Make's you wonder when and where it will end. And what state the USA (and most 1st world countries for that matter) will end up?
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I actually have a box of sid chips from back when I repaired C64's on the side. I posted a message on hardsid bulletin boards - but I got nothing but cheap offers (I'll take all of them for free etc). Maybe get rid of them on ebay?
Sun is about as arrogant as Microsoft in this reguard. I remember back when I had an IT job sitting through sun sales meetings and they sincerely believing that we could replace all our development and product machines from Linux or Windows with Solaris machines on Sparc hardware.
if your into publishing acrobat can save you a fortune at usps because now you can mail composite (and with acrobat 6 even seperations) proofs to customers via email.
Talked to several people who say they have saved several hundred dollars a week alone with pdf files because they no longer have to make composite proofs and mail them about.
Also most preflight software, image setters and plate setters are compatible with PDF files. These things don't work with html.
Then for scanning there's no other file format that can preserve the image, and the text in the same file - acrobat and acrobat capture do this ever day. Many companies use this to electronically file old records - records that were made before computers existed. Acrobat even has an index feature you can use to catalogue them.
OSX wouldn't have that lovely display if it wasn't for PDF - because of its compression probably saves the Macintosh several hundred megs of ram.
Sure most people its a waste of time but the PDF file format does have its place.
I work in an outsourcing call center - trust me the last thing a company thinks about before paying some guy 300$ a month (if they are lucky) to fix dell computers is call quality or even issue resolution.
I'm sure you don't know how to use some of the more advanced features of Word like creating and managing paragraph and character styles. Sure if all your doing is tabulating, merging mail or writing memo's any idiot could use word - but why not just use works and save yourself some money.
Word processing applications like Framemaker (for those who don't know a lot of manuals and text-books are written in fm) are similarly complicated, but it can do things like generated toc and indices. I've talked to technical writers who is has taken well over 6 months to learn the ins and outs of that app. Took me 3 weeks of intensive training - now I find its an easy app to use. Now if some publisher was hiring a framemaker guru I would have no problem demonstrating my expertise.
But your right - I doubt the average high school is teaching some of the more advanced features of word - or teaching kids more useful applications (like fm/tex/arbortext/troff etc) that are actually being used by publishers to make books.
I've found that the ATI cards still have far too many driver issues for my tastes. Classic example the write delayed failure some users with AMD systems and certian hard drives have experienced while using ATI cards.
Or how about back when ATI users couldn't even run Mozilla...
I'll stick with Nvidia and I'll probably get a 5900 when I get the cash:).
If you can't f'ing install it you can't evaluate its superiority
Yeah but if you can't install it I can measure yours.
Seriously I've never seen anything wrong with its installer - its really cake compared to a lot of things. First time I ever used it was on a sparcstation simply because Redhat stopped developing for it and I fell in love so much so that at my job (at the time I worked for a small software company) I switched ALL our Redhat systems to Debian. Reason? Mainly the consistancy - all config files are in/etc for instance and the quality of the packages.
do you have any documentation for this? seriously - I install the software, but setting it up to be a full blown PDC that is automated is a lot harder than it sounds. IE I don't want to copy entries from my windows registry to various files on the Unix server every time I add a pc to the domain. And say you do get it to act as a pdc, there's still no documentation on roaming profiles, what to do if you don't need/want roaming profiles etc etc.
There's so many versions of samba, and so little actual concise documentation on what a debian user (or redhat user for that matter) could do to make this really work like it should.
You know anyone who has tried to use a computer to decode morse code wouldn't say things like that. In many ways its like handwriting recognition, or ocr. Many computers have a hard time with high speed code, straight keys and bugs. Is it a g, or a m and an e going really fast - sometimes it sounds the same to me.
There are much better digital modes to use if you have a computer - I think the most popular is PSK31.
The CW requirement is actually part of an international treaty set up by the ITU - international telecommunications union. Personally I think the whole no-code arguement is a lot of people who want something for nothing - frankly if everyone who reads this studied 15-30 minutes a day for a few weeks you could pass the exam easily. Do you want it? Earn it.
Most ham bands are less then 400 khz wide (thats less then half a mhz) - the largest hf band is 1.7 mhz wide (10 meters) and it has to be shared by other hams (and sometimes other groups like commercial operators and military/government operators) running a variety of modes responsibly.
As far as one positive thing the FCC has done recently - how about 60 meters? Most of us are now allowed to operate on there. Its only 5 channels, but its more then we used to have.
Any amount of em that would cause serious problems on board a plane would require a huge amount of input power.
Don't you think airport security would want to know why you have a shop kart full of batteries and a backpack with a linear amplifiee in it before getting on the plane?
I have a hard time believing this really. I have a NEC +RW drive - and I made a test disk with a clip on it - so far I have honestly yet to find a drive or a dvd player that wouldn't read it (admitedly I just try it at friend's houses). It worked on all the dvd players I have at home for instance - like the Sony PS2, Xbox and my Apex AD660A. Apex and PS2 (this is an original release date PS2) are somewhat old players now.
