My wife is an attorney and her firm does all sorts of litigation work for really, really huge corporations, either as local counsel or as litigation specialists, so you are quite correct about General Counsels in large corps.
And to answer your question about Apple's legal budget, I'd say it is pretty large. Remember the Apple ][ days and the "Franklin"? Or more recently, shutting down Aqua look alike desktop themes.
My company does adecent amount of graphic design work for large entertainment companies and it seems like EVERYTHING has to go through the legal department to be "blessed" as OK or trademarkable or safe for human consumption or whatever. So I'd have a hard time believing that someone within the dens of Apple rabid legal team didn't go over iTunes' capabilities and say, "OK, we're clear. We won't get our clocks cleaned on this one."
Are you using different versions (4.1 vs. 5.0 and Mac and Windows) on different platforms? That could trip you up. I have a copy of 5.0, but won't use it since no one else in our office has it. XPress documents should be cross platform compatible and mostly are. I've never had to use a converter, but I don't deal with different platforms every day anymore.
I been using XPress on both platforms (admittedly, mostly Mac) for years and not had too many problems. The thing that will KILL you every time are fonts. Type will reflow almost every time no matter how careful you are and no matter that you tell it to use the document settings and not your default machine settings. I'd recommend this: First make sure the Mac folks use ".qxd" at the end of their file names. Second, and this is a doozy. Have the Mac folks use a program like Fontographer to convert *every* font they used to a PC version. PostScript fonts are also generally preferrable as well. I used to work in Pre-Press for a commercial printer so I have a fair amount experience in this area. Good luck getting the Mac XPress folks to switch though. Once they find something that works and they are comfortable, it's a little hard to help them see the light of a different way, i.e., InDesign.
Yesterday I just saw a Preview Release of XPress Passport on X. Looked nice. But who knows when they'll actually get around to publishing it. Could be forever and then it won't work right until the ".11" release.:-)
I'm looking at my Dock in OS X right now. Guess what the only program running in Classis is? Yep, you got it. Quark XPress. I've tried InDesign and if we weren't busy to the gills with a major catalog I'd have all ten of my graphic designers switched over to InDesign.
And I have to say this about Adobe and Windows. I feel like at some point Bill G. and company are going to turn their sites on the graphic niche. They already conquered the OS, Office productivity, and made significant gains in the server world. (I know their servers blow and I don't use them, but they have made significant gains over the years.) At some point they'll say, "hey look, we can take over the publishing sector, too!" MS Publisher sucks astoundly bad right now. But, if MS really wanted to, I suspect that they could churn out *something* decent in the graphics field. And I think that fact keeps Adobe on its toes. They don't want to "offend" Redmond and so they make sure that Photoshop, Illustrator, et al. are excellent on both platforms. (Though Illustrator 10 is pretty slow and horrible no matter what you run it on). Pimping Windows (if that is what they are really doing) is just throwing the Beast from Redmond a bone.
Lest we forget. Most of the planet was utterly sympathetic and outraged over 9/11. Now a relatively short time later, because if the actions of our great leader, Dubya, most of the planet is outraged at the U.S. How, oh how, does THAT happen? It's sad in so many ways.
IIRC, the mezzanine slot was ONLY on the Rev.A iMac. It was never on the Rev. B. It was there in the first place for testing purposes and they left it on in order to meet the initial run. But they sold enough that some clever folks figured out a way to make use of it. Also, the Rev. A was based on a modified PowerBook motherboard and used SO-DIMMs. Later Revs used "normal" 168-pin DIMMs like their PowerMac brethren.
Also, eventually with the intro of the slot-loading DV iMacs (Rev. C?), they began using AGP for the graphics subsystem. I have one of those (blueberry) and it is truly a great computer. Runs OS X pretty well, too, though it spends more time in OS 9 right now. Great for e-mail and Diablo II.:-) Best $1200 I ever spent.
Here is some shareware to control PowerPoint and Keynote from your S-E.
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/
Pretty slick stuff. You can also control iTunes with it as well. And it has a "proximity sensor" so when you and your phone are out of range, iTunes will pause. When the phone comes back in range, iTunes starts playing again. It's all mac-based right now. Bunch of AppleScripting going on in the background as well, I believe.
Apple Computer has a booth there? Wow. Guess they really are trying to live down that whole "it's just a toy." complex they got a long time ago.:-)
I saw on the floor plan that this is indeed correct. Amazing how times change. Maybe they really are getting their act together. The new XServe looks like a nice 1U server.
Wish it were time to upgrade our main servers again.
I used to enjoy the Bond flicks. They were fun. Connery was witty and all the Bonds are sleek and the women are certainly easy on the eyes.
