It did. A terrible port, based off the Photoshop 3.0 codebase. I doubt it's even sold anymore. I last saw it in use in 1999, and even back then it was woefully out of date.
Can anyone whose done real work with Photoshop-on-WINE comment on how they deal with display calibration and colorspace issues? How do you make sure what you see on your linux box is what you get from your film printer?
Hate to break this to you, but "Hollywood" is one of the biggest businesses in the world.
This is so far from true that it's the best possible illustration of a vital point: media industries have influence vastly out of proportion to their economic impact.
The entire MPAA takes in, charitably, about $40b in revenues each year, including domestic and foreign video and film releases, and the RIAA is even smaller. Compare to the tech industry: Microsoft did over $35 billion in revenue last year. IBM did about the same. Cisco, $19b. 3 companies together take in more than double the entire movie industry - more than the movie and music industries put together, in fact.
(To say nothing of Dell, Sun, Apple, Oracle, HP/Compaq, etc. etc. etc. etc.)
And yet it's the media that set the rules. Why? Tight political connections, of course (Jack Valenti was the first presidential advisor sworn in by LBJ after JFK's assassination), bred of one simple fact: politicians depend on the media to get elected. Quid pro quo. That's a rant for another time, however.
Now in order to fully replicate that NEStalgia, this special edition needs an extra-flaky cartridge connector that randomly stops working until you blow into it for 3 minutes.:/
I cannot say much but I know that in People Republic Of China, we keep military and police very seperete. Although, being an 'academic', I do not need worry to such things so often...
How exactly do you know that, Dr. Fooling You?
Seriously? There are a lot of factors to consider.
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For anything operating on the shuttle, you're gonna have to consider heat dissipation (convection cooling won't work!), outgassing properties (closed environment), vibration and mounting (not so much how the drives are affected, but how the drives affect everything around them), and gyroscopic forces, (There may be real issues with mounting a rack of 10k drives with all spindles on the same axis), size, weight, and power consumption, just for a start. You really need to provide a more complete spec to get recommendation,
What's your experiment budget? If you have the option of going solid-state (i.e. flash), that may simplify things - you mentioned write performance was not critical. You clearly want to use the largest, slowest (rotationally) disks possible to minimize space and power consumption. Perhaps a hardware ATA or SATA raid controller in a chassis with e.g. 8 180-250gig drives in a 0+1 configuration?
-Isaac
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That Fossil Palm watch isn't a full PDA, it still needs to sync up with a regular Palm (or PC)
You're thinking of fossil's other so-called PDA watch. This one runs Palm OS and has a 160x160 screen. It is a "real PDA." You can sync it to a PC, but you can also enter data directly into it with grafitti or an on-screen keyboard.
I suggest looking into the only true watch-PDA, the onHand PC Watch. It has an estimated three months battery life, as opposed to the Fossil's 4 days (at 30 minutes a day).
The Fossil uses a rechargeable battery - IOW, put the watch on a charger while you sleep. The onHand uses lithium coin cells that you have to pay to replace every few months. It also has a downright painful interface, compared to the button/rocker switch/touchscreen input of this fossil watch.
Why didn't they use an lcd like the Clie', only at the smaller size? That way it could actually run all native 160x160 resolution apps on the small screen. As it is, I don't think many palm apps will even run on this thing:(
This watch does have a 160x160 screen. The reason you only see 4 big icons on the home screen is that the built-in apps have been customized to use larger icons and fonts. Other apps will run without modification in 160x160 mode.
For what it's worth, old laptops can make great servers for low-intensity use. One trick I've used before is to remove the hard disk and replace it with a compactflash card attached to a CF2.5" IDE adaptor in order to A. replace the only moving part with something less failure prone and B. make the laptop silent instead of merely quiet.
The only caveat is that you need to have enough ram for your application to never need swap (64 meg is more than enough for basic non-X, non-java server and/or firewall use). Never ever run a swap file or partition on flash media - you will quickly exhaust the limited write cycles of the flash media.
-Isaac
Re:Breaking news: Scientist reinvent the wheel aga
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Well duh. Didn't they ever catch flies when they were young? The way to do it is to take two fingers and follow the fly with them, maintaining the distance between your hand and the fly. after a while the fly will think your fingers are part of the background and will easily let you catch it.
Yet another example of the universal truth: Everything I need to know, I learned from "The Karate Kid."
