It saves to XPR by default, but you can export to most of the common formats. If I'm not mistaken, this is similar to the way Photoshop works.
Okay, I sit corrected. I was going by the Cnet article only. Good to know.
That and the recent TechEd announcement about MS moving to XML based formats for Office (submitted, rejected,) weakens your argument severely.
If the XML it emits is not simply a friendly wrapper for obfuscated binary data, then you're aboslutely right. You have to admit though, it would be *quite* out of character for them to have Office save in file formats that didn't allow them to prevent migration to other apps. Not impossible (hell, this week, what is?), but quite unlikely.
They copied the taskbar, the start menu, the tray notification area and so on.
The Mozilla thing is just inane, MySQL I don't know enough about various DBMSs to comment on, and I agree with you completely on The GIMP. But as for the KDE bit, If I didn't know better (and I don't), I'd think you were implying that those age-old GUI elements were something that Microsoft came up with on their own.
The taskbar predates Windows by at least a decade, the Apple Menu predates the Start Menu by at least as much (and I'm not claiming Apple's usage was necessarily original, either), and I'm not certain about the System Tray, but it doesn't seem like all that much of an innovation to me (couldn't it be said that NeXT had essentially the same thing many years before?).
They have a monopoly so they make products that "compete" with people in other markets, except MS bundles theirs into Windows.
Don't forget their other main strategy, the Roach Motel Technique: data checks in, but it doesn't check out. According to TFA, Acrylic imports a wide variety of formats but it seems to export raster graphics only in their proprietary bitmap format, XPR.
Kinda surprising that it would output vector graphics in widely used formats, but not raster. Seems like it'd be the other way around. I wonder if that's because they don't really have a workable vector container format yet, or if there's a more interesting reason.
Popular to contrary opinion, the first car was a Mercedes Benz, although I don't think Mercedes was part of the name that far back. Ford's contribution was the assembly line production system. So yes, Henry Ford & Co. brought reasonably affordable cars to the masses, but that's it.
I think it might be more accurate to say that Ford did for the car what Microsoft did for, well, just about everything they've released: took someone else's idea and pushed a squillion low-end derivatives into the marketplace.
I was neither accusing nor acquiting anyone of "judicial activism," just pointing out that it seems to be a damned effective way of "working the refs" so that any move by the Judicial branch that displeases the party in power will be held up in front of the cameras as further proof that they are "legislating from the bench."
So what's your take on all this? I'm not asking for info you can't discuss, but for the observations of someone on the front lines, who deals with potential and current Mac users of the non-fanatical variety (yes, I must be new here).
I expect that they didn't make the announcement until that optimization had already been done. It had been fairly common knowledge than when NeXT became OS X, they continued building for x86, under a project codenamed 'Marklar.' It would be crazy to assume that they weren't benchmarking that against the PPC builds.
In fact, now that I think about it, if you count the NeXT days, OS X has existed on x86 longer than WinNT has.
It will be years before there is any significant amount of Mac software that won't run on a PPC. I'd say that even considering the relatively long service life of Macs, it wouldn't be much of an issue until you were ready to replace it anyway.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the downward pressure on prices this will cause. Looks like I'll have a Dual G5 much sooner than I thought!
Kinda reminds me of the early televisions, with the huge spinning color wheel.
But when you become entranced by the image floating in space in front of you, and then slowly reach your hand forward to touch it, you'll be glad that you're standing around zoning out on a million dollar 3D flipbook with a half dozen neurosurgeons.
The device sends its key to anyone claiming to forgot theirs? [...] It's like your online bank site giving someone else your password, just because they said they forgot it.
It's all a case of "be careful what you wish for..."
Apparently a senior security researcher, in an effort to get an overzealous junior security researcher out of his hair, set him to the task of solving the problem of social engineering, and just to make sure he was occupied until nearly the end of time, told him he had to do it entirely within the existing protocol.
I would assume that site owners would move to the.XXX domain, and then keep the.COM forever with a redirect to the new one. No need to actually *change* anything.
Slashdot Mirror
We used to have a saying back in the day:
"No sir, that cocktail napkin is not camera-ready artwork."
It saves to XPR by default, but you can export to most of the common formats. If I'm not mistaken, this is similar to the way Photoshop works.
Okay, I sit corrected. I was going by the Cnet article only. Good to know.
That and the recent TechEd announcement about MS moving to XML based formats for Office (submitted, rejected,) weakens your argument severely.
If the XML it emits is not simply a friendly wrapper for obfuscated binary data, then you're aboslutely right. You have to admit though, it would be *quite* out of character for them to have Office save in file formats that didn't allow them to prevent migration to other apps. Not impossible (hell, this week, what is?), but quite unlikely.
