Why upgrade??! To be well prepared when the Long awaited, Horny Vista arrives!!! Aren't you just really holding your breath and counting the days, hours, minutes... ??!
a) (lack of) speed when processing bigger (12MP) files b) mem usage.
I don't count the RAW being displayed "raw" as a fault or problem as this is exactly what I prefer to have but if I continuously get the beachball (busy pointer) on a quad-core G5 (the fastest machine Apple ever produced) with 5.5GiB of RAM being eaten on the start - then there's something seriously wrong. I tested it and dumped as unusable for those very reasons, even if the ideas behind that app are excellent.
Let's take a realistic point of view. We have a computer user who seems to be well experienced. They even have a nicely designed blog online where you can write in your favourite Windows-only applications.
Ther are tools for OS X, which let you set such sites up in no time with almost no technical knowledge. And yes, it looks like a well-designed, full-fledged blogsite.
Yet they claim that they have never been a windows user before (Making me wonder where they have been for the past 10+ years where windows has been the ubiquitous consumer & business software platform.)
I was there. Using Amiga, then GNU/Linux, GNU/xxBSD. I saw Windows at work but I admit I still haven't seen a Windows application that would amaze me. Thus, even if I am quite an experienced user, I would still be able to easily relate to this question: "OK - so make me cry, show me those killer apps, which will make me eventually understand why so many people use Windows"
[...] Now lets come back to the real world: If you haven't dabbled in windows ever then you're either a recent jail escapee or very good at digging one's own head deeply into sand.
No. As I explained before - many people, including/me are aware of the existance of Windows, are not jail escapees nor are especially efficient with digging sanddunes with their heads. Nevertheless would still be iterested in "ok - now that I can do it without buying a second machine, I'd like to see the best what this thing can so that I can make my own conclusions."
This story doesn't add up, and is coinciding with a new wave of windows advertising. Which is fairly interesting as it's before a major release is due. I think our friends in Redmond are just trying to peddle off some Windows sales.
Sure, can be but the reasoning behind your conclusion is far from cogent. And no, I am neither Windows fan, nor Redmond Salesman...
... is when people start asking more questions... Galileo's works had also a very detrimental effect on the official science... As one proverb says - true virtues are not afraid of critics. Is ET?
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Mod me down freely - my karma is at the worst level anyway.
result seems to contradict a previous study by the same authors
In other news: The authors of the study, which conclusion was that "cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone" were heavily bashed on the popular Slashdot newsportal while their Karma reached the all-time record lowest possible level. From unofficial sources we got to know that the authors prepare themselves to fight off the bad Karma and we may expect more interesting results from them in the future.
Mozilla was pretty stagnant before somebody disbundled all the components and let them grow alone. Now is this news a sign of someone willing to combine the stuff back into a single app?
In fact, yes! In the late seventies and early eighties some of the early, tube based colour CRTs with wooden cabinet were quite high on the fire risk and I saw some catching fire myself.
Administration and development: There are numerous impressive efforts going on in this area, and three products are particularly promising. pgAdmin III has a particularly long development history and is capable of handling practically any task ranging from simple table creation to managing replication across multiple servers. Navicat PostgreSQL offers features similar to pgAdmin III and is packaged in a very well-designed interface.
Yes, that's correct. And pgAdmin III continuously crashes whenever one tries to edit data in the tables while Navicat crashed already in the first three minutes of use. I.e. just after the setup's been finished and I tried to connect. Fully reproducible all the time on both... luckily psql console still works;-)
Specifically, the Commission says Microsoft failed to produce required documentation in a form that worked.
"Microsoft has...supplied this documentation in a usable form in accord with industry practice," the company said in the introduction to its documents.
Does this mean they used Word and.DOC files instead of.ODT ones?;-)
As China needs china...;-)
It neither needs "Internet companies" nor china. The can and will get along just fine without them. It's them who really need the Chinese market.
Webhosting that can hadle/. can cost as little as $10 a year - certainly not the price they ask for.Mac!.Mac is a very fine set of services but IMHO way overpriced. Having said that. I'd still pay up to $49 a year but already three or four times I just said "no, thank you" after checking the current.Mac price (in hope something changed). Not really because I couldn't afford it but rather because I don't see it as "fair" price. And don't even try to tell me that I would get a backup program for $99, which may alone be worth it... No, that's a crying shame that there is no decent backup software bundled with OS X!! And even the Apple's backup from.Mac is far from being a decent one:-(
The theory of evolution is exactly what it says on the tin, i.e. a theory. Nobody said it's the absolute truth, but it's the best we have.
