5 or 10% would be pushing our luck?! Please don't tell that to all the Mac users out there. I think their ever-shrinking 5% demographic would be shocked to find no Macromedia apps. I remember using Photoshop 4 for Unix on some SGI hardware a long time ago..now THAT'S a niche market if I ever saw one.
Not real sure if Adobe even makes Photoshop for Unix anymore. Basically, a group of folks have to get together and use their buying power to influence a port. If there were enough people lined up to buy Macromedia Studio 2004 for Linux that it would balance out Macromedia's dev costs, I'm sure they'd do it.
Maybe someone needs to start a real petition. It's about time for Linux to move from the desktop/server image to the production/artist image. We need more apps to create with.
You only pointed out hardware, and we're talking about software here. RTFA.
I guess you can defend mac vs. pc hardware debates and almost always win on price, but when you're talking about the OS and software, that's a whole different ballgame.
Whatever is spinning those wheels is going to be making noise no matter what. Brushless DC motors aren't silent, especially when they're cranking out 200hp. Plus you can always get some used, hard tires if you want to be a friday night Drive-thru hero, spinning sideways out of the local McDonalds and screeching the tires.
Basically, this car isn't for you anyway. A 911 Turbo doesn't approach the price range for this car.
Yep, that was my first indication that it was a heatsink issue...it'd run fine (in a cold room) with a 100mhz bus, but the minute I changed it to 133 it had issues.
Same thing happened to me recently. I put together a webserver for a friend and based it on an Athlon XP2100 with a crappy ECS motherboard.
Had it working fine at home under light load but it was acting funny during software installation. Thought it was the crap CDRom drive I threw in it and ignored it. Big mistake.
Later I took it to his office, hooked it to the t1 and got it all setup. It was working ok..until the freezups, random reboots and crashing started THE NEXT DAY.
He finally dropped it off at my work and I double checked everything. I got it narrowed down to the stupid cpu heatsink/fan, and after much cursing, removed it. Hmm. Here's something I didn't notice before. The bottom of the heat sink is NOTCHED to match the PGA the cpu fits in. What a novel idea..only I had the heatsink flipped 180 degrees. No wonder it was such a bitch to install...and remove. Reinstallation went well (still a pain), and the server has been perfect ever since. But that cdrom is still sketchy.
Note to self: spend the few extra bucks for a name brand cdrom next time.
Yeah, I see ownership the same way. The law should as well. Once I buy a playstation, I can use it to play games, cds, dvd movies, whatever. Sony shouldn't give two shits about what I do with it after I get it home. Here's how I define ownership.
1. Someone has something I want to buy. 2. I buy it. 3. It's mine. The seller's rights terminate the second they hand it to me. 4. I can use it or throw it off a bridge. Doesn't matter either way.
For some reason the laws in this country disagree with me, but oh well.
I agree with your point about drivers under linux. I recently bought a playstation controller adapter to use with ePSXe, a playstation emulator. It's made by Soyo and connects via usb. Well, guess what? I plugged it in and usbview showed a 'psx-usb pad'. So I plugged a playstation controller into it, configured Omnijoy in ePSXe, and I was ready to get my game on. I couldn't believe everything worked so well.
On the other hand, I tried it on my evil twin pc running XP (it's for my wife and roommate). After reading through dozens of message boards bitching about it, I found out that the drivers that ship with it won't work for XP. You'll launch a game and it'll lock up your pc. Well, that's wonderful. After some more digging I found some beta drivers that work (or are supposed to, haven't really tried it in windows fully).
The whole driver situation, particularly for edge peripherals like this, is pretty funny. Mandrake 9.1 supported it out of the box (along with my Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad), while windows needed not only drivers, but SPECIAL drivers.
Guess what, windows uses a scsi emulation layer for ide burners also. It IS a dirty hack, but it works...even if it creates overhead for the processor.
Yes, but ironically enough, short guys want tall girls, and short girls end up with tall guys most of the time.
I'm 6' 7" and my wife is 5' 4". All of my girlfriends have been..uh...vertically challenged. I guess all they really need is a bed warmer and someone to reach that top shelf.
