Fireworks is alright, but doesn't compete with Photoshop, it comptetes with Imageready which is great.
Also on a side personal note - I don't like seeing Vector tools in web programs, nothing on the web is going to be Vectorized, it may "look" like it is, but if it's in jpg, png, or gif format it's not (flash is the exception)
If I want to create Vector graphics for Print i'll use Illustrator which IMO is better than Freehand as well.
For the record Dreamweaver rocks the hell out of any other wysiwyg program available, especially Adobe's GoLive which sucks donkey ballz.
Finally, Now I have no reason to use Windows anymore and can switch too...oooh hay look at Panther that's pretty cool and already runs everything Windows does...
Sorry Redhat guess your gonna have to be pretier and as useful as OS X now....
No one NEEDS radio, but lets face, although MP3 players and CD/DVDs are great and work perfect in both cars, office, and home use how would you be exposed to NEW or Indepedant music without the radio?
Sure you could type in random names in kazaa and see what comes up, but lets face it your listenign to the music you are right now because of 1) A friend told you 2) You heard a song on the radio and dloaded it from kazaa 3) You heard a song on MTV and dloaded it on kazaa
So if you didn't have radio you would be left with MTV and VH1 telling you what songs are cool (SCARY considering I just saw a new Madonna/Britney video that sounded and looked HORRIBLE)
Getting back to my original point is that you need Radio to be able to find new music to listen too, unless you love everything you hear on MTV and VH1
We need to get a hot red head to stand in the middle of a circle half naked and stare up at the sun before it moves and decides it wants to crash into the earth!!!!
The only thing I see Dell and Phillips having in common with the iPod is that they took the same features and designs as all the previous MP3 players on the market that were $150 for 20gigs (Nomad) and raised the price tag to $300 so morons would go hay thats expensive it must be really good.
Personally I've played with the Nomad and the iPod and didn't like either. I don't like the interfaces and would rather just use my zaurus for 60min of music while running on the treadmill at the gym.
I could have sworn there was a post about this on/., as well as I've seen this earlier this year on both Wired and Cnet. One of them even gave step by step instructions on how to turn Messenger off which even for a novice was simple if they followed the directions.
a good question... sadly "someone" must be buying "something" from these spammers for them to keep doing this. And even if the ratio is.0001% you still are getting FREE marketing to millions of people - most of which just delete your email (very few actually are able to find who you are and take you to court) and occasionally some buy apparently.
Whenever I think of "Software crashing so bad it takes down the whole computer" I think it's probably more to do with that systems own problems and unstability than the software.
It reminds me of the time my friend tried to instal Norton Antivirus on his system and it crashed out during install and when he restarted his system hung at the waiting for local disk blurb.... The problem wasn't Norton, but rather a failing harddisk that had given plenty of signs with bad sectors, corrupt data, registry errors on startup and a host of other bugs he had ignored and eventually chaulked up to "must be a virus". Norton being the last thing installed was just bad timing for Norton. In the end a new harddrive later and a fresh install of everything (including Norton) the system is fine and working well.
Now granted there are occassional software bugs that lockup/freeze windows, but my personal opinion from my experience is that if I am not having any computer problems and an install bombs I try it again. If it does the exact same thing I hit up the manufacturers website for "known issues" if there is none listed I toss the software and don't look back until a patch or new version comes out.
Yes the technologies are more geared towards different things, but it doesn't change the fact that many Bluetooth devices try and sell themselves off as
"Go wireless with your Bluetooth XYZ which can transfer files back forth wirelessly with your home computer"
With statements/commercials advertising that it's almost as if they want you to think of Bluetooth as a competitor.
Personally I have no need for my phone to talk to my computer so I don't use/need bluetooth. What I do need is to transfer 200+meg files from my mac to my pc on a daily/hourly basis...
I use 802.11b type devices and not Bluetooth type ones, but in all honesty their are a lot of people and companies (Apple Computers comes to mind) who use Bluetooth in their systems and PDA's. Of course they (at least Apple I know for sure) do use 802.11b (Airport) devices as well.
I think Bluetooth is also looked at as sort of an underdog competitor with 802.11b(g)(a) wireless standards and therefore a lot of people flock to it.
Of course weather or not Bluetooth exists or doesn't makes no difference to me because it's not a technology I utilize or have any interest in.
