The fanboy who reviewed this got a bit carried away.
Ok, let's see. You used the words "an astounding display of audacity" when referring to the DVD release of a mid '80s sci-fi film, you keep up with a site called "The Digital Bits", and you're calling this poor shmuck a fanboy? I mean, for god's sake, your nickname is "Obiwan Kenobi"!
you know, not that there's anything wrong with that... *grin*
-- Other bacteria, frozen into chunks of ice in a Washington laboratory, have thrived inside a high-pressure container and went right on reproducing after they were exposed to pressures equivalent to life at the bottom of an ocean 100 miles deep.
Oh, right. Forgot that no one reads the article anymore...
Twinkies don't compost, by the way. Something my kids discovered.
More than that, they're nearly immune to aging. Back when I was a freshman art student ('93, 94?) I made a sculpture featuring an ordinary Twinky, in a lexan case I created that was supposed to reference Lenin's final resting place... it's even internally lit.
Before you ask, no, I didn't spray the Twinky with anything. Straight out of the package. The case is not air-tight, but it's close.
Of course, it was in a couple of student shows while I was at school, but I figured when it started lookiing nasty, I'd pop in a new one. That was almost 10 years ago, and it still looks great, as you can see (I took those photos about 5 minutes ago). Notice the dust on top of the case? I do dust it every 6 months or so...
I noticed a bit of shrinkage last year, but it's pretty slight. Of course, discussing art on/. is like asking the guy at TacoBell about optimal router configurations, but I thought you all might be amused.
- Corel Draw. It is awesome. I think it can be argued that it's the best general-purpose vector illustration program out there.
Yep, it could be argued. Of course, the person arguing this position would be wrong, but I guess that's beside the point...
I used to do a lot of portfolio evaluation at the ad agency I work at. People would get pissed when I made a comment like "hmmmm, you must really like Corel, eh?" It's one of those graphics programs which taints every project it touches with its own "feel." Too many gradients, too many too-bright colors. Tacky.
It's only "awesome" if you don't know any better. Which, apparently, you don't.
For professional vector illustration, Adobe Illustrator (like Photoshop) is the standard. If you can't use it, well, we won't hire you. Flaws it certainly has, but each revision is better (with the possible exception of 9, which I more or less skipped).
- Major (and foolish) Mac bias in the graphics/publishing market.
Okaaaaaaay. You don't like Macs. Congratulations, you're part of the moral majority. Bully for you.
However, there's a very simple reason that Macs rule in design and publishing: Adobe software runs better on the Mac that it does on Windows, and Adobe software is the engine that drives this industry. You can deny it, and you may dislike it, but it's an established fact.
Painter? A toy. Always has been. Like you said, "helluva lot of fun." I'm not in this for fun. I'm doing this stuff to please my clients, beat deadlines, and sell product. Having fun is great, but it's more important to get the job done, and get it done right. I'd rather finish my projects early, get off work early and ride a bike or something.
Corel is failing because too many of its apps are mediocre. It's the Plymouth of the software industry. The only people who buy this stuff are shopping at Office Depot at the time, and pick it because of the pretty box.
- PhotoPaint. It's easily as good as Photoshop. It does have a rather different UI, but the power is there.
It's an interesting little world you live in, isn't it? I think maybe next time you should wait until the pails on the lunchbox tree are ripe before you tuck in...
i was struck, when watching Lain for the first time, just how much the creators must have loved Scully-era Apple dreams of the future. ("Navi" stood for "Knowledge Navigator", and ran something futuristic called "Copland OS", i.e. what was going to be Apple's new modern OS before they canned the project and bought NExT, begetting OS X)
The machines in Lain are surprisingly close to the newest Palm handhelds, and Copland OS looks a lot like OS X (ok, maybe a bit more 3-D).
about/. at times like this, some people are incapable of admitting that they have a failure of imagination when it comes to evaluating the usefulness of technology like this.
Do you need 320GB for your open source projects? Of course not. However, there are *tons* of valid reasons to need this kind of space.
1. DVRs: store hundreds of hours of video. All fair use.
2. Photoshop. Many of the projects I work on generate files in the hundreds of megabytes. Very high resolution. Often projects run to a few gigabytes. Home use? It is for me.
3. Archival. For years, I've had to purge old projects off to CD, and just delete them altogether when I was getting tight on disk space. Now, with modern 160GB+ drives, I can have everything at hand. Forever.
4. iMovie. 'Nuff said.
5. ??: Who knows? No one's ever been able to put this kind of storage into people's hands before for this kind of money. Who knows what we'll come up with in a few years?
