Regardless of how good it is, there's a fair bit of competition in online blogging systems
Quick! Phone Netscape and tell them how much trouble programs bundled with Windows have "competing" with the established players.
Regardless of that example, people will always prefer a package which provides a facility locally to one that operates over the web, even if the facility is web related. Everything works two or three orders of magnitude and more reliably when it's on your local processor using your local display.
Ultimately, that's why mainframes are still rare and Web 2.0 is hype. No one actually wants it. Which is better: maps.google.com or Google Earth? There's no contest, is there?
Webmail may appear to be contrary evidence, but in reality there is no good local competitor to webmails' killer feature: global access to your email. People who don't need that and can understand how to install a proper email client hate webmail.
Besides, when I think of Word, I think of letters & CVs & other formal stuff - certainly not blogging!
Funnily enough I have the opposite: I'd use Word (or Open Office) for quick one-sided notes or flyers with fancy text effects or other informal aspects, but for formal it has to be TeX every time.
It may be that Yahoo's search engine is better than MS's (just as a kick in the balls is better than being shot in the head) but to say that the world's richest company has no chance in any field just shows that the speaker is an idiot.
Pantone does not lie under CMYK; it is a completely different system which essentially involves special colour recipies for specifically defined colours in the Pantone range. These colour mixtures are trademarked and probably patented. The trademark is often waved about to scare programmers who want to produce software which is compatable but it's largely a paper tiger as all you have to do is tell the printer (the person) which Pantone colour you want a particular plate to represent. I have produced TeX documents which reference Pantone colours. The real enforcement is at the professional printer's end where the process of making the ink is patented.
Pantone tends to only be an issue if you are doing logos which require a very tight definition of the exact colour used; or special colours such as silvers or fluorescents.
Other than that you've got it. However the colour matrix is in fact a whole group of matrixes to allow for colour changes from the scanner to your image editor to your personal printer for proofing and another one for sending on to the print shop, and probably one for your monitor (which ideally is dynamic to adjust for the aging process in the monitor). It can be a pain.
Will it be easier to do CMYK work on an LCD screen than a CRT?
I see where you're coming from but no. A CMYK LCD could be done, I suppose, but since that would require a total redefinition of the colour model for your graphics (a quick re-write of DirectX from the ground up, for example) it's easier to just install colour-management into the workflow instead since there are already hooks for that anyway.
Actually, the more I think about it the harder it is to see how a CMYK LCD display could work in a dark room where a blacklight is needed. I think you'd end up having to use a torch instead!
Anyone can explain me why the four color management is so important?
Bottom line is: RGB is additive, ie you start with black and add light to get the mix you want. Paper is reflective and so you start with white sunlight and subtract colours to get the mix you want. Thus cyan absorbs Red, magenta absorbs Green and yellow absorbs Blue - the opposite of RGB. Theoretically you could get black by mixing CMY but in reality making the primary colours accurate enough to do that is impossible and black is added to the system to make things easier.
This all means that there are colours you can see on an RGB monitor which are impossible to show with CMYK (not difficult - impossible) and vice-versa. CMYK is not the ultimate either, due to the same imperfections of the primary colours that make black impossible, and something like 60% of Pantone colours can not be shown using CMYK.
So, converting from RGB to CMYK can be tricky and causes some surprises to the unwary when they get a colour proof back and discover that their nice shade of deep green has come out bluish. Since printing is mostly in CMYK, this means that you need some form of colour management system to warn you if your colours are going "out of gamut" and to automatically adjust others to look right on paper.
You are quite right; I was unaware of "trolling"'s use in fishing. Although, according to my dictionary, the term comes from an old German word meaning to go wandering or walking about (presumably to look for something).
"Trolling" is Internet slang for trying to prompt a reaction using a (probably insincere) controversial stance. "Trawling" means to carefully go through something, often with a net, looking for some hidden resource or information.
If your boss wants to troll job websites then let him/her; s/he will eventually get banned and then you can post your CV without trouble.
He uses his computer more than I use mine, and gets more out of it. I would call him tech savvy, but he thinks he's not.
I can drive my car; I use it a lot. I can't strip the engine or even change the breaks. I am not car-savvy. Your pastor is not tech-savvy. At least, that's how I would look at it.
Can he replace the DVDRW drive if it packs in? Or rescue data from his hard drive if something bad happens during a thunderstorm? Although, if he's a pastor, perhaps he should take that last one as a hint...
You know the last time you brought this up, you got spanked pretty badly.
Shouted at by zealots is not getting spanked. However, I was not suggesting that there was anything wrong with buying a Mac for that reason; the users I know that see not having to be IT-gurus as a selling point.
Most folks experience is different than yours!
I doubt it. I think the dozen or so Mac users I know are more typical than these supposed IT-experts the poster mentioned. And I think Apple think they are too. How often do Apple market at the technologically savvy? "You don't have to be an expert" has been the underlying message of their advertising for 22 years now.
self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer
I don't know a single person who I would call knowledgeable about IT who has a Mac. All the Mac users I know (roughtly a dozen) know, and care, nothing about IT. That's pretty well why they wanted a Mac in the first place.
I went right off this idea ffter the first few people got their fingers cut off so that their expensive cars could be stolen (the fingerprint system has been available as an option for years in some cars). I'd rather they had to spend 20 minutes hoping I won't come back than ten seconds chopping off my thumb.
