"Where do you get this idea that you can't be a Mac user TODAY?"
Me? Where'd YOU get that idea? Heh. Speaking of dense... I'm interested in the Mac now that it's on Intel. Derrrrrr.
"Waiting to compile the future release into universal binaries is Adobe's decision."...which they're being forced to make because of Apple. Again, CPU mirgrations suck. Time, resources, yadda yadda yadda.
"That's the reality and there are many Mac users you can help you get up and running TODAY. Not 2007."
"The point of the post is that Adobe has always used Apple's transitions to screw over customer."
Oh yes, I'm quite sure Adobe is printing out fat wads of cash by telling their customers they can't use the latest and greatest hardware.
BTW, some people (like me) actually do make a living using Photoshop. When I say "Make a living", I mean "it puts food on the table". It's hardly crying or being an 'asshat' to say "If this configuration don't work, I can't use it." Non-issue, indeed. The earliest I can reasonably be a Mac user is 2007. You can paint Yosemite Sam'ish caricatures of Adobe if you like, but the reality is that CPU migrations suck. Adobe didn't make that decision.
"Google's beta products do a little better than this, no?"
Google has the benefit of most of the code running on their own hardware. A better example would have been the FireFox team, but even then it would have to be admitted that writing a good browser is pretty fucking hard.
"It's commonly agreed that a mobile friendly website takes additional resources to create."
Though you're correct, what's silly about that is that a lot of sites run off of databases etc. It shouldn't be that hard for sites like Slashdot or Engadget to support PDAs. (Not saying they don't, I wouldn't know, just using them as an example.) Simply write a simpler template that pulls the info out of and throws it on the screen. It was a lot harder back in the days of doing everything in HTML, but with all the server side scripting going on, even an ameteur PHP programmer like me wouldn't see it as too big of challenge.
Eh, maybe I'm naive and am oversimplifying things too much, but it seems to me that a lot of the websites most of us wander over to already have a setup intended to facilitate different page templates.
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"When a person is born in this world, a tiny chip can be implanted in his body which has a unique IP address. And this can be used as his identity."
How would this be enforced? How would an individual be protected from having his ip address used by somebody else?
"I fear if they start meddling with it we're going to start ending up with a lot of straight to DVD releases that no one will really want to see."
Nobody really wants to see? My youngling cousins have a library of straight-to-DVD stuff made just for them. I can understand the resentment of theaters being filled with dumbshit movies, but I just can't get that worked up over DVD releases.
"Otherwise, Sherlock Holmes books would be illegal, because they don't tell you who the murderer is up front."
Well... no. Just playing Devil's Advocate here, this wouldn't be the case because a lawyer could get a copy of the book, read it through, and give it a thumb's up. This would be more akin to a Tyler Durden'esque insertion of a single pornagraphic frame into the movie Bambi. The lawyers would be asking for a copy of the film to single step through every frame of the movie and look for 'wrong stuff' in it. That's not a great example either since that would be easy (albeit time consuming) to do, but hopefully the general concept makes a little sense. Since I'm posting without having my first cup of coffee, though, I hope you'll go easy on me over that one.:)
Somebody who has been doing graphics programming for a while is going to have a good sense about this question. Getting it wrong wasn't an automatic rejection, but you'd be amazed at how few people came close to getting it right.
Not precisely. I was home sick that day. I was watching Battlestar Galactica on TV when they broke with urgent news. I was 6 at the time. That was the first time I had ever seen 'breaking news' and I remember being stunned by it. I remember seeing pictures of a parachute or something falling down from the sky. Even two days later I thought the astronauts might still be alive underwater or something. A couple years later, I had to build one of those shoe-box scenes of the ocean floor for an elementary school class. I found the remains of an old toy shuttle I had, so I put it in there thinking it'd be an interesting detail. I didn't understand until much later why my teacher thought I was sick-minded.
"I don't know why recruiters get such a bad name."
I personally had a bad experience with a job hunter. They were supposed to get me a second interview and then they just stopped taking my calls. I have NFI what that was about. (Although I wouldn't use this anecdote to base an opinion on all headhunters.)
On the other side of the coin, one of the companies I worked for used a head hunter to find potential candidates. As one of the people involved in conducting interviews, I was pretty pissed at them. We were looking for skilled software engineers. We were bombarded with a bunch of applicants who really weren't all that experienced. (The resumes were a bit decieving, but that's another topic altogether.) We came up with a couple of questions that experienced programmers would know. (Sadly, I'm not a software engineer so I don't really remember the questions. I do remember that we asked "What's 2^10?") On the first day, every applicant got them wrong and on the second day every applicant got them right. After that we made up new questions every day. No more perfect scores. It wasn't hard to figure out what happened. The headhunters figured out why we were asking the questions and prepped the interviewees on what to say. As a result, it made the task of finding the talent we needed needlessly difficult.
