Nigeria, which is a small mining town in the Northwest Territories, has already been redacted. Whatever "redacted" means.
Furthermore, I would just like to state for the record: Wyoming.
I hold the Northwest Territories personally responsible for this terrible situation. Also, I believe that we ought to disconnect many third-world countries from the Internet. Places like Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Mauritania and New Jersey don't need to have Internet access.
Here's a quote from Adobe's Bruce Chizen from a while back:
We have learned, historically, that if we stay close to what we really do well, we win. Microsoft has tried to enter Adobe's markets. It tried in the early days, coming up with a PostScript clone--and it actually shipped one printer with an original-equipment manufacturer. It was a total failure. It tried with Microsoft Draw and Microsoft PhotoDraw, and it gave away the product free with Microsoft Office to kind of "nitch up" Illustrator and Photoshop. Again, it was total failure--these products no longer exist.
For eBook publishing, it tried Microsoft Reader as an end run around PDF. You never hear about Microsoft Reader anymore. Microsoft tried, once again, to go at Photoshop with Microsoft Picture It.
The company has never been able to move Picture It above the consumer level. So I am confident that, as long as we do what we do well, as long as we continue to execute, we'll be very successful, despite Microsoft's monopoly.
(Interviewer:) Why have Microsoft's attempts not worked? What's the source of your confidence?
The reason is that our customers care a lot about the visual integrity and reliability of the information that is being presented. And that's just not a core competency of Microsoft. We've been at this now for 20 years. Everything we do is based on Adobe's imaging model and rendering engine--that layer between the operating system and the application that allows us to express information in a way Microsoft has trouble figuring out.
Maybe you should stop building x86 systems and leave that to the professionals who don't screw it up.
Oh, like Dell? Say, why don't you march your smart self over to about 6 of my clients and figure out for Dell why a lot of their new desktops won't do USB properly. And while you're over there, why don't you get on the horn with Microsoft and Dell and see if you can straighten out the finger-pointing match the two companies are having with each other over this issue.
Then you can talk to me about "x86 professionals."
LOL, more power to you. Personally I'd convert a file to a new format and be done with it.
I'm not needing a new file format. I need the format (PDF) to be created correctly on a Windows machine. That doesn't happen often enough, especially if you're doing very pricey high-end publishing, where PDF is required.
...to somehow put a decent power supply in the thing, and put Grade A surface-mount components on the mobo, not stuff sourced from Wang's Dirt-Floored Shanghai Supply Co., like most every x86 box in existence.
Maybe they could just include some sort of power-switch-linked deoderant to try to mask that unmistakeable air of Cheapness that lingers around every x86 box.
Hey, I own Macs and build x86 systems. A Mac will happily run for a decade. x86 boxes--they're absolute junk. Seriously. Even the ones from "name brand" vendors. The mobos on your typical PC look like they were thrown together from the contents of the bargain bin at Jameco.
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It functioned as advertised.
That's all I can recall.
Yep. They also manufacture mainframes jointly with Siemens: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/bs2000/
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Nigeria, which is a small mining town in the Northwest Territories, has already been redacted. Whatever "redacted" means. Furthermore, I would just like to state for the record: Wyoming.
I hold the Northwest Territories personally responsible for this terrible situation. Also, I believe that we ought to disconnect many third-world countries from the Internet. Places like Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Mauritania and New Jersey don't need to have Internet access.
In light of these findings, we made need to rethink our 'Phyllis Diller Bares All' strategy.
Here's a quote from Adobe's Bruce Chizen from a while back:
We have learned, historically, that if we stay close to what we really do well, we win. Microsoft has tried to enter Adobe's markets. It tried in the early days, coming up with a PostScript clone--and it actually shipped one printer with an original-equipment manufacturer. It was a total failure. It tried with Microsoft Draw and Microsoft PhotoDraw, and it gave away the product free with Microsoft Office to kind of "nitch up" Illustrator and Photoshop. Again, it was total failure--these products no longer exist.
For eBook publishing, it tried Microsoft Reader as an end run around PDF. You never hear about Microsoft Reader anymore. Microsoft tried, once again, to go at Photoshop with Microsoft Picture It.
The company has never been able to move Picture It above the consumer level. So I am confident that, as long as we do what we do well, as long as we continue to execute, we'll be very successful, despite Microsoft's monopoly.
(Interviewer:) Why have Microsoft's attempts not worked? What's the source of your confidence?
The reason is that our customers care a lot about the visual integrity and reliability of the information that is being presented. And that's just not a core competency of Microsoft. We've been at this now for 20 years. Everything we do is based on Adobe's imaging model and rendering engine--that layer between the operating system and the application that allows us to express information in a way Microsoft has trouble figuring out.
Oh, like Dell? Say, why don't you march your smart self over to about 6 of my clients and figure out for Dell why a lot of their new desktops won't do USB properly. And while you're over there, why don't you get on the horn with Microsoft and Dell and see if you can straighten out the finger-pointing match the two companies are having with each other over this issue.
Then you can talk to me about "x86 professionals."
I'm not needing a new file format. I need the format (PDF) to be created correctly on a Windows machine. That doesn't happen often enough, especially if you're doing very pricey high-end publishing, where PDF is required.
I do. I have a 12-year-old Mac Quadra that I keep handy on my network for doing file conversions that my new PCs still can't do.
One should never try to deduce the value of a twelve-year-old Mac on circumstantial evidence alone. --Sherlock Holmes
Maybe they could just include some sort of power-switch-linked deoderant to try to mask that unmistakeable air of Cheapness that lingers around every x86 box.
Hey, I own Macs and build x86 systems. A Mac will happily run for a decade. x86 boxes--they're absolute junk. Seriously. Even the ones from "name brand" vendors. The mobos on your typical PC look like they were thrown together from the contents of the bargain bin at Jameco.
Cheapness is all that counts in the x86 world.
Don't be loodicruss.