I've been using http://www.distributed.net/ on and off for a few years now and i've never had a problem with any of my processors. However I usually upgrade my cpu/mb every 3-4 years, so if you have or keep your systems longer i'd imagine any burnouts would be due to "just an old cpu" and not from the constant use. Then again I don't plan or expect my hardware to last forever.
As far as the power bill goes. I currently have a desktop, laptop, wireless router/hub and zaurus going the majority of the day - at least the systems are always on since I am too lazy to turn them off and have no need too. I also live with my girlfriend who runs the haridryer every morning and must have every light on in the house to check her makeup with. At the end of the month we get our power bill of $45-50 - which in my opinion is not a lot. We're also in California for the record.
ummm..... Why so slow? My maxtor drie I have now is 7200rpm, the same speed as my other IBM drive too. Why did they go so much slower? It seems with the continual "faster=better" idea we should start seeing IDE drives reaching the speeds of 10,000rpm soon (if there aren't a few already)
Trilian, AIM, and iChat ALL have options to "let others see your message as your typing"
So MSN patented this? How is that possible since it's so commonly used?
Can I patent the chord order "C-G-E" so when played in that order I get $$$ from the RIAA?
Am I missing something? GIMP sucks - for me
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From this page which deals with telling "graphic designers" why they should switch...
"Gimp has a much smarter menu system that is far more efficient than theone present in Photoshop, or for that matter in all other image manipulation programs that we know of" um. Wrong. Photoshop users 90% of the time also use Indesign, Illustrator, Imageready, Acrobat, or "some" other adobe product and all of them have a consistant interface with tools in the same or similar place, so moving to the GIMP could be a little confusing.
"Photoshop also has certain scripting capabilities, but it doesn't compare to the power of an advanced scripting language such as Perl. When it comes to scripting, we don't think it's unfair to compare Photoshop with a little baby and Gimp with a full-grown adult with 30 years of working experience. That's how big the difference is" Graphic Designers are NOT programmers (usually) they are hired to make "shit look pretty" thats why most of photoshops scripts can actually just be recoreded like macros or scripted in simple text using simple "copy X - insert page - paste X" language
"Gimp can't handle anything other than 8 bit RGB, grayscale and indexed images. That's the big disadvantage of Gimp. Since Gimp doesn't support CMYK or spot colors such as PANTONE, Gimp can't compete with Photoshop in the prepress field.
Photoshop has more third-party plug-ins than Gimp. Yes, even though Gimp has around 220 real plug-ins at the moment and that number is constantly growing with around one plug-in every two weeks, there are still more plug-ins that you can buy as accessories to Photoshop, and they aren't available for Gimp.
Photoshop is also more effective (faster) when it comes to big images with a lot of layers (images bigger than 500x500 pixels)." Are they really naive enough to think that a graphic designer would ONLY do webdesign and never be involved in the print area as well? Not to mention Photoshop also installs a program called Imageready which is what you use for webgraphics, if your using Photoshop by itself for webgraphics they are probably not animated and bloated in file size - Photoshop is more geared towards workign with print material where as Imageready is what we use for 500x500px type web stuff. Also my BIG pet-peeve with the GIMP is PANTONE! PANTONE! PANTONE! You know how many jobs for companies I get that use a specific pantone color in their logo? ALL OF THEM.
Sorry, I know some people here like the GIMP, but it's far inferior to Photoshop for Graphic Designers.
But what do I know - i'm not a programmer, not a IT monkey, and not a linux fan... I'm just a Graphic Designer. I'll just go back to my Apple and Windows machines now.
"Calls whatever they come up with the standard, and mess with anything that complies with real standards. In fact, messes with their own standards whenever they feel like it."
uh... Can we say so does Apple - They come out with a 64bit cpu and think their the first ones to ever do that (guess they forgot about sun's sparc, intels xeon, and amds whatever, not to mention the other 64bit cpus no one cares about....
They also come out an MP3 player and think their the first and only people making one...
And STANDARDS - look at the transition we went through from 9 to X, 10.3 is coming out and i'm still having to use Classic mode for some of my apps, not to mention Umax stll hasn't made a driver for my scanner that will work with X...
Microsoft isn't much better and maybe worse, but your giving too much credit to apple - imo
That's very optimistic of you. The act is MS will definately make a more stable Windows version by being able to integrate with the bios. HOWEVER the main concern is that looking at past business practices chances are this new bios will also have problems with software other than Windows "all of a sudden"
And I enjoy a good read about games, gaming, nerdy stuff in general. But that article was kind of meatless. Like a soup made of mostly water. I didn't see any profound concepts or ideas or even a point other than, "in games you can die and it's interesting that people can choose to kill or help others in games."
