In many ways, our perception of reality *is* reality. The monsters in the closet of a five year old *do* exist for that child, at that time; and your fears of being mugged as you walk down that darkened street arouse a primal response that is as real as the real thing.
The brain adapts to its environment. Eat lots of chili peppers? Your brain will stop registering the sensation as being so hot. Stink in the office? Your brain will quit paying attention after a few minutes. If you're in Edmonton, you wear TShirts as soon as the thermometer breaks freezing; if you're in Mexico, a Wisconsin heatwave seems chilly.
There is a vast unconcious mind inside your brain. Most of who you are was determined by hardwiring in the womb: the reaction by a fetus to an unusual or unexpected stimulation can predict whether the child will be shy or outgoing, to a remarkable 90%+ confidence level. The child has no choice in being shy or sociable: it's *built right in.*
The rest of you was determined during the most plastic (read: pliable) years of your brain, between birth and about age five. Your experiences during those years made you who you are today. It's so far beyond your control that it's almost impossible to enact any significant change. You is what you is.
If you take a child and begin desensitizing it to violence -- the same as if you were to desensitize it to the heat of chili peppers -- you *will* end up with an adult who is not sensitive to violence.
And just as you, as an adult, can learn to love habenaro peppers, you can become desensitized to violence.
As proof, witness the behaviour and attitudes of children and adults in the war-torn parts of Europe, Africa and the mid-East. "I prefer my child to die a martyr than remain repressed!" Ethnic cleansing. "Necklacing." Machetes. The casual disregard for the supposed sanctity of human life: the willingness to kill on whim: the inability to stop the violence and enact peace.
I love playing Unreal Tournament. It appeals to the primitive lizard core of my brain: it's power and violence, hunting and hunted, it's caveman survivalism.
But it's an adult brain playing a poor imitation of reality: the graphics aren't good, the interface is queer and it all takes place on a tiny screen.
I don't believe a child will make that distinction (and, yes, QAPete can trot out his kid all he wants: time will prove me right). When imagined monsters in a closet are real, when Dad in a Santa suit is Kris Kringle, when playing house is dead-serious business -- well, playing violent video games *is* reality, and *is* desensitizing the child to violence.
To think otherwise is to ignore overwhelming evidence as to how children perceive and understand the world.
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Yes. How about donating to http://www.heifer.org/ -- they have a phenomenally low overhead-to-help ratio. Unlike most "charity" organizations, it appears that Heifer actually puts most of its money toward the poor, instead of lining management's pockets.
I hate to agree, because (a) I don't like Intel [I think they're out to screw the consumer as much as possibly, instead of providing good value] and (b) I just hate to see yet another freaking instruction set, forcing everyone and their dog to upgrade to overhyped, overpowered machines when, for 90% of people, a Pentium 120 would be just fine (wordprocessing, email, web browsing; not much good for games).
"Reader John Welter of North West Group, a Canadian Geomatics firm specialising in orthophotography - stretching accurate photographs of the Earth's surface over elevation models of the same area - volunteered us some interesting information on his company's experiences with an early P4 system.
When using the original code, a P4 system took a glacial 19 hours compared with just under 13 hours for a 933MHz PIII. But with code recompiled to use SSE2, the P4 galloped through the test in a shade over seven and a half hours.
Outperforming Alpha
-------------------
"A P4 at 1.5Ghz is now faster when running optimised code then our Alpha production boxes by a sizable margin, where those same Alpha boxes outperformed all our P3 based systems.
"Intel did not take the x87 FPU performance as a prime design goal in the P4. They focused on the SSE/SSE2 unit much more and made sacrifices to the X87 FPU side of things to gain more SSE2 performance. Some may argue this was a bad trade-off but the improvements they have managed on the SSE2 are very impressive.
"Geomatics is extremely CPU intensive and pretty much 100 per cent bound by CPU performance. For this reason we obtained an early 1.5GHz P4 despite the inflated costs in an attempt to determine how much added performance it would give us in reducing our production times."
