It's rare that you're going to find a project manager that will put quality above the bottom line. At the "brand communications" company I used to work for, we had clients like Intel and M$ and Motorola. Those companies hold very tightly to their brand as equity and only want high quality work done. They are always total cheapskates, but they expect the best and expect the job done on time. What made our organization a little different was that we had a "strategist" between the account managers and the project managers pushing for the most appropriate usage of technology and always pushing for the highest quality work. Let's face it, account managers are driven by the personal profit motive (always trying to sell the latest and greatest or PowerPoint!) and project managers are ruled by budgets and schedules. Neither are necessarily the most technically savvy types of people out there. That's where the strategist comes in and becomes an advocate for the people actually building the project as well as a quality assurance agent for the client.
The strategist allows the account manager to focus on keeping the client happy and allows the project managers to focus on keeping the project team on track and making the most efficient use of their project allocations.
Well, technically, bundling is different than "tying" which is what M$ is (was) accused of. Tying is when you bolt on an unrelated product to another essentially fusing the two. If one product is removed the new fused product doesn't work.
This is what M$ did with Explorer. If you remove the code for Explorer from Windows, Windows doesn't work. An analogy would be, having a CD stereo system built into a car, but if you want a cassette deck instead, you're out of luck because the car won't work with it.
There is also a basic tennet of capitalism that states that a monopoly may not create a barrier to entry into the marketplace for other businesses. M$ has time and time again created huge barriers for other software makers. Ask Caldera, Sun, Netscape, Novel, Apple and a host of other lesser known software developers. M$ routinely either buys their competition or "cuts off the air supply" of a cometitor it's feels might be a threat. They have the money and the mindshare to do this because they have a monopoly in OS's.
Why do you think Linux hasn't been able to thoroughly penetrate the opffice market? M$ has thousands of field reps out speading the FUD.
(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. I ended my boycott now that Napster battle is over)
If you weren't buying CD's during the Napster battle, you're part of the reason Napster lost! Napster was a great resource for finding music, More often than not, I would find some obscure piece of music by one of my favorite artists , listen to the mp3 and then rush out and buy the cd. I would often also find more information on the people recording with these artists and end up buying more music by the people listed as working on the albums.
Now that Napster is gone, I'm finding the rate at which I discover and purchase new music is lessening because I don't have this wonderful database at my fingertips anymore.
The "I want everything computer related for free" crowd has really messed up my new music discovery process.
Well, some friends of mine have actually written a piece of streaming radio software that they license to whosoever wants to run the software. I've set up two stations for one of their clients who purchased a license. I'm currently not running any commercials or even any filler talk. It's just all music. The great thing is that I could upload my entire music library and create playlists using that library as well as the music from other contributors. Some of the other contributors have set up stations with music, dj chatter, commercials and other filler. It really is a fine little piece of software and is poised to go places.
For more on the company developing this software go to Slam Media.
If you'd like to check out my stream, Piecemeal, copy and paste this URL into your favorite streaming media player. http://216.200.125.40:8000/MP00000000000000000145
Note: not your average top 40 playlist. King Crimson fans will probably love it.
I just installed SuSE personal on my Dell Latitude. It's my first Linux distro and I got it because they also make a PPC version. (I have the one Dell laptop and 4 Macs) I liked the idea of having the same distro for two dofferent platforms. I plan on installing it on one of my Macs... if I get the TiBook.
Also, the fact that userfriendly.org displays it uses SuSE so prominently had a little to do with my decision also.
I'm not so sure that you could call this a "dirty trick". The MHz myth was expounded on here in/. recently. It'll be a nice change of pace to see chips benchmarked by true performance rather than artificial measurments.
Amen, brother!
Being an avid mac fan and a user of the apps that actually tap into AltiVec, I can understand why AMD is doing this.
Maybe some of the AMD/Linux zealots on here will gain an inkling of appreciation for Apple's constant attempts to debunk the MHz myth. Higher clock speed does not necessarily correlate to true performance.
Hmmm, curious. I'm running OS 9, OS X and SuSE PPC Linux on my iBook. I can't run DVD's in OS X (yet) nor Linux, but DVD playback in OS 9 works just fine. Please do a little bit of research before making kneejerk cracks like this.
