In fact, I do. And Quark and Illustrator and Distiller and all that crap. Is my Pismo as fast as the Dual 1.8 G5s I've worked on? No. But it runs all the programs I've mention with no problems. Having a gig of RAM helps a lot, tho.
For the record, my Pismo (Powerbook G3 Firewire) is four years old and runs 10.3.2 just fine. Other machines introduced in 1999, like the B&W G3s and the first of the G4s, are perfectly capable of running the latest version of OS X. Thee 9600 was discontinued in 1997, and I'd imagine that a 97-era PC running XP would have some problems as well.
Astroturfing to one degree or another is increasing common in American politics (and business). In reaction to the (often correct) cynicism that politicians and corporations are not acting in the best interests of "the people", an astroturfing campaign attempts to gain legitimacy by appearing to spring forth spontaneously from "the people", like Athena from Zeus's forehead; when it's discovered that the campaign was meticulously crafted and manipulated by the same spin-meisters that public has learned to distrust, the astroiturfing adds to the very cynicism it was designed to circumvent.
Great comment, but I have one nit to pick: Astroturfing is nothing new in American politics. At the turn of the 20th century is was common to have newspapers in major American cities sponsored by local political parties. Some were open about this practice, but many of these relationships were hidden under the guise of journalism. Numerous other examples abound: political "clubs" which were fronts for voter fraud and intimidation, letter-writing campaigns organized by local ward bosses, workers fired for voting for the wrong candidate, etc.
Gimp has Photoshop's comprehensive and complex color calibration support?
Gimp allows complex channel calculations? I don't mean adding alpha channels. I taking values from one channel, values from another channel, running them through a blending layer and putting the result in a new channel.
Does Gimp have blending layers?
Gimp has Lab and CIE color spaces?
Gimp has Photoshop's huge filter collection?
And on and on.
I'm no big Adobe fan, but it is specious to claim that Gimp is Photoshop's equal. It may become so one day, but Photoshop is still the only serious program for editing continuous tone bitmap images out there. Gimp is a good tool for about 75% of the image manipulation most people do. But the last 25% is very important, and Photoshop is the only game in town.
Not on my brother's machine. The biggest problem that machine has is, well, my brother. . .
When I say his Gateway literally fell apart, I mean that. Finally the keyboard died and he ended up using it as a mobile stereo to play mp3s. Apple has had some quality problems, but nothing on the scale he experienced.
And worth every penny. My brother had a Gateway laptop that quite literally fell apart on him. I don't know where it was assembled, but apparently they did away with all quality control. He is now the happy owner of a 12 inch Powerbook.
Lord, the moderation of this comment goes up and down more than Apple's stock price.
Perhaps I should expand the thought:
The guy was complaining that he was forced to pay $129 to upgrade every year. I think this is a facetious argument. Had the guy said he thought Apple was wrong to charge that much for the OS, I might agree. But he didn't. He said:
Apple forces you to upgrade the damn OS every single year at the low cost of $129.
which is not true on several levels:
1) Apple does not force anyone to do anything. The OS does not expire, the hardware doesn't stop working and the universe keeps moving.
2) The CDs aren't copy protected. You can easily copy them and install it on any number of machines. Apple purposefully doesn't stop you from doing this.
3) Given the vast volume of software which is pirated every year, and the glee with which many Slashdot people discuss their pirated copies of Windows, I find it hard to take people seriously when they complain about the cost of system software. Perhaps this is just my view of the world. Perhaps it's just the lowlifes I hang out with who have no problem copying software, but no one is ever forced to pay for Windows or OS X. It's just too easy to get.
Does Apple charge too much? A good point for debate. But no one has a gun to their head.
Apple forces you to upgrade the damn OS every single year at the low cost of $129.
I've been using Macs since 1989 and I've never paid for an Apple OS, 10.3 included. There is no copy protection, no registration, no nothing on the OS CDs. Just have a friend burn you a copy.
And before you climb up on your high moral horse about "stealing" the OS, delete every piece of software and every MP3 you have downloaded and not paid for.
