Is it too much to ask for a simple and powerful software program that can do the 45 things photographers do most in Photoshop?
I think it's too much to ask for another program that does everything that's simple to use. How the hell is Photoshop 'difficult', anyway?
Who Am I?
I draw a vector circle, I want to add bevel and a drop shadow. I want to apply it to the entire circle, hence I want to do something with the entire layer.
I realise that Photoshop has a useful feature called layered styles.
I add the bevel layer style.
I add the drop shadow layer style.
I am not John C. Dvorak.
Give up? Too bad. I'm everybody else with a sense of intuitivism.
You're connecting to the Internet through
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
It still geolocates you in the US. And unless you use an '3l1t3' proxy, that doesn't contain referer information, they'll still be able to correctly locate you every time.
"All I know is it will involve reverse engineering"
Despite the fact that reverse engineering is legal for plenty of abstract instances, there's only a few cases where it's legal (in the US) to reverse engineer to compete/modify/upgrade (with) a product.
I'm guessing this 'Oboe' thing is doomed to fail, regardless of how 'legit' it is, it's going to be blockaded by legal barrierers and appeals and whatnot.
That's assuming they're using the reverse engineering to enter a market and compete with another services, if it's something completely new and doesn't compete with other services (at least directly), I'll change my tune.
As much as I think people are going to hate it and find it inconvenient, it's nice to see Google handling this without any backstabbing and lawyers and the like. Unlike Microsoft which is going to muscle the "Windows Vista" name through IPO despite the fact that "Vista Windows" and "Vista Blinds" already have a very similiar name registered, and their office is just down the adjoining road from 1 Microsoft Way.
You've already said it's semantics, anything that "denies" me access to my "services" is:. a Denial of Service. Thankfully I've got the IE7 Beta, and I don't think too many MSDN subscribers are rushing out to exploit it.
...will be sold for 380 yen per pot through Toyota Roof Garden Co, a Toyota Motor subsidiary, from March next year...
Amazing! Toyota, the car company (not Toyota Roof Garden Co, or Toyota Research) devised this plant. I don't see what's so amazing about this, companies have been making stuff through subsidaries for a long time now. Mitsubishi make pens and other office equipment. Yes, that's Mitsubishi, the car company.
It's nothing new to have subsidaries, get over it.
I think this is just another nail in the coffin for VHS, with TiVo and DVD-Rs common methods for recording television broadcasts. I'd say that VHS is going to be around for as long as people have home videos and the like on tapes, or until it becomes unreasonable for stores to sell VCRs at rock bottom prices.
I think quite a large potential market here is the hybrid system (VHS/DVD player), which is what my mother bought because she was afraid of DVDs. Nowadays she rents DVDs only, if the movie is on VHS she is cautious to rent it because she knows how bad the quality will (most likely) be.
Our school has also readily adopted DVDs and purchased a bunch of Macs for video editing and DVD burning, although I personally prefer an XP machine with Adobe Encore, it's a sign of the times.
Although I personally prefer to get my movies delivered direct through my Bittorrent and P2P.
Amazing. You managed to apply my logical coding argument to my code to make it even worse. If you read my comment, you'll see that was what I was getting at. You could make it even better by having a linked list of tags and their process_* functions, and a linked list of types and their process_* functions, and have type prioritise over tag, and end up with IE and Safari and my original argument sort of thing.
'charging real money for any sort of add-on, service, or new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system.'
Total Cost of Maintaining my system:
Movie Maker 2 ('add-on'): $0
MSN Messenger 7.5 ('service'): $0
SP2 ('new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system'): $0
Automatic Updates ('service'): $0
MS AntiSpyware: $0
So maybe Microsoft will charge for the last two, but it's not like Bittorrent and P2P and crackzteamz haven't existed since yesterday. I don't need
I don't think that we're going to find billions dumped into internet advertising, why? Because internet campaigning isn't going to be growing at 30 fold forever.
