This is news generally because of the rarity of this sort of thing. The only real issue I can think of is that our Health Minister has recently announced plans to immunise ALL Australians against bird flu. This could disrupt that (if it was realistic anyway). I guess this is all a part of ever increasing control.
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This is what I found for requiremnets. Add GNU/Linux in there.
English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ processor 512MB RAM 8x Speed CD-ROM drive and latest drivers 2.8GB of uncompressed hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows swap file) 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit soundcard and latest drivers 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers DirectX 9.0c (included) 3D hardware accelerator card required 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB Hardware accelerated video card and the latest drivers
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X300 series
ATI Radeon X550 series
ATI Radeon X600 series
ATI Radeon X700 series
ATI Radeon X800 series
ATI Radeon X850 series
Nvidia GeForce 3/Ti Series
Multiplayer requirements: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers
Actually, it's not bias. Publishers use Apples because they are better for what they do. All the requisite software is available, the monitors and so on, which are apple branded and come kit with the computer are generally better. Publishers are generally more productive on Apple.
I'm not interested in a flame war, so if you're interested in how my claims are true, look it up.
Secondly, publishers are not generally reporters. I am an editor and don't have time in my week to write articles. We buy them or have them submitted, but we don't write them.
People who write articles generally buy the best hardware for the job, which is generally a computer that can run Word.
If there is bias in the media towards Apple, then it is due to the beautiful aesthetic, graceful degradation in performance, up to date hardware support etc... Most media/politics/sociology students, during there undergraduate degrees will study a media unit, and anyone in the industry knows, we live in a pluralist society. The media does not set the agenda as much as people would like to think it. If they are wrong, the public will tell them.
Whilst I appreciate that accurate clocks are important for some tasks, when is enough enough? Seriously, what is a task that the current atomic clocks aren't up to?
But it is good to see OSS for windows, especially windows only. I was hoping for an OS X version. However, if people start to recognise OSS they may be more inclined to jump in feet first to something like GNU/Linux. Too often these things are like Gimp - a great program, grafted horribly into a new OS. Ever tried using OO.org on OS X?
Which is just crap. Try and tell me there are copies of your spread sheets for your accounts from 1989 still hanging around. This may be true for some forms of information, but your holiday happy snaps aren't them. Also, regardless of how many floppies your photo is stored on, they'll all become obsolete. And what happens when you hard drive fails. The Vast Majority of home users don't have a backup regime.
Correct. Which also means I hate Safari web browser (which I'm using at the moment and doesn't support colour systems) and Word (which I use everyday and doesn't support colour systems). Rather than list each in full, I'll give you a run down: OS X Tiger Windows Linux (Suse) Excel Myob Apple Mail Messenger You My car My cat and etcetera.
Actually, I don't like Gimp because it is lacking something that a publisher needs in an image-editor, colour management systems. There are other programs out there that support colour management systems. Quark isn't photoshop, I don't hate it. Neither do I hate Indesign or Pagemaker.
I don't mind you replying, but do it with a bit of background knowlege about what you're writing about.
I realise that. I was more talking about the propensity for printed (as opposed to developed) media to fade over time. I personally do my own Black and white work, but regardless of the format, with enough effort a person may develop any negative they own. Colour is more convoluted, as is slide, but it is manageable. Also, in 100 years, you're garunteed, if you took care of your originals, you'll be able to print them. However, with film and storage technologies, this is not the case. Even where I work there is a digital camera which takes floppies. We have one computer with a floppy drive still. WTFs with that?
Now you tell me. I just got back from europe and discovered it was cheaper to buy a cheap hp that does photo prints than buy new ink cartridges for my existing printer. Luckily I also shot 15 roles of film. At least with those I don't have to worry about the inmages fading of media becoming obsolete - they'll only ever need one print.
Actually, the reasons for photoshop being better than Gimp have nothing to do with design philosophy. I can understand that the Gimp has had more thought poured into it. However, extensions aren't going to help me when I need functionality that should be built in at the core level. If I want duotone colouring (sorry about the spelling, I'm Australian) then plugins aren't going to help me, they can only manipulate what's there. I publish for print, and that is the real issue here. Gimp cannot handle most press requirements. We *NEED* colour control. I personally need CYMK, Duotone, and Pantone every working day of my life.
