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Creating a PDF shouldn't really be considered the holy grail of an office environment, since there so many Open source programs that can do that already. OpenOffice and PDFcreator come to mind.
You can print to PDF from ANY application in OS X. No need to "convert" or use a specific program.
Just curious if anyone out there knows why this is.
IE's caching mechanism for OS 9 blows goatse. Turn the cache off and IE renders much faster.\
When page rendering speed was an issue, several sites did shoot outs and found Safari to render pages the fastest.
I don't know anyone with a Windows PC not infected with malware to make a fair comparison as far as speed was concerned. I know my iBook 700MHz was faster than a friends Toshiba at 1.4 GHz. Again that was not a fair comparison because of all the garbage infested on his laptop.
Given how gifted McGregor is, I have to assume that it's Lucas's direction and writing that are the problem.
Ewan McGregor? Hell, look at how horrible Natalie Portman is in SW and how great she is in movies like The Professional, Beautiful Girls and Where the Heart Is. I thought Episode 1 was quaint and Episode 2 just stunk.
My one request for future story submitters: just say (registration required), the jokes about dna samples, firstborn babies and eternal souls are not that funny.
I think they're clever and funny. I also think a news website shouldn't force me to divulge personal information when I can spend my 50 cents at a news stand without doing that.
If LCD screens stay confined to the computer market, and don't become mainstream there, they'll remain relatively expensive over the long term.
I don't buy this because high-resolution CRT's came down in price and are STILL only used in computer monitors. I have a CRT and an LCD and I prefer to watch DVD's on the CRT because the LCD shows too many of the MPEG artifacts on low-quality compressed DVDs, and too much of the film grain on high-quality compressed DVDs.
The problem with all this tech in the consumer realm (which I have argued with sales people when they tried to sell me HDTV) is that nothing is recorded in high enough resolution to make displaying it in high resolution mean anything. It's like transferring an audio cassette to CD. The qulaity of the recording still sucks.
None of this tech will make a difference until movies and television shows are filmed/recorded in higher resolution.
and Game Boy/GB Color games will not be backwards compatible with the DS
That pretty much sucks. I still play a lot of GB and GBC games on my GBA SP. I know the GBA has the old Z80 workalike CPU in it as well. I don't understand why the DS couldn't just emulate the Z80. *sigh* guess after all these years of Gameboy that they have to break with compatibility sometime.
Conservatives don't generally argue that the poor shouldn't be helped (okay, some wacko conservative commentators aside); they argue that government programs are hurting instead of helping and that private efforts might be more effective.
Since they're private efforts there's no reason there shouldn't be scads of them now if they "might be more effective".
I find that the Republican party's entire philosophy can be summed up in one statement: Somehow if rich people have more money we'll all be better off.
Frankly, I'm quite surprised that AOL hasn't gone the way of many other services (Prodigy, MSN, etc.) that abandoned their proprietary software for simple internet access.
Actually, they are coming out with a program called AOL Dialer, which does just that. I'm not sure I really understand the point of it though when the AOL client offers internet access through third-party programs. I'm not really sure why people use AOL anymore outside of chat because almost everything else just dumps you to a web page.
In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price.
In the Windows world, none of these competitors MAKE anything. They cobble together parts. Dell is not designing anything but the case. Apple is designing the mainboard.
My suspicion is that there's not any right now (or perhaps much less than the MS newsbot) but you can't ever be sure.
I think you're being paranoid. Google is a very transparent company and has always been such. They are proud of their tech and like to show it off. Their claim of non-bias is better than MS's stated bias by default.
Most people who use a new search engine want to find relevant news. If the news is relevant, few will care whether its source is MSNBC or CNN.
Then you've proven the point of the parent that branding doesn't matter and you've discounted Microsoft's whole concept behind what they are doing. However you say Microsoft is doing something right. Really, which is it?
If people want to replace the software on it so it can be used with another service then that is their right.
That's absolutely right. Apple's not telling you what to do with your hardware, it's telling Real what they can do with THEIR software (FairPlay). Real is not putting.RM on iPod, they are putting FairPlay AAC's on it. If you've ever read any EULA ever, you know that you never own the software, just the right to use it.
Steve Jobs recently stated that to get into the PDA area anymore would mean to get into the cell phone area, which he stated he doesn't think Apple would be good at doing.