...and as for the "but there's no way to back it up" whiners. Oh, please. Use your imagination. Here's the system I use: (1) 160GB internal drive for daily use. (2) 160GB external firewire drives, one of which I use for incremental backups of the main drive, nightly. The second I store at an off-site location, and bring in once a week or so to back up the main drive directly, also incrementally. Both external drives are only connected during the backup procedure, and disconnected afterwards.
Perfect? Of course not, no system is. But it's safe enough for what I'm doing, and protects against the things that scare me most: 1. catastrophic drive failure, and 2. fire, theft, etc.
Come on, it's a procedural problem, not a technology problem.
Frankly, I think tape drive suck. Most of the time, you don't find out if they're working or not until it's too late. With my system, I can just plug the drive in, and check out the files. And what if you just need that one file which you accidently threw away? Easy on an HD, pain on a tape. That and the wearing on the heads leads to a limited life span, tape and drive...
what do i have to do to run (2) 1600x1200 CRTs with the built in video? I'm willing to get the Ge4Ti BTO card, but it has 1 ADC and 1 DVI (w/ VGA adapter). Can I get an ADC-VGA adapter to run a second CRT?
(don't like LCD's: too expensive, lousy color gamut, way too expensive)
Anyone have any experience with this sort of setup on a recent G4?
...why MS would feel even slightly threatened by this.
The Mac has 5 percent of the market. What's there to be afraid of? True, it's a lucrative 5 percent, and OSX has mindshare far beyond its marketshare, but still. Do they really see it as this much of a threat?
or are these guys biting off more than they can chew?
For anyone with the most limited technical knowledge, it's fairly simple to make yourself more or less immune to this sort of tracing... so you have to think that the only people who would be caught would be the dumb kids who don't take any countermeasures. Ok. Here's a truism: if these kids had enough money to have it be worth taking it in a lawsuit, they would be buying the CD's in the first place.
So what's the idea? Sue 30,000 12th graders for the baby-sitting money?
Or is this more about scare tactics? "Jim, it says here in the paper that people are being sued for sharing music in the internet. Do you think our Johnny could be mixed up in this? Perhaps we had better have a talk with him."
I love running multiple screens on my desktop machine, though. I had 3-20" Trins on my G3 for a long time. Great for flight sims.
Reminds me of a great trick I played on one of my coworkers... we were required to run a wintel machine on our desks just to access company email--something I could have done with VPC, but nobody would listen to me that I didn't want this ugly hunk of crap in my office, and could do without it.
So one late night, I hooked the PC screen up to my G4, transferred all the files over to VPC, and made sure the network connection was happy. Then, of course, all I had to do was set up VPC so it was running on the PC monitor.
To all appearances, both machines were now hooked up and running normally. (though it was somewhat quieter than before!)
Several days pass. No one notices that I'm only using one keyboard and mouse rather than two. Eventually, a Mac-curious coworker stops by for a chat. He asks how hard it is to move files over from PC to Mac and vice versa. Without skipping a beat, I grab a few files from the Mac desktop, and drag them over to the VPC screen. They copy flawlessly (of course). I showed him how you can move the mouse from one screen to another. His jaw dropped.
I said I had wireless networking between the two machines.
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I found that last year sometime. yeah, for me it was like when you find something like references to one of your favorite books in an obscure song by one of your favorite musicians.
(e.g. for me, "the ground beneath her feet" by rushdie and the song by bono of the same name.)
"The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick"
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This is an excerpt from a comic by Robert Crumb, Weirdo #17.
quoting: "It is an interesting graphic interpretation of a series of events which happened to Dick in March of 1974. He spent the remaining years of his life trying to figure out what happened in those fateful months. "
IMO, a must-read for anyone who enjoys Dick's work.
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The fanboy who reviewed this got a bit carried away.
Ok, let's see. You used the words "an astounding display of audacity" when referring to the DVD release of a mid '80s sci-fi film, you keep up with a site called "The Digital Bits", and you're calling this poor shmuck a fanboy? I mean, for god's sake, your nickname is "Obiwan Kenobi"!
you know, not that there's anything wrong with that...
*grin*
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Uh, RTFA?
-- Other bacteria, frozen into chunks of ice in a Washington laboratory, have thrived inside a high-pressure container and went right on reproducing after they were exposed to pressures equivalent to life at the bottom of an ocean 100 miles deep.
Oh, right. Forgot that no one reads the article anymore...
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the real question that any developer needs to ask...
"What you need doing? Daboo!"
going back to minding my fortress now...
