Web and video graphics are ALOT different from print media which is where Adobe shines.
If you're making a spread for a magazine, it _has_ to be in PDF/X-1a format which Gimp doesn't do.
Gimp is starting to get into color seperation with CMYK support but it isn't there yet.
Adobe Illustrator is the leader for SVG. The Linux alternatives aren't as good yet for print output. As far as usability and making a cute web graphic, sure Inkscape is fine.
Finally, Adobe InDesign is starting to replace the cumbersome Quark. There is NO layout tool for Linux for print. Again the support for PDF/X1-a goes without saying.
The only program I see that has support for PDF/X1-a on Linux is the libraries that come with PDFlib
A session is not a 'window'. A session is a communication session between the server and the browser.
Say you visit your bank and login. In Mozilla, once you login, your session is set between the server and the Mozilla browser. You can middle click and get a tab or window and still be logged in as the same user if the authentication uses sessions like most all user session server bases authentication uses.
If you setup a PHP script, you can see that your session id is identical across all windows and tabs.
There is nothing really wrong with that, just inconvienent for programming and debugging. The pain is that to reset the session, you have to close Mozilla which includes the mail client as well.
Like I said, I use Mozilla for general browsing and mail, Firefox for single session browsing and debugging. Firefox loads quicker.
In IE, every window is a seperate session unless you choose to open a link from a session based visit in another window.
Not really worth it for me to use IE except for browser checking. I just wish Mozilla/Firefox had the option for session management.
No one else has supplied a solution so they stepped up. In the beginning, it was left up to the chip makers and what we have are multiple types of RAW formats. A complete mess. It's not like you camera manufacturer is not going to supply you a RAW image.
You'll just have yet another format to choose from.
If a tree bears more fruit than the consumers can eat, is that a loss or waste?
Are these companies out $13 Billion of their pocket that they had to pay for salaries and overhead?
I am sick and tired of the 'spin' on piracy. I don't condone the unauthorized licensing of software but I hardly believe that these companies are out of pocket $13 billion as the marketing spin would lead you to believe.
I know that it's $13 Billion that pirates make and associated licenses lost but it's also not properly licensed software. I know that they see each install as a license used (in most cases) and each unlicensed install attributes to the $13 Billion.
How are pirate installs tracked? If someone uses Gimp instead of Photoshop, would Adobe call that a missed sale and add that to the $13 Billion?
I'll explain my position on the comment "Using the keyboard with a single click mouse is faster than the 2/3 button mouse in a Windows environment."
I work in an enviroment with equal users on Mac and Windows of varying degrees of ambidextrous talent.
I see designers fly on a Mac designing with Photoshop and Illustrator. The App is Adobe and it's the same on Windows except that we have thousands more fonts for the Mac. They prefer the Mac because of it's single click. They think "that one" or "that one with command" and not "that one, left click" or "that one, right click and choose".
It really took me about a year after watching them and having discussions about UI's in general but I really see how the UI is more intuitive in a Mac environment.
Back in the day, I used to point to My Computer, right click, and choose properties. Today, it's far easier to use "Windows - Pause/Break" and then it's a tossup as to whether I'll use the mouse or Ctrl-Tab
I do use the right click intuitively for browsing and web reasearch with Mozilla and it's extensions (Linky, Checky, etc...) but it's a different thought process than manipulating objects on the desktop. With Mozilla, the entire browser is the object instead of an icon.
Don't get me wrong, I like having the right mouse button and I even use the context key on the keyboard or Shift-F10 on those that don't. What I realized through the designers is that right-clicking and choosing a menu item takes your focus away from the object. At first I argued about that but the fact is that you do move your mouse to select an option. But really, who cares about these silly details.
The wheel does rule, kudos to those brought it in to our interface. I used to like the joystick that IBM mice had but it did get too buggy after a while.
I hate those monster 4+ buttons with 2+ wheels mice. Useless.
iMac hockey pucks suck. Somebody should have gotten fired for that idea.
Microsoft does endorse some pretty good hardware. Their speakers that came out in 98 are still some of the best digital speakers around. Better than the Cambridge Soundworks of the day. They still are my favorite pair of speakers.
I just recently added Mac to my forte of PC experience and I find that the 1 button mouse doesn't bother me where it did when I heavily used Windows/Linux.
I've always been faster at Windows using the keyboard and rarely use the mouse for quick tasks. I drive some fellow admins nuts because I really don't bother with 'missing mouse' error messages. START > Run > eventvwr is alot faster than mouse navigating.
