Adobe and Macromedia's software portfolios don't overlap by very much.
Most of Adobe's software are general design tools, like Photoshop for 2d raster imaging, Illustrator for 2d Vector imaging, Premiere for 4D (time based) and Indesign for Press + Layout. It's all used to create images for use in both realworld media like print and film as well as online apps.
Macromedia's portfolio is mainly for online applications, like Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion etc. They all deal with Interactive design, 2d animation, layout etc in an online enviorment
The two companies products compliment each other, not fight for the same marketspace.
No? Adobe and Macromedia's software portfolios don't overlap by very much.
Most of Adobe's software are general design tools, like Photoshop for 2d raster imaging, Illustrator for 2d Vector imaging, Premiere + Fireworks for 4D (time based) and Indesign for Press + Layout.
Macromedia's portfolio is mainly for online applications, like Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion etc.
The two companies products compliment each other, not fight for the same market.
But the thing here is that when the machine keeps the card when you exit it doesn't have to be thrown away. In my city (KL, MY) you buy the cards preloaded with with 20, 50 or 100 bucks. Then you just keep using it until the last ride.
The last is special, because even if you have 10 cents left and the ride costs say $3 you still get your ride before the machine takes your card when you exit. Then you buy a new card.
However, the cards the machine collects is checked and refilled for resale, (just like how banks recycle unsoiled banknotes) and is replaced only when it's worn. The upside to this is that 1) saves costs because the cards are reused anyway and 2) there are less blank cards in the hands of the mischivious public.
Who knows? With the products designed and made in Indian and China but the main market being the US, maybe the Indian and Chinese companies will see the benefits of outsourcing tech support to the US?
I keep telling people that Flash is evil, this just re-enforces my point.
As it is, Flash is:
1. Bandwidth hungry (Bad for the many people still on Dail Up) 2. Allows for the most annoying of Advertising gimmics 3. Disabled unfriendly, as screen readers for the blind can't read flash. 4. Google and most (all?) search engines don't do flash either.
Personally, I find that regardless of how much the industry tries to insist that dead pixels are normal, consumers tend to have zero tolorance for them.
Having worked retail before, my experence is that if you even try to hint that it's not a defect, they'll throw a fit and think you're out to cheat them.
And who can blame em? Anything with a colour LCD on it comes at a price premium and nobody in their right mind would want to pay a premium for something that in their mind is defective.
The iritation from that one tiny discoloured dot alone is enough to wipe out any satisfaction to be had from owning that product.
You're not getting it. Just because the battery is capable of absorbing 80% of it's total capacity in a minute doesnit mean it must.
The real benefit here is from having a battery that is very efficient at absorbing energy in a situation where energy comes inconsistantly in intermittent intervels.
See, hybried cars charge the car battries when
1) The gas engine is running at such a situation where part of the power is used to run the car and part of it to charge it.
2) When the car is breaking.
So, when both situations occur isn'ty all that predictable and depends on the drivers driving style, meaning that the battery cannot get it's charge in a slow and steady stream but in occasional big gulps.
The problem with the big gulp today is that if the gulp is big enough and the battery can't take it, energy is going to waste. So this new battery solves that problem by giving the battery the ability to drink up energy faster then the car can generate it.
And if the reverse is true and the battery can discharge as fast, imagine what it can do for acceleration.
I so agree with you. People tend to notice the morons on the road more then the safe riders.
Where I live there are ALOT of mopeds, and many seem to think they are kind of the road. Filtering through traffic during a jam is one thing, these idiots filter through 80kph rush hour traffic on highways...
The worst are these Yamaha RX-Zs. The RX-Zs are 135cc 2-stroke aircooled bastardized bikes, with a somewhat decent helping power, but because of it';s drum breaks have very little in the way of stopping ability. Add to that, the owners think it's cool to mod on smaller width tyres (some almost the size of mountain bike tyres) and remove the muffler.
I tell you the amount of accidents these bikes cause. Sigh.....
[i]"So it seems to me that you can defend against other companies with a patent portfolio, which is what Microsoft tries to do with its silly patent applications. But to defend against a company that is nothing but a patent lawsuit factory (Eolas), you need actual patent reform."[/i]
Thats like saying the solution to rogue nations with nuclear arms is more nuclear arms. Think about it.
So you're being threatened with patent law suits (or nuclear arms), so in return you stock up on patents (nuclear bombs) so that in the event you are sued (nuked) you can sue (nuke) back.
In the end, it ensures mutual destruction and the big loser is the average Joe who just wants a peaceful and productive existance.
Having parent lawsuits is stupid because it ensures that there can never be another great software company because once it's big enough, it's sued back into the ground.
As harsh as it sounds, patents ought to be only for tangable inventions, not ideas expressed in code.
If that were to happen, Joe User would actually have to get a clue and figure out what he wants instead of calling Dell and download the internet on his spyware riddled Windows machine.
