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Ctrl Alt Del 123:
I can make a paper clip talk, just get really high, not hard to do.
Master of Reality:
i can make a paper clip talk too... i will torture him till he talks chinese water torture works well. :D
TheQuirk:
I was almost correct!
From http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.shtml
"Microsoft BOB. This attempt to produce a "social interface" for the PC met with an unfavorable reception in the marketplace. Users chose an "interactive" cartoon character assistant, and cartoons represented household items such as checkbook, telephone, books, etc. Despite its failure as a commercial product, the key elements of BOB (cartoons, imaginary characters designed to act as helpful guides, and animations) have been inserted into Microsoft Office97 as "user help."
Ah, but does this long-standing (if dubious) innovation still pass muster? Several readers recently cast doubt. According to one, Packard Bell Navigator was a "social interface" included as the default shell with their computers running Windows 3.1 and early versions of Windows 95. Another reader suggests two games as the source of cartoon user feedback: Electronic Arts "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" from the early 1990s and Chris Crawford's "Patton vs. Rommel" (1986-7), both of which provided cartoon feedback. This nomination once looked solid, but is now teetering on the edge of rejection. [9 Jan 99] [TOP]
The Talking Paper Clip. The cartoon assistant in Office97. See also "Microsoft BOB." Looks like an innovation, but wait -- it seems Microsoft may have obtained the idea for the Paper Clip Assistant in Office 97 from a company called Inner Workings. In September 1996, Inner Workings demonstrated a similar assistant for Windows called "Lemon Dog." For Office 2000, Microsoft actually went further and cloned Lemon Dog, calling it Microsoft's "Rocky the Dog." Inner Workings filed a trademark infringement suit. [21 March 1999]"
ecsyle_one:
The more that i become involved in computers, the more i look for alternatives to microsoft... But, i have a problem. I use 3D Studio Max, and macromedia, adobe products. I know i could get the Macromedia/ Adobe softwarez if i go with Apple. But what about Max?? My question is, am i stuck with windows?
psyjax:
quote:Originally posted by ecsyle_one:
The more that i become involved in computers, the more i look for alternatives to microsoft... But, i have a problem. I use 3D Studio Max, and macromedia, adobe products. I know i could get the Macromedia/ Adobe softwarez if i go with Apple. But what about Max?? My question is, am i stuck with windows?
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You can get better than Max, you can get Lightwave or Maya!
Both these products are Altivec enhanced and are blowing away reviewers. Max is cool, but Maya and Lightwave are WAY better.
So if you go with Apple, you will go a long way :D
But I'm a Mac Zelot.
Not that I don't use other OS's. I use Linux from time to time, and I recently procured a windoze box (150$ AMD 1800 ) to play games on.
NOTE: I didn't pay M$ a cent and I hope they die! I wouldent have even got a PC had it not been so dirt cheep.
But for the majority of my computing, which involves hevy graphics work, I use my Mac and would never think of using anything else for it. That's my pice.
[ May 16, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
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