Exchange Server messages aren't instantaneous like they were in Outlook 2000. The server is a dual P3 800Mhz and with a small office of 13, messages have to be 'sent and received' in some cases to check.
Not being a flamer or other (and this is all in 'fun') but I thought that Anakin was 'The Chosen One' for those Dog people he saved in Clone Wars Vol 2.
Their prophecy forsaw the events of the one armed god freeing the males from enslavement.
What Mace Windu said in Ep III about the point of view made that clear to me, not to bring the Sith to power. Anakin is good (as in skill) but all the Emperor needed was a gopher and Asaaj Ventress could have handled what Anakin did in Ep III as an apprentice. It just wouldn't have made as compelling a story as it did.
That's the MS spin. I have it and it's closer to Illustrator than to Photoshop. You can do the same level of photo editing in Illustrator that you can do in 'Acrylic' but not Photoshop/Gimp level.
At this point, there aren't any layers either so it's not even a competing product.
Illustrator and CorelDraw! have an extremely loyal user base. I really don't see this product making any headway at all other than being a 'toy' app. The only users that will actively pursue using this will be those already using 70% of the MS Office suite features. That being said, those users aren't the 'creative' type that have a sketch pad and draw to pass the time away. Those users already have Illustrator or Draw!.
Also Inkscape is far more useful at it current stage than this app. 15 year olds that toy with Inkscape today will continue to use it or migrate to an industry app which 'Acrylic' will most likely never become.
Print shops and graphic art houses are going to be the ones who have to suffer with this as they already do with Publisher files. 100% of Publisher files that come into a print shop have to be redone to be 'print ready'
Publisher is fine for a home printer but not for a normal print run.
But their internal policies prohibit anything of quality coming out.
Quality comes when they buy a company like Giant or Visio. That quality quicky diminishes when their meathooks tear the source open and muck with it. Compare any company they bought with a prior version of the software before MS 0wned.
This 'Acrylic' program by the way isn't a photoshop competitor, it's an Illustrator competitor which means it doesn't compete with Gimp.
There will be meetings and committees and committees that will schedule meetings about meetings.
In addition to the PhD's, some will have extremely messy offices and gross keyboards. A few offices I've been in had mazes of books stacked from the floor to over 5 feet tall. I swear one office I was in it looked like he kept jars of urine.
Because you can't remove the competing programs from the operating system.
The EU doesn't like the fact that you can't remove IE and you can't remove Windows Media Player from Windows and that it's already installed from out of the box.
Us nerds might not mind the look of a cell tower but Average mom and designer pop do. Although you're right about the fact that they do look better than high tension lines, I personally like the towers that are made to look like trees of the area.
Win95 Windows Version 4.00.1111 Price $200 New. Win95B Windows Version 4.03.1212 Price $100 Upg. Win95C Windows Version 4.03.1214 Price $100 Upg.
-Then a major change Win98 Windows Version 4.10.1998 Price $100 Upg.
-Then another major change Win98SE Windows Version 4.10.2222 Price $100 Upg.
-Then a WTF change WinME Windows Version 4.90.3000 Price $100 Upg.
Compared with NT versions: NT4 Workstation was NT 4.0 $300 new, $200 Upgrade. Win2K was NT 5.0 $300 new, $200 Upgrade XP is NT 5.1 -Home $200 new, $100 Upgrade -Pro $300 new, $200 Upgrade
Apple:
OS 10.0 $129
-Then a major change OS 10.1 $129
-Then a massive major change OS 10.2 (Jaguar) $129
-Then another massive major change OS 10.3 (Panther) $129
-Then a giga massive major change OS 10.4 (Tiger) $129
-Then a hyper giga massive major change to X86 OS 10.5 or OS 11 (Leopard)
What does XP have as a power feature that 2000 doesn't?
XP scripting is worse. I used to have a script for my mother in-law to insert her memory stick in the reader and click an icon for the image processing to happen. The processing I had is that images would be moved from the media into a backup location and a working location and resized via ImageMagick into an Email directory. XP considers the script malicious now so now she has to manually process the photos.
The only one I can thnk of is auto complete and yet you still have to type in the directory slash so it's quite the handicap yet better than before.
