You're forgetting 'Elements'.
A legit, fully licensed copy of Photoshop Elements is given away free with pretty much every high end camera sold these days.
I used to struggle away with Gimp, but when I bought my EOS camera, I got a copy of Photoshop Elements, and suddenly I was basically just "getting the job done" instead of wrestling with the stupid Gimp interface.
Maybe the Gimp would get a lot more popular if it was included free with high-end digital cameras. But then again, maybe it would just piss off more people who are used to simple "just get the job done" interfaces.
I literally had to go to the CFO and explain why an exception to the rule would be necessary, since I wanted to use a Mac to develop and maintain a large (1,200+ page) website, which I wanted to host on a Linux server. The head of IT, who wanted me to develop and host it on Windows, and I sat and argued in front of the CFO until the CFO finally decided to let me do it my way, provided that the IT department would not provide support for the Mac or for the Linux server.
What is worse is working for a company that, when you try to develop something under Linux, insist that you have to use the MS equivalent, and then when you agree to do that, they turn around and say that they aren't prepared to spend the money on the MS license.
Wankers!
On my PowerBook, thanks to Apples stupid "users will get confused by more than one mouse button" stance, I have no less than FOUR keys on my keyboard to the left of the space bar.
They are labelled - from the left - 'Fn', 'Ctrl', 'Alt/option' and the last one just has the Apple logo and a bizarre mechanical four leaf clover.
I can never, ever, for the life of me remember which button I press to get the context menu and which one I press to select more than one thing.
When you fly into the US as a foreigner, you are required to give an address to the customs people.
Maybe the airline is just making sure that you do have an address to give to save themselves a possible head-ache at the other end.
I get the impression - from having difficulties with this issue myself at JFK - that until you have actually crossed that immigration line, you are still the responsibility of the airline. If you don't have the right forms and things, it is up to the airline to try to sort things out. (I could be wrong on this, but that is how it seemed to work).
One person cannot DDOS a site all by themselves.
These spam sites have only been taken down because sufficiently large numbers of people all have the same opinion of them.
Gartner calls this change "real-time infrastructure," which involves service-oriented architectures, the elimination of communications barriers and dynamic alignment of IT with business priorities. Technologies enabling the shift have less need for human intervention because they are more intelligent and can automatically provision services and self-heal.
Yeah, like this paragraph from TFA makes any sort of fucking sense what-so-ever!
I call BullShit-Bingo!!
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The stuff in vodka that gives you hangovers is fusel oils.
I had to read to this three times before my slightly alcohol-addled brain stopped seeing it as "...that give you hangovers is fossil fuels".
Throughout the academic year, faculty and students will be encouraged to experiment and develop innovative ideas uses [sic] for the iPod in the classroom and in campus life.
..if I just said, I'm going to develop "purely mind controlled/powered teleportation" and by that immediately block any competition from doing something in the same direction.
No, No, No!
You've got it all wrong.
You don't want to block the competition from working on it.
The "American" way is to patent the idea, let the others work on it while you sit back and do nothing, then make them pay you for the right to use "your" invention that they developed.
I have heard this nonsense spouted more times than I care to remember. "Keep the code IN the database" the enthusiasts would cry.
What you end up with is code spread all over the place. Some of your business logic now resides in source files written in your app. language, and some of it resides in the database in SP language. You can no longer look in one place to see what the program is doing. You have to read two sets of source code side by side.
Throw triggers into the mix so that your SP's are silently called as a side effect of other statements and you have a maintenance nightmare.
And what happens you need to roll out an upgraded version of one of your programs? You can't just transfer the binary there any more. Now suddenly every new release becomes a database upgrade, requiring scripts to be run to modify the database etc.
When installing Suse, there is usually a screen that appears that has a bunch of options such as
Minimal system (no gui)
Basic gui
Default
Default with Office
Everything
Manual package selection
It is only if you select Manual package selection that you even see the package manager.
If you simply accept the default, or just use the other predefined options it skips over the package manager completely.
And incidentally, the earlier versions of the package manager DO automatically handle dependencies.If you select a package, it will automatically select anything it depends on for you, and then tell you that it has done so.
You can of course go back and override these automatically selected packages if you are feeling brave.
To get into that mess shown in the last screen shot would have taken quite a lot of deliberate effort to "vandalise" the work done by the package manager.
Sad story in the news (sorry, couldn't find any links) in Australia a couple of years ago about a guy who bought an el-cheapo monitor for use at home and left it on overnight.