Wait... thats not too shabby a senario... But anyway, my point is that win a singular platform, it makes commercial adoption easier.
Explaining the diffrences (or lack thereof) between an AMD system and an Intel one to the average person is hard enough, could you imagine a world where there are half a dozen planforms, each with a few major hardware and software vendors each?
A hermit writes: "The Church is reporting that the two human genders, male and female, have instruments installed in the wrong genders. From the article: 'While the bungle does not undermine the main reproductive conclusions from the reproductive activities between genders, it is an embarrassing slip-up for a supreme being that once lost a world of worshippers to a flood because the first prototypes mixed up good and evil.'"
I meant 'new and emerging evil' in it's whole. Calling something crucial thats been around forever 'new' is just clueless, thinking that its new and evil and that the world can do without it is just brain dead.
It's like having some born again idiot saying that he just had a revelation that sex is evil and humanity should stop having it.
Thats been done already by unsecured or publicly accessable Wifi access points. Unless there was some way to prove that X laptop was on Y wireless router at Z time, and then prove that you X router belongs to you, theres no way to find you.
"First, the United States' description of the Internet's design is wrong. P2P networks are not new developments in network design, but rather the design on which the Internet itself is based."
Exactly. I cringe every time I read about some clueless politician or corporate figure point to a fundamental part of the Internet and call it a new and emerging evil.
For instance, the Internet was designed with redundancy in mind, when where a dead end is put in place, data can find another route to it's destination. Then you have some idiotic politician out to try and score points saying he wants the censor the whole of the internet of porn, free speech etc "for the sake of the children" Please.
And then you have idiots in marketing who think that the Internet "Is a big untapped market" of people who are just itching to come to their dingy website spend billions.
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oops.. my Bad.. was thinking of After Effects, not Fireworks.. :D
OOps.. my bad, i was thinking of AfterEffects.
Insightful? How is what you said insightful??!!
Adobe and Macromedia's software portfolios don't overlap by very much.
Most of Adobe's software are general design tools, like Photoshop for 2d raster imaging, Illustrator for 2d Vector imaging, Premiere for 4D (time based) and Indesign for Press + Layout. It's all used to create images for use in both realworld media like print and film as well as online apps.
Macromedia's portfolio is mainly for online applications, like Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion etc. They all deal with Interactive design, 2d animation, layout etc in an online enviorment
The two companies products compliment each other, not fight for the same marketspace.
No? Adobe and Macromedia's software portfolios don't overlap by very much.
Most of Adobe's software are general design tools, like Photoshop for 2d raster imaging, Illustrator for 2d Vector imaging, Premiere + Fireworks for 4D (time based) and Indesign for Press + Layout.
Macromedia's portfolio is mainly for online applications, like Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion etc.
The two companies products compliment each other, not fight for the same market.
This makes me wonder if it's possible to mount the tape in a DV camcorder and use it as a cost effective way of doing tape backup...
Actually the trick is to put a rolled up newspaper or some other inanimate object between the doors as it closes.
If you do that, as the doors clamp on the newpaper or whatever, the failsafe that prevents people from getting stuck triggers and reopens the doors.
But the thing here is that when the machine keeps the card when you exit it doesn't have to be thrown away. In my city (KL, MY) you buy the cards preloaded with with 20, 50 or 100 bucks. Then you just keep using it until the last ride.
The last is special, because even if you have 10 cents left and the ride costs say $3 you still get your ride before the machine takes your card when you exit. Then you buy a new card.
However, the cards the machine collects is checked and refilled for resale, (just like how banks recycle unsoiled banknotes) and is replaced only when it's worn. The upside to this is that 1) saves costs because the cards are reused anyway and 2) there are less blank cards in the hands of the mischivious public.
I think you misspelled 'advertisements'
None of the above.
Had this been an authenthic and current Slashdot poll, you would instead gripe about the lack of a CowboyNeal option.
OMG!!! DOUBLE PLUS FUNNY!!!!
Who knows? With the products designed and made in Indian and China but the main market being the US, maybe the Indian and Chinese companies will see the benefits of outsourcing tech support to the US?
Microsoft releases WinXP kernel under GPL
I keep telling people that Flash is evil, this just re-enforces my point.
As it is, Flash is:
1. Bandwidth hungry (Bad for the many people still on Dail Up)
2. Allows for the most annoying of Advertising gimmics
3. Disabled unfriendly, as screen readers for the blind can't read flash.
4. Google and most (all?) search engines don't do flash either.
and now:
5. Allows for privacy invasion.
Personally, I find that regardless of how much the industry tries to insist that dead pixels are normal, consumers tend to have zero tolorance for them.
Having worked retail before, my experence is that if you even try to hint that it's not a defect, they'll throw a fit and think you're out to cheat them.
