"But one of them is, say you have lost your watch. Well, you just go to your PC and make the watch make as much noise as it can. Then it will just start beeping away, and then you can go find it."
Yes. That's right Bill. I will be buying the watch on that basis. Nurr.
a) I presume they don't do this for a living. b) German humour. Hahaha. Gut, ja?
That said, debunking Mac rumours is a long-standing and much cherished activity; my all-time favourite being the "net-booting G5 Palm". No way did I spend a chilly 48 hours in a cardboard box outside MY local AppleCentre when I heard that!
Spend a tenner on a ball. Get some people together. Find some green space. Use jumpers as goalposts. Play football. Ask one player to keep score. Afterwards, in the bar, assess each other's footballing ability in a haze of lager and spittle. rinse and repeat.
Very interesting comments here and in your blog. The release of Quark 5 was all about seeing out the old Quark development cycle with the concomitant requirement to get as much revenue from a major release as possible. Quark admitted as much to us, recently. As you know, one of Quark's "lovable" aspects was not releasing ANYTHING for years, then expecting a captive market to pony up for a major release -which most of us did (Quark 3 - 4 and, unbelieveably, 4 - 5). This "new release every five years" hurts us AND Quark. They're changing that now. Unfortunately, for Quark's bottom line, v5 for Mac OS 9 had to happen. Actually, you said it well yourself. With a slightly jaundiced view of the last 10 years, it's no surprise that Quark can pin the blame easily on Apple's OS vacillation; that's not the whole story though!
Thing is... we heard that the UK office had closed too. There is a major restructuring in progress. Whether that means the end of Quark Inc as we know it remains to be seen. In the light of Fred's recent stated desire to move kit'n'caboodle into the Windows world and the rumoured decamping to India, it suddenly all seems to make sense!
Quark 6.0 better had be carbonised, because it's only going to support Mac OS X! I think they may actually be doing a proper number on it this time, instead of Adobe's carbonisation. At least that's what Quark's people told me. They also sold me a bridge.
I heard this too. My immediate reaction was that some heroic spin had been applied to the REAL story about the meeting. After the preliminary name-calling and fistfight, Steve and Fred were pulled apart, dusted down and made to sit through a mindnumbing PowerPoint presentation that told Fred:
Every other product you've launched APART from XPress has failed. Most of your user base is on the Macintosh. They're going to Mac OS X and you're holding them back. Meanwhile, Adobe has a product that works on X now...today... and can be used with a little prior knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Steve's slide was: There's a significant percentage of major publishers who might just take this opportunity to dump the Macintosh and slide all those legacy Quark files over to Windows. Because, really, is that migration going to be any more fraught than a forced migration to X when you don't even know if your principal software (and attendant Xtensions) is coming along for the ride? XPress on Windows might be an unpalatable choice, but at least it's there. Right?
I've completely forgotten the point I was trying to make.
"Does an off-the-shelf software package, which is scalable as this is provide competition to custom packages--is it easier to add machines than develop custom programs?"
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I thought that was in reference to Carl Sagan taking offence to a beep they'd named in his honour?
Compete with your Windows box?
Compete at what?
"But one of them is, say you have lost your watch. Well, you just go to your PC and make the watch make as much noise as it can. Then it will just start beeping away, and then you can go find it."
Yes. That's right Bill. I will be buying the watch on that basis. Nurr.
It's not funny, but then...
a) I presume they don't do this for a living.
b) German humour. Hahaha. Gut, ja?
That said, debunking Mac rumours is a long-standing and much cherished activity; my all-time favourite being the "net-booting G5 Palm". No way did I spend a chilly 48 hours in a cardboard box outside MY local AppleCentre when I heard that!
Oh.
Spend a tenner on a ball. Get some people together. Find some green space. Use jumpers as goalposts. Play football. Ask one player to keep score.
Afterwards, in the bar, assess each other's footballing ability in a haze of lager and spittle.
rinse and repeat.
"NASA"/"rocket scientist"
Very droll...
Now back to our normal programming.
You got it.
That's as much as I can say now. Just remembered, I signed an NDA...
Very interesting comments here and in your blog.
The release of Quark 5 was all about seeing out the old Quark development cycle with the concomitant requirement to get as much revenue from a major release as possible.
Quark admitted as much to us, recently. As you know, one of Quark's "lovable" aspects was not releasing ANYTHING for years, then expecting a captive market to pony up for a major release -which most of us did (Quark 3 - 4 and, unbelieveably, 4 - 5). This "new release every five years" hurts us AND Quark. They're changing that now. Unfortunately, for Quark's bottom line, v5 for Mac OS 9 had to happen.
Actually, you said it well yourself. With a slightly jaundiced view of the last 10 years, it's no surprise that Quark can pin the blame easily on Apple's OS vacillation; that's not the whole story though!
Thing is...
we heard that the UK office had closed too. There is a major restructuring in progress. Whether that means the end of Quark Inc as we know it remains to be seen.
In the light of Fred's recent stated desire to move kit'n'caboodle into the Windows world and the rumoured decamping to India, it suddenly all seems to make sense!
Quark 6.0 better had be carbonised, because it's only going to support Mac OS X!
I think they may actually be doing a proper number on it this time, instead of Adobe's carbonisation. At least that's what Quark's people told me.
They also sold me a bridge.
I heard this too. My immediate reaction was that some heroic spin had been applied to the REAL story about the meeting. After the preliminary name-calling and fistfight, Steve and Fred were pulled apart, dusted down and made to sit through a mindnumbing PowerPoint presentation that told Fred:
Every other product you've launched APART from XPress has failed. Most of your user base is on the Macintosh. They're going to Mac OS X and you're holding them back. Meanwhile, Adobe has a product that works on X now...today... and can be used with a little prior knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Steve's slide was:
There's a significant percentage of major publishers who might just take this opportunity to dump the Macintosh and slide all those legacy Quark files over to Windows. Because, really, is that migration going to be any more fraught than a forced migration to X when you don't even know if your principal software (and attendant Xtensions) is coming along for the ride? XPress on Windows might be an unpalatable choice, but at least it's there. Right?
I've completely forgotten the point I was trying to make.
Well, I would donate my face. But as I resemble a sack of King edward potatoes, I'm pretty sure there would be no takers.
This was around yesterday. Wasn't it?
Some other names we can all have a laugh about:
Severiano Ballesteros!
Deng Xiaoping!!
Wim Kok!!!
*sigh*
Very funny.
"grassroots" / "astroturf"?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Actually, you've made a very good point about the environment/AIDS'n'cancer drugs and now I feel slightly ashamed for scoffing at your weak pun.
you know, I *never* get tired of reading this...
"Does an off-the-shelf software package, which is scalable as this is provide competition to custom packages--is it easier to add machines than develop custom programs?"
After a few pints... we don't care
And that's all I have to say on this.
Second it would be easier for pervs to find porn
Ah, I see what you've done there. You mean "the rest of us" to find porn, don't you?
Thought so...
I think it's fair to point out to /. readers, that William Rees-Mogg is possibly the most out-of-touch man in modern Britain.
Next!
Just my four penn'rth.
Damn right! after all, what *IS* the PlayStation2's ability to run PSX games all about if not emulation? blah
Best piece of software? Yer kidding, right? Sorry. It's a bit of a stinker...I'll stick with the slight-less-stinky IE5.
duh... The Outsider...hey, it's early.