Comment Imagine ... (Score 1) 171
Imagine they're installed in ANY product they ship. :-)
First, I would strongly disbelief anybody who is leaving company and bad-mouthing. There is no respect to such people at all. And he also probably violates NDA.
Second, I am hands-on on the GWT and I think the guy is just an idiot. They are not any sluggish, but the opposite. We built a number of software with GWT and we think this is a great way. jQuery? He is either does not understands what he is talking about or thinks people are morons.
Of course, there are discrepancies and people are moving. Even you left Oracle (the most proprietary, restrictive and fear treating company), still keep your fucking mouth shut and say only what is either good for people or refrain to comment.
I am working for banks long years, here is a bit of security sights for you.
I remember how we deployed GOST encryption at a number of Russian banks, by saying "Hey, but AES (Rijndael) is seems to be better (at least more attacked and thus proven to be secure). You know what did they said? They said: if you are needed to nobody, then anyway nobody cares. But if somebody will need you, then nothing will help you ever.
The moral of the story above is: people are so much paranoid about SSL strength, yet it is OK that all your private information is known everywhere around? Got your credit card? Then I assure you that all your most important information is there in the database. For example, before you get a credit card in a City Bank, we will check you from your top to your bottoms and if you seems to be not reliable, you will not get a credit card. How do we know about you, you think?
As of SSL strength: even 64 bit is impossible to decrypt, since your session lifetime is too short.
You are right (almost): Adobe InDesign is a mixture of Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator. But Inkscape is not designed for *text* layout. I mean, continuous text across columns or frames. This is well done in Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe InDesign now. Illustrator is more about graphics.
But taking into the account Gnome/GKT and KDE/QT jihad holywar, then they are rather deadly enemies.
ROFL! While you're finished reading this voluminous "overview", I already published my books and got a money. While you're programming your book layout, I already got money for publishing another one...
Yep, LaTeX can do complicated stuff, I know. It actually can do even more than Scribus or InDesign (music score, for example). But that's not the point what it can or can not. The point is what it is tend to do better, where "better" is a set of various factors, including dumb customer, graphical designer specifics and just a time.
just not via WYSIWYG
Bingo. And that's the deal: you need it fast, rightfuckinnow, often in front of your customer, you need it visually and very often you need to follow the mockup very carefully. So the in case of LaTeX you basically need to "decompile" visually the layout, translate in your mind to a LaTeX script, then render.
That would sound the same ridiculously, like "Hey, throw away GIMP or Photoshop, because we have an ImageMagick and a Bash".
Well, Scribus is like something "not-yet-QuarkXPress" or "almost PageMaker" or "Prototype of InDesign". Like you're drag-n-drop text, images, you put them visually etc. Is very good if the page is complicated (newspapers, magazines, posters, booklets).
LaTeX is more "compile this script" thing, that is good for a scientific papers and similar stuff, but is not the best choice for the things above.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT
