Even if what you explained is true, how does that negate the assertion that this is simply another evolutionary path towards living on dry land?
evolution doesn't have objectives; the fish is not part of a trajectory that will lead to land-living. evolution works by immediate advantage in terms of number of offspring. it would only be a path in retrospect.
i'm a huge celine dion fan*; her inspirational music really helps a long photoshop session. however, when i heard that her new CD wouldn't play on my mac i downloaded MP3s of all the tracks from hotline instead of buying it. sorry, sony!
considering the large number of obsessive mac-bashers in the world, i'm surprised that a malicious os x virus hasn't surfaced yet.
i'm not an expert, but i would imagine that at least one api in os x would be fertile ground for a virus; quartz executables, opengl scripts, postscript fonts, quicktime. all of these can be embedded in innocuous documents.
the level of risk is increased by the present sense of complacency. (and no, i'm not working for an anti-virus co).
Myth: CFCs cannot reach the stratosphere because they are heavier than air.
Fact: Air in the lower atmosphere (which extends far above the stratosphere) moves in masses, not as individual molecules. A number of studies have found CFCs and the products of their breakdown in the stratosphere (Rowland, EPA).
Myth: Volcanoes and other natural sources contribute much more chlorine than CFCs to the ozone layer.
Fact: Chlorine compounds from natural sources are soluble, and so are washed out of the atmosphere. CFCs, by contrast, are not soluble and so are able to reach the stratosphere. A number of studies have shown that the majority of chlorine in the stratosphere comes from man-made chemicals (Rowland, Taubes, Russell et al, EPA).
doesn't any country realise that the best way to win is to conquer australia first? you get five extra units and you only have to defend two territories.
I think bane is a little strong. XPress owns what used to be called DTP ( ie: back when non-desktop publishing existed) because it offered a level of precision missing from its then competitor PageMaker.
The success of the package is pretty much accidental. It was originally written as a word processor for the (hopelessly unsuccessful) Apple///.
XPress on Mac is now the status quo in print production; freelancers, art directors, designers - pretty much anyone who is serious - uses it and the QPS workflow software. XPress also has a mature plug-in market which is another barrier to competitors.
On the other hand, Quark's screw-up in moving to OSX is the best opportunity for a competitor since the mid-nineties when XPress seemed stuck at version 3.1
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe near you:
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Microsoft releases Windows/X, a BSD-based unix with an open-source layer called Freud and a graphical interface called Water. The OS uses twin APIs; a cleaned up Win32 called Soot and (uh) Chocolate.
1: a massive 16K of RAM (1980) 2: a massive 512K of RAM (1985) 3: a massive 8M of RAM (1991) 4: a massive 128M of RAM (1996) 5: a massive 1.5G of RAM (this weekend)
The names like ASUS, ABIT and SOYO will become analogous to "China White", "Panama Red", "Columbia Gold", etc. once the DRM, SSSCA, DMCA and other alphabet soup unjustices takes firm hold in this country.
"Go out and score an athlon motherboard, Fat Freddy - and don't get burned again this time!"
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why don't you just do it like this and save everyone the migraine-like experience of reading your posts?
MacUser UK puts most of the US computer press to shame. if you see it in the US it's well worth buying. I'm surprised that Dennis doesn't do a US version, though i guess their license might forbid them from doing that.
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i have a new G4 dual under my desk and i can't hear it unless i put my ear within about three inches of it.
on the other hand, the thing weighs a ton. closing the side panel feels like slamming a car door.
"The Palladium is the wooden statue that fell from heaven and was kept at Troy; for so long as it was preserved, the city was safe."
Anyone else suspecting that the original codename was "Trojan Horse"?
i understand that both these sites are protesting apple's labelling them as "rumor" sites.
evolution doesn't have objectives; the fish is not part of a trajectory that will lead to land-living. evolution works by immediate advantage in terms of number of offspring. it would only be a path in retrospect.
