What've you got to lose? Spend $400 now and get support you might never need, or spend $70 now and save that $330 for when you really do need somebody to fix your OSPF problem.:p
You've lost me. I said damaging to Cisco proper, as in, could Linksys's (the 'child' company's) routers be damaging Cisco's (the parent company's) business, by offering a cheap alternative for some. (It might be far-fetched to expect that a Linksys router has the power to do everything a Cisco router can (at least, i assume so, i'm not 100% positive on the hardware), but not everyone needs all those features. So for a medium-sized office or something, spending $70 on a Linksys router and then flashing the software is a much better alternative to spending $400 on a 'consumer' Cisco router.):/
Building routers from old Pentiums is a horrible process. The boxes are clunky, the hardware isn't controlled at all, and the configuration is very very hard. Consumer routers offer an all-in-one and controlled environment for stuff like that.
WISPs are a neat idea, but here's what i found interesting. If these routers provide the basic framework for you to build a Linux router upon, this means that any old Joe has the potential to build an advanced routing OS for this system. With enough toying around (and maybe this depends on Linksys adding in a hundred or two megs more of flash or something), it's possible eventually that somebody could write a Linux system for these cheap $50-to-$120 routers that will have similar functionality to Cisco's IOS, isn't it? I mean, they wouldn't be perfect replacements by any stretch of the imagination, but given a few simple and cheap hardware upgrades to the current routers (i imagine RAM and flash would be the biggest priorities), that type of stuff could really take off.
I'm not alone here in being more interested in stuff like that than in WISPs, am i? A Cisco-like router (at least as far as the interface goes) for $70 or so would be awesome.:,)
I tried Fireworks around version 3 or 4, but i couldn't stand it.
Besides that, the only reason i ever use ImageReady is for GIF animation. There isn't any other task i've ever had to do that i couldn't do in Photoshop, and even needing animation is pretty rare. I just threw the comment in for good measure.:9
Yeah, Photoshop isn't exactly good about sticking to the standard Windows UI stuff, i'll give you that. However, one good thing about Photoshop (compared to other programs that just have to use their own UI components) is that all of its UI stuff actually works.
I'll give you that you might not expect that behaviour, logically, but... but the arrows....;_;
Not to mention, the interface (both in terms of the graphical lay-out and in terms of the user interaction, but more so the latter) is fantastic. Photoshop gives you an absolutely wonderful experience using it, compared not only to the GIMP, but also to similarly 'professional' applications like Fireworks, Flash, and Paint Shop Pro. I don't know if Adobe invented the way the user interacts with Photoshop, but if they didn't, they certainly perfected it.
I often find myself holding the space bar and trying to pan down a Web site or a list of files in Explorer, or trying to use Alt to grab a colour in Paint/Flash/whatever, or trying to use X to switch colours.:/
That's not to say that i don't have problems with Photoshop (and/or Adobe in general). One of my biggest problems with Photoshop (for Windows, at least) is that the program doesn't seem to save its settings in an INI file (or, if it does, it does it extremely poorly). So if i log out of Windows without specifically going into Photoshop and hitting the close button, or if Photoshop crashes for some reason (rare, but it has happened), or whatever -- if Photoshop isn't absolutely perfectly shut down the proper way, it resets all of its settings. It's extremely annoying.
The slow progress with Photoshop is getting a little ridiculous too. I definitely like CS, of course, and i can appreciate not adding every single little thing that comes along, but i think they could stand to add more useful features than ever-improving image browsers.
I also hate that gAMA bug Photoshop has with PNG. I know this isn't really Photoshop's fault, per se, but i wish there were a more graceful way of dealing with it within the program. Having to run pngcrush -rem gAMA in.png out.png every time i save a PNG in Photoshop is kind of annoying.:(
Also, maybe it's just the CS version, but ImageReady is a buggy piece of shit. It's usable, but i constantly have problems with it, like the screen not redrawing when i zoom in, or the options bar getting stuck in random places, or various windowing glitches. Also annoying is that fact that disabling anti-aliasing on the Magic Wand in ImageReady does not actually disable anti-aliasing. But maybe this is just my copy, heh.
