Hm, that's slightly ignorant -- in that case, shouldn't they be designing web pages and not coding them?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you, but seriously--designers will be designers, some will work best in a WYSIWYG environment where design--not code--is the focus. I would say these people should learn as quickly as possible how to code the designs they make that way, but for some, they really are most interested in the design. Good design tools like Dreamweaver that allow you to ignore the code in most cases are fairly good for that purpose.
This one really is a no-brainer -- you get what you pay for. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc. etc. are best-of-breed pieces of software. They're actually quite good, and probably worth the exorbitant license fees you will pay in productivity improvement, quality of output, employee frustration (lessened), support, usability, compatibility, you name it. They're standard for a reason, and Adobe is a fairly good company in that they haven't taken that for granted.
I think that pretty much blew every argument for cheaper solutions out of the water... if you need all of those 4 points above then it makes perfect sense to pay for them. If you don't, well duh, build your own system for cheaper, but you get what you pay for. Nice.
If you have the care and attention to spell the words correctly in a different dialect of English then I would think you could actually give away that you intend it as such, and that your favorite spelling of favourite gives away your non-American origin.
Language gives away a great deal about you whether you like it or not. You may not be able to tell for certain, but you certainly can be darn sure sometimes. In fact, I've taken to considering bad spelling to be more commonly an American English trait as you've suggested.:-)
Applies to the question you've asked (you have opened a ____) the politicians (their brains consist of a ____) and most slashdot readers' egos (A ____ will agree more consistently than this lot). Also the trolls and loudmouths (they take the worms out of the can, dump it on everyone, and then use the can as a megaphone).
Thanks for the comments. It's just marketing, getting people in... once they download hopefully they'll be more impressed by the utility and less brainwashed by the web 2.0.
Wow, the article (orig) is absolutely right. It's the first intelligent Linux big-picture criticism I have ever read, and it's spot on. I absolutely agree. The nature of a disperse collection of programmers can't easily, and has not yet created a coherent, consistent, and integrated user experience that makes Windows and Mac OS even moderately successful despite all their shortcomings.
And yet, it's hilarious to hear all the Slashdotters rail on and on about the individual parts, and give excuses about how well it works, and blah blah blah-- ZFS's "layering" isn't the problem, he's talking about the bigger picture, and until all the programmers working on the integrated Open Source OS platform GET IT, Linux will never be successful. No one gets the big picture, and if you're arguing with that, then you're not either. Move along...
Yeah, they're completely different. Many people don't want Flickr, they just want photo storage and display, maaaaaybe with some social capability and links and such.
So Google's got 'em with Picasa Web, which is a beautiful application. Not that Yahoo photos was ever much, so it's not that big a loss, still.
It's one thing for one to "believe" in the possibility of Hussein having WMD and another thing entirely to wage a war with incomplete intelligence on that premise. It's the responsibility of the president to have accurate and complete intelligence first, and it's exceedingly obvious by now that he didn't, and went to war anyway. If you are denying that, you're living in a different reality...
Now, if you were to magically modify your database records so you had more money without depriving anyone else of any, that would not be theft, but it would still be fraud, and illegal, and wrong.
Funny how the same baseless arguments are playing over and over like a broken record.
Face it-- downloading music is probably wrong, regardless of what you personally believe, unless you go out and buy an equal number of CDs for every album you download. Yes, it is a free non-rival good, but you should still be paying for it in some sense if you're getting something out of it. Anything less is just lying to yourself about the morality of the issue. There's no guaranteed "right to free music" for you or anyone else, nor should there be; try thinking about it that way.
Of course it's extremely complex -- for instance, I prefer to balance the RIAA and friends amorality by buying Indie CDs instead of big labels to pay for my "illegal" downloads. Yes, I know I'm a hypocrite, but who isn't? I know it's wrong, and I'm not pretending otherwise, but I am trying to realize the balance of "wrongness" and trying to work the free market toward supporting those who need it most.
