Graphic designer "So I hear photoshop runs on linux now, wanna show me how to set it up?"
Linux guy: "OK, first you'll need to apply this source patch to WINE, to get photoshopp working. Are your glibc libraries up to date? Which version of GCC is installed on your box? Oh, you wanted to print? that's where it will get complicated..."
Graphic designer: "go away" *switches Mac on. Starts working*
Did anybody else read the subject line as 'Ricer PVRs To Hit Russia' and get visions of set top boxes with oversized wings and a large aluminum exhause pipe coming out of the back with way too many decals plastered all over it?
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That's a pretty serious distortion.
GPL abridges the freedom of everybody, "present" and "future" alike. (By "present" and "future" I assume you mean users of original and derivative works.)
GPL grants freedom to the software, not necessarily the users. That's why it's called 'free software' and not 'free users'. The idea is that free software benefits all, free users just benefit themselves.
Had a very similar experience when doing some programming for a local database shop. Big server meltdown, possible data loss, and I hear the head software architect going through the halls asking for his Oracle for Dummies book.
To this day I hope he was just fucking with everybody, but I was too scared to ask.
They should buncle a Linux distro with every game as well, to really push the envelope. Many computer gamers are fairly adept PC users but may not bother to give linux a try, but having the CD right ther emight spark the curiousity of a good chunk of them.
Think of the buying experience
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You're at the VW dealership, and you climb inside the brand new Beetle. And you see this little white thing near the stereo. You ask the dealer what that's all about, he encourages you to play with it.
You see that it's filed with literally thousands of songs that you can play in the car's stereo instantly.
You ask. He says it's yours with the car.
You go across the street to anotehr car dealer. Inside the car you find the usual CD player with some lame CD they stuck in there. Just one CD at a time.
It's all about overwhelming the prospective buyer with the experience. And the idea of all the music you could ever need at your fingertips is definitely a compelling one.
.. read the headline as "US DoD Committed to iPod".
I can just picture a kid getting caught offguard because he ws playing breakout on his iPod while he was supposed to be guarding the WMD Evidence Construction site.
This thesis shows a system that a guy from McGill University built to use Field Programmable Gate Arrays to generate possible moves. Since FPGAs allow you to do man simple tasks in parallel instead of trying to do one thing at a time very fast as in software, he was able to get an order-of-magnitude speed increase.
Special chess computers like Big Blue used custom-designed ASICs for this same purpose, but FPGAs are a much more accessible solution and will blow a software solution out of the water.
If money buys you a louder voice, isn't it the case that free software sells itself?
Not if no sales person is actively pushing it. If that were the case, OpenOffice would be a household name by now.
In business as in democracy in these times, money will buy you a louder voice. Bills like these simply give a voice to the notion that you can use some of this software for free, and a lot of it is actually pretty good. IBM won't help here, because they simply want to use Linux as a way to charge you an arm and a leg for all of their other services.
The language of choice is being twisted to limit the real choices of consumers and governments.
he didn't turn it on, that's all.
You know, Duhbya forgetting to turn the thing on before trying to go anywhere is even dumber than simply falling off.
Apple, meanwhile, is countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic.
Thank the great good lord someone with clout is finally going to push this position. Incidentally I've only ever seen Apple use the phrase 'Unix-based' or 'unix-like' in their advertising literature, but I haven't been exhaustive by any means.
It's good to see them at least put up a good fight in the name of the greater good (i.e., stopping Unix snobs from weilding that particular sledgehammer against Linux) rather than just capitulating and signing a cheque, which they're certainly able to do.
A big selling point of the original iMacs was that you could get on the internet in under 10 minutes. Streamlining this process with a single ISP would have greatly benifitted Apple as well as Earthlink. Perhaps not selling advertising, but it helps both parties and a sizeable chunk of users.