I suppose in one sense tho that makes DVD-R/-RW "more complicated" than DVD+R/+RW... because there is *no* authoring format for the "+" writers. Sure, you can save some encoded files to DVD+RW... (and probably not proof it in your DVD player unless you just got a DVD player this year... then MAYBE). What your service provider will do is copy your DVD+RW onto a DVD-R Authoring disc because that is the master.
I have yet to find a dvd player actually that won't play the dvd movies I make on my DVD+RW drive. Two of them are over 3 years old too - one is a Apex AD660A and the other is a Sony Playstation 2.
Car entertainment systems are common place in places like Japan - most people however have the common sense to only turn it on when its stop and go traffic where frankly you could do both.
Its just like anything - I'm an amateur radio operator and personally I'm not into manually matching hf antennas while traveling at freeway speeds - so I don't - if I have to make a major change I'll pull off to the side of the road. I don't think they should ban antenna matching networks in cars though or force people to buy expensive automatic tuners.
I used to be a sys-admin at a small software company who had a big client (AOL) - now I work at a tech support outsourcing company. I'm not alone either one of my co-workers used to design hard drives at Fujitsu. One the most interesting guys to join our team used to be the head of a marketing department at an even larger company - he looks out of place, but he's a good tech.
To me it doesn't look like things are getting any better.
I dunno what you are talking about. I have a 120 gb western digital hdd that I bought boxed at fry's for 89$ (one of their sales) - comes with a 5 year warrenty - only picked it up a few months ago. Also - its very silent.
Also - my two previous disks (seagate 40 and 80 gig) are happily serving up data in my file server on reiser/lvm - they have been on non-stop for the last year or so and are still clicking along nicely - and they are quiet too.
Flickering had nothing to do with the OS - it had everything to do with the chipset and moreso what mode you were in.
For instance DblNTSC looked quite nice on my A1200. As did any mode on my A3000 - with the flicker fixer (basically the opposite of a vga to ntsc convertor).
I wouldn't knock the OS too much - its only recently that we have os's that respond as quickly as AmigaDOS did in the early 90's. I still have a tape full of 3d animations I still can't believe what we could do on an 8 meg machine.
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Heh - I can do you one better. I support advanced graphics software at Stream and I make less than 15,000$ before taxes.
I feel guilty period.
Thats ME! Oh crap!
Make's you wonder when and where it will end. And what state the USA (and most 1st world countries for that matter) will end up?
I actually have a box of sid chips from back when I repaired C64's on the side. I posted a message on hardsid bulletin boards - but I got nothing but cheap offers (I'll take all of them for free etc). Maybe get rid of them on ebay?
Why wait two weeks to install Gentoo? Just install Debian and run apt-get install vice
Not only is vice faster than Frodo, but its almost more compatible.
Sun is about as arrogant as Microsoft in this reguard. I remember back when I had an IT job sitting through sun sales meetings and they sincerely believing that we could replace all our development and product machines from Linux or Windows with Solaris machines on Sparc hardware.
if your into publishing acrobat can save you a fortune at usps because now you can mail composite (and with acrobat 6 even seperations) proofs to customers via email.
Talked to several people who say they have saved several hundred dollars a week alone with pdf files because they no longer have to make composite proofs and mail them about.
Also most preflight software, image setters and plate setters are compatible with PDF files. These things don't work with html.
Then for scanning there's no other file format that can preserve the image, and the text in the same file - acrobat and acrobat capture do this ever day. Many companies use this to electronically file old records - records that were made before computers existed. Acrobat even has an index feature you can use to catalogue them.
OSX wouldn't have that lovely display if it wasn't for PDF - because of its compression probably saves the Macintosh several hundred megs of ram.
Sure most people its a waste of time but the PDF file format does have its place.
I would write the company at these addesses,
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html
I work in an outsourcing call center - trust me the last thing a company thinks about before paying some guy 300$ a month (if they are lucky) to fix dell computers is call quality or even issue resolution.
Good thing they live in Australia and are not subject to the DMCA.
I'm sure you don't know how to use some of the more advanced features of Word like creating and managing paragraph and character styles. Sure if all your doing is tabulating, merging mail or writing memo's any idiot could use word - but why not just use works and save yourself some money.
Word processing applications like Framemaker (for those who don't know a lot of manuals and text-books are written in fm) are similarly complicated, but it can do things like generated toc and indices. I've talked to technical writers who is has taken well over 6 months to learn the ins and outs of that app. Took me 3 weeks of intensive training - now I find its an easy app to use. Now if some publisher was hiring a framemaker guru I would have no problem demonstrating my expertise.
But your right - I doubt the average high school is teaching some of the more advanced features of word - or teaching kids more useful applications (like fm/tex/arbortext/troff etc) that are actually being used by publishers to make books.
I've found that the ATI cards still have far too many driver issues for my tastes. Classic example the write delayed failure some users with AMD systems and certian hard drives have experienced while using ATI cards.
:).
Or how about back when ATI users couldn't even run Mozilla...
