Even purchasing PE from the store for $99 (Frequently with a $30 rebate) is well within the hobby consumers budget. They have probably already spent about a grand on various camera equipment.
Adobe would probably LOVE to make a Linux version, but the near imposiibility of being able to provide a binary only application for "Linux" is certainly hindering them (Never never never never would they OS it).
Though I suspect that one of these days they will pick a single distro like RH and just do it. A lot of people build their entire machines around using Photoshop, AI and InDesign, so picking a distro that is supported by Adobe is probably not too far fetched. (Hell a ton of people went with buying an Apple computer for that very reason!)
My wife and I, both software engineers with 15+ years of experience, me mainly Windows but some Linux and her mainly Linux, had similar poor install experiences recently with RH9 and Slack 10.
Both installs after doing the minimum kernel/libs install attempt to go into a graphical install by default and on both distros on two different machines, it just hard locked when switching the video mode.
I forget what she had to do to make hers work, but I had to go through a complex recovery boot process to hand edit the X config file to finish the install!
I have installed every version of windows on dozens of machines (including the same machine as the failed linux installs) and the VESA graphic mode that the windows install goes into has/never/ failed on me.
This is a prime example (and just one of many) of the very rough edges that Linux still has that most Linux geeks completely gloss over. How hard can it be to write a universal 640x480 or 800x600 VESA VGA driver? (I can anwser this because I wrote one myself for DOS, it's not that hard! Hint, TEST the video mode change after you issue it to see if it took before continuing! Do not trust the video cards query function to tell you if it can support the mode or not!)
If this had been my first Linux install, my jaw would have dropped, been left completely confused and dangling for a fix and I would have not taken a second look at it again.
Again, neither myself or my wife are anything close to stupid users and Linux can still be a very frustrating experience, to hell with Windows problems and comparisons, if Linux is so much better, why isn't it any better? (And frequently so much worse?)
I've called several times on people to stop patting themselves on their collective backs and get to work for real on some of these issues, but I too ususally get modded to troll when I do.
But MS has hundreds of patent licenses from other companies and has performed patent trades with others. When new infringements are found they get sued and then settle with a license or trade or fix the infringement.
With Linux, virtually nothing has been properly liscenced. Thus the problems (write or wrong). So overall, MS and Windows are currently much less likeley to have a problem with this because they have been taking care of the problem year by year all along.
First, "underdogism" is a very real phenomenon. People LOVE their Macs at a direct inverse ratio of how much other people HATE them.
There are people that love Windows (I do, I get more done on my Windows PC than anyone I have ever met has on a Mac or Linux)), there are people that hate Windows (See/.) and the biggest majority sanely and simply don't have an emotional opinion one way or the other.
The only people willing to put up with Apple's overcharging, limited availability and constant obsolescence are people that (to use a Mac term) "insanely" LOVE their Macs.
Secondly, as for why people keep going back to Windows... What MOST people want from a computer is something that works well enough and is easy to deal with when moving from computer to computer to computer at work and at home. A stable, consistant and universal paradigm across all machines encounterred in a day or week so that the "computer" essentially stays out of their way. Using a desktop is not an end, it is a means, a desktop should be pretty much invisible. Something Windows has done well up till possibly Longhorn. (We'll see.) Windows provides this ubiquitousness and invisibility in a way that Macs and Linux currently do not.
COX does not allow spoofing through their mail servers... I was doing this for a few months, then they started disallowing spoofing as well as blocking port 25.
The blocking of outbound port 25 (Which Cox has been doing for years) is the begining of the end of the internet.
When ISPs start deciding what their customers can and can't do on the internet, it's the end of everything. Every ISP will just become an small island of service. What next? Block 21? Hey how about blocking everything but 80? But wait, zombie mail relays can be setup on any port, so set them up on 80, now Comcast can't block outbound 80 can they?!?!? So it solves nothing in the long run.
