maybe "PC" should go back to meaning "Personal Computer" and cover any device that does computing for personal use regardless of the plumbing it uses...
not quite, as a downloader, you still answer to your local authorities. So if I decide to download a copy of Windows Vista from an Antiguian server, I could get in trouble (it's not legal for me to do), but the server's hosts would not.
While this is true enough, the main part of the problem is when pirate outlets get nice and bold quality service fronts on them. Bit Torrent is pervasive and easy enough for a geek, or for a geek to hand-hold someone through the process a few times, but other services like AllTunes and AllOfMp3 were truly easy to use, fantastic quality services. People are willing to pay for the quality service... and now Antigua gets to set up such things with little hassle.
RIAA does all of its "evil is happening" when people are file trading, or have their media in public folders so they can imply they're trading. But the truth is that most users don't share and don't even have public folders, yet they certainly want the goods. If there is easy to use great services to obtain the cheapest media, then a whole lot of downloading direct from this outlet will happen without RIAA being able to do a dang thing because people wont be putting what they download out in the public space.
Take netflix... lots of people subscribe to netflix and just rip the movies to disk and send them back. They're not trading them, they just want the movies. I'm sure that less than 5 percent (probably much less) will be traded or even put in a public folder. People do use Netflix as a great and cost effective way to get a nice movie library with high quality rips. Antigua has a chance to be this service for people but at a much cheaper price, and most likely getting to keep the disk itself.
...I wonder what progress looks like through a thirty meter telescope?
They should post the pics so we can all see, unless it's bad news... I don't think I want to see bad news today even if it is through a thirty meter telescope.
Just when I think know absolutely nothing about what makes an interface intuitive, you go ahead and show that you know even less... thanks for your CV too... apparently you're a network tech, and out of the many network tech's that I've known, some of them really are the worst tossers of all when it comes to head-up-ass attitudes of various gadgetry.
The iPhone is the most advanced and intuitive interface of a hand held on the market today. It just works for people in a way that no other device has. Network techs argue about Vi being better than emacs, and try to say that Windows is just as easy as Apple... this shows you really know nothing about interfaces. My Kubuntu work machine is better to use than windows, MacOSX is *far* easier to use than windows. I have to tolerate windows on other machines, but that's all I do.
I'm no fanboy, but if I had to be, I'd rather be one for a product that actually delivers... but I wish you luck with your Windows future and all your "high end devices" (that made me laugh out loud, a quality joke indeed... you really are a toff, well done).
ok, you're exactly the tosser I'm talking about. The tell-tale sign is: "I tried out three for about 20 minutes" which was exactly my frigging point because half of that would have just been playing with cover-flow or google maps, and the fact that you called windows mobile "more intuitive"... which is just frigging absurd! The iPhone doesn't come with a manual, because it really is intuitive enough there's a high chance that anyone with half a brain can figure it all out. Which is something which could never happen with a Microsoft product.
It's obvious you have no idea, and spurting the very same head-up-ass bullshit I was talking about. I have no other apple product, the iPhone is simply the best at what it does (portable communications and media playing)... second best is so far behind it's spooky.
Seriously, most people have "smartphones" (obnoxious term) that already outclass the iPhone in most areas (and no, not having buttons is not better if your life revolves around texting...)
I've heard this from every idiot that's only used the phone for two minutes, and has their head buried so far up their own asshole that they really want to remain cooler in the gadget-space than someone who already has the coolest mobile gadget in the market today without exception.
The fact is, you need to get just a little used to the self-learning text auto-correction and just type. You'll get faster and more accurate, and the text engine will learn your more personal jargon-ish words including people's names and whatever else. It's easy to see the iPhone as far superior for texting by anyone who's used it for some time because the fact that you dont need to apply as much pressure as an actual button means that you can move even faster. Text entry on the iPhone for someone who's been using it for a while is simply divine, and although I'm not a heavy text user, I've beaten every text entry speed challenge made by friends and whoevers that think that they're texting gods and "need to stay with their blackberry because they're too uber".
Those people that come up with crap excuses as to why their old gear is still the best really do shit me to tears... but I really do appreciate that the iPhone text messaging complaints help me identify these people quicker than usual, just another iPhone feature: "wannabe tech-snob more-holy-than-thou head-up-ass finder"... now if only this feature was integrated with Google Maps, then I could stay well away from these fuckers!
