Unions are really what you make it - they are supposed to be staffed by employees who join the union. In the one union shop I had a chance to work in however, most employees were too spineless and carefree to bother to show up to meetings or do anything about management decisions.
LOTRO has pickpocketing for burglars, one of the things they did was to give burglars a seperate loot table, so they would NOT be stealing the loot you get from the kill. Subtle detail, but can you imagine how other players would feel if all the mobs had been picked clean?
All of their new apps for OS X are supporting Intel Mac only, as opposed to "Universal binaries" that work with PPC Macs too
All is a bit strong a word. Some of their video apps are intel only (After Effects is Universal), all the rest (including all the apps from Design/Web collections) are universal.
As a developer your supposed to turn off this feature, but out of the box all writes to \Program Files are actually virtualized to the user profile. Back in the day you couldn't get your app logo certified if it wrote anything to \Program Files or HKLM - for the simple reason it would fail if you used that app as a standard user (under XP/2000/NT4).
Same with registry writes - by default Vista will virtualize anything written to HKLM to HKCU - since one is full read/write for the user and the other is read-only for the user.
For all intents and purposes - from what I've seen (and it sounds like you and I are in the same business) if your app was developed for Windows logo guidelines (really made popular around Windows 2000) it'll work just fine on Vista.
Apps that failed to run as a regular user in XP/2000 will fail to run on Vista without elevation.
To me - not quite a nightmare, since we've been building to windows logo certification since 2000.
Acrobat 5/6 works just fine in Vista for me - including the printer driver. Its not going to work on the x64 version of Vista - since it doesn't allow you to use 32 bit drivers.
Also there's no 7.2 version of Distiller. The first version of Acrobat 7 (and distller) is 7.0.0 - the last version of Acrobat 7 is 7.0.9, and for Distiller 7.0.7. Also last I checked Acrobat 7.0.0 ran just fine on vista with no alterations.
I use Vista - I don't notice any more cpu cycles being used - when the system is idle - its idle. DVD's seem to use the same resources as XP, and while I'm playing my divx files I downloaded using bittorrent on Vista they use the same cycles.
I'm not sure if the DS or PSP can disable it's wireless capability but if it can - then you should be able to play games while on board, just not interact with other users.
The psp can - it has a switch on the left hand side - or if its the new one its on the top.
Its actually any browser that supports Flash 9 plugin (which exist for Solaris/Linux/Mac/Windows). I've seen Flex apps run on Firefox/Flash 9 on Solaris for example.
I've always though about what would happen if the end of civilization were to occur and all your electronic gadgets (which require electricity) failed to work.
If you wanted to rebuild society - what would you use? Yes - things like sliderules. Think of it is a method of survival, rather than - we have better why would you bother to learn how to use sliderules.
One of the reasons I thought it was fun to learn morse code back in the day when I got my amateur radio license. Morse code happens to be the most fundamental mode you can use to communicate over the airwaves. If you had nothing, and needed to build a radio from scratch you could build a set to do morse code in an evening or two - where as something to do PSK/GMSK, FM/AM, SSB etc would take quite a bit longer.
Allow/Deny stuff is the equivalent of being asked the password to do something like change the clock on your Mac.
Having used Vista and OSX for quite some time I've found them to be about as consistent for the same kinds of operations - ie if you need admin rights its going to prompt to elevate.
Cold turkey. This was about 3 years ago. I'd love it if I could go back to ebooks, but I will not until they fix (or eliminate) their horrible DRM scheme.
They kinda did - little known fact, but you can activate as many machines/devices as you want (for the last 5 years or so).
and after I spent hours on line with their "tech support" (sorry if milk just squirted out your nose at the notion of Adobe providing tech support)
Adobe has the same mentality as any company when it comes to tech support - its a cost center - they don't see any real value in spending a lot of money on it.
Contrast that to the way satellite radio (for example) works. Satellite radio has about 50Mhz of the S band for 150 channels of content. FM radio has about a 5th of the channels in about 5 times the spectrum...Massively inefficient.
FM Broadcast band is 87.8 to 108.0 - thats 20 mhz of bandwidth - channels are spaced at.2 mhz - which makes 100 channels.
Also I should point out XM is 2332.5 to 2345.0 - thats 13.5 mhz, not 50. 150/100 is 50 more channels for 6.5 mhz less bandwidth.
So digital radio is more efficient, but not quite to the numbers you state.
Also you completely ignore legacy - what about the costs of replacing all those radios and upgrading all those broadcast transmitters?
You want to talk about waste - complain about the AM broadcast band. 520-1,610 KHz - thats 1.09 MHz. That may not sound like much, but when you figure that there's less than 2.7 MHz of MF spectrum (300 kHz to 3000 kHz) - thats a huge waste.
