f MS really were after Macromedia, wouldn't Apple have been in there quicksmart?
The truth is probably closer that Apple was after Macromedia. That's where Final Cut Pro comes from. If Apple were to get an image editing application they'd have another coup for Mac OS X (Apple is replacing both Adobe and Avid on the editing front).
What made them special is that they offered the best games and were the most powerful at the time.
The Sega Master System was more powerful than the NES in every way, the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx was only beat out by the SNES in the sound category which if you added the CD blew away the SNES.
What made them special was they had developer lock-in. You had to have your cartridges made by Nintendo which meant you had to be an approved developer. Codemasters and Tengen (Atari) brought lawsuits against Nintendo and won.
The main reason to own a Nintendo console is because it plays Nintendo's games. Nintendo could come out with a game system tomorrow and announce it will only ever play games Nintendo makes for it and it would still sell like mad. The only game character to come close to overthrowing Mario's dominance as an icon for the entire video game industry was Sonic, and look at him now. A pathetic throwaway by a company that is tanking.
Dude, Ico was awesome. It was... wrenching. Sad and exhilarating, a bit funny in some spots, wistful in others. It evoked emotion better than almost any game I can remember, and it did it almost completely without words. I don't think you can call yourself a gamer if you haven't played Ico. Seriously.
Ico was a really short version of Prince of Persia is all. It was good, but dude, come on, the puzzles are harder in any Resident Evil and even Parrappa the Rapper lasted longer.
but Sony's out there with the EyeToy and the HDD add-on and MS is out there with the Live service and a built-in HDD.
Um, how many games use the EyeToy? How many use the HDD? From everything I've read about the XBox, the HDD is used more for piracy than games.
I'd like to point out that Nintendo has created R.O.B., the PowerPad, the PowerGlove, SuperScope 6, an interface with a portable game system, a device capable of expanding a game with add-on software with a disk drive for NES, the N64, as well as the eReader.
Their track record for actual innovations make the rest of the industry look like sad, sorry copycats.
As a designer why should I care about the difference? I'm making a clothing for people to wear, I should use fabric and a sewing machine. I don't care about what sort of fabric it is, I shouldn't need to know. I just create the clothing and distribute it in the most appropriate way. If its got wool in then I know that it won't sell very well in Florida but I understand that. Why should I have to create two types of clothing based on the climate?
That is why I went from being an involved host, to being the guy who is seen as a dis-interested developer. The moment you show interest, there will be a bunch of people (about 5% as far as I can tell) who feel that it is their god-given right to demand that everything works exactly the way they want it to. And instead of just going away, they do things like organize a boycott, and post hundreds of messages in the bulletin board complaining about the perceived problems.
5% organise a boycott of a free product and this bothers you. I fail to believe that your product is "free". Just so you know, television is not free just because you don't have to pay to have it beamed into your home.
Your "application" didn't live up to however you were hyping it and people decided to boycott so you couldn't get the ad revenue. It was all about the ad revenue, huh? Yeah, that sucks when sponsors pull their ads because you pissed off the audience. If your product truly was "free" it wouldn't make a difference if people boycotted it or not.
I see comments that Adobe apps are (supposedly) stable. Since when? I've had to try twelve straight times and do some massive registry editing and uninstallation of codecs
Without knowing it you've illustrated why Corel is a distant third in this market: Macintosh support. The last figure I saw from Adobe was 60% of their business is Macintosh. I'm sure Macromedia probably has a larger percentage base because they're not selling anything like Acrobat.
Creative professionals use Macintosh. Unless you really don't want a market with them (Corel) you have to have top-noth Macintosh support.
This might be a problem for some though, my thumb is gigantic so trying to make precision movements might be difficult.
This is never a problem for good design. Take for instance, the Gameboy. Nintendo has done plenty enough research from the very first to the DS as to where to position the buttons and to what thickness the device needs to be. Everyone from 4 year-olds to burly steel worker hands find the Gameboy usable (quite obviously by sales but also when put to the test by reviewers).
Being Microsoft I doubt that it will work that way unless they buy Logitech or something. Remember the original XBox controller? Yup.
It's better threaded now so you don't sit there while it searches and loads every damn font like it used to. It's much faster than before. There's no longer the confusing option when turning off collections "turn of the fonts or the collection", uh, what? It now turns off the fonts in the collection as well as the collection name in Font Panel. Currently there's no way to remove fonts from a Collection, though, you have to create a new Collection.
I still think you should be able to turn on and off fonts in Font Panel.
ne of the new features is that Mail.app supports Exchange servers - but I have a feeling this is just imap support and won't handle meeting invites, etc.
*cough* *sputter*
Exchange is not IMAP, it's MAPI. Mail.app has supported IMAP since the NeXT days. As for handling meeting invites, it's possible since Mail hooks in with iCal. I don't use Exchange (uh, does anyone still use it?) so I can't verify if it works.
The point of the moderation system is for people to have a choice when browsing. You can turn the noise up or down in preferences. Moderation is meaningless unless you use it.
Brash criticism from people whose opinion of the subject is basically worthless to me (they don't have a Mac, have never had a Mac, are never going to get a Mac) is best ignored. That's the bulk of the noise that's been modded out of my threshold.
It's akin to a black person discussing being Asian. They're not Asian and have never been Asian and are never going to be Asian. Why do I care what they think about being Asian?
they should give this one for free to all its customers that bought a previous version of mac os x.
