You have a very strange definition of "non-gratuitously", when you're pimping a site that's Flash, top-to-bottom, and doesn't use the platform for a single thing that standard HTML and CSS can't do.
You can have your shiny Flash interface without leaving the rest of the web out in the cold. It just requires a bit more finesse than your average Photoshop jockey can bring to the table.
Honestly, I think they can share the blame on that one. While Apple has been known to get a little gung-ho about its updates in the past, I can't imagine that Adobe's "Not invented here" mentality helps the situation much. I run IT/Development for a small graphics company, and in many ways, Adobe just doesn't like to play nice with the platform.
Considering this is whole "Linux" thing started off as a hobbyist platform, I can see plenty of places where someone might develop software for him/herself or for use internally within an organisation. I think the ability to legally use/tweak/patch/mangle/pervert/modify any GPLv3 code for your own end is hardly an "academic" distinction compared to the "loko but don't touch" mentality of these MPL licenses.
You're only going to get a Distro Upgrade option if there's one available. This has been true for for Edgy -> Feisty, for each Gutsy beta release, and probably for Feisty -> Gutsy.
Effectively, this button is offering to do the same as 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' (versus the standard 'sudo apt-get upgrade'), so you're not going to see it if dist-upgrade returns '0 available packages'.
It wasn't condensation that felled all three computers, it was a single corroded connector, which shorted and sent a kill-command to all three computers. Technically, redundancy here would've circumvented that issue.
Actually, I believe the article stated that it was a Russian-manufactured component, not a NASA design.
Word processors and browsers, mate. Basically any standard which allows for interpretation is going to have formatting quirks. The standards focus 90% of their efforts on displaying data correctly regardless of the viewing platform. Therefore, the viewing platform implementation has a fair degree of wiggle room.
And honestly, for websites, it does tend to work out. While my PDA and cellphone can't properly render a webpage built with cutting edge CSS, Javascript, AJAX, etc... it displays the core data of the page quite nicely. The implementation is severely constrained by the device, but because of the way the standard's constructed the page is still usable.
Defining formatting in a strict manner hampers possible implementations, which need to be flexible enough to adapt to their platform, be it WinXP, OSX, Gnome, KDE, cellphone, or intelligent bucket. If you need perfect formatting across platforms, use PDF, Tex, or desktop publishing software, which are designed to strictly enforce formatting, and embed fonts where needed.
Aye, Fedora, CentOS, Manriva, Red Hat, YDL, and Suse all use RPM at their core to handle package management. Not necessarily the RPM updater program (Yast and YUM fill in for this on some systems), but the package format. Personally I've found RPM to be a very difficult package format to work with simply due to the architecture. RPM gives you far more flexibility in installing new packages, but lacks a central repository for installing new applications or managing dependencies.
So, RPM is fantastic for some situations, but as I said before, I find it far easier to hang yourself than APT which uses a central database to track applications and dependencies. It's easy to get stuck in dependnency hell with RPM, but it does afford you greater package flexibility.
My problem with Fedora is the package management, to be honest. Personally I've found RPM to be much easier to hang yourself with then APT, but hey, that may just be ignorance of the tools on my part.
As far as security and stability, I'd definitely look at something with a long-term support option, as taking a production server offline to upgrade the distribution in order to get needed security updates just isn't an option. Debian is really good about backporting security patches, so you can stay patched and still use an older distribution, and I know Ubuntu does something similar with their LTS support.
As a professional artist / amateur illustrator, and working around some fantastically talented people, I gotta say that any raster program you're working with isn't going to cut it for really awesome quality illustrations/webcomics.
What I've found works best is to take the pencil sketch and then either preliminarily ink it, or scan it in to Illustrator (though I'm sure Inkscape would work well enough too. If you've got a Wacom or similar tablet, you can do inking in Illustrator and use the pressure sensitivity of the pen to get some very natural lines. After that, take the "inked" illustration into Photoshop and paint under it for a good clean illustration.
Outside of that, you could ink/trace over vellum, scan in the inked sheet, and use Illustrator's "live trace" (prolly in Inkscape too) as another way to get a good vector version of the illustration.
And hell, failing all that, you can always just use a Wacom tablet + brush tool and draw directly in Photoshop/GIMP over the scanned image.
I guess the moral of the story is that taking pencil art into a final piece is just painful, and you should just use something, anything to get a clean trace to colour/paint/etc. off of.
My coworker just opened a four gig file. I don't know if that system would allow her to undo!
That being said, Photoshop is way overkill for ICO files and actually need a plugin to properly save to that format. I think the emphasis and audience exists in the title: Photoshop.
Well on a more basic level, this is tied to the back-end servers more than client machines, and while this isn't the year of "Linux on the Desktop", there's no way you can safely ignore Linux servers, or the developers who use them.
You know, I may be one sick puppy for admitting this, but I had zero interest in this game before I read that summary. I'm just finishing up Metroid 3: Corruption, and I gotta say that the little gimmicky Wiimote actions ("Hold A, and twist the wiimote counter-clockwise...") are actually pretty fun. They're good for immersion and make an interesting new game mechanic.
