I wonder the same thing, why it takes 15 minutes to render (i would imagine its a 10.75x15" ad). The only thing i can think of is that they are using DSC2 files instead of postscript or pure PDF.
At work on our Prinergy servers (quad xeon 1.4ghz with 8gig-o-ram), a 8x10.5 DSC2 page takes a good 10 minutes to render. PDF's render in a few seconds
300 lines per inch would be a very dark image. its probably a normal 300dpi image, but if they're putting it on newsprint stock, even 100dpi is to much for the stock.
What most people are pissed about is that guild names are UNIQUE ACROSS ALL realms. For instance, I play on Hellscream. My guilds name is Grasshoppers of Death. No other player on any realm can have the guild name Grasshoppers of Death.
Across all 88 realms, there is only 1 Legions of Doom (made up name, probably a real guild).
That's a cool name, im sure the guild master from beta wanted that name and joined the first realm avialable. The problem is that there are hundreds of names that people wanted to reserve. My name is Azrael, each realm can have their own Azrael, but no other realm can have Grasshoppers of Death.
Combine that with the inability to transfer characters across realms? Thats what people are upset about.
Of course, we've also known about all of this some time before the launch.
You don't say your sorry, that wouldn't be good. People don't forgive their co workers and project leaders if they say they are sorry. But they do forgive project leaders if they do own up to their mistakes.
Right or wrong, you make decisions that affect and direct the entire team. The best way to do that is through accountability.
If you make a wrong decision, its YOUR fault. Its not the teams fault or its not a specific team members fault.
if as a whole, the team makes a wrong decision, its not THEIR mistake, but OUR mistake.
If the team as a whole does a great job, its OUR project, not MY project.
Anyone that played the beta and read the WoW forums (the posts during beta where wiped) probably has read the blizzard release announcement stating that there will be a limited number of copies avialable for release LONG BEFORE the actual release.
I preordered one, but wouldnt wait till 10 when ebgames open, so i bought one at walmart
The CMYK colorspace is useless to anyone but print professionals. Adding true CMYK support to gimp will just give the slash-crowd another thing to use in their meaningless arguments on why OSS is better than all.... well, until they actually get into the real world and see why applications like GIMP fail to win professional users.
To fully enable GIMP to succeed in the professional print envoriment, they'll need to forgo all this "freedom" OSS b.s. they use because NO ad designer or Desktop publisher will use an application that does not support PMS colors.
PMS stands for Pantone matching system and yes, is copyrighted and trademarked and you need to license it to use it.
i'm 60% positive that CMYK is also copyrighted by Pantone, but im not 100% sure.
Either way, CMYK support wont come to GIMP until they realize that to win that market they need to accept that they might have to license technologies.
Adobe IS the industry standard because it WROTE those standards. PDF, Postscript, EPS, and more
$600 for Photoshop is very very reasonable for professionals. Considering that the people who use it most work for ad-houses that get payed thousands of dollars for a single ad anyways.
Photoshop will always be above Gimp because of the PMS and CMYK colors.
Photoshop is designed for professionals. GIMP is not. end of story.
What are you talking about? we use OSX Panther and it does that and i hate it.
We use 2 applications and always have a finder window open.
If i have safari open but have another application window above it, and i need to check on a download, i click on the download window (thats in the background) and it pulls every safari window to the front, above all of my other applications.
If i go to click on something and i miss and click the desktop, it brings all of my finder windows forward.
THE WORST is when i double click on a file in finder to open it in the application. Save and close that window, the finder window is in the background. BUT if i click in the finder window to select the next file i need to edit, it pulls a different application (Prinergy) IN FRONT OF FINDER and then usually will move some important directories around.
" This is the news from some guy with a filefront account, so take it with a grain of salt "
I think that before/. questions the accuracy of some news submission, they should look at the accuracy of their own comments, News submissions, and what users title their submissions.
some one needs to change "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to something like,
"We think we're un-biased when we report stories that are different than how we feel, but thats not what gets subscribers paying the bills, and thats what maters"
Did anyone actually read the article? I would image that the person who submitted the story did and hope that Michael decided that it needed some more anti-microsoft tone too it and re-wrote it.
