I agree. Gimp is pretty cool, but Photoshop is the "industry standard".
I know quite a few Graphic Designers who grew up honing their skills with traditional mediums (photography, print, canvas, etc.) and swore that they'd never take a "computerized" Graphic Design job, simply because of how unnatural Photoshop felt in a creative sense.
Obviously they got over themselves (and the learning curve) but I'd doubt they would want to go through that again with some other new application like GIMP.
Personally, I've always found that Photoshop is extremely powerful but awkward and unforgiving for a new user, regardless of design skill -- and no, I have never been under the impression that it would turn a color-blind hack into Picasso.
The "SourceForge" components are open source (as well as other project-based alternatives such as Drupal+mods, Joomla+mods), and I believe the requirements for these components fall under the usual LAMP stack, which means your only hosting issue would be monthly data transfer rates (everyone and their dog's pet gerbil provide some sort of PHP/MySQL combination that would be adequate for your needs).
For under 50 bucks a month, you can get anywhere from 100-300 GB transfer a month -- if you're getting anywhere near that in popularity (200-600 downloads per month), you might be able to find a sponsor in your area (i.e. a local ISP/network services provider) for the price of including some advertisement on your site for said sponsor.
If that doesn't work, then you're adding several hundred potential BitTorrent seeders per month which might offset some of the demand.
I've used http://www.opensourcehost.com/ before with good results.
... wouldn't that entice the next generation of ISP competitors to offer a 1-tiered system? I'm thinking of Vonage of here and what its done for the LD market. If there's consumer harm there's an opportunity...
Yeah, add/remove worked fine. Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't expecting a beta preview to nestle itself in as the default Internet Explorer on my system, which is why I was trying to warn others.
As for the app itself, it looks like its using a different font smoothing effect -- compare Times New Roman used for body text in Slashdot as an example. Has a "PDF'ed" look to it.
For a beta, you'd think it would leave IE6 alone. I was curious as to wear it was installed (I couldn't see any new icons on the desktop, etc.) and checked c:\program files\Internet Explorer and noticed that iexplore.exe had been modified, along with everything else.
Seeing how I rely on IE6 for testing purposes, this is going to fun to uninstall/restore IE6. Serves me write for installing it on my work desktop.:/
I'm not an accountant (shit, I can hardly count without ++) but perhaps getting full price upfront and deferring the discount to a later quarter, may make some beanie's Quarterly Report X look shiny.
I used to send myself emails to my home address while I was at work, and to my work address when at home, for when I needed to send myself reminders, links, etc. Now, I just edit my wiki setup on Apache at home and jot stuff down. I even added a grocery list, xmas gift list (that my family was free to edit), and even phone numbers/contact info.
At work, we use one for adhoc development documentation -- we found that "official" documentation intimidated the developers (who're notorious for not writing stuff down) into thinking that everything had to be grammatically-correct, properly categorized, and using the corporate letterhead before they'd right anything down. Our instructions could be summed up as "right it down, we don't care what it looks like, you or your peers can fix it later". So far, its working very well.
The problem is that standby is very convenient. I don't want to have to walk upto my TV to turn it on. I want to sit down and press the power button on the remote. For me to be able to do this the TV has to be using a bit of power (how much I am not sure of).
If the TV is off, you probably weren't sitting down in the first place -- you walked into the room, sat down, and then reached for the remote, when you could've turned it on before you sat down.
Have you never been in a vehicle that's stalled? Turn off the ignition while coasting one day and see how hard it is to steer and brake without power assist. I'll keep my brake pedal and steering wheel thanks.
When I was in highschool, my friends and I were music snobs. We used to try to +1 each other by finding "gems": some vintage garage, punk or funk band from the 60s or 70s (or 80s later) that nobody's heard of; soon, after swapping mix tapes around to our girlfriends, friends, friends' friends, these "gems" were sold out at Big John's, our local record shop.
I used to buy 5 or 6 albums a week! Those who buy the Top 10 do not tend to buy 5 or 6 albums a week -- these people aren't diehards, they're not cashcows.
If the record companies diverted a fraction of their promotional efforts to their back catalogs -- and I'm not talking about the usual "Golden Hits from the 70s" shit, but a focused effort on quality product -- they wouldn't be so reliant on the new blockbuster artists.
Seriously, how long is that going to last? The l33t m0dding community is going to be all over this; privacy on the Internet is something sacred that will be defended, whatever the legal rammifications.
I agree. It is like giving your mom a skillet for christmas because she cooks for you.
But she might appreciate sunday brunch at a country inn. I think a book about software and technology does not have to be 700 page reference tome; try authors like Paul Graham ("Hackers and Painters") or Joel Spolsky ("The Best Software Writing I"/"Joel on Software") for great prose that you actually want to read.
