I like sticking a 100MB boot partition at the front. Ranish Partition Manager is a really nice one. It is particularly nice if you want to have multi-Windows OS's on the same machine.
Really? My wife, who served a church mission in Argentina, used Google Maps to show me the different areas where she lived and worked. This was a couple years ago. But checking now, sure enough it's all white.
Install Antivirus = $39
Go to Comodo and get yourself an excellent free software firewall and decent anti-malware softwares. That's free for business use.
Glad you mentioned OOo, though it isn't everyone's favorite flavor.
I will agree with most everything you say. Having used Photoshop well over 8 years ago, then realizing that my illegally acquired copy was, ahem, illegally acquired, I moved onto The GIMP. I didn't have $200+ to spend on Photoshop.
With any software that compete: Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, MacOSX for example, the UI takes some getting use to when switching. Of course, in the above example, some Linux distros are having to modify their shortcuts to match what Microsoft has done with Windows. This is not a bad thing.
I'm sure that if I tried Photoshop again, I'd see a lot of improvements from 8 years ago. I doubt I would be much faster. Certainly, I will find things I like and things I prefer with The GIMP.
As for adding hardware, in a professional situation, I would hope that developers and graphics artists have all the tools they need to do the job. To me, that means a dual monitor setup.
Once I had a taste of dual monitor setup I have not gone back. Even if all I had was a 15" secondary monitor. (It kills me that my work computer (software QA) only has one monitor... then again, I'm surrounded by a desktop, laptop, several custom embedded devices and two extra monitors to attach to those embedded devices, so I'm getting my daily dose of radiation!
[start snide remark]
Get yourself a blinkin' dual monitor setup!!
[end snide remark]
Wouldn't it be possible to setup The GIMP to allow users who want everything in one window to have that, and those of us who appreciate break-out menus and secondary windows to have it this way?
The reason I don't like Photoshop's UI is for this reason: I have a dual monitor setup and I want my picture to fill all of monitor 1 while my tools sit on monitor 2.
It would be nice, though, if The GIMP would make the Main and Tools windows "Always on Top" when the user clicks on the image being edited.
The fines total $6.6 million. That means not a single company is paying $6 million, but a group of 11 retailers and manufacturers.
The biggest fines went to Sears and subsidiary Kmart, nearly $1.1 million; Wal-Mart, $992,000; and TV manufacturer Syntax-Brillian, nearly $1.3 million.
So adding that up, Sears(1.1)+KMart(1.1)+Syntax-Brillian(1.3)+Wal-Mart(.992) = $4.492 million. Which leaves another $2.1 million to split between 7 other companies. Wal-Mart probably makes over $6.6 million in electronics in a day in a state.
How in the world did Paris Hilton score anything above a 4 on intelligence and a 2 in wisdom? If she rolls a 4, then she flips a coin, tails she gets -1.
But if the coders make their money by making their original code better, what's to stop others from stealing it again and selling it cheaper still. Thus the original coder never makes any money.
I still think it is sad that the inventor of one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, the television, made very little money on it since the corporations just waited out the patents.
Yes, I realize that. My purpose was in pointing out that they (the general public) aren't necessarily buying the faster/cheaper hardware and going with Linux, but choosing another vendor... one with stronger "lock-in" potential and not necessarily more freedom. You can't put MS Windows on a Mac and you can't put MacOS on a Windows box (at least in the past when the term WIntel was coined).
With this announcement of total backwards break, Microsoft has declared complete defeat for their business model.
I don't think that announcing breaking backwards compatibility is declaring defeat for a business model. It is more a cleansing process. And I welcome that. A lot of the hardware and software we use could be a lot more efficient and, quite possibly faster, if backwards compatibility were dropped.
We're to the point now where processors are fast enough now to handle VM's. Let VM's handle the backwards compatibility, translating old code for newer uP/uC code.
I, too, would like to see Microsoft's practices of messing with their user base to satisfy their customer base stopped. But for the sake of competition, I don't think Microsoft sinking is a good option, either.
(I would also like to say it's the year of the penguin, and signs are showing that people are fleeing MS Windows... they just also happen to be fleeing the WIntel world, too, towards Macintosh.... boy, what a locked-down mess the computer industry would be in if Macintosh had won the PC war in the 80's.)
The problem is not that the automakers could make the car for less than $20, but after the automakers spend millions on research and development and production of a new car, they won't be able to recoup those costs when everyone starts "copying" the model from the first purchaser. (And why not, the first purchaser of the model could also reproduce the car for the same cost as the manufacturer, but didn't spend the money on creation.)
