Thank you. While some of their business practives are dubious, that was an acrobat ebook security issue. Not a graphics editing issue. Now, while for web editing and light image editing GIMP is good enough, it cannot compete professionally on the same level as Photoshop. Not even microsoft with publisher comes close to even pagemaker (ugh) not to mention InDesign or Quark. This are industry-standard, mature applications, that, while overkill to produce a small newsletter, are invaluable for real press jobs.
As for some of the pricing issues that are likely to be commented on (oh, is so overpriced, etc). You need to put things into perspective. $800 for photoshop is relatively cheap compared to most advertising agency revenues. Most magazine ads run $2500 to $15,000 (much more for big magazines), excluding production costs (model, design time, concepting, design etc), of which most agencies get 10-15% comission... $800 for photoshop? that's pocket change in the industry, which is for whom the tools are designed for. Let me not even get into packaging, television, book manufacture, etc...
Please provide me links to a product that provides press-ready output in CMYK, with consistent color management, support for postcript fonts, and that can provide files that are supported by most printers, and I will gladly give up Adobe's tools. In the meantime, as a graphic designer, i'm stuck using them. Believe me, I'd switch to linux and drop the PC as a graphic design platform, but until those issues are resolved, I'm stuck in the adobe/macromedia/quark vortex...
well, after the virus scares... microsoft puts a "Critical Update for Internet Explorer" that, among other things breaks plugin functionality... they could even re-write that as "allows malicious hackers to call third party applications to execute server-side code that could potentially compromise your computer". Tell me if that won't send users into an upgrade frenzy...
Downloading music for free is stealing. The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
There is some truth to this. However, big players like clearchannel have traditionally accepted payola from the RIAA to boost a particular's artist play time. In fact, we are at a time when most songs don't get airtime UNLESS riaa pays for them. You could almost say that File sharing services are a modern form of radio (and thus, free advertising). However, this is a control issue. The RIAA can't determine (in advance) which artist get "top downloads", therefore, they sue...
I used to use this back in it's "beta" stages when it was still free for personal use (now it's $79, which a broke college student can't afford). It was awesome, and allows easy access to documents and such. It's really good, after using it for several days you start creating more links and it gets easier to work with stuff... but... it's rather $$. I think there is a web java version, which works cross-platform, but I think that's the "enterprise" (read $$$$$) version...
Hrm... I dunno where you are located... here in the east coast, the "more bandwidth than God" server can serve me at the most 10k/s, but BT just dled nicely at 66-150k (and i'm leaving the torrent window up for others when it's done)... make of that what you will...
Wow! Lot's of slashdotters online Sunday Morning at 9:00 am! I think I should count my luck, and make a funny reference to the article... wait, this is/.... I didn't RTFA...
Maybe I should make a beowolf cluster... n/m
Or perhaps I should point out That Laptop manufactureres need a new 3. Profit! model...
Or, I know! My mother is a laptop you insensitive clod... no, that doesn't work either
"The social impact of the credit card cannot be under-estimated. That means it's really small! I think they mean it can't be oversetimated."
In this instance, the "cannot" does not mean "we are unable to underestimate the social impact", but rather, "The social impact of the credit card should not be under-estimated". In other words, don't under-estimate the social impact....
or something like that. The author used the term correctly.
Yes! Furthermore, your tax-cut should help you get a job... because... if... your'e NOT working... you will benefit from paying less tax on your... INCOME.
that according to error reporting software in windows
yeah, but how many people actually use the "report this error to microsoft" feature?. I know everytime I get a crash, I opt to not send the report, and I know i'm not the only one that does this. Also, the only time this method for reporting error is used at all is when customers are on broadband connections, or in office networks (can you imagine wating for your modem to dial to report an error or a crash?), and what about those times when the crash is so bad your entire system needs to be restarted?. From what I can tell, this error reporting software only sends error reports regarding programs that crash, not the OS itself. So... 5% of windows users, who are on persistent connections, who use the error reporting software, who had a crash on an application that doesn't freeze the entire system, are crashing at least 2 times a day... The real number has to be much higher that that.