You have a brain, yes, but it is a programmers brain. Maybe you should switch to Aspect Oriented programming or something. We publishers realise that we can put up with a frozen, single, monolithic structure with a finite assortment of plugins and features, because those are the ones we really need.
Here in Western Australia I hunt Kangaroos with 32s and 44s. If he used a 44 at less then 100yds he'd have the accuracy and about the right firepower for that. Not more. I know hunters that use 232s but I'd tip a 44 with solid half ounce slugs. The only problem is you can only take about five shot before your shoulder is bruised to shit and if you hit anything smaller than a fully grown male bull, weighin in at 700 kgs, you make more of a mess than a kill. To do that sort of damage, he'd have to hit it in the nose, not the shoulder. I've seen a roo torn in half with that setup.
The gun it would seem he's carrying looks to be weaker that that. It it tore the head of, rather than pulverised it, he'd be better of have keeping the head.
I've actually had less autonomy. Whilst working for the company, they dictate your time and what they think you should be doing and so on. Since I went contract firm want a much stricter account of the time spent. For a person like me who'd prefer to get the job done and not worry about the paper work, that is very frustrating. All of a sudden lunch breaks and my many coffee breaks are a no-go or at east a keep secret. Same for cigarettes.
Perhaps. In my experience, more appliactions are coming out for Mac and OS X than are being cancelled. Hopefully this will eventually be spread to linux as well.
If this is true we should be able to tell via two indicators:
1. The final version of the operating systems will be smaller. We all know the effect of patching software and the corresponding bloat.
2. All those betas that are install, and all those developer releases will have to be revoked, as they are now irrelevant. Unless of sourse they employed an object oriented approach and the interface remains the same. This is not credible, or else they wouldn't be rewriting the OS.
If these two things turn out to be the case it would indicate that the article is true. My gut instinct - WTF? Can the advertising, noone buys the shit. The delays are because of the bloat already endemic, and - as they say - it wont happen over night.
The difference being, Windows is touted as a professional OS built by professional coders, upheld to a high standard, etc, etc, etc. Simply put: People expect more when they have to pay for it. Microsoft has constantly criticized projects such as Linux, because the code isn't built by a central authority. Now we learn that Windows is made pretty much like Linux. I think criticizing Microsoft for this is definitely justifiable.
So your saying microsoft should be criticised and there product isn't professional. This is because it uses the same productionmodel as linux. So Linux therefore should definately not be used in a production environment, for the same reason as windows. The only thing that sets the two apart is that one pays for windows so there actually is accountability. Are you then implying that people should use windows over linux?
Well generally this is a unitised system. The approach is generally that medical staff have acces to that information and so on. The real problem here is an invasion of liberty. By that I mean the liberty that John Stuart Mill spoke of, not any politician you'll hear nowadays.
Also, they talk of troubled kids. Who is it that decides where to set these arbitary limits. Set them too tight and you'll wind up with a police state.
I for one do not want to carry an ID card (how these systems usually work, see France and soon Australia). I do nt think I should have to, and forcing me to is a restriction of my liberty. I feel sorry for the people who will have to. I will take wagers that this will be the system implemented.
Yeah, unlike the huge amount of CO2 and Methane that are currently being pumped into the atmosphere.
It is the management of waste which is an issue. If greenhouse emissions were locked up tight, there wouldn't be an issue with our ongoing obsession with fossil fuels. The logevity of nuclear material is not really an issue. Why?
The amount of waste caused by nuclear plants compared with their impact on the environmnet is minimal. The management of nuclear waste, as in logistics, is trivial compareed to fossil fuel emissions.
I assure you that events such as Katrina will keep happening and get worse in the next 50 years. Much Worse. Greenhouse effectors will severly hamper the world more than nuclear waste will (for the two reasons outlined).
One important aside, whilst Katrina was bad, check the mortality rate for natural disasters in Africa, Asia, and to a certain extend, South America. In these places the chances of getting killed in a natural disaster are about the same as they were for the victims of Katrina. The Economist ran an interesting article on it. We in the 'western' world live very shltered and fortunate lives. Don't let this aside detract from my points though.
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Well until recently they had these nifty Greek computers. They lasted really well....
This is news generally because of the rarity of this sort of thing. The only real issue I can think of is that our Health Minister has recently announced plans to immunise ALL Australians against bird flu. This could disrupt that (if it was realistic anyway). I guess this is all a part of ever increasing control.
