When I'm continually being bombarded by spam and tracking-cookies on the web, phone calls all day from people trying to sell me "targeted products" and so on and so forth, then some privacy would be very much appreciated. I tend to use my old address (my folks address) when signing up for ANYTHING with the hope that my current address will be reasonably well protected, some slip through the net though.
However, on a slighty unrelated note, PGP/GNuPG and signed emails. I'm on a number of mailing lists of which a number of emails from certain people on those lists are signed by PGP or GnuPG. That is taking paranoia and privacy a little too far. What makes these people think their emails are SO important that they'll be stopped mid-transmission, altered by some hacker and then sent on with changes to their mail?
If you're digitally signing every email you send, just have a think about what you're doing, PLEASE!
I think, or at least I'm hoping, that the "build a blog/CMS/recipe site in 5 minutes using 'scaffold:blog'" sales pitch will eventually die a death. I must admit, it absolutely impressed me when I first saw it, however since doing a little more research into Ruby on Rails, I've discovered it's so much more powerful than that and worthwhile investigating further. A site I'm working on http://kozmo.railsplayground.com/ - which is a simple blog based on the tutorials/screencasts - has taken a little more than 5 minutes (maybe 1/2 hour tops) and has taken 87 lines of coding. Now obviously what I've developed so far is very simple but it works and it's taken no time to develop. It is a new technology and so I suppose the team are trying to wow everyone with how quick and easy it is, but give it a bit more time to mature and I strongly believe we'll see some very impressive work done with ruby on rails.
This seems somewhat relevant as well. I'm not sure how, but lets just say it is.
"Baby One More Time"
Oh baby, baby Oh baby, baby Oh baby, baby How was I supposed to know That something wasn't right here Oh baby baby I shouldn't have let you go And now you're out of sight, yeah Show me, how you want it to be Tell me baby 'Cause I need to know now what we've got
[CHORUS:] My loneliness is killing me I must confess, I still believe When I'm not with you I lose my mind Give me a sign Hit me baby one more time
Oh baby, baby The reason I breathe is you Boy you got me blinded Oh baby, baby There's nothing that I wouldn't do That's not the way I planned it Show me, how you want it to be Tell me baby 'Cause I need to know now what we've got
[Repeat CHORUS]
Oh baby, baby Oh baby, baby Ah, yeah, yeah Oh baby, baby How was I supposed to know Oh pretty baby I shouldn't have let you go I must confess, that my loneliness Is killing me now Don't you know I still believe That you will be here And give me a sign Hit me baby one more time
[Repeat CHORUS]
I must confess that my loneliness Is killing me now Don't you know I still believe That you will be here And give me a sign Hit me baby one more time
And another thing! I'd love to see your web developers change the formatting throughout an entire tables based site. THEN talk to me about time/money/efficiency.
If time is money, then the "most developers" you're talking about would be absolutely foolish to use tables for layout.
I find it amazing how people continue make these uninformed comments on/.
Most web developers I've worked with/spoken to actually DO use CSS and not tables based designs. It's not about abandoning tables entirely, it's about using tables correctly.
I can understand this, if they start saying that they want way more than their time is worth then that is a problem but as it stands it seems like some non trivial percentage of 360 owners are dissatified due to defective units. That seems like a pretty good reason to have a class action law suit. But maybe that is just me.
Typical attitude of the American litigous society. Any other country would simply ask for a non-defective replacement.
I do, mate! None at last check. Do you know how many cookies you have stored on your machine that are tracking your movements throughout the web, and feeding some marketeer with your web browsing habits?
No, it's not really an apt analogy because they simply don't make cars with hoods welded shut. Your ingredients/nutritional information label analogy doesn't really work either, because I can't buy food without nutrional information or ingredients in this country (the UK), although you can in France interestingly enough.
I know exactly what my computer is doing with the information I give it. I control what information goes in and what goes out. I don't disagree with open source software and the movement, in fact most of the applications I use on a day to day basis (firefox, open office, thunderbird among others) are open source, but my operating system of choice is windows because I'm comfortable with it, it lets me do exactly what I want to do and not concern myself with anything else and I know EXACTLY what is happening with the information I give it. I'd know in an instant if data I'd supplied it with is going to some spurious target I hadn't allowed. With 15 years of Windows experience, I'd like to think I'm pretty competant and aware of the pitfalls of using Windows.