But the last few movies seem to have been nothing more than extended commercials for huge corporations. Ericsson, BMW. etc. Convergence with a vengence. Now there never really was much of a plot or meaning in Bond films, but now they border on the ridiculous. Even the action scenes are completely subsumed by the products they are hyping. James Bond remote controling his super-neat-o BMW with his tricked out Ericsson phone.
I will see the movie and probably drool over Halle Berry, but I will never, ever buy anything that they are "advertising" in the film. Branding a product or company is fine, but I have a problem with it completely subverting a movie. And the Bond francise seems to be ONLY about pushing specific products/gadgets down our collective throats.
I think you have hit on the dirty little secret about OS X. IMHO, it is barely out of beta now at 10.2. 10.1 was passable, but I have found that 10.2 is truly usable. I haven't gone back to OS9 since upgrading when 10.2 came out.
I think Apple stole a page right out of MS's playbook. "Just get the beast released! We'll optimize and refine it later." And as I see it, the OS is maturing rapidly.
How nice it is to be humming along in Photoshop or Illustrator and be able to drop into the Terminal every now and then. That, IMO, is the truly great thing about the OS. Standard apps that get used by "normal" folks and the geeky stuff a click away as well.
And I find that the OS only really slows down when I hit the point that it has to "pageout" and use VM. And that only happens when I have a TON of stuff happening. The more RAM you give OS X, the faster it runs as a general rule, I've found.
i don't know about that, Bruce. i follow MS PR closely,
Sorry, but when I read the phrase, "I follow MS PR closely" I know that a couple of things have happened,
1. The person is too far under the MS FUD influence. Solitary confinment can help this. Weeks or months depending on the severity.
2. Guy needs a hobby real bad. Try golf.
3. Person has truly lost the will to live. Large doses of Zoloft or Prozac may help. But serious medical attention is necessary. Seek medical assistance immediately.
Good luck to you my friend. Remember, there is a way out. Reading Slashdot is just the beginning of a long raod to recovery.
and it worked great for YEARS, before being replaced a month or so ago. That was a sturdy box. I work for a commerical printer and we used to pump GIGAbytes of data through it on an hourly basis. It would rarely hiccup. I miss the reliability now that we have switched to a Win2K box. (yeech)
OS X will rock. When they get around to making a decent "server" type box (RAIDs, extra power supplies, etc.) that will rock, too.
Not too sure how they have done it for the PS/2, but I *know* that occassionally, enterprising folks who needed sceenshots for PSX games would fire up their Mac and Connetix's Virtual Game Station PS emulator and use the Mac's built in screen shot feature.
I only know this because I did a little free lance for an ad agency that has done ad work for various and sundry work (ads, manuals, etc.) for certain game companies who shall remain nameless. I actually had the same question and I asked and they sort of sheepishly told me that they used Virtual Game station all the time.
I would guess that they needed some fairly decent hardware in order to process the packets. A Mac (especially an older one) or an older PC won't be able to keep up and analyze the packets to see if they fit the criteria and will start missing packets. A Mac or low end PC might be able to keep up with a 10BaseT network, but would probably start to lose packets as the network speed increased to 100BaseT, Gigabit, ATM, etc.
I would hope that there are plans (hopefully at Seybold) to re-vamp/re-introduce Mac OS X Server. It disappeared off the Apple Store after the keynote at Macworld. I called the Apple Store and had a perfectly meanless conversation with an Apple Store Sales Weenine.
Me: "Hi, I'd like to buy a G4 server with Mac OS X. I noticed that it isn't on your site anymore. What's up?"
Apple Store Weenie: "Let me check." Seconds pass while he loads the site. "Huh, you're right, it's not there anymore, would you be interested in an AppleShare IP Server?"
Me: "Um, no thanks, I'm looking for something with a great deal of uptime and reliabiity."
Apple Store Weenie: "Let me get a tech on the line."
Some amount of time passes. They have decent hold music.
Apple Weenie: "Are you sure you wouldn't be interested in AppleShare IP?"
Me: "Um, yeah, I'm sure, I need something that won't crash. That's whay I want an OS X Server, since it's based on UNIX. I currently have a UNIX box and it is up for months at a time. I like that in my servers."
AW: "Well, the tech guy doesn't really know what is going on either or why we aren't selling the OS X Server anymore, but he said that you should sit tight and wait just a bit and it will be back."
Me: "OK, well, I guess I just do that."
Basically, I think Apple is doing one of the following things. One, they need to patch OS X Server so it will run on the new MP G4s. (they had to do that when they first introduced the G4s.) Two, they are completely out to lunch and have truly decided to abandon all efforts to build an "enterprise" level server solution. (wouldn't surprise me a bit, frankly.) Three, they are trying to be secretive and sly so Steve can have more "surprises" at Seybold.
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My wife is an attorney and her firm does all sorts of litigation work for really, really huge corporations, either as local counsel or as litigation specialists, so you are quite correct about General Counsels in large corps.