I think if Apple didn't make the hardware and just licensed the Newton OS they would do very well. Historically Apple has never made any money off of software, so this probably won't happen.
It's a stolen quote from my friend Kwame's e-mail sig.
The rest goes, "You may think she missed you this time, but next time around the block she'll take out you and two of your friends." but slashdot limits sigs.
Being a multimedia developer for the past eight years
That would mean 1996 was your start, which means you STARTED after Myst was completed with QuickTime and HyperCard on a Quadra, at the same time Flash was crashing everyone's browser left and right.
Some of the best online games were created in Director because the programing language (Lingo) was very easy to learn
You have illustrated what I said, Director is a good tool, thank you for backing me up.
Last time I checked, SWF was an open format.
Flash is an open SPECIFICATION, meaning Macromedia will tell you how to read and write them. IT IS NOT AN OPEN FORMAT. Changes and enhancements from other companies/indivuduals are not accepted. That's like saying JAVA is an open format.
You can generate SWF from most Adobe products.
You can generate Word documents from OO.o, what the hell's your point?
If Macromedia is so sluggish -- why isn't there a better flash development tool?
Sluggish is your word. I said late to market on abilities. Everything Macromedia has come out with has been done before (and accepted) by previous vendors/companies. Macromedia just made easier tools to use their own versions (which are STILL not standards).
There's NOTHING special about what any Macromedia product produces that cannot be replicated by a competing or open product.
Flash is the worst designed mass marketed program *EVER*
I guess that's why it's used so much. I've never know anyone to say "X is such a uselsss program" to have any use for it. So you have acknowledged you're not good at using it.
Macromedia has an EXTREME case of non-invented-here that they have been fighting for YEARS. They are desperately trying to be Microsoft by locking people into their file formats, when they are late to market on abilities. Problem as I see it is that they don't realise their tools are wonderful and that's the reason to use Macromedia. Everything Director does can be done in QuickTime and was done in QuickTime BEFORE Director came out, it's just that the Director tool is so good.
If they would just realise people would use their products to create QuickTime/SVG over Director/Shockwave, they would be OK.
Macromedia has never been a first to market company, they just create great tools.
free assembly is granted in your constituition you would surely be allowed to do this and the cameras would protect your rights.
Yes, because we all know that anytime we make a law or a way to enforce a law or a way to deter from breaking the law, it grants and secures greater freedom. Give me a break.
That's like saying that having a courts system guarantees you will not be wrongfully accused or convicted of a crime like they were in Salem. We have a pardons and appeals system because the system is flawed.
There will be loss of video when it is to the police's advantage (just as they lose other evidence) tampering with video (just like other evidence) and the same amount of bullshit as there ever was, only because it is video, i.e. TV, people will believe it at face value.
I don't care WHAT argument you want to put forth, there is no reason why I need to be monitored at ANY time in a free country. If this were done in Cuba, North Korea, The New Boogeyman Country, we would be outraged.
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You can print to PDF from ANY application in OS X. No need to "convert" or use a specific program.
IE's caching mechanism for OS 9 blows goatse. Turn the cache off and IE renders much faster.\
When page rendering speed was an issue, several sites did shoot outs and found Safari to render pages the fastest.
I don't know anyone with a Windows PC not infected with malware to make a fair comparison as far as speed was concerned. I know my iBook 700MHz was faster than a friends Toshiba at 1.4 GHz. Again that was not a fair comparison because of all the garbage infested on his laptop.
Ewan McGregor? Hell, look at how horrible Natalie Portman is in SW and how great she is in movies like The Professional, Beautiful Girls and Where the Heart Is. I thought Episode 1 was quaint and Episode 2 just stunk.
The G5 Cluster was about power for money, not raw power. It's relatively cheap to make a supercomputer from G5 Macs connected with Xgrid.
I think they're clever and funny. I also think a news website shouldn't force me to divulge personal information when I can spend my 50 cents at a news stand without doing that.
I don't buy this because high-resolution CRT's came down in price and are STILL only used in computer monitors. I have a CRT and an LCD and I prefer to watch DVD's on the CRT because the LCD shows too many of the MPEG artifacts on low-quality compressed DVDs, and too much of the film grain on high-quality compressed DVDs.
