http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle380-20060813-03.html
Geeky domain name, but well-spoken.
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It’s official, I’m a “switcher.” My Mac Pro is on the way (stock-issue to prevent customization delays). I watched Steve Jobs’ presentation and drank the Kool-aide, plus I’ve been running OS X 10.3 under PearPC for a few weeks and I’m pretty impressed (except, of course, with the speed of eumlating a PowerMac on my already-slow PC).
The fun part is that I’m not giving up anything I use regularly: - Mozilla Firefox - Mozilla Thunderbird - Photoshop CS2 - Bibble Pro 4.
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Ok, it’s the first time I’ve seen it at least:
http://www.fatalexception.org/action_item.html
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WinFS was the only reason I was looking forward to Vista, and it’s gone. No smart search folders, no attribute-indexing goodness. Time for Google to step up and get GDS 3.0 to rock WinFS’s socks off.
The last thing I need from Microsoft is a $200 transluscent window dressing upgrade with free DRM, an upgrade to a browser I don’t use, and God-knows-what NSA backdoors. So now I’m definitely buying a Mac when the new Intel-based towers come out.
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I’ve been using transparent PNGs for a number of years on IE6 using the DXTransform hack, encapsulated neatly away as a behaviour on a global CSS file.
But today, I figured out that if you use the DirectX alpha filter on a PNG that is loaded as the result of an XmlHttpRequest, IE6 hangs. Badly.
So, because my new AJAH application regularly passes back img tags to PNGs, I have to turn off global transparent goodness and then turn the behavior back on only for image references I give a specific CSS class (which I called “alpha”).
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I haven’t posted in awhile… been busy at work, plus I’ve been doing some work on my fashion photography portfolio this month. Photo shoots tend to suck down the free time quickly (planning before, retouching afterward). Two more shoots planned for the month, one this weekend (studio) and one while we’re in Austin on the 25th.
Random thought of the day… have you ever watched CSI or NCIS wondered how much more productive you would be on your job if you only had a few large plasma monitors and some hard-core trance music playing in the background?
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Ok, this is really just pissing me off.
ISPs being required to track and store the online activities of innocent citizens is just beyond the pale for a free country.
Would you allow the police to install cameras in your car or home and track your movements? Under this administration’s definition of freedom, you should, because child molestors and serial killers and drug dealers and terrorists all use cars and houses.
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The next GTD?
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So, rather than spending time developing software we actually need, Microsoft is coming up with their own proprietary “competitor” to the JPEG format. Some lame photographer hack was quoted on ZDNet as being in favor of Microsoft’s newest attempt to lock us into their data formats, so here’s the opinion of a programmer/photographer who has actually read the spec.
==The Good== - 32-bit floating point format support for HDR. - 8-bit and 16-bit lossless and lossy modes.
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Ok, Bruce said it much better than I could.
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