Wow. Open Office. Neat.
If you don't know how to use Word properly then go ahead, use open office.
who really cares. Do we really need to know how you convinced your mother's cousin's pet cat that openoffice is the way to go? Do I need to add another story about how I convinced some like-minded lawyers to simply upgrade their Office to 2003 and avoid the corruption (insert lawyer/corruption joke here). Really, you are beating a duck that is already dead. OpenOffice is free for cheapos. Word is for people who want to buy things. People who don't buy Word will attempt to pirate it or download it on some fileshare site. Or maybe they will just use whatever their company gives them.
And really, if you want to put the effort in to make a CSS2 compliant document with notepad, why not just blog your stuff while you are at it?
You folks think you're so tough, try using a feather pen and papyrus scroll. Now that's technology.
Because for almost a decade I worked, lived and breathed Macromedia products. Not to say that I did not utilize anything else, but on any given day in my current career, I would be opening up Macromedia software about 70% of the time. I would say that is true for a large number of web designers/web application developers.
Everytime I hear someone saying "they blocked Flash because of the stupid ads" has probably not seen Flash's potential or at least, not aware of it. Take a look at some of the interfaces when you get your airline tickets processed, or book events at an online kiosk. Flash (coupled with other technologies). bank machine terminals - Flash interface (again coupled with other technologies).
Please do not compare Flash with Adobe Acrobat. FlashPaper was the closest equivalent. Please check out all the bloggers who use Macromedia tools (as well as blogs from Macromedia employees) to see their expectations for the future. Yes some sort of Acrobat hybrid with dynamic Flash capabilities is proposed, but more likely Adobe will take advantage of FlashPaper technology and attempt to fix acrobat. FlashPaper, being newer, is lighter, utilizes swf (making it more ubiquitous) and easier to develop with than current Acrobat forms.
Fireworks - I was testing Fireworks back in its early betas. It was the Fireworks tool that developers first saw the concept of "slicing" an image into a series of smaller images within an HTML table (a process, I recall we used to do manually on graph paper, then manually cut up in an ancient version of Photoshop). Fireworks was premised to be a "Photoshop" killer for the web...and it did get Adobe scared, as Adobe developed and released imageready (which no one bought), then integrated it into Photoshop so that an existing PS user base would slowly kill off the smaller but rabid Fireworks base. Expectation: Fireworks will die, but its process and functionalities will merge into ImageReady. ImageReady produced retarded code for the longest time, so it was due for a fix (and those who thought otherwise obviously was no expert in Fireworks).
Flash - Now there was/is Macromedia's crown jewel. An appealing option for Adobe. Also Microsoft, (based on Flash's popularity as a technology, and don't blame Macromedia for the content produced within Flash - just because a large number of content providers use Flash for banners and other junk, that is the content being bad, not Flash). There were lawsuits a few years back over tool interfaces between Adobe and Macromedia, with Flash being a sorespot (Flash 5 had Photoshop-like palettes). Now they can save their legal fees and hopefully invest it into some improvement.
Director - may join with Premiere?
Dreamweaver - the story is that GoLive was a decent editor for the Mac system - GoLive was bought by Adobe; large numbers of their technical and marketing team left and joined - Macromedia - creating Dreamweaver. GoLive is released under Adobe and languishes. Adobe buys Macromedia, now has the entire GoLive team back under its belt.
Homesite - came when Macromedia bought Allaire, due to disappear.
Server Producsts - Flash Communication Server; Flex; Central; ColdFusion (under JRun); Jrun - probably survive, since Adobe never really had a strong server app tier market (though they tried awhile back) Now have the basis for strong web app development
Freehand - hmm, probably disappearing.
RoboDemo and the rest of the online help/education space; benefit to Adobe, as they can get into that market.
Obviously, this thread is a testimonial to the impact that Macromedia's software has had on all of us, whether you used it or not, whether you loved the tools or hated the tools, you knew the tools. Hopefully Macromedia's tools won't go the way of tools Microsoft's Liquid Motion or Adobe's Live Motion and die...
The first time I received a video game system (an Atari 2600, with Combat, Air Sea Battle)
The first time I got wasted.
The first time I won some money on a bet.
The first time I had sex.
The second time I had sex.
The third time I had sex.
How about the fourth time?
And the fifth?