I need port 25 open so that I can send email through my workplace server. In order to do that I now have to send mail to a third party server at port 2525 and SPOOF the return address. But what happens when spoofing is no longer allowed?
Whiolesale blocking of port 25 is a lazy, destructive answer to the problem. It may stop the flow of zombie machine spam in the short term, but it also seriously harms legitimate users of their network.
At least Comcast has the sense to block it for identified zombie machines and not for every IP they own like COX.
You said: "1. Cormack is very inexperienced in the area of statistical filtering. Agreed!!! 2. Cormack went into the testing with many presuppositions. Also Agreed!!"
To that I say:
"You mean like any other normal person who might be wanting to use such a product?"
There is some merit in having someone that knows nothing about a subject, test something. I mean it's exactly how Consumer Reports works. For the 1% 31337 of us it is worthless "information", but for the other 99%...
This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that IBM has failed to be able to produce a 3 gig Power 5 chip (even though they PROMISED) because their strained silicon and silicon on insulator "tricks" failed to produce a usable 90nm process does it?
Since that announcement was recently made that 3.0 gig is currently beyond their grasp (and they tried SO hard!), this article interview seems to be nthing more than backpeddling / damage control.
IBM is putting an emphisis on alternative tactics to processor "power" now that they have clearly (and admittedly) failed in their quest for more raw speed, though you wouldn't know it from this interview. Then again, they were so SURE that their new silicon technologies would blast them past 3 gig a year or two ago, am I supposed to feel upbeat about them being able to think harder about processor design now?
It's pretty simple really, in fact the procedure is exactly the same for installing Linux and not getting rooted in the first 5 minutes you are on the net.
After installing Windows, enable the firewall, OR connect computer to net behind a linksys or other stand alone firewall.
If you actually think that the result of a slide scanner beats the result of a digital SLR raw image file then I have to respectfully say, "You don't know what you are talking about".
Not only does digital naturally have 1 to 2 zones of added exposure range over 35mm, but scanning any negative with even the best scanner reduces films already inferior exposure range by up to one additional zone! Not to mention reducing films potentially superior line resolution in the process to that of the current crop of digital SLRs.
Don't compare film to a $99 snappy digital camera. If you are going to make judgements such as "Don't use digital". At least start out by comparing the output of a decent Digital SLR with a film SLR.
They have no right? Of course not, who said they did? Linux Today has a right to put them there though and you have a right to boycott, but you better start boycotting Slashdot while you are at it or you will be philosophicly inconsistant.
The real bottom line is,/rational/ people use multiple OSes for multiple reasons and don't have emotional ties to such things. Trying to segrigate OS visibility smaks a bit of... OSism?:(
That actually does happen fairly often, but the larger company can easily afford the missteps while the harassment of the smaller company may make it go out of buisness. They STILL have to be dragged through the courts and they may go bankrupt before the trial is even over.
Well that is pretty much exactly what is happening in the US and it is NOT working.
And yes, though patents can protect the little guy, the little guy usually has no way to defend himself in court.
The BETTER way is to make the process work as it is supposed too. With patents being granted based on being unique, after proper investigation, and then easily overturned later if prior art is shown, without a lenghtly and costly cour battle, but merely by filing a petition and having the USPO do it's own investigation.
This might require hiring a second patent examiner though...:)
A rich text edit control? Or god forbid a lightweight HTML rendering control to provide a rich text/graphic display environment? (Not for web browsing)
I do (Nvidia), on 5 machines. Never a bluescreen. But my one ATI machine did BS during bad Divx file playback occasionally. Switched to Nvidia, no more BS.
For the IBM PC, DOS was cheap, and all that was needed to get the job done. It was not "Rubbish", it was small, fast and clean (At least at first). It worked and was easy to use.
Microsoft's success is based on two things.
1) Superior software for the job/machine/user combination targeted.
2) "Extremely aggressive" marketing and distrbution.
