For 50 years one thought they couldn't travel faster than sound.
Only the stupid ones thought it was actually impossible. Rifle bullets had been supersonic since the 19th century.
Technically, they knew for a long time they could make an object break the sound barrier, however, until Chuck Yeager di so, they had no idea if he would survive.
If you'd like one of your Dashboard widgets to be available all the time, instead of only when you have activated Dashboard via F12, then activate the Dashboard dvelopment mode. Open the Terminal and type
defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmode YES
and press Return. Then logout and log back in again. Now debugging mode is activated. To get a widget off of the Dashboard and onto your desktop, just do the following:
Activate Dashboard by pressing F12 (or whatever key you've assigned to Dashboard).
Begin dragging the widget.
Press F12 again, before letting up on the mouse button.
Drop the widget wherever you want it.
You can do the same thing in reverse to drag the widget back onto the Dashboard. Also of interest: while a widget is frontmost, you can press Command-R to reload it. (This may be necessary if a widget is buggy and gets messed up somehow.) There's even a nifty Core Image-based twirl effect to accompany the reload.
Maybe I will get modded of topic too, but I find it interesting that the above poster made not only a joke on a typo, he made a joke with some relevance, as well as adding sme links. Now granted it is not about whether to switch but it is slightly amusing.
My only guess is that whomever moderated this comment had no idea what Forth was.
I'm sure there is a good reason for this, but I have no idea what it is but it seems to cross industries, records, cds, movies, comics seem to be on wendsdays, but that could be that they arrive on tuesday with UPS and get put on the shelves for wed. morning.
There is probably a good sound business reason for this....or it might just be inertia
i never looked at the LCD/plasma displays too much but i know the CRT devices are among the best. the LCD/plasmas *look* darn good to me.
I can't find the article right now, but, Sony is losing/not making much money on TV's right now because they have to buy their LCD's and plasma's from LG.
We do a lot of color critical work and have given up on LCD as our main monitors (we have a couple people using Cinema Displays as second monitors). They are too bright in the hilites and at the same time to dark in the shadows to accurately replicate a printed proof. Even throwing in monitor calibration, they still make images appear more contrasty and heavy. All of our color folks use CRT monitors from Barco, they cost as much as a cinema display for a 21", but some of the best stability we have seen.
EyeTV is a feature-rich digital TV recorder with realtime MPEG-2 video encoding that allows you to watch, record and edit your favorite TV shows and movies directly on your Mac. Automatically schedule when to record shows, edit out the unwanted content, and then burn your recording to DVD. You can even pause and replay live TV, letting you watch what you want, when you want it. The combination of EyeTV and an Electronic Program Guide means you'll never miss a show.
I have not actually tried it myself, but apparently it has/will soon have HD support as well.
Additionally, another popular myth is that all records of things you've done as a child are simply automatically destroyed as soon as you reach adulthood. That isn't so, though typically after a certain number of years you can at least request the records be sealed, in some instances (such as if you are part of a warez ring) the information can remain on record permenantly (as there are specific exemptions for certain circumstances).
The records are automatically sealed to casual viewers IE: Public Record, but without a judge intervening they can still be used in relation to Security Clearances, trials as an adult, basicly anything govn't related. Also, the only ones that really carry over currently are drug and violent crimes.
Adobe in their infinite wisdom capped photoshops ram usage at just under 2 gb, so now I have my fancy dual G5, 4gb RAM and photoshop won't use it all. I sent in "feature requests" whil beta testing PS 8 and (I am not making this up) got in response "Unfortunately this is not a high priority for us at this time". I routinely work on files over 1gb in size, I would like to have the (reccomended by adobe) 4x file size in RAM available to me.
So when we are seeking someone experienced in ____, you should be able to cite your experience in _____(other)? All based on money? Which is a different argument anyways...
waiter - $8.50hr + tips doubtful benifits
starting pre-press (no experience) $15 hr full benifits
experienced pre-press $25-60 hr (depending on exp.)
I have known many waiters/waitress', except for the lucky few at some pretty fancy places, they are happy to average out with tips at $15 an hour. The other part being, the only way to make more money as a waiter is to go to a restraunt with higher prices. If you have one years experience you amke $8.50 hr if you have 10 years exp. you still make $8.50 an hour, you better hope that La Fancie is hiring if you want to support a family on that.
So yes, I can almost guarantee that if you are applying within my field with a decent amount of experience, then, you will make more than as a waiter.
Which doesn't really make a difference, my point was that the downside to posting help wanted listings on craigs list is that you get the resume equivalent of spam with just about every posting. The impression we get is that people are just e-mailing resumes because it is a job, not because they are qualified. This makes posting for jobs there kind of a pain, and only used as a last resort.
