Probably the biggest improvement (for a graphic designer like me) is not only the stability between apps (Illustrator saw a major improvement) but cache between sessions. On a stock 2ghz Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo which is the current generation - but hey - mine's BLACK - um - because I'm a consumer fashion whore) it takes less than 20 seconds to get into Photoshop on the first session from shutdown. Subsequent sessions take less than 6 seconds (feels like 4). Since I put my machine to sleep most of the time for a week or so (shutdown on the weekends mostly), it makes dialing up a Photoshop session utterly painless and I do it far more often than I did for years before.
The biggest UI improvement (for me) is done by making the screen real-estate favored by default. With a widescreen monitor (got a vintage ACD for 600 bucks off Craigslist a year ago - newer ones can be found already for the same price on CL) it makes "palette monitors" and the like, obsolete. It's heavily customizable as well, and of course those customizations can be saved for multiple users or displays. The nicest thing was - after 17 years - getting the tools palette reduced from it's double column orientation by default. You can toggle it back if you're nostaligic, but it's a big help. Everything can be shuffled out of the way easily and I'm sure if I used more key commands it'd be less effort.
My wallet's not the heaviest, but if applied against taxes, it's not as much a burden as you'd think. My billings paid for it in 25 hours (one client among others). The joys of "business expense".
Now if only Microsoft would get off it's ass and Intelize their apps I'd be complete. But if Adobe wants to step up to the plate and steal their thunder much like they did when Quark foot-dragged forever. Count me in. I use InDesign exclusively now - and I even worked FOR QUARK for 2 years in one of their in-house design groups (not support - don't blame me for that mess).
Development of entire program as mentioned by the non-responder full-of-shit parent, not one incident fucktard.
As for writing - reports don't even qualify as GOOD WRITING fucktard version 2.0. I'd like oh - I don't know - something that smacks of reportage. Not tax-code filings.
And as we all know - UV light is a horrible pollutant. Although I think - oh I dunno - the entire plant population on the planet might have other opinions.
Ah but fuck the plants. We don't need their stinkin' o2.
re:"The crew compartment was supposedly reinforced and structurally isolated from the rest of the ship, suggesting that a Challenger or Columbia type disaster could have been potentially survivable."
The crew compartment on the Challenger broke away and tumbled all the way down with many of the crew members still alive but unconcious. It's the part where it slammed into the ocean that killed everyone. Was the BURAN crew component outfitted with parachutes?
I've read the published book on the challenger disaster. It's about as dry as the Ken Starr report. Still, I'd like to read more "you should go read up on some history of NASA" as it relates to the development of the program and not one event in 1986.
Please I love reading this stuff - don't tell me the parent was full of utter shit and was grandstanding as if the cocksucker actually knew something.
I'm almost finished with my current read and a good recommendation would be nice timing.
Unless you're the usual slashdot fuck - in which case - please die painfully, and nice and slow. Perhaps a fire, or a slow crushing. Fire ants are good to. Try to work them in somehow.
Oh yes a crime infested shithole whose only contribution to society of late was drunks and an endless parade of "girls gone wild" tapes discovers sea-level means something important. Tragic. San Francisco burns to the ground 100 years ago, and bootstraps itself back into business (know what SF did with looters? They shot them dead on the spot and rolled their corpses into the fires - true!). New Orleans, "where's my federal handout". Like you expected govt to help? Brilliant! Satisfaction? It's comedy gold that makes Shakespere look like soap-opera.
If you want to rebuild - better have a functioning City Hall and State Gov first. Just a hint.
Lessie if I vote for a candidate I actually LIKE (Nader) I'm "throwing my vote away". Guess what I do now? Not vote. You want people to vote? Convince them that it's a good thing that they choose to vote with their minds and not some campaign commercial. Oh noooo - I "threw my vote away". Hey - fine, enjoy your democracy. Sure as hell isn't mine and isn't my idea. And why the fuck should anyone when the electoral college makes anyone past the central time zone irrelevant?