...but for the stuff I do with a computer, is there a reason I should be running Vista, or that I shouldn't uninstall Vista from my next computer and upgrade to the light, fast, relatively DRM-free OS known as Windows XP?
This one's easy... it has a revolutionary new file system that allows you to query against the metadata of your files, it blur the lines between database and file syste. No, wait... that was dropped.
How about various minutia that are just copies of minor features that have been available even in free operating systems for years, and implemented in a way that aren't nearly as useful?
How about an order of magnitude more user intrusions in the way of popups and prompts!?... I love prompts. I'd much rather wipe the ass of my operating system rather than get work done.
There is that one feature that presents very well, the app-switcher. You'll know the one: it's featured in all manufacturer adds that feature Vista, but the problem with it is that it's usefulness ends at being demo material, because the windows in the back are fairly obscured, if you have any more than a few windows, it takes a long time to recognise and page to them.
...the most you can hope for out of this POS-OS is the experience of pop-up nirvana:)
On the topic of the popup nirvana... it may not even be directly Microsoft's fault, but what certainly is their fault is that they've taught other software vendors that it's the model way of working, that it's ideal in windows to throw asinine shit up to the user to get their input and tell them about crap that they could easily adress when they go to shut down for the day. The resulting experience is the worst in computing history... you really do need an operating system to simply fuck-off and let you do what you need to do, system maintenance really is a thing that needs to wait until later and the system has to be robust enough to last at least that long without needing its ass to be wiped every other minute.
I watched the episode twice and man did it suck. I've seen every episode, at least two times or more, and they all suck so bad.
The amount of negative character assessments that one could draw from crude bundling of asinine statement and bad attitude is amazing. But to summarise: a guy who hates things, but has apparently seen all 176 "at least two or three times", and this is just one of the many Star Trek series... a loser that has spent at the very least 352 hours watching something he thinks sucks!?...
This is the most relevant issue with the staffer doing potential evil. If the staffer is that put out that evil is going to happen, trust me, evil has already happened and all you have left is the time that it takes for the wick to burn through.
I left one employer that screwed me over so bad, and I had a very nice and very generic back-door in the site before the final notice. And evil certainly did happen. I'm over the statute of limitations now (it's been a little over 10 years ago now). The best day was the instigation... I organised with my wife and a couple of other ex-staffers that were very put-out by said company to join me at an internet cafe. We posted a mostly-naked woman on the home page of one of the largest franchises in Australia. Truly awesome. Most satisfying thing I've ever done through a web browser (if you access the back doors the same way as everyone else accesses the website, then it's a lot harder to find the needle in the haystack).
As awesome as the retribution was... the point remains, if evil is going to happen, the facility is already in place before they tell you they're leaving.
...the sub-text lesson for all this is that businesses should be good to their staffers in a way that they wont want to inflict evil. If your exit-people want to cause problems, you've already failed.
I knew that I'd never get a 5 from that first post, but I certainly thought that "offtopic" was a bit harsh...
The whole "can't be in school because I have to get first post on/. so I really do need to lose my shirt".
Maybe it's just a little avant garde for those that really want to be first posters themselves.
The effect of the shape of the wing is that they are sucked up more than pushing anything down. The camber of the top of the wing decreases the air pressure, causing the lift suction... only under-cambered airfoils actually compress the air beneath the wings to help out the suction on the top too. The biggest problem isn't the air behind the plane being pushed down, it's that the air was turbulated... the turbulation interrupts the airflow for any plane following... making control difficult, maybe disrupting the airflow for jet engines, and certainly making a bumpy ride... but certainly nothing was pushed down causing something to not fly.
see, this is where you illustrate that you have absolutely no idea about how stable Photoshop is on linux under wine. Not a day goes by that I don't have Photoshop open to create web graphics in a professional setting. It's only because of this that I have found one bug that will crash it... one.
...but you say that you use Paint Shop Pro, which is just more evidence that you don't know what you're on about, as there is absolutely no way in heck you'd use Paint Shop Pro if you know how to use Photoshop worth a damn.