===
The article then goes on to describe the sweet 'puter setup they use, describes how SSE/SSE2 are an advantage in this particular case, and describes how AMD also plans to support SSE/SSE2 and more.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/14982.htm l for those who want to read it. Or click [this link].
If I recall correctly, one of the bigger challenges Intel faces is in retaining skilled chip designers.
I'm under the impression that their best and brightest designers have fled the company, and they're now left with newbies who have simply never worked on anything approaching the scale of these CPUs.
It's an interesting problem, come to think of it: the only way you get that sort of expertise is to progress through the chip designs. You start off designing 8086, get involved in designing 80186, 286, 386... eventually, you're an expert at designing large CPUs, because you've been chiefly responsible for designing increasingly larger CPUs.
When you kick the bucket, how's that runny-nosed kid fresh from tech school ever going to cope with developing the next generation CPU? Poor little bugger hasn't ever designed a CPU at all: his training was all theoretical, and perhaps a few class projects designing variations on the 555 timer.
In all likelyhood, it's going to become one helluva problem within the next ten to twenty years, as the old school designers, who cut their teeth on simpler CPUs and were key in the development of more complex CPUs, die off or retire.
Tom's ego compares favourably to the heat sink on a P4, the power supply for an Athlon, the Mac LCD cinema display, the Razor Boomslang mouse, old HP laser printers, and IBM's "wing o' death" keyboard.
Which is to say that it's fucking enormous.
Tom, my man, I think you need to chill out. Start popping some Paxil. Quit taking yourself so fucking seriously. You're just a little shit in a big pond. You don't make or break the hardware world.
The only recent news about them involves a US military spokesman there that denies Iraq's claims of having shot down a US fighter jet [see here]; and a few weeks ago there were news stories about the Turkish government repressing (foreign) free enterprise business [see here]; and a heck of a long time ago (well, a few months, anyway) a bunch of boorish Brits got their asses kicked for desecrating the Turkish flag during a soccer match [see here].
Anyway, point is, nothing much seems to be happening in Turkey, so why are we assumed to be thinking about it?
Until some sort of really great geek hardware comes bursting out of its borders, or until they start some war with a neighbour, I just don't see why I'd ever think about Turkey.
Jus' curious about the original author's thinking...
And *no* mention of its compute-time. Sure, it has great standby time and reasonable talk time (4hrs)... but when you crack that clamshell and start viewing PowerPoint presentations, how long does that poor little battery last?
Unlike laptops, I doubt many cellphone users are spending their time plugged into wall socket!
I think it's only fair to point out that something on the order of 90% of the population lives within a couple hundred kilometers of the 49th parallel. When you ignore all the massively unpopulated landmass, the *typical* density is quite a bit higher than 3 residents/sq.km.
Though it's still very, very low.:)
(And still those poor bastards out in NoWhereNoHow, Manitoba, get phone service. Amazing!)
I don't have an answer to this question, but it seems to me that the Internet (Arpanet back when I first encountered it!) has become antigressively (as opposed to progressively) less "free" over the years.
There was a time when there were *no* rules: anyone did *anything* they wanted. Naturally, there were consequences for doing stupid things, but there wasn't any legal involvement: the system took care of its own.
These days, it's not that way at all.
So what's going to happen?
Is the Internet going to become controlled and regulated by the Legal System?
Is it going to become controlled and regulated by Big Business?
Is there any difference between the two?
Will a secretive undernet develop, once again allowing no-holds-barred information exchange?
Will we savvy geeks rise up against the burgeoning restrictions, or will be lie back and take it up our collective brown buttons?
Frankly, I think the worst will happen: this remarkable opportunity for freedom of information sharing will be subverted to the needs of business. Most of the public doesn't know what it's losing, and the rest of the public is dominated by selfish short-term interests that simply aren't compatible with long-term societal gains.
It's the End of the Internet as we know it... and it's going out not with a bang, but a whimper.
Oh no - there's got to be a better way
Say it again
There's got to be a better way - yeah
What is it good for?
