Solaris is losing ground and purpose every day to Linux. The Ultraspac processor is dieing as well. Java is plauged IMO by terrible VMs, while C# and other proprietary languages are coming out/gaining ground.
I think Sun SERIOUSLY needs to reconsider its place in the market and drop products/get direction. I think a serious partnership with oracle is in order, or putting more behind Java.
Not programming languages, but real (verbal/written) langugaes.... I've been struggling learning French, Japanese and German over the past 6 years, and wishing I had started at an earlier age..
HAHA. that's funny. I can think of three reasons to do this:
1. The spam is costing them insane amounts of money in bandwidth
2. People stopped using MSN hotmail because of the spam, and they need more subscribers to look better compared to AOL.. because potentially Microsoft could boost it's "MSN Userbase" by including some hotmail users
3. More money. This option is unlikely, since Microsoft probably won't gain any money directly from the lawsuits, but I guarntee that more userbase + less bandwidth fees because of spam = more money in the long run for msft.
After reading all the information on google's technogoly, I wonder how many lines of code pagerank really is.
Do you figure it's 50k+lines, or something very simple, and only a few hundread lines
For some reason, I don't think the pagerank algorithm is more than 1000 lines of code... I know lines of code isn't really a defining characteristic of anything, but it's still interested...
I am a computer programmer/database designer and I will NEVER work for a union. I'm only 21 years old and have already been promoted from IT pro, to IT manager, to my current position. I have only 1 year college. If I was in a union, I would still be fixing people's printer problems and explaining why they can't E-mail to www.insertlosersnamehere@www.something.com.work
you can do that with msft stuff (at least upto win2k), just get corporate licences, and use a program called sysprep (comes with the corp licences), and then image/ghost, whatever you want to call it, the drive, and you're set, you can copy it as many times as you have licences (or more, but that'd be illegal =).
peace.
This is a horrid way of justifying PC vs Mac... Macs don't benefit from speed, that's obvious... the 'mhz myth' campaign by apple is just a marketing ploy.
The real reason to use macs in digital editing is colour. The colour (yes, with a 'u') on macs is infinently closer to print than a PC is.
This is why apples are used in 99.9% of print shops, and PCs are used in more web design shops. If you aren't printing, then PCs are just fine. Soon as print comes into the question, you simply can't use PCs. You'll be printing, editing, printing editing, so often that it'll take a lot longer than waiting 2 extra seconds while exporting a file.
Anyone who works in printing will know what I mean if they ever tried putting a curve on a dcs file... PCS just can't get it right.
Pirating software is, and should be illegal. If someone writes a very good office suite, then they have the right to charge money for it. At the same time, $900CDN for a program that I use over notepad essentially for spell check isn't worth it.
Downloading the newest CD that cost millions on production, advertising and money to the artist is wrong. However the record companies are making more than artists do on cds. And have you seen what CDs cost in europe? they're only $15CDN, and nearly 4x that in europe.
If I buy a movie, I should be able to watch it wherever I want, and lend it to whoever I want, but I don't think I should be allowed to copy it and give it to all my friends. At the same time, if I buy a movie in Japan, I want it to work here.
I think if company X spends millions of dollars to develop a new compression format, they should be allowed to charge royalties for it, but at the same time, I believe that the internet should be built on open royalty free standards...
I am confused
I think flash is being used so much because of the filesize of the flash files. You can have an entire menu bar in flash that's about 1/4 the size of gif/jpeg. This is very useful for people paying per MB for bandwidth.
because the screen closer matches print. this is true for os9 for sure. I work for a lithographing company and we use macs for all editing work. we compared the 1 bit tif files on pc and mac to a proof, and the mac looks substantially closer with the same colour profile loaded. this is the main reason that macs are used in image production. (of course, you could always adjust the monitor on the pc endlessly to get it to work, but when you load a different colour profile, you'd have to do it again, so that's not an option).
