Me too, and the likes of pink on pale blue in a fancy font. If nothing else it prints out mid grey on a B&W printer.
If it is poor in black and white then it is not good enough for colour work.
Great idea! I could get one of those programmable LED signs...
In my job I had to listen to radio one almost from it's inception. From almost day one if the level was more tha 3dB below peak level then a suspected fault was investigated. It was almost as good as tone for lining up circuits, always +6 to +8 on line up level. From listening I'd think that the then 2dB dynamic range is no more, shrunk to zero by now with more powerful compression.
yerrs. and its not as if you are punching through a 40dB S/N ratio on a
5Khz bandwidth MW set these days either.No excuse for it.
It would avoid the need to shout above the radio.
Colin Bignell
Rock stars have riders in their contracts about things like the backstage booze and size of the comfy chairs. I don't see why your contract couldn't include riders like:
NO Radio 1!
Nick
I know what you mean. What I find depressing about the trend in pop music is the uniformity of it. If a song is still appreciated 30 years later it is probably because it had some different quality that made it stand out.
Nothing's changed in forty years. It was always shit.
Instead we have the "we tried that 15 years ago, but it failed because ...", repeated every few years as a "new" idea is put in place.
SteveW
Years ago a friend of mine on a summer job got fed up of the music played throughout the theme park and was sacked after substituting The Jesus and Mary Chain!
SteveW
Magazines are designed by 20-somethings with perfect eyesight sitting in front of £1300 monitors.
and never previewed on paper beofre the print run. - that doesn't just apply to 20-somethings, either
Untrained 20 somethings that haven't be told about contrast ratio's, colour combinations, serif v sans-serif fonts, etc. All basic publishing stuff, who said nothing is handed down any more, everything has to be (re)learnt making the same mistakes again and again.
I take your general point, but in that example I actually find the pages with blue background easer on the eye than the ones with a background and black text.
And, on-screen, at the scale I viewed it at, I agree that the white-on-purple is OK - but not the mauve-on-purple text. Though people can also be very different in how readable they find things.
And pleasingly reminiscent of WordPerfect :-)
Owain
Nothing about WP has pleasant memories for me! :-)
On Monday 01 April 2013 08:47 polygonum wrote in uk.d-i-y:
It does for me. WP 5.1 was the first decent wordprocessor I ever saw - and it was running on VAX/VMS. WP6.0 on Windows was a f*ck up though. Then it got worse.
Having seen and used various WP software/machines, I really got liked Word 2 and preferred it to any other WP I had then used - for my purposes.
A real pain switching from that to a very poor PC version of WP.
I used it running under KanjiTalk on a Mac ...
Owain
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