Doesn't answer the question as to why Adobe Photoshop doesn't work with Nikon Cameras. You'd think Nikon would be calling up developers to get their support included.
Quark used to be #1 when it came to desktop publishing. One could easily argue they still are in fact.
You have to remember Quark took over Pagemaker's marketshare with new features and better pricing. Adobe's response to Quark was Indesign, which last I checked was making inroads into Quarks marketshare.
And then there's Quark - who has done a lot of dumb things to upset their customers. The most recent of which are the terribly offense postcard campaign they launched recently (read about it > here). Bottom line is they don't really seem to care anymore, but they still have the greatest marketshare when it comes to layout.
The rest of us will just have to stop the virus scanner from doing its thing.
There's other limitations too - like for instance some games I can watch my PVR-250 in the background just fine with no slowdown, a lot of games though clobber the tuner output for some reason.
Actually I don't get this - the only cd-rom drive I ever had that quit working was a Yamaha CWR4001T - which was one of the first IDE cdr/cdrw drives. I think I got it in 96. I gave it to my brother a year ago (and it still worked then) Last I heard it doesn't like to record anymore, but reads disks just fine - probably needs to be re-aligned.
But I literally have boxes of 2x, 4x, 12x (yes 12x its a scsi nec) sitting around not because they are broken, but because they are obsolete - I give them away to people who need parts. Every one of them works just fine.
I think a lot of it has to do with the environment the drive lives in. Dust, smoke and excessive humidity can damage more than just optical equipment much more rapidly than people believe.
And that is not true for Linux/KDE or Linux/GNOME?
Its not actually. For example - if an application doesn't use the qtk, gtk, etc toolkit the look and feel will be different.
I've had some applications in Linux that when you drag your mouse over text the text is copied. Some you have to use an option to copy the text (like the Mac and Windows are). Some linux applications you can do that and never paste.
Most every form in most every windows app (from winamp to word) has a cut/copy/paste/undo - its the exact same context menu. Not true for every linux app - where some forms don't have context menus, some do. In fact most don't I've found - take xfig for example.
Trains in portland don't have conductors (never have). They just have drivers - who occasionally yell at the passengers to behave. Otherwise the annoucements and doors opening/closing are all automated.
There are a lot of Russian made games - Eagle Dynamics who made the Flanker series and its sucessor LOMAC.
GSC has made plenty of games, and its working on Stalker which from the demo's I've seen will be quite cool when it comes out.
There's a lot of application companies as well - and as far as hacking goes, nearly all the password recovery tools for office, pdf and archive formats come from Russia (like Elcomsoft).
Indirectly a lot of programs are being written in Russian by outsourcing agencies. So applications you thought were being made in the USA could have been made elsewhere.
So in answer to your question you can - today - buy several games that were made in Russia.
On my desktop with the XP 64 beta I was incredibly impressed by its performance. Applications didn't run faster per se, but the whole os booted nearly instantly, and programs (even 32 bit apps like office) loaded nearly instantly. IO performance was much better.
If you consider the verticle market photoshop is designed for its actually pretty cheap.
I do support for an application that does accounting for glass shops and its a 12,000 dollar app. We have an app that runs on pick that starts around 120k.
All you have to do to gain privaledge on a mac is pop up a modal form asking for the password - which in my experience (doing tech support) users type in without even thinking about it.
Probably because the mac asks for the password frequently (doing updates, changing settings and installing software) so users don't think twice about it.
There's no deadly warning either when that form pops up.
I have an aftermarket battery in my 1st gen ipod and I was actually able to drive from portland to eastern idaho and back on a single charge. That was 12 hours one way.
The kicker? Yeah it did last the whole way, and the ipod battery was already down from use the previous week.
It never ceases to amaze me how well the after market batteries work on the ipod.
Couple things - a) Acrobat is totally modular. Remove what you don't need and use what you do. b) there's actually a whole command line structure for Acrobat (I used to work in support for this product) where you can disable the splash screen (its also a menu option).
Yeah but embedded ole objects rely pretty heavily on their host application. So this would be a pretty easy demonstration to fake.
Good example - if you embed a visio document into a word document (which you can do really easily) - don't expect the person you send it to have a fully embeded version of vision inside the word doc to add/change the visio drawing. You may even have problems printing a full resolution copy of the drawing inside word without having visio installed.
Same holds true for media - the most it will do is show you an icon. Do this as a test though - install real media onto one computer - embed a real media clip into that word document - ship the file off to someone running a mac, or windows without real media. Notice how you'll get an error when playing the file inside word.
I've found - at best ole objects are nifty tricks you can perform in the office, but by no means a replacement for file format placement, or content distribution (like media in word, or excel docs in word etc).
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Doesn't answer the question as to why Adobe Photoshop doesn't work with Nikon Cameras. You'd think Nikon would be calling up developers to get their support included.
Quark used to be #1 when it came to desktop publishing. One could easily argue they still are in fact.
You have to remember Quark took over Pagemaker's marketshare with new features and better pricing. Adobe's response to Quark was Indesign, which last I checked was making inroads into Quarks marketshare.
And then there's Quark - who has done a lot of dumb things to upset their customers. The most recent of which are the terribly offense postcard campaign they launched recently (read about it > here). Bottom line is they don't really seem to care anymore, but they still have the greatest marketshare when it comes to layout.
Did you know - since Acrobat 6 you can imbed swf files inside pdf files?