The only thing I can't do on my Windows box that I can do on my Linux box is look at the source code. I'm not interested in the slightest in looking at or doing anything with the source code, so no.. it's not locked down and I've got the freedom to do with it what I wish (except look at and tinker with the source code). I'd like to see Microsoft enforce the EULA on me.
What a load of rubbish. It is far from common to find sites working better in IE than FF. Web sites tend to JUST WORK in Firefox. More often than not, sites viewed in IE tend to fire off numerous javascript errors, pop up windows and other garbage I don't want to view. With Firefox, you can view the site how the designer intended or how YOU want to view it (turning off stylesheets or images, for example). Firefox is infinitely more stable than IE and web designers don't generally have to contend with bug fixing for sites when viewed in Firefox. CSS hacks and other non-standard browser bugs are very much the domain of IE. You're obviously not a web designer because your post shows little knowledge of browsers.
I'm sure there are lots of bugs in IE, but everyone tries to steer around them.
As a web developer of 8 years, I can assure you, it's neigh on impossible to steer round the bugs in IE.
This is all well and good getting upset about the Sony EULA, however, personally speaking I ignore those. How exactly are they going to enforce it? Should I buy a Sony BMG label CD (which I'd hope would be a rare occasion anyway), then I'm going to damn well use it exactly how I choose to. And that means ripping it to MP3 and taking it to work, taking it with me to whichever country I plan to reside in or whatever else the EULA says I can't do, should I need or wish to. So tell me, how are Sony going to stop me doing so?
I just got a Polaroid 7" portable DVD player for just over $100. Not only is that less than half of the price of a PSP (even after tax), I can play regular DVD movies on it
Does your $100 polaroid portable DVD player play PSP games as well?
No? Oh.. I guess that's no good to me then. I bought a PSP to play PSP games, I don't know about the rest of you. That it also plays films, music and I can use it's WLAN and web browser to check my email when I'm on the move as well, it's a nice added bonus.
I've used Xara X on and off for a number of years. Fantastic vector image program. I only moved over to Illustrator after discovering the Xara.AI/.EPS output filter didn't work 100% with some applications and there were a few other little niggles. This might have been fixed since then but otherwise it's fantastic application and porting it to Linux is a brilliant move.
Once a decent/user friendly bitmap editing application is available for linux, then I might be able to move over fully.
MS biased or otherwise, it's pretty poor journalism to say it's a vast improvement over Gmail and not back up with any kind of reasons why. I'm going to email the guy about it.
I also have a Sony PSP (MS Duo), and a Fuji camera which uses CF and XD memory cards. I'm not really that concerned because while there are so many standards (CF, MS, XD, SD/MMC and now the tiny versions of most of the above), so say we have "standards" is pretty much irrelevant.
Different vendors of phones/cameras/pdas etc. will all use whatever memory card type they choose to so you're more than likely going to need memory cards of varying types anyway. That and the price of flash memory cards being so low, amounts to it not making much difference. I certainly wouldn't choose a camera, phone, mp3 player, or PDA based on it's memory card type. It's almost a completely irrelevant factor.
How are you limited? If you have a memory stick using product (mobile phone, sony digital camera etc. etc.) then you're more than likely to be able to read memory sticks on your PC. So how exactly are you limited? I have a sony camera and sony ericsson phone. I can read data from both these devices on my PC with no problems or limitations whatsoever.
It's not specific in it's capabilities, however it's pretty damn specific in it's target audience - professional designers. Graphic designers I know don't tend to specialise in either web design or print design, they simply specialise in design. Photoshop enables them to work in both these areas. For anyone to spend £500 (or however much Photoshop CS2 is these days, and I'd guess it is around the £500 mark) on a piece of software, you'd like to think they've done some analysis previously.
So what alternative tool, specifically for web design imaging that would help out the professional graphic designer more than Photoshop, would you suggest?
I'd wager that photoshop using professionals is indeed a well defined market, considering the price of the application. You're going to have fairly specific requirements if you're going to spend around £500 on a piece of software.
Actually, that's not it's real problem. The fact it has the power to be a web design application, computer art tool and photo editing application is exactly why is it so successful and THE tool for design professionals. There absolutely is no other tool to touch Photoshop, simple as that. Ask any one of several million Photoshop using professionals.
It focuses directly on exactly what was designed for - image creation and editing - and does it extremely well.