Perhaps they will device a way to loop that memory, and perhaps stimulate the sensations of smell, sight and hearing too...
Perhaps they will call it...the holodeck?
I had an opportunity to work at a University in Canada as a development contractor, and literally had access to thousands of student numbers and personal information. There is a large push to web-ify a lot of applications, but the educational sector is lagging in terms of security. A strong initiative has to be undertaken at all levels of academic administration to better enforce security rules, from the registation process all the way to marking and evaluation.
The only thiung that really caught me was "lipstick on a chicken"...
btw I am on holiday so anything too serious right now won't go in my mind anyway (too much alcohol)
Newbies who might not read the heading properly or actually go to the link itself http://www.trolltech.com/products/index.html might think/. was in a timewarp, circa 1997, releasing the beta for Quicktime 4!!!!
aahhh back in the days of Macromedia Director 4...
Here was a sample response PirateBay sent to Dreamworks
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for
sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are (expletive) morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
Having some backward compatability may be a good thing, but there should be a time-imposed limit on how these tags/commands whatever should remain effective in the language interpreter, and it should be adhered to.
Or else concepts like could still be used everywhere...god help us
Recently there have been a number of slashdot postings related to the conditions of working for EA (can't recall the exact URL, but summary best described as "slave-labour like"). I wonder what those folks think of this level of dedication?
On another note, it was a nice holiday feel-good read for the techno-geek developer. Also inspires me to finish the damn project that I am on right now so that I can "be home for Christmas".
The NHL Player's Union and team owners are currently in the middle of a lockout, with no end in site. There will be no NHL in 2005.
except mine (and a few other
s) X-Box.
Seriously, its gotten pretty cheesy when our local newspaper (as well as G4TechTV) are playing NHL highlights from the EA game, instead of the real sports thing.
I am pretty sure I overheard that Halo thing already. This article just seems to summarize what has probably been known by many slashdotters for a long time.
I have given a couple of hundred bucks to the industry this year, and still have not finished any of them (save Halo 2)...Prince of Persia, NHL 2005, Splinter Cell...the list goes on and on...
My first view of a Star Wars game was not exactly from the Star Wars realm, but rather it was "Star Raiders" for the Atari 2600. I think at that point in time there was huge copyright issues, but Star Raiders had a look and feel like the vector based star-wars game in the arcades (relatively speaking). It had a numeric keypad controller. Sometimes I felt like I was in the gunner room in the Millenium Falcon, shooting tie fighters.
Man, video games back then allowed a lot of room for imagination. Nowadays I find it difficult to find something original.
Hi -
I teach programming here in CANADA at the post-secondary and continuing education level (so I am aware of your situation as a Canadian student) - my practice was based on all things practical, and a little bit of opportune timing.
You could for example, go back to your high school (if you had good relations with them) and demonstrate vulnerabilities in their network security, fix it, and demonstrate this as a case study of your work. It would be nice to get some money for it, but you may have do things like this for little or pro bono until your resume clearly demonstrates your experience. Stress how it can relate to corporate and enterprise level security (if that is what you are aiming for)...Technology has come down to a level such that a large amount of the general population is aware of security measures for computers and networks - demonstrate that you can do more.
On the other hand, you can always hack a website LOL.
I am not sure why the product is really beta when variations of this have been available on the web for many years.
I also noticed that the layout is very similar to google image searching. Do all these search engines use google layout?
in one line of code?
I have seen object oriented versions of hello world...
http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/p ygtutorial/x101.html
Is this a first post?
Judging from all the comments, I guess I am glad I missed the show.
However I was instead abused by involuntarily/accidentally attending what turned out to be an "Interbiz/Amway" type meeting. God help me.
I grew up in the age of the Atari 2600, Intellivision and even Odyssey 2...(yikes). They should have a legacy award to honour the forebearers of today's games.
Ever see the developers of Activision's "River Raid" being awarded? or how about "M.U.L.E" for the Commodore 64? Now there was an intensive game.
On the other front, I am currently playing Halo 2.
