I believe MSFT actually bought Visio prior to the release of Visio 2000 SR1. Thus, it's been a MSFT product for the last 5 years.
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First, you're comparing Photoshop to Director, and that's a bad comparison.
Second, while an educational license of Photoshop may very well be $300, you can get the whole Adobe Suite for just $80 more.
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Pro is $250. So yes, you save $130 over the Adobe CS product, but you also don't get quite the same kind of image manipulation (Not to mention interoperability with others using Photoshop and other Adobe tools).
Truthfully, Macromedia isn't any less of an 800lbs gorilla; they charge $1,000 for their suite, Adobe charges $1,300.
Perhaps I happened upon this before it was supposed to be public, but I've been getting the XML weather observations for my area (KSLE) for at least 6 months now, probably closer to a year.
It's a very handy way to avoid decoding METAR, but sometimes the METAR files have more info.
My wife is from Mossyrock too. I don't think I've ever met somebody who is still *IN* mossyrock;)
Not that I blame them...
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I work as a local Support Tech, but on occasion I have to call our corporate IT people to get password changes for users (central Novell system). The solution to this is that I can call and have a password changed, and so can anybody; but the new temporary password is left ONLY on the voicemail box of whichever user is getting the password change. Even I don't get told the new password.
This assumes the voicemail boxes are fairly secure, of course. But it mostly prevents random asshat from grabbing your username and calling up to get it cleared or a new temp one generated.
The GTO is the Holden Monaro (nee, HSV Coupe/GTS/GTO), and the rumors were that the el Camino will make its return as a rebadged Holden Ute/HSV Maloo R8, which is a badass vehicle.
I've said for the last three to four years that GM desperately needed to catch on to the cars Holden was putting out, for they attracted more attention here in the USA amongst my gearhead friends than any GM release south of the Corvette.
I believe Ford of Australia is on to something too with it's design and appointment of equipment (F6 Typhoon etc); but something tells me Ford won't be as smart as GM in this regard.
http://hsv.com.au - Holden Special Vehicles http://fpv.com.au - Ford Performance Vehicles
Not only is this an outrageous claim, but as noted in another comment below this; That's (at the very LEAST), 12,000 pictures a month. TWELVE THOUSAND.
Something seems awry here. Even if that were the amount of photos he were taking... the man must never sleep. That's a photo every 21(.2) seconds. All day. For 31 days.
I think you're exaggerating, or also including storage space for editing images, final cuts, etc.
Did you visit his site, and not the one posted in the link?
I'm not certain if Keith submitted his writing to the author of the linked article or not.. but Keiths site is pretty open to the idea that what he found was exactly that; what he found.
He offers to post anybodys results, and other than the title (which is meant to grab your attention more than provide an ultimate truth), he simply that in HIS TESTING, Java proves to not be the slug everybody says it is.
I'm not saying Keith is an award-winning computer scientist, but what I am saying is that he never claimed he was. I don't know if he asked for all the criticism (his 'article' originally appeared on his very own personal blog), but instead of calling him a moron, you could offer your advice as to how he might improve the tests he ran.
I don't know Keith all that well, except to say I've known him for what seems like ages, and he's a very bright individual.
Does he have a grudge here? Maybe. Does that mean he tilted everything and did a horrible job? Unlikely. I don't think he's claiming to be some super-dooper benchmark analyst, but he's provided the results from what his tests show.
Calling him a moron based on this is pretty shortsighted of you, given that Keith never claimed these results to be absolutely evident of Java not sucking or anything.
That's a statement that says "Under Windows, connections to either of my two access points, either of which are less than 50 feet away, drop spontaneously, and like today, the drivers stop functioning completely until I physically remove the USB key and re-insert it."
I've never had these problems under Linux. Ever.
I use XP daily. At work and at home. I have very few "luser" gripes. This just happens to be one of them.
I use a Netgar MA111 USB wireless key in my Linux router. You need linux-wlan-ng, which provides the proper usb_prism2 drivers (and of course, working usb hardware).
Works pretty dang well, probably better than the Windows setup.
The API sets are not "basically going open source" here. All Microsoft is required to do is provide documentation of the API themselves. Not sure about you, but I know that a lot of each API is already documented online at MSDN.
In the end, this particular move could really just help to entrench Microsoft and Windows further if the documentation they provide, by some miracle, happens to be clear and concise - thus allowing more and more programmers to put out quality (I use "quality" in relation to Windows) applications.
