Actually you sort of got the gist of the problem without realizing it. Computers do all RGB. Printers do CMYK. Why have an image editing program nativly do CMYK if your screen and most computers fundamentally use RGB? So either you can try to do a program native in CMYK and attempt to transform it for screen/computer uses. Or you shift the problem down the chain to a "converter" for printing. RGB to/from CMYK transformation is an extremely complicated problem, and there is no simple angorithm to get it perfect - that's why many lower end graphics programs do not even bother supporting it, because it's a pain in the ass to implement. With all of the problems from incorrect screen gama, to how the printer prints, to how the final type of coloring media all alter the look of the final product, the LAST thing you want is the program in between fucking it up even farther.
As would any guy. But then look at the girls. I know a lot of females who play the sims and love it. Many of them have played no other mainstream game (aside from perhaps solitare). The Sims is popular because it captured a segment of the population that normally doesn't even play games. I'm thinking this hasn't been lost on Nintendo when you look at their upcomming console.
Well here's the thing. Microsoft has money to burn. In fact they have so much money they almost have to burn it. Long term perhaps MS realizes that their dominance is in danger on many fronts. While they're the top dog in many areas and have huge reserves of cash, dumping money into R&D may not be such a bad idea, if just some of these advancements proves to be a winner and/or money maker. It may turn out to be their saving grace when (if?) the empire starts to fall.
Well just to throw this out there, I sort of care. Not really about the next version of windows, but where my support is going to sit. Right now company I admin is all win2k. It's stable with no problems. Didn't really see a reason to go with XP and I still don't. But driver support is starting to lag. I have until 2010 until extended support runs out, but the bigger issue is what happens if machines burn out and I can't get 2000 to load because of lack of drivers. Skipping the XP upgrade saved us a LOT of money. So did sticking with office 2000. But at some point we're going to have to upgrade, and the current MS schedule is going to determine if we upgrade to Vista - which may be a bomb, or wait until the version after that, assuming it can come out before 2010.
I'll second the monthy cupons being handy. I don't rent newer movies so this probably doesn't apply to most people. I signed up for the rewards or whatever in the hell it's called program. I haven't paid for a movie rental in 8 months or so. Just rent an old release the last week of each month and the next month cupon prints on the back.
An adaptation for film might not be a bad idea on film though. Film makers have been trying to get people to go back to the movie theaters for a while now. DOA has two good reasons to view such a thing, and you're going to need wide screen format to fit them both on the screen at the same time. Maybe this could boost movie attendance? =P
My answer is this. You catch me without a cup of coffee and I'm probably going to be tired and in a bad mood. I'll not only be bitchy, but way more likely to disagree with anything. With coffee I'm happy and it's all shmooth sailing. But then again by that logic it might be better to schedule advertising when I'm most likely to be smoking pot, or maybe smoking pot and drinking coffee at the same time.
For 99% of people, probably nothing aside from the same headaches as MS not supporting UFS;) I've also been known to use pkgsrc for software distribution on my mac and that requires a case sensitive file system for some reason. Mainly I just wanted something as close to a Unix file system as I could get so it was a pretty good comprimise.
Yeah, as a Mac user I'd advise people to stay away from UFS on OSX. I figured that because it did so well on FreeBSD I'd use it on OSX as well. Using Jaguar I didn't have many problems and was okay with the system. Used UFS on my newer laptop with Tiger. Unfortuantly I was getting corruption problems. Reformatted the disk and tried it again 2 times but always had to repair stuff with fsck. So I went to case sensitive HFS+ with journaling. No more corruption problems and also noticably faster.
And as someone else said there are compatability problems with UFS and some applications. Mainly due to case sensitivity (would it kill MS to be consistent?)
Until they start putting that shit on DVDs too. Before you start laughing, I recall a time when I would have had the same response concerning movie theaters too. I'm not laughing during the shampoo commercials when I just shelled out $9 to watch a damn movie believe me.