But to stick to this incessant rambling about "it's not stealing you idiots, I'm not depriving anyone of anything" -- yes, we get it, how about a new tune? What's the next step? How do we support artists instead of using their music without paying? or, how do we support the artists themselves instead of letting 90% of the profit go to the RIAA? There are bigger fish to fry than protecting your own (non-existent) right to free music, so try putting all that brainpower to good use. We're gonna need it.
Everyone else is going to be "OMG lamerz teh MAFIAAAAA won because of retard schoolz like u" but seriously, why is this not a good idea? It's the school's network, the RIAA is actually on their tails trying (however illegally or immorally) to punish their students, and they have every right to restrict the use of file sharing services on their network.
Yes, I know that there are great legal uses for BitTorrent, but do you really think 95% of the students are using it to legally download Ubuntu or something? Yeah right. Get real and be honest with yourselves, this is probably a smart thing for the school to be doing. If the students want to download whatever they want, then they need to pay for their own DSL or move out of the dorms and be responsible for their own actions (gee, what a thought), but while they're using the school's network and the school is somewhat responsible for them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to restrict their illegal file sharing.
It's a whole other argument whether the RIAA sucks (they do) and whether file sharing positively impacts the recording industry (it might) but for a school, come on, it's their right, and probably the right thing for them to do. Get over it.
Their definition of "better" was simply not accurate (the better camera is apparently the "one that got the white balance right"), and they probably didn't know how to take a representative shot with either the Canon P/S or dSLR cameras -- simple settings would have made the white balance correct and the colors more "vibrant" (used as their biggest measure of quality). The scene was obviously also very poorly lit.
That said, it is good that the better camera phones got the white balance correct; that's the main problem I have with my dinky camera phone, all the photos come out too orange or blue, never what they're supposed to be. But come on, obviously, you can't say a camera phone can compete with even a midrange pocket digital camera with options and lens quality and stuff, no less any digital SLR. You just can't make stupid comparisons... but then when have we ever trusted CNet with being 'intelligent'?
I'm running on Slicehost's 256MB plan, and I'll throw in a huge recommendation for them. Uptime has been stellar and the community and the company are amazing.
For 256MB, you can run MySQL just fine, along with Apache and a few other services as well. My server consistently has ~100 MB free with MySQL, Apache (mod_php5/mod_python), Postfix/courier for email, and more. When web requests spike it can use the memory up, but doesn't do too badly.
I figure if I ever need it I can always upgrade to 512 MB for $38/month, which is also an excellent deal. For my moderate load though the 256 works great and is a steal. Go for it.
I totally had images of Ninja units in Civilization IV... or maybe a ninja civilization to start the game with... or maybe just ninjas dominating the whole world.
What, you mean they're totally unrelated? Oh. My bad.
Agreed with sibling, your question is irrelevant, admittedly just like the statistics. If you don't believe that some significant portion of users are uncomfortable with the command line, then you need a reality check.
You're probably right, it may be easier for *you* in Linux, but that just shows you how stuck people are on Windows. They're more willing to re-install it and deal with it than move to an an OS that they perceive as not being able to use at all (logical, if you ask me).
The difference is that when Linux doesn't work, it's really difficult to make it work, and it involves a command line, which scares everyone except us.;-)
When windows doesn't work, you're still in Windows. When it really doesn't work, you just have to re-install Windows. That's actually less scary than a command line for 95% of computer users.
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Hm, that's slightly ignorant -- in that case, shouldn't they be designing web pages and not coding them? Don't get me wrong, I agree with you, but seriously--designers will be designers, some will work best in a WYSIWYG environment where design--not code--is the focus. I would say these people should learn as quickly as possible how to code the designs they make that way, but for some, they really are most interested in the design. Good design tools like Dreamweaver that allow you to ignore the code in most cases are fairly good for that purpose.