Yup, just like Microsoft gave away Windows 98, ME, and XP. Apple's benevolence is nothing compared to Microsoft's. I mean, Apple doesn't even give away all the free bugs like Microsoft does!!!
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CoreImage adds tons of image processing features a la Photoshop
No, CoreImage goes WAY beyond Photoshop because the effects are real-time GPU accelerated and non-destructive. The developer tools comes with an application called CoreImage funhouse which is rudimentary but works. I look for GraphicConvertor to add CoreImage to the next version and really put a hurt on Photoshop Elements.
It's amazing to perform filters in realtime and scrub the centerpoint to watch the image change. These are effects that were only available to high-end applications like Photoshop that now every shareware author has direct access to.
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The truth is probably closer that Apple was after Macromedia. That's where Final Cut Pro comes from. If Apple were to get an image editing application they'd have another coup for Mac OS X (Apple is replacing both Adobe and Avid on the editing front).
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Yeah, really you ought to be doing something else entirely. I've seen the beast.
You do know that Zelda: Windwaker holds the record for pre-orders in the world, right? That's a lot of little kids with credit cards.
Actually, it's been since 1889.
When they made them for N64.
The Sega Master System was more powerful than the NES in every way, the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx was only beat out by the SNES in the sound category which if you added the CD blew away the SNES.
What made them special was they had developer lock-in. You had to have your cartridges made by Nintendo which meant you had to be an approved developer. Codemasters and Tengen (Atari) brought lawsuits against Nintendo and won.
The main reason to own a Nintendo console is because it plays Nintendo's games. Nintendo could come out with a game system tomorrow and announce it will only ever play games Nintendo makes for it and it would still sell like mad. The only game character to come close to overthrowing Mario's dominance as an icon for the entire video game industry was Sonic, and look at him now. A pathetic throwaway by a company that is tanking.
Ico was a really short version of Prince of Persia is all. It was good, but dude, come on, the puzzles are harder in any Resident Evil and even Parrappa the Rapper lasted longer.
Um, how many games use the EyeToy? How many use the HDD? From everything I've read about the XBox, the HDD is used more for piracy than games.
I'd like to point out that Nintendo has created R.O.B., the PowerPad, the PowerGlove, SuperScope 6, an interface with a portable game system, a device capable of expanding a game with add-on software with a disk drive for NES, the N64, as well as the eReader.
Their track record for actual innovations make the rest of the industry look like sad, sorry copycats.
Outside of arcades, I believe the first 4-player setup was on the NES.
Um, why are we using dot 3 file extensions?
As a designer why should I care about the difference? I'm making a clothing for people to wear, I should use fabric and a sewing machine. I don't care about what sort of fabric it is, I shouldn't need to know. I just create the clothing and distribute it in the most appropriate way. If its got wool in then I know that it won't sell very well in Florida but I understand that. Why should I have to create two types of clothing based on the climate?
5% organise a boycott of a free product and this bothers you. I fail to believe that your product is "free". Just so you know, television is not free just because you don't have to pay to have it beamed into your home.
Your "application" didn't live up to however you were hyping it and people decided to boycott so you couldn't get the ad revenue. It was all about the ad revenue, huh? Yeah, that sucks when sponsors pull their ads because you pissed off the audience. If your product truly was "free" it wouldn't make a difference if people boycotted it or not.
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Um, since always on Mac.
Creative professionals use Macintosh. Unless you really don't want a market with them (Corel) you have to have top-noth Macintosh support.
Maybe Apple will buy it. Just a thought.
You have to buy a Mac to see Microsoft innovate. Sometimes Windows users are lucky and actually get some of it.
They called it the Macarena.
This is never a problem for good design. Take for instance, the Gameboy. Nintendo has done plenty enough research from the very first to the DS as to where to position the buttons and to what thickness the device needs to be. Everyone from 4 year-olds to burly steel worker hands find the Gameboy usable (quite obviously by sales but also when put to the test by reviewers).
Being Microsoft I doubt that it will work that way unless they buy Logitech or something. Remember the original XBox controller? Yup.
I still think you should be able to turn on and off fonts in Font Panel.
*cough* *sputter*
Exchange is not IMAP, it's MAPI. Mail.app has supported IMAP since the NeXT days. As for handling meeting invites, it's possible since Mail hooks in with iCal. I don't use Exchange (uh, does anyone still use it?) so I can't verify if it works.
Brash criticism from people whose opinion of the subject is basically worthless to me (they don't have a Mac, have never had a Mac, are never going to get a Mac) is best ignored. That's the bulk of the noise that's been modded out of my threshold.
It's akin to a black person discussing being Asian. They're not Asian and have never been Asian and are never going to be Asian. Why do I care what they think about being Asian?
Yup, just like Microsoft gave away Windows 98, ME, and XP. Apple's benevolence is nothing compared to Microsoft's. I mean, Apple doesn't even give away all the free bugs like Microsoft does!!!
No, CoreImage goes WAY beyond Photoshop because the effects are real-time GPU accelerated and non-destructive. The developer tools comes with an application called CoreImage funhouse which is rudimentary but works. I look for GraphicConvertor to add CoreImage to the next version and really put a hurt on Photoshop Elements.
It's amazing to perform filters in realtime and scrub the centerpoint to watch the image change. These are effects that were only available to high-end applications like Photoshop that now every shareware author has direct access to.
Except that I used cp to strip the resource forks from files that don't need it (like images).