Campaign 1: $.5 million invested online Campaign 2: $15 million invested online. That's 30 fold (and 14.5 million). Campaign 1: $100 million invested, Campaign 2: $120 million invested. That's 1.2 fold (and 20 million).
Nobody is going to target the internet with large amounts of money when it's more feasible to target the general public using television/newspaper ads. Nobody is going to say, "Hey! Look! I can donate $100 million in internet advertising" *when the money can be better utilitised somewhere else*.
For a while, I've had fairly negative views on GIMP. Sure, it's powerful, but it still lacks what Photoshop has out of the box, and it's got some fairly abstract configurations. But taking a look at SOIX and all, it's really going to push up against Photoshop. But now GIMP has to stop adding little features like simple rectangle select, and start adding more features like SOIX and superseeding PS to get it out there onto the commercial market.
Thanks for the insight into how the real world works. I'm aware that Dell has good success in the server market, at my school we have about 3 Dell servers and 2 Acer ones, but the PCs that are there aren't really designed for hardcore serving. Sure, they'd make great servers for small businesses, but a small business would also get along fine with a $500 self built PC.
They're doing this because they're going to sell less of these PCs. I mean, honestly, how many people are going to buy a Dell who have the intelligence to use Linux or another OS? Very few. I'm willing to be that 99% of the/. community or anybody who would potentially want to buy this PC already builds there own. Am I right or wrong here?
It's been a while since I've seen a silent film. I don't think too many have been made since we've had the technology to have audio in films. Does anybody know of any?
At least this means that the movie can be multilingual with few problems.
Google rules the web, Microsoft rules the desktop (and has a sizeable arm in the server market). I think it's fair to say that Google isn't all that related to Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft and Google have overlapping interests, but Microsoft's main income comes from Windows, and from Office. Does Google have Google OS? No. Does Google have Google Office? No. Does Google have free email? Yes. Does Google have a search system? Yes.
Where Google competes with Microsoft, it succeeds, where Google doesn't, the industry is owned my Microsoft. And don't say OpenOffice or StarOffice or Linux is going to be killing MS anytime soon. StarOffice 7 was an MS Office killer, what happened to it? Nowhere. StarOffice 6 was an MS Office killer, what happened to it? So was version 5. Linux is meant to be better, but it's not gaining inroads in anywhere but the server market. It might be getting ready to approach the desktop market, but it's not going to do it successfully. And in the server market, Linux servers are used less than Windows servers (35% Windows, 35% Unix, 30% Linux, FreeBSD's in there somewhere SOURCE:/. article). Linux is a Windows killer, we don't see Windows being used less. We see that people are stopping the switch to Firefox, switching back from Linux, staying with Windows and Microsoft Office, despite these "MS-Killers". Google will stay, but it's not going to compete with Microsoft unless it starts an OS war.
Then they're not going to pick either Office 12 or StarOffice 8, because they're unlikely to care about it, or as the other commenter pointed out, it's too expensive. However, StarOffice 8 has more competitive pricing ($99 for 5 computers, I don't know about site licensing), and that may give it the advantage for companies looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest, but aren't prepared to spend the money to do so.
In the end, it's not going to matter how open ended and interoperable StarOffice or it's file format is, it's going to come down to what's more convenient at the present time. For companies, this means swap everything over to StarOffice, (possibly) retrain their staff, as opposed to waiting out for Office 12, upgrading to it and having everything work the same.
However Microsoft has already alluded that users of Office 12 may need to be retrained anyway, so SO8 and O12 may be on a fair playing field, and actually come down to quality of software, something Microsoft has been paying a lot more attention to recently.
Because those little Gumstix Linux boards come preconstructed perfectly the way you want/need/like them? And with a nice plastic container to dock everything in?
At the moment, I wouldn't rush out to build this. What I am doing, is waiting for somebody in the community to make it, break it, fiddle with it and make it better and higher res. I'd really like to see contributions to E-Ink and the other digital paper methods come from the online community, and I'd really like to see myself using this technology too.
