The journalist clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Lossless compression doesn't effect image quality at all.
But the quality is different from lossless...so what part of the sentence didn't make sense to you? One has 0 effect on quality...the other degrades quality. Zero effect is still an effect.
Or....horror of horrors, download the exact same file legally from Adobe. (registration required but the download is faster than a torrent with 0 seeds and 2 leechers)
You even get a working serial key. All you have to do is send Adobe US $199
If you don't like Adobe and their 30 day trial, try Apple's
Because this isn't the latest Photoshop. If anything this is Bridge on steroids (in fact, if you use the CS3 beta, Bridge has inherited a lot of the features found in Lightroom).
Lightroom is a digital equavelent of the darkroom (geddit?...ha). You 'develop' your raw file...adjust things, take out spots. When you want to be cloning things, merging things, changing the colour of aunties hair....then you use Photoshop.
I can't understand how people can't see this distinction...it's black and white.
until this law is passed it is illegal to record a TV show for later viewing...something most Australians have been doing since the invention of the VCR
after the law is passed I suspect people will not change their habits and just as many people will record, watch and re-watch TV programs.
Until this law is passed it is illegal to have MP3 recordings of commercial material (i.e. songs ripped from CD's), yet MP3 plyers ahev been selling,like hotcakes and CD ripping sodtware is freely available and work computers a loaded with songs and shared.
again...nothing will change
The thing to remember here is that there is no way to determine if a recording is being played fo the 1st time or the 100th time. This is especially true if you record a movie from pay tv (legal under the new law) onto a DVD-R. Unless an officer of the law catches someone in the act of watching the recording more than once how are they going to prove it?
"yess officer, I've recorded all these movies but as yet I haven't watched a single one"
Unless they have methods to prove otherwise these laws mean nothing for the home user other than making it perfectly legal to record TV shows (something that has been going on for ages anyway).
As for singing "happy birthday" in public, while technically illegal under the new laws in the example given I would be extreemly supprised if any action was taken.
You may have been joking but at this stage, yes. There is no law anywhere that says you can't travel back in time to learn the numbers of a future lottery. However if the whole time travel thing manages to have data passed a significant ammount of time into the past then my guess is that one day it will be made illegal. That will be moot though as there will be illegal setups and the whole lottery system will fall apart.
a) there is nothing to worry about and GPLv3 will be used without concern
b) GPLv3 won't be used and people will stick with GPLv2
c) there will be multiple versions of libraries due to the issues with version conflicts.
People are free to use whatever license they want beit it V1,2 or 3 or even BSD or some other closed licence even. The only issue will be where software is written under V3 and someone else would prefer it to be under V2....
guess what....that's te beauty of open source...if you don't like something you get to make your own.
No-one is holding a gun to you head to use this license if you don't like it...and if it is really as bad as people say then it will find little use anyway.
...it lost direction. Had it continued on that path then yes, the company would have failed.
The comuting landscame might well have been different in Apple had made better decisions in the past, but that's life and mistakes are made
As I type this on my MacBook Pro though I can say for sure that Apple isn't going anywhere soon (I say that becasue this is the first Mac I've owned that has given me no reason to move back to Windows
Gentlemen What about the Death Star?
Since it doesn't qualify as being a moon, planet status is out of the question. Although I think it would hav no problem clearing the space around it.
So what part of FAKE screenshot didn't you understand?
As for the real deal, you can make it as cluttered or uncluttered as you please....just like Windows.
Bartron
get any iBook, MacBook, mac mini, iMac and compare to equavelent items from Dell or your local PC store. You will find that once you count in hardware, software and build quality Apple are actually quite reasonable. Alienware (Delaware?) aren't exactly cheap either but people still buy them.
When Apple first ran on PPC it was clock for clock better than anything Intel had. G3 is better than PIII and G4 and G5 is better than P4.
Things changed.
Intel now has caught up and is able to produce a dual core, low power (=low heat = silent cooling) chip. This is something that IBM couldn't give them (couldn't or wouldn't)...so Apple jumped ship to the company that had a better CPU roadmap (and whose recent offerings are actually something really good).
Personally I think OS X is cool. It looks like unix...it feels like unix....it is unix (I know..I know....technically it is unix BASSED)
The interface is simple and easy to learn
It is secure (security from obsecurity maybe...if it gets more popular...we'll see)
BUT.....average Joe doesn't care or even want to care. If Apple don't start selling these things (PPC or x86) in department stores then average Joe will still buy Windows boxes. I really hope they take a page from the iPod success story and let all and sundry apply to be an "authorised Apple retailer" or whatever they call them these days.
If the development version gets hacked then it may expose the OS to a few more people but not as much as letting anyone sell 'official' Macs. When you showcase a OS X and Windows together, Windows looks like a wet smelly sock and becomes just as appealing.
As for the dev system..the mobo looks almost identical to the intel mobos we used to buy for work.
it may get lost in all the posts now but for what it is worth, here is my $0.02
Just like data expanding to fill the available hard drive space (remember when 80MB was impossibly huge??....well....I do at least) so will web sites expand to fill available bandwidth. If broadband were the only option available, web data will expand and we will be no better off than if 56kbps were the only option.
Dialup is good....it keeps web site size down and the experience good for all.
My guess why they went for Apple is probably because Darwin is bassed on BSD and the source is available. It may not be open in the sence that Linux is but it is more open then Microsoft ever will be.
Also, with Apple meing a majoe vendor they have a certain sence of security when it coemes to future support. Apple have a better chance of sticking around than some shop making custom Linux boxes
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The journalist clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Lossless compression doesn't effect image quality at all.
