Not to mention the score is now on the far right from the title of comments.
I also hated that, it makes no sense. On my wide screen, by the time my eye reaches the right side of the monitor I've forgotten which post I'm looking for. Short memory, or wide monitor? Or crappy skin? voting for the latter.
The colors are way too contrasting, the sans-serif fonts make formatting less distinctive (like italics) and it looks really wrong.
I just hate the new skin. I have to get it out of my system. I friggin hate it. I keep hitting the hide/show section titlebars when I wanna click the links, the "Read more" link is not next to the X of X posts, the page is WAY too wide.
There are subtle differences between JScript and Javascript that prevent them from totally compatible. When MS Office begin to generate pdf, it will generate WSH compatible code, which will break Adobe Acrobat. Another step I can expec is that IE will support pdf native, and some pdf files generated by Acrobat won't work in the IE.
I'll be damned if I see ANY connection between WSH code and PDF export in Office, let alone IE supporting PDF. You trully pulled a Dvorak here.
I thought this rating and Troll were supposed to be used when I'm trying to start a flame war. I'm just being dissapointed that putting mentos in coke is what Slashdot editor consider stuff that matters.
PS: Don't mod me down further, you don't... ya know... wanna find mentos when you open your next coke. It'll be a shame.
Since Microsoft has a track record of doing this, Adobe's paranoia is entirely justified.
"Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE."
Because Microsoft was throwing dead goats in the Java compatibility well. DuH.
You've probably missed the part where I said they need also a reader software to be able to embrace and extend PDF.
If they produce a garbage and call it PDF, I don't the Adobe Reader will just render it nevertheless. When you talk about Java and HTML and so on, you shouldn't forget that Microsoft produced the *clients*, not the *producers* of the content.
This is what made people bend their code to fit Microsoft's tools.
What Adobe was afraid of was most likely losing a drastic share of the Acrobat market, since, what do you know, more than 80% of the PDF-s produced world-wide originated as MS Office Documents.
You should surely see the connection.
"Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets" Yeah, everywhere. It's called AJAX.
Oh my god... someone's been out of class since 1996.
I'm having nightmares already. Web 2 keeps "rising" like a friggin' zombie every few days.
It rised when people said Java applets were so Web 2, then it rised again when blogs and RSS was so Web 2, then it rised again when Google made JS interaction popular (again), a bit later it rised again when a marketing company coined the term for what Google does "AJAX", then again with Flickr, YouTube, Digg and so on, and I'm telling you I'm already sick of the damn Web 2.0.
Do you know what happens with too much buzz and hype? You let people down and make them sick up to their necks. I hate the damn Web 2.0 and have no idea what THE HECK it is anymore.
And I'm a web developer, let alone businessmen and the casual Internet surfer.
Am I the only one tired of Microsoft bastardizing everything into XML?
I think it's silly too, but it's not them that started this silly trend, and they do it in attempt to gain credibility and support for their new formats.
If XPS is going to be worth anything, it needs to operate on more than just vista. Otherwise it's useless to those presses.
You're absolutely correct. But industrial manifacturers, like big presses are not what marketers call "early adopters" at all.
XPS is far superior in their support alpha blends, composite modes, primitives, bitmap transforms and so on compared to PDF-s. Lots of printer manifacturers have working models of their printers with full XPS support.
XPS is the designer's dream. Even if he'll have to go through hell to get his work to print in massive quantities, he has flexible tools and rapid prototyping just using XPS and an XPS printer. I advice you to read up on the XPS features and tools that will support it.
Once you get the innovative core audience interested, and the support of the major printer manifacturers, it's a matter of time that it becomes widespread. And one day, the big clunky conservative presses may move to XPS too.
Not far fetched. Yes, it's "Adobe PDF format". But if MS decides that X has to be Y, it is. No matter what the originator of the format, even if he holds the patents to it, says. MS wants to read it this way, so it has to be read that way.
Actually it's far fetched. Microsoft just added an exporter, not a reader. The only popular and common way to see and print a PDF yet is the Adobe Reader (and some other Adobe products).