And to answer your question about Apple's legal budget, I'd say it is pretty large. Remember the Apple ][ days and the "Franklin"? Or more recently, shutting down Aqua look alike desktop themes.
My company does adecent amount of graphic design work for large entertainment companies and it seems like EVERYTHING has to go through the legal department to be "blessed" as OK or trademarkable or safe for human consumption or whatever. So I'd have a hard time believing that someone within the dens of Apple rabid legal team didn't go over iTunes' capabilities and say, "OK, we're clear. We won't get our clocks cleaned on this one."
Are you using different versions (4.1 vs. 5.0 and Mac and Windows) on different platforms? That could trip you up. I have a copy of 5.0, but won't use it since no one else in our office has it. XPress documents should be cross platform compatible and mostly are. I've never had to use a converter, but I don't deal with different platforms every day anymore.
I been using XPress on both platforms (admittedly, mostly Mac) for years and not had too many problems. The thing that will KILL you every time are fonts. Type will reflow almost every time no matter how careful you are and no matter that you tell it to use the document settings and not your default machine settings. I'd recommend this: First make sure the Mac folks use ".qxd" at the end of their file names. Second, and this is a doozy. Have the Mac folks use a program like Fontographer to convert *every* font they used to a PC version. PostScript fonts are also generally preferrable as well. I used to work in Pre-Press for a commercial printer so I have a fair amount experience in this area. Good luck getting the Mac XPress folks to switch though. Once they find something that works and they are comfortable, it's a little hard to help them see the light of a different way, i.e., InDesign.
Yesterday I just saw a Preview Release of XPress Passport on X. Looked nice. But who knows when they'll actually get around to publishing it. Could be forever and then it won't work right until the ".11" release.
I'm looking at my Dock in OS X right now. Guess what the only program running in Classis is? Yep, you got it. Quark XPress. I've tried InDesign and if we weren't busy to the gills with a major catalog I'd have all ten of my graphic designers switched over to InDesign.
And I have to say this about Adobe and Windows. I feel like at some point Bill G. and company are going to turn their sites on the graphic niche. They already conquered the OS, Office productivity, and made significant gains in the server world. (I know their servers blow and I don't use them, but they have made significant gains over the years.) At some point they'll say, "hey look, we can take over the publishing sector, too!" MS Publisher sucks astoundly bad right now. But, if MS really wanted to, I suspect that they could churn out *something* decent in the graphics field. And I think that fact keeps Adobe on its toes. They don't want to "offend" Redmond and so they make sure that Photoshop, Illustrator, et al. are excellent on both platforms. (Though Illustrator 10 is pretty slow and horrible no matter what you run it on). Pimping Windows (if that is what they are really doing) is just throwing the Beast from Redmond a bone.
Lest we forget. Most of the planet was utterly sympathetic and outraged over 9/11. Now a relatively short time later, because if the actions of our great leader, Dubya, most of the planet is outraged at the U.S. How, oh how, does THAT happen? It's sad in so many ways.
IIRC, the mezzanine slot was ONLY on the Rev.A iMac. It was never on the Rev. B. It was there in the first place for testing purposes and they left it on in order to meet the initial run. But they sold enough that some clever folks figured out a way to make use of it. Also, the Rev. A was based on a modified PowerBook motherboard and used SO-DIMMs. Later Revs used "normal" 168-pin DIMMs like their PowerMac brethren.
Also, eventually with the intro of the slot-loading DV iMacs (Rev. C?), they began using AGP for the graphics subsystem. I have one of those (blueberry) and it is truly a great computer. Runs OS X pretty well, too, though it spends more time in OS 9 right now. Great for e-mail and Diablo II.
Here is some shareware to control PowerPoint and Keynote from your S-E.
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/
Pretty slick stuff. You can also control iTunes with it as well. And it has a "proximity sensor" so when you and your phone are out of range, iTunes will pause. When the phone comes back in range, iTunes starts playing again. It's all mac-based right now. Bunch of AppleScripting going on in the background as well, I believe.
Apple Computer has a booth there? Wow. Guess they really are trying to live down that whole "it's just a toy." complex they got a long time ago. :-)
I saw on the floor plan that this is indeed correct. Amazing how times change. Maybe they really are getting their act together. The new XServe looks like a nice 1U server.
Wish it were time to upgrade our main servers again.
I used to enjoy the Bond flicks. They were fun. Connery was witty and all the Bonds are sleek and the women are certainly easy on the eyes.
But the last few movies seem to have been nothing more than extended commercials for huge corporations. Ericsson, BMW. etc. Convergence with a vengence. Now there never really was much of a plot or meaning in Bond films, but now they border on the ridiculous. Even the action scenes are completely subsumed by the products they are hyping. James Bond remote controling his super-neat-o BMW with his tricked out Ericsson phone.
