"If you want to do the world a favor, try to spread Mozilla's XUL around."
I'm pretty sure the point of this guy's company isn't to do the world a favor, but rather to do his bank account a favor. With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense why he'd be aligning himself with M$. I don't think XUL will be generating any IPOs in the near future...
"...one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation"
First of all, get a spell-checker and a grammar book. Second of all, since when has an American election been about thorough contemplation? This election, in particular, is so viscerally geared as to render logic irrelevant. Did you see any of those ridiculous conventions? Lots of screaming, joking, and vitriol; almost no reasoning. [sarcasm]Can't wait to see the debates.[/sarcasm] What a fucking joke.
Seriously, those requirements aren't too bad. The hard drive space is nothing (comare it too UT2k4!), and these days having a gig of RAM is no stretch. And P4s are already churning at 3gigs. I do wonder what the video cards will be like in 07. You'll probably need a separate tower case just for it.
Photoshop 7 runs pretty well under Crossover Office 3. You can read up a little here. I don't think any of the other heavy hitters you mentioned are tested under Crossover yet. Personally, I'm sticking with dual-boot until Photoshop runs perfectly. And as far-fetched as that may be, I think the idea of perfectly running all of your listed programs under any kind of emulation is a huge longshot.
I found (supposedly) the 11th hour DirectX player here. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't vouch for its authenticity or functionality. Any port in a storm...
I used Dreamweaver for a long time, as it was convenient and relatively easy (and the library and template features were nice).
Unfortunately, the problem is that, as others have noted here, using such corporate comforts protects you from doing things the right way.
I think what you should be thinking about is a content management system, wherein your content is easily editable (live and online) and the system makes you work with templates in the right way (i.e., using CSS). For my current job, I wound up rolling my own CMS, using PHP for the front end and to generate HTML, and MySQL to keep track of templates. For a live content editor, I'm using Ephox, which is a great product but costs a pretty penny. I started out with Spaw, but it doesn't generate XHTML and can only be used in IE.
There are a ton of CMSs out there -- I just found that most of them were overkill for my website. (And the open source ones generally use IE-centric products for live content editing.) Just go to sourceforge and search for "CMS". Mambo is one of the better ones I've seen.
Oh, and I second the nomination of Crimson Editor as a good programmer's text editor. (Free, as in beer.) For CSS, I use Top Style (not free, but excellent).
Take the world's most boring composer, apply his thought processes to video game creation, and, voila, you have the world's most boring video game! Thanks, Mike.
Just what we all need -- more spider traffic. I checked my forums this morning, and there were 3 guests browsing, all in the 66.196.64.0 - 66.196.127.255 range. Did a whois, and, bingo, Inktomi. I guess one spider per site just isn't enough.
What about the third parties who are supposed to manage the escrows? There would doubtlessly have to be very few of these companies (maybe even just one) doing the job, otherwise you have the problem of trust -- with thousands of companies holding escrow like this, you may well be wary of a company that comes along and says "don't worry, we've got the escrow, now give us your bank account number..." So we're primed for a monopoly of sorts. And whatever megacorp comes along and fills this position, they will have access to the e-mailing habits and history (not to mention financial records and perhaps even buying habits) of potentially billions of people. Anyone else scared by this prospect?
Slashdot Mirror
doesn't mean what you think it does.
...some stark similarities between this DL3 and the original game?
Like how it's sorta the same game with slightly different perspective?
"If you want to do the world a favor, try to spread Mozilla's XUL around."
I'm pretty sure the point of this guy's company isn't to do the world a favor, but rather to do his bank account a favor. With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense why he'd be aligning himself with M$. I don't think XUL will be generating any IPOs in the near future...
"...one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation"
First of all, get a spell-checker and a grammar book. Second of all, since when has an American election been about thorough contemplation? This election, in particular, is so viscerally geared as to render logic irrelevant. Did you see any of those ridiculous conventions? Lots of screaming, joking, and vitriol; almost no reasoning. [sarcasm]Can't wait to see the debates.[/sarcasm] What a fucking joke.
