I agree.
For what it is worth, when I run into someone who just needs to fiddle with photos they took on their fancy new camera; I always recommend the GIMP.
If they say "I want to learn to build a professional looking website and do all my own content creation including mastering video", then I'll suggest Adobe's suites.
It is pretty dumb to stick it in a metal box. That is only 43 notes. You can easily shove that much in a decently broken in wallet or $30 money belt's compartment.
Not that he should have gotten in trouble for such a small amount, just there are smarter ways to transport cash. Having had three suitcases lost by airlines, there is no way in hell I would put even my favorite shirt in a suitcase for the airlines to handle.
Hint; If you are moving american dollars around it is a good idea to rinse and iron them. Too many notes can set off a drug dog due to residues. Plus the ladies will think you are cool when you pull out crisp bills to buy your Starwars action figures.
As a long time user of Photoshop (13 years now?) I will boldy pop into this thread and inform you GIMP is like Photoshop from ~10 years ago minus easily obtained plugins. Going further, the CS4 suite has zero threat of losing market share to open source alternatives in the professional realm.
Blender, on the other hand, is quite useful for modelling in such an environment. It doesn't hold a flame to Maya, but there is much less of a rift than GIMP vs Photoshop.
Agreed. Proliant FTW! Oh wait, HP is a bunch of fuckers too.
Wow, you can copy and paste.
You didn't do a quick google before throwing down money on a used security device? This is similar to picking up a used spam appliance for $100 and demanding a free subscription to updated signatures.
Sorry dude, those signatures aren't written by the signature writing security fairy on top of twinkle toe mountain. People are paid to do it and that money has to come from a stable business model.
Don't like it? Build up something using open source and roll with it, nobody is going to stop you and you should probably work it into a distributable ISO and share with the rest of the world for free. But for the love of god, don't whine about companies who let you know up front what subscription rates are for their appliances. IF YOU DONT LIKE OR NEED IT DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Apologies, but sometimes you have to type in caps to remind people everything on the goddamned planet isn't going to be free and served to them on a silver platter.
Perhaps you should crack a window. The air in your mother's basement must be getting high carbon dioxide levels today.
If every OS image being installed was at least the latest "image" from one quarter ago, we definitely would have less problems as time goes by with new systems going online almost fully-patched and old patched systems go offline.
That's not a Microsoft issue. That's the responsibility of companies selling the systems with Windows installed. For instance, if you get a Dell or HP box with a Win7 to XP downgrade installed, you'll get a patched up copy of XP SP3 on your new system. You won't get the first press of XP's gold image from years ago with no service packs or patches.
Geeze ppl.. Where do you come up with this crap?
To quote Star Trek - "It's logic Spock, I thought you'd like that?"
It's logic alright, albeit very flawed.
Oh, I have paid for legit student copies of MS products. But they always come hamstrung with things like a 1 install limit, so if you reformat you're SOL. That's why you have to resort to piracy to be able to use what you actually paid for.
Just so you know, there is no "one install limit" on any Microsoft license. That would be ridiculous. There is a OEM license which is the tightest, allowing activation on a single motherboard, and requires a call to their WGA helpdesk for revalidation if your motherboard "failed" (ie, upgraded your hardware and want to be sneaky and get your system license moved over to the new one). If you are just doing the old Nuke n Pave, well, this doesn't affect any MS license. You'll still have the same hardware, thus will pass activation when the system has finished reinstalling.
But, the big one here.. There are no OEM system-bound licenses under their academic licenses, so I think you are trying to tell a tall tale to FUD Microsoft and fit in with the Linux crowd. Academic, by nature is loose enough to remove a license from one system and install on another since it's intended for lab environments, experimenting, etc.
If this is how you decide which hardware is best for a user, then I feel sorry for the people you build computers for. Microsoft, ATI, Nvidia, Logitech, Intel have all done shitty things but I don't intentionally give my clients sub-par configurations over personal, short-sighted grudges.
The only Nvidia card costing $500 is the GTX295, well at least for the market we are discussing. It's still quicker and slicker than any of ATI's current offerings so why, pray tell, would you be trying to mix it with an ATI at this point? I have one and, well, couldn't imagine any reason to waste RAM/CPU on multiple video drivers.
If you are talking about getting a $500 video card and sticking it on a board with integrated video, well, you've got some priority issues that you'll have to work out on your own.
I know this is probably something most people have looked down upon, but my friends and I used to dumpster dive at hardware distributors in my area just about every weekend. I got things like tower cases, empty raid chassis, piles of working hard drives, decent office supplies, etc. If not ordained, you'd be amazed at how 'clean' most computer company's dumpsters are. No food waste, diapers, or other grizzly things. Just cardboard boxes, all the anti-static bags you could ever want and the occasional soda can.
We all grew older, made more money and cut out the practice, but I was wondering if any of you currently do this? We would often run into police officers since they are curious about people in a business complex at 12am, but were often friendly and left us to our task. Is this still how it goes? I'd imagine with identity theft, coppers may be a little more agressive with people digging through the garbage.
Gotta love the OSS trolls. Amazing how on this dual boot box, Vista64 completes scene renders in Blender much quicker than it does in Ubuntu. The viewport is also quite a bit snappier in Windows. Sometimes mixing the two in various ways works better than claiming to be any sort of "purist".
Plus, Gimp + random assortment of graphical apps don't really hold a candle to Adobe's CS4 right now. With the additions of CUDA/PhysX accelerated plugins and OpenGl accelerated viewport, it's a whole different world editting large images while Gimp, well, gimps along doing the best it can. It's still a superior choice for a cost concious person, but not really in the same level of application nowadays.
Oh he's just trolling. I've got a KDE box sitting next to this one with 1GB in it and it would be hard pressed to have all that crap open without being swap city, even painful with a set of Raptor drives.
If, he's actually being honest, he really doesn't have any clue what it's actually like to sit at a workstation with 6-12gb of ram, superfetch enabled with an intel SSD holding the OS and swap. Lightyears of a difference.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