We had to send MS a copy of our Motherboard invoice so they could match OEM license to MB. The OS license had to be = MB inventory. The agreement stated what the minimum hardware purchase had to be the minimum installation requirements and being that MB purchases implied Memory, Hard Drive, and Processor, they only wanted Motherboard counts. CD Rom wasn't required in the agreement.
You can get OEM versions cheaper but that legally (within the limits of MS licensing) requires a hardware purchase and the last time I read an MS agreement, it requires a Motherboard, Processor, Memory, and a Hard Drive. Some resellers will 'cheat' by allowing a single piece of hardware.
An OEM version of an Apple OS comes with iLife of which there is no MS equivalent and a software bundle that depends if your a home consumer or a professional user.
I see this that Apple will just another MB manufacturer like ABIT, ASUS, etc... except you get an OS with the MB.
The way I see this is that you could probably get 'kits' now. Pay $250 for an Apple MB and OS or spend $600+ for an Out Of Box system with the current OS and iLife.
I read somewhere (I think notes from the WWDC) that Windows/Linux should be able to run on their hardware but they won't support it.
Apple's hardware never looked slow. It always 'looked' faster than any current Wintel machine at the time mainly because they used the GPU ahead of any other major OS at the time.
In the hundreds of Mhz days, there was a significant advantage of CISC vs RISC. 8 registers vs 32 registers and it takes the CISC 150 cycles to clear the 8 registers. Now were in the Gigs of cycles per second and that's where it counts.
Add that on top of the fact that the Mac FS if far faster and greater than NTFS and a better overall OS. If Apple adds a WINE type layer for 3rd party Windows apps, it's clear who the better choice is.
Even if a 3.2 Ghz Mac OS will run Office 2003 like a 933Mhz system, people won't notice and it wiill be usable.
Another to take note on is finally there will be a price comparison to the ever expensive Windows OS. $129 for Tiger vs $200 for XP Home or $300 for XP Pro?
On an new system, you even get iLife which there isn't a Windows comparative.
The Google link wasn't meant to be scientific. The fact is that 'recycling' is a feel good mentality with very little good coming out of it.
It costs to recycle. It takes more resources and creates more waste to make something from recycled goods than it does to manufacture them from scratch.
There are very few success stories of the only one that comes to mind is rubberized asphalt made from old tires. http://www.rubberizedasphalt.org/cost.htm/ The hope is that technology and today's generation will figure out how to recycle without wasting and how to make a profit but they're not there yet.
The reality is that it takes less energy to grow a tree and prepare it for a printing press than it does to take hundreds of old books and newspapers to make a roll of paper. Trees continue to grow and we have more trees now than we did a hundred years ago. Natural gas is a by product of landfills. Landfills can become valuable real estate after their use.
I'm not anti-recycle, I'm just anti-waste which to me makes more sense.
--WTF is anti-waste???!? That means if you need a box, use an existing box or go to a grocery store/fast food restaurant and use their boxes. Use grocery bags as garbage bags instead of buying garbage bags to throw away. You get the idea.
People really don't appreciate what goes into sanitation management and think that the common 'popular' way of recycling is the key to waste management.
What they fail to realize that these dumps are recycling in a sense. It has been proven that 'popular' recycling causes more waste and wasted dollars than it is worth.
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Exchange Server messages aren't instantaneous like they were in Outlook 2000.
The server is a dual P3 800Mhz and with a small office of 13, messages have to be 'sent and received' in some cases to check.
I'm not being a flamer here but I use Outlook 2003 and it's the same damn thing that Outlook 2000 was.
Just alot slower.
Outlook does have a great calendar and a To Do (task) list with attendees and invites (even link with NetMeeting) but it's too slooooow.
We're running nothing slower than a P4 1.7 Ghz and messages from the Exchange server aren't instantaneous like with Outlook 2000.
Granted that Outlook also only runs on Microsoft Windows, it is the best calendaring app so far.
I like your take better but I still think that Anakin was the Chosen one for the dog people and the Jedi and Sith both saw it wrong.
Not being a flamer or other (and this is all in 'fun') but I thought that Anakin was 'The Chosen One' for those Dog people he saved in Clone Wars Vol 2.
