You jest, but I'm sure iPad owners would love nothing more than for Apple to open their wallet and contribute to AT&T getting a good walloping. I'm not a US citizen so I don't know if private prosecutions or whatever you might call them happens there.
Certainly this is stuff that matters, but News it ain't. Give another year and dropping a DVD full of records will probably be what passes for "viral campaign"
The scores of people that are used to OS's that come with crippled, useless command lines and next to no useful tools available for low-level system maintenance. Know who I'm referring to?
It is, in countries that use the metric system. Better still, there is only one definition of "litre" worldwide.
Even if you had gallons per 100 miles or whatever, the question still exists as to "which" gallon. The answer is implied from whether you are a car manufacturer (your gallons are bigger) or a user (your gallons are smaller).
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My ideal world: Printers (and scanners, fax et al.) work with no drivers. It can be done.
The "printers" I deal with may need plates, regular washups, gallons of chemicals and natural gas, to name but a few, but all we ask our client for is essentially vector art, we take care of the nitty gritty. You can think of us as the "built in" drivers. Even without Postscript / PDF support in the printer, it's gotta be possible to standardize on some protocol for spewing patterns of ink onto the various media available.
Hell, I can dump a JPEG in a $20 photo frame and view it, so why can't I throw one directly at my printer?
If by 'Real nerds' you mean 'wankers who like to deliberately use less-common (sometimes obsolete) and more confusing terms just to gain some sense of self-importance by explaining themselves and (un)correcting people all the time', then yes.
But I would wager that most 'Real nerds', when installing such a package on their system (you probably use the term "Winchester Disk" here), would refer to a package by the name they look it up with. Otherwise, keeping track of all the forking and renaming would be rather hard on one's memory. Oh, sorry, I mean to say "core", like your Real Nerd (TM) would.
"Smarts" in the printer?!?! No, sir - this featurette will be part of the wonderful HP Driver & Utility package, now available on a single disk thanks to BluRay technology. It'll run from your PC. And when I say PC, I mean the one you basically 'give' to the HP drivers.
In New Zealand we use the printed Yellow Pages all the time, because the website sucks so much.
First hit for 'cafe' in (my area) was a vineyard that was 42km away.
I suppose you think they should have posted Proof of Concept Code as well? Believe me, no matter how you and I think the disclosure process should go - it'd be a cold day in Hell if Adobe did this.
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Well done - you don't get the point.
Demand it!
You jest, but I'm sure iPad owners would love nothing more than for Apple to open their wallet and contribute to AT&T getting a good walloping. I'm not a US citizen so I don't know if private prosecutions or whatever you might call them happens there.
Certainly this is stuff that matters, but News it ain't. Give another year and dropping a DVD full of records will probably be what passes for "viral campaign"
Microsoft, however...
Boy, what a relief Windows 7 has completely displaced WinXP / Vista. Or for that matter, Windows 2000.
I sometimes wonder if people are going to get tired of exploiting AutoRun years before Microsoft fix it.
^ just a link to the Austin Powers clip, not obligatory, please don't bother.
Great, so some idiot wrote code to unburden another of doing that pointless task.
The scores of people that are used to OS's that come with crippled, useless command lines and next to no useful tools available for low-level system maintenance. Know who I'm referring to?
It is, in countries that use the metric system. Better still, there is only one definition of "litre" worldwide.
Even if you had gallons per 100 miles or whatever, the question still exists as to "which" gallon. The answer is implied from whether you are a car manufacturer (your gallons are bigger) or a user (your gallons are smaller).
This situation actually warrants double_facepalm.jpg, but thank you.
^ The last 15 years in New Zealand summed up.
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The "printers" I deal with may need plates, regular washups, gallons of chemicals and natural gas, to name but a few, but all we ask our client for is essentially vector art, we take care of the nitty gritty. You can think of us as the "built in" drivers. Even without Postscript / PDF support in the printer, it's gotta be possible to standardize on some protocol for spewing patterns of ink onto the various media available.
Hell, I can dump a JPEG in a $20 photo frame and view it, so why can't I throw one directly at my printer?
But I would wager that most 'Real nerds', when installing such a package on their system (you probably use the term "Winchester Disk" here), would refer to a package by the name they look it up with. Otherwise, keeping track of all the forking and renaming would be rather hard on one's memory. Oh, sorry, I mean to say "core", like your Real Nerd (TM) would.
"Smarts" in the printer?!?! No, sir - this featurette will be part of the wonderful HP Driver & Utility package, now available on a single disk thanks to BluRay technology. It'll run from your PC. And when I say PC, I mean the one you basically 'give' to the HP drivers.
I'm glad you're not bitter, or anything.
Windows folk. Think yourself lucky he didn't diss the Mac one-button mouse in the same sentence as saying it's all-too-hard for Grandma.
In New Zealand we use the printed Yellow Pages all the time, because the website sucks so much. First hit for 'cafe' in (my area) was a vineyard that was 42km away.
And how exactly is this a comment? Slashdot posters waffle on about their indifference all the time.
You're a "C Drive" person, aren't you?
I suppose you think they should have posted Proof of Concept Code as well? Believe me, no matter how you and I think the disclosure process should go - it'd be a cold day in Hell if Adobe did this.
Interesting. In New Zealand I haven't got it to work at all - not even in the cities. Pretty sure it failed me in Brisbane, Australia as well.
I have driven 600 kilometres since posting that comment. After about the fifth it became obvious to me. Thanks for you reply anyway :)