I've never used Apeture, but wasn't it supposed to compete directly with Adobe Photoshop? Correct me if I'm wrong. I doubt a small app like Aperture can make a dent when Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard for photographers. So yea I guess Apple saw it as a lost cause and scrapped it. Except to see the Aperture features trickle into iPhoto over the next few releases.
That is entirely incorrect.
Photoshop is an image manipulation tool. Aperture is a tool for professional photographers and photo editors (I don't mean people who manipulate photos, I mean people in editorial positions who select photos to be used for a purpose -- think "the photo editor at the New York Times" type of position) that has its strengths in managing RAW image files as if they were JPEGs like iPhoto can. It has phenomenal capabilities around metadata and managing a large library, and offers the basic correction tools that photographers would need (exposure, color correction, saturation, contrast, sharpening, etc.).
There is little to no overlap with Photoshop, nor is there any evidence that Aperture has been "killed."
I happen to be a photographer, and have the problems that Aperture solved. At an event, I might easily shoot over 800 exposures. Before Aperture it would take me at least a day or two to sort through them and make my selects. At an event a week ago, I was able to sort through 762 exposures and pull out about 120 selects in under two hours. It has more than paid for itself many times over in productivity savings.
Some of us don't believe in the morality of copyright in its current form, and thus cannot respect it.
And I don't believe in the morality of the income tax system in its current form... does that mean I should stop paying taxes? Please let me know before April 15th. Thanks!
Try running that test on someone making $20k a year with three kids. They're called "refundable tax credits" which means it's a tax credit that even if your gross tax bill comes out to be $0 after deductions, those credits will be "refunded" to you, thus you can have a negative tax bill.
Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but it seems like if you're paying NBC for content, then you have to download it via P2P, you're basically footing their bandwidth bill for them. If I'm having to pay for content, I want to download it directly and reliably from the source, just like the iTunes store.
Why should the customers be spending their bandwidth seeding the files for NBC?
BTW, I think the idea that you can't spread information that is under NDA is outrageously unconstitutional. If a rumor site isn't under such a NDA, then they are bound by nobody legally and like anyone else (journalists or otherwise), they have a right to keep their sources to themselves. I think Apple is going to lose this case. They need to go after the people giving out the info who are under NDA, not the secondhand sites who get the info.
Keep your eye on the ball, that is what they ARE doing. They aren't going after ThinkSecret for damages, they're trying to find out who was breaking their NDA so they can go after them.
"is going to outdo Apple in 'the way it looks matters' department"
Ummm... well, not really. And even if it did look good (which in my opinion it does not), what Apple does well is more than make products that "look good." Their industrial design really takes into account all of the human interaction factors, and they make hardware that's a natural extension of the software. Considering this thing doesn't come with a hard drive, much less software, it's hard to design the hardware/touch interface around what the software will do. I don't think this is really a threat to Apple, but nice attempt at dramatization!
AOL saves money
The bank gets the house
The employee gets SHIT
That's called unfair. The employee did nothing except show up and do a good job.
I call bullshit on that... it's not AOL's fault or the bank's fault if your house gets repo'ed. It's YOUR fault. If you're responsible, you shouldn't be entering into a mortgage unless you have the cash reserves to be able to survive a job change without having your house foreclosed. You should be able to survive for enough time until you are able to sell the house.
Isn't the Photoshop interface patented?
If I remember correctly, Adobe and Macromedia have sparred over this in the past (Fireworks looking too much like Photoshop)
To play devil's advocate for a minute, wouldn't people in the OSS community be pissed of Adobe "stole" all the ideas out of GIMP and dropped them into their project? Would you consider it right to "steal" verbatim the interface of someone else's work?
You might night agree with the license, but you should at least honor it if you expect the same of your own license.
And how many people bitching about Microsoft taking advantage of favorable tax conditions (which are completely legal, I would say ethical, and responsible to their shareholders) order things off the Internet, and don't report them to pay sales tax in their state (like you're supposed to do when you order from out of state)?
There's quite a difference between choosing which state to incorporate in, and taking part in truly shady tax practices like transfer pricing abuse.
But then again, since when has/. been known for not trying to paint anything MSFT does as worse than it is?
The best part about the blackberry is the damn keyboard, what a bunch of tards. I use mine to ssh the boxes at work all the time. I am sure this adaptive bullshit is going to really work with vi commands.
