If it was a private Garda-type employee, chances are it's less "in on it" and more "fuck I'm not paid enough to risk my life for peanuts in the inventory"
heh, I don't think it sounds too harsh (both my Archlinux-powered eee and my mac have no problem dealing with available workarounds although sometimes a terminal will scream at a non-windows-formatted fat partition), and having to deal with University IT desks has probably given me a worse view of IT than is probably deserved (at least I hope) - If I hadn't blown my mod points by posting not AC I'd probably mod your reply up (info) tbh.
Windows will not let you do what you want to the extent you want if you play in the command line. Also, Apple, for all its nasty bits, is not usually busy trying to make every *nix vendor go under with lawsuits and the threat of them - they have a niche (well a few niches) and seem happy to stick to it (or at least don't do many efforts to go out of it considering the way they deal with their server and workstation offerings that seem more like curiosities/stuff we put out because some people in our niches need the juice).
They also sometimes screw with standards but at least pay them lip-service, and while it's not been without gnashing of teeth at first, when they've had to deal with the GPL they didn't wait for the FSF to make subtle threats before sharing the code.
As for letting install, the only time they seem to care is when someone tries to make money off making unlicensed clones - the iphone situation is a bit more annoying, true.
HR in some cases will care about certain pieces of apple software, it just happens to not be iLife. After all, I doubt HR gives a damn about WMP or Explorer being included in Windows. But that's a limited market. Also, some places with bad exchange-crazy IT people (who have a corner of hell specially reserved for them) will standardize on Exchange and then try to make things work with the departments where these come up. Or some universities that do the same and then pretend to support macs but where the network is as unfriendly as can be to anything that's not running on 'doze.
Maybe movie work might be a justification - adobe, avid and apple may have a heavy chunk of the market, but cinelerra and blender are linux native and marketed at professional studios too.
Oh, and don't try pushing that Apple "it just works" blather
What about "your half price inspiron will also last a third of the time". This has basically been what happened, macs are not made to compete with the discount bin Dell crap, but with thinkpads and xpses. And yes it hurts Apple in terms of their "pricey" perception, but at least they don't jack up the price at retail.
And if it's sold in Canada, Rogers will probably offer it with a "sell your soul" 3 years option, a "moron" 2 years option where you pay its normal unlocked price and are stuck with a 2 years contract, and a "haha sucker" option where it will cost 50% more than buying it unlocked would to get it prepaid, but for some reason it won't be sold unlocked in Canada (or show up more than a week every other season on newegg.ca's inventory) so will have to be bought abroad on a trip to avoid the ridiculous duties you get if you're a simple traveller vs a multinational corp.
Sadly I don't use photoshop so I didn't have to look for a serious alternative, what tools I needed replaced were Illustrator and Flex (well, and Dreamweaver and Premiere in theory, but I've always handcoded that stuff and FCX/FCP seemed a better bet.
I'd be semi tempted to say Iris but the project looks dead even if it's not a beta, pixel is perpetual vaporware, chocoflop seems promising but some versions of the beta are crashy to say the least, and pixelmator seems mostly like gimp+isight plugin and last I checked it it still didn't open.NEF files but might be worth the try in the future Quite honestly, I think PS is the hardest of the lot to replace on any platform. Probably because it tries to be the all-things-for-everyone Raster Editor I guess.
For added lulz - Adobe's CS uses a full copy of an old and vulnerable version of Opera for its home-phoning loading screens, and for bridge - and of course their retarded mac devs (there used to be a a few hacks to make CS3 work In mAcOS x Hfs+ wIth CAsE sEnsitIVIty because apparently their coders are drunk monkeys, now they disabled it by making it impossible to install CS4 if the root partition is on a case-sensitive FS - I said fuck it, deleted the trialware and just moved to alternatives that fill my needs without taking up endless gigs of memory rather than waste money or time to fix it that is much more valuable in the end than what they would expect me to pay. That might amuse you.
And even MLC will outlast the average laptop, or even the average slashdotter's clunker, unless they're using it as a portable heavy-duty server (in which case they deserve it as much as they deserve it if they were using regular HDD on a heavy-duty server instead of more robust stuff).
No idea, as far as I know Cluster B has honeymoon phases, but I don't think they take breaks (they're notoriously hard to study because they also don't realize they have a problem, self-consciousness about being NPD basically means you're not NPD/are on the way to getting better - and in the case of NPD, they're probably the group of people with the least suicide rate ever, so no psychiatric emergency)
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If it was a private Garda-type employee, chances are it's less "in on it" and more "fuck I'm not paid enough to risk my life for peanuts in the inventory"
The manly russian kiss will empower weak american immune systems much better than the handshake, da, da.
heh, I don't think it sounds too harsh (both my Archlinux-powered eee and my mac have no problem dealing with available workarounds although sometimes a terminal will scream at a non-windows-formatted fat partition), and having to deal with University IT desks has probably given me a worse view of IT than is probably deserved (at least I hope) - If I hadn't blown my mod points by posting not AC I'd probably mod your reply up (info) tbh.