On the other hand, you could interpret Microsoft's demand that IE be made the default browser (hence getting an icon on the desktop) as selling desktop space, with the price being continued development of MS office.
is that the person who can afford to drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV pays more than someone drivig a Honda Insight. If this results in no or lower gas taxes, people might feel more inclined to buy a gas-swilling monster. At least with gas taxes you pay for what you use, and if you go outside of the state you're just as likely t ofil up outside of the state, which is only fair anyway.
You mention that the *nix file structure is the way it is for effeciency, and that it has been around for ~30 years.
30 years ago, finding an executable program or a library was important, and keeping them all in one place was one way of reducing a couple of k's of memory requirement.
Thankfully this is 2003 and ram is cheaper now, so such worries are nicely behind us. Perhaps now we can keep programs together in a logical way.
environmentalism is really a path to world socialism and world government, in the same vein as the UN. every time an "environmental crisis" appears, there is a always a call for money. money from the government. also, each new claim comes with the associated calls for limits to our freedoms.
That people continue to spout such drivel blows my mind. Hasn't the cold war been over for a while now? Incorporating Rush Limbaugh's soundbytes into a slashdot post is one thing, but sounding like a michigan militiaman is even worse.
Seriously.. Get a grip, the world isn't out to get you.
One possibility is that Photoshop and other programs are designed and developed initially as Mac applications, and then another team is responsible for the Windows port.
Now as we've seen with Microsoft going the other way with Office, that leave the dedicated porting group with no pressure to change design aspects or overall functionality, and they can be left to add improvements over top of the base code, hence why Office on the mac is (now) superior to the Windows version.
This is just a wild guess, but it's a possibility.
On the other hand, perhaps they just need more Altivec training.
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Graphic designer "So I hear photoshop runs on linux now, wanna show me how to set it up?" Linux guy: "OK, first you'll need to apply this source patch to WINE, to get photoshopp working. Are your glibc libraries up to date? Which version of GCC is installed on your box? Oh, you wanted to print? that's where it will get complicated..." Graphic designer: "go away" *switches Mac on. Starts working*
Did anybody else read the subject line as 'Ricer PVRs To Hit Russia' and get visions of set top boxes with oversized wings and a large aluminum exhause pipe coming out of the back with way too many decals plastered all over it?
That's a pretty serious distortion. GPL abridges the freedom of everybody, "present" and "future" alike. (By "present" and "future" I assume you mean users of original and derivative works.) GPL grants freedom to the software, not necessarily the users. That's why it's called 'free software' and not 'free users'. The idea is that free software benefits all, free users just benefit themselves.
Had a very similar experience when doing some programming for a local database shop. Big server meltdown, possible data loss, and I hear the head software architect going through the halls asking for his Oracle for Dummies book. To this day I hope he was just fucking with everybody, but I was too scared to ask.
They should buncle a Linux distro with every game as well, to really push the envelope. Many computer gamers are fairly adept PC users but may not bother to give linux a try, but having the CD right ther emight spark the curiousity of a good chunk of them.
.. the Apple Network Server which ran AIX (!).
You're at the VW dealership, and you climb inside the brand new Beetle. And you see this little white thing near the stereo. You ask the dealer what that's all about, he encourages you to play with it. You see that it's filed with literally thousands of songs that you can play in the car's stereo instantly. You ask. He says it's yours with the car. You go across the street to anotehr car dealer. Inside the car you find the usual CD player with some lame CD they stuck in there. Just one CD at a time. It's all about overwhelming the prospective buyer with the experience. And the idea of all the music you could ever need at your fingertips is definitely a compelling one.
Datasage: Seriously, if your reading this, your probably have a better computer than an Apple IIgs. Faster? Yes. Better? No. /s-o
Here here!
.. read the headline as "US DoD Committed to iPod". I can just picture a kid getting caught offguard because he ws playing breakout on his iPod while he was supposed to be guarding the WMD Evidence Construction site.
... would beg to be charged more money.
