By the way, the author of the article, Sarah Perez, seems like a fairly Microsoft-centric person, considering her personal website.
Understatement, she is a contract worker at Microsoft and has what reads to me as a very defensive disclaimer on her site. Her neutrality is questionable.
I bought one for my wife, it came yesterday, I'm impressed. Very easy on the eyes to read a long time without eye strain. I find the not-bright white less strain on the eyes.
I've been buying technical literature as much as I can lately as PDF files. Partly because they are cheaper and I was not liking the pile of books in boxes in the garage that are now obsolete, taking up space and I don't know what to do with them.
Beyond being able to send MS Word, HTML, TXT and images there are converters for PDF and other ebook formats that once converted will make them available over your wireless network. True the formatting of these methods tends to get munged but are quite readable.
Last night I bought an Oreilly PDF about Facelets, sent it to the email address of the Kindle and within minutes was comfortably reading.
As for the tiresome rants about DRM from the basement dwelling, mouth breathing geeks that know nothing about a Kindle...
Re-read the above, read more about what this thing can do, look at one, note my sig
back in the day when I had an IT that was carefree with the T3 - I had a script that would reply to unsubcribes,
~25K times per spam.
Never seemed to hear from them after that...
And here again is where many people don't understand, Aperture uses Core Image for it's rendering. When you make adjustments to images you're not actually modifying the image you're defining a set of Core Image filters in a "pipeline". Anytime you view that image with adjustments in place it is rendered through Core Image in your GPU to apply the adjustments on-the-fly. The upside to this is that if can have multiple versions of a file without using up disk space because each version is actually just a set of Core Image "recipes" for the adjustments you made on that version. Once I replaced my Radeon 9650 with an 800XT things got much faster.
I've been using Aperture quite a bit since release and have just tried Lightroom. Those that complain about Aperture should avoid Lightroom until they speed it up. Without Core Image on the same hardware it is NOT smooth. (I'm on a dual 2.3 G5 w/3G RAM and Radeon 9650.) It is also such a knock-off of Aperture I'm suprised.
I lived in Lawrence Kansas over a decade ago. Even then stopping on a rural road and getting out for a tail-gating pickup with two men in it was not positive thing to do in your own evolution.
I bought my Mac Mini with the DVD burner option, attached an EyeTV box and have copied DVDs to a remote firewire drive. True it does not match the performance of my progressive scan DVD player to a 1080i HD display but it is fine for non-HD common programs that I want to burn to DVD.
Of course, it cost more than a HD/DVD recorder but at least *I* have full control of the software used and do not need to worry about the MPAA "evil bit".
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But my mother is vegged out in a home with Alzheimer's. I may look forward to the same.
By the way, the author of the article, Sarah Perez, seems like a fairly Microsoft-centric person, considering her personal website.
Understatement, she is a contract worker at Microsoft and has what reads to me as a very defensive disclaimer on her site. Her neutrality is questionable.
I've been buying technical literature as much as I can lately as PDF files. Partly because they are cheaper and I was not liking the pile of books in boxes in the garage that are now obsolete, taking up space and I don't know what to do with them.
Beyond being able to send MS Word, HTML, TXT and images there are converters for PDF and other ebook formats that once converted will make them available over your wireless network. True the formatting of these methods tends to get munged but are quite readable.
Last night I bought an Oreilly PDF about Facelets, sent it to the email address of the Kindle and within minutes was comfortably reading.
As for the tiresome rants about DRM from the basement dwelling, mouth breathing geeks that know nothing about a Kindle...
Re-read the above, read more about what this thing can do, look at one, note my sig
And get off my lawn!
back in the day when I had an IT that was carefree with the T3 - I had a script that would reply to unsubcribes, ~25K times per spam. Never seemed to hear from them after that...
The parent showed something of a myopic understanding of what various OSes offer.
The sig possibly provides the reason.
Please get out more.
Pivot tables in OpenOffice are not quite there yet.
And here again is where many people don't understand, Aperture uses Core Image for it's rendering. When you make adjustments to images you're not actually modifying the image you're defining a set of Core Image filters in a "pipeline". Anytime you view that image with adjustments in place it is rendered through Core Image in your GPU to apply the adjustments on-the-fly. The upside to this is that if can have multiple versions of a file without using up disk space because each version is actually just a set of Core Image "recipes" for the adjustments you made on that version.
Once I replaced my Radeon 9650 with an 800XT things got much faster.
I've been using Aperture quite a bit since release and have just tried Lightroom.
Those that complain about Aperture should avoid Lightroom until they speed it up. Without Core Image on the same hardware it is NOT smooth. (I'm on a dual 2.3 G5 w/3G RAM and Radeon 9650.)
It is also such a knock-off of Aperture I'm suprised.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker that I've seen... http://6news.ljworld.com/art/apps/pennynews/110916 2592_bigoted.jpg
I lived in Lawrence Kansas over a decade ago. Even then stopping on a rural road and getting out for a tail-gating pickup with two men in it was not positive thing to do in your own evolution.
From the townhall article:
Q: And when the two men got out of the truck, why did you unlock your car and get out?
A: No comment.
Now that was smart.
I bought it a couple months ago when it was ~$700. My timing sucks.
I bought my Mac Mini with the DVD burner option, attached an EyeTV box and have copied DVDs to a remote firewire drive. True it does not match the performance of my progressive scan DVD player to a 1080i HD display but it is fine for non-HD common programs that I want to burn to DVD. Of course, it cost more than a HD/DVD recorder but at least *I* have full control of the software used and do not need to worry about the MPAA "evil bit".