NO WHERE in the article does it state (in either yahoo or the register) that it will be Microsoft v.s. World. If you use half of your brain to remember that Microsoft indemified all of its customers from being sued (plenty of links in the comment area already) you would understand what Steve B is talking about.
Steve B runs Microsoft, Microsofts biggest competitor is Linux. Microsoft is telling Governments "Hey, we'll protect you if someone tries to sue you for patent violations. If you use linux, who will protect you from then ?"
Balmer is not saying "If you use linux I WILL sue you for violating patents". He is not saying "Use microsoft or you will be sued". He is saying that "I [steve b] will gurantee that you wont be sued if you use MS products, but if you use linux, you could be sued"
Even the register says "He did not specify that Microsoft would be the company doing the suing", which right after that it puts its own anti-MS propoganda.
so, MS fud? not a chance. Slashdot FUD? beyond all doubt.
He's not telling the 200,000 Ohioans that their vote didnt count, he's telling the rest of America whos popular vote voted for Bush, that their vote DID count. Kerry isnt going to reclaim over 3.5 million votes from uncounted votes
Unlike 2000, where the popular vote was for Gore and he fought to prove to america that their vote DOES count. But the Bush camp had daddies helpers in the courts and in other convienent places that eventually called the game for Bush.
Had you visited the companies website and watched the demo, you would of seen that their application creates XAML applications that can run on any version of Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder the same thing, why it takes 15 minutes to render (i would imagine its a 10.75x15" ad). The only thing i can think of is that they are using DSC2 files instead of postscript or pure PDF.
At work on our Prinergy servers (quad xeon 1.4ghz with 8gig-o-ram), a 8x10.5 DSC2 page takes a good 10 minutes to render. PDF's render in a few seconds
300 lines per inch would be a very dark image. its probably a normal 300dpi image, but if they're putting it on newsprint stock, even 100dpi is to much for the stock.
ya, sourceforge can take care of its self when it comes to bringing down servers :)
What most people are pissed about is that guild names are UNIQUE ACROSS ALL realms. For instance, I play on Hellscream. My guilds name is Grasshoppers of Death. No other player on any realm can have the guild name Grasshoppers of Death.
Across all 88 realms, there is only 1 Legions of Doom (made up name, probably a real guild).
That's a cool name, im sure the guild master from beta wanted that name and joined the first realm avialable. The problem is that there are hundreds of names that people wanted to reserve.
My name is Azrael, each realm can have their own Azrael, but no other realm can have Grasshoppers of Death.
Combine that with the inability to transfer characters across realms? Thats what people are upset about.
Of course, we've also known about all of this some time before the launch.
You don't say your sorry, that wouldn't be good. People don't forgive their co workers and project leaders if they say they are sorry. But they do forgive project leaders if they do own up to their mistakes.
Right or wrong, you make decisions that affect and direct the entire team. The best way to do that is through accountability.
If you make a wrong decision, its YOUR fault. Its not the teams fault or its not a specific team members fault.
if as a whole, the team makes a wrong decision, its not THEIR mistake, but OUR mistake.
If the team as a whole does a great job, its OUR project, not MY project.
Anyone that played the beta and read the WoW forums (the posts during beta where wiped) probably has read the blizzard release announcement stating that there will be a limited number of copies avialable for release LONG BEFORE the actual release.
I preordered one, but wouldnt wait till 10 when ebgames open, so i bought one at walmart
you're giving the author of the article to much credit there..
it has done that from the very first day it was installed (about 3 months ago)
don't work for someone who wont give you the tools you need to do your job.
"life is too short to shoot myself in the crotch in an attempt to apply some idealogy to every single decision i make when concerning software."
thats just awesome, if i had mod points and i didnt reply in this story i'd mod you +1
The CMYK colorspace is useless to anyone but print professionals. Adding true CMYK support to gimp will just give the slash-crowd another thing to use in their meaningless arguments on why OSS is better than all.... well, until they actually get into the real world and see why applications like GIMP fail to win professional users.
To fully enable GIMP to succeed in the professional print envoriment, they'll need to forgo all this "freedom" OSS b.s. they use because NO ad designer or Desktop publisher will use an application that does not support PMS colors.
