There are still tons of publishing houses that are dependent on Quark, notably because of all of the Xtensions that allow a company to customize the program for their needs.
A very good example is Xerox/CreoScitex's variable data solution. One of the most popular workflows for variable data printing is Darwin, which only now has come out with a beta release for Indesign. Their Quark Xtensions have been good products for years.
What this means for us is that Indesign layouts needing variablization usually go through some sort of Indesign -> eps -> Quark -> Darwinization path.
Agreed... We're a print house specializing in short run digital press jobs (iGen, 6060, etc.)
We use Praxisoft products for CM, including their Compass Pro XTension. We like it because it tames the Quark beast.
Quark CM, when an active XTension, will do its best to convert colros and graphics on the fly to the destination profile chosen, and will succeed as much as most CM systems will (eps files are usually ignored, for example). But the actual conversion is horrible, even when valid ICC profiles are present and chosen.
Worse, when the Quark CMS profile is turned off, you still have to worry about Quark converting all RGB colors, TIF files, and JPEG files to CMYK when the "Print CMYK" choice is chosen. This means Quark will color manage NO MATTER WHAT. (This is a simplification... there are work arounds and more details to be noted, but I'll spare the uninterested unless prodded for more).
Fortunately, Praxisoft avoids the pitfall by (1) replacing the Quark CMS XTension, and (2) converting all files to the chosen ICC destination profile BEFORE Quark's "Print CMYK" conversion kicks in. If your destination profile is CMYK, quark's "Print CMYK" choice then leaves it alone.
Long story short, Quark's CMS is a nightmare unless dealt with with specialized software and a very conscientious technician.
As a Mass. resident, I'm thoroughly amused by the local media outlets... I've heard from both WBZ radio and WCVB TV News the story with a lead in saying something like...
"If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less spam now that..."
I'd be curious to see exactly how much spam from these guys was destined to Massachusetts people. Oh hell, don't bother. Borders are so... 1900's...
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother.
Unfortunately, neither do most religions, as they always insert the clause "as long as they believe in the same God as you do. Otherwise, convert 'em or kill 'em, and you'll (a) go to Heaven, (b) be awarded virgins aplenty in the afterlife, (c) be reincarnated into a better existence than the one you're in now, (d) be smiled upon by the Gods, or (e) some combination of the above."
The "religion," or spirituality that derives from morality may be what you are refering to, though. Defining good and bad - and searching for a reason therein to strive for good - has been an intellectual challenge since the days of Plato. I'm not sure the scientific process, either through physical sciences or intellectual studies (read: philosophy) will ever be able to succeed. The process itself has removed the tools needed - it's like trying to observe more than the familiar 4 dimensions with our 4 dimensional minds. Faith succeeds here. I believe, but cannot prove or even adequately define, the concept of good and evil.
Religions do their best in helping the masses with this difficult field of study, but too often use that guidance to the benefit of the religious organization as a political whole.
Microsoft's Bill Gates refused repeated requests from IT professionals world wide who asked that, upon the 100,000,000th Windows infection, he take a long walk off a short pier.
So what's wrong if the oil companies what to sell us their product in a free market?
The post implies that anything that exists naturally in a free market is inherently good, that the free market as an institution naturally weeds out bad things.
Personally, I do not subscribe to this point of view.
Regretably, many of my fellow countrymen seem to agree with the idea that morality is defined by economic forces in a Darwinian trial by fire. Ironically, these are the classes in my soceity that reject Darwin in favor of creationsim.
My guess is that this group thought of TLDs in the same way people think of phone area codes (which are also getting more and more detached from their original purpose).
Running out of available domains/phone numbers? Well then, let's just add a new TLD/area code and WHHOOOPPPAAAHHH! Problem solved.
Just goes to show just how out of touch this group was, as if the time frame they took wasn't proof enough.
I could not agree more.
Mathematics at this level, in my naive opinion, is almost an art form, in that it uses unscientific methods to reach scientifically provable results. And in so doing, it reveals volumes about the method of knowledge.
I've spent countless hours playing with calculators watching for patterns. I once worked at a job that left me sitting at a desk for hours with nothing to do but think, and playing with numbers never failed to fill the time with amusing discoveries of how numbers could produce unexpected symmetries and results.
While I did quite well in prep school in mathematics, my love for mathematical symmetry morphed to the study of music theory in college (the two are not as dissimilar as most would think).
There are beauties to be found in numbers, in pure mathematics. It is nothing short of the study of the world around us as expressed in purely intellectual form. At the highest level, I would not be surprised if the observations turn inward toward the observer, if the discoveries tell us more about how intellect works as it understands quantization than about the actual numbers at play.
This "Indian math guy" would have been one hell of a guy to have dinner with. What I'd do to be inside his mind for just a short time!
Don't mock or belittle that which you don't understand. To do so often reveals more about yourself than you probably want revealed.
The latest experiment is radically different because the slits exist in time not space, and because
the interference pattern appears when the number of electrons at the detector is plotted as a function of their energy rather than their position on a screen.
Isn't there something meaningful in this observation?
Why would energy change with time? Or is it just that the frequency of electron hits adding an negating are causing the variances in energy?
I'd like to stare at the experiment and the graph... Maybe after burning it into my retinas for a while, then sleeping restlessly, then waking and going to work tomorrow, then forgetting about it for a while, maybe then the understanding will come...
