LinuxPPC will not create a linux graphics market:)
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Just because you can run Linux on a hot mac doesn't mean that Design/Graphics professionals will move there.
There are reasons too numerous to mention, but it has to do with many tiny and tightly integrated applications that only really run correctly under macOS. It'd take years.
Also fonts -- there are essentially no designer type foundaries (other than Adobe and other mega-foundaries) that produce fonts for *nix systems (even windows is incredibly behind)
The Design market isn't going anywhere methinks...
As a counterexample, I am a momma's boy (living in a different city), pseudo-geeky, can cook Italian and French quite well, live with two roommates, wear alot of unusual designer clothes, am not unusually ego-maniacal, work the web in its various machinations, do not want to sleep with all my female friends, do go to bars - but usually for a drink after work rather than the possibility of picking up some floosy, am relatively confident and outgoing, and genuinely enjoy working with people that I can learn from.
So there:)
I don't mean to sound reactionary (I'm sure I do), but this post is riddled with the same preconceptions and forceful empiricisim that it is ment to counteract. I am just a little miffed that I have just been told that some surface traits I may have reflect negatively on my character.
Image Setters that output the film that eventually gets turned into a plate for offset printing START at about 2000 dpi, and I have had experience with ones in excess of 3800. You simply cannot render truely excellent artwork (type, image, whatever) on a screen until things get bumped waaay up.
Not to dis this innovation though: I am very excited that these high-density panels are coming together. That will hopefully allow developers to design GUIs that have a higher pixel-per-inch orientation. Most GUIs are designed to cram the maximum working area into a relatively low-res display, keeping the GUI interface elements at an absolute minimum pixel count...
When displays of this density become a working standard for computing, it will force developers to reevaluate uses of screen real-estate, simply for the purposes of ledgibility. Pretty cool.
The best way to keep a system running clean but allow the user full access to the system is to run a system like revdist or assimilator. They both have a HD image on a server that is restored to each workstation after a preset time period or number of restarts. Pretty cool. The HD restoration periods arent exactly lightning quick, but they still keep things running clean and fast when you are actually USING the system. cheers,
>>Future versions of Winamp may not play those "horrible pirated mp3s."
I see that possibility as all-too-plausible, but you know that SOMEONE will hack the offensive code out of the new winamp before you can say "RIAA" cheers!
Good solution.. Sony MZ-R55 (+ good mics)
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Ah, this is a little off-topic, but an extremely small MD recorder would be good for you (perhaps, read on)
That is truely where MD shines - good hardware. There is a lot of BAD ASS kit that is being released in japan. Go to http://www.minidisc.org to read up on the latest japanese units.
With regards to getting an extremely small recorder: The sony MZ-R55 is the one to buy. The price is around $350 msrp ($275 discounted street price?) and it is the top-o-the heap recorder at the moment. It's even pretty easy to get a hold of one.
With regard to recording at concerts: Depending on the type of music you are recording (this applies particularly to symphonic music) using binural microphones (a tiny stero pair that can be clipped to your ears) can yield remarkable fidelity. You should check out this article.
Oh jeez, You must see this. There is a bizzarre parody of precisely the type of "personal" website that you speak of. It's in three parts (be sure to view them sequentially!:) Some unusual high-profile people in the graphic design world were involved... http://www.tank20.com/MARSHA/ cheers.
I don't really understand why you would want to buy this sort of thing. When you buy a firewire card, the idea is that you already have some sort of digital video cam or DV vcr laying around. The advantage there is that you can use the (expensive-ass) decoding hardware in the deck or camera - as well as transfer the data digitally. If you are starting with analogue video data, you would be much better off buying something like a Miro DC20 or some such encoder/decoder card. The usually have analog ins and outs for video and stereo audio (RCA) and provide the chipset to play back the hi-rez captured stream at (hopefully) a broadcast quality (30frames-60fields/sec). If you buy a firewire card without some firewire harware, you are no better off and out some bucks.... BUT if this whole post is off topic and you DO have a DV cam, you have all the hardware you need right there! I am postive that the XL-1 (cannon) and the higher end prosumer Sony models have RCA ins for video and audio. You just digitize your signal there, then dump over the firewire and keep your workflow intact:) Ciao!! -3jane
When evaluating SCSI you really must consider it (at least in its present incarnations) to be a _performance-based_ standard. High-end SCSI is one hundred percent about maximum read/write speed at max high efficency. You don't honestly need to go with scsi unless you are working with applications that are extremely drive-intensive. Photoshop, Digital Video, Multitrack Digital Audio... Also for mission critical server data with RAID mirroring. SCSI is complicated because there are about a zillion different applications that it can be tailored for. The standards don't compete. They just go up in price and performance....
All I gotta say is that Ultra2LVD is gonna kick firewire's ass for at least a year. I won't go firewire until it is performance proven.
I don't mean to sound preachy:) but I looove SCSI -3jane
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Just because you can run Linux on a hot mac doesn't mean that Design/Graphics professionals will move there.
