I use a 8100c on a daily basis, and it is a good little machine, but their are a few gotcha's:
The color tiffs use a depreciated form of tiff that was rescinded from the standard as unworkable. On top of that, the version they use does not work with an variant of libTiff. Basically you are stuck working with a few windows programs... and graphics converter on the Mac. Photoshop with sometimes even choke on them.
When we try and scan yellow documents the scanner will occasionally freeze up. It seems to happen sooner in tiff mode, later in PDF mode... but eventually it just freezes and has t be rebooted. Reloading firmware does nothing to abate this.
Oh... and it does mean that the scanner has to feed a windows box, as I have not found a means of attaching it to anything else.
Having been an exchange student to Austria (from the US) I find that statement rather annoying. I had to spend a lot of time reminding my friends that Austria is a mountainous country in Europe, not a continent in the southern hemisphere. These were smart people, but simply ignorant of geography...
The issue was that they divided by 0, and the resultant crash bubbled up and crashed the os on a network controller, in turn taking a whole group of systems down with it. While the proprietary systems triggered the crash, it should not have gone so far, so the OS does bear some responsibility.
This should never have been run on a non-real-time operating system. So not NT, not Linux, not MacOS, etc...
"irregardless" is a typical midwestern word. I am from the mid-west, and find myself saying it frequently. It is just one of those regional things. Yes it is wrong, yes it does drive midwestern english teachers nuts, but it is still in common usage as a synonym for regardless.
note: I have heard it in other parts of the US, but not nearly as often.
Ah... America's rich tradition of robber barons becoming philanthropists... Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller just to name a few. To many people of the time these men were the personification of everything wrong with those in power (and to some the Devil incarnate), but their names now live on in their philanthropic works. Bill Gates is simply following in their footsteps.
Yes.. this is the current mouse design. The only change from the original of this type is that now it is white, rather than black, under the clear shell.
Even more likley... they know how fast WiFi would kill the battery life. There is a reason almost every portable WiFi device has a physical switch to turn it off... and a reason the BlueTooth (slower, shorter range) exists.
Actually, Apple finally settled that lawsuit out-of-court. That was when Microsoft promised to continue development of Office for Mac for one more round (at least... that was Office v.X), and make an investment in Apple for 2 or three years (non-voting, since sold for a nice profit).
And the first series of the lawsuit was dismissed because Microsoft had worked some wording into a contract with Apple in the agreement to produce the predecessor to Excel (one of the original mac os 1.0 programs) that allowed them to use the MacOS interface ideas... their interpretation was that this meant they could create their own OS with these ideas. The judge agreed.
Apple copied point-click from Unix? Umm... no. Apple did use the idea from a (paid for) trip to Xerox-PARC, and then Microsoft copied Apple's work (whether that copying was legal or not was the subject of a now settled-out-of-court series of lawsuits).
I don't know exactly when X11 came out, (and a quick googling didn't net me that information), but I do know that Apple had the first commercial mouse out. There had been drafting devices that were used to input blueprints that were similar, but they did not do anything but designate points.
The big reason that the big houses have not switched over is that they have complex workflows that they don't want to re-do. This is also the reason that many of them are still using Quark 4 (when 6 is out).
These workflows often involve custom code that has only been written for MacOS 9, and will not integrate with anything but the version it was created for.
As a mid-sized company, we have switched to ID CS, and are very happy with the switch.
I too wish that my Hungarian was up to par... I have been wanting to take the full immersion course offered in Debrecen for a number of years.. I wish that this was the one I was going to finally do it.
Are you actually arguing that most positions help by MBA's require more knowledge than most software developing positions?
I have heard a couple of items on NPR's nes shows about how CFO's might be the next group to be outsourced... it would be a funny turn of the tables...
Since you commented as a AC, I can't reply to you directly... but I am looking for some moonlighting jobs, and live about 100 meters outside Philly... If you are looking for someone to pick up some slack I would be interested.
I had problems like this, and it all turned out to be because there was a turf war going on between my local cable company, and the satellite TV company that had wired my apartment building. They were fighting over who got to do what on the box outside, and so no-one was doing a good job.
Every time the wind changed something in the box would move, and I would lose my connection. After 3 weeks of this (working from home) I switched to DSL and was very happy.
I believe that only is true for trademarks. You can defend or not the rest of IP law as you see fit (although there have been some interesting cases alleging entrapment).
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I use a 8100c on a daily basis, and it is a good little machine, but their are a few gotcha's:
The color tiffs use a depreciated form of tiff that was rescinded from the standard as unworkable. On top of that, the version they use does not work with an variant of libTiff. Basically you are stuck working with a few windows programs... and graphics converter on the Mac. Photoshop with sometimes even choke on them.
When we try and scan yellow documents the scanner will occasionally freeze up. It seems to happen sooner in tiff mode, later in PDF mode... but eventually it just freezes and has t be rebooted. Reloading firmware does nothing to abate this.