Thus, either is Microsoft producing PDF-s that open and print in Reader, or their PDF support will just be useless.
Bend it and twist it, but there's no sign that Microsoft wanted to bastardize the PDF format.
What I actually believe they wanted, is to put PDF support in, and then become really agressive with their "own" PDF: the XPS.
In that case, their support for PDF will be a really strong point when Adobe eventually files an Antithrust case against Microsoft for trying to push PDF out of the market by implementing XPS in their Windows OS. Microsoft will say "but we also support PDF in Office".
Of course now that it's not part of Office, Microsoft can still claim all of best of intentions, so they still hold that card, and Adobe just lost what could've been a good thing for the PDF adoption and acceptance as a standard.
That's really old toon, not related to Wii, just people linked to it, just like they linked to the "weeee" Firefox flick ad with the brought-to-life browser icons.
I think Microsoft is just getting a taste of its own medicine. If you're going to try and monopolize a field, you should expect your competitors to fight back the same way.
Serves them right:)? Don't be ridiculous. Adobe has more to lose by denying PDF support in Office than MS.
The decision to support PDF was long delayed and we all knew it was because MS doesn't want to give PDF an edge in their own products, thus contributing further to the spread use of the format.
This is why the decision to support PDF in 2007 was a surprise. But now that Adobe is acting like a spoiled brat, Microsoft will remove the PDF support.
It's really amusing Adobe doesn't want Microsoft to support PDF, given Microsoft has prepared a quite capable PDF competitor itself called XML Paper Specification (XPS), with superior features to those found in PDF (since it's newer, I'm not saying PDF can't catch up of course)...
Why the heck is this so familiar to me? Ah yea, I remember. Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE. Microsoft removed (again) the support and we know where Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets.
At the same time Microsoft has managed to spread wide their version of Java:.NET.
Forget it. It doesn't work. One thing works: stop buying and suffocate them. They are nothing without money. Money gave them power, no money, no power.
There's a mountain of evidence anyone could easily understand about how MPAA and RIAA make our life worse and are detrimental to our society.
We need people with marketing experience to help us pick out the major pain points MPAA/RIAA have created in the last years and bring them to the society in an easy to understand manner.
We need to spread the information to the casual folks so they know, and stop funding MPAA/RIAA, by not buying their products. We have to clearly point out the companies behind MPAA/RIAA, they should not be left anonymous.
I'm willing to participate if someone can organise a campaign with web dev/graphics & print design. Yup, I'm actually willing to do something. Anyone else?
Both the operating system and benchmarks were installed by Intel performance engineers, so we cannot guarantee that the bit-tech configured operating system was in the same state as the one on the Intel-built Core 2 Duo machine. We were not allowed to make any changes to the Intel-built system....
It's good they are faster than Core 1, but it's interesting to see if they've surpassed the top P4 chips in speed.
As you know Intel basically dropped the P4 architecture (netburst) in favor continuing the hardware line of Pentium III -> Pentium M (Core 1 was a mod of Pentium M, Core 2 is a more serious change adding back 64-bit, but still a development of the same architecture).
From an article I read on the effect of telecommuting, employees are *more* effective, or accomplish more, in less amount of time, when working from home, as it allows for a more relaxed atmosphere, among other benefits.
No it's both ways. Telecommuting is good when the job is not emergent and requires a high amount of concentration (architecting, engineering, designing, given you have the tools at home).
However if your job is routine, technical, and requires lots of work, associated with stress, telecommuniting can make you lazy, slack often (having no control) and doing a bad job overall.
I guess a lesson is relearned: a new solution to a problem doesn't necessarily make older solutions invalid or worse.
OH, J. S. Christ! Bugger all the geek perspective. I have news for you sparky, not everyone has or wants broadband.
My my, it seemed you just wanted to vent, never mind what I said has nothing to do with your reaction here. Where did I even mention that everyone should have one?
Not everyone wants their music on a burned disk, or stored on their hard drive. The "old ways" are the old ways because they work for the majority.
Is the pianist at your local mute cinema still working there?
