I agree with you that paper is easier to read and annotate. However, it's harder to shape, reconfigure, and retransmit.
While I'll grant you all of that, the guy who's post you're responding to was discussing publishing. And on that note, many compositors still remember how to shape, reconfigure and transmit paper. It's messy and slow but we can do it. Because our _real_ media has been film, not paper. Except for the few lucky souls with digital presses, it still is. All hail film.
obProgramming: film based computers would just be like really really slow crt based computers (which were used in the 40s and 50s, IIRC)
And no, Microsoft does not make all known proprietary software products, contrary to the belief of many conspiracy theorists who have spent too much time on board alien space ships..;)
Don't tell me, tell Microsoft. They either believe it, or plan to make it reality as rapidly as they can....;)
Osbourne's marketing department screwed the company just fine, without any help from anyone else. Let this be a lesson to you: THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER MARKETERS TO LIVE;)
As a graphic artist, I have frequently had marketers as bosses, and they were generally the worst bunch around.
The story I've always heard is that it looked good when written in Roman characters (read: English). Doesn't mean anything, but it may have originated from the Latin 'sonus' (sound).
Heck, if I were him, I would have called it Morita.
Some reporter once asked IIRC, John Lennon, what he called his haircut. (This was back during the British Invasion). He said he called it Arthur.
Well it was definately part of the plot of one of Spider Robinson's novels. It's true - missiles are a showy and relatively crappy delivery system. With all the crap that gets smuggled into this country, how hard could it be to sneak in ~50 kilos of unassuming metal? AFAIK, customs doesn't have dogs with geiger counters.
In my view, one shared by many statisticians, the Bible Code is nothing more than proof that if you look hard enough you will eventually find a monkey wildly typing away at "Romeo and Julies".
"'It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?' Stupid monkey!"
Well, my experience has been that senators are pretty clueless in a lot of ways, but are quite active. It takes a lot of work to get elected for public office... sadly that work is more or less unrelated to what's required of a senator.
Graphics professionals generally don't get iMacs. We need big ass monitors, more expandability, and faster processors.
We get the G3s and now, the G4s. In fact, I've got a G4 on order right now.
Yeah, the colors are cool, but the silver G4s are also cool. (nb there's a silver iMac coming out rsn) For my personal case preferences though I'd want one of the following: A nice cherry or mahognony wood case (with lots of brass hardware, ornamentation, etc.) or a something reminisicent of a CM5. Gotta have blinkenlights. Lots of blinkenlights. Hook 'em up to MACAST's vu meter, or something.
IIRC, modern fusion bombs use extremely powerful plastic explosives to set off the fusion component. Using a fission bomb to trigger a fusion bomb was the old way of doing it, but I don't think that we still do that.
Not very much. Apple paid Xerox to show some people what could be done. Most of the techies had seen it all before (a few were ex-Xerox to boot), and really just wanted their bosses, and Steve to be convinced.
But the early Xerox GUIs are not all that similar to anything else.
This sounds like pyrkrete (sp) which was a mixture of ice and wood pulp. It was resistant to melting, very cheap to produce, extremely sturdy and floated in water. IIRC a few prototype ships were made out of the stuff and worked just great. It's still probably not a half-bad idea.
Okay, okay, I was being too vague. Understanding of my post depended on familiarity with Tolkien's Ring trilogy. By now you'll have either gotten the joke, or come to the inevitable conclusion that you must read the three Ring books.
Dreamweaver's okay as far as visual web apps go. But if there's one dream program that I know of, it's BBEdit. It doesn't suck, and it edits text like a champ, with lots of little extras that help a lot (like grep for those of us with no grep in the OS).
if one visits Fort Meade, Maryland, they will note the large geodesic bubbles on the tops of buildings; apparently the purpose is to obscure the directions their satellite dishes point, for obvious reasons
They're also handy to keep crap from accumulating in the dish. Lots of people use em.
They said the computer (that could do the crack in under a second) was called a "Thinking Machine" it's actually a CM-5 (connection machine 5) made by Thinking Machines, Inc. Lotsa places have CM-5s, they're one of the most popular production supercomputers. Univ's like U. of Illinois (NCSA) and others have them availible to students.
The NSA has a CM-5. I know, because I saw it. Sitting idle in the public museum. With other 'outdated and useless' computers (like a Cray XMP and a big robotic disk loader).
So if they don't use a CM-5 because it's obsolete for them, I shudder to think of what they do use. Although god forbid they should sell the old mainframes to people who could give them good homes. Quake's been ported to the Connection Machine, right?
After the invasion of M$ HQ, we will take all their code (on 2 millioni floppy disks) and melt it once and for all for the good of the OSS community(the world also.)
Well, don't forget that you'll have to carry all of that to Mt. St. Helens, as it's the nearest convenient volcano.
Yeah but where I live, there are no lines at the DMV, the road test is conducted in the parking lot and is very easy, and there is no requirement for parallel parking. It was the written test that I dreaded - who the hell cares how many feet headlights have to be able to illuminate?
Then go to the DMV and voluntarily surrender your license. Then immediately apply to get a new license. It may set you back a little cash, but it should work.
Due to weird insurance regulations in FL, I would apply for a licence every summer when I got back from school (where I had no car) and surrendered it every fall when I went back to school. Got a lot of funny looks, but it wasn't a big deal.
