But RAW formats don't have to follow any standard. If you want an uncompressed image, you get a TIFF.
If I spend a million dollars on a chip, I sure as heck don't want some black market type taking all my development and selling it as their own. While I spend my time going through the courts to find out who they are, they're selling cameras.
A camera vendor trying to make a buck will sell you a camera that is grey market and it's not that hard to make a black market camera appear to be grey market especially if the demand is there.
As a consumer, I would hope that Nikon would allow Adobe to read their RAW format or at least sell a plugin because professional photographers will use Photoshop and manipulate the RAW image as it comes from the shot.
Canon's good, I agree but their lens library sucks. There isn't a better camera with the extensive amount of lenses that Nikon has.
If you want a special lens, it will be available for a Nikon camera. For a hobbyist, that's key.
That was my dilemma 10 years deciding on what camera to get between Nikon / Canon / Minolta. Each were equally good as far as taking pictures, Canon had better electronics, Nikon had the more extensive and affordable lens arsenal.
Adobe has really made inroads making their productivity line afforadble for production houses. Instead of each title being $700 each or $300 upgrade, you get the suite for $1400 new or $800 upgrade. Not a bad deal at all for an average production house. If a house can't afford that, they shouldn't be in business. I know of plenty of freelancers that ponied up the $1400 for CS and are doing fine on their own.
Macromedia is the expensive one here. Let's hope they change this.
I think they want "Live Action" to mean that it will look like Robot jox which could be started and finished by summer.
Probably what will happen is the movie will be CGI with background platess being photographed ala "Walking with Dinosaurs" and the textures will be from photographed machinery
I just wanted to add: Back in 1990, I bought the Atari Lynx without seeing a demo unit. They didn't have demo units back then like they do now (I worked at Toys R Us). The demo units back then were modified consoles(can't play normal games) with scripted cartridges sent by the manufacturer and all this behind a glass case. We would sell more if we opened up a regular console and put in a hot selling title and let that demo run, then people would ask to open up the case and play the game. At least we sold more then. We always made sure that we had it removed when the rep came by on Tuesdays.
It wasn't until the Game Boy had staying power that the 'demo' unit came into play like it is today.
Come to think of it, Vectrex had a playable demo unit.
But back to the parent, for $250, a demo better be available.
As much as this sounds like a bad idea, even OSX stores personal information on the users hard drive. I think this is reserved for Longhorn and above.
Windows 2003 hasn't had the compromises that Win2K or XP have. Maybe they'll dummy down the lockdown and have those annoying popups saying "Are you sure you want to go to http://slashdot.org ?" for every little decision.
I doubt it's violent material making kids violent.
First of all, the kids aren't mature and aren't guided on how to handle emotion. All a game does is provide goals that the player must achieve. If the goal is reached, a new goal is created. If not, the player starts over sometimes with consequenses for the virtual player.
Kids who can handle their emotions know that virtual games are just that, virtual. Kids who have a violent disposition were that way before blasting demons in Doom.
Before video games, the only tabletop game that comes to mind is Labryinth but I'm sure there are more. I grew up in the 80's and Q*bert was my game. Boy did I get pissed if coily smashed me but not pissed enough that I would want to kill snakes.
Goal oriented people tend to be highly motivated (See Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Steven Spielberg, etc...). These games provide motivation that the senators are skewing as damaging to (my guess) have control on content.
To me, this is no different as the Microsoft funded studies that 'prove' that "Microsoft is better than Linux."
In printed material marketing and cold calling, you usally get 1% to 2% return on all outbound materials. 10% will actually get the spam problem to grow with that kind of return.
A regular 10,000 mailing advertising some service in the range of $200 or even $400 in the case of garage floor recovering WILL get a return on investment. Just 1% of that 10,000 piece mailing advertising a landscape contract will get at least $2000 in return business offsetting the cost of marketing and gaining a customer.
To come even close in printed material cost vs. email blasts, you'd get millions of email addresses vs thousands and with a 10% return??!?
If you could get 10% of a million vs 1% of 10,000; which one would you market?
Classic. The directors carrying the reels through the canyon ala Raiders of the Lost Ark, tying the kids to the pole and forcing them to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark with ewoks.
If it's $300 it's worth it. I fail to see (and I used to be this way too) why people will spend less on a product/service to think they're saving more.
TurboTax is OK if you live in an apartment and only work for an employer. If you're a home owner, forget it. Accountants are far better for this than some buggy software.
Wether you spend $70 on tax software or $300 for an accountant, it's tax deductible meaning it's like you didn't earn it so instead of $60,000 a year, you made $59,700 a year.
If your tax liability is less with a $59,700 solution (usually in the thousands), don't you think that the value is well worth it?
