Yeah maybe. Windows is as buggy as hell, but at somepoint the scale degrades to a point where one says, "We are finding a small enought quantity of bugs to justify sending it out now as an application." It become cost prohibitive, not effective to delay the release of the product.
Obviously not, 'Karma' Burn only applies to the basic swamps in one's posession. However, as the were discontinued in 5th, I guess it's really a moot point for all but us old schoolies. One day I'll sell my moxs...
Actually, if you'd tried the writely, you'drightly be asking what makes this better than wordpad. To be honest, textedit in OS X is more powerfull than this app. I wrote an article covering ajaxwrite recently and it is FAR more advanced than this lame effort.
One thing I like about things like office is you know what you're buying. Features aren't added in tiny increments. I would prefer proper footnotes, even if buggy than to turn on oneday and suddenly find it's there. I really hope this stays in beta long enough to be released properly, as a fully ledged application. It's important to test, but these test can really damage your reputation. If you hve two years of reviews going from crap to good, the user is just as likely to find one that says "writely is" crap as otherwise, and not bother with it.
At the moment, the user is better of with a free alternative, as you said.
I went there about four or five days ago and they had a sign up saying they were sorting out legal issues. I was a little depressed as there are thousands of sites around offering this service and it's easy to walk in the newsagent on the weekend and memorise the stuff out of magazines (or the books in the music store). I personally can't imagine the few people who make money out of the music they find on OLGA are statistically relevant. Also, any guitarist worth their salt can figure most pop songs out without thinking twice. Most are three chord wonders.
I really don't tink any recording artist is going to notice their income going up.
Every user I've met that nows about administrator mode on Windows operates in it when they can. They shouldn't but they do. I do. Who then are you being fair to - Microsoft, or the hackers?
Yeah dude, anyone who needs to manage their fonts beyond the ability of Apple's ability should not be using inbuilt font support on ANY platform. I might suggest Font Agent Pro. I use it all the time I'm working (newspaper designer) and it is th best out there. If suitcase have gotten their shit together, they used to be pretty good. And apparently linotypes new thing is good, but from reports not as good as FAP (free though).
Common people. It really saddens me that te only reason people can think for doing this is rendering, compiling, and coolness. Maybe, and I'm wishing more than expecting, the guy is compiling a new breed of kernel for super gaming. I think the most fun thing to do now is assume he is doing it from a gaming point of view and move into fun, spectulative hypothesising. If it doesn't help the poor guy, then at least it may give him some muc cooler ideas.
What I'm really concerned about is whether we'll still be getting ATI graphics in Apples. I've always had better performance from the ATI cards in Apples. This could limit Apples to NVidia - bad if they fall behind.
Well yeah, that's exactly his point. We use HTML, CSS and so on for the sane reason we choose C#, or Java or C++ over assembler. They are meant to make our lives easier. CSS is meant to be an easy way of creating layout which looks the same on all platforms - it's a standard.
So does my humble 1.25Ghz iBook. My 12" powerbook, same specs but more 512mb more RAM though, is friid. Go figure. Metal case, must be a heat dissipation aid.
Conclusion from article 1: Intel has learned from its overly optimistic view of Pentium 4 scaling and designed a new core architecture that simultaneously focusses on performance and energy efficiency, which, we suppose, is the Holy Grail of consumer-level computing. It's difficult not to be wholly impressed with Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. The micro-architecture leverages a bunch of smart technologies that come together to form the most potent range of CPUs available. Putting it in some kind of context, the next-to-bottom model, E6400, costing $220, is, over the course of our benchmarks, as fast as an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 or Intel Extreme Edition 965. That, readers, is how good Core 2 Duo is. What's equally as impressive as sheer performance is the fact that Intel has managed to architect such power into an energy-efficient package that puts out half the TDP of the two aforementioned high-end CPUs. Even the Extreme Edition, clocked in at 2.93GHz and multiplier-unlocked, ships with a 75W TDP. We suppose it's like buying a faster, more powerful car that also gives better fuel economy than your current model. A win-win situation. We also like the fact that Intel, unusually, hasn't jumped on to a different form-factor with the release of a new architecture. You can simply slot a Core 2 Duo in a number of LGA i975X boards or opt for a 965-Express version. Intel also assures us that it will have high-volume Core 2 Duos immediately after launch, so you won't have to wait long to get your mitts on one. Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before and its high-end models, headlined by the Core 2 Extreme X6800, have absolutely no peer. Architecturally speaking, AMD's Athlon 64 AM2 range hasn't changed an iota from yesterday to today. However, with Core 2 Duo soundly beating it in performance it's looking a lot less attractive. AMD needs to take a sledgehammer (pun intended) to current pricing if it is to remain competitive. Right now, if you're thinking of upgrading your PC and want the best solution possible for your money, you need to turn to Intel and not AMD. The empire has struck back. It would be tempting to give the Core 2 Extreme X6800 the overall award. However, taking into account price vs. performance that award belongs to the Core 2 Duo E6400. It's a £150 CPU (once we factor rip-off Britain in the equation) that gives an Intel E.E 965 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 bloody noses - we love it!