P4! has caused unrest
Among the geeky generation
Induction then destruction
(bunnypeople)
Who wants to upgrade?
P4 - huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
P4 - huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Yeah
P4 - I despise
'Cos it means destruction
Of innocent tournament lives
P4 means tears
To thousands of motherboards
When their circuit traces
glow from overvoltage
And lose their power regulator
I said
P4 - huh
It's an enemy of all geekkind
No point of P4
'Cos you're a smart man
Give it to me one time - now
Give it to me one time - now
P4 has shattered
Many young men's dreams
We've got no place for it today
They say we must use it to keep our framerates up
But Lord,
there's just got to be a better way
(AMD)
There's just got to be a better way
It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
P4
Friend only to the revenue-maker
P4
P4
P4 - Good God, now
Now
Give it to me one time now
Now now
What is it good for?
Oh, good points, all. I wouldn't anticipate Corel doing this with an expiry date on the product: if you want to use version 8.558 forever onward, just quit paying your license. If/when you do decide to upgrade, you end up having to buy the retail package at full price.
So for the $100/yr, I get web access to upgrades as they happen; better be a few of them each year, if they want to keep me paying. I don't *need* to install them; I have the option of skipping them.
The Ventura software runs about $700 full retail. Upgrade pricing is somewhere around $300; that's why I figure $100 per year, and not $300.
They denounce them, because they don't use software professionally, Estanislao.
I use Corel Ventura to produce long documents: I do technical writing by trade, and I've become reasonably adept at document design.
Ventura is currently my bread-and-butter application: anyone can create documents using Word, but I produce documents that are eye-smashing: their appearance wins me contracts over the competition. The *only* software that fully meets my needs is Ventura (Framemaker runs second, as it lacks some powerful typography controls; Word doesn't even register on the charts).
Would I pay a yearly fee for Ventura? You bet your bippy! It makes me tens of thousands of dollars: I'm willing to spend a hundred bucks a year to ensure that development on the product continues.
That way, I'm guaranteed to have a more powerful, more bug-free, more productive tool on a regular basis -- all of which serves to make me more money, faster.
The way I see, I can pay Corel $700 every couple of years for the next significant version upgrade, or I can pay $100 every year for continuous, incremental improvement.
Thanks, I'll choose the $100 route.
And Corel? They're foolish not to take me up on this offer, because it guarantees them a steady income. With 100k users subscribed to this model, they'd have $10M per year to dedicate to developing the product! It'd take them out of the red ink, and put them solidly onto profitable ground.
Damn straight that subscription models are preferable. Anyone who isn't turned on by the idea of continual incremental improvement of a product isn't using the product professionally!
Doesn't matter. The media is frantically pumping Intel's "next big thing," to the exclusion of AMD's *already existing* big thing.
It's been most interesting to watch the mainstream (C|Net, ZDNews) suck it up to Intel. Two months ago, they were mentioning AMD about as much as Intel. Today, they talk exclusively about Intel's "to be" chips, and ignore AMDs existing superiority.
The winner in the chip wars will be the company that best manipulates the popular media.
Which means that Intel, no matter how badly it shoots itself in the foot with poor designs, poor performance and poor planning, will succeed -- because Intel is a Master of Marketing.
You dipshit. Can't you read? Where did I suggest that I use more than a couple typefaces in a document?
I have a shitload of fonts because designing and laying out publications is my life. My clients want their documents to look distinctive, which requires that I not publish everything using TNR and Arial.
*YOU* might need access to only a few fonts. *I* need access to many.
It looks like I must, once again, re-iterate my point, because Linux bigots are too narrow-minded to comprehend it the very first time:
*FOR ME* Linux *IS NOT* productive.
For starters, it does not allow me to use Ventura Publisher. The only Linux software that comes remotely close to Ventura is a buggy beta of Framemaker. Using buggy beta software does nothing to increase my productivity.