But the quality is different from lossless...so what part of the sentence didn't make sense to you? One has 0 effect on quality...the other degrades quality. Zero effect is still an effect.
Tri-X. Accept no substitution. ;)
Or....horror of horrors, download the exact same file legally from Adobe. (registration required but the download is faster than a torrent with 0 seeds and 2 leechers)
You even get a working serial key. All you have to do is send Adobe US $199
If you don't like Adobe and their 30 day trial, try Apple's
Because this isn't the latest Photoshop. If anything this is Bridge on steroids (in fact, if you use the CS3 beta, Bridge has inherited a lot of the features found in Lightroom). Lightroom is a digital equavelent of the darkroom (geddit?...ha). You 'develop' your raw file...adjust things, take out spots. When you want to be cloning things, merging things, changing the colour of aunties hair....then you use Photoshop. I can't understand how people can't see this distinction...it's black and white.
Remind me how to get Outlook running withough paying Microsoft a cent again?
after the law is passed I suspect people will not change their habits and just as many people will record, watch and re-watch TV programs.
Until this law is passed it is illegal to have MP3 recordings of commercial material (i.e. songs ripped from CD's), yet MP3 plyers ahev been selling,like hotcakes and CD ripping sodtware is freely available and work computers a loaded with songs and shared. again...nothing will change
The thing to remember here is that there is no way to determine if a recording is being played fo the 1st time or the 100th time. This is especially true if you record a movie from pay tv (legal under the new law) onto a DVD-R. Unless an officer of the law catches someone in the act of watching the recording more than once how are they going to prove it?
"yess officer, I've recorded all these movies but as yet I haven't watched a single one"
Unless they have methods to prove otherwise these laws mean nothing for the home user other than making it perfectly legal to record TV shows (something that has been going on for ages anyway).As for singing "happy birthday" in public, while technically illegal under the new laws in the example given I would be extreemly supprised if any action was taken.
You may have been joking but at this stage, yes. There is no law anywhere that says you can't travel back in time to learn the numbers of a future lottery. However if the whole time travel thing manages to have data passed a significant ammount of time into the past then my guess is that one day it will be made illegal. That will be moot though as there will be illegal setups and the whole lottery system will fall apart.
a) there is nothing to worry about and GPLv3 will be used without concern
b) GPLv3 won't be used and people will stick with GPLv2
c) there will be multiple versions of libraries due to the issues with version conflicts.
guess what....that's te beauty of open source...if you don't like something you get to make your own.
No-one is holding a gun to you head to use this license if you don't like it...and if it is really as bad as people say then it will find little use anyway.
Had the title been "Why Apple Almost Failed in the 90s", then it would be a truer reflection of the events
sigh....that will teach me to preview my post first. My Mac is good but somehow didn't fix my bad typing skills....same as it is under Windows.
The comuting landscame might well have been different in Apple had made better decisions in the past, but that's life and mistakes are made
As I type this on my MacBook Pro though I can say for sure that Apple isn't going anywhere soon (I say that becasue this is the first Mac I've owned that has given me no reason to move back to Windows
because there's no freaking way to just buy the files ;)
Where I buy all of my mp3's from I can do jsut that....DRM free
Bartron
I work for the shuttle progeam. Aliens are real. Seriously...anyone can say they work for the shuttle program...doesn't mean what you say is true.
Gentlemen What about the Death Star? Since it doesn't qualify as being a moon, planet status is out of the question. Although I think it would hav no problem clearing the space around it.
So what part of FAKE screenshot didn't you understand? As for the real deal, you can make it as cluttered or uncluttered as you please....just like Windows. Bartron
WTF are ou talking about?
get any iBook, MacBook, mac mini, iMac and compare to equavelent items from Dell or your local PC store. You will find that once you count in hardware, software and build quality Apple are actually quite reasonable. Alienware (Delaware?) aren't exactly cheap either but people still buy them.
When Apple first ran on PPC it was clock for clock better than anything Intel had. G3 is better than PIII and G4 and G5 is better than P4.
Things changed.
Intel now has caught up and is able to produce a dual core, low power (=low heat = silent cooling) chip. This is something that IBM couldn't give them (couldn't or wouldn't)...so Apple jumped ship to the company that had a better CPU roadmap (and whose recent offerings are actually something really good).
The interface is simple and easy to learn
It is secure (security from obsecurity maybe...if it gets more popular...we'll see)
BUT.....average Joe doesn't care or even want to care. If Apple don't start selling these things (PPC or x86) in department stores then average Joe will still buy Windows boxes. I really hope they take a page from the iPod success story and let all and sundry apply to be an "authorised Apple retailer" or whatever they call them these days.
If the development version gets hacked then it may expose the OS to a few more people but not as much as letting anyone sell 'official' Macs. When you showcase a OS X and Windows together, Windows looks like a wet smelly sock and becomes just as appealing.
As for the dev system..the mobo looks almost identical to the intel mobos we used to buy for work.
What?.....no steak knives?
it may get lost in all the posts now but for what it is worth, here is my $0.02 Just like data expanding to fill the available hard drive space (remember when 80MB was impossibly huge??....well....I do at least) so will web sites expand to fill available bandwidth. If broadband were the only option available, web data will expand and we will be no better off than if 56kbps were the only option. Dialup is good....it keeps web site size down and the experience good for all.
My guess why they went for Apple is probably because Darwin is bassed on BSD and the source is available. It may not be open in the sence that Linux is but it is more open then Microsoft ever will be.
Also, with Apple meing a majoe vendor they have a certain sence of security when it coemes to future support. Apple have a better chance of sticking around than some shop making custom Linux boxes