There is an interesting corallary to this, which to this day amazes me. The token zealot (on either side) appears to believe that the world is divided amonst though who don't have either "competing" product, those who own A, and those who own B.
A better corollary: The world is divided into two types of people: those that believe the world is divided into two types of people, and those who don't.
Silly husband, you should know by know that the best advice will come from the women on this board. Gaming I encourage. Impulse tech purchases I don't. (Do those quietly, on your own, with money you squirrel away yourself - and don't point out new equipment until it's been around a month or so... that way your answer can be, "Oh, I've had this forever.")
Dumping your current girlfriend I also don't encourage. But if she likes puzzles at all, there are games out there for her. Check out Shockwave's TextTwist for puzzles. I've been addicted to it for over a year. That way my husband (yeah, I married the guy) can play his games online while I play mine.
Also, if you can get a routine together as others have suggested, it really helps. Especially if it involves a game that you can save at any time, rather than having to restrict yourself to certain levels. The ability to pause in the middle of the game is also strongly advised.
Oh, and those Valentine gifts? The first one he got me was a mouse for my company-supplied laptop, which was nice. The second gift was a USB memory stick, silver, quite pretty enough to wear as jewelry. Bonus points.
Telecommuting is entirely a system of trust and results. After working for my current employer 4 years, I informed them I was moving out of state in order to get married. I offered to resign and get a job in the new city, or they could keep me on telecommuting from my home.
I was astonished and flattered that they decided to keep me on, paying for my broadband and giving me a backup server to host at my home. They even promised to give me a new laptop next year!
The trick was, they knew how many articles/training programs/phone support calls I had handled over 4 years. Now that I work from home, they can still easily track my production vs. earlier production on-site.
They see me when I'm sleeping. They know when I'm awake...
One of the reasons I advocate Macs for my print centers is that it does track both the file type and the creator code. When your primary job is handling incoming files for output, it's essential information to know if that EPS was created by Illustrator, Freehand, QuarkXPress or a WindowsNT Postscript print driver. It tells the output technician what program to open and what problems to check for.
But don't treat a "creator" as an "opens by default" tag - that's not what it's there for. For my part, I wish the creator code had a paper trail. If I knew that this EPS file was created by QuarkXPress, pulled into Freehand, exported to illustrator and then rasterized in Photoshop, I'd know a heck of a lot more about why it's not printing the way the customer expects.
I can see that in other environments this information may be superfluous, and the default opening application might rather be set to something else. The best point the author of this article made was that how a file opens should be easily configurable by the user - either open in the native application, or open in something else. Let us decide. But the metadata that supports that action is immutable, and should be saved with other immutable data, not with the stuff that can change irrespective of the data.
I think E-books are great in terms of reference; the ability to have a lot of information in a small amount of space and easily search it.
But it will never serve for me the real function of my library: my trophy room.
That's what it's all about for many who love reading. Remind ourselves of all that we've learned, read, understood. Show any visitors what makes us tick, what we're interested in - and by absence what we're not. I'll admit it's even slightly arrogant: "See what I've read." For music lovers, it's their CD collections or Vinyl, for art lovers their walls or sculptures, for geeks their collections of totally obsolete computers and tech manuals. The trophy room.
Now, sell me a paperback that includes a free download of the text for the book, or let me download a book and have a copy shipped along later, and I'll pay more, happily. But an ebook on its own? For reference use only.
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Actually, this feature in Acrobat began as a plug-in back in version 3, and was integrated into the full package with v 4. It's extremely useful with prepress workflow and asset management. What it allows us to do is:
have an immediately viewable, printable representation of any archived document, accessible to whoever we want it to be over the web, and
have almost instant access to the native application files that created the document, in case a file must be modified or updated. Like the Pagemaker file, graphic images and fonts.
The feature really functions not much differently than, say, using WinZip to compress files into an self-extracting archive. Decompress an.exe with a virus, and boom, you have a virus.
