1) So?
2) In-house tech-people.
3) Most of the software is custom.
4) hmmmm
5) I'll give you this one.
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A large blow to the economy?
A small percantage of a special effect house's budget is the software and hardware. Most of the costs is Artists.
Most of the costs for any business is people.
The only industry hurt by free software is the software industry. Programers are not hurt. Instead of working for Micro$oft, they work for ILM or Ford or some other company that produces a real product. Consumers are not hurt, instead of paying for a shrink-wrapped good, they pay for support.
Open source advocates are not communist. They do not seek to change the nature of business. What they want to eliminate is software companies making money in a way that hurts their customers.
Now ask yourself, is Micro$oft powering our Economy . No. They are a bug company, making lots of money, with tons of capital, but our economy would not be hurt if they fell of the face of the earth tomorrow (leaving thousands of out-of-work programmers who go to work for Ford to support the NT boxes they still have).
So the big players share their security holes with each other? Will this stop DDOS attacks? Perhaps, if CISCO puts a patch on their routers to Prevent fragmented packets from hitting Microsoft NT boxes (do they allready? they should!), the world may be a better place. But, what about tiny security bugs that no one knows about but the industry big players? "Oh that bug? I'll fix it next week sometime." Meanwhile, it's discovered by a clever 14 year old and half the Internet's servers crash.
They only way to improve security is to 'Put [security bugs] on the front page of every major newspaper for any hacker to see'. This way, THEY GET FIXED.
No more committees. No more talk. No more PR BS. PUBLISH IT. FIX IT.
Recompiling your kernel is easy, if you understand how your distro deals with modules. The most frustrating change from 2.2.x to 2.4.0 is the new structure of the module tree. (This has been said perhaps 6 million times already).
That having been said, I have NEVER successfully recompiled a kernel with LinuxPPC (perhaps I am missing something...).
Debian, RedHat 6.2, etc, on a i386 seem to work fine.
In short - READ THE HOWTO. I haven't read it in years, but I am sure it is quite helpful.
Do you mean a third party drive didn't work in your Mac? I have never had this problem. (In fact -- I have had several Maxtor drives die that came from apple. I replaced them with IBM drives, and they worked much better).
Or do you mean 'trashed' in that it was Mac-only after it was used in the apple? Is a drive trashed if fdisk can't delete it? I had an Ex-NT drive that was 'trashed' in this manner. In fact, by this definition, everything but Win95 'trashes' a drive (Win98 uses FAT32 which has problems on Win95 machines).
The 750 is not the G4. It does not have the Altivec enhancements.
Dual processors are an affordable option for the G4.
Photoshop uses multiple processors extensivly.
Apple is not drafting phony benchmarks, just carefully selected ones.
Check out SoundJam's altivec-enhanced MP3 encoder - I have never seen anything faster.
(1) G4 multiprocessor with Altivec are supported by Photoshop and Illustrator.
(2) This added power to these apps have allowed us in the advertising industry to do amazing things. Two years ago, a 11x17 CMYK 300+ DPI image was a pain in the ass - Every move was calculated, mistakes cost hours. Now, my G4-dual 500 (with 640 mb of ram - never forget the memory) allows me to acctually work on an image. This has raised client expectation, and now I routinly get request to change the cellular phone that a model is holding on a 48" X 64" display.
(3) Mac OS9 is terrible. But this is changing. OsX looks cool, runs fast - even on the G3 test machine I am running it on at work - and is the easiest to use bsd system I've ever seen.
Try DSL!
The article says that AOL is going after Earthlink and other large ISPs as well as MSN. This is not a surprise, considering the FTC rulling. They are going to offer each of them just-slightly-too-expensive access, to satisfy the regulators. It will end up being cheaper to use AOL. But, once the precident is set, I am sure AOL will be willing to negotiate access with smaller ISPs -- it just won't be worth their while.
I predict/.ers will be using AOL in two years for three reasons: (1) Speed. (2) Price. (3) Availability. The rest of us will make pacts with AT&T Broadband.
This is the economics of the situation. If you're like me, you'll go for the best deal.
And if you hate AOL because AOL users are "computer illeterate, rude, and not/.ers" Then listen to yourself for a momement, and laugh at yourself for thinking the internet is YOURS.
I know perl. I love perl. I pride myself in writing self-commenting code that makes sense when I pick up a project I have abandonded for two years.
Obfuscated code proves to me that I KNOW NOTHING. The Frogger entry parses. And does nothing. It seems to be filled with ANSI codes. But it still does nothing for me, and I can't figure out why (it would do anythin). The inner-beauty entry fails to parse (for me). The final, Best Of Show Entry, is actually interesting, makes some sort of sense, and does what it is supposed to. It gains it's obfuscated title because of it's approach, not it's writing or syntax.