By contrast, the top 10 radio station owners account for 44 percent of industry revenues. Even Clear Channel, the largest owner of radio stations in the country, owns only 11 percent of the stations. So, the notion of a few large corporations controlling the majority of the radio industry is not only incorrect, but is actually less of a factor in radio than in most other media and entertainment industries."
Notice the sleight of hand here? Clear Channel owns 11% of the total radio stations - tiny, right? But the previous numbers quoted referred to industry revenues, not number of stations owned. Bear in mind that there are a huge number of noncommercial stations -- usually religious or npr-affiliated -- that don't play into the revenue equation. To what does "top 10 radio station owners" refer? Revenue or number of stations owned? The answer is probably the latter - most stations in the largest markets (which also bring in the most revenue per station) are not owned by Clear Channel but by smaller companies that may only own a handful of stations but bring in huge revenues relative to their size in terms of the number of stations.
The problem with Clear Channel is not that they are a revenue giant, it's that outside the top 15 large urban markets, Clear Channel is usually the *only* game in town. In my hometown, they own all the commercial radio stations, the lion's share of the local outdoor advertising market, the local concert venue, and the local NBC affiliate to boot. The thought that they might end up owning another local TV station and the local newspaper as a result of this ruling is terrifying mainly because one can expect that only messages acceptable to Clear Channel management will be permitted through these media. Even beyond the tremendous business leverage this consolidation brings, consider the implications for political candidates and news coverage.
The current level of consolidation is already too great, in my opinion. This just takes an awful situation and makes it worse.
-Isaac
Slashdot isn't a monolith.
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Slashdot contradicts itself? Very well then, it contradicts itself. Slashdot is large, it contains multitudes. (Apologies to Walt Whitman)
I'm not sure it's fair to assert anecdotally, absent evidence, that the same persons most vocal about e.g. GPL compliance also advocating copyright infringement via Kazaa or otherwise. Furthermore, I see *no* inconsistency between saying people should respect copyright law and that copyright laws should be changed. A charge of hypocrisy really can't be levelled at a group of users where each user may (and often does) have differing views on any two given issues.
Nomad Zen: Size: 75.9 x 112.6 x 24.5 mm Weight: 268g
ipod: Size: 104.1 x 60.9 x 15.75 mm (18.5 mm for the 30 gb model) Weight: 158g (176g for the 30gb model)
So the Zen at ~209.4 cc's is more than twice the size and almost 70% heavier than the 10 and 15 gig ipods (99 cc's), and still nearly twice as big and over 50% heavier than the 30 gig ipod.
That's more than a little bigger - it's the difference from dragging down your cargo pants and slipping into a shirt pocket. The new ipods are *TINY*. There is NO comparison with any other hard-disk based player.
It's worth mentioning that unless the MP3/whatever decoder is in the headphones, bluetooth won't work. It doesn't have the bandwidth for uncompressed CD-quality audio (44.1khz/16 bit/2 channel). IIRC, it tops out at a theoretical limit of 700kbps.
Why do you wacky American's call it a "cell" phone? What is "cellular" about it?
The radio network. The phone associates with the tower in a given cell, then gets handed off to another cell when the phone moves to it. This is as opposed to older radiotelephone technology that didn't have automatic hand-offs.
AOL used to be merely annoying, not actually evil. Let's not forget that AOL became AOL Time Warner a few years back, though. Now they're the largest media conglomerate in the country - and a core member of both the MPAA and RIAA. There are plenty of good reasons to hate AOL that have nothing to do with Eternal September or the way they try to jam AOL cds into every crevice in the universe.
Big-budget anime films are made the same way as any big-budget animation: actors are recorded first, then the characters are animated from the recorded track. By dubbing over the original track, much nuance is lost.
Having seen Spirited Away in the theatres in both subtitled and dubbed versions, I have to say that I first of all find the voice acting better in original vocal track, and second, find the voices "fit" the characters and their expressions much better.
Of course, this isn't always true - I actually like the voice acting in the dub of "My Neighbor Totoro" better than the original. IOW, I guess it's a case-by-case thing.
Best of all, most of the people I work with are old. Many are my parents age or older. Looks like job security through attrition to me...
Nope. The opposite actually - during the waves of layoffs beginning in the late 80s, the senior engineering people were kept, while the mid-level people kept getting cut. With each wave, the next crop of junior people that had edged up to mid-level was cut. This is a major structural problem with large government contractors. They act (axe) under the assumption that it's better to keep the senior people who "know a lot" or "deserve their jobs" more than mid-level people, while junior engineers fresh out of college are cheap & desirable. This might be a reasonable set of assumptions for a one-time cull, but over time it ensures that nobody learns anything within the company - all the accrued knowledge resides in the senior people who eventually disappear through attrition. The company is thus doomed to repeat its past mistakes.