When I switched to Linux, I felt no UI loss of a learning curve. I like how customizable Linux is with no loss of performance. Try Virtual Desktops on XP and watch your performance drain.
I just went Mac (1 reason is that a 6 hour battery life just rocks) and I feel that their UI is more intuitive. Using the keyboard with a single click mouse is faster than the 2/3 button mouse in a Windows environment.
After watching some graphic designers fly on the single button mouse with key commands, I had to get just as proficient to see how they can do it. After a couple of weeks, I feel crippled on Windows and Linux. Expose' rocks.
MS is always behind in technology and will continue to follow. They bang their drum louder to draw attention to themselves and "WOW", the public buys their rhetoric hook, line, and sinker.
Whatever Long(wait)horn is, it will be behind graphically what Apple's Tiger will be and whatever Sun is doing on the desktop.
We have a test system on a clean XP SP2 and today we got VX2.BetterInternet (purposefully to test MS's claims)
and all we did was visit the site WITH ActiveX blocked.
I do it too for $50 to $200. I tell them what they could to or offer to do it for them for a fee. The most I made from a spyware/virus removal, $600. XP client not on SP1 and required a reinstall.
People are just comfortable paying for services that they don't want or aren't comfortable doing themselves.
It's just like changing the timing belt on your car or giving it a tune up yourself. You can do it yourself or pay someone to do it.
Why in today's tech savvy world can't we just get the E-book for a cheaper price. Printing optional.
You pay your tuition to the school, they (the school) subsidise the content maker based on enrollment, you get an E-book and you can either use your computer or pay to have it printed.
As much as we bitch about how much these prequels suck, there is an audience that actually enjoys them.
I (we) hate them with a passion but today's 8 year olds love them and Jar Jar too. Yes they do.
Lucas might have ruined our childhood but he's giving a new childhood memorable sequences. And believe it or not, today's kids really don't like our version.
I about choked when a 12 year old told me that Star Wars (Episode IV) looked old and Phantom Menace was better.
Lucas is actually pretty smart in realizing how to capitalize on his new audience because we're suckers for paying for it anyway. With 10 years more of movie making for this story line, there will be yet another audience.
I just hope that Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow is better.
Not trying to flame here but what's the incentive to become a doctor? In the states, it's the pay plus a little bit of wanting to do good. If healthcare becomes free (which is pretty much government subsidized at that point) what's the motivation for giving healthcare if the pay is the same (read lower).
People become police officers because they want to. Becoming a police officer doesn't require over $130,000 in school bills and 8 years of your life.
I don't know what the average pay for a physician is but I guess that it's less than what our Senators make which is $154,000 a year. I do not see this country footing the bill for all these doctors who make close to 6 figures. Doctors can't afford to work at police officer rates which I believe starts at $28,000 a year.
On a personal note, I hate the whole healthcare system in the states. I can go to the doctor and pay the $80 a visit or I can have the insurance pay for the visit at $230 a visit. WTF!!?!?! People have no concept how much healthcare costs, only what they're out of pocket.
How much does it cost to have a baby in a hospital?
You could fit over 5 hours of programming on an L-830 tape at Beta III.
The problem is Joe Sixpack understands a 6 hour tape alot better than the difference between L500, L750, L830.
The other marketing Sony screwed up on were the tape speeds. Joe Sixpack won't understand Beta II or Beta III but will understand Extended Play or Slow Play
So in review:
Which is easier to understand if I want to record Knight Rider:
I can fit 6 episodes on a 6 hour tape at Extended Play with VHS
I can fit 5 episodes (6 episodes without commercials) on an L-830 running at Beta III
Sony just didn't understand the common American man.
No plane commanded by a pilot has a computer that controls it, and no pilot would want that.
Most of the beef in avionics is display. The GPS probably has the most amount of ram and that's for maps, not computing power. The other stuff is telemetry for nagivation, you're talking bytes of data if even that depending on the avionics.
Fuel management? Seriously, that goverened by a calculator with less than 1k of ram.