It's not really an updating utility. (but more on that later)
Autorepair basically consists of it running a checksum on the various, scattered components of the apps and confirming that they're all there in the first place. If anything's wrong, it reinstalls the item in question from a built-in archive.
This raises a number of security problems, my favorite being that if it can download and install patches from over the net, would MS really bother to ask you (there are already reports of Office quietly sending 'antipiracy' info to MS via the net) and wouldn't it make it easy to cripple the app to push the upgrade cycle?
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While I'll grant you all of that, the guy who's post you're responding to was discussing publishing. And on that note, many compositors still remember how to shape, reconfigure and transmit paper. It's messy and slow but we can do it. Because our _real_ media has been film, not paper. Except for the few lucky souls with digital presses, it still is. All hail film.
obProgramming: film based computers would just be like really really slow crt based computers (which were used in the 40s and 50s, IIRC)
Don't tell me, tell Microsoft. They either believe it, or plan to make it reality as rapidly as they can.... ;)
As a graphic artist, I have frequently had marketers as bosses, and they were generally the worst bunch around.
Heck, if I were him, I would have called it Morita.
Some reporter once asked IIRC, John Lennon, what he called his haircut. (This was back during the British Invasion). He said he called it Arthur.
Well it was definately part of the plot of one of Spider Robinson's novels. It's true - missiles are a showy and relatively crappy delivery system. With all the crap that gets smuggled into this country, how hard could it be to sneak in ~50 kilos of unassuming metal? AFAIK, customs doesn't have dogs with geiger counters.
"'It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?' Stupid monkey!"
All roads lead to The Simpsons
Well, my experience has been that senators are pretty clueless in a lot of ways, but are quite active. It takes a lot of work to get elected for public office... sadly that work is more or less unrelated to what's required of a senator.
dammit, I knew I shouldn't have moved to seattle from brighton.
Graphics professionals generally don't get iMacs. We need big ass monitors, more expandability, and faster processors.
We get the G3s and now, the G4s. In fact, I've got a G4 on order right now.
Yeah, the colors are cool, but the silver G4s are also cool. (nb there's a silver iMac coming out rsn) For my personal case preferences though I'd want one of the following: A nice cherry or mahognony wood case (with lots of brass hardware, ornamentation, etc.) or a something reminisicent of a CM5. Gotta have blinkenlights. Lots of blinkenlights. Hook 'em up to MACAST's vu meter, or something.
IIRC, modern fusion bombs use extremely powerful plastic explosives to set off the fusion component. Using a fission bomb to trigger a fusion bomb was the old way of doing it, but I don't think that we still do that.
You must be Canadian or something. US spleenwarts are larger than Imperial spleenwarts.
Not very much. Apple paid Xerox to show some people what could be done. Most of the techies had seen it all before (a few were ex-Xerox to boot), and really just wanted their bosses, and Steve to be convinced.
But the early Xerox GUIs are not all that similar to anything else.
This sounds like pyrkrete (sp) which was a mixture of ice and wood pulp. It was resistant to melting, very cheap to produce, extremely sturdy and floated in water. IIRC a few prototype ships were made out of the stuff and worked just great. It's still probably not a half-bad idea.
Yeah, but would it pick up a bus and throw it back down?
I can ask anything?
Okay, okay, I was being too vague. Understanding of my post depended on familiarity with Tolkien's Ring trilogy. By now you'll have either gotten the joke, or come to the inevitable conclusion that you must read the three Ring books.
Dreamweaver's okay as far as visual web apps go. But if there's one dream program that I know of, it's BBEdit. It doesn't suck, and it edits text like a champ, with lots of little extras that help a lot (like grep for those of us with no grep in the OS).
They're also handy to keep crap from accumulating in the dish. Lots of people use em.
The NSA has a CM-5. I know, because I saw it. Sitting idle in the public museum. With other 'outdated and useless' computers (like a Cray XMP and a big robotic disk loader).
So if they don't use a CM-5 because it's obsolete for them, I shudder to think of what they do use. Although god forbid they should sell the old mainframes to people who could give them good homes. Quake's been ported to the Connection Machine, right?
Well, don't forget that you'll have to carry all of that to Mt. St. Helens, as it's the nearest convenient volcano.
Yeah but where I live, there are no lines at the DMV, the road test is conducted in the parking lot and is very easy, and there is no requirement for parallel parking. It was the written test that I dreaded - who the hell cares how many feet headlights have to be able to illuminate?
Then go to the DMV and voluntarily surrender your license. Then immediately apply to get a new license. It may set you back a little cash, but it should work.
Due to weird insurance regulations in FL, I would apply for a licence every summer when I got back from school (where I had no car) and surrendered it every fall when I went back to school. Got a lot of funny looks, but it wasn't a big deal.
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"
It's not really an updating utility. (but more on that later)
Autorepair basically consists of it running a checksum on the various, scattered components of the apps and confirming that they're all there in the first place. If anything's wrong, it reinstalls the item in question from a built-in archive.
This raises a number of security problems, my favorite being that if it can download and install patches from over the net, would MS really bother to ask you (there are already reports of Office quietly sending 'antipiracy' info to MS via the net) and wouldn't it make it easy to cripple the app to push the upgrade cycle?
There already is a good video game movie. It's called Tron. Has anyone here seen Tron?