I think you are absolutely correct. It's not just that the intro is stupid but that you end up having to download the plug-in to see something with no real content.
I lump this in there with people who use Microsoft word to input left-justified, single-font text and buy Microsoft Excel to keep phone lists.
Xinet writes software for the publishing industry, magazines, newspapers, advertising. This includes AppleShare servers for the Macs in these shops. Thier AppleShare software was written for Solaris and SGI machines and was quite mature before the Xserve even came out.
Apple may have targeted their design to this kind of thing since these are shops that would most likely be open to trying their servers. I don't know. If they did it sounds like a pretty good plan to me.
I'm actually pretty impressed. The SGI 300 box is pretty sweet and incudes Ultra3 SCSI Drives. I wonder how much cheaper the Xserve really is once you've got the ATA Raid setup on it like the benchmarked machine had for the tests.
I think we are all getting pretty used to a fast rate of change. What would once have been termed revolutionary is now deemed evolutionary. Imagine bringing someone from 10 years ago forward to see your new flat-panel iMac. Editing video? What's a browser? Wireless what? Gee that screen looks pretty sharp. What's an mp3?
Dvorak could just as well say "We should just discontinue automobiles. Nobody has come up with anything really revolutionary in 100 years!"
I actually like Dvorak too. He's pretty funny sometimes. I think he coined the term "porn storm" to describe those sites that will never let you out of their grasp.
However, he gets WAY to much credit as a visionary or pundit. I heard him say on his Silicon Spin show several times (quote, unquote) "People don't want to edit their videos." I personally know three first time Mac buyers who bought Macs mostly for that very reason.
I for one like the "sleeker" computers. I put the iMac in the kitchen. The iceburg white goes with the white formica and with the airport card the only chords I need to worry about are power and keyboard. It just looks nice. Industrial design is VERY important. This alone makes it better hardware.
Plus, I think the hardware is great from a performance point of view and I dropped all my other un*x platforms for OS X.
From the article: Sales have been hurt largely by a surge in piracy, which the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates has cost the music business $4.2 billion in lost revenue last year.
There is no way to support this unqualified statement with data. There are many other valid explanations such as the economy, lack of new talent, increased prices, etc...
Where is the critical review of statements in modern reporting?
The only time I've ever been in Los Angeles was during a three hour layover on my way to Reno from DFW. My wife and I walked outside to see what the weather was like and we saw a man get into a Jaguar. He looked at me kind of strange as he was getting in but he eventually got in and drove off.
About a minute later a young man came and and started yelling that they had towed his car. We told him it had been stolen since we now realized what happened. Then we went and caught our flight.
So, I've been in L.A for a lifetime total of three hours and never left the airport and I've seen a car being stolen.
I know this has nothing to do with my earlier post but I thought it was interesting. Moderator, correct me if I'm wrong.:)
RE: He does not anticipate any successful challenges from defense attorneys that the tactic is entrapment.
"Entrapment is where the government plants the seed of a crime in the mind of individual who would not otherwise be criminally inclined," Trodden said. " . . . We don't want that. But if we had somebody who was out there, ready to steal something . . . it's good police work."
I went back and purchased a powerbook 667MHz G4 with 512 Meg Ram and it edits video just as well as the 933MHz G4 tower. The only difference I can tell is that when a transition is being rendered in the background it goes a little faster on the 933MHz. The actual user experience is the same. It is amazing.
So I actually edit video on the Powerbook now because I can put it on the coffee table and hang out with the wife. She enjoys watching it take shape. Of course, I have to copy it up to the tower to run iDVD2. You can't get the superdrive on a powerbook.
I can't speak to the music thing.
You know, I went back to the apple store to get an iBook for dragging around the house and doing wireless web surfing but the BASTARDS PUT THE POWERBOOK ON DISPLAY RIGHT NEXT TO THE IBOOK!!! They are evil.
Well, there you go. I like the "winterms" better than xterms and dtterms.
When I mention to friends that I purchased a Mac they usually mention the dreaded "one button mouse." I say, "buy a $10 two button mouse and right click to your hearts content. What I really miss is the middle button."
I want a middle button to paste my text and to launch a URL in a new browser window. How do those PC users get by with just two buttons?