The mechanics of flight haven't changed since we started flying with the latest advancement being the way the stealth plane fly. You don't need software to fly autopilot. You need fuel, an aneroid wafer device capable of determing altitude, a compass, and the method of tying it all together. (which has been around way before Microsoft)
Yeah, it's cool that a plane is autonomous but it's really not. Knowing the MS Marketing machine, they'll sell the idea that way. The reality is that flying from point A to point B automatically is just as easy as this: 1. Enter starting airport (automatically determined by current GPS) 2. Enter destination airport 3. Go 4. The plane already knows the direction of the runway because of it's compass heading so it takes off and abides by the rules in the Airport Facility Directory that is updated every 56 days. 5. Knowing 4, is arrives and folows the same protocol for landing getting wind from ATIS, it determines the runway in use and uses ILS. 6. Flaps out, power back to idle, land.
Having come full circle and happily with Linux and Mac OSX now, Win2000 is _loads_ better than any of their other OSes but it's still crap, bloated, and buggy.
It's the 3rd party software that make's it bearable.
Windows doesn't have a calendar Windows has a crappy cli Windows takes forever to boot except for a newly installed XP (Some Linux distros take too long too) The interface is really tired. Linux you can customize it, Mac Aqua rules. Applications are poorly managed in Windows. How many exe's are hidden in system/32/windows that aren't in the menu? -You mean Windows 95/98 had an inter-office chat program?
IMO, the Windows interface makes logical sense but Mac has workflow down. Linux just rules because it's all about what you want where ever you want it.
(Not to mention that my iBook has a 6hr battery life.)
I run Linux, Panther, and Windows. It's far easier to connect Linux and OSX to a Windows environment than the other way around. You don't even have to reboot Linux and OSX to join a Windows workgroup.
VPN for Mac also includes RSA encryption that isn't available for Windows except through 3rd party software. Needless to say, I use OSX VPN for my terminal server connections instead of Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
Web and video graphics are ALOT different from print media which is where Adobe shines.
If you're making a spread for a magazine, it _has_ to be in PDF/X-1a format which Gimp doesn't do.
Gimp is starting to get into color seperation with CMYK support but it isn't there yet.
Adobe Illustrator is the leader for SVG. The Linux alternatives aren't as good yet for print output. As far as usability and making a cute web graphic, sure Inkscape is fine.
Finally, Adobe InDesign is starting to replace the cumbersome Quark. There is NO layout tool for Linux for print. Again the support for PDF/X1-a goes without saying.
The only program I see that has support for PDF/X1-a on Linux is the libraries that come with PDFlib
I didn't see anything in the article about DHMO.
I'm sure that DHMO has something to with this since it is far worse for the environment.
A session is not a 'window'. A session is a communication session between the server and the browser.
Say you visit your bank and login. In Mozilla, once you login, your session is set between the server and the Mozilla browser. You can middle click and get a tab or window and still be logged in as the same user if the authentication uses sessions like most all user session server bases authentication uses.
If you setup a PHP script, you can see that your session id is identical across all windows and tabs.
There is nothing really wrong with that, just inconvienent for programming and debugging. The pain is that to reset the session, you have to close Mozilla which includes the mail client as well.
Like I said, I use Mozilla for general browsing and mail, Firefox for single session browsing and debugging. Firefox loads quicker.
In IE, every window is a seperate session unless you choose to open a link from a session based visit in another window.
Not really worth it for me to use IE except for browser checking. I just wish Mozilla/Firefox had the option for session management.
The thing with IE is that each window is a seperate session which is nice in some cases.
I personally use Mozilla for browsing and Firefox for session testing.
I'd like to see seperate sessions for Mozilla as an option for tabbed browsing instead of having to close the entire browser and mail client.
PDF is the same way.
You can use their libraries or write your own.
No one else has supplied a solution so they stepped up. In the beginning, it was left up to the chip makers and what we have are multiple types of RAW formats. A complete mess. It's not like you camera manufacturer is not going to supply you a RAW image.
You'll just have yet another format to choose from.
There is a saying something like:
"If you call piloting a plane flying, you must call steering a boat swimming. Get out and fly."
If a tree bears more fruit than the consumers can eat, is that a loss or waste?
Are these companies out $13 Billion of their pocket that they had to pay for salaries and overhead?
I am sick and tired of the 'spin' on piracy. I don't condone the unauthorized licensing of software but I hardly believe that these companies are out of pocket $13 billion as the marketing spin would lead you to believe.
I know that it's $13 Billion that pirates make and associated licenses lost but it's also not properly licensed software.
I know that they see each install as a license used (in most cases) and each unlicensed install attributes to the $13 Billion.
How are pirate installs tracked? If someone uses Gimp instead of Photoshop, would Adobe call that a missed sale and add that to the $13 Billion?