Now, I can only guess here, but I can imagine that if that is the way a lot of them work that there would be resentment towards these services because they try to get anybody hired in any way they can. In that scenario, it's then easy to imagine that you could find yourself interviewing at a place that doesn't think so highly of you because of how you've come into contact with them. Suddenly that hard-won interview has turned into a much steeper hill to climb. It's nowhere near as nice as having them pick you out of a group of candidates. It would certainly feel less like time is being wasted.
Well.. I'm already writing a long post so I'll submit my suggestion, here. Do you know other people in other companies that would potentially hire somebody like you? Have you asked them to ask around for you? Even if it seems unlikely, you should. If a company is looking to fill a position, they're going to want to fill it as soon as possible and with as few interviews as possible. As a result, recommendations from people on the staff carry a lot of weight. If a buddy of yours recommends you, you're in a much better position than you were just mailing a resume at them some time after they've put out a feeler.
1. "Scientists are planning on launching huge copper slugs at Mars in the hope that they will reveal signs of climate change."
2. "Problem: What happens when the Martians launch their own copper slugs back?"
3. "From the article: "'It's neat because it's a brute force way to gain access to the subsurface of Mars,' says David Spencer, a team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US."
4."The impactor will be very simple and we'll get our first look at material from that depth.'
One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?
Three of these things belong together Three of these things are kind of the same Can you guess which one of these doesn't belong here? Now it's time to play our game...... It's time to play our game!!
"He always complained how it was a shame that the Dreamcast never did well. Gee, I wonder why..."
Sega didn't have enough money to build the millions of machines they'd have needed to sell, then the PS2 came along. A suddend stop of piracy would not have made the slighest difference in the fate of that system.
"Had it been any other company, I would not have cared. But the point is, if you are a company that says "Do No Evil" and use that as a corporate strategy to try and earn good karma, you'd better hold on to it."
Do no evil. Do no evil. Do no evil. Not since Whaaaaaazuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupppp have I seen a corporate tag-line repeated so many times.
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"Wasn't this posted to digg a few hours ago with almost the same wording?"
So?
"Do you imagine that you're making any point, by tossing out a non-sequitur?"
I made it, then you illustrated it. Good job.
"Trying to put words in someone else's mouth is a rather lame rhetorical device."
Willful ignorance and blind zealotry are not superior traits.
"Where do you get this idea that you can't be a Mac user TODAY?"
...which they're being forced to make because of Apple. Again, CPU mirgrations suck. Time, resources, yadda yadda yadda.
Me? Where'd YOU get that idea? Heh. Speaking of dense... I'm interested in the Mac now that it's on Intel. Derrrrrr.
"Waiting to compile the future release into universal binaries is Adobe's decision."
"That's the reality and there are many Mac users you can help you get up and running TODAY. Not 2007."
Your attempt to make me look foolish backfired.
"The point of the post is that Adobe has always used Apple's transitions to screw over customer."
Oh yes, I'm quite sure Adobe is printing out fat wads of cash by telling their customers they can't use the latest and greatest hardware.
BTW, some people (like me) actually do make a living using Photoshop. When I say "Make a living", I mean "it puts food on the table". It's hardly crying or being an 'asshat' to say "If this configuration don't work, I can't use it." Non-issue, indeed. The earliest I can reasonably be a Mac user is 2007. You can paint Yosemite Sam'ish caricatures of Adobe if you like, but the reality is that CPU migrations suck. Adobe didn't make that decision.
"You can very easily buy a PPC Mac this year. Stop your unfounded crying."
Translation: I love Apple and I don't want to hear good reasons for some to avoid them.
"Google's beta products do a little better than this, no?"
Google has the benefit of most of the code running on their own hardware. A better example would have been the FireFox team, but even then it would have to be admitted that writing a good browser is pretty fucking hard.
"I wonder to myself, "what will I put on those keys?" Pretty much just things that normally are an Alt-Click away anyways."
I use Photoshop everyday. I'd love it if the keys reflected icons of the various tools.
"It's commonly agreed that a mobile friendly website takes additional resources to create."
Though you're correct, what's silly about that is that a lot of sites run off of databases etc. It shouldn't be that hard for sites like Slashdot or Engadget to support PDAs. (Not saying they don't, I wouldn't know, just using them as an example.) Simply write a simpler template that pulls the info out of and throws it on the screen. It was a lot harder back in the days of doing everything in HTML, but with all the server side scripting going on, even an ameteur PHP programmer like me wouldn't see it as too big of challenge.
Eh, maybe I'm naive and am oversimplifying things too much, but it seems to me that a lot of the websites most of us wander over to already have a setup intended to facilitate different page templates.
"When a person is born in this world, a tiny chip can be implanted in his body which has a unique IP address. And this can be used as his identity."
How would this be enforced? How would an individual be protected from having his ip address used by somebody else?
"Cue the 'finally enough storage space for my pr0n' jokes."
Yeah, THIS is the comment in this whole thread that should be modded redundant. Oh well, at least 'overlords' hasn't been modded up yet.
"Four million petabytes?"
No. $Four million for a pedabyte. Read the title, not the URL. Don't be ignorant of the bling, foo.
"Why is it that BOOKS have been so undervalued??"
Why should BOOKS be the only solution?