I still doubt it. A smarter thing to do would probably be to study actual epidemics and other disasters and then see what people actually did in those situations.
When was the last pandemic since we (as a people) started creating scientific records that we can study?
I read a summary of the study and I found it fascinating - they were able to cross reference what happened in the game to what we do know about real world events (like bubonic plague).
If you read the article (yeah yeah I know - slashdot...) they took all this into account - ever after all that its one of the only real world examples where they have been able to monitor how people behave with pandemic diseases.
Try to name, for example, an industry that was around 100 years ago that is still around today and is MORE competitive now than it was in 1907.
Easy - PPG Industries - formed in 1883, used to make glass (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) now makes components for nearly everything you touch and see in life.
I'm biased since I used to work for them, but they are a classic example of a company that has been around for more than a hundred years, still makes glass and and is more competitive than they were when they started operations. Oh - and they started out as a mom and pop shop.
What happened in the 1920's was the result of unregulated loans for stocks where you could buy a stock with only a a fraction of the up front cost. Great way to gain alot of wealth fast but once they go down then your pretty much screwed. That is illegal today.
Thats like saying the Roman Empire fell because the taxes were too high paying for all the wars they were losing (hmm - that sounds remarkably like today...). Its true, but there were several other causes.
The Great Depression has been blamed on high European tarrifs, people saving money to pay off debts and rampant speculation - just to name three.
Its just like flying anything - its a very graceful process punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Talk to any pilot - they will tell you this is true.
Also I'm sure there are emergency situations where having your wits about you would be a major plus, for instance if you aborted the launch before orbit (which they can do).
Hit the latest high-performance games with stunning 3D visuals-from simple to spectacular, there's a game for every age and ability, on your PC or online.
Thing uses VIA chipset - it should be able to play games just fine. From my own experience btw - WoW runs just fine on crap hardware (Intel Intergrated GFX for instance) unless your into battlegrounds.
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You could always vow to delete your character after he/she dies for the first time...
Unions are really what you make it - they are supposed to be staffed by employees who join the union. In the one union shop I had a chance to work in however, most employees were too spineless and carefree to bother to show up to meetings or do anything about management decisions.
Ironically Toyota cars are often made by union shop workers too...
I still believe it's a correct assumption to say Adobe was not building any of their applications using Apple's xcode as their development tool.
:( > http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html
Wrong again
LOTRO has pickpocketing for burglars, one of the things they did was to give burglars a seperate loot table, so they would NOT be stealing the loot you get from the kill. Subtle detail, but can you imagine how other players would feel if all the mobs had been picked clean?
:).
Same is true for rogues in WoW
All of their new apps for OS X are supporting Intel Mac only, as opposed to "Universal binaries" that work with PPC Macs too
All is a bit strong a word. Some of their video apps are intel only (After Effects is Universal), all the rest (including all the apps from Design/Web collections) are universal.
As a developer your supposed to turn off this feature, but out of the box all writes to \Program Files are actually virtualized to the user profile. Back in the day you couldn't get your app logo certified if it wrote anything to \Program Files or HKLM - for the simple reason it would fail if you used that app as a standard user (under XP/2000/NT4).
Same with registry writes - by default Vista will virtualize anything written to HKLM to HKCU - since one is full read/write for the user and the other is read-only for the user.
For all intents and purposes - from what I've seen (and it sounds like you and I are in the same business) if your app was developed for Windows logo guidelines (really made popular around Windows 2000) it'll work just fine on Vista.
Apps that failed to run as a regular user in XP/2000 will fail to run on Vista without elevation.
To me - not quite a nightmare, since we've been building to windows logo certification since 2000.
Acrobat 5/6 works just fine in Vista for me - including the printer driver. Its not going to work on the x64 version of Vista - since it doesn't allow you to use 32 bit drivers.
Also there's no 7.2 version of Distiller. The first version of Acrobat 7 (and distller) is 7.0.0 - the last version of Acrobat 7 is 7.0.9, and for Distiller 7.0.7. Also last I checked Acrobat 7.0.0 ran just fine on vista with no alterations.
Also version 8 has a redaction tool that completely removes the text redacted - permanently.
I use Vista - I don't notice any more cpu cycles being used - when the system is idle - its idle. DVD's seem to use the same resources as XP, and while I'm playing my divx files I downloaded using bittorrent on Vista they use the same cycles.
I'm not sure if the DS or PSP can disable it's wireless capability but if it can - then you should be able to play games while on board, just not interact with other users.
The psp can - it has a switch on the left hand side - or if its the new one its on the top.