In contests which pit marketing muscle and questionable trade practices against each other, MS usually wins. In contest which pit technology against technology, MS usually loses.
What kind of battle this is will determine who wins.
I was eight when the original came out - saw it eleven times in the theaters (this was before VCRs) and loved every minute of it. I felt the same way about the next two (5 and 6).
However, Episode 1 was an enormously painful experience. Episode 2 was almost unbearable, further reminder that Lucas didn't direct the best of the series (Empire Strikes Back) nor was he the sole writer. I have to say that, if the buzz is bad enough, I may actually skip seeing this one in the theater and wait for it to show on HBO. At least then I can switch channels whenever someone speaks.
This reminds me of a story one of my teachers told me. One of the "classic" Norwegian authors were once interviewed about a particular scene in one of his book, and the interviewer spent a lot of time talking about all the symbolism in the scene, and how profound it was, and then went on to ask if he was on the right track, on how the author could have come up with what he did. The answer?
He'd written the scene because it sounded good.
Reminds me of another story:
At a point late in his career, Sir Lawrence Olivia was being interviewed. The interviewer asked him a series of questions about his motivation, his preparation, his process as a actor, etc., for which Olivia had no good answers. Finally, fed up, he said (roughly), "look, it's a job. I memorize my lines, show up and do what the director says!"
The problem isn't with Postmodernism. It's a theory, and, like any theory, is merely a mechanism to arrange facts so connections can be found and explored. The problem is with people whose mental energy would be better spent arranging traffic tickets at the DMV thinking they have good ideas merely because their speech is buzzword compliant.
I'm a writer, and a pretty good one -- got the degree and everything. The school I attended was one of the most radical Writing programs in the country, along with U Wisconsin Madison and a few others. Because of this, I got a fairly good exposure to Postmodern Theory and Practice and developed a pretty good dislike for it. My problem is not with the theory itself, which is, like any culturally situated theory, fun and interesting to play with and something which can lead you to think about things in a new way.
However, I also noticed that Postmodern Lit Crit had become a growth industry on some college campuses, creating a whole strata of students and teachers involved in a constant circular conversation whose only purpose seemed to be the stimulation of recursion and the attaining of tenure. The theory produced some original and interesting thought, some patently ridiculous shit, and lots and lots of boring fiction. I even developed a nickname for such fiction -- MFA fiction. It's usually written by middle class white folk with little or no experience outside the ivory tower world with a condescending fascination on working class 'Merica.
This guy's onto that, and in a really good way. Unfortunately, any group produces its own symbols of group identity and people who are dependent on that group identity for everything, and just as there are people who would fold up and die if the next Lord of the Rings movie doesn't come out on DVD, there are people who, without their Masters degree and sense of superiority, would have no reason for living.
The guy doesn't have the whole story, as there is some real value in all this theory -- The Matrix takes a lot from Baudillard and his postmodern work. Postmodernism is also a valuable tool for looking at cultural context, i.e., understanding the ways in which disparate cultures come together and clash. The "rootlessness" of Postmodernism is a great help here, as it is not dependent on one world view, such as earlier cultural analyses (Social Darwinism comes to mind).
This aside, he has hit the bullseye on the bullshit side of modern Lit Crit.
But the fact remains that Apple is trying to make up for some of the costs of iTunes via the sales of iPods... tsk tsk what a mess!
Huh?
Apple has been upfront all along -- the iTMS is either a loss leader or barely breaks even and exists largely to move iPods and Macs. Your statement makes no sense.
I'm a writer, so my job entails sitting at my desk and typing. And reading. And typing. And. . .
You get the picture.
I make it a point to get out of the house. I hang out with my friends, I take walks, I ride my bike, etc. Sometimes it's something little, like getting a cup of coffee and walking over to look at the Hudson just to get half an hour out of the house. I also make it a point to hang out with my friends, and try to meet new people.
South Vietnam was defeated -- after most of the US forces had been pulled out and military aid severely cut back -- by the regular North Vietnamese Army (not the guerilla Viet Cong) backed by one of the largest tank assaults in the (until then) history of warfare (thanks to external suppliers).