Yep, I love the 4DWM interface. 180MHz RK5000 is surprisingly fast. I still run Quake II on it from time to time and it runs pretty smoothly without taxing the system (osview, wish I had that on my Solaris machines at work.)
I had an external SCSI drive at one time but I mostly use it as an FTP server and running CGI's now. I have the other solution for video now. Although, there are some effects I liked, maybe I should try it again.
(late one night) I'm trying to import some jpegs and it's not working. Hey, the extention is.jpg and maybe it is looking for.jpeg!! I have 300 files! How am I going to change that with a GUI?
HMMM. I pull up Terminal. Perl is already there! I write a throw-away script to convert all the *.jpg files to *.jpeg. THAT'S EASY!
I've never used OS 9 but I suspect I wouldn't like my Mac so much if it didn't have OS X
Nobody could get that Microsoft Mouse to work with XP. I pulled the SGI mouse off of my O2 and it worked fine until I bought another (Microsoft) Mouse. I didn't really mind this because I had wanted to buy and optical mouse anyway.
BTW, I actually DO want to mess with the hardware. It is just that I want to make it do NEW stuff not work on making it do the stuff it was supposed to do when I bought it.
I started with IntroDV from Digital Origin and then purchased their upgrade. It worked OK on simple stuff but if I tried putting a soundtrack underneath a transition between clips it would not smoothly render on my 1GHz Compaq.
I suspect that Imovie2 does better because it renders and saves a whole new clip in the background and Digital Origin tried to render the whole thing live as it was exporting. I thought about getting an ultra-SCSI drive but bought a Mac instead. Glad I did.
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I just got back from Vegas. I found a new place for craps. Casino Royale. It is Next to Harah's.
The beauty of this place was that it is always a one dollar min bet and always features 100X ODDS
Incredible place. Good Dealers.
Re: Is it just me, or did the price on the 17" iMac increase by $100?
It's just you.
Population: 1,029,991,145 (July 2001 est.)
According to the CIA World Factbook.
Open your book again and lookup Germany. There should be only one entry.
I think you are absolutely correct. It's not just that the intro is stupid but that you end up having to download the plug-in to see something with no real content.
I lump this in there with people who use Microsoft word to input left-justified, single-font text and buy Microsoft Excel to keep phone lists.
Xinet writes software for the publishing industry, magazines, newspapers, advertising. This includes AppleShare servers for the Macs in these shops. Thier AppleShare software was written for Solaris and SGI machines and was quite mature before the Xserve even came out.
Apple may have targeted their design to this kind of thing since these are shops that would most likely be open to trying their servers. I don't know. If they did it sounds like a pretty good plan to me.
I'm actually pretty impressed. The SGI 300 box is pretty sweet and incudes Ultra3 SCSI Drives. I wonder how much cheaper the Xserve really is once you've got the ATA Raid setup on it like the benchmarked machine had for the tests.
You must have been looking at the PowerMac benchmark. This title was about the Xserve.
RE: "We don't blink at the thought of putting Palladium on your Palm... on the telephone, on your wristwatch," says software architect Bryan Willman.
- - - I sure as snot will blink at that!
RE: "I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs," says Paul England. Don't expect wonders until version 2.0. Or 3.0.
- - - Hmm, that doesn't really make me blink.
I guess I've been reading too much sheet music lately. :)
Right on.
I think we are all getting pretty used to a fast rate of change. What would once have been termed revolutionary is now deemed evolutionary. Imagine bringing someone from 10 years ago forward to see your new flat-panel iMac. Editing video? What's a browser? Wireless what? Gee that screen looks pretty sharp. What's an mp3?
Dvorak could just as well say "We should just discontinue automobiles. Nobody has come up with anything really revolutionary in 100 years!"
I actually like Dvorak too. He's pretty funny sometimes. I think he coined the term "porn storm" to describe those sites that will never let you out of their grasp.
However, he gets WAY to much credit as a visionary or pundit. I heard him say on his Silicon Spin show several times (quote, unquote) "People don't want to edit their videos." I personally know three first time Mac buyers who bought Macs mostly for that very reason.
I for one like the "sleeker" computers. I put the iMac in the kitchen. The iceburg white goes with the white formica and with the airport card the only chords I need to worry about are power and keyboard. It just looks nice. Industrial design is VERY important. This alone makes it better hardware.
