A lot of commercial OS's have a lot of proprietary software in them. OS/2 I know uses a lot of Adobe software (OS/2 uses exclusive postscript fonts...), a lot of Microsoft software (for those know don't know - OS/2 will run Windows 3.1 apps seamlessly - and Microsoft originally wrote OS/2) not to mention probably a lot of stuff IBM still licenses to partners and licensee's to this day.
I remember that was a similar concern when the petitions came around to open source Amiga DOS - same thing - bunches of patented, licensed, commercial software that would take an army of lawyers to extract from the code base to make it legal.
I agree. I'm a Catholic and I think it's safe to say that the current papacy is an absolute joke. If it was just this issue, maybe we could give ol' Benedict a pass. But it seems like every month he says something ridiculous, ignorant, or backwards. It's like he just stepped out of the 17c.
How can you say this and still believe in the Catholic faith when the pope is supposed to be a) infalliable and b) God's representitive on earth.
Probably? I read the fine print on a Pink Floyd LP I had once (Momentary Lapse of Reason - 1987) - it was mastered digitally on a 24 channel Mitsubishi 32 track digital tape recorder - I forget the make/model - but the key was the sample rate was exactly the same as a CD.
There's no possible way that could have remotely sounded better on the record than the CD:(.
Low earth orbits are typically polar btw - so yeah the debris field will eventually cross China every 12 hours (give or take - depending on the height).
CMYK in Inkscape works fine for me and it has, in fact replaced Illustrator for all the PR graphics at the last company I worked for. It seems fine for making graphics to pull into Quark or InDesign for pre-press. It does? Where is the ink manager? The only color controls I can find are for rgb. Also - everything I've outputted from it - according to my preflight tools is rgb. Also everything I've outputted from it is uncalibrated as well. I guess thats ok if you don't need color to be exact though (which most people don't).
Framemaker is dead, they just don't know it. The product has been virtually abandoned by Adobe and is so far behind in so many areas it isn't funny. Adobe has ramped up development again, but I had a nice chat with those developers and don't have a lot of hope. The entire team is from India and they didn't seem to even understand half of the common feature requests when asked bout whether they were on the roadmap. I'll admit I'm a Adobe FrameMaker partner - I haven't heard this from anyone at Adobe, but I'll certainly forward this post on and see how they respond. I do know a lot of the customers I work with are all companies every single person who ever reads this post has heard of and they use it pretty religiously. Even then - I agree (as I did in the previous post) the market is ripe for the picking and I welcome madcap to come in and stir up the pot - its just they've had a hard time even competing with their former product robohelp.
Anyhow I admit I'm a bit behind on Quark. Its in the same boat as Frame though - not a single bit of it is developed here in the US.
Ironically the one advantage you cite over Pagemaker Adobe has in InDesign - they dropped their old PageMaker codebase as it was unmaintainable and started fresh with InDesign.
There are products Adobe has no competition over - Flash for example. It make suck to the eyes of people here on Slashdot - but its an animation tool being used outside the web as well - for instance a lot of tv graphics on nbc are made with flash. Its also been used in motion pictures.
What I find odd though is I work in the print industry and I've never heard of any of these tools (except inkscape and gimp - mostly from reading slashdot). I guess my nose is buried:(.
Inkscape (like the gimp actually) doesn't have the print/pre-press features needed to actually work in a professional print environment. Doesn't support color profiles, doesn't seem to support cmyk workflows, color management etc etc.
If Madcap honestly believes they can replace FrameMaker - I honestly say let them at it. Personally I think they should focus on stabilizing their current products so that they actually work. Frame may have a lot of problems, but one thing the competition needs to consider however is it's outlasted all of the competition - since 1986 and every product that claimed it was going to kill Frame.
Acrobat - unless you need some of the advanced features in the product I'll agree with you. I don't know of any 3rd party PDF app that supports every feature Acrobat does however (things like scripting, annotations, 3d annotations, forms, xfa forms, color management [there's that word again], dynamic link creation [think pdfmaker or framemaker], preflight preview, etc etc)
Quark - Adobe actually looks like a saint compared to what Quark does to their customers. Also the product last I checked doesn't support opentype, or unicode yet - something even FrameMaker now supports.
Dreamweaver - meh - who cares. I'll agree there's plenty of competitors that work just as well.
Photoshop - again - I say the market is ready for the taking - except no-one has... like FrameMaker they've had since 1987 to do this.
Lastly - CS3 for 2500 - or Pixelmator. Mind you the 2500$ version comes with every Adobe app they make (including the video apps After Effects, Encore and Premier).
Believe it or not - postscript isn't device independent. Also PDF files are essentially compressed PS files - there are plenty of extensions to the format that PS doesn't support (like annotations, forms etc), but PDF files don't have to have them.
