Openness is all fine and dandy, but ultimately consumer friendliness and usability are what will make a successful platform. Whether geeks want to admit it or not, that's why Apple's offerings are so successful.
What about "top ten slideshows" on big media websites that present their "top ten" on eleven or twelve separate pages, each filled with more ads and other distractions than the actual "content" you've been directed to via Slashdot?
Yeah, I know they're not "applications" but, the annoyance factor is right up there.
The scouting party stopped a few hundred yards from the village on the bank of the stream. Yen Lee studied the village through this field glasses while his men sat down and lit cigarettes. The village was built into the side of a mountain. The stream ran through the town, and water had been diverted into the pools on a series of cultivated terraces that led up to the monastery. There was no sign of life in the steep winding street or by the pools. The valley was littered with large boulders which would serve as cover if necessary, but he did not expect resistance on a military level. He lowered his glasses, signaling for the men to follow.
They crossed a stone bridge two at a time, covered by the men behind them. If any defenders were going to open fire, now would be the time and place to do it. Beyond the bridge the street twisted up the mountainside. On both sides there were stone huts, many of them fallen into ruin and obviously deserted. As they moved up the stone street, keeping to the sides and taking cover behind the ruined huts, Yen Lee became increasingly aware of a hideous unknown oder. He motioned the patrol to halt and stood there sniffing.
Unlike his counterparts in western countries, he had been carefully selected for a high level of intuitive adjustment, and trained accordingly to imagine and explore seemingly fantastic potentials in any situation, while at the same time giving equal consideration to prosaic and practical aspects. He had developed an attitude at once probing and impersonal, remote and alert. He did not know when the training had begun, since in Academy 23 it was carried out in a context of reality. He did not see his teachers, whose instructions were conveyed through a series of real situations.
He had been born in Hong Kong and lived there until age twelve, so that English was a second language. The his family had moved to Shanghai. In his early teens he had read the American Beat writers. The volumes had been brought in through Hong Kong and sold under the counter in a bookshop that seemed to enjoy freedom from official interference, although the proprietor was also engaged in currency deals.
At the age of sixteen he was sent to a military academy, where he received intensive training in the use of weapons. After six months he was summoned to the Colonel's office and told that he would be leaving the military school and returning to Shanghai. Since he had applied himself to the training and made and excellent showing, he asked the Colonel if this was because his work had not been satisfactory. The Colonel was looking not at him but around him, as if drawing a figure in the air. He indicated obliquely that while a desire to please one's superiors was laudable, other considerations were in certain cases even more highly emphasized.
The smell hit him like an invisible wall. He stopped and leaned against a house. It was like rotten metal or metal excrement, he decided. The patrol was still in the ruined outskirts of the village. One man was vomiting violently, his face beaded with sweat. He straightened up and started toward the stream. Yen Lee stopped him: "Don't drink the water or splash it on your face. The stream runs through the town."
Yen Lee sat down and looked once again at the town through his field glasses. There were still no villagers in sight. He put his glasses down and conducted an out-of-body exploration of the village - what westerners call "astral travel." He was moving up the street now, his gun at the ready. The gun would shoot blasts of energy, and he could feel it tingle in his hands. He kicked open the door.
One glance told him that interrogation was useless. He would get no information on a verbal level. A man and a woman were in the terminal stages of some disease, their faces eaten to the bone by phosphorescent sores. An older woman was dead. The next hut contained five corpses, all elderly.
In another hut a youth lay on a palette, the lower half of his body covered by a blanket. Bright red nipples
Look at the size of tech magazines. The number of ads they sell is directly related to the current boom. During the '99-2000 bubble tech magazines were huge! Look at an old issue of Wired from 1999. After the bust they shrank to a quarter or maybe a third of the size they had been (if they didn't go out of business themselves). They've been slowly growing since, but they haven't nearly reached where they were during the first bubble.
The "part-time professinal photographer" also showed some ignorance by claiming jpeg was unusable for professional photographers. Using jpeg compression at a low compression level will still produce a significantly smaller file than the uncompressed original and there will be no detectable visual difference between the two to the unaided eye.
I believe Bruce Chizen recently said that almost half of Adobe's revenue comes from their Mac software. (Could be mistaken, it may have been half the revenue the get from the Creative Suite apps).
The biggest difference between the devices is the Ditty's 1-inch LCD display screen, which helps users navigate their music lists
The biggest difference between the devices it the Ditty sports that huge, butt-ugly Dell logo prominently while the Shuffle sports that cool, understated Apple logo.
I'll probably be market redundant for saying this so many times, but WORD IS NOT A PAGE LAYOUT PROGRAM.