Not some whiney minority who will never be satisfied until everything comes through a wire.
The "minority" of 700 mln people worldwide with Internet connection just want an alternative, not an obliteration of the DVD's as a media.
All you're doing by copying movies/music/games/etc. is saying to the producers "I want your product, but don't want to pay for it".
Halleluia. Then we better keep copying, in case they figure out the way is by releasing free copies over the internet with ads in them. Movie shows are doing pretty well running just with ads for their income.
Price is part of the problem, availability is much larger. If I can neither buy it since it's not available nor watch it in the cinema, what options do I have? Yea go figure it out, there's availability issues, lots of the movies people worldwide want to see (learning from trailers and Internet, TV etc.) are simply not available for sale.
FTFA: Retailers are concerned that digital downloads might spell an end to the sale of DVDs, and see the download-to-burn kiosks as a way to keep them in the DVD business.
If only could they realize they gotta adapt instead of run hacks to keep the good ol' days. There weren't plenty of typing machine manifacturers that started making keybaords and mice as well I think. They just tried to keep the old ways and ceased to exist.
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If you don't like the names, make up your own
Web Returns
Web Forever
Web and Robin
The Web and The Furious
Web Begins
Web Trinity
Not to mention the score is now on the far right from the title of comments.
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I also hated that, it makes no sense. On my wide screen, by the time my eye reaches the right side of the monitor I've forgotten which post I'm looking for. Short memory, or wide monitor? Or crappy skin? voting for the latter.
The colors are way too contrasting, the sans-serif fonts make formatting less distinctive (like italics) and it looks really wrong.
Damn it
On the other hand, maybe I'll do some work now
I just hate the new skin. I have to get it out of my system. I friggin hate it. I keep hitting the hide/show section titlebars when I wanna click the links, the "Read more" link is not next to the X of X posts, the page is WAY too wide.
:(
I hate it
There are subtle differences between JScript and Javascript that prevent them from totally compatible. When MS Office begin to generate pdf, it will generate WSH compatible code, which will break Adobe Acrobat. Another step I can expec is that IE will support pdf native, and some pdf files generated by Acrobat won't work in the IE. I'll be damned if I see ANY connection between WSH code and PDF export in Office, let alone IE supporting PDF. You trully pulled a Dvorak here.
Don't worry about it, suv4x4. Your counterpart in India understands it perfectly, and is coding it as we speak.
Oh, so you're coding Web 2? Hehe, kids and their LEGO computers.
I may hire you to code Rich Client 2 and OOP 3 for me, stay tuned.
I thought this is about (Score:1, Flamebait)
I thought this rating and Troll were supposed to be used when I'm trying to start a flame war.
I'm just being dissapointed that putting mentos in coke is what Slashdot editor consider stuff that matters.
PS: Don't mod me down further, you don't... ya know... wanna find mentos when you open your next coke. It'll be a shame.
So, um, can anyone tell me how HTML, JavaScript, and Stylesheets supplants, um...., HTML, JavaScript, and Stylesheets?
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is being replaced by AJAX. It's totally new.
Since Microsoft has a track record of doing this, Adobe's paranoia is entirely justified.
... someone's been out of class since 1996.
"Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE."
Because Microsoft was throwing dead goats in the Java compatibility well. DuH.
You've probably missed the part where I said they need also a reader software to be able to embrace and extend PDF.
If they produce a garbage and call it PDF, I don't the Adobe Reader will just render it nevertheless.
When you talk about Java and HTML and so on, you shouldn't forget that Microsoft produced the *clients*, not the *producers* of the content.
This is what made people bend their code to fit Microsoft's tools.
What Adobe was afraid of was most likely losing a drastic share of the Acrobat market, since, what do you know, more than 80% of the PDF-s produced world-wide originated as MS Office Documents.
You should surely see the connection.
"Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets"
Yeah, everywhere. It's called AJAX.
Oh my god
Stuff that matters...
I'm having nightmares already. Web 2 keeps "rising" like a friggin' zombie every few days.