I hate this man more than Bill Gates.
The stress that the closing of Meigs has caused I'm sure has caused the the stress on O'Hare.
That is one guy whose shoe I'd spit on or spill something 'accidentally' on.
I'll explain my position on the comment "Using the keyboard with a single click mouse is faster than the 2/3 button mouse in a Windows environment."
I work in an enviroment with equal users on Mac and Windows of varying degrees of ambidextrous talent.
I see designers fly on a Mac designing with Photoshop and Illustrator. The App is Adobe and it's the same on Windows except that we have thousands more fonts for the Mac. They prefer the Mac because of it's single click. They think "that one" or "that one with command" and not "that one, left click" or "that one, right click and choose".
It really took me about a year after watching them and having discussions about UI's in general but I really see how the UI is more intuitive in a Mac environment.
Back in the day, I used to point to My Computer, right click, and choose properties. Today, it's far easier to use "Windows - Pause/Break" and then it's a tossup as to whether I'll use the mouse or Ctrl-Tab
I do use the right click intuitively for browsing and web reasearch with Mozilla and it's extensions (Linky, Checky, etc...) but it's a different thought process than manipulating objects on the desktop. With Mozilla, the entire browser is the object instead of an icon.
Don't get me wrong, I like having the right mouse button and I even use the context key on the keyboard or Shift-F10 on those that don't. What I realized through the designers is that right-clicking and choosing a menu item takes your focus away from the object. At first I argued about that but the fact is that you do move your mouse to select an option.
But really, who cares about these silly details.
The wheel does rule, kudos to those brought it in to our interface. I used to like the joystick that IBM mice had but it did get too buggy after a while.
I hate those monster 4+ buttons with 2+ wheels mice. Useless.
iMac hockey pucks suck. Somebody should have gotten fired for that idea.
Microsoft does endorse some pretty good hardware. Their speakers that came out in 98 are still some of the best digital speakers around. Better than the Cambridge Soundworks of the day. They still are my favorite pair of speakers.
I just recently added Mac to my forte of PC experience and I find that the 1 button mouse doesn't bother me where it did when I heavily used Windows/Linux.
I've always been faster at Windows using the keyboard and rarely use the mouse for quick tasks. I drive some fellow admins nuts because I really don't bother with 'missing mouse' error messages.
START > Run > eventvwr is alot faster than mouse navigating.
When I switched to Linux, I felt no UI loss of a learning curve. I like how customizable Linux is with no loss of performance. Try Virtual Desktops on XP and watch your performance drain.
I just went Mac (1 reason is that a 6 hour battery life just rocks) and I feel that their UI is more intuitive. Using the keyboard with a single click mouse is faster than the 2/3 button mouse in a Windows environment.
After watching some graphic designers fly on the single button mouse with key commands, I had to get just as proficient to see how they can do it. After a couple of weeks, I feel crippled on Windows and Linux. Expose' rocks.
I wonder how XP embeded would compete.
MS is always behind in technology and will continue to follow. They bang their drum louder to draw attention to themselves and "WOW", the public buys their rhetoric hook, line, and sinker.
Whatever Long(wait)horn is, it will be behind graphically what Apple's Tiger will be and whatever Sun is doing on the desktop.
We have a test system on a clean XP SP2 and today we got VX2.BetterInternet (purposefully to test MS's claims) and all we did was visit the site WITH ActiveX blocked.
I do it too for $50 to $200. I tell them what they could to or offer to do it for them for a fee. The most I made from a spyware/virus removal, $600. XP client not on SP1 and required a reinstall.
People are just comfortable paying for services that they don't want or aren't comfortable doing themselves.
It's just like changing the timing belt on your car or giving it a tune up yourself. You can do it yourself or pay someone to do it.
Why in today's tech savvy world can't we just get the E-book for a cheaper price. Printing optional. You pay your tuition to the school, they (the school) subsidise the content maker based on enrollment, you get an E-book and you can either use your computer or pay to have it printed.
As much as we bitch about how much these prequels suck, there is an audience that actually enjoys them.
I (we) hate them with a passion but today's 8 year olds love them and Jar Jar too. Yes they do.
Lucas might have ruined our childhood but he's giving a new childhood memorable sequences. And believe it or not, today's kids really don't like our version.
I about choked when a 12 year old told me that Star Wars (Episode IV) looked old and Phantom Menace was better.
Lucas is actually pretty smart in realizing how to capitalize on his new audience because we're suckers for paying for it anyway. With 10 years more of movie making for this story line, there will be yet another audience.