The voice of sanity... unfortunately there are so many (even on this forum) who call it *fact*, which is pretty close to calling it "the absolute truth", isn't it? I don't choose magic for explanation. I don't hang on the word "theory". I want true, scientific explanations. But my skeptical mind have problems accepting something as fact as long as it is not proven. That reminds me of many "facts" from the history and highly scientific discussions on "the mechanisms, which caused that the Sun at some point started to revolve around the Earth".
Explain why there are so many shared genes between species. In fact, the human genome is one big code sharing exercise
Explain why there are so many shared code snippets between the source files of the same programmer or group of programmers. In fact, the Linux kernel is one big code sharing exercise:-P
When will you scientists and "scientists" eventually understand that ID advocates are usually not against science. The conscious among them (yes, there are) are only against calling any unproven (e.g. Darwin's with all its patches and make-ups) theory a "fact". They get mad NOT at science but at the very unscientific approach of so many evolutionists who who build their career on and _believe_ (or pretend to believe) in the (macro)evolution/abiogenesis so blindly as to neglect the true scientific approach of searching proofs and new ways to answer the questions. What the oposition says is that ID is currently of similar value as Darwin's theory and until any of them is actually proven, none has higher value and shouldn't be taught as fact. Actually ID requires much less conditions to be probable;-) It is not against science. It is to call back to scientific virtues of proving rather than believing something so blindly as to hate/ridicule/exterminate those who dare to question the value of your beliefs (an unproven theory)... does it ring the bell? Did something similar already happen in the history of mankind? Is it now your turn, "scientists"?
P.S. A deep, unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something - as someone has said...
Slashdot Mirror
... GEOS, GEM, The Amiga, The Atari ST and other very important GUIs of the era??! The title should rather be something else than what it is.
Linus is really being a stubborn idiot about this.
:-0
Or a smart corporationist (bought some time ago) working undercover.
Why upgrade??! To be well prepared when the Long awaited, Horny Vista arrives!!! Aren't you just really holding your breath and counting the days, hours, minutes... ??!
Read the classic BOFH stories. You should get tons of ideas!
Their all software _is_ up to their standards!
... I encountered test-driving it were:
a) (lack of) speed when processing bigger (12MP) files
b) mem usage.
I don't count the RAW being displayed "raw" as a fault or problem as this is exactly what I prefer to have but if I continuously get the beachball (busy pointer) on a quad-core G5 (the fastest machine Apple ever produced) with 5.5GiB of RAM being eaten on the start - then there's something seriously wrong. I tested it and dumped as unusable for those very reasons, even if the ideas behind that app are excellent.
Right? I mean, everyone does that, right?
No, some collect this on evergrowing RAID arrays...
iCal with Mail.app allows that quite easily, although you have to dobule-click the invitation first.
Researchers [...] are now saying they have 'proof' of human evolution.
Most slashdotters believe that there's an overwhelming number of proofs already available. Why should one more (or less) make a headline?
Let's take a realistic point of view. We have a computer user who seems to be well experienced. They even have a nicely designed blog online where you can write in your favourite Windows-only applications.
/me are aware of the existance of Windows, are not jail escapees nor are especially efficient with digging sanddunes with their heads. Nevertheless would still be iterested in "ok - now that I can do it without buying a second machine, I'd like to see the best what this thing can so that I can make my own conclusions."
Ther are tools for OS X, which let you set such sites up in no time with almost no technical knowledge. And yes, it looks like a well-designed, full-fledged blogsite.
Yet they claim that they have never been a windows user before (Making me wonder where they have been for the past 10+ years where windows has been the ubiquitous consumer & business software platform.)
I was there. Using Amiga, then GNU/Linux, GNU/xxBSD. I saw Windows at work but I admit I still haven't seen a Windows application that would amaze me. Thus, even if I am quite an experienced user, I would still be able to easily relate to this question: "OK - so make me cry, show me those killer apps, which will make me eventually understand why so many people use Windows"
[...] Now lets come back to the real world: If you haven't dabbled in windows ever then you're either a recent jail escapee or very good at digging one's own head deeply into sand.
No. As I explained before - many people, including
This story doesn't add up, and is coinciding with a new wave of windows advertising. Which is fairly interesting as it's before a major release is due. I think our friends in Redmond are just trying to peddle off some Windows sales.
Sure, can be but the reasoning behind your conclusion is far from cogent. And no, I am neither Windows fan, nor Redmond Salesman...