Remember the Xetec Lt. Kernal? It was a similar hdd designed for the C64/C128 and about as expensive. If you search the net you can easily find pictures of it.
It too was rather loud and only had 5-10 megs of storage, but that was like 200 floppies.
This is actually typical of your standard amateur radio operator. I too got my license back when you had to pass a morse code test, but I'm somewhat shocked (not really) that you'd use this forum to bring up an age old debate instead if encouraging people to learn about the hobby and become operators themselves.
You are aware that all the terrorists on the 9/11 attacks had valid visas right? And if there was an article about stopping illegal border crossings someone would quickly point out that fact. While I think the US is going overboard, it's fairly clear that:
There was a book written a while back (of which I wish I could remember the name) where the author basically argued that anti-terrorism measures were basically useless because any measure to mitigate threat we put in, they would think some way around it.
Case in point - probably some of the earliest hijackings the terrorist simply carried a bomb or a gun on board.
Want to fix terrorism - maybe we should fix or foreign policy. These people honestly believe they are fighting for a cause and their freedom.
The difference is that only a few tasks on a Mac asks you for a password while nearly everything in Windows is considered an admin task. As an owner of a Mac, I can go weeks without my Mac asking for a password. The most common event that requires a password is when I get system updates from Apple every few weeks. Otherwise it never asks me for admin rights.
Last time I saw the UAC prompt on my Windows machine is when Firefox wanted to update itself. Before that I haven't seen it in at least a month.
If your seeing it every other minute I have to ask - what are you doing? Virtually anything logo certified after Windows 2000 (when Microsoft really started defining what makes a good clean Windows app) should not be seeing UAC prompts - because they stipulated back then that a good application should have full functionality as a user.
Every time any app on my Mac wants to update I have to type in the password - sometimes several times. I really honestly don't think its all that different than Vista. Vista assumes if you are designated as an Admin you shouldn't have to type in the password - thus the continue/cancel dialogue.
Vista also evaluates the risk of elevating an app. If its not signed, downloaded executable - the UAC prompt will have a red with adequate warning. Heuristics are used in legacy setup applications to determine if the process should be elevated - by default all MSI projects are elevated (with the UAC prompt of course). Non signed executables trying to be elevated contain adequate warning.
Also the UAC prompt appears on a separate desktop - so if the machine is compromised an application can't simply click on the prompt for the user.
Changing the time on the machine should be considered an admin task as this affects many things on the machine. So what? Installing many apps on a Mac does not prompt you for a password.
Any app I install in a directory I have read/write/execute permissions to on Vista doesn't require a UAC prompt either - and they do exist.
Microsoft didn't fix the underlying security issues. It just shifted the responsibility to the user to constantly approve what might be a security risk.
Actually there are no underlying security issues in XP or Vista (no more than any other OS) - just bad practices. Vista enforces out of the box the bad practice of running as Admin all the time - by default users are default users - which is 99% of what keeps the Mac so secure.
Do you really think this is an issue? Last I heard WAPD vulnerabilities were reported in IE5. Do you have a publicly available exploit? I can test it on Vista to be sure:).
I don't see what the big deal is about UAC - especially as the Mac does the same thing. Any time you need to run an app that requests administrative rights - the UAC prompt pops up. All its doing is asking you if you really requested this elevation. You can change it so that it asks you for the admin password, but this isn't default behavior.
My friend who is a Mac die hard tells me - but you need to fiddle with the UAC prompt when setting the clock! Well? Guess what - you do on the Mac as well. Same with installing most apps, setting a good chunk of settings as well.
Also on the Mac if you try to copy a file into a directory you don't have permission to - it prompts for elevation - same as Vista.
I think most people are pissed off because it doesn't work like XP which let you have free run of the machine, but then the slashdot crowd bemoans the fact that XP is insecure. Microsoft fixes that - and now Vista is crap - I don't get it.
Fact is - I play games on my Vista box, browse the net, and watch "pirated" videos on it - and gasp - it works quite well. My TV tuner work, my scanner works, both my printers work, my video card works, everything works - and this is even the x64 version. I rarely ever have to deal with UAC unless I'm installing something.
I don't see how it could be a rootkit in the classic sense. I run WoW on Windows Vista - 64 - three things are true here. A) any driver that runs on Windows 64 has to be signed or it won't install or run and B) its got to be 32 bit and C) if the Kernel is tainted the machine will shut down - which hasn't happened.
I could rob the 7-11 down the street at gunpoint - even shoot the clerk in the foot or something and I doubt I'd get 20 years.
Grades/Data come and go - human lives don't. Taking 20 sodding years out of someone's life for a database hack hardly fits the crime - even if it takes a month to audit the data. You really want to punish these kids? Make them do the audit.