This one really is a no-brainer -- you get what you pay for. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc. etc. are best-of-breed pieces of software. They're actually quite good, and probably worth the exorbitant license fees you will pay in productivity improvement, quality of output, employee frustration (lessened), support, usability, compatibility, you name it. They're standard for a reason, and Adobe is a fairly good company in that they haven't taken that for granted.
I think that pretty much blew every argument for cheaper solutions out of the water... if you need all of those 4 points above then it makes perfect sense to pay for them. If you don't, well duh, build your own system for cheaper, but you get what you pay for. Nice.
If you have the care and attention to spell the words correctly in a different dialect of English then I would think you could actually give away that you intend it as such, and that your favorite spelling of favourite gives away your non-American origin.
:-)
Language gives away a great deal about you whether you like it or not. You may not be able to tell for certain, but you certainly can be darn sure sometimes. In fact, I've taken to considering bad spelling to be more commonly an American English trait as you've suggested.
Three Words: CAN OF WORMS.
Applies to the question you've asked (you have opened a ____) the politicians (their brains consist of a ____) and most slashdot readers' egos (A ____ will agree more consistently than this lot). Also the trolls and loudmouths (they take the worms out of the can, dump it on everyone, and then use the can as a megaphone).
I'd vote for the worms.
If I could mod it +5 Funny, I would...
Wow, anthropomorphizing hardware-- those lights are driving you crazy...
At least paint a pair of boobs on it or something, that would make it more acceptable. Or not.
Thanks for the comments. It's just marketing, getting people in... once they download hopefully they'll be more impressed by the utility and less brainwashed by the web 2.0.
And the award is legit, but for last year.
Shameless plug... I wrote it. :-) Simple and sweet, directory-based, fast and secure.
http://www.zenphoto.org/
Wow, the article (orig) is absolutely right. It's the first intelligent Linux big-picture criticism I have ever read, and it's spot on. I absolutely agree. The nature of a disperse collection of programmers can't easily, and has not yet created a coherent, consistent, and integrated user experience that makes Windows and Mac OS even moderately successful despite all their shortcomings.
And yet, it's hilarious to hear all the Slashdotters rail on and on about the individual parts, and give excuses about how well it works, and blah blah blah-- ZFS's "layering" isn't the problem, he's talking about the bigger picture, and until all the programmers working on the integrated Open Source OS platform GET IT, Linux will never be successful. No one gets the big picture, and if you're arguing with that, then you're not either. Move along...
Yeah, they're completely different. Many people don't want Flickr, they just want photo storage and display, maaaaaybe with some social capability and links and such.
So Google's got 'em with Picasa Web, which is a beautiful application. Not that Yahoo photos was ever much, so it's not that big a loss, still.
It's one thing for one to "believe" in the possibility of Hussein having WMD and another thing entirely to wage a war with incomplete intelligence on that premise. It's the responsibility of the president to have accurate and complete intelligence first, and it's exceedingly obvious by now that he didn't, and went to war anyway. If you are denying that, you're living in a different reality...
Yep, I'm pretty sure that's theft. Sorry.
Now, if you were to magically modify your database records so you had more money without depriving anyone else of any, that would not be theft, but it would still be fraud, and illegal, and wrong.
Funny how the same baseless arguments are playing over and over like a broken record.
Face it-- downloading music is probably wrong, regardless of what you personally believe, unless you go out and buy an equal number of CDs for every album you download. Yes, it is a free non-rival good, but you should still be paying for it in some sense if you're getting something out of it. Anything less is just lying to yourself about the morality of the issue. There's no guaranteed "right to free music" for you or anyone else, nor should there be; try thinking about it that way.
Of course it's extremely complex -- for instance, I prefer to balance the RIAA and friends amorality by buying Indie CDs instead of big labels to pay for my "illegal" downloads. Yes, I know I'm a hypocrite, but who isn't? I know it's wrong, and I'm not pretending otherwise, but I am trying to realize the balance of "wrongness" and trying to work the free market toward supporting those who need it most.
