What gave macs the edge a decade ago was the powerpc architecture cpus. Schools and media production was better optimized for those systems.
Before there was PowerPC, there was the 68K -- and folks were doing audio and media processing on those machines, too!
Now they have no advantage hardware wise and you still pay the MacTax.
In conclusion; you're a crazy person if you use a mac
Again with the "Mac Tax." Comparably-configured Macs and Dells cost nearly the same. It's just that Apple refuses to play in the money-losing sub-$500 field.
Pay Apple the hundred bucks they charge for developer access to your iPhone. Download the sources for the "illegal" software you wish to run on your phone. Build the software using the iPhone developer tools, install it and voila -- you're legally running the "illegal" software.
All this is a way of asking: why hasn't anyone hacked the developer-access PIN?
Thank you, Congress, for sacrificing the nation's safety so you can buy up the problems of those who make bad decisions. Not going to sacrifice power for their bad decisions, t.
Actually, the people who were OPPOSED to continued F-22 production include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force, and other top brass. The only people who are FOR the continued production are members of Congress whose districts include the defense contractors who build the plane, and those contractors themselves.
IOW, the MILITARY does not want any more of these planes.
My point was that the feature I suggested (net names displayed in pads/vias) is in the commercial tools because it's remarkably useful. My suggestion to the gEDA PCB developers was basically like, "Hey, guys, the commercial tools have this really useful feature..." and when I was asked to explain why I thought it was useful, I said, "well, when you look at the rat's nest, it's very busy, and it's really helpful if you can see the net name in the pads so you can see what points you're trying to connect with the trace you are drawing." And I suppose that the developers of gEDA PCB don't do anything really complicated with FPGAs and other large chips where this feature really helps, so they blew it off.
Which is their right, of course, but it showed me that they are quite happy in their insular little world and their boards are hobby toys, and their design will NEVER be good enough for real production use.
which is a pity.
it wasn't like I suggested that they draw parallel traces for differential routing that maintain a set spacing...
I have a copy of one of the draft PCI specifications. In big bold letters it tells the reader to "NOT DESIGN PRODUCTS BASED ON THIS DRAFT STANDARD." Because the very definition of "draft" means that it's not complete and it's likely that the final specification will deviate from the draft in some ways.
I suppose the standards folks have no real way of enforcing that edict (an aside: the USB Implementers group are particularly toothless), but still -- anyone who buys a product based on a draft spec should not be surprised when it doesn't work with products built to the released spec.
Why does it need to be any more complex than artist->album?
I've never understood the need for genre's (apostrophe FAIL)(especially seeing as they're pretty vague and meaningless). Why the hell would I care about years?
Why care about year of release? Because a lot of folks like to sort their albums, by each artist, in the order in which they were released.
You think Free Software developers pander to what users say they want?! I can't think of any more group more intransigently opposed to doing anything other than scratching the itches that satisfy their particular use cases.
This is truth, folks. I made a suggestion to the gEDA PCB developers, asking if they could implement a feature found in pretty much every commercial PCB layout package -- display the netname in every footprint pad. Seriously, this is a standard feature. And the tepid response from the developers? Something along the lines of, "Huh? I've never seen that... and anyways, I can't imagine how that could be useful."
And, with that, I unsubscribed from the gEDA mailing lists, deleted all of the sources and dev builds from my machine, and went back to using the paid-for and perfectly functional schematic capture/PCB layout tool I had been using.
Correct me if I am wrong. But it's Obama that has appointed like 5 RIAA lawyers to prominent posts.
Do not make the mistake of assuming that an attorney actually believes in his client's case. His job is to defend that client in the most effective way possible. Anything less is legal malpractice.
I mean, look: Everybody thought David Boies was a hero after winning that Microsoft case. But don't forget he also defended IBM during their anti-trust case. He represented the former Enron CFO, and is representing the noted crook Conrad Black.
"Blog" is short for "weblog", which is not a word. Or it shouldn't be.
It's not a word -- it's two words, web log.
Kinda like how login and username are not words. The former, though, is an interesting case -- it's a gerund without "ing." It's made the verb, "to log in" into a noun.
and the fact that Obama has been filling the Justice Department with RIAA lawyers
You do realize that a lawyer's job is to vigorously argue his client's case, regardless of whether he "believes in the cause" or not. An attorney can vigorously defend a murderer, while all the time believing that his client is indeed guilty. Hey, the lawyer on "The Wire" knew all of Stanfield's gang were guilty, right?
Point being that just because these guys represented the RIAA in a previous life, it doesn't mean they actually support or like what the RIAA does. Maybe with the inside info, they are more likely to present compelling arguments AGAINST the RIAA? (If they don't recuse themselves.).
The tower is in its last days as a mass market product. Too much space. Too much power. Too much weight.
