I can easily see that happening. To be honest, it should have happened five years ago. But I hardly believe it'll replace pdfs.
The reason, in my opinion, that pdfs are so prevalent is that it is made by Adobe, and who better to know how to package Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign files into one nice bundle than them.
And don't get me started on the buyout of Macromedia.
Well, you are right. I have never worked at a public institution. I do know, however, that I payed $70 a semester to Texas Tech University, which was labeled as a "technology fee" and was described as going towards the network. Perhaps they called this a "grant," or maybe this wasn't enough to cover the actual bandwidth, but I know they keep raising that number the more they do with the network there, like when they switched over to OC3s rather than the T1 they had.
Not to mention that any increase in hardware and bandwidth spending will be covered in the tuition costs for the students. I'm sure that there would be some angry students and parents if they had found out the reason they are paying $20 more a semester is to support others' downloading. Personally, I would have used it to justify my own downloading. If I'm paying for it, why not use it?
My university simply blocked the Napster port (as well as 80, among others), no questions asked. It didn't effect me and my friends because we were using gnutella by then, anyway, and we just mainly used it for gaming, so we valued clean bandwidth. I support your reasoning for leaving it alone, and I agree with it, but practically, it was probably also just the best way to do it. If the students want to use a shit-ton of bandwidth, just smile, nod your head, and charge them for it.
I'm guessing you just linked to it to provide another test, but that site kinda made me laugh.
If you just ignore the condescending and arrogant tone of the "organization," you start to see some sort of scam in the making. I'd like to believe that the test is truly accurate, but when it's set up so that they'd actually want people to score high on it to join their organization (for the low, low price of $60), you start to wonder.
I guess that's the third online IQ test I've taken, and it was also the highest result at a 146. Other results were a 142 and a 135. I guess it's possible that it just "more accurately" tested me; or maybe I just had more caffiene than before. Either way, it "allowed me" the opportunity to pay them money and subscribe to their magazine, which I'm sure includes colorful ads that they gave away free to marketers.
It reminds me of that "Smart Water" you can buy in the grocery store. That has a target market, but not who you'd expect from the name.
I know I can usually get a coin to land on a certain side, and not just play against human tendencies. I'm not sure exactly how it's done, but I just watch which side is up before I flick it, then use the same force and catch it at the same time as its coming down. About eight times out of ten, I can correctly tell you which side will land up.
It's not perfect, but having those odds when someone expects 50/50 is all you would need to rake it in, assuming they let you choose the side and let you flick it. All this is ruined if you let it hit a table or the ground, or whatever.
I think you have the right idea about it. Fonts have to be made for specific purposes, and it often takes some careful thinking about which ones to use when, and at what size.
I'm something of a TypeNazi, so I thought it was funny seeing "Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!" in the story. What most people probably don't know is that they were created by the same designer.
What's interesting (in my opinion) is that I made an assumption about the meaning of FUD when I first began reading slashdot, but came to find out about a year later that it was wrong. Any "F" I've seen in internet phrase acronyms has always had one meaning, and I took a random guess about the other two based on the acronym FUBAR. So what I assumed it was is "F*cked Up Data" turned out to be something else rather mundane and boring. It's amazing how well this works in place of "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt".
I remember reading once about an in-car guidance system in Japan that shows you directions to your destination in 3d real-world representations, like playing an FPS.
Now think about how Google recently grabbed up a small mapquest-like mapping company.
Just thinking aloud here, how much would Google stand to leap over the competition if it were to make software that functions like mapquest, only gives you the ability to fly around, looking at the route?
The performance of a painting would be the final result. The performance on a building would be its final result. It's the thing that the artist wants you to see (or feel, or hear, or taste). Actors, musicians, and dancers, for instance, would be performing as you say, but in most cases (not all) they have practiced and known ahead of time exactly how they will carry this out. In this way, the original music is created long before the performance ever begins.
There are exceptions to this, obviously. Jazz music, for one, is normally based on some predetermined concept, but is altered as the performance progresses. One argument can still remain that acknowledges the fact that the performer had a vague, possibly subconscious intent on how the music would change. But, in many cases, the performer will make it up as the mood strikes, in essence creating the music as the perceiver listens.
But, this still is not bound by the concept presented by Art and Fear, that would claim that the musician must end the performance with decreasing options of possible conclusions. The jazz artist who has played with prior intent will still create music based on emotions and feelings or thoughts, rather than the "gestalt" or "holistic" approach that Art and Fear maintains.
