I believe that all current owners of a VCR or TiVo would be covered under the grandfather clause. Because there are a vast number of such people, I'd imagine that such a law would be a relatively moot point.
Ok, I'll agree with you there, even though I'd like to pertend that Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League didn't exist (I believe that their legacy admission policies and artificially high prestige are a bane to american society, although that's an argument for another day).
I guess what I'm driving at is that MIT seems to have borrowed Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field (RDF)
So you're saying that by adding value to their operating system, Microsoft is being anti-competitive?
That sounds a lot more like good old fashioned capitalistic competition to me. If you start losing customers to another vendor (Apple) because their product is better, you improve upon your own product to retain your customer base.
That said, you can fault apple for doing the same thing by bundling a Mail app, a calendar app, a movie editing app, a photo app, a music app, a development environment, etc..... into their OS. And using the same logic, you can also fault most modern linux distributions for bundling every friggin package under the sun into the OS (half a dozen volume control applications -- because we can!)
The funny thing is that after recovering from the success of that terrible godawful mmmBop song, hanson released some surprisingly good acoustic rock albums that nobody took seriously because of their early career.
Seriously. Go check them out on iTunes. They may not be my favorite band, but they definitely take more crap than they deserve.
Nonetheless, I think that doing something a lot more personal would have an even greater effect. I helped coordinate a project where we made a home movie of sorts for a terminally ill child in my town that featured almost every child in his class (and the school for that matter), and members of his family who were unable to go visit him. It was easily one of the most worthwile endeavours of my life. The project produced about 12 hours of footage that myself and 3 others spent a week and half editing down to a 2.5 hour film (working 12+ hours a day over spring break using a hodgepodge of borrowed equipment). We finished it just in time...............
Mmm. I've been getting a little irritated lately seeing how Slashdot and the general tech media are becoming heavily MIT-centric.
Cool stuff is going on at other institutions too! MIT Builds (in my opinion) one of the ugliest buildings ever conceived, and gets a full 2-page color spread in Wired. Is it just that all of our tech writers went to MIT, or that there's a little payola going on?
At least it's better than the conventional media which tries to hide the fact that most reporters' only real qualifications is their ivy league education. I'm sick of this 'intellectual elite' that thinks it (rightfully) controls america.
'People have an impression of newspaper reporters being small men who sit in the dark properly punctuating their articles but it's not like that now..."
Reminds me of the tv-edit of the Big Lebowski which replaced "This is what happens when you f**k someone in the ass!" with "This is what happens when you find someone in the alps"
speaking of which, the censorship of the TV version made the movie even more incoherent than it already is, as according to IMDB, f**k is said a total of 281 times in the movie.
1) Have these people ALWAYS been mac users? If not, then I think that in itself speaks highly of the platform 2) Quark XPress and other layout programs commonly used in the publishing industry have traditionally been mac applications. 3) less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer are less likely going to be biased twoard microsoft. If they find it troublesome to learn windows due to crashes & viruses, then they're pretty representative of the general population. Nobody's bashing on Dvorak because he can't write code in SPARC assembler -- giving him a firm anti-Sun bias of course. 4) A writer for the windows-centric PC Magazine is quite possibly the least qualified person to make these accusations. So little journalism goes on over there anymore, that I was surprised to even hear of such an outspoken editorial.
All in all, I'm now placing Dvorak down there with Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Tim O'Reilly, and Jack Thompson.
what you're describing isn't exactly that simple, and calendaring is perhaps exchange's most touted feature among those who use it.
and it's popular enough that it's available in some form on every platform (Evolution for *nix, Outlook for Win32, Entourage for OSX)
I'm not a very big microsoft advocate, but it seems like you're passing up a perfectly good product based upon your bias against microsoft.
If Sunbird was stable, or came close to matching the ease-of-use or maturity of outlook, I'd reccommend it even if outlook had the edge because of price and the fact that it's not microsoft. But the fact is that nothing comes close.
First off, comparing it to picasa is heresy. The target audiences are COMPLETELY different, and Picasa lacks many of the features geared twoard pro photographers. The tools for comparing several shots at once is definitely a boon to pro photographers as is the speed at which the program operates.
This program is not meant to replace photoshop by any means. Apple openly acknowledges that PS is the king of image post-processing. aperture is inttended to work alongside photoshop as a means of processing RAW images. The type of manipulations that are performed while in RAW are completely different than those that you'd normally use in a program like photoshop or picasa. Cloning/healing/patch are distinctly post-processing operations that modify the content of the image itself. What aperture does is modify the manner in which the image is diasplayed (ie. it changes how it interprets sensor data to boost saturation, exposure, reduce noise, etc.).