Oh but you have to vote. That's funny stuff. Fucking hillarious.
fuck you. I voted for Nader, and got called a spoiler. You know who I vote for now? NOBODY ASSHOLES. I get the satisfaction of watching govt grind to a halt (ooo look at New Orleans!) and knowing that I wasn't a party to getting the assholes in office - and that goes for ALL MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN AMERICA who are FULL OF SHIT.
re:special goggles can be obtained for specific wavelengths
Anyone know the wavelength for a DVD diode? Would suck to buy protection and then be wearing the wrong ones before getting clobbered by an errant beam.
(seriously, I like the idea of safety, but want a little more info)
I like the new macbook keyboards and my current keyboard - while nice - is also very efficient at displaying a terrarium of crud with no easy way (short of getting an industrial air compressor up the stairs) of removing the back to clean it out. Damn these custom hex bolts. And in an industrial style loft with no soft surfaces, dust blows and accumulates in the wierdest spaces.
I'm not really into all-in-ones at present since all I do is plug my screen into my tower, laptop, or mini at present.
HOWever - if Apple did manage to introduce something along the lines of this bit of fan-fic (with OS interface extensions to match), I'd be drooling, barking at the moon and standing in line:
"On June 1, 2007, all 23 cases brought up against those arrested on this installment of the show were declined to be prosecuted by the Collin County prosecutor's office due to insufficient evidence.[22] The cases were not expected to be considered again."
That's called "not helping".
Also chasing down people who haven't shown up smacks of thought-crime. Oh well, he didn't act out on his peverse online fantasy - but why let that stop us from destroying lives? He THOUGHT about it! Hey - that's good enough for the ratings meter. Let's go with it!
Copyright laws as they apply to music are wholly behind notions of creating new works based on prior work. In the fine-art world, collages are accepted and created everyday. Oh but music! That's a no-no. That's what I was refering to as unavailble for distribution due to the illegalities of producing works assembled from other works. Speaking of shouting 14 year olds I think I'm responding to one right now. You're as astute as a grapefruit.
Seriously I'm seeing acts both prosper and thrive due to the internet. Even the more established groups like They Might Be Giants have done well thanks to the internet in reaching their fans. If anything there's probably a larger danger of background noise in the amount of chaff produced, but seeing various internet "memes" pop up from time to time I'm confident that the good stuff will always rise to the top.
Taking an even more commercial example, I wouldn't have heard much about pop-artists like Rogue Traders unless I'd seen an excerpt of Dr. Who from the UK which lead me to wiki the Aus act and find more info than a lone single - which is only reaching US market AFTER 2 YEARS - would provide. The single is available from iTunes - but I'll eagerly await the full album.
In the retro column, 80s artist Thomas Dolby released a live set recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco onto iTunes a while back. He's got several businesses and projects going but it's nice to see him quickly produce and bring to market (thanks to the internet) some new material. This wouldn't have gotten the time of day by the traditional business model.
Good riddance I say.
BTW - check out SeeqPod. It's cooler than snail snot and the mobile client is SWEET. I've not only found hard to finds, and music out of circulation, but excellent mash-ups that would NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY THE CURRENT OUTDATED RIAA BUSINESS MODELS.
Until we have a load of schlocky IPOs hit the market, then there'd be reason for concern. Since this isn't happening, you may now please fuck off with the slow-news ratings day bullshit.
Everything about the concept screams ease of use. No - wait - it actually sounds needlessly complicated. Well, that's an instant win in the marketplace. People LOVE complicated things!
I'll wait for the Tesla Sedan that coming out next after the sportscar - thanks. The key to Tesla's product is it works and handles like today's machines. They also don't look like a highway disaster waiting to happen.
"What's the blue thing stuck to my truck's grill"?
Slashdot Mirror
Probably the biggest improvement (for a graphic designer like me) is not only the stability between apps (Illustrator saw a major improvement) but cache between sessions. On a stock 2ghz Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo which is the current generation - but hey - mine's BLACK - um - because I'm a consumer fashion whore) it takes less than 20 seconds to get into Photoshop on the first session from shutdown. Subsequent sessions take less than 6 seconds (feels like 4). Since I put my machine to sleep most of the time for a week or so (shutdown on the weekends mostly), it makes dialing up a Photoshop session utterly painless and I do it far more often than I did for years before.
