Too bad the article is slashdotted. I'm curious about that issue too. I know I got a DVD from a user the other day that I couldn't mount on OSX, Fedora, or an old NO-DVDRW XP machine in my office. My guess was the "unclosed session problem" since my fully patched DVDRW XP machine at home mounted the DVD fine. Now if we have a nice new proprietary DVD format from Redmond then it will be like dealing with 1998 Mac OS 8 HFS nasty CD-R junk all over again.
The real issue is the same old fears that we have with music and movies. "Real Designers" with a love of typography and an understanding of users needs for control will attempt to design a readable, accessible page that is "wicked cool and easy to understand / read".
The good ones won't care if you want to override those things out of your own preferences (comic sans freaks anyone?) or need (White on Black please! I'm unfortanteley blind as a mole).
Go check out the pricing on some fonts from Adobe, Linotype, et al. and you will find the real issue. Of course they have to pay bills, so no one wants to risk their font library just so "Real Designers" can do a better job. Trust me for those who really understand this could do some awesome things.... the Bitstream thing was cool, but a stupid proprietary plugin sucks.
Of course these days it doesn't matter anyway. You are a Designer if you can open (insert graphic program here), and "Real Design" is just about as dead as can be. And even the real designers don't get good Web education... If the writer of this article is any example. px is bad.
IAAGD and sometimes it sucks.
The build for M113(?) using Apple's X11 is out there, but you either have to be on the dev-porting list, or surf the dev-porting archives to know how to find it. I'd throw out a link, but you should read the threads anyway so you know what you are getting into. It's been been working fine for me since build M103 I think.
That's the web designer's fault. You should scream '@ media print' or "media=print" every time you see him Actually I'm curious if this will break the nicely coded CSS I've done to make pages print as they should?
The CD format is so flawed that even semi-careful handling ruins it in in a couple of years, and the industry has to love that! My entire collection of Sugar albums is unusable just due to wear. No warrenty, no return, no exchange. No lifetime license to the music purchased.
They keep saying that we don't buy music... They are absolutely right! We only rent it! They offer no value with the product that they sell.
Shouldn't we buy the music instead of a platter of metal and plastic? On the street we are there with with money in our hands to watch artists perform for a couple of hours, again we lease the entertainment! We rip the CD to a file that can be easily lost or corrupted... again no warranty no license.
In other words they rent us "Air", to bad it smells like sulfur, tastes like methane, and has no "creative" life sustaining qualities.
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Too bad the article is slashdotted. I'm curious about that issue too. I know I got a DVD from a user the other day that I couldn't mount on OSX, Fedora, or an old NO-DVDRW XP machine in my office. My guess was the "unclosed session problem" since my fully patched DVDRW XP machine at home mounted the DVD fine. Now if we have a nice new proprietary DVD format from Redmond then it will be like dealing with 1998 Mac OS 8 HFS nasty CD-R junk all over again.
The real issue is the same old fears that we have with music and movies. "Real Designers" with a love of typography and an understanding of users needs for control will attempt to design a readable, accessible page that is "wicked cool and easy to understand / read". The good ones won't care if you want to override those things out of your own preferences (comic sans freaks anyone?) or need (White on Black please! I'm unfortanteley blind as a mole). Go check out the pricing on some fonts from Adobe, Linotype, et al. and you will find the real issue. Of course they have to pay bills, so no one wants to risk their font library just so "Real Designers" can do a better job. Trust me for those who really understand this could do some awesome things.... the Bitstream thing was cool, but a stupid proprietary plugin sucks. Of course these days it doesn't matter anyway. You are a Designer if you can open (insert graphic program here), and "Real Design" is just about as dead as can be. And even the real designers don't get good Web education... If the writer of this article is any example. px is bad. IAAGD and sometimes it sucks.
The build for M113(?) using Apple's X11 is out there, but you either have to be on the dev-porting list, or surf the dev-porting archives to know how to find it. I'd throw out a link, but you should read the threads anyway so you know what you are getting into. It's been been working fine for me since build M103 I think.
Man I hate when I get suckered into feeding advertising dollars to troll tech writers.
That's the web designer's fault. You should scream '@ media print' or "media=print" every time you see him Actually I'm curious if this will break the nicely coded CSS I've done to make pages print as they should?
The CD format is so flawed that even semi-careful handling ruins it in in a couple of years, and the industry has to love that! My entire collection of Sugar albums is unusable just due to wear. No warrenty, no return, no exchange. No lifetime license to the music purchased. They keep saying that we don't buy music... They are absolutely right! We only rent it! They offer no value with the product that they sell. Shouldn't we buy the music instead of a platter of metal and plastic? On the street we are there with with money in our hands to watch artists perform for a couple of hours, again we lease the entertainment! We rip the CD to a file that can be easily lost or corrupted... again no warranty no license. In other words they rent us "Air", to bad it smells like sulfur, tastes like methane, and has no "creative" life sustaining qualities.