And this is different that working at an abusive corporation how? Your story is definitely an exception - for every union abuse against employees I could easily research and come up with 10 corporate abuses that are worse because most of live in states where there is right to work laws which means they can fire you for anything - even trumped up stuff.
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A lot of commercial OS's have a lot of proprietary software in them. OS/2 I know uses a lot of Adobe software (OS/2 uses exclusive postscript fonts...), a lot of Microsoft software (for those know don't know - OS/2 will run Windows 3.1 apps seamlessly - and Microsoft originally wrote OS/2) not to mention probably a lot of stuff IBM still licenses to partners and licensee's to this day.
I remember that was a similar concern when the petitions came around to open source Amiga DOS - same thing - bunches of patented, licensed, commercial software that would take an army of lawyers to extract from the code base to make it legal.
I wonder what the encounters will be like? What kinds of character classes will I be able to roll?
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How can you say this and still believe in the Catholic faith when the pope is supposed to be a) infalliable and b) God's representitive on earth.
Probably? I read the fine print on a Pink Floyd LP I had once (Momentary Lapse of Reason - 1987) - it was mastered digitally on a 24 channel Mitsubishi 32 track digital tape recorder - I forget the make/model - but the key was the sample rate was exactly the same as a CD.
:(.
There's no possible way that could have remotely sounded better on the record than the CD
Or you could use duct or electrical tape to cover up the ir sensor.
Low earth orbits are typically polar btw - so yeah the debris field will eventually cross China every 12 hours (give or take - depending on the height).
Ron Paul scares me.
My Cellphone (Nokia N95) has tv outputs, and can play back a powerpoint presentation or a PDF file presentation.
We'd all be decrying the downfall of Microsoft. Does anyone realize how much 14% is? Its huge!
Anyhow I admit I'm a bit behind on Quark. Its in the same boat as Frame though - not a single bit of it is developed here in the US.
Ironically the one advantage you cite over Pagemaker Adobe has in InDesign - they dropped their old PageMaker codebase as it was unmaintainable and started fresh with InDesign.
There are products Adobe has no competition over - Flash for example. It make suck to the eyes of people here on Slashdot - but its an animation tool being used outside the web as well - for instance a lot of tv graphics on nbc are made with flash. Its also been used in motion pictures.
What I find odd though is I work in the print industry and I've never heard of any of these tools (except inkscape and gimp - mostly from reading slashdot). I guess my nose is buried
Keep going - Adobe has about 100 products.
Inkscape (like the gimp actually) doesn't have the print/pre-press features needed to actually work in a professional print environment. Doesn't support color profiles, doesn't seem to support cmyk workflows, color management etc etc.
If Madcap honestly believes they can replace FrameMaker - I honestly say let them at it. Personally I think they should focus on stabilizing their current products so that they actually work. Frame may have a lot of problems, but one thing the competition needs to consider however is it's outlasted all of the competition - since 1986 and every product that claimed it was going to kill Frame.
Acrobat - unless you need some of the advanced features in the product I'll agree with you. I don't know of any 3rd party PDF app that supports every feature Acrobat does however (things like scripting, annotations, 3d annotations, forms, xfa forms, color management [there's that word again], dynamic link creation [think pdfmaker or framemaker], preflight preview, etc etc)
Quark - Adobe actually looks like a saint compared to what Quark does to their customers. Also the product last I checked doesn't support opentype, or unicode yet - something even FrameMaker now supports.
Dreamweaver - meh - who cares. I'll agree there's plenty of competitors that work just as well.
Photoshop - again - I say the market is ready for the taking - except no-one has... like FrameMaker they've had since 1987 to do this.
Lastly - CS3 for 2500 - or Pixelmator. Mind you the 2500$ version comes with every Adobe app they make (including the video apps After Effects, Encore and Premier).
Believe it or not - postscript isn't device independent. Also PDF files are essentially compressed PS files - there are plenty of extensions to the format that PS doesn't support (like annotations, forms etc), but PDF files don't have to have them.
I still like Noam Chomsky's summary of Iran - Iran is a democratic utopia compared to Saudi Arabia (who the US fully supports).
Remember the Xetec Lt. Kernal? It was a similar hdd designed for the C64/C128 and about as expensive. If you search the net you can easily find pictures of it.
It too was rather loud and only had 5-10 megs of storage, but that was like 200 floppies.
This is actually typical of your standard amateur radio operator. I too got my license back when you had to pass a morse code test, but I'm somewhat shocked (not really) that you'd use this forum to bring up an age old debate instead if encouraging people to learn about the hobby and become operators themselves.
