Yeah, nobody bought any of those iMacs. Stupid Apple.
(the original fruit-flavored Macs had no fans. The current iMacs and eMacs have very, very quiet fans. The G4 Cube, which I assume you are referring to, is fanless unless you add a video card.)
I'm between jobs, and I know how to make computers work.
Your supposition that it is necessary to constantly upgrade Macs has no basis. Macs hold their value far, far longer than PCs do. If you're having performance problems, that's because you're EDITING VIDEO, which is about the most performance intensive activity you can ask of a computer.
Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have a superstitious loathing of these mysterious silver boxes.
They're computers. Not magic. You say you want to know how the things around you work. Great! Go to it! Learn about the tool you're using. Get yourself an O'Reilly book or three and learn.
If you stay in film, you'll see them again. I promise.
You think that film students (and, more importantly, film school tech departments) should use Linux boxes because Premiere (which doesn't run on Linux) is not quite as good as the Mac software they're already using?
Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. I've still been unable to get anybody to explain to me precisely what they can do on a Linux box that they can't do on an (admittedly more expensive, but arguably more elegant) OS X box.
Video editing is not it.
And, as far as understanding the equipment, I dig that too. However, lots of people don't. As long as they are satisfied with their understanding and the performance of their tools, what's wrong with that?
I'm a computer geek. I've installed Linux half a dozen times on as many different computers, and I've always stopped using it because it simply doesn't scratch any itches for me. Why should I bother to become an expert in a system that is not useful to me?
If relational databases had no advantages and many disadvantages WRT CSV files, the answer to your question would be "yes".
Now, upon departing from Bizarro World, and understanding that your comparison has nothing whatsoever in common with the matter at hand, the answer to your question is "no".
I hope when you built Dun & Bradstreet's web site, you spelled their name correctly.
I also hope you didn't build their first public website, because then I shall have to hunt you down and kill you in your sleep, because I had to answer the phone when your web site broke. Which was frequently.
Maybe that's because nobody has ever heard of a Linux program that's any good at editing video? What "choice" is there? Where's the Linux analog of Final Cut Pro?
Use the tool that's right for the job. Why is this hard to understand? Why should people know about or think about or care about tools that are good for jobs that they don't know about or think about or care about? Sure, if you're curious about computers, that's cool...some people are curious about sixteenth century French literature.
Gosh. Then maybe we should notice the things that are different, and notice the things that are the same, and STOP WORRYING SO MUCH ABOUT THEM.
People are different from one another. They're also the same as one another. Anybody who's paid any attention at all to their life experience knows this. Anybody who doesn't know this needs to get on the damn bus.
Why do we have to argue about which one is better when you get to use the BEST AVAILABLE TOOLS IN BOTH INTERFACE MODES under OSX?
Am I stupid? Use the right tool for the job, which is ALWAYS the one you understand better. Don't worry about what tools other people use to do their jobs. You can be a full and complete person, and have other people disagree with you at the same time. It's OK. They're OK. You're OK. Everything is OK.
What on EARTH possessed you to put a Creative Labs soundcard in a Mac?
The only useful analog I can think of is stuffing an extra engine into your Ferrari, disconnecting the beautiful V-12, and making it front-wheel drive.
Yeah, I'm sure you couldn't use the included belt clip to, uh, clip it to your, uh, belt. Waistband. Whatever.
I'm sure you also couldn't get yourself a little velcro or neoprene strap at the fabric store and make a belt for your arm that you could, uh, clip the belt clip to. Steve would come to your house, kick your dog, and take away your iPod.
I have heard of runner's high, but I think you're the other kind of high.
Unfortunately, my friend's RSX Type S has the same problem. Engine pulls hard when you get it spinning, but that whine is very very annoying. Far moreso than even a poorly tuned turbo/supercharger.
RSX is a nice looking car, but I'm not so hot on the VTEC action. I'd rather have a more consistent throttle response with a broader power band.
But that's just me.
(oh yeah, and I think the S2000 looks like a doorstop.)
Well, you can't really get a Lotus Elise in America (except for the track-only models, most of which have Rover engines).
However, these guys will sell you an Elise with a Honda VTEC motor. Strangely, if you import the thing without an engine, it doesn't have to run the gantlet of US emission and safety regulations.
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Yeah, nobody bought any of those iMacs. Stupid Apple.
(the original fruit-flavored Macs had no fans. The current iMacs and eMacs have very, very quiet fans. The G4 Cube, which I assume you are referring to, is fanless unless you add a video card.)
What can your school pay?
I'm between jobs, and I know how to make computers work.
Your supposition that it is necessary to constantly upgrade Macs has no basis. Macs hold their value far, far longer than PCs do. If you're having performance problems, that's because you're EDITING VIDEO, which is about the most performance intensive activity you can ask of a computer.
Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have a superstitious loathing of these mysterious silver boxes.
They're computers. Not magic. You say you want to know how the things around you work. Great! Go to it! Learn about the tool you're using. Get yourself an O'Reilly book or three and learn.
If you stay in film, you'll see them again. I promise.
Anybody who's ever built anything from LEGO knows that the bricks are pants in tension.