I realize your response was tongue-in-cheek, however, SUV's have been proven time and again that they are more dangerous to other cars on the road. Most minor accidents involving SUV's result in death. That's not safety. It's gotten so bad that other manufacturers like Subaru, Honda, etc. have felt the need to re-engineer their cars to make them survive side collisions better. Lots of companies have built side-impact beams into their vehicles now, along with side curtain airbags, etc. My wife's new Accord coupe has about 8 airbags in various places. Makes us feel more comfortable about sharing the road with the titans of excess.
Fuck speed limits, I say we ban SUV's before they kill more people in side or head-on collisions. Here in Dallas, this year, there have been at least 12 deaths attributed to SUV's and their drivers falling asleep at the wheel, careening over a few lanes of traffic, and OWNING another car full of victims. When your standard Toyota gets hit by a monster truck that weighs 3x as much doing 70mph on the highway, you're dead.
Where do you get your zany ideas about 'the average slashdotter'? I need references as to who broke into computers, fucked shit up, and had slashdotters crying foul.
If you're talking about Mr. Mitnick, he never fucked anything up, he just made some archival backups of some data he wasn't supposed to see.
Also I don't see too many advocates of piracy. People are pirating music for a number of reasons. The absurd price of cd's is one, the unavailability of online music stores is two, the local unavailability of hard copies of music is three..there are just so many reasons behind it. If the record industry hadn't been sleeping for the last 5 years we would probably have a decent iTunes type online store years ago. Regardless, there aren't many outspoken piracy advocates; on the contrary, I read alot more posts from people to the effect that they'd buy more music if it was offered to them at a reasonable price, and that's the reason iTunes exploded like it did.
Seems like you're a new guy here despite your user number, because you wasted alot of time responding to AC's that were trolling you, time after time. Like the saying goes, don't feed the trolls.
Good point. Even most concepts behind internal combustion engines were created a century ago..and we're still driving gasoline powered cars for the most part.
Old tech isn't necessarily bad tech, and new tech isn't necessarily better than the old. Case in point: isa hardware modems vs. pci softmodems.
I've had to RMA 2 maxtor drives in the past. Both times they hooked me up pretty well. The replacement drive came fast, and they gave me a bigger drive as a replacement both times. That was under their old standard 3 years for anything warranty.
One time I sent in a 20g ata66 drive and they sent me a new 30g ata133 drive. No complaints here.
Also while we're on the subject of warranties, I recommend KDS for monitors. Their *tron series use Sony tubes with KDS guts, and carry a no-bullshit 7 year warranty. My mom called me one day crying about how her monitor went black. She got on the phone with KDS and they sent her a new one OVERNIGHT. That's what I call service.
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I think the color scheme they use is based on an old pimp quote. A pimp was once asked what his favorite colors were, and he said, "I got two favorite colors, gold and green. The green is for the money, the gold is for the honey, heh heh heeyyy!" So the SANS green condition clearly shows that Microsoft is getting rich regardless of negative public sentiment, security flaws, Slashdot rants, government inquiries, or any other combination of factors.
They don't necessarily need to 'move to' x86, they can 'move alongside' x86. Believe it or not, Apple had Rhapsody running on x86 hardware awhile back, and they were developing apps side by side on their hardware and x86 hardware, just in case.
It's about time they bought a big stake in VMware or another emulation company, and let MacOSX run on x86 hardware. It'd save them time on development and cost. Then again, Apple can't compete outside their bubble of influence. The clone market nearly destroyed them before. I guess after all is said and done they need their high prices to keep them alive.
I wouldn't be surprised if MacOSX came out for x86 in the future, it almost came out in the past.
An adult buyer !== an adult gamer. I'd wager that most 'adult buyers' of gamecubes are buying them for their kids. "Yay another mario game! Thanks daddy!"
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Doing it with Dreamweaver is a royal pain in the ass. I don't recommend anyone try it, you'll only lose hair, sleep, or both.
Google's new tag line:
Google...it's like an RTFM for the entire world.
5 or 10% would be pushing our luck?! Please don't tell that to all the Mac users out there. I think their ever-shrinking 5% demographic would be shocked to find no Macromedia apps. I remember using Photoshop 4 for Unix on some SGI hardware a long time ago..now THAT'S a niche market if I ever saw one.