It's designed to make your content look as good as it can on the device you're printing to, not to make the content layout as designed on the printer you're printing to.
BUT PEOPLE WANT TO USE IT FOR A PAGE LAYOUT PROGRAM ANYWAY!!! We get college schedules that they get some secretary to "layout" in Word, and then they wonder why it rewrapped when we send them a proof. Then they pay us to fix it so it wraps the same as their laser-printed hard copy does. But at least they didn't have to pay a graphic artist to lay it out with a real page layout program.
It seems ridiculous that you can sue someone for violating your patent if they have implemented the same "intellectual property" before you were ever granted the patent. Are they supposed to know you will be granted a patent sometime in the indeterminate future? I guess that's why I'm not a lawyer.
We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.'
Microsoft has been trying to get a foothold in the print industry for years, but they still can't get it right. Publisher is a pale imitation of layout programs like InDesign or QuarkXpress. When you set up a PostScript printer on a Windows machine you still have to go into its properties and tell it to make grayscale and black objects be grayscale and black, not RGB. TrueType fonts predominate on the platform, and despite improvements in the way the PostScript language handles them, there are still issues, including the non-embedding bit that is set in some of them. It seems to me that Microsoft never really "got" PostScript which is why their efforts in this direction have failed. The print industry has millions of dollars invested in PostScript RIPS and PDF workflows. If MS is seriously thinks they can replace that, they really don't understand the print industry.
Australia does NOT have a TV Network. We have a few lame, protected stations, that broadcast 22 minutes of commercials per hour - truely 3rd world standard.
I believe we get about 20 minutes of commercials per hour in the U.S. Do third world populations even have TVs?
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Shitty black earbuds okay then?
Openness is all fine and dandy, but ultimately consumer friendliness and usability are what will make a successful platform. Whether geeks want to admit it or not, that's why Apple's offerings are so successful.
The iMac may strike you as a bit pricey, but it compares well to Dell's similar offering.
What about "top ten slideshows" on big media websites that present their "top ten" on eleven or twelve separate pages, each filled with more ads and other distractions than the actual "content" you've been directed to via Slashdot?
Yeah, I know they're not "applications" but, the annoyance factor is right up there.
The scouting party stopped a few hundred yards from the village on the bank of the stream. Yen Lee studied the village through this field glasses while his men sat down and lit cigarettes. The village was built into the side of a mountain. The stream ran through the town, and water had been diverted into the pools on a series of cultivated terraces that led up to the monastery. There was no sign of life in the steep winding street or by the pools. The valley was littered with large boulders which would serve as cover if necessary, but he did not expect resistance on a military level. He lowered his glasses, signaling for the men to follow.
They crossed a stone bridge two at a time, covered by the men behind them. If any defenders were going to open fire, now would be the time and place to do it. Beyond the bridge the street twisted up the mountainside. On both sides there were stone huts, many of them fallen into ruin and obviously deserted. As they moved up the stone street, keeping to the sides and taking cover behind the ruined huts, Yen Lee became increasingly aware of a hideous unknown oder. He motioned the patrol to halt and stood there sniffing.
Unlike his counterparts in western countries, he had been carefully selected for a high level of intuitive adjustment, and trained accordingly to imagine and explore seemingly fantastic potentials in any situation, while at the same time giving equal consideration to prosaic and practical aspects. He had developed an attitude at once probing and impersonal, remote and alert. He did not know when the training had begun, since in Academy 23 it was carried out in a context of reality. He did not see his teachers, whose instructions were conveyed through a series of real situations.
He had been born in Hong Kong and lived there until age twelve, so that English was a second language. The his family had moved to Shanghai. In his early teens he had read the American Beat writers. The volumes had been brought in through Hong Kong and sold under the counter in a bookshop that seemed to enjoy freedom from official interference, although the proprietor was also engaged in currency deals.
At the age of sixteen he was sent to a military academy, where he received intensive training in the use of weapons. After six months he was summoned to the Colonel's office and told that he would be leaving the military school and returning to Shanghai. Since he had applied himself to the training and made and excellent showing, he asked the Colonel if this was because his work had not been satisfactory. The Colonel was looking not at him but around him, as if drawing a figure in the air. He indicated obliquely that while a desire to please one's superiors was laudable, other considerations were in certain cases even more highly emphasized.
The smell hit him like an invisible wall. He stopped and leaned against a house. It was like rotten metal or metal excrement, he decided. The patrol was still in the ruined outskirts of the village. One man was vomiting violently, his face beaded with sweat. He straightened up and started toward the stream. Yen Lee stopped him: "Don't drink the water or splash it on your face. The stream runs through the town."