If you actually can say "I refuse to create art unless I am paid X dollars", I don't want your "Art
Well there is a problem with that, and that's the fact that it often takes some money to create many forms of art. And the second problem being that would an artist be as creative if they had to work at walmart all day to make ends meet, as opposed to being able to dedicate themselves to art?
The thing with France is actually a good idea for another reason. It creates a sort of artist middle class, which is what some have been hoping digital music would help along. You make enough money to get by and do what you love - and that's what most artists who are in for the art would be quite happy with.
I guess I'm sort of touchy about the subject. I mean I used to do illistrations because I love doing it, then someone would say "draw me [this]". I'd say, sure for $50. "I'm not paying you $50 freaking dollars!". I mean holy fuck, if some kid spent all day mowing your lawn you'd pay him $50 but not me creating an illistration? And before you poing out that I do illistrations anyway, I'd like to add that it was a subject matter that I really didn't like: so yeah you'd have to pay me... But I think some of that has to do with living in the U.S. where the population on average has art appreciation issues - bet I could have sold it in france:)
Well I don't think he meant uber Amazon.com level sites, but mid-grade sites. Bigger than hello-world.html, smaller than newegg. I've actually seen a LOT of IIS based solutions utilizing SSL that I wouldn't even consider "production grade". The sites go down a lot, stuff is broken left and right, html disaster... but they DO have an ssl certificate.
Usually these sites are an indicator of a business offering a web based "service" although they themselves have nothing to do with technology. In a non tech business which is 100% MS and the IT staff only knows windows, this is pretty common. Although as of late I've been comming across more Apache + Mysql stuff on windows too.
At this point who doesn't have a DVD player that is going to purchase a Revolution? You know anyone that is going to hold out on DVD players and just use the Revolution instead? I'm sure someone at Nintendo realized that those who want a DVD player already have one, and it's doubtful the console will even be markatable as a DVD player. By cutting out something most will never use they can cut the cost of the machine even farther as opposed to embeding a BluRay player and raise the cost $150+ .
I think the addon is the best choice. If you want to dump your DVD player and save space, then an addon seems okay. I've already got 6 (count'em SIX) devices in my apartment that can play DVD's, so I'd rather have a cheaper Revolution without that ability.
I was thinking maybe it would be an ace in the hole if you could also get an addon for extending with BluRay or HD-DVD - fence sitting until there is a winner, but I doubt the optics would jive with that.
You have to realize this is a fundamental differnce between windows and Unix. Windows consists of some huge peice of software with signifcant integration with most of the other parts. Unix is a collection of programs which allow you to chain them together in useful ways.
That makes traditional shells just about worthless in themselves on Windos. Go download zsh for windows and see for yourself. Nearly everything we do on Unix based systems is actually a small dedicated purpose program. Windows just isn't set up this way, nor does MS seem inclined to attempt this either. Not to say they couldn't do something like busybox with some magic tricks to get a similar result, but in the end they gave us interactive programming language (thus not "simple" - which is the real power of the shell).
these groups are comprised of rich folk not wanting their property values to drop,
I was just thinking, "would the property values actually drop?". I mean it's not like I'm bitching about the telephone pole right next to the window of my apartment. But then I realized that your right because the average person like me probably doesn't give a shit even if the windmill were in our back yard. No, its the rich people who have zillion dallar properties because of the "view".
I find it ironic that this is stopped in PA because in northeast PA I've seen new expensive properties being built. They take really nice foliage areas, mow down all the trees and make it look like a crappy golf course with a sickly tree here and there and build million dallar houses on the property.
Sad to say I'd forgive it ALL if they had the Microsoft Shell ready. I was indifferent about Longhorn until I heard that they were going to have a real shell that didn't suck. Suddenly I was getting pretty excited over the prospects of finally being able to use windows and actually automate things. Hell maybe I could email people quick scripts instead of walking them through things on the phone.