I'll stick with Nvidia and I'll probably get a 5900 when I get the cash
If you can't f'ing install it you can't evaluate its superiority
/etc for instance and the quality of the packages.
Yeah but if you can't install it I can measure yours.
Seriously I've never seen anything wrong with its installer - its really cake compared to a lot of things. First time I ever used it was on a sparcstation simply because Redhat stopped developing for it and I fell in love so much so that at my job (at the time I worked for a small software company) I switched ALL our Redhat systems to Debian. Reason? Mainly the consistancy - all config files are in
do you have any documentation for this? seriously - I install the software, but setting it up to be a full blown PDC that is automated is a lot harder than it sounds. IE I don't want to copy entries from my windows registry to various files on the Unix server every time I add a pc to the domain. And say you do get it to act as a pdc, there's still no documentation on roaming profiles, what to do if you don't need/want roaming profiles etc etc.
There's so many versions of samba, and so little actual concise documentation on what a debian user (or redhat user for that matter) could do to make this really work like it should.
You know anyone who has tried to use a computer to decode morse code wouldn't say things like that. In many ways its like handwriting recognition, or ocr. Many computers have a hard time with high speed code, straight keys and bugs. Is it a g, or a m and an e going really fast - sometimes it sounds the same to me.
There are much better digital modes to use if you have a computer - I think the most popular is PSK31.
The CW requirement is actually part of an international treaty set up by the ITU - international telecommunications union. Personally I think the whole no-code arguement is a lot of people who want something for nothing - frankly if everyone who reads this studied 15-30 minutes a day for a few weeks you could pass the exam easily. Do you want it? Earn it.
Most ham bands are less then 400 khz wide (thats less then half a mhz) - the largest hf band is 1.7 mhz wide (10 meters) and it has to be shared by other hams (and sometimes other groups like commercial operators and military/government operators) running a variety of modes responsibly.
As far as one positive thing the FCC has done recently - how about 60 meters? Most of us are now allowed to operate on there. Its only 5 channels, but its more then we used to have.
Stream is still hiring for 10$/hr (well no not really, but it makes a good joke anyhow)
Any amount of em that would cause serious problems on board a plane would require a huge amount of input power.
Don't you think airport security would want to know why you have a shop kart full of batteries and a backpack with a linear amplifiee in it before getting on the plane?
I have a hard time believing this really. I have a NEC +RW drive - and I made a test disk with a clip on it - so far I have honestly yet to find a drive or a dvd player that wouldn't read it (admitedly I just try it at friend's houses). It worked on all the dvd players I have at home for instance - like the Sony PS2, Xbox and my Apex AD660A. Apex and PS2 (this is an original release date PS2) are somewhat old players now.
I suppose in one sense tho that makes DVD-R/-RW "more complicated" than DVD+R/+RW... because there is *no* authoring format for the "+" writers. Sure, you can save some encoded files to DVD+RW... (and probably not proof it in your DVD player unless you just got a DVD player this year... then MAYBE). What your service provider will do is copy your DVD+RW onto a DVD-R Authoring disc because that is the master.
I have yet to find a dvd player actually that won't play the dvd movies I make on my DVD+RW drive. Two of them are over 3 years old too - one is a Apex AD660A and the other is a Sony Playstation 2.
You put a mirror on a website with a 56 meg per day limit?
I feel for your cousin - hope he gets better.
Car entertainment systems are common place in places like Japan - most people however have the common sense to only turn it on when its stop and go traffic where frankly you could do both.
Its just like anything - I'm an amateur radio operator and personally I'm not into manually matching hf antennas while traveling at freeway speeds - so I don't - if I have to make a major change I'll pull off to the side of the road. I don't think they should ban antenna matching networks in cars though or force people to buy expensive automatic tuners.
I used to be a sys-admin at a small software company who had a big client (AOL) - now I work at a tech support outsourcing company. I'm not alone either one of my co-workers used to design hard drives at Fujitsu. One the most interesting guys to join our team used to be the head of a marketing department at an even larger company - he looks out of place, but he's a good tech.
To me it doesn't look like things are getting any better.
I dunno what you are talking about. I have a 120 gb western digital hdd that I bought boxed at fry's for 89$ (one of their sales) - comes with a 5 year warrenty - only picked it up a few months ago. Also - its very silent.
Also - my two previous disks (seagate 40 and 80 gig) are happily serving up data in my file server on reiser/lvm - they have been on non-stop for the last year or so and are still clicking along nicely - and they are quiet too.
I should point out that After Effects is still only 700$ - even the "production" bundle is cheaper. And it can do all those text effects.
:).
Plus it runs on Windows or Mac
Flickering had nothing to do with the OS - it had everything to do with the chipset and moreso what mode you were in.
For instance DblNTSC looked quite nice on my A1200. As did any mode on my A3000 - with the flicker fixer (basically the opposite of a vga to ntsc convertor).
I wouldn't knock the OS too much - its only recently that we have os's that respond as quickly as AmigaDOS did in the early 90's. I still have a tape full of 3d animations I still can't believe what we could do on an 8 meg machine.