One thing H&R Block does is offer indemnification for any errors. My mother in-law had a $3000 error in her favor that the IRS wanted back of which HRB promptly paid without any liability to her.
Are you sure it's not the timimg of the release of the DVD?
Whenever a new DVD is released, retail is say $19.99. Usually (mostly especially for major studio releases) the Tuesday of release, you can get it for $15. The Wednesday of release sometimes goes up a dollar and stays that price until Saturday or the coming Monday.
There is fierce competition for first day sales from any DVD distributor/retail outlet.
I bought Bambi for $14.88 at Walmart where Fry's had it at $15.99. (Tuesday Price)
I got Harry Potter and the POA for $13.88 at Circuit City.
I used to live in Atlanta. No lie, 19 miles 1 way, morning traffic using 75 South was 70 to 90 minutes. Got tired of that. And then the 3:30 to 7PM traffic at the 285/75 is just horrible. 575 traffic was gridlocked when I left.
I don't know why people forget that there are businesses in his country that also pay taxes.
Of that 100,000,000 said taxpayers, only 5% pay 81% of the burden. My numbers are probably a little off but you get the idea.
It's like people who have the idea that a tax refund is "free money" where that money could be better invested and paid at the end of the year.
Would you rather give the government an extra $100 a month just to get $1200 back at the end of the year or would you invest that $1200 and make $100 on it?
To be fair, 2000 and XP are alot better than the 9x counterparts.
I have seen 2000 give me the BSOD on the workstations but not on any production servers that I have.
XP gave me the BSOD a few times right after launch (RTM release, not beta), on systems with spyware/viruses, and just recently within the past 7 days on an eMachine with a bad USB port.
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But RAW formats don't have to follow any standard. If you want an uncompressed image, you get a TIFF.
If I spend a million dollars on a chip, I sure as heck don't want some black market type taking all my development and selling it as their own.
While I spend my time going through the courts to find out who they are, they're selling cameras.
A camera vendor trying to make a buck will sell you a camera that is grey market and it's not that hard to make a black market camera appear to be grey market especially if the demand is there.
As a consumer, I would hope that Nikon would allow Adobe to read their RAW format or at least sell a plugin because professional photographers will use Photoshop and manipulate the RAW image as it comes from the shot.
Canon's good, I agree but their lens library sucks. There isn't a better camera with the extensive amount of lenses that Nikon has.
If you want a special lens, it will be available for a Nikon camera. For a hobbyist, that's key.
That was my dilemma 10 years deciding on what camera to get between Nikon / Canon / Minolta. Each were equally good as far as taking pictures, Canon had better electronics, Nikon had the more extensive and affordable lens arsenal.
If you spend a million dollars developing a chip to do X, would you give the specs of the chip away or encrypt it's output?
Adobe has really made inroads making their productivity line afforadble for production houses.
Instead of each title being $700 each or $300 upgrade, you get the suite for $1400 new or $800 upgrade. Not a bad deal at all for an average production house.
If a house can't afford that, they shouldn't be in business.
I know of plenty of freelancers that ponied up the $1400 for CS and are doing fine on their own.
Macromedia is the expensive one here. Let's hope they change this.
I'm still using one on my keychain from 1997. Must have an Energizer battery in it.
It's also a gigabit switch.
;-)
I guess it's useful if you have FTTP.
There is no way the Wintel boxes can compete with $500 for a full blown Mini-DV editing, DVD authoring, and sound editing.
Do you forget that the $500 also includes iLife?
I think they want "Live Action" to mean that it will look like Robot jox which could be started and finished by summer. Probably what will happen is the movie will be CGI with background platess being photographed ala "Walking with Dinosaurs" and the textures will be from photographed machinery
I just wanted to add:
Back in 1990, I bought the Atari Lynx without seeing a demo unit. They didn't have demo units back then like they do now (I worked at Toys R Us). The demo units back then were modified consoles(can't play normal games) with scripted cartridges sent by the manufacturer and all this behind a glass case.
We would sell more if we opened up a regular console and put in a hot selling title and let that demo run, then people would ask to open up the case and play the game. At least we sold more then. We always made sure that we had it removed when the rep came by on Tuesdays.
It wasn't until the Game Boy had staying power that the 'demo' unit came into play like it is today.
Come to think of it, Vectrex had a playable demo unit.
But back to the parent, for $250, a demo better be available.
Just curious, how can you even get 1 cable provider to supply competing content?
Where I've lived, cable companies have monopolies in neighborhoods. Your only alternative is Sattelite or VDSL.
That $245 is per incident, not per hour.
As much as this sounds like a bad idea, even OSX stores personal information on the users hard drive. I think this is reserved for Longhorn and above.