It is a complete fallacy that if MS produts truly were worthless crap, that they would still be where they are today.
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/GetDrDewCategor y. asp?Category=Global%20Warming
The one thing that everyone should be aware of is the HUGE mistake in the 90s over the "measured" raise in the earths temperature that started the real hysteria (including culminating in the Kyoto Treaty). It was a statistical mistake made due to the closure of almost half the temp monitoring station in North America, all of them in remote locations which had a lower mean temp than the ones located in the cities. Suddenly there was a huge uptick in the earths temp over the period of closures! Oh noes!
One intersting hypothesis (http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/120 8/) is that the mean temp of the planet over the last 100 years may have more to do with the sun's activity itself than anything else. Temps and sunspot activity are very suspiciously linked. Like the graphs overlap each other perfectly. Hmmmm.
Upshot is: Climate IS changing, Earth IS warming (a little), not nearly as fast as once thought, specific cause is still completely unknown. Maybe man-made, maybe natural variation, maybe combination of the two. But in the end, still completely unknown.
The more people boycott, the less sales they get and the MORE they turn up the heat, since you give them even more potential ammunition for the trading == lost sales theory!
A novel plan for making them back off might be to actually buy more CDs to "prove" that music sharing does not decrease sales. In fact if it became obvious that music sharing INCREASED CD sales, then all this silly litigation might just go away.
This is your alternate philosophy thought for the day...
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Even purchasing PE from the store for $99 (Frequently with a $30 rebate) is well within the hobby consumers budget. They have probably already spent about a grand on various camera equipment.
Adobe would probably LOVE to make a Linux version, but the near imposiibility of being able to provide a binary only application for "Linux" is certainly hindering them (Never never never never would they OS it).
Though I suspect that one of these days they will pick a single distro like RH and just do it. A lot of people build their entire machines around using Photoshop, AI and InDesign, so picking a distro that is supported by Adobe is probably not too far fetched. (Hell a ton of people went with buying an Apple computer for that very reason!)
My wife and I, both software engineers with 15+ years of experience, me mainly Windows but some Linux and her mainly Linux, had similar poor install experiences recently with RH9 and Slack 10.
/never/ failed on me.
Both installs after doing the minimum kernel/libs install attempt to go into a graphical install by default and on both distros on two different machines, it just hard locked when switching the video mode.
I forget what she had to do to make hers work, but I had to go through a complex recovery boot process to hand edit the X config file to finish the install!
I have installed every version of windows on dozens of machines (including the same machine as the failed linux installs) and the VESA graphic mode that the windows install goes into has
This is a prime example (and just one of many) of the very rough edges that Linux still has that most Linux geeks completely gloss over. How hard can it be to write a universal 640x480 or 800x600 VESA VGA driver? (I can anwser this because I wrote one myself for DOS, it's not that hard! Hint, TEST the video mode change after you issue it to see if it took before continuing! Do not trust the video cards query function to tell you if it can support the mode or not!)
If this had been my first Linux install, my jaw would have dropped, been left completely confused and dangling for a fix and I would have not taken a second look at it again.
Again, neither myself or my wife are anything close to stupid users and Linux can still be a very frustrating experience, to hell with Windows problems and comparisons, if Linux is so much better, why isn't it any better? (And frequently so much worse?)
I've called several times on people to stop patting themselves on their collective backs and get to work for real on some of these issues, but I too ususally get modded to troll when I do.
Buy a "Nostromo Speed Pad" and program the keys however you like (And save undue gaming wear on your KB too!)
Affects both kinds of software of course...
But MS has hundreds of patent licenses from other companies and has performed patent trades with others. When new infringements are found they get sued and then settle with a license or trade or fix the infringement.
With Linux, virtually nothing has been properly liscenced. Thus the problems (write or wrong). So overall, MS and Windows are currently much less likeley to have a problem with this because they have been taking care of the problem year by year all along.
