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Get this through your head.
Christianity is a religion of violence, historically spread through military conquest. The Catholic Church basically offers two choices for the "pagan:" conversion or death.
Jesus Christ can now take his place beside Charles Manson, another leader of a dangerous and bloody cult.
Jesus (and Mohammed) your grasp of religious history is awful. Islam's history of violence pales in comparison to the millions killed in the various heresies, pogroms and Inquisitions the Holy Roman Apolostic Cathlolic Church has either directed or tacitly supported since the Council of Nicaea. Men were burned alive at the stake for merely saying that Jesus may have been part human and part divine; entire cities were sacked and burned because the inhabitants dared to have a different definition of the Trinity than those in power. The rise of Islamic Fundamentalism dates from the late 1700s. The rise of Christian Fundamentalism can be dated from the end of the Roman Empire, when the academies of the ploytheistic religions were forced to shut down.
All religions have been turned to the uses of power and violence. Singling out Islam is part of the problem.
Except that "Satan" didn't exist before Christianity. There was no Devil before he was created during the Middle Ages. Neither Judaism or Islam have the same approach to phenomenal evil as does western Christianity.
Apple sells premium priced machines to a die-hard, hard-core following of graphic designers, musicians and video editors. These are people willing to pay extra for a quiet, good-looking machine as part of their studio.
Apple also an assload of iMacs to normal-like people who use them for surfing the web and balancing their checkbooks, just like my friend's 73 year old mom. She lurves her iMac.
I'm writing this on a three year old G3 laptop. It came with a modem, USB, Firewire, audio in and out, video out and 10/100 ethernet. In three years all I've had to add is extra memory.
And then there is usability. Once you have spent extra to get your Mac to be hardware comparable to the PC, it is still useless for most application situations. The Mac excels in a few niches, but if you want to "think different" and do more with the machine, get a PC.
You're right. That useless MS Office application. And that useless Photoshop application. And all those useless programming environements. And all that useless video editing software. And audio software.
To quote a friend of mine, you're not even a moron. You're a moroff.
I have been working in the industry since 1989, and, in that time, I have never, ever seen a shop which ran anything other than Quark. Every major magazine I know about (and that's a bunch, as many are based in NYC) use Quark: Time, Rolling Stone, US, Spin, etc. The New York Times uses Quark. The Post and the Daily News use Quark. All the major ad agencies use Quark. Bloomberg uses Quark.
Quark, Quark, everywhere I look I see Quark.
You, like pretty much everybody else here, seem to be under the mistaken impression that InDesign is going to be pre-installed on new Macs, like iTunes. That's not right at all. If you buy a G4 between now and the end of the year, you can mail Adobe a coupon and they'll send you a copy of InDesign for free. If you don't want it, don't send in the coupon. On the other hand, if you like getting expensive things for free....
In other words, all those coupons will be recycled, along with all the extra paper.
I actually have a copy of InDesign 2.0, and I have yet to find a reason to use it. I have nothing against InDesign - if it does a better job I'm all for it - but there is no reason to switch. If Adobe wants InDesign to take over, it needs to be Killer App better, not just a bit better here and there. And I am tired of people saying, "InDesign's gonna kill Quark" without having experience in the industry. It's as silly as people saying, "OS X's gonna crush Windows!", and I'm a Mac person.
I don't think this will really do anything. InDesigns's market share is tiny, and no one's really adopting it. In addition, the first thing any serious design, production or prepress firm does upon recieving a new machine is nuke the drive and install their own build.
The writers of Star Trek were held back by Roddenbrry himself, who declared that, by the time of TNG, humans had evolved beyond such things as anger, hatred, jealousy, etc. With on fell swoop, he removed the possibility of any dramatic tension and, therefore, any good plots.
The original series was also really good because, like all great science fiction (such as Bradbury's early stories), it isn't about the future. The original series was talking about some interesting social and political issues at a time when such things were being addressed on a national level. Even having a black woman on the deck and an "alien" XO was a big, big deal, and this gave a dimension to the stories which took them beyond 'let's kill us some aliens'. The newer series have all been about following the mold which, obviously, sucks.