Except we'd all get just 15 second clips of songs.
Yes, but then you could go to: riaa.com/brittany/1-15.mp3 riaa.com/brittany /15-30.mp3 riaa.com/brittany/30-45.mp3... etc, and thus get the complete file...;)
Am I the only one that wonders how they are going to recover their $40 million in advertising? Even if they sold 10 million songs, they'd still be $30 million in the red....
I dunno about "search engines" but when I type anything in Microsoft Excel (yeah, it's evil, but it's an example), or Corel Quatro Pro, it prompts me with the most used item in my spread sheet that starts with that letter... Heck, doesn't IE and Moz do this with the web address? this is nothing new....
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Notice this is "News for Nerds", not "News for Computer Geeks". The term "nerd" encompasses MUCH more than your standard computer-geek interests. Did you know that it was the Nerds of the 40's and 50's that developed the first Atomic Bombs? It is Nerds that developed the Space Program? Aircraft? etc?. Yes, this IS relevant... and is meant to expand your horizons and broaden your knowledge. That's what Nerd-dom is about......
the NBC Peackock, Rockefeller center, Mobil Gasoline among others were done by Chermayeff Y Geismar Associates between 1960 and 1970. Paul Rand was another designer that did a lot of the iconography we recognize today, like the IBM logo, NEXT, & Westinghouse... sorry about the history lesson... had just finished reading about it for a class...
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Thank you. While some of their business practives are dubious, that was an acrobat ebook security issue. Not a graphics editing issue. Now, while for web editing and light image editing GIMP is good enough, it cannot compete professionally on the same level as Photoshop. Not even microsoft with publisher comes close to even pagemaker (ugh) not to mention InDesign or Quark. This are industry-standard, mature applications, that, while overkill to produce a small newsletter, are invaluable for real press jobs.
As for some of the pricing issues that are likely to be commented on (oh, is so overpriced, etc). You need to put things into perspective. $800 for photoshop is relatively cheap compared to most advertising agency revenues. Most magazine ads run $2500 to $15,000 (much more for big magazines), excluding production costs (model, design time, concepting, design etc), of which most agencies get 10-15% comission... $800 for photoshop? that's pocket change in the industry, which is for whom the tools are designed for. Let me not even get into packaging, television, book manufacture, etc...
Please provide me links to a product that provides press-ready output in CMYK, with consistent color management, support for postcript fonts, and that can provide files that are supported by most printers, and I will gladly give up Adobe's tools. In the meantime, as a graphic designer, i'm stuck using them. Believe me, I'd switch to linux and drop the PC as a graphic design platform, but until those issues are resolved, I'm stuck in the adobe/macromedia/quark vortex...
It's a Minesweeper Solitaire Clone Expert...
well, after the virus scares... microsoft puts a "Critical Update for Internet Explorer" that, among other things breaks plugin functionality... they could even re-write that as "allows malicious hackers to call third party applications to execute server-side code that could potentially compromise your computer". Tell me if that won't send users into an upgrade frenzy...
Downloading music for free is stealing. The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
There is some truth to this. However, big players like clearchannel have traditionally accepted payola from the RIAA to boost a particular's artist play time. In fact, we are at a time when most songs don't get airtime UNLESS riaa pays for them. You could almost say that File sharing services are a modern form of radio (and thus, free advertising). However, this is a control issue. The RIAA can't determine (in advance) which artist get "top downloads", therefore, they sue...
there was a point there somewhere
I used to use this back in it's "beta" stages when it was still free for personal use (now it's $79, which a broke college student can't afford). It was awesome, and allows easy access to documents and such. It's really good, after using it for several days you start creating more links and it gets easier to work with stuff... but... it's rather $$. I think there is a web java version, which works cross-platform, but I think that's the "enterprise" (read $$$$$) version...
there was a point to this somewhere...
-k
Actually, and requiring a license for everyone else means they'll just start charging $699 for those licences to end-users...