Their prophecy forsaw the events of the one armed god freeing the males from enslavement.
What Mace Windu said in Ep III about the point of view made that clear to me, not to bring the Sith to power. Anakin is good (as in skill) but all the Emperor needed was a gopher and Asaaj Ventress could have handled what Anakin did in Ep III as an apprentice. It just wouldn't have made as compelling a story as it did.
XP was to Win2K what Win98 was to Win95.
I'm thinking WinME = Longhorn.
That's the MS spin. I have it and it's closer to Illustrator than to Photoshop. You can do the same level of photo editing in Illustrator that you can do in 'Acrylic' but not Photoshop/Gimp level.
At this point, there aren't any layers either so it's not even a competing product.
Illustrator and CorelDraw! have an extremely loyal user base. I really don't see this product making any headway at all other than being a 'toy' app. The only users that will actively pursue using this will be those already using 70% of the MS Office suite features.
That being said, those users aren't the 'creative' type that have a sketch pad and draw to pass the time away. Those users already have Illustrator or Draw!.
Also Inkscape is far more useful at it current stage than this app. 15 year olds that toy with Inkscape today will continue to use it or migrate to an industry app which 'Acrylic' will most likely never become.
Print shops and graphic art houses are going to be the ones who have to suffer with this as they already do with Publisher files.
100% of Publisher files that come into a print shop have to be redone to be 'print ready'
Publisher is fine for a home printer but not for a normal print run.
But their internal policies prohibit anything of quality coming out.
Quality comes when they buy a company like Giant or Visio. That quality quicky diminishes when their meathooks tear the source open and muck with it.
Compare any company they bought with a prior version of the software before MS 0wned.
This 'Acrylic' program by the way isn't a photoshop competitor, it's an Illustrator competitor which means it doesn't compete with Gimp.
Because we all know that trees don't grow back
Because you can't remove the competing programs from the operating system.
The EU doesn't like the fact that you can't remove IE and you can't remove Windows Media Player from Windows and that it's already installed from out of the box.
Us nerds might not mind the look of a cell tower but Average mom and designer pop do.
Although you're right about the fact that they do look better than high tension lines, I personally like the towers that are made to look like trees of the area.
Remember the Xbox/Microsoft fiasco? MS wanted it to be illegal for anyone to use the Xbox for anything other than the Xbox game machine.
By your analogy, XP Pro is $700.
NT4 Workstation $300 new.
Win2K $200 Upgrade.
WinXP $200 Upgrade.
Win95 Windows Version 4.00.1111 Price $200 New.
Win95B Windows Version 4.03.1212 Price $100 Upg.
Win95C Windows Version 4.03.1214 Price $100 Upg.
-Then a major change
Win98 Windows Version 4.10.1998 Price $100 Upg.
-Then another major change
Win98SE Windows Version 4.10.2222 Price $100 Upg.
-Then a WTF change
WinME Windows Version 4.90.3000 Price $100 Upg.
Compared with NT versions:
NT4 Workstation was NT 4.0 $300 new, $200 Upgrade.
Win2K was NT 5.0 $300 new, $200 Upgrade
XP is NT 5.1
-Home $200 new, $100 Upgrade
-Pro $300 new, $200 Upgrade
Apple:
OS 10.0 $129
-Then a major change
OS 10.1 $129
-Then a massive major change
OS 10.2 (Jaguar) $129
-Then another massive major change
OS 10.3 (Panther) $129
-Then a giga massive major change
OS 10.4 (Tiger) $129
-Then a hyper giga massive major change to X86
OS 10.5 or OS 11 (Leopard)
Then what do you call Windows ME??
What was so blasted different about ME and 98SE other than cosmetic changes that affected the operating system?
No System restore doesn't count. That's an add-on feature that could have been purchased for Windows 95.
I'm talking like the difference between 98 and 98SE which was a pretty major difference.
What does XP have as a power feature that 2000 doesn't?
XP scripting is worse. I used to have a script for my mother in-law to insert her memory stick in the reader and click an icon for the image processing to happen.
The processing I had is that images would be moved from the media into a backup location and a working location and resized via ImageMagick into an Email directory.