But I love that you try and wipe my ass by explaining what PaintShopPro is... I've been a designer using pro tools for more than 14 years, before Paint Shop Pro even had layers support. Heck, I was doing graphics in photoshop just six months after photoshop itself had layers support (version 3). The only reason I dont use Gimp on linux is because I'm so familiar with photoshop that I forget where things are in the menus because I key-command everything, which is how my instructors taught me in college. Unless you were one of the people that had to suffer productivity loss because they completely changed the keyboard shortcuts when version 5 came out, or that you found the easter-egg splash screens from chance occurrence of holding the right keys when loading the app (my favorite was the seagull over a floating crate, better than the psycho cat, etc)... you'll have no idea what I'm talking about.
...anyways, I'm not just some Paint Shop Pro user... I actually do use photoshop every single day in a professional setting, and it is indeed very stable on Linux with the exception of the one single bug that I found only through very heavy use. Stay away from that one issue (it's not that hard, dont resize a palette until you've toggled it... to make it easier, just toggle the freak'n palette when you open the app), and you can use it as a first class citizen with the other apps. VMWare is great, yes I use that too, but it's not as good as a solid and stable app under wine.
Someone trying to say that they're a pro image manipulator that uses Paint Shop Pro when they also "know" Photoshop is completely absurd... it's like a someone saying they're a professional house builder that uses a hammer and a bag of nails instead of a nail gun. It's just bollocks. If you know photoshop, there is no substitute unless you need to do something other than raster image manipulation, and even then Photoshop will give it a pretty solid try.
step around one issue, and you get the best image manipulator on the operating system you'd rather be using?... this is very usable. Software not written for Linux, working almost as if it was written native for it without much fuss at all. Wow. Personally, it's morons that don't compromise at all is what needs to be ripped on. You get better a better suite of apps out of the box on Linux, and with this you get Photoshop as well. You just can't please some people.
there is no reason to lose photoshop, especially on ubuntu. It's really quite easy to bring it over and use it. I use it on my Kubuntu laptop and it's great. Just install wine, and follow these instructions...
...I used to run CrossOver office to run photoshop on linux, but Wine's plenty up to snuff on its own now. The only bug that I get is the layers palette: if the icons aren't on the bottom of the palette DO NOT resize the palette or you'll crash wine, freeze the system and you'll lose what you were working on. Instead, double click the layers tab to collapse the palette, and then do it again to expand. With this, the icons will be on the bottom again, and you'll be good to go, resizing the palette and everything.
Outside of the palettes hovering over everything regardless of the desktop you're on (just hit the tab key to hide the palette before you run away), Photoshop is as good as native application. I haven't had to get CrossOver office on any of my latest installs:)
...if someone did manage to get one of these domains, it makes their scam all that much more believable. It would maybe allow them to pull off a better scam with a higher yield.
there are plenty of formats out there that are better than JPEG, and yet only the popular will continue to live on.
There used to be a direct JPEG competitor (wave based raster compression) called 'Lightning Strike' or something... you could actually control the level of compression by an alpha channel. That way, like a portrait, you could keep the face in sharp detail without loss, and the rest will be compressed to heck leaving a file size and compression truly in the hands of the person making the file.
But it's not even about file size... in many instances, if you want a lossless image just the plain 'PSD' photoshop is by far the best. Many times I've had to send large images for adverts, and just used the flat PSD image as it was the smallest file size and obviously no loss in quality.
The image format war is just about popularity... which is why Gif has lasted through everything even though PNG is just as good and more open. New image formats will actually have to do something new for them to gain any traction at all... a pervasive vector and raster combination image should have been available by now and renderable in browsers. There's EPS, but we need browsers to support these things if they're going to get anywhere for the web... anything else but end users saying "fantastic, I really need to get that" just wont have a hope.
...actually flash could probably be the good combo format, but it's hard to get designers to output flash that doesn't have some form of retarded movement in it.
And while it's kind of on the topic, something like MetaStream should have been pervasive by now... along with LightningStrike, there's another "should have been awesome" product. *sigh*
But with JPEG being everywhere, the JVM's, the server solutions, the just-about-freaking-everything... there is no way MS can even think of threatening JPEG. It's just absurd to think they can.
