So some people will say Codec A sounds best. Some will say Codec B sounds best. Some will say that Codecs A and B suck donkey shit and Codec C sounds best. What exactly does this prove?
That people who think an inferior codec sounds better have no judgment?
Absolutely nothing. Apple didn't and doesn't matter in the desktop world. Dell killed floppies.
Hah! That is the most laughably incorrect revisionist history I've ever seen on here. Apple's iMac was the first mainstream computer to forego the floppy. All the PC vendors poo-poo'd the decision only to follow suit within 6 months.
- apple stopped deploying floppy drive with G3 and replaced it with another even more abysmal technology... zip drive, which off course flopped badly for its disks being so easy corruptible.
They stopped deploying floppy drives with the iMac. I had a G3 and it had a floppy drive. I HAVE a G4 and it has a floppy drive (but it's from 1999 so I don't remember if it was an add on or standard).
...from a bunch of loud songs is to make a quiet song.
Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song.
Seriously, this mentality is so stupid. It's like typing everything in caps and bold to "stand out", but when everything is caps and bold, the non caps and non bold is the only thing that stands out.
This is taught in every Design101 class under the topic of "contrast".
Avatar was no better or worse because it was in 3d, it just was.
With that one, I've seen Harry Potter, Transformers, Up, Toy Story 3, and probably a couple other that I'm forgetting in 3d. The only thing these movies have in common is that the ones that were good (Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, Up) were good in spite of the 3d while the other ones were bad, also in spite of the 3d.
Complete gimmick that is coming around for the third round in my lifetime. First I watch Creature of the Black Lagoon, then 15 years later it was bad sequels of sharks and camp killers in 3d, now this latest round that can't be gone fast enough.
You can turn off overlay scroll bars and always show them in system prefs.
You can easily NOT put app into full screen mode. The nice thing about full screen apps is they make their own desktop space. I put mail and iCal in full screen mode, then when I need them, swipe left/right to bring it up, and swipe back to my main desktop.
Most of the third party apps I've used don't work with the autosave. But for those that do, most people I work with (all Mac shop) turn it off by making the temp folder it writes to not writable, which prevents the autosave without pestering the user. Personally, I love the feature and is worth the $29 by itself. I haven't saved a document in over a month. I even crashed my computer and had to reboot. After reboot, it came back with every single window and every doc open that I had when it crashed. The downside is that the resume feature now brings the Windows startup experience to OS X. You know, the desktop appears in about 30 seconds, but you can't actually do anything for a full minute while a bunch of shit loads in the system tray and background?
It's not technically an upgrade. You can install it to a blank partition. The chicken/egg scenario is that you need a Snow Leopard Mac to be able to download it. You don't, however, need a Snow Leopard target volume to install onto.
If you can get the disc image by some other means, there's no need for Snow Leopard anywhere in the install equation.
My old laptop runs XP. Should I be forced to buy Vista to buy Windows 7? (Actually, the next step for it is probably Linux, but that's beside the point.) I don't see how this behavior is justifiable at all.
a) your old laptop most likely won't run Windows 7, so you can spend $600 or so for a new laptop and get Win7 for free. b) It's $29 bucks to upgrade to Snow Leopard, then $29 bucks for Lion. That's a bargain. If Lion were $129, then it would be stupid to make us upgrade to Snow Leopard first. c) the ONLY reason that Snow Leopard is required is because Lion is sold through the Mac App Store, which wasn't available until 10.6.6. d) if you own a Mac, you can borrow anyone's Snow Leopard cd and install it for free. I've read that Apple stores will upgrade Leopard/Tiger/Panther/Puma/Hello Kitty to Snow Leopard for you for free if you want.
It's a lot cheaper to heat and keep a house warm than it is to cool and keep it cool. I live in Texas and my electric bill is never lower than $300 a month from May-October.
You've described mine perfectly. $30 a month....pool I've never used....got a warning for weeds once (and deservedly so). Other than that, they provide a bulletin that lets you advertise your services (lots of independent contractors in mine, and I formed a band and a Mac users group of sorts). We can also warn people who drive too fast because, well, the HOA knows who everybody is.