I agree totally. My most recent purchase was a 20" Core2 Duo iMac in January. I have towers and rack-mount chassis that I never opened. I used to buy into the notion that I needed all of the extra drive bays and PCI slots and the big power supply, until I realized that I never installed more hard disks or PCI devices.
The iMac takes up minimal space on my desk, and I have some FireWire hard disks for things like audio projects, the Time Machine backup and my iTunes library.
Sure, I suppose those FireWire hard disks could be internal, but they don't have to be connected to the machine at all times and are easily swapped out when necessary.
I do not miss the old clunkly tower chassis at all.
Now try replacing the main drive and do an OS install. Not going to happen. OS X is locked to the hardware and even though you buy $LATEST_VERSION of OS X, it will not install like a virgin install as you've been used to for 20 years on EVERY OTHER FSCKING SYSTEM.
OK, put down the crack pipe. OS X is not locked to a specific machine. I've installed every version of OS X, using retail boxed copies of the OS, onto new hard disks in various Macs, and have never had a problem with doing this sort of install.
No, the species living in wall mart (sic)tend to be much larger. It's the opposite phenomenon.
The species that lives in Wal-Mart has an overly-large body with a severely undersized brain. Kinda like the Brontosaurus (or whatever they call that dinosaur these days).
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What gave macs the edge a decade ago was the powerpc architecture cpus. Schools and media production was better optimized for those systems.
Before there was PowerPC, there was the 68K -- and folks were doing audio and media processing on those machines, too!
Now they have no advantage hardware wise and you still pay the MacTax.
In conclusion; you're a crazy person if you use a mac
Again with the "Mac Tax." Comparably-configured Macs and Dells cost nearly the same. It's just that Apple refuses to play in the money-losing sub-$500 field.
Got it?
The $3000 one is the only one with an expresscard slot.
My Core Duo (not even Core2 Duo!) MacBook Pro has an ExpressCard slot, and it less than half of the $3000 quoted.
The ExpressCard slot is pretty cool if you get one of the UAD cards to handle plug-ons.
You still have to spring for a quality interface. One that has driver support for your OS of choice. Hint: Linux isn't one of the supported OSes.
I could certainly do it for under $500 with a good used MacBook. Does that make the $600 for the refurbished old-school Dell system "more expensive"?
A Mac mini will do the job too.
Of course you will pay more for a multichannel interface than you will for the computer, but that's to be expected.
No, the problem is you literally can't install some software on Macs running a few minor versions behind. I have a 10.3 Mac and I can't update Java.
And it's Apple's fault that Sun (or whoever) doesn't support older releases of the OS in their latest software releases?
That's like saying the Coca-Cola Company invented cocaine.
Nope, not unless the word "cocaine" was invented after Coca-Cola.
Everybody knows "cocaine" got its name from the Eric Clapton song.
Everybody, except you, knows that J.J. Cale wrote that song.
You probably think that Clapton wrote "I Shot The Sheriff," too.
Pay Apple the hundred bucks they charge for developer access to your iPhone. Download the sources for the "illegal" software you wish to run on your phone. Build the software using the iPhone developer tools, install it and voila -- you're legally running the "illegal" software.
All this is a way of asking: why hasn't anyone hacked the developer-access PIN?
This would save the hackers a hundred bucks.
Thank you, Congress, for sacrificing the nation's safety so you can buy up the problems of those who make bad decisions. Not going to sacrifice power for their bad decisions, t.
Actually, the people who were OPPOSED to continued F-22 production include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force, and other top brass. The only people who are FOR the continued production are members of Congress whose districts include the defense contractors who build the plane, and those contractors themselves.
IOW, the MILITARY does not want any more of these planes.
They're built here in Marietta. Bad news in a tough economy.
So what do you think about letting GM declare bankruptcy so they can void union contracts and lay off thousands of people?
How useful have those Raptors been in Iraq and Afghanistan anyway?
Answer: COMPLETELY USELESS, because the plane HAS NOT been used in either war AT ALL.
Late reply, sorry.
My point was that the feature I suggested (net names displayed in pads/vias) is in the commercial tools because it's remarkably useful. My suggestion to the gEDA PCB developers was basically like, "Hey, guys, the commercial tools have this really useful feature ..." and when I was asked to explain why I thought it was useful, I said, "well, when you look at the rat's nest, it's very busy, and it's really helpful if you can see the net name in the pads so you can see what points you're trying to connect with the trace you are drawing." And I suppose that the developers of gEDA PCB don't do anything really complicated with FPGAs and other large chips where this feature really helps, so they blew it off.
Which is their right, of course, but it showed me that they are quite happy in their insular little world and their boards are hobby toys, and their design will NEVER be good enough for real production use.
which is a pity.
it wasn't like I suggested that they draw parallel traces for differential routing that maintain a set spacing ...
