It is insightful. They're even announcing some of the same features that they 'vaped' before. Why do you think that they're pushing the release date back farther and farther? Eventually, when they do release, Longhorn will have morphed into another Cairo, with just a few of the promised innovations thrown in.
It's not that MS isn't doing anything. They are trying to fit as many 2003-2004 era buzzword features in as they can. Don't be surprised when they abandon the current targeted feature set and target the 04-05 buzzwords a year from now!
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Actually, when APS first came out, Fuji debuted their new finer-grained emulsions in the APS format, to try to boost sales of APS cameras. Of course, their non-APS customers also wanted the fine grained emulsions too, so it was only a short while before Fuji started selling it in other formats.
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The HP 7960 8 ink printer produces prints which are superior to photographic enlarger prints.
With film enlargement, the choices of paper and film are what impacts the quality the most. I would agree that the current digital workflow rivals film for quality and blows it away for control, but traditional enlargements can and do frequently look better. I personally find HP's greens a little sickly.
I don't trust any inkjet manufacturer when they claim their prints are archival just yet. Check back with me in twenty years and I may have changed my mind. So, currently Lightjet is the printer that I make most of my prints on. It produces 300 DPI continuous tone color (equal to 4000 DPI halftone - I don't think you could find an inkjet that even prints 4000 DPI!!!), with a very wide gamut. It uses genuine archival photographic paper (many different kinds, actually). The price is competitive to inkjet systems as well. Color has been spot on so far.
Most professional codecs, on either platform, are made to take advantage of the MMX/SSE/vector acceleration provided by the system. Additionally, many tasks were optimized for the Intel MMX/SSE beyond just the codec.
You're totally right. Software should only be deployed when it's 100% certified bug-free.
Patching is a reality. As long as software evolves and develops, patches will be a reality.
The number of boxes that get rooted are proportional to the number of unprotected, badly-run boxes and always will be. It's easy to sweep your arm and declare things unsuitable, but this proves and solves nothing.
You have discovered a red herring. If the design and implementation of Windows and OS X were identical, then we might see similar numbers of viruses. They're not, and your statement has shown you to be completely ignorant of software systems in general.
Windows doesn't have more viruses because it's more prevalent, it has more viruses because the OS is boneheaded and the users will click on anything.
Here's a question - why are most web server worms and viruses on the MS / IIS platform instead of Apache / Unix? Apache runs more web sites than IIS, so we should see more Apache worms than Windows worms. We should see more MySQL viruses, but all the SQL infections I hear about are for MSSQL.
Sheesh. You've a great career in management with that kind of logic.
Most digital audio you'd be getting on CD or DVD is 'mastered' or fixed up in a variety of ways before it hits the stores. This usually involves stripping the lowest bass frequencies out of the mix. On most DVDs I don't think you should be hearing any 10 Hz sounds at all, and if you are they are more likely an artifact of your environment.
Even with relatively low-powered monitor speakers, I could create patches on my synthesizer that would literally vibrate my apartment building. All the windows would vibrate, the toilets, the walls, everything.
I stopped doing that after a few times out of safety concerns.
What is necessary now is SP2. And the sooner they release that, the better.
Service Pack 2 will undoubtedly create just as many problems as it purports to fix. Microsoft creates intentionally marginal products to encourage us all to upgrade every few years. This is the core strategy of Microsoft, and has been for 20 years at least.
No, OS X is a derivative of Openstep. There's a whole plethora of different stuff in there now. Carbon is actually the old Mac API which has been cleaned up and modernized, cocoa is the Nextstep APIs. It has a totally different BSD as well - FreeBSD 5.0 instead of 4.3BSD. There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do on OS X that you can't on Nextstep, and a few things that changed (like Display PS -> Quartz). Objective C is the only well documented way to make Cocoa apps, but you can use Java, Applescript, and other languages as well.
I could go on like this for a page or two, but the point is that it's changed enough to be an entirely new creature. It's not like saying that Windows XP is Windows NT, where the same applications will run unchanged on both operating systems. Chances are most old NS / OS apps would have to be massaged thoroughly to even compile. Some would have to be largely rewritten. Look at the difficulty that the MusicKit people have had in the transition to OS X.