Not real sure if Adobe even makes Photoshop for Unix anymore. Basically, a group of folks have to get together and use their buying power to influence a port. If there were enough people lined up to buy Macromedia Studio 2004 for Linux that it would balance out Macromedia's dev costs, I'm sure they'd do it.
Maybe someone needs to start a real petition. It's about time for Linux to move from the desktop/server image to the production/artist image. We need more apps to create with.
You only pointed out hardware, and we're talking about software here. RTFA.
I guess you can defend mac vs. pc hardware debates and almost always win on price, but when you're talking about the OS and software, that's a whole different ballgame.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but do you mean ichthyologist? As in, ichthy (fish) ologist (studier of)?
Whatever is spinning those wheels is going to be making noise no matter what. Brushless DC motors aren't silent, especially when they're cranking out 200hp. Plus you can always get some used, hard tires if you want to be a friday night Drive-thru hero, spinning sideways out of the local McDonalds and screeching the tires.
Basically, this car isn't for you anyway. A 911 Turbo doesn't approach the price range for this car.
This is typical of a world that's slipping into mysticism as a way of making things more exciting, and mouthbreathers will lap it up.
Hey! I'm only breathing through my mouth because my allergies have stopped up my nose, you insensitive clod!
You were working for a Sci-fi/paranormal website?
I really, really hope you weren't typing up the content. I haven't seen English abused like this since...some other post here earlier today!
Yep, that was my first indication that it was a heatsink issue...it'd run fine (in a cold room) with a 100mhz bus, but the minute I changed it to 133 it had issues.
Same thing happened to me recently. I put together a webserver for a friend and based it on an Athlon XP2100 with a crappy ECS motherboard.
Had it working fine at home under light load but it was acting funny during software installation. Thought it was the crap CDRom drive I threw in it and ignored it. Big mistake.
Later I took it to his office, hooked it to the t1 and got it all setup. It was working ok..until the freezups, random reboots and crashing started THE NEXT DAY.
He finally dropped it off at my work and I double checked everything. I got it narrowed down to the stupid cpu heatsink/fan, and after much cursing, removed it. Hmm. Here's something I didn't notice before. The bottom of the heat sink is NOTCHED to match the PGA the cpu fits in. What a novel idea..only I had the heatsink flipped 180 degrees. No wonder it was such a bitch to install...and remove. Reinstallation went well (still a pain), and the server has been perfect ever since. But that cdrom is still sketchy.
Note to self: spend the few extra bucks for a name brand cdrom next time.
Do you know of a place to legally purchase roms? ALL roms from every company? From any machine ever made? No?
Ok so your point was...
Yeah, I see ownership the same way. The law should as well. Once I buy a playstation, I can use it to play games, cds, dvd movies, whatever. Sony shouldn't give two shits about what I do with it after I get it home. Here's how I define ownership.
1. Someone has something I want to buy.
2. I buy it.
3. It's mine. The seller's rights terminate the second they hand it to me.
4. I can use it or throw it off a bridge. Doesn't matter either way.
For some reason the laws in this country disagree with me, but oh well.
I agree with your point about drivers under linux. I recently bought a playstation controller adapter to use with ePSXe, a playstation emulator. It's made by Soyo and connects via usb. Well, guess what? I plugged it in and usbview showed a 'psx-usb pad'. So I plugged a playstation controller into it, configured Omnijoy in ePSXe, and I was ready to get my game on. I couldn't believe everything worked so well.
On the other hand, I tried it on my evil twin pc running XP (it's for my wife and roommate). After reading through dozens of message boards bitching about it, I found out that the drivers that ship with it won't work for XP. You'll launch a game and it'll lock up your pc. Well, that's wonderful. After some more digging I found some beta drivers that work (or are supposed to, haven't really tried it in windows fully).
The whole driver situation, particularly for edge peripherals like this, is pretty funny. Mandrake 9.1 supported it out of the box (along with my Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad), while windows needed not only drivers, but SPECIAL drivers.
I'm really starting to feel sorry for XP users.
Guess what, windows uses a scsi emulation layer for ide burners also. It IS a dirty hack, but it works...even if it creates overhead for the processor.
Yes, but ironically enough, short guys want tall girls, and short girls end up with tall guys most of the time.