"I fear if they start meddling with it we're going to start ending up with a lot of straight to DVD releases that no one will really want to see."
Nobody really wants to see? My youngling cousins have a library of straight-to-DVD stuff made just for them. I can understand the resentment of theaters being filled with dumbshit movies, but I just can't get that worked up over DVD releases.
"Then we'll ask the space attendant for another coffee as we head off for a holiday to the moon."
Then, when she walks away, we'll snicker and snort over those tacky hovering hoops she's wearing.
"Its not that hard to use google. Do you realy want it that bad but are unwilling to search for it?"
It's perfectly reasonable to want to hear the opinions of others that have gone through it. No need to be an asshole.
"Copyright infringement is NOT STEALING!!!!"
*"I downloaded a song and Metallica can't perform it anymore!!"
*This is a bad paraphrase of a comment I read a while back, no idea who to credit it to.
"Otherwise, Sherlock Holmes books would be illegal, because they don't tell you who the murderer is up front."
:)
Well... no. Just playing Devil's Advocate here, this wouldn't be the case because a lawyer could get a copy of the book, read it through, and give it a thumb's up. This would be more akin to a Tyler Durden'esque insertion of a single pornagraphic frame into the movie Bambi. The lawyers would be asking for a copy of the film to single step through every frame of the movie and look for 'wrong stuff' in it. That's not a great example either since that would be easy (albeit time consuming) to do, but hopefully the general concept makes a little sense. Since I'm posting without having my first cup of coffee, though, I hope you'll go easy on me over that one.
Somebody who has been doing graphics programming for a while is going to have a good sense about this question. Getting it wrong wasn't an automatic rejection, but you'd be amazed at how few people came close to getting it right.
"did anyone here see it live on TV at school?"
Not precisely. I was home sick that day. I was watching Battlestar Galactica on TV when they broke with urgent news. I was 6 at the time. That was the first time I had ever seen 'breaking news' and I remember being stunned by it. I remember seeing pictures of a parachute or something falling down from the sky. Even two days later I thought the astronauts might still be alive underwater or something. A couple years later, I had to build one of those shoe-box scenes of the ocean floor for an elementary school class. I found the remains of an old toy shuttle I had, so I put it in there thinking it'd be an interesting detail. I didn't understand until much later why my teacher thought I was sick-minded.
"I don't know why recruiters get such a bad name."
I personally had a bad experience with a job hunter. They were supposed to get me a second interview and then they just stopped taking my calls. I have NFI what that was about. (Although I wouldn't use this anecdote to base an opinion on all headhunters.)
On the other side of the coin, one of the companies I worked for used a head hunter to find potential candidates. As one of the people involved in conducting interviews, I was pretty pissed at them. We were looking for skilled software engineers. We were bombarded with a bunch of applicants who really weren't all that experienced. (The resumes were a bit decieving, but that's another topic altogether.) We came up with a couple of questions that experienced programmers would know. (Sadly, I'm not a software engineer so I don't really remember the questions. I do remember that we asked "What's 2^10?") On the first day, every applicant got them wrong and on the second day every applicant got them right. After that we made up new questions every day. No more perfect scores. It wasn't hard to figure out what happened. The headhunters figured out why we were asking the questions and prepped the interviewees on what to say. As a result, it made the task of finding the talent we needed needlessly difficult.
Now, I can only guess here, but I can imagine that if that is the way a lot of them work that there would be resentment towards these services because they try to get anybody hired in any way they can. In that scenario, it's then easy to imagine that you could find yourself interviewing at a place that doesn't think so highly of you because of how you've come into contact with them. Suddenly that hard-won interview has turned into a much steeper hill to climb. It's nowhere near as nice as having them pick you out of a group of candidates. It would certainly feel less like time is being wasted.
Well.. I'm already writing a long post so I'll submit my suggestion, here. Do you know other people in other companies that would potentially hire somebody like you? Have you asked them to ask around for you? Even if it seems unlikely, you should. If a company is looking to fill a position, they're going to want to fill it as soon as possible and with as few interviews as possible. As a result, recommendations from people on the staff carry a lot of weight. If a buddy of yours recommends you, you're in a much better position than you were just mailing a resume at them some time after they've put out a feeler.
2. "Problem: What happens when the Martians launch their own copper slugs back?"
3. "From the article: "'It's neat because it's a brute force way to gain access to the subsurface of Mars,' says David Spencer, a team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US."
4."The impactor will be very simple and we'll get our first look at material from that depth.'
"He always complained how it was a shame that the Dreamcast never did well. Gee, I wonder why ..."
Sega didn't have enough money to build the millions of machines they'd have needed to sell, then the PS2 came along. A suddend stop of piracy would not have made the slighest difference in the fate of that system.
"Had it been any other company, I would not have cared. But the point is, if you are a company that says "Do No Evil" and use that as a corporate strategy to try and earn good karma, you'd better hold on to it."
Do no evil. Do no evil. Do no evil. Not since Whaaaaaazuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupppp have I seen a corporate tag-line repeated so many times.
Actually, yes, it is. Not in the way you intended, though.