Sounds like the lines auto manufacturers used to give about car safety, pre-Nader. "Sure it's safe as long as you drive safe." Which is basically saying, "You won't get hurt in a crash if you don't crash."
Sigh.
Who marked this as offtopic? Jeez. Do we need an O'Reilly book with a Jackass on the cover? O'Reilly for/. Moderators?
Anyway, you need to give the GIMP a bit more credit. It's more like Photoshop 4.0 without the features one truly needs for prepress, such esoteric stuff like dot gain and custom inking profiles. Good for 72 dpi RGB work, but I wouldn't use it for prepress unless I absolutely had to.
And again I'm reminded of the irony of hosting a web page on volcanoes on a server at the University of North Dakota--located on the flat bottom of an ancient glacial lake.
Postscript won't make them terribly happy either---it's very difficult to deal with anything less than a perfect postscript file.
Acrobat, however, is workable.
NO, you're not reading the error message correctly. It doesn't say, "No Cookie" -- it says "No Wookie". Any idiot knows that you need a Wookie to compromise Imperial security!
Two words: outsource it. Most printers will look at you funny if you come in with a file from StarOffice let alone a latex file. (Actually, they'll laugh at you in the latter case.) It'd be better to find a graphic designer who can do the lay in Quark/Pagemaker/etc. for you, or ask the printer to do it yourself. It'll be less of a headache in the end.
Or, just fire up the GIMP and give the printer a 300 dpi eps file with spot channels. Business card size is 3.5"x2", but remember to keep text around 1/8" away from the edges and, if you want full bleed, give them 1/8" beyond the cut size.
And this brings up something I've wondered about: What is it with former Red Dwarf actors and hosting "build shit" shows? Lister on Robot Wars, Kyten on that junkyard series.
Ummm...yes... and also by the time he was Bush's age, Einstein was considered one of the greatest scientist's ever. Bush was governor of Texas. Though I must concede that Teaxs is important, being its governor hardly takes a physicist;)
What? How long have you been living in Winnipeg? I'm down in Grand Forks,ND, and I know that the ambient air temperature got much lower than 0F. Without windchill, I believe it got to -25F one day... of course it's the windchill that drops it to the point where flesh starts to fall off. Mmmmm... -50F.
Damn people... read more than the first line of the comment before you moderate: he's asking a question which is valid, not trolling. Jeez. This should be modded-up, not down.
Anyway, I'm not sure if he'd want to do so, at least not in that manner. I'm not sure if he even can tell the DOJ to stop it, but if he could, and did, wouldn't it look a bit suspicious to the rest of the country? Stacking the court is one thing, obstructing justice is another.
It's actually a fine way of differentiating machines. For the most part, with some noticeable exceptions, most PC manufacturers stick with a relatively common form factor across their entire line and use model numbers to differentiate their base systems. Apple simply uses color, processor, processor speed, and maybe a revision number/letter for specifics. B&W G3-350. Bronze PowerbookG3 whatever. Why is the color so important? It's a dinstinctive, easily recognized differentiation between models. One can't easily confuse a PowerMacG3 from 1997 with a PowerMacG3 from 1998, can they? One is beige, the other blue and white. And one can't mistake a G4 for a G3 simply because of the case styling.
Color is everything!
(And sorry on the original reply--I thought you were flat-out flamebating.)
Nice try, but listing the color is quite pertinent. Apple officially differentiates between separate models of the desktop G3s by color--beige or Blue & White. The BWs have a radically different motherboard than the beige machines, so mentioning the color is quite pertinent.
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that the place is still inhabited? MIR has had a string of old-age problems the past few years... judging by the content of the report, fungus could cause a fatal failure--imagine if a weakened spot in a viewing port developed a crack. Complete, nearly instantaneous decompression. Ouch.
The 040 hardware and 7500s were running the same version of the MacOS. I neglected to mention that, so it's my fault. Also both the 040 and PPC systems were loaded with 64MB of RAM and that does, admittedly, go a lot farther on 680x0 than PPC.
BUT, I do know what you mean about the user interface sucking cycles--*cough* MacOS X. Soon as Flash, Photoshop (sorry--doin' color prepress and the GIMP is just not quite there yet), Illustrator, Quark, and Director run on Linux, I'll switch--once someone writes a friggin' tool to convert my fonts. I'm not parting with a few thousand dollars of typefaces. Makes Linux a very non-free solution for me.
Like everything, it's a bang-for-the-buck equation. Simply put, can you get better hardware for the same price, or equivalent hardware for the same price?
Slightly off-topic, but don't knock aged hardware. At a company (printing) I used to work for, we kept a Quadra840AV and a Quadra950 around, running MacOS 7.5.5, Quark 4.x, and Photoshop 3.x for those just-in-case times. What we found, though, is that the two, old '040 based Macs were perfectly usable as production machines and, oddly, felt zippier than our new PowerMac 7500s at times. Weird, huh? (This was several years ago, btw.)
Slashdot linked to a site that cares about providing a semblance of correct typography, enough to spell coordinating as coördinating with the diaresis.
Slashdot Mirror
Well it certainly wouldn't fit on a shirt....
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Salon also is asking the question
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http://www.s alo n.com/tech/log/2000/10/27/microsoft_crack/index.h
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Sounds like the lines auto manufacturers used to give about car safety, pre-Nader. "Sure it's safe as long as you drive safe." Which is basically saying, "You won't get hurt in a crash if you don't crash." Sigh.
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Interesting. I have IE5.0 on the Mac set to ask before setting cookies, and it didn't pester me once.
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Who marked this as offtopic? Jeez. Do we need an O'Reilly book with a Jackass on the cover? O'Reilly for /. Moderators?