Color separations with the GIMP really isn't the issue. It's basic CMYK support that matters. No one really does much sepping straight out of Photoshop, but rather out of apps like Quark XPress, InDesign, PageMaker, Preps, TrapWise or Freehand.
Separations out of an image editing app is a nightmare to begin with. If the GIMP supports TIFF or EPS file formats you could always place the image on a page in another layout app and let the layout app handle the color separations, but color accuracy between the RGB and CMYK color spaces is the real problem. Bitmap print images should always be placed in the layout out app in a print ready colorspace like CMYK, Grayscale or bitmap. You really want the color control for output to be in the image editing app so the layout app doesn't have to think about converting color spaces.
Well, I ask about video because 3D and video interact with one another. 3D animation does interact with video when composited with live action footage. That's what I'm getting at. I bring up Flash and Director because people are using both and there are ways to incorporate shockwave content into video and ways to incorporate 3D into Shockwave and ways to incorporate 3D enhanced Shockwave into video.
I realize video isn't a strong point for Linux at this point, but what I'm wondering is what are people doing to overcome this shortcoming and make Linux 3D technologies interoperable with existing technologies. Or is there just a Holy War going on to supplant alll current means of content creation with Linux versions that are 5 years behind the times. If that's the case, Linux will never really break into video. People love their Premier and AfterEffects and Final Cut and Director and Flash.... especially on the Mac platform.
What I'm really anxious to hear about is how interoperable everything is going to be in the future. All this 3d and animation stuff being ported to Linux is fascinating and very interesting to follow. But is Linux really the be-all-end-all solution that the/. crowd seems to make it out to be.?
I mean with apps like Final Cut Pro, Premier, AfterEffects, Flash, Director, etc. all being tied pretty closely to specific OS's, I'd like to know if the *NIX crowd is really working toward true interoperability between file formats and platforms rather than supplanting existing apps and OS's with Linux.
People live and breathe by Premier, AfterEffects, Flash, Final Cut, etc. and I don't think Apple, Macromedia or Adobe have serious plans to port to Linux any time soon. Regardless of what people feel about these companies charging for their products, are there people out there working on projects to ensure that Linux based apps can work together properly with their proprietary brethren in the content creation market? (and vice versa of course)
There's a video post-production studio here in Seattle that just absolutely blew me away when it came to interoperability. Linux, Irix, NT and MacOS boxes working seemlessly together. Linux network servers, NT and Irix compositing/rendering stations and MacOS boxes for capture, sound and fx. I'm wondering if this is the norm or if this place is truly one of a kind.
Wow. A homophobe on Slashdot?!?! Who'dve thunk it? This TrueType you seem so fond of is actually AN APPLE TECHNOLOGY! Yes, Apple created TT! Let's see, why don't you go away and start doing some posting once you've hit high school.
OOOOOOO! Helvetica! Now that's freaking original! Why don't you try Arial or Times or some other exotic font!? Why not go crazy and use Verdana or New York.
Please! Helvetica has to be the MOST boring of all possible fonts! Vanilla, plain and simple.
Hmmm. That's funny, I remember there being a PPC G3 466 in this here iBook running Netscape 6.1.
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Imagine, if you could, a poorly dubbed foreign film... where the actors look like they are speaking english, but the words don't exactly sync up with the lips.
Oh? You mean Final Fantasy? heh heh
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Other things to do with G4 hardware:
Better than real-time DVD encoding
Superfast MP3 encoding
Lightning fast high res Photoshop work
Playing StarCraft
and lots of other useful and not so useful things. I still don't understand this lack of software on Mac's idea. There's more out there than I'm ever going to use!
Illustrator, Freehand, AfterEffects, Premier, PageMaker, InDesign, Acrobat, XPress, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Director, Flash, LiveMotion, Office, Maya, Netscape, IE, Omniweb, Fontographer, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio, Fetch, Transmit, ImageReady, Quake, The Sims, Summoner, iTunes, SoundJam, Warcraft, Starcraft, Apache, MySQL, WebObjects, FileMaker, Palm Desktop, the GIMP, X Windows, Eudora, Outlook Express, Web Star, 4D and more emulators and shareware apps than you can shake a stick at. I could list more, but that list right there is already complete overkill for anything I'm ever going to need to do with my Macs.
Ok, so we don't have Mattel's Barbie's 'N Sync Virtual Makeover. I think I can live without that particular software title.