Oh... and it does mean that the scanner has to feed a windows box, as I have not found a means of attaching it to anything else.
... and the instructions are in geekese...
Hey... that might be a way of getting more people interested in communion...
Having been an exchange student to Austria (from the US) I find that statement rather annoying. I had to spend a lot of time reminding my friends that Austria is a mountainous country in Europe, not a continent in the southern hemisphere. These were smart people, but simply ignorant of geography...
Even better, replace that aircraft carrier with a missile cruiser and some good satellite coverage.
The issue was that they divided by 0, and the resultant crash bubbled up and crashed the os on a network controller, in turn taking a whole group of systems down with it. While the proprietary systems triggered the crash, it should not have gone so far, so the OS does bear some responsibility.
This should never have been run on a non-real-time operating system. So not NT, not Linux, not MacOS, etc...
In a string bikini, ya, a credit card is a bulky item. You just haven't been to the right clubs...
"irregardless" is a typical midwestern word. I am from the mid-west, and find myself saying it frequently. It is just one of those regional things. Yes it is wrong, yes it does drive midwestern english teachers nuts, but it is still in common usage as a synonym for regardless.
note: I have heard it in other parts of the US, but not nearly as often.
Ah... America's rich tradition of robber barons becoming philanthropists... Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller just to name a few. To many people of the time these men were the personification of everything wrong with those in power (and to some the Devil incarnate), but their names now live on in their philanthropic works. Bill Gates is simply following in their footsteps.
You need QuickTime at the very least... so that would require the crossover plugin from CodeWeavers.
Yes.. this is the current mouse design. The only change from the original of this type is that now it is white, rather than black, under the clear shell.
Apple also sells a wireless version (bluetooth).
Even more likley... they know how fast WiFi would kill the battery life. There is a reason almost every portable WiFi device has a physical switch to turn it off... and a reason the BlueTooth (slower, shorter range) exists.
Common... everybody knows that Apple is working on sexbots....
In the 1950's it would have fit.
Actually, Apple finally settled that lawsuit out-of-court. That was when Microsoft promised to continue development of Office for Mac for one more round (at least... that was Office v.X), and make an investment in Apple for 2 or three years (non-voting, since sold for a nice profit).
And the first series of the lawsuit was dismissed because Microsoft had worked some wording into a contract with Apple in the agreement to produce the predecessor to Excel (one of the original mac os 1.0 programs) that allowed them to use the MacOS interface ideas... their interpretation was that this meant they could create their own OS with these ideas. The judge agreed.
Apple copied point-click from Unix? Umm... no. Apple did use the idea from a (paid for) trip to Xerox-PARC, and then Microsoft copied Apple's work (whether that copying was legal or not was the subject of a now settled-out-of-court series of lawsuits).
I don't know exactly when X11 came out, (and a quick googling didn't net me that information), but I do know that Apple had the first commercial mouse out. There had been drafting devices that were used to input blueprints that were similar, but they did not do anything but designate points.
The big reason that the big houses have not switched over is that they have complex workflows that they don't want to re-do. This is also the reason that many of them are still using Quark 4 (when 6 is out).
These workflows often involve custom code that has only been written for MacOS 9, and will not integrate with anything but the version it was created for.
As a mid-sized company, we have switched to ID CS, and are very happy with the switch.
I agree that it is a bit expensive, but if you start to look at the specs a bit better, you will understand more:
USB Printer Sharing Built in
A good antenna (optional external antenna hookup also)
One model has a built in modem with AOL Compatibility (the only one out there)
An application based admin interface both for Windows and Mac
Like I said.. they are still a bit expensive, but not as much as as it first appears. Much like most of Apple's products.
I too wish that my Hungarian was up to par... I have been wanting to take the full immersion course offered in Debrecen for a number of years.. I wish that this was the one I was going to finally do it.
Ps.. to the mods.. parent post if funny...
Are you actually arguing that most positions help by MBA's require more knowledge than most software developing positions?
I have heard a couple of items on NPR's nes shows about how CFO's might be the next group to be outsourced... it would be a funny turn of the tables...
Since you commented as a AC, I can't reply to you directly... but I am looking for some moonlighting jobs, and live about 100 meters outside Philly... If you are looking for someone to pick up some slack I would be interested.
What? You have to be pirate to do that? Is there a union requirement?
*shucks*....
I had problems like this, and it all turned out to be because there was a turf war going on between my local cable company, and the satellite TV company that had wired my apartment building. They were fighting over who got to do what on the box outside, and so no-one was doing a good job.
Every time the wind changed something in the box would move, and I would lose my connection. After 3 weeks of this (working from home) I switched to DSL and was very happy.
How sad is it that I think the parent post should have been modded "informative"?
I believe that only is true for trademarks. You can defend or not the rest of IP law as you see fit (although there have been some interesting cases alleging entrapment).