Corel Photopaint (superior in usability)
Toke toke pass, dude. You're fuckin' up the rotation.
They copied the taskbar, the start menu, the tray notification area and so on.
The Mozilla thing is just inane, MySQL I don't know enough about various DBMSs to comment on, and I agree with you completely on The GIMP. But as for the KDE bit, If I didn't know better (and I don't), I'd think you were implying that those age-old GUI elements were something that Microsoft came up with on their own.
The taskbar predates Windows by at least a decade, the Apple Menu predates the Start Menu by at least as much (and I'm not claiming Apple's usage was necessarily original, either), and I'm not certain about the System Tray, but it doesn't seem like all that much of an innovation to me (couldn't it be said that NeXT had essentially the same thing many years before?).
They have a monopoly so they make products that "compete" with people in other markets, except MS bundles theirs into Windows.
Don't forget their other main strategy, the Roach Motel Technique: data checks in, but it doesn't check out. According to TFA, Acrylic imports a wide variety of formats but it seems to export raster graphics only in their proprietary bitmap format, XPR.
Kinda surprising that it would output vector graphics in widely used formats, but not raster. Seems like it'd be the other way around. I wonder if that's because they don't really have a workable vector container format yet, or if there's a more interesting reason.
Popular to contrary opinion, the first car was a Mercedes Benz, although I don't think Mercedes was part of the name that far back. Ford's contribution was the assembly line production system. So yes, Henry Ford & Co. brought reasonably affordable cars to the masses, but that's it.
I think it might be more accurate to say that Ford did for the car what Microsoft did for, well, just about everything they've released: took someone else's idea and pushed a squillion low-end derivatives into the marketplace.
tag.
some Jungian archetype of computerness.
Would that be an interface where every character is printed (in green, of course) one at a time, with a little beepety-clickety sound?
WWAD?
Doesn't have much of a ring to it.
WWSJD?
The Patriot Act isn't any worse than the status quo in most European nations.
I was always taught that "isn't any worse than" was most definitely NOT the standard to which my country aspired.
I was neither accusing nor acquiting anyone of "judicial activism," just pointing out that it seems to be a damned effective way of "working the refs" so that any move by the Judicial branch that displeases the party in power will be held up in front of the cameras as further proof that they are "legislating from the bench."
I live in the D.C. area. Any way I can help?
Yeah. Get out and vo-- oops, sorry.
Where the FUCK is the judicial branch?
Ducking and covering. They're busy being beaten about the head and face with the term "judicial activism."
What "economic pain"?
10 lower taxes
20 increase spending
30 goto 10
So what's your take on all this? I'm not asking for info you can't discuss, but for the observations of someone on the front lines, who deals with potential and current Mac users of the non-fanatical variety (yes, I must be new here).
I expect that they didn't make the announcement until that optimization had already been done. It had been fairly common knowledge than when NeXT became OS X, they continued building for x86, under a project codenamed 'Marklar.' It would be crazy to assume that they weren't benchmarking that against the PPC builds.
In fact, now that I think about it, if you count the NeXT days, OS X has existed on x86 longer than WinNT has.
Act now and get a free 3.8ghz Mac included at no extra charge! Call now, operators are standing by.
It will be years before there is any significant amount of Mac software that won't run on a PPC. I'd say that even considering the relatively long service life of Macs, it wouldn't be much of an issue until you were ready to replace it anyway.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the downward pressure on prices this will cause. Looks like I'll have a Dual G5 much sooner than I thought!
Kinda reminds me of the early televisions, with the huge spinning color wheel.
But when you become entranced by the image floating in space in front of you, and then slowly reach your hand forward to touch it, you'll be glad that you're standing around zoning out on a million dollar 3D flipbook with a half dozen neurosurgeons.
The device sends its key to anyone claiming to forgot theirs? [...] It's like your online bank site giving someone else your password, just because they said they forgot it.
It's all a case of "be careful what you wish for..."
Apparently a senior security researcher, in an effort to get an overzealous junior security researcher out of his hair, set him to the task of solving the problem of social engineering, and just to make sure he was occupied until nearly the end of time, told him he had to do it entirely within the existing protocol.
I've run Windows for the last 10 years, much of it on broadband for the last 4 or 5. Nope, never been "owned".
That you know of.
Can these sites be blocked by either the Chinese or American governments? Yes, of course.
Should they be?
Yeah, but it won't be able to manipulate the Y Khromosome.
I would assume that site owners would move to the .XXX domain, and then keep the .COM forever with a redirect to the new one. No need to actually *change* anything.
Why an entirely separate TLD for big, brown jugs of whisky?