Of course, without the G4 and all that yucky Mac hardware...
All I can say to this post is, well, FUCK YOU!
This is THE MOST obvious flamebait I've ever seen! Yucky G4 hardware. Gimme a break! When any Pentium running LInux can beat Photoshop in a benchmark, I might give some consideration to such a ridiculous statement.
Oh yeah! All you have on Linux is the GIMP, so any comparison is moot!
The mac, and the G4 in particular, has it's place, so please cease with the obvious CPU/OS snobbery and just report the facts. Who gives a shit if some geek holds a LAN party with a neat looking case?!?!?! It's still a geek gathering and not necessarily something useful or important!
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Well, since the real point is real world performance, you wouldn't want to use the GIMP. No serious graphics professional would ever use it as a serious tool... at least for now. It's pretty much on par functionality-wise with PS 2.5. Things like printing PostScript files or Acrobat Distillation, etc. are the things that people who use apps like Photoshop or XPress actually care about. The faster I can print a 200 page catalog rife with images the better and I'm sorry, but postscript support in Windows is just unbearable.
Macs are pretty computers for pretty people who don't use them very often or for very long.
Um, I use Macs upwards of 8-12 hours a day and my machines almost never crash. I had one B&W G3 at my last job that went months before a corrupted font took the system down. I removed the culprit font and no more problems.
Macs are for graphics professionals or people who just want a machine that works out of the box without lots of configuration. People who want to highly customize their OS experience can go to Linux or any other flavor of *nix. For people who have nothing better to do than play games can go for Windows.
I'm running NetPresenz on an old PPC 7200/75 I have just as a staging area for several projects of mine. I've noticed a signifigant increase in visits over the last few days. I'm just wondering how I would know if I'm being hit by the virus. I know my server can't be infected for a number of reasons, but I'm just curious to know if I'm being "attacked".
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It's rare that you're going to find a project manager that will put quality above the bottom line. At the "brand communications" company I used to work for, we had clients like Intel and M$ and Motorola. Those companies hold very tightly to their brand as equity and only want high quality work done. They are always total cheapskates, but they expect the best and expect the job done on time. What made our organization a little different was that we had a "strategist" between the account managers and the project managers pushing for the most appropriate usage of technology and always pushing for the highest quality work. Let's face it, account managers are driven by the personal profit motive (always trying to sell the latest and greatest or PowerPoint!) and project managers are ruled by budgets and schedules. Neither are necessarily the most technically savvy types of people out there. That's where the strategist comes in and becomes an advocate for the people actually building the project as well as a quality assurance agent for the client.
The strategist allows the account manager to focus on keeping the client happy and allows the project managers to focus on keeping the project team on track and making the most efficient use of their project allocations.
Well, technically, bundling is different than "tying" which is what M$ is (was) accused of. Tying is when you bolt on an unrelated product to another essentially fusing the two. If one product is removed the new fused product doesn't work.
This is what M$ did with Explorer. If you remove the code for Explorer from Windows, Windows doesn't work. An analogy would be, having a CD stereo system built into a car, but if you want a cassette deck instead, you're out of luck because the car won't work with it.
There is also a basic tennet of capitalism that states that a monopoly may not create a barrier to entry into the marketplace for other businesses. M$ has time and time again created huge barriers for other software makers. Ask Caldera, Sun, Netscape, Novel, Apple and a host of other lesser known software developers. M$ routinely either buys their competition or "cuts off the air supply" of a cometitor it's feels might be a threat. They have the money and the mindshare to do this because they have a monopoly in OS's.
Why do you think Linux hasn't been able to thoroughly penetrate the opffice market? M$ has thousands of field reps out speading the FUD.
Photoshop? (or the GIMP for you free software types) If not... well, who really cares except from a techincal perspective?
Not too bag, but if Intel isn't a monopoly as much as M$, I can't think of another.
(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. I ended my boycott now that Napster battle is over)
If you weren't buying CD's during the Napster battle, you're part of the reason Napster lost! Napster was a great resource for finding music, More often than not, I would find some obscure piece of music by one of my favorite artists , listen to the mp3 and then rush out and buy the cd. I would often also find more information on the people recording with these artists and end up buying more music by the people listed as working on the albums.
Now that Napster is gone, I'm finding the rate at which I discover and purchase new music is lessening because I don't have this wonderful database at my fingertips anymore.