What comes to my mind is placing the paper in an 'in' tray and having it have the next item of business printed onto it.
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Is it too much to ask for a simple and powerful software program that can do the 45 things photographers do most in Photoshop?
I think it's too much to ask for another program that does everything that's simple to use. How the hell is Photoshop 'difficult', anyway?
Who Am I?
I draw a vector circle, I want to add bevel and a drop shadow.
I want to apply it to the entire circle, hence I want to do something with the entire layer.
I realise that Photoshop has a useful feature called layered styles.
I add the bevel layer style.
I add the drop shadow layer style.
I am not John C. Dvorak.
Give up? Too bad. I'm everybody else with a sense of intuitivism.
Even though I don't think Microsoft has bought out a sporting venue to advertise, it's typical agressive Microsoft Marketing(TM).
But you can't say it doesn't work.
Hint, I'm not in Utah, I'm in Florida.
You're connecting to the Internet through
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
It still geolocates you in the US. And unless you use an '3l1t3' proxy, that doesn't contain referer information, they'll still be able to correctly locate you every time.
"All I know is it will involve reverse engineering"
Despite the fact that reverse engineering is legal for plenty of abstract instances, there's only a few cases where it's legal (in the US) to reverse engineer to compete/modify/upgrade (with) a product.
I'm guessing this 'Oboe' thing is doomed to fail, regardless of how 'legit' it is, it's going to be blockaded by legal barrierers and appeals and whatnot.
That's assuming they're using the reverse engineering to enter a market and compete with another services, if it's something completely new and doesn't compete with other services (at least directly), I'll change my tune.
I'm guessing they'd be using your IP and doing a lookup of where it is in the world. Try it.
As much as I think people are going to hate it and find it inconvenient, it's nice to see Google handling this without any backstabbing and lawyers and the like. Unlike Microsoft which is going to muscle the "Windows Vista" name through IPO despite the fact that "Vista Windows" and "Vista Blinds" already have a very similiar name registered, and their office is just down the adjoining road from 1 Microsoft Way.
You've already said it's semantics, anything that "denies" me access to my "services" is :. a Denial of Service. Thankfully I've got the IE7 Beta, and I don't think too many MSDN subscribers are rushing out to exploit it.
It's nothing new to have subsidaries, get over it.
I think this is just another nail in the coffin for VHS, with TiVo and DVD-Rs common methods for recording television broadcasts. I'd say that VHS is going to be around for as long as people have home videos and the like on tapes, or until it becomes unreasonable for stores to sell VCRs at rock bottom prices.
I think quite a large potential market here is the hybrid system (VHS/DVD player), which is what my mother bought because she was afraid of DVDs. Nowadays she rents DVDs only, if the movie is on VHS she is cautious to rent it because she knows how bad the quality will (most likely) be.
Our school has also readily adopted DVDs and purchased a bunch of Macs for video editing and DVD burning, although I personally prefer an XP machine with Adobe Encore, it's a sign of the times.
Although I personally prefer to get my movies delivered direct through my Bittorrent and P2P.
Amazing. You managed to apply my logical coding argument to my code to make it even worse. If you read my comment, you'll see that was what I was getting at. You could make it even better by having a linked list of tags and their process_* functions, and a linked list of types and their process_* functions, and have type prioritise over tag, and end up with IE and Safari and my original argument sort of thing.
pseudo-c code:
if (tagname == "style" && tagtype == "text/css") {
} else if (tagname == "style") {
}
But hopefully something less obvious that doesn't scream security flaw.
I don't think that we're going to find billions dumped into internet advertising, why? Because internet campaigning isn't going to be growing at 30 fold forever.
Campaign 1: $.5 million invested online
Campaign 2: $15 million invested online.
That's 30 fold (and 14.5 million).
Campaign 1: $100 million invested, Campaign 2: $120 million invested.
That's 1.2 fold (and 20 million).
Nobody is going to target the internet with large amounts of money when it's more feasible to target the general public using television/newspaper ads. Nobody is going to say, "Hey! Look! I can donate $100 million in internet advertising" *when the money can be better utilitised somewhere else*.
