I really do not understand the whole "Advertising is bad! Boohoo! They advertised in a movie I watched!!" bullshit attitude.
I guess this is Slashdot and people just like to bitch and complain about anything and everything.
From what I gather from your post:
If you owned a business in which sold a product a that you personally felt was "The Best" your company would die a pretty hard, hard death. Advertising is what makes a Free Market Society go 'round... If you don't believe in the Free Market, please do us all a favour: Pack up your things and move to communist governed country and see how you like it there. I'm sure you'll be much better off.
This is such a debatable question, especially on Slashdot.
I do web development/design for a living, so I will try to provide a little bit of insight.
I use Photoshop CS2 for the majority of my work... the problem being that I use Gentoo Linux. I have a WinXP install running under VMware just to use it... this is mostly because I learned how to use Photoshop when I was young, and I just stuck. I use gimp for the quick edits, and it does this VERY well. Examples: Crop/Resize, Add Text, maybe add a drop shadow, etc.
When it comes to Dreamweaver, I've always hated it. It was slow, and a painful mess last I used it (version 4 or 5). I'm a programmer, so I suppose I am a little biased, but I code all of my X/HTML by hand. Teach your students how to code HTML by hand. Students tend to use Dreamweaver as a crutch. They learn how to point and click with it, but never really understand what exactly they are doing. When I was in high school, I used to attend a national competition called "Skills Canada". Every year in the national round, there was always at least ONE person who freaked out and dropped out of the competition because Dreamweaver was not set up the same as they used to have it back home. Now, I, and others, used notepad or notepad++, etc (Ya-ya! I know Dreamweaver has an IDE built in -- I still don't like it). We had no issues because we saw, and built the code whereas the competitor who dropped out did so because they were dependent on the visual interface ("It's different, what the hell do I do!?").
When it comes to Flash, there isn't much of an alternative... Flash is what you need. I personally own Flash MX2004 and I like it fine. I'm planning an upgrade to the next release (CS4 I think it will be?) or if there is a nice update to the latest version (like a service pack)... I've heard it has some issues (mostly interface stuff).
As for my recommendation, someone above mentioned for you to teach until you receive the required materials.
I really hope they are not a flop.
From what you have described here, it looks like it will allow us to use some form of magic handler/config option to auto-load "modules"... kind of like the other language's "use" functions. While not true namespaces, it would be pretty handy for large CMS's, etc.
My biggest hope is that they use namespaces for all of the major modules such as GTK, even the DB's, and so on... but who knows for sure?:-)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the following comment are of my own. Please do not flame or complain because I do not share the same opinion as you.
PHP is not that bad of a language. Yes, it has it's issues and has brought on it's own stereotype because of it's ease of use. But really, when it comes to getting things done and done quick.. PHP excels very well.
I use PHP on a daily basis. Not just for work (I am a web developer by profession), but for quick dirty hacks (especially when bash is not available) it is great too. I've written entire daemons that watch and entire directory tree (1000+ files) and will alert me in some way of something happens, etc. I've written a IRC-style chat system way back in the day, and so on.
PHP has GTK, and apparently QT (server appears to be down ATM) bindings now. It has a lot of really useful low-level bindings, such as FAM. Along with Sockets and friends PHP is very powerful. Especially if you can get out of the mentality that "PHP was designed for websites.":-)
PHP really has evolved... I am very greatly anticipating the upcoming PHP 6. NAMESPACES! I can't wait.
I've used and worked with Ruby, Python, TCL, etc. etc. PHP just sits right with me.
I've seen it as well.. it seemed as though it dragged out a bit, but i am 90% sure it is because:
1) I was a "little" intoxicated
2) I'm used to watching it in 20 min episodes (i hate commercials)
Disclaimer: This comment deals with my experiences and opinions. Please do not reply complaining or flaming because I do not share the same opinion as you.
I've always enjoyed AMD's products... I don't know if it's some force from above, but whenever I deal with any Intel system, it "feels" slower. I'm not saying that it is, just doesn't feel as snappy.
I have an (older) AMD system. It's an Athlon XP 2500+, 120GB SATA drive, 1GB generic DDR RAM. I run Gentoo linux.
I'm not a gamer nor do I do anything too CPU intensive. My concern is how much power my system is sucking back, and how much heat it is putting out. That's it. The speed is great for what I use it for.
These new processors seem to use a lot less power. When this system dies out (it was a little flaky a few months ago) I am going to go with who uses less power at that time. I would certainly prefer AMD, as I do want to support their efforts and I have never once had any issues with an AMD based system. Sadly, I cannot say the same about Intel.
So, to keep this on topic and not just an opinion, I leave the following question:
Who uses less power? I was looking at todays gen processors and right now AMD seems to be pushing out 65nm/65W processors. My price range for the processor is $100-$150 (canadian). In that area AMD has 4400+ - 5200+... what does Intel have that performs on par/better?
90% of the time, the backlight has done... they are only Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lights. These can be replaced and your display will chug on again for another couple years usually. Another option would be to replace the backlight with LED's... in which case the display will (essentially) last for another generation.