Yes it's on by default in Leopard, what is not on is tap and right-click on a designated spot of the trackpad.
TFA is wrong on the technical aspect, and is pushing a book that promises to teach more stuff that's factually wrong.
Windows will not let you do what you want to the extent you want if you play in the command line. Also, Apple, for all its nasty bits, is not usually busy trying to make every *nix vendor go under with lawsuits and the threat of them - they have a niche (well a few niches) and seem happy to stick to it (or at least don't do many efforts to go out of it considering the way they deal with their server and workstation offerings that seem more like curiosities/stuff we put out because some people in our niches need the juice).
They also sometimes screw with standards but at least pay them lip-service, and while it's not been without gnashing of teeth at first, when they've had to deal with the GPL they didn't wait for the FSF to make subtle threats before sharing the code.
As for letting install, the only time they seem to care is when someone tries to make money off making unlicensed clones - the iphone situation is a bit more annoying, true.
HR in some cases will care about certain pieces of apple software, it just happens to not be iLife. After all, I doubt HR gives a damn about WMP or Explorer being included in Windows. But that's a limited market. Also, some places with bad exchange-crazy IT people (who have a corner of hell specially reserved for them) will standardize on Exchange and then try to make things work with the departments where these come up. Or some universities that do the same and then pretend to support macs but where the network is as unfriendly as can be to anything that's not running on 'doze.
Partially, yes since he has a mac.
Maybe movie work might be a justification - adobe, avid and apple may have a heavy chunk of the market, but cinelerra and blender are linux native and marketed at professional studios too.
Or maybe this.
Oh, and don't try pushing that Apple "it just works" blather
What about "your half price inspiron will also last a third of the time". This has basically been what happened, macs are not made to compete with the discount bin Dell crap, but with thinkpads and xpses. And yes it hurts Apple in terms of their "pricey" perception, but at least they don't jack up the price at retail.
It's not slander if it's the truth.
Well, everex for one is known for their extra dirty tricks... oh, right
Hell, sometimes it looks like Best Buy salesdroids are mostly trained to keep Best Buy's stock of macs unsold :p
Pharmaceutical companies doing it led to a number of scandals and lost licenses in other countries.
Best Buy employees are not MS' employees, they really have no business doing the training of another corps' staff.
And if it's sold in Canada, Rogers will probably offer it with a "sell your soul" 3 years option, a "moron" 2 years option where you pay its normal unlocked price and are stuck with a 2 years contract, and a "haha sucker" option where it will cost 50% more than buying it unlocked would to get it prepaid, but for some reason it won't be sold unlocked in Canada (or show up more than a week every other season on newegg.ca's inventory) so will have to be bought abroad on a trip to avoid the ridiculous duties you get if you're a simple traveller vs a multinational corp.
Physical buttons are essential for enough people that there's always going to be a physical button option - it happens not to be the n900, :'( for you
GIMP 3 maybe, but right now, it's too limited if the editing happens to be photography.
Sadly I don't use photoshop so I didn't have to look for a serious alternative, what tools I needed replaced were Illustrator and Flex (well, and Dreamweaver and Premiere in theory, but I've always handcoded that stuff and FCX/FCP seemed a better bet. .NEF files but might be worth the try in the future
I'd be semi tempted to say Iris but the project looks dead even if it's not a beta, pixel is perpetual vaporware, chocoflop seems promising but some versions of the beta are crashy to say the least, and pixelmator seems mostly like gimp+isight plugin and last I checked it it still didn't open
Quite honestly, I think PS is the hardest of the lot to replace on any platform. Probably because it tries to be the all-things-for-everyone Raster Editor I guess.
PLEASE please stop exaggerating the problem just to push-forward your agenda.
1. This is not the only point in the issue
2. Pot, meet kettle, it's black too.
For added lulz - Adobe's CS uses a full copy of an old and vulnerable version of Opera for its home-phoning loading screens, and for bridge - and of course their retarded mac devs (there used to be a a few hacks to make CS3 work In mAcOS x Hfs+ wIth CAsE sEnsitIVIty because apparently their coders are drunk monkeys, now they disabled it by making it impossible to install CS4 if the root partition is on a case-sensitive FS - I said fuck it, deleted the trialware and just moved to alternatives that fill my needs without taking up endless gigs of memory rather than waste money or time to fix it that is much more valuable in the end than what they would expect me to pay. That might amuse you.
So they're planning to recruit every one of their customers, or just a small subset of the group "victim of Symantec"?
And even MLC will outlast the average laptop, or even the average slashdotter's clunker, unless they're using it as a portable heavy-duty server (in which case they deserve it as much as they deserve it if they were using regular HDD on a heavy-duty server instead of more robust stuff).
No idea, as far as I know Cluster B has honeymoon phases, but I don't think they take breaks (they're notoriously hard to study because they also don't realize they have a problem, self-consciousness about being NPD basically means you're not NPD/are on the way to getting better - and in the case of NPD, they're probably the group of people with the least suicide rate ever, so no psychiatric emergency)