design their own advertisements in. We as graphic professionals will not be able to do anything with, because it's in some arcaine format, with unextractable images, all in RGB color space. I cant wait till we get this crap submitted to us!
That printer prints on 17.92" wide roll paper at 500 feet a minute, so two 8.5 x 11 sheets side by side with trim at almost 4 times the speed. Granted the printer mentioned in the story is color, but the kodak does spot color (black plus one highlight color) what ever happened to no news is good news?
A Field emission display. Technology Review Had an article on it back in november with some explination of the technology and the hurdles involved. The big one as it sounds that Moto can not get over is how you support the glass in the middle so it does not touch (front to back) as the display requires a vacuum to operate, fairly easy with a 5" diagonal very difficult with a 40" screen. This is surely not the first, but first for Moto.
-Me
Not off campus housing. I also was worried, but sometime deductible on homeowners insurance are quite high (if you roof gets blown of your not up-***-creek, but if a window is broken your just gonna pay for it yourself.
val1s
If the Xbox Next is worth buying (time will tell) and it's not backward compatible. That means I will have to have 4 controllers for my original xbox (4 player Halo) two controllers for my PS2, and any number of controllers for my xbox Next (it's MS so of coarse they'll want to sell you 3 more controllers at $35 a pop). Who cares about the clutter behind the TV. But that's going to make a posible 10 controller in front of the TV. Talk about cable snarl.
What's up with MS's naming conventions, is the 3rd generation Xbox going to be the Xbox Apple, or Xbox BSD (OS X, neXt...) val1s
The official Swiss Army Knife company has come out with a USB flash drive enabled Knife. If I didnt already own a SanDisk this would be the one I'd get. They seem to be decently priced for Victorinox at $70 for 64 megs.
http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/news/news_swi ssmemory.htm
-val1s
http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/equipment/product_deta ils.jsp?Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US&prodID=DigiPath&cat =Product+Taxonomy%2fProduction+Workflow%2fFreeFlow +Digital+Workflow
While i'm not suggesting you buy it, but find a local service provider that has one. If your school is large enough they may have something like this already. These are they type of scanners that drive xerox's 120-180ppm printers, they are lightning quick 60 double sided pages a minute, and surprisingly good quality.
This is MS we're talking about here. Why would they not subsidize the cost of the device undercutting the competition's price point until device componets become inexpensive enough to reap a profit. Or is that illeagal?
For those that care, the car Will drives in the movie is an Audi designed concept specifically for the movie. Kinda cool, I noticed they got a 4 ring steering wheel shot in the trailer and a quick look at the car towards the end... Article contains more info http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/audi_ news/a rticle_532.shtml
While it is true that the video in this test was deffinatly looked better in the divx and WM9 formats. What it's testing is not an accurate portrayal of what the average macintosh user (thus more likely quicktime user) would do.
The example in the begining of the article states something to the effect of baby's fist steps video. This would probobly be shot on a DV camcorder, transfered over firewire. The resulting file would be a 3.5meg/sec set of video clips. iMovie to edit, then iDVD to burn MPEG2 (aka source compression) to a dvd disc.
I dont know about your parents but mine would be more likely to know what to do with a DVD sent to them snail mail, than a several hundred meg attachement to an e-mail.:)
val1s
Did a quick search of Caltech's home page ("5.4" search string) and came up with this article. http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12356.html
Note the date 3/18/03. But their press-release is alittle more informative.
They were testing their own "FAST" technology (Fast AQM Scalable TCP). Related link
http://netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/
Now tell me what it all means;)
I just want SDSL at home...
Ian Murren
When you say Printer Ink it's to be assumed you mean Ink-jet Ink.
The problem with this is that it's a different business model. Zip drives, Game consoles, inkjet printers are all the same, give away (or take an initial hit on) hardware and re-coup your costs on the consumables (or games). Yes they are charging more for the ink than the ink actually costs but, do you want to pay $300 up front for your otherwise free printer?
Just for added info, last I heard the Ink-Jet ink market was a $5Billion industry...
