OT/venting 2005-04-19 - By Steve
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Tina,
Harvey is one of the most amicable people I know and he is good and
trusted friend. Your posts today bother me and maybe it's just because
one or both of us woke up on the wrong side of the bed but here it is,
I'll say it:
Maybe you "can't" find a decent job because you're not qualified or your
communication skills or "fine" artist skills are poor and need
improvement.
I know several people with Ph.D's and work with dozens more and in fact
several of those work for me. Some of them are brilliant and some of
them are idiots and at least 3 of them I know work for peanuts and every
single one of them started at "the bottom". They don't call themselves
"fine" artists or "Dr." this or that... They call themselves Frank, Bob,
Dee and Bill and insist everyone else does too.
Steven
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From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On Behalf
Of T.Hopkins7@(protected)
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:55 AM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: Re: [Carrara] Re: Adobe buys Macromedia?
I have no idea what field of work your in, but you seem like a very
negative person and look around you there are alot of people who can not
find "decent" jobs. They are over qualified for entry level jobs and
would have to take an extreme pay cut. If you are one of the lucky ones
who have not been affected by mergers and layoffs, then consider
yourself fortunate. Also, I did not shot gun my education. I have put
myself through college and worked full time during it- taking off a
semester here and a year there. I have financed all of it myself, not
ever receiving help from anyone. In fact, all I get are SL's I have to
pay back. This Carrara forum has quite a few of closed minded, negative
people on it. If it isn't your own experience, then you are not open to
consider someone else's. As for the creative community, I am a fine
artist. I can draw without a mouse, Mac, PC, etc...This subject is
closed. I will respond no more. I have other more important affairs.
Tina
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:14:53 +0000, you wrote:
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>Harvey,
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>Yeah there is only one problem with Macs. I have priced them.
So have I, and at the very first, I got severely annoyed with the
"closed architecture toaster" and the "this is all you need to have,
ever" philosophy. The PC, at that point was open architecture... and
the sad thing is that I had apple II stuff.
>They are twice the price of PCs and software developers are designing
just for PCs now.
Market share does have something to do with it, depending on what
market you are shooting for. If I did a really neat publishing and
graphics program, I'd target both, and probably get the "creative
community" (hah!) in the Macs, and the "rest of everybody" in the
PC's, (less percent in the PC's, but more of them.
>Look at 3DS and Softimage. I can understand some fears behind Adobe
acquiring Macromedia. College programs only allow you to take certain
courses and I have spent my 30's in college.
I didn't, but I do wonder what you are specializing in, or did you
shotgun the entire field of ???.
>I am 38 and can't find a decent job, so I will probably try to go on
for my Ph'D and teach at a university.
Now that's a sad commentary. Wear asbestos skivvies, because
university politics is often nasty, small souled, and backstabbing.
Could you be in the wrong area for what you're doing?
Harvey
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>Tina
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>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:32:54 +0000, you wrote:
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>>I say spread the money around. I hope Carrara develops thier software
to run off Linux, because I am seriously thinking of using that
operating system.
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>It's possible, I suppose, but a lot of it depends on how Linux does
>things differently (internally) from windows.
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>>Maya and Softimage have a version for it. Linux from what I can tell
is free.
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>Some versions are, some are not, but you're paying more for the
>additional programs. BTW: Linux is not quite so easy to install,
>depending on the version you pick, and that's another problem, both
>the versions and the ease of installation.
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>>I ordered the Linux Bible to find out more. I hate monopolies. Why
should one company/person have all that money and business.
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>Because he was at the right place at the right time, and while a
>miserable programmer, he's an absolutely wonderful businessman. I
>dislike his policies, but he is successful.
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>>It's sick. They need competition.
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>Apple, bless its dizzy little myopic head, is the competition, as well
>as Linux. Look back and see what the two have done for each other,
>and Bill knows some of this (because if apple folds, he is a real
>monopoly, and therefore will really get regulated...). Apple has gone
>to a more (somewhat) open architecture, and Windows has gone to a more
>(somewhat) friendly system.
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>>I wish I were a computer programmer.
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>You're in college, right? Take courses. Start off with Basic (Visual
>perhaps best) to learn the concept of programming, then go to one of
>the C variations to learn the most dominant language. If you manage
>to get a couple of good graphics courses, you could start to write
>plugins for Carrara.
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>Harvey
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>>Tina
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>>I say it sounds very likely. For a time, they were trying to push the
>>word .doc file format to replace PDFs, but that was left behind.
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>>However, Microsoft is developing their new OS which suppostively has a
>>number of document features, search reutines, etc built in. I
>>understand that Macs have had these features for awhile, but I guess
>>with 3% of the market, Macs weren't considered a threat.
>>
>>According to some Analyst reports on this subject, Adobe is acquiring
>>Macromedia in some sort of play or build up of power to confront
>>Microsoft's next document-format-war move when they release their next
>>OS.
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>>In a side note, Google has even developed a document search system for
>>one's own computer.
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>>In the end, it'll be the graphic designers, video productionist and
>>other artistic fields that will suffer in a document-display war like
>>this.
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>>AWBenson
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>>--- In Carrara@(protected), "seattlemickey" <mgochoco@(protected)> wrote:
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>>> I don't know who's gonna be worse. Adobe or Microsoft? Fremont or
>>Redmond? I guess
>>> Adobe would probably be the better at setting the standard than
>>Microsoft. I had heard
>>> that Microsoft was developing a portable doc format which is hard to
>>believe but hearing
>>> this who knows.
>>>
>>>
>>> --- In Carrara@(protected), Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)>
wrote:
>>> > Hey..
>>> >
>>> >
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
>>> >
>>> > I cannot wait to see what Adobe does with it....
>>> >
>>> > Andrew
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