The biggest UI improvement (for me) is done by making the screen real-estate favored by default. With a widescreen monitor (got a vintage ACD for 600 bucks off Craigslist a year ago - newer ones can be found already for the same price on CL) it makes "palette monitors" and the like, obsolete. It's heavily customizable as well, and of course those customizations can be saved for multiple users or displays. The nicest thing was - after 17 years - getting the tools palette reduced from it's double column orientation by default. You can toggle it back if you're nostaligic, but it's a big help. Everything can be shuffled out of the way easily and I'm sure if I used more key commands it'd be less effort.
My wallet's not the heaviest, but if applied against taxes, it's not as much a burden as you'd think. My billings paid for it in 25 hours (one client among others). The joys of "business expense".
Now if only Microsoft would get off it's ass and Intelize their apps I'd be complete. But if Adobe wants to step up to the plate and steal their thunder much like they did when Quark foot-dragged forever. Count me in. I use InDesign exclusively now - and I even worked FOR QUARK for 2 years in one of their in-house design groups (not support - don't blame me for that mess).
re: interface
Have you used CS3? They fixed a LOT of problems.
Development of entire program as mentioned by the non-responder full-of-shit parent, not one incident fucktard.
As for writing - reports don't even qualify as GOOD WRITING fucktard version 2.0. I'd like oh - I don't know - something that smacks of reportage. Not tax-code filings.
And as we all know - UV light is a horrible pollutant. Although I think - oh I dunno - the entire plant population on the planet might have other opinions.
Ah but fuck the plants. We don't need their stinkin' o2.
re:"The crew compartment was supposedly reinforced and structurally isolated from the rest of the ship, suggesting that a Challenger or Columbia type disaster could have been potentially survivable."
The crew compartment on the Challenger broke away and tumbled all the way down with many of the crew members still alive but unconcious. It's the part where it slammed into the ocean that killed everyone. Was the BURAN crew component outfitted with parachutes?
I've read the published book on the challenger disaster. It's about as dry as the Ken Starr report. Still, I'd like to read more "you should go read up on some history of NASA" as it relates to the development of the program and not one event in 1986.
Please I love reading this stuff - don't tell me the parent was full of utter shit and was grandstanding as if the cocksucker actually knew something.
I'm almost finished with my current read and a good recommendation would be nice timing.
Unless you're the usual slashdot fuck - in which case - please die painfully, and nice and slow. Perhaps a fire, or a slow crushing. Fire ants are good to. Try to work them in somehow.
Sounds like Blood Circus all over again. Did they have a "rock star" sing the praises of Postal too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa51xwO4Toc
re:"New Orleans"
Oh yes a crime infested shithole whose only contribution to society of late was drunks and an endless parade of "girls gone wild" tapes discovers sea-level means something important. Tragic. San Francisco burns to the ground 100 years ago, and bootstraps itself back into business (know what SF did with looters? They shot them dead on the spot and rolled their corpses into the fires - true!). New Orleans, "where's my federal handout". Like you expected govt to help? Brilliant! Satisfaction? It's comedy gold that makes Shakespere look like soap-opera.
If you want to rebuild - better have a functioning City Hall and State Gov first. Just a hint.
Greg Proops: "They celebrate Thanksgiving in England, by the way. They call it "Fuck off Puratin .... Day"
Yes, but New Zealand was for particuarly hardened criminals. And that's a particularly nice place. Much more liberal too.
Douglas Adams pointed that out in the notes that were compiled in his last book (a postscript of material gathered after his death).
Lessie if I vote for a candidate I actually LIKE (Nader) I'm "throwing my vote away". Guess what I do now? Not vote. You want people to vote? Convince them that it's a good thing that they choose to vote with their minds and not some campaign commercial. Oh noooo - I "threw my vote away". Hey - fine, enjoy your democracy. Sure as hell isn't mine and isn't my idea. And why the fuck should anyone when the electoral college makes anyone past the central time zone irrelevant?
Oh but you have to vote. That's funny stuff. Fucking hillarious.
fuck you. I voted for Nader, and got called a spoiler. You know who I vote for now? NOBODY ASSHOLES. I get the satisfaction of watching govt grind to a halt (ooo look at New Orleans!) and knowing that I wasn't a party to getting the assholes in office - and that goes for ALL MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN AMERICA who are FULL OF SHIT.
re:special goggles can be obtained for specific wavelengths
Anyone know the wavelength for a DVD diode? Would suck to buy protection and then be wearing the wrong ones before getting clobbered by an errant beam.
