Yes, but you can set a website to use Verdana, or Arial on screen - and then set a separate style sheet for print and use a font like Times New Roman, which is awful on screen, but nice on paper. Of course, most websites don't do that yet - but perhaps they'll catch on soon (as well as all browsers supporting the separate style sheets).
While many here at/. have their own customized browser settings, most people out there don't. Besides just looking nicer on screen (which seems to be the popular opinion out there), using a wide font like Verdana also keeps line length at a reasonable length (the standard is pretty low for characters per line when you want "easy reading" for the majority of people out there).
At the prices they want for tapes it'd be cheaper to back up to an external USB hard drive for cripe's sake.
I work with a decent amount of video and that's what I do. I work on a primary hard drive, copy over my projects to one external (always plugged in, always on) and use on more external to backup (only on for periodic backups). It may sound simplistic, but it's an easy and currently pretty economical compared to the alternatives.
One problem that all companies have with moving to open-source stuff like this is that they truly wonder if it'll be around tomorrow; or in what form. If the core developers for this have a falling out, the project can cease, or even worse, it starts splitting into many different directions. While it's easy for a home user to pick their favorite flavor, a company simply doesn't snap it's fingers to make decisisions most of the time. With MS, they know the whole place can quit and be replaced. Sounds silly, but when it comes to mid-level technical people who are simply worried about the people in the office and how quick they can get their work done (and not having to upgrade too often or explain new things too often), this matters a ton.
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Yes, but you can set a website to use Verdana, or Arial on screen - and then set a separate style sheet for print and use a font like Times New Roman, which is awful on screen, but nice on paper. Of course, most websites don't do that yet - but perhaps they'll catch on soon (as well as all browsers supporting the separate style sheets).
/. have their own customized browser settings, most people out there don't. Besides just looking nicer on screen (which seems to be the popular opinion out there), using a wide font like Verdana also keeps line length at a reasonable length (the standard is pretty low for characters per line when you want "easy reading" for the majority of people out there).
While many here at
At the prices they want for tapes it'd be cheaper to back up to an external USB hard drive for cripe's sake.
I work with a decent amount of video and that's what I do. I work on a primary hard drive, copy over my projects to one external (always plugged in, always on) and use on more external to backup (only on for periodic backups). It may sound simplistic, but it's an easy and currently pretty economical compared to the alternatives.
One problem that all companies have with moving to open-source stuff like this is that they truly wonder if it'll be around tomorrow; or in what form. If the core developers for this have a falling out, the project can cease, or even worse, it starts splitting into many different directions. While it's easy for a home user to pick their favorite flavor, a company simply doesn't snap it's fingers to make decisisions most of the time. With MS, they know the whole place can quit and be replaced. Sounds silly, but when it comes to mid-level technical people who are simply worried about the people in the office and how quick they can get their work done (and not having to upgrade too often or explain new things too often), this matters a ton.