This is what I found for requiremnets. Add GNU/Linux in there.
English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ processor
512MB RAM
8x Speed CD-ROM drive and latest drivers
2.8GB of uncompressed hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows swap file)
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit soundcard and latest drivers
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
DirectX 9.0c (included)
3D hardware accelerator card required
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB
Hardware accelerated video card and the latest drivers
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X300 series
ATI Radeon X550 series
ATI Radeon X600 series
ATI Radeon X700 series
ATI Radeon X800 series
ATI Radeon X850 series
Nvidia GeForce 3/Ti Series
Multiplayer requirements:
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers
Sure do. Your mistress is one expensive bitch. I really gotta stop seeing her.
Actually, it's not bias. Publishers use Apples because they are better for what they do. All the requisite software is available, the monitors and so on, which are apple branded and come kit with the computer are generally better. Publishers are generally more productive on Apple.
I'm not interested in a flame war, so if you're interested in how my claims are true, look it up.
Secondly, publishers are not generally reporters. I am an editor and don't have time in my week to write articles. We buy them or have them submitted, but we don't write them.
People who write articles generally buy the best hardware for the job, which is generally a computer that can run Word.
If there is bias in the media towards Apple, then it is due to the beautiful aesthetic, graceful degradation in performance, up to date hardware support etc... Most media/politics/sociology students, during there undergraduate degrees will study a media unit, and anyone in the industry knows, we live in a pluralist society. The media does not set the agenda as much as people would like to think it. If they are wrong, the public will tell them.
Perhaps someone could tell me:
Whilst I appreciate that accurate clocks are important for some tasks, when is enough enough? Seriously, what is a task that the current atomic clocks aren't up to?
But it is good to see OSS for windows, especially windows only. I was hoping for an OS X version. However, if people start to recognise OSS they may be more inclined to jump in feet first to something like GNU/Linux. Too often these things are like Gimp - a great program, grafted horribly into a new OS. Ever tried using OO.org on OS X?
Which is just crap. Try and tell me there are copies of your spread sheets for your accounts from 1989 still hanging around. This may be true for some forms of information, but your holiday happy snaps aren't them. Also, regardless of how many floppies your photo is stored on, they'll all become obsolete. And what happens when you hard drive fails. The Vast Majority of home users don't have a backup regime.
Correct. Which also means I hate Safari web browser (which I'm using at the moment and doesn't support colour systems) and Word (which I use everyday and doesn't support colour systems). Rather than list each in full, I'll give you a run down:
OS X Tiger
Windows
Linux (Suse)
Excel
Myob
Apple Mail
Messenger
You
My car
My cat
and etcetera.
Actually, I don't like Gimp because it is lacking something that a publisher needs in an image-editor, colour management systems. There are other programs out there that support colour management systems. Quark isn't photoshop, I don't hate it. Neither do I hate Indesign or Pagemaker.
I don't mind you replying, but do it with a bit of background knowlege about what you're writing about.
I realise that. I was more talking about the propensity for printed (as opposed to developed) media to fade over time. I personally do my own Black and white work, but regardless of the format, with enough effort a person may develop any negative they own. Colour is more convoluted, as is slide, but it is manageable. Also, in 100 years, you're garunteed, if you took care of your originals, you'll be able to print them. However, with film and storage technologies, this is not the case. Even where I work there is a digital camera which takes floppies. We have one computer with a floppy drive still. WTFs with that?
Now you tell me. I just got back from europe and discovered it was cheaper to buy a cheap hp that does photo prints than buy new ink cartridges for my existing printer. Luckily I also shot 15 roles of film. At least with those I don't have to worry about the inmages fading of media becoming obsolete - they'll only ever need one print.
Actually, the reasons for photoshop being better than Gimp have nothing to do with design philosophy. I can understand that the Gimp has had more thought poured into it. However, extensions aren't going to help me when I need functionality that should be built in at the core level. If I want duotone colouring (sorry about the spelling, I'm Australian) then plugins aren't going to help me, they can only manipulate what's there. I publish for print, and that is the real issue here. Gimp cannot handle most press requirements. We *NEED* colour control. I personally need CYMK, Duotone, and Pantone every working day of my life.
You have a brain, yes, but it is a programmers brain. Maybe you should switch to Aspect Oriented programming or something. We publishers realise that we can put up with a frozen, single, monolithic structure with a finite assortment of plugins and features, because those are the ones we really need.