Alas that was dropped to. I'm indifferent again, although slightly annoyed at what could have been...
It's in the U.S. now, because it returned to the states. I hate to sound like one of those "I got burned and will never go back" people, but after dumping Dell and going with IBM I've never been happier. The equipment is better quality. Support is great. On the business PC side Dell is notorious for switching hardware week to week on the same model. HP I believe at least garantees build sets for PCs.
Anyway, support may have returned home, but Dell is still feeling the fallout from the time they DID have support in India. And most of us don't even care where the support is from provided they know what is going on and we can understand them.
Okay, put aside your bad memories for a while (I have more than enough myself:) I think you're confusing stability with features. And don't get me wrong, you couldn't pay me to use Win9x again either; but the big innovations happened around Win95/98. IE4 was a huge step above IE3. Office 97 still is considered the standard in Office suite functionality. Plug & Play, the start menu, Direct X the list goes on and on. Development tools also hit the mark with stuff like visual studio and SQL server.
Did it work? Well I don't have to tell you the answer to that. Sometimes it did, often it crashed. When did it mature? The golden age of MS seemes to have been around 2000. Win2k - best OS to date arguably. Office 2000 - good tweeaks on 97, SQL server 2000 etc. Now all of these things WORKED in 2000, the foundations were laid down long before, but the biggest milestones all happened around the Win95 days.
Microsoft's ill-gotten gains were long the easy way to sustain the talent pipe-line.
I wonder if it really has to do with sustaining the pipeline, as much being mired in corperate BS. Why is this company that makes money hand over fist with some of the best programming talent you can find putting out products that are hardly better than the last version?
I've given this some thought and I'm starting to think that Microsoft has spread their uber-talent too far across the board. Now before you say "what else are they supposed to do?" consider 8-10 years ago during Win95/98. The company was throwing out significant upgrades left and right with REAL improvments - about the opposite we see today. At the time however MS had a real focus on some core products that could in some respects tie together.
Nowdays Microsft is in everything from the Xbox to who knows how many software company aquisitions and trying to tie them together in a meaningful manor. It seems like in trying to use the MS engine (OS) to drag up new producs, they bit off more than they can chew and the engine (company) is being held back. MS can't sustain itself because the one hand literally cannot see the other. The company is too big, and lacks focus.
As an admin on a Win2k (among other OS's) network I'm actually interested that a thing I started doing 2 years ago would have probably protected much of this network. So for those slashdotters who are interested and might find this useful.
Go to advanced settings in TCP/IP and turn on tcp/ip filtering (for TCP). That basically denies incomming tcp packets - a poor man's firewall. Usually I open the SMB ports (137,139) and VNC. Depending on how agressive Zotab was this would have at least blocked the spread. Vulnerable machines could start the infection, but couldn't download from the infected host because the connection would drop.
Well it's an interesting thing to try on your own network if you're worried about Win2k. It's worked out great for me.
Look for a made in the USA tag on items. Chances are Walmart doesn't sell them. And if they do then at least someone in the USA is getting your money. Works for other countries too. Just plug your countries name in place of USA. =P
Actually I'm going to set this up as an email template. I think I can respond to 80% of my mail this way. Now that I think about it, if I plug in some corperate-speak variables, most people probably won't be able to tell I'm sending them the same message either...
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Keep in mind that ODF is a spec not a law. By supporting ODF you are not required to support all features the format is capable of. Simplistic example: I create a text reader for blind people, I can probably ignore 80% of the ODF spec and be compliant in reading (and writing) it for my needs. I'm sure Open Office will support everything including the kitchen sink, while Koffice will support mostly a subset of that - so I would expect some features may be missing. ODF is also pretty flexible so it can support stuff we haven't even thought of yet.
I've moved away from Open Office because of the bloat, so if Koffice skips some of the more obscure parts of the format that Open Office supports, that's okay by me.
