lets see, 10 of the most popular mac programs are now ported to run natively on OSX.
"All three Power Mac G4 models feature 256K L2 cache per processor, running at full processor speed (you can imagine how well this plays out with the dual 800MHz Power Mac G4). In addition, the 867MHz system has 2MB of L3 backside cache running at one-fourth the processor speed and the dual 800MHz Power Mac G4 has hefty 2MB backside L3 cache per processor, for a total of 4MB."
and, OSX.1 was delayed 2 months, NOT OSX. OSX has been out, as has OSX Server.
oh, and they still posted a profit, albeit a smaller one, while many of their competitors are losing hefty amounts of money in this erstwhile economy.
I remember when the first 1.2 Ghz or so cordless phones came out. It was amazing. I could be about 100 yrs away and get perfectly clear phone conversations. Then EVERYONE started getting them (hell, they cost about $15 now), and maybe it was the new phones I had bought, but the quality got worse and worse...
How will these higher frequency ranges handle more and more users? And while millions of users won't be moving to the 2.4ghz range for data/ISP's, what will happen to their data connections when the masses decide that their current cordless phone is too static-filled and move to the higher range phones? Will this traffic disrupt the data transmissions and cause the wireless equivalent of dial-tone busy signals?
actually, i just got back from China and I can safely say that they've found ways to pirate DVDs.
While in Beijing, my girlfriend brought me to the "cd cafes"... a whole strip of cafes where you order a drink and people that work in the cafe ask you if you'd like any dvds, cds, or vcds. So I said "dvd's please". They returned with trashbags full of dvd's in plastic envelopes. Then my girlfriend told me how much they cost... 15 kuai (approx. $2 US). Of course I checked for the right international encoding so that I could play them on my player at home.
Just in case, when I got home, I tested them on my computer. A few had problems with syncing the audio/video, and I told my girlfriend this. She's like "no worries, you can take em back and exchange em for new ones".
Now if only they had "cd cafes" in NYC...
btw, this is a completely true story. if you want directions to the places in Beijing, you'll figure out how to get in touch with me.
I think that if Adobe was going to dip their feet into the Linux market, they'd go in with ImageReady instead of Illustrator. ImageReady is closer to the needs of Linux users in that it's a scaled-down, web-centered version of Photoshop. This caters to all of the developers that sometimes want to fiddle with images.
Illustrator would be the LAST application I would port to Linux in that true designers (you know, the artsy ones that have never touched command line) would never go near a *nix.
I think the action they took was based on name alone... not because they saw it as a competitor. You know... protecting your name and such... you name is only as strong as you are willing to fight for it.
they know they should be on the linux platform? what the hell for?
how many graphic designers use linux boxes?
hell, most graphic designers I know barely know how to use their macintoshes, are mostly unable to use Windoze computers efficiently, and took at unix or linux as ancient greek.
I happen to agree with Adobe's position on Linux right now... until they see a true demand that equals people purchasing the software instead of just demanding a port for port's sake, there's no reason to put the R&D money behind it, especially in an uncertain market like we have today.
no, they're advertised as an "illustration tool", not an "illustrator tool". there is a difference.
I, and many other people, would associate a computer aided drawing application with the word "illustrator" in it to Adobe.
they were obviously playing off the name. maybe they should have named it "illustration" or something totally unrelated... but this is so obvious, makes you wonder why if they were bright enough to create this app that they weren't creative enough to choose a name that wouldn't get them attacked by adobe's lawyers.
I guess I can comment on this since I'm looking to either rent or purchase an apartment in NYC. And lemme tell you something, it ain't fun.
There are three things you need to deal with in searching for a place online:
1. dis-information
2. scams
3. horrible sites with horrible query functions
You'll find places on the 'net that sound too good to be true... mainly because they are. After calling the # that you find in the Village Voice online, you realize that this is one of those services that although they don't charge a broker fee, requires you to pay $200 upfront for nothing.
So you turn down that... instead finding a site that has some great pictures with great descriptions... of course it was taken 3 weeks ago because the market moves faster than they have the time to put the information on the web.
And then there are just the really crappy sites. I've almost submitted proposals for work offering to make their sites better looking and more functional if they'll just drop the 15% broker fee (that's quite hefty since it's 15% of the total yearly rental which for a small 1 bedroom rental will equal about $3000+).
