Do your Mitochlorians dancing to a Flamenco rythym?
Bryan Sykes, geneticist and author of “The Seven Daughters of Eve” has found that a majority of the Celts emigrated from Spain to the British Isles 6000 years ago.
A central theme of Bryan’s research and books is that we are all more closely related to each other than we realise, and you inherit your Mitchondrial DNA from your mother.
If you have yet to read either of his books, put them on your Christmas wish list.
Be warned, I am on the lookout! Offenders will be prosecuted and exposed.
Atlantis Landing Delayed: Mystery Object in space. From what I can see, NASA is now dumping plastic bags in space. Let’s hope some that some hyper-intelligent inter-galactic space whales don’t accidently mistake the trash as zero-gravity squid monster and beach themselves on the dust of the moon.
Conspiracy Theory #475658. NASA wants to destroy the planet, so it’s leaving its trash behind. NASA will then be forced into working out how to populate other parts of the galaxy. This will require more budget from the US Congress.
Next time, use reusable shopping bags.
A part of the Acrobat 8 launch today, Creative Suite Premium is getting a revamp.
And not just with Acrobat 8. Goodbye GoLive, hello Dreamweaver 8.
GoLive Systems, a small Hamburg Mac-only developer, was purchased by Adobe before the dotcom boom. Sadly, it might have been the boom’s first casualty as it languished behind Dreamweaver.
No surprises here.
As I am no longer “inside the Adobe-loop”, I found out about the announcement courtesy of Robert Scoble’s post. Of all people!
My first question: where is the beta of the Reader? With Acrobat 7.0, the beta Reader shipped very close to the announce. Also, Intel Mac users; I am assuming its Universal binary, as the system requirements clearly mention “Intel” processors. There are still too many Windows-only features for a denizen and poster-child for cross-platformness (read Forms Designer).
OK, onto the good stuff. Forms are the bane of everyone’s existence. Even lawyers.
Every paper form that I have to fill out I cringe. Purposely, I filled in the last Census online.
All forms should be online/digital/electronic.
They should be smart, and know who I am. There have been some attempts at getting browsers to remember data.
They don’t have to match printed forms; if a physical (or wet) signature is required: I should be able to just print + sign. Smarter forms will let me fill in online and submit online or via email. Securely.
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional:
Enable advanced features in Adobe Reader
Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
If you are small organisation, and just want to collect data quickly, it looks like Acrobat 8 (Professional) is going to help out. The Datasheet has a footnote “For ad-hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people”
One of the most frustrating, and therefore commented on missing abilities has been for people to be able send out forms, and have anyone with the free Reader fill it in, and send it back. Previously, the only mechanism has been to purchase a big block of code called “Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extension Server“
This lead to all sort of hocus-pocus Javascript libraries, and server-hackeries. Thankfully, software is making it simpler. Like it should be.
I note with interest that guys at PlanetPDF.com in Melbourne has missed this one as at 6:30pm AEST.
eknowledger lists the top 10 stressful professions. IT is top of the list.
Bad Management seems to be also a bug bear.
Watching the Parallels web site, I noted that the engineers had posted some more info, and a later build. 1896.2 I don’t know what the .2 means; probably that .1 wasn’t quite right.
Waiting for a better video driver (to use up the 256Mb of the MacBook Pro, without resorting to Boot Camp)
Anyway:
Is Vista RC1 build 5600 installed and launched OK. Office 2003 installed perfectly on RC1; now I am hunting down an installer for Office 2007. Dontcha just love software?
Beta Technical Refresh 2 on Beta 2 on Release Candidate 1 on build 2 of Release Candidate 2 on MacOS 10.4.7. Schwarzwaelder Kirschtorte.
Speaking of cakes, Acrobat 8.0 is announced. I don’t have Acrobat 8 in any form, so I cannot add the cherries.
Using old tapes of the USSR Venera missions to Venus, Don Mitchell a retired Bell Labs and Microsoft Researcher, used Photoshop to “clean up the images”
How long before these turn up on Google Universe?
