If you're a small company, just starting out, and you're not locked into Photoshop for some reason, there's no reason to start producing files in that format. I
But when you want to hire employees or freelancers or accept files from clients or send files to a printer or basically do anything beyond doodling in your bedroom you are locked into the Photoshop/Indesign/Illustrator/PDF/EPS Adobe ecosystem because it's the defacto standard in the creative market.
...was a little underwhelming, looks like it was done a pen plotter although it does convey a certain 70's scientific vibe.
Also, where are the iceweasel/icedove/firefox/icewm jokes?
Sure. Covering a substantial quantity of the earth's surface with solar panels would probably have a substantial effect on surface tempurature/weather patterns. So would releasing all the stored carbon energy by lighting everthing on fire.
I acknowledge your point. But, in the present "natural" system wave energy hits the beach. Removing some of that energy from the "natural" system could lead to unintended results (Maybe wave energy hitting the beach is important for some proccess that we don't currently understand). While I realize that the volume/energy of the oceans is enormous, the same is true of the atmosphere and we may have signifigantly altered its state in the last 100 years.
When wave energy hits a breakwater the energy is dispersed and reflected back into the medium (the ocean). If it hits a a generator it is absorbed and converted into electrical energy. Something like this is taking energy out of a closed system which will have effects. How much? depends on how much energy you take out.
I've deployed systems for organizations 1/10 the size of what TFA describes that cost more than that.
If IBM could make money providing services to size X companies, they would.
If IBM doesn't want your business, take your business elsewhere.
And isn't developing a disaster recovery plan his job?
Let me see, now that he's got the whole "operational excellence" thing sorted out and he's made the "Executive Leadership Team" he wants to sit around all day dangling a whole $25K infront of consultants instead of, i don't know, fiquring out how to implement a disaster recovery plan.
Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 x 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors...
http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html
The screen will not be able to express that color with a given cmyk, and they will look different...
Actually RGB is a wider gamma than CMYK, any CMYK color can be accurately represented in RGB but not vice-versa.
In the old days, image editing/retouching for print often involved performing operations on specific channels to achieve specific effects (ie adjusting the levels of the magenta channel to remove a color cast in the shadow tones or whatever).
Also, in the old days, your source digital image came from a drum scanner which generally produced a CMYK image.
With increasing acceptance of CCD flat-bed scanners and even digital photography, high end print production is gradually moving to a RGB workflow, at least for image editing/retouching.
Still, every time an image is proofed or printed, it needs to be converted to CMYK. Depending on the environment, this can done by applying a "profile" in Photoshop or many RIPs now support "color management" which is sort of broad term which aims to convert images to the appropriate color space on the fly using device profiles.
As other posters have noted, lack of CMYK support, while a glaring problem, is really just the tip of the iceberg when considering the GIMP for professional use.
Process color offset lithography (used for the vast majority of commercial printing) is a 4 color, CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) process.
The RIPs (Raster Image Processors) that produce, proofs, film, or plates expect (in many instances require) images to be in the CMYK colorspace (four 8-bit channels).
So, lack of robust CMYK support makes the GIMP largely useless in a print production environment.
I'm all for freewill, but I can think of at least 2112 reasons why parent should not be modded Troll.
It seems these fly by night moderators are on some kind of a witch hunt.
Moderators need to look a little closer to the heart and think of the effect modding has on a poster's karma, because when it comes to karma, I think Tom Saywer said it best:
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
I was going to say "it has a touch screen and a stylus and that should be adequate for 'a note or two' blah, blah, blah" but apparently this device does not support handwriting recognition. http://laptopmag.com/Review/Pepper-Pad.htm
TFA does not appear to mention this, (unless i missed it).
Implied is the concept that if you're dissatisfied with the nature of your government you have the ability/responsibility to change it for the better.
If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem, blah, blah, blah.
There is no I in people, so, "In a Democracy, you get the government you deserve"
Slashdot Mirror
The media is a big part of the message. newsbueter + elinks make the webs a noticeably different place.
WRT Datagram, the data center isn't in the basement, the generator is.
Stooges.
Ummm... maybe someone could mod parent up?
Irony.
