The last few versions of Freehand were poor, but it was still better. How? Two words: MULTIPLE PAGES.
For years Freehand had the good sense of having ONE selection tool. After a while (I think after v7) they adopted the retarded and time wasting Adobe system of multiple selection tools.
So, I'll grant you that AI has improved over the years, but I still prefer FH because of the multiple pages. Example: I'm designing a CD cover. page 1 is the insert, page 2 is the tray card. Page 3 is the CD. All in one document. AI? 3 documents unles you want to get into their retarded "tiling" nonsense.
FH *was* better than AI, and now all we get is AI. When AI gives us multiple pages, I will cheerfully quit my bitching, as I have no hope of them abandoning the ultra-stupid multiple selection tool idiocy.
Image editing? Photoshop. Sure there's GIMP, but frankly, GIMP sucks and has no value outside of RGB colour space. There are a few other apps, (Painter, Corel, etc.) but the POINT is: pros use Photoshop because it is the best. Period.
Bezier Curve? Illustrator. There used to be a better app, Freehand, but it died in the Macromedia acquisition.
Page Layout? Sure, there's Quark, but everyone HATES Quark, and InDesign does the job. So, that's not a monopoly, yet...
Web Design? Dreamweaver. nuff said.
Web based animation? Flash.
Adobe completely dominates the graphic design industry, and for Adobe to make noises about MS being some kind of a monopoly is simply ludicrous.
Frankly, I give her more than the average price. You should too - she's NOT rich, and could use the money... but if you're poor, then pay what you can.
for serving nothing but CRAP in their cafeterias, and developing horrifically stressful work environments that destroy the employees health, or cause them to carry more weight than those who work in less stressful environments.
They send a bomb, it blows up. It turns out the asteroid is mostly gravel and crap, so the force is largely absorbed, and instead of one multi-zillion ton of crap, we have multi-zillion tons of crap falling on us. Instead of one big BOOM at landing, it just heats up the earth's atmosphere and we all fry.
There's a reason I moved to Canada. Not that it is wildly better or all that different, or even free of major stupidity and scandal, but it seems to be largely (but not completely) free of retarded hatefilled shitbags. And while the gov't has a deeper hand on things here, one would expect boneheaded nanny state nonsense like the legislation in TFA from Canada, not from the USA. OH, how times have changed... The Rethugs want to blow up the planet and make everyone a classic Xian sexless mouthbreathing mallrat and the Dems want the corporations to own every piece of cultural artefacture in perpetuity, and make it all safe for the lowest and stupidest citizens and remove the responsibility that PARENTS SHOULD BE EXERCISING in favour of the nanny state.
As the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) crooned:
I'm the Mole in the Ministry
And you'll all bow down to me.
I'm the mole in the potting shed.
I'm the bad thoughts inside your head.
And you won't catch me...
As a little black girl once shouted into a bullhorn on the TV show "Wondershowzen":
'We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing.'"
In other words, "We don't TRUST our employees, even our local MANAGEMENT to make any kind of qualitative decisions."
And the local drones get to say "Hey - sorry, but it's company policy - I have nothing to say about it."
Everyone washes their hands of responsibility for and to each other, and THAT is "civilisation".
I don't use a trackball - I use a graphics tablet. It really slowed me down when I first started using it, but after a while, the "map" of the screen mapped to my brain and now I can accurately and nearly instantly go anywhere with the tablet.
Watch the captains of American Industry opt for the 40 for the public because "it's easier and cheaper" while the rest of the planet and big business goes to 100.
13,000 sq mi of stinking nasty rotting ponds? SURE - who wants to live next to THAT? It will have to be decentralised in order to maintain high(er) ER/EI, so imagine several dozen of these nasty things attracting mosquitoes and all that other smell and bother in and around every city in the USA - and we're talking HUGE areas. If you spread it out to the top 1300 cities (and once you're around #800, you're talking small towns) each one would have to have a 10 sq mi body of water that REEEEKS, and many of these places are smaller than 10 sq mi in size.