Perhaps these domain owners are just concerned with their privacy. One of my domains is an absolute ghost town, with zero visitors besides me, and absolutely no chance of someone linking to it. However, I receive regular spam, simply because I provided an accurate email address that can be fetched by any number of WHOIS lookups on the Web. Next time, I'm putting up fake data.
Perhaps skimping out on the power supply -- an arguably easy item to replace via warranty -- instead of other internal components was a worthy risk, all things considered. I'd say this was a calculated cost-cutting measure, IMHO.
The problem is that no one knows how to really quantify employee turnover. Ask any IT department what its like when a key team member leaves. Its hell. Most of the time, nothing is documented, so all of that knowledge that lies in his/her head goes out the door with them. Sure, you struggle, you get by, and eventually you get caught up, but the opportunity cost and lost productivity dollars are staggering. Key player exodus can set projects back by weeks, months, even years.
While I sympathize with him, taking the law into your own hands on a whim, regardless of the crime or environment, should not be tolerated. If he was B&Eing into a biker hangout to see if they had his stolen TV, he'd be prosecuted in the exact same manor.
My low-rent cable package costs me about 40 bucks a month in Canada, which includes the usual regional spawns, a handful of speciality channels, and a bunch of Fox/NBC/ABC/CBS spawns.
I'm paying for last night's Simpsons, which is one of three television shows I watch regularly -- thats a grand total of 10 hours of television a month buried in steaming pile of "content" I'll never watch.
I'll download last night's Simpsons, thank you very much.
Can you think of any startups at the early stage of the game who actually "hire" people? Entrepreneurs are Jack-of-all-trades for a reason: they learn to due without or do it themselves or they fail -- whether its coding or catering.
I should hope that the next "killer app" company has a working prototype before they start shopping VC -- isn't that what we learned from the dotcom bust?
... a long time ago.
Sure, its a commercial platform, but being able to leverage C/C++, Java, and.NET and of course AJAX and Flash through simple, tag-based markup, really speeds things up. It can run on any major platform too.
For years we used to accept any kind of garbage from our contributing authors until we put our foot down and asked them to adhere to a Word style guide we authored: use headings, not the font drop-down, use the list styles, not the auto-bullets. If your Word is structurally-sound, there are alot of open source tools (we used a commercial solution called HTML Transit) that will do a near perfect translation, including tricky tables.
Garbage in...
Is this just going to impact the download or the actual installation? Regardless, The Scene has been cracking game patches for years...
[l33t-cr3w]Microso$t.Windows.2010.Service.Pack.8.f ixed.rar coming to a Torrent near you...
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I agree. Gimp is pretty cool, but Photoshop is the "industry standard". I know quite a few Graphic Designers who grew up honing their skills with traditional mediums (photography, print, canvas, etc.) and swore that they'd never take a "computerized" Graphic Design job, simply because of how unnatural Photoshop felt in a creative sense. Obviously they got over themselves (and the learning curve) but I'd doubt they would want to go through that again with some other new application like GIMP. Personally, I've always found that Photoshop is extremely powerful but awkward and unforgiving for a new user, regardless of design skill -- and no, I have never been under the impression that it would turn a color-blind hack into Picasso.
The "SourceForge" components are open source (as well as other project-based alternatives such as Drupal+mods, Joomla+mods), and I believe the requirements for these components fall under the usual LAMP stack, which means your only hosting issue would be monthly data transfer rates (everyone and their dog's pet gerbil provide some sort of PHP/MySQL combination that would be adequate for your needs). For under 50 bucks a month, you can get anywhere from 100-300 GB transfer a month -- if you're getting anywhere near that in popularity (200-600 downloads per month), you might be able to find a sponsor in your area (i.e. a local ISP/network services provider) for the price of including some advertisement on your site for said sponsor. If that doesn't work, then you're adding several hundred potential BitTorrent seeders per month which might offset some of the demand. I've used http://www.opensourcehost.com/ before with good results.
... wouldn't that entice the next generation of ISP competitors to offer a 1-tiered system? I'm thinking of Vonage of here and what its done for the LD market. If there's consumer harm there's an opportunity...
Yeah, add/remove worked fine. Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't expecting a beta preview to nestle itself in as the default Internet Explorer on my system, which is why I was trying to warn others. As for the app itself, it looks like its using a different font smoothing effect -- compare Times New Roman used for body text in Slashdot as an example. Has a "PDF'ed" look to it.
For a beta, you'd think it would leave IE6 alone. I was curious as to wear it was installed (I couldn't see any new icons on the desktop, etc.) and checked c:\program files\Internet Explorer and noticed that iexplore.exe had been modified, along with everything else. Seeing how I rely on IE6 for testing purposes, this is going to fun to uninstall/restore IE6. Serves me write for installing it on my work desktop. :/
I'm not an accountant (shit, I can hardly count without ++) but perhaps getting full price upfront and deferring the discount to a later quarter, may make some beanie's Quarterly Report X look shiny.
