Well thats a good example of no-one actually reviewing the eula for reader isn't it? What that section is talking about is the retail products like Acrobat - where Adobe allows (with a single license) you to install it on two machines.
The real reason Mac fans tend to be overly defensive is that they've felt marginalized by software and hardware vendors for years due to Microsoft's dominance in the desktop computing arena. I'm not blaming the vendors, sometimes fiscal reality precludes making a version of their product for a relatively small market, but it can be frustrating to Mac users who are convinced that their platform is superior to what Microsoft has to offer but still have to wait months or years, if ever, to get their hands on a desirable product. I think Apple has nothing but themselves to blame really. In the early days Apple used to charge crazy prices for their hardware (the original Mac sold for 2000$, half of which was pure profit), had ridiculous developer programs, and no clone market.
Compare that to Microsoft who goes out of their way (even today) to entice developers, and has a massive 3rd party sales channel (oem's) - the likes of which Apple doesn't even attempt to compete with.
The only other group I could compare them to is the Commodore Amiga fans - of which I was one. We felt marginalized, but it was probably for lack of a clone market and Commodore's lack of marketing and management skill. They actually had a rather good developer support program - even in the early days of the product.
Mind you Apple is doing great things in some areas to improve things - for instance they have a much better developer support program. You still can't install Apple software on 3rd party products - which is where Microsoft is making a killing - and I think frankly Apple is losing out on.
You know what I find odd about this statement is that a) flash videos play just fine on my umpc (Tablet XP 900 mhz Celeron) and b) flash videos play fine on my solaris machine (Blade 1500 - I think its a 1.2 ghz Ultrasparc).
When you consider the memory footprint flash has, (about 2 megs) and that it has a vm - I think its much more optimized than some runtimes out there (java,.net etc)
Back when I had a mac mini (ppc model - this was when they just came out) - I was sorely disappointed in its video performance overall - for instance I had a hard time playing quicktime clips back fluidly never mind flash.
I ended up getting rid of it for that very reason.
Not only does FlashPlayer 10 have 2D/3D acceleration, but also supports gpu's. Search youtube for Flash Player Astro for videos of it in action - its pretty cool.
How far does it go? I mean say they determine the unit is beyond repair and just give him a new one - does the customer really expect the repair people to take the case off the old unit and put it on the new unit?
In the end they fixed his xbox - thats what their job is.
Plus I'm sure in the eula/support agreement it states somewhere that their responsibility during repair is to restore the unit to its original factory condition - which means bye bye artwork.
And for the CSR that told this guy his artwork would be preserved probably thought he was talking about after market skinning - which just pops off.
Outsourcing - you have to have to admire the side effects:). Microsoft screwed up for sure - they should have told this guy no way in hell would they be responsible for anything written on the side of the case - that's what I would have said personally.
I've only had one bsod with XP actually - and it was on my old Dell work machine and I was running vmware. I was saving the machine state - switched to a new task and boom. In the postmortem it looked like a driver caused a stop error - same computer hasn't given me issues since and it was on for 3 years straight (occasional reboot for patches) when that happened.
Its actually a rather stable OS. I think I've had Linux kernel crash at least 5 times since I've been using it on various machines (since 93). I've had OSX hard lock at least once or twice.
Believe it or not Linux and Apple don't have a monopoly on stability.
You know, Apple was the first one to jump on the USB bandwagon, using USB HID peripherals when everyone else was still shipping them with PS/2 ports. I'll give you they were early adopters when it came to shipping usb hid peripherals, but were no means the first to jump on that (especially when in 96-97 I had a P5-200 that had usb ports). I remember the first G3 I saw with USB and it had a whopping two ports.
Except all the theories on how this stuff actually works. As I recall there's several theories on how radio waves work - why when you charge a wire with certian wavelengths they escape the wire, where as other waves don't.
When I did weather studies in college I was surprised to learn there are 3 theories why it rains (moisture density, coalescence [ie - water vapor sticking to dust in the air], and radiation if your curious) - fact is it still rains. Its something you can observe, and recreate to a certain extent. Heck China is even working on controlling it.
