philadelphia also has a T1, and 10baseT ports in each room, configurable by DHCP. Very nice:-)
Go for your life on the latter, but then don't bitch if it still doesn't look "right". Sure, I've heard people bitch about how they can't look at a site without doing this, and then it still doesn't work. One of the first precepts of computing, "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
Telstra Big Pond Direct is guilty of this on their "managed routers" - which basically means if you get a router from them (as I did, when I set up my 128K ISDN service, a Cisco 760 series), it has SNMP enabled, with the default community name, so anyone worldwide can snmpwalk your router and find its full config. I tried suggesting to them that they at least make the community name the customers personal ID, but they didn't like it... "Administrative nightmare"... as opposed to security nightmare?
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Are you kidding? Generally it's the end-user. A doctor here had $30,000 transferred from his online banking accounts. Everyone screamed bloody murder at the banks for their "shockingly incompetent" security - until the bank pointed out that the doctor had Back Orifice installed on his PC...
What, apart from the big freakin' Verisign logo on the form you actually have to fill out, you mean?
Or also, why is it okay for us to ignore other people's copyrights with music etc, but not okay for them to ignore ours? I smell the waft of a hypocrisy!
Is patch-2.4.15.tar.bz2 an unknown patch too?
The issue is probably also as much to do with pre-press and print house support. Anywhere you go in the world, you can go into a print house and give them AI/APS, EPS, and know they'll be able to print from it.
Yup, okay, I wasnt focussed enough ;)
Adobe at least does do this, as do Macromedia, etc et al. And some of the software that Adobe doesn't make available online *can* be gotten by speaking to the nearby Adobe distributor...
I've seen that too, even when not outright stated... "shareware versions of windows 95, office 95" etc....
Err, Oracle?
I still have to scratch my chin at comparisons between gimp and photoshop - the latter is overpriced, but when gimp can do cmyk separations and the like, prepress stuff, then I might listen more.
Right? Right?!?
I keep all my bookmarks in a bookmark web app...
Broccoli? Ewww. I know that's what I always make the beeline for at the party. Not. :)
I'm glad everyone doesn't pay for bandwidth like you...
Anyway, I like your site ;)
And don't say it's to get lower calling rates, because most cellular rates here in Australia at least would make your jaw drop with their (low) cost.
I'd probably argue a lot of Gen 3 stuff is heavily influenced by the Asian markets, a lot more on the uptake than the American cellular market, and where they already have cellulars with data capacity of 2mbps.
"You mention here you did freelance work. Do you have any URLs I can give clients?"
"Well, I do, but they're actually adult sites..."
"Oh, wow! I always wondered who did those, you see so many of them, but no-one ever admits to it! How cool!"
*chuckle*
On this note, my father's CD player (fairly old) states it has 18 bit resolution, would this mean better quality on those CDs you mention? (genuine question!)
They're not, though. Mr. Taco sold slashdot, for a seven digit sum.
Also one in San Francisco... very nice, nightclub-like. The Sheraton Rittenhouse in Philadelphia also has a T1, and 10baseT ports in each room, configurable by DHCP. Very nice :-)
Yeah, much as I dislike Microsoft, I gotta admit to being pretty unimpressed with NS6/Moz... if only IE5.5 didn't crash occasionally on kuro5hin :)
Go for your life on the latter, but then don't bitch if it still doesn't look "right". Sure, I've heard people bitch about how they can't look at a site without doing this, and then it still doesn't work. One of the first precepts of computing, "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
An hour to download the major component of 99.9% of people's internet experience is not a huge ask, in my opinion.
Telstra Big Pond Direct is guilty of this on their "managed routers" - which basically means if you get a router from them (as I did, when I set up my 128K ISDN service, a Cisco 760 series), it has SNMP enabled, with the default community name, so anyone worldwide can snmpwalk your router and find its full config. I tried suggesting to them that they at least make the community name the customers personal ID, but they didn't like it... "Administrative nightmare"... as opposed to security nightmare?