I think the real reason for the delay is that they need to know what they're paying for. Everyone wants a hit, so after the period they know that they're buying a hit and will get a pile of ratings for having it. But the reason is also for the opposite... if it's a flop, it means that they can drive the price down on content telling the american company that they're actually doing them a favor by showing it.
so, they make a vault. Something goes kablooie, and some poor guy actually knows about this thing and makes it to the facility. And then what?... you know that vaults are widely known as being easy things to get into, right?...
The trick about this technology is to make a vault that can stand up to extinction-grade blammo, but easy enough to get into by a a guy that's just made a hike around the world, most likely starving, and armed only with a rather tenacious spoon.
Many companies have invested a lot of money/effort into putting signs on the rooftops of warehouses and large buildings. This is just that there's a "new" reason to put a sign on the roof, one that has companies without warehouses wanting to do it (like a.com). Sydney's a great example... take a train from western sydney into the city, and you'll pass a half dozen places with truly enormous signs on their rooftops. Arnotts is one of them.
...these signs have been around for many decades. My father (a signwriter) explained them to me on my very first trip into sydney as a kid. He actually made one for a tractor parts distributor that had a huge shed under a flight path (regaled me with how interesting it was to create such a big layout accurately). So, it's certainly not time now to be getting all bent out of shape because there's just one more reason to make signs for a higher viewpoint.
When the pics finally make it up to google maps, you'll see all the signs that have preempted this article by probably more than my life time. Anyone mad about rooftops becoming big billboards... you'll need to find something actually "new" to whinge about:)
Slashdot links to stuff all over the place, and certainly not via a site's homepage... so they're costing other companies ad revenue too (all them expensive ads put on the home page).
...so,/. is gonna feel the burn of this pretty soon!:)
(they get the argument however: we drove more traffic to your site than you can generate yourself. so much so we crached your ass!)
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...this mean we also get 10x the lipo explosion?
I can remember getting into "yes, this is my personal computer but it is not a PC" arguments with people about my Mac back about 1985 or so
...so it was your fault "PC" broke down into meaninglessness, freak'n Mac toff.
I think you should apologise to everyone.
maybe "PC" should go back to meaning "Personal Computer" and cover any device that does computing for personal use regardless of the plumbing it uses...
not quite, as a downloader, you still answer to your local authorities. So if I decide to download a copy of Windows Vista from an Antiguian server, I could get in trouble (it's not legal for me to do), but the server's hosts would not.
While this is true enough, the main part of the problem is when pirate outlets get nice and bold quality service fronts on them. Bit Torrent is pervasive and easy enough for a geek, or for a geek to hand-hold someone through the process a few times, but other services like AllTunes and AllOfMp3 were truly easy to use, fantastic quality services. People are willing to pay for the quality service... and now Antigua gets to set up such things with little hassle.
RIAA does all of its "evil is happening" when people are file trading, or have their media in public folders so they can imply they're trading. But the truth is that most users don't share and don't even have public folders, yet they certainly want the goods. If there is easy to use great services to obtain the cheapest media, then a whole lot of downloading direct from this outlet will happen without RIAA being able to do a dang thing because people wont be putting what they download out in the public space.
Take netflix... lots of people subscribe to netflix and just rip the movies to disk and send them back. They're not trading them, they just want the movies. I'm sure that less than 5 percent (probably much less) will be traded or even put in a public folder. People do use Netflix as a great and cost effective way to get a nice movie library with high quality rips. Antigua has a chance to be this service for people but at a much cheaper price, and most likely getting to keep the disk itself.
GNOME running WITHOUT Compiz requires a good 256MB.
...you must be a newbie, 'cause everyone knows that if you want Gnome to really fly, you have to switch over to evil 256mb.
...I wonder what progress looks like through a thirty meter telescope?
They should post the pics so we can all see, unless it's bad news... I don't think I want to see bad news today even if it is through a thirty meter telescope.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx
Just when I think know absolutely nothing about what makes an interface intuitive, you go ahead and show that you know even less... thanks for your CV too... apparently you're a network tech, and out of the many network tech's that I've known, some of them really are the worst tossers of all when it comes to head-up-ass attitudes of various gadgetry.