It caught fire and burned his house down.
He survived the fire, but his wife and kids didn't.
Now I always turn my monitor off when I leave my PC on overnight.
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A legit, fully licensed copy of Photoshop Elements is given away free with pretty much every high end camera sold these days. I used to struggle away with Gimp, but when I bought my EOS camera, I got a copy of Photoshop Elements, and suddenly I was basically just "getting the job done" instead of wrestling with the stupid Gimp interface.
Maybe the Gimp would get a lot more popular if it was included free with high-end digital cameras. But then again, maybe it would just piss off more people who are used to simple "just get the job done" interfaces.
...and I have just fired up Word and Excel and everything still seems to be there.
Oh wait, I'm on a Mac.... Never mind!
Wankers!
Here in Australia last night we had an extra 2am. It went from 2:59 back to 2:00 again.
Are you sure it's Control-Click?
On my PowerBook, thanks to Apples stupid "users will get confused by more than one mouse button" stance, I have no less than FOUR keys on my keyboard to the left of the space bar.
They are labelled - from the left - 'Fn', 'Ctrl', 'Alt/option' and the last one just has the Apple logo and a bizarre mechanical four leaf clover.
I can never, ever, for the life of me remember which button I press to get the context menu and which one I press to select more than one thing.
Which means he ought to fit right in with all the other lawyers.
On my Apple keyboard the CTRL key is only on the left hand side.
Therefore you must be left-handed to be able to press CTRL and use trackpad at the same time one-handed.
You're a mutant!
What about us normal people?
The link to the Newsweek article seems to go straight to page 2.
If you go back and start reading from page 1 it seems to make a bit more sense.
When you fly into the US as a foreigner, you are required to give an address to the customs people.
Maybe the airline is just making sure that you do have an address to give to save themselves a possible head-ache at the other end.
I get the impression - from having difficulties with this issue myself at JFK - that until you have actually crossed that immigration line, you are still the responsibility of the airline. If you don't have the right forms and things, it is up to the airline to try to sort things out. (I could be wrong on this, but that is how it seemed to work).
That's true. After all, think about the billions of dollars worth of warheads and bullets that were donated at the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.
One person cannot DDOS a site all by themselves.
These spam sites have only been taken down because sufficiently large numbers of people all have the same opinion of them.
What we are seeing is democracy in action.
Yeah, like this paragraph from TFA makes any sort of fucking sense what-so-ever!
I call BullShit-Bingo!!
I had to read to this three times before my slightly alcohol-addled brain stopped seeing it as "...that give you hangovers is fossil fuels".
Yeah, but imagine a beowulf clus... Ummmm.. sorry, what was the question again?
Yes, but how many volkswagens would be needed to hold that many books?
No, No, No!
You've got it all wrong.
You don't want to block the competition from working on it.
The "American" way is to patent the idea, let the others work on it while you sit back and do nothing, then make them pay you for the right to use "your" invention that they developed.
I have heard this nonsense spouted more times than I care to remember. "Keep the code IN the database" the enthusiasts would cry. What you end up with is code spread all over the place. Some of your business logic now resides in source files written in your app. language, and some of it resides in the database in SP language. You can no longer look in one place to see what the program is doing. You have to read two sets of source code side by side. Throw triggers into the mix so that your SP's are silently called as a side effect of other statements and you have a maintenance nightmare. And what happens you need to roll out an upgraded version of one of your programs? You can't just transfer the binary there any more. Now suddenly every new release becomes a database upgrade, requiring scripts to be run to modify the database etc.
It is only if you select Manual package selection that you even see the package manager.
If you simply accept the default, or just use the other predefined options it skips over the package manager completely.
And incidentally, the earlier versions of the package manager DO automatically handle dependencies.If you select a package, it will automatically select anything it depends on for you, and then tell you that it has done so.
You can of course go back and override these automatically selected packages if you are feeling brave.
To get into that mess shown in the last screen shot would have taken quite a lot of deliberate effort to "vandalise" the work done by the package manager.
Lets send Bill Gates!
And to further save costs, how about making it a one way trip.
Sad story in the news (sorry, couldn't find any links) in Australia a couple of years ago about a guy who bought an el-cheapo monitor for use at home and left it on overnight. It caught fire and burned his house down. He survived the fire, but his wife and kids didn't. Now I always turn my monitor off when I leave my PC on overnight.