5. Time life products- especially the country music compilations
4. Hair products; at least the models are usually hot
3. Personal injury claims- bloody ambulance chasers. At least no-win no-fee is banned in Ireland
2. Personal finance & insurance - please, just make it stop... I'll give you money
1. Mobile phone ringtones; kill me now.
Also, as a not-quite perfect alternative to using a mouse, use of a graphics tablet requires a 90 degree (that's pi/2 radians =] ) turn of the forearm and a natural writing position.
It might be a good rest/change of position tool for people whose mouse wrists are hurting, and a basic Wacom Graphire doesn't cost the earth either.
Beware though, if you're a b3ta.com (b3ta wikip. page) user, you'll be coerced into drawing a CDC in no time.
"simple and far cheaper replacement apps would do everything they need."
Yea, right- if you're just an amateur who wants basic photo editing tools. The tools in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign are built to create proper, efficient workflows- there is no open source or cheap software on the market that does even 25% of what Photoshop does for the graphic designer.
If you immediately think to mention GIMP, or any other cheap or OSS software you've never actually *used* Photoshop to it's potential.
The entire CS2 suite pays for itself in a couple of weeks in a production environment. GIMP is ok for resizing, cropping, touching up colour and adding text and effects, but forget proper text tools (with kerning adjustment), vector objects and the pen tool, layer masks, clipping masks, a history pallette, embedded external graphics, not to mention Save for Web. Those are just the things designers use every day, and that's just photoshop.
I won't even start on OSS vs. Illustrator.
I'm not saying that this is an ideal state of affairs- it'd be great if the CS2 suite was €400 and we could all afford it. The fact remains, however if a user is properly educated, the sheer functonality of professional creative software (of which the CS2 suite is the finest example) means that the apps pay for themselves before the 'For dummies' books hit the shelves 4 months after they're released. The apps cost so much because they're worth that and more.
If you take the example of the creative software from Adobe & Adobe-formerly-macromedia. Both companies could have made it much harder to pirate their software a long time ago- the only thing you need to go from Demo to Product with Flash 8 and Dreamweaver 8 is a serial number (though things are now tougher with the CS2 suite- d'oh).
This means that people who want to use Dreamweaver and Flash to learn whilst in univeristy or during their spare time can do so with the demo and a quick search on Usenet or Astalavista.com.
I've recently begun to form the opinion that routine breach of licence here actually helps apps like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Premier and so on gain marketshare as they're easily accessible to people who really want to learn them and go on to use them in a working environment, where most (or at least enough) of the time they'll be legally licenced copies. Bedroom piracy costs the major creative software industry practically nothing in terms of lost sales, but creates a large and eventually profitable user base who will want to use those very applications when they go to work.
That makes sense- if they can ship your envelope 1 day away to their own sub office, then bundle them all into a van and have them in their offices the next morning, then they cut out the cost of the profit that the postal service would make on the same journey.
I suspect that companies like netflix may be one of the first to really start using RFID tags on their goods. There are fewer provacy concerns (unless your postman starts reading their tags) and since the dvds are reused in a loop, the tags are reused.
he should have been bragging about helping develop the Creative Nomad and Jukebox players that were among the first HD based portable mp3 players- there are a few earlier players, as I'm sure I'll now be told, but the Nomad was one of the first really popular ones. Of course Pinnochio doesn't know the difference, and I suspect that history will see itself rewritten to show that the iPod was the first HD based mp3 player on the market, but Creative were there first.
Now, Apple did an astoundingly good Job(s) in taking the existing clunky models and making a sleek, user friendly player out of more-or-less existing technologies, but by no means were they the inventors of the portable mp3 player.
Naw, samsung IMHO make among the best TVs out there, and they have guaranteed no dead pixels in their entire LCD line as of a year or two ago. They're less expensive than Sony, too.
It could have been worse- you could have been asked to round up some number, and instead have corralled them in some kind of holding pen. That would have been odd.
Also you could have been asked to roundup the kids, and ended up spraying them with weedkiller ( http://www.roundup.com/ )
Yup, DVD shrink is a really nice app, and the reauthoring tools are excellent, allowing you to adjust the compression ratio on individual segments of the disk- so you can go easy on your movie, but compress the extras that you want to keep really hard. Nine stars from me.
Whoah, another excellent reply to my question:o) Thank-you very much! Pretty soon i'm going to have a spare machine to experiment with (I'm going from a P4 2.4 to a shiny new Athlon 64) so I might try that out with a TiVo and my old(er) machine. TiVo might be a good choice for me as it's compatible with the NTL cable and Sky Digital services here in Ireland and N.Ireland. I'll just have to see!