I would say the only complaint I have about craig's list job postings....
Too many respondents.
We got over six hundred resumes in 24 hours, had to pull the listing. The real downside, I don't think but 1% actually read the job listing. We had to repost (new fee) after having gone through the first 600 to no use. If you leave it up to long you get so flooded with resumes it is ridiculous.
PS all you job seekers. If you have 5 years experience as a waiter. There is a good chance that you are not qualified when the add says 5 years exp. in pre-press.
You can't master GIMP in a day, and you sure as hell can't master Photoshop in a day either. Most of the complaining I hear is Photoshop users pissy about having to think a little differently to use GIMP.
I have never actually complained about the gimp, I have only tried to use it once, so I am definitely not in the know about the program. However, I am a regualr photoshop user. I can not take the GIMP seriously because I do not have a reason to. I know photoshop inside and out, I know more than the interface. I know what will cause it to crawl, I know what is most likely to make it crash (on my machine). I know where it falls down on the job from lack of a certain feature. Most importantly (to me) I know how long something will take me to do in Photoshop. All of that is worth the couple hundred bucks it costs me to upgrade every 18 months or so. Especially considering that the upgrade is usually about the same as 2 hours work.
Having been using photoshop for about 8 years professionally, I figure it will take me 4-8 to gain this competance with GIMP. Not worth it(to me).Now, on the other hand, if you are just starting out, by all means, learn the GIMP, I am sure it is a viable application for what it does. And really, the UI. Who cares, does it work?
Please add serious ICC profile support wherever you can in the image workflow.
For ICC to work properly it would have to be included in every step of the workflow. Otherwise, you are just making up numbers at some point.
Even if you don't support CMYK, good color support would rock, and it would make professionals take GIMP more seriously.
Prefessional Web developers and film/tv people maybe. However, this is the killer feature for the print world. You can not have an application that is "good enough", oh except for that last bit where we get a file that can not be used with ink on paper.
Now the IP over FireWire Preview Release adds support for using the Internet Protocol - commonly known as TCP/IP - over FireWire. With this software installed, Macintosh computers and other devices can use existing IP protocols and services over FireWire, including AFP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc. In all cases, Rendezvous can be used if desired for configuration, name resolution, and discovery.
The preview release adds a new Kernel Extension that hooks into the existing network services architecture. Using the existing Network Preferences Pane, users can add FireWire as their IP network node to connect and communicate between two machines.
Apparently it is still in a beta form, but, apple seems to be doing something about this.
I work in a building where apple product images are worked on, in another department, in a locked room. And even though I have no access to said room, I have to sign an NDA, just on the off chance someone will mess up, leave something where I could happen to see it. Yes even our receptionist and janitor has to sign. A new one for every project that comes in. Apple takes their security VERY seriousley with it's vendors. Spot checks, building requirements (relating to those locked doors) and other stuff. So I would say there is an extremely good chance that an NDA was involved. Even if it wasn't by the person who actually leaked it, whom ever gave the leak the info had signed one.
From my point of view I hope they find out who did it. Apple pays our company alot of money for our work, and part of that higher price is the reasonable assumption that we will not "leak" their products. And in the grand scheme of things the rest of the world knowing about whatver the next Apple Thing-a-ma-bob (TM) is or keeping my job there is no contest.
So the (calibrated) screen is good enough; no need to do a special color print to know what it looks like.
I would also like to sell you a bridge I have available.
Our shop has had a few "color experts" come in and calibrate our monitors. none of them ever managed to match each other, nor match the proof, nor stay the same for more than a week. When consistancy and accuracy are paramount screen viewing is just not there yet. SWOP standard proofing is the only method reliable enough. There are certain ink jets that are close (Epson 7600/9600 series is one that comes to mind). Even those have flaws in comparison to a film/laminate proof.
Oh great, now I'm caught in an ethical quandry: To go or not to go to my beloved webcomics with adblock on?
Try Pith Helmet (at Version Tracker) It blocks about 95% of ads for me, as well as doing a few other neat features, but mostly just blocks ads, flash and annoying animated gifs. At one point (before i trained it) it was blocking the "Sponsored Links" at Google.
I sure hope they don't start charging for this after the beta.
"Microsoft's tool, expected to be available within 30 days, initially will be free but the company isn't ruling out charging for future versions. 'We're going to be working through the issue of pricing and licensing," Nash said. "We'll come up with a plan and roll that out.' Microsoft's disclosure that it may eventually charge extra for Windows protection reflects a recognition inside the company that it could collect significant profits by helping to protect its customers," Article Source
Looks like they are investigating how much, not if.