It can be compared most easily to Adobe Bridge or Camera RAW. Camera RAW works fairly nicely with photoshop for processing small batches of images, but is cumbersome for processing large jobs. Bridge is a complement to camera RAW in that it provides an interface for organizing photos ala. iPhoto. What aperture aims to do is to intergrate the two into one seamless program. Many pro photographers use iPhoto and the likes to organize photos, simply because it's very easy to use despite lacking some major features.
By non-destructive, I'm pretty sure apple means that they save a set of 'instructions' as to how you've modified the photo, instead of modifying the photo itself.
I'm not saying the proram is any good. I've never used it, and I don't think anyone else here has. All I'm saying is that it looks fairly unique thus far. There's really nothing quite like it on the market (save for some of the super-high-end tools from extensis and the like)
I predict that apple's next move will be to expand aperture or add another program to compete directly with photoshop. You can tell apple's nervious of adobe's loyalty to their platform. As much as I love Photoshop, I'd love to see some real competition.
Eghm. It sounds like this thing's really going to drag on the powerbooks, not to mention the profound lack of support for the 12" model which is VERY popular among pro photographers.
I love you apple, but I you can do better than this.
Face it. The US is big, and not densly populated in most areas. Broadband providers are having a tough enough time as it is making a profit. Competition has forced providers to cut prices and make technological advances that allow them to provide a better service for less money. Right now I pay $30/month for 5mbps fibre from verizon, and could get 15mbps service for $10 more each month. If their DSL service did not face competition from cable providers, I am sure this would never have happened.
I don't think we have to worry about that, seeing as how 'keeping it light' is definitely a current design trend.
It seems that the programming community has finally agreed that a small decline in performance is a worthwhile tradeoff for clean, elegant code which is easily reflected in the interface of the site.
And, of course, Ajax and javascript only help to build clean interfaces. Apple's been doing minimalistic interfaces for a long time. The web community cought on shortly after, and even microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon. Less is better.
wow. if those are real, I definitely would not like to be in one of those.
Let's overview here:
It looks like one of those aluminum motor homes from the 50s
It looks like it can barely support its own weight. Granted, gravity is very weak in orbit, blah blah blah, but doesn't this thing get strapped to the top of a rocket?
It's got burn marks all over it
And no apparent heat shielding
The parachute detaches before it hits the ground!?
It's got all sorts of crap hanging off of it. A loose piece of tile created enough drag to incinerate the space shuttle. This thing looks like it's got a freaking' sewer pipe coming out of it
All in all, I'd say that this thing looks a lot less safe than the early nasa capsules.
The difference here is that iTunes is a very good product, while the early versions of IE sucked.
Sure, apple's doing the exact same thing as Microsoft, but you don't see people making a fuss because people are apparently quite fond of iTunes. Additionally, I think that seamless intrgration of desktop applications into the Operating System is becoming a given.
Go ask a mac developor what he'd do without quicktime, or ask a windows developer what he'd do without mshtml.dll.
Also, you don't see apple entering into any "exclusive online distribution agreements" with major labels (that I know of). As far as I see it, the only anti-competitive behavior apple's shown is their proprietary encrypted-AAC fileformat.
I don't use exchange, so I don't know for sure, but I'm sure I've seen people using Outlook Web Access with Firefox. Can somebody more knowledgable comment on this?
In related news, shares of WebCT were down $5 after news of the merger, although this is expected to rise by 20% at the end of the semester after the curve is applied.
I'm a college freshman. I eventually want to be an engineer.
I also want to learn other things too. Enginnering schools are simply not conducive to doing that. Every course you take is likely to be tied to your major in some way or another. That doesn't sound very fun to me.
Right now, I'm taking Psychology and Economics in addition to the requisite Physics & Calc I'll need to go to grad school for enginnering. Although I don't see myself becoming an economist or psychologist, I'm thoroughly enjoying the courses, and can definitely tie what I'm learning back into real life and just about any career I choose to go into.
Next semester, I'll probably be taking some english, and possibly some history. I really don't think I could bear loading my schedule full of science courses (which tend to have a disproportinately large workload). Friends I have at engineering schools seem to be bored out of their minds and stressed beyond reasonable limits.
Simply put, if you become an engineering student, and find out that you hate it, you're pretty much screwed. If I end up not going into engineering, I'll still have a great liberal arts education to fall back on, and at the very least, I'll be able to write well.
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I believe that all current owners of a VCR or TiVo would be covered under the grandfather clause. Because there are a vast number of such people, I'd imagine that such a law would be a relatively moot point.
Ok, I'll agree with you there, even though I'd like to pertend that Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League didn't exist (I believe that their legacy admission policies and artificially high prestige are a bane to american society, although that's an argument for another day).
I guess what I'm driving at is that MIT seems to have borrowed Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field (RDF)
So you're saying that by adding value to their operating system, Microsoft is being anti-competitive?
