I think if disk got to that point, I'd still have multiples.
One to work off of and several for backups, Just In Case.
Since it currently takes something like 30-40 DVDs to do a Full Backup of my workstation (not always necessary, but I still have to do a Full Backup a couple of times a year just to clean shit out), I can honestly say I'm very much looking forward to the day when backup media is as large as or larger than system and data disks.
And no, "buy another hard drive!" isn't an answer. I can drop a box of DVDs and they still work.
... but one BIG gripe I have about 10.4 is that Finder builds a preview icon of all of my (massive allotment of ) photoshop (5-5.5) files its own damned self, rather than referencing and displaying the actual document icon. I'd be fine with this if it cached the icon, but it doesn't.:P Waiting ten seconds for finder to build a preview when there was already a perfectly good one to work with is extremely counterproductive.
Max Headroom dealt with this, both as an overall concept and as a specific episode of the TV series.
Personally, I think it would be handy - dupe the skillset into a ROM construct and cut the sucker loose on photoshop. He can sit on IRC and CG my comic pages while I write and ink the sucker. Perfect division of labor, creatively speaking.... but I'm one of those creative types who needs multiple instances of himself, not collaborators clouding the idea stream.:P
...opera is off the table because it costs money.:P
Considering just how much money keeping "legal" with software sucks out of the company budget on a yearly basis (it used to be bi-yearly, but now Big Apps are shifting to variants on the subscription model...), more paperwork and POs for a web browser - when all the machines already have one - just can't be justified.
Just try driving your Lexus through that field you see the horse grazing in. If you don't completely destroy the suspension in the process, you'll probably still bend an axle on a chuchkhole the horse has no problems navigating.
Oh, and consider the full area of a horse field compared to the itty bitty teeny little slice of processed asphalt bisecting it - you get the tiny piece, the horse gets the remainder.
The nice thing is that the firewire bus can technically handle 400 megabit sustained throughput, so you can chain together four firewire/ATA devices and use them all without any serious bottlnecking (beyond the system bus, but hey).
Six is the Empire Strikes Back of the FF series, in my opinion - its' easily the best of the series- deepest (again, imo) character development, most compelling characters, most fluid combat system, one of the better magic systems... I spent hundreds of hours with it as a teenager and got so deep into it that I eventually hand corrected innacuracies in the strategy guide I'd purchased (when it had become apparent I'd missed a few things).
Then VII came along, completely and utterly failed to be better than VI in any way (in fact, amping up to a high level pretty much every shortcoming of the series), and my high hopes for the future of RPGs were rapidly deflated.
I spent somewhere around 250 hours with FF VI - multiple runthroughs and couching with friends who were playing the game. I couldn't stomach VII or VIII for any more than 40-50, and never replayed either - they'd lost the magic that made VI so compelling for me.
My SGI Indigo 2 r10k is a 64-bit MIPS proc running at 200mhz with 576 megs of RAM, running IRIX.
The indigo2 was released in 1993.
I do believe mine (the purple, 64-bit beast) came along in 95 or 96.
UNIX and by logical extension freenix has always been years - if not decades - ahead of gear that Joe User can buy on his salary. Anybody who thinks freenix has any sort of "catching up" or "adapting" to do to achieve 64-bit perfomance is obviously highly ignorant of computing history.:|
Non-magnetic media that doesn't become useless if it's dropped or the enclosure it's in dies versus spreading my sources of failure beyond a single point?
I'll pass.
Besides, I already mirror to a terabyte RAID. This shit STILL needs to be offlined after projects are Done, etceteras.
With something like this I'll be able to backup my workstation with ten pieces of media, instead of the seventy or so DVDs it would take to do a Full Backup.
Seriously, it's about time offline media started catching up with hard drive capacities.
Historically, Dark Horse:Ocean::Comics:Video Games w/r/t their rabid craze for licensing.
I learned from 80s Marvel Star Wars comics and 90s Dark Horse Star Wars comics that just because you have the rights doesn't mean you have the capability of producing quality material.
