With Apple increasingly separating itself from Microsoft, creating their own browser based on Konqueror's KHTML technology, perhaps this move by Adobe will prompt Apple to create imaging software to compete with Adobe based on open source like GIMP?
I wasn't aware apple was using KHTML in their browser (then again, I don't keep up with apple).
Even so, I tend to doubt they'll back The Gimp. My suspicion is that they'd want to shore up what little support they get from adobe instead. Just my two cents.
towards companies like this afloat. In the Unix/Linux world, we're used to quality freeware (gcc,kde,gimp) and we look first for a product that is free, and are reluctent to look into shareware. (generally speaking; I know that all you reading this have ordered from and sponsor shareware developers;))
In the mac and windows worlds, however, there's still a large, thriving market to be had from shareware.
So, in the end, no; this news doesn't surprise me.
I got an @msn email address, and it has yet to be spammed. I've had it for about 2,3 weeks or so.
I'll check back in about 6 months and let you folks know how much that has changed.;)
Incidently, because of having next to no choice in ISP's where I live, I'm considering going with wal-mart starting next month. It'll be interesting to see full my 'inbox' is, how quickly it it's filled and what it's filled with.
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I think that's why other genres like the life-building Sim City games have become so popular. Killing monsters is getting old for sure.
For some reason spending hours exploring dungeons and killing monsters is seen as adolescent; but spending hours making houses and watching simulated people is 'sophisticated'.
I haven't seen XP blue-screen in the two months I've been using it, either.
What I *have seen*, is I've seen it freeze to the point where I had to manually unplug it, and I've seen it automattically reboot (no "saving your settings, no *nothing*) whenever I've inserted or removed my USB camera.
So no, they probably won't know what you're talking about...but they'll certainly know windows crashes.
They went a step further with this experiment last fall with the release of David Weber's War of Honor which had a bunch of novels in html, rtf, doc, palmdoc, and other formats
obviously not meant for technical documents; as I only see rtf, not rtfm format.
"FreeBSD is for people who love unix..." Isn't slackware's motto something along the lines of "the most unix-like linux"? Even though I switch between XP and NetBSD, I would not have gotten into NetBSD if I hadn't gotten into FreeBSD. And I wouldn't have gotten into FreeBSD without having learned on slackware.
I'm not talking about price, but rather priority. IMHO, the private sector would get a financial benefit (in the form of goo dpublicity; during and/or after the war) if they gave the military higher purchasing priority than private citizens.
It seems more likely to me that they'd be given carte blanche out of either patriotism, or the desire to capitalise on same ("Hey look, we gave more than anyone else to the War Effort").
Kinda workable. Who is going to volunteer to do 'support' for these people once they have the computers? That is - show them how to connect to an ISP (in linux no less...pppconfig? LOL!) so that they can so much as access a newsgroup and get told to RTFM?
In otherwords; I think support is a big issue. Otherwise, we can sell them old 80's macs and teach them how to make fishtanks out of them. ^_^
You're assuming that everyone who would be intersted in this is a latest-greatest consumer; during the last 9 years I've been using home computers, only one person I have met falls into that category.
Hell, my brother just traded in a pentium *ONE* he'd been using in for a new dell; I think that is more likely the level of technology that is getting dumped off.
And regarding how *I* am wrong when I talk about *my* usage of computer hardware...? Cute, that.:p I still have hard drives from 1998; to me, useless is literal, not fashionable.
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To the best of my knowledge, lynx does NOT support HTTPZ.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Defining 'available' as 'included with the base distribution' (meaning, excluding rpm, pkg_add, etc).
Solaris; at least up to 8 (at least, it isn't on the cd I downloaded.)
NetBSD, as already mentioned.
Depends on the code, and wether or not you
A)Are using Borland 4.5 or not (maybe openwatcom too?)
B)Have installed win32s (included w/ Borland 4.5)
Now THAT is an offer I can't refuse!
I wasn't aware apple was using KHTML in their browser (then again, I don't keep up with apple).
Even so, I tend to doubt they'll back The Gimp. My suspicion is that they'd want to shore up what little support they get from adobe instead. Just my two cents.
When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth.
I don't think any regular readers of slashdot fit that discription.
I've got no teeth, you insensitive clod!
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towards companies like this afloat. ;))
In the Unix/Linux world, we're used to quality freeware (gcc,kde,gimp) and we look first for a product that is free, and are reluctent to look into shareware. (generally speaking; I know that all you reading this have ordered from and sponsor shareware developers
In the mac and windows worlds, however, there's still a large, thriving market to be had from shareware.
So, in the end, no; this news doesn't surprise me.
I got an @msn email address, and it has yet to be spammed. I've had it for about 2,3 weeks or so.
;)
I'll check back in about 6 months and let you folks know how much that has changed.
Incidently, because of having next to no choice in ISP's where I live, I'm considering going with wal-mart starting next month. It'll be interesting to see full my 'inbox' is, how quickly it it's filled and what it's filled with.
At least we're not IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
Between this article, and this article; I expect to wake up monday and find out this weekend never happened!
Or do they come equipped with heat pads for our boys' laps? ;)
3 vulnerabilities in 7 da-ah shit.
Those opions (?) are hardly unique to slashdot; and therefore don't make for good satire.
As evidenced here, which is from a quicky search I did at google.
They appear to be Jello Biafra's heros, however.
For some reason spending hours exploring dungeons and killing monsters is seen as adolescent; but spending hours making houses and watching simulated people is 'sophisticated'.
That one has always puzzed me.
I haven't seen XP blue-screen in the two months I've been using it, either.
What I *have seen*, is I've seen it freeze to the point where I had to manually unplug it, and I've seen it automattically reboot (no "saving your settings, no *nothing*) whenever I've inserted or removed my USB camera.
So no, they probably won't know what you're talking about...but they'll certainly know windows crashes.
obviously not meant for technical documents; as I only see rtf, not rtfm format.
"FreeBSD is for people who love unix..."
:^)
Isn't slackware's motto something along the lines of "the most unix-like linux"?
Even though I switch between XP and NetBSD, I would not have gotten into NetBSD if I hadn't gotten into FreeBSD. And I wouldn't have gotten into FreeBSD without having learned on slackware.
So thank you, Pat.
I'm not talking about price, but rather priority. IMHO, the private sector would get a financial benefit (in the form of goo dpublicity; during and/or after the war) if they gave the military higher purchasing priority than private citizens.
It seems more likely to me that they'd be given carte blanche out of either patriotism, or the desire to capitalise on same ("Hey look, we gave more than anyone else to the War Effort").
Kinda workable. Who is going to volunteer to do 'support' for these people once they have the computers? That is - show them how to connect to an ISP (in linux no less...pppconfig? LOL!) so that they can so much as access a newsgroup and get told to RTFM?
In otherwords; I think support is a big issue. Otherwise, we can sell them old 80's macs and teach them how to make fishtanks out of them. ^_^
You're assuming that everyone who would be intersted in this is a latest-greatest consumer; during the last 9 years I've been using home computers, only one person I have met falls into that category.
:p I still have hard drives from 1998; to me, useless is literal, not fashionable.
Hell, my brother just traded in a pentium *ONE* he'd been using in for a new dell; I think that is more likely the level of technology that is getting dumped off.
And regarding how *I* am wrong when I talk about *my* usage of computer hardware...? Cute, that.