So, ratchet it up to the top 130 cities - and now we're talking 100 square miles of open stinking water. If you apportion it by USE, it gets worse, then you're talking about a few cities and their giant airports (JFK, EWR, ORD, SFO, LAX, DFW, DVR, DUL, BOS, ATL, QHO) requiring fuel. In fact, of the top 450, the bottom 390 only use 6% of the traffic, and I would suspect none (or very very little) of that is in jet fuel. So, if we divvy it up among the top 50, we're talking 260 sq miles of swampy yuck-ness PER TOP 50 AIRPORT. Now, let's look at the New York Area, where we have 3 of the top 50 airports: EWR, JFK, and LGA. So, 3 x 260 = 780 sq miles. Note: the PHYSICAL LAND AREA OF NEW YORK CITY ALONE is only 303.3 sq mi... So, in order to feed these three airports we need a NEARBY BILGE POND that is 3X the size of the 5 boroughs? No. Way. And then, you have to deal with the proximity of Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington, etc. Look, NJ stinks bad enough - squandering that much insanely expensive real-estate to build a mechanical swamp - Simply Isn't Going to Happen.
so, you are asking "What will happen?"
This is what will happen: JP fuel will get increasingly expensive. The airline industry will contract, along with the rest of the economy. In the next 30 years it will become what it was before WW2: something only the rich / gov't / military could afford to do.
Don't like it? Tough shit. Developing ponds to fuel the automated fighter-planes and bombers of the future will be hard enough - the war machine will get first dibs on energy. The rest of us can go choke.
Based on a 1.9Mb/d consumption for Mexico, they will stop exporting oil in five years, say 2012... but, this would cut govt revenue around 7% per year, and shredding what little social infrastructure they have.
The result?
They will walk north.
You think Mexican immigration is bad now? Wait until 2015. I wouldn't be surprised if the USgov set up a 100 yard free fire zone on the southern border, or, they simply let everyone in, and drive the wages in the US down to Mexican levels.
Government is the only remaining bullwark between the thugs who run industry and the people they use up as labour resource and then destroy as a product. It is the only safeguard the environment has: if governments do not constrain industry, then industry will always look at the quarterly report and continue to crap all over the planet. And given how collusive government is with industry, it is NOT a pretty or welcoming picture - as government has, for the past several thousand years, proven itself to be little more than the means of protecting and projecting the interests of the ruling classes. The struggle is real, not imagined. And it is only through a re-imagined and re-energised public sector will our species have any hope of surviving the coming crises in Energy, Environment, and Population reduction.
It is the poster who is historically challenged and politically ignorant.
Sacks of cash in the freezer or thousands dead in an illegal war of aggression?
Mull it over again....
Sacks of cash in the freezer or suspending habeus corpus, a cornerstone of the rule of law?
Let's try it again....
Sacks of cash in the freezer or torturing people?
Yes, Jefferson is a cheezie corrupt punk, but your scaling the war crimes, the violations of the constitution, and the offences to common reason and decency perpetrated by the Bush Junta is ludicrous and pathetic, as well as ignorant and just plain stupid.
So, before you post more of that kind of idiotic horsecrap, please think twice. In your case, once would be a grand improvement.
he totally hits it on the head. The files aren't gone. I'm sure they are on some server under someone's desk in the NSA. And if they wer etold to "delete" the files, I am fairly certain that they would comply by simply tossing it all in the "trash bin" and "deleting" it, if only to save time and screw with these fascist pigfuckers later.
well, you said DELETE the files, so I did!
And at the very least, these drives should be amenable to some kind of data recovery. The only thing I can think of really messing it would be to degauss/demagnatise the drive for a few days...or weeks...
They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"
Or, is this entire article just another excuse to beat up on the RIAA?
You have to take into account the energetics of the system. Extra (x) = Extra energy (E).
We, who live in the petroleum age, take energy for granted, but when you have to get energy by murdering other animals and eating them, energy comes at a premium. Therefore, things that burn a boatload of energy have to "perform" (i.e. be really useful to genetic transmission) to become dominant features over time. So, the peacock tail is a huge expenditure of energy growing it and dragging it around, but it's a total babe magnet, so the genes prefer it with peacocks. For them, it's not a waste of energy.
Now, just blow it down into molecular scale, and your insight in BIO 101 was the same as mine: there is no junk - junk is a drag on the system, and systems that don't have that drag will prevail over those that do, terefore, it makes no sense to think that drag-laden ysstem would normally prevail. And with billions of years of effort, it only makes sense that rather than having "junk" we would have highly redundant competent over built systems.
So, like you, I am very pleased at these results. I can assure you, however, these are NOT indications of a designer, anymore than the symmetry of sand dunes.
Every single day I SHIT DOWN THE THROAT of your gods. And then I use them for crude sexual play that ends with me jizzing all over their faces. Your culture is a cruel joke, and your insistence on its importance only proves the depths of your mental retardation.
You suck, your culture sucks, and your god blows goats.