That and they have the same problem DC does with their Vertigo line - extremely high quality covers with interior work that has always, in my professional opinion, had a rushed or unfinished feel to it (work for hire, DH rates, contracts, bills, making a living, etc, etc.).
I'll probably check it out, despite my traditionally itchy experiences with Dark Horse - Whedon's {co}writing it and it's only three issues - it's not like they're pulling a Marvel and hoping to suck us in for a ten year run of recycled crap with new writers, pencillers and inkers every three months.
Reloaded is the first time I've ever gotten bored and started looking at the clock during a fight scene. Unfortunately, this has since extended itself (Appleseed 2004, Revolutions).
And the Dragonball Z shit at the end of Revolutions? Man. Gods.
I'm glad I saw that shit in the theater, really. I didn't pay for it and it means none of my personal hardware will ever be profaned by the DVD or divx.
My previous response was a bit hotheaded (obviously), but man.
I've deliberately killed off my social life. Told people to fuck off, unplugged my phone, unplugged the answering machine. I do email weekly, if that. Meat wants to distract. Humans are great at blocking the exits and getting in the way, and several people constantly on my case wanting me to sit around with them and DO NOTHING was an irritating impediment to the work I actually want to be doing.
I saw it as a choice between my comic and my social life, with the comic being a very rewarding experience and the social life being a complete waste of my time, one night out interchangeable with any of the others.
Somehow the fact that I get nothing from "hanging out" and would prefer to get shit Done has caused many people to label me as malfunctioning. Only because my optimal behaviours are nothing like their optimal behaviours.
... if your preferred take on society is that it's a steaming pile of shit, that you'll be assimilated on your terms or over your dead body, if you KNOW people are FUCKING MORONS........ you have ODD.
As a professional pixel-pusher, I can (with as much authority as you'd care to give me) say that the GIMP ought to be compared more to PaintShop Pro or similar. You can make stuff with it, but.... colorspace is complete balls, the FOSS attitude of "YOU DON'T LIKE IT? YOU FIX IT!!!!" doesn't fly, and dear gods the interface is horrible.
I mean, horrible.
Adobe's main advantage is that they do all the work. The fact that Photoshop is becoming progressively more and mote fuctard friendly is proof that they're listening to user feedback - the fact that performance has gotten steadily and measureably worse since 5.5 is proof they're ignoring the power users, who are the people who have the most to gain from The GIMP being brought up to Industry Standard levels of useability.
Here's the thing.
Most artists can't punctuate their way out of a paper bag. You're lucky if you can find one who scored anything above a C in the more "nerd-friendly" math classes in public school and college. You're DAMNED lucky to find one that can actualyl write html without using an IDE like Dreamweaver or GoLive. Good luck finding one that knows WHAT Perl or C++ or Ruby even IS, let alone how to actually get anything done with them.
Artists are as likely to be coders (or to even understand coding concepts) as Linus is to shit a Picasso while he's sitting on the porcelain throne.
The sooner GIMP contributors realize this, the better.
FOSS seems to have a hardon for "Good Enough" - well, for graphics professionals, Photoshops is "Good Enough". GIMP isn't. We need something as good as or better than Photoshop.
I'll start actually using the gimp on a day-to-day basis when it can open complex (not in terms of colorspace, I'm all RGB, as I work For The Screen) Photoshop 5.5 documents and preserve the text as editable. If it can't use all the fonts on my system (several Classic Font Suitcases as well as modern fonts) or open said documents without a hassle, I Can Not Use It.
Why do you think we keep shelling out more and more money over shorter and shorter periods of time for the thing?
Apple charges a hundred bucks a year for a shitload of essential functionality that ought to be shipped uncrippled.... so I keep a linux box around to handle the things I'd be able to do otherwise.:P
Yeah, I read "Disney" and groaned. But I watched the trailer and didn't catch Eddie Murphy or Gilbert Gottfried anywhere and Narnia certainly isn't musical fodder, so... it looks more like they're trying to cash in on the current LotR frenzy. Box office has proven people want Big Epic Fantasy, and despite the overt religious themes, Narnia is exactly that. It's Big, it's Epic, and it's Fantasy. In a lot of cases (at least in my home skool district), it was the first fantasy novel(s) read by many, many children. I was reading Voyage of the Dawn Treader while I was still building Construx forts for my Star Wars action figures. Hopefully Narnia makes a decent transition to the big screen, but from the trailer it looks like they're focusing on everything they think made LotR a huge success (eg battle, battle, battle - gods that shit bores the hell out of me. Has since The Phantom Menace).