Maybe, but i think you over-estimate the number of people who realise that:
(a) it is, in fact, the RIAA that has them pissed off
(b) while the RIAA is ridiculously greedy and deceitful, nobody is entitled to just get free music whenever they want
(c) the RIAA should be blamed for 'taking' (inaccurate, sorry, but for lack of a better word) artists' money, not for 'being squares' or whatever and trying to protect the music they make money off of
Heh, that kind of is how advanced classes are. At least, all the ones i've ever been involved in. Honours geometry is just regular geometry, but instead of assigning all the even problems on page 320, they assign every problem, odds and evens. What's the point of that? If i didn't get the first twenty questions, how is doing twenty more going to help me at all? This is why i don't sign up for honours/advanced classes. I can do them just fine, but getting assigned twice the work for the same subject isn't challenging for my mind -- it's only challenging for my calendar.
No, i can't arbitrarily do so, but that's not what i did. On the one hand, you've got a system -- the Amiga -- that has like zero market share, that only has a handful of developers, that has no major software (that i know of...?), that's produced by a relatively small company, and that has pretty obscure hardware. On the other, you've got Apple, who have a considerably larger market share (although not anywhere near as large as Microsoft's), who have loads of developers working for them, who have tons of major software (Photoshop, Internet Explorer, Office, Firefox, Flash...), who are a pretty large company, and who have hardware which is becoming increasingly more compatible with x86 stuff.
I guess i didn't really mean to say that the Amiga isn't useful, but rather that it's difficult to expect your Amiga to stay relevant to anything for any length of time anywhere near that which your Apple will. In other words, it would be a less risky bet to suggest that your Amiga will be out-of-date and non-upgradable in a few years than it would to suggest the same of your Apple.... Does that make sense? Heh.
Making good parents is the answer to everything. If we knew how to make good parents, we'd have solved the problem a long time ago.
I suppose, as far as 'Detention = VACATION' goes, that you could have a three-strikes system or something (three detentions, then a suspension), or something like that. Suspension actually does something. In-school suspensions, particularly. Getting zeroes in every class for a week and having to sit in the office or something the whole time might make them reconsider doing it...?
I considered that while i was writing. I suppose in that case, if the student really wanted to contest it, you would have a hearing before the administration, or something like that? But you'd think that if the teacher really was bad, it wouldn't just be one unruly student calling him a retard, anyway. Heh.
Yeah, but Macs are (whatever else you may think about them) useful. When you buy a Mac, you can at least expect to have a bunch of developers working for it and have a whole bunch of relevant, modern applications/technologies ported to it. What's the Amiga good for, though? You can do basic Web-browsing, play a few simple games, maybe play MP3s? You're going to buy a whole new computer, one that doesn't have a whole lot of a chance of being widely supported at all, just for that?:/
Yes, i second (or third or fourth or fifth) this question. I really don't see the point in releasing this at all. Maybe if it was on x86 or Mac, there'd be at least some use in it for playing around or something (similar to BeOS for some people), but i can't really fathom why somebody would go out and buy an entirely new computer just to play around on what seems like a rather out-of-date operating system.:/
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What've you got to lose? Spend $400 now and get support you might never need, or spend $70 now and save that $330 for when you really do need somebody to fix your OSPF problem. :p
You've lost me. I said damaging to Cisco proper, as in, could Linksys's (the 'child' company's) routers be damaging Cisco's (the parent company's) business, by offering a cheap alternative for some. (It might be far-fetched to expect that a Linksys router has the power to do everything a Cisco router can (at least, i assume so, i'm not 100% positive on the hardware), but not everyone needs all those features. So for a medium-sized office or something, spending $70 on a Linksys router and then flashing the software is a much better alternative to spending $400 on a 'consumer' Cisco router.) :/
Building routers from old Pentiums is a horrible process. The boxes are clunky, the hardware isn't controlled at all, and the configuration is very very hard. Consumer routers offer an all-in-one and controlled environment for stuff like that.
I'm not alone here in being more interested in stuff like that than in WISPs, am i? A Cisco-like router (at least as far as the interface goes) for $70 or so would be awesome. :,)
I imagine it splits 'words' greater than 50 characters. Happens on all kinds of software. (For example, vBulletin does it too.)
iCab's CSS implementation is broken, anyway, though, isn't it? Or is that just the old version?