But really, it shouldn't be that difficult for Adobe to put a little option on the feature to disable vbs access, should it? As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no vbs out there that should need a viewable, printable PDF mother file.
I work for the headquarters of a print franchise system. A number of my center owners use the excuse "if we train them they'll quit and get more money elsewhere." For employers with this attitude I have only one remark:
Which is worse: to lose a trained employee, or keep an untrained worker?
I was alone in my office while I watched the clock roll to 11:11 am. That was November 11, 1999. The full time stamp to observants would have read 11:11:1999. Observing that moment, I thought, was cool.
Let me predicate this by stating that I'm a Mac user, Apple lover, non-unix-since-college professional troubleshooter in the printing industry.
Mac OSX scares me. Apple has fundamentally changed how their operating system works, and while this may very well make it more stable, for the printing industry it may cause massive problems.
It's difficult enough for the majority of my print franchises to get good tech support for their Macs right now. Neither I nor any other troubleshooter who doesn't already know the 'nix versions pretty well will have a chance at bailing them out when the system goes down. And I'm afraid the 'nix troubleshooters out there for the most part won't understand squat about printing industry applications.
I'm doing everything I can to get up to speed as quickly as possible, but the OS is unlike any other that Mac has had. For home users? Sure. For production plants?
I've got my copy of Think Unix, my public beta and now the true release, and I've got my fingers crossed. When they start forcing OSX on the printing industry, there will be casualties.
As I understand it, it is the term "best" which is by legal definititon the same as "as good as." The courts assume the quality of all products to be equally "best." You can also use the term "better" in advertising if you're not naming names, but if you use someone else's trademark in advertising and say you're "better" than they are, you have to have comparison data to back you up lest you get yerself sued.
If your company is asking you to take a management position, they may be unaware of the huge difference in qualifications between being IT and managing IT people. Entirely different skills sets.
In my company, the job of IT manager falls to a nongeek With Clue person whose job is to (a) keep IT staff from drive-by taskings. That is, make sure the longterm goals don't suffer from day-to-day five minute help projects; (b) to act as the Guido bodyguard (interpreter/buffer zone) between IT and management , and (c) keep aware of what we're all working on, making sure it contributes to The Big Picture.
Rather than bring in a new Alpha, you might want to suggest they bring in someone who can perform the management functions and leave the tech to you.
I've always been torn between Nausicaa and Laputa, which is a story of a city in the sky, for Miyazaki's best. Mononoke's success in America is mostly due to its story's compatability with mainstream (if liberal) American cartoons, combined with the fact that it has been released now, after anime has become increasingly more popular.
But I really want to see DVDs available for all Miyazaki's work, not just Mononoke. What can we do to convince American companies to release them, aside from buying up every Monoke we can get our hands on?
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A better corollary: The world is divided into two types of people: those that believe the world is divided into two types of people, and those who don't.
Silly husband, you should know by know that the best advice will come from the women on this board. Gaming I encourage. Impulse tech purchases I don't. (Do those quietly, on your own, with money you squirrel away yourself - and don't point out new equipment until it's been around a month or so... that way your answer can be, "Oh, I've had this forever.")
Dumping your current girlfriend I also don't encourage. But if she likes puzzles at all, there are games out there for her. Check out Shockwave's TextTwist for puzzles. I've been addicted to it for over a year. That way my husband (yeah, I married the guy) can play his games online while I play mine.
Also, if you can get a routine together as others have suggested, it really helps. Especially if it involves a game that you can save at any time, rather than having to restrict yourself to certain levels. The ability to pause in the middle of the game is also strongly advised.
Oh, and those Valentine gifts? The first one he got me was a mouse for my company-supplied laptop, which was nice. The second gift was a USB memory stick, silver, quite pretty enough to wear as jewelry. Bonus points.
I was astonished and flattered that they decided to keep me on, paying for my broadband and giving me a backup server to host at my home. They even promised to give me a new laptop next year!
