Real simple. They sell the discs for $25-$35 'cause there's juuust a bit more than a DVD's worth of features. Expect *lots* of hi-res scans of prodcution art. For every film. Every version of the script. Hi-res scans of the scripts.
Maybe he meant that the controls for doing typography haven't changed in 10 years. From Quark, I'll believe that. User interface has come a long way in 10 years. Quark would have to care about what happens after the software is paid for for the interface to be improved.
There's one hardware call any program is entitled to make: to the FPU. If the Quark programmers came up with some neat tricks using the FPU on the 68000-series to speed redraw or something, then that code will break into tiny jagged pieces on a 601. The first series of PowerPC chips didn't have FPUs. They didn't really need one as the CPU was 'good enough' at floating-point math. But not in such a way that a codebase relying on an FPU can be ported short of a complete re-write. It's also possible to use floating-point math without explicitly using the FPU, but the code is very different.
Claris killed ClarisCAD for just this reason. Which was a shame, coming from AutoCAD I considered the Claris product to be superior in interface (if a no-show in the power and programmability categories) and a pleasure to draw with. When they announced that it would never make it to PowerPC I died a little inside. I've been avoiding vector-illustration work ever since as a sort of protest.
Claris had some deep hackers, they loooved that old-school Motorolla FPU. I once discovered that Filemaker Pro 3 was blindingly fast at text calculations (oxymoron) because it mapped the functions to the FPU somehow. I established when I resolved an annoyingly subtle bug in a FileMaker database. It was a calculation of the last four digits of a social security number (stored as text). On the HR manager's machine (running a 68040) this invariably returned thefirst three but not the very last digit. Perfectly repeatable, no other machine would do it. Cloned her system to another machine - no bug. I ran TechTool. Nothing wrong but an FPU error. I opened it up... and some of the heatsink glue had run down onto the CPU pins... the ones for the FPU. The databse was using purely text data and purely text functions, but floating point functions were involved. 90% of all programmers, at least, would never consider representing text internally as anything other than, well, text. And it was a brave project manager who let it happen.
Quark botched its OS X transition. It was bloody awfull, it took a long long long time. Remember being presented with a new copy of Quark and a brand new iMac - without a floppy for the installer ? Time to kill some more brain cells, I'll get those eventually.
Newspapers on the other hand love Quark. They have highly automated systems that work very, very well. Lots of AppleScript. I haven't seen the kind of takeup for heavily scripting InDesign - not sure if it will support it. Besides, anyone who tells a newspaper publisher that they *should* replace their entire production system won't be fired, they'll be killed horribly without a moment's hesitation and no regrets will ever be felt. Quark 4.0 was one of the most godawful programs ever shipped.
Despite their presence on my short list of Programs Which Must Be Phased Out (along with PowerPoint and QuickMail) I'm going to take a look at Quark for our next step past CS2 (years away). Quark, in its marketing materials (newsletters) has been making a lot of noise about features and XML styles and so on.
If they survive we just might want some of that. To my sure knowledge, the company work for (for which I would not be speaking officially, even if I were to name them) owns two licenses for Quark 6 and upwards of 200 for Creative Suite. Good luck Quark, you're gonna need it. We have exactly one client that insists on Quark 4 files, everyone else and ALL the print shops want either ID2 or PDF files.
That's a good point. And the game was a lot worse than Revolutions. The story wasn't that bad, but the gameplay stank. Why is there a long stretch in the sewers in a modern game ?
But "The Gods Must be Crazy 2" is a fantastic slapstick comedy. Buster Keaton would have loved it. You just don't see enough of that stuff anymore, even from Jim Carrey.
And yes, Mel Brooks is conspicuously absent. Lose "The Fly", put in "Young Frankenstein". A much better film in every respect.
If they put that in and not "Enter the Dragon" I need to see that right away. In fact, B&N may get that to me on Friday... My copy of "Drunken Master ?" went astray, I *might* have seen this, but I've been missing it anyway.
