I played Legacy of the Ancients on my ][gs. That game really is amazing. The world was massive and you could do tons of things. No other RPG let you rob store owners and be hunted by the law at that time (even now it's a rarity).
You know what would be a great idea? X. Too bad it would cost a bunch of money to develop X into something usefull...if only there were some way to help try to ensure that I could recover the money I spend developing it...
You know what be an even greater idea? If you could make money off X without developing it.. if only there were some way to let another company develop X and then sue them because you thought of it first.
It takes all of two sentences to explain networked printing to Aunt Tillie.
It may be easy to explain, but it's hard to actually get working, regardless of the OS you use.
I have an Win2k machine and an XP machine and I couldn't get the XP machine to print to a printer on the win2k machine without creating a dummy user to "log in" with.
Or just split the difference, keep everyone happy, and decide to do both proposals. Hence leading to configuration boxes from hell adorned with approximately seven thousand checkboxes.
Ah, I see you have discovered KDE's design guidelines.
Mono is trying to catch up on a Microsoft implementation. I fail to see how that compares with opensourcing Java, or even how it is a threat.
Mono has already surpassed MS's implementation in several ways. One, it works on many different platforms (like OSX).
Mono already has a kick ass GUI api via GTK#. Java has been around for 10 years and still is only usable for server-side apps.
Write-once-run-anywhere is useless in Java due to the way professionals use it. (WORA works best on the client side.. but client side java apps are few and far between, specifically because it lacks a decent GUI API).
Blame adobe. They have the patents over much of the CMYK processing space.
The irony is that Photoshop doesn't use standard CMYK. It uses CIE CMYK. Which is why Ghostscript has to say -dUseCIEColor when working with Adobe-generated EPS files, otherwise the colors look washed out due to the smaller color gamut of CIE.
Photoshop was neither designed nor marketed towards any of the markets that do pallete based art/graphic design.
Photoshop wasn't designed for content creation at all. It's a photo manipulation program.
I find it interesting that so many graphic artists are using photoshop to do what Illustrator, Freehand, and Painter are much more adept at.
Strangely, this only applies to web designers. People who do print work tend to use the proper tools for the job. All the graphic designers here at work (I work for a newspaper) use Illustrator and Freehand.
Content creation with photoshop is like painting with a brick.
In other words, the same exact pager that Enlightenment has had since the nineties. Lesson to be learned: in a patent-crazy society, patent defensively.
Not really. It's kind of like if the Enlightenment pager had Expose functionality. You hit a key, the pager scales to full screen, you pick a desktop.
What's interesting is that the patent application predates Expose by a few years.
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The actual requirements for the mini ipod are below. It says you MUST have USB 2.0 OR Firewire for it to work.
What the hell. Leave it to apple to break USB2.0
Every other usb2 device works with usb1.1 that was one of the selling points.
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I played Legacy of the Ancients on my ][gs. That game really is amazing. The world was massive and you could do tons of things. No other RPG let you rob store owners and be hunted by the law at that time (even now it's a rarity).
Then there will be enough libre programmers to make decent libre IDEs etc, and the proprietary Java will wither away (and Sun with it).
Sun won't wither away, but the proprietary java might.
Anyone who's ever tried to compile something on solaris would agree that the GNU tools are far superior to Sun's compiler tools.
If the libre java is to java as gcc is to cc, then I'd say good riddance.
The API's are fully documented and there is nothing preventing their implementation.
There's also nothing preventing Sun from deprecating half the API on a whim.. in fact, they do that all the damn time.
Actually, the question -- or the worry -- is more around how to prevent somebody from forking Java and kill the "Write Once, Run Everywhere" idiom.
here's a thought, why not standardize Java?
You know what would be a great idea? X. Too bad it would cost a bunch of money to develop X into something usefull...if only there were some way to help try to ensure that I could recover the money I spend developing it...
You know what be an even greater idea? If you could make money off X without developing it.. if only there were some way to let another company develop X and then sue them because you thought of it first.
It takes all of two sentences to explain networked printing to Aunt Tillie.
It may be easy to explain, but it's hard to actually get working, regardless of the OS you use.
I have an Win2k machine and an XP machine and I couldn't get the XP machine to print to a printer on the win2k machine without creating a dummy user to "log in" with.