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Actually you sort of got the gist of the problem without realizing it. Computers do all RGB. Printers do CMYK. Why have an image editing program nativly do CMYK if your screen and most computers fundamentally use RGB? So either you can try to do a program native in CMYK and attempt to transform it for screen/computer uses. Or you shift the problem down the chain to a "converter" for printing. RGB to/from CMYK transformation is an extremely complicated problem, and there is no simple angorithm to get it perfect - that's why many lower end graphics programs do not even bother supporting it, because it's a pain in the ass to implement. With all of the problems from incorrect screen gama, to how the printer prints, to how the final type of coloring media all alter the look of the final product, the LAST thing you want is the program in between fucking it up even farther.
As would any guy. But then look at the girls. I know a lot of females who play the sims and love it. Many of them have played no other mainstream game (aside from perhaps solitare). The Sims is popular because it captured a segment of the population that normally doesn't even play games. I'm thinking this hasn't been lost on Nintendo when you look at their upcomming console.
Well here's the thing. Microsoft has money to burn. In fact they have so much money they almost have to burn it. Long term perhaps MS realizes that their dominance is in danger on many fronts. While they're the top dog in many areas and have huge reserves of cash, dumping money into R&D may not be such a bad idea, if just some of these advancements proves to be a winner and/or money maker. It may turn out to be their saving grace when (if?) the empire starts to fall.
Well just to throw this out there, I sort of care. Not really about the next version of windows, but where my support is going to sit. Right now company I admin is all win2k. It's stable with no problems. Didn't really see a reason to go with XP and I still don't. But driver support is starting to lag. I have until 2010 until extended support runs out, but the bigger issue is what happens if machines burn out and I can't get 2000 to load because of lack of drivers. Skipping the XP upgrade saved us a LOT of money. So did sticking with office 2000. But at some point we're going to have to upgrade, and the current MS schedule is going to determine if we upgrade to Vista - which may be a bomb, or wait until the version after that, assuming it can come out before 2010.
I'll second the monthy cupons being handy. I don't rent newer movies so this probably doesn't apply to most people. I signed up for the rewards or whatever in the hell it's called program. I haven't paid for a movie rental in 8 months or so. Just rent an old release the last week of each month and the next month cupon prints on the back.
An adaptation for film might not be a bad idea on film though. Film makers have been trying to get people to go back to the movie theaters for a while now. DOA has two good reasons to view such a thing, and you're going to need wide screen format to fit them both on the screen at the same time. Maybe this could boost movie attendance? =P
My answer is this. You catch me without a cup of coffee and I'm probably going to be tired and in a bad mood. I'll not only be bitchy, but way more likely to disagree with anything. With coffee I'm happy and it's all shmooth sailing. But then again by that logic it might be better to schedule advertising when I'm most likely to be smoking pot, or maybe smoking pot and drinking coffee at the same time.
For 99% of people, probably nothing aside from the same headaches as MS not supporting UFS ;) I've also been known to use pkgsrc for software distribution on my mac and that requires a case sensitive file system for some reason. Mainly I just wanted something as close to a Unix file system as I could get so it was a pretty good comprimise.
Yeah, as a Mac user I'd advise people to stay away from UFS on OSX. I figured that because it did so well on FreeBSD I'd use it on OSX as well. Using Jaguar I didn't have many problems and was okay with the system. Used UFS on my newer laptop with Tiger. Unfortuantly I was getting corruption problems. Reformatted the disk and tried it again 2 times but always had to repair stuff with fsck. So I went to case sensitive HFS+ with journaling. No more corruption problems and also noticably faster.
And as someone else said there are compatability problems with UFS and some applications. Mainly due to case sensitivity (would it kill MS to be consistent?)
Until they start putting that shit on DVDs too. Before you start laughing, I recall a time when I would have had the same response concerning movie theaters too. I'm not laughing during the shampoo commercials when I just shelled out $9 to watch a damn movie believe me.