Is that a surprise? If you walk by somebody on the street every day, and they punch you in the mouth every time, is it unusual to expect that the next time you walk by you'll get punched just like always?
Many intelligent people are wary and distrustful of Microsoft because of experience. It isn't just a fun way of blowing off steam. In time, if Microsoft reveals to us a new way of operating its business, and demonstrates through honest procedure that they are becoming more responsible, people may change their mind and trust or like them. It worked for IBM.
Please, don't quote MacKiDo if you want to give the impression that you are clued-in. That site is the most ludicrous bunch of half researched tripe that I've ever seen. Apple most certainly didn't invent the GUI, Jobs saw a lisp machine at PARC and copied the look of it. He was an idiot for not copying the underlying parts of it, but we'll take what we can get here.
I like my TiBook, but there's no excuse for the bullshit spewing from MacKiDo.
I doubt it. Poerbooks are the pro machines, and Apple will likely put the G5 in them ahead of iMacs.
Just to compare and contrast, the G4 came out as a Power Macintosh first, then a Powerbook, and then, finally, years later it appeared in an iMac. Just recently did the G4 come out in an iBook.
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It is insightful. They're even announcing some of the same features that they 'vaped' before. Why do you think that they're pushing the release date back farther and farther? Eventually, when they do release, Longhorn will have morphed into another Cairo, with just a few of the promised innovations thrown in.
It's not that MS isn't doing anything. They are trying to fit as many 2003-2004 era buzzword features in as they can. Don't be surprised when they abandon the current targeted feature set and target the 04-05 buzzwords a year from now!
Actually, when APS first came out, Fuji debuted their new finer-grained emulsions in the APS format, to try to boost sales of APS cameras. Of course, their non-APS customers also wanted the fine grained emulsions too, so it was only a short while before Fuji started selling it in other formats.
The HP 7960 8 ink printer produces prints which are superior to photographic enlarger prints.
With film enlargement, the choices of paper and film are what impacts the quality the most. I would agree that the current digital workflow rivals film for quality and blows it away for control, but traditional enlargements can and do frequently look better. I personally find HP's greens a little sickly.
I don't trust any inkjet manufacturer when they claim their prints are archival just yet. Check back with me in twenty years and I may have changed my mind. So, currently Lightjet is the printer that I make most of my prints on. It produces 300 DPI continuous tone color (equal to 4000 DPI halftone - I don't think you could find an inkjet that even prints 4000 DPI!!!), with a very wide gamut. It uses genuine archival photographic paper (many different kinds, actually). The price is competitive to inkjet systems as well. Color has been spot on so far.
Most professional codecs, on either platform, are made to take advantage of the MMX/SSE/vector acceleration provided by the system. Additionally, many tasks were optimized for the Intel MMX/SSE beyond just the codec.
The Mac had none of these.
Bullshit. Premiere on the PC took advantage of the MMX / SSE extensions, while there was never Altivec acceleration for Premiere Mac.
Adobe also never got around to making an OS X native Premiere.
So, can you use a duel edged sword to practice by yourself?
You're totally right. Software should only be deployed when it's 100% certified bug-free.
Patching is a reality. As long as software evolves and develops, patches will be a reality.
The number of boxes that get rooted are proportional to the number of unprotected, badly-run boxes and always will be. It's easy to sweep your arm and declare things unsuitable, but this proves and solves nothing.
The patch, of course, just resets the back door user / pass couplet to new, unknown values.
1. Go to computer store.
2. Buy multi-button mouse.
3. Plug it into your Macintosh.
4. Shut the Fuck Up, you whining little bitch!
OS X works beautifully with multiple button and scrollwheel mice. It comes with a one button mouse, because it's a Fucking Macintosh!
Fuck 'em.
You can wish in one hand and shit in the other. Guess which hand fills up faster?