Or just split the difference, keep everyone happy, and decide to do both proposals. Hence leading to configuration boxes from hell adorned with approximately seven thousand checkboxes.
Ah, I see you have discovered KDE's design guidelines.
I just wish they'd explain to me how to get ye flask.
Instead I just have to sit here wondering WHY I can't get ye flask!
I thought everyone without a huge legacy setup had switched from the archaic sendmail to something decent like postfix, or qmail long ago.
I would never run qmail, and wouldn't recommend anyone use qmail.
Any program that just dies with the error message "cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?" doesn't belong in an enterprise server.
Did they license the Matrix Reloaded trademark? Or maybe they're just a bunch of hippocrates.
Did Warner Brothers license the Metallica Reloaded trademark?
Shut up.
When you can strap a discman on an armband and go jogging with it, then you'll have a point.
How much do you jog that you need an mp3 player with more than 256 megs of flash?
I would never jog with a $250 harddrive strapped to my arm.
Does it run Windows?
*beep* All your data has been assimilated.
Mono is trying to catch up on a Microsoft implementation. I fail to see how that compares with opensourcing Java, or even how it is a threat.
Mono has already surpassed MS's implementation in several ways. One, it works on many different platforms (like OSX).
Mono already has a kick ass GUI api via GTK#. Java has been around for 10 years and still is only usable for server-side apps.
Write-once-run-anywhere is useless in Java due to the way professionals use it. (WORA works best on the client side.. but client side java apps are few and far between, specifically because it lacks a decent GUI API).
This the first time I've ever seen someone blame a language specification for allowing the use of libraries.
FYI, I can write a Java app that requires MS DLLs as well. It's not the fault of the language.
When I tried to introduce my wife (graphic designer/QuarkXPress/Photoshop/Illustator ninja) to The Gimp 1.2, the first thing that happened was this:
Where's the shape drawing tool?
Yup, sounds like a photoshop user. Using the wrong tool for the wrong job.
You want a shape drawing tool, use Sodipodi.
Blame adobe. They have the patents over much of the CMYK processing space.
The irony is that Photoshop doesn't use standard CMYK. It uses CIE CMYK. Which is why Ghostscript has to say -dUseCIEColor when working with Adobe-generated EPS files, otherwise the colors look washed out due to the smaller color gamut of CIE.
Frankly I see nothing new in the GUI that makes me think anything was updated. This looks like GIMP to me
Are you even looking? On the left is Gimp2, on the Right is Gimp1. You telling me they look the same? Is there something wrong with your eyes?
Photoshop was neither designed nor marketed towards any of the markets that do pallete based art/graphic design.
Photoshop wasn't designed for content creation at all. It's a photo manipulation program.
I find it interesting that so many graphic artists are using photoshop to do what Illustrator, Freehand, and Painter are much more adept at.
Strangely, this only applies to web designers. People who do print work tend to use the proper tools for the job. All the graphic designers here at work (I work for a newspaper) use Illustrator and Freehand.
Content creation with photoshop is like painting with a brick.
In other words, the same exact pager that Enlightenment has had since the nineties. Lesson to be learned: in a patent-crazy society, patent defensively.
Not really. It's kind of like if the Enlightenment pager had Expose functionality. You hit a key, the pager scales to full screen, you pick a desktop.
What's interesting is that the patent application predates Expose by a few years.
The actual requirements for the mini ipod are below. It says you MUST have USB 2.0 OR Firewire for it to work.
What the hell. Leave it to apple to break USB2.0
Every other usb2 device works with usb1.1 that was one of the selling points.
I see.. in europe it's OK to sexually assault someone on TV.
(She didn't expose herself, Justin Timberlake did it for her.)
When you are a monopoly you cannot use your OS monopoly to make your other products a monopoly.
Like selling songs on your market leading service that only works on portable music players that you sell.
I wonder how they made operating systems before web browsers were invented
I wonder how Apple made OSes before Quicktime was invented.
apple is not a convicted monopolist.
Give it time. I'm sure in 5 years we can expect Apple will be forced to sell a stripped down iPod, and no one should be complaining.
I saw a comedian the other day on Comedy Central who made fun of the good ol' Speak & Spell
Just FYI, that comedian is Dane Cook
He's hilarious.