You are aware that all the terrorists on the 9/11 attacks had valid visas right? And if there was an article about stopping illegal border crossings someone would quickly point out that fact. While I think the US is going overboard, it's fairly clear that:
There was a book written a while back (of which I wish I could remember the name) where the author basically argued that anti-terrorism measures were basically useless because any measure to mitigate threat we put in, they would think some way around it.
Case in point - probably some of the earliest hijackings the terrorist simply carried a bomb or a gun on board.
Want to fix terrorism - maybe we should fix or foreign policy. These people honestly believe they are fighting for a cause and their freedom.
The difference is that only a few tasks on a Mac asks you for a password while nearly everything in Windows is considered an admin task. As an owner of a Mac, I can go weeks without my Mac asking for a password. The most common event that requires a password is when I get system updates from Apple every few weeks. Otherwise it never asks me for admin rights.
Last time I saw the UAC prompt on my Windows machine is when Firefox wanted to update itself. Before that I haven't seen it in at least a month.
If your seeing it every other minute I have to ask - what are you doing? Virtually anything logo certified after Windows 2000 (when Microsoft really started defining what makes a good clean Windows app) should not be seeing UAC prompts - because they stipulated back then that a good application should have full functionality as a user.
Every time any app on my Mac wants to update I have to type in the password - sometimes several times. I really honestly don't think its all that different than Vista. Vista assumes if you are designated as an Admin you shouldn't have to type in the password - thus the continue/cancel dialogue.
Vista also evaluates the risk of elevating an app. If its not signed, downloaded executable - the UAC prompt will have a red with adequate warning. Heuristics are used in legacy setup applications to determine if the process should be elevated - by default all MSI projects are elevated (with the UAC prompt of course). Non signed executables trying to be elevated contain adequate warning.
Also the UAC prompt appears on a separate desktop - so if the machine is compromised an application can't simply click on the prompt for the user.
Changing the time on the machine should be considered an admin task as this affects many things on the machine. So what? Installing many apps on a Mac does not prompt you for a password.
Any app I install in a directory I have read/write/execute permissions to on Vista doesn't require a UAC prompt either - and they do exist.
Microsoft didn't fix the underlying security issues. It just shifted the responsibility to the user to constantly approve what might be a security risk.
Actually there are no underlying security issues in XP or Vista (no more than any other OS) - just bad practices. Vista enforces out of the box the bad practice of running as Admin all the time - by default users are default users - which is 99% of what keeps the Mac so secure.
Thats because you previously "unlocked" it and typed in the password when doing so.
Do you really think this is an issue? Last I heard WAPD vulnerabilities were reported in IE5. Do you have a publicly available exploit? I can test it on Vista to be sure :).
I don't see what the big deal is about UAC - especially as the Mac does the same thing. Any time you need to run an app that requests administrative rights - the UAC prompt pops up. All its doing is asking you if you really requested this elevation. You can change it so that it asks you for the admin password, but this isn't default behavior.
My friend who is a Mac die hard tells me - but you need to fiddle with the UAC prompt when setting the clock! Well? Guess what - you do on the Mac as well. Same with installing most apps, setting a good chunk of settings as well.
Also on the Mac if you try to copy a file into a directory you don't have permission to - it prompts for elevation - same as Vista.
I think most people are pissed off because it doesn't work like XP which let you have free run of the machine, but then the slashdot crowd bemoans the fact that XP is insecure. Microsoft fixes that - and now Vista is crap - I don't get it.
Fact is - I play games on my Vista box, browse the net, and watch "pirated" videos on it - and gasp - it works quite well. My TV tuner work, my scanner works, both my printers work, my video card works, everything works - and this is even the x64 version. I rarely ever have to deal with UAC unless I'm installing something.
Ironically - running it under Vista with UAC is an option - Warden doesn't have access to any files or folders outside the WoW directory.
I don't see how it could be a rootkit in the classic sense. I run WoW on Windows Vista - 64 - three things are true here. A) any driver that runs on Windows 64 has to be signed or it won't install or run and B) its got to be 32 bit and C) if the Kernel is tainted the machine will shut down - which hasn't happened.
Isn't this a Mac? I thought they were supposed to be easy to use.
Dude - seriously.
I could rob the 7-11 down the street at gunpoint - even shoot the clerk in the foot or something and I doubt I'd get 20 years.
Grades/Data come and go - human lives don't. Taking 20 sodding years out of someone's life for a database hack hardly fits the crime - even if it takes a month to audit the data. You really want to punish these kids? Make them do the audit.
And this is different that working at an abusive corporation how? Your story is definitely an exception - for every union abuse against employees I could easily research and come up with 10 corporate abuses that are worse because most of live in states where there is right to work laws which means they can fire you for anything - even trumped up stuff.