The trick was, they knew how many articles/training programs/phone support calls I had handled over 4 years. Now that I work from home, they can still easily track my production vs. earlier production on-site.
They see me when I'm sleeping. They know when I'm awake...
Better for both of us in the long run.
One of the reasons I advocate Macs for my print centers is that it does track both the file type and the creator code. When your primary job is handling incoming files for output, it's essential information to know if that EPS was created by Illustrator, Freehand, QuarkXPress or a WindowsNT Postscript print driver. It tells the output technician what program to open and what problems to check for.
But don't treat a "creator" as an "opens by default" tag - that's not what it's there for. For my part, I wish the creator code had a paper trail. If I knew that this EPS file was created by QuarkXPress, pulled into Freehand, exported to illustrator and then rasterized in Photoshop, I'd know a heck of a lot more about why it's not printing the way the customer expects.
I can see that in other environments this information may be superfluous, and the default opening application might rather be set to something else. The best point the author of this article made was that how a file opens should be easily configurable by the user - either open in the native application, or open in something else. Let us decide. But the metadata that supports that action is immutable, and should be saved with other immutable data, not with the stuff that can change irrespective of the data.
But it will never serve for me the real function of my library: my trophy room.
That's what it's all about for many who love reading. Remind ourselves of all that we've learned, read, understood. Show any visitors what makes us tick, what we're interested in - and by absence what we're not. I'll admit it's even slightly arrogant: "See what I've read." For music lovers, it's their CD collections or Vinyl, for art lovers their walls or sculptures, for geeks their collections of totally obsolete computers and tech manuals. The trophy room.
Now, sell me a paperback that includes a free download of the text for the book, or let me download a book and have a copy shipped along later, and I'll pay more, happily. But an ebook on its own? For reference use only.
- have an immediately viewable, printable representation of any archived document, accessible to whoever we want it to be over the web, and
- have almost instant access to the native application files that created the document, in case a file must be modified or updated. Like the Pagemaker file, graphic images and fonts.
The feature really functions not much differently than, say, using WinZip to compress files into an self-extracting archive. Decompress anBut really, it shouldn't be that difficult for Adobe to put a little option on the feature to disable vbs access, should it? As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no vbs out there that should need a viewable, printable PDF mother file.
'Your Blood? '
Which is worse: to lose a trained employee, or keep an untrained worker?
Then again, I'm a geek.
Mac OSX scares me. Apple has fundamentally changed how their operating system works, and while this may very well make it more stable, for the printing industry it may cause massive problems.
It's difficult enough for the majority of my print franchises to get good tech support for their Macs right now. Neither I nor any other troubleshooter who doesn't already know the 'nix versions pretty well will have a chance at bailing them out when the system goes down. And I'm afraid the 'nix troubleshooters out there for the most part won't understand squat about printing industry applications.
I'm doing everything I can to get up to speed as quickly as possible, but the OS is unlike any other that Mac has had. For home users? Sure. For production plants?
I've got my copy of Think Unix, my public beta and now the true release, and I've got my fingers crossed. When they start forcing OSX on the printing industry, there will be casualties.
In my company, the job of IT manager falls to a nongeek With Clue person whose job is to (a) keep IT staff from drive-by taskings. That is, make sure the longterm goals don't suffer from day-to-day five minute help projects; (b) to act as the Guido bodyguard (interpreter/buffer zone) between IT and management , and (c) keep aware of what we're all working on, making sure it contributes to The Big Picture.
Rather than bring in a new Alpha, you might want to suggest they bring in someone who can perform the management functions and leave the tech to you.
I've always been torn between Nausicaa and Laputa, which is a story of a city in the sky, for Miyazaki's best. Mononoke's success in America is mostly due to its story's compatability with mainstream (if liberal) American cartoons, combined with the fact that it has been released now, after anime has become increasingly more popular. But I really want to see DVDs available for all Miyazaki's work, not just Mononoke. What can we do to convince American companies to release them, aside from buying up every Monoke we can get our hands on?