Good game. I think better than GTA.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. Open Office. Neat. If you don't know how to use Word properly then go ahead, use open office. who really cares. Do we really need to know how you convinced your mother's cousin's pet cat that openoffice is the way to go? Do I need to add another story about how I convinced some like-minded lawyers to simply upgrade their Office to 2003 and avoid the corruption (insert lawyer/corruption joke here). Really, you are beating a duck that is already dead. OpenOffice is free for cheapos. Word is for people who want to buy things. People who don't buy Word will attempt to pirate it or download it on some fileshare site. Or maybe they will just use whatever their company gives them. And really, if you want to put the effort in to make a CSS2 compliant document with notepad, why not just blog your stuff while you are at it? You folks think you're so tough, try using a feather pen and papyrus scroll. Now that's technology.
sys 64738
that command comes to my head every time I think about doing a c-64 reboot to launch summer games.
Because for almost a decade I worked, lived and breathed Macromedia products. Not to say that I did not utilize anything else, but on any given day in my current career, I would be opening up Macromedia software about 70% of the time. I would say that is true for a large number of web designers/web application developers. Everytime I hear someone saying "they blocked Flash because of the stupid ads" has probably not seen Flash's potential or at least, not aware of it. Take a look at some of the interfaces when you get your airline tickets processed, or book events at an online kiosk. Flash (coupled with other technologies). bank machine terminals - Flash interface (again coupled with other technologies). Please do not compare Flash with Adobe Acrobat. FlashPaper was the closest equivalent. Please check out all the bloggers who use Macromedia tools (as well as blogs from Macromedia employees) to see their expectations for the future. Yes some sort of Acrobat hybrid with dynamic Flash capabilities is proposed, but more likely Adobe will take advantage of FlashPaper technology and attempt to fix acrobat. FlashPaper, being newer, is lighter, utilizes swf (making it more ubiquitous) and easier to develop with than current Acrobat forms. Fireworks - I was testing Fireworks back in its early betas. It was the Fireworks tool that developers first saw the concept of "slicing" an image into a series of smaller images within an HTML table (a process, I recall we used to do manually on graph paper, then manually cut up in an ancient version of Photoshop). Fireworks was premised to be a "Photoshop" killer for the web...and it did get Adobe scared, as Adobe developed and released imageready (which no one bought), then integrated it into Photoshop so that an existing PS user base would slowly kill off the smaller but rabid Fireworks base. Expectation: Fireworks will die, but its process and functionalities will merge into ImageReady. ImageReady produced retarded code for the longest time, so it was due for a fix (and those who thought otherwise obviously was no expert in Fireworks). Flash - Now there was/is Macromedia's crown jewel. An appealing option for Adobe. Also Microsoft, (based on Flash's popularity as a technology, and don't blame Macromedia for the content produced within Flash - just because a large number of content providers use Flash for banners and other junk, that is the content being bad, not Flash). There were lawsuits a few years back over tool interfaces between Adobe and Macromedia, with Flash being a sorespot (Flash 5 had Photoshop-like palettes). Now they can save their legal fees and hopefully invest it into some improvement. Director - may join with Premiere? Dreamweaver - the story is that GoLive was a decent editor for the Mac system - GoLive was bought by Adobe; large numbers of their technical and marketing team left and joined - Macromedia - creating Dreamweaver. GoLive is released under Adobe and languishes. Adobe buys Macromedia, now has the entire GoLive team back under its belt. Homesite - came when Macromedia bought Allaire, due to disappear. Server Producsts - Flash Communication Server; Flex; Central; ColdFusion (under JRun); Jrun - probably survive, since Adobe never really had a strong server app tier market (though they tried awhile back) Now have the basis for strong web app development Freehand - hmm, probably disappearing. RoboDemo and the rest of the online help/education space; benefit to Adobe, as they can get into that market. Obviously, this thread is a testimonial to the impact that Macromedia's software has had on all of us, whether you used it or not, whether you loved the tools or hated the tools, you knew the tools. Hopefully Macromedia's tools won't go the way of tools Microsoft's Liquid Motion or Adobe's Live Motion and die...
The first time I received a video game system (an Atari 2600, with Combat, Air Sea Battle) The first time I got wasted. The first time I won some money on a bet. The first time I had sex. The second time I had sex. The third time I had sex. How about the fourth time? And the fifth? Perhaps they will device a way to loop that memory, and perhaps stimulate the sensations of smell, sight and hearing too... Perhaps they will call it...the holodeck?