I consider writing, painting, and drawing to work in the same way. It never is created in a straight progression from beginning to end as the perceiver reads/views it. There is almost always the initial layout phase, which then continues into fleshing out the concept and then into working the details out as they should be. You can see evidence of this in every area of human design. Buildings aren't built by placing a stick of wood in the ground and then adding more on, regardless of how LEGOs work.
There are only a few people who actually create in the order that the viewer/reader will perceives their art, and those people are rarely ever confined by such nonsense as meaning. These people also will not fall into the category of losing all options as the work progresses.
It is a romantic, idealistic idea that holds little truth.
I realize that he meant Photoshop is unrivaled, and I agree that it's definitely got a place at the top, however, you can't dismiss the other excellent programs simply because they have competition.
Starting from the bottom, I'll first mention that while Acrobat is simply a reader, which many hundreds of alternatives exist for, it's primarily the.pdf files that it's based around that are so important. I'll admit pdf's aren't an exclusive Acrobat format, but they are very handy to export data to, as a universal file format. While most printer's will accept just about any files you need, the reproductions stand a chance of being wrong if opened on the wrong software. Pdf's are extremely versatile, which has led me to use them anytime I send anything to the Newspapers or Printers. So, yes Acrobat itself isn't that great, but the native file format is.
As for AfterEffects, I've seen plenty of competition, even from Premiere, as well as many apps for the Mac, not just Motion.
I agree wholeheartedly that Quark is InDesign's rival, and would go a step further to note that Quark has been the industry standard for many years, but I have never met one person who actually liked it. It's a terrible program that has far outlived its usefulness, especially since InDesign has now become the favorite of most every print designer, and kicks so much ass.
I've heard from several people I respect that they prefer Freehand to Illustrator, and I don't doubt that it is the best for them. But those people are almost always Macromedia people, the ones who publish to the web and interactive cd's more than to print. While I also use most of the Macromedia products, I still prefer Adobe for any use I can get away with, which brings me back to my original point.
Adobe has made excellent products that work with each other in an intuitive fashion, and it is extremely easy to get to know it in a way that makes you never want to use other programs, regardless of near-equal rivals.
Adobe hasn't just made Photoshop well, but they also have quite a few professional tools that I don't think I could live without.
Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, and Acrobat(files) are other leading softwares that are essential for me (as a graphic designer). And once you get used to the way Adobe feels and organizes tools, you get accustomed to it, so much so that it becomes a pain to try to use other non-Adobe programs. This familiarity comes in handy, however, when you think to yourself, "How would I do [x] in InDesign or AfterEffects?" and the first thing you think of, it's there.
Defend your files from other users on the network, and break into a coworkers base and share his files....
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Not to mention the Cue Cat looked like a penis-on-a-string. Might be a market for that in certain portions of the population, but not really for us geeks.
Although it won't help regular office-type software, the CD-Key is the bane of online-gamers who don't pay for their games. Most games that use one will connect to a master server to verify its authenticity. So games like Quake 3 and Raven Shield require you to be legit to play in most of the open servers on the net, while games like half-life (even though it has a cd-key system) don't check the number online and are able to be cracked.
I don't know this from experience, or anything.
Right. I imagine that the battery itself wasn't the entire problem, anyway. Most likely the guy didn't take care of how he was treating it. Lithium Ion are the best batteries in my opinion, but they still can be damaged by overheating or overcharging, as well as random failure.
Dan's Data had a link to this site not long ago about it.
Although the built-in "Ink-Ball" game is entertaining for about five minutes, I hadn't ever bothered playing any other games on it. I have, however, taken it back and forth between home and class, using it's 40 gig HD as an excellent file-transfer method to get large photoshop, illustrator, and Aftereffects files to the Macintoshes in my school's Computer Art Lab. These are the same Photoshop files that were created by me using the awesome stylus-mouse that works great for editing in Photoshop.
Of course, connecting to the Airport with it's built-in WI-FI is great, not just because I only need to turn on my Tablet and let it find the access point, but since I can surf the Web while sitting in class. And of course, with the PCMCIA slot, getting a larger antenna is all that is required to do some way-cool Wardriving while I'm not doing homework. Taking notes in class has been even better - with all of my classes divided into their own directories, unlimited "paper" and easily-editable hand-written documents that could (if I wanted to) be turned into text with handwriting recognition. It's use as a sketchpad is evident in Penny Arcade, as I'm sure yall have seen, causing it to become more than any other computer, but an awesome tool for graphic designers, students, and I'm sure of hundreds of other careers.
But it's not for some main-stream tech who sits at his desk all day. It won't replace your desktop, people, but it just might replace a whole let else.
