There's nothing about it running on Mac OS X that makes it any easier to port it to UNIX.
Indeed. If PS had been written to run on X11, then it should have been comparatively simple, but I can't see that happening now. Interestingly, although I have a copy of CS3 on my MacBook, I usually prefer to fire up Gimp. The latter does just about everything PhotoShop does, and the interface is more familiar to me, since I learned how to use it on my Linux boxes first.
Needless to say, this will probably upset the fanboys, so flame on, but on your own time if you don't mind...
This is true. It is also true that most of them load a lot more quickly than the Adobe product. However (sometimes depending on how the PDF is created), most of then don't actually render the PDF as well as the Adobe reader.
No they weren't. I still have an XT (I believe the original 8086 came with 512K of RAM, my 8088 has 640), but that machine was neat stuff by comparison with the Burroughs B3700 mainframe I worked with back in the '70s and early '80s. That had only about 320K of core memory, which was surprisingly fast, but the whole machine and its associated air-conditioning used to dim the streetlights in the neighbourhood.
If we're going to get into a pissing match, I've still got a "turbo" XT (8088 processor, with an 8087 math coprocessor) with a Hercules monochrome screen. It even still works; on its HDD there's a copy of WordPerfect 5.1, the Microsoft Fortran and C development suites and an unlicenced copy of AutoCAD. That machine used to really have to work for its living.:-)
Yeah and they've never released cool hardware with shitty software that they subsequently upgraded and made into a revolutionary product before./sarcasm
Well, to take this point first, it wouldn't exactly be revolutionary if they bolted new functionality on an existing product. But the actual hardware itself is not that exciting, in the sense that it is nothing that existing iPhone or iTouch users will be unfamiliar with.
...Which leads to my complaint: I would really have liked Apple to have produced a "real" computer in tablet form, but Apple chose to sell us shiny widgets instead.
there needs to be a "-1 baseless speculation" modifier.
If you're referring to the aforementioned inability of the iPad to multitask, I challenge you to accurately refute this. Sure, the product isn't yet available for sale, but it has been assessed by people at the launch of the product, and Apple has made no comment, which indicates that this criticism is true.
There were already MP3 players on the market, but the iPod was the first one where the UI hadn't been cobbled together by a team of engineers with no interest in usability or polish.
True. But I've owned several iPods by now, and on each occasion where I've been shopping for an MP3 player, the amount of storage on the respective iPod offerings within my then affordable price-range has been sufficient in its own right to tip my decision in favour of the iPod.
Itunes definitely had nothing to do with my first purchase, since I only had access to Linux computers, so I used gtkpod exclusively to manage its files. But now that other manufacturers are beginning to catch up in the storage/dollar dept., I guess the interface is where it counts. But still, is there anyone offering a player with 160GB or more right now?
Billy Boy should've just said "LULZ" and left it at that.
What for? The iPad is little more than an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket, and the market will judge it accordingly. Apple had an opportunity to redefine the tablet computer market, and they decided to waste it by offering us yet another box to run their apps.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but there's still a big market there that (apart from Google's efforts) is unchanged from before Apple unveiled its iPad.
You might as well say "Every major loser is using Buzz now". Most bloggers write drivel (hence this), and I fail to see the value in Google providing yet another means for cretins to prattle inanities into the void.
I'm working on a new technology (script based) where people log into a news site and post completely offtopic and unrelated comments drawn from a bag of on-the-surface-interesting-but-truly-vapid comments.
Well, that would be vastly more interesting than the kind of blather we typically see on Twitter or Facebook. Comments there aren't even interesting on the surface.
Probably a fear that someone will find a bug that causes the password or information appended to it treated as a command to some subsystem.
That particular hole was well-known to exist in a few systems decades ago, but I would have thought that modern systems would be pretty much bombproof against that by now.
Depending on your model, blocking your signal often runs batteries down fast. I spend a lot of time in rural areas of Australia, and I often get less than a day of battery life (as opposed to 3 days in the city) as a result of the machine flogging itself to death trying to find a network signal.
This is a good argument for having your own phone: you can't be required to be constantly available. I have a friend who complains that she *has* to answer her company-supplied phone even if she's on the loo. My advice to her was to "accidentally" drop it in and flush it away.