So? Are they going to have to also make illegal import sys, os, SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib, re, and hmac? Or are those going to be on there because they have functions necessary to the OS not related to P2P apps?
I think the point he was trying to make, is that it is too late to ban. Yeah, it would have been more impressive if he had coded it out of 15 lines of 1's and 0's, however, I think showing that you can take a bunch of embedded functions, and write a script that acts as a P2P app is a worthwhile example.
The devs behind Firefox are trying really hard to make a piece of Open Source software that appeals to the masses. The non-technical-adepts don't like software with ten jazillion options in a menu tree
I appreciate their goal, however, why would it be wrong to include an "advanced" tab/button/check box, that would allow the rest of these options to be seen by everyone who cares.
I am not even sure that it matters that much, my wife doesn't ever change ANY preferences/options, however the software is set up that's how she will use it. It is up to me to make sure her software is running with the right settings.
For starters, JPEG drops a LOT of color information, which will usually result in images where subject matter that has very sharp color contrast (but not intensity) will be washed out.
True for an RGB image, but, we have done tons of testing on this within the CMYK space (clipped way down from RGB) and the difference is not noticeable across a wide range of images when proofed. You see a slight difference in color information when reading the numbers in the RGB, usually less than 1% though, and in CMYK there is no difference in color or luminosity values. Now, all of this is assuming that you are using the highest quality lowest compression jpeg.
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to disable spotlight try spotless
and instructions on disabling dashboard.
Only the stupid ones thought it was actually impossible. Rifle bullets had been supersonic since the 19th century.
Technically, they knew for a long time they could make an object break the sound barrier, however, until Chuck Yeager di so, they had no idea if he would survive.
If you'd like one of your Dashboard widgets to be available all the time, instead of only when you have activated Dashboard via F12, then activate the Dashboard dvelopment mode. Open the Terminal and type
defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmode YES
and press Return. Then logout and log back in again. Now debugging mode is activated. To get a widget off of the Dashboard and onto your desktop, just do the following:
Activate Dashboard by pressing F12 (or whatever key you've assigned to Dashboard).
Begin dragging the widget.
Press F12 again, before letting up on the mouse button.
Drop the widget wherever you want it.
You can do the same thing in reverse to drag the widget back onto the Dashboard. Also of interest: while a widget is frontmost, you can press Command-R to reload it. (This may be necessary if a widget is buggy and gets messed up somehow.) There's even a nifty Core Image-based twirl effect to accompany the reload.
Because Google the company spells it's name different than googol the number.
from Google: 1 googol = 1.0 × 10 to the 100 power
My only guess is that whomever moderated this comment had no idea what Forth was.
There is probably a good sound business reason for this....or it might just be inertia
I can't find the article right now, but, Sony is losing/not making much money on TV's right now because they have to buy their LCD's and plasma's from LG.
We do a lot of color critical work and have given up on LCD as our main monitors (we have a couple people using Cinema Displays as second monitors). They are too bright in the hilites and at the same time to dark in the shadows to accurately replicate a printed proof. Even throwing in monitor calibration, they still make images appear more contrasty and heavy. All of our color folks use CRT monitors from Barco, they cost as much as a cinema display for a 21", but some of the best stability we have seen.
I have not actually tried it myself, but apparently it has/will soon have HD support as well.
not enough RAM
one butt^H^H^H oops no mouse.
The records are automatically sealed to casual viewers IE: Public Record, but without a judge intervening they can still be used in relation to Security Clearances, trials as an adult, basicly anything govn't related. Also, the only ones that really carry over currently are drug and violent crimes.
Slightly off topic rant.
Adobe in their infinite wisdom capped photoshops ram usage at just under 2 gb, so now I have my fancy dual G5, 4gb RAM and photoshop won't use it all. I sent in "feature requests" whil beta testing PS 8 and (I am not making this up) got in response "Unfortunately this is not a high priority for us at this time". I routinely work on files over 1gb in size, I would like to have the (reccomended by adobe) 4x file size in RAM available to me.
end rant
When you think someone is "getting a great deal" on a $900 a month studio. $15 an hour aint that great.
waiter - $8.50hr + tips doubtful benifits
starting pre-press (no experience) $15 hr full benifits
experienced pre-press $25-60 hr (depending on exp.)
I have known many waiters/waitress', except for the lucky few at some pretty fancy places, they are happy to average out with tips at $15 an hour. The other part being, the only way to make more money as a waiter is to go to a restraunt with higher prices. If you have one years experience you amke $8.50 hr if you have 10 years exp. you still make $8.50 an hour, you better hope that La Fancie is hiring if you want to support a family on that.