The second reason their used is software. We use RIP (Raster Image Processor) servers (win2k servers dedicated to process vector art into tiff files) and the only manager software avaiable for these is on mac. We also use software that keeps copies of low/high res raster images on a rip, and keeps the high res version on the server, but downloads the low res to the users workstation, so when editing the layout of images in illustrator or quark, they only see the lowres image, but when the tiff file is made, it uses the highres. This really speeds things up. Even with 2GB RAM, this makes an insane difference. Things like that just arne't availble on pcs.
the final reason macs are used is superiour font control. ttf fonts are almost never used in litho jobs, but suitcase fonts are used. I don't even know if there's a suitcase manager for pc (i'm sure there is though), but the extensis suitcase manager on mac totally kicks ass... it makes font control easy, and actually possible... we tried a job on a pc, just to see if it was possible to switch for simple tasks, but the fonts would never load properly, and there were tons of issues, so we gave up.
Macs are used instead of pcs for other reasons that their speed.
I pay 1000CDN for burstable T1 (billing is adjusted based on bw usage).. i've spiked above what im paying for a few months, but they only increase billing if two months in a row.. i had 3 hours of downtime this past year, and it was because of the bell t1 circuit that was installed... otherwise worldcom has been perfect, and i would recommend them.
I am the IT manager for a company with about 400 employees, we run 90% win2k servers, the rest are linux servers for our webserver and our intranet servers (again web servers), and 2 database servers...
There are two other IT employees here, and they won't touch linux, in order to get someone else to deal with the Linux machines, I'd have to fork out $10k more per year... which isn't worth it imo...
like the article said, eventually the price gap will shrink, but for now, i agree win2k is cheaper to run as long as the company is large enough
Say what you will, but at least Microsoft has some direction, and a goal they are working towards, even if it is total information domination, they're working towards something. Something like this would be great in the linux community, get everyone together, sit down, figure out where to take linux and oss, figure out how to take it there, and go.
Even if Sun did everything years before Microsoft, Sun didn't have a complete plan, whereas Microsoft did/does, which is why people keep investing in Microsoft, and their stock keeps rising (except recently, but that's been taken care of by the DOJ decision).
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Solaris is losing ground and purpose every day to Linux. The Ultraspac processor is dieing as well. Java is plauged IMO by terrible VMs, while C# and other proprietary languages are coming out/gaining ground.
I think Sun SERIOUSLY needs to reconsider its place in the market and drop products/get direction. I think a serious partnership with oracle is in order, or putting more behind Java.
Not programming languages, but real (verbal/written) langugaes.. .. I've been struggling learning French, Japanese and German over the past 6 years, and wishing I had started at an earlier age..
HAHA. that's funny. I can think of three reasons to do this:
1. The spam is costing them insane amounts of money in bandwidth
2. People stopped using MSN hotmail because of the spam, and they need more subscribers to look better compared to AOL.. because potentially Microsoft could boost it's "MSN Userbase" by including some hotmail users
3. More money. This option is unlikely, since Microsoft probably won't gain any money directly from the lawsuits, but I guarntee that more userbase + less bandwidth fees because of spam = more money in the long run for msft.
After reading all the information on google's technogoly, I wonder how many lines of code pagerank really is.
Do you figure it's 50k+lines, or something very simple, and only a few hundread lines
For some reason, I don't think the pagerank algorithm is more than 1000 lines of code... I know lines of code isn't really a defining characteristic of anything, but it's still interested...
I am a computer programmer/database designer and I will NEVER work for a union. I'm only 21 years old and have already been promoted from IT pro, to IT manager, to my current position. I have only 1 year college. If I was in a union, I would still be fixing people's printer problems and explaining why they can't E-mail to www.insertlosersnamehere@www.something.com.work
you can do that with msft stuff (at least upto win2k), just get corporate licences, and use a program called sysprep (comes with the corp licences), and then image/ghost, whatever you want to call it, the drive, and you're set, you can copy it as many times as you have licences (or more, but that'd be illegal =). peace.
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This is a horrid way of justifying PC vs Mac... Macs don't benefit from speed, that's obvious... the 'mhz myth' campaign by apple is just a marketing ploy.
The real reason to use macs in digital editing is colour. The colour (yes, with a 'u') on macs is infinently closer to print than a PC is.