For a while, I've had fairly negative views on GIMP. Sure, it's powerful, but it still lacks what Photoshop has out of the box, and it's got some fairly abstract configurations. But taking a look at SOIX and all, it's really going to push up against Photoshop. But now GIMP has to stop adding little features like simple rectangle select, and start adding more features like SOIX and superseeding PS to get it out there onto the commercial market.
Thanks for the insight into how the real world works. I'm aware that Dell has good success in the server market, at my school we have about 3 Dell servers and 2 Acer ones, but the PCs that are there aren't really designed for hardcore serving. Sure, they'd make great servers for small businesses, but a small business would also get along fine with a $500 self built PC.
They're doing this because they're going to sell less of these PCs. I mean, honestly, how many people are going to buy a Dell who have the intelligence to use Linux or another OS? Very few. I'm willing to be that 99% of the /. community or anybody who would potentially want to buy this PC already builds there own. Am I right or wrong here?
It's been a while since I've seen a silent film. I don't think too many have been made since we've had the technology to have audio in films. Does anybody know of any?
At least this means that the movie can be multilingual with few problems.
rm -r -f /mnt/windows/*
You'll find that many GNU***** apps still have a long way to go before being #1.
Google rules the web, Microsoft rules the desktop (and has a sizeable arm in the server market). I think it's fair to say that Google isn't all that related to Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft and Google have overlapping interests, but Microsoft's main income comes from Windows, and from Office.
/. article). Linux is a Windows killer, we don't see Windows being used less. We see that people are stopping the switch to Firefox, switching back from Linux, staying with Windows and Microsoft Office, despite these "MS-Killers". Google will stay, but it's not going to compete with Microsoft unless it starts an OS war.
Does Google have Google OS? No.
Does Google have Google Office? No.
Does Google have free email? Yes.
Does Google have a search system? Yes.
Where Google competes with Microsoft, it succeeds, where Google doesn't, the industry is owned my Microsoft. And don't say OpenOffice or StarOffice or Linux is going to be killing MS anytime soon. StarOffice 7 was an MS Office killer, what happened to it? Nowhere. StarOffice 6 was an MS Office killer, what happened to it? So was version 5. Linux is meant to be better, but it's not gaining inroads in anywhere but the server market. It might be getting ready to approach the desktop market, but it's not going to do it successfully. And in the server market, Linux servers are used less than Windows servers (35% Windows, 35% Unix, 30% Linux, FreeBSD's in there somewhere SOURCE:
Then they're not going to pick either Office 12 or StarOffice 8, because they're unlikely to care about it, or as the other commenter pointed out, it's too expensive. However, StarOffice 8 has more competitive pricing ($99 for 5 computers, I don't know about site licensing), and that may give it the advantage for companies looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest, but aren't prepared to spend the money to do so.
In the end, it's not going to matter how open ended and interoperable StarOffice or it's file format is, it's going to come down to what's more convenient at the present time. For companies, this means swap everything over to StarOffice, (possibly) retrain their staff, as opposed to waiting out for Office 12, upgrading to it and having everything work the same.
However Microsoft has already alluded that users of Office 12 may need to be retrained anyway, so SO8 and O12 may be on a fair playing field, and actually come down to quality of software, something Microsoft has been paying a lot more attention to recently.
Because those little Gumstix Linux boards come preconstructed perfectly the way you want/need/like them? And with a nice plastic container to dock everything in?
At the moment, I wouldn't rush out to build this. What I am doing, is waiting for somebody in the community to make it, break it, fiddle with it and make it better and higher res. I'd really like to see contributions to E-Ink and the other digital paper methods come from the online community, and I'd really like to see myself using this technology too.
What comes to my mind is placing the paper in an 'in' tray and having it have the next item of business printed onto it.
Woa Woa Woa, let's not go nuts here. Is it my fault you haven't memorised the common keyboard translators for Windows?