They might consider getting their very own GeekMan to make sure that their site renders properly in Gecko and Opera. :/
I hate Java, what the Hell. :(
Besides that, the only reason i ever use ImageReady is for GIF animation. There isn't any other task i've ever had to do that i couldn't do in Photoshop, and even needing animation is pretty rare. I just threw the comment in for good measure. :9
I'll give you that you might not expect that behaviour, logically, but... but the arrows.... ;_;
Well... what did you think those randomly placed arrows were for? I mean, i figured that out when i was like 11 years old. :)
That is an under-statement. This is so stupid i want to kill myself. ;_____;
I often find myself holding the space bar and trying to pan down a Web site or a list of files in Explorer, or trying to use Alt to grab a colour in Paint/Flash/whatever, or trying to use X to switch colours. :/
That's not to say that i don't have problems with Photoshop (and/or Adobe in general). One of my biggest problems with Photoshop (for Windows, at least) is that the program doesn't seem to save its settings in an INI file (or, if it does, it does it extremely poorly). So if i log out of Windows without specifically going into Photoshop and hitting the close button, or if Photoshop crashes for some reason (rare, but it has happened), or whatever -- if Photoshop isn't absolutely perfectly shut down the proper way, it resets all of its settings. It's extremely annoying.
The slow progress with Photoshop is getting a little ridiculous too. I definitely like CS, of course, and i can appreciate not adding every single little thing that comes along, but i think they could stand to add more useful features than ever-improving image browsers.
I also hate that gAMA bug Photoshop has with PNG. I know this isn't really Photoshop's fault, per se, but i wish there were a more graceful way of dealing with it within the program. Having to run pngcrush -rem gAMA in.png out.png every time i save a PNG in Photoshop is kind of annoying. :(
Also, maybe it's just the CS version, but ImageReady is a buggy piece of shit. It's usable, but i constantly have problems with it, like the screen not redrawing when i zoom in, or the options bar getting stuck in random places, or various windowing glitches. Also annoying is that fact that disabling anti-aliasing on the Magic Wand in ImageReady does not actually disable anti-aliasing. But maybe this is just my copy, heh.
... Um. Does Mozilla's site instal spyware on your computer? Why would you possibly need to run Spybot after visiting just one site? -_-
Hmm. Probably should've added that to (c). :p
Oh no! The RIAA got him! :(
(a) it is, in fact, the RIAA that has them pissed off
(b) while the RIAA is ridiculously greedy and deceitful, nobody is entitled to just get free music whenever they want
(c) the RIAA should be blamed for 'taking' (inaccurate, sorry, but for lack of a better word) artists' money, not for 'being squares' or whatever and trying to protect the music they make money off of
Yes, Akamai is a commonwealth! They can't vote for the president, though~
No offence, but making 'clever' modifications to the Slashdot slogan is getting just a little tired out. :(
Heh, that kind of is how advanced classes are. At least, all the ones i've ever been involved in. Honours geometry is just regular geometry, but instead of assigning all the even problems on page 320, they assign every problem, odds and evens. What's the point of that? If i didn't get the first twenty questions, how is doing twenty more going to help me at all? This is why i don't sign up for honours/advanced classes. I can do them just fine, but getting assigned twice the work for the same subject isn't challenging for my mind -- it's only challenging for my calendar.
I guess i didn't really mean to say that the Amiga isn't useful, but rather that it's difficult to expect your Amiga to stay relevant to anything for any length of time anywhere near that which your Apple will. In other words, it would be a less risky bet to suggest that your Amiga will be out-of-date and non-upgradable in a few years than it would to suggest the same of your Apple. ... Does that make sense? Heh.
I suppose, as far as 'Detention = VACATION' goes, that you could have a three-strikes system or something (three detentions, then a suspension), or something like that. Suspension actually does something. In-school suspensions, particularly. Getting zeroes in every class for a week and having to sit in the office or something the whole time might make them reconsider doing it...?
I considered that while i was writing. I suppose in that case, if the student really wanted to contest it, you would have a hearing before the administration, or something like that? But you'd think that if the teacher really was bad, it wouldn't just be one unruly student calling him a retard, anyway. Heh.
Yeah, but Macs are (whatever else you may think about them) useful. When you buy a Mac, you can at least expect to have a bunch of developers working for it and have a whole bunch of relevant, modern applications/technologies ported to it. What's the Amiga good for, though? You can do basic Web-browsing, play a few simple games, maybe play MP3s? You're going to buy a whole new computer, one that doesn't have a whole lot of a chance of being widely supported at all, just for that? :/
Yes, i second (or third or fourth or fifth) this question. I really don't see the point in releasing this at all. Maybe if it was on x86 or Mac, there'd be at least some use in it for playing around or something (similar to BeOS for some people), but i can't really fathom why somebody would go out and buy an entirely new computer just to play around on what seems like a rather out-of-date operating system. :/