Is this flame bait? Is this a Troll?
No: it is LIVING PROOF of the inferiority of your theocratic notions, as here in the marginally more enlightened "West" I can say things like this and not have to deal with asshats like you coming to my house and making life difficult. And if you think I am picking on you, you are mistaken - example: for all the Bible Thumping Idiots Out There:
You say JESUS is COMING? Well, you're damn straight he's coming. He's right here in my living room, and he's COMING ALL OVER MY CARPET!!!
See? I don't like those fuckwits either. So, unlike you: I play fair: all religious zealots get the same nasty treatment, and because I live in a society where free and open expression is a right guaranteed by law, I don't have to put up with your mewling bullshit.
So, kindly take your Religion and stick it up your smelly stupid ass until it arrives in your brain and you start making Barking Sounds of how Evil I Am. HAHAHA. Tards.
the RIAA is simply evil beyond all bounds of reason. I'm surprised that some nutjob asshat hasn't yet barged into their offices and raked 'em all down with machine gun fire. Everything they are doing is so bad and so dangerous to the legacy of the late 20th and early 21st century, it really is criminal.
While I don't advocate someone blowing their office to flinders with a bomb or some other evil terroristic act, I am surprised that it hasn't happened yet (one would think that with all the loosely bound people in the USA, one of them would have freaked out by now and targeted them...)
What I DO advocate is that the RIAA and the MPAA and their associated organisations be banned and eliminated and the music and film artists and industry re-organise itself along more open and egalitarian lines.
I don't know what part of the planet you're from, but I'm a well read American and have a college education, and I've never heard of the word jejune. Doing some googling, I find this link: http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-jej1.htm
1. I was born in the industrial hell zone of New Jersey. I received a public school education, and knew the word jejune since then.
2. Being a well read American means you have read a book. BFD.
3. I also have a college education (presently working on a PhD)
you quote: But I avoid it mainly because it's far from common and because people differ in their views about what it means, an insuperable barrier to effective communication. At least, as the OED has shown, there are plenty of other words to choose from."
and, I assume from quoting it you agree with it.
To which I respond: bullshit. Learn Words. Lots of Them. More The Better. Learn Another Language. You will be amazed at the thoughts you will be able to think when you have the language to think those thoughts. Otherwise, you are just another slave of the ThoughtPolice who are more than happy to limit your thinking so as to line their pockets, and you can teach your children that obsequity is not a dirty word, if you even knew what that meant...
Now, like the other fool, please think twice before you post - once would be an improvement.
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For years Freehand had the good sense of having ONE selection tool. After a while (I think after v7) they adopted the retarded and time wasting Adobe system of multiple selection tools.
So, I'll grant you that AI has improved over the years, but I still prefer FH because of the multiple pages. Example: I'm designing a CD cover. page 1 is the insert, page 2 is the tray card. Page 3 is the CD. All in one document. AI? 3 documents unles you want to get into their retarded "tiling" nonsense.
FH *was* better than AI, and now all we get is AI. When AI gives us multiple pages, I will cheerfully quit my bitching, as I have no hope of them abandoning the ultra-stupid multiple selection tool idiocy.
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Image editing? Photoshop. Sure there's GIMP, but frankly, GIMP sucks and has no value outside of RGB colour space. There are a few other apps, (Painter, Corel, etc.) but the POINT is: pros use Photoshop because it is the best. Period.
Bezier Curve? Illustrator. There used to be a better app, Freehand, but it died in the Macromedia acquisition.
Page Layout? Sure, there's Quark, but everyone HATES Quark, and InDesign does the job. So, that's not a monopoly, yet...
Web Design? Dreamweaver. nuff said.
Web based animation? Flash.
Adobe completely dominates the graphic design industry, and for Adobe to make noises about MS being some kind of a monopoly is simply ludicrous.
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SHEEBA.CA
Frankly, I give her more than the average price. You should too - she's NOT rich, and could use the money... but if you're poor, then pay what you can.
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America. What a fucking mess.
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Move along, people - nothing to see here...
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Great.
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There's a reason I moved to Canada. Not that it is wildly better or all that different, or even free of major stupidity and scandal, but it seems to be largely (but not completely) free of retarded hatefilled shitbags. And while the gov't has a deeper hand on things here, one would expect boneheaded nanny state nonsense like the legislation in TFA from Canada, not from the USA. OH, how times have changed... The Rethugs want to blow up the planet and make everyone a classic Xian sexless mouthbreathing mallrat and the Dems want the corporations to own every piece of cultural artefacture in perpetuity, and make it all safe for the lowest and stupidest citizens and remove the responsibility that PARENTS SHOULD BE EXERCISING in favour of the nanny state.