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The reason, in my opinion, that pdfs are so prevalent is that it is made by Adobe, and who better to know how to package Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign files into one nice bundle than them.
And don't get me started on the buyout of Macromedia.
Makes me wish I never opted out of mod points.
Well, you are right. I have never worked at a public institution. I do know, however, that I payed $70 a semester to Texas Tech University, which was labeled as a "technology fee" and was described as going towards the network. Perhaps they called this a "grant," or maybe this wasn't enough to cover the actual bandwidth, but I know they keep raising that number the more they do with the network there, like when they switched over to OC3s rather than the T1 they had.
They blocked incoming port 80 requests. To set up a webserver, I set up the domain and server to go to port 81.
My university simply blocked the Napster port (as well as 80, among others), no questions asked. It didn't effect me and my friends because we were using gnutella by then, anyway, and we just mainly used it for gaming, so we valued clean bandwidth. I support your reasoning for leaving it alone, and I agree with it, but practically, it was probably also just the best way to do it. If the students want to use a shit-ton of bandwidth, just smile, nod your head, and charge them for it.
I'm guessing you just linked to it to provide another test, but that site kinda made me laugh.
If you just ignore the condescending and arrogant tone of the "organization," you start to see some sort of scam in the making. I'd like to believe that the test is truly accurate, but when it's set up so that they'd actually want people to score high on it to join their organization (for the low, low price of $60), you start to wonder.
I guess that's the third online IQ test I've taken, and it was also the highest result at a 146. Other results were a 142 and a 135. I guess it's possible that it just "more accurately" tested me; or maybe I just had more caffiene than before. Either way, it "allowed me" the opportunity to pay them money and subscribe to their magazine, which I'm sure includes colorful ads that they gave away free to marketers.
It reminds me of that "Smart Water" you can buy in the grocery store. That has a target market, but not who you'd expect from the name.
And as everyone knows:
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I know I can usually get a coin to land on a certain side, and not just play against human tendencies. I'm not sure exactly how it's done, but I just watch which side is up before I flick it, then use the same force and catch it at the same time as its coming down. About eight times out of ten, I can correctly tell you which side will land up.
It's not perfect, but having those odds when someone expects 50/50 is all you would need to rake it in, assuming they let you choose the side and let you flick it. All this is ruined if you let it hit a table or the ground, or whatever.
I think you have the right idea about it. Fonts have to be made for specific purposes, and it often takes some careful thinking about which ones to use when, and at what size.
I'm something of a TypeNazi, so I thought it was funny seeing "Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!" in the story. What most people probably don't know is that they were created by the same designer.
Say hello to Matthew Carter.
What's interesting (in my opinion) is that I made an assumption about the meaning of FUD when I first began reading slashdot, but came to find out about a year later that it was wrong. Any "F" I've seen in internet phrase acronyms has always had one meaning, and I took a random guess about the other two based on the acronym FUBAR. So what I assumed it was is "F*cked Up Data" turned out to be something else rather mundane and boring. It's amazing how well this works in place of "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt".
Now think about how Google recently grabbed up a small mapquest-like mapping company.
Just thinking aloud here, how much would Google stand to leap over the competition if it were to make software that functions like mapquest, only gives you the ability to fly around, looking at the route?
The performance is an entirely different subject.
The performance of a painting would be the final result. The performance on a building would be its final result. It's the thing that the artist wants you to see (or feel, or hear, or taste). Actors, musicians, and dancers, for instance, would be performing as you say, but in most cases (not all) they have practiced and known ahead of time exactly how they will carry this out. In this way, the original music is created long before the performance ever begins.
There are exceptions to this, obviously. Jazz music, for one, is normally based on some predetermined concept, but is altered as the performance progresses. One argument can still remain that acknowledges the fact that the performer had a vague, possibly subconscious intent on how the music would change. But, in many cases, the performer will make it up as the mood strikes, in essence creating the music as the perceiver listens.
But, this still is not bound by the concept presented by Art and Fear, that would claim that the musician must end the performance with decreasing options of possible conclusions. The jazz artist who has played with prior intent will still create music based on emotions and feelings or thoughts, rather than the "gestalt" or "holistic" approach that Art and Fear maintains.
I agree with you.
I consider writing, painting, and drawing to work in the same way. It never is created in a straight progression from beginning to end as the perceiver reads/views it. There is almost always the initial layout phase, which then continues into fleshing out the concept and then into working the details out as they should be. You can see evidence of this in every area of human design. Buildings aren't built by placing a stick of wood in the ground and then adding more on, regardless of how LEGOs work.