I'm not against Windows being the de-facto standard myself - I'd be perfectly happy with some quality software on Windows. But I also think this part of the "punishment" is rather ridiculous, as Microsoft already publishes most of its API documentation
And then you remember that there are hundreds of businesses located in Redmond, Washington. The majority of which are located within 10 or so blocks of One Microsoft Way.
OH NOES! It's a conspiracy. Nintendo must be in on this too, right? After all, they're a mere 4 blocks from Microsoft!
Get over it. Not everything from Redmond is internally tied to Microsoft.
You can find foam surround replacement kits, or you can search for some drivers that fit specific parameters to replace your bad ones. Either way, I'm sure you'll find something in a decent price range.
Hmm. Interesting, since I found very few references to non-American parentheses. In fact, here's a link that kind of states otherwise (granted, it's only one link, and it's in the UK).
They're called parentheses, or round brackets. I think you'll find that it's possible "{" and "}" can be used in place of "(" and ")", but they don't appear to be referred to as the same thing.
I could be wrong, but that's what my limited research tells me.
You're probably going to be upset about this. Maybe you'll complain to the people who made your car. But when you buy a 2.2 liter Honda engine, you're not getting 2.2 liters. You're getting 2.157 liters.
UH OH! CRY FOUL! Demand your money back!
As already pointed out in another post, these chips are labeled as Mobility chipsets, thus differentiating them from the standard PC line. Get over the victim-consumer attitude, and quitcher crying.
You could try the ATC-620 from Coolermaster. Looks nice, available in silver or black. Not super-cheap, but reasonable at least. I'm leaning towards a couple of these myself for home a/v use.
You must also realize that professional athletes make insane amounts of money because people who make minimum wage are willing to PAY $75 for a ticket to see them. I don't see many people (rich or poor) paying admittance to stand in a grocery or fast food establishment to watch the people unbox product, or flip burgers. Baseball is entertainment. Owners are businessmen. They pay their employees (typically) because they draw in money.
I'd also say that if you think baseball players (or other pro athletes) are overpaid, don't go see them. And while you're at it, start skipping out on going to or renting movies, because a lot of mainstream actors make as much or more than baseball players.
(PS - Don't think for a minute that most of these sports teams are losing a lot of money. The owners are on average shrewd businessmen who really DO know how to run the business. MLB's typical "poor stay poor and rich get richer" excuse is running out, as teams in Oakland, Seattle and Minnesota have done big market things with small market money.)
I think you'll find linux does run on SGI servers. I doubt graphic card support is much of an issue with a cluster either. As I remember, they also released the 230 workstation last year(?) supplied with Linux and the drivers required to run the graphic hardware. Bit overpriced though...
You'll notice I limited the idea of high-end to IRIX/MIPS machines, of which the 1450 and the 230 aren't a part of. I'm also sure the display subsystem of the 230 and other x86 machines is also endlessly more simple than say, Octace SSI or Indigo2 Impact machines. You'll also notice that linux runs on pretty much all of their x86-based offering. So the choices available for rendering in linux, on SGI machines, is limited to a few (current) x86 products, or a few (much older) IRIX/MIPS systems.
Yes, but on a rendering machine, you only need a console. It's not the machine that will be doing the graphics display, it's the machine that will be doing the number crunching. You don't need (or even want) fancy graphics for that.
I agree, but I guess my point was that linux isn't running on anything from the IRIX line except older machines. And I doubt they used a bunch of Indigo2's to render their stuff. Thus, the only current line they offer that runs linux is the x86 line, which also can be had with Windows NT or Windows 2000. Again, I may be wrong about the systems linux runs on, but I'm fairly sure they're not running Octane2 or Origin with linux (yet).
5. Did you see a mention of x86? I sure didn't. All I saw was SGI. SGI systems can run Linux. SGI systems cannot run 2K.
Well, some SGI systems run Windows 2000. And as far as I know, Linux doesn't run on much of the high-end (IRIX) machines SGI offers. It runs with limited framebuffer support on older Indy machines (and probably Challenge series stuff), and Indigo2 machines with serial console support only. Check here for the info. The page is over a year old, but owning an SGI myself, I haven't heard any different.
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I believe MSFT actually bought Visio prior to the release of Visio 2000 SR1. Thus, it's been a MSFT product for the last 5 years.