I've heard of the horror stories of liens and stuff put against your house for having a brown patch of grass, but most people's anti HOA stories have been along the lines of: "they wouldn't let me park my 2 monster trucks and my RV in the front yard" and "the wrote me up for bleedin' a deer in my front yard!". Or to be less dramatic, you really shouldn't have more vehicles than you do driveway/garage space, so therefore you really shouldn't park three or four vehicles on the street. I lived in an HOA with no street parking and it was great for the neighborhood. My current HOA recommends but doesn't enforce that rule, and it looks like Beirut in this neighborhood. Potential buyer of my house need just go one subdivision over and see the difference, and not buy my house because of it.
I chose to live in neighborhood with an HOA so I don't have to look at some jackass's 1973 El Camino up on blocks in the front yard. Small sacrifice in my book. YMMV.
And another thing, it's not Apple that's 3 years behind, it's the game developers. Other companies have realized that almost 100 million installed machines is a very lucrative market, especially when your competitors are too lazy to make a version for the platform. And the Mac market is growing insanely, especially in the target video-game playing demographic.
Oh, you mean Call of Duty Modern Warfare, but you said Call of Duty...maybe you should be more precise with your petty arguments. I play PC only games on my Mac (boot into Windows) when there's only a PC version. If there's a Mac version on Steam, I buy it there (and can play on my Mac or PC side, if I'm too lazy to take the 30 seconds to reboot).
There are legitimate reasons to be anti-Mac, but "lack of video games" or "games only work on Windows" is definitely not one of them.
I think the slashdot angle is the crackdown on freedom of speech. Granted, the NCAA isn't the federal government, but that kind of makes it even worse, that a giant multi-million dollar "corporation" can tell the people it exploits what they can or can't say.
I think you are the sole person on this planet not named Bill Gates who could say "superior" and "Windows 95" in the same sentence with a straight face.
Couldn't you have just installed Civ5 on your computer from the DVD? I did this with HL2 and another game (can't remember which) when I couldn't remember my Steam login.
No, what I said is that when you are using the color picker in one application, you can't pick colors from outside of that application's windowed environment. OS X lets you pick system-wide. Maybe MS Paint lets you do this, but Adobe Photoshop, for example, doesn't. Third party apps in OS X do. My experience with the major tools (Adobe, Microsoft) on Windows is you can't because it's a limitation of the OS.
In Windows, in Adobe CS3, 4, and 5 at least, when you go outside of the current application's window, the color picker changes from the color picker back to the windows pointer. Maybe it's a shortcoming on Adobe's side, but that would be an awfully large shortcoming by the industry leader. In OS X, when you go outside of the current application window, the color picker remains, letting you pick a color from a web browser page and then use it in photoshop, for example. I'm pretty sure this is due to the different paradigms that Windows and OS X take towards windows management. Windows favors full screen single windowed environments for the most part, or windows minimized to the task bar, while OS X prefers a forest of floating windows.
Funny you mention the color picker. Although it isn't available in the system preference for desktop "solid colors", it is available SYSTEM WIDE in pretty much any application that uses a color picker. Perhaps there are some apps that don't, but even the cheap and free tools I've downloaded from the Mac App Store (and shareware before that) have this capability, because it's built into the OS, unlike Windows. I'll refrain from commenting on other OSes, because I don't know about those.
But too your point, I do find it one of the great ironies of the computing world that Mac OS X doesn't have a simple "paint" program yet it's the computer of choice for us artistic types. Maybe it's because we don't need a cheap paint tool because we have the high end tools already?
It's like Apple doesn't even try. I mean they have the great built in system wide alpha channel magic wand tool right in Preview, but you can't then fill the selected area with the trusty old paint bucket. Weird, that.
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great until they max out the consumer market and IT won't allow it anywhere near a corporate lan.
How would that be any different than the past 26 years?
"News for Apple execs, stuff that mattes to Apple"
I've always been a "glossy" fan myself.
So some people will say Codec A sounds best. Some will say Codec B sounds best. Some will say that Codecs A and B suck donkey shit and Codec C sounds best. What exactly does this prove?