As the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) crooned:
I'm the Mole in the Ministry
And you'll all bow down to me.
I'm the mole in the potting shed.
I'm the bad thoughts inside your head.
And you won't catch me...
As a little black girl once shouted into a bullhorn on the TV show "Wondershowzen":
RISE UP PEOPLE!!! RISE UP!!!
RS
In other words, "We don't TRUST our employees, even our local MANAGEMENT to make any kind of qualitative decisions."
And the local drones get to say "Hey - sorry, but it's company policy - I have nothing to say about it."
Everyone washes their hands of responsibility for and to each other, and THAT is "civilisation".
RISE UP PEOPLE!!!
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I'm just sayin'....
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13,000 sq mi of stinking nasty rotting ponds? SURE - who wants to live next to THAT? It will have to be decentralised in order to maintain high(er) ER/EI, so imagine several dozen of these nasty things attracting mosquitoes and all that other smell and bother in and around every city in the USA - and we're talking HUGE areas. If you spread it out to the top 1300 cities (and once you're around #800, you're talking small towns) each one would have to have a 10 sq mi body of water that REEEEKS, and many of these places are smaller than 10 sq mi in size.
So, ratchet it up to the top 130 cities - and now we're talking 100 square miles of open stinking water. If you apportion it by USE, it gets worse, then you're talking about a few cities and their giant airports (JFK, EWR, ORD, SFO, LAX, DFW, DVR, DUL, BOS, ATL, QHO) requiring fuel. In fact, of the top 450, the bottom 390 only use 6% of the traffic, and I would suspect none (or very very little) of that is in jet fuel. So, if we divvy it up among the top 50, we're talking 260 sq miles of swampy yuck-ness PER TOP 50 AIRPORT. Now, let's look at the New York Area, where we have 3 of the top 50 airports: EWR, JFK, and LGA. So, 3 x 260 = 780 sq miles. Note: the PHYSICAL LAND AREA OF NEW YORK CITY ALONE is only 303.3 sq mi... So, in order to feed these three airports we need a NEARBY BILGE POND that is 3X the size of the 5 boroughs? No. Way. And then, you have to deal with the proximity of Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington, etc. Look, NJ stinks bad enough - squandering that much insanely expensive real-estate to build a mechanical swamp - Simply Isn't Going to Happen.
so, you are asking "What will happen?"
This is what will happen: JP fuel will get increasingly expensive. The airline industry will contract, along with the rest of the economy. In the next 30 years it will become what it was before WW2: something only the rich / gov't / military could afford to do.
Don't like it? Tough shit. Developing ponds to fuel the automated fighter-planes and bombers of the future will be hard enough - the war machine will get first dibs on energy. The rest of us can go choke.
Just because BOEING is involved doesn't mean it's for You, The Mindless Consumer. This is for the military, very likely to invade Canada in 20 years and steal the tar sands like they're trying to steal Iraq's oil now. Get used to Resource Wars. It's the future of an unsustainable system of industrial consumerism.
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Mexico's social infrastructure is underwritten by profits from PEMEX, Mexico's oil company. Unfortunately, PEMEX's largest oil field, Cantarell, is in massive decline, according to PEMEX's CEO.
Based on a 1.9Mb/d consumption for Mexico, they will stop exporting oil in five years, say 2012... but, this would cut govt revenue around 7% per year, and shredding what little social infrastructure they have.
The result?
They will walk north.
You think Mexican immigration is bad now? Wait until 2015. I wouldn't be surprised if the USgov set up a 100 yard free fire zone on the southern border, or, they simply let everyone in, and drive the wages in the US down to Mexican levels.
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A flying Ugly Stik
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As compared to whom? The history challenged individuals who think corporations know best?
Like Shell Oil?
Or Texaco?
Or Enron?
Or These 14 rapacious monsters (Caterpillar, Chevron, CocaCola, Dow, Dyncorp, Ford, KBR-Halliburton, Lockheed, Monsanto, Nestle, Phillip Morris, Pfizer, SLDE, Walmart all of whom have disgusting track records of either exploitation, environmental destruction, corruption, or some combination thereof?