I understand that the whole project was done in Manhattan, which seems pretty crazy.
i'm a huge celine dion fan*; her inspirational music really helps a long photoshop session. however, when i heard that her new CD wouldn't play on my mac i downloaded MP3s of all the tracks from hotline instead of buying it. sorry, sony!
*work with me here, people.
considering the large number of obsessive mac-bashers in the world, i'm surprised that a malicious os x virus hasn't surfaced yet.
i'm not an expert, but i would imagine that at least one api in os x would be fertile ground for a virus; quartz executables, opengl scripts, postscript fonts, quicktime. all of these can be embedded in innocuous documents.
the level of risk is increased by the present sense of complacency. (and no, i'm not working for an anti-virus co).
Myth: CFCs cannot reach the stratosphere because they are heavier than air.
Fact: Air in the lower atmosphere (which extends far above the stratosphere) moves in masses, not as individual molecules. A number of studies have found CFCs and the products of their breakdown in the stratosphere (Rowland, EPA).
Myth: Volcanoes and other natural sources contribute much more chlorine than CFCs to the ozone layer.
Fact: Chlorine compounds from natural sources are soluble, and so are washed out of the atmosphere. CFCs, by contrast, are not soluble and so are able to reach the stratosphere. A number of studies have shown that the majority of chlorine in the stratosphere comes from man-made chemicals (Rowland, Taubes, Russell et al, EPA).
>Well at least no American I know has ever put a "fag" in his mouth.
i guess you're not in new york or san francisco.
doesn't any country realise that the best way to win is to conquer australia first? you get five extra units and you only have to defend two territories.
Hi, RIAA guy!
I think bane is a little strong. XPress owns what used to be called DTP ( ie: back when non-desktop publishing existed) because it offered a level of precision missing from its then competitor PageMaker.
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The success of the package is pretty much accidental. It was originally written as a word processor for the (hopelessly unsuccessful) Apple
XPress on Mac is now the status quo in print production; freelancers, art directors, designers - pretty much anyone who is serious - uses it and the QPS workflow software. XPress also has a mature plug-in market which is another barrier to competitors.
On the other hand, Quark's screw-up in moving to OSX is the best opportunity for a competitor since the mid-nineties when XPress seemed stuck at version 3.1
Microsoft releases Windows/X, a BSD-based unix with an open-source layer called Freud and a graphical interface called Water. The OS uses twin APIs; a cleaned up Win32 called Soot and (uh) Chocolate.
that he found it necessary to share with us? it's like he has some kind of inner turmoil and is trying to persuade us in order to persuade himself.
ah, premonition coming on: dude, you're getting a mac.
1: a massive 16K of RAM (1980)
2: a massive 512K of RAM (1985)
3: a massive 8M of RAM (1991)
4: a massive 128M of RAM (1996)
5: a massive 1.5G of RAM (this weekend)
"hansel, the MP3s are in the computer"
"they're inside the computer??!!?"
"Go out and score an athlon motherboard, Fat Freddy - and don't get burned again this time!"
why don't you just do it like this and save everyone the migraine-like experience of reading your posts?
They're going to call it Super-Duper Drive.
> EXPLAIN TO ME: 50 KARMA +1 FUNNY -1 OVERRATED = 49
slashdot caps karma at 50 points, so 50 +1 = 50, then 50 -1 = 49. but you knew that already, really.
MacUser UK puts most of the US computer press to shame. if you see it in the US it's well worth buying. I'm surprised that Dennis doesn't do a US version, though i guess their license might forbid them from doing that.
the question is not what color the universe is, but how to change it.
the first mac to have a built-in mic port was the classic.
makes you wonder whatever happened to the beatles' beef with apple.
the company (apple computer) was expressly forbidden to take part in the music industry.
why buy a vaporware mac when you can build a pc from parts that haven't been invented for less money that you haven't earned yet?