Windows 2003 hasn't had the compromises that Win2K or XP have. Maybe they'll dummy down the lockdown and have those annoying popups saying "Are you sure you want to go to http://slashdot.org ?" for every little decision.
I doubt it's violent material making kids violent.
First of all, the kids aren't mature and aren't guided on how to handle emotion.
All a game does is provide goals that the player must achieve. If the goal is reached, a new goal is created. If not, the player starts over sometimes with consequenses for the virtual player.
Kids who can handle their emotions know that virtual games are just that, virtual.
Kids who have a violent disposition were that way before blasting demons in Doom.
Before video games, the only tabletop game that comes to mind is Labryinth but I'm sure there are more. I grew up in the 80's and Q*bert was my game. Boy did I get pissed if coily smashed me but not pissed enough that I would want to kill snakes.
Goal oriented people tend to be highly motivated (See Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Steven Spielberg, etc...). These games provide motivation that the senators are skewing as damaging to (my guess) have control on content.
To me, this is no different as the Microsoft funded studies that 'prove' that "Microsoft is better than Linux."
In printed material marketing and cold calling, you usally get 1% to 2% return on all outbound materials. 10% will actually get the spam problem to grow with that kind of return.
A regular 10,000 mailing advertising some service in the range of $200 or even $400 in the case of garage floor recovering WILL get a return on investment.
Just 1% of that 10,000 piece mailing advertising a landscape contract will get at least $2000 in return business offsetting the cost of marketing and gaining a customer.
To come even close in printed material cost vs. email blasts, you'd get millions of email addresses vs thousands and with a 10% return??!?
If you could get 10% of a million vs 1% of 10,000; which one would you market?
Classic.
The directors carrying the reels through the canyon ala Raiders of the Lost Ark, tying the kids to the pole and forcing them to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark with ewoks.
And Microsoft updates are?
What has the FTC ever done that's bad?
It wasn't just that, it was marketing as well.
Nobody who is Joe Sixpack understands that L-750 means it's a 4 1/2 hour tape but they do understand a 6 hour VHS tape.
And for the Beta players, your player had to be Beta 1, Beta 2, and Beta 3 compatabile
If it's $300 it's worth it.
I fail to see (and I used to be this way too) why people will spend less on a product/service to think they're saving more.
TurboTax is OK if you live in an apartment and only work for an employer. If you're a home owner, forget it. Accountants are far better for this than some buggy software.
Wether you spend $70 on tax software or $300 for an accountant, it's tax deductible meaning it's like you didn't earn it so instead of $60,000 a year, you made $59,700 a year.
If your tax liability is less with a $59,700 solution (usually in the thousands), don't you think that the value is well worth it?
One thing H&R Block does is offer indemnification for any errors. My mother in-law had a $3000 error in her favor that the IRS wanted back of which HRB promptly paid without any liability to her.
Consider how low budget you could do your own Dr. Who.
I remember one Tom Baker episode with a creature being some brown/orange bubble pop wrap thing crawling around the floor.
Are you sure it's not the timimg of the release of the DVD?
Whenever a new DVD is released, retail is say $19.99. Usually (mostly especially for major studio releases) the Tuesday of release, you can get it for $15. The Wednesday of release sometimes goes up a dollar and stays that price until Saturday or the coming Monday.
There is fierce competition for first day sales from any DVD distributor/retail outlet.
I bought Bambi for $14.88 at Walmart where Fry's had it at $15.99. (Tuesday Price)
I got Harry Potter and the POA for $13.88 at Circuit City.
I got Star Wars Trilogy for $42.99 at Best Buy.
LOTR:ROTK for $15.99 Fry's/
I used to live in Atlanta. No lie, 19 miles 1 way, morning traffic using 75 South was 70 to 90 minutes. Got tired of that. And then the 3:30 to 7PM traffic at the 285/75 is just horrible. 575 traffic was gridlocked when I left.
I don't know why people forget that there are businesses in his country that also pay taxes.
Of that 100,000,000 said taxpayers, only 5% pay 81% of the burden. My numbers are probably a little off but you get the idea.
It's like people who have the idea that a tax refund is "free money" where that money could be better invested and paid at the end of the year.
Would you rather give the government an extra $100 a month just to get $1200 back at the end of the year or would you invest that $1200 and make $100 on it?
Software Maintenance as in Virus protection and Spyware protection.
To be fair, 2000 and XP are alot better than the 9x counterparts.
I have seen 2000 give me the BSOD on the workstations but not on any production servers that I have.
XP gave me the BSOD a few times right after launch (RTM release, not beta), on systems with spyware/viruses, and just recently within the past 7 days on an eMachine with a bad USB port.