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tommyrot - Jun 06, 2005 9:13:20 am PDT #3221 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Did Jobs say anything about movies, etc. that fit with the Pentium D movie DRM theory (from Wired) I posted above?

eta: Apple press release: [link]


DCJensen - Jun 06, 2005 12:44:44 pm PDT #3222 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

"Reports are coming into the Buffista newsroom, that yes, Hell froze over at a little after 10 am PDT today...."


Gris - Jun 06, 2005 12:53:33 pm PDT #3223 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Haha. I told my mom exactly the same thing on the phone. I was like "Hey, did you hear that Hell froze over this morning?" and she was like "Yep. Apple's switching to Intel" and then Keanu was, like, "whoa" and I was like, "yeah" and... I should stop now.

It was kind of weird. My mom shouldn't know that stuff until I tell her.


DXMachina - Jun 06, 2005 2:00:54 pm PDT #3224 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Of course, if Jobs can get to Mac operating system working on all the Intel equipment that's out there now...


DCJensen - Jun 06, 2005 2:11:44 pm PDT #3225 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

"Try and take over the world!" t /Brain


Sophia Brooks - Jun 07, 2005 3:22:22 am PDT #3226 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

As per Usual, a Quark 6.0 Question...

In Adobe Indesign (and Pagemaker) I could open something called text editor, and just work on the text in there, with no formatting, etc. Since I have a small screen, it really saved me from making a lot of mistakes, as this is what I mostly do.

Is there a similar feature in Quark, so I can work with just the words, or do I need to do this in a layout view?


Steph L. - Jun 07, 2005 6:57:15 am PDT #3227 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Sophia, I'm not familiar enough with Quark 6.0 yet to know the answer. Plus, I've been using Quark (4.1) for almost 10 years here, and tend to treat it like a word processing/text editor program, right in layout view.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 07, 2005 7:21:31 am PDT #3228 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks Steph!

I have been doing that, but the layout I am working with are so graphic heavy and have such little bits of text all over the place that it is beginning to drive me craxy.

I'm hoping to get my hands on Quark 5.0, because apparantly I can then convert the file to InDesign, which I actually know how to use!


tommyrot - Jun 07, 2005 10:35:58 am PDT #3229 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This is cooler than a cool thing cooled by liquid helium:

This week the Roxio company introduces the Boom Box, a $50 suite of iPod applications that includes a DJ program called MusicMagic Mixer. Originally offered on the Internet, the Mixer is designed specifically to create mood-appropriate yet illuminating combinations of music from your own collection. Its method, according to software architect Wendell Hicken, is to analyze the digital files that store the acoustic information that tells your music player what sound to produce. For instance, by recognizing the bits that encode a drumbeat, the program can divine the volume, tempo and energy of a tune. What's more, by digitally decoding all songs in the same way, it's possible to find hidden affinities between unexpected tunes.

After enduring a long period where MusicMagic painstakingly "fingerprinted" my songs for analysis, I was instantly able to construct some great playlists based on a single "seed" tune that was the keystone of my musical desires that day. Though a seed of alt-country crooner Kathleen Edwards yielded a mix with similar artists like Lucinda Williams and Tift Merritt, it also included an unanticipated but snugly appropriate tune by rocker J Mascis.

[link]


Typo Boy - Jun 07, 2005 12:27:10 pm PDT #3230 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

As per Usual, a Quark 6.0 Question.

Don't know quark at all, but have a general workaround I use for problems like that - create my text and even the basic layout in another program then import into the publising program for the final polish. For example, years ago I used to use Pagemaker once in a blue moon - never for long enough to really get up the learning curve. So I'd always create stuff in Word, including final wordng, and a rough layout (fonts. columns, approximately where the graphics woudl go), then import it into Pagemaker to for the final fiddly bits where you got it exactly the way you wanted. Could you do the equivalent with some program familiar to you with Quark?