I thought I had a firm grasp on perl syntax. I thought I could debug any program less than 4k in 30 seconds. Umm...this contest always proves me wrong.
If nothing else, this proves that you can write an open-source perl trojan horse that even I might run to see what it does...
Some of us like to hide. We try to frequent different bars and coffee shops to avoid being noticed. We ignore the friendly smiles of the people who work in the same building. We instruct our browsers to ask permission before accepting a cookie. We monitor every application on our computers that is not open source with a packet sniffer. We monitor the open source software with a packet sniffer. We have 15 different frequently used aliases and 5 free e-mail accounts for each. Our medical insurance number is not our social security number.
We like to hide. Whois is easy for us to avoid. Except we registered that one site -- microsoft.sux.a.lot.com and accidently left our real e-mail address be known, the one that Grandma uses to write that once a month letter to. It has now shown up in the whois database!
What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of government monitoring our mp3 trading? Are we consumed by guilt, fearing that the Corporate intenty that has profiled me so well that they get me to actually click on a banner ad will know who I really am? I think the beautiful girl who used to brew my coffee knew my secret life too.
Spam scares us. Sure it is annoying, but that's not what is frightening about it. It is frightening because they found us. They know us. They know our secret.
Someday, maybe it will become clear to us that we have no secret. We are just like everyone else. We are consumers.
I work as a designer on a Mac all day, and come home to linux. I am, in other words, a mac user with a strong understanding of UNIX. I have only glanced at Mac OS X (I don't have a G4 to spare...), and that was the unfortunate Mac OS X Server (which I replaced with a linux server).
I am excited about OS X, but worried. I am mainly worried about support for the Software I depend on (Adobe Illustrator, QuarkExpress, Adobe Photoshop), for the little plugins for that software I use, and for the drivers for most of my hardware (high-end scanners with Photoshop plug-ins for their fuctionality, etc.). Furthermore, there will be about a two year period where I am working with a mixed environment of MacOS and MacOSX computers (and Linux and Win 2000 servers - we like to use the right tool for the right job). How well will everything work together?
With all this confusion, I cannot afford to switch both my OS and my hardware. Sollutions like multiple processors are better for the type of job I do. Photoshop in MacOS 9 gains a huge performance boost with multiple processors (while the rest of the OS gains some instability).
This talk is good, I guess. If nothing else it will scare Motorolla into increasing the clock speed on the G4...
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Hmmm....that was an educated response.
1) So?
2) In-house tech-people.
3) Most of the software is custom.
4) hmmmm
5) I'll give you this one.
A large blow to the economy?
A small percantage of a special effect house's budget is the software and hardware. Most of the costs is Artists.
Most of the costs for any business is people.
The only industry hurt by free software is the software industry. Programers are not hurt. Instead of working for Micro$oft, they work for ILM or Ford or some other company that produces a real product. Consumers are not hurt, instead of paying for a shrink-wrapped good, they pay for support.
Open source advocates are not communist. They do not seek to change the nature of business. What they want to eliminate is software companies making money in a way that hurts their customers.
Now ask yourself, is Micro$oft powering our Economy . No. They are a bug company, making lots of money, with tons of capital, but our economy would not be hurt if they fell of the face of the earth tomorrow (leaving thousands of out-of-work programmers who go to work for Ford to support the NT boxes they still have).
So the big players share their security holes with each other? Will this stop DDOS attacks? Perhaps, if CISCO puts a patch on their routers to Prevent fragmented packets from hitting Microsoft NT boxes (do they allready? they should!), the world may be a better place. But, what about tiny security bugs that no one knows about but the industry big players? "Oh that bug? I'll fix it next week sometime." Meanwhile, it's discovered by a clever 14 year old and half the Internet's servers crash. They only way to improve security is to 'Put [security bugs] on the front page of every major newspaper for any hacker to see'. This way, THEY GET FIXED. No more committees. No more talk. No more PR BS. PUBLISH IT. FIX IT.
Recompiling your kernel is easy, if you understand how your distro deals with modules. The most frustrating change from 2.2.x to 2.4.0 is the new structure of the module tree. (This has been said perhaps 6 million times already).
That having been said, I have NEVER successfully recompiled a kernel with LinuxPPC (perhaps I am missing something...).
Debian, RedHat 6.2, etc, on a i386 seem to work fine.
In short - READ THE HOWTO. I haven't read it in years, but I am sure it is quite helpful.
Trashed?
Do you mean a third party drive didn't work in your Mac? I have never had this problem. (In fact -- I have had several Maxtor drives die that came from apple. I replaced them with IBM drives, and they worked much better).