Incidentally, lots of banks don't allow commas or any other punctuation characters in internet banking passwords. I can't think of a single valid reason why, so the policy seems totally craniorectal to me.
Oh, I dunno. I would have thought majoring in French Lit would be at least as nerdy as CS. Probably more so, since the latter is more or less mainstream now.:-)
...sifting through two apartment buildings' worth of trash to find it, and spent that entire night retyping it from scratch.
PhD "dissertation"? Normally one writes a thesis for a PhD, and a typical length is in the region of 50,000 words. I don't know about you, but that's way more than I can type in a night.
Well, another perspective is that the notion of "building trust between people and the government" is entirely accurate if what they really mean is that the government wants to be able to "trust" (i.e. monitor and control) the people. No-one said it had to work reciprocally.:-(
Exactly. For once, it does not seem to be PayPal that is the baddie here. Although there have been many cases where PayPal has essentially snatched or frozen customers' funds, this doesn't seem to be one of them.
No. Linux is, and has always been, predominantly for servers. It's a losing battle to turn it into the perfect desktop OS.
I'm waiting for Haiku.
There's probably no such thing as the perfect desktop. Probably not even the least-worst. I've been using Linux exclusively on my desktop machines for 15 years or more, and it suits the way I work. Over the last 4 years or so I have also got to like OS X on my laptop machines, but that is partly because these are hand-me-down machines. If I were to actually take the trouble to buy a laptop, I would probably persist with Linux again. As for Windows, I find myself getting cranky and frustrated every time I have to use it, so generally I avoid it.
But if you want Haiku, here's one:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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There's nothing about it running on Mac OS X that makes it any easier to port it to UNIX.
Indeed. If PS had been written to run on X11, then it should have been comparatively simple, but I can't see that happening now. Interestingly, although I have a copy of CS3 on my MacBook, I usually prefer to fire up Gimp. The latter does just about everything PhotoShop does, and the interface is more familiar to me, since I learned how to use it on my Linux boxes first.
Needless to say, this will probably upset the fanboys, so flame on, but on your own time if you don't mind...
There are plenty of alternatives...
This is true. It is also true that most of them load a lot more quickly than the Adobe product. However (sometimes depending on how the PDF is created), most of then don't actually render the PDF as well as the Adobe reader.
The only game you know is Crysis?
;-)
I don't even know that. I can remember playing Hunt The Wumpus, and I used to like a mindless Windows 3.x game called Rodent's Revenge...
they were in the stone age back then!
No they weren't. I still have an XT (I believe the original 8086 came with 512K of RAM, my 8088 has 640), but that machine was neat stuff by comparison with the Burroughs B3700 mainframe I worked with back in the '70s and early '80s. That had only about 320K of core memory, which was surprisingly fast, but the whole machine and its associated air-conditioning used to dim the streetlights in the neighbourhood.
If we're going to get into a pissing match, I've still got a "turbo" XT (8088 processor, with an 8087 math coprocessor) with a Hercules monochrome screen. It even still works; on its HDD there's a copy of WordPerfect 5.1, the Microsoft Fortran and C development suites and an unlicenced copy of AutoCAD. That machine used to really have to work for its living. :-)
Yeah and they've never released cool hardware with shitty software that they subsequently upgraded and made into a revolutionary product before. /sarcasm
...Which leads to my complaint: I would really have liked Apple to have produced a "real" computer in tablet form, but Apple chose to sell us shiny widgets instead.
Well, to take this point first, it wouldn't exactly be revolutionary if they bolted new functionality on an existing product. But the actual hardware itself is not that exciting, in the sense that it is nothing that existing iPhone or iTouch users will be unfamiliar with.
there needs to be a "-1 baseless speculation" modifier.
If you're referring to the aforementioned inability of the iPad to multitask, I challenge you to accurately refute this. Sure, the product isn't yet available for sale, but it has been assessed by people at the launch of the product, and Apple has made no comment, which indicates that this criticism is true.
There were already MP3 players on the market, but the iPod was the first one where the UI hadn't been cobbled together by a team of engineers with no interest in usability or polish.