Or spectrum theory - this is something I know less about, but have studied. When you switch your tv set on and watch the news, or browse the net with your computer/wifi adapter the core technology behind that is very much theoretical. We know an awful lot about it (electronics, waves etc), but if want to know more about why it all works the way it does is still an area where a lot of heavy research is being done. If you want to have some fun - talk to a physicist about whether light is a particle or a wave or if they are in the same thing.
Then you get into creationism. I'm religious but I don't subscribe to creationism or intelligent design (I interpret the stories in the Bible as why - not how). It's not something you can even talk about in the same realm as science - because its based on faith (things believed, but not seen). Also there's no-one doing any serious credible work trying to observe a god creating life - which is essentially the path you'd have to take if you were going to study this scientifically.
I bought one of the first mac mini's age's ago (ppc etc) - updated it after powering it up and setting it up it was just fine. The auto-update feature downloaded a bunch of patches (which I expected) however after forcing me to reboot it failed to restart. I had to reinstall the OS software (admittedly it was fine after that).
Acrobat/Reader actually has a huge amount of customer requirements. For example it can display and render forms, interact with web services/databases, display 2d/3d annots, display flash/wmv/quicktime movies, play sounds etc, and sign/create digital signatures. It also has a javascript engine.
Funny thing is - if you remove all those extra plugins so that it has as much functionality as kpdf and foxit reader it has a smaller memory footprint and loads faster than either.
Bullshit. I've had buyers give me a negative feedback complaining about my shipping speed literally 1 minute after the auction closed and before they had even paid. I'm not supposed to be able to respond to that? There are lots of crappy things a buyer can do besides not pay.
I've actually been on both sides of this (as a buyer who got screwed - left negative feedback, and then was dumped on by the seller and as a seller who got negative feedback because the buyer was an asshole). If the buyer unjustly left negative feedback - eBay customer service will deal with that - especially when there is enough evidence. On the flip side - getting negative feedback removed because the seller retailiated - is nearly impossible.
One big difference between Islamic terrorism and the rest of the terrorism community - is that I think they are the only group not only willing to commit suicide for their beliefs, but to kill as many infidels as possible. This is like the zerg strategy in Starcraft - what can you do about it?
The reason for this is pretty simple - their religion actually encourages martyrdom. In the early 90's a dicussion I had with an Islamic man from Saudi Arabia (probably my first exposure to the religion) I was suprised at their views towards martyrdom.
Anyone think of a GPS with radio communication capability back in 1999? Military systems with GPS capabilities are the first that come to mind to me. If you change the word "GPS" to "location" there's certainly plenty of prior art - I was working on radio data networks that provided positional information in the early to mid 90s.
In the 1970's series "Connections" by James Burke he demonstrated a GPS receiver in the opening of one episode - I can't remember the make/model of the receiver, but it was satellite based gps and it did use a computer to compute the location of the reciever. GPS has been around for a long time, and before that Loran was pretty popular (might still be - I was taught how to use it in the mid 90's in navigation school:)) which is the next best thing - and is in fact a radio based navigation system.
Do you really honestly expect him to say sure go ahead and pirate everything I have and not promote his new product? All he's saying is that the cost of goods go up when people don't pay for stuff - I don't think there really is any solid argument that says thats not true because there's no sure way to figure out who pirated the content and bought it later and who pirated the content and never would have bought it ever.
Plus (and I admit this isn't evidence) all the people I know who pirate software/music/movies never buy any of the stuff they copy.
I work at a company who makes commercial software and I think its hypocritical of me to do any such thing really.
Plus in the general sense this can be bad. Like when you find out your favorite author actually beats his children, and drives 20 in the fast lane.
You're comparing beating your children and driving too slow in the fast lane with attitudes towards movie piracy? I was honestly shocked that people thought this of him - seriously.
Movie/music piracy is bad - period. Having an opinion that its bad != finding out your favorite author beats his kids.