This is why apples are used in 99.9% of print shops, and PCs are used in more web design shops. If you aren't printing, then PCs are just fine. Soon as print comes into the question, you simply can't use PCs. You'll be printing, editing, printing editing, so often that it'll take a lot longer than waiting 2 extra seconds while exporting a file.
Anyone who works in printing will know what I mean if they ever tried putting a curve on a dcs file... PCS just can't get it right.
I live in Canada... if I was to buy such a device and sign the agreement, would the agreement hold true if I operated it in Canada?
I don't think it would, plus how would they even know?? are my neighbours are going to call these guys and tell on me??? I doubt it.
to be on the list with other greats like Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and sting.. WOW
Pirating software is, and should be illegal. If someone writes a very good office suite, then they have the right to charge money for it. At the same time, $900CDN for a program that I use over notepad essentially for spell check isn't worth it. Downloading the newest CD that cost millions on production, advertising and money to the artist is wrong. However the record companies are making more than artists do on cds. And have you seen what CDs cost in europe? they're only $15CDN, and nearly 4x that in europe. If I buy a movie, I should be able to watch it wherever I want, and lend it to whoever I want, but I don't think I should be allowed to copy it and give it to all my friends. At the same time, if I buy a movie in Japan, I want it to work here. I think if company X spends millions of dollars to develop a new compression format, they should be allowed to charge royalties for it, but at the same time, I believe that the internet should be built on open royalty free standards... I am confused
I think flash is being used so much because of the filesize of the flash files. You can have an entire menu bar in flash that's about 1/4 the size of gif/jpeg. This is very useful for people paying per MB for bandwidth.
nope, Canada's not part of the internet, neither is 'Irak'
That I live in Canada!
because the screen closer matches print. this is true for os9 for sure. I work for a lithographing company and we use macs for all editing work. we compared the 1 bit tif files on pc and mac to a proof, and the mac looks substantially closer with the same colour profile loaded. this is the main reason that macs are used in image production. (of course, you could always adjust the monitor on the pc endlessly to get it to work, but when you load a different colour profile, you'd have to do it again, so that's not an option). The second reason their used is software. We use RIP (Raster Image Processor) servers (win2k servers dedicated to process vector art into tiff files) and the only manager software avaiable for these is on mac. We also use software that keeps copies of low/high res raster images on a rip, and keeps the high res version on the server, but downloads the low res to the users workstation, so when editing the layout of images in illustrator or quark, they only see the lowres image, but when the tiff file is made, it uses the highres. This really speeds things up. Even with 2GB RAM, this makes an insane difference. Things like that just arne't availble on pcs. the final reason macs are used is superiour font control. ttf fonts are almost never used in litho jobs, but suitcase fonts are used. I don't even know if there's a suitcase manager for pc (i'm sure there is though), but the extensis suitcase manager on mac totally kicks ass... it makes font control easy, and actually possible... we tried a job on a pc, just to see if it was possible to switch for simple tasks, but the fonts would never load properly, and there were tons of issues, so we gave up. Macs are used instead of pcs for other reasons that their speed.
I pay 1000CDN for burstable T1 (billing is adjusted based on bw usage).. i've spiked above what im paying for a few months, but they only increase billing if two months in a row.. i had 3 hours of downtime this past year, and it was because of the bell t1 circuit that was installed... otherwise worldcom has been perfect, and i would recommend them.
I am the IT manager for a company with about 400 employees, we run 90% win2k servers, the rest are linux servers for our webserver and our intranet servers (again web servers), and 2 database servers...
There are two other IT employees here, and they won't touch linux, in order to get someone else to deal with the Linux machines, I'd have to fork out $10k more per year... which isn't worth it imo...
like the article said, eventually the price gap will shrink, but for now, i agree win2k is cheaper to run as long as the company is large enough
peace.
Say what you will, but at least Microsoft has some direction, and a goal they are working towards, even if it is total information domination, they're working towards something. Something like this would be great in the linux community, get everyone together, sit down, figure out where to take linux and oss, figure out how to take it there, and go.
Even if Sun did everything years before Microsoft, Sun didn't have a complete plan, whereas Microsoft did/does, which is why people keep investing in Microsoft, and their stock keeps rising (except recently, but that's been taken care of by the DOJ decision).