Doesn't matter. InDesign is a niche market program for small shops which do mostly Web work and one-person operations. Quark still does DTP the best despite is bugs, corporate culture and all that crap .
Fo the record:
Apple does use IBM chips. Every G3 the ship is an IBM G3, including 700 MHz models, which is, I think, the top of IBMs line right now.
My money's on the "G5" being a version of the Power4 chip, and Apple and Moto will go their separate ways.
Because movie making is not like writing a story. Specifically, you never know what a movie will look like until you get it into post-production, because before that it's just too large of an undertaking to hold together in your head. Once in post, you see things - how an actor did a scene, how a camera angle captured a shot, etc. - which can change how the movie works. You put all this together in a rough cut, and then you edit some more.
Look at it this way: the post production process is the movie version of revisions. When I write my work tends to get tighter and tighter as
I go along, which involves a lot of the delete button. All the scraps which end up in the cutting room floor are the movie version of the delete button.
FYI, rule of thumb for a feature film is to shoot for a 6:1 ratio, which means you shoot six feet of film for every foot you end up using. Some directors (George Lucas comes to mind) are known for shooting 10:1.
FCP has a lot of market penetration in TV, TV news and the indie film community. These people are tired of getting the shaft from Avid, and if you're not printing onto 35 mm, it really doesn't matter. You can actually edit for 35 mm on FCP, but Avid is very Microsoftish in the industry.
There was an article in the New Yorker about six months ago on a congitive study of people working paperful (?) and paperless. The findings showed that working on paper allows the brain to function with informational paradigms which are dependent upon having physical pieces of paper to move around and process. These paradigms, which are extremely efficient, are unavailable in a paperless environment.
On a more personal note, despite loving my cel phone and having an apartment full of blinking lights, I still do not have a Palm and I won't be getting one. My Filofax is still much more flexible than any Palm et al I have seen, and it doesn't freak out if dropped.
Apple has already teamed up with IBM - all Apple G3s are IBM G3s, which is why we're seeing clock speeds above 500 MHz (and rumored for 1GHz for the next revision of the iBook, provided Motorola can get the G4s in the TiBook up to 1GHz).
My best guess would be the G5 as a POWER-based chip, losing Moto altogether. From what I've read, the Apollo is looking good for 1.5 MHz, which might buy Apple some time to make the switch. Also, remember that a) Apple brought some of the PPC development in-house after the last G4 fiasco, and b) IBM/Apple has already secured from Moto a liscensing agreement to make AltiVec chips. IBM has the fab facilities and the gumption to push the PPC architecture to higher clock speeds, and, unlike Moto, are not so dependent on the embedded chip market.
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Christianity is a religion of violence, historically spread through military conquest. The Catholic Church basically offers two choices for the "pagan:" conversion or death.
Jesus Christ can now take his place beside Charles Manson, another leader of a dangerous and bloody cult.
Jesus (and Mohammed) your grasp of religious history is awful. Islam's history of violence pales in comparison to the millions killed in the various heresies, pogroms and Inquisitions the Holy Roman Apolostic Cathlolic Church has either directed or tacitly supported since the Council of Nicaea. Men were burned alive at the stake for merely saying that Jesus may have been part human and part divine; entire cities were sacked and burned because the inhabitants dared to have a different definition of the Trinity than those in power. The rise of Islamic Fundamentalism dates from the late 1700s. The rise of Christian Fundamentalism can be dated from the end of the Roman Empire, when the academies of the ploytheistic religions were forced to shut down.
All religions have been turned to the uses of power and violence. Singling out Islam is part of the problem.
And for shits and grins, I haven't paid for Apple system software since, well, since ever, including 10.2.
Perhaps you mean polytheism.
Apple also an assload of iMacs to normal-like people who use them for surfing the web and balancing their checkbooks, just like my friend's 73 year old mom. She lurves her iMac.
Careful with those stereotypes.
Yes, and as that Athlon runs an OS which can't parse ICC profiles, have fun running that match print.
'Twere sarcasm.
Or a very stupid troll.
