I guess my whole argument is that many corporations are turning to Linux on the desktop. I agree that at this point Linux desktops are a bit "not ready for primetime" unless you have a dedicated IT guy. But clearly Disney's running Photoshop under Linux is nothing to sneeze at.
I guess what I'm saying is that revealing a source when the source broke the law in telling doesn't exactly seem like a violation of free speech.
Don't get me wrong I'm no fan of a lot of elements of the Patriot Act. But I guess I just don't see why journalists ought to be immune from turning over evidence of illegal acts when I have to. What makes them more protected than a regular citizen. If it is a free speech issue, surely everyone ought to have those freedoms and not just journalists who work for big name media outlets.
I thought that even before the Patriot Act courts could require journalists to name sources and so forth. Journalists who rejected this would be put in jail for contempt of court. Was there a decision in the late 80's that said something else? I know that this tension was the basis of several films and TV shows.
I don't think saying that Linux is for hobbyists is correct. There was a story a few weeks ago about Disney (I think it was Disney?) switching to Linux boxes running Photoshop under Wine. If there were a native version of Photoshop running under Gnome, I'm sure it would be very appreciated by many people. Further I think Adobe would make enough to pay for the port. And, assuming Linux for the desktop ever gets past its RSN status it would position Adobe quite well.
Having said that though Adobe might not want to do this since it really has no competition to Photoshop beyond Gimp. And I just can't see Gimp reaching the status of Photoshop given the nature of its development.
I had a friend who ran the IRIX version of Photoshop. He hated it. In his words it was basically emulating the Mac version. (I don't mean that literally -- just that they wrote a compatibility framework and then had the Mac sourcecode call this instead of the Mac API) It wasn't really a port and did a lot of things in a very strange way. He also said it was slower than other equivalents available for the SGI.
Given how poor the port was, it isn't surprising how few people bought it.
Did GoLive only improve CSS and didn't improve their table handling? If so, that is too bad. Table handling, while still somewhat weak, was much better in Dreamweaver than GoLive.
I can understand the changes to be honest. And in the director's cut the lack of a perception of time passage wasn't as bad. (Although it still was there -- especially Gandalf's wandering before returning to the Shire. It seemed like it took a week rather than years)
I must admit that I wasn't a fan of Strider simply giving the swords to the Hobbits rather than them finding them. I understand it, but I'd have preferred that to have been left in even if they left out Bombadil.
Yeah, I was thinking that too. But while there were shots of battles in Hobbiton, weren't they of events different than in the book? It's been a while since I read the third volume, but I seem to recall the shire being occupied by Sauroman and a bunch of humans along with Wormtongue. In the vision in the first film I could swear they were Orcs attacking.
My understanding is that, given its orbit and size, whether Pluto is a planet is debatable. It exists as a planet more for historic reasons. There are those who argue Pluto ought to be considered a Kuiper Belt object and not a planet. If so it is certainly among the largest. And, of course, debates about what is or isn't a planet at a certain point seem silly.
One should further point out that Pluto and Charon (it's "moon") are typically referred to as a planet system since Charon is so big relative to Pluto that calling it a moon is almost a misnomer. (Almost -- it is still often referred to that way)
piracy also happens regardless of cost escalation. Piracy happens become the product/work/whatever isn't free in the first place, and some people would rather thieve it than buy it.
This is true to a point. The issue is, however, how much revenue is lost. With most movie rips done sufficiently after theatrical release all that is lost is a $.99 rental. Most people who buy probably want the DVD and right now DVD-R and other formats can't hold a whole movie. Further the hassle is such that it just isn't worth it if you can rent it for a dollar.
The music industry is different. First off they are vastly overpriced. Secondly they were working on a model that already banned rentals, by and large. Finally people actually want to listen to songs dozens, if not hundreds of times. Few people want to do this with movies. Which is why most of us rent movies. Even people with large DVD collections typically have less than 50. Compare this with how many songs they listen to with any regularity.
So, while "cheapscates" will always be here, all the MPAA has to do is lower the price sufficient and then make it simply more convenient to rent/purchase than download.
I suspect, however, that within 10 years time that theatres will become a kind of rental center. I just can't see them being able to keep up this "watch the movie and then watch the DVD 4 months later." Just as Hollywood had to move towards simultaneous releases they'll end up unifying the TV/Theatre/DVD releases. (IMO)
Trying to navigate Aqua (or Windows) when you've got several dozen different pieces of work open at the same time, cycling between them, sequentially or random access - this is when you understand what *nix folk mean when they call these systems 'toys.' Practically any mature X window manager has the tools to make this a breeze.
Exactly what do the more limited X window managers provide that XP or OSX don't (or Gnome or KDE don't for that matter)? Not to be a pain, but I just can't think of much and I say that having had dozens of documents open before. At worst both XP and OSX allow third party utilities for shifting around (although I've tended to uninstall them as unneeded).
The Photoshop benches seem to have a dual G5 significantly better than the G4. But the single processor G5s are only slightly faster than a dual 1.4 G4, depending upon what filters you use in Photoshop. (Note that the bench listed is an amalgamation of filters, but not typically arranged by how often you'd use those filter is the real world)
For scientific applications, especially those in Fortran, things are much better. The G5 is head and shoulders above everything else if you use the IBM compilers.