The blurb on slashdot was MORE interesting than RingTFA - which why people not wasting 15min of their time reading the article will probably mod me down for flaimbate and overrated.
I honestly like and use windows everyday (in addition to my mac) and I don't mind their terrany as much as some people on slashdot, however with the recent trend in really annoying virus's, seriously lowsy and slow to respond security patches, not to leave out the fact that windows update got FUX0R3D a while back....I'm coming to the conclusion that i'm fucked unless something changes. But my options are limited by these 2 problems:
1) I can't switch to linux because it does not have the software I run (and no the open source counterparts are don't work either)
2) My mac is great, but call only fill about 90% of my daily work activities...there are just "some" things I need a pc for.
With that i'm left to rely on MS to come out wiht a new version of Xp with some new added feature, but it will still have "SOME" flaw in it. What I would like MS to do is NOT release another version of windows until this one is totally SOLID if that means I have 2-4 more service packs to get in the next year thats fine, i'd rather see that than a new XP-64bit version - SAME DAMN THING AS XP BUT 64bit - lady friggin da
I would like to take this time to announce Stolensofts new upcoming FPS shooter "Not Quite Dead" The game features a robust and powerful 3D engine, with realistic AI.
Surprisingly enough we were able to complete the game engine and the game within 2 weeks, which goes to show why Stolensoft makes the best games.
So a couple of Developrs started a company making some cool stuff. However the company went under, obviously because not enough other people thought it was cool stuff. BUT these two people are able to get another business loan and/or fund the SAME business AGAIN? Um... Maybe i'm just a fan of successful business practices, but if your business goes under, I wouldn't start another one doing the SAME thing...
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Fireworks is alright, but doesn't compete with Photoshop, it comptetes with Imageready which is great.
Also on a side personal note - I don't like seeing Vector tools in web programs, nothing on the web is going to be Vectorized, it may "look" like it is, but if it's in jpg, png, or gif format it's not (flash is the exception)
If I want to create Vector graphics for Print i'll use Illustrator which IMO is better than Freehand as well.
For the record Dreamweaver rocks the hell out of any other wysiwyg program available, especially Adobe's GoLive which sucks donkey ballz.
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Finally, Now I have no reason to use Windows anymore and can switch too...oooh hay look at Panther that's pretty cool and already runs everything Windows does...
Sorry Redhat guess your gonna have to be pretier and as useful as OS X now....
No one NEEDS radio, but lets face, although MP3 players and CD/DVDs are great and work perfect in both cars, office, and home use how would you be exposed to NEW or Indepedant music without the radio?
Sure you could type in random names in kazaa and see what comes up, but lets face it your listenign to the music you are right now because of
1) A friend told you
2) You heard a song on the radio and dloaded it from kazaa
3) You heard a song on MTV and dloaded it on kazaa
So if you didn't have radio you would be left with MTV and VH1 telling you what songs are cool (SCARY considering I just saw a new Madonna/Britney video that sounded and looked HORRIBLE)
Getting back to my original point is that you need Radio to be able to find new music to listen too, unless you love everything you hear on MTV and VH1
We need to get a hot red head to stand in the middle of a circle half naked and stare up at the sun before it moves and decides it wants to crash into the earth!!!!
The only thing I see Dell and Phillips having in common with the iPod is that they took the same features and designs as all the previous MP3 players on the market that were $150 for 20gigs (Nomad) and raised the price tag to $300 so morons would go hay thats expensive it must be really good.
Personally I've played with the Nomad and the iPod and didn't like either. I don't like the interfaces and would rather just use my zaurus for 60min of music while running on the treadmill at the gym.
I could have sworn there was a post about this on /., as well as I've seen this earlier this year on both Wired and Cnet. One of them even gave step by step instructions on how to turn Messenger off which even for a novice was simple if they followed the directions.
Click start - programs - control panel - administrative tools - services - located "Messenger Service" - Double click - select "Stop Service" - select "Disabled"
Done...
As soon as Realdoll teams up with Asimo's makers and they start selling Cherry2000's - then you'll see INSANE numbers of "robots" being sold.
I'd buy one... to um... help me around the house... yeah...
a good question... sadly "someone" must be buying "something" from these spammers for them to keep doing this. And even if the ratio is .0001% you still are getting FREE marketing to millions of people - most of which just delete your email (very few actually are able to find who you are and take you to court) and occasionally some buy apparently.