Today's youth still uses e-mail? I was under the impression that Facebook, MySpace, etc. were the latest things...
Facebook on Bittorrent, eh? Sounds like an interesting project! Anyone interested?
Especially seeing as Virtual Desktops have been available for Windows XP for over 6 years and they work on Win98 and possibly 95...
Ooo! Is that when the screen goes blue because your system has been infested with pirates and you have to turn your system off and through it out the window to save your data? I loved that feature.
I cannot agree anymore. I've done a lot of searching around (although, maybe not as much as I could have) and I cannot seem to find anything of the sort. I was hoping there was something available in FUSE... but (last I checked) there was not. I am not much of a C/C++ person (HTML and tools pay my bills) although I do know a bit, I wouldn't have much of an idea where to start with something like this.
Please, if anybody knows of anything that works like this in Linux, please let me know!
I have a feeling that most of the non-payers was most likely teenagers. This is due to the inability to pay for something conveniently.
I'm not sure about anybody else, but before I obtained my first credit card, I didn't pay for anything. Now that I've had it for a while I've gone back and purchased many of the things I didn't pay for in the past... This is mostly pertaining to software (now mostly donating to free/open source projects)
I know it's sad and sort of a catch-22:
We're selling it on the internet! To keep costs down, were not selling any CD's!
This leaves teens in the dark as they cannot obtain a Credit Card. Most parents are leery about lending their CC info to their 15 year old. I'm not sure about you, but telling your largest market that they cannot purchase your media may raise some spite and a lot more "illegal" downloads.
...translated to an average hourly tech worker wage of US$31.80.
Among the hottest skills being demanded right now by Yoh clients are Java and.Net developers, database administrators, SAP functional and technical consultants, and project managers, said Jim Lanzalotto, Yoh's VP of strategy and marketing. Last quarter, SAP consultants on average earned US$88.07 per hour, while Java developers earned US$50.89, per hour, according to Yoh's research.
I just started OO Writer and it was at a usable state in about 11 seconds and was only using roughly 25MB of my RAM. This may be because I did compile it from source... although I have my doubts. It took forever to compile, thought (5+ hours).
I only compiled it because for one reason or another, to install the -bin alternative required more dependencies. *shrugs*
I've been sitting idle now for a while. Only my XFCE Panel, Firefox, Thunderbird and aMSN running... sitting at 169MB:-D
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I really do not understand the whole "Advertising is bad! Boohoo! They advertised in a movie I watched!!" bullshit attitude.
I guess this is Slashdot and people just like to bitch and complain about anything and everything.
From what I gather from your post:
If you owned a business in which sold a product a that you personally felt was "The Best" your company would die a pretty hard, hard death. Advertising is what makes a Free Market Society go 'round... If you don't believe in the Free Market, please do us all a favour: Pack up your things and move to communist governed country and see how you like it there. I'm sure you'll be much better off.
I do web development/design for a living, so I will try to provide a little bit of insight.
I use Photoshop CS2 for the majority of my work... the problem being that I use Gentoo Linux. I have a WinXP install running under VMware just to use it... this is mostly because I learned how to use Photoshop when I was young, and I just stuck. I use gimp for the quick edits, and it does this VERY well. Examples: Crop/Resize, Add Text, maybe add a drop shadow, etc.
When it comes to Dreamweaver, I've always hated it. It was slow, and a painful mess last I used it (version 4 or 5). I'm a programmer, so I suppose I am a little biased, but I code all of my X/HTML by hand. Teach your students how to code HTML by hand. Students tend to use Dreamweaver as a crutch. They learn how to point and click with it, but never really understand what exactly they are doing. When I was in high school, I used to attend a national competition called "Skills Canada". Every year in the national round, there was always at least ONE person who freaked out and dropped out of the competition because Dreamweaver was not set up the same as they used to have it back home. Now, I, and others, used notepad or notepad++, etc (Ya-ya! I know Dreamweaver has an IDE built in -- I still don't like it). We had no issues because we saw, and built the code whereas the competitor who dropped out did so because they were dependent on the visual interface ("It's different, what the hell do I do!?").
When it comes to Flash, there isn't much of an alternative... Flash is what you need. I personally own Flash MX2004 and I like it fine. I'm planning an upgrade to the next release (CS4 I think it will be?) or if there is a nice update to the latest version (like a service pack)... I've heard it has some issues (mostly interface stuff).
As for my recommendation, someone above mentioned for you to teach until you receive the required materials.
I really hope they are not a flop.
:-)
From what you have described here, it looks like it will allow us to use some form of magic handler/config option to auto-load "modules"... kind of like the other language's "use" functions. While not true namespaces, it would be pretty handy for large CMS's, etc.
My biggest hope is that they use namespaces for all of the major modules such as GTK, even the DB's, and so on... but who knows for sure?
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the following comment are of my own. Please do not flame or complain because I do not share the same opinion as you.