So, being able to do the same with a shank? I'm in.
If you're really keen on hiding anything from GoogleBot, it's not difficult. GoogleBot doesn't understand Javascript, so you can play with all sorts of DOM manipulation to create/hide content. On top of that, I don't know if GoogleBot is yet smart enough to get past the whole "white-text-on-a-white-background" trick used to show GoogleBot one set of content, and the user another.
I'm a post-college web dev and I can definitely comisserate. Part of it is being stuck behind a monitor all day will just drain your energy and focus, and I don't know about you, but I'm still in a 6hr a night college sleep cycle which just tends to wear me down after a heavy week.
My solution so far is to get up, walk/stretch on occasion, and in our office it's generally allowed to pop out to Starbucks for a few minutes which A) gets you caffeine, and B) gives you a chance to run across the street and get your blood pumping again.
I'll agree here, the closest thing to a major difference between the various distributions is the package manager, and even in that space you're looking at some variant of APT or RPM.
Amen brutha! I'm currently charging my N800 at work, and I love this little bugger. Now, how did you manage to get it to sync up with your headphones? I've heard that Bluetooth syncing with headsets is nothing short of horrible.
I'll second this one. I did post-college apartment hunting about two years ago, and at the time there were a handful of articles in the Economist and stories on NPR about the "Housing Bubble" and dire omen of its impending burst.
So, about two years off, but this market correct has been a long time coming, though the "Sub Prime Lending Crisis" may have been more of a dark horse.
Well, that's another interesting point, but can you buy music on the market elsewhere? A number of record studios seem to believe so, and there's always the Zune Marketplace, Yahoo Music, and Napster.
Yes, they're not as popular as iTunes, but there are plenty of options to look into if you don't like it.
Are they acting like Microsoft? Well, yeah, just a bit, but there's active competition in the marketplace, so if Apple does something stupid and universally hated among their customer base, then said customer base will quickly learn of the other options in the marketplace, and revolt.
Wait, it's becoming a monopoly in portable audio? I'm pretty sure you can find non-iPod audio devices pretty easily. Chances are, you make phonecalls on one. There's also the butt-tonne of PDAs and other devices out there which can play MP3s these days so it might be a difficult case to say they have the monopoly on portable audio devices.
Do they have the sexiest most awesome-est, shiny MP3 player out there? You betcha, but there are viable alternatives in the marketplace that won't be going away any time soon.
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You have a very strange definition of "non-gratuitously", when you're pimping a site that's Flash, top-to-bottom, and doesn't use the platform for a single thing that standard HTML and CSS can't do.
I agree, but as a designer who often has to work on a tight budget, "Print" styles get thrown out the window as soon as the client sees the price tag.
If I can shave $100 from a proposal by cutting a feature that very few users make use of, then my client is that much happier. Sad but true.
Then again most CSS-based sites don't look that horrible when you strip off the screen stylesheets, so it rarely becomes an issue.
Progressive Enhancement
You can have your shiny Flash interface without leaving the rest of the web out in the cold. It just requires a bit more finesse than your average Photoshop jockey can bring to the table.
Honestly, I think they can share the blame on that one. While Apple has been known to get a little gung-ho about its updates in the past, I can't imagine that Adobe's "Not invented here" mentality helps the situation much. I run IT/Development for a small graphics company, and in many ways, Adobe just doesn't like to play nice with the platform.
Technically that's tracking. Leading is the space between lines of text.
Considering this is whole "Linux" thing started off as a hobbyist platform, I can see plenty of places where someone might develop software for him/herself or for use internally within an organisation. I think the ability to legally use/tweak/patch/mangle/pervert/modify any GPLv3 code for your own end is hardly an "academic" distinction compared to the "loko but don't touch" mentality of these MPL licenses.
You're only going to get a Distro Upgrade option if there's one available. This has been true for for Edgy -> Feisty, for each Gutsy beta release, and probably for Feisty -> Gutsy.
Effectively, this button is offering to do the same as 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' (versus the standard 'sudo apt-get upgrade'), so you're not going to see it if dist-upgrade returns '0 available packages'.
You can, however, use RPMs pretty freely through Alien, which gives you far more options in package selection.
Word processors and browsers, mate. Basically any standard which allows for interpretation is going to have formatting quirks. The standards focus 90% of their efforts on displaying data correctly regardless of the viewing platform. Therefore, the viewing platform implementation has a fair degree of wiggle room.
And honestly, for websites, it does tend to work out. While my PDA and cellphone can't properly render a webpage built with cutting edge CSS, Javascript, AJAX, etc... it displays the core data of the page quite nicely. The implementation is severely constrained by the device, but because of the way the standard's constructed the page is still usable.
Defining formatting in a strict manner hampers possible implementations, which need to be flexible enough to adapt to their platform, be it WinXP, OSX, Gnome, KDE, cellphone, or intelligent bucket. If you need perfect formatting across platforms, use PDF, Tex, or desktop publishing software, which are designed to strictly enforce formatting, and embed fonts where needed.