The problem with all this tech in the consumer realm (which I have argued with sales people when they tried to sell me HDTV) is that nothing is recorded in high enough resolution to make displaying it in high resolution mean anything. It's like transferring an audio cassette to CD. The qulaity of the recording still sucks.
None of this tech will make a difference until movies and television shows are filmed/recorded in higher resolution.
That pretty much sucks. I still play a lot of GB and GBC games on my GBA SP. I know the GBA has the old Z80 workalike CPU in it as well. I don't understand why the DS couldn't just emulate the Z80. *sigh* guess after all these years of Gameboy that they have to break with compatibility sometime.
Yes.
And I hope we always have this right.
Since they're private efforts there's no reason there shouldn't be scads of them now if they "might be more effective".
I find that the Republican party's entire philosophy can be summed up in one statement: Somehow if rich people have more money we'll all be better off.
Actually, they are coming out with a program called AOL Dialer, which does just that. I'm not sure I really understand the point of it though when the AOL client offers internet access through third-party programs. I'm not really sure why people use AOL anymore outside of chat because almost everything else just dumps you to a web page.
In the Windows world, none of these competitors MAKE anything. They cobble together parts. Dell is not designing anything but the case. Apple is designing the mainboard.
The PC world competes solely on mindshare.
Simmer down
I think you're being paranoid. Google is a very transparent company and has always been such. They are proud of their tech and like to show it off. Their claim of non-bias is better than MS's stated bias by default.
Then you've proven the point of the parent that branding doesn't matter and you've discounted Microsoft's whole concept behind what they are doing. However you say Microsoft is doing something right. Really, which is it?
That's absolutely right. Apple's not telling you what to do with your hardware, it's telling Real what they can do with THEIR software (FairPlay). Real is not putting .RM on iPod, they are putting FairPlay AAC's on it. If you've ever read any EULA ever, you know that you never own the software, just the right to use it.
I think if Apple didn't make the hardware and just licensed the Newton OS they would do very well. Historically Apple has never made any money off of software, so this probably won't happen.
It's a stolen quote from my friend Kwame's e-mail sig.
The rest goes, "You may think she missed you this time, but next time around the block she'll take out you and two of your friends." but slashdot limits sigs.
That would mean 1996 was your start, which means you STARTED after Myst was completed with QuickTime and HyperCard on a Quadra, at the same time Flash was crashing everyone's browser left and right.
You have illustrated what I said, Director is a good tool, thank you for backing me up.
Flash is an open SPECIFICATION, meaning Macromedia will tell you how to read and write them. IT IS NOT AN OPEN FORMAT. Changes and enhancements from other companies/indivuduals are not accepted. That's like saying JAVA is an open format.
You can generate Word documents from OO.o, what the hell's your point?
Sluggish is your word. I said late to market on abilities. Everything Macromedia has come out with has been done before (and accepted) by previous vendors/companies. Macromedia just made easier tools to use their own versions (which are STILL not standards).
There's NOTHING special about what any Macromedia product produces that cannot be replicated by a competing or open product.
I guess that's why it's used so much. I've never know anyone to say "X is such a uselsss program" to have any use for it. So you have acknowledged you're not good at using it.
That can't be right because the Macintosh Business Unit (Office, IE, Exchange, Virtual PC) operates as a seperate division in Microsoft.
If they would just realise people would use their products to create QuickTime/SVG over Director/Shockwave, they would be OK.
Macromedia has never been a first to market company, they just create great tools.
As a Jew and an Apple connoisseur, I resent that. What we expect is One More Thing. ;-)
This is what is commonly referred to as POWER.
Yes, because we all know that anytime we make a law or a way to enforce a law or a way to deter from breaking the law, it grants and secures greater freedom. Give me a break.
That's like saying that having a courts system guarantees you will not be wrongfully accused or convicted of a crime like they were in Salem. We have a pardons and appeals system because the system is flawed.
There will be loss of video when it is to the police's advantage (just as they lose other evidence) tampering with video (just like other evidence) and the same amount of bullshit as there ever was, only because it is video, i.e. TV, people will believe it at face value.
I don't care WHAT argument you want to put forth, there is no reason why I need to be monitored at ANY time in a free country. If this were done in Cuba, North Korea, The New Boogeyman Country, we would be outraged.
Yeah, 'cause that's actually a lot closerr to an Etch-A-Sketch, at least in terms of functionality. ;-)