The Viet Cong were finished as a fighting force after Tet. In the two years it took the Vietnamese to rebuild their fighting forces, most VC units were replaced with regular NVA. By 1970, it was the U.S. versus the NVA.
We lost Vietnam because it was never a primarily military conquest, but a political one. All the Vietnamese needed to do to win was outlive us. They survived, the Chinese, the Japanese and the French. We were next. Unless we were willing to kill millions upon millions of Vietnamese, there was no way out other than defeat.
It's been posted before: the major reason for memory errors is thermal stress. As the G5s aren't 1U or blade designs where everything is packed pretty tight, are cooled well, and as the cluster has additional dedicated cooling, the chance of error is pretty low.
I know. But I think Nothstein could beat current road sprinter in the world over the final 200 meters. Too bad he didn't switch to the road five years earlier.
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El was the high god of Canaan, as opposed to Yahweh, who became the Israelite god.
In fact, I do. And Quark and Illustrator and Distiller and all that crap. Is my Pismo as fast as the Dual 1.8 G5s I've worked on? No. But it runs all the programs I've mention with no problems. Having a gig of RAM helps a lot, tho.
I get much more annoyed when I see Photoshop eating up 10% cpu when it's just sitting there doing nothing.
For the record, my Pismo (Powerbook G3 Firewire) is four years old and runs 10.3.2 just fine. Other machines introduced in 1999, like the B&W G3s and the first of the G4s, are perfectly capable of running the latest version of OS X. Thee 9600 was discontinued in 1997, and I'd imagine that a 97-era PC running XP would have some problems as well.
Great comment, but I have one nit to pick: Astroturfing is nothing new in American politics. At the turn of the 20th century is was common to have newspapers in major American cities sponsored by local political parties. Some were open about this practice, but many of these relationships were hidden under the guise of journalism. Numerous other examples abound: political "clubs" which were fronts for voter fraud and intimidation, letter-writing campaigns organized by local ward bosses, workers fired for voting for the wrong candidate, etc.
Gimp has Photoshop's comprehensive and complex color calibration support?
Gimp allows complex channel calculations? I don't mean adding alpha channels. I taking values from one channel, values from another channel, running them through a blending layer and putting the result in a new channel.
Does Gimp have blending layers?
Gimp has Lab and CIE color spaces?
Gimp has Photoshop's huge filter collection?
And on and on.
I'm no big Adobe fan, but it is specious to claim that Gimp is Photoshop's equal. It may become so one day, but Photoshop is still the only serious program for editing continuous tone bitmap images out there. Gimp is a good tool for about 75% of the image manipulation most people do. But the last 25% is very important, and Photoshop is the only game in town.
Now, if Adobe only didn't suck so hard.
When I say his Gateway literally fell apart, I mean that. Finally the keyboard died and he ended up using it as a mobile stereo to play mp3s. Apple has had some quality problems, but nothing on the scale he experienced.
And worth every penny. My brother had a Gateway laptop that quite literally fell apart on him. I don't know where it was assembled, but apparently they did away with all quality control. He is now the happy owner of a 12 inch Powerbook.
Perhaps I should expand the thought:
The guy was complaining that he was forced to pay $129 to upgrade every year. I think this is a facetious argument. Had the guy said he thought Apple was wrong to charge that much for the OS, I might agree. But he didn't. He said:
which is not true on several levels:
1) Apple does not force anyone to do anything. The OS does not expire, the hardware doesn't stop working and the universe keeps moving.
2) The CDs aren't copy protected. You can easily copy them and install it on any number of machines. Apple purposefully doesn't stop you from doing this.
3) Given the vast volume of software which is pirated every year, and the glee with which many Slashdot people discuss their pirated copies of Windows, I find it hard to take people seriously when they complain about the cost of system software. Perhaps this is just my view of the world. Perhaps it's just the lowlifes I hang out with who have no problem copying software, but no one is ever forced to pay for Windows or OS X. It's just too easy to get.
Does Apple charge too much? A good point for debate. But no one has a gun to their head.
