while i do agree (& have dealt with quark sillyness in the past), i was just correcting the parent post.
personally it would have annoyed, but not suprised me if i had to shell out the $900 for 6. i don't date my girlfriend cause i like her parents, & i don't use quark because i like the company. i need it to work, and either way i'd have to buy it.
so relatively speaking, i'm okay with the price & overjoyed to be ditching OS9 sometime in the near future.
just checked the quark site, upgrade pricing is $199-499 depending on the version you've got, so one would presume 5.x users (myself included) can get it for $199.
the more i hear about this the more it makes me wonder: if this does take off in any significant way - where was MS when these deals were being made? were they not already in bed with the record companies a'la their DRM work?
the record co's would win (or at least stay alive), Apple obvously wins, the artist seems to win (details pending), and so does the customer (more or less - i'm sure the deal will continue to be sweetened over time).
no MS bashing here - just wondering are they already out of the game before its even started?
can they legally offer a competing service with the same price/selection? how significant is their DRM scheme going to be now? (i guess they still have warez, viruses & movie rips to contend with ; )
http://www.madsci.org/
fun site, scientists from all fields will answer your questions directly. the archives can be sorted by age/grade/topic.
as someone posted above, the straight dope is also great, though some questions & cecil adams in general may be a bit too much for kids.
I agree.
'People don't want the best. They want the standard.' -A woman in a documentary re:monopolies, and talking specifically, of course, about microsoft.
Although IMHO in this case some technical aspects did help win this 'standards' (hint) war, when dealing with the general public convincing them that this is what other people are *going to buy* is half the battle. Ahh, marketing...
fJ
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seconded, this engine is very friendly to artists with a bit of coding experience, i'd check it out if you have a mac.
while i do agree (& have dealt with quark sillyness in the past), i was just correcting the parent post. personally it would have annoyed, but not suprised me if i had to shell out the $900 for 6. i don't date my girlfriend cause i like her parents, & i don't use quark because i like the company. i need it to work, and either way i'd have to buy it. so relatively speaking, i'm okay with the price & overjoyed to be ditching OS9 sometime in the near future.
just checked the quark site, upgrade pricing is $199-499 depending on the version you've got, so one would presume 5.x users (myself included) can get it for $199.
the more i hear about this the more it makes me wonder: if this does take off in any significant way - where was MS when these deals were being made? were they not already in bed with the record companies a'la their DRM work?
the record co's would win (or at least stay alive), Apple obvously wins, the artist seems to win (details pending), and so does the customer (more or less - i'm sure the deal will continue to be sweetened over time).
no MS bashing here - just wondering are they already out of the game before its even started?
can they legally offer a competing service with the same price/selection? how significant is their DRM scheme going to be now? (i guess they still have warez, viruses & movie rips to contend with ; )
a few years ago at least, the standard pay is $90 a day & a bag lunch. better than working in mcdonalds...
http://www.madsci.org/ fun site, scientists from all fields will answer your questions directly. the archives can be sorted by age/grade/topic. as someone posted above, the straight dope is also great, though some questions & cecil adams in general may be a bit too much for kids.
I agree. 'People don't want the best. They want the standard.' -A woman in a documentary re:monopolies, and talking specifically, of course, about microsoft. Although IMHO in this case some technical aspects did help win this 'standards' (hint) war, when dealing with the general public convincing them that this is what other people are *going to buy* is half the battle. Ahh, marketing... fJ