I think in this case they aren't referring to podcasting as a technology, but podcasting as a business. The technology is great, audio/video over RSS--but as a business it's not quite been as successful as some might have hoped a year or two ago.
Yeah that's the US Senate for ya. Actually there was some debate about it yesterday, with Lamar Alexander being the lone Republican (there were several Democratis Senators who were against it as well) speaking out against it, but the problem was that this was not stand alone legislation but it was attached to a Military Spending bill that no one was going to vote against. Especially after Kerry got hammered last year over voting against the "$87 Billion."
The other question that this raises is why are we still getting hit with special "off budget" spending bills for the war? This one was for another $82 billion FYI.
I happen to like Freehand. It always had a superior interface to Illustrator. It also does several things that Illustrator doesn't do--like multiple pages,(Illustrator only does one page at a time) find and replace attributes like color (Illustrator can only find and replace text) And the IU has gone thru a few changes in recent years. Freehand doesn't suffer from all the bloat that Illustrator has nowdays.
Macromedia still makes Freehand and it is still used pretty extensively in publishing. Ask any print designer over 35. I know that at least one of the major Yellowpages directory publishers uses Freehand exclusively for Ad composition.
But the point about a monopoly in the publishing space isn't so much about web or print but about graphics. And if you've watched these two companies for a while you would see that there is emence compition between them. Adobe was always trying to out do Macromedia on Flash (which I think this deal is ultimately about) and Macromedia could really never break Abobes grip on publishing. Neither was successful but the efforts kept the other more innovative. For example the first graphics product to use layers in in it's interface was Freehand. A concept that Adobe has copied almost across their entire product line. And Adobes atempts to build a Flash authoring app only pushed Macromedia push inovation in Flash itself.
No, but if you are good enough in Photoshop it can make you LOOK like you are a talented photographer.
But only if you are actually talented... at least with Photoshop.
Ahem. That's just wrong. The only time that Mac OS was licensed to other manufacturers was for a very short period (maybe 2 years) in the mid-90's. And it almost killed Apple. Apples strength in the desktop market has been serving a niche market--a market that has grown (in terms of user base--not market share) over the years. It's comparable to the high end auto market. You don't need to have (or want) a significant market share if you are Lexis or BMW. But you might roll out a Mini (think BMW's Mini-Cooper vs. Mac Mini) once in a while for the masses that might want to take you for a spin.
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I think in this case they aren't referring to podcasting as a technology, but podcasting as a business. The technology is great, audio/video over RSS--but as a business it's not quite been as successful as some might have hoped a year or two ago.
I wouldn't have a problem with this idea except for all the corporate users who have no control over what browser is installed on their computers.
Tiger is slow immediately after installation because it's indexing your drive for spotlight. Most of the time this only takes an hour or less.
Yeah that's the US Senate for ya. Actually there was some debate about it yesterday, with Lamar Alexander being the lone Republican (there were several Democratis Senators who were against it as well) speaking out against it, but the problem was that this was not stand alone legislation but it was attached to a Military Spending bill that no one was going to vote against. Especially after Kerry got hammered last year over voting against the "$87 Billion." The other question that this raises is why are we still getting hit with special "off budget" spending bills for the war? This one was for another $82 billion FYI.
Is LiveMotion worth remembering?
I happen to like Freehand. It always had a superior interface to Illustrator. It also does several things that Illustrator doesn't do--like multiple pages,(Illustrator only does one page at a time) find and replace attributes like color (Illustrator can only find and replace text) And the IU has gone thru a few changes in recent years. Freehand doesn't suffer from all the bloat that Illustrator has nowdays.
Macromedia still makes Freehand and it is still used pretty extensively in publishing. Ask any print designer over 35. I know that at least one of the major Yellowpages directory publishers uses Freehand exclusively for Ad composition.
But the point about a monopoly in the publishing space isn't so much about web or print but about graphics. And if you've watched these two companies for a while you would see that there is emence compition between them. Adobe was always trying to out do Macromedia on Flash (which I think this deal is ultimately about) and Macromedia could really never break Abobes grip on publishing. Neither was successful but the efforts kept the other more innovative. For example the first graphics product to use layers in in it's interface was Freehand. A concept that Adobe has copied almost across their entire product line. And Adobes atempts to build a Flash authoring app only pushed Macromedia push inovation in Flash itself.
I agree this move is bad news
No, but if you are good enough in Photoshop it can make you LOOK like you are a talented photographer. But only if you are actually talented... at least with Photoshop.
Why do all the Linux desktops emulate the Windows interface? Can't they come up with something more original?
Ahem. That's just wrong. The only time that Mac OS was licensed to other manufacturers was for a very short period (maybe 2 years) in the mid-90's. And it almost killed Apple. Apples strength in the desktop market has been serving a niche market--a market that has grown (in terms of user base--not market share) over the years. It's comparable to the high end auto market. You don't need to have (or want) a significant market share if you are Lexis or BMW. But you might roll out a Mini (think BMW's Mini-Cooper vs. Mac Mini) once in a while for the masses that might want to take you for a spin.