Right. My take on it is that the English language is the result of French speaking soldiers trying to pick up on German speaking barmaids. it's light on details but gets the point across to a layman very quickly.
I feel a certain obligation to mention these guys. They're rolling out a thumbprint system to retailers right now. Their system is sort of an electronic wallet that stores credit card info. You thumb the reader and pick which card to use. You can sign up at the store, so it's as safe as using your card there in the first place. Since it's just an enabler for your existing cards, they shouldn't have any trouble with the credit card industry, especially since their general counsel and Chief Marketing Officer came from Visa.
I'm thinking they'll succeede, just looking at the management team. Craig Ramsey (joined IBM in 1968, pre-IPO at Amdahl, Oracle, and Siebel) was president until this year (still on the board) and the management team has some real heavy hitters from IBM, Visa and Siebel, plus the guy who took Blockbuster from 18 to 3000 stores. Their CFO has both an MBA and a JD from Stanford. These folks create billion-dollar enterprises. You could do a set of trading cards.
Right, that was one of IBM's 'concept' ads. That one was the best of that series. That spot must have had IBM's sales team frothing at the mouth at just how many seperate components of that scenario involve buying high tech goods and services, from them for example. I don't really like the current crop with the constant cast of characters ("That's not my laptop."), but you can only do abstract stories for so long before you have to change things up.
I badly need a Business Reality Detector [1] though. That was the best spot in recent years, at least for the business side.
Just to be pedantic, the kid'd probably be Gen XII or XIII.
[1] Just so I can call atttention to the flashing lights during presentations, I can usually tell without one:-)
I'm replying directly to emphasize my agreement with the prior reply. If repeated advice and dire warning from any chiropractor won't do it, just look at your spine and pelvis in a mechanical fashion, and look at just how far out of alignment your spine gets and how much pressure gets concentrated on just one side of several vertebrae.
It's simple engineering folks, save yourself some pain - don't sit on your wallet.
The "easy port" to OS X is to run it in X11. The native side of OS X doesn't resemble Unix much at all since it's built on the Cocoa (NeXT descendant) API and framework. Cocoa is a very rich API, and has good UI building tools, so a well-modularized Unix app could have its front end ported in relatively little time.
Well, it only gives those two people as contacts for info. That doesn't mean the other editors didn't resign, just that these two are fronting for them as a group.
No, I was directly addressing the claim that the Windows error codes are useless. Sometimes you can actually fix the problem rather than reinstall, but you have to search for the info. Same with the Mac codes, a website was mentioned earlier that's dedicated to the subject, and any search engine will turn up a wealth of information. In my experience the Mac error codes are generally easier to find information about than the Windows codes. Or, there are more obscure Windows error codes (and many more requiring a reinstall). Neither vendor installs a troubleshooting reference with the OS, it'd be nice.
And keep your ERD disk handy on any Windows system, I just keep one in the drive (not inserted) and update it occasionally. Like just right now. Everyone, do that right away.
Yeah, Rebellion had such promise. Playing it several times got the rough edges knocked off and you learned the interface and what you had to do - the economy took a LONG time to learn. Once learned it was a pretty good strategy game. I'm holding out high hopes for Empire at War, it can't be worse than MOO3.
Then we need Birth of the Federation 2 - a sequel for another game that was almost great.
Oh yes. Googling for the exact error message will sometimes lead to instructions on fixing the problem. Sadly, the advice is usually "run Windows Repair from the installation CD, if that doesn't work then be glad you already found your installation CD".
The useful error messages I've seen have been from BSODs during bootup. If memory serves, you want the hexadecimal codes on the first lines.
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Prices for Ico on eBay have gone up a little bit, but the game is still only $13. I paid $10 last year. And there are plenty of copies.
Real simple. They sell the discs for $25-$35 'cause there's juuust a bit more than a DVD's worth of features. Expect *lots* of hi-res scans of prodcution art. For every film. Every version of the script. Hi-res scans of the scripts.
The business plan almost writes itself.
Thank you, I glossed over the differences between the CPUs severely - mainly because the last time I looked at a CPU in any detail it was the 6502.