The "I want everything computer related for free" crowd has really messed up my new music discovery process.
Well, some friends of mine have actually written a piece of streaming radio software that they license to whosoever wants to run the software. I've set up two stations for one of their clients who purchased a license. I'm currently not running any commercials or even any filler talk. It's just all music. The great thing is that I could upload my entire music library and create playlists using that library as well as the music from other contributors. Some of the other contributors have set up stations with music, dj chatter, commercials and other filler. It really is a fine little piece of software and is poised to go places.
For more on the company developing this software go to Slam Media.
If you'd like to check out my stream, Piecemeal, copy and paste this URL into your favorite streaming media player. http://216.200.125.40:8000/MP00000000000000000145
Note: not your average top 40 playlist. King Crimson fans will probably love it.
I just installed SuSE personal on my Dell Latitude. It's my first Linux distro and I got it because they also make a PPC version. (I have the one Dell laptop and 4 Macs) I liked the idea of having the same distro for two dofferent platforms. I plan on installing it on one of my Macs... if I get the TiBook.
Also, the fact that userfriendly.org displays it uses SuSE so prominently had a little to do with my decision also.
So, yeah, this is definitely good news.
I'm not so sure that you could call this a "dirty trick". The MHz myth was expounded on here in /. recently. It'll be a nice change of pace to see chips benchmarked by true performance rather than artificial measurments.
Amen, brother!
Being an avid mac fan and a user of the apps that actually tap into AltiVec, I can understand why AMD is doing this.
Maybe some of the AMD/Linux zealots on here will gain an inkling of appreciation for Apple's constant attempts to debunk the MHz myth. Higher clock speed does not necessarily correlate to true performance.
Hmmm, curious. I'm running OS 9, OS X and SuSE PPC Linux on my iBook. I can't run DVD's in OS X (yet) nor Linux, but DVD playback in OS 9 works just fine. Please do a little bit of research before making kneejerk cracks like this.
Totally off-topic, but...
Color separations with the GIMP really isn't the issue. It's basic CMYK support that matters. No one really does much sepping straight out of Photoshop, but rather out of apps like Quark XPress, InDesign, PageMaker, Preps, TrapWise or Freehand.
Separations out of an image editing app is a nightmare to begin with. If the GIMP supports TIFF or EPS file formats you could always place the image on a page in another layout app and let the layout app handle the color separations, but color accuracy between the RGB and CMYK color spaces is the real problem. Bitmap print images should always be placed in the layout out app in a print ready colorspace like CMYK, Grayscale or bitmap. You really want the color control for output to be in the image editing app so the layout app doesn't have to think about converting color spaces.
Very interesting stuff indeed! Thanks for the info!
Well, I ask about video because 3D and video interact with one another. 3D animation does interact with video when composited with live action footage. That's what I'm getting at. I bring up Flash and Director because people are using both and there are ways to incorporate shockwave content into video and ways to incorporate 3D into Shockwave and ways to incorporate 3D enhanced Shockwave into video.
I realize video isn't a strong point for Linux at this point, but what I'm wondering is what are people doing to overcome this shortcoming and make Linux 3D technologies interoperable with existing technologies. Or is there just a Holy War going on to supplant alll current means of content creation with Linux versions that are 5 years behind the times. If that's the case, Linux will never really break into video. People love their Premier and AfterEffects and Final Cut and Director and Flash.... especially on the Mac platform.
What I'm really anxious to hear about is how interoperable everything is going to be in the future. All this 3d and animation stuff being ported to Linux is fascinating and very interesting to follow. But is Linux really the be-all-end-all solution that the /. crowd seems to make it out to be.?
I mean with apps like Final Cut Pro, Premier, AfterEffects, Flash, Director, etc. all being tied pretty closely to specific OS's, I'd like to know if the *NIX crowd is really working toward true interoperability between file formats and platforms rather than supplanting existing apps and OS's with Linux.
People live and breathe by Premier, AfterEffects, Flash, Final Cut, etc. and I don't think Apple, Macromedia or Adobe have serious plans to port to Linux any time soon. Regardless of what people feel about these companies charging for their products, are there people out there working on projects to ensure that Linux based apps can work together properly with their proprietary brethren in the content creation market? (and vice versa of course)
There's a video post-production studio here in Seattle that just absolutely blew me away when it came to interoperability. Linux, Irix, NT and MacOS boxes working seemlessly together. Linux network servers, NT and Irix compositing/rendering stations and MacOS boxes for capture, sound and fx. I'm wondering if this is the norm or if this place is truly one of a kind.