Or do you mean 'trashed' in that it was Mac-only after it was used in the apple? Is a drive trashed if fdisk can't delete it? I had an Ex-NT drive that was 'trashed' in this manner. In fact, by this definition, everything but Win95 'trashes' a drive (Win98 uses FAT32 which has problems on Win95 machines).
The 750 is not the G4. It does not have the Altivec enhancements. Dual processors are an affordable option for the G4. Photoshop uses multiple processors extensivly. Apple is not drafting phony benchmarks, just carefully selected ones. Check out SoundJam's altivec-enhanced MP3 encoder - I have never seen anything faster.
(1) G4 multiprocessor with Altivec are supported by Photoshop and Illustrator.
(2) This added power to these apps have allowed us in the advertising industry to do amazing things. Two years ago, a 11x17 CMYK 300+ DPI image was a pain in the ass - Every move was calculated, mistakes cost hours. Now, my G4-dual 500 (with 640 mb of ram - never forget the memory) allows me to acctually work on an image. This has raised client expectation, and now I routinly get request to change the cellular phone that a model is holding on a 48" X 64" display.
(3) Mac OS9 is terrible. But this is changing. OsX looks cool, runs fast - even on the G3 test machine I am running it on at work - and is the easiest to use bsd system I've ever seen.
Try DSL! The article says that AOL is going after Earthlink and other large ISPs as well as MSN. This is not a surprise, considering the FTC rulling. They are going to offer each of them just-slightly-too-expensive access, to satisfy the regulators. It will end up being cheaper to use AOL. But, once the precident is set, I am sure AOL will be willing to negotiate access with smaller ISPs -- it just won't be worth their while. I predict /.ers will be using AOL in two years for three reasons: (1) Speed. (2) Price. (3) Availability. The rest of us will make pacts with AT&T Broadband.
This is the economics of the situation. If you're like me, you'll go for the best deal.
And if you hate AOL because AOL users are "computer illeterate, rude, and not /.ers" Then listen to yourself for a momement, and laugh at yourself for thinking the internet is YOURS.
I know perl. I love perl. I pride myself in writing self-commenting code that makes sense when I pick up a project I have abandonded for two years.
Obfuscated code proves to me that I KNOW NOTHING. The Frogger entry parses. And does nothing. It seems to be filled with ANSI codes. But it still does nothing for me, and I can't figure out why (it would do anythin). The inner-beauty entry fails to parse (for me). The final, Best Of Show Entry, is actually interesting, makes some sort of sense, and does what it is supposed to. It gains it's obfuscated title because of it's approach, not it's writing or syntax.
I thought I had a firm grasp on perl syntax. I thought I could debug any program less than 4k in 30 seconds. Umm...this contest always proves me wrong.
If nothing else, this proves that you can write an open-source perl trojan horse that even I might run to see what it does...
Some of us like to hide. We try to frequent different bars and coffee shops to avoid being noticed. We ignore the friendly smiles of the people who work in the same building. We instruct our browsers to ask permission before accepting a cookie. We monitor every application on our computers that is not open source with a packet sniffer. We monitor the open source software with a packet sniffer. We have 15 different frequently used aliases and 5 free e-mail accounts for each. Our medical insurance number is not our social security number.
We like to hide. Whois is easy for us to avoid. Except we registered that one site -- microsoft.sux.a.lot.com and accidently left our real e-mail address be known, the one that Grandma uses to write that once a month letter to. It has now shown up in the whois database!
What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of government monitoring our mp3 trading? Are we consumed by guilt, fearing that the Corporate intenty that has profiled me so well that they get me to actually click on a banner ad will know who I really am? I think the beautiful girl who used to brew my coffee knew my secret life too.
Spam scares us. Sure it is annoying, but that's not what is frightening about it. It is frightening because they found us. They know us. They know our secret.
Someday, maybe it will become clear to us that we have no secret. We are just like everyone else. We are consumers.
I am excited about OS X, but worried. I am mainly worried about support for the Software I depend on (Adobe Illustrator, QuarkExpress, Adobe Photoshop), for the little plugins for that software I use, and for the drivers for most of my hardware (high-end scanners with Photoshop plug-ins for their fuctionality, etc.). Furthermore, there will be about a two year period where I am working with a mixed environment of MacOS and MacOSX computers (and Linux and Win 2000 servers - we like to use the right tool for the right job). How well will everything work together?
With all this confusion, I cannot afford to switch both my OS and my hardware. Sollutions like multiple processors are better for the type of job I do. Photoshop in MacOS 9 gains a huge performance boost with multiple processors (while the rest of the OS gains some instability).
This talk is good, I guess. If nothing else it will scare Motorolla into increasing the clock speed on the G4...