Thank you, theantix. I was reading through all of these comments, thinking, 'what the hell? what kind of big leagues are we talking about here?'
Of course, you failed to mention this:
"One of the Scribus users produced his 150-plus page high school yearbook with Scribus..."
Just when I thought /. couldn't get any nerdier...
Seriously, those requirements aren't too bad. The hard drive space is nothing (comare it too UT2k4!), and these days having a gig of RAM is no stretch. And P4s are already churning at 3gigs. I do wonder what the video cards will be like in 07. You'll probably need a separate tower case just for it.
There were two good articles on alistapart.com about bringing /. up to code.
one and two
Inertia is an ugly thing.Photoshop 7 runs pretty well under Crossover Office 3. You can read up a little here. I don't think any of the other heavy hitters you mentioned are tested under Crossover yet. Personally, I'm sticking with dual-boot until Photoshop runs perfectly. And as far-fetched as that may be, I think the idea of perfectly running all of your listed programs under any kind of emulation is a huge longshot.
I found (supposedly) the 11th hour DirectX player here. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't vouch for its authenticity or functionality. Any port in a storm...
Ah, the real question is who killed Old Man Murray?
Photoshop is sooooooo slow and buggy under Crossover. Until Adobe ports Photoshop to Linux, or I stop doing design work, I'm stuck with Windows. Sigh.
OpenOffice
Crimson Editor (programmer's editor; free, not open source)
Audacity (WAV editor)
CDex (ripper)
Firefox
Thunderbird
Navicat (MySQL admin tool)
MySQL Snap (MySQL backup tool)
Top Style (CSS Editor)
Photoshop (Gimp ain't ready for primetime yet. Sorry.)
That's 10. Next up: WinAmp, WS-FTP, AdAware, and 17 million IE/Win patches.
I used Dreamweaver for a long time, as it was convenient and relatively easy (and the library and template features were nice).
Unfortunately, the problem is that, as others have noted here, using such corporate comforts protects you from doing things the right way.
I think what you should be thinking about is a content management system, wherein your content is easily editable (live and online) and the system makes you work with templates in the right way (i.e., using CSS). For my current job, I wound up rolling my own CMS, using PHP for the front end and to generate HTML, and MySQL to keep track of templates. For a live content editor, I'm using Ephox, which is a great product but costs a pretty penny. I started out with Spaw, but it doesn't generate XHTML and can only be used in IE.
There are a ton of CMSs out there -- I just found that most of them were overkill for my website. (And the open source ones generally use IE-centric products for live content editing.) Just go to sourceforge and search for "CMS". Mambo is one of the better ones I've seen.
Oh, and I second the nomination of Crimson Editor as a good programmer's text editor. (Free, as in beer.) For CSS, I use Top Style (not free, but excellent).
Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.
Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.
CDex: CD Ripper and converter.
Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.
Mambo: Content management
Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding
Helix: Media player
7 Zip: Zip
Take the world's most boring composer, apply his thought processes to video game creation, and, voila, you have the world's most boring video game! Thanks, Mike.
Just what we all need -- more spider traffic. I checked my forums this morning, and there were 3 guests browsing, all in the 66.196.64.0 - 66.196.127.255 range. Did a whois, and, bingo, Inktomi. I guess one spider per site just isn't enough.
What about the third parties who are supposed to manage the escrows? There would doubtlessly have to be very few of these companies (maybe even just one) doing the job, otherwise you have the problem of trust -- with thousands of companies holding escrow like this, you may well be wary of a company that comes along and says "don't worry, we've got the escrow, now give us your bank account number..." So we're primed for a monopoly of sorts. And whatever megacorp comes along and fills this position, they will have access to the e-mailing habits and history (not to mention financial records and perhaps even buying habits) of potentially billions of people. Anyone else scared by this prospect?