Re: FLASH: What hardware should I buy?

[Russell E. Unger]

Yikes...


Kev got me.


I really would *not* have said that...I'm simply easily distracted since I work

in an office with others around me to give orders to, where Kevin sits at his

home office and performs various domestic duties...


He is correct however.  I should have said that "I have seen instructors who

would give an answer that seemed believeable to people that are less-technical

or likely to believe them because they are in that position to 'teach'" or

something like that.


Sorry for misleading there.


Russ


KJ wrote:


> Russ said

>

> No offense to anyone, but as a person who's been an instructor...I'd

> probably

> give that excuse, as well, if I couldn't find the answer.  However, on my NT

> 3/SP 4 P2/233 96 Megs RAM at home...well, I have no problems at all.

>

> >"Tinker-lewis, Gina" wrote:

> >

> >> I took a 3 day Flash course last month and some of the NT machines

> crashed

> >> when choosing certain fonts throughout the course (couldn't really figure

> >> out which fonts it didn't like).  The instructor said he didn't recommend

> >> using NT with Flash for that reason. Not sure how Win 95 works with

> Flash.

> >> Mac G4's don't ship until October I think.

>

> Had to respond, as an instructor I wouldn't say that it was the OS. (I go

> out of my way to not guess or give bad information) This problem was most

> likely caused by ATM since this is a fairly common problem that is on the

> Adobe side NOT Microsofts. It occurs when using Type 1 fonts and has been

> posted here (At least it was with Flash 3) But then it is so much easier to

> bash Microsoft with absolutely no information. You'd hardly ever get called

> on it.

>

> If you view the posts on this list you'd see that the vast majority of

> problems are not on the Intel platform. I'm not sure that proves anything

> but if you wanted to go with anecdotal evidence rather than deciding on the

> facts, it would seem to indicate that there is a platform likely to have

> problems and it isn't from Redmond. Of course that is the danger of posting

> on opinion rather than fact.

>

> Kevin Jackson

>

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>

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