How on earth are they gonna fit him inside of my mini tower computer?
Whenever I think of "Software crashing so bad it takes down the whole computer" I think it's probably more to do with that systems own problems and unstability than the software.
It reminds me of the time my friend tried to instal Norton Antivirus on his system and it crashed out during install and when he restarted his system hung at the waiting for local disk blurb.... The problem wasn't Norton, but rather a failing harddisk that had given plenty of signs with bad sectors, corrupt data, registry errors on startup and a host of other bugs he had ignored and eventually chaulked up to "must be a virus". Norton being the last thing installed was just bad timing for Norton. In the end a new harddrive later and a fresh install of everything (including Norton) the system is fine and working well.
Now granted there are occassional software bugs that lockup/freeze windows, but my personal opinion from my experience is that if I am not having any computer problems and an install bombs I try it again. If it does the exact same thing I hit up the manufacturers website for "known issues" if there is none listed I toss the software and don't look back until a patch or new version comes out.
Yes the technologies are more geared towards different things, but it doesn't change the fact that many Bluetooth devices try and sell themselves off as
"Go wireless with your Bluetooth XYZ which can transfer files back forth wirelessly with your home computer"
With statements/commercials advertising that it's almost as if they want you to think of Bluetooth as a competitor.
Personally I have no need for my phone to talk to my computer so I don't use/need bluetooth. What I do need is to transfer 200+meg files from my mac to my pc on a daily/hourly basis...
I use 802.11b type devices and not Bluetooth type ones, but in all honesty their are a lot of people and companies (Apple Computers comes to mind) who use Bluetooth in their systems and PDA's. Of course they (at least Apple I know for sure) do use 802.11b (Airport) devices as well.
I think Bluetooth is also looked at as sort of an underdog competitor with 802.11b(g)(a) wireless standards and therefore a lot of people flock to it.
Of course weather or not Bluetooth exists or doesn't makes no difference to me because it's not a technology I utilize or have any interest in.
I've been using http://www.distributed.net/ on and off for a few years now and i've never had a problem with any of my processors. However I usually upgrade my cpu/mb every 3-4 years, so if you have or keep your systems longer i'd imagine any burnouts would be due to "just an old cpu" and not from the constant use. Then again I don't plan or expect my hardware to last forever.
As far as the power bill goes. I currently have a desktop, laptop, wireless router/hub and zaurus going the majority of the day - at least the systems are always on since I am too lazy to turn them off and have no need too. I also live with my girlfriend who runs the haridryer every morning and must have every light on in the house to check her makeup with. At the end of the month we get our power bill of $45-50 - which in my opinion is not a lot. We're also in California for the record.
Some fat bitch gets paid $50 an hour to tech my boss how to point and click his mouse and check his email?! How do I get a job like that?!
ummm..... Why so slow? My maxtor drie I have now is 7200rpm, the same speed as my other IBM drive too. Why did they go so much slower? It seems with the continual "faster=better" idea we should start seeing IDE drives reaching the speeds of 10,000rpm soon (if there aren't a few already)
What a let down.
Trilian, AIM, and iChat ALL have options to "let others see your message as your typing"
So MSN patented this? How is that possible since it's so commonly used?
Can I patent the chord order "C-G-E" so when played in that order I get $$$ from the RIAA?
From this page which deals with telling "graphic designers" why they should switch...
"Gimp has a much smarter menu system that is far more efficient than theone present in Photoshop, or for that matter in all other image manipulation programs that we know of"
um. Wrong. Photoshop users 90% of the time also use Indesign, Illustrator, Imageready, Acrobat, or "some" other adobe product and all of them have a consistant interface with tools in the same or similar place, so moving to the GIMP could be a little confusing.
"Photoshop also has certain scripting capabilities, but it doesn't compare to the power of an advanced scripting language such as Perl. When it comes to scripting, we don't think it's unfair to compare Photoshop with a little baby and Gimp with a full-grown adult with 30 years of working experience. That's how big the difference is"
Graphic Designers are NOT programmers (usually) they are hired to make "shit look pretty" thats why most of photoshops scripts can actually just be recoreded like macros or scripted in simple text using simple "copy X - insert page - paste X" language
"Gimp can't handle anything other than 8 bit RGB, grayscale and indexed images. That's the big disadvantage of Gimp. Since Gimp doesn't support CMYK or spot colors such as PANTONE, Gimp can't compete with Photoshop in the prepress field.