Anyway, you need to give the GIMP a bit more credit. It's more like Photoshop 4.0 without the features one truly needs for prepress, such esoteric stuff like dot gain and custom inking profiles. Good for 72 dpi RGB work, but I wouldn't use it for prepress unless I absolutely had to.
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Some countries use "." as series delimiters, including telephone numbers and other multigroup numbers...
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And again I'm reminded of the irony of hosting a web page on volcanoes on a server at the University of North Dakota--located on the flat bottom of an ancient glacial lake.
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Postscript won't make them terribly happy either---it's very difficult to deal with anything less than a perfect postscript file. Acrobat, however, is workable.
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NO, you're not reading the error message correctly. It doesn't say, "No Cookie" -- it says "No Wookie". Any idiot knows that you need a Wookie to compromise Imperial security!
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Two words: outsource it. Most printers will look at you funny if you come in with a file from StarOffice let alone a latex file. (Actually, they'll laugh at you in the latter case.) It'd be better to find a graphic designer who can do the lay in Quark/Pagemaker/etc. for you, or ask the printer to do it yourself. It'll be less of a headache in the end.
Or, just fire up the GIMP and give the printer a 300 dpi eps file with spot channels. Business card size is 3.5"x2", but remember to keep text around 1/8" away from the edges and, if you want full bleed, give them 1/8" beyond the cut size.
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And this brings up something I've wondered about: What is it with former Red Dwarf actors and hosting "build shit" shows? Lister on Robot Wars, Kyten on that junkyard series.
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Ummm...yes... and also by the time he was Bush's age, Einstein was considered one of the greatest scientist's ever. Bush was governor of Texas. Though I must concede that Teaxs is important, being its governor hardly takes a physicist ;)
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Because last I heard, QuickTime was the starting point for MPEG4. Check it out:
//w ww.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1998/q2/980211 .pr.rel.iso.html
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And...
http://www.cselt.it/ mpe g/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm#E11E10
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What? How long have you been living in Winnipeg? I'm down in Grand Forks,ND, and I know that the ambient air temperature got much lower than 0F. Without windchill, I believe it got to -25F one day... of course it's the windchill that drops it to the point where flesh starts to fall off. Mmmmm... -50F.
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No. It needs to be green, so you can look cool like the 1337 haX0rs in the movies.
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Damn people... read more than the first line of the comment before you moderate: he's asking a question which is valid, not trolling. Jeez. This should be modded-up, not down.
Anyway, I'm not sure if he'd want to do so, at least not in that manner. I'm not sure if he even can tell the DOJ to stop it, but if he could, and did, wouldn't it look a bit suspicious to the rest of the country? Stacking the court is one thing, obstructing justice is another.
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Revelations meets Terminator.
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I'd presume it would be easy if:
* They're using a standard interface, prolly IDE. Likely as it would keep things cheaper.
* There's nothing terribly propietary on the drive itself. Formatting, some type of id blocks, etc.
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Three actually. The Beige G3s, the Blue and White G3s, and the G3 All-in-Ones which are the coolest all-in-one machines Apple has ever made.
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It's actually a fine way of differentiating machines. For the most part, with some noticeable exceptions, most PC manufacturers stick with a relatively common form factor across their entire line and use model numbers to differentiate their base systems. Apple simply uses color, processor, processor speed, and maybe a revision number/letter for specifics. B&W G3-350. Bronze PowerbookG3 whatever. Why is the color so important? It's a dinstinctive, easily recognized differentiation between models. One can't easily confuse a PowerMacG3 from 1997 with a PowerMacG3 from 1998, can they? One is beige, the other blue and white. And one can't mistake a G4 for a G3 simply because of the case styling.
Color is everything!
(And sorry on the original reply--I thought you were flat-out flamebating.)
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Nice try, but listing the color is quite pertinent. Apple officially differentiates between separate models of the desktop G3s by color--beige or Blue & White. The BWs have a radically different motherboard than the beige machines, so mentioning the color is quite pertinent.
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Doesn't anyone else find it odd that the place is still inhabited? MIR has had a string of old-age problems the past few years... judging by the content of the report, fungus could cause a fatal failure--imagine if a weakened spot in a viewing port developed a crack. Complete, nearly instantaneous decompression. Ouch.
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The 040 hardware and 7500s were running the same version of the MacOS. I neglected to mention that, so it's my fault. Also both the 040 and PPC systems were loaded with 64MB of RAM and that does, admittedly, go a lot farther on 680x0 than PPC.
BUT, I do know what you mean about the user interface sucking cycles--*cough* MacOS X. Soon as Flash, Photoshop (sorry--doin' color prepress and the GIMP is just not quite there yet), Illustrator, Quark, and Director run on Linux, I'll switch--once someone writes a friggin' tool to convert my fonts. I'm not parting with a few thousand dollars of typefaces. Makes Linux a very non-free solution for me.
Rambling....
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Like everything, it's a bang-for-the-buck equation. Simply put, can you get better hardware for the same price, or equivalent hardware for the same price?
Slightly off-topic, but don't knock aged hardware. At a company (printing) I used to work for, we kept a Quadra840AV and a Quadra950 around, running MacOS 7.5.5, Quark 4.x, and Photoshop 3.x for those just-in-case times. What we found, though, is that the two, old '040 based Macs were perfectly usable as production machines and, oddly, felt zippier than our new PowerMac 7500s at times. Weird, huh? (This was several years ago, btw.)
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Slashdot linked to a site that cares about providing a semblance of correct typography, enough to spell coordinating as coördinating with the diaresis.
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