I always thought that it was telling that we have so many hand jestures for "F*CK YOU" and none for "I'm Sorry"...
Does this really need to be explained?
/.) and the biggest majority sanely and simply don't have an emotional opinion one way or the other.
First, "underdogism" is a very real phenomenon. People LOVE their Macs at a direct inverse ratio of how much other people HATE them.
There are people that love Windows (I do, I get more done on my Windows PC than anyone I have ever met has on a Mac or Linux)), there are people that hate Windows (See
The only people willing to put up with Apple's overcharging, limited availability and constant obsolescence are people that (to use a Mac term) "insanely" LOVE their Macs.
Secondly, as for why people keep going back to Windows... What MOST people want from a computer is something that works well enough and is easy to deal with when moving from computer to computer to computer at work and at home. A stable, consistant and universal paradigm across all machines encounterred in a day or week so that the "computer" essentially stays out of their way. Using a desktop is not an end, it is a means, a desktop should be pretty much invisible. Something Windows has done well up till possibly Longhorn. (We'll see.) Windows provides this ubiquitousness and invisibility in a way that Macs and Linux currently do not.
COX does not allow spoofing through their mail servers... I was doing this for a few months, then they started disallowing spoofing as well as blocking port 25.
Bullpucky.
The blocking of outbound port 25 (Which Cox has been doing for years) is the begining of the end of the internet.
When ISPs start deciding what their customers can and can't do on the internet, it's the end of everything. Every ISP will just become an small island of service. What next? Block 21? Hey how about blocking everything but 80? But wait, zombie mail relays can be setup on any port, so set them up on 80, now Comcast can't block outbound 80 can they?!?!? So it solves nothing in the long run.
I need port 25 open so that I can send email through my workplace server. In order to do that I now have to send mail to a third party server at port 2525 and SPOOF the return address. But what happens when spoofing is no longer allowed?
Whiolesale blocking of port 25 is a lazy, destructive answer to the problem. It may stop the flow of zombie machine spam in the short term, but it also seriously harms legitimate users of their network.
At least Comcast has the sense to block it for identified zombie machines and not for every IP they own like COX.
You said: "1. Cormack is very inexperienced in the area of statistical filtering. Agreed!!!
2. Cormack went into the testing with many presuppositions. Also Agreed!!"
To that I say:
"You mean like any other normal person who might be wanting to use such a product?"
There is some merit in having someone that knows nothing about a subject, test something. I mean it's exactly how Consumer Reports works. For the 1% 31337 of us it is worthless "information", but for the other 99%...
This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that IBM has failed to be able to produce a 3 gig Power 5 chip (even though they PROMISED) because their strained silicon and silicon on insulator "tricks" failed to produce a usable 90nm process does it?
Since that announcement was recently made that 3.0 gig is currently beyond their grasp (and they tried SO hard!), this article interview seems to be nthing more than backpeddling / damage control.
IBM is putting an emphisis on alternative tactics to processor "power" now that they have clearly (and admittedly) failed in their quest for more raw speed, though you wouldn't know it from this interview. Then again, they were so SURE that their new silicon technologies would blast them past 3 gig a year or two ago, am I supposed to feel upbeat about them being able to think harder about processor design now?
It's pretty simple really, in fact the procedure is exactly the same for installing Linux and not getting rooted in the first 5 minutes you are on the net.
After installing Windows, enable the firewall, OR connect computer to net behind a linksys or other stand alone firewall.
How hard was that?
Actually at the rate of obsolescence in the digital world, it's not hard to puck up a used digital camera off an aquaintence for about that...
If you actually think that the result of a slide scanner beats the result of a digital SLR raw image file then I have to respectfully say, "You don't know what you are talking about".
Not only does digital naturally have 1 to 2 zones of added exposure range over 35mm, but scanning any negative with even the best scanner reduces films already inferior exposure range by up to one additional zone! Not to mention reducing films potentially superior line resolution in the process to that of the current crop of digital SLRs.