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When I'm continually being bombarded by spam and tracking-cookies on the web, phone calls all day from people trying to sell me "targeted products" and so on and so forth, then some privacy would be very much appreciated. I tend to use my old address (my folks address) when signing up for ANYTHING with the hope that my current address will be reasonably well protected, some slip through the net though.
However, on a slighty unrelated note, PGP/GNuPG and signed emails. I'm on a number of mailing lists of which a number of emails from certain people on those lists are signed by PGP or GnuPG. That is taking paranoia and privacy a little too far. What makes these people think their emails are SO important that they'll be stopped mid-transmission, altered by some hacker and then sent on with changes to their mail?
If you're digitally signing every email you send, just have a think about what you're doing, PLEASE!...and not forgetting Britain.
I think, or at least I'm hoping, that the "build a blog/CMS/recipe site in 5 minutes using 'scaffold :blog'" sales pitch will eventually die a death. I must admit, it absolutely impressed me when I first saw it, however since doing a little more research into Ruby on Rails, I've discovered it's so much more powerful than that and worthwhile investigating further. A site I'm working on http://kozmo.railsplayground.com/ - which is a simple blog based on the tutorials/screencasts - has taken a little more than 5 minutes (maybe 1/2 hour tops) and has taken 87 lines of coding. Now obviously what I've developed so far is very simple but it works and it's taken no time to develop. It is a new technology and so I suppose the team are trying to wow everyone with how quick and easy it is, but give it a bit more time to mature and I strongly believe we'll see some very impressive work done with ruby on rails.
This seems somewhat relevant as well. I'm not sure how, but lets just say it is.
"Baby One More Time"
Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right here
Oh baby baby
I shouldn't have let you go
And now you're out of sight, yeah
Show me, how you want it to be
Tell me baby
'Cause I need to know now what we've got
[CHORUS:]
My loneliness is killing me
I must confess, I still believe
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time
Oh baby, baby
The reason I breathe is you
Boy you got me blinded
Oh baby, baby
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
That's not the way I planned it
Show me, how you want it to be
Tell me baby
'Cause I need to know now what we've got
[Repeat CHORUS]
Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby
Ah, yeah, yeah
Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
Oh pretty baby
I shouldn't have let you go
I must confess, that my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time
[Repeat CHORUS]
I must confess that my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time
And another thing! I'd love to see your web developers change the formatting throughout an entire tables based site. THEN talk to me about time/money/efficiency.
If time is money, then the "most developers" you're talking about would be absolutely foolish to use tables for layout. I find it amazing how people continue make these uninformed comments on /.
Most web developers I've worked with/spoken to actually DO use CSS and not tables based designs. It's not about abandoning tables entirely, it's about using tables correctly.
I can understand this, if they start saying that they want way more than their time is worth then that is a problem but as it stands it seems like some non trivial percentage of 360 owners are dissatified due to defective units. That seems like a pretty good reason to have a class action law suit. But maybe that is just me.
Typical attitude of the American litigous society. Any other country would simply ask for a non-defective replacement.Maybe you need to upgrade that XT machine you're running. Acrobat runs fine on my BlueGene I've got sat here.
I do, mate! None at last check. Do you know how many cookies you have stored on your machine that are tracking your movements throughout the web, and feeding some marketeer with your web browsing habits?
No, it's not really an apt analogy because they simply don't make cars with hoods welded shut. Your ingredients/nutritional information label analogy doesn't really work either, because I can't buy food without nutrional information or ingredients in this country (the UK), although you can in France interestingly enough. I know exactly what my computer is doing with the information I give it. I control what information goes in and what goes out. I don't disagree with open source software and the movement, in fact most of the applications I use on a day to day basis (firefox, open office, thunderbird among others) are open source, but my operating system of choice is windows because I'm comfortable with it, it lets me do exactly what I want to do and not concern myself with anything else and I know EXACTLY what is happening with the information I give it. I'd know in an instant if data I'd supplied it with is going to some spurious target I hadn't allowed. With 15 years of Windows experience, I'd like to think I'm pretty competant and aware of the pitfalls of using Windows.
The only thing I can't do on my Windows box that I can do on my Linux box is look at the source code. I'm not interested in the slightest in looking at or doing anything with the source code, so no.. it's not locked down and I've got the freedom to do with it what I wish (except look at and tinker with the source code). I'd like to see Microsoft enforce the EULA on me.