And who can blame em? Anything with a colour LCD on it comes at a price premium and nobody in their right mind would want to pay a premium for something that in their mind is defective.
The iritation from that one tiny discoloured dot alone is enough to wipe out any satisfaction to be had from owning that product.
You're not getting it. Just because the battery is capable of absorbing 80% of it's total capacity in a minute doesnit mean it must.
The real benefit here is from having a battery that is very efficient at absorbing energy in a situation where energy comes inconsistantly in intermittent intervels.
See, hybried cars charge the car battries when
1) The gas engine is running at such a situation where part of the power is used to run the car and part of it to charge it.
2) When the car is breaking.
So, when both situations occur isn'ty all that predictable and depends on the drivers driving style, meaning that the battery cannot get it's charge in a slow and steady stream but in occasional big gulps.
The problem with the big gulp today is that if the gulp is big enough and the battery can't take it, energy is going to waste. So this new battery solves that problem by giving the battery the ability to drink up energy faster then the car can generate it.
And if the reverse is true and the battery can discharge as fast, imagine what it can do for acceleration.
I so agree with you. People tend to notice the morons on the road more then the safe riders.
Where I live there are ALOT of mopeds, and many seem to think they are kind of the road. Filtering through traffic during a jam is one thing, these idiots filter through 80kph rush hour traffic on highways...
The worst are these Yamaha RX-Zs. The RX-Zs are 135cc 2-stroke aircooled bastardized bikes, with a somewhat decent helping power, but because of it';s drum breaks have very little in the way of stopping ability. Add to that, the owners think it's cool to mod on smaller width tyres (some almost the size of mountain bike tyres) and remove the muffler.
I tell you the amount of accidents these bikes cause. Sigh.....
Add to that, take a long hard look at it and you'll realise the thing is a glorified electric bicycle, not a motorcycle.
[i]"So it seems to me that you can defend against other companies with a patent portfolio, which is what Microsoft tries to do with its silly patent applications. But to defend against a company that is nothing but a patent lawsuit factory (Eolas), you need actual patent reform."[/i]
Thats like saying the solution to rogue nations with nuclear arms is more nuclear arms. Think about it.
So you're being threatened with patent law suits (or nuclear arms), so in return you stock up on patents (nuclear bombs) so that in the event you are sued (nuked) you can sue (nuke) back.
In the end, it ensures mutual destruction and the big loser is the average Joe who just wants a peaceful and productive existance.
Having parent lawsuits is stupid because it ensures that there can never be another great software company because once it's big enough, it's sued back into the ground.
As harsh as it sounds, patents ought to be only for tangable inventions, not ideas expressed in code.
Funny... I would have thought the shuttle's biggest threat would be the current administration.
Afterall, you won't need to worry about FOD if you have to worry about getting off the ground in the first palce.
If that were to happen, Joe User would actually have to get a clue and figure out what he wants instead of calling Dell and download the internet on his spyware riddled Windows machine.
Wait... thats not too shabby a senario... But anyway, my point is that win a singular platform, it makes commercial adoption easier.
Explaining the diffrences (or lack thereof) between an AMD system and an Intel one to the average person is hard enough, could you imagine a world where there are half a dozen planforms, each with a few major hardware and software vendors each?
I second that. If Utan wants no offending material, they may as well cut themselves out of the net completely.
All the laws and filters and we still can't stop spammers, what makes them think that short of blocking everything, they can stop "harmful" content?
It's prohibition all over again.
A hermit writes: "The Church is reporting that the two human genders, male and female, have instruments installed in the wrong genders. From the article: 'While the bungle does not undermine the main reproductive conclusions from the reproductive activities between genders, it is an embarrassing slip-up for a supreme being that once lost a world of worshippers to a flood because the first prototypes mixed up good and evil.'"
I meant 'new and emerging evil' in it's whole. Calling something crucial thats been around forever 'new' is just clueless, thinking that its new and evil and that the world can do without it is just brain dead.
It's like having some born again idiot saying that he just had a revelation that sex is evil and humanity should stop having it.
Thats been done already by unsecured or publicly accessable Wifi access points. Unless there was some way to prove that X laptop was on Y wireless router at Z time, and then prove that you X router belongs to you, theres no way to find you.
"First, the United States' description of the Internet's design is wrong. P2P networks are not new developments in network design, but rather the design on which the Internet itself is based."
Exactly. I cringe every time I read about some clueless politician or corporate figure point to a fundamental part of the Internet and call it a new and emerging evil.
For instance, the Internet was designed with redundancy in mind, when where a dead end is put in place, data can find another route to it's destination. Then you have some idiotic politician out to try and score points saying he wants the censor the whole of the internet of porn, free speech etc "for the sake of the children" Please.
And then you have idiots in marketing who think that the Internet "Is a big untapped market" of people who are just itching to come to their dingy website spend billions.
Sigh...