With a total of three G5 processors and Microsoft now owning VirtualPC, how outrageous would it be for MS to provide Xbox emulation using a variant of VirtualPC?
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I posted this above, but I will post again. LG was mighty pissed off when they found out SamSung had come with their 80" plasma. There is a lot of press here in Vegas about LG's 76" promoting it as the "largest"...
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LG was pissed when they found out Samsung was showing a 80" plasma at the show.
Have you looked at Microsofts financials lately? If they would kill off anything that doesnt make money, they would have nothing left but Windows and Office. Everything else they have loses...and big time.
I think the drop of IE for Mac follows the drop of IE standalone installer for PC. If MS can't force it into the OS, what chance to they have? IE (mac or pc) hasnt received a significant update in how long? This is the only chance they have to maintain their domination.
So what if AMD only covers it for 90 days? Damn..the cpu's are cheap anyhow... buy 2. If you are using your own fan and heatsink, odds are you are familar with application of the thermal compound and heatsink/fan combo. Yes.. you may get a DOA cpu every once in a while..but what reseller has given people problems so far? I am far more likely to toast my CPU out of my own stupidity... and guess what.. it would be my fault. Go figure. Of course, I could battle it out with the reseller, AMD, or whoever, wait forever and try to get a replacment.... or I could get online, order a new CPU and away I go...
71% have the latest Flash 6 player. 93% have Flash 5 installed.
Outside of pure html, you couldn't ask for a better environment to develop for. Nothing else comes close to those penetration numbers except for basic html.
Plus Flash content can run on Mac, PC, Linux, Solaris, PocketPC, Sony PDA, and even some phones.
Director is a good product, but overkill for most of the web work that is out there. Flash is even overkill sometimes.
But here are some stats why I don't deal with Director anymore, except in extreme cases:
Shockwave player : 4 meg download less than 70% of all users have some version of shockwave player installed.
Flash player download : 500k 90%+ have Flash 5 or lower installed 70% have Flash 6 player installed
Shockwave > mac and pc only.
Flash > mac, pc, pocketpc, sony pda, solaris, redhat linux, some mobile phones, and a few others.
If I need rich media content, simulation or animation for the web, I know I can create it in Flash and most, if not all, my users will be able to view the material.
Pick the right tool for the job at hand. If you like Director and it works for you.. use it. Don't bash others because they prefer another tool.
Shockwave is and has always been a Director plugin. Shockwave can play flash content because the Flash player is bundled with it.
The flash player is much smaller in size compared to Shockwave web player and the Authorware web player, this is because it doesnt have all the capabilities of Shockwave or AW web player.
As for the business decisions.. if you don't see it, can't help ya there. There are three products that meet three different, but related, needs.
Basically, Flash is being positioned for developing rich media content on the web and for portable devices. The web player can not be expanded with plugins or Xtras.
Director can do some of that, but its capabilities have been more targeted towards game development. which is why it can use 3d content, all sorts of image file formats, audio formats, has tons of plugins, Xtras to do just about anything.
Authorware...well... who knows what Macromedia is doing with Authorware. It used to be a good tool.. and sort of slipped by.
Macromedia has a current file spec for Flash 6. They had one for Flash 5 when it came out as well. It didn't appear right away, but it came out soon enough.
Macromedia has their own competitor to PowerPoint called Breeze (i think they just bought it) http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/
Either today had too many trolls and some of you are too damn ignorant. Flash is just another tool for both web and desktop development.
The Flash 6 player runs on Mac, PC, Linux (RH plugin), PocketPC, Solaris and a few others. The plugin is on more browsers than any other plugin out there.
Can Flash be used to create crap? heck yeah.. any tool can be annoying to a user...Its the developer that determines that.
For those of you complaining about Flash pop-up ads, do you think that pop-ups appeared after Flash? No.. advertisers have been annoying us since the days of.
Here are some very good examples of what Flash can be: http://reservations.broadmoor.com http://exa mples.macromedia.com/petmarket/flashstor e.html http://reservations.ihotelier.com/sshr/one screen/o nescreenmx.cfm http://www.smallblueprinter.com/ve r5.html http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/compa rison/ind ex.html
Macromedia Central is going to provide a way for Flash developers to get exposure, sell their products, and make some really cool desktop applications that extend beyond what can be done now by creating a standalone projector.
If you are using MacOSX, and just getting into 3d, there is only one choice.
3dToolkit $199
goto www.dvgarage.com and check out 3dToolkit. Its Electic Image 2.9 and it includes over 2 gigs of tutorials on DVD. Once you master that, they look at the either Universe 5.0 (newest version of Electric Image) or Cinema4d or Maya.
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With a total of three G5 processors and Microsoft now owning VirtualPC, how outrageous would it be for MS to provide Xbox emulation using a variant of VirtualPC?
I posted this above, but I will post again. LG was mighty pissed off when they found out SamSung had come with their 80" plasma. There is a lot of press here in Vegas about LG's 76" promoting it as the "largest"...
LG was pissed when they found out Samsung was showing a 80" plasma at the show.
Have you looked at Microsofts financials lately? If they would kill off anything that doesnt make money, they would have nothing left but Windows and Office. Everything else they have loses...and big time.