FFS I'm not talking about holding a child in the front seat- that's even worse that putting them in the back and not restraining them! I'm talking about ahving one adult in the car and using a rear-facing child seat that's properly strapped into the front side passenger's seat.
Also as one of the ancestor posts here said, when there are 2 people in the car, it'd be nice if people would put the child in a carseat and have one adult in the back of the car- that way the driver distracted as little as possible.
Seriously though- thanks to everyone who posted replies to my question- you've realy opened my eyes to the (suitably expensive and occasionally open source) hardware that's out there. This looks like the closest I've seen to what I'm after. Pity these aren't mass-mass-market- if I didn't know about them then no-one I know is even aware they exist.
Well OK I was being facetious about the whole study thing, I know that kids are really resilliant and will cry every two seconds. When I was 13 I had a 1 year old sister and I remember a remarkable amount about the crying, sleeping, burping, pooing, feeding, burping, sleeping, pooing, crying bits.
I'm under no illusions that it makes things perfect, or that travelling with a child is in any way easy.
I do however reckon having the child rear facing in the passenger seat if safe/possible is a better idea for looking after them. You're able to see them and reach them and they can see you, so it's better. I think it'd just make things teeny bit easier, is all.
Sorry to ask a mildly offtopic question, but can someone please put the intel and AMD chips in an approximate list in terms of their overall speed? I'm being mildly confused by the Centrino ( though that's not a processor, but a technolog), Pentium M, Core Duo and mobile athlon 64 confusion. Which processora are fastest, and at what cost?
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You sir, are a b3ta.com user.
AICMFP
Or I could be mistaken.
In Ireland anyway:
5. Time life products- especially the country music compilations
4. Hair products; at least the models are usually hot
3. Personal injury claims- bloody ambulance chasers. At least no-win no-fee is banned in Ireland
2. Personal finance & insurance - please, just make it stop... I'll give you money
1. Mobile phone ringtones; kill me now.
No, they just share it via an Airport Express, silly.
Also, as a not-quite perfect alternative to using a mouse, use of a graphics tablet requires a 90 degree (that's pi/2 radians =] ) turn of the forearm and a natural writing position.
It might be a good rest/change of position tool for people whose mouse wrists are hurting, and a basic Wacom Graphire doesn't cost the earth either.
Beware though, if you're a b3ta.com (b3ta wikip. page) user, you'll be coerced into drawing a CDC in no time.
It wouldn't be the first time.
And tubgirl- one smell that just won't go away.
Copyright violation doubleplus-ungood. Seek maximum punishment.
It's posts like this that make /. worth the trolls.
:) *
*notes that his country has fifth highest GDP and is only 5bn in the red
"Most people in the US don't believe in the government coming in and telling everyone how to run their business."
Oh yes that's right, we all forgot. In the USA, businesses come in and tell the govornment how to run the country.
Your /. karma goes wayy down.
"simple and far cheaper replacement apps would do everything they need."
Yea, right- if you're just an amateur who wants basic photo editing tools. The tools in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign are built to create proper, efficient workflows- there is no open source or cheap software on the market that does even 25% of what Photoshop does for the graphic designer.
If you immediately think to mention GIMP, or any other cheap or OSS software you've never actually *used* Photoshop to it's potential.
The entire CS2 suite pays for itself in a couple of weeks in a production environment. GIMP is ok for resizing, cropping, touching up colour and adding text and effects, but forget proper text tools (with kerning adjustment), vector objects and the pen tool, layer masks, clipping masks, a history pallette, embedded external graphics, not to mention Save for Web. Those are just the things designers use every day, and that's just photoshop.
I won't even start on OSS vs. Illustrator.
I'm not saying that this is an ideal state of affairs- it'd be great if the CS2 suite was €400 and we could all afford it. The fact remains, however if a user is properly educated, the sheer functonality of professional creative software (of which the CS2 suite is the finest example) means that the apps pay for themselves before the 'For dummies' books hit the shelves 4 months after they're released. The apps cost so much because they're worth that and more.
If you take the example of the creative software from Adobe & Adobe-formerly-macromedia. Both companies could have made it much harder to pirate their software a long time ago- the only thing you need to go from Demo to Product with Flash 8 and Dreamweaver 8 is a serial number (though things are now tougher with the CS2 suite- d'oh).