I had an opportunity to work at a University in Canada as a development contractor, and literally had access to thousands of student numbers and personal information. There is a large push to web-ify a lot of applications, but the educational sector is lagging in terms of security. A strong initiative has to be undertaken at all levels of academic administration to better enforce security rules, from the registation process all the way to marking and evaluation.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
The only thiung that really caught me was "lipstick on a chicken"... btw I am on holiday so anything too serious right now won't go in my mind anyway (too much alcohol)
All your Base Prime Ministers belong to Canada
Newbies who might not read the heading properly or actually go to the link itself http://www.trolltech.com/products/index.html might think /. was in a timewarp, circa 1997, releasing the beta for Quicktime 4!!!!
aahhh back in the days of Macromedia Director 4...Or else concepts like could still be used everywhere.
The word that was missing between "like" and "could" was BLINK, as in the BLINK tag as in <blink>BLINK</blink%gt;This should not blink
Is this a torrent seed? Where can I download it? lol. Watch out, the RIAA may be after your head :>
They should at least post funny responses, like like pirate Bay
http://www.piratebay.org/frame.html
Here was a sample response PirateBay sent to Dreamworks
lol. oh and first post?They already have enough money to start their own basketball league...
Having some backward compatability may be a good thing, but there should be a time-imposed limit on how these tags/commands whatever should remain effective in the language interpreter, and it should be adhered to.
Or else concepts like could still be used everywhere...god help us
Here are the URLs for the related EA articles...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/12/0http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/11
Recently there have been a number of slashdot postings related to the conditions of working for EA (can't recall the exact URL, but summary best described as "slave-labour like"). I wonder what those folks think of this level of dedication?
On another note, it was a nice holiday feel-good read for the techno-geek developer. Also inspires me to finish the damn project that I am on right now so that I can "be home for Christmas".
Happy Holidays!
The NHL Player's Union and team owners are currently in the middle of a lockout, with no end in site. There will be no NHL in 2005.
except mine (and a few other s) X-Box.
Seriously, its gotten pretty cheesy when our local newspaper (as well as G4TechTV) are playing NHL highlights from the EA game, instead of the real sports thing.I am pretty sure I overheard that Halo thing already. This article just seems to summarize what has probably been known by many slashdotters for a long time.
I have given a couple of hundred bucks to the industry this year, and still have not finished any of them (save Halo 2)...Prince of Persia, NHL 2005, Splinter Cell...the list goes on and on...
I seriously don't think Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer pays any attention to you.
My first view of a Star Wars game was not exactly from the Star Wars realm, but rather it was "Star Raiders" for the Atari 2600. I think at that point in time there was huge copyright issues, but Star Raiders had a look and feel like the vector based star-wars game in the arcades (relatively speaking). It had a numeric keypad controller. Sometimes I felt like I was in the gunner room in the Millenium Falcon, shooting tie fighters.
Man, video games back then allowed a lot of room for imagination. Nowadays I find it difficult to find something original.
Hi - I teach programming here in CANADA at the post-secondary and continuing education level (so I am aware of your situation as a Canadian student) - my practice was based on all things practical, and a little bit of opportune timing. You could for example, go back to your high school (if you had good relations with them) and demonstrate vulnerabilities in their network security, fix it, and demonstrate this as a case study of your work. It would be nice to get some money for it, but you may have do things like this for little or pro bono until your resume clearly demonstrates your experience. Stress how it can relate to corporate and enterprise level security (if that is what you are aiming for)...Technology has come down to a level such that a large amount of the general population is aware of security measures for computers and networks - demonstrate that you can do more. On the other hand, you can always hack a website LOL.
I wonder when google beta will release an alpha of the yahoo search engine?
I am not sure why the product is really beta when variations of this have been available on the web for many years. I also noticed that the layout is very similar to google image searching. Do all these search engines use google layout?
in one line of code? I have seen object oriented versions of hello world... http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/p ygtutorial/x101.html
Is this a first post?
Judging from all the comments, I guess I am glad I missed the show. However I was instead abused by involuntarily/accidentally attending what turned out to be an "Interbiz/Amway" type meeting. God help me. I grew up in the age of the Atari 2600, Intellivision and even Odyssey 2...(yikes). They should have a legacy award to honour the forebearers of today's games. Ever see the developers of Activision's "River Raid" being awarded? or how about "M.U.L.E" for the Commodore 64? Now there was an intensive game. On the other front, I am currently playing Halo 2. Good game. I think better than GTA.