:-)
PHP is not that bad of a language. Yes, it has it's issues and has brought on it's own stereotype because of it's ease of use. But really, when it comes to getting things done and done quick.. PHP excels very well.
I use PHP on a daily basis. Not just for work (I am a web developer by profession), but for quick dirty hacks (especially when bash is not available) it is great too. I've written entire daemons that watch and entire directory tree (1000+ files) and will alert me in some way of something happens, etc. I've written a IRC-style chat system way back in the day, and so on.
PHP has GTK, and apparently QT (server appears to be down ATM) bindings now. It has a lot of really useful low-level bindings, such as FAM. Along with Sockets and friends PHP is very powerful. Especially if you can get out of the mentality that "PHP was designed for websites."
PHP really has evolved... I am very greatly anticipating the upcoming PHP 6. NAMESPACES! I can't wait.
I've used and worked with Ruby, Python, TCL, etc. etc. PHP just sits right with me.
I've seen it as well.. it seemed as though it dragged out a bit, but i am 90% sure it is because:
1) I was a "little" intoxicated
2) I'm used to watching it in 20 min episodes (i hate commercials)
Disclaimer: This comment deals with my experiences and opinions. Please do not reply complaining or flaming because I do not share the same opinion as you.
I've always enjoyed AMD's products... I don't know if it's some force from above, but whenever I deal with any Intel system, it "feels" slower. I'm not saying that it is, just doesn't feel as snappy.
I have an (older) AMD system. It's an Athlon XP 2500+, 120GB SATA drive, 1GB generic DDR RAM. I run Gentoo linux.
I'm not a gamer nor do I do anything too CPU intensive. My concern is how much power my system is sucking back, and how much heat it is putting out. That's it. The speed is great for what I use it for.
These new processors seem to use a lot less power. When this system dies out (it was a little flaky a few months ago) I am going to go with who uses less power at that time. I would certainly prefer AMD, as I do want to support their efforts and I have never once had any issues with an AMD based system. Sadly, I cannot say the same about Intel.
So, to keep this on topic and not just an opinion, I leave the following question:
Who uses less power? I was looking at todays gen processors and right now AMD seems to be pushing out 65nm/65W processors. My price range for the processor is $100-$150 (canadian). In that area AMD has 4400+ - 5200+... what does Intel have that performs on par/better?
That puff was logic? :-(
Damnit! I thought it was Opium.
</badjoke>
90% of the time, the backlight has done... they are only Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lights. These can be replaced and your display will chug on again for another couple years usually. Another option would be to replace the backlight with LED's... in which case the display will (essentially) last for another generation.
For some more information, I suggest doing some searching on the internet.
WARNING: Replacing CCFL's can be very dangerous! The chemicals within the tube are poisonous if inhaled.
Today's youth still uses e-mail? I was under the impression that Facebook, MySpace, etc. were the latest things...
Facebook on Bittorrent, eh? Sounds like an interesting project! Anyone interested?
This really does sound fishy to me... Especially since (last I checked) Microsoft was a large part of W3C?
(yes, it's a [terrible] joke!)
When does the CentOS alternative come out? ;-)
I cannot agree anymore. I've done a lot of searching around (although, maybe not as much as I could have) and I cannot seem to find anything of the sort. I was hoping there was something available in FUSE... but (last I checked) there was not. I am not much of a C/C++ person (HTML and tools pay my bills) although I do know a bit, I wouldn't have much of an idea where to start with something like this.
Please, if anybody knows of anything that works like this in Linux, please let me know!
I have a feeling that most of the non-payers was most likely teenagers. This is due to the inability to pay for something conveniently.
... just a thought! :-)
I'm not sure about anybody else, but before I obtained my first credit card, I didn't pay for anything. Now that I've had it for a while I've gone back and purchased many of the things I didn't pay for in the past... This is mostly pertaining to software (now mostly donating to free/open source projects)
I know it's sad and sort of a catch-22:
We're selling it on the internet! To keep costs down, were not selling any CD's!
This leaves teens in the dark as they cannot obtain a Credit Card. Most parents are leery about lending their CC info to their 15 year old. I'm not sure about you, but telling your largest market that they cannot purchase your media may raise some spite and a lot more "illegal" downloads.
I laughed... so hard.
To anyone who didn't get it, check out Episode 501 of South Park.
I found the rum!
I am rather disappointed that this is the only reference to the Jetsons I can find while browsing at threshold 1.
The Neo 1973 GTA02 (the 'mass market' version) has built in b/g Wifi. ;-)
More info:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973
For the sake of explanation:
There is a difference between OO.o loading in ~30 seconds versus 11 seconds.
Asshole.
I just started OO Writer and it was at a usable state in about 11 seconds and was only using roughly 25MB of my RAM. This may be because I did compile it from source... although I have my doubts. It took forever to compile, thought (5+ hours). :-D
I only compiled it because for one reason or another, to install the -bin alternative required more dependencies. *shrugs*
I've been sitting idle now for a while. Only my XFCE Panel, Firefox, Thunderbird and aMSN running... sitting at 169MB