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Actually it was about that fast back in 94...
Well thats a good example of no-one actually reviewing the eula for reader isn't it? What that section is talking about is the retail products like Acrobat - where Adobe allows (with a single license) you to install it on two machines.
Compare that to Microsoft who goes out of their way (even today) to entice developers, and has a massive 3rd party sales channel (oem's) - the likes of which Apple doesn't even attempt to compete with.
The only other group I could compare them to is the Commodore Amiga fans - of which I was one. We felt marginalized, but it was probably for lack of a clone market and Commodore's lack of marketing and management skill. They actually had a rather good developer support program - even in the early days of the product.
Mind you Apple is doing great things in some areas to improve things - for instance they have a much better developer support program. You still can't install Apple software on 3rd party products - which is where Microsoft is making a killing - and I think frankly Apple is losing out on.
You know what I find odd about this statement is that a) flash videos play just fine on my umpc (Tablet XP 900 mhz Celeron) and b) flash videos play fine on my solaris machine (Blade 1500 - I think its a 1.2 ghz Ultrasparc).
.net etc)
When you consider the memory footprint flash has, (about 2 megs) and that it has a vm - I think its much more optimized than some runtimes out there (java,
Back when I had a mac mini (ppc model - this was when they just came out) - I was sorely disappointed in its video performance overall - for instance I had a hard time playing quicktime clips back fluidly never mind flash.
I ended up getting rid of it for that very reason.
Or... downloading movies I never watched.
Oh? http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Astro
Not only does FlashPlayer 10 have 2D/3D acceleration, but also supports gpu's. Search youtube for Flash Player Astro for videos of it in action - its pretty cool.
How far does it go? I mean say they determine the unit is beyond repair and just give him a new one - does the customer really expect the repair people to take the case off the old unit and put it on the new unit?
:). Microsoft screwed up for sure - they should have told this guy no way in hell would they be responsible for anything written on the side of the case - that's what I would have said personally.
In the end they fixed his xbox - thats what their job is.
Plus I'm sure in the eula/support agreement it states somewhere that their responsibility during repair is to restore the unit to its original factory condition - which means bye bye artwork.
And for the CSR that told this guy his artwork would be preserved probably thought he was talking about after market skinning - which just pops off.
Outsourcing - you have to have to admire the side effects
Yeah the American army is using cell phones to communicate...
I've only had one bsod with XP actually - and it was on my old Dell work machine and I was running vmware. I was saving the machine state - switched to a new task and boom. In the postmortem it looked like a driver caused a stop error - same computer hasn't given me issues since and it was on for 3 years straight (occasional reboot for patches) when that happened.
Its actually a rather stable OS. I think I've had Linux kernel crash at least 5 times since I've been using it on various machines (since 93). I've had OSX hard lock at least once or twice.
Believe it or not Linux and Apple don't have a monopoly on stability.
Except all the theories on how this stuff actually works. As I recall there's several theories on how radio waves work - why when you charge a wire with certian wavelengths they escape the wire, where as other waves don't.
Or color theory...
What does iaap mean?
When I did weather studies in college I was surprised to learn there are 3 theories why it rains (moisture density, coalescence [ie - water vapor sticking to dust in the air], and radiation if your curious) - fact is it still rains. Its something you can observe, and recreate to a certain extent. Heck China is even working on controlling it.
Or spectrum theory - this is something I know less about, but have studied. When you switch your tv set on and watch the news, or browse the net with your computer/wifi adapter the core technology behind that is very much theoretical. We know an awful lot about it (electronics, waves etc), but if want to know more about why it all works the way it does is still an area where a lot of heavy research is being done. If you want to have some fun - talk to a physicist about whether light is a particle or a wave or if they are in the same thing.
Then you get into creationism. I'm religious but I don't subscribe to creationism or intelligent design (I interpret the stories in the Bible as why - not how). It's not something you can even talk about in the same realm as science - because its based on faith (things believed, but not seen). Also there's no-one doing any serious credible work trying to observe a god creating life - which is essentially the path you'd have to take if you were going to study this scientifically.