Er, last I checked Firefox 1.5 hadn't been released yet. (other than in beta/RC format).
What a load of rubbish. It is far from common to find sites working better in IE than FF. Web sites tend to JUST WORK in Firefox. More often than not, sites viewed in IE tend to fire off numerous javascript errors, pop up windows and other garbage I don't want to view. With Firefox, you can view the site how the designer intended or how YOU want to view it (turning off stylesheets or images, for example). Firefox is infinitely more stable than IE and web designers don't generally have to contend with bug fixing for sites when viewed in Firefox. CSS hacks and other non-standard browser bugs are very much the domain of IE. You're obviously not a web designer because your post shows little knowledge of browsers.
I'm sure there are lots of bugs in IE, but everyone tries to steer around them.
As a web developer of 8 years, I can assure you, it's neigh on impossible to steer round the bugs in IE.
This is all well and good getting upset about the Sony EULA, however, personally speaking I ignore those. How exactly are they going to enforce it? Should I buy a Sony BMG label CD (which I'd hope would be a rare occasion anyway), then I'm going to damn well use it exactly how I choose to. And that means ripping it to MP3 and taking it to work, taking it with me to whichever country I plan to reside in or whatever else the EULA says I can't do, should I need or wish to. So tell me, how are Sony going to stop me doing so?
I just got a Polaroid 7" portable DVD player for just over $100. Not only is that less than half of the price of a PSP (even after tax), I can play regular DVD movies on it Does your $100 polaroid portable DVD player play PSP games as well? No? Oh.. I guess that's no good to me then. I bought a PSP to play PSP games, I don't know about the rest of you. That it also plays films, music and I can use it's WLAN and web browser to check my email when I'm on the move as well, it's a nice added bonus.
I've used Xara X on and off for a number of years. Fantastic vector image program. I only moved over to Illustrator after discovering the Xara .AI/.EPS output filter didn't work 100% with some applications and there were a few other little niggles. This might have been fixed since then but otherwise it's fantastic application and porting it to Linux is a brilliant move.
Once a decent/user friendly bitmap editing application is available for linux, then I might be able to move over fully.
MS biased or otherwise, it's pretty poor journalism to say it's a vast improvement over Gmail and not back up with any kind of reasons why. I'm going to email the guy about it.
I also have a Sony PSP (MS Duo), and a Fuji camera which uses CF and XD memory cards. I'm not really that concerned because while there are so many standards (CF, MS, XD, SD/MMC and now the tiny versions of most of the above), so say we have "standards" is pretty much irrelevant. Different vendors of phones/cameras/pdas etc. will all use whatever memory card type they choose to so you're more than likely going to need memory cards of varying types anyway. That and the price of flash memory cards being so low, amounts to it not making much difference. I certainly wouldn't choose a camera, phone, mp3 player, or PDA based on it's memory card type. It's almost a completely irrelevant factor.
How are you limited? If you have a memory stick using product (mobile phone, sony digital camera etc. etc.) then you're more than likely to be able to read memory sticks on your PC. So how exactly are you limited? I have a sony camera and sony ericsson phone. I can read data from both these devices on my PC with no problems or limitations whatsoever.
It's not specific in it's capabilities, however it's pretty damn specific in it's target audience - professional designers. Graphic designers I know don't tend to specialise in either web design or print design, they simply specialise in design. Photoshop enables them to work in both these areas. For anyone to spend £500 (or however much Photoshop CS2 is these days, and I'd guess it is around the £500 mark) on a piece of software, you'd like to think they've done some analysis previously. So what alternative tool, specifically for web design imaging that would help out the professional graphic designer more than Photoshop, would you suggest?
I'd wager that photoshop using professionals is indeed a well defined market, considering the price of the application. You're going to have fairly specific requirements if you're going to spend around £500 on a piece of software.
Why would I bother? It's an application aimed at a different market.
Actually, that's not it's real problem. The fact it has the power to be a web design application, computer art tool and photo editing application is exactly why is it so successful and THE tool for design professionals. There absolutely is no other tool to touch Photoshop, simple as that. Ask any one of several million Photoshop using professionals.
It focuses directly on exactly what was designed for - image creation and editing - and does it extremely well.
NotePad->Wordpad->Word->???->Profit!
Why isn't a similar law being created for the movie industry? What makes video games different?