Take a trip over to the [url=http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page ?a=frm&s=50009562&f=48409524]Ars Battlefront[/url].
The Photoshop benches seem to have a dual G5 absolutely slaughtering the G4. But the single processor G5s are only slightly faster than a dual 1.4 G4, depending upon what filters you use in Photoshop.
For scientific applications, especially those in Fortran, things are much better. The [url=http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page ?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=6080902485&r=9520 960585#9520960585]G5 is head and shoulders above[/url] everything else if you use the IBM compilers.
That was a very good review. I've never even heard of TextMaker and now am intrigued. Too bad it didn't include analysis of some of the other big word processors like KOffice/KWord or AbiWord. I've played around with ThinkFree Office as well and have been impressed with the latest versions.
Even a lot of G4 laptops have that problem. A few companies even sell "legs" to elevate them slightly and get airflow under them. With a G5 I think this would be a huge problem. Possibly with the new G5 chips rumored to be making the change to a.09 production from the.13 micron production that would enable them to do something about heat. IBM's G3 chips always were better than the G4, at least in their second generation. Its just that Apple became rather dependent upon Altivec which the G3s didn't have. So perhaps IBM could be coaxed into doing the equivalent to the G5 that the Centrino did for the P4.
Either way, I suspect it'd be next summer minimum before a G5 laptop was on the market.
Don't the worms typically require that IIs be running or something akin to that? Forgive me if I'm showing my ignorance. But it seems like it would be very easy to make XP fairly secure if most services aren't running.
Reportedly Borland is coming out with a crossplatform version of their C++ Builder. It'll definitely have a Linux version but I've heard rumors of mixed things on the Mac version. Borland's always been rather lukewarm towards the Mac and their main strategy at the moment seems "survival by embracing Microsoft." (i.e. their.net strategy) So who knows if Mac support will actually make it.
One hopes it will since C++ Builder is, in certain ways, easier than learning Obj-C and trying to use Interface Builder.
The difference is that installing a car stereo is more involved that plugging a mouse in. Further the stereo is often linked to the quality of the speakers. So it really isn't a good analogy.
The problem with Apple is that you can't buy a desktop system without their mouse and keyboard. While the keyboard is OK, most people I know want a different one. The mouse everyone I know replaces.
While I know plenty of people content with the Apple mice/keyboard, many aren't. Having them as an option would be a very good idea. That ought to drop about $100 from the price of any system.
To be fair though at least the keyboard/mice are better than those useless things from a couple of years ago. The keyboard with the small keys and that puck mouse. Damn those sucked.
Depending upon how you are using Java, you end up having to do a lot of things that end up being managed garbage collection anyway. i.e. not that different from C/C++ except that when you screw up you don't end up with a memory leak.
If you use a tool like boundschecker and run it a couple of times a day, you'll avoid most of these sorts of problems in C++. It's an amazing tool I couldn't live without. One advantage to having these sorts of things flag as a "memory leak" is that you can often find subtle bugs that way.
Admittedly because of the issue of pointers vis a vis Java, that's less of an issue in Java. But I'm not sure merely adding garbage collection is ideal in most cases.
If you are writing high enough code that you really want garbage collection, the advantages of writing in C++ over Java are probably slight. (The speed advantage isn't that big a deal anymore and many programs don't really need that slight speed advantage anyway) If you are writing code that benefits from the fine control C++ offers you'd probably not want to trust garbage control so the point is moot.
I'm not saying there aren't cases where garbage control is useful. However I halfway wonder if these situations wouldn't be better handles by a combination of languages. i.e. Java and C or Python and C. Code your important functions in C or C++ and put the main interface/io functions in the higher level language.
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Or, like many people, he doesn't rip at 128kpbs.
This is a good point. One wonders what would have been had SGI done like IBM and embraced Linux...
I guess my whole argument is that many corporations are turning to Linux on the desktop. I agree that at this point Linux desktops are a bit "not ready for primetime" unless you have a dedicated IT guy. But clearly Disney's running Photoshop under Linux is nothing to sneeze at.
Don't get me wrong I'm no fan of a lot of elements of the Patriot Act. But I guess I just don't see why journalists ought to be immune from turning over evidence of illegal acts when I have to. What makes them more protected than a regular citizen. If it is a free speech issue, surely everyone ought to have those freedoms and not just journalists who work for big name media outlets.
Having said that though Adobe might not want to do this since it really has no competition to Photoshop beyond Gimp. And I just can't see Gimp reaching the status of Photoshop given the nature of its development.
Given how poor the port was, it isn't surprising how few people bought it.
Did GoLive only improve CSS and didn't improve their table handling? If so, that is too bad. Table handling, while still somewhat weak, was much better in Dreamweaver than GoLive.
I must admit that I wasn't a fan of Strider simply giving the swords to the Hobbits rather than them finding them. I understand it, but I'd have preferred that to have been left in even if they left out Bombadil.