The announcement of a new product doesn't mean the one you currently own is no longer functional and requires immediate replacement. Resist the urge, I know it's tough.
They have announced a new, and additional product, not the retirement of other products.
RIM has long had a variety of different products offered for different needs. YOUR needs may be very different from MY needs, thus the same device may not fit BOTH our needs. I can only but assume that a good deal of research was put into this product, and found that the current offering was missing the needs of some people, thus this product was developed. Unless they determine that the market won't support the existance of both products, I don't think the former-style devices will disappear.
My guess is that the targetting of this product is towards the "executive on the go" who does a lot more reading than writing (gets a message, replies with 'yes,' 'no', etc.), and uses the phone features far more often.
I'm really used to the current BlackBerry keyboard, but I'm really interested in seeing how they implemented their predictive text entry. I read another article this morning about it, and apparently it "learns" as you go, and dynamically adjusts its recognition list. This is much better than what my Sony-Ericsson mobile can do with SMS messages.
It's great when I visit companies or friends who have a LAN or cable router but no wireless.
I can see this thing becoming a corporate IT security person's nightmare. Suddenly an end-user-friendly way to bring a network connection with you to the conference room! They already sweep my building (all 45 floors!) with Pocket PC's with WiFi cards looking for rogue WLAN's.
Yeah, but how many retail for $129?:) I spent $300 or whatever it was for my Audiotron, usually ended up controlling it with my laptop anyway (I found the remote control to be so ergonomically disgusting that it never left a drawer), and it couldn't play my protected AAC files. The Airport Express plays those, and I've got to say one of my favorite additions, it gives the nice smooth iTunes crossfades between tracks.
The Airport Express is cool. It's not priced too badly. But it's not really what I want.
I don't need a wireless access point -- already got one of those. I don't need to share a printer -- already doing that, thank you.
But I DO want to stream audio to my stereo! So why not just eliminate all the other crap and sell a simple box with ethernet in one side and audio out the other side? And since I'm just dreaming here... set the price at $49.95. Heck, I might even buy two!
Well, considering that if Apple did build such a music-only beast, it would definately have wireless capability, and most likely wired, too, so making it be able to act as an access point/bridge/repeater is just icicing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
In regards to the USB port, I would assume that Apple has done enough market research to learn that with their high percentage of laptop users, there is enough angst about having to get up and walk to the printer to plug in a USB cable to print, that this would be a desired feature.
If I didn't use my Powermac as a print server, I would be running to hook one of these up to my printer. Instead, I have one connected to my stereo, and the other is with me on the road! As far as I'm concerened, Apple hit my needs square on the head, and priced it at a point that I find more than fair.
Of course, it doesn't support Ogg, but then again, the people who are bitching and moaning about that wouldn't pay for it anyway, and would just boast that they built their own, so who really gives a rat's ass?:)
I have no problems with Apple adding something like this into MacOS. However, once they start stomping on the rights of small developers, that's fucking low. This is the second time they've done this, and this time it's an even more blatant case of copyright infringement.
... If it becomes popular, Apple is going to snag it, make money off of it, and not compensate the original authors.
The thing I find really amusing about this, is why aren't people out screaming and raising hell when people were writing iTunes clones or Aqua clones as X window managers?
Is it only "evil" when it's affecting someone's favorite project? Seems hyporcritical to me.
Hmmm... sounds vaguely familiar to the comments made around the 23" HD Cinema Display, which doesn't seem to have died a painful death, and where the price has dropped into a very reasonable space for the types of businesses that need it...
This really isn't anything revolutionary. You can take down cell phones in the area that a handheld jammer can transmit. I don't think anyone has ever asserted that low-power wireless transmissions can't be DOS'ed by other low-power wireless transmissions.
Instead of saying the Simpsons characters are underpaid compared to Friends, you could probably more accurately say the Friends characters are grossly overpaid.
There is no such thing as 'overpaid.' The market reaches equalibrium, that is the rate of pay. If it is 'overpayment,' then the payer would not pay it.
It might be more than you are willing to pay, but you're not the one paying, are you?
First off, these days, most lines are served off 'digital loop carriers (DLCs),' which take the analog lines from your home, and multiplex it onto high-capacity lines (often running over fiber-optic SONET loops) back to the central office.
Even if your 220 volts made it back to the DLC (which is fairly unlikely, considering 220 VAC at any dangerous ampreage will probably overheat and melt the copper, anyway), the worst you'd do would be to burn out the service area the DLC is handling.
