I'm still trying to figure out why anybody would be stupid enough to buy 'baseball cards' now that the package doesn't even include bubble gum. Remember, originally, the 'cards' were included to get people to buy that brand of gum.
If you want to piss off the kind of tools who hang out in 'collectable card' shops, complain loudly about the absence of gum in the pack these days.
Essentially, 'collectables' are a pyramid scheme unless the collected item wasn't a 'collectable' to begin with.
To the contrary, all one needs to do is name a few of the proprietary things on OSX. Remember, you were claiming that 'Platform Inoperability' is essential in the publishing biz, but also maintaining everybody INSISTS on using Macs.
Publishing is a niche market, the perfect kind of botique for Macintosh to capture. And they have. 'Platform Inoperability' is a joke. The print boys are Steve Jobs' and Adobes' bitch.
All that I can relate is my 'user experience' which is that Adobe actively breaks the PDF standard and/or extends it to break it every few years. I paid a considerable amount of money ($300) for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 back when that was current. I did so because I wanted to use it for old document archiving. Since then, Adobe has gone the (common these days) path of having expensive 'tiered' versions of Acrobat, and my investment of $300 is now crippling, because my Acrobat 4.0 won't 'read' the newer PDFs that many organizations are now 'publishing.'
In my experience Adobe's PDF (as opposed to the Ghostscript-derived versions I use on freenixes) is an extend-and-break format that Adobe uses to force upgrades. I do NOT want to throw away my editing/creation tool by downloading some crappy 'free reader.' Also, the Adobe "free" readers have lately become gargantual bloatware monsters, with spyware links and nagware built right into the menu bar.
I can't think of a better fitting pair of companies to enjoy watch rip each other's throats out than Microsoft and Adobe.
Further, has everybody forgotten the Adobe persection of the ebook dude? Fuck Adobe.
In you first paragraph you state that 'graphics designers use Macintoshes extensively...' but then in your second paragraph you maintain 'Platform non-neutrality is shooting yourself in the foot in the printing business.'
Which of the two assertions do you support? You're contradicting yourself.
Well, I have a quad pentium pro server that sounds like an entire server room. And a Compaq dual P3 rackmount that I don't run because it's too noisy for home use.
By typing 'Duron' you missed my point. I said 'early K7' up there.
Some of us collect stuff like that, after it becomes affordable (and no longer cost-effective to run). I have a quad Pentium Pro machine, for instance. I haven't populated it with PPros with the 2M cache (yet) though.
The '487 processor is a rare bird, something that I still am lacking in my collection of processors from that era. Not many people ever needed one, as a 486Sx system was usually purchased for light duties, and never upgraded.
That reminds me that I need to pick up a few 4x4s sometime soon. I am going to cement them in to make a permanent pump house out on the field so I don't have to keep hauling the pump back and forth from the garage all the time.
My pickup truck is a 1970 Chevy C10 (the fricking Insurance Company calls it an S10, but it is NOT a little runt truck). It's only two wheel drive, but I like it nonetheless.
The Intel 80386SX didn't contain a math coprocessor, nor did the 80386DX. Further, the 80386SX had a 16 bit external data path, essentially the I/O footprint of an 80286.
There was no such thing as a 'crippled' 80386DX part, unless you mean the first generation parts which were 8 MHz (which could be called 'crippled' I suppose).
You're mixing your processor history all up, and in the process leaving openings for pedants (like me) to rant about.
Now can someone explain to me why we have to KEEP PAYING this cost, regardless of whether we buy Vista or Not?
Because what you are paying for is a free open Internet. The only way I can think of to stop paying at the present rate is to lock down which OSes and software have access to the Internet. And because I prefer an operating system (NetBSD) that probably would never have the 'heavies' (deep pockets interests to pay for expensive testing and certification) involved to become a locked-down-and-certified OS to run on a 'locked down and secured' Internet, I am satisfied with things as they are.
There really isn't any other means to insure an open peer-to-peer network like this Internet thang.
If you want a future in which Microsoft 'gives away' Vista and it's the only OS people are allowed to connect to the Internet with, I am sure Microsoft wouldn't mind that much. Really. Think about it.
it will decide that it wants to join my neighbor's wlan instead of mine. This bugs me.
That would bug me, too. Because I am stingy and hate spending money. I'd get over it bugging me, of course, by cancelling my subscription to an ISP. heh
Where I live (in the country) our water service is 'pay once and never have to purchase again' except the expense of electricity to pump it out of the ground. I suppose since we have enough land, we could rig up some sort of method of making the electricity. It's at present cheaper and easier just to pay for that, though.
And having spent $600 just this morning to have a crew of men come out, dig, and clear roots out of the septic system, I guess the 'pay once' can bite once in awhile. Just like a crashed hard drive can cost a lot when it crashes with all your apps installed.
