Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Further to my point, maybe Scientology?
Might be, though he reminds me of a nasty libertarian (is there any other kind?) that it was once my misfortune to work for. The kind of guy who'd screw you over for a dollar while including a photocopy of Desiderata in your pay packet ("That poem means so much to me").
There's a particularly creepy co-relation between advocating shooting taggers and spouting cod-philosophy.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Russell Brown,
Where Roughan gets his ideas from . . .
Facebook, set in Zapfino?
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I suspect they have long since recovered any costs, made a voluminous profit and are in the black until Cs25 - and mostly the pricing now is simply that they can get away with it.t
That's pretty much borne out by the pricing of Photoshop Elements. If you don't need CMYK and can deal with the 'different' interface, it's around 87.5% of regular Photoshop's capabilities for approx. 12.5% of the price. Same for Premiere Pro & Elements.
A curious case of marketing products to appear dumber than they really are, because it would be too much bother to strip out features while retaining basic functionality.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Islander,
If snails suddenly started cementing sand - iron!- granules togther & making high-arched bridges over hot-water streams...I'd call that an equivalent, and make an application to be one of the ambassadors to the Molluscan Republic.
Olaf Stapledon's nautiloids.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Russell Brown,
Great discussion on more than one level. Love youse guys.
+1
Twenty-plus years ago Marcus Lush was lamenting on his weekly Campus Radio talkback spot how, despite being on a university station, no-one was able to provide informed comment on Pons & Fleischmann's claims of cold fusion. Just the usual bunch of mumbling North Shore schoolboys lining up to slag hip hop and praise the latest Police Academy flick. -
Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Simon Grigg,
the magical Content Aware.
As you might have sensed, I've become a tad meh about Pshop's added features. That one just might be worth a look, thanks for the heads up.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Mac / PC...
Dangerous extremists,
who seemingly can't abide the middle,
but can't survive without it......bring on the singularity!
Mac / PC, bah humbug, they'll have to pry my singularity from my cold dead hands.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Simon Grigg,
The one thing that stands out with Photoshop is the instantness of everything. I use PS on both a PC (CS5) and a Mac (CS6) and the waiting time on the MS box just kills me - so mostly I don't.
Photoshop 7 on a legacy 1 GHZ Win XP box will probably fulfill 99.9% of most needs at acceptable speeds. Shame about the splash screen. It really annoys me that it starts up in a fraction of the time that I've seen it do on any Mac, but there it is.
Apart from the addition of layers and multiple levels of undo, Photoshop, like most flagship desktop apps, hasn't changed essentially in the 22 years that it's dominated its market. Depending on how tech-savvy he was prepared to be, iPad activist Brian could assemble a very serviceable desktop graphics setup for pocket money by scrounging TradeMe. He could put together a perfectly capable video editing facility, something that's far more demanding in terms of hardware than Photoshop, for less than a grand, based on the very capable under $NZ200 Premiere Elements.
I don't know if Brian has a wider strategy with his consumer activism, but I'm sensing a vague issue about cost deterring the financially disadvantaged from accessing mobile computing. Because desktop technology has become generic - stagnated, even - the cost associated with basic internet access isn't a big issue. Once it becomes the only way to participate in such essentials as everyday banking, it needs to be safeguarded as a human right.
I no longer want or need a mobile phone, but I've noticed an increasing demand to supply a mobile number as a form of backup ID. While there are still options, I do wonder whether Brian's activism is quite as frivolous as it might appear to be.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Every graphic artist I work with and pretty much every product designer I know uses Macs. I'd much rather use Photoshop and Dreamweaver on this MacBook Pro (with an added screen) than the PC box upstairs running Win 7
While I can't speak for Dreamweaver, I'd seriously question whether the Mac OS adds anything substantial to running Photoshop. With Photoshop CS4 the difference between dreary old Win XP and my 10.6.8 Mac is pretty much cosmetic, and that's largely in the background.
Even after all these years I suspect that the design community's apparent Mac bias is a legacy thing from that brief heyday when Adobe was a Mac-only developer.
Also there are a few nice(ish) Photoshop plugins that the last I looked still aren't available for OS X.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Nicely described, to which I'd only add that it didn't feel like, you know, one of ours.