And even if your unlikely scenerio of getting 220 VAC back to a central office, and through the fuses, and the main distribution frame, and even if you hit the switch, you wouldn't affect anything more than that local exchange. Central offices aren't "daisey chained" down copper lines.
Most people can't install an operating system period. I use Linux exclusively at home, and my girlfriend has had no trouble adapting (she uses it mostly to check her e-mail, and plays a bunch of the KDE games). If "ready for the desktop" for most users means word processing, internet access, and so forth, Linux is almost there - it just needs to be able to read Word documents properly (and OpenOffice comes close).
I agree, however I would go out on a limb and say that Linux installations require a little more knowledge than other operating systems. Look at Mac OS X, it's about as foolproof of an installation as you can get.
And yes, as a web surfing station, Linux performs just fine. However, when you start getting into things like digital photography, how easy is Linux compared to Windows? What's my mom going to touch up her photos in, gimp? Is there an "installer wizard" for it? I'd *love* to see her try and install a printer under Linux;)
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That is entirely incorrect.
Photoshop is an image manipulation tool. Aperture is a tool for professional photographers and photo editors (I don't mean people who manipulate photos, I mean people in editorial positions who select photos to be used for a purpose -- think "the photo editor at the New York Times" type of position) that has its strengths in managing RAW image files as if they were JPEGs like iPhoto can. It has phenomenal capabilities around metadata and managing a large library, and offers the basic correction tools that photographers would need (exposure, color correction, saturation, contrast, sharpening, etc.).
There is little to no overlap with Photoshop, nor is there any evidence that Aperture has been "killed."
I happen to be a photographer, and have the problems that Aperture solved. At an event, I might easily shoot over 800 exposures. Before Aperture it would take me at least a day or two to sort through them and make my selects. At an event a week ago, I was able to sort through 762 exposures and pull out about 120 selects in under two hours. It has more than paid for itself many times over in productivity savings.
And I don't believe in the morality of the income tax system in its current form... does that mean I should stop paying taxes? Please let me know before April 15th. Thanks!
Try running that test on someone making $20k a year with three kids. They're called "refundable tax credits" which means it's a tax credit that even if your gross tax bill comes out to be $0 after deductions, those credits will be "refunded" to you, thus you can have a negative tax bill.
Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but it seems like if you're paying NBC for content, then you have to download it via P2P, you're basically footing their bandwidth bill for them. If I'm having to pay for content, I want to download it directly and reliably from the source, just like the iTunes store.
Why should the customers be spending their bandwidth seeding the files for NBC?
Keep your eye on the ball, that is what they ARE doing. They aren't going after ThinkSecret for damages, they're trying to find out who was breaking their NDA so they can go after them.
Ummm... well, not really. And even if it did look good (which in my opinion it does not), what Apple does well is more than make products that "look good." Their industrial design really takes into account all of the human interaction factors, and they make hardware that's a natural extension of the software. Considering this thing doesn't come with a hard drive, much less software, it's hard to design the hardware/touch interface around what the software will do. I don't think this is really a threat to Apple, but nice attempt at dramatization!
I call bullshit on that... it's not AOL's fault or the bank's fault if your house gets repo'ed. It's YOUR fault. If you're responsible, you shouldn't be entering into a mortgage unless you have the cash reserves to be able to survive a job change without having your house foreclosed. You should be able to survive for enough time until you are able to sell the house.
To play devil's advocate for a minute, wouldn't people in the OSS community be pissed of Adobe "stole" all the ideas out of GIMP and dropped them into their project? Would you consider it right to "steal" verbatim the interface of someone else's work?
You might night agree with the license, but you should at least honor it if you expect the same of your own license.
He's wearing sandals with socks... he's completely guaranteed to be sex-free!
Ummm, me? I've bought systems and displays right from the Apple store in the mall. Seeing the traffic in there, it seems like I'm not alone.
Have you been in one around Christmas time? They get slammed.
A common confusion, income is not always directly proportional with wealth.
And how many people bitching about Microsoft taking advantage of favorable tax conditions (which are completely legal, I would say ethical, and responsible to their shareholders) order things off the Internet, and don't report them to pay sales tax in their state (like you're supposed to do when you order from out of state)?
There's quite a difference between choosing which state to incorporate in, and taking part in truly shady tax practices like transfer pricing abuse.
But then again, since when has /. been known for not trying to paint anything MSFT does as worse than it is?