Imagine if Beowulf had a cluster of these! Oh, wait he's a Medieval Welsh hero. Sorry.
Wow. A homophobe on Slashdot?!?! Who'dve thunk it? This TrueType you seem so fond of is actually AN APPLE TECHNOLOGY! Yes, Apple created TT!
Let's see, why don't you go away and start doing some posting once you've hit high school.
OOOOOOO! Helvetica! Now that's freaking original! Why don't you try Arial or Times or some other exotic font!? Why not go crazy and use Verdana or New York.
Please! Helvetica has to be the MOST boring of all possible fonts! Vanilla, plain and simple.
Wow! This is a new one to me. Aliased fonts? What is this 1985? And aliased TT fonts as well. Do yourself a favor and switch to using PS fonts!
I see where you're going, but there is an OS X version of 6.1. So there is a non-x86 *NIX port. ;-)
Hmmm. That's funny, I remember there being a PPC G3 466 in this here iBook running Netscape 6.1.
Imagine, if you could, a poorly dubbed foreign film ... where the actors look like they are speaking english, but the words don't exactly sync up with the lips.
Oh? You mean Final Fantasy? heh heh
Other things to do with G4 hardware:
Better than real-time DVD encoding
Superfast MP3 encoding
Lightning fast high res Photoshop work
Playing StarCraft
and lots of other useful and not so useful things. I still don't understand this lack of software on Mac's idea. There's more out there than I'm ever going to use!
Illustrator, Freehand, AfterEffects, Premier, PageMaker, InDesign, Acrobat, XPress, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Director, Flash, LiveMotion, Office, Maya, Netscape, IE, Omniweb, Fontographer, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio, Fetch, Transmit, ImageReady, Quake, The Sims, Summoner, iTunes, SoundJam, Warcraft, Starcraft, Apache, MySQL, WebObjects, FileMaker, Palm Desktop, the GIMP, X Windows, Eudora, Outlook Express, Web Star, 4D and more emulators and shareware apps than you can shake a stick at. I could list more, but that list right there is already complete overkill for anything I'm ever going to need to do with my Macs.
Ok, so we don't have Mattel's Barbie's 'N Sync Virtual Makeover. I think I can live without that particular software title.
Of course, without the G4 and all that yucky Mac hardware...
All I can say to this post is, well, FUCK YOU!
This is THE MOST obvious flamebait I've ever seen! Yucky G4 hardware. Gimme a break! When any Pentium running LInux can beat Photoshop in a benchmark, I might give some consideration to such a ridiculous statement.
Oh yeah! All you have on Linux is the GIMP, so any comparison is moot!
The mac, and the G4 in particular, has it's place, so please cease with the obvious CPU/OS snobbery and just report the facts. Who gives a shit if some geek holds a LAN party with a neat looking case?!?!?! It's still a geek gathering and not necessarily something useful or important!
Well, since the real point is real world performance, you wouldn't want to use the GIMP. No serious graphics professional would ever use it as a serious tool... at least for now. It's pretty much on par functionality-wise with PS 2.5. Things like printing PostScript files or Acrobat Distillation, etc. are the things that people who use apps like Photoshop or XPress actually care about. The faster I can print a 200 page catalog rife with images the better and I'm sorry, but postscript support in Windows is just unbearable.
Macs are pretty computers for pretty people who don't use them very often or for very long.
Um, I use Macs upwards of 8-12 hours a day and my machines almost never crash. I had one B&W G3 at my last job that went months before a corrupted font took the system down. I removed the culprit font and no more problems.
Macs are for graphics professionals or people who just want a machine that works out of the box without lots of configuration. People who want to highly customize their OS experience can go to Linux or any other flavor of *nix. For people who have nothing better to do than play games can go for Windows.
I'm running NetPresenz on an old PPC 7200/75 I have just as a staging area for several projects of mine. I've noticed a signifigant increase in visits over the last few days. I'm just wondering how I would know if I'm being hit by the virus. I know my server can't be infected for a number of reasons, but I'm just curious to know if I'm being "attacked".