Here in Western Australia I hunt Kangaroos with 32s and 44s. If he used a 44 at less then 100yds he'd have the accuracy and about the right firepower for that. Not more. I know hunters that use 232s but I'd tip a 44 with solid half ounce slugs. The only problem is you can only take about five shot before your shoulder is bruised to shit and if you hit anything smaller than a fully grown male bull, weighin in at 700 kgs, you make more of a mess than a kill. To do that sort of damage, he'd have to hit it in the nose, not the shoulder. I've seen a roo torn in half with that setup.
The gun it would seem he's carrying looks to be weaker that that. It it tore the head of, rather than pulverised it, he'd be better of have keeping the head.
I live in Western Australia, Perth. I've seen this story once a year for the past four. Must be a slow news day.
The Australians actually beat everyone by 99 years. Sorry, the easiest link was a wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kell y_Gang
Check out the picture, top right.
I've actually had less autonomy. Whilst working for the company, they dictate your time and what they think you should be doing and so on. Since I went contract firm want a much stricter account of the time spent. For a person like me who'd prefer to get the job done and not worry about the paper work, that is very frustrating. All of a sudden lunch breaks and my many coffee breaks are a no-go or at east a keep secret. Same for cigarettes.
Oh yeah, there is also the finance paper work...
Perhaps. In my experience, more appliactions are coming out for Mac and OS X than are being cancelled. Hopefully this will eventually be spread to linux as well.
I bow down to our ne dinosaur arachnid overlords (not those pissy googlel ants).
Peer pressure made me do it. I'm so sorry.
And the follow up sig. - God is Dead - Nitsche
If this is true we should be able to tell via two indicators:
1. The final version of the operating systems will be smaller. We all know the effect of patching software and the corresponding bloat.
2. All those betas that are install, and all those developer releases will have to be revoked, as they are now irrelevant. Unless of sourse they employed an object oriented approach and the interface remains the same. This is not credible, or else they wouldn't be rewriting the OS.
If these two things turn out to be the case it would indicate that the article is true. My gut instinct - WTF? Can the advertising, noone buys the shit. The delays are because of the bloat already endemic, and - as they say - it wont happen over night.
...but it will happen...
Don't be such a hypocrite.
The difference being, Windows is touted as a professional OS built by professional coders, upheld to a high standard, etc, etc, etc. Simply put: People expect more when they have to pay for it. Microsoft has constantly criticized projects such as Linux, because the code isn't built by a central authority. Now we learn that Windows is made pretty much like Linux. I think criticizing Microsoft for this is definitely justifiable.
So your saying microsoft should be criticised and there product isn't professional. This is because it uses the same productionmodel as linux. So Linux therefore should definately not be used in a production environment, for the same reason as windows. The only thing that sets the two apart is that one pays for windows so there actually is accountability. Are you then implying that people should use windows over linux?
Man, this reply screen is different. I had to see it to believe it. Try it out and tell everybody what you think.
some dude delivers the +10 Sword of DON"T CUT MY FREAKIN MOVIE
Also, they talk of troubled kids. Who is it that decides where to set these arbitary limits. Set them too tight and you'll wind up with a police state.
I for one do not want to carry an ID card (how these systems usually work, see France and soon Australia). I do nt think I should have to, and forcing me to is a restriction of my liberty. I feel sorry for the people who will have to. I will take wagers that this will be the system implemented.
Yeah, unlike the huge amount of CO2 and Methane that are currently being pumped into the atmosphere. It is the management of waste which is an issue. If greenhouse emissions were locked up tight, there wouldn't be an issue with our ongoing obsession with fossil fuels. The logevity of nuclear material is not really an issue. Why? The amount of waste caused by nuclear plants compared with their impact on the environmnet is minimal. The management of nuclear waste, as in logistics, is trivial compareed to fossil fuel emissions. I assure you that events such as Katrina will keep happening and get worse in the next 50 years. Much Worse. Greenhouse effectors will severly hamper the world more than nuclear waste will (for the two reasons outlined). One important aside, whilst Katrina was bad, check the mortality rate for natural disasters in Africa, Asia, and to a certain extend, South America. In these places the chances of getting killed in a natural disaster are about the same as they were for the victims of Katrina. The Economist ran an interesting article on it. We in the 'western' world live very shltered and fortunate lives. Don't let this aside detract from my points though.