If you actually can say "I refuse to create art unless I am paid X dollars", I don't want your "Art
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Well there is a problem with that, and that's the fact that it often takes some money to create many forms of art. And the second problem being that would an artist be as creative if they had to work at walmart all day to make ends meet, as opposed to being able to dedicate themselves to art?
The thing with France is actually a good idea for another reason. It creates a sort of artist middle class, which is what some have been hoping digital music would help along. You make enough money to get by and do what you love - and that's what most artists who are in for the art would be quite happy with.
I guess I'm sort of touchy about the subject. I mean I used to do illistrations because I love doing it, then someone would say "draw me [this]". I'd say, sure for $50. "I'm not paying you $50 freaking dollars!". I mean holy fuck, if some kid spent all day mowing your lawn you'd pay him $50 but not me creating an illistration? And before you poing out that I do illistrations anyway, I'd like to add that it was a subject matter that I really didn't like: so yeah you'd have to pay me... But I think some of that has to do with living in the U.S. where the population on average has art appreciation issues - bet I could have sold it in france
Well I don't think he meant uber Amazon.com level sites, but mid-grade sites. Bigger than hello-world.html, smaller than newegg. I've actually seen a LOT of IIS based solutions utilizing SSL that I wouldn't even consider "production grade". The sites go down a lot, stuff is broken left and right, html disaster... but they DO have an ssl certificate.
Usually these sites are an indicator of a business offering a web based "service" although they themselves have nothing to do with technology. In a non tech business which is 100% MS and the IT staff only knows windows, this is pretty common. Although as of late I've been comming across more Apache + Mysql stuff on windows too.
At this point who doesn't have a DVD player that is going to purchase a Revolution? You know anyone that is going to hold out on DVD players and just use the Revolution instead? I'm sure someone at Nintendo realized that those who want a DVD player already have one, and it's doubtful the console will even be markatable as a DVD player. By cutting out something most will never use they can cut the cost of the machine even farther as opposed to embeding a BluRay player and raise the cost $150+ .
I think the addon is the best choice. If you want to dump your DVD player and save space, then an addon seems okay. I've already got 6 (count'em SIX) devices in my apartment that can play DVD's, so I'd rather have a cheaper Revolution without that ability.
I was thinking maybe it would be an ace in the hole if you could also get an addon for extending with BluRay or HD-DVD - fence sitting until there is a winner, but I doubt the optics would jive with that.
I'm pretty sure they'd have to hire at least one more person to fetch the chairs Balmer throws.
No, I think it means he's going to get deported to newfounland until he's learned his lesson.
You have to realize this is a fundamental differnce between windows and Unix. Windows consists of some huge peice of software with signifcant integration with most of the other parts. Unix is a collection of programs which allow you to chain them together in useful ways.
That makes traditional shells just about worthless in themselves on Windos. Go download zsh for windows and see for yourself. Nearly everything we do on Unix based systems is actually a small dedicated purpose program. Windows just isn't set up this way, nor does MS seem inclined to attempt this either. Not to say they couldn't do something like busybox with some magic tricks to get a similar result, but in the end they gave us interactive programming language (thus not "simple" - which is the real power of the shell).
Given that I think I'd rather just use ruby.
these groups are comprised of rich folk not wanting their property values to drop,
I was just thinking, "would the property values actually drop?". I mean it's not like I'm bitching about the telephone pole right next to the window of my apartment. But then I realized that your right because the average person like me probably doesn't give a shit even if the windmill were in our back yard. No, its the rich people who have zillion dallar properties because of the "view".
I find it ironic that this is stopped in PA because in northeast PA I've seen new expensive properties being built. They take really nice foliage areas, mow down all the trees and make it look like a crappy golf course with a sickly tree here and there and build million dallar houses on the property.
Sad to say I'd forgive it ALL if they had the Microsoft Shell ready. I was indifferent about Longhorn until I heard that they were going to have a real shell that didn't suck. Suddenly I was getting pretty excited over the prospects of finally being able to use windows and actually automate things. Hell maybe I could email people quick scripts instead of walking them through things on the phone.