;
Hrm... I dunno where you are located... here in the east coast, the "more bandwidth than God" server can serve me at the most 10k/s, but BT just dled nicely at 66-150k (and i'm leaving the torrent window up for others when it's done)... make of that what you will...
sweet. THanks. I'm gettin' 400k/s out of this :)
*hugs my cable*
I'd use my tongue as a voltimeter. If i***BBBBZZZZZUUUHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!***
Oh god do I hear you. I've been up since yesterday 3:00 pm (that was a nap, not a full sleep), and I got a full day of work... eep!
;)
must... get.... coffee....
and no, it IS 11:00 am now...
Wow! Lot's of slashdotters online Sunday Morning at 9:00 am! /. ... I didn't RTFA...
I think I should count my luck, and make a funny reference to the article... wait, this is
Maybe I should make a beowolf cluster... n/m
Or perhaps I should point out That Laptop manufactureres need a new 3. Profit! model...
Or, I know! My mother is a laptop you insensitive clod... no, that doesn't work either
I give up!
we need new jokes.
Yeah, I HAVE been up all friggin' night...
*shrugs
Does it also map roadkill streaks?
Aww c'mon! Being redundant and repeating ourselves for the sake of repetition is fun and entertaining!
"The social impact of the credit card cannot be under-estimated.
That means it's really small! I think they mean it can't be oversetimated."
In this instance, the "cannot" does not mean "we are unable to underestimate the social impact", but rather, "The social impact of the credit card should not be under-estimated". In other words, don't under-estimate the social impact....
or something like that. The author used the term correctly.
Yes! Furthermore, your tax-cut should help you get a job... because... if... your'e NOT working... you will benefit from paying less tax on your... INCOME.
oh wait... wrong thread
*shrugs*
Do it. Then post it to slashdot. THen we can all laugh. :)
that according to error reporting software in windows
yeah, but how many people actually use the "report this error to microsoft" feature?. I know everytime I get a crash, I opt to not send the report, and I know i'm not the only one that does this. Also, the only time this method for reporting error is used at all is when customers are on broadband connections, or in office networks (can you imagine wating for your modem to dial to report an error or a crash?), and what about those times when the crash is so bad your entire system needs to be restarted?. From what I can tell, this error reporting software only sends error reports regarding programs that crash, not the OS itself. So... 5% of windows users, who are on persistent connections, who use the error reporting software, who had a crash on an application that doesn't freeze the entire system, are crashing at least 2 times a day... The real number has to be much higher that that.
-K
-K
Except we'd all get just 15 second clips of songs.
y /15-30.mp3 ... ;)
Yes, but then you could go to:
riaa.com/brittany/1-15.mp3
riaa.com/brittan
riaa.com/brittany/30-45.mp3
etc, and thus get the complete file...
Can you imagine the profit and how many people would benefit if the RIAA followed the ePORN industry's way of doing business?
things that make you go... hmm...
Am I the only one that wonders how they are going to recover their $40 million in advertising? Even if they sold 10 million songs, they'd still be $30 million in the red....
I dunno about "search engines" but when I type anything in Microsoft Excel (yeah, it's evil, but it's an example), or Corel Quatro Pro, it prompts me with the most used item in my spread sheet that starts with that letter... Heck, doesn't IE and Moz do this with the web address? this is nothing new....
Notice this is "News for Nerds", not "News for Computer Geeks". The term "nerd" encompasses MUCH more than your standard computer-geek interests. Did you know that it was the Nerds of the 40's and 50's that developed the first Atomic Bombs? It is Nerds that developed the Space Program? Aircraft? etc?. Yes, this IS relevant... and is meant to expand your horizons and broaden your knowledge. That's what Nerd-dom is about......
the NBC Peackock, Rockefeller center, Mobil Gasoline among others were done by Chermayeff Y Geismar Associates between 1960 and 1970. Paul Rand was another designer that did a lot of the iconography we recognize today, like the IBM logo, NEXT, & Westinghouse... sorry about the history lesson... had just finished reading about it for a class...
sounds great
until slashdot gets a hold of the story
then is clickthrough overload
and your webserver (you) crashes.