Still, the consumers of the music industry are demanding lower prices because the supply is plentiful and easy to reproduce. Many consumers are willing to put the money down for the product that they demand (DRM-free, quality bit-rate, etc.etc.), but the industry is fighting tooth-and-nail to not sell what the consumer demands. Thus the consumer takes his money and goes elsewhere or finds other means for obtaining what it wants.
I've tried a sansa connect (mp3 player). This was the best solution yet, although it was a small mp3 player, it connects via wireless network and allows the full catalog search. Yahoo Music has just announced they're closing and the Sansa Connect no longer will offer this functionality.
Do you have a link for this? I'm not doubting, I just want to get a starting point on this. I got a Sansa Connect for Christmas (not for this feature, but it was some cool icing on the cake). Particularly, I'm wondering because they use Linux on the Sansa Connect with mono for.NET features. I was hoping to get a device that would allow me to play Ogg files (which it doesn't support and probably will not because they won't open the system to allow modders to give it that functionality.) I'm suspecting this is in part because of their agreement with Yahoo!. But if they discontinue that service, I wonder what becomes of Sansa Connect users.
Comodo has firewall, A/V, and other mal-ware utilities for free for business and home use. Their firewall is excellent. At least it is more granular than ZoneLab's ZoneAlarm free version (which is only for home use anyway).
you aren't alone. I was trying to figure out what happened with the regular A or B choice and interested if I've been doing it wrong for all these years. I know others have been too. (not my site).
Plus, you lose impulse and feel-good purchases if you don't have a CD on hand to sell, but give the web address out. Of course, monkeys are flying out with this stat... but I'd say a good number of people who would purchase a CD immediately at a concert would, if given a web address instead, lose the address and/or forget the whole thing anyway.
I have an acquaintance (a dentist, my wife worked with him) who produced a CD. If he didn't have a disc on hand for which I could lay down cash, I doubt I would have used my credit card at his website to download the tracks.
Interesting you point out Nazi Germany and Commmunist Russia. Both goverments fell within 10 years of hosting the games. Perhaps the IOC knows more than we might think.
I agree completely to your post. Though, the tide is turning slowly. I no longer can count how many people are asking me what their next computer should be: "Microsoft" or "Apple". heh.
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I know you all could have found it yourselves, but I'll take the middle step out of it... Berzerk Commercial. It's pretty good!
/Take that, turkey!
I like sticking a 100MB boot partition at the front. Ranish Partition Manager is a really nice one. It is particularly nice if you want to have multi-Windows OS's on the same machine.
Still, that is a nice synopsis.
Really? My wife, who served a church mission in Argentina, used Google Maps to show me the different areas where she lived and worked. This was a couple years ago. But checking now, sure enough it's all white.
Install Antivirus = $39
Go to Comodo and get yourself an excellent free software firewall and decent anti-malware softwares. That's free for business use.
Glad you mentioned OOo, though it isn't everyone's favorite flavor.
Increase the acceleration of your mouse pointer.
I will agree with most everything you say. Having used Photoshop well over 8 years ago, then realizing that my illegally acquired copy was, ahem, illegally acquired, I moved onto The GIMP. I didn't have $200+ to spend on Photoshop.
With any software that compete: Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, MacOSX for example, the UI takes some getting use to when switching. Of course, in the above example, some Linux distros are having to modify their shortcuts to match what Microsoft has done with Windows. This is not a bad thing.
I'm sure that if I tried Photoshop again, I'd see a lot of improvements from 8 years ago. I doubt I would be much faster. Certainly, I will find things I like and things I prefer with The GIMP.
As for adding hardware, in a professional situation, I would hope that developers and graphics artists have all the tools they need to do the job. To me, that means a dual monitor setup.
Once I had a taste of dual monitor setup I have not gone back. Even if all I had was a 15" secondary monitor. (It kills me that my work computer (software QA) only has one monitor... then again, I'm surrounded by a desktop, laptop, several custom embedded devices and two extra monitors to attach to those embedded devices, so I'm getting my daily dose of radiation!
[start snide remark]
Get yourself a blinkin' dual monitor setup!!
[end snide remark]
Wouldn't it be possible to setup The GIMP to allow users who want everything in one window to have that, and those of us who appreciate break-out menus and secondary windows to have it this way?
The reason I don't like Photoshop's UI is for this reason: I have a dual monitor setup and I want my picture to fill all of monitor 1 while my tools sit on monitor 2.