I never got around to reading LotR - I was completely turned off by all the singing and poetry in The Hobbit and figured there'd be more of it in the trilogy... and I found Sci-Fi to be a hell of a lot more interesting (at least until the rack at Barnes and Nobel started to look more like a bad collection of Heavy Metal cover art)...
If they don't screw it up, they can easily cash in on film adaptations of the rest of the series - there's quite a lot of material to work with.
The panther-not-remembering-samba-passwords thing has been annoying the crap out of me since 10.3.0 - more for the fact that (a) I have to interface with samba and (b) my freenix friends who don't run windows AT ALL for some damned reason think Samba Is Awesome and get all >:| whenever NFS is mentioned.
Good to know at least ONE thing about the work network is going to suck less...
Conversely, Soyuz has flown a LOT more than the various shuttles have.
Yeah, it can't haul ass to lunar orbit, but until NASA finally sucks it up and launches Discovery, it's our only way to get a man off this rock. And it's been doing a pretty stellar job of it.
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Doesn't this make anyone running linux, OS X, or OS 9 (Finder-level 128-bit encryption) potential criminals? :P
I think if disk got to that point, I'd still have multiples.
One to work off of and several for backups, Just In Case.
Since it currently takes something like 30-40 DVDs to do a Full Backup of my workstation (not always necessary, but I still have to do a Full Backup a couple of times a year just to clean shit out), I can honestly say I'm very much looking forward to the day when backup media is as large as or larger than system and data disks.
And no, "buy another hard drive!" isn't an answer. I can drop a box of DVDs and they still work.
... but one BIG gripe I have about 10.4 is that Finder builds a preview icon of all of my (massive allotment of ) photoshop (5-5.5) files its own damned self, rather than referencing and displaying the actual document icon. I'd be fine with this if it cached the icon, but it doesn't. :P Waiting ten seconds for finder to build a preview when there was already a perfectly good one to work with is extremely counterproductive.
Max Headroom dealt with this, both as an overall concept and as a specific episode of the TV series.
:P
Personally, I think it would be handy - dupe the skillset into a ROM construct and cut the sucker loose on photoshop. He can sit on IRC and CG my comic pages while I write and ink the sucker. Perfect division of labor, creatively speaking.... but I'm one of those creative types who needs multiple instances of himself, not collaborators clouding the idea stream.
...opera is off the table because it costs money. :P
Considering just how much money keeping "legal" with software sucks out of the company budget on a yearly basis (it used to be bi-yearly, but now Big Apps are shifting to variants on the subscription model...), more paperwork and POs for a web browser - when all the machines already have one - just can't be justified.
Just try driving your Lexus through that field you see the horse grazing in. If you don't completely destroy the suspension in the process, you'll probably still bend an axle on a chuchkhole the horse has no problems navigating.
:P
Oh, and consider the full area of a horse field compared to the itty bitty teeny little slice of processed asphalt bisecting it - you get the tiny piece, the horse gets the remainder.
Your analogy isn't exactly waterproof.
This isn't really news. Notebook drives are slow.
The nice thing is that the firewire bus can technically handle 400 megabit sustained throughput, so you can chain together four firewire/ATA devices and use them all without any serious bottlnecking (beyond the system bus, but hey).
Six is the Empire Strikes Back of the FF series, in my opinion - its' easily the best of the series- deepest (again, imo) character development, most compelling characters, most fluid combat system, one of the better magic systems... I spent hundreds of hours with it as a teenager and got so deep into it that I eventually hand corrected innacuracies in the strategy guide I'd purchased (when it had become apparent I'd missed a few things).