This thesis shows a system that a guy from McGill University built to use Field Programmable Gate Arrays to generate possible moves. Since FPGAs allow you to do man simple tasks in parallel instead of trying to do one thing at a time very fast as in software, he was able to get an order-of-magnitude speed increase. Special chess computers like Big Blue used custom-designed ASICs for this same purpose, but FPGAs are a much more accessible solution and will blow a software solution out of the water.
If money buys you a louder voice, isn't it the case that free software sells itself? Not if no sales person is actively pushing it. If that were the case, OpenOffice would be a household name by now.
In business as in democracy in these times, money will buy you a louder voice. Bills like these simply give a voice to the notion that you can use some of this software for free, and a lot of it is actually pretty good. IBM won't help here, because they simply want to use Linux as a way to charge you an arm and a leg for all of their other services. The language of choice is being twisted to limit the real choices of consumers and governments.
he didn't turn it on, that's all. You know, Duhbya forgetting to turn the thing on before trying to go anywhere is even dumber than simply falling off.
.. considering JRR Tolkien's history with Beowulf.
Apple, meanwhile, is countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic. Thank the great good lord someone with clout is finally going to push this position. Incidentally I've only ever seen Apple use the phrase 'Unix-based' or 'unix-like' in their advertising literature, but I haven't been exhaustive by any means. It's good to see them at least put up a good fight in the name of the greater good (i.e., stopping Unix snobs from weilding that particular sledgehammer against Linux) rather than just capitulating and signing a cheque, which they're certainly able to do.
What's the deal with version 1.0? Did they wrap around the data type holder with their constant version upgrades and have to wrap around?
A big selling point of the original iMacs was that you could get on the internet in under 10 minutes. Streamlining this process with a single ISP would have greatly benifitted Apple as well as Earthlink. Perhaps not selling advertising, but it helps both parties and a sizeable chunk of users. On the other hand, you could interpret Microsoft's demand that IE be made the default browser (hence getting an icon on the desktop) as selling desktop space, with the price being continued development of MS office.
is that the person who can afford to drive a huge gas-guzzling SUV pays more than someone drivig a Honda Insight. If this results in no or lower gas taxes, people might feel more inclined to buy a gas-swilling monster. At least with gas taxes you pay for what you use, and if you go outside of the state you're just as likely t ofil up outside of the state, which is only fair anyway.
Why this had to be posted the morning before my presentation to my supervizor is a clear indication that the universe is against me.
Time to hide my network cable until the end of the day.
You mention that the *nix file structure is the way it is for effeciency, and that it has been around for ~30 years.
30 years ago, finding an executable program or a library was important, and keeping them all in one place was one way of reducing a couple of k's of memory requirement.
Thankfully this is 2003 and ram is cheaper now, so such worries are nicely behind us. Perhaps now we can keep programs together in a logical way.
Heh, for ~$19 you can buy yourself a firewire PCI card as well. You'd be pretty daft not to get that instead of the special USB 2.0 cable.
They thought of that..
Anyone remember the eMate?
environmentalism is really a path to world socialism and world government, in the same vein as the UN. every time an "environmental crisis" appears, there is a always a call for money. money from the government. also, each new claim comes with the associated calls for limits to our freedoms.
That people continue to spout such drivel blows my mind. Hasn't the cold war been over for a while now? Incorporating Rush Limbaugh's soundbytes into a slashdot post is one thing, but sounding like a michigan militiaman is even worse.
Seriously.. Get a grip, the world isn't out to get you.
One possibility is that Photoshop and other programs are designed and developed initially as Mac applications, and then another team is responsible for the Windows port.
Now as we've seen with Microsoft going the other way with Office, that leave the dedicated porting group with no pressure to change design aspects or overall functionality, and they can be left to add improvements over top of the base code, hence why Office on the mac is (now) superior to the Windows version.
This is just a wild guess, but it's a possibility.
On the other hand, perhaps they just need more Altivec training.