I think the drop of IE for Mac follows the drop of IE standalone installer for PC. If MS can't force it into the OS, what chance to they have? IE (mac or pc) hasnt received a significant update in how long? This is the only chance they have to maintain their domination.
http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/home.asp
Been using this for years... easier than iTunes and no restrictions.
So what if AMD only covers it for 90 days? Damn..the cpu's are cheap anyhow... buy 2. If you are using your own fan and heatsink, odds are you are familar with application of the thermal compound and heatsink/fan combo. Yes.. you may get a DOA cpu every once in a while..but what reseller has given people problems so far? I am far more likely to toast my CPU out of my own stupidity... and guess what.. it would be my fault. Go figure. Of course, I could battle it out with the reseller, AMD, or whoever, wait forever and try to get a replacment.... or I could get online, order a new CPU and away I go...
And if a user doesnt have flash, its a quick 500k download...
http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/f lashplayer/version_penetration.html
71% have the latest Flash 6 player.
93% have Flash 5 installed.
Outside of pure html, you couldn't ask for a better environment to develop for. Nothing else comes close to those penetration numbers except for basic html.
Plus Flash content can run on Mac, PC, Linux, Solaris, PocketPC, Sony PDA, and even some phones.
Director is a good product, but overkill for most of the web work that is out there. Flash is even overkill sometimes.
But here are some stats why I don't deal with Director anymore, except in extreme cases:
Shockwave player : 4 meg download
less than 70% of all users have some version of shockwave player installed.
Flash player download : 500k
90%+ have Flash 5 or lower installed
70% have Flash 6 player installed
Shockwave > mac and pc only.
Flash > mac, pc, pocketpc, sony pda, solaris, redhat linux, some mobile phones, and a few others.
If I need rich media content, simulation or animation for the web, I know I can create it in Flash and most, if not all, my users will be able to view the material.
Pick the right tool for the job at hand. If you like Director and it works for you.. use it. Don't bash others because they prefer another tool.
- John
Shockwave is and has always been a Director plugin. Shockwave can play flash content because the Flash player is bundled with it.
The flash player is much smaller in size compared to Shockwave web player and the Authorware web player, this is because it doesnt have all the capabilities of Shockwave or AW web player.
As for the business decisions.. if you don't see it, can't help ya there. There are three products that meet three different, but related, needs.
Basically, Flash is being positioned for developing rich media content on the web and for portable devices. The web player can not be expanded with plugins or Xtras.
Director can do some of that, but its capabilities have been more targeted towards game development. which is why it can use 3d content, all sorts of image file formats, audio formats, has tons of plugins, Xtras to do just about anything.
Authorware...well... who knows what Macromedia is doing with Authorware. It used to be a good tool.. and sort of slipped by.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/lice nsing/fileformat/
Macromedia has a current file spec for Flash 6. They had one for Flash 5 when it came out as well. It didn't appear right away, but it came out soon enough.
Macromedia has their own competitor to PowerPoint called Breeze (i think they just bought it)
http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/
Thats funny you say that.. Macromedia never designed their own file format to do what it is doing...
how do you figure that?
Flash and Director and Authorware all have similar features, but all of them have their strong points.
Flash has a 'hold' on web.. the flash player (ver 5) has nearly a 98% install rate... far more than Shockwave.
Director's big feat is 3d and games, mostly for cdrom delivery.
Authorware is used in training (intel is one of the biggest users).
Either today had too many trolls and some of you are too damn ignorant. Flash is just another tool for both web and desktop development.
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a mples.macromedia.com/petmarket/flashstor e.htmle screen/o nescreenmx.cfme r5.htmla rison/ind ex.html
The Flash 6 player runs on Mac, PC, Linux (RH plugin), PocketPC, Solaris and a few others. The plugin is on more browsers than any other plugin out there.
Can Flash be used to create crap? heck yeah.. any tool can be annoying to a user...Its the developer that determines that.
For those of you complaining about Flash pop-up ads, do you think that pop-ups appeared after Flash? No.. advertisers have been annoying us since the days of
Here are some very good examples of what Flash can be:
http://reservations.broadmoor.com
http://ex
http://reservations.ihotelier.com/sshr/on
http://www.smallblueprinter.com/v
http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/comp
Macromedia Central is going to provide a way for Flash developers to get exposure, sell their products, and make some really cool desktop applications that extend beyond what can be done now by creating a standalone projector.
- John
My brother in law is an Intel employee and a recent mac switcher. What made him switch?
simple. DVD creation is simpler on the Mac and its faster.
We compared various P4 systems (1.4 , 2.53 , sorry no 3 gigs) and we compared an iMac G4/800, G4/867 and a dual G4 1 Gig.
The Dual 1 Gig was priced about the same as a similar Dell or Sony.
iDVD encoded our 10 minutes of DV footage in 9 minutes. This was nearly twice as fast as the P4/2.53.
I have noticed that most 3rd party Apple software doesnt fully utilize both the G4 processors. iDVD had both G4's working 80%-90% at all times.
-John
if you want cad like accuracy, FormZ is the way to go.
Not the fastest renderer, but an excellent tool. I know quite a few product designers who use it.
If you are using MacOSX, and just getting into 3d, there is only one choice.
3dToolkit $199
goto www.dvgarage.com and check out 3dToolkit. Its Electic Image 2.9 and it includes over 2 gigs of tutorials on DVD.
Once you master that, they look at the either Universe 5.0 (newest version of Electric Image) or Cinema4d or Maya.