Don't compare film to a $99 snappy digital camera. If you are going to make judgements such as "Don't use digital". At least start out by comparing the output of a decent Digital SLR with a film SLR.
They have no right? Of course not, who said they did? Linux Today has a right to put them there though and you have a right to boycott, but you better start boycotting Slashdot while you are at it or you will be philosophicly inconsistant.
/rational/ people use multiple OSes for multiple reasons and don't have emotional ties to such things. Trying to segrigate OS visibility smaks a bit of... OSism? :(
The real bottom line is,
That actually does happen fairly often, but the larger company can easily afford the missteps while the harassment of the smaller company may make it go out of buisness. They STILL have to be dragged through the courts and they may go bankrupt before the trial is even over.
Uh...
:)
Well that is pretty much exactly what is happening in the US and it is NOT working.
And yes, though patents can protect the little guy, the little guy usually has no way to defend himself in court.
The BETTER way is to make the process work as it is supposed too. With patents being granted based on being unique, after proper investigation, and then easily overturned later if prior art is shown, without a lenghtly and costly cour battle, but merely by filing a petition and having the USPO do it's own investigation.
This might require hiring a second patent examiner though...
"... so what are you waiting for?"
A rich text edit control? Or god forbid a lightweight HTML rendering control to provide a rich text/graphic display environment? (Not for web browsing)
I do (Nvidia), on 5 machines. Never a bluescreen. But my one ATI machine did BS during bad Divx file playback occasionally. Switched to Nvidia, no more BS.
Here is some true insight for you...
For the IBM PC, DOS was cheap, and all that was needed to get the job done. It was not "Rubbish", it was small, fast and clean (At least at first). It worked and was easy to use.
Microsoft's success is based on two things.
1) Superior software for the job/machine/user combination targeted.
2) "Extremely aggressive" marketing and distrbution.
It is a complete fallacy that if MS produts truly were worthless crap, that they would still be where they are today.
The OEM disk that he obviously used does NOT upgrade.
The retail version DOES upgrade.
Heh, IE already has a triple-click function built in :)
Why wait? Get "Crazy Browser" It adds a lot to IE that is "missing" such as tabbed browsing, gestures, popup blocking and all that "crap" :)
Want a URL? google for it, it's the first hit.
The article is about jail for people that illegally trade copyrighted works. Not about jailing people because they use P2P software.
There is enough skew in the replies to every article, can we keep the skew out of the headlines please?
Well here's one place to start reading...
r y. asp?Category=Global%20Warming
0 8/) is that the mean temp of the planet over the last 100 years may have more to do with the sun's activity itself than anything else. Temps and sunspot activity are very suspiciously linked. Like the graphs overlap each other perfectly. Hmmmm.
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/GetDrDewCatego
The one thing that everyone should be aware of is the HUGE mistake in the 90s over the "measured" raise in the earths temperature that started the real hysteria (including culminating in the Kyoto Treaty). It was a statistical mistake made due to the closure of almost half the temp monitoring station in North America, all of them in remote locations which had a lower mean temp than the ones located in the cities. Suddenly there was a huge uptick in the earths temp over the period of closures! Oh noes!
One intersting hypothesis (http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/12
Upshot is: Climate IS changing, Earth IS warming (a little), not nearly as fast as once thought, specific cause is still completely unknown. Maybe man-made, maybe natural variation, maybe combination of the two. But in the end, still completely unknown.
On the other hand...
The more people boycott, the less sales they get and the MORE they turn up the heat, since you give them even more potential ammunition for the trading == lost sales theory!
A novel plan for making them back off might be to actually buy more CDs to "prove" that music sharing does not decrease sales. In fact if it became obvious that music sharing INCREASED CD sales, then all this silly litigation might just go away.
This is your alternate philosophy thought for the day...