When the Cube was announced, it was $200 more than the comparable G4 tower. If it had been priced like the Mini to begin with (or at least $100 less than the desktop) it would have had wider appeal.
I hope that if Tron does get remade, the original synthesized & live orchestra blended musical score is kept. If you can find the CD, it's a blast to listen to (except for a few crappy Journey songs)
BTW, Wendy Carlos composed the sound track to Tron. She is also well know for doing the synthesized music in "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining"
LCDs are ok, but pretty much useless for graphics apps due to low contrast and washed out color
Yeah and CRTs tend to have over-saturated color that drifts over time. I'm a prepress tech, and I have to do a lot of color correcting for my job and the general rule is that the screen is wrong. period.
A CRT or LCD will never be able to represent colors in RGB that exists in CMYK, or even some of the wildly bright color in the Pantone system. How can a monitor reproduce fluorescent orange or silver metallic ink? It can't. Once your good, you can mentally map what a color should look like compared to what it looks like on screen. Most of the people in my field who complain about how LCD aren't color accurate are just looking for an excuse when they can't remap their own color perception lookup table in their head.
And, if you complain about how a LCD has crappy contrast or under-saturated colors and a poor refresh rate, maybe you should buy a nice LCD instead of a cheap piece of crap from Walmart.
The web safe colors (aka Netscape Color cube) was useful back in the days of Netscape 1.0 and 14.4 modems. These colors are the few that woudn't get dithered on a 8-bit (256 color) screen. Say nothing about color accuracy.
Now, in the days of 8mb video cards in even the worst computers you can buy and high speed connections, limiting your web design to those 'web safe' colors is just plain stupid. Use a JPEG or PNG, damn it!
> GIMP. Photoshop. Which one has scriptable effects? Which one can run a script to *GENERATE* an image? Which one is expandable enough to run over a web browser?
Sure that my be all GIMP, but which one can do CMYK color seperations critical for printing?
Once GIMP has full color support (CMYK, DuoTones, PANTONE Color matching, etc.) and has decent Wacom tablet support, it might be able to compete with PhotoShop on the pro level.
GIMP may have scripting ability, but all it will do is create graphics that look the same. Fine if you write your own scripts, but if you don't, all you'll end up with are images that look like everyone elses graphics.
The GIMP is a nice program, and it just need more work to becoem a PhotoShop replacement.
Now, all we need is a open source Illustrator and QuarkXpress clone for Linux.....
From what I remember reading, Mitnick was lecturing on how he used social enginering to talk people into giving him the passwords. Isn't it a good thing that other security type people know how it is done, so that it can be pervented through trainging?
I might try this game, but I don't got no Windows or x86 I can play it on. I guess there going for that 90% of the market again.
Where do they get off calling this "Dai Katana" or "Big sword" in japanese, when it obviously has little to do with it? Are they trying to mooch off of good ideas like Oni?
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When the Cube was announced, it was $200 more than the comparable G4 tower. If it had been priced like the Mini to begin with (or at least $100 less than the desktop) it would have had wider appeal.
(ex-Cube owner)
I hope that if Tron does get remade, the original synthesized & live orchestra blended musical score is kept. If you can find the CD, it's a blast to listen to (except for a few crappy Journey songs)
BTW, Wendy Carlos composed the sound track to Tron. She is also well know for doing the synthesized music in "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining"
LCDs are ok, but pretty much useless for graphics apps due to low contrast and washed out color
Yeah and CRTs tend to have over-saturated color that drifts over time. I'm a prepress tech, and I have to do a lot of color correcting for my job and the general rule is that the screen is wrong. period.
A CRT or LCD will never be able to represent colors in RGB that exists in CMYK, or even some of the wildly bright color in the Pantone system. How can a monitor reproduce fluorescent orange or silver metallic ink? It can't. Once your good, you can mentally map what a color should look like compared to what it looks like on screen. Most of the people in my field who complain about how LCD aren't color accurate are just looking for an excuse when they can't remap their own color perception lookup table in their head.
And, if you complain about how a LCD has crappy contrast or under-saturated colors and a poor refresh rate, maybe you should buy a nice LCD instead of a cheap piece of crap from Walmart.
It's called Adobe AfterEffects.
The web safe colors (aka Netscape Color cube) was useful back in the days of Netscape 1.0 and 14.4 modems. These colors are the few that woudn't get dithered on a 8-bit (256 color) screen. Say nothing about color accuracy.
Now, in the days of 8mb video cards in even the worst computers you can buy and high speed connections, limiting your web design to those 'web safe' colors is just plain stupid. Use a JPEG or PNG, damn it!
> GIMP. Photoshop. Which one has scriptable effects? Which one can run a script to *GENERATE* an image? Which one is expandable enough to run over a web browser?
.....
Sure that my be all GIMP, but which one can do CMYK color seperations critical for printing?
Once GIMP has full color support (CMYK, DuoTones, PANTONE Color matching, etc.) and has decent Wacom tablet support, it might be able to compete with PhotoShop on the pro level.
GIMP may have scripting ability, but all it will do is create graphics that look the same. Fine if you write your own scripts, but if you don't, all you'll end up with are images that look like everyone elses graphics.
The GIMP is a nice program, and it just need more work to becoem a PhotoShop replacement.
Now, all we need is a open source Illustrator and QuarkXpress clone for Linux
From what I remember reading, Mitnick was lecturing on how he used social enginering to talk people into giving him the passwords. Isn't it a good thing that other security type people know how it is done, so that it can be pervented through trainging?
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I might try this game, but I don't got no Windows or x86 I can play it on. I guess there going for that 90% of the market again.
Where do they get off calling this "Dai Katana" or "Big sword" in japanese, when it obviously has little to do with it? Are they trying to mooch off of good ideas like Oni?
There never was Quake for the Newton. It was just an Aprils Fools Joke.
:-)
Just open up the NewtonQuake.pkg with a text editor and go right to the last line, where you will find "April Fools!" The package dosn't even install.
Just like this "Tight" thing, but it made it onto Slashdot 18 days late