Government is the only remaining bullwark between the thugs who run industry and the people they use up as labour resource and then destroy as a product. It is the only safeguard the environment has: if governments do not constrain industry, then industry will always look at the quarterly report and continue to crap all over the planet. And given how collusive government is with industry, it is NOT a pretty or welcoming picture - as government has, for the past several thousand years, proven itself to be little more than the means of protecting and projecting the interests of the ruling classes. The struggle is real, not imagined. And it is only through a re-imagined and re-energised public sector will our species have any hope of surviving the coming crises in Energy, Environment, and Population reduction.
It is the poster who is historically challenged and politically ignorant.
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The world can't handle more cars. The car has to go away.
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Let's see... which is worse?
Sacks of cash in the freezer or thousands dead in an illegal war of aggression?
Mull it over again....
Sacks of cash in the freezer or suspending habeus corpus, a cornerstone of the rule of law?
Let's try it again....
Sacks of cash in the freezer or torturing people?
Yes, Jefferson is a cheezie corrupt punk, but your scaling the war crimes, the violations of the constitution, and the offences to common reason and decency perpetrated by the Bush Junta is ludicrous and pathetic, as well as ignorant and just plain stupid.
So, before you post more of that kind of idiotic horsecrap, please think twice. In your case, once would be a grand improvement.
RS
well, you said DELETE the files, so I did!
And at the very least, these drives should be amenable to some kind of data recovery. The only thing I can think of really messing it would be to degauss/demagnatise the drive for a few days...or weeks...
RS
They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"
Or, is this entire article just another excuse to beat up on the RIAA?
RS
You have to take into account the energetics of the system. Extra (x) = Extra energy (E).
We, who live in the petroleum age, take energy for granted, but when you have to get energy by murdering other animals and eating them, energy comes at a premium. Therefore, things that burn a boatload of energy have to "perform" (i.e. be really useful to genetic transmission) to become dominant features over time. So, the peacock tail is a huge expenditure of energy growing it and dragging it around, but it's a total babe magnet, so the genes prefer it with peacocks. For them, it's not a waste of energy.
Now, just blow it down into molecular scale, and your insight in BIO 101 was the same as mine: there is no junk - junk is a drag on the system, and systems that don't have that drag will prevail over those that do, terefore, it makes no sense to think that drag-laden ysstem would normally prevail. And with billions of years of effort, it only makes sense that rather than having "junk" we would have highly redundant competent over built systems.
So, like you, I am very pleased at these results. I can assure you, however, these are NOT indications of a designer, anymore than the symmetry of sand dunes.
RS
You suck, your culture sucks, and your god blows goats.
Is this flame bait? Is this a Troll?
No: it is LIVING PROOF of the inferiority of your theocratic notions, as here in the marginally more enlightened "West" I can say things like this and not have to deal with asshats like you coming to my house and making life difficult. And if you think I am picking on you, you are mistaken - example: for all the Bible Thumping Idiots Out There:
You say JESUS is COMING? Well, you're damn straight he's coming. He's right here in my living room, and he's COMING ALL OVER MY CARPET!!!
See? I don't like those fuckwits either. So, unlike you: I play fair: all religious zealots get the same nasty treatment, and because I live in a society where free and open expression is a right guaranteed by law, I don't have to put up with your mewling bullshit.
So, kindly take your Religion and stick it up your smelly stupid ass until it arrives in your brain and you start making Barking Sounds of how Evil I Am. HAHAHA. Tards.
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While I don't advocate someone blowing their office to flinders with a bomb or some other evil terroristic act, I am surprised that it hasn't happened yet (one would think that with all the loosely bound people in the USA, one of them would have freaked out by now and targeted them...)
What I DO advocate is that the RIAA and the MPAA and their associated organisations be banned and eliminated and the music and film artists and industry re-organise itself along more open and egalitarian lines.
RS
1. I was born in the industrial hell zone of New Jersey. I received a public school education, and knew the word jejune since then.
2. Being a well read American means you have read a book. BFD.
3. I also have a college education (presently working on a PhD)
you quote: But I avoid it mainly because it's far from common and because people differ in their views about what it means, an insuperable barrier to effective communication. At least, as the OED has shown, there are plenty of other words to choose from."
and, I assume from quoting it you agree with it.
To which I respond: bullshit. Learn Words. Lots of Them. More The Better. Learn Another Language. You will be amazed at the thoughts you will be able to think when you have the language to think those thoughts. Otherwise, you are just another slave of the ThoughtPolice who are more than happy to limit your thinking so as to line their pockets, and you can teach your children that obsequity is not a dirty word, if you even knew what that meant...
Now, like the other fool, please think twice before you post - once would be an improvement.
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