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Twinkies don't compost, by the way. Something my kids discovered.
/. is like asking the guy at TacoBell about optimal router configurations, but I thought you all might be amused.
More than that, they're nearly immune to aging. Back when I was a freshman art student ('93, 94?) I made a sculpture featuring an ordinary Twinky, in a lexan case I created that was supposed to reference Lenin's final resting place... it's even internally lit.
Before you ask, no, I didn't spray the Twinky with anything. Straight out of the package. The case is not air-tight, but it's close.
Of course, it was in a couple of student shows while I was at school, but I figured when it started lookiing nasty, I'd pop in a new one. That was almost 10 years ago, and it still looks great, as you can see (I took those photos about 5 minutes ago). Notice the dust on top of the case? I do dust it every 6 months or so...
I noticed a bit of shrinkage last year, but it's pretty slight. Of course, discussing art on
Michael-
- Corel Draw. It is awesome. I think it can be argued that it's the best general-purpose vector illustration program out there.
Yep, it could be argued. Of course, the person arguing this position would be wrong, but I guess that's beside the point...
I used to do a lot of portfolio evaluation at the ad agency I work at. People would get pissed when I made a comment like "hmmmm, you must really like Corel, eh?" It's one of those graphics programs which taints every project it touches with its own "feel." Too many gradients, too many too-bright colors. Tacky.
It's only "awesome" if you don't know any better. Which, apparently, you don't.
For professional vector illustration, Adobe Illustrator (like Photoshop) is the standard. If you can't use it, well, we won't hire you. Flaws it certainly has, but each revision is better (with the possible exception of 9, which I more or less skipped).
- Major (and foolish) Mac bias in the graphics/publishing market.
Okaaaaaaay. You don't like Macs. Congratulations, you're part of the moral majority. Bully for you.
However, there's a very simple reason that Macs rule in design and publishing: Adobe software runs better on the Mac that it does on Windows, and Adobe software is the engine that drives this industry. You can deny it, and you may dislike it, but it's an established fact.
Painter? A toy. Always has been. Like you said, "helluva lot of fun." I'm not in this for fun. I'm doing this stuff to please my clients, beat deadlines, and sell product. Having fun is great, but it's more important to get the job done, and get it done right. I'd rather finish my projects early, get off work early and ride a bike or something.
Corel is failing because too many of its apps are mediocre. It's the Plymouth of the software industry. The only people who buy this stuff are shopping at Office Depot at the time, and pick it because of the pretty box.
- PhotoPaint. It's easily as good as Photoshop. It does have a rather different UI, but the power is there.
It's an interesting little world you live in, isn't it? I think maybe next time you should wait until the pails on the lunchbox tree are ripe before you tuck in...
m-
If you do use this for playing Quake 3, just make sure you're on the blue team.
Actually, you would want to be on the red team, because the blue team would have a harder time tracking you.
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i was struck, when watching Lain for the first time, just how much the creators must have loved Scully-era Apple dreams of the future. ("Navi" stood for "Knowledge Navigator", and ran something futuristic called "Copland OS", i.e. what was going to be Apple's new modern OS before they canned the project and bought NExT, begetting OS X)
The machines in Lain are surprisingly close to the newest Palm handhelds, and Copland OS looks a lot like OS X (ok, maybe a bit more 3-D).
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of course, the real question is, what are you doing with all those paper towels?
hmmm?
nevermind. i don't want to know.
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it took less than two weeks to get my rebate back.
have you ever submitted a rebate to apple? i do it at least twice a year, and it's always fast.
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Consumers choose Toyots - I choose GMC trucks.
Sure you don't have this backwards?
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Did a geek steal your girlfriend?
Don't hear that one very often...
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about /. at times like this, some people are incapable of admitting that they have a failure of imagination when it comes to evaluating the usefulness of technology like this.
...and as for the "but there's no way to back it up" whiners. Oh, please. Use your imagination. Here's the system I use:
Do you need 320GB for your open source projects? Of course not. However, there are *tons* of valid reasons to need this kind of space.
1. DVRs: store hundreds of hours of video. All fair use.
2. Photoshop. Many of the projects I work on generate files in the hundreds of megabytes. Very high resolution. Often projects run to a few gigabytes. Home use? It is for me.
3. Archival. For years, I've had to purge old projects off to CD, and just delete them altogether when I was getting tight on disk space. Now, with modern 160GB+ drives, I can have everything at hand. Forever.
4. iMovie. 'Nuff said.