I'm 6' 7" and my wife is 5' 4". All of my girlfriends have been..uh...vertically challenged. I guess all they really need is a bed warmer and someone to reach that top shelf.
I realize your response was tongue-in-cheek, however, SUV's have been proven time and again that they are more dangerous to other cars on the road. Most minor accidents involving SUV's result in death. That's not safety. It's gotten so bad that other manufacturers like Subaru, Honda, etc. have felt the need to re-engineer their cars to make them survive side collisions better. Lots of companies have built side-impact beams into their vehicles now, along with side curtain airbags, etc. My wife's new Accord coupe has about 8 airbags in various places. Makes us feel more comfortable about sharing the road with the titans of excess.
Fuck speed limits, I say we ban SUV's before they kill more people in side or head-on collisions. Here in Dallas, this year, there have been at least 12 deaths attributed to SUV's and their drivers falling asleep at the wheel, careening over a few lanes of traffic, and OWNING another car full of victims. When your standard Toyota gets hit by a monster truck that weighs 3x as much doing 70mph on the highway, you're dead.
Where do you get your zany ideas about 'the average slashdotter'? I need references as to who broke into computers, fucked shit up, and had slashdotters crying foul.
If you're talking about Mr. Mitnick, he never fucked anything up, he just made some archival backups of some data he wasn't supposed to see.
Also I don't see too many advocates of piracy. People are pirating music for a number of reasons. The absurd price of cd's is one, the unavailability of online music stores is two, the local unavailability of hard copies of music is three..there are just so many reasons behind it. If the record industry hadn't been sleeping for the last 5 years we would probably have a decent iTunes type online store years ago. Regardless, there aren't many outspoken piracy advocates; on the contrary, I read alot more posts from people to the effect that they'd buy more music if it was offered to them at a reasonable price, and that's the reason iTunes exploded like it did.
Seems like you're a new guy here despite your user number, because you wasted alot of time responding to AC's that were trolling you, time after time. Like the saying goes, don't feed the trolls.
Good point. Even most concepts behind internal combustion engines were created a century ago..and we're still driving gasoline powered cars for the most part.
Old tech isn't necessarily bad tech, and new tech isn't necessarily better than the old. Case in point: isa hardware modems vs. pci softmodems.
According to an old Wired issue, India and Pakistan are in fierce competition and may turn to their own little space race.
So it'll be Hindunauts or Camelnauts. Or something.
*ducks*
I've had to RMA 2 maxtor drives in the past. Both times they hooked me up pretty well. The replacement drive came fast, and they gave me a bigger drive as a replacement both times. That was under their old standard 3 years for anything warranty.
One time I sent in a 20g ata66 drive and they sent me a new 30g ata133 drive. No complaints here.
Also while we're on the subject of warranties, I recommend KDS for monitors. Their *tron series use Sony tubes with KDS guts, and carry a no-bullshit 7 year warranty. My mom called me one day crying about how her monitor went black. She got on the phone with KDS and they sent her a new one OVERNIGHT. That's what I call service.
I think the color scheme they use is based on an old pimp quote. A pimp was once asked what his favorite colors were, and he said, "I got two favorite colors, gold and green. The green is for the money, the gold is for the honey, heh heh heeyyy!" So the SANS green condition clearly shows that Microsoft is getting rich regardless of negative public sentiment, security flaws, Slashdot rants, government inquiries, or any other combination of factors.
They don't necessarily need to 'move to' x86, they can 'move alongside' x86. Believe it or not, Apple had Rhapsody running on x86 hardware awhile back, and they were developing apps side by side on their hardware and x86 hardware, just in case.
It's about time they bought a big stake in VMware or another emulation company, and let MacOSX run on x86 hardware. It'd save them time on development and cost. Then again, Apple can't compete outside their bubble of influence. The clone market nearly destroyed them before. I guess after all is said and done they need their high prices to keep them alive.
I wouldn't be surprised if MacOSX came out for x86 in the future, it almost came out in the past.
Actually the 3rd step, as usual, is Profit!
An adult buyer !== an adult gamer. I'd wager that most 'adult buyers' of gamecubes are buying them for their kids. "Yay another mario game! Thanks daddy!"