PMS stands for Pantone matching system and yes, is copyrighted and trademarked and you need to license it to use it.
i'm 60% positive that CMYK is also copyrighted by Pantone, but im not 100% sure.
Either way, CMYK support wont come to GIMP until they realize that to win that market they need to accept that they might have to license technologies.
Adobe IS the industry standard because it WROTE those standards. PDF, Postscript, EPS, and more
$600 for Photoshop is very very reasonable for professionals. Considering that the people who use it most work for ad-houses that get payed thousands of dollars for a single ad anyways.
Photoshop will always be above Gimp because of the PMS and CMYK colors.
Photoshop is designed for professionals. GIMP is not. end of story.
a +1 to my fellow printer
1 in 10?
I can gurantee you its more like 1 in a 1000.
Hell, maybe 1 out of 100 pressmen know basic color theory.
What are you talking about? we use OSX Panther and it does that and i hate it.
We use 2 applications and always have a finder window open.
If i have safari open but have another application window above it, and i need to check on a download, i click on the download window (thats in the background) and it pulls every safari window to the front, above all of my other applications.
If i go to click on something and i miss and click the desktop, it brings all of my finder windows forward.
THE WORST is when i double click on a file in finder to open it in the application. Save and close that window, the finder window is in the background. BUT if i click in the finder window to select the next file i need to edit, it pulls a different application (Prinergy) IN FRONT OF FINDER and then usually will move some important directories around.
I hate OSX
I thought Apple created USB, Firewire, SCSI and a couple others that we use in the PC world ?
" This is the news from some guy with a filefront account, so take it with a grain of salt "
/. questions the accuracy of some news submission, they should look at the accuracy of their own comments, News submissions, and what users title their submissions.
I think that before
some one needs to change "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to something like,
"We think we're un-biased when we report stories that are different than how we feel, but thats not what gets subscribers paying the bills, and thats what maters"
burn karma burn!
Did anyone actually read the article? I would image that the person who submitted the story did and hope that Michael decided that it needed some more anti-microsoft tone too it and re-wrote it.
NO WHERE in the article does it state (in either yahoo or the register) that it will be Microsoft v.s. World. If you use half of your brain to remember that Microsoft indemified all of its customers from being sued (plenty of links in the comment area already) you would understand what Steve B is talking about.
Steve B runs Microsoft, Microsofts biggest competitor is Linux. Microsoft is telling Governments "Hey, we'll protect you if someone tries to sue you for patent violations. If you use linux, who will protect you from then ?"
Balmer is not saying "If you use linux I WILL sue you for violating patents". He is not saying "Use microsoft or you will be sued". He is saying that "I [steve b] will gurantee that you wont be sued if you use MS products, but if you use linux, you could be sued"
Even the register says "He did not specify that Microsoft would be the company doing the suing", which right after that it puts its own anti-MS propoganda.
so, MS fud? not a chance. Slashdot FUD? beyond all doubt.
for reference in case anyone doubts that poscript was created by adobe and released in the early 80's (by to x-Xerox parc devs no less),
http://www.prepressure.com/ps/history/history.htm
He's not telling the 200,000 Ohioans that their vote didnt count, he's telling the rest of America whos popular vote voted for Bush, that their vote DID count. Kerry isnt going to reclaim over 3.5 million votes from uncounted votes
Unlike 2000, where the popular vote was for Gore and he fought to prove to america that their vote DOES count. But the Bush camp had daddies helpers in the courts and in other convienent places that eventually called the game for Bush.
http://store.earthlcd.com/
more LCD display options than you can shake a stick at.
~s/JPGs/Apps/
Sounds like a great feature to have Mr. Pirate
Ya, Safari on OS/X does the same thing, i hate it (but to lazy to change it)
IE defaults to saving files into either A) My Documents B) last downloaded folder
yes, but the but affected versions from 0.8 on also.
the download link on the website now though, links to a fixed firefox
Had you visited the companies website and watched the demo, you would of seen that their application creates XAML applications that can run on any version of Windows.
the warranty is on the media (CD) that contains the Program. There is no warranty on the Program itself
It is not excluded by the first clause because it is not the same item