Yen Lee sat down and looked once again at the town through his field glasses. There were still no villagers in sight. He put his glasses down and conducted an out-of-body exploration of the village - what westerners call "astral travel." He was moving up the street now, his gun at the ready. The gun would shoot blasts of energy, and he could feel it tingle in his hands. He kicked open the door.
One glance told him that interrogation was useless. He would get no information on a verbal level. A man and a woman were in the terminal stages of some disease, their faces eaten to the bone by phosphorescent sores. An older woman was dead. The next hut contained five corpses, all elderly.
In another hut a youth lay on a palette, the lower half of his body covered by a blanket. Bright red nipples
You can trust us.
Look at the size of tech magazines. The number of ads they sell is directly related to the current boom. During the '99-2000 bubble tech magazines were huge! Look at an old issue of Wired from 1999. After the bust they shrank to a quarter or maybe a third of the size they had been (if they didn't go out of business themselves). They've been slowly growing since, but they haven't nearly reached where they were during the first bubble.
which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.
A billion computers running Windows. That's beyond kind of mind-numbing. That's extremely mind-numbing.
We Americans would like to introduce the rest of the world to our leader, Big Brother.
America, home of the fre... Oh, wait.
Yes.
Nice cut 'n paste summary of the article.
Thweet!
The "part-time professinal photographer" also showed some ignorance by claiming jpeg was unusable for professional photographers. Using jpeg compression at a low compression level will still produce a significantly smaller file than the uncompressed original and there will be no detectable visual difference between the two to the unaided eye.
1. Lying about reasons for invading sovereign nations - Okay
2. Holding U.S. citizens indefinitely without right of habeus corpus - Okay
3. Torturing prisoners - Okay
4. Eavesdropping on U.S. citizens' international calls without warrant - Okay
5. Tracking all calls made by every citizen within United States - Okay
6. Exercising 1st amendment right to free speech and possibly checking out-of-control abuse of Constitution by administration - Not Okay
Is that it?I believe Bruce Chizen recently said that almost half of Adobe's revenue comes from their Mac software. (Could be mistaken, it may have been half the revenue the get from the Creative Suite apps).
The biggest difference between the devices is the Ditty's 1-inch LCD display screen, which helps users navigate their music lists
The biggest difference between the devices it the Ditty sports that huge, butt-ugly Dell logo prominently while the Shuffle sports that cool, understated Apple logo.
I'll probably be market redundant for saying this so many times, but WORD IS NOT A PAGE LAYOUT PROGRAM. It's designed to make your content look as good as it can on the device you're printing to, not to make the content layout as designed on the printer you're printing to.
BUT PEOPLE WANT TO USE IT FOR A PAGE LAYOUT PROGRAM ANYWAY!!! We get college schedules that they get some secretary to "layout" in Word, and then they wonder why it rewrapped when we send them a proof. Then they pay us to fix it so it wraps the same as their laser-printed hard copy does. But at least they didn't have to pay a graphic artist to lay it out with a real page layout program.It seems ridiculous that you can sue someone for violating your patent if they have implemented the same "intellectual property" before you were ever granted the patent. Are they supposed to know you will be granted a patent sometime in the indeterminate future? I guess that's why I'm not a lawyer.
Hasn't c|net heard of Think Secret? Disclosing trade secrets!
Infoworld CTO Chad Dickerson has a good take on these "critical shortage of CS students" reports that have been coming out lately.
We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.'
Microsoft has been trying to get a foothold in the print industry for years, but they still can't get it right. Publisher is a pale imitation of layout programs like InDesign or QuarkXpress. When you set up a PostScript printer on a Windows machine you still have to go into its properties and tell it to make grayscale and black objects be grayscale and black, not RGB. TrueType fonts predominate on the platform, and despite improvements in the way the PostScript language handles them, there are still issues, including the non-embedding bit that is set in some of them. It seems to me that Microsoft never really "got" PostScript which is why their efforts in this direction have failed. The print industry has millions of dollars invested in PostScript RIPS and PDF workflows. If MS is seriously thinks they can replace that, they really don't understand the print industry.
I believe we get about 20 minutes of commercials per hour in the U.S. Do third world populations even have TVs?
Attention moderators! The parent comment is Informative not Insightful! It doesn't require insight to know Macs work with 2-button mice. It just takes experience with a Mac and a 2-button mouse.
You can read about tabbed browsing all you want. Until you actually use a browser that implements it, you don't understand how useful and convenient it really is.