The iPhone is the most advanced and intuitive interface of a hand held on the market today. It just works for people in a way that no other device has. Network techs argue about Vi being better than emacs, and try to say that Windows is just as easy as Apple... this shows you really know nothing about interfaces. My Kubuntu work machine is better to use than windows, MacOSX is *far* easier to use than windows. I have to tolerate windows on other machines, but that's all I do.
I'm no fanboy, but if I had to be, I'd rather be one for a product that actually delivers... but I wish you luck with your Windows future and all your "high end devices" (that made me laugh out loud, a quality joke indeed... you really are a toff, well done).
ok, you're exactly the tosser I'm talking about. The tell-tale sign is: "I tried out three for about 20 minutes" which was exactly my frigging point because half of that would have just been playing with cover-flow or google maps, and the fact that you called windows mobile "more intuitive"... which is just frigging absurd! The iPhone doesn't come with a manual, because it really is intuitive enough there's a high chance that anyone with half a brain can figure it all out. Which is something which could never happen with a Microsoft product.
It's obvious you have no idea, and spurting the very same head-up-ass bullshit I was talking about. I have no other apple product, the iPhone is simply the best at what it does (portable communications and media playing)... second best is so far behind it's spooky.
Seriously, most people have "smartphones" (obnoxious term) that already outclass the iPhone in most areas (and no, not having buttons is not better if your life revolves around texting...)
I've heard this from every idiot that's only used the phone for two minutes, and has their head buried so far up their own asshole that they really want to remain cooler in the gadget-space than someone who already has the coolest mobile gadget in the market today without exception.
The fact is, you need to get just a little used to the self-learning text auto-correction and just type. You'll get faster and more accurate, and the text engine will learn your more personal jargon-ish words including people's names and whatever else. It's easy to see the iPhone as far superior for texting by anyone who's used it for some time because the fact that you dont need to apply as much pressure as an actual button means that you can move even faster. Text entry on the iPhone for someone who's been using it for a while is simply divine, and although I'm not a heavy text user, I've beaten every text entry speed challenge made by friends and whoevers that think that they're texting gods and "need to stay with their blackberry because they're too uber".
Those people that come up with crap excuses as to why their old gear is still the best really do shit me to tears... but I really do appreciate that the iPhone text messaging complaints help me identify these people quicker than usual, just another iPhone feature: "wannabe tech-snob more-holy-than-thou head-up-ass finder"... now if only this feature was integrated with Google Maps, then I could stay well away from these fuckers!
...but for the stuff I do with a computer, is there a reason I should be running Vista, or that I shouldn't uninstall Vista from my next computer and upgrade to the light, fast, relatively DRM-free OS known as Windows XP?
...the most you can hope for out of this POS-OS is the experience of pop-up nirvana :)
This one's easy... it has a revolutionary new file system that allows you to query against the metadata of your files, it blur the lines between database and file syste. No, wait... that was dropped.
How about various minutia that are just copies of minor features that have been available even in free operating systems for years, and implemented in a way that aren't nearly as useful?
How about an order of magnitude more user intrusions in the way of popups and prompts!?... I love prompts. I'd much rather wipe the ass of my operating system rather than get work done.
There is that one feature that presents very well, the app-switcher. You'll know the one: it's featured in all manufacturer adds that feature Vista, but the problem with it is that it's usefulness ends at being demo material, because the windows in the back are fairly obscured, if you have any more than a few windows, it takes a long time to recognise and page to them.
On the topic of the popup nirvana... it may not even be directly Microsoft's fault, but what certainly is their fault is that they've taught other software vendors that it's the model way of working, that it's ideal in windows to throw asinine shit up to the user to get their input and tell them about crap that they could easily adress when they go to shut down for the day. The resulting experience is the worst in computing history... you really do need an operating system to simply fuck-off and let you do what you need to do, system maintenance really is a thing that needs to wait until later and the system has to be robust enough to last at least that long without needing its ass to be wiped every other minute.
I watched the episode twice and man did it suck. I've seen every episode, at least two times or more, and they all suck so bad.
...ladies and gents, I have me a new loser-hero :)
The amount of negative character assessments that one could draw from crude bundling of asinine statement and bad attitude is amazing. But to summarise: a guy who hates things, but has apparently seen all 176 "at least two or three times", and this is just one of the many Star Trek series... a loser that has spent at the very least 352 hours watching something he thinks sucks!?...