Good question - who liable when an employee while doing there job breaks company policies reguarding interaction with the public?
Its about half a volkswagon bug :).
The rest of us will just have to stop the virus scanner from doing its thing.
There's other limitations too - like for instance some games I can watch my PVR-250 in the background just fine with no slowdown, a lot of games though clobber the tuner output for some reason.
I clean up my little brothers windows machine with that ms-anti-spyware tool and it had over 90 spyware apps on it.
:)
So I can believe it
Actually I don't get this - the only cd-rom drive I ever had that quit working was a Yamaha CWR4001T - which was one of the first IDE cdr/cdrw drives. I think I got it in 96. I gave it to my brother a year ago (and it still worked then) Last I heard it doesn't like to record anymore, but reads disks just fine - probably needs to be re-aligned.
But I literally have boxes of 2x, 4x, 12x (yes 12x its a scsi nec) sitting around not because they are broken, but because they are obsolete - I give them away to people who need parts. Every one of them works just fine.
I think a lot of it has to do with the environment the drive lives in. Dust, smoke and excessive humidity can damage more than just optical equipment much more rapidly than people believe.
Peter Davidson was 31 when he took on the role of Dr. Who #5 in 1981.
Just so you know - the doctor can regenerate 12 times.
(I can't believe I even said that)
Besides - the world won't end if they extend it - there are plenty of plot holes in Dr. Who already.
And that is not true for Linux/KDE or Linux/GNOME?
Its not actually. For example - if an application doesn't use the qtk, gtk, etc toolkit the look and feel will be different.
I've had some applications in Linux that when you drag your mouse over text the text is copied. Some you have to use an option to copy the text (like the Mac and Windows are). Some linux applications you can do that and never paste.
Most every form in most every windows app (from winamp to word) has a cut/copy/paste/undo - its the exact same context menu. Not true for every linux app - where some forms don't have context menus, some do. In fact most don't I've found - take xfig for example.
You know the thing is - if this were MS going after these bloggers I don't people on slashdot would take this stance.
The fact if a real newspaper or a magazine had reported on this same issue apple wouldn't have got nearly as far.
The final question is at the end of the day - are bloggers journalists - and if they aren't, what are they?
Trains in portland don't have conductors (never have). They just have drivers - who occasionally yell at the passengers to behave. Otherwise the annoucements and doors opening/closing are all automated.
There are a lot of Russian made games - Eagle Dynamics who made the Flanker series and its sucessor LOMAC.
GSC has made plenty of games, and its working on Stalker which from the demo's I've seen will be quite cool when it comes out.
There's a lot of application companies as well - and as far as hacking goes, nearly all the password recovery tools for office, pdf and archive formats come from Russia (like Elcomsoft).
Indirectly a lot of programs are being written in Russian by outsourcing agencies. So applications you thought were being made in the USA could have been made elsewhere.
So in answer to your question you can - today - buy several games that were made in Russia.
Fractint used to make fractals on my 386 (with a 387 co-processor) almost instantly too.
On my desktop with the XP 64 beta I was incredibly impressed by its performance. Applications didn't run faster per se, but the whole os booted nearly instantly, and programs (even 32 bit apps like office) loaded nearly instantly. IO performance was much better.
Ahh but they do have city tax, at least I helped a customer setup their point of sale app the other day to deal with this.
Only other place I can think that does this is Ohio.
My only problem with quicktime is its a poor performing application. I can barely play divx clips with my 1.2 ghz mac mini.
I used to have a celeron 400 laptop that could do that and play dvd movies. Both of which seem to be a chore for my mac.
If you consider the verticle market photoshop is designed for its actually pretty cheap.
I do support for an application that does accounting for glass shops and its a 12,000 dollar app. We have an app that runs on pick that starts around 120k.
All you have to do to gain privaledge on a mac is pop up a modal form asking for the password - which in my experience (doing tech support) users type in without even thinking about it.
Probably because the mac asks for the password frequently (doing updates, changing settings and installing software) so users don't think twice about it.
There's no deadly warning either when that form pops up.
I have an aftermarket battery in my 1st gen ipod and I was actually able to drive from portland to eastern idaho and back on a single charge. That was 12 hours one way.
The kicker? Yeah it did last the whole way, and the ipod battery was already down from use the previous week.
It never ceases to amaze me how well the after market batteries work on the ipod.
Actually the site > www.p-p-p-powerbook.com is back up and running :).
Couple things - a) Acrobat is totally modular. Remove what you don't need and use what you do. b) there's actually a whole command line structure for Acrobat (I used to work in support for this product) where you can disable the splash screen (its also a menu option).
Enjoy!
Yeah but embedded ole objects rely pretty heavily on their host application. So this would be a pretty easy demonstration to fake.
Good example - if you embed a visio document into a word document (which you can do really easily) - don't expect the person you send it to have a fully embeded version of vision inside the word doc to add/change the visio drawing. You may even have problems printing a full resolution copy of the drawing inside word without having visio installed.
Same holds true for media - the most it will do is show you an icon. Do this as a test though - install real media onto one computer - embed a real media clip into that word document - ship the file off to someone running a mac, or windows without real media. Notice how you'll get an error when playing the file inside word.
I've found - at best ole objects are nifty tricks you can perform in the office, but by no means a replacement for file format placement, or content distribution (like media in word, or excel docs in word etc).
Are you talking about PDF? You do realize its an open spec format right?
Its also what OSX uses for rendering the desktop.