(seriously, I like the idea of safety, but want a little more info)
Looks the same to me. This iMac update seems more substantial somehow even if it's just a new color scheme, glass front and size.
Would be nice if the Mini got a cosmetic facelift as well eh?
I like the new macbook keyboards and my current keyboard - while nice - is also very efficient at displaying a terrarium of crud with no easy way (short of getting an industrial air compressor up the stairs) of removing the back to clean it out. Damn these custom hex bolts. And in an industrial style loft with no soft surfaces, dust blows and accumulates in the wierdest spaces.
I also suppose I could try this:
http://xkcd.com/237/
But even with glasses....ew.
I'm not really into all-in-ones at present since all I do is plug my screen into my tower, laptop, or mini at present.
HOWever - if Apple did manage to introduce something along the lines of this bit of fan-fic (with OS interface extensions to match), I'd be drooling, barking at the moon and standing in line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxa3zHdRxxA
Still, it's a nice update.
from a publication that plays host to dancing alien ads. WTF was that journal the fucking Weekly World News?
Let me know if a mirror happens with a respectible pub.
he go to skool - he smrt! LOL
thx for the link - I swear I put in dateline and defcon and didn't get diddly. Bit shakey in the middle but amusing stuff!
The problem is when a judge throws out the cases rather than a normal enforcement agency having an iron-clad arrest and getting them off the street:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator
"On June 1, 2007, all 23 cases brought up against those arrested on this installment of the show were declined to be prosecuted by the Collin County prosecutor's office due to insufficient evidence.[22] The cases were not expected to be considered again."
That's called "not helping".
Also chasing down people who haven't shown up smacks of thought-crime. Oh well, he didn't act out on his peverse online fantasy - but why let that stop us from destroying lives? He THOUGHT about it! Hey - that's good enough for the ratings meter. Let's go with it!
Copyright laws as they apply to music are wholly behind notions of creating new works based on prior work. In the fine-art world, collages are accepted and created everyday. Oh but music! That's a no-no. That's what I was refering to as unavailble for distribution due to the illegalities of producing works assembled from other works. Speaking of shouting 14 year olds I think I'm responding to one right now. You're as astute as a grapefruit.
Seriously I'm seeing acts both prosper and thrive due to the internet. Even the more established groups like They Might Be Giants have done well thanks to the internet in reaching their fans. If anything there's probably a larger danger of background noise in the amount of chaff produced, but seeing various internet "memes" pop up from time to time I'm confident that the good stuff will always rise to the top.
Taking an even more commercial example, I wouldn't have heard much about pop-artists like Rogue Traders unless I'd seen an excerpt of Dr. Who from the UK which lead me to wiki the Aus act and find more info than a lone single - which is only reaching US market AFTER 2 YEARS - would provide. The single is available from iTunes - but I'll eagerly await the full album.
In the retro column, 80s artist Thomas Dolby released a live set recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco onto iTunes a while back. He's got several businesses and projects going but it's nice to see him quickly produce and bring to market (thanks to the internet) some new material. This wouldn't have gotten the time of day by the traditional business model.
Good riddance I say.
BTW - check out SeeqPod. It's cooler than snail snot and the mobile client is SWEET. I've not only found hard to finds, and music out of circulation, but excellent mash-ups that would NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY THE CURRENT OUTDATED RIAA BUSINESS MODELS.
Until we have a load of schlocky IPOs hit the market, then there'd be reason for concern. Since this isn't happening, you may now please fuck off with the slow-news ratings day bullshit.
When are they going to do a smashmypuppy? They could go to any petstore in the country and do it. Imagine the eyball clicks for the online ads!
Be crazy not to do it.
Everything about the concept screams ease of use. No - wait - it actually sounds needlessly complicated. Well, that's an instant win in the marketplace. People LOVE complicated things!
I'll wait for the Tesla Sedan that coming out next after the sportscar - thanks. The key to Tesla's product is it works and handles like today's machines. They also don't look like a highway disaster waiting to happen.
"What's the blue thing stuck to my truck's grill"?