Then VII came along, completely and utterly failed to be better than VI in any way (in fact, amping up to a high level pretty much every shortcoming of the series), and my high hopes for the future of RPGs were rapidly deflated.
I spent somewhere around 250 hours with FF VI - multiple runthroughs and couching with friends who were playing the game. I couldn't stomach VII or VIII for any more than 40-50, and never replayed either - they'd lost the magic that made VI so compelling for me.
My SGI Indigo 2 r10k is a 64-bit MIPS proc running at 200mhz with 576 megs of RAM, running IRIX.
:|
The indigo2 was released in 1993.
I do believe mine (the purple, 64-bit beast) came along in 95 or 96.
UNIX and by logical extension freenix has always been years - if not decades - ahead of gear that Joe User can buy on his salary. Anybody who thinks freenix has any sort of "catching up" or "adapting" to do to achieve 64-bit perfomance is obviously highly ignorant of computing history.
Non-magnetic media that doesn't become useless if it's dropped or the enclosure it's in dies versus spreading my sources of failure beyond a single point?
I'll pass.
Besides, I already mirror to a terabyte RAID. This shit STILL needs to be offlined after projects are Done, etceteras.
With something like this I'll be able to backup my workstation with ten pieces of media, instead of the seventy or so DVDs it would take to do a Full Backup.
Seriously, it's about time offline media started catching up with hard drive capacities.
Oops.
:)
I don't use analogies on IRC or in board posts often. It would have come out right verbally.
Thanks for the correction.
Historically, Dark Horse:Ocean::Comics:Video Games w/r/t their rabid craze for licensing.
I learned from 80s Marvel Star Wars comics and 90s Dark Horse Star Wars comics that just because you have the rights doesn't mean you have the capability of producing quality material.
That and they have the same problem DC does with their Vertigo line - extremely high quality covers with interior work that has always, in my professional opinion, had a rushed or unfinished feel to it (work for hire, DH rates, contracts, bills, making a living, etc, etc.).
I'll probably check it out, despite my traditionally itchy experiences with Dark Horse - Whedon's {co}writing it and it's only three issues - it's not like they're pulling a Marvel and hoping to suck us in for a ten year run of recycled crap with new writers, pencillers and inkers every three months.
Reloaded is the first time I've ever gotten bored and started looking at the clock during a fight scene. Unfortunately, this has since extended itself (Appleseed 2004, Revolutions).
And the Dragonball Z shit at the end of Revolutions? Man. Gods.
I'm glad I saw that shit in the theater, really. I didn't pay for it and it means none of my personal hardware will ever be profaned by the DVD or divx.
My previous response was a bit hotheaded (obviously), but man.
I've deliberately killed off my social life. Told people to fuck off, unplugged my phone, unplugged the answering machine. I do email weekly, if that. Meat wants to distract. Humans are great at blocking the exits and getting in the way, and several people constantly on my case wanting me to sit around with them and DO NOTHING was an irritating impediment to the work I actually want to be doing.
I saw it as a choice between my comic and my social life, with the comic being a very rewarding experience and the social life being a complete waste of my time, one night out interchangeable with any of the others.
Somehow the fact that I get nothing from "hanging out" and would prefer to get shit Done has caused many people to label me as malfunctioning. Only because my optimal behaviours are nothing like their optimal behaviours.
... if your preferred take on society is that it's a steaming pile of shit, that you'll be assimilated on your terms or over your dead body, if you KNOW people are FUCKING MORONS.... .... you have ODD.
k.
As a professional pixel-pusher, I can (with as much authority as you'd care to give me) say that the GIMP ought to be compared more to PaintShop Pro or similar. You can make stuff with it, but.... colorspace is complete balls, the FOSS attitude of "YOU DON'T LIKE IT? YOU FIX IT!!!!" doesn't fly, and dear gods the interface is horrible.
I mean, horrible.
Adobe's main advantage is that they do all the work. The fact that Photoshop is becoming progressively more and mote fuctard friendly is proof that they're listening to user feedback - the fact that performance has gotten steadily and measureably worse since 5.5 is proof they're ignoring the power users, who are the people who have the most to gain from The GIMP being brought up to Industry Standard levels of useability.