Searching for real estate online is just like searching for anything else. You have two choices: go to the main players in the space or be prepared to follow a lot of shitty links to a lot of shitty phone service. Once in a while you'll get a gem, but often you'll get crap.
If you're in NYC, try using www.bellmarc.com or www.corcoran.com Nice pictures, descriptions, and brokers, but their prices are higher... or, one of those gems that I found is a woman named Sophia that works at www.getapts.com (tell her I sent you)
Just like everything else, dilligence is necessary... and sometimes you just need to get lucky.
Agreed. We've become experts of an issue if we've heard a series of different 20 second news briefs in a row. I guess if I hear somebody say something enough on television, it must be true because that's the spoken history of the issue.
Which brings me to a strange point. We're becoming more and more a spoken cultural with an oral history instead of a written history. We believe what we read less and less, and instead rely on what our friends have told us. Justification of what we hear occurs when we ask a few different people what they've heard or believe... and that is what becomes our version of truth. Read something? Hell, that's just a publication by "the Man"... it's probably propaganda or tainted truth.
ahhhh, but it was on their servers. and it might be said that he created it on their network, on their lab computers, etc. etc.
do professors own their works while they are in the employment of a university, or does the university have part ownership?
if I work on other stuff while i'm at my office using the company computers, do I own that work or does my company?
it's actually pretty smart of them to claim ownership. by claiming ownership before removing it from their servers, they are preventing him from bringing the same information that they would like to supress up on the web under a different hosting account. pretty clever if you ask me.
I went to two McD's and one KFC. Both were packed. I asked an employee how much she made and if working for McD's was considered a good job, and she said enthusiastically YES.
Most waitresses in China (i was in beijing) are so poor that they need to rent a room above the restaurant or a cot on the floor of the restaurant to live. Call it indentured servitude to a restaurant.
A job at McD's is hard to come by because it pays well, is clean, and the managers are well trained and won't abuse you. Suprisingly, for a waitress, a job at McD's or any other american fast food place is considered a good job.
Since all of your stuff is M$ office stuff, use Exchange server. It will keep track of who made edits to files, when they made the edits, and will only allow one user to make edits at a time. Combine that with or have that indepent of SourceSafe and as long as you backup your environment with regularity, you're golden.
We use both without our company (yea, small dev firm that uses microsoft products), but they work well and we have yet to have any problems.
I see that people on this thread have claimed that SouceSafe has "eaten" some of their documents... can you honestly believe the word of someone that uses the technical term of a file being "eaten"?
as an employee at a company that recommends that all of our clients use NT and M$ products, I resent the fact that you would actually approach MY clients and talk trash to them about the security holes which I didn't patch up because they didn't feel like paying me money to patch them.
Okay, so maybe we didn't code it the best way possible... and yea, you can see database records with an anonymous account, but do you think the client knows this? HELL NO! You know why? Because we know they're morons, because we know they'll never look at the code or pay $5 more towards development, and because if a hack happens and nobody is there to know about it, did the hack ever happen?
Yea, it's bad business. Yea, it happens all the time. But it's all about getting paid now, isn't it?
but I'd be willing to believe that the majority of us follow this general model comparred to 2 yrs ago...
1)we're more likely to work 9-5 (okay, maybe 9-6 but NO weekends)
2)we expect more compensation and but have a greater realization we're not going to be millionaires (no options for me, thanx, I'll take the cash)
3)we enjoy our work environment much less than we did before the bubble burst
4)we continually update our resumes and have our eyes open about better opportunities
5)we take much more down time away from our work and from our computers now that we're burned out from the past few years and haven't seen the reward we deluded ourselves into believing we were going to receive.
look at how doctors have to be on call and serve a residency that means they have to work 18 hr shifts and are continually on call for a few YEARS... all while being paid CRAP.
and you're making $60k+ and get to go home and sleep and play on your computers and play games the majority of the day when nothing is going wrong. Yea, I know what you guys do. My fried is the head of tech support at a large.com and I know that 6 out of 8 hrs a day that he's in the office he's playing Doom with his co-tech support guys.
don't bitch and moan. you're lucky to still have a job with all of the layoffs going around.
so you're going to let some corporate entity that isn't profitable yet and is still running on venture capital and willing to sell their soul to the devil to get more money tell you what content you can or cannot receive?
I don't think this is necessarily about the cultural requirement for the apology, but instead China attempting to get the US to back off of supporting Taiwan.