I will see the movie and probably drool over Halle Berry, but I will never, ever buy anything that they are "advertising" in the film. Branding a product or company is fine, but I have a problem with it completely subverting a movie. And the Bond francise seems to be ONLY about pushing specific products/gadgets down our collective throats.
I think you have hit on the dirty little secret about OS X. IMHO, it is barely out of beta now at 10.2. 10.1 was passable, but I have found that 10.2 is truly usable. I haven't gone back to OS9 since upgrading when 10.2 came out.
I think Apple stole a page right out of MS's playbook. "Just get the beast released! We'll optimize and refine it later." And as I see it, the OS is maturing rapidly.
How nice it is to be humming along in Photoshop or Illustrator and be able to drop into the Terminal every now and then. That, IMO, is the truly great thing about the OS. Standard apps that get used by "normal" folks and the geeky stuff a click away as well.
And I find that the OS only really slows down when I hit the point that it has to "pageout" and use VM. And that only happens when I have a TON of stuff happening. The more RAM you give OS X, the faster it runs as a general rule, I've found.
Sorry, but when I read the phrase, "I follow MS PR closely" I know that a couple of things have happened,
1. The person is too far under the MS FUD influence. Solitary confinment can help this. Weeks or months depending on the severity.
2. Guy needs a hobby real bad. Try golf.
3. Person has truly lost the will to live. Large doses of Zoloft or Prozac may help. But serious medical attention is necessary. Seek medical assistance immediately.
Good luck to you my friend. Remember, there is a way out. Reading Slashdot is just the beginning of a long raod to recovery.
I *just* started Permutation City this weekend! Glad you didn't put any spoilers in your post. :-)
I like his other stuff, too.
and it worked great for YEARS, before being replaced a month or so ago. That was a sturdy box. I work for a commerical printer and we used to pump GIGAbytes of data through it on an hourly basis. It would rarely hiccup. I miss the reliability now that we have switched to a Win2K box. (yeech)
OS X will rock. When they get around to making a decent "server" type box (RAIDs, extra power supplies, etc.) that will rock, too.
Not too sure how they have done it for the PS/2, but I *know* that occassionally, enterprising folks who needed sceenshots for PSX games would fire up their Mac and Connetix's Virtual Game Station PS emulator and use the Mac's built in screen shot feature.
I only know this because I did a little free lance for an ad agency that has done ad work for various and sundry work (ads, manuals, etc.) for certain game companies who shall remain nameless. I actually had the same question and I asked and they sort of sheepishly told me that they used Virtual Game station all the time.
I would guess that they needed some fairly decent hardware in order to process the packets. A Mac (especially an older one) or an older PC won't be able to keep up and analyze the packets to see if they fit the criteria and will start missing packets. A Mac or low end PC might be able to keep up with a 10BaseT network, but would probably start to lose packets as the network speed increased to 100BaseT, Gigabit, ATM, etc.
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I would hope that there are plans (hopefully at Seybold) to re-vamp/re-introduce Mac OS X Server. It disappeared off the Apple Store after the keynote at Macworld. I called the Apple Store and had a perfectly meanless conversation with an Apple Store Sales Weenine.
Me: "Hi, I'd like to buy a G4 server with Mac OS X. I noticed that it isn't on your site anymore. What's up?"
Apple Store Weenie: "Let me check." Seconds pass while he loads the site. "Huh, you're right, it's not there anymore, would you be interested in an AppleShare IP Server?"
Me: "Um, no thanks, I'm looking for something with a great deal of uptime and reliabiity."
Apple Store Weenie: "Let me get a tech on the line."
Some amount of time passes. They have decent hold music.
Apple Weenie: "Are you sure you wouldn't be interested in AppleShare IP?"
Me: "Um, yeah, I'm sure, I need something that won't crash. That's whay I want an OS X Server, since it's based on UNIX. I currently have a UNIX box and it is up for months at a time. I like that in my servers."
AW: "Well, the tech guy doesn't really know what is going on either or why we aren't selling the OS X Server anymore, but he said that you should sit tight and wait just a bit and it will be back."
Me: "OK, well, I guess I just do that."
Basically, I think Apple is doing one of the following things. One, they need to patch OS X Server so it will run on the new MP G4s. (they had to do that when they first introduced the G4s.) Two, they are completely out to lunch and have truly decided to abandon all efforts to build an "enterprise" level server solution. (wouldn't surprise me a bit, frankly.) Three, they are trying to be secretive and sly so Steve can have more "surprises" at Seybold.
I have a feeling that OS X Server will be back.
With this thing weighing in at 106 tons, how on earth is Santa going to put one in my stocking this Christmas/Hannakah/Kwanza?