Maybe he meant that the controls for doing typography haven't changed in 10 years. From Quark, I'll believe that. User interface has come a long way in 10 years. Quark would have to care about what happens after the software is paid for for the interface to be improved.
There's one hardware call any program is entitled to make: to the FPU. If the Quark programmers came up with some neat tricks using the FPU on the 68000-series to speed redraw or something, then that code will break into tiny jagged pieces on a 601. The first series of PowerPC chips didn't have FPUs. They didn't really need one as the CPU was 'good enough' at floating-point math. But not in such a way that a codebase relying on an FPU can be ported short of a complete re-write. It's also possible to use floating-point math without explicitly using the FPU, but the code is very different.
Claris killed ClarisCAD for just this reason. Which was a shame, coming from AutoCAD I considered the Claris product to be superior in interface (if a no-show in the power and programmability categories) and a pleasure to draw with. When they announced that it would never make it to PowerPC I died a little inside. I've been avoiding vector-illustration work ever since as a sort of protest.
Claris had some deep hackers, they loooved that old-school Motorolla FPU. I once discovered that Filemaker Pro 3 was blindingly fast at text calculations (oxymoron) because it mapped the functions to the FPU somehow. I established when I resolved an annoyingly subtle bug in a FileMaker database. It was a calculation of the last four digits of a social security number (stored as text). On the HR manager's machine (running a 68040) this invariably returned thefirst three but not the very last digit. Perfectly repeatable, no other machine would do it. Cloned her system to another machine - no bug. I ran TechTool. Nothing wrong but an FPU error. I opened it up... and some of the heatsink glue had run down onto the CPU pins... the ones for the FPU. The databse was using purely text data and purely text functions, but floating point functions were involved. 90% of all programmers, at least, would never consider representing text internally as anything other than, well, text. And it was a brave project manager who let it happen.
Quark botched its OS X transition. It was bloody awfull, it took a long long long time. Remember being presented with a new copy of Quark and a brand new iMac - without a floppy for the installer ? Time to kill some more brain cells, I'll get those eventually.
Newspapers on the other hand love Quark. They have highly automated systems that work very, very well. Lots of AppleScript. I haven't seen the kind of takeup for heavily scripting InDesign - not sure if it will support it. Besides, anyone who tells a newspaper publisher that they *should* replace their entire production system won't be fired, they'll be killed horribly without a moment's hesitation and no regrets will ever be felt. Quark 4.0 was one of the most godawful programs ever shipped.
Despite their presence on my short list of Programs Which Must Be Phased Out (along with PowerPoint and QuickMail) I'm going to take a look at Quark for our next step past CS2 (years away). Quark, in its marketing materials (newsletters) has been making a lot of noise about features and XML styles and so on.
If they survive we just might want some of that. To my sure knowledge, the company work for (for which I would not be speaking officially, even if I were to name them) owns two licenses for Quark 6 and upwards of 200 for Creative Suite. Good luck Quark, you're gonna need it. We have exactly one client that insists on Quark 4 files, everyone else and ALL the print shops want either ID2 or PDF files.
That's a good point. And the game was a lot worse than Revolutions. The story wasn't that bad, but the gameplay stank. Why is there a long stretch in the sewers in a modern game ?
You mean the same high-level Alliance jerks who have been ganking me since launch will find Battlegrounds to be a frustrating experience ?
HA HA !!
That reminds me, I need to order a fire axe with an insulated handle for the server room.
But "The Gods Must be Crazy 2" is a fantastic slapstick comedy. Buster Keaton would have loved it. You just don't see enough of that stuff anymore, even from Jim Carrey.
And yes, Mel Brooks is conspicuously absent. Lose "The Fly", put in "Young Frankenstein". A much better film in every respect.
If they put that in and not "Enter the Dragon" I need to see that right away. In fact, B&N may get that to me on Friday... My copy of "Drunken Master ?" went astray, I *might* have seen this, but I've been missing it anyway.