It rised when people said Java applets were so Web 2, then it rised again when blogs and RSS was so Web 2, then it rised again when Google made JS interaction popular (again), a bit later it rised again when a marketing company coined the term for what Google does "AJAX", then again with Flickr, YouTube, Digg and so on, and I'm telling you I'm already sick of the damn Web 2.0.
Do you know what happens with too much buzz and hype? You let people down and make them sick up to their necks. I hate the damn Web 2.0 and have no idea what THE HECK it is anymore.
And I'm a web developer, let alone businessmen and the casual Internet surfer.
Am I the only one tired of Microsoft bastardizing everything into XML?
I think it's silly too, but it's not them that started this silly trend, and they do it in attempt to gain credibility and support for their new formats.
XML = PR.
If XPS is going to be worth anything, it needs to operate on more than just vista. Otherwise it's useless to those presses.
You're absolutely correct. But industrial manifacturers, like big presses are not what marketers call "early adopters" at all.
XPS is far superior in their support alpha blends, composite modes, primitives, bitmap transforms and so on compared to PDF-s. Lots of printer manifacturers have working models of their printers with full XPS support.
XPS is the designer's dream. Even if he'll have to go through hell to get his work to print in massive quantities, he has flexible tools and rapid prototyping just using XPS and an XPS printer. I advice you to read up on the XPS features and tools that will support it.
Once you get the innovative core audience interested, and the support of the major printer manifacturers, it's a matter of time that it becomes widespread. And one day, the big clunky conservative presses may move to XPS too.
Not far fetched. Yes, it's "Adobe PDF format". But if MS decides that X has to be Y, it is. No matter what the originator of the format, even if he holds the patents to it, says. MS wants to read it this way, so it has to be read that way.
Actually it's far fetched. Microsoft just added an exporter, not a reader. The only popular and common way to see and print a PDF yet is the Adobe Reader (and some other Adobe products).
Thus, either is Microsoft producing PDF-s that open and print in Reader, or their PDF support will just be useless.
Bend it and twist it, but there's no sign that Microsoft wanted to bastardize the PDF format.
What I actually believe they wanted, is to put PDF support in, and then become really agressive with their "own" PDF: the XPS.
In that case, their support for PDF will be a really strong point when Adobe eventually files an Antithrust case against Microsoft for trying to push PDF out of the market by implementing XPS in their Windows OS. Microsoft will say "but we also support PDF in Office".
Of course now that it's not part of Office, Microsoft can still claim all of best of intentions, so they still hold that card, and Adobe just lost what could've been a good thing for the PDF adoption and acceptance as a standard.
You obviously haven't seen this.
That's really old toon, not related to Wii, just people linked to it, just like they linked to the "weeee" Firefox flick ad with the brought-to-life browser icons.
I think Microsoft is just getting a taste of its own medicine. If you're going to try and monopolize a field, you should expect your competitors to fight back the same way.
:)? Don't be ridiculous. Adobe has more to lose by denying PDF support in Office than MS.
.NET.
Serves them right
The decision to support PDF was long delayed and we all knew it was because MS doesn't want to give PDF an edge in their own products, thus contributing further to the spread use of the format.
This is why the decision to support PDF in 2007 was a surprise. But now that Adobe is acting like a spoiled brat, Microsoft will remove the PDF support.
It's really amusing Adobe doesn't want Microsoft to support PDF, given Microsoft has prepared a quite capable PDF competitor itself called XML Paper Specification (XPS), with superior features to those found in PDF (since it's newer, I'm not saying PDF can't catch up of course)...
Why the heck is this so familiar to me? Ah yea, I remember. Sun sued Microsoft for their Java support in Windows/IE. Microsoft removed (again) the support and we know where Java is today in terms of client-side browser applets.
At the same time Microsoft has managed to spread wide their version of Java:
Expect the same to happen with XPS.
It wasn't long time ago we were posting jokes about the Wii name, have you noticed how this stopped? Noone jokes with the name anymore.
So it was indeed a temporary thing. Good lesson in marketing, and a great decision to announce it the week before E3 instead of E3.
Also notice how this brought them popularity: they're all over the press with articles about Wii's performance, remote, features, price and so on.