There are reasons too numerous to mention, but it has to do with many tiny and tightly integrated applications that only really run correctly under macOS. It'd take years.
Also fonts -- there are essentially no designer type foundaries (other than Adobe and other mega-foundaries) that produce fonts for *nix systems (even windows is incredibly behind)
The Design market isn't going anywhere methinks...
cheers,
.3jane[ltk]
Hehe, all said, I missed the forest for the trees
My eye for delicate parody can sometimes only reach as far as my own humor:)
Cheers,
.3jane[ltk]
As a counterexample,
I am a momma's boy (living in a different city), pseudo-geeky, can cook Italian and French quite well, live with two roommates, wear alot of unusual designer clothes, am not unusually ego-maniacal, work the web in its various machinations, do not want to sleep with all my female friends, do go to bars - but usually for a drink after work rather than the possibility of picking up some floosy, am relatively confident and outgoing, and genuinely enjoy working with people that I can learn from.
So there :)
I don't mean to sound reactionary (I'm sure I do), but this post is riddled with the same preconceptions and forceful empiricisim that it is ment to counteract.
I am just a little miffed that I have just been told that some surface traits I may have reflect negatively on my character.
Thank you,
.3jane[ltk]
(yes, I am male)
Image Setters that output the film that eventually gets turned into a plate for offset printing START at about 2000 dpi, and I have had experience with ones in excess of 3800. You simply cannot render truely excellent artwork (type, image, whatever) on a screen until things get bumped waaay up.
Not to dis this innovation though: I am very excited that these high-density panels are coming together. That will hopefully allow developers to design GUIs that have a higher pixel-per-inch orientation. Most GUIs are designed to cram the maximum working area into a relatively low-res display, keeping the GUI interface elements at an absolute minimum pixel count...
When displays of this density become a working standard for computing, it will force developers to reevaluate uses of screen real-estate, simply for the purposes of ledgibility. Pretty cool.
The best way to keep a system running clean but allow the user full access to the system is to run a system like revdist or assimilator. They both have a HD image on a server that is restored to each workstation after a preset time period or number of restarts. Pretty cool. The HD restoration periods arent exactly lightning quick, but they still keep things running clean and fast when you are actually USING the system.
cheers,
>>Future versions of Winamp may not play those "horrible pirated mp3s."
I see that possibility as all-too-plausible, but you know that SOMEONE will hack the offensive code out of the new winamp before you can say "RIAA"
cheers!
Ah, this is a little off-topic, but an extremely small MD recorder would be good for you (perhaps, read on)
That is truely where MD shines - good hardware.
There is a lot of BAD ASS kit that is being released in japan. Go to http://www.minidisc.org to read up on the latest japanese units.
With regards to getting an extremely small recorder: The sony MZ-R55 is the one to buy. The price is around $350 msrp ($275 discounted street price?) and it is the top-o-the heap recorder at the moment. It's even pretty easy to get a hold of one.
With regard to recording at concerts:
Depending on the type of music you are recording (this applies particularly to symphonic music) using binural microphones (a tiny stero pair that can be clipped to your ears) can yield remarkable fidelity. You should check out this article.
Cheers!
http://www.mp3enhancer.com
the site's weird and a little buggy - but thats the one.
Oh jeez,
You must see this. There is a bizzarre parody of precisely the type of "personal" website that you speak of. It's in three parts (be sure to view them sequentially!:) Some unusual high-profile people in the graphic design world were involved...
http://www.tank20.com/MARSHA/
cheers.
I don't really understand why you would want to buy this sort of thing. When you buy a firewire card, the idea is that you already have some sort of digital video cam or DV vcr laying around. The advantage there is that you can use the (expensive-ass) decoding hardware in the deck or camera - as well as transfer the data digitally. If you are starting with analogue video data, you would be much better off buying something like a Miro DC20 or some such encoder/decoder card. The usually have analog ins and outs for video and stereo audio (RCA) and provide the chipset to play back the hi-rez captured stream at (hopefully) a broadcast quality (30frames-60fields/sec). If you buy a firewire card without some firewire harware, you are no better off and out some bucks.... :)
BUT if this whole post is off topic and you DO have a DV cam, you have all the hardware you need right there! I am postive that the XL-1 (cannon) and the higher end prosumer Sony models have RCA ins for video and audio. You just digitize your signal there, then dump over the firewire and keep your workflow intact
Ciao!!
-3jane
When evaluating SCSI you really must consider it (at least in its present incarnations) to be a _performance-based_ standard. High-end SCSI is one hundred percent about maximum read/write speed at max high efficency. You don't honestly need to go with scsi unless you are working with applications that are extremely drive-intensive. Photoshop, Digital Video, Multitrack Digital Audio... Also for mission critical server data with RAID mirroring. SCSI is complicated because there are about a zillion different applications that it can be tailored for. The standards don't compete. They just go up in price and performance....
:) but I looove SCSI
All I gotta say is that Ultra2LVD is gonna kick firewire's ass for at least a year. I won't go firewire until it is performance proven.
I don't mean to sound preachy
-3jane