"The reason the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn't trust the British in the dark."
God knows about Lucas, the Prince Of Darkness.
I have a copy of one of the draft PCI specifications. In big bold letters it tells the reader to "NOT DESIGN PRODUCTS BASED ON THIS DRAFT STANDARD." Because the very definition of "draft" means that it's not complete and it's likely that the final specification will deviate from the draft in some ways.
I suppose the standards folks have no real way of enforcing that edict (an aside: the USB Implementers group are particularly toothless), but still -- anyone who buys a product based on a draft spec should not be surprised when it doesn't work with products built to the released spec.
Why does it need to be any more complex than artist->album?
I've never understood the need for genre's (apostrophe FAIL)(especially seeing as they're pretty vague and meaningless). Why the hell would I care about years?
Why care about year of release? Because a lot of folks like to sort their albums, by each artist, in the order in which they were released.
You think Free Software developers pander to what users say they want?! I can't think of any more group more intransigently opposed to doing anything other than scratching the itches that satisfy their particular use cases.
This is truth, folks. I made a suggestion to the gEDA PCB developers, asking if they could implement a feature found in pretty much every commercial PCB layout package -- display the netname in every footprint pad. Seriously, this is a standard feature. And the tepid response from the developers? Something along the lines of, "Huh? I've never seen that ... and anyways, I can't imagine how that could be useful."
And, with that, I unsubscribed from the gEDA mailing lists, deleted all of the sources and dev builds from my machine, and went back to using the paid-for and perfectly functional schematic capture/PCB layout tool I had been using.
(by 2020, all cars will have USB ports to power the stuff that used to pushed into the lighter jack).
I can't imagine that we will still have USB in 11 years.
Correct me if I am wrong. But it's Obama that has appointed like 5 RIAA lawyers to prominent posts.
Do not make the mistake of assuming that an attorney actually believes in his client's case. His job is to defend that client in the most effective way possible. Anything less is legal malpractice.
I mean, look: Everybody thought David Boies was a hero after winning that Microsoft case. But don't forget he also defended IBM during their anti-trust case. He represented the former Enron CFO, and is representing the noted crook Conrad Black.
When you came in here, did you see a sign that said "dead blogger storage"?
You guys have to be out of here before Bonnie gets home.
"Blog" is short for "weblog", which is not a word. Or it shouldn't be.
It's not a word -- it's two words, web log.
Kinda like how login and username are not words. The former, though, is an interesting case -- it's a gerund without "ing." It's made the verb, "to log in" into a noun.
Well, rumor has it that the term was originally going to be "webjournal", but "bjourn" didn't roll off the tongue nearly as well.
It does, in Sweden.
and the fact that Obama has been filling the Justice Department with RIAA lawyers
You do realize that a lawyer's job is to vigorously argue his client's case, regardless of whether he "believes in the cause" or not. An attorney can vigorously defend a murderer, while all the time believing that his client is indeed guilty. Hey, the lawyer on "The Wire" knew all of Stanfield's gang were guilty, right?
Point being that just because these guys represented the RIAA in a previous life, it doesn't mean they actually support or like what the RIAA does. Maybe with the inside info, they are more likely to present compelling arguments AGAINST the RIAA? (If they don't recuse themselves.).
The tower is in its last days as a mass market product. Too much space. Too much power. Too much weight.
I agree totally. My most recent purchase was a 20" Core2 Duo iMac in January. I have towers and rack-mount chassis that I never opened. I used to buy into the notion that I needed all of the extra drive bays and PCI slots and the big power supply, until I realized that I never installed more hard disks or PCI devices.
The iMac takes up minimal space on my desk, and I have some FireWire hard disks for things like audio projects, the Time Machine backup and my iTunes library.
Sure, I suppose those FireWire hard disks could be internal, but they don't have to be connected to the machine at all times and are easily swapped out when necessary.
I do not miss the old clunkly tower chassis at all.
Now try replacing the main drive and do an OS install. Not going to happen. OS X is locked to the hardware and even though you buy $LATEST_VERSION of OS X, it will not install like a virgin install as you've been used to for 20 years on EVERY OTHER FSCKING SYSTEM.
OK, put down the crack pipe. OS X is not locked to a specific machine. I've installed every version of OS X, using retail boxed copies of the OS, onto new hard disks in various Macs, and have never had a problem with doing this sort of install.
No, the species living in wall mart (sic)tend to be much larger. It's the opposite phenomenon.
The species that lives in Wal-Mart has an overly-large body with a severely undersized brain. Kinda like the Brontosaurus (or whatever they call that dinosaur these days).
Apple ][ and ][e did not run Turbo Pascal -- they ran UCSD pSystem.
My High School computer class, in what, 1983, taught both Pascal and FORTRAN using these systems.
Great explanation, but you keep mistakenly using "whom" for "who" every time. -a