This means that people who want to use Dreamweaver and Flash to learn whilst in univeristy or during their spare time can do so with the demo and a quick search on Usenet or Astalavista.com.
I've recently begun to form the opinion that routine breach of licence here actually helps apps like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Premier and so on gain marketshare as they're easily accessible to people who really want to learn them and go on to use them in a working environment, where most (or at least enough) of the time they'll be legally licenced copies. Bedroom piracy costs the major creative software industry practically nothing in terms of lost sales, but creates a large and eventually profitable user base who will want to use those very applications when they go to work.
That makes sense- if they can ship your envelope 1 day away to their own sub office, then bundle them all into a van and have them in their offices the next morning, then they cut out the cost of the profit that the postal service would make on the same journey.
I suspect that companies like netflix may be one of the first to really start using RFID tags on their goods. There are fewer provacy concerns (unless your postman starts reading their tags) and since the dvds are reused in a loop, the tags are reused.
he should have been bragging about helping develop the Creative Nomad and Jukebox players that were among the first HD based portable mp3 players- there are a few earlier players, as I'm sure I'll now be told, but the Nomad was one of the first really popular ones. Of course Pinnochio doesn't know the difference, and I suspect that history will see itself rewritten to show that the iPod was the first HD based mp3 player on the market, but Creative were there first.
Now, Apple did an astoundingly good Job(s) in taking the existing clunky models and making a sleek, user friendly player out of more-or-less existing technologies, but by no means were they the inventors of the portable mp3 player.
was George Orwell right about 1984?
He was right, he's just about 30 years off. Wait 8 years to see why 2014 *will* be like '1984'.
Naw, samsung IMHO make among the best TVs out there, and they have guaranteed no dead pixels in their entire LCD line as of a year or two ago. They're less expensive than Sony, too.
And will also pause if blink, yawn, cough, fart, have a conversation, play with the dog or do anything that interrupts your viewing of the ads.
It could have been worse- you could have been asked to round up some number, and instead have corralled them in some kind of holding pen. That would have been odd.
Also you could have been asked to roundup the kids, and ended up spraying them with weedkiller ( http://www.roundup.com/ )
Nasty.
PLEASE! GODAMMIT! I hate this hacker crap!
Yup, DVD shrink is a really nice app, and the reauthoring tools are excellent, allowing you to adjust the compression ratio on individual segments of the disk- so you can go easy on your movie, but compress the extras that you want to keep really hard. Nine stars from me.
Whoah, another excellent reply to my question :o) Thank-you very much! Pretty soon i'm going to have a spare machine to experiment with (I'm going from a P4 2.4 to a shiny new Athlon 64) so I might try that out with a TiVo and my old(er) machine. TiVo might be a good choice for me as it's compatible with the NTL cable and Sky Digital services here in Ireland and N.Ireland. I'll just have to see!
Thanks"
FFS I'm not talking about holding a child in the front seat- that's even worse that putting them in the back and not restraining them! I'm talking about ahving one adult in the car and using a rear-facing child seat that's properly strapped into the front side passenger's seat.
Also as one of the ancestor posts here said, when there are 2 people in the car, it'd be nice if people would put the child in a carseat and have one adult in the back of the car- that way the driver distracted as little as possible.
"This is the PVR you are looking for"
Jedi mind trick!
*resists*
*fails*
Seriously though- thanks to everyone who posted replies to my question- you've realy opened my eyes to the (suitably expensive and occasionally open source) hardware that's out there. This looks like the closest I've seen to what I'm after. Pity these aren't mass-mass-market- if I didn't know about them then no-one I know is even aware they exist.
Well OK I was being facetious about the whole study thing, I know that kids are really resilliant and will cry every two seconds. When I was 13 I had a 1 year old sister and I remember a remarkable amount about the crying, sleeping, burping, pooing, feeding, burping, sleeping, pooing, crying bits.
I'm under no illusions that it makes things perfect, or that travelling with a child is in any way easy. I do however reckon having the child rear facing in the passenger seat if safe/possible is a better idea for looking after them. You're able to see them and reach them and they can see you, so it's better. I think it'd just make things teeny bit easier, is all.
Sorry to ask a mildly offtopic question, but can someone please put the intel and AMD chips in an approximate list in terms of their overall speed? I'm being mildly confused by the Centrino ( though that's not a processor, but a technolog), Pentium M, Core Duo and mobile athlon 64 confusion. Which processora are fastest, and at what cost?