I used to send myself emails to my home address while I was at work, and to my work address when at home, for when I needed to send myself reminders, links, etc. Now, I just edit my wiki setup on Apache at home and jot stuff down. I even added a grocery list, xmas gift list (that my family was free to edit), and even phone numbers/contact info. At work, we use one for adhoc development documentation -- we found that "official" documentation intimidated the developers (who're notorious for not writing stuff down) into thinking that everything had to be grammatically-correct, properly categorized, and using the corporate letterhead before they'd right anything down. Our instructions could be summed up as "right it down, we don't care what it looks like, you or your peers can fix it later". So far, its working very well.
Is that what he's asking? I had to CTRL-F and search for a "?" to make sure you weren't pulling my leg.
Have you never been in a vehicle that's stalled? Turn off the ignition while coasting one day and see how hard it is to steer and brake without power assist. I'll keep my brake pedal and steering wheel thanks.
When I was in highschool, my friends and I were music snobs. We used to try to +1 each other by finding "gems": some vintage garage, punk or funk band from the 60s or 70s (or 80s later) that nobody's heard of; soon, after swapping mix tapes around to our girlfriends, friends, friends' friends, these "gems" were sold out at Big John's, our local record shop. I used to buy 5 or 6 albums a week! Those who buy the Top 10 do not tend to buy 5 or 6 albums a week -- these people aren't diehards, they're not cashcows. If the record companies diverted a fraction of their promotional efforts to their back catalogs -- and I'm not talking about the usual "Golden Hits from the 70s" shit, but a focused effort on quality product -- they wouldn't be so reliant on the new blockbuster artists.
Seriously, how long is that going to last? The l33t m0dding community is going to be all over this; privacy on the Internet is something sacred that will be defended, whatever the legal rammifications.
Perhaps these domain owners are just concerned with their privacy. One of my domains is an absolute ghost town, with zero visitors besides me, and absolutely no chance of someone linking to it. However, I receive regular spam, simply because I provided an accurate email address that can be fetched by any number of WHOIS lookups on the Web. Next time, I'm putting up fake data.
Perhaps skimping out on the power supply -- an arguably easy item to replace via warranty -- instead of other internal components was a worthy risk, all things considered. I'd say this was a calculated cost-cutting measure, IMHO.
The problem is that no one knows how to really quantify employee turnover. Ask any IT department what its like when a key team member leaves. Its hell. Most of the time, nothing is documented, so all of that knowledge that lies in his/her head goes out the door with them. Sure, you struggle, you get by, and eventually you get caught up, but the opportunity cost and lost productivity dollars are staggering. Key player exodus can set projects back by weeks, months, even years.
While I sympathize with him, taking the law into your own hands on a whim, regardless of the crime or environment, should not be tolerated. If he was B&Eing into a biker hangout to see if they had his stolen TV, he'd be prosecuted in the exact same manor.
My low-rent cable package costs me about 40 bucks a month in Canada, which includes the usual regional spawns, a handful of speciality channels, and a bunch of Fox/NBC/ABC/CBS spawns. I'm paying for last night's Simpsons, which is one of three television shows I watch regularly -- thats a grand total of 10 hours of television a month buried in steaming pile of "content" I'll never watch. I'll download last night's Simpsons, thank you very much.
Can you think of any startups at the early stage of the game who actually "hire" people? Entrepreneurs are Jack-of-all-trades for a reason: they learn to due without or do it themselves or they fail -- whether its coding or catering. I should hope that the next "killer app" company has a working prototype before they start shopping VC -- isn't that what we learned from the dotcom bust?
Terminator: "Sarah Connor?"
Sarah Connor: "Yes?"
Cue "red dot laser sight" synthesizer music.
*boooom*
... a long time ago. Sure, its a commercial platform, but being able to leverage C/C++, Java, and .NET and of course AJAX and Flash through simple, tag-based markup, really speeds things up. It can run on any major platform too.
For years we used to accept any kind of garbage from our contributing authors until we put our foot down and asked them to adhere to a Word style guide we authored: use headings, not the font drop-down, use the list styles, not the auto-bullets. If your Word is structurally-sound, there are alot of open source tools (we used a commercial solution called HTML Transit) that will do a near perfect translation, including tricky tables. Garbage in...
Is this just going to impact the download or the actual installation?f ixed.rar coming to a Torrent near you...
Regardless, The Scene has been cracking game patches for years...
[l33t-cr3w]Microso$t.Windows.2010.Service.Pack.8.