China Airlines - PR at it's best
Posted by Ian Holsman
mainly a reminder for myself, but others may have a laugh
playing with numbers
Posted by Ian Holsman
So I had a opportunity to use numbers yesterday on ‘real’ work. This involved reading in a CSV file and producing a report out of it. like most people i didn’t read the instructions, so there might be easier way
bad points:
- importing CSV files isn’t as nice as in excel. It doesn’t ask what the delimiter is, or how to split fields.. it just does it
- can split an existing table into 2 tables.
- no shortcut that I could see to create a new table
- the export to excel creates a table of contents page advertising I used numbers. I consider this poor form, it means I must go in there with excel and fix up the TOC page removing the advertising
- no pivot tables. I use this feature alot.
overall there aren’t too bad, and won’t stop me using numbers.
good points:
- It looks pretty, really pretty. It is a joy to use
- I like the table concept, and apple have done this fantastically.
- resizing a table’s column width doesn’t affect anything else. For people who use excel to design professional reports, this takes a chore which usually takes hours into something which will take minutes.
I am going to be playing with it more, but until my bosses get a mac, it will be the export excel feature I most use.
um.. how does this work?
Posted by Ian Holsman
According to Paid Content Disney just bought clubpenguin for $350M + another $350 possible earnout.
so.. what I don’t understand is how the maths works here.
The site has 700,000 members each paying $6/month. If you do the raw estimates disney has just paid $1,000 per account.
lets say clubpenguin REALLY takes off, and say becomes as big as the world largest (WoW) which I think has 8million subscribers.. It would still mean $100/account.
shit.. I need to stop coding for the man and start learning flash and cute graphics, before some bean counter comes with a pin and bursts this bubble