So yes, I can almost guarantee that if you are applying within my field with a decent amount of experience, then, you will make more than as a waiter.
Which doesn't really make a difference, my point was that the downside to posting help wanted listings on craigs list is that you get the resume equivalent of spam with just about every posting. The impression we get is that people are just e-mailing resumes because it is a job, not because they are qualified. This makes posting for jobs there kind of a pain, and only used as a last resort.
Too many respondents.
We got over six hundred resumes in 24 hours, had to pull the listing. The real downside, I don't think but 1% actually read the job listing. We had to repost (new fee) after having gone through the first 600 to no use. If you leave it up to long you get so flooded with resumes it is ridiculous.
PS all you job seekers. If you have 5 years experience as a waiter. There is a good chance that you are not qualified when the add says 5 years exp. in pre-press.
I have never actually complained about the gimp, I have only tried to use it once, so I am definitely not in the know about the program. However, I am a regualr photoshop user. I can not take the GIMP seriously because I do not have a reason to. I know photoshop inside and out, I know more than the interface. I know what will cause it to crawl, I know what is most likely to make it crash (on my machine). I know where it falls down on the job from lack of a certain feature. Most importantly (to me) I know how long something will take me to do in Photoshop. All of that is worth the couple hundred bucks it costs me to upgrade every 18 months or so. Especially considering that the upgrade is usually about the same as 2 hours work.
Having been using photoshop for about 8 years professionally, I figure it will take me 4-8 to gain this competance with GIMP. Not worth it(to me).Now, on the other hand, if you are just starting out, by all means, learn the GIMP, I am sure it is a viable application for what it does. And really, the UI. Who cares, does it work?
Please add serious ICC profile support wherever you can in the image workflow.
For ICC to work properly it would have to be included in every step of the workflow. Otherwise, you are just making up numbers at some point.
Even if you don't support CMYK, good color support would rock, and it would make professionals take GIMP more seriously.
Prefessional Web developers and film/tv people maybe. However, this is the killer feature for the print world. You can not have an application that is "good enough", oh except for that last bit where we get a file that can not be used with ink on paper.
From my point of view I hope they find out who did it. Apple pays our company alot of money for our work, and part of that higher price is the reasonable assumption that we will not "leak" their products. And in the grand scheme of things the rest of the world knowing about whatver the next Apple Thing-a-ma-bob (TM) is or keeping my job there is no contest.
I would also like to sell you a bridge I have available.
Our shop has had a few "color experts" come in and calibrate our monitors. none of them ever managed to match each other, nor match the proof, nor stay the same for more than a week. When consistancy and accuracy are paramount screen viewing is just not there yet. SWOP standard proofing is the only method reliable enough. There are certain ink jets that are close (Epson 7600/9600 series is one that comes to mind). Even those have flaws in comparison to a film/laminate proof.
Try Pith Helmet (at Version Tracker) It blocks about 95% of ads for me, as well as doing a few other neat features, but mostly just blocks ads, flash and annoying animated gifs. At one point (before i trained it) it was blocking the "Sponsored Links" at Google.
"Microsoft's tool, expected to be available within 30 days, initially will be free but the company isn't ruling out charging for future versions. 'We're going to be working through the issue of pricing and licensing," Nash said. "We'll come up with a plan and roll that out.' Microsoft's disclosure that it may eventually charge extra for Windows protection reflects a recognition inside the company that it could collect significant profits by helping to protect its customers,"
Article Source
Looks like they are investigating how much, not if.
I think the point he was trying to make, is that it is too late to ban. Yeah, it would have been more impressive if he had coded it out of 15 lines of 1's and 0's, however, I think showing that you can take a bunch of embedded functions, and write a script that acts as a P2P app is a worthwhile example.
I appreciate their goal, however, why would it be wrong to include an "advanced" tab/button/check box, that would allow the rest of these options to be seen by everyone who cares.
I am not even sure that it matters that much, my wife doesn't ever change ANY preferences/options, however the software is set up that's how she will use it. It is up to me to make sure her software is running with the right settings.
The results of our evaluation are:
I am not sure if my ad blocking hosts file, or the fact that I was using Safari on OSX got me this result.
True for an RGB image, but, we have done tons of testing on this within the CMYK space (clipped way down from RGB) and the difference is not noticeable across a wide range of images when proofed. You see a slight difference in color information when reading the numbers in the RGB, usually less than 1% though, and in CMYK there is no difference in color or luminosity values. Now, all of this is assuming that you are using the highest quality lowest compression jpeg.