It doesn't allow me to use Visio, either. Linux does offer some Visio-like applications, but they're far from complete and, just as importantly, they're not compatible with the software my clients use. Using incompatible, incomplete software does nothing to increase my productivity.
*FOR YOU* Linux may well be productive. But face facts: *you* are *not* Corel's target market.
I *am* Corel's target market: I use Ventura, Photopaint, Draw and would, if my clients were more hip to quality software, use WordPerfect.
Until Corel Linux supports those Corel products -- and Ventura is by far the most important to me -- then Linux is simply not a productive operating system *for me.*
You, hacking in GCC or running a webserver or doing whatever it is you do, *are not* Corel's target market. You're the target market for Debian and RedHat.
I wish the Linux bigots would grab a freaking clue: different people have different needs, and Linux *does not* satisfy the needs of *a lot* of people right now.
Just as Windows doesn't satisfy the needs of *a lot* of Linux bigots. Hey, they're using Linux because it's best for them.
Just please don't insist that it's best for me, too. It plainly is not.
Slashdot Mirror
I should go onto Google and do this research myself, but I'm dogeffingtired and really stressed out, so I'll just weenie out:
I've always though "flat tax" meant everyone pays a flat percentage. ie) a 10% flat tax would charge a $10K income $1000, and a $100K income $10000.
Seems fair enough to me, from a first-cut level.
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Damn straight.
In many ways, our perception of reality *is* reality. The monsters in the closet of a five year old *do* exist for that child, at that time; and your fears of being mugged as you walk down that darkened street arouse a primal response that is as real as the real thing.
The brain adapts to its environment. Eat lots of chili peppers? Your brain will stop registering the sensation as being so hot. Stink in the office? Your brain will quit paying attention after a few minutes. If you're in Edmonton, you wear TShirts as soon as the thermometer breaks freezing; if you're in Mexico, a Wisconsin heatwave seems chilly.
There is a vast unconcious mind inside your brain. Most of who you are was determined by hardwiring in the womb: the reaction by a fetus to an unusual or unexpected stimulation can predict whether the child will be shy or outgoing, to a remarkable 90%+ confidence level. The child has no choice in being shy or sociable: it's *built right in.*
The rest of you was determined during the most plastic (read: pliable) years of your brain, between birth and about age five. Your experiences during those years made you who you are today. It's so far beyond your control that it's almost impossible to enact any significant change. You is what you is.
If you take a child and begin desensitizing it to violence -- the same as if you were to desensitize it to the heat of chili peppers -- you *will* end up with an adult who is not sensitive to violence.
And just as you, as an adult, can learn to love habenaro peppers, you can become desensitized to violence.
As proof, witness the behaviour and attitudes of children and adults in the war-torn parts of Europe, Africa and the mid-East. "I prefer my child to die a martyr than remain repressed!" Ethnic cleansing. "Necklacing." Machetes. The casual disregard for the supposed sanctity of human life: the willingness to kill on whim: the inability to stop the violence and enact peace.
I love playing Unreal Tournament. It appeals to the primitive lizard core of my brain: it's power and violence, hunting and hunted, it's caveman survivalism.
But it's an adult brain playing a poor imitation of reality: the graphics aren't good, the interface is queer and it all takes place on a tiny screen.
I don't believe a child will make that distinction (and, yes, QAPete can trot out his kid all he wants: time will prove me right). When imagined monsters in a closet are real, when Dad in a Santa suit is Kris Kringle, when playing house is dead-serious business -- well, playing violent video games *is* reality, and *is* desensitizing the child to violence.
To think otherwise is to ignore overwhelming evidence as to how children perceive and understand the world.
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Yes. How about donating to http://www.heifer.org/ -- they have a phenomenally low overhead-to-help ratio. Unlike most "charity" organizations, it appears that Heifer actually puts most of its money toward the poor, instead of lining management's pockets.
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Corel Ventura Publisher is Framemaker's only competition, and it beats it handily (much, much better UI, and some important additional functionality).
So send mail to Corel indicating that you're interested in seeing Ventura (a) developed and (b) ported to Linux.