I bought one of the first mac mini's age's ago (ppc etc) - updated it after powering it up and setting it up it was just fine. The auto-update feature downloaded a bunch of patches (which I expected) however after forcing me to reboot it failed to restart. I had to reinstall the OS software (admittedly it was fine after that).
Acrobat/Reader actually has a huge amount of customer requirements. For example it can display and render forms, interact with web services/databases, display 2d/3d annots, display flash/wmv/quicktime movies, play sounds etc, and sign/create digital signatures. It also has a javascript engine.
Funny thing is - if you remove all those extra plugins so that it has as much functionality as kpdf and foxit reader it has a smaller memory footprint and loads faster than either.
So just out of curiosity - how many versions should Adobe be fixing? I want my fix for Acrobat Exchange 1.0 (1993).
Well so - at least hundreds of innocent people did die in the process.
Noam Chomsky once said that Iran was a democratic paradise compared to Saudi Arabia - in his book failed states.
Bullshit. I've had buyers give me a negative feedback complaining about my shipping speed literally 1 minute after the auction closed and before they had even paid. I'm not supposed to be able to respond to that? There are lots of crappy things a buyer can do besides not pay.
I've actually been on both sides of this (as a buyer who got screwed - left negative feedback, and then was dumped on by the seller and as a seller who got negative feedback because the buyer was an asshole). If the buyer unjustly left negative feedback - eBay customer service will deal with that - especially when there is enough evidence. On the flip side - getting negative feedback removed because the seller retailiated - is nearly impossible.
One big difference between Islamic terrorism and the rest of the terrorism community - is that I think they are the only group not only willing to commit suicide for their beliefs, but to kill as many infidels as possible. This is like the zerg strategy in Starcraft - what can you do about it?
The reason for this is pretty simple - their religion actually encourages martyrdom. In the early 90's a dicussion I had with an Islamic man from Saudi Arabia (probably my first exposure to the religion) I was suprised at their views towards martyrdom.
Not sure if your joking or not, but honestly if they were up front about limits and caps I'd certainly appreciate it.
Its their ISP and if they feel the need to cap bandwidth to certain sites, block sites/ports etc - thats fine - just put it in writing.
Oh much better - now he can spend the rest of his life in an Afghanistan prison ... for downloading a file.
Anyone think of a GPS with radio communication capability back in 1999? Military systems with GPS capabilities are the first that come to mind to me. If you change the word "GPS" to "location" there's certainly plenty of prior art - I was working on radio data networks that provided positional information in the early to mid 90s.
:)) which is the next best thing - and is in fact a radio based navigation system.
In the 1970's series "Connections" by James Burke he demonstrated a GPS receiver in the opening of one episode - I can't remember the make/model of the receiver, but it was satellite based gps and it did use a computer to compute the location of the reciever. GPS has been around for a long time, and before that Loran was pretty popular (might still be - I was taught how to use it in the mid 90's in navigation school
Do you really honestly expect him to say sure go ahead and pirate everything I have and not promote his new product? All he's saying is that the cost of goods go up when people don't pay for stuff - I don't think there really is any solid argument that says thats not true because there's no sure way to figure out who pirated the content and bought it later and who pirated the content and never would have bought it ever.
Plus (and I admit this isn't evidence) all the people I know who pirate software/music/movies never buy any of the stuff they copy.
I work at a company who makes commercial software and I think its hypocritical of me to do any such thing really.
Plus in the general sense this can be bad. Like when you find out your favorite author actually beats his children, and drives 20 in the fast lane.
You're comparing beating your children and driving too slow in the fast lane with attitudes towards movie piracy? I was honestly shocked that people thought this of him - seriously.
Movie/music piracy is bad - period. Having an opinion that its bad != finding out your favorite author beats his kids.
I dunno - I'm sure these will get smaller, but this thing has a 1.2 inch wingspan - thats a hurking big fly.