This is the most relevant issue with the staffer doing potential evil. If the staffer is that put out that evil is going to happen, trust me, evil has already happened and all you have left is the time that it takes for the wick to burn through.
...the sub-text lesson for all this is that businesses should be good to their staffers in a way that they wont want to inflict evil. If your exit-people want to cause problems, you've already failed.
I left one employer that screwed me over so bad, and I had a very nice and very generic back-door in the site before the final notice. And evil certainly did happen. I'm over the statute of limitations now (it's been a little over 10 years ago now). The best day was the instigation... I organised with my wife and a couple of other ex-staffers that were very put-out by said company to join me at an internet cafe. We posted a mostly-naked woman on the home page of one of the largest franchises in Australia. Truly awesome. Most satisfying thing I've ever done through a web browser (if you access the back doors the same way as everyone else accesses the website, then it's a lot harder to find the needle in the haystack).
As awesome as the retribution was... the point remains, if evil is going to happen, the facility is already in place before they tell you they're leaving.
I knew that I'd never get a 5 from that first post, but I certainly thought that "offtopic" was a bit harsh... The whole "can't be in school because I have to get first post on /. so I really do need to lose my shirt".
Maybe it's just a little avant garde for those that really want to be first posters themselves.
lost my shirt trying to make the first post...
The effect of the shape of the wing is that they are sucked up more than pushing anything down. The camber of the top of the wing decreases the air pressure, causing the lift suction... only under-cambered airfoils actually compress the air beneath the wings to help out the suction on the top too. The biggest problem isn't the air behind the plane being pushed down, it's that the air was turbulated... the turbulation interrupts the airflow for any plane following... making control difficult, maybe disrupting the airflow for jet engines, and certainly making a bumpy ride... but certainly nothing was pushed down causing something to not fly.
see, this is where you illustrate that you have absolutely no idea about how stable Photoshop is on linux under wine. Not a day goes by that I don't have Photoshop open to create web graphics in a professional setting. It's only because of this that I have found one bug that will crash it... one.
...but you say that you use Paint Shop Pro, which is just more evidence that you don't know what you're on about, as there is absolutely no way in heck you'd use Paint Shop Pro if you know how to use Photoshop worth a damn.
...anyways, I'm not just some Paint Shop Pro user... I actually do use photoshop every single day in a professional setting, and it is indeed very stable on Linux with the exception of the one single bug that I found only through very heavy use. Stay away from that one issue (it's not that hard, dont resize a palette until you've toggled it... to make it easier, just toggle the freak'n palette when you open the app), and you can use it as a first class citizen with the other apps. VMWare is great, yes I use that too, but it's not as good as a solid and stable app under wine.
But I love that you try and wipe my ass by explaining what PaintShopPro is... I've been a designer using pro tools for more than 14 years, before Paint Shop Pro even had layers support. Heck, I was doing graphics in photoshop just six months after photoshop itself had layers support (version 3). The only reason I dont use Gimp on linux is because I'm so familiar with photoshop that I forget where things are in the menus because I key-command everything, which is how my instructors taught me in college. Unless you were one of the people that had to suffer productivity loss because they completely changed the keyboard shortcuts when version 5 came out, or that you found the easter-egg splash screens from chance occurrence of holding the right keys when loading the app (my favorite was the seagull over a floating crate, better than the psycho cat, etc)... you'll have no idea what I'm talking about.
Someone trying to say that they're a pro image manipulator that uses Paint Shop Pro when they also "know" Photoshop is completely absurd... it's like a someone saying they're a professional house builder that uses a hammer and a bag of nails instead of a nail gun. It's just bollocks. If you know photoshop, there is no substitute unless you need to do something other than raster image manipulation, and even then Photoshop will give it a pretty solid try.
nice polarised response.
step around one issue, and you get the best image manipulator on the operating system you'd rather be using?... this is very usable. Software not written for Linux, working almost as if it was written native for it without much fuss at all. Wow. Personally, it's morons that don't compromise at all is what needs to be ripped on. You get better a better suite of apps out of the box on Linux, and with this you get Photoshop as well. You just can't please some people.
there is no reason to lose photoshop, especially on ubuntu. It's really quite easy to bring it over and use it. I use it on my Kubuntu laptop and it's great. Just install wine, and follow these instructions...