You are right about Apple being in an odd position at the moment, But it's only odd compaired to everyone else. They've been in this position for some time. The original PPC conversion from 68k was very similar. You had a very fast CPU in your box, but everything was getting emulated/interpreted on the fly and it was still faster than it was before, over the next 2 years things continued to improve. Again this happened with Dual proccessors, first nothing then photoshop, then some system level stuff in OS9. OS X was next, Dog slow, then 10.1 with quartz extreme, etc, etc... Apple is great at making they're initially slow computers faster, and feel new again.:)
I'm sure there are some instances that i've missed here, something about the 68030 comes vaguely to mind, first chip with internal cache i think.. IDK i was 7 when that came out..
Now if they could only make this B&W g3 I'm working on feel like a g5:)
One important note: Can you still boot off of the Optical Drive after the firmware update? Alot of 3rd party drives you cannot do this, and that's essentially what doing an update like this would make this drive..
-val1s
A better value? Maybe Initially. I purchased a refurbished Mac when I started college. (lets not get into the value of a Used PC) I still use this PowerMac 8500 daily, granted it's been upgraded (g3/300, $300) since purchased. However I bought the machine in 1997, it was originally built in 1995. How many PC's that you know of are running photoshop, Quark, Illustrator daily of that age? If you depreciate it over the 8 years, that's like $250 a year, alittle better than replacing your $1000 PC every two years.
Not, bad £240 off a dual G4, But what if you have more than one old mac sitting around? I for one have atleast 6 machines dating back to a 512ke that i'd love to turn into money. Original equipment cost is well over $20,000. How bout a buy 6 get one free deal?
-val1s
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I thought Microsoft finnally caught up with a GUI installer for windows. ;)
is that why they are so expensive? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/printer s/index.php#drug-dealers-hide-drugs-in-printer-car tridges-107734
design their own advertisements in. We as graphic professionals will not be able to do anything with, because it's in some arcaine format, with unextractable images, all in RGB color space. I cant wait till we get this crap submitted to us!
Well for Black and white printers, 1,000 page per minute printers have been around for years.d =158&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&_type=site&_fs iteid=34&_fid=60569&_fnavbarid=3080&_fnavbarsiteid =34&_fedit=0&_fmode=2&_fdisplaymode=1&_fcalledfrom =1&_fdisplayurl=
http://www.kodakversamark.com/servlet/page?_pagei
That printer prints on 17.92" wide roll paper at 500 feet a minute, so two 8.5 x 11 sheets side by side with trim at almost 4 times the speed. Granted the printer mentioned in the story is color, but the kodak does spot color (black plus one highlight color)
what ever happened to no news is good news?
A Field emission display. Technology Review Had an article on it back in november with some explination of the technology and the hurdles involved. The big one as it sounds that Moto can not get over is how you support the glass in the middle so it does not touch (front to back) as the display requires a vacuum to operate, fairly easy with a 5" diagonal very difficult with a 40" screen. This is surely not the first, but first for Moto.
-Me
mouse, simple User interfaces are faster to use, even if it is perceived to have quicker access to features through arcane interfaces.
Not off campus housing. I also was worried, but sometime deductible on homeowners insurance are quite high (if you roof gets blown of your not up-***-creek, but if a window is broken your just gonna pay for it yourself. val1s
If the Xbox Next is worth buying (time will tell) and it's not backward compatible. That means I will have to have 4 controllers for my original xbox (4 player Halo) two controllers for my PS2, and any number of controllers for my xbox Next (it's MS so of coarse they'll want to sell you 3 more controllers at $35 a pop). Who cares about the clutter behind the TV. But that's going to make a posible 10 controller in front of the TV. Talk about cable snarl.
What's up with MS's naming conventions, is the 3rd generation Xbox going to be the Xbox Apple, or Xbox BSD (OS X, neXt...) val1s
The official Swiss Army Knife company has come out with a USB flash drive enabled Knife. If I didnt already own a SanDisk this would be the one I'd get. They seem to be decently priced for Victorinox at $70 for 64 megs. http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/news/news_swi ssmemory.htm
-val1s
http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/equipment/product_deta ils.jsp?Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US&prodID=DigiPath&cat =Product+Taxonomy%2fProduction+Workflow%2fFreeFlow +Digital+Workflow
While i'm not suggesting you buy it, but find a local service provider that has one. If your school is large enough they may have something like this already. These are they type of scanners that drive xerox's 120-180ppm printers, they are lightning quick 60 double sided pages a minute, and surprisingly good quality.