IBM made such a machine - the PS/2e was a low-power (fanless!) machine with a single ISA slot. This slot was almost always filled with a pcmcia adapter that put 4 PCMCIA slots on the front panel (behind the lil' door.)
It didn't sell well, on account of it was way overpriced ($5000+ with a 10.4" VGA TFT, IIRC) - ultimately, it ended up at closeout places.
This type of "slimtop" machine is moderately popular in Japan where space & power efficiency are more highly valued than in the US.
XP can see FAT32 drives larger than 32GB, it just has some artificial limitations in it that keep it from formatting or freshly installing on FAT32 partitions bigger than 32 GB. If you e.g. upgrade a system running win98 with a 120 GB FAT32 drive, XP will end up running on a 120 GB FAT32 partition. (I did this just last week for a friend.)
The reason is strictly that Microsoft wants you to use NTFS. (A paranoid person might point out that few tools other than those provided by Microsoft can work with NTFS partitions where every utility suite under the sun can handle FAT32.)
So this drive has nothing to do with this artificial limitation in XP. If you want to make a 40 GB FAT32 XP image, you'll have to install e.g. win98 first, then upgrade XP over it.
-Isaac
Re:Settle down, man, it's better than you think.
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Sure, it's been argued that this means anyone can find out your phone number from your IP, your IP from your phone number or something similar, and telemarket the living daylights out of you. Not true. Unsolicited telemarketing spam, as you've no doubt been reading on Slashdot, is likely to soon become illegal in all states and most of Europe - at least, that's what I see happening. The closer the internet comes to the phone system, the more quickly we'll see spam being made equally illegal.
Oh! Well, I feel so much better then, seeing as how NOBODY ever does anything illegal. After all, I'm sure all those unsolicited emails in my inbox are for perfectly legal and legitimate businesses! And look what a good job the junk-fax laws have done - I've never gotten a fax spam!
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Make something possible and it will happen. Create a marketing opportunity, and it will be exploited. Nature abhors a vacuum.
We recently replaced the video cards, mice, and keyboards for 2 E450's, and the video card was an ATI rage 128 card ($295). We spent almost $1,000 outfitting our machines with peripherals. The next step up in video cards was $2,000.
Sun loves customers like you! Those bloated prices are pure profit on top of an already high-margin product. I have to ask, though, why the heck are you attaching framebuffers, keyboards, and mice to E450s in the first place? Was there really something you needed (crappy, slow) local graphics for, instead of just using X across the network? I mean you already said:
(Side note - Noone ever sees the desktop of our Sun boxes, noone cares, why not run a default TWM that consumes as little resources as possible.)
So what gives? Why not just use a serial console when you need to touch the machine directly (rather than over the network)?
People who live outside the US already know the joys of NewsCorp's monopoly on satellite broadcasting - they run the Sky satellite networks and in many markets (e.g. the UK), they are the only satellite provider.
Now, I have a deep and abiding dislike and mistrust for the News Corporation, so perhaps someone who actually lives somewhere under their monopoly can share their experiences?
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It did. A terrible port, based off the Photoshop 3.0 codebase. I doubt it's even sold anymore. I last saw it in use in 1999, and even back then it was woefully out of date.
-Isaac
Can anyone whose done real work with Photoshop-on-WINE comment on how they deal with display calibration and colorspace issues? How do you make sure what you see on your linux box is what you get from your film printer?
-Isaac
Yes. They're called "plain" or "unprinted" shirts.
Why pay extra for the privilege of becoming a walking billboard?
-Isaac
This is so far from true that it's the best possible illustration of a vital point: media industries have influence vastly out of proportion to their economic impact.
The entire MPAA takes in, charitably, about $40b in revenues each year, including domestic and foreign video and film releases, and the RIAA is even smaller. Compare to the tech industry: Microsoft did over $35 billion in revenue last year. IBM did about the same. Cisco, $19b. 3 companies together take in more than double the entire movie industry - more than the movie and music industries put together, in fact. (To say nothing of Dell, Sun, Apple, Oracle, HP/Compaq, etc. etc. etc. etc.)
And yet it's the media that set the rules. Why? Tight political connections, of course (Jack Valenti was the first presidential advisor sworn in by LBJ after JFK's assassination), bred of one simple fact: politicians depend on the media to get elected. Quid pro quo. That's a rant for another time, however.