Body weight of person in seat must be +/- 10 pounds last use
No use for me; I weigh more than 10 pounds more than my girlfriend and I know plenty of people who also have children driving their cars.
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Quick! Phone Netscape and tell them how much trouble programs bundled with Windows have "competing" with the established players.
Regardless of that example, people will always prefer a package which provides a facility locally to one that operates over the web, even if the facility is web related. Everything works two or three orders of magnitude and more reliably when it's on your local processor using your local display.
Ultimately, that's why mainframes are still rare and Web 2.0 is hype. No one actually wants it. Which is better: maps.google.com or Google Earth? There's no contest, is there?
Webmail may appear to be contrary evidence, but in reality there is no good local competitor to webmails' killer feature: global access to your email. People who don't need that and can understand how to install a proper email client hate webmail.
Besides, when I think of Word, I think of letters & CVs & other formal stuff - certainly not blogging!
Funnily enough I have the opposite: I'd use Word (or Open Office) for quick one-sided notes or flyers with fancy text effects or other informal aspects, but for formal it has to be TeX every time.
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No, I meant their huge cash reserve. Unless you count banks then MS is pretty well the richest, and unlike banks it's their money too.
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I'd pay 99c to download THAT!
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It says "I'm a fucking moron who pays to work for someone else. Please take my money."
It's really a very concise way to communicate.
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No, I am merely saying that they learn what to fear and hate from their culture.
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I wasn't offended; I just thought that if any country in the world shows that people learn fear and hatred from their upbringing, then it's Ireland.
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Speaking as someone in Northern Ireland, I would suggest that the entire history of Ireland has demonstrated that proverb to be wrong.
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Yes, quite. You don't think that ridiculously low prices like that might be part of the reason you have a smog problem?
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Pantone tends to only be an issue if you are doing logos which require a very tight definition of the exact colour used; or special colours such as silvers or fluorescents.
Other than that you've got it. However the colour matrix is in fact a whole group of matrixes to allow for colour changes from the scanner to your image editor to your personal printer for proofing and another one for sending on to the print shop, and probably one for your monitor (which ideally is dynamic to adjust for the aging process in the monitor). It can be a pain.
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I see where you're coming from but no. A CMYK LCD could be done, I suppose, but since that would require a total redefinition of the colour model for your graphics (a quick re-write of DirectX from the ground up, for example) it's easier to just install colour-management into the workflow instead since there are already hooks for that anyway.
Actually, the more I think about it the harder it is to see how a CMYK LCD display could work in a dark room where a blacklight is needed. I think you'd end up having to use a torch instead!
Have a look at this PCW article.
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Bottom line is: RGB is additive, ie you start with black and add light to get the mix you want. Paper is reflective and so you start with white sunlight and subtract colours to get the mix you want. Thus cyan absorbs Red, magenta absorbs Green and yellow absorbs Blue - the opposite of RGB. Theoretically you could get black by mixing CMY but in reality making the primary colours accurate enough to do that is impossible and black is added to the system to make things easier.
This all means that there are colours you can see on an RGB monitor which are impossible to show with CMYK (not difficult - impossible) and vice-versa. CMYK is not the ultimate either, due to the same imperfections of the primary colours that make black impossible, and something like 60% of Pantone colours can not be shown using CMYK.
So, converting from RGB to CMYK can be tricky and causes some surprises to the unwary when they get a colour proof back and discover that their nice shade of deep green has come out bluish. Since printing is mostly in CMYK, this means that you need some form of colour management system to warn you if your colours are going "out of gamut" and to automatically adjust others to look right on paper.
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Well, a lot can happen to a word in 800 years...
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If your boss wants to troll job websites then let him/her; s/he will eventually get banned and then you can post your CV without trouble.
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What do they do about the keyboards? Is it possible to buy replacement keyboards for the Powerbooks?
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I can drive my car; I use it a lot. I can't strip the engine or even change the breaks. I am not car-savvy. Your pastor is not tech-savvy. At least, that's how I would look at it.
Can he replace the DVDRW drive if it packs in? Or rescue data from his hard drive if something bad happens during a thunderstorm? Although, if he's a pastor, perhaps he should take that last one as a hint...
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Maybe it's a US/Europe thing. I just don't get that feeling here; quite the reverse, in fact. Oh well.
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Shouted at by zealots is not getting spanked. However, I was not suggesting that there was anything wrong with buying a Mac for that reason; the users I know that see not having to be IT-gurus as a selling point.
Most folks experience is different than yours!
I doubt it. I think the dozen or so Mac users I know are more typical than these supposed IT-experts the poster mentioned. And I think Apple think they are too. How often do Apple market at the technologically savvy? "You don't have to be an expert" has been the underlying message of their advertising for 22 years now.
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I don't know a single person who I would call knowledgeable about IT who has a Mac. All the Mac users I know (roughtly a dozen) know, and care, nothing about IT. That's pretty well why they wanted a Mac in the first place.
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Yes, because forty stupid people can do anything a genius can. Especially when they're all talking at once.
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Which neatly brings us back to Fox News.
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I went right off this idea ffter the first few people got their fingers cut off so that their expensive cars could be stolen (the fingerprint system has been available as an option for years in some cars). I'd rather they had to spend 20 minutes hoping I won't come back than ten seconds chopping off my thumb.
Body weight of person in seat must be +/- 10 pounds last use
No use for me; I weigh more than 10 pounds more than my girlfriend and I know plenty of people who also have children driving their cars.
The other two ideas might work.
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