That people who think an inferior codec sounds better have no judgment?
What did apple do to floppies?
Absolutely nothing. Apple didn't and doesn't matter in the desktop world. Dell killed floppies.
Hah! That is the most laughably incorrect revisionist history I've ever seen on here. Apple's iMac was the first mainstream computer to forego the floppy. All the PC vendors poo-poo'd the decision only to follow suit within 6 months.
- apple stopped deploying floppy drive with G3 and replaced it with another even more abysmal technology... zip drive, which off course flopped badly for its disks being so easy corruptible.
They stopped deploying floppy drives with the iMac. I had a G3 and it had a floppy drive. I HAVE a G4 and it has a floppy drive (but it's from 1999 so I don't remember if it was an add on or standard).
...from a bunch of loud songs is to make a quiet song.
Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song.
Seriously, this mentality is so stupid. It's like typing everything in caps and bold to "stand out", but when everything is caps and bold, the non caps and non bold is the only thing that stands out.
This is taught in every Design101 class under the topic of "contrast".
The Thunderbolt display has a magsafe and thunderbolt connector on one cable.
Avatar was no better or worse because it was in 3d, it just was.
With that one, I've seen Harry Potter, Transformers, Up, Toy Story 3, and probably a couple other that I'm forgetting in 3d. The only thing these movies have in common is that the ones that were good (Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, Up) were good in spite of the 3d while the other ones were bad, also in spite of the 3d.
Complete gimmick that is coming around for the third round in my lifetime. First I watch Creature of the Black Lagoon, then 15 years later it was bad sequels of sharks and camp killers in 3d, now this latest round that can't be gone fast enough.
I prefer a 27" cinema display connected to a Macbook Pro, but for the money, a 27" iMac will do just fine, thanks!
You can turn off overlay scroll bars and always show them in system prefs.
You can easily NOT put app into full screen mode. The nice thing about full screen apps is they make their own desktop space. I put mail and iCal in full screen mode, then when I need them, swipe left/right to bring it up, and swipe back to my main desktop.
Most of the third party apps I've used don't work with the autosave. But for those that do, most people I work with (all Mac shop) turn it off by making the temp folder it writes to not writable, which prevents the autosave without pestering the user. Personally, I love the feature and is worth the $29 by itself. I haven't saved a document in over a month. I even crashed my computer and had to reboot. After reboot, it came back with every single window and every doc open that I had when it crashed. The downside is that the resume feature now brings the Windows startup experience to OS X. You know, the desktop appears in about 30 seconds, but you can't actually do anything for a full minute while a bunch of shit loads in the system tray and background?
You have PPC apps...good for you. Don't upgrade. Most people don't have PPC apps, so Apple sees little of the precious ROI you mention.
It's not technically an upgrade. You can install it to a blank partition. The chicken/egg scenario is that you need a Snow Leopard Mac to be able to download it. You don't, however, need a Snow Leopard target volume to install onto.
If you can get the disc image by some other means, there's no need for Snow Leopard anywhere in the install equation.
My old laptop runs XP. Should I be forced to buy Vista to buy Windows 7? (Actually, the next step for it is probably Linux, but that's beside the point.) I don't see how this behavior is justifiable at all.
a) your old laptop most likely won't run Windows 7, so you can spend $600 or so for a new laptop and get Win7 for free.
b) It's $29 bucks to upgrade to Snow Leopard, then $29 bucks for Lion. That's a bargain. If Lion were $129, then it would be stupid to make us upgrade to Snow Leopard first.
c) the ONLY reason that Snow Leopard is required is because Lion is sold through the Mac App Store, which wasn't available until 10.6.6.
d) if you own a Mac, you can borrow anyone's Snow Leopard cd and install it for free. I've read that Apple stores will upgrade Leopard/Tiger/Panther/Puma/Hello Kitty to Snow Leopard for you for free if you want.
It's a lot cheaper to heat and keep a house warm than it is to cool and keep it cool. I live in Texas and my electric bill is never lower than $300 a month from May-October.