True. But I've owned several iPods by now, and on each occasion where I've been shopping for an MP3 player, the amount of storage on the respective iPod offerings within my then affordable price-range has been sufficient in its own right to tip my decision in favour of the iPod.
Itunes definitely had nothing to do with my first purchase, since I only had access to Linux computers, so I used gtkpod exclusively to manage its files. But now that other manufacturers are beginning to catch up in the storage/dollar dept., I guess the interface is where it counts. But still, is there anyone offering a player with 160GB or more right now?
What happens when they turn 6?
;-)
Just a suggestion: they can read Now We Are Six (A.A. Milne).
Billy Boy should've just said "LULZ" and left it at that.
What for? The iPad is little more than an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket, and the market will judge it accordingly. Apple had an opportunity to redefine the tablet computer market, and they decided to waste it by offering us yet another box to run their apps.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but there's still a big market there that (apart from Google's efforts) is unchanged from before Apple unveiled its iPad.
Every major blogger is using Buzz now...
You might as well say "Every major loser is using Buzz now". Most bloggers write drivel (hence this), and I fail to see the value in Google providing yet another means for cretins to prattle inanities into the void.
I'm working on a new technology (script based) where people log into a news site and post completely offtopic and unrelated comments drawn from a bag of on-the-surface-interesting-but-truly-vapid comments.
Well, that would be vastly more interesting than the kind of blather we typically see on Twitter or Facebook. Comments there aren't even interesting on the surface.
Same here in Australia.
Probably a fear that someone will find a bug that causes the password or information appended to it treated as a command to some subsystem.
That particular hole was well-known to exist in a few systems decades ago, but I would have thought that modern systems would be pretty much bombproof against that by now.
Depending on your model, blocking your signal often runs batteries down fast. I spend a lot of time in rural areas of Australia, and I often get less than a day of battery life (as opposed to 3 days in the city) as a result of the machine flogging itself to death trying to find a network signal.
This is a good argument for having your own phone: you can't be required to be constantly available. I have a friend who complains that she *has* to answer her company-supplied phone even if she's on the loo. My advice to her was to "accidentally" drop it in and flush it away.
Incidentally, lots of banks don't allow commas or any other punctuation characters in internet banking passwords. I can't think of a single valid reason why, so the policy seems totally craniorectal to me.
Actually it is * KB977165 only that needs to be un-installed.
;-)
No, better to simply uninstall Windows. There are plenty of less dodgy alternatives.
A French Literature major on Slashdot? HERESY!
:-)
Oh, I dunno. I would have thought majoring in French Lit would be at least as nerdy as CS. Probably more so, since the latter is more or less mainstream now.
...sifting through two apartment buildings' worth of trash to find it, and spent that entire night retyping it from scratch.
PhD "dissertation"? Normally one writes a thesis for a PhD, and a typical length is in the region of 50,000 words. I don't know about you, but that's way more than I can type in a night.
You can talk cryptospeak if you want, but I prefer to communicate in English.
I know it's his pen name not his real name which eludes me at the moment
Eric Arthur Blair.
...to get perspective on the issue...
:-(
Well, another perspective is that the notion of "building trust between people and the government" is entirely accurate if what they really mean is that the government wants to be able to "trust" (i.e. monitor and control) the people. No-one said it had to work reciprocally.
I have no idea persay, but I would be shocked...
What is more shocking is the number of people who seem to think "persay" is a word. The expression is per se, meaning "by, of or in itself".
FYI, not in India.
Exactly. For once, it does not seem to be PayPal that is the baddie here. Although there have been many cases where PayPal has essentially snatched or frozen customers' funds, this doesn't seem to be one of them.
No. Linux is, and has always been, predominantly for servers. It's a losing battle to turn it into the perfect desktop OS.
:-D
I'm waiting for Haiku.
There's probably no such thing as the perfect desktop. Probably not even the least-worst. I've been using Linux exclusively on my desktop machines for 15 years or more, and it suits the way I work. Over the last 4 years or so I have also got to like OS X on my laptop machines, but that is partly because these are hand-me-down machines. If I were to actually take the trouble to buy a laptop, I would probably persist with Linux again. As for Windows, I find myself getting cranky and frustrated every time I have to use it, so generally I avoid it.
But if you want Haiku, here's one:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.