"And statist 'communism' as practiced in places like the USSR and China has very little to do with real communist/socialist theory. "
It was as close an approximation of theory as the United States is an application of its "founding values" of freedom and justice. That is to say, not very close at all.
Come to think of it, this whole thread is just as closely linked to the original factoid seed from the story. That is to say, not very close at all.
Peter
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What this means for us is that Indesign layouts needing variablization usually go through some sort of Indesign -> eps -> Quark -> Darwinization path.
Agreed... We're a print house specializing in short run digital press jobs (iGen, 6060, etc.)
We use Praxisoft products for CM, including their Compass Pro XTension. We like it because it tames the Quark beast.
Quark CM, when an active XTension, will do its best to convert colros and graphics on the fly to the destination profile chosen, and will succeed as much as most CM systems will (eps files are usually ignored, for example). But the actual conversion is horrible, even when valid ICC profiles are present and chosen.
Worse, when the Quark CMS profile is turned off, you still have to worry about Quark converting all RGB colors, TIF files, and JPEG files to CMYK when the "Print CMYK" choice is chosen. This means Quark will color manage NO MATTER WHAT. (This is a simplification... there are work arounds and more details to be noted, but I'll spare the uninterested unless prodded for more).
Fortunately, Praxisoft avoids the pitfall by (1) replacing the Quark CMS XTension, and (2) converting all files to the chosen ICC destination profile BEFORE Quark's "Print CMYK" conversion kicks in. If your destination profile is CMYK, quark's "Print CMYK" choice then leaves it alone.
Long story short, Quark's CMS is a nightmare unless dealt with with specialized software and a very conscientious technician.
I Got First Pos....
D'OH!!!!
Does Cuba have electricity now?
As a Mass. resident, I'm thoroughly amused by the local media outlets... I've heard from both WBZ radio and WCVB TV News the story with a lead in saying something like...
"If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less spam now that..."
I'd be curious to see exactly how much spam from these guys was destined to Massachusetts people. Oh hell, don't bother. Borders are so... 1900's...
Peter
Unfortunately, neither do most religions, as they always insert the clause "as long as they believe in the same God as you do. Otherwise, convert 'em or kill 'em, and you'll (a) go to Heaven, (b) be awarded virgins aplenty in the afterlife, (c) be reincarnated into a better existence than the one you're in now, (d) be smiled upon by the Gods, or (e) some combination of the above."
The "religion," or spirituality that derives from morality may be what you are refering to, though. Defining good and bad - and searching for a reason therein to strive for good - has been an intellectual challenge since the days of Plato. I'm not sure the scientific process, either through physical sciences or intellectual studies (read: philosophy) will ever be able to succeed. The process itself has removed the tools needed - it's like trying to observe more than the familiar 4 dimensions with our 4 dimensional minds. Faith succeeds here. I believe, but cannot prove or even adequately define, the concept of good and evil.
Religions do their best in helping the masses with this difficult field of study, but too often use that guidance to the benefit of the religious organization as a political whole.
Microsoft's Bill Gates refused repeated requests from IT professionals world wide who asked that, upon the 100,000,000th Windows infection, he take a long walk off a short pier.
They're building this super chip to play doom.
Personally, I do not subscribe to this point of view.
Regretably, many of my fellow countrymen seem to agree with the idea that morality is defined by economic forces in a Darwinian trial by fire. Ironically, these are the classes in my soceity that reject Darwin in favor of creationsim.
Running out of available domains/phone numbers? Well then, let's just add a new TLD/area code and WHHOOOPPPAAAHHH! Problem solved.
Just goes to show just how out of touch this group was, as if the time frame they took wasn't proof enough.
I could not agree more.
Mathematics at this level, in my naive opinion, is almost an art form, in that it uses unscientific methods to reach scientifically provable results. And in so doing, it reveals volumes about the method of knowledge.
I've spent countless hours playing with calculators watching for patterns. I once worked at a job that left me sitting at a desk for hours with nothing to do but think, and playing with numbers never failed to fill the time with amusing discoveries of how numbers could produce unexpected symmetries and results.
While I did quite well in prep school in mathematics, my love for mathematical symmetry morphed to the study of music theory in college (the two are not as dissimilar as most would think).
There are beauties to be found in numbers, in pure mathematics. It is nothing short of the study of the world around us as expressed in purely intellectual form. At the highest level, I would not be surprised if the observations turn inward toward the observer, if the discoveries tell us more about how intellect works as it understands quantization than about the actual numbers at play.
This "Indian math guy" would have been one hell of a guy to have dinner with. What I'd do to be inside his mind for just a short time!
Don't mock or belittle that which you don't understand. To do so often reveals more about yourself than you probably want revealed.
Isn't there something meaningful in this observation?
Why would energy change with time? Or is it just that the frequency of electron hits adding an negating are causing the variances in energy?
I'd like to stare at the experiment and the graph... Maybe after burning it into my retinas for a while, then sleeping restlessly, then waking and going to work tomorrow, then forgetting about it for a while, maybe then the understanding will come...
"And statist 'communism' as practiced in places like the USSR and China has very little to do with real communist/socialist theory. " It was as close an approximation of theory as the United States is an application of its "founding values" of freedom and justice. That is to say, not very close at all. Come to think of it, this whole thread is just as closely linked to the original factoid seed from the story. That is to say, not very close at all. Peter