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Hell with flipping a coin. Demand a pistol duel!
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I hate to agree, because (a) I don't like Intel [I think they're out to screw the consumer as much as possibly, instead of providing good value] and (b) I just hate to see yet another freaking instruction set, forcing everyone and their dog to upgrade to overhyped, overpowered machines when, for 90% of people, a Pentium 120 would be just fine (wordprocessing, email, web browsing; not much good for games).
m l for those who want to read it. Or click [this link].
AAAAAAAAnyway, I quote [The Register]:
"Reader John Welter of North West Group, a Canadian Geomatics firm specialising in orthophotography - stretching accurate photographs of the Earth's surface over elevation models of the same area - volunteered us some interesting information on his company's experiences with an early P4 system.
When using the original code, a P4 system took a glacial 19 hours compared with just under 13 hours for a 933MHz PIII. But with code recompiled to use SSE2, the P4 galloped through the test in a shade over seven and a half hours.
Outperforming Alpha
-------------------
"A P4 at 1.5Ghz is now faster when running optimised code then our Alpha production boxes by a sizable margin, where those same Alpha boxes outperformed all our P3 based systems.
"Intel did not take the x87 FPU performance as a prime design goal in the P4. They focused on the SSE/SSE2 unit much more and made sacrifices to the X87 FPU side of things to gain more SSE2 performance. Some may argue this was a bad trade-off but the improvements they have managed on the SSE2 are very impressive.
"Geomatics is extremely CPU intensive and pretty much 100 per cent bound by CPU performance. For this reason we obtained an early 1.5GHz P4 despite the inflated costs in an attempt to determine how much added performance it would give us in reducing our production times."
===
The article then goes on to describe the sweet 'puter setup they use, describes how SSE/SSE2 are an advantage in this particular case, and describes how AMD also plans to support SSE/SSE2 and more.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/14982.ht
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If I recall correctly, one of the bigger challenges Intel faces is in retaining skilled chip designers.
I'm under the impression that their best and brightest designers have fled the company, and they're now left with newbies who have simply never worked on anything approaching the scale of these CPUs.
It's an interesting problem, come to think of it: the only way you get that sort of expertise is to progress through the chip designs. You start off designing 8086, get involved in designing 80186, 286, 386... eventually, you're an expert at designing large CPUs, because you've been chiefly responsible for designing increasingly larger CPUs.
When you kick the bucket, how's that runny-nosed kid fresh from tech school ever going to cope with developing the next generation CPU? Poor little bugger hasn't ever designed a CPU at all: his training was all theoretical, and perhaps a few class projects designing variations on the 555 timer.
In all likelyhood, it's going to become one helluva problem within the next ten to twenty years, as the old school designers, who cut their teeth on simpler CPUs and were key in the development of more complex CPUs, die off or retire.
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Tom's ego compares favourably to the heat sink on a P4, the power supply for an Athlon, the Mac LCD cinema display, the Razor Boomslang mouse, old HP laser printers, and IBM's "wing o' death" keyboard.
Which is to say that it's fucking enormous.
Tom, my man, I think you need to chill out. Start popping some Paxil. Quit taking yourself so fucking seriously. You're just a little shit in a big pond. You don't make or break the hardware world.
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Why would anyone be thinking about Turkey?
The only recent news about them involves a US military spokesman there that denies Iraq's claims of having shot down a US fighter jet [see here]; and a few weeks ago there were news stories about the Turkish government repressing (foreign) free enterprise business [see here]; and a heck of a long time ago (well, a few months, anyway) a bunch of boorish Brits got their asses kicked for desecrating the Turkish flag during a soccer match [see here].
Anyway, point is, nothing much seems to be happening in Turkey, so why are we assumed to be thinking about it?
Until some sort of really great geek hardware comes bursting out of its borders, or until they start some war with a neighbour, I just don't see why I'd ever think about Turkey.
Jus' curious about the original author's thinking...