But to stick to this incessant rambling about "it's not stealing you idiots, I'm not depriving anyone of anything" -- yes, we get it, how about a new tune? What's the next step? How do we support artists instead of using their music without paying? or, how do we support the artists themselves instead of letting 90% of the profit go to the RIAA? There are bigger fish to fry than protecting your own (non-existent) right to free music, so try putting all that brainpower to good use. We're gonna need it.
Everyone else is going to be "OMG lamerz teh MAFIAAAAA won because of retard schoolz like u" but seriously, why is this not a good idea? It's the school's network, the RIAA is actually on their tails trying (however illegally or immorally) to punish their students, and they have every right to restrict the use of file sharing services on their network.
Yes, I know that there are great legal uses for BitTorrent, but do you really think 95% of the students are using it to legally download Ubuntu or something? Yeah right. Get real and be honest with yourselves, this is probably a smart thing for the school to be doing. If the students want to download whatever they want, then they need to pay for their own DSL or move out of the dorms and be responsible for their own actions (gee, what a thought), but while they're using the school's network and the school is somewhat responsible for them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to restrict their illegal file sharing.
It's a whole other argument whether the RIAA sucks (they do) and whether file sharing positively impacts the recording industry (it might) but for a school, come on, it's their right, and probably the right thing for them to do. Get over it.
Their definition of "better" was simply not accurate (the better camera is apparently the "one that got the white balance right"), and they probably didn't know how to take a representative shot with either the Canon P/S or dSLR cameras -- simple settings would have made the white balance correct and the colors more "vibrant" (used as their biggest measure of quality). The scene was obviously also very poorly lit.
That said, it is good that the better camera phones got the white balance correct; that's the main problem I have with my dinky camera phone, all the photos come out too orange or blue, never what they're supposed to be. But come on, obviously, you can't say a camera phone can compete with even a midrange pocket digital camera with options and lens quality and stuff, no less any digital SLR. You just can't make stupid comparisons... but then when have we ever trusted CNet with being 'intelligent'?
Wrong story, they already built a tunnel between England and France. Then they tried the rabbit. Neither worked out so well for them...
I'm running on Slicehost's 256MB plan, and I'll throw in a huge recommendation for them. Uptime has been stellar and the community and the company are amazing.
For 256MB, you can run MySQL just fine, along with Apache and a few other services as well. My server consistently has ~100 MB free with MySQL, Apache (mod_php5/mod_python), Postfix/courier for email, and more. When web requests spike it can use the memory up, but doesn't do too badly.
I figure if I ever need it I can always upgrade to 512 MB for $38/month, which is also an excellent deal. For my moderate load though the 256 works great and is a steal. Go for it.
I totally had images of Ninja units in Civilization IV... or maybe a ninja civilization to start the game with... or maybe just ninjas dominating the whole world.
What, you mean they're totally unrelated? Oh. My bad.
Yep, true, my bad. Heh, I've got it sitting right here and still got it wrong ;)
Agreed with sibling, your question is irrelevant, admittedly just like the statistics. If you don't believe that some significant portion of users are uncomfortable with the command line, then you need a reality check.
You're probably right, it may be easier for *you* in Linux, but that just shows you how stuck people are on Windows. They're more willing to re-install it and deal with it than move to an an OS that they perceive as not being able to use at all (logical, if you ask me).
If you don't believe that "normal users" can't use a command line or don't want to, then any amount of statistical backup won't help.
On a side note, we need more general computer usability surveys... I couldn't find anything either.
So they're calling it "Linux" now huh?
The difference is that when Linux doesn't work, it's really difficult to make it work, and it involves a command line, which scares everyone except us. ;-)
When windows doesn't work, you're still in Windows. When it really doesn't work, you just have to re-install Windows. That's actually less scary than a command line for 95% of computer users.