I've been using Macs since 1989 and I've never paid for an Apple OS, 10.3 included. There is no copy protection, no registration, no nothing on the OS CDs. Just have a friend burn you a copy.
And before you climb up on your high moral horse about "stealing" the OS, delete every piece of software and every MP3 you have downloaded and not paid for.
Tinfoil hat time!
What kind of battle this is will determine who wins.
However, Episode 1 was an enormously painful experience. Episode 2 was almost unbearable, further reminder that Lucas didn't direct the best of the series (Empire Strikes Back) nor was he the sole writer. I have to say that, if the buzz is bad enough, I may actually skip seeing this one in the theater and wait for it to show on HBO. At least then I can switch channels whenever someone speaks.
Reminds me of another story:
At a point late in his career, Sir Lawrence Olivia was being interviewed. The interviewer asked him a series of questions about his motivation, his preparation, his process as a actor, etc., for which Olivia had no good answers. Finally, fed up, he said (roughly), "look, it's a job. I memorize my lines, show up and do what the director says!"
Standing in line at the DMV: The Recontexualization of Thwarted Desire in Modern Post-Industrial Society.
The problem isn't with Postmodernism. It's a theory, and, like any theory, is merely a mechanism to arrange facts so connections can be found and explored. The problem is with people whose mental energy would be better spent arranging traffic tickets at the DMV thinking they have good ideas merely because their speech is buzzword compliant.
However, I also noticed that Postmodern Lit Crit had become a growth industry on some college campuses, creating a whole strata of students and teachers involved in a constant circular conversation whose only purpose seemed to be the stimulation of recursion and the attaining of tenure. The theory produced some original and interesting thought, some patently ridiculous shit, and lots and lots of boring fiction. I even developed a nickname for such fiction -- MFA fiction. It's usually written by middle class white folk with little or no experience outside the ivory tower world with a condescending fascination on working class 'Merica.
This guy's onto that, and in a really good way. Unfortunately, any group produces its own symbols of group identity and people who are dependent on that group identity for everything, and just as there are people who would fold up and die if the next Lord of the Rings movie doesn't come out on DVD, there are people who, without their Masters degree and sense of superiority, would have no reason for living. The guy doesn't have the whole story, as there is some real value in all this theory -- The Matrix takes a lot from Baudillard and his postmodern work. Postmodernism is also a valuable tool for looking at cultural context, i.e., understanding the ways in which disparate cultures come together and clash. The "rootlessness" of Postmodernism is a great help here, as it is not dependent on one world view, such as earlier cultural analyses (Social Darwinism comes to mind). This aside, he has hit the bullseye on the bullshit side of modern Lit Crit.
Huh?
Apple has been upfront all along -- the iTMS is either a loss leader or barely breaks even and exists largely to move iPods and Macs. Your statement makes no sense.
Only on Slashdot could a thread meant to simplify things end up confusing the issue!
You get the picture.
I make it a point to get out of the house. I hang out with my friends, I take walks, I ride my bike, etc. Sometimes it's something little, like getting a cup of coffee and walking over to look at the Hudson just to get half an hour out of the house. I also make it a point to hang out with my friends, and try to meet new people.
WTF, precisely, is a Freudian brainwash?
The Viet Cong were finished as a fighting force after Tet. In the two years it took the Vietnamese to rebuild their fighting forces, most VC units were replaced with regular NVA. By 1970, it was the U.S. versus the NVA.
We lost Vietnam because it was never a primarily military conquest, but a political one. All the Vietnamese needed to do to win was outlive us. They survived, the Chinese, the Japanese and the French. We were next. Unless we were willing to kill millions upon millions of Vietnamese, there was no way out other than defeat.
It's been posted before: the major reason for memory errors is thermal stress. As the G5s aren't 1U or blade designs where everything is packed pretty tight, are cooled well, and as the cluster has additional dedicated cooling, the chance of error is pretty low.
I know. But I think Nothstein could beat current road sprinter in the world over the final 200 meters. Too bad he didn't switch to the road five years earlier.
Marco Pantani ain't no sprinter. You're thinking of Cippolini, or, even better, Nothstein.