Right. My take on it is that the English language is the result of French speaking soldiers trying to pick up on German speaking barmaids. it's light on details but gets the point across to a layman very quickly.
News ? I though they were selling DVDs !
I feel a certain obligation to mention these guys. They're rolling out a thumbprint system to retailers right now. Their system is sort of an electronic wallet that stores credit card info. You thumb the reader and pick which card to use. You can sign up at the store, so it's as safe as using your card there in the first place. Since it's just an enabler for your existing cards, they shouldn't have any trouble with the credit card industry, especially since their general counsel and Chief Marketing Officer came from Visa.
I'm thinking they'll succeede, just looking at the management team. Craig Ramsey (joined IBM in 1968, pre-IPO at Amdahl, Oracle, and Siebel) was president until this year (still on the board) and the management team has some real heavy hitters from IBM, Visa and Siebel, plus the guy who took Blockbuster from 18 to 3000 stores. Their CFO has both an MBA and a JD from Stanford. These folks create billion-dollar enterprises. You could do a set of trading cards.
Right, that was one of IBM's 'concept' ads. That one was the best of that series. That spot must have had IBM's sales team frothing at the mouth at just how many seperate components of that scenario involve buying high tech goods and services, from them for example. I don't really like the current crop with the constant cast of characters ("That's not my laptop."), but you can only do abstract stories for so long before you have to change things up.
:-)
I badly need a Business Reality Detector [1] though. That was the best spot in recent years, at least for the business side.
Just to be pedantic, the kid'd probably be Gen XII or XIII.
[1] Just so I can call atttention to the flashing lights during presentations, I can usually tell without one
I'm replying directly to emphasize my agreement with the prior reply. If repeated advice and dire warning from any chiropractor won't do it, just look at your spine and pelvis in a mechanical fashion, and look at just how far out of alignment your spine gets and how much pressure gets concentrated on just one side of several vertebrae.
It's simple engineering folks, save yourself some pain - don't sit on your wallet.
The "easy port" to OS X is to run it in X11. The native side of OS X doesn't resemble Unix much at all since it's built on the Cocoa (NeXT descendant) API and framework. Cocoa is a very rich API, and has good UI building tools, so a well-modularized Unix app could have its front end ported in relatively little time.
Well, it only gives those two people as contacts for info. That doesn't mean the other editors didn't resign, just that these two are fronting for them as a group.
Self-fulfilling prophecy ?
After they get done with colors I wanna see the Charm Screen of Death and the Strange Screen of Death. DownspinSOD is gonna be murder though.
No, I was directly addressing the claim that the Windows error codes are useless. Sometimes you can actually fix the problem rather than reinstall, but you have to search for the info. Same with the Mac codes, a website was mentioned earlier that's dedicated to the subject, and any search engine will turn up a wealth of information. In my experience the Mac error codes are generally easier to find information about than the Windows codes. Or, there are more obscure Windows error codes (and many more requiring a reinstall). Neither vendor installs a troubleshooting reference with the OS, it'd be nice.
And keep your ERD disk handy on any Windows system, I just keep one in the drive (not inserted) and update it occasionally. Like just right now. Everyone, do that right away.
Yeah, Rebellion had such promise. Playing it several times got the rough edges knocked off and you learned the interface and what you had to do - the economy took a LONG time to learn. Once learned it was a pretty good strategy game. I'm holding out high hopes for Empire at War, it can't be worse than MOO3.
Then we need Birth of the Federation 2 - a sequel for another game that was almost great.
Oh yes. Googling for the exact error message will sometimes lead to instructions on fixing the problem. Sadly, the advice is usually "run Windows Repair from the installation CD, if that doesn't work then be glad you already found your installation CD".
The useful error messages I've seen have been from BSODs during bootup. If memory serves, you want the hexadecimal codes on the first lines.
Virtual golf + a good buzz = a fun evening. It's a good quasi-party or dorm room game even if you hate actual golf.
Can't help those who can't stand those who abhor the very thought of golf, but they could use a good buzz as much as anyone.
We're getting there. They don't call Bush a reactionary for nothing.