So no space elevator for you.
But where will the jobs that require people to know how to spell "cognitive" and "co-located" go?
Let me make sure I understand.
You think that film students (and, more importantly, film school tech departments) should use Linux boxes because Premiere (which doesn't run on Linux) is not quite as good as the Mac software they're already using?
Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. I've still been unable to get anybody to explain to me precisely what they can do on a Linux box that they can't do on an (admittedly more expensive, but arguably more elegant) OS X box.
Video editing is not it.
And, as far as understanding the equipment, I dig that too. However, lots of people don't. As long as they are satisfied with their understanding and the performance of their tools, what's wrong with that?
I'm a computer geek. I've installed Linux half a dozen times on as many different computers, and I've always stopped using it because it simply doesn't scratch any itches for me. Why should I bother to become an expert in a system that is not useful to me?
Fair enough, but aren't there scads of USB dongles that a) cost less and b) have digital out? Or am I crazy?
Not poking fun, just curious.
If relational databases had no advantages and many disadvantages WRT CSV files, the answer to your question would be "yes".
Now, upon departing from Bizarro World, and understanding that your comparison has nothing whatsoever in common with the matter at hand, the answer to your question is "no".
Does that clear things up for you?
I hope when you built Dun & Bradstreet's web site, you spelled their name correctly.
I also hope you didn't build their first public website, because then I shall have to hunt you down and kill you in your sleep, because I had to answer the phone when your web site broke. Which was frequently.
*toothy grin*
Maybe that's because nobody has ever heard of a Linux program that's any good at editing video? What "choice" is there? Where's the Linux analog of Final Cut Pro?
Use the tool that's right for the job. Why is this hard to understand? Why should people know about or think about or care about tools that are good for jobs that they don't know about or think about or care about? Sure, if you're curious about computers, that's cool...some people are curious about sixteenth century French literature.
I sure don't, and my French is not half bad.
Gosh. Then maybe we should notice the things that are different, and notice the things that are the same, and STOP WORRYING SO MUCH ABOUT THEM.
People are different from one another. They're also the same as one another. Anybody who's paid any attention at all to their life experience knows this. Anybody who doesn't know this needs to get on the damn bus.
Yeah, companies like IBM sure don't count.
Wha huh?
Well that tears it! Because YOU have a problem, it is a statistically significant one!
We all understand why you're upset. That's no reason to assume that Apple is evil/hates you/incompetent/whatever.
There might be a (large, preventable) problem. There might not. YOUR experience does not bear in any measurable way on the statistics.
That's the point.
And you can't do this on OSX...why exactly?
Why do we have to argue about which one is better when you get to use the BEST AVAILABLE TOOLS IN BOTH INTERFACE MODES under OSX?
Am I stupid? Use the right tool for the job, which is ALWAYS the one you understand better. Don't worry about what tools other people use to do their jobs. You can be a full and complete person, and have other people disagree with you at the same time. It's OK. They're OK. You're OK. Everything is OK.
Apple is being stubborn on this issue for VERY good reasons, that you don't happen to like.
Not the same thing.
People trying to feed their kids do not give a teeny tiny shit about long term macroeconomical problems.
Nor should they.
OK, your other points aside....
What on EARTH possessed you to put a Creative Labs soundcard in a Mac?
The only useful analog I can think of is stuffing an extra engine into your Ferrari, disconnecting the beautiful V-12, and making it front-wheel drive.
My mind boggles.
Bad news.
Steve called me, and told me "Uh, we're selling as many of these things as we can make. Tell Ivan256 to go stuff himself."
Sorry, man. Hate to break it to you.
Yeah, I'm sure you couldn't use the included belt clip to, uh, clip it to your, uh, belt. Waistband. Whatever.
I'm sure you also couldn't get yourself a little velcro or neoprene strap at the fabric store and make a belt for your arm that you could, uh, clip the belt clip to. Steve would come to your house, kick your dog, and take away your iPod.
I have heard of runner's high, but I think you're the other kind of high.
*tear*
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
*wipes eyes*
I gotta get me one of those.
Really? From Lotus, or from another firm? Can you link me?
Thanks for the heads up. I love that car. : )
Unfortunately, my friend's RSX Type S has the same problem. Engine pulls hard when you get it spinning, but that whine is very very annoying. Far moreso than even a poorly tuned turbo/supercharger.
RSX is a nice looking car, but I'm not so hot on the VTEC action. I'd rather have a more consistent throttle response with a broader power band.
But that's just me.
(oh yeah, and I think the S2000 looks like a doorstop.)
Well, you can't really get a Lotus Elise in America (except for the track-only models, most of which have Rover engines).
However, these guys will sell you an Elise with a Honda VTEC motor. Strangely, if you import the thing without an engine, it doesn't have to run the gantlet of US emission and safety regulations.
I don't care about music I don't listen to.
So the boy band devotees can still spend their money as they choose. I simply opt not to patronize the same bands/labels.
It's called freedom. What's the problem?
I've always been partial to "The Ultraviolet Catastrophe".
Argh, and when I said "composite" I meant "component".
I hate that.