Plus, I think the hardware is great from a performance point of view and I dropped all my other un*x platforms for OS X.
Dvorak is a pussy.
There is no way to support this unqualified statement with data. There are many other valid explanations such as the economy, lack of new talent, increased prices, etc...
Where is the critical review of statements in modern reporting?
Hmm... Before reading this I accessed my mail with Netscape 6.2 and had no problems.
Hopefully it'll be more advanced than that. That was 60's technology.
Turing was tried and convicted of being a homosexual.
The only time I've ever been in Los Angeles was during a three hour layover on my way to Reno from DFW. My wife and I walked outside to see what the weather was like and we saw a man get into a Jaguar. He looked at me kind of strange as he was getting in but he eventually got in and drove off.
:)
About a minute later a young man came and and started yelling that they had towed his car. We told him it had been stolen since we now realized what happened. Then we went and caught our flight.
So, I've been in L.A for a lifetime total of three hours and never left the airport and I've seen a car being stolen.
I know this has nothing to do with my earlier post but I thought it was interesting. Moderator, correct me if I'm wrong.
RE: He does not anticipate any successful challenges from defense attorneys that the tactic is entrapment.
"Entrapment is where the government plants the seed of a crime in the mind of individual who would not otherwise be criminally inclined," Trodden said. " . . . We don't want that. But if we had somebody who was out there, ready to steal something . . . it's good police work."
Doesn't this depend on the car they actually use?
But what do you think about ADB keyboards? Those are pretty cool aren't they?
I went back and purchased a powerbook 667MHz G4 with 512 Meg Ram and it edits video just as well as the 933MHz G4 tower. The only difference I can tell is that when a transition is being rendered in the background it goes a little faster on the 933MHz. The actual user experience is the same. It is amazing.
So I actually edit video on the Powerbook now because I can put it on the coffee table and hang out with the wife. She enjoys watching it take shape. Of course, I have to copy it up to the tower to run iDVD2. You can't get the superdrive on a powerbook.
I can't speak to the music thing.
You know, I went back to the apple store to get an iBook for dragging around the house and doing wireless web surfing but the BASTARDS PUT THE POWERBOOK ON DISPLAY RIGHT NEXT TO THE IBOOK!!! They are evil.
Well, there you go. I like the "winterms" better than xterms and dtterms.
:)
When I mention to friends that I purchased a Mac they usually mention the dreaded "one button mouse." I say, "buy a $10 two button mouse and right click to your hearts content. What I really miss is the middle button."
I want a middle button to paste my text and to launch a URL in a new browser window. How do those PC users get by with just two buttons?
Yep, I love the 4DWM interface. 180MHz RK5000 is surprisingly fast. I still run Quake II on it from time to time and it runs pretty smoothly without taxing the system (osview, wish I had that on my Solaris machines at work.)
I had an external SCSI drive at one time but I mostly use it as an FTP server and running CGI's now. I have the other solution for video now. Although, there are some effects I liked, maybe I should try it again.
Last I checked Perl is standard on most Linux distributions
That's where I learned Perl.
Or, Another thing I couldn't do on my PC.
.jpg and maybe it is looking for .jpeg!! I have 300 files! How am I going to change that with a GUI?
(late one night) I'm trying to import some jpegs and it's not working. Hey, the extention is
HMMM. I pull up Terminal. Perl is already there! I write a throw-away script to convert all the *.jpg files to *.jpeg. THAT'S EASY!
I've never used OS 9 but I suspect I wouldn't like my Mac so much if it didn't have OS X
Nobody could get that Microsoft Mouse to work with XP. I pulled the SGI mouse off of my O2 and it worked fine until I bought another (Microsoft) Mouse. I didn't really mind this because I had wanted to buy and optical mouse anyway.
BTW, I actually DO want to mess with the hardware. It is just that I want to make it do NEW stuff not work on making it do the stuff it was supposed to do when I bought it.
I started with IntroDV from Digital Origin and then purchased their upgrade. It worked OK on simple stuff but if I tried putting a soundtrack underneath a transition between clips it would not smoothly render on my 1GHz Compaq.
I suspect that Imovie2 does better because it renders and saves a whole new clip in the background and Digital Origin tried to render the whole thing live as it was exporting. I thought about getting an ultra-SCSI drive but bought a Mac instead. Glad I did.