It would be nice, though, if The GIMP would make the Main and Tools windows "Always on Top" when the user clicks on the image being edited.
What about a soldering iron?
How in the world did Paris Hilton score anything above a 4 on intelligence and a 2 in wisdom? If she rolls a 4, then she flips a coin, tails she gets -1.
But if the coders make their money by making their original code better, what's to stop others from stealing it again and selling it cheaper still. Thus the original coder never makes any money.
I still think it is sad that the inventor of one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, the television, made very little money on it since the corporations just waited out the patents.
Yes, I realize that. My purpose was in pointing out that they (the general public) aren't necessarily buying the faster/cheaper hardware and going with Linux, but choosing another vendor... one with stronger "lock-in" potential and not necessarily more freedom. You can't put MS Windows on a Mac and you can't put MacOS on a Windows box (at least in the past when the term WIntel was coined).
DOSBox, it's your friend. Or use VMWare with Win98 installed (granted, DirectX is experimental.)
With this announcement of total backwards break, Microsoft has declared complete defeat for their business model.
I don't think that announcing breaking backwards compatibility is declaring defeat for a business model. It is more a cleansing process. And I welcome that. A lot of the hardware and software we use could be a lot more efficient and, quite possibly faster, if backwards compatibility were dropped.We're to the point now where processors are fast enough now to handle VM's. Let VM's handle the backwards compatibility, translating old code for newer uP/uC code.
I, too, would like to see Microsoft's practices of messing with their user base to satisfy their customer base stopped. But for the sake of competition, I don't think Microsoft sinking is a good option, either.
(I would also like to say it's the year of the penguin, and signs are showing that people are fleeing MS Windows... they just also happen to be fleeing the WIntel world, too, towards Macintosh.
What happened to:
"Our employees are our most important asset."
hehe
The problem is not that the automakers could make the car for less than $20, but after the automakers spend millions on research and development and production of a new car, they won't be able to recoup those costs when everyone starts "copying" the model from the first purchaser. (And why not, the first purchaser of the model could also reproduce the car for the same cost as the manufacturer, but didn't spend the money on creation.)
Still, the consumers of the music industry are demanding lower prices because the supply is plentiful and easy to reproduce. Many consumers are willing to put the money down for the product that they demand (DRM-free, quality bit-rate, etc.etc.), but the industry is fighting tooth-and-nail to not sell what the consumer demands. Thus the consumer takes his money and goes elsewhere or finds other means for obtaining what it wants.
I've tried a sansa connect (mp3 player). This was the best solution yet, although it was a small mp3 player, it connects via wireless network and allows the full catalog search. Yahoo Music has just announced they're closing and the Sansa Connect no longer will offer this functionality.
.NET features. I was hoping to get a device that would allow me to play Ogg files (which it doesn't support and probably will not because they won't open the system to allow modders to give it that functionality.) I'm suspecting this is in part because of their agreement with Yahoo!. But if they discontinue that service, I wonder what becomes of Sansa Connect users.
Do you have a link for this? I'm not doubting, I just want to get a starting point on this. I got a Sansa Connect for Christmas (not for this feature, but it was some cool icing on the cake). Particularly, I'm wondering because they use Linux on the Sansa Connect with mono for
Comodo has firewall, A/V, and other mal-ware utilities for free for business and home use. Their firewall is excellent. At least it is more granular than ZoneLab's ZoneAlarm free version (which is only for home use anyway).
you aren't alone. I was trying to figure out what happened with the regular A or B choice and interested if I've been doing it wrong for all these years. I know others have been too. (not my site).
Plus, you lose impulse and feel-good purchases if you don't have a CD on hand to sell, but give the web address out. Of course, monkeys are flying out with this stat... but I'd say a good number of people who would purchase a CD immediately at a concert would, if given a web address instead, lose the address and/or forget the whole thing anyway.
I have an acquaintance (a dentist, my wife worked with him) who produced a CD. If he didn't have a disc on hand for which I could lay down cash, I doubt I would have used my credit card at his website to download the tracks.
Interesting you point out Nazi Germany and Commmunist Russia. Both goverments fell within 10 years of hosting the games. Perhaps the IOC knows more than we might think.
/not holding breath.
Does it replace Vista for XP?
/sorry, had to do it :^p
Find the law firm's address, send it to them C/O Ms. Anderson. It'll get to the right place.
I agree completely to your post. Though, the tide is turning slowly. I no longer can count how many people are asking me what their next computer should be: "Microsoft" or "Apple". heh.