George Socka
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I use Goldmine because of a major client project, but have worked with Act and it is almost as good at lower cost. Act is easier to use IMHO Goldmine has beeter group / network features
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Even faster – no need to enter anything – image – rotate canvas – but ritates teh whol ething. Transform rotates just one layer
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Separate partitions makes it much easier, faster to defrag. And you will want to defrag often.
Separate partitions allow you to turn off system restore (XP) on the editing partition. Also turn off AV by drive letter( I know I know some people don’t believe in AV …)
Firewire drives have their place ( I love them ) but if you are capturing DV over the same port daisy chained, then you may get issues of dropped connections.
A big plus, easy to see what files are what, and manage them as Scott pointed out. Worst place to put files is in My Documents
Easier to share the drive over a LAN. So, partition away
My cruddy old Inspiron only has a 5400 rpm drive and it works like a charm. Not real time but…
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I would personally care – I have held off updating to 1.5 and Photoshop CS. If I knew that 2.0 were coming out in a month I would not bother with 1.5. If I new taht FCP5 were coming out I might try it rather than wait for 2.0 ( if I could switch to a mac ). Now I know that there is no point in upgrading to the latest Flash MX since I know there will be an Adobe’s version. I just dont knwo when. Adobe’s model is of course their business. And has made them a few bucks. It is the tech media’s business to find out as much as they can and publish it. BEFORE Adobe makes it own announcement. Again, if one has to wait for the announcement anyway, then why bother paying CAN$20 to read Computer Arts mag, or even this website. One need simply read Adobe’s website. So bring on the prerelease rumors, the NDA breakers. BTW, the most successful software company in the world, MS, keeps its customers in the loop early in the cycle. And Bill G must be given credit for knowing something about software marketing!
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I would not be teh first to cast stones at the UK mags. As a some time tech writer, the problem I always found with NDAs is that they end up making journalists sell out as shills for vendors. Sure, without an NDA you end up missing out on a few free lunches, but then, in many cases you can always just rephrase the press release or advertorial in time for a dealine anyway. Never found a company unwilling to take all of the free exposure it can get just by the refusal to sign an NDA. Never heard of any vendor pulling its ad spend as a result of an NDA breach either. As it is, I can also say that I have never read a critical review in any of the glossy $$$ UK mags either. So bottom line, it is a journalists job to get the news and get it out. Regardless of what the newsmaker may want. Heck if Bernstein and Woodward had signed an NDA, where would the Watergate story have gone?
As a reader, I want the news and I want it now. How it gets to me is a bit irrelevant. I expect the media, paper based or web based to deliver. Otherwise, what is the point. PR I can get from an RSS feed without ads.
The same reasoning does not necessarily apply to beta testers, where there is a bit of an element of trust to be expected.
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Archive.org is your friend.