If your non-technical people have trouble with Contribute, I'm surprised they can make it to work unaided.
Contribute is as easy as pie to use for anyone who can even half-use a word processor. Just remember: it's a webpage editor, not a site editor. Perhaps your site needed to be re-jigged with Contribute in mind, or maybe too many web developer-type tasks were being devolved to them.
And if they couldn't use Contribute, they won't be able to use a CMS. Maybe you just need smarter people.
You can embed video files into PDFs, but I think you mean slide animations. I have seen PDFs do some sort of animation from a PPT file (I think it was just a cross dissolve) but I have absolutely no idea how I achieved that. It can do "revealing" animations by having a separate page for each point on the page. Play it at fullscreen and it looks just like the real thing.
If PDFs can't do complex slide animations, I think that's a good thing..
Motion has very hefty hardware requirements, especially in the video card department. A Mac such as is described almost certainly won't run Motion. Not all Macs can run Motion.
FCP would probably run, but not well i.e. throw in a couple of layers of video and watch it grind to a halt.
Think of this postulated Mac as an eMac without a monitor.
If you want to "get into" video the Mac way with a machine like this, stick to iMovie. If you want to really "do stuff" with video the Mac way, you'll be wanting a dual G5. I know I do:-)
Sitting behind a two-way mirror, watching first-time users struggle with our software, reminded me that programmers are the least qualified people to design software for novices.
But there's a difference between spam, that is pushed at you, and the other 'nasties' you mentioned, which must be sought.
Real world comparison: it's easy enough to stop unsolicited commercial mail. Put a sign on your letterbox saying "no junk mail" and have laws to back your choice not to receive it. It would be difficult to then turn those laws, or the thinking responsible for those laws, into laws banning an adult porn shop.
Two different things accessed in very different ways.
But what do sales figures mean to the gaming market? I work for a government organisation that probably has around 200 000 PCs and maybe a dozen Macs. I can guarantee you not one of those PCs is used for online gaming.
THIS is where PCs make the good sales: governments and corporations, and neither of those outfits are into gaming.
Hasn't been a decent game since Unreal Tournament anyway...
Shooting people is a crime that will get you noticed by the police, arrested and thrown in jail.
Ripping DVDs is a crime (DMCA circumvention)... but how does it get noticed if it's in your own home? The last thing we need is the bad guys (the movie studios)throwing up their hands and saying "OK, have your fair use, but we need a way of checking for fair use...".
There's something about symmetry and the reduction of complexity into simplicity that appeals to humans. For some, such occurrences seem to imply "design", which implies "designer"...
Problem with that is that a lot of spyware is installed on a PC with the user's approval - nay, the user's help. The nifty screensaver, the "downloader helper", the pretty thing that dances across the screen.
Malware like that doesn't often target the Mac, I believe, because of low numbers of machines to hit. If we increase in numbers, that may change. While we are probably safe from automatically spreading worms and viruses, never underestimate the stupidity of the user.
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Forget Flash - get Swish. It's very easy to use and really quite flexible. I'd be the happiest guy on the planet if they made a Mac version.
If a client really wants an entire site built in Flash, let someone else do it. You can't be all things to all people.
From here: And Oral Suer, the former chief executive of the...
What sort of a name is "Oral". And "Oral Suer" at that. I don't mean to point out "nya nya you have a funny name" but this one's pretty wacky.
If your non-technical people have trouble with Contribute, I'm surprised they can make it to work unaided.
Contribute is as easy as pie to use for anyone who can even half-use a word processor. Just remember: it's a webpage editor, not a site editor. Perhaps your site needed to be re-jigged with Contribute in mind, or maybe too many web developer-type tasks were being devolved to them.
And if they couldn't use Contribute, they won't be able to use a CMS. Maybe you just need smarter people.
I clicked on the link. It took me to the NYT story. I am not a subscriber. I didn't use bugmenot. It all just worked.
You can embed video files into PDFs, but I think you mean slide animations. I have seen PDFs do some sort of animation from a PPT file (I think it was just a cross dissolve) but I have absolutely no idea how I achieved that. It can do "revealing" animations by having a separate page for each point on the page. Play it at fullscreen and it looks just like the real thing.
If PDFs can't do complex slide animations, I think that's a good thing..
I meant something like this.
Mac-firewire-box-TV.
This is not the machine you are looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
You don't know that this thing doesn't have VI-VO already. Anyway, it's available as a firewire box already.
Motion has very hefty hardware requirements, especially in the video card department. A Mac such as is described almost certainly won't run Motion. Not all Macs can run Motion.
:-)
FCP would probably run, but not well i.e. throw in a couple of layers of video and watch it grind to a halt.
Think of this postulated Mac as an eMac without a monitor.
If you want to "get into" video the Mac way with a machine like this, stick to iMovie. If you want to really "do stuff" with video the Mac way, you'll be wanting a dual G5. I know I do
Sitting behind a two-way mirror, watching first-time users struggle with our software, reminded me that programmers are the least qualified people to design software for novices.
But there's a difference between spam, that is pushed at you, and the other 'nasties' you mentioned, which must be sought.
Real world comparison: it's easy enough to stop unsolicited commercial mail. Put a sign on your letterbox saying "no junk mail" and have laws to back your choice not to receive it. It would be difficult to then turn those laws, or the thinking responsible for those laws, into laws banning an adult porn shop.
Two different things accessed in very different ways.
i'm not.
Wouldn't they have to state that in the EULA when you install the FBI's spyware? Oh, wait...
the good of the many must take precedence over the good of the (relative) few.
You got that from The Wrath Of Khan didn't you!
Phone messages for Alek:
"Please prepare your server for a slashdotting."
"You have 10 minutes to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"You have 5 minutes to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"You have 1 minute to prepare your server for slashdotting"
"Please extinguish your server".
move your dumb ass to NW China and don't fuck it up for me
What's so special about north west china?
But what do sales figures mean to the gaming market? I work for a government organisation that probably has around 200 000 PCs and maybe a dozen Macs. I can guarantee you not one of those PCs is used for online gaming.
THIS is where PCs make the good sales: governments and corporations, and neither of those outfits are into gaming.
Hasn't been a decent game since Unreal Tournament anyway...
Shooting people is a crime that will get you noticed by the police, arrested and thrown in jail.
Ripping DVDs is a crime (DMCA circumvention)... but how does it get noticed if it's in your own home? The last thing we need is the bad guys (the movie studios)throwing up their hands and saying "OK, have your fair use, but we need a way of checking for fair use...".
Just a random thought.
There's something about symmetry and the reduction of complexity into simplicity that appeals to humans. For some, such occurrences seem to imply "design", which implies "designer" ...
:-)
Me, I like all of that, but still an atheist
Not if it's not counted by the surveyors.
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Problem with that is that a lot of spyware is installed on a PC with the user's approval - nay, the user's help. The nifty screensaver, the "downloader helper", the pretty thing that dances across the screen.
There was recently news of a malware package for OS X but it seemed to require full user installation!
Malware like that doesn't often target the Mac, I believe, because of low numbers of machines to hit. If we increase in numbers, that may change. While we are probably safe from automatically spreading worms and viruses, never underestimate the stupidity of the user.
When you've got this sort of thing going on, I don't see why any competent user should be denied the right to use appropriate software in their job
Because everyone who knows how to make text bold in Word thinks they're a competent user.
However, understanding why IT does this doesn't stop me from running lots of non-standard stuff myself...
... or looking at pr0n.
Well you could cheat by stuffing the phone box full of dwarves.