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And *no* mention of its compute-time. Sure, it has great standby time and reasonable talk time (4hrs)... but when you crack that clamshell and start viewing PowerPoint presentations, how long does that poor little battery last?
Unlike laptops, I doubt many cellphone users are spending their time plugged into wall socket!
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I pay $45/mo, tax-in, rental-in. British Columbia, small town.
.6, so it's about $27US.
Exchange rate is about
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I think it's only fair to point out that something on the order of 90% of the population lives within a couple hundred kilometers of the 49th parallel. When you ignore all the massively unpopulated landmass, the *typical* density is quite a bit higher than 3 residents/sq.km.
:)
Though it's still very, very low.
(And still those poor bastards out in NoWhereNoHow, Manitoba, get phone service. Amazing!)
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Since deregulation, the cost has dropped *for you.*
For me, it's about doubled. I don't do a lot of long-distance, and my local rates are way the heck up.
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I get ADSL, in a town pop. 40K, for $45/mo, including modem rental. If I were to purchase my own modem, I'd pay under $35.
This is, of course, the same rate paid by people in the little town of Lumby, population 3000.
I wonder how many 3000-person towns in the USA have ADSL. Seems like you can't get away from it in BC...
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I don't have an answer to this question, but it seems to me that the Internet (Arpanet back when I first encountered it!) has become antigressively (as opposed to progressively) less "free" over the years.
There was a time when there were *no* rules: anyone did *anything* they wanted. Naturally, there were consequences for doing stupid things, but there wasn't any legal involvement: the system took care of its own.
These days, it's not that way at all.
So what's going to happen?
Is the Internet going to become controlled and regulated by the Legal System?
Is it going to become controlled and regulated by Big Business?
Is there any difference between the two?
Will a secretive undernet develop, once again allowing no-holds-barred information exchange?
Will we savvy geeks rise up against the burgeoning restrictions, or will be lie back and take it up our collective brown buttons?
Frankly, I think the worst will happen: this remarkable opportunity for freedom of information sharing will be subverted to the needs of business. Most of the public doesn't know what it's losing, and the rest of the public is dominated by selfish short-term interests that simply aren't compatible with long-term societal gains.
It's the End of the Internet as we know it... and it's going out not with a bang, but a whimper.
:-(
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Oh no - there's got to be a better way
Say it again
There's got to be a better way - yeah
What is it good for?
P4! has caused unrest
Among the geeky generation
Induction then destruction
(bunnypeople)
Who wants to upgrade?
P4 - huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
P4 - huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Yeah
P4 - I despise
'Cos it means destruction
Of innocent tournament lives
P4 means tears
To thousands of motherboards
When their circuit traces
glow from overvoltage
And lose their power regulator
I said
P4 - huh
It's an enemy of all geekkind
No point of P4
'Cos you're a smart man
Give it to me one time - now
Give it to me one time - now
P4 has shattered
Many young men's dreams
We've got no place for it today
They say we must use it to keep our framerates up
But Lord,
there's just got to be a better way
(AMD)
There's just got to be a better way
It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
P4
Friend only to the revenue-maker
P4
P4
P4 - Good God, now
Now
Give it to me one time now
Now now
What is it good for?
(sung by Hector Goes to Hollywood...)
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Oh, good points, all. I wouldn't anticipate Corel doing this with an expiry date on the product: if you want to use version 8.558 forever onward, just quit paying your license. If/when you do decide to upgrade, you end up having to buy the retail package at full price.
So for the $100/yr, I get web access to upgrades as they happen; better be a few of them each year, if they want to keep me paying. I don't *need* to install them; I have the option of skipping them.
The Ventura software runs about $700 full retail. Upgrade pricing is somewhere around $300; that's why I figure $100 per year, and not $300.
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They denounce them, because they don't use software professionally, Estanislao.
I use Corel Ventura to produce long documents: I do technical writing by trade, and I've become reasonably adept at document design.