By apologizing, the US would be admitting that the air space they were in was Chinese and not International. The US would be admitting that the plane was in a place it shouldn't have and didn't act in the professional and proscribed manner of international law.
The US isn't going to admit doing anything wrong, because technically the plane was doing what it was supposed to be doing in a place that it technically was allowed to be doing it. The Chinese actually broke international law in boarding the plane... but then again, they made an emergency landing.
The Chinese want exert wrongdoing onto the US, and hence pressure the US into taking less of a position with Taiwan, human rights, WTO, etc. Putting the US into this position would increase the Chinese's chance of lightening the US position on these issues.
switch to XO. it might take a while, but it's worth it.
i made the switch (i'm in nyc) over a year ago, and have been much happier. yes, it's more expensive, but you get multiple ip's, reliable service, their customer support is pretty good when I need it, and they send you notifications a week in advance when there might be a 5 min window of issues with your line because they're fixing hardware.
all in all, my servers have been running smoothly on my dsl line for months.
it's not a binding contract until they bill your credit card. come on. this happens all the time with e-tailers. get used to it. they don't owe you memory. it was a glitch. the guy tried to take advantage of it along with a few thousand other people.
every e-tailer has a policy about mis-typed prices. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I think it was awfully nice of them to give the guy a $15 gift certificate because honestly, they didn't have to give him anything and could have just cancelled the order. He lost nothing, gained a gift certificate.
why shouldn't american's love it? our entire culture is engineered. You really think it's natural that we have such a large middle class? Ever thought about why the american middle class is so large? Because it's engineered to be that way through decades of tax law.
it's not because we're a democracy, it's because our democracy uses taxes to maintain the social order. hell, why do you think the only way they were able to put Al Capone away was for income tax evasion? because it upset the social order.
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nothing new or revolutionary...
lets see, 10 of the most popular mac programs are now ported to run natively on OSX.
"All three Power Mac G4 models feature 256K L2 cache per processor, running at full processor speed (you can imagine how well this plays out with the dual 800MHz Power Mac G4). In addition, the 867MHz system has 2MB of L3 backside cache running at one-fourth the processor speed and the dual 800MHz Power Mac G4 has hefty 2MB backside L3 cache per processor, for a total of 4MB."
and, OSX.1 was delayed 2 months, NOT OSX. OSX has been out, as has OSX Server.
oh, and they still posted a profit, albeit a smaller one, while many of their competitors are losing hefty amounts of money in this erstwhile economy.
yea, nothing special.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but hear me out.
I remember when the first 1.2 Ghz or so cordless phones came out. It was amazing. I could be about 100 yrs away and get perfectly clear phone conversations. Then EVERYONE started getting them (hell, they cost about $15 now), and maybe it was the new phones I had bought, but the quality got worse and worse...
How will these higher frequency ranges handle more and more users? And while millions of users won't be moving to the 2.4ghz range for data/ISP's, what will happen to their data connections when the masses decide that their current cordless phone is too static-filled and move to the higher range phones? Will this traffic disrupt the data transmissions and cause the wireless equivalent of dial-tone busy signals?
actually, i just got back from China and I can safely say that they've found ways to pirate DVDs.
While in Beijing, my girlfriend brought me to the "cd cafes"... a whole strip of cafes where you order a drink and people that work in the cafe ask you if you'd like any dvds, cds, or vcds. So I said "dvd's please". They returned with trashbags full of dvd's in plastic envelopes. Then my girlfriend told me how much they cost... 15 kuai (approx. $2 US). Of course I checked for the right international encoding so that I could play them on my player at home.
Just in case, when I got home, I tested them on my computer. A few had problems with syncing the audio/video, and I told my girlfriend this. She's like "no worries, you can take em back and exchange em for new ones".
Now if only they had "cd cafes" in NYC...
btw, this is a completely true story. if you want directions to the places in Beijing, you'll figure out how to get in touch with me.
I think that if Adobe was going to dip their feet into the Linux market, they'd go in with ImageReady instead of Illustrator. ImageReady is closer to the needs of Linux users in that it's a scaled-down, web-centered version of Photoshop. This caters to all of the developers that sometimes want to fiddle with images.
Illustrator would be the LAST application I would port to Linux in that true designers (you know, the artsy ones that have never touched command line) would never go near a *nix.