The PS3 is almost invisible around Wii.
Funding lobby organisations (i.e. to buy lobby politicians)? Voting differently? Sending letters, phoning them? Rioting?
Forget it. It doesn't work. One thing works: stop buying and suffocate them. They are nothing without money. Money gave them power, no money, no power.
There's a mountain of evidence anyone could easily understand about how MPAA and RIAA make our life worse and are detrimental to our society.
We need people with marketing experience to help us pick out the major pain points MPAA/RIAA have created in the last years and bring them to the society in an easy to understand manner.
We need to spread the information to the casual folks so they know, and stop funding MPAA/RIAA, by not buying their products. We have to clearly point out the companies behind MPAA/RIAA, they should not be left anonymous.
I'm willing to participate if someone can organise a campaign with web dev/graphics & print design. Yup, I'm actually willing to do something. Anyone else?
Both the operating system and benchmarks were installed by Intel performance engineers, so we cannot guarantee that the bit-tech configured operating system was in the same state as the one on the Intel-built Core 2 Duo machine. We were not allowed to make any changes to the Intel-built system. ...
It's good they are faster than Core 1, but it's interesting to see if they've surpassed the top P4 chips in speed.
As you know Intel basically dropped the P4 architecture (netburst) in favor continuing the hardware line of Pentium III -> Pentium M (Core 1 was a mod of Pentium M, Core 2 is a more serious change adding back 64-bit, but still a development of the same architecture).
Anyone know where you can buy a real 5D cube? I hate trying to solve them on a computer screen. Much easier in real life.
If you don't have one, however, the digital version is your only choice, hence this application.
I'll be curious to meet the guys who solved the 5D cube, make sure they have two eyes, two hand and lags like the rest of us mortals.
From an article I read on the effect of telecommuting, employees are *more* effective, or accomplish more, in less amount of time, when working from home, as it allows for a more relaxed atmosphere, among other benefits.
No it's both ways. Telecommuting is good when the job is not emergent and requires a high amount of concentration (architecting, engineering, designing, given you have the tools at home).
However if your job is routine, technical, and requires lots of work, associated with stress, telecommuniting can make you lazy, slack often (having no control) and doing a bad job overall.
I guess a lesson is relearned: a new solution to a problem doesn't necessarily make older solutions invalid or worse.
OH, J. S. Christ! Bugger all the geek perspective. I have news for you sparky, not everyone has or wants broadband.
My my, it seemed you just wanted to vent, never mind what I said has nothing to do with your reaction here.
Where did I even mention that everyone should have one?
Not everyone wants their music on a burned disk, or stored on their hard drive. The "old ways" are the old ways because they work for the majority.
Is the pianist at your local mute cinema still working there?
Not some whiney minority who will never be satisfied until everything comes through a wire.
The "minority" of 700 mln people worldwide with Internet connection just want an alternative, not an obliteration of the DVD's as a media.
All you're doing by copying movies/music/games/etc. is saying to the producers "I want your product, but don't want to pay for it".
Halleluia. Then we better keep copying, in case they figure out the way is by releasing free copies over the internet with ads in them. Movie shows are doing pretty well running just with ads for their income.
Price is part of the problem, availability is much larger. If I can neither buy it since it's not available nor watch it in the cinema, what options do I have? Yea go figure it out, there's availability issues, lots of the movies people worldwide want to see (learning from trailers and Internet, TV etc.) are simply not available for sale.
FTFA: Retailers are concerned that digital downloads might spell an end to the sale of DVDs, and see the download-to-burn kiosks as a way to keep them in the DVD business.
If only could they realize they gotta adapt instead of run hacks to keep the good ol' days.
There weren't plenty of typing machine manifacturers that started making keybaords and mice as well I think. They just tried to keep the old ways and ceased to exist.
They don't have reasons to support Linux, IBM had them, Lenovo doesn't.
We know Microsoft makes a big issue if a company they have a deal with ships also Linux units.
Hence, it's less pain, more profit and less tech support issues to just ship exclusively Windows units.