Photoshop has more third-party plug-ins than Gimp. Yes, even though Gimp has around 220 real plug-ins at the moment and that number is constantly growing with around one plug-in every two weeks, there are still more plug-ins that you can buy as accessories to Photoshop, and they aren't available for Gimp.
Photoshop is also more effective (faster) when it comes to big images with a lot of layers (images bigger than 500x500 pixels)."
Are they really naive enough to think that a graphic designer would ONLY do webdesign and never be involved in the print area as well? Not to mention Photoshop also installs a program called Imageready which is what you use for webgraphics, if your using Photoshop by itself for webgraphics they are probably not animated and bloated in file size - Photoshop is more geared towards workign with print material where as Imageready is what we use for 500x500px type web stuff. Also my BIG pet-peeve with the GIMP is PANTONE! PANTONE! PANTONE! You know how many jobs for companies I get that use a specific pantone color in their logo? ALL OF THEM.
Sorry, I know some people here like the GIMP, but it's far inferior to Photoshop for Graphic Designers.
But what do I know - i'm not a programmer, not a IT monkey, and not a linux fan... I'm just a Graphic Designer. I'll just go back to my Apple and Windows machines now.
I just downloaded all those movies and they play and work fine for me...
WOOPS! I mean uh... my "friend" dowloaded them... uh...
"Calls whatever they come up with the standard, and mess with anything that complies with real standards. In fact, messes with their own standards whenever they feel like it."
uh... Can we say so does Apple - They come out with a 64bit cpu and think their the first ones to ever do that (guess they forgot about sun's sparc, intels xeon, and amds whatever, not to mention the other 64bit cpus no one cares about....
They also come out an MP3 player and think their the first and only people making one...
And STANDARDS - look at the transition we went through from 9 to X, 10.3 is coming out and i'm still having to use Classic mode for some of my apps, not to mention Umax stll hasn't made a driver for my scanner that will work with X...
Microsoft isn't much better and maybe worse, but your giving too much credit to apple - imo
That's very optimistic of you. The act is MS will definately make a more stable Windows version by being able to integrate with the bios. HOWEVER the main concern is that looking at past business practices chances are this new bios will also have problems with software other than Windows "all of a sudden"
"Microsoft said integration should mean simpler and more reliable computers."
Can we say BULL SHIT
Well I guess it really will come down to Apple Systems and Music OR Microsoft Systems and Music....
Now to negotiate sale of my soul to the lesser of two evils...but which one is lesser?
And I enjoy a good read about games, gaming, nerdy stuff in general. But that article was kind of meatless. Like a soup made of mostly water. I didn't see any profound concepts or ideas or even a point other than, "in games you can die and it's interesting that people can choose to kill or help others in games."
The blurb on slashdot was MORE interesting than RingTFA - which why people not wasting 15min of their time reading the article will probably mod me down for flaimbate and overrated.
I honestly like and use windows everyday (in addition to my mac) and I don't mind their terrany as much as some people on slashdot, however with the recent trend in really annoying virus's, seriously lowsy and slow to respond security patches, not to leave out the fact that windows update got FUX0R3D a while back....I'm coming to the conclusion that i'm fucked unless something changes. But my options are limited by these 2 problems:
1) I can't switch to linux because it does not have the software I run (and no the open source counterparts are don't work either)
2) My mac is great, but call only fill about 90% of my daily work activities...there are just "some" things I need a pc for.
With that i'm left to rely on MS to come out wiht a new version of Xp with some new added feature, but it will still have "SOME" flaw in it. What I would like MS to do is NOT release another version of windows until this one is totally SOLID if that means I have 2-4 more service packs to get in the next year thats fine, i'd rather see that than a new XP-64bit version - SAME DAMN THING AS XP BUT 64bit - lady friggin da
Maybe i'm asking too much....
I would like to take this time to announce Stolensofts new upcoming FPS shooter "Not Quite Dead" The game features a robust and powerful 3D engine, with realistic AI.
Surprisingly enough we were able to complete the game engine and the game within 2 weeks, which goes to show why Stolensoft makes the best games.
So a couple of Developrs started a company making some cool stuff. However the company went under, obviously because not enough other people thought it was cool stuff. BUT these two people are able to get another business loan and/or fund the SAME business AGAIN? Um... Maybe i'm just a fan of successful business practices, but if your business goes under, I wouldn't start another one doing the SAME thing...