Ventura is currently my bread-and-butter application: anyone can create documents using Word, but I produce documents that are eye-smashing: their appearance wins me contracts over the competition. The *only* software that fully meets my needs is Ventura (Framemaker runs second, as it lacks some powerful typography controls; Word doesn't even register on the charts).
Would I pay a yearly fee for Ventura? You bet your bippy! It makes me tens of thousands of dollars: I'm willing to spend a hundred bucks a year to ensure that development on the product continues.
That way, I'm guaranteed to have a more powerful, more bug-free, more productive tool on a regular basis -- all of which serves to make me more money, faster.
The way I see, I can pay Corel $700 every couple of years for the next significant version upgrade, or I can pay $100 every year for continuous, incremental improvement.
Thanks, I'll choose the $100 route.
And Corel? They're foolish not to take me up on this offer, because it guarantees them a steady income. With 100k users subscribed to this model, they'd have $10M per year to dedicate to developing the product! It'd take them out of the red ink, and put them solidly onto profitable ground.
Damn straight that subscription models are preferable. Anyone who isn't turned on by the idea of continual incremental improvement of a product isn't using the product professionally!
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Sure, Athlon kicks Intel around the block.
Doesn't matter. The media is frantically pumping Intel's "next big thing," to the exclusion of AMD's *already existing* big thing.
It's been most interesting to watch the mainstream (C|Net, ZDNews) suck it up to Intel. Two months ago, they were mentioning AMD about as much as Intel. Today, they talk exclusively about Intel's "to be" chips, and ignore AMDs existing superiority.
The winner in the chip wars will be the company that best manipulates the popular media.
Which means that Intel, no matter how badly it shoots itself in the foot with poor designs, poor performance and poor planning, will succeed -- because Intel is a Master of Marketing.
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Do feel free to take out in the back alley and, ah, solve the Rambus problem for us all, once and for all...
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Yes you could. Easily. It's just that the core would stall all the time. But who cares? The whole idea is to hoax the gullible.
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You dipshit. Can't you read? Where did I suggest that I use more than a couple typefaces in a document?
I have a shitload of fonts because designing and laying out publications is my life. My clients want their documents to look distinctive, which requires that I not publish everything using TNR and Arial.
*YOU* might need access to only a few fonts. *I* need access to many.
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It looks like I must, once again, re-iterate my point, because Linux bigots are too narrow-minded to comprehend it the very first time:
*FOR ME* Linux *IS NOT* productive.
For starters, it does not allow me to use Ventura Publisher. The only Linux software that comes remotely close to Ventura is a buggy beta of Framemaker. Using buggy beta software does nothing to increase my productivity.
It doesn't allow me to use Visio, either. Linux does offer some Visio-like applications, but they're far from complete and, just as importantly, they're not compatible with the software my clients use. Using incompatible, incomplete software does nothing to increase my productivity.
*FOR YOU* Linux may well be productive. But face facts: *you* are *not* Corel's target market.
I *am* Corel's target market: I use Ventura, Photopaint, Draw and would, if my clients were more hip to quality software, use WordPerfect.
Until Corel Linux supports those Corel products -- and Ventura is by far the most important to me -- then Linux is simply not a productive operating system *for me.*
You, hacking in GCC or running a webserver or doing whatever it is you do, *are not* Corel's target market. You're the target market for Debian and RedHat.
I wish the Linux bigots would grab a freaking clue: different people have different needs, and Linux *does not* satisfy the needs of *a lot* of people right now.
Just as Windows doesn't satisfy the needs of *a lot* of Linux bigots. Hey, they're using Linux because it's best for them.
Just please don't insist that it's best for me, too. It plainly is not.
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"Took me one second"
Rubbish! It took you *eons* to become fluent enough with the command line to be able to save time using the shell.
Me? I clicked my four fonts folders in sequence, and noted what Explorer reported the number of files in the folder to be. Added them up.
How long did it take you to learn all the intricacies of the LS command, the WC command and piping?
How long did it take me to learn to click a folder icon?
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No time at all; I use Bitstream Font Navigator to manage them.
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