First, you're comparing Photoshop to Director, and that's a bad comparison.
Second, while an educational license of Photoshop may very well be $300, you can get the whole Adobe Suite for just $80 more.
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Pro is $250. So yes, you save $130 over the Adobe CS product, but you also don't get quite the same kind of image manipulation (Not to mention interoperability with others using Photoshop and other Adobe tools).
Truthfully, Macromedia isn't any less of an 800lbs gorilla; they charge $1,000 for their suite, Adobe charges $1,300.
Perhaps I happened upon this before it was supposed to be public, but I've been getting the XML weather observations for my area (KSLE) for at least 6 months now, probably closer to a year.
It's a very handy way to avoid decoding METAR, but sometimes the METAR files have more info.
Horribly offtopic.
;)
My wife is from Mossyrock too. I don't think I've ever met somebody who is still *IN* mossyrock
Not that I blame them...
I work as a local Support Tech, but on occasion I have to call our corporate IT people to get password changes for users (central Novell system). The solution to this is that I can call and have a password changed, and so can anybody; but the new temporary password is left ONLY on the voicemail box of whichever user is getting the password change. Even I don't get told the new password.
This assumes the voicemail boxes are fairly secure, of course. But it mostly prevents random asshat from grabbing your username and calling up to get it cleared or a new temp one generated.
The GTO is the Holden Monaro (nee, HSV Coupe/GTS/GTO), and the rumors were that the el Camino will make its return as a rebadged Holden Ute/HSV Maloo R8, which is a badass vehicle.
I've said for the last three to four years that GM desperately needed to catch on to the cars Holden was putting out, for they attracted more attention here in the USA amongst my gearhead friends than any GM release south of the Corvette.
I believe Ford of Australia is on to something too with it's design and appointment of equipment (F6 Typhoon etc); but something tells me Ford won't be as smart as GM in this regard.
http://hsv.com.au - Holden Special Vehicles
http://fpv.com.au - Ford Performance Vehicles
Okay, so I read wrong. 126 THOUSAND. Even more silly.
Not only is this an outrageous claim, but as noted in another comment below this; That's (at the very LEAST), 12,000 pictures a month. TWELVE THOUSAND.
Something seems awry here. Even if that were the amount of photos he were taking... the man must never sleep. That's a photo every 21(.2) seconds. All day. For 31 days.
I think you're exaggerating, or also including storage space for editing images, final cuts, etc.
Did you visit his site, and not the one posted in the link?
I'm not certain if Keith submitted his writing to the author of the linked article or not.. but Keiths site is pretty open to the idea that what he found was exactly that; what he found.
He offers to post anybodys results, and other than the title (which is meant to grab your attention more than provide an ultimate truth), he simply that in HIS TESTING, Java proves to not be the slug everybody says it is.
I'm not saying Keith is an award-winning computer scientist, but what I am saying is that he never claimed he was. I don't know if he asked for all the criticism (his 'article' originally appeared on his very own personal blog), but instead of calling him a moron, you could offer your advice as to how he might improve the tests he ran.
Just a thought.
A little off topic here...
I don't know Keith all that well, except to say I've known him for what seems like ages, and he's a very bright individual.
Does he have a grudge here? Maybe. Does that mean he tilted everything and did a horrible job? Unlikely. I don't think he's claiming to be some super-dooper benchmark analyst, but he's provided the results from what his tests show.
Calling him a moron based on this is pretty shortsighted of you, given that Keith never claimed these results to be absolutely evident of Java not sucking or anything.
That's a statement that says "Under Windows, connections to either of my two access points, either of which are less than 50 feet away, drop spontaneously, and like today, the drivers stop functioning completely until I physically remove the USB key and re-insert it."
I've never had these problems under Linux. Ever.
I use XP daily. At work and at home. I have very few "luser" gripes. This just happens to be one of them.
I use a Netgar MA111 USB wireless key in my Linux router. You need linux-wlan-ng, which provides the proper usb_prism2 drivers (and of course, working usb hardware).
Works pretty dang well, probably better than the Windows setup.
The API sets are not "basically going open source" here. All Microsoft is required to do is provide documentation of the API themselves. Not sure about you, but I know that a lot of each API is already documented online at MSDN.
In the end, this particular move could really just help to entrench Microsoft and Windows further if the documentation they provide, by some miracle, happens to be clear and concise - thus allowing more and more programmers to put out quality (I use "quality" in relation to Windows) applications.