You've described mine perfectly. $30 a month....pool I've never used....got a warning for weeds once (and deservedly so). Other than that, they provide a bulletin that lets you advertise your services (lots of independent contractors in mine, and I formed a band and a Mac users group of sorts). We can also warn people who drive too fast because, well, the HOA knows who everybody is.
I've heard of the horror stories of liens and stuff put against your house for having a brown patch of grass, but most people's anti HOA stories have been along the lines of: "they wouldn't let me park my 2 monster trucks and my RV in the front yard" and "the wrote me up for bleedin' a deer in my front yard!". Or to be less dramatic, you really shouldn't have more vehicles than you do driveway/garage space, so therefore you really shouldn't park three or four vehicles on the street. I lived in an HOA with no street parking and it was great for the neighborhood. My current HOA recommends but doesn't enforce that rule, and it looks like Beirut in this neighborhood. Potential buyer of my house need just go one subdivision over and see the difference, and not buy my house because of it.
I chose to live in neighborhood with an HOA so I don't have to look at some jackass's 1973 El Camino up on blocks in the front yard. Small sacrifice in my book. YMMV.
And another thing, it's not Apple that's 3 years behind, it's the game developers. Other companies have realized that almost 100 million installed machines is a very lucrative market, especially when your competitors are too lazy to make a version for the platform. And the Mac market is growing insanely, especially in the target video-game playing demographic.
Oh, you mean Call of Duty Modern Warfare, but you said Call of Duty...maybe you should be more precise with your petty arguments. I play PC only games on my Mac (boot into Windows) when there's only a PC version. If there's a Mac version on Steam, I buy it there (and can play on my Mac or PC side, if I'm too lazy to take the 30 seconds to reboot).
There are legitimate reasons to be anti-Mac, but "lack of video games" or "games only work on Windows" is definitely not one of them.
I think the slashdot angle is the crackdown on freedom of speech. Granted, the NCAA isn't the federal government, but that kind of makes it even worse, that a giant multi-million dollar "corporation" can tell the people it exploits what they can or can't say.
The videos are far too long (8-10 minutes, usually) for the video on demand culture.
Based on the scathing reviews of My Touch and Synch, I'd suggest Ford stick to just making cars and leaving the tech to somebody else.
I think you are the sole person on this planet not named Bill Gates who could say "superior" and "Windows 95" in the same sentence with a straight face.
Couldn't you have just installed Civ5 on your computer from the DVD? I did this with HL2 and another game (can't remember which) when I couldn't remember my Steam login.
No, what I said is that when you are using the color picker in one application, you can't pick colors from outside of that application's windowed environment. OS X lets you pick system-wide. Maybe MS Paint lets you do this, but Adobe Photoshop, for example, doesn't. Third party apps in OS X do. My experience with the major tools (Adobe, Microsoft) on Windows is you can't because it's a limitation of the OS.
In Windows, in Adobe CS3, 4, and 5 at least, when you go outside of the current application's window, the color picker changes from the color picker back to the windows pointer. Maybe it's a shortcoming on Adobe's side, but that would be an awfully large shortcoming by the industry leader. In OS X, when you go outside of the current application window, the color picker remains, letting you pick a color from a web browser page and then use it in photoshop, for example. I'm pretty sure this is due to the different paradigms that Windows and OS X take towards windows management. Windows favors full screen single windowed environments for the most part, or windows minimized to the task bar, while OS X prefers a forest of floating windows.
Funny you mention the color picker. Although it isn't available in the system preference for desktop "solid colors", it is available SYSTEM WIDE in pretty much any application that uses a color picker. Perhaps there are some apps that don't, but even the cheap and free tools I've downloaded from the Mac App Store (and shareware before that) have this capability, because it's built into the OS, unlike Windows. I'll refrain from commenting on other OSes, because I don't know about those.
But too your point, I do find it one of the great ironies of the computing world that Mac OS X doesn't have a simple "paint" program yet it's the computer of choice for us artistic types. Maybe it's because we don't need a cheap paint tool because we have the high end tools already?
It's like Apple doesn't even try. I mean they have the great built in system wide alpha channel magic wand tool right in Preview, but you can't then fill the selected area with the trusty old paint bucket. Weird, that.