That sounds a lot more like good old fashioned capitalistic competition to me. If you start losing customers to another vendor (Apple) because their product is better, you improve upon your own product to retain your customer base.
That said, you can fault apple for doing the same thing by bundling a Mail app, a calendar app, a movie editing app, a photo app, a music app, a development environment, etc..... into their OS. And using the same logic, you can also fault most modern linux distributions for bundling every friggin package under the sun into the OS (half a dozen volume control applications -- because we can!)
The funny thing is that after recovering from the success of that terrible godawful mmmBop song, hanson released some surprisingly good acoustic rock albums that nobody took seriously because of their early career.
Seriously. Go check them out on iTunes. They may not be my favorite band, but they definitely take more crap than they deserve.
Nonetheless, I think that doing something a lot more personal would have an even greater effect. I helped coordinate a project where we made a home movie of sorts for a terminally ill child in my town that featured almost every child in his class (and the school for that matter), and members of his family who were unable to go visit him. It was easily one of the most worthwile endeavours of my life. The project produced about 12 hours of footage that myself and 3 others spent a week and half editing down to a 2.5 hour film (working 12+ hours a day over spring break using a hodgepodge of borrowed equipment). We finished it just in time...............
Mmm. I've been getting a little irritated lately seeing how Slashdot and the general tech media are becoming heavily MIT-centric.
Cool stuff is going on at other institutions too! MIT Builds (in my opinion) one of the ugliest buildings ever conceived, and gets a full 2-page color spread in Wired. Is it just that all of our tech writers went to MIT, or that there's a little payola going on?
At least it's better than the conventional media which tries to hide the fact that most reporters' only real qualifications is their ivy league education. I'm sick of this 'intellectual elite' that thinks it (rightfully) controls america.
Can you install the sidebar without having to install the desktop search component?
I had the original google desktop, and it slowed my system significantly...
does this mean that we can finally say that Windows is dying?
'People have an impression of newspaper reporters being small men who sit in the dark properly punctuating their articles but it's not like that now ..."
Funny, they said almost the exact same thing about communism.
Hurricane Beta will do alright at first, but will shortly fizzle out afterwards to be replaced by Hurricane VHS
Reminds me of the tv-edit of the Big Lebowski which replaced "This is what happens when you f**k someone in the ass!" with "This is what happens when you find someone in the alps"
speaking of which, the censorship of the TV version made the movie even more incoherent than it already is, as according to IMDB, f**k is said a total of 281 times in the movie.
I would dare say that that's a wee bit racist. Most of us are genuinely good people.
(Mods: I'm 99% sure he's being facetious. Try not to confuse 'funny/ironic' with 'insightful')
I'll start out with some wild speculation.
1) Have these people ALWAYS been mac users? If not, then I think that in itself speaks highly of the platform
2) Quark XPress and other layout programs commonly used in the publishing industry have traditionally been mac applications.
3) less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer are less likely going to be biased twoard microsoft. If they find it troublesome to learn windows due to crashes & viruses, then they're pretty representative of the general population. Nobody's bashing on Dvorak because he can't write code in SPARC assembler -- giving him a firm anti-Sun bias of course.
4) A writer for the windows-centric PC Magazine is quite possibly the least qualified person to make these accusations. So little journalism goes on over there anymore, that I was surprised to even hear of such an outspoken editorial.
All in all, I'm now placing Dvorak down there with Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Tim O'Reilly, and Jack Thompson.
why not just use exchange?
what you're describing isn't exactly that simple, and calendaring is perhaps exchange's most touted feature among those who use it.
and it's popular enough that it's available in some form on every platform (Evolution for *nix, Outlook for Win32, Entourage for OSX)
I'm not a very big microsoft advocate, but it seems like you're passing up a perfectly good product based upon your bias against microsoft.
If Sunbird was stable, or came close to matching the ease-of-use or maturity of outlook, I'd reccommend it even if outlook had the edge because of price and the fact that it's not microsoft. But the fact is that nothing comes close.
No, no, no. You've got it all wrong.
First off, comparing it to picasa is heresy. The target audiences are COMPLETELY different, and Picasa lacks many of the features geared twoard pro photographers. The tools for comparing several shots at once is definitely a boon to pro photographers as is the speed at which the program operates.
This program is not meant to replace photoshop by any means. Apple openly acknowledges that PS is the king of image post-processing. aperture is inttended to work alongside photoshop as a means of processing RAW images. The type of manipulations that are performed while in RAW are completely different than those that you'd normally use in a program like photoshop or picasa. Cloning/healing/patch are distinctly post-processing operations that modify the content of the image itself. What aperture does is modify the manner in which the image is diasplayed (ie. it changes how it interprets sensor data to boost saturation, exposure, reduce noise, etc.).