Wait, it's a 2.5" disk, enclosed in what size? 1x 0.8 x 0.8cm?
This is MS we're talking about here. Why would they not subsidize the cost of the device undercutting the competition's price point until device componets become inexpensive enough to reap a profit. Or is that illeagal?
For those that care, the car Will drives in the movie is an Audi designed concept specifically for the movie. Kinda cool, I noticed they got a 4 ring steering wheel shot in the trailer and a quick look at the car towards the end..._ news/a rticle_532.shtml
Article contains more info
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/audi
While it is true that the video in this test was deffinatly looked better in the divx and WM9 formats. What it's testing is not an accurate portrayal of what the average macintosh user (thus more likely quicktime user) would do. The example in the begining of the article states something to the effect of baby's fist steps video. This would probobly be shot on a DV camcorder, transfered over firewire. The resulting file would be a 3.5meg/sec set of video clips. iMovie to edit, then iDVD to burn MPEG2 (aka source compression) to a dvd disc. I dont know about your parents but mine would be more likely to know what to do with a DVD sent to them snail mail, than a several hundred meg attachement to an e-mail. :)
val1s
Or Sell bandwidth that those file sharing apps eat so much of, there is money in that, just alot of players in it already. val1s
in related new men buy more flowers than women...
Sounds like Apple's undercutting Sun Also,
Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 $2,999
64bit, up to 8gigs of ram, 160GB SATA, 1Ghz frontside bus.
Spend the extra 2grand on ram, or hopefully a mini Xserve RAID some day.
Did a quick search of Caltech's home page ("5.4" search string) and came up with this article. http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12356 .html
Note the date 3/18/03. But their press-release is alittle more informative.
They were testing their own "FAST" technology (Fast AQM Scalable TCP). Related link
http://netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/
Now tell me what it all means ;)
I just want SDSL at home...
Ian Murren
When you say Printer Ink it's to be assumed you mean Ink-jet Ink. The problem with this is that it's a different business model. Zip drives, Game consoles, inkjet printers are all the same, give away (or take an initial hit on) hardware and re-coup your costs on the consumables (or games). Yes they are charging more for the ink than the ink actually costs but, do you want to pay $300 up front for your otherwise free printer? Just for added info, last I heard the Ink-Jet ink market was a $5Billion industry...
You are right about Apple being in an odd position at the moment, But it's only odd compaired to everyone else. They've been in this position for some time. The original PPC conversion from 68k was very similar. You had a very fast CPU in your box, but everything was getting emulated/interpreted on the fly and it was still faster than it was before, over the next 2 years things continued to improve. Again this happened with Dual proccessors, first nothing then photoshop, then some system level stuff in OS9. OS X was next, Dog slow, then 10.1 with quartz extreme, etc, etc... Apple is great at making they're initially slow computers faster, and feel new again. :)
I'm sure there are some instances that i've missed here, something about the 68030 comes vaguely to mind, first chip with internal cache i think.. IDK i was 7 when that came out..
Now if they could only make this B&W g3 I'm working on feel like a g5 :)
One important note: Can you still boot off of the Optical Drive after the firmware update? Alot of 3rd party drives you cannot do this, and that's essentially what doing an update like this would make this drive.. -val1s
Are they so convinced that OS X is the future that they are giving up on Solaris and Licensing OS X? :)
A better value? Maybe Initially. I purchased a refurbished Mac when I started college. (lets not get into the value of a Used PC) I still use this PowerMac 8500 daily, granted it's been upgraded (g3/300, $300) since purchased. However I bought the machine in 1997, it was originally built in 1995. How many PC's that you know of are running photoshop, Quark, Illustrator daily of that age? If you depreciate it over the 8 years, that's like $250 a year, alittle better than replacing your $1000 PC every two years.
It was not the RAM Controller but the G4 itself that does not support DDR. Yeah I dont like it either
Not, bad £240 off a dual G4, But what if you have more than one old mac sitting around? I for one have atleast 6 machines dating back to a 512ke that i'd love to turn into money. Original equipment cost is well over $20,000. How bout a buy 6 get one free deal? -val1s