-Isaac
This is truly, a human tragedy in the making.
-Isaac
Now in order to fully replicate that NEStalgia, this special edition needs an extra-flaky cartridge connector that randomly stops working until you blow into it for 3 minutes. :/
-isaac
How exactly do you know that, Dr. Fooling You?
For anything operating on the shuttle, you're gonna have to consider heat dissipation (convection cooling won't work!), outgassing properties (closed environment), vibration and mounting (not so much how the drives are affected, but how the drives affect everything around them), and gyroscopic forces, (There may be real issues with mounting a rack of 10k drives with all spindles on the same axis), size, weight, and power consumption, just for a start. You really need to provide a more complete spec to get recommendation,
What's your experiment budget? If you have the option of going solid-state (i.e. flash), that may simplify things - you mentioned write performance was not critical. You clearly want to use the largest, slowest (rotationally) disks possible to minimize space and power consumption. Perhaps a hardware ATA or SATA raid controller in a chassis with e.g. 8 180-250gig drives in a 0+1 configuration?
-Isaac
You're thinking of fossil's other so-called PDA watch. This one runs Palm OS and has a 160x160 screen. It is a "real PDA." You can sync it to a PC, but you can also enter data directly into it with grafitti or an on-screen keyboard.
The Fossil uses a rechargeable battery - IOW, put the watch on a charger while you sleep. The onHand uses lithium coin cells that you have to pay to replace every few months. It also has a downright painful interface, compared to the button/rocker switch/touchscreen input of this fossil watch.
-Isaac
This watch does have a 160x160 screen. The reason you only see 4 big icons on the home screen is that the built-in apps have been customized to use larger icons and fonts. Other apps will run without modification in 160x160 mode.
-Isaac
For what it's worth, old laptops can make great servers for low-intensity use. One trick I've used before is to remove the hard disk and replace it with a compactflash card attached to a CF2.5" IDE adaptor in order to A. replace the only moving part with something less failure prone and B. make the laptop silent instead of merely quiet.
The only caveat is that you need to have enough ram for your application to never need swap (64 meg is more than enough for basic non-X, non-java server and/or firewall use). Never ever run a swap file or partition on flash media - you will quickly exhaust the limited write cycles of the flash media.
-Isaac
Yet another example of the universal truth: Everything I need to know, I learned from "The Karate Kid."
-Isaac
Notice the sleight of hand here? Clear Channel owns 11% of the total radio stations - tiny, right? But the previous numbers quoted referred to industry revenues, not number of stations owned. Bear in mind that there are a huge number of noncommercial stations -- usually religious or npr-affiliated -- that don't play into the revenue equation. To what does "top 10 radio station owners" refer? Revenue or number of stations owned? The answer is probably the latter - most stations in the largest markets (which also bring in the most revenue per station) are not owned by Clear Channel but by smaller companies that may only own a handful of stations but bring in huge revenues relative to their size in terms of the number of stations.
The problem with Clear Channel is not that they are a revenue giant, it's that outside the top 15 large urban markets, Clear Channel is usually the *only* game in town. In my hometown, they own all the commercial radio stations, the lion's share of the local outdoor advertising market, the local concert venue, and the local NBC affiliate to boot. The thought that they might end up owning another local TV station and the local newspaper as a result of this ruling is terrifying mainly because one can expect that only messages acceptable to Clear Channel management will be permitted through these media. Even beyond the tremendous business leverage this consolidation brings, consider the implications for political candidates and news coverage.
The current level of consolidation is already too great, in my opinion. This just takes an awful situation and makes it worse.
-Isaac
I'm not sure it's fair to assert anecdotally, absent evidence, that the same persons most vocal about e.g. GPL compliance also advocating copyright infringement via Kazaa or otherwise. Furthermore, I see *no* inconsistency between saying people should respect copyright law and that copyright laws should be changed. A charge of hypocrisy really can't be levelled at a group of users where each user may (and often does) have differing views on any two given issues.
</SOAPBOX>
-Isaac
Nomad Zen:
Size: 75.9 x 112.6 x 24.5 mm
Weight: 268g
ipod:
Size: 104.1 x 60.9 x 15.75 mm (18.5 mm for the 30 gb model)
Weight: 158g (176g for the 30gb model)
So the Zen at ~209.4 cc's is more than twice the size and almost 70% heavier than the 10 and 15 gig ipods (99 cc's), and still nearly twice as big and over 50% heavier than the 30 gig ipod.