... is when people start asking more questions... Galileo's works had also a very detrimental effect on the official science... As one proverb says - true virtues are not afraid of critics. Is ET?
--
Mod me down freely - my karma is at the worst level anyway.
... A lot more than it has ever done in a PC...
result seems to contradict a previous study by the same authors
In other news: The authors of the study, which conclusion was that "cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone" were heavily bashed on the popular Slashdot newsportal while their Karma reached the all-time record lowest possible level. From unofficial sources we got to know that the authors prepare themselves to fight off the bad Karma and we may expect more interesting results from them in the future.
Mozilla was pretty stagnant before somebody disbundled all the components and let them grow alone. Now is this news a sign of someone willing to combine the stuff back into a single app?
Ever see a CRT go up?
In fact, yes! In the late seventies and early eighties some of the early, tube based colour CRTs with wooden cabinet were quite high on the fire risk and I saw some catching fire myself.
Administration and development: There are numerous impressive efforts going on in this area, and three products are particularly promising. pgAdmin III has a particularly long development history and is capable of handling practically any task ranging from simple table creation to managing replication across multiple servers. Navicat PostgreSQL offers features similar to pgAdmin III and is packaged in a very well-designed interface.
;-)
Yes, that's correct. And pgAdmin III continuously crashes whenever one tries to edit data in the tables while Navicat crashed already in the first three minutes of use. I.e. just after the setup's been finished and I tried to connect. Fully reproducible all the time on both... luckily psql console still works
Specifically, the Commission says Microsoft failed to produce required documentation in a form that worked.
"Microsoft has...supplied this documentation in a usable form in accord with industry practice," the company said in the introduction to its documents.
Does this mean they used Word and .DOC files instead of .ODT ones? ;-)
As China needs china... ;-)
It neither needs "Internet companies" nor china. The can and will get along just fine without them. It's them who really need the Chinese market.
Webhosting that can hadle /. can cost as little as $10 a year - certainly not the price they ask for .Mac! .Mac is a very fine set of services but IMHO way overpriced. Having said that. I'd still pay up to $49 a year but already three or four times I just said "no, thank you" after checking the current .Mac price (in hope something changed). Not really because I couldn't afford it but rather because I don't see it as "fair" price. And don't even try to tell me that I would get a backup program for $99, which may alone be worth it... No, that's a crying shame that there is no decent backup software bundled with OS X!! And even the Apple's backup from .Mac is far from being a decent one :-(
... because blogs suck in general and extending suction (with video) is the opposite of removng it? :-)
The theory of evolution is exactly what it says on the tin, i.e. a theory. Nobody said it's the absolute truth, but it's the best we have.
The voice of sanity... unfortunately there are so many (even on this forum) who call it *fact*, which is pretty close to calling it "the absolute truth", isn't it? I don't choose magic for explanation. I don't hang on the word "theory". I want true, scientific explanations. But my skeptical mind have problems accepting something as fact as long as it is not proven. That reminds me of many "facts" from the history and highly scientific discussions on "the mechanisms, which caused that the Sun at some point started to revolve around the Earth".
Explain why there are so many shared genes between species. In fact, the human genome is one big code sharing exercise
:-P
Explain why there are so many shared code snippets between the source files of the same programmer or group of programmers. In fact, the Linux kernel is one big code sharing exercise
When will you scientists and "scientists" eventually understand that ID advocates are usually not against science. The conscious among them (yes, there are) are only against calling any unproven (e.g. Darwin's with all its patches and make-ups) theory a "fact". They get mad NOT at science but at the very unscientific approach of so many evolutionists who who build their career on and _believe_ (or pretend to believe) in the (macro)evolution/abiogenesis so blindly as to neglect the true scientific approach of searching proofs and new ways to answer the questions. What the oposition says is that ID is currently of similar value as Darwin's theory and until any of them is actually proven, none has higher value and shouldn't be taught as fact. Actually ID requires much less conditions to be probable ;-) It is not against science. It is to call back to scientific virtues of proving rather than believing something so blindly as to hate/ridicule/exterminate those who dare to question the value of your beliefs (an unproven theory)... does it ring the bell? Did something similar already happen in the history of mankind? Is it now your turn, "scientists"?
P.S. A deep, unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something - as someone has said...
If the switch to Intel is going to allow Apple to make their laptops thinner, lighter, more power-efficient, and more powerful,
Are you sure you're talking about the same Intel we all know?
It seems with this situation, MS is damned if they do, damned if they dont.
;-)
That's what they deserve, after all, don't they?