XP considers the script malicious now so now she has to manually process the photos.
The only one I can thnk of is auto complete and yet you still have to type in the directory slash so it's quite the handicap yet better than before.
We had to send MS a copy of our Motherboard invoice so they could match OEM license to MB. The OS license had to be = MB inventory.
The agreement stated what the minimum hardware purchase had to be the minimum installation requirements and being that MB purchases implied Memory, Hard Drive, and Processor, they only wanted Motherboard counts. CD Rom wasn't required in the agreement.
I imagine that's how these shops get by.
XP Home does not cost $300. XP Pro does.
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XP Home costs $200.
These are the full version retail equal to $129 Tiger
http://www.compusa.com/products/products.asp?N=0&
You can get OEM versions cheaper but that legally (within the limits of MS licensing) requires a hardware purchase and the last time I read an MS agreement, it requires a Motherboard, Processor, Memory, and a Hard Drive. Some resellers will 'cheat' by allowing a single piece of hardware.
An OEM version of an Apple OS comes with iLife of which there is no MS equivalent and a software bundle that depends if your a home consumer or a professional user.
I see this that Apple will just another MB manufacturer like ABIT, ASUS, etc... except you get an OS with the MB.
The way I see this is that you could probably get 'kits' now. Pay $250 for an Apple MB and OS or spend $600+ for an Out Of Box system with the current OS and iLife.
I read somewhere (I think notes from the WWDC) that Windows/Linux should be able to run on their hardware but they won't support it.
Apple's hardware never looked slow. It always 'looked' faster than any current Wintel machine at the time mainly because they used the GPU ahead of any other major OS at the time.
In the hundreds of Mhz days, there was a significant advantage of CISC vs RISC. 8 registers vs 32 registers and it takes the CISC 150 cycles to clear the 8 registers. Now were in the Gigs of cycles per second and that's where it counts.
Add that on top of the fact that the Mac FS if far faster and greater than NTFS and a better overall OS. If Apple adds a WINE type layer for 3rd party Windows apps, it's clear who the better choice is.
Even if a 3.2 Ghz Mac OS will run Office 2003 like a 933Mhz system, people won't notice and it wiill be usable.
Another to take note on is finally there will be a price comparison to the ever expensive Windows OS.
$129 for Tiger vs $200 for XP Home or $300 for XP Pro?
On an new system, you even get iLife which there isn't a Windows comparative.
Star Wars came before Bond long ago in a galaxy far, far away...
The Google link wasn't meant to be scientific.
The fact is that 'recycling' is a feel good mentality with very little good coming out of it.
It costs to recycle.
It takes more resources and creates more waste to make something from recycled goods than it does to manufacture them from scratch.
There are very few success stories of the only one that comes to mind is rubberized asphalt made from old tires.
http://www.rubberizedasphalt.org/cost.htm/
The hope is that technology and today's generation will figure out how to recycle without wasting and how to make a profit but they're not there yet.
The reality is that it takes less energy to grow a tree and prepare it for a printing press than it does to take hundreds of old books and newspapers to make a roll of paper.
Trees continue to grow and we have more trees now than we did a hundred years ago.
Natural gas is a by product of landfills.
Landfills can become valuable real estate after their use.
http://www.scsengineers.com/closure.html/
I'm not anti-recycle, I'm just anti-waste which to me makes more sense.
--WTF is anti-waste???!?
That means if you need a box, use an existing box or go to a grocery store/fast food restaurant and use their boxes.
Use grocery bags as garbage bags instead of buying garbage bags to throw away.
You get the idea.
People really don't appreciate what goes into sanitation management and think that the common 'popular' way of recycling is the key to waste management.
What they fail to realize that these dumps are recycling in a sense. It has been proven that 'popular' recycling causes more waste and wasted dollars than it is worth.
Recycling is a waste'Their *massive* plan to scan all major artworks in very high resolution - nothing has come out of that either'
Only done by acquiring Corbis.
Again, say one thing, do something else.
Umm, you could do that with IIS 4.0. Is this just marketing the same thing and labeling it as new?
Will they fix the backup and restore features so that you can transfer sites server to server without having to configure the whole damn thing?