Yeah, I was thinking that too. But while there were shots of battles in Hobbiton, weren't they of events different than in the book? It's been a while since I read the third volume, but I seem to recall the shire being occupied by Sauroman and a bunch of humans along with Wormtongue. In the vision in the first film I could swear they were Orcs attacking.
Hold it, I thought open source money was illegal? At least that's what my investigation with the Secret Service suggested...
One should further point out that Pluto and Charon (it's "moon") are typically referred to as a planet system since Charon is so big relative to Pluto that calling it a moon is almost a misnomer. (Almost -- it is still often referred to that way)
This is true to a point. The issue is, however, how much revenue is lost. With most movie rips done sufficiently after theatrical release all that is lost is a $.99 rental. Most people who buy probably want the DVD and right now DVD-R and other formats can't hold a whole movie. Further the hassle is such that it just isn't worth it if you can rent it for a dollar.
The music industry is different. First off they are vastly overpriced. Secondly they were working on a model that already banned rentals, by and large. Finally people actually want to listen to songs dozens, if not hundreds of times. Few people want to do this with movies. Which is why most of us rent movies. Even people with large DVD collections typically have less than 50. Compare this with how many songs they listen to with any regularity.
So, while "cheapscates" will always be here, all the MPAA has to do is lower the price sufficient and then make it simply more convenient to rent/purchase than download.
I suspect, however, that within 10 years time that theatres will become a kind of rental center. I just can't see them being able to keep up this "watch the movie and then watch the DVD 4 months later." Just as Hollywood had to move towards simultaneous releases they'll end up unifying the TV/Theatre/DVD releases. (IMO)
Exactly what do the more limited X window managers provide that XP or OSX don't (or Gnome or KDE don't for that matter)? Not to be a pain, but I just can't think of much and I say that having had dozens of documents open before. At worst both XP and OSX allow third party utilities for shifting around (although I've tended to uninstall them as unneeded).
Take a trip over to the Ars Battlefront.
The Photoshop benches seem to have a dual G5 significantly better than the G4. But the single processor G5s are only slightly faster than a dual 1.4 G4, depending upon what filters you use in Photoshop. (Note that the bench listed is an amalgamation of filters, but not typically arranged by how often you'd use those filter is the real world)
For scientific applications, especially those in Fortran, things are much better. The G5 is head and shoulders above everything else if you use the IBM compilers.
Take a trip over to the [url=http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page ?a=frm&s=50009562&f=48409524]Ars Battlefront[/url].
The Photoshop benches seem to have a dual G5 absolutely slaughtering the G4. But the single processor G5s are only slightly faster than a dual 1.4 G4, depending upon what filters you use in Photoshop.
For scientific applications, especially those in Fortran, things are much better. The [url=http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page ?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=6080902485&r=9520 960585#9520960585]G5 is head and shoulders above[/url] everything else if you use the IBM compilers.
Why didn't you use Gnumeric? I believe it has better Excel compatibility than OpenOffice does.
That was a very good review. I've never even heard of TextMaker and now am intrigued. Too bad it didn't include analysis of some of the other big word processors like KOffice/KWord or AbiWord. I've played around with ThinkFree Office as well and have been impressed with the latest versions.
Either way, I suspect it'd be next summer minimum before a G5 laptop was on the market.
Don't the worms typically require that IIs be running or something akin to that? Forgive me if I'm showing my ignorance. But it seems like it would be very easy to make XP fairly secure if most services aren't running.
Wasn't the 80286 in the old IBM XTs the "extreme" chip. At least I thought that was what the XT stood for. Maybe it stood for extra? Anyone know?
One hopes it will since C++ Builder is, in certain ways, easier than learning Obj-C and trying to use Interface Builder.
The difference is that installing a car stereo is more involved that plugging a mouse in. Further the stereo is often linked to the quality of the speakers. So it really isn't a good analogy.
While I know plenty of people content with the Apple mice/keyboard, many aren't. Having them as an option would be a very good idea. That ought to drop about $100 from the price of any system.
To be fair though at least the keyboard/mice are better than those useless things from a couple of years ago. The keyboard with the small keys and that puck mouse. Damn those sucked.
If you use a tool like boundschecker and run it a couple of times a day, you'll avoid most of these sorts of problems in C++. It's an amazing tool I couldn't live without. One advantage to having these sorts of things flag as a "memory leak" is that you can often find subtle bugs that way.
Admittedly because of the issue of pointers vis a vis Java, that's less of an issue in Java. But I'm not sure merely adding garbage collection is ideal in most cases.
If you are writing high enough code that you really want garbage collection, the advantages of writing in C++ over Java are probably slight. (The speed advantage isn't that big a deal anymore and many programs don't really need that slight speed advantage anyway) If you are writing code that benefits from the fine control C++ offers you'd probably not want to trust garbage control so the point is moot.
I'm not saying there aren't cases where garbage control is useful. However I halfway wonder if these situations wouldn't be better handles by a combination of languages. i.e. Java and C or Python and C. Code your important functions in C or C++ and put the main interface/io functions in the higher level language.