5. ??: Who knows? No one's ever been able to put this kind of storage into people's hands before for this kind of money. Who knows what we'll come up with in a few years?
(1) 160GB internal drive for daily use.
(2) 160GB external firewire drives, one of which I use for incremental backups of the main drive, nightly. The second I store at an off-site location, and bring in once a week or so to back up the main drive directly, also incrementally. Both external drives are only connected during the backup procedure, and disconnected afterwards.
Perfect? Of course not, no system is. But it's safe enough for what I'm doing, and protects against the things that scare me most: 1. catastrophic drive failure, and 2. fire, theft, etc.
Come on, it's a procedural problem, not a technology problem.
Frankly, I think tape drive suck. Most of the time, you don't find out if they're working or not until it's too late. With my system, I can just plug the drive in, and check out the files. And what if you just need that one file which you accidently threw away? Easy on an HD, pain on a tape. That and the wearing on the heads leads to a limited life span, tape and drive...
of course, all this is IMO...
m-
what do i have to do to run (2) 1600x1200 CRTs with the built in video? I'm willing to get the Ge4Ti BTO card, but it has 1 ADC and 1 DVI (w/ VGA adapter). Can I get an ADC-VGA adapter to run a second CRT?
(don't like LCD's: too expensive, lousy color gamut, way too expensive)
Anyone have any experience with this sort of setup on a recent G4?
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rather than doing things that humans are already quite GOOD at, like schmoozing.
Don't know many scientists, eh?
There are very few who would be willing (to say nothing of able) to work in a hazardous or tiny confining environment.
What, like a cubicle?
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...I cannot tell: which one is the robot?
Can anyone enlighten me?
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4 seconds is enough
Only a man would say this.
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...why MS would feel even slightly threatened by this.
The Mac has 5 percent of the market. What's there to be afraid of? True, it's a lucrative 5 percent, and OSX has mindshare far beyond its marketshare, but still. Do they really see it as this much of a threat?
What do they want, a monopoly?
or are these guys biting off more than they can chew?
For anyone with the most limited technical knowledge, it's fairly simple to make yourself more or less immune to this sort of tracing... so you have to think that the only people who would be caught would be the dumb kids who don't take any countermeasures. Ok. Here's a truism: if these kids had enough money to have it be worth taking it in a lawsuit, they would be buying the CD's in the first place.
So what's the idea? Sue 30,000 12th graders for the baby-sitting money?
Or is this more about scare tactics? "Jim, it says here in the paper that people are being sued for sharing music in the internet. Do you think our Johnny could be mixed up in this? Perhaps we had better have a talk with him."
(cue "father knows best" theme song)
Or am I missing something here?
Michael-
Don't you mean an iMac?
I love running multiple screens on my desktop machine, though. I had 3-20" Trins on my G3 for a long time. Great for flight sims.
Reminds me of a great trick I played on one of my coworkers... we were required to run a wintel machine on our desks just to access company email--something I could have done with VPC, but nobody would listen to me that I didn't want this ugly hunk of crap in my office, and could do without it.
So one late night, I hooked the PC screen up to my G4, transferred all the files over to VPC, and made sure the network connection was happy. Then, of course, all I had to do was set up VPC so it was running on the PC monitor.
To all appearances, both machines were now hooked up and running normally. (though it was somewhat quieter than before!)
Several days pass. No one notices that I'm only using one keyboard and mouse rather than two. Eventually, a Mac-curious coworker stops by for a chat. He asks how hard it is to move files over from PC to Mac and vice versa. Without skipping a beat, I grab a few files from the Mac desktop, and drag them over to the VPC screen. They copy flawlessly (of course). I showed him how you can move the mouse from one screen to another. His jaw dropped.
I said I had wireless networking between the two machines.
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of this incredibly lame-looking thing.
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I found that last year sometime. yeah, for me it was like when you find something like references to one of your favorite books in an obscure song by one of your favorite musicians.
(e.g. for me, "the ground beneath her feet" by rushdie and the song by bono of the same name.)
This is an excerpt from a comic by Robert Crumb, Weirdo #17.
quoting:
"It is an interesting graphic interpretation of a series of events which happened to Dick in March of 1974. He spent the remaining years of his life trying to figure out what happened in those fateful months. "
IMO, a must-read for anyone who enjoys Dick's work.
m-
So what should this one be called, the WOPR Junior?
Bacon WOPR w/ Cheese?
You dont like me because I dont have any Karma, and you wont give me any Karma because you dont like me.
No, I'm pretty sure I don't like you because you keep whining. I certainly don't care about your karma or lack thereof.