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If you're a small company, just starting out, and you're not locked into Photoshop for some reason, there's no reason to start producing files in that format. I
But when you want to hire employees or freelancers or accept files from clients or send files to a printer or basically do anything beyond doodling in your bedroom you are locked into the Photoshop/Indesign/Illustrator/PDF/EPS Adobe ecosystem because it's the defacto standard in the creative market.
Which is a main point of TFA.
Great theory but Newscorp does not own the New York Times, it owns the New York Post.
...was a little underwhelming, looks like it was done a pen plotter although it does convey a certain 70's scientific vibe. Also, where are the iceweasel/icedove/firefox/icewm jokes?
And you should google "tipping point"
like from the toilet
Sure. Covering a substantial quantity of the earth's surface with solar panels would probably have a substantial effect on surface tempurature/weather patterns. So would releasing all the stored carbon energy by lighting everthing on fire.
I acknowledge your point. But, in the present "natural" system wave energy hits the beach. Removing some of that energy from the "natural" system could lead to unintended results (Maybe wave energy hitting the beach is important for some proccess that we don't currently understand). While I realize that the volume/energy of the oceans is enormous, the same is true of the atmosphere and we may have signifigantly altered its state in the last 100 years.
When wave energy hits a breakwater the energy is dispersed and reflected back into the medium (the ocean). If it hits a a generator it is absorbed and converted into electrical energy. Something like this is taking energy out of a closed system which will have effects. How much? depends on how much energy you take out.
Home Depot has been investigated for this - http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/5401128?f=search
If IBM could make money providing services to size X companies, they would.
If IBM doesn't want your business, take your business elsewhere.
And isn't developing a disaster recovery plan his job?
Let me see, now that he's got the whole "operational excellence" thing sorted out and he's made the "Executive Leadership Team" he wants to sit around all day dangling a whole $25K infront of consultants instead of, i don't know, fiquring out how to implement a disaster recovery plan .
Hate to nitpick an otherwise interesting comment but doesn't the Mac Mini == "the cube 2" ?
The whole bridge::software analogy is:
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1. A straw man man argument and a poor one at that. It's not uncommon for civil engineering projects to require "patches" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dig#Reports_of_s
2. An obviously bad analogy, I'm sure the specifics will be discussed here ad infinium.
Actually RGB is a wider gamma than CMYK, any CMYK color can be accurately represented in RGB but not vice-versa.
In the old days, image editing/retouching for print often involved performing operations on specific channels to achieve specific effects (ie adjusting the levels of the magenta channel to remove a color cast in the shadow tones or whatever).
Also, in the old days, your source digital image came from a drum scanner which generally produced a CMYK image.
With increasing acceptance of CCD flat-bed scanners and even digital photography, high end print production is gradually moving to a RGB workflow, at least for image editing/retouching.
Still, every time an image is proofed or printed, it needs to be converted to CMYK. Depending on the environment, this can done by applying a "profile" in Photoshop or many RIPs now support "color management" which is sort of broad term which aims to convert images to the appropriate color space on the fly using device profiles.
As other posters have noted, lack of CMYK support, while a glaring problem, is really just the tip of the iceberg when considering the GIMP for professional use.
Process color offset lithography (used for the vast majority of commercial printing) is a 4 color, CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) process.
The RIPs (Raster Image Processors) that produce, proofs, film, or plates expect (in many instances require) images to be in the CMYK colorspace (four 8-bit channels). So, lack of robust CMYK support makes the GIMP largely useless in a print production environment.
It seems these fly by night moderators are on some kind of a witch hunt.
Moderators need to look a little closer to the heart and think of the effect modding has on a poster's karma, because when it comes to karma, I think Tom Saywer said it best:
I was going to say "it has a touch screen and a stylus and that should be adequate for 'a note or two' blah, blah, blah" but apparently this device does not support handwriting recognition. http://laptopmag.com/Review/Pepper-Pad.htm
TFA does not appear to mention this, (unless i missed it).
...but are they wearing sandals?
Wow,that slope is so slippery it's frictionless.
Implied is the concept that if you're dissatisfied with the nature of your government you have the ability/responsibility to change it for the better.
If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem, blah, blah, blah.
There is no I in people, so, "In a Democracy, you get the government you deserve"