You have discovered a red herring. If the design and implementation of Windows and OS X were identical, then we might see similar numbers of viruses. They're not, and your statement has shown you to be completely ignorant of software systems in general.
Windows doesn't have more viruses because it's more prevalent, it has more viruses because the OS is boneheaded and the users will click on anything.
Here's a question - why are most web server worms and viruses on the MS / IIS platform instead of Apache / Unix? Apache runs more web sites than IIS, so we should see more Apache worms than Windows worms. We should see more MySQL viruses, but all the SQL infections I hear about are for MSSQL.
Sheesh. You've a great career in management with that kind of logic.
Most digital audio you'd be getting on CD or DVD is 'mastered' or fixed up in a variety of ways before it hits the stores. This usually involves stripping the lowest bass frequencies out of the mix. On most DVDs I don't think you should be hearing any 10 Hz sounds at all, and if you are they are more likely an artifact of your environment.
Even with relatively low-powered monitor speakers, I could create patches on my synthesizer that would literally vibrate my apartment building. All the windows would vibrate, the toilets, the walls, everything.
I stopped doing that after a few times out of safety concerns.
It was Vytor, the Starfire Champion.
What is necessary now is SP2. And the sooner they release that, the better.
Service Pack 2 will undoubtedly create just as many problems as it purports to fix. Microsoft creates intentionally marginal products to encourage us all to upgrade every few years. This is the core strategy of Microsoft, and has been for 20 years at least.
God you're dumb. If your brain is anywhere, it's here.
No, OS X is a derivative of Openstep. There's a whole plethora of different stuff in there now. Carbon is actually the old Mac API which has been cleaned up and modernized, cocoa is the Nextstep APIs. It has a totally different BSD as well - FreeBSD 5.0 instead of 4.3BSD. There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do on OS X that you can't on Nextstep, and a few things that changed (like Display PS -> Quartz). Objective C is the only well documented way to make Cocoa apps, but you can use Java, Applescript, and other languages as well.
I could go on like this for a page or two, but the point is that it's changed enough to be an entirely new creature. It's not like saying that Windows XP is Windows NT, where the same applications will run unchanged on both operating systems. Chances are most old NS / OS apps would have to be massaged thoroughly to even compile. Some would have to be largely rewritten. Look at the difficulty that the MusicKit people have had in the transition to OS X.
Is that a surprise? If you walk by somebody on the street every day, and they punch you in the mouth every time, is it unusual to expect that the next time you walk by you'll get punched just like always?
Many intelligent people are wary and distrustful of Microsoft because of experience. It isn't just a fun way of blowing off steam. In time, if Microsoft reveals to us a new way of operating its business, and demonstrates through honest procedure that they are becoming more responsible, people may change their mind and trust or like them. It worked for IBM.
You've GOT to be shitting me!
He's a sad soul who hasn't played Castle Wolfenstein.
Please, don't quote MacKiDo if you want to give the impression that you are clued-in. That site is the most ludicrous bunch of half researched tripe that I've ever seen. Apple most certainly didn't invent the GUI, Jobs saw a lisp machine at PARC and copied the look of it. He was an idiot for not copying the underlying parts of it, but we'll take what we can get here.
I like my TiBook, but there's no excuse for the bullshit spewing from MacKiDo.
The stupid few.
More like the greedy millions. Banking is about the most corrupt industry around aside from insurance and military contracting.
Who uses a cell phone anyway? Talk about a chintzy throwback to the late '80s.
Those things are tacky as fuck, annoying as fuck, and as far as I care you can all get cancer. In your heads.
I doubt it. Poerbooks are the pro machines, and Apple will likely put the G5 in them ahead of iMacs.
Just to compare and contrast, the G4 came out as a Power Macintosh first, then a Powerbook, and then, finally, years later it appeared in an iMac. Just recently did the G4 come out in an iBook.
If I can't decipher a post by dint of the horrible grammar or spelling, then it gets a -1, Overrated from me.
If you want people to read your opinions, please present them legibly.
Obviously they used Mac OS X to produce the PDF. PDF creation on Windows is a hairy, unreliable business (at least with the products Adobe offers).