Aye, Fedora, CentOS, Manriva, Red Hat, YDL, and Suse all use RPM at their core to handle package management. Not necessarily the RPM updater program (Yast and YUM fill in for this on some systems), but the package format. Personally I've found RPM to be a very difficult package format to work with simply due to the architecture. RPM gives you far more flexibility in installing new packages, but lacks a central repository for installing new applications or managing dependencies.
So, RPM is fantastic for some situations, but as I said before, I find it far easier to hang yourself than APT which uses a central database to track applications and dependencies. It's easy to get stuck in dependnency hell with RPM, but it does afford you greater package flexibility.
My problem with Fedora is the package management, to be honest. Personally I've found RPM to be much easier to hang yourself with then APT, but hey, that may just be ignorance of the tools on my part.
As far as security and stability, I'd definitely look at something with a long-term support option, as taking a production server offline to upgrade the distribution in order to get needed security updates just isn't an option. Debian is really good about backporting security patches, so you can stay patched and still use an older distribution, and I know Ubuntu does something similar with their LTS support.
Just my $0.02
As a professional artist / amateur illustrator, and working around some fantastically talented people, I gotta say that any raster program you're working with isn't going to cut it for really awesome quality illustrations/webcomics.
What I've found works best is to take the pencil sketch and then either preliminarily ink it, or scan it in to Illustrator (though I'm sure Inkscape would work well enough too. If you've got a Wacom or similar tablet, you can do inking in Illustrator and use the pressure sensitivity of the pen to get some very natural lines. After that, take the "inked" illustration into Photoshop and paint under it for a good clean illustration.
Outside of that, you could ink/trace over vellum, scan in the inked sheet, and use Illustrator's "live trace" (prolly in Inkscape too) as another way to get a good vector version of the illustration.
And hell, failing all that, you can always just use a Wacom tablet + brush tool and draw directly in Photoshop/GIMP over the scanned image.
I guess the moral of the story is that taking pencil art into a final piece is just painful, and you should just use something, anything to get a clean trace to colour/paint/etc. off of.
My coworker just opened a four gig file. I don't know if that system would allow her to undo!
That being said, Photoshop is way overkill for ICO files and actually need a plugin to properly save to that format. I think the emphasis and audience exists in the title: Photoshop.
Well on a more basic level, this is tied to the back-end servers more than client machines, and while this isn't the year of "Linux on the Desktop", there's no way you can safely ignore Linux servers, or the developers who use them.
You know, I may be one sick puppy for admitting this, but I had zero interest in this game before I read that summary. I'm just finishing up Metroid 3: Corruption, and I gotta say that the little gimmicky Wiimote actions ("Hold A, and twist the wiimote counter-clockwise...") are actually pretty fun. They're good for immersion and make an interesting new game mechanic.
So, being able to do the same with a shank? I'm in.
If you're really keen on hiding anything from GoogleBot, it's not difficult. GoogleBot doesn't understand Javascript, so you can play with all sorts of DOM manipulation to create/hide content. On top of that, I don't know if GoogleBot is yet smart enough to get past the whole "white-text-on-a-white-background" trick used to show GoogleBot one set of content, and the user another.
And don't forget Launchd!
I'm a post-college web dev and I can definitely comisserate. Part of it is being stuck behind a monitor all day will just drain your energy and focus, and I don't know about you, but I'm still in a 6hr a night college sleep cycle which just tends to wear me down after a heavy week.
My solution so far is to get up, walk/stretch on occasion, and in our office it's generally allowed to pop out to Starbucks for a few minutes which A) gets you caffeine, and B) gives you a chance to run across the street and get your blood pumping again.
I'll agree here, the closest thing to a major difference between the various distributions is the package manager, and even in that space you're looking at some variant of APT or RPM.
...and had sex with a man.
Amen brutha! I'm currently charging my N800 at work, and I love this little bugger. Now, how did you manage to get it to sync up with your headphones? I've heard that Bluetooth syncing with headsets is nothing short of horrible.
I'll second this one. I did post-college apartment hunting about two years ago, and at the time there were a handful of articles in the Economist and stories on NPR about the "Housing Bubble" and dire omen of its impending burst.
So, about two years off, but this market correct has been a long time coming, though the "Sub Prime Lending Crisis" may have been more of a dark horse.
Well, that's another interesting point, but can you buy music on the market elsewhere? A number of record studios seem to believe so, and there's always the Zune Marketplace, Yahoo Music, and Napster.
Yes, they're not as popular as iTunes, but there are plenty of options to look into if you don't like it.
Are they acting like Microsoft? Well, yeah, just a bit, but there's active competition in the marketplace, so if Apple does something stupid and universally hated among their customer base, then said customer base will quickly learn of the other options in the marketplace, and revolt.
This is what separates them from Microsoft.
Wait, it's becoming a monopoly in portable audio? I'm pretty sure you can find non-iPod audio devices pretty easily. Chances are, you make phonecalls on one. There's also the butt-tonne of PDAs and other devices out there which can play MP3s these days so it might be a difficult case to say they have the monopoly on portable audio devices.
Do they have the sexiest most awesome-est, shiny MP3 player out there? You betcha, but there are viable alternatives in the marketplace that won't be going away any time soon.