I'm writing this on a three year old G3 laptop. It came with a modem, USB, Firewire, audio in and out, video out and 10/100 ethernet. In three years all I've had to add is extra memory.
And then there is usability. Once you have spent extra to get your Mac to be hardware comparable to the PC, it is still useless for most application situations. The Mac excels in a few niches, but if you want to "think different" and do more with the machine, get a PC.
You're right. That useless MS Office application. And that useless Photoshop application. And all those useless programming environements. And all that useless video editing software. And audio software.
To quote a friend of mine, you're not even a moron. You're a moroff.
Quark, Quark, everywhere I look I see Quark.
You, like pretty much everybody else here, seem to be under the mistaken impression that InDesign is going to be pre-installed on new Macs, like iTunes. That's not right at all. If you buy a G4 between now and the end of the year, you can mail Adobe a coupon and they'll send you a copy of InDesign for free. If you don't want it, don't send in the coupon. On the other hand, if you like getting expensive things for free....
In other words, all those coupons will be recycled, along with all the extra paper.
I actually have a copy of InDesign 2.0, and I have yet to find a reason to use it. I have nothing against InDesign - if it does a better job I'm all for it - but there is no reason to switch. If Adobe wants InDesign to take over, it needs to be Killer App better, not just a bit better here and there. And I am tired of people saying, "InDesign's gonna kill Quark" without having experience in the industry. It's as silly as people saying, "OS X's gonna crush Windows!", and I'm a Mac person.
Poof! G'bye InDesign!
The original series was also really good because, like all great science fiction (such as Bradbury's early stories), it isn't about the future. The original series was talking about some interesting social and political issues at a time when such things were being addressed on a national level. Even having a black woman on the deck and an "alien" XO was a big, big deal, and this gave a dimension to the stories which took them beyond 'let's kill us some aliens'. The newer series have all been about following the mold which, obviously, sucks.
Doesn't matter. InDesign is a niche market program for small shops which do mostly Web work and one-person operations. Quark still does DTP the best despite is bugs, corporate culture and all that crap .
No difference except for hardware support.
Swap? /private/var/vm/swapfile*
Fo the record: Apple does use IBM chips. Every G3 the ship is an IBM G3, including 700 MHz models, which is, I think, the top of IBMs line right now. My money's on the "G5" being a version of the Power4 chip, and Apple and Moto will go their separate ways.
Everyone also shoots ar least 6:1.
The two are not related.
Look at it this way: the post production process is the movie version of revisions. When I write my work tends to get tighter and tighter as I go along, which involves a lot of the delete button. All the scraps which end up in the cutting room floor are the movie version of the delete button.
FYI, rule of thumb for a feature film is to shoot for a 6:1 ratio, which means you shoot six feet of film for every foot you end up using. Some directors (George Lucas comes to mind) are known for shooting 10:1.
Or, as we call in on Planet Earth, human nature.
As a New Yorker I would ask him: what'd we ever do to you?
FCP has a lot of market penetration in TV, TV news and the indie film community. These people are tired of getting the shaft from Avid, and if you're not printing onto 35 mm, it really doesn't matter. You can actually edit for 35 mm on FCP, but Avid is very Microsoftish in the industry.
Premiere? Professionals use Avid or FCP, period.
I meant STATE.
Really. . .
That was Alexander Haig, when he was Secretary of Defense.
On a more personal note, despite loving my cel phone and having an apartment full of blinking lights, I still do not have a Palm and I won't be getting one. My Filofax is still much more flexible than any Palm et al I have seen, and it doesn't freak out if dropped.
My best guess would be the G5 as a POWER-based chip, losing Moto altogether. From what I've read, the Apollo is looking good for 1.5 MHz, which might buy Apple some time to make the switch. Also, remember that a) Apple brought some of the PPC development in-house after the last G4 fiasco, and b) IBM/Apple has already secured from Moto a liscensing agreement to make AltiVec chips. IBM has the fab facilities and the gumption to push the PPC architecture to higher clock speeds, and, unlike Moto, are not so dependent on the embedded chip market.
For the record, I'm in the mood for Italian today.