Conclusion from article 2: This is the first Core 2-based pre-built system we've reviewed. In the relatively short time we've had to work on it, to enable us to bring you this review on Core 2 launch day, we have to say it's a real eye-opener. The MESH Elite Extreme SLI is the fastest pre-built system we've seen in our labs. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor is, of course, the main driving force behind this, but MESH has taken this new CPU and built a suitable system around it. The storage subsystem could be better, but other than that, the base unit fares very well. And the peripherals to backup the base unit result in a system that, overall, not only performs well, but looks good. It's not imposing, or aggressive, it's power that's kept somewhat civilised by its environment. Weighing in at £2,499 including VAT and coming with a three-year onsite warranty, it looks to us like a well priced-system, too. Of course, it's hard for us to call such a sum inexpensive; it's most definitely not, but for what's under the hood, we reckon it's worth it. We expect there to be a lot of interest in the MESH Elite Extreme SLI system and justifiably so. It's fast, really fast, but perhaps a little too fast for its 7900 GTX graphics cards. Still, it's not going to get much quicker until the next round of GPUs surface. We look forward to pitting this system again other pre-built Core 2 systems in the near future. In the meantime, we give the MESH Elite Extreme SLI the HEXUS.award for speed in the extreme. Who'd buy an off-the-shelf AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 machine now? Answers on a postcard.
Don't be condescending. If you really want to be pedantic, this has noting to do with the Big Brother effect, a la 1984. Instead, it would more likely be attributed to the panopticon effect. Now, a real jerk would point out that if you were really educated, you would have realised that, and failing that, made a fool of yourself.
WTF?! Getting the shaft? This guy must be delerious. Last time I checked some of these guys are on eight digit incomes. I don't think it would do them that much ham to drop below a million dollars.
I would love to see what the income of these guys are when they are on tour.
Sure they may be losing a milliond dollars a year, and that's really tragic and all, but if you lose 85% and are still on ten times the national average and have international fame, you can't complain too loudly.
Beside, they loose far more every time I use limewire.
Well, as a sysadmin, my guess would be that he has not done scientific calculations, physics modelling, 3danimation, video editing, OCR, Photoshop work or any of that crap. HE"S A SYSADMIN. He stipulated the point from which he was coming.
As a sysadmin myself, I would personally hang, draw and quarter anyone who did any of those things on any of our production servers.
Yeah, I think that is correct. After all, most tools can be used for most jobs. In the beginning, choose the appropriate tools for the job. After a while you should have enough skills to be able to work at any project, provided it's not completely out of your realm of experience. For example, C is a powerful language but not well suited to creating platform independant applications. It can be done though. Eventually it will become easiest to use what you know best.
Without RTFA, this is completely stupid. If someone in the 50s had thought to lecture me about computer security, in a world even without networking, it would be totally irrelevant to todays environment. I would think we can extrapolate maybe the next twenty years. At most. Already WebOSs are coming out, as are apps for those.
I could be wrong, without reading the article and all, but 50 years is a little long to be speaking authoratively. After all, my much respected pedagogue, Mr Tanenbaum, said Linux would never make it...
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Yeah maybe. Windows is as buggy as hell, but at somepoint the scale degrades to a point where one says, "We are finding a small enought quantity of bugs to justify sending it out now as an application." It become cost prohibitive, not effective to delay the release of the product.
Obviously not, 'Karma' Burn only applies to the basic swamps in one's posession. However, as the were discontinued in 5th, I guess it's really a moot point for all but us old schoolies. One day I'll sell my moxs...