Its actually any browser that supports Flash 9 plugin (which exist for Solaris/Linux/Mac/Windows). I've seen Flex apps run on Firefox/Flash 9 on Solaris for example.
I'm not even going to bother explaining this to a user who's name is dumb jedi.
I've always though about what would happen if the end of civilization were to occur and all your electronic gadgets (which require electricity) failed to work.
If you wanted to rebuild society - what would you use? Yes - things like sliderules. Think of it is a method of survival, rather than - we have better why would you bother to learn how to use sliderules.
One of the reasons I thought it was fun to learn morse code back in the day when I got my amateur radio license. Morse code happens to be the most fundamental mode you can use to communicate over the airwaves. If you had nothing, and needed to build a radio from scratch you could build a set to do morse code in an evening or two - where as something to do PSK/GMSK, FM/AM, SSB etc would take quite a bit longer.
Allow/Deny stuff is the equivalent of being asked the password to do something like change the clock on your Mac.
Having used Vista and OSX for quite some time I've found them to be about as consistent for the same kinds of operations - ie if you need admin rights its going to prompt to elevate.
WoW isn't about endings - the end game is supposed to be about having fun with friends. Frankly if my friends quit playing I'd quit playing too.
Cold turkey. This was about 3 years ago. I'd love it if I could go back to ebooks, but I will not until they fix (or eliminate) their horrible DRM scheme.
They kinda did - little known fact, but you can activate as many machines/devices as you want (for the last 5 years or so).
and after I spent hours on line with their "tech support" (sorry if milk just squirted out your nose at the notion of Adobe providing tech support)
Adobe has the same mentality as any company when it comes to tech support - its a cost center - they don't see any real value in spending a lot of money on it.
The US is a huge consumer. They can't cut us out all the way.
Until no-one is making any money because all the jobs have been exported too... Is this one of those #3 profit moments?
Contrast that to the way satellite radio (for example) works. Satellite radio has about 50Mhz of the S band for 150 channels of content. FM radio has about a 5th of the channels in about 5 times the spectrum...Massively inefficient.
.2 mhz - which makes 100 channels.
FM Broadcast band is 87.8 to 108.0 - thats 20 mhz of bandwidth - channels are spaced at
Also I should point out XM is 2332.5 to 2345.0 - thats 13.5 mhz, not 50. 150/100 is 50 more channels for 6.5 mhz less bandwidth.
So digital radio is more efficient, but not quite to the numbers you state.
Also you completely ignore legacy - what about the costs of replacing all those radios and upgrading all those broadcast transmitters?
You want to talk about waste - complain about the AM broadcast band. 520-1,610 KHz - thats 1.09 MHz. That may not sound like much, but when you figure that there's less than 2.7 MHz of MF spectrum (300 kHz to 3000 kHz) - thats a huge waste.
I still doubt it. A smarter thing to do would probably be to study actual epidemics and other disasters and then see what people actually did in those situations.
When was the last pandemic since we (as a people) started creating scientific records that we can study?
I read a summary of the study and I found it fascinating - they were able to cross reference what happened in the game to what we do know about real world events (like bubonic plague).
If you read the article (yeah yeah I know - slashdot...) they took all this into account - ever after all that its one of the only real world examples where they have been able to monitor how people behave with pandemic diseases.
Try to name, for example, an industry that was around 100 years ago that is still around today and is MORE competitive now than it was in 1907.
Easy - PPG Industries - formed in 1883, used to make glass (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) now makes components for nearly everything you touch and see in life.
I'm biased since I used to work for them, but they are a classic example of a company that has been around for more than a hundred years, still makes glass and and is more competitive than they were when they started operations. Oh - and they started out as a mom and pop shop.
What happened in the 1920's was the result of unregulated loans for stocks where you could buy a stock with only a a fraction of the up front cost. Great way to gain alot of wealth fast but once they go down then your pretty much screwed. That is illegal today.
Thats like saying the Roman Empire fell because the taxes were too high paying for all the wars they were losing (hmm - that sounds remarkably like today...). Its true, but there were several other causes.
The Great Depression has been blamed on high European tarrifs, people saving money to pay off debts and rampant speculation - just to name three.
Its just like flying anything - its a very graceful process punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Talk to any pilot - they will tell you this is true.
Also I'm sure there are emergency situations where having your wits about you would be a major plus, for instance if you aborted the launch before orbit (which they can do).
From the sales brochure:
Hit the latest high-performance games with stunning 3D visuals-from simple to spectacular, there's a game for every age and ability, on your PC or online.
Thing uses VIA chipset - it should be able to play games just fine. From my own experience btw - WoW runs just fine on crap hardware (Intel Intergrated GFX for instance) unless your into battlegrounds.