Alas that was dropped to. I'm indifferent again, although slightly annoyed at what could have been...
It's in the U.S. now, because it returned to the states. I hate to sound like one of those "I got burned and will never go back" people, but after dumping Dell and going with IBM I've never been happier. The equipment is better quality. Support is great. On the business PC side Dell is notorious for switching hardware week to week on the same model. HP I believe at least garantees build sets for PCs.
Anyway, support may have returned home, but Dell is still feeling the fallout from the time they DID have support in India. And most of us don't even care where the support is from provided they know what is going on and we can understand them.
Okay, put aside your bad memories for a while (I have more than enough myself :) I think you're confusing stability with features. And don't get me wrong, you couldn't pay me to use Win9x again either; but the big innovations happened around Win95/98. IE4 was a huge step above IE3. Office 97 still is considered the standard in Office suite functionality. Plug & Play, the start menu, Direct X the list goes on and on. Development tools also hit the mark with stuff like visual studio and SQL server.
Did it work? Well I don't have to tell you the answer to that. Sometimes it did, often it crashed. When did it mature? The golden age of MS seemes to have been around 2000. Win2k - best OS to date arguably. Office 2000 - good tweeaks on 97, SQL server 2000 etc. Now all of these things WORKED in 2000, the foundations were laid down long before, but the biggest milestones all happened around the Win95 days.
Microsoft's ill-gotten gains were long the easy way to sustain the talent pipe-line.
I wonder if it really has to do with sustaining the pipeline, as much being mired in corperate BS. Why is this company that makes money hand over fist with some of the best programming talent you can find putting out products that are hardly better than the last version?
I've given this some thought and I'm starting to think that Microsoft has spread their uber-talent too far across the board. Now before you say "what else are they supposed to do?" consider 8-10 years ago during Win95/98. The company was throwing out significant upgrades left and right with REAL improvments - about the opposite we see today. At the time however MS had a real focus on some core products that could in some respects tie together.
Nowdays Microsft is in everything from the Xbox to who knows how many software company aquisitions and trying to tie them together in a meaningful manor. It seems like in trying to use the MS engine (OS) to drag up new producs, they bit off more than they can chew and the engine (company) is being held back. MS can't sustain itself because the one hand literally cannot see the other. The company is too big, and lacks focus.
As an admin on a Win2k (among other OS's) network I'm actually interested that a thing I started doing 2 years ago would have probably protected much of this network. So for those slashdotters who are interested and might find this useful.
Go to advanced settings in TCP/IP and turn on tcp/ip filtering (for TCP). That basically denies incomming tcp packets - a poor man's firewall. Usually I open the SMB ports (137,139) and VNC. Depending on how agressive Zotab was this would have at least blocked the spread. Vulnerable machines could start the infection, but couldn't download from the infected host because the connection would drop.
Well it's an interesting thing to try on your own network if you're worried about Win2k. It's worked out great for me.
Look for a made in the USA tag on items. Chances are Walmart doesn't sell them. And if they do then at least someone in the USA is getting your money. Works for other countries too. Just plug your countries name in place of USA. =P
Actually I'm going to set this up as an email template. I think I can respond to 80% of my mail this way. Now that I think about it, if I plug in some corperate-speak variables, most people probably won't be able to tell I'm sending them the same message either...
Keep in mind that ODF is a spec not a law. By supporting ODF you are not required to support all features the format is capable of. Simplistic example: I create a text reader for blind people, I can probably ignore 80% of the ODF spec and be compliant in reading (and writing) it for my needs. I'm sure Open Office will support everything including the kitchen sink, while Koffice will support mostly a subset of that - so I would expect some features may be missing. ODF is also pretty flexible so it can support stuff we haven't even thought of yet.
I've moved away from Open Office because of the bloat, so if Koffice skips some of the more obscure parts of the format that Open Office supports, that's okay by me.