There's no perfect analogy, but if you need a word processor, the cheapest thing is to buy it once, IMHO. I certainly never expect to have to spend another dime on any software from Microsoft, as I have several highly useful versions of MS Office (including the 'newest' one I just bought on eBay, Office 3.0 for Macintosh) and have OpenOffice (even the source, so I can compile it for whatever 'architecture' I might choose in the future) for 'the path to the future.' I can't imagine 'subscribing' to a service for that purpose. I 'subscribe' for pay-as-you-go software services all the time when I sell items on eBay, though.
Oh, and back to the topic of Music: I have various musical instruments including even a harmonica for my 'portable' music needs.
At least with the music you are constantly getting new material for the monthly price where software is (more or less) just paying for the exact same thing again and again.
Try to think of software-as-a-service similar to the way you think of electricity or water as a service. It's the same exact thing again and again, and you pay for it as you use it.
Part of 'evolving on it's own' is for people to make informed choices on what search tool to use. Part of making informed choices is for people to advocate one search tool or another regularly as part of the discussion.
Millions of people flocked to AOL. Thanfully, it now looks like that wasn't a permanent comittment on their parts.
Well, right now I'm a bit pissed that the Royal Canadian Mint has decided to quietly withdraw and melt down all pre-plated-steel coins while nobody was looking. A nation converting it's coinage to 100% crap overnight is a bad sign. Like the unplated zinc coins that Nazi Germany used from the mid to the end of WWII.
Well, hang your 'scope probe on the power supply rails, ideally near the point where it enters the video card. Load the software that makes the 'buggy driver' crash and look for dips in the voltage as the card draws peak amounts of current.
If you're not particularly adept technically, you can start by hooking the scope probe up to the +5 (red and black wires) coming out to a drive power cable first, as that's easier.
. . . being responsible about the impact you know it will have on the web ecosystem seems like a very good idea to me.
Being responsible about the 'web ecosystem' means working to prevent it from becoming a monoculture. Part of the monoculture is Google itself. There shouldn't be 'one big' search engine that everyone uses. There should be multiple search engines. I recently started using a different one for some of my searches and have found the lack of 'spamming' links refreshing.
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I'm still trying to figure out why anybody would be stupid enough to buy 'baseball cards' now that the package doesn't even include bubble gum. Remember, originally, the 'cards' were included to get people to buy that brand of gum.
If you want to piss off the kind of tools who hang out in 'collectable card' shops, complain loudly about the absence of gum in the pack these days.
Essentially, 'collectables' are a pyramid scheme unless the collected item wasn't a 'collectable' to begin with.
What I didn't realize was that Dell would take the cheesey dumbassed road to destroying a solid brand name.
A 'boutique' COTS psuedo-case-modder's brand is a 'solid brand name'?
Some of us were more afraid that the Alienware stupidity would infect Dell (which isn't a 'great' company, but at least is well-grounded in reality.)
The first 'CD player for PC' was a big ugly form factor, and external.
But anyway...
To the contrary, all one needs to do is name a few of the proprietary things on OSX. Remember, you were claiming that 'Platform Inoperability' is essential in the publishing biz, but also maintaining everybody INSISTS on using Macs.
Publishing is a niche market, the perfect kind of botique for Macintosh to capture. And they have. 'Platform Inoperability' is a joke. The print boys are Steve Jobs' and Adobes' bitch.
All that I can relate is my 'user experience' which is that Adobe actively breaks the PDF standard and/or extends it to break it every few years. I paid a considerable amount of money ($300) for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 back when that was current. I did so because I wanted to use it for old document archiving. Since then, Adobe has gone the (common these days) path of having expensive 'tiered' versions of Acrobat, and my investment of $300 is now crippling, because my Acrobat 4.0 won't 'read' the newer PDFs that many organizations are now 'publishing.'
In my experience Adobe's PDF (as opposed to the Ghostscript-derived versions I use on freenixes) is an extend-and-break format that Adobe uses to force upgrades. I do NOT want to throw away my editing/creation tool by downloading some crappy 'free reader.' Also, the Adobe "free" readers have lately become gargantual bloatware monsters, with spyware links and nagware built right into the menu bar.
I can't think of a better fitting pair of companies to enjoy watch rip each other's throats out than Microsoft and Adobe.
Further, has everybody forgotten the Adobe persection of the ebook dude? Fuck Adobe.
In you first paragraph you state that 'graphics designers use Macintoshes extensively...' but then in your second paragraph you maintain 'Platform non-neutrality is shooting yourself in the foot in the printing business.'
Which of the two assertions do you support? You're contradicting yourself.
Closed, bunker-style homes that people don't want to go out from are not socially healthy.
But anyway, lean over that keyboard for a bit now, and 'reach out' with your opinion. Perhaps the fat-and-lazy market is that important.
Well, I have a quad pentium pro server that sounds like an entire server room. And a Compaq dual P3 rackmount that I don't run because it's too noisy for home use.
By typing 'Duron' you missed my point. I said 'early K7' up there.
Who said I drive it daily?
It's a hauling vehicle. My daily commute gets 34 mpg.
People who have that kind of thing in the driveway for their daily commute are a real problem.
Some of us collect stuff like that, after it becomes affordable (and no longer cost-effective to run). I have a quad Pentium Pro machine, for instance. I haven't populated it with PPros with the 2M cache (yet) though.