I think the action they took was based on name alone... not because they saw it as a competitor. You know... protecting your name and such... you name is only as strong as you are willing to fight for it.
they know they should be on the linux platform? what the hell for?
how many graphic designers use linux boxes?
hell, most graphic designers I know barely know how to use their macintoshes, are mostly unable to use Windoze computers efficiently, and took at unix or linux as ancient greek.
I happen to agree with Adobe's position on Linux right now... until they see a true demand that equals people purchasing the software instead of just demanding a port for port's sake, there's no reason to put the R&D money behind it, especially in an uncertain market like we have today.
no, they're advertised as an "illustration tool", not an "illustrator tool". there is a difference.
I, and many other people, would associate a computer aided drawing application with the word "illustrator" in it to Adobe.
they were obviously playing off the name. maybe they should have named it "illustration" or something totally unrelated... but this is so obvious, makes you wonder why if they were bright enough to create this app that they weren't creative enough to choose a name that wouldn't get them attacked by adobe's lawyers.
I guess I can comment on this since I'm looking to either rent or purchase an apartment in NYC. And lemme tell you something, it ain't fun.
There are three things you need to deal with in searching for a place online:
1. dis-information
2. scams
3. horrible sites with horrible query functions
You'll find places on the 'net that sound too good to be true... mainly because they are. After calling the # that you find in the Village Voice online, you realize that this is one of those services that although they don't charge a broker fee, requires you to pay $200 upfront for nothing.
So you turn down that... instead finding a site that has some great pictures with great descriptions... of course it was taken 3 weeks ago because the market moves faster than they have the time to put the information on the web.
And then there are just the really crappy sites. I've almost submitted proposals for work offering to make their sites better looking and more functional if they'll just drop the 15% broker fee (that's quite hefty since it's 15% of the total yearly rental which for a small 1 bedroom rental will equal about $3000+).
Searching for real estate online is just like searching for anything else. You have two choices: go to the main players in the space or be prepared to follow a lot of shitty links to a lot of shitty phone service. Once in a while you'll get a gem, but often you'll get crap.
If you're in NYC, try using www.bellmarc.com or www.corcoran.com Nice pictures, descriptions, and brokers, but their prices are higher... or, one of those gems that I found is a woman named Sophia that works at www.getapts.com (tell her I sent you)
Just like everything else, dilligence is necessary... and sometimes you just need to get lucky.
Agreed. We've become experts of an issue if we've heard a series of different 20 second news briefs in a row. I guess if I hear somebody say something enough on television, it must be true because that's the spoken history of the issue.
Which brings me to a strange point. We're becoming more and more a spoken cultural with an oral history instead of a written history. We believe what we read less and less, and instead rely on what our friends have told us. Justification of what we hear occurs when we ask a few different people what they've heard or believe... and that is what becomes our version of truth. Read something? Hell, that's just a publication by "the Man"... it's probably propaganda or tainted truth.
ahhhh, but it was on their servers. and it might be said that he created it on their network, on their lab computers, etc. etc.
do professors own their works while they are in the employment of a university, or does the university have part ownership?
if I work on other stuff while i'm at my office using the company computers, do I own that work or does my company?
it's actually pretty smart of them to claim ownership. by claiming ownership before removing it from their servers, they are preventing him from bringing the same information that they would like to supress up on the web under a different hosting account. pretty clever if you ask me.
The Big U by Neil Stephenson. 'cept without the rats...
I want to comment on the McD's reference.
I went to two McD's and one KFC. Both were packed. I asked an employee how much she made and if working for McD's was considered a good job, and she said enthusiastically YES.
Most waitresses in China (i was in beijing) are so poor that they need to rent a room above the restaurant or a cot on the floor of the restaurant to live. Call it indentured servitude to a restaurant.
A job at McD's is hard to come by because it pays well, is clean, and the managers are well trained and won't abuse you. Suprisingly, for a waitress, a job at McD's or any other american fast food place is considered a good job.
Two possibilities.
Since all of your stuff is M$ office stuff, use Exchange server. It will keep track of who made edits to files, when they made the edits, and will only allow one user to make edits at a time. Combine that with or have that indepent of SourceSafe and as long as you backup your environment with regularity, you're golden.
We use both without our company (yea, small dev firm that uses microsoft products), but they work well and we have yet to have any problems.