It can be compared most easily to Adobe Bridge or Camera RAW. Camera RAW works fairly nicely with photoshop for processing small batches of images, but is cumbersome for processing large jobs. Bridge is a complement to camera RAW in that it provides an interface for organizing photos ala. iPhoto. What aperture aims to do is to intergrate the two into one seamless program. Many pro photographers use iPhoto and the likes to organize photos, simply because it's very easy to use despite lacking some major features.
By non-destructive, I'm pretty sure apple means that they save a set of 'instructions' as to how you've modified the photo, instead of modifying the photo itself.
I'm not saying the proram is any good. I've never used it, and I don't think anyone else here has. All I'm saying is that it looks fairly unique thus far. There's really nothing quite like it on the market (save for some of the super-high-end tools from extensis and the like)
I predict that apple's next move will be to expand aperture or add another program to compete directly with photoshop. You can tell apple's nervious of adobe's loyalty to their platform. As much as I love Photoshop, I'd love to see some real competition.
what, is this some SAT joke? Why don't we just say linux:desktop :: windows:servers
Not anymore.
Analogies have been removed from the SAT
Eghm. It sounds like this thing's really going to drag on the powerbooks, not to mention the profound lack of support for the 12" model which is VERY popular among pro photographers.
I love you apple, but I you can do better than this.
Is your sig supposed to be ironic?
Face it. The US is big, and not densly populated in most areas. Broadband providers are having a tough enough time as it is making a profit. Competition has forced providers to cut prices and make technological advances that allow them to provide a better service for less money. Right now I pay $30/month for 5mbps fibre from verizon, and could get 15mbps service for $10 more each month. If their DSL service did not face competition from cable providers, I am sure this would never have happened.
I don't think we have to worry about that, seeing as how 'keeping it light' is definitely a current design trend.
It seems that the programming community has finally agreed that a small decline in performance is a worthwhile tradeoff for clean, elegant code which is easily reflected in the interface of the site.
And, of course, Ajax and javascript only help to build clean interfaces. Apple's been doing minimalistic interfaces for a long time. The web community cought on shortly after, and even microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon. Less is better.
Let's overview here:
It looks like one of those aluminum motor homes from the 50s
It looks like it can barely support its own weight. Granted, gravity is very weak in orbit, blah blah blah, but doesn't this thing get strapped to the top of a rocket?
It's got burn marks all over it
And no apparent heat shielding
The parachute detaches before it hits the ground!?
It's got all sorts of crap hanging off of it. A loose piece of tile created enough drag to incinerate the space shuttle. This thing looks like it's got a freaking' sewer pipe coming out of it
All in all, I'd say that this thing looks a lot less safe than the early nasa capsules.
The difference here is that iTunes is a very good product, while the early versions of IE sucked.
Sure, apple's doing the exact same thing as Microsoft, but you don't see people making a fuss because people are apparently quite fond of iTunes. Additionally, I think that seamless intrgration of desktop applications into the Operating System is becoming a given.
Go ask a mac developor what he'd do without quicktime, or ask a windows developer what he'd do without mshtml.dll.
Also, you don't see apple entering into any "exclusive online distribution agreements" with major labels (that I know of). As far as I see it, the only anti-competitive behavior apple's shown is their proprietary encrypted-AAC fileformat.
"Mobility Email is the hottest email product in the world."
"The best thing about Mobility Email is that it's totally mobile. "
"Simply plug your USB key into any Windows computer in the world and boom."
These guys have a remarkable talent for overstatement, redundancy, and frightening users.
I don't use exchange, so I don't know for sure, but I'm sure I've seen people using Outlook Web Access with Firefox. Can somebody more knowledgable comment on this?
In related news, shares of WebCT were down $5 after news of the merger, although this is expected to rise by 20% at the end of the semester after the curve is applied.
Well, I can give you my perspective.
I'm a college freshman. I eventually want to be an engineer.
I also want to learn other things too. Enginnering schools are simply not conducive to doing that. Every course you take is likely to be tied to your major in some way or another. That doesn't sound very fun to me.
Right now, I'm taking Psychology and Economics in addition to the requisite Physics & Calc I'll need to go to grad school for enginnering. Although I don't see myself becoming an economist or psychologist, I'm thoroughly enjoying the courses, and can definitely tie what I'm learning back into real life and just about any career I choose to go into.
Next semester, I'll probably be taking some english, and possibly some history. I really don't think I could bear loading my schedule full of science courses (which tend to have a disproportinately large workload). Friends I have at engineering schools seem to be bored out of their minds and stressed beyond reasonable limits.
Simply put, if you become an engineering student, and find out that you hate it, you're pretty much screwed. If I end up not going into engineering, I'll still have a great liberal arts education to fall back on, and at the very least, I'll be able to write well.