There are only a few people who actually create in the order that the viewer/reader will perceives their art, and those people are rarely ever confined by such nonsense as meaning. These people also will not fall into the category of losing all options as the work progresses.
It is a romantic, idealistic idea that holds little truth.
Yeah, I remember doing that on Asteroids.
I don't know if Florida Tech is competing in it, but I know that the University of Florida did; a friend of mine was on the team.
Their website is here.
Starting from the bottom, I'll first mention that while Acrobat is simply a reader, which many hundreds of alternatives exist for, it's primarily the .pdf files that it's based around that are so important. I'll admit pdf's aren't an exclusive Acrobat format, but they are very handy to export data to, as a universal file format. While most printer's will accept just about any files you need, the reproductions stand a chance of being wrong if opened on the wrong software. Pdf's are extremely versatile, which has led me to use them anytime I send anything to the Newspapers or Printers. So, yes Acrobat itself isn't that great, but the native file format is.
As for AfterEffects, I've seen plenty of competition, even from Premiere, as well as many apps for the Mac, not just Motion.
I agree wholeheartedly that Quark is InDesign's rival, and would go a step further to note that Quark has been the industry standard for many years, but I have never met one person who actually liked it. It's a terrible program that has far outlived its usefulness, especially since InDesign has now become the favorite of most every print designer, and kicks so much ass.
I've heard from several people I respect that they prefer Freehand to Illustrator, and I don't doubt that it is the best for them. But those people are almost always Macromedia people, the ones who publish to the web and interactive cd's more than to print. While I also use most of the Macromedia products, I still prefer Adobe for any use I can get away with, which brings me back to my original point.
Adobe has made excellent products that work with each other in an intuitive fashion, and it is extremely easy to get to know it in a way that makes you never want to use other programs, regardless of near-equal rivals.
Adobe hasn't just made Photoshop well, but they also have quite a few professional tools that I don't think I could live without.
Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, and Acrobat(files) are other leading softwares that are essential for me (as a graphic designer). And once you get used to the way Adobe feels and organizes tools, you get accustomed to it, so much so that it becomes a pain to try to use other non-Adobe programs. This familiarity comes in handy, however, when you think to yourself, "How would I do [x] in InDesign or AfterEffects?" and the first thing you think of, it's there.
Adobe has a monopoly on my graphics editing.
I'm afraid it's "ZIEG HEIL!" not "ZEIG HEIL!"
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(Sorry, I just had to)
This paves the way for us to make a MMOFPSFM.
Defend your files from other users on the network, and break into a coworkers base and share his files....
Not to mention the Cue Cat looked like a penis-on-a-string. Might be a market for that in certain portions of the population, but not really for us geeks.
Although it won't help regular office-type software, the CD-Key is the bane of online-gamers who don't pay for their games. Most games that use one will connect to a master server to verify its authenticity. So games like Quake 3 and Raven Shield require you to be legit to play in most of the open servers on the net, while games like half-life (even though it has a cd-key system) don't check the number online and are able to be cracked. I don't know this from experience, or anything.
Right. I imagine that the battery itself wasn't the entire problem, anyway. Most likely the guy didn't take care of how he was treating it. Lithium Ion are the best batteries in my opinion, but they still can be damaged by overheating or overcharging, as well as random failure.
Dan's Data had a link to this site not long ago about it.
Although the built-in "Ink-Ball" game is entertaining for about five minutes, I hadn't ever bothered playing any other games on it. I have, however, taken it back and forth between home and class, using it's 40 gig HD as an excellent file-transfer method to get large photoshop, illustrator, and Aftereffects files to the Macintoshes in my school's Computer Art Lab. These are the same Photoshop files that were created by me using the awesome stylus-mouse that works great for editing in Photoshop.
Of course, connecting to the Airport with it's built-in WI-FI is great, not just because I only need to turn on my Tablet and let it find the access point, but since I can surf the Web while sitting in class. And of course, with the PCMCIA slot, getting a larger antenna is all that is required to do some way-cool Wardriving while I'm not doing homework. Taking notes in class has been even better - with all of my classes divided into their own directories, unlimited "paper" and easily-editable hand-written documents that could (if I wanted to) be turned into text with handwriting recognition. It's use as a sketchpad is evident in Penny Arcade, as I'm sure yall have seen, causing it to become more than any other computer, but an awesome tool for graphic designers, students, and I'm sure of hundreds of other careers.
But it's not for some main-stream tech who sits at his desk all day. It won't replace your desktop, people, but it just might replace a whole let else.