Actually, if you'd tried the writely, you'drightly be asking what makes this better than wordpad. To be honest, textedit in OS X is more powerfull than this app. I wrote an article covering ajaxwrite recently and it is FAR more advanced than this lame effort.
One thing I like about things like office is you know what you're buying. Features aren't added in tiny increments. I would prefer proper footnotes, even if buggy than to turn on oneday and suddenly find it's there. I really hope this stays in beta long enough to be released properly, as a fully ledged application. It's important to test, but these test can really damage your reputation. If you hve two years of reviews going from crap to good, the user is just as likely to find one that says "writely is" crap as otherwise, and not bother with it.
At the moment, the user is better of with a free alternative, as you said.
I went there about four or five days ago and they had a sign up saying they were sorting out legal issues. I was a little depressed as there are thousands of sites around offering this service and it's easy to walk in the newsagent on the weekend and memorise the stuff out of magazines (or the books in the music store). I personally can't imagine the few people who make money out of the music they find on OLGA are statistically relevant. Also, any guitarist worth their salt can figure most pop songs out without thinking twice. Most are three chord wonders.
I really don't tink any recording artist is going to notice their income going up.
Every user I've met that nows about administrator mode on Windows operates in it when they can. They shouldn't but they do. I do. Who then are you being fair to - Microsoft, or the hackers?
Yes, they've made 15 prototypes so far. They just can't get past the testing stage. Keep losing them.
Yeah dude, anyone who needs to manage their fonts beyond the ability of Apple's ability should not be using inbuilt font support on ANY platform. I might suggest Font Agent Pro. I use it all the time I'm working (newspaper designer) and it is th best out there. If suitcase have gotten their shit together, they used to be pretty good. And apparently linotypes new thing is good, but from reports not as good as FAP (free though).
Merging would be nice.
Common people. It really saddens me that te only reason people can think for doing this is rendering, compiling, and coolness. Maybe, and I'm wishing more than expecting, the guy is compiling a new breed of kernel for super gaming. I think the most fun thing to do now is assume he is doing it from a gaming point of view and move into fun, spectulative hypothesising. If it doesn't help the poor guy, then at least it may give him some muc cooler ideas.
What I'm really concerned about is whether we'll still be getting ATI graphics in Apples. I've always had better performance from the ATI cards in Apples. This could limit Apples to NVidia - bad if they fall behind.
I liked the IE Acid test result. Very picasso.
Yeah, well I'm a graphic design artist and I say suck it. If you don't like it, go back to newsgroups programmer boy.
Just kidding.
Well yeah, that's exactly his point. We use HTML, CSS and so on for the sane reason we choose C#, or Java or C++ over assembler. They are meant to make our lives easier. CSS is meant to be an easy way of creating layout which looks the same on all platforms - it's a standard.
So does my humble 1.25Ghz iBook. My 12" powerbook, same specs but more 512mb more RAM though, is friid. Go figure. Metal case, must be a heat dissipation aid.
Conclusion from article 1:
Intel has learned from its overly optimistic view of Pentium 4 scaling and designed a new core architecture that simultaneously focusses on performance and energy efficiency, which, we suppose, is the Holy Grail of consumer-level computing.
It's difficult not to be wholly impressed with Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. The micro-architecture leverages a bunch of smart technologies that come together to form the most potent range of CPUs available. Putting it in some kind of context, the next-to-bottom model, E6400, costing $220, is, over the course of our benchmarks, as fast as an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 or Intel Extreme Edition 965. That, readers, is how good Core 2 Duo is.
What's equally as impressive as sheer performance is the fact that Intel has managed to architect such power into an energy-efficient package that puts out half the TDP of the two aforementioned high-end CPUs. Even the Extreme Edition, clocked in at 2.93GHz and multiplier-unlocked, ships with a 75W TDP. We suppose it's like buying a faster, more powerful car that also gives better fuel economy than your current model. A win-win situation.
We also like the fact that Intel, unusually, hasn't jumped on to a different form-factor with the release of a new architecture. You can simply slot a Core 2 Duo in a number of LGA i975X boards or opt for a 965-Express version. Intel also assures us that it will have high-volume Core 2 Duos immediately after launch, so you won't have to wait long to get your mitts on one.
Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before and its high-end models, headlined by the Core 2 Extreme X6800, have absolutely no peer.
