Excellent point - iPhoto is one area where Apple seems to continue to miss the boat. It is very slow for what it does, and sharing photos (which it already does do from the client) takes forever over gigabit networks. Backup is theoretically easy ("just copy the iphoto library from one computer to another!) but in the real world is a mess (not at all automated, and when you take two different computers to different photo shoots, for example, you wind up with different libraries and synchronizing them is not as easy). It's quite frustrating to have your slideshow up on a projector and then think, oh, those photos are on a different computer...
I have to say I have the same problem with iTunes. Lots of great potential there but the actual sharing software is way too slow to be useful with large libraries, and there is no easy way to maintain one master music collection on a hard drive being served to different computers. Instead you wind up with several different libraries across different boxes, each incomplete in a different way. It would be great to see Apple integrate server technology into these tools for home entertainment centers and other home server applications.
GP is just out of it. Visual aesthetics? The actual beauty of the Mac mini isn't "visual"; quite the contrary - it's that you can stick this thing out of the way and ignore it. At home I use an old G4 Mac Mini plugged into a projector as my entertainment system -- the box itself is completely out of the way behind a cabinet door; there's no reason to even look at the thing.
Jesus I'd never seen those. Just for those of you at home, I'm a professional sound designer for films, and I use ethernet cables that I bought at Fry's for a couple bucks a piece.
I'm sure the cable will greatly improve the quality of your films; I use it for my work (I'm an academic who writes a lot of research studies), it is amazing how much improvement I see in the quality of my writing and the sophistication of my data thanks to the optimum signal transfer provided by this cable.
if your computer's already compromised, your computer's already compromised. But that doesn't mean banks shouldn't properly authenticate. Most of us are presumably not already compromised with keystroke loggers and whatnot.
Whether or not you believe he is making it a better country isn't the issue, either... -He- believes that (and so do many others) and he's working on his beliefs.
It's one more step towards realizing we don't need to create new laws with "e-this, or cyber-that" to have them apply to Internet traffic.
And yet I'll lay odds that many people in a position to do something about it will interpret this as just the opposite. Stay tuned for a whole new round of "cyber-stalking" laws.
The real difference between Apple and Dell (or HP or whoever) is Apple doesn't offer an equivalent to the low end, thick, heavy laptops that Dell or HP offer.
That's not true; Apple used to offer a model that is comparable in design and form factor to these Dells & HPs.
Of course we Apple users are upper middle class, it's because we spend our time actually getting work done on our computers rather than spending our time figuring out how to remove malware!
That, and the lack of games available for the Mac enhances our productivity immensely. Steve Jobs figured out a long time ago that if he wanted to stay rich he had to make sure his customers got rich, so he did that by ensuring that the only game we would ever play is Photoshop.
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Excellent point - iPhoto is one area where Apple seems to continue to miss the boat. It is very slow for what it does, and sharing photos (which it already does do from the client) takes forever over gigabit networks. Backup is theoretically easy ("just copy the iphoto library from one computer to another!) but in the real world is a mess (not at all automated, and when you take two different computers to different photo shoots, for example, you wind up with different libraries and synchronizing them is not as easy). It's quite frustrating to have your slideshow up on a projector and then think, oh, those photos are on a different computer...
I have to say I have the same problem with iTunes. Lots of great potential there but the actual sharing software is way too slow to be useful with large libraries, and there is no easy way to maintain one master music collection on a hard drive being served to different computers. Instead you wind up with several different libraries across different boxes, each incomplete in a different way. It would be great to see Apple integrate server technology into these tools for home entertainment centers and other home server applications.
Lets not forget, the cell phone in my pocket is more powerful than the first 'server' I was ever asked to admin.
That, or you're just really happy to see me.
Sure, it may not be the right thing to rack-mount en mass
Tell that to these guys. Apple has been experimenting with the server potential of the Mini for quite some time now.
GP is just out of it. Visual aesthetics? The actual beauty of the Mac mini isn't "visual"; quite the contrary - it's that you can stick this thing out of the way and ignore it. At home I use an old G4 Mac Mini plugged into a projector as my entertainment system -- the box itself is completely out of the way behind a cabinet door; there's no reason to even look at the thing.
Jesus I'd never seen those. Just for those of you at home, I'm a professional sound designer for films, and I use ethernet cables that I bought at Fry's for a couple bucks a piece.
I'm sure the cable will greatly improve the quality of your films; I use it for my work (I'm an academic who writes a lot of research studies), it is amazing how much improvement I see in the quality of my writing and the sophistication of my data thanks to the optimum signal transfer provided by this cable.
because smart people actually research there points BEFORE spouting off and proving that they are ignorant.
But apparently they don't research their spelling until AFTER.
Interesting article. Maybe they should start making sugar pills out of something else...
Let's just call it an extreme form of capitalism...
almost as many keystrokes have been wasted typing // over the years as have been wasted today talking about the darn slashes on this slashdot article!
Unfortunately it failed for the same reason LaserDisc failed
lack of readily available pr0n titles?
if your computer's already compromised, your computer's already compromised. But that doesn't mean banks shouldn't properly authenticate. Most of us are presumably not already compromised with keystroke loggers and whatnot.
Whether or not you believe he is making it a better country isn't the issue, either... -He- believes that (and so do many others) and he's working on his beliefs.
That's an admirable thing.
So you're saying he's kinda like Jack Thompson?
Extractor? On a mac, you just have to rightclick on the LP file
Shush! They don't know we've been able to do that for years...
It's one more step towards realizing we don't need to create new laws with "e-this, or cyber-that" to have them apply to Internet traffic.
And yet I'll lay odds that many people in a position to do something about it will interpret this as just the opposite. Stay tuned for a whole new round of "cyber-stalking" laws.
Sure, we'll beat the iPhone.... in 2012, right after the world ends!
Suckers!!
Uh, no. Ralph Lauren admitted it was their own shoddy work.
That's Barbara Streisand in the ad? Wow, you're right, they really DID do a lot of retouching!
I didn't even read the article; I just came to this discussion because someone said there would be soup and sandwiches.
the site apparently has no mechanism or system to fix the problem the label created.
I thought that was Tom's job?
Don't worry, folks. "Tom" will straighten this out immediately.
My point exactly ... Dell and HP need to get with the times ;)
(NO PC OEM makes a perfect match)
I think we've found the basic problem with all this speculative comparison right here.
The real difference between Apple and Dell (or HP or whoever) is Apple doesn't offer an equivalent to the low end, thick, heavy laptops that Dell or HP offer.
That's not true; Apple used to offer a model that is comparable in design and form factor to these Dells & HPs.
Most of us are just iCurious.
Of course we Apple users are upper middle class, it's because we spend our time actually getting work done on our computers rather than spending our time figuring out how to remove malware!
That, and the lack of games available for the Mac enhances our productivity immensely. Steve Jobs figured out a long time ago that if he wanted to stay rich he had to make sure his customers got rich, so he did that by ensuring that the only game we would ever play is Photoshop.