That's more than a little bigger - it's the difference from dragging down your cargo pants and slipping into a shirt pocket. The new ipods are *TINY*. There is NO comparison with any other hard-disk based player.
-Isaac
It's worth mentioning that unless the MP3/whatever decoder is in the headphones, bluetooth won't work. It doesn't have the bandwidth for uncompressed CD-quality audio (44.1khz/16 bit/2 channel). IIRC, it tops out at a theoretical limit of 700kbps.
-Isaac
The radio network. The phone associates with the tower in a given cell, then gets handed off to another cell when the phone moves to it. This is as opposed to older radiotelephone technology that didn't have automatic hand-offs.
-Isaac
AOL used to be merely annoying, not actually evil. Let's not forget that AOL became AOL Time Warner a few years back, though. Now they're the largest media conglomerate in the country - and a core member of both the MPAA and RIAA. There are plenty of good reasons to hate AOL that have nothing to do with Eternal September or the way they try to jam AOL cds into every crevice in the universe.
-Isaac
Big-budget anime films are made the same way as any big-budget animation: actors are recorded first, then the characters are animated from the recorded track. By dubbing over the original track, much nuance is lost.
Having seen Spirited Away in the theatres in both subtitled and dubbed versions, I have to say that I first of all find the voice acting better in original vocal track, and second, find the voices "fit" the characters and their expressions much better.
Of course, this isn't always true - I actually like the voice acting in the dub of "My Neighbor Totoro" better than the original. IOW, I guess it's a case-by-case thing.
-Isaac
Nope. The opposite actually - during the waves of layoffs beginning in the late 80s, the senior engineering people were kept, while the mid-level people kept getting cut. With each wave, the next crop of junior people that had edged up to mid-level was cut. This is a major structural problem with large government contractors. They act (axe) under the assumption that it's better to keep the senior people who "know a lot" or "deserve their jobs" more than mid-level people, while junior engineers fresh out of college are cheap & desirable. This might be a reasonable set of assumptions for a one-time cull, but over time it ensures that nobody learns anything within the company - all the accrued knowledge resides in the senior people who eventually disappear through attrition. The company is thus doomed to repeat its past mistakes.
-Isaac
IBM made such a machine - the PS/2e was a low-power (fanless!) machine with a single ISA slot. This slot was almost always filled with a pcmcia adapter that put 4 PCMCIA slots on the front panel (behind the lil' door.)
It didn't sell well, on account of it was way overpriced ($5000+ with a 10.4" VGA TFT, IIRC) - ultimately, it ended up at closeout places.
This type of "slimtop" machine is moderately popular in Japan where space & power efficiency are more highly valued than in the US.
-Isaac
XP can see FAT32 drives larger than 32GB, it just has some artificial limitations in it that keep it from formatting or freshly installing on FAT32 partitions bigger than 32 GB. If you e.g. upgrade a system running win98 with a 120 GB FAT32 drive, XP will end up running on a 120 GB FAT32 partition. (I did this just last week for a friend.)
The reason is strictly that Microsoft wants you to use NTFS. (A paranoid person might point out that few tools other than those provided by Microsoft can work with NTFS partitions where every utility suite under the sun can handle FAT32.)
So this drive has nothing to do with this artificial limitation in XP. If you want to make a 40 GB FAT32 XP image, you'll have to install e.g. win98 first, then upgrade XP over it.
-Isaac
Oh! Well, I feel so much better then, seeing as how NOBODY ever does anything illegal. After all, I'm sure all those unsolicited emails in my inbox are for perfectly legal and legitimate businesses! And look what a good job the junk-fax laws have done - I've never gotten a fax spam!
</SARCASM>
Make something possible and it will happen. Create a marketing opportunity, and it will be exploited. Nature abhors a vacuum.
-Isaac
Sun loves customers like you! Those bloated prices are pure profit on top of an already high-margin product. I have to ask, though, why the heck are you attaching framebuffers, keyboards, and mice to E450s in the first place? Was there really something you needed (crappy, slow) local graphics for, instead of just using X across the network? I mean you already said:
So what gives? Why not just use a serial console when you need to touch the machine directly (rather than over the network)?
-Isaac
People who live outside the US already know the joys of NewsCorp's monopoly on satellite broadcasting - they run the Sky satellite networks and in many markets (e.g. the UK), they are the only satellite provider.
Now, I have a deep and abiding dislike and mistrust for the News Corporation, so perhaps someone who actually lives somewhere under their monopoly can share their experiences?
-Isaac