...I used to run CrossOver office to run photoshop on linux, but Wine's plenty up to snuff on its own now. The only bug that I get is the layers palette: if the icons aren't on the bottom of the palette DO NOT resize the palette or you'll crash wine, freeze the system and you'll lose what you were working on. Instead, double click the layers tab to collapse the palette, and then do it again to expand. With this, the icons will be on the bottom again, and you'll be good to go, resizing the palette and everything.
:)
http://luiscosio.com/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps
Outside of the palettes hovering over everything regardless of the desktop you're on (just hit the tab key to hide the palette before you run away), Photoshop is as good as native application. I haven't had to get CrossOver office on any of my latest installs
...if someone did manage to get one of these domains, it makes their scam all that much more believable. It would maybe allow them to pull off a better scam with a higher yield.
there are plenty of formats out there that are better than JPEG, and yet only the popular will continue to live on.
...actually flash could probably be the good combo format, but it's hard to get designers to output flash that doesn't have some form of retarded movement in it.
There used to be a direct JPEG competitor (wave based raster compression) called 'Lightning Strike' or something... you could actually control the level of compression by an alpha channel. That way, like a portrait, you could keep the face in sharp detail without loss, and the rest will be compressed to heck leaving a file size and compression truly in the hands of the person making the file.
But it's not even about file size... in many instances, if you want a lossless image just the plain 'PSD' photoshop is by far the best. Many times I've had to send large images for adverts, and just used the flat PSD image as it was the smallest file size and obviously no loss in quality.
The image format war is just about popularity... which is why Gif has lasted through everything even though PNG is just as good and more open. New image formats will actually have to do something new for them to gain any traction at all... a pervasive vector and raster combination image should have been available by now and renderable in browsers. There's EPS, but we need browsers to support these things if they're going to get anywhere for the web... anything else but end users saying "fantastic, I really need to get that" just wont have a hope.
And while it's kind of on the topic, something like MetaStream should have been pervasive by now... along with LightningStrike, there's another "should have been awesome" product. *sigh*
But with JPEG being everywhere, the JVM's, the server solutions, the just-about-freaking-everything... there is no way MS can even think of threatening JPEG. It's just absurd to think they can.
I think the real reason for the delay is that they need to know what they're paying for. Everyone wants a hit, so after the period they know that they're buying a hit and will get a pile of ratings for having it. But the reason is also for the opposite... if it's a flop, it means that they can drive the price down on content telling the american company that they're actually doing them a favor by showing it.
so, they make a vault. Something goes kablooie, and some poor guy actually knows about this thing and makes it to the facility. And then what?... you know that vaults are widely known as being easy things to get into, right?...
The trick about this technology is to make a vault that can stand up to extinction-grade blammo, but easy enough to get into by a a guy that's just made a hike around the world, most likely starving, and armed only with a rather tenacious spoon.
Many companies have invested a lot of money/effort into putting signs on the rooftops of warehouses and large buildings. This is just that there's a "new" reason to put a sign on the roof, one that has companies without warehouses wanting to do it (like a .com). Sydney's a great example... take a train from western sydney into the city, and you'll pass a half dozen places with truly enormous signs on their rooftops. Arnotts is one of them.
...these signs have been around for many decades. My father (a signwriter) explained them to me on my very first trip into sydney as a kid. He actually made one for a tractor parts distributor that had a huge shed under a flight path (regaled me with how interesting it was to create such a big layout accurately). So, it's certainly not time now to be getting all bent out of shape because there's just one more reason to make signs for a higher viewpoint.
:)
When the pics finally make it up to google maps, you'll see all the signs that have preempted this article by probably more than my life time. Anyone mad about rooftops becoming big billboards... you'll need to find something actually "new" to whinge about
Slashdot links to stuff all over the place, and certainly not via a site's homepage... so they're costing other companies ad revenue too (all them expensive ads put on the home page).
...so, /. is gonna feel the burn of this pretty soon! :)
(they get the argument however: we drove more traffic to your site than you can generate yourself. so much so we crached your ass!)