I see that people on this thread have claimed that SouceSafe has "eaten" some of their documents... can you honestly believe the word of someone that uses the technical term of a file being "eaten"?
as an employee at a company that recommends that all of our clients use NT and M$ products, I resent the fact that you would actually approach MY clients and talk trash to them about the security holes which I didn't patch up because they didn't feel like paying me money to patch them.
Okay, so maybe we didn't code it the best way possible... and yea, you can see database records with an anonymous account, but do you think the client knows this? HELL NO! You know why? Because we know they're morons, because we know they'll never look at the code or pay $5 more towards development, and because if a hack happens and nobody is there to know about it, did the hack ever happen?
Yea, it's bad business. Yea, it happens all the time. But it's all about getting paid now, isn't it?
but I'd be willing to believe that the majority of us follow this general model comparred to 2 yrs ago...
1)we're more likely to work 9-5 (okay, maybe 9-6 but NO weekends)
2)we expect more compensation and but have a greater realization we're not going to be millionaires (no options for me, thanx, I'll take the cash)
3)we enjoy our work environment much less than we did before the bubble burst
4)we continually update our resumes and have our eyes open about better opportunities
5)we take much more down time away from our work and from our computers now that we're burned out from the past few years and haven't seen the reward we deluded ourselves into believing we were going to receive.
how did that iMac commecial go...
"burn baby burn!"
Well, it was a first for Apple... sadly of course.
and of course they don't start making that kind of money until they're in their 30's after spending additional years in school and in a residency.
on the other hand, tech people start making lots of money the minute they're out of school, and sometimes even while they're in high school.
you're on call and you're not paid for it.
.com and I know that 6 out of 8 hrs a day that he's in the office he's playing Doom with his co-tech support guys.
oh no, poor you. you're being taken advantage of.
look at how doctors have to be on call and serve a residency that means they have to work 18 hr shifts and are continually on call for a few YEARS... all while being paid CRAP.
and you're making $60k+ and get to go home and sleep and play on your computers and play games the majority of the day when nothing is going wrong. Yea, I know what you guys do. My fried is the head of tech support at a large
don't bitch and moan. you're lucky to still have a job with all of the layoffs going around.
forget that, I change my mind.
Their CTO is named "Linus"
that makes everything all right by me.
so you're going to let some corporate entity that isn't profitable yet and is still running on venture capital and willing to sell their soul to the devil to get more money tell you what content you can or cannot receive?
i think not.
I don't think this is necessarily about the cultural requirement for the apology, but instead China attempting to get the US to back off of supporting Taiwan.
By apologizing, the US would be admitting that the air space they were in was Chinese and not International. The US would be admitting that the plane was in a place it shouldn't have and didn't act in the professional and proscribed manner of international law.
The US isn't going to admit doing anything wrong, because technically the plane was doing what it was supposed to be doing in a place that it technically was allowed to be doing it. The Chinese actually broke international law in boarding the plane... but then again, they made an emergency landing.
The Chinese want exert wrongdoing onto the US, and hence pressure the US into taking less of a position with Taiwan, human rights, WTO, etc. Putting the US into this position would increase the Chinese's chance of lightening the US position on these issues.
switch to XO. it might take a while, but it's worth it.
i made the switch (i'm in nyc) over a year ago, and have been much happier. yes, it's more expensive, but you get multiple ip's, reliable service, their customer support is pretty good when I need it, and they send you notifications a week in advance when there might be a 5 min window of issues with your line because they're fixing hardware.
all in all, my servers have been running smoothly on my dsl line for months.
it's not a binding contract until they bill your credit card. come on. this happens all the time with e-tailers. get used to it. they don't owe you memory. it was a glitch. the guy tried to take advantage of it along with a few thousand other people.
every e-tailer has a policy about mis-typed prices. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I think it was awfully nice of them to give the guy a $15 gift certificate because honestly, they didn't have to give him anything and could have just cancelled the order. He lost nothing, gained a gift certificate.
the problem with the web is that on the internet, everyone's got a voice. everyone has the ability to vocalize their mind.
most of the time, they should just shut up and listen first.
common ideals, common goals, common beliefs? complete farce.
why shouldn't american's love it? our entire culture is engineered. You really think it's natural that we have such a large middle class? Ever thought about why the american middle class is so large? Because it's engineered to be that way through decades of tax law.
it's not because we're a democracy, it's because our democracy uses taxes to maintain the social order. hell, why do you think the only way they were able to put Al Capone away was for income tax evasion? because it upset the social order.