I just hope that Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow is better.
Not trying to flame here but what's the incentive to become a doctor? In the states, it's the pay plus a little bit of wanting to do good. If healthcare becomes free (which is pretty much government subsidized at that point) what's the motivation for giving healthcare if the pay is the same (read lower).
People become police officers because they want to. Becoming a police officer doesn't require over $130,000 in school bills and 8 years of your life.
I don't know what the average pay for a physician is but I guess that it's less than what our Senators make which is $154,000 a year. I do not see this country footing the bill for all these doctors who make close to 6 figures. Doctors can't afford to work at police officer rates which I believe starts at $28,000 a year.
On a personal note, I hate the whole healthcare system in the states.
I can go to the doctor and pay the $80 a visit or I can have the insurance pay for the visit at $230 a visit. WTF!!?!?!
People have no concept how much healthcare costs, only what they're out of pocket.
How much does it cost to have a baby in a hospital?
You could fit over 5 hours of programming on an L-830 tape at Beta III.
The problem is Joe Sixpack understands a 6 hour tape alot better than the difference between L500, L750, L830.
The other marketing Sony screwed up on were the tape speeds. Joe Sixpack won't understand Beta II or Beta III but will understand Extended Play or Slow Play
So in review:
Which is easier to understand if I want to record Knight Rider:
I can fit 6 episodes on a 6 hour tape at Extended Play with VHS
I can fit 5 episodes (6 episodes without commercials) on an L-830 running at Beta III
Sony just didn't understand the common American man.
No plane commanded by a pilot has a computer that controls it, and no pilot would want that.
Most of the beef in avionics is display. The GPS probably has the most amount of ram and that's for maps, not computing power. The other stuff is telemetry for nagivation, you're talking bytes of data if even that depending on the avionics.
Fuel management? Seriously, that goverened by a calculator with less than 1k of ram.
The mechanics of flight haven't changed since we started flying with the latest advancement being the way the stealth plane fly.
You don't need software to fly autopilot.
You need fuel, an aneroid wafer device capable of determing altitude, a compass, and the method of tying it all together. (which has been around way before Microsoft)
Yeah, it's cool that a plane is autonomous but it's really not. Knowing the MS Marketing machine, they'll sell the idea that way.
The reality is that flying from point A to point B automatically is just as easy as this:
1. Enter starting airport (automatically determined by current GPS)
2. Enter destination airport
3. Go
4. The plane already knows the direction of the runway because of it's compass heading so it takes off and abides by the rules in the Airport Facility Directory that is updated every 56 days.
5. Knowing 4, is arrives and folows the same protocol for landing getting wind from ATIS, it determines the runway in use and uses ILS.
6. Flaps out, power back to idle, land.
Need to disagree with you.
Having come full circle and happily with Linux and Mac OSX now, Win2000 is _loads_ better than any of their other OSes but it's still crap, bloated, and buggy.
It's the 3rd party software that make's it bearable.
Windows doesn't have a calendar
Windows has a crappy cli
Windows takes forever to boot except for a newly installed XP (Some Linux distros take too long too)
The interface is really tired. Linux you can customize it, Mac Aqua rules.
Applications are poorly managed in Windows. How many exe's are hidden in system/32/windows that aren't in the menu?
-You mean Windows 95/98 had an inter-office chat program?
IMO, the Windows interface makes logical sense but Mac has workflow down.
Linux just rules because it's all about what you want where ever you want it.
(Not to mention that my iBook has a 6hr battery life.)
I believe you're referring to airships.
Don't get caught saying the 'B' word to an airship pilot.
I have to agree.
I run Linux, Panther, and Windows. It's far easier to connect Linux and OSX to a Windows environment than the other way around.
You don't even have to reboot Linux and OSX to join a Windows workgroup.
VPN for Mac also includes RSA encryption that isn't available for Windows except through 3rd party software.
Needless to say, I use OSX VPN for my terminal server connections instead of Windows.
Damn. Obviously I didn't RTFA!
Just responding to links and propaganda.
Even if you go to MSN.com, the search says "New!" and those searches come up.
http://search.msn.com gives me results.
See my reply here
SEO's use IE's google toolbar for pagerank, a vital piece of information for optimizing websites.
Mozilla's Google toolbar is not endorsed by Google and therefore does not have pagerank.
(There's something about IE giving Google browsing habit in exchange)