The '487 processor is a rare bird, something that I still am lacking in my collection of processors from that era. Not many people ever needed one, as a 486Sx system was usually purchased for light duties, and never upgraded.
That reminds me that I need to pick up a few 4x4s sometime soon. I am going to cement them in to make a permanent pump house out on the field so I don't have to keep hauling the pump back and forth from the garage all the time.
My pickup truck is a 1970 Chevy C10 (the fricking Insurance Company calls it an S10, but it is NOT a little runt truck). It's only two wheel drive, but I like it nonetheless.
The Intel 80386SX didn't contain a math coprocessor, nor did the 80386DX. Further, the 80386SX had a 16 bit external data path, essentially the I/O footprint of an 80286.
There was no such thing as a 'crippled' 80386DX part, unless you mean the first generation parts which were 8 MHz (which could be called 'crippled' I suppose).
You're mixing your processor history all up, and in the process leaving openings for pedants (like me) to rant about.
EVERY program you ran on the early K7's had the sound effects of a flight simulator, even on machines with no Sound Card.
It's all just Automotive Industry marketing bullshit. What it all really means is:
Tits!
Beer!
Really, Really Cool!
(which ultimately translates in the real world to: dumb fuck making car payments forever)
True, but what does it mean when they refer to a 4 X 4 truck? It still only has four wheels, right??
Now can someone explain to me why we have to KEEP PAYING this cost, regardless of whether we buy Vista or Not?
Because what you are paying for is a free open Internet. The only way I can think of to stop paying at the present rate is to lock down which OSes and software have access to the Internet. And because I prefer an operating system (NetBSD) that probably would never have the 'heavies' (deep pockets interests to pay for expensive testing and certification) involved to become a locked-down-and-certified OS to run on a 'locked down and secured' Internet, I am satisfied with things as they are.
There really isn't any other means to insure an open peer-to-peer network like this Internet thang.
If you want a future in which Microsoft 'gives away' Vista and it's the only OS people are allowed to connect to the Internet with, I am sure Microsoft wouldn't mind that much. Really. Think about it.
it will decide that it wants to join my neighbor's wlan instead of mine. This bugs me.
That would bug me, too. Because I am stingy and hate spending money. I'd get over it bugging me, of course, by cancelling my subscription to an ISP. heh
Where I live (in the country) our water service is 'pay once and never have to purchase again' except the expense of electricity to pump it out of the ground. I suppose since we have enough land, we could rig up some sort of method of making the electricity. It's at present cheaper and easier just to pay for that, though.
And having spent $600 just this morning to have a crew of men come out, dig, and clear roots out of the septic system, I guess the 'pay once' can bite once in awhile. Just like a crashed hard drive can cost a lot when it crashes with all your apps installed.
There's no perfect analogy, but if you need a word processor, the cheapest thing is to buy it once, IMHO. I certainly never expect to have to spend another dime on any software from Microsoft, as I have several highly useful versions of MS Office (including the 'newest' one I just bought on eBay, Office 3.0 for Macintosh) and have OpenOffice (even the source, so I can compile it for whatever 'architecture' I might choose in the future) for 'the path to the future.' I can't imagine 'subscribing' to a service for that purpose. I 'subscribe' for pay-as-you-go software services all the time when I sell items on eBay, though.
Oh, and back to the topic of Music: I have various musical instruments including even a harmonica for my 'portable' music needs.
At least with the music you are constantly getting new material for the monthly price where software is (more or less) just paying for the exact same thing again and again.
Try to think of software-as-a-service similar to the way you think of electricity or water as a service. It's the same exact thing again and again, and you pay for it as you use it.
Part of 'evolving on it's own' is for people to make informed choices on what search tool to use. Part of making informed choices is for people to advocate one search tool or another regularly as part of the discussion.
Millions of people flocked to AOL. Thanfully, it now looks like that wasn't a permanent comittment on their parts.
Well, right now I'm a bit pissed that the Royal Canadian Mint has decided to quietly withdraw and melt down all pre-plated-steel coins while nobody was looking. A nation converting it's coinage to 100% crap overnight is a bad sign. Like the unplated zinc coins that Nazi Germany used from the mid to the end of WWII.
Snap-On makes good tools, and (lately) Hyundai makes good cars. So is an AMD-Snap-On or AMD-Hyundai merger far off?
Well, hang your 'scope probe on the power supply rails, ideally near the point where it enters the video card. Load the software that makes the 'buggy driver' crash and look for dips in the voltage as the card draws peak amounts of current.
If you're not particularly adept technically, you can start by hooking the scope probe up to the +5 (red and black wires) coming out to a drive power cable first, as that's easier.
. . . being responsible about the impact you know it will have on the web ecosystem seems like a very good idea to me.
Being responsible about the 'web ecosystem' means working to prevent it from becoming a monoculture. Part of the monoculture is Google itself. There shouldn't be 'one big' search engine that everyone uses. There should be multiple search engines. I recently started using a different one for some of my searches and have found the lack of 'spamming' links refreshing.