Here's the thing.
Most artists can't punctuate their way out of a paper bag. You're lucky if you can find one who scored anything above a C in the more "nerd-friendly" math classes in public school and college. You're DAMNED lucky to find one that can actualyl write html without using an IDE like Dreamweaver or GoLive. Good luck finding one that knows WHAT Perl or C++ or Ruby even IS, let alone how to actually get anything done with them.
Artists are as likely to be coders (or to even understand coding concepts) as Linus is to shit a Picasso while he's sitting on the porcelain throne.
The sooner GIMP contributors realize this, the better.
FOSS seems to have a hardon for "Good Enough" - well, for graphics professionals, Photoshops is "Good Enough". GIMP isn't. We need something as good as or better than Photoshop.
I'll start actually using the gimp on a day-to-day basis when it can open complex (not in terms of colorspace, I'm all RGB, as I work For The Screen) Photoshop 5.5 documents and preserve the text as editable. If it can't use all the fonts on my system (several Classic Font Suitcases as well as modern fonts) or open said documents without a hassle, I Can Not Use It.
Why do you think we keep shelling out more and more money over shorter and shorter periods of time for the thing?
His .mac subscription probably eats that right up.
:P
Apple charges a hundred bucks a year for a shitload of essential functionality that ought to be shipped uncrippled.... so I keep a linux box around to handle the things I'd be able to do otherwise.
Yeah, I read "Disney" and groaned. But I watched the trailer and didn't catch Eddie Murphy or Gilbert Gottfried anywhere and Narnia certainly isn't musical fodder, so... it looks more like they're trying to cash in on the current LotR frenzy. Box office has proven people want Big Epic Fantasy, and despite the overt religious themes, Narnia is exactly that. It's Big, it's Epic, and it's Fantasy. In a lot of cases (at least in my home skool district), it was the first fantasy novel(s) read by many, many children. I was reading Voyage of the Dawn Treader while I was still building Construx forts for my Star Wars action figures. Hopefully Narnia makes a decent transition to the big screen, but from the trailer it looks like they're focusing on everything they think made LotR a huge success (eg battle, battle, battle - gods that shit bores the hell out of me. Has since The Phantom Menace).
I never got around to reading LotR - I was completely turned off by all the singing and poetry in The Hobbit and figured there'd be more of it in the trilogy... and I found Sci-Fi to be a hell of a lot more interesting (at least until the rack at Barnes and Nobel started to look more like a bad collection of Heavy Metal cover art)...
If they don't screw it up, they can easily cash in on film adaptations of the rest of the series - there's quite a lot of material to work with.
The panther-not-remembering-samba-passwords thing has been annoying the crap out of me since 10.3.0 - more for the fact that (a) I have to interface with samba and (b) my freenix friends who don't run windows AT ALL for some damned reason think Samba Is Awesome and get all >:| whenever NFS is mentioned.
Good to know at least ONE thing about the work network is going to suck less...
Dude, about four minutes after I read your post, I noticed Adium 0.81 is available. :D
The Mac hasn't HAD a non-Word Macrovirus virus since the Autostart Worm, which turned itself off on 25 December 1998 (iirc).
:P
Unless you count SevenDust, but that's a Classic MacOS virus.
MacOS X needs AV like a horse needs a fifth leg.
Conversely, Soyuz has flown a LOT more than the various shuttles have.
Yeah, it can't haul ass to lunar orbit, but until NASA finally sucks it up and launches Discovery, it's our only way to get a man off this rock. And it's been doing a pretty stellar job of it.
... but you can't make him use Ogg.
"Approved" != "Adopted", and best of luck with that.
Yes. Kevin Smith likes it. Not Kevin Smith, Maker Of Clerks and Mall Rats and so forth.
Kevin Smith, Lifelong Star Wars Fanboi. Remember how much of Clerks was various characters talking about Star Wars?
Yeah.
Guy who LOVES Star Wars LOVES Episode III.
Hardly a glowing endorsement. I'm more interested in what Ridley Scott thinks - especially since he isn't Rumored To Direct an SW tv series.