Architecturally speaking, AMD's Athlon 64 AM2 range hasn't changed an iota from yesterday to today. However, with Core 2 Duo soundly beating it in performance it's looking a lot less attractive. AMD needs to take a sledgehammer (pun intended) to current pricing if it is to remain competitive. Right now, if you're thinking of upgrading your PC and want the best solution possible for your money, you need to turn to Intel and not AMD. The empire has struck back.
It would be tempting to give the Core 2 Extreme X6800 the overall award. However, taking into account price vs. performance that award belongs to the Core 2 Duo E6400. It's a £150 CPU (once we factor rip-off Britain in the equation) that gives an Intel E.E 965 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 bloody noses - we love it!
Conclusion from article 2:
This is the first Core 2-based pre-built system we've reviewed. In the relatively short time we've had to work on it, to enable us to bring you this review on Core 2 launch day, we have to say it's a real eye-opener.
The MESH Elite Extreme SLI is the fastest pre-built system we've seen in our labs. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor is, of course, the main driving force behind this, but MESH has taken this new CPU and built a suitable system around it. The storage subsystem could be better, but other than that, the base unit fares very well.
And the peripherals to backup the base unit result in a system that, overall, not only performs well, but looks good. It's not imposing, or aggressive, it's power that's kept somewhat civilised by its environment.
Weighing in at £2,499 including VAT and coming with a three-year onsite warranty, it looks to us like a well priced-system, too. Of course, it's hard for us to call such a sum inexpensive; it's most definitely not, but for what's under the hood, we reckon it's worth it.
We expect there to be a lot of interest in the MESH Elite Extreme SLI system and justifiably so. It's fast, really fast, but perhaps a little too fast for its 7900 GTX graphics cards. Still, it's not going to get much quicker until the next round of GPUs surface. We look forward to pitting this system again other pre-built Core 2 systems in the near future. In the meantime, we give the MESH Elite Extreme SLI the HEXUS.award for speed in the extreme. Who'd buy an off-the-shelf AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 machine now? Answers on a postcard.
I prefer to err on the side of the Bill of Rights.
colour is the french spelling, like honour
Because I don't like it. Therefore, although I am doing nothing wrong, the person watching me is. This goes back to John Locke.
Actually, spelling mistakes are not the editor's ballfield. The proofers are there to fix that, or even the sub-editors.
Dear Dr LHA,
Don't be condescending. If you really want to be pedantic, this has noting to do with the Big Brother effect, a la 1984. Instead, it would more likely be attributed to the panopticon effect. Now, a real jerk would point out that if you were really educated, you would have realised that, and failing that, made a fool of yourself.
But me, I just like to keep slashdot friendly.
Sincerely,
Tezbo.
This is definately double plus bad.
WTF?! Getting the shaft? This guy must be delerious. Last time I checked some of these guys are on eight digit incomes. I don't think it would do them that much ham to drop below a million dollars.
I would love to see what the income of these guys are when they are on tour.
Sure they may be losing a milliond dollars a year, and that's really tragic and all, but if you lose 85% and are still on ten times the national average and have international fame, you can't complain too loudly.
Beside, they loose far more every time I use limewire.
Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.
I think they meant third after the Wii and 360. So I'm a troll - at least I have superior gaming tendencies.
Well, as a sysadmin, my guess would be that he has not done scientific calculations, physics modelling, 3danimation, video editing, OCR, Photoshop work or any of that crap. HE"S A SYSADMIN. He stipulated the point from which he was coming.
As a sysadmin myself, I would personally hang, draw and quarter anyone who did any of those things on any of our production servers.
Yeah, I think that is correct. After all, most tools can be used for most jobs. In the beginning, choose the appropriate tools for the job. After a while you should have enough skills to be able to work at any project, provided it's not completely out of your realm of experience. For example, C is a powerful language but not well suited to creating platform independant applications. It can be done though. Eventually it will become easiest to use what you know best.
Without RTFA, this is completely stupid. If someone in the 50s had thought to lecture me about computer security, in a world even without networking, it would be totally irrelevant to todays environment. I would think we can extrapolate maybe the next twenty years. At most. Already WebOSs are coming out, as are apps for those.
I could be wrong, without reading the article and all, but 50 years is a little long to be speaking authoratively. After all, my much respected pedagogue, Mr Tanenbaum, said Linux would never make it...