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Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison
An anonymous reader writes "Rob Galbraith posted a comparison among two Macs and two PCs. Both a high-end Mac and PC are included with somewhat surprising results given the number of Mac zealots who will claim otherwise... optimized for PC, Mac support second, Photoshop is faster, yada, yada, yada."
I submitted this same story around the same time and being the rabid mac hater that I am, I still managed to try not to make the submission sound baised and what happens, they post the one submitted by an anonymous reader which is overly rude and biased.
although a lot of the ones posted by micheal seem to be submitted by anonymous readers and other unlinkified names, so perhaps he just rewrites them and doesnt accredit the submission to anyone..
And especially in terms of this article, would productivity improve if the Gimp was used on, say, a Linux box?
--sexy gal
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But I'd have to use XP. Ew.
5*e^(5*4 + 7) / 7
/
5 * exp ( 5 * 4 + 7 ) / 7 =
13 ks
5 Enter 4 * 7 + exp 5 * 7
11 keystrokes
XP is better all around and should be the desktop Linux is trying to be. I can't believe how stable it is ( I shut off uneccessary services), how smooth it runs - it just feels polished, how great hardware support it has, etc etc
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell, 1984
Since /. won't accept this submission, I am putting it in here [this is about information, right ? If modded (-1, offtopic), some people might lose the chance to read it]. Here it goes -
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US offers $1m prize to boost robot warfare
REUTERS[ SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2003 12:12:08 AM ]
WASHINGTON: The US Defence Department says it is offering a $1 million cash prize to the winner of a planned robot vehicle race between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
The "Grand Challenge," scheduled to take place on February 28, 2004, is intended to spur development of technologies that could be used by the US military.
The contest was the brainchild of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the Pentagon's cradle for revolutionary technologies.
"The race is intended to spur the accelerated development of autonomous robotic vehicle technologies for military applications," said Jan Walker, a DARPA spokeswoman, on Friday. It offered a unique chance to help shape "this promising new dimension of our national defence," she added.
Robots are already playing a growing role in the US arsenal, including devices that scout enemy positions, sniff for chemical and biological warfare agents and slither down sewers or under doors to collect intelligence.
In a separate category are remotely piloted aircraft such as the RQ-1 Predator, being used for surveillance and as armed attack drones in the US-declared war on terror.
Among those encouraged to attend were futurists, inventors, robotic engineers, software designers, technology companies, universities and "trail-blazers," the Pentagon agency said.
To find out details and more news about it, search http://news.google.com/ Some of the links are:
http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2003/01/1
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s761479.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/c
Here is the story submitted to /. but was ignored:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is offering a $1 million cash prize to the winner of a planned robot vehicle race between Los Angeles and Las Vegas known as DARPA Grand Challange. The course will feature both on-road and off-road portions and will include extremely rugged, challenging terrain and obstacles. The purpose of the race is to stimulate interest in and encourage the accelerated development of autonomous ground vehicle technologies that could be used by the US military. See the DARPA website for Grand Challange Rules and details... For more news, refer to articles on these websites - Forbes, ABC, TOI
C'mon light it up baby.
*Raises bong in celebration*
this may sound like a troll, but i'm always suprised at how few people on /. like linux.
i use redhat on my pc, and os x on an ibook. i'm generally pretty excited about the commonality between platforms, even if it is mostly "under the hood". macs are a *nix operating system; they use unix utilites and have much in common with my redhat box. i'm very happy if i can write an app or shell script and have it run on both machines with little hastle. apple currently does a very good job (compared to other vendors) in supporting open standards. even though there are licensing issues, there is enough in common, that using a mac i feel like my programming effort isn't wasted.
as a user example, i use CUPS to print to a printer that isn't technically supported.
i also notice that most of the really techie stuff doesn't show up much in these discussions. the mac windowserver is the thing i most miss under redhat/x11. i'm not sure how it compares to the current MS windowserver. my experience using Adobe applications under Widows2000 is that it does a poor job in rendering text. i'm not technically adept enough to say exactly why, but applications such as InDesign actally do look a little better when scaling stuff on the mac. quartz extreme can (in some cases) partially offset the cpu slowness.
i realize it's hard to benchmark something like "it renders the text more accurately", and i'm also suprised that people don't take that into account.
the speed thing really isn't that important; it can be, and will probably be fixed. having open standards and a cool graphics api is what rocks!!
First, let me say that I like Apple. I would LOVE to have one of the new powerbooks.
Now to use your comparison of cars, lets assume that 95% of the driving that you do is raceing, and the Dodge actually had around 100 more HP and a lot more torque.
This is what the article was expressing. It did not say that the Mac sucks. It just said that image processing was a lot faster on a SINGLE P4 than the fastest dual G4 Mac.
Now, Apple should take this and take a long hard look at their relationship with Motorolla.
I will ask you a question. Would you still buy a Macintosh if it had an Intel/AMD chip in it? This assumes that it had all the currently quality and functionality of a current Macintosh? Now what if it was faster and cheaper? I would!!!!
The more I learn about science, the more my faith in God increases.