I'm not against Windows being the de-facto standard myself - I'd be perfectly happy with some quality software on Windows. But I also think this part of the "punishment" is rather ridiculous, as Microsoft already publishes most of its API documentation
*GASP*
And then you remember that there are hundreds of businesses located in Redmond, Washington. The majority of which are located within 10 or so blocks of One Microsoft Way.
OH NOES! It's a conspiracy. Nintendo must be in on this too, right? After all, they're a mere 4 blocks from Microsoft!
Get over it. Not everything from Redmond is internally tied to Microsoft.
Microsoft does indeed employ slighty more than 10,000 people. They in fact employ over 50,000 people.
You do realize that Microsoft is not unlike any other corporation when it comes to paying taxes, right?
Try these guys out: PE
You can find foam surround replacement kits, or you can search for some drivers that fit specific parameters to replace your bad ones. Either way, I'm sure you'll find something in a decent price range.
Just another link to qualify my statement about "{"and "}" being used as an alternative (with "[" and "]" as well) from Australia.
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Hmm. Interesting, since I found very few references to non-American parentheses. In fact, here's a link that kind of states otherwise (granted, it's only one link, and it's in the UK).
They're called parentheses, or round brackets. I think you'll find that it's possible "{" and "}" can be used in place of "(" and ")", but they don't appear to be referred to as the same thing.
I could be wrong, but that's what my limited research tells me.
You're probably going to be upset about this. Maybe you'll complain to the people who made your car. But when you buy a 2.2 liter Honda engine, you're not getting 2.2 liters. You're getting 2.157 liters.
UH OH! CRY FOUL! Demand your money back!
As already pointed out in another post, these chips are labeled as Mobility chipsets, thus differentiating them from the standard PC line. Get over the victim-consumer attitude, and quitcher crying.
You could try the ATC-620 from Coolermaster. Looks nice, available in silver or black. Not super-cheap, but reasonable at least. I'm leaning towards a couple of these myself for home a/v use.
I'd also say that if you think baseball players (or other pro athletes) are overpaid, don't go see them. And while you're at it, start skipping out on going to or renting movies, because a lot of mainstream actors make as much or more than baseball players.
(PS - Don't think for a minute that most of these sports teams are losing a lot of money. The owners are on average shrewd businessmen who really DO know how to run the business. MLB's typical "poor stay poor and rich get richer" excuse is running out, as teams in Oakland, Seattle and Minnesota have done big market things with small market money.)
Check out the HP 995C here.
It seems to support Bluetooth out of the box. A little pricey to me, but it seems like a good deal.
I think you'll find linux does run on SGI servers. I doubt graphic card support is much of an issue with a cluster either. As I remember, they also released the 230 workstation last year(?) supplied with Linux and the drivers required to run the graphic hardware. Bit overpriced though...
You'll notice I limited the idea of high-end to IRIX/MIPS machines, of which the 1450 and the 230 aren't a part of. I'm also sure the display subsystem of the 230 and other x86 machines is also endlessly more simple than say, Octace SSI or Indigo2 Impact machines. You'll also notice that linux runs on pretty much all of their x86-based offering. So the choices available for rendering in linux, on SGI machines, is limited to a few (current) x86 products, or a few (much older) IRIX/MIPS systems.
Yes, but on a rendering machine, you only need a console. It's not the machine that will be doing the graphics display, it's the machine that will be doing the number crunching. You don't need (or even want) fancy graphics for that.
I agree, but I guess my point was that linux isn't running on anything from the IRIX line except older machines. And I doubt they used a bunch of Indigo2's to render their stuff. Thus, the only current line they offer that runs linux is the x86 line, which also can be had with Windows NT or Windows 2000. Again, I may be wrong about the systems linux runs on, but I'm fairly sure they're not running Octane2 or Origin with linux (yet).
5. Did you see a mention of x86? I sure didn't. All I saw was SGI. SGI systems can run Linux. SGI systems cannot run 2K.
Well, some SGI systems run Windows 2000. And as far as I know, Linux doesn't run on much of the high-end (IRIX) machines SGI offers. It runs with limited framebuffer support on older Indy machines (and probably Challenge series stuff), and Indigo2 machines with serial console support only. Check here for the info. The page is over a year old, but owning an SGI myself, I haven't heard any different.