RIM has long had a variety of different products offered for different needs. YOUR needs may be very different from MY needs, thus the same device may not fit BOTH our needs. I can only but assume that a good deal of research was put into this product, and found that the current offering was missing the needs of some people, thus this product was developed. Unless they determine that the market won't support the existance of both products, I don't think the former-style devices will disappear.
My guess is that the targetting of this product is towards the "executive on the go" who does a lot more reading than writing (gets a message, replies with 'yes,' 'no', etc.), and uses the phone features far more often.
Don't panic.
I'm really used to the current BlackBerry keyboard, but I'm really interested in seeing how they implemented their predictive text entry. I read another article this morning about it, and apparently it "learns" as you go, and dynamically adjusts its recognition list. This is much better than what my Sony-Ericsson mobile can do with SMS messages.
Oh please. Next, you're going to try telling us Canada is a real country! ;)
Well by that logic, DOS'ing someone with a packet flood wouldn't be illegal, either. I mean, it's just sending packets, right?
I can see this thing becoming a corporate IT security person's nightmare. Suddenly an end-user-friendly way to bring a network connection with you to the conference room! They already sweep my building (all 45 floors!) with Pocket PC's with WiFi cards looking for rogue WLAN's.
Yeah, but how many retail for $129? :) I spent $300 or whatever it was for my Audiotron, usually ended up controlling it with my laptop anyway (I found the remote control to be so ergonomically disgusting that it never left a drawer), and it couldn't play my protected AAC files. The Airport Express plays those, and I've got to say one of my favorite additions, it gives the nice smooth iTunes crossfades between tracks.
Well, considering that if Apple did build such a music-only beast, it would definately have wireless capability, and most likely wired, too, so making it be able to act as an access point/bridge/repeater is just icicing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
In regards to the USB port, I would assume that Apple has done enough market research to learn that with their high percentage of laptop users, there is enough angst about having to get up and walk to the printer to plug in a USB cable to print, that this would be a desired feature.
If I didn't use my Powermac as a print server, I would be running to hook one of these up to my printer. Instead, I have one connected to my stereo, and the other is with me on the road! As far as I'm concerened, Apple hit my needs square on the head, and priced it at a point that I find more than fair.
Of course, it doesn't support Ogg, but then again, the people who are bitching and moaning about that wouldn't pay for it anyway, and would just boast that they built their own, so who really gives a rat's ass? :)
The thing I find really amusing about this, is why aren't people out screaming and raising hell when people were writing iTunes clones or Aqua clones as X window managers?
Is it only "evil" when it's affecting someone's favorite project? Seems hyporcritical to me.
Hmmm... sounds vaguely familiar to the comments made around the 23" HD Cinema Display, which doesn't seem to have died a painful death, and where the price has dropped into a very reasonable space for the types of businesses that need it...
This really isn't anything revolutionary. You can take down cell phones in the area that a handheld jammer can transmit. I don't think anyone has ever asserted that low-power wireless transmissions can't be DOS'ed by other low-power wireless transmissions.
There is no such thing as 'overpaid.' The market reaches equalibrium, that is the rate of pay. If it is 'overpayment,' then the payer would not pay it.
It might be more than you are willing to pay, but you're not the one paying, are you?
</troll> please.
And, ummm, stop reading Phrack from 1985.
First off, these days, most lines are served off 'digital loop carriers (DLCs),' which take the analog lines from your home, and multiplex it onto high-capacity lines (often running over fiber-optic SONET loops) back to the central office.
Even if your 220 volts made it back to the DLC (which is fairly unlikely, considering 220 VAC at any dangerous ampreage will probably overheat and melt the copper, anyway), the worst you'd do would be to burn out the service area the DLC is handling.
And even if your unlikely scenerio of getting 220 VAC back to a central office, and through the fuses, and the main distribution frame, and even if you hit the switch, you wouldn't affect anything more than that local exchange. Central offices aren't "daisey chained" down copper lines.
(and yes, I do work for a telco)
I agree, however I would go out on a limb and say that Linux installations require a little more knowledge than other operating systems. Look at Mac OS X, it's about as foolproof of an installation as you can get.
And yes, as a web surfing station, Linux performs just fine. However, when you start getting into things like digital photography, how easy is Linux compared to Windows? What's my mom going to touch up her photos in, gimp? Is there an "installer wizard" for it? I'd *love* to see her try and install a printer under Linux ;)
"vi? What?!"