While there may be a price differntial between "normal" desktop PCs and high-end Macs, one must also take into consideration the software offered on each platform.
Apple's first advantage is OS X. It's UNIX, which means that it blows Windows out of the water, performance-wise. Plus, it has the amazing Aqua interface, which makes things easy to use, and Mac hardware was built for video editing, with Firewire ports on every machine sold as well as tight integration with OS X.
People doing video editing on x86 will have to use Windows. There simply isn't any kind of video editing software available for Linux that is even remotely affordable. And the ones that are available for Windows are crap. Meanwhile, I have been using Final Cut Pro on Macs for more than a year, and I have to say that it is quite clear why it is the professional industry standard editing software for digital video. It's simply the most powerful, versatile, and easy to use video editing suite I've ever seen.
I pity the people stuck with PCs to do their video editing. I've tried it on my Pentium III before, and it is slow as all hell. Pity, too, but you really do get what you pay for.
Isn't bundling applications with an operating system and computer what got Microsoft in trouble in the first place? I hardly think a large multinational like Sony would be any more generous than the money-grubbers in Redmond. Beware.
What's not apparant is that this case has two drives in it apparantly. Very Slick.
Apparently, you are unfamiliar with spellcheck. Come on, this isn't even a contextual error. There is no apparant in the English language. I pity the loosers who pay to read this crap.
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You are confusing serial communications with parallel communications. Please research further before flaming. Thx.
I'm already on notice! They are watching me and my every move whatever I do! I know that they are, because when the aliens abducted me, they rectally placed a small video camera while I was unconcious and it is acting to slowly take control of my thought processes!
I do not appreciate this kind of surveillance of my daily life. Furthermore, using my penis as a radio transmitter for the imagery is NOT polite at all, but they are hovering their black helicopters and spy satellites over my home so they need to boost the signal somehow. If they keep watching me, I'm going to put a stop to it when I go out to the hardware store to buy my radiation shield so the NSA won't watch me anymore
Even though the British government has been collecting information on its citizens for quite some time and violating their Constitutional rights to online privacy with their big government databases, they have nothing on the US.
Do you think for a second that the NSA and the Alien Studies Administration (a secret, classified offshoot of the CIA) will ever let this come to light and compromise the Roswell coverup and numerous other incidents throughout the decades that have helped the government implant thought-tracking devices in the heads of key international figures in exchange for allowing the aliens to abduct a fixed quota of non-desirable citizens each year? Fat fucking chance! They are still out there, in their black helicopters and UFO-saucers, aiming their laser rifles at all the fuckers who think they have them beat. I can block their radiation brain wave modifiers with a special metal I concocted in my basement.
I can't prolong this transmission because they are getting a fix on my location. Please, please, listen to me and believe me when I say that you need to steal this for the short time it is up before THEY realize it is there. Fight the power!
Now, if I'm lucky, I can get half the hardware on my machine working under BeOS and enjoy the dozens of applications available for it! I cannot express the sheer joy of being able to use something considerably less functional than even Linux.
Just look at modern day *nix-like environments -- Red Hat, Mac OS X, etc.; they are all stable as hell and very worth their pricetag.
I'm sorry, man, but that's just a load of shit. I have stopped counting the times that I've had to reboot my Jaguar workstation in the school's art lab after it failed to handle some bizarre error in Classic environment. It just gets worse with every release; you'd think that they'd want to provide something decent, considering that major apps like Quark still don't exist as OS X-native code.
I've got nothing against Jaguar other than that. The Aqua interface is great. It's just that it was only a marginal gain in stability over OS 9 and company.
I'll bet this is just as much of a hoax as the last shots posted on Slashdot. And those weren't done too well either.
I guess the comments in the first article provided aspiring Photoshoppers with enough feedback on their mistakes to not repeat them for the second posting on Slashdot.
Seriously, just look at those screenshots. It looks just like the last hoax (the big clock, the same background, etc.), it just looks like they fixed some of the more glaring errors from last time (like the poorly-blended window-close buttons and the nonsensical Internet Explorer copyright screen).
Now, I've been watching the government very closely lately (because I know they do the same to me!), and here's what I've learned:
Even though they are "withdrawing" the plan to steal your DNA fingerprint to scan your organs for compatability with top world leaders and military figures, they will most certainly come up with another, more insidious method of tracking everything I do and violating my Constitutional online rights to privacy!
They are going to take all my personal information, gleaned from the radioactive emissions from the dye that was injected into my veins during my alien abduction, read my thought patterns and link it all up in a big government database where they can read my buying habits and then jump me in a convenience store and cut my balls off while I scream in terror at the giant drone android they will use to do the job.
So be careful about the DoD. Just because they draw one of their insidious plans back into their black helicopter doesn't mean there's one of the fuckers right behind you ready to steal your precious radioactive bodily fluids for further study.
You must remain constantly vigilant. I have not slept in 4 weeks, and neither should you, if you knew what they were up to!
I doubt that such a compiler would be any faster than the Free gcc compiler. Sure, Intel makes the chips, but they have not had the advantage of thousands of software experts and academics being able to look over their code and fix bugs. I wouldn't trust it at all, especially not a.0 release. I'm surprised that commercial companies even use this when there is a far superior alternative available for Free.
With this new plan to buy Microsoft hardware in order to undercut some of their software sales, we have finally found out the perfect way to stick it to Billy G!
I was thinking about buying hardware from, you know, non-Microsoft companies, but this idea is much better...
Of course, now the CIA wants to track your vehicle movements so that they can send a drone to firebomb your car on your way to work, you know, if they think you're pirating MP3s. But that is only the first step!
The logical conclusion I have arrived at after reading Slashdot for 1 week straight without sleep is thus: your organs will be tagged and stolen by radioactive agents of the CIA who use their penises to transmit secret recipies for Swedish meatballs. Just look at the latest article on embeddable tagging and tracking devices. They are out to violate your privacy! Before long, all your Constitutionally-protected privacy information will be in linked up in a big government database so that deranged mechanicals can encase you in concrete and have their way with you before torturing you to death!
I can't stress enough the importance of stopping this technology now. You will not be able to sleep until this insidious global conspiracy is stopped.
Send them as many emails as you can. Use spamming/flooding software if necessary. You need to make sure that they get the message that the DMCA is wrong, even if you may have to make it look like you are more than one person.
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Apple's first advantage is OS X. It's UNIX, which means that it blows Windows out of the water, performance-wise. Plus, it has the amazing Aqua interface, which makes things easy to use, and Mac hardware was built for video editing, with Firewire ports on every machine sold as well as tight integration with OS X.
People doing video editing on x86 will have to use Windows. There simply isn't any kind of video editing software available for Linux that is even remotely affordable. And the ones that are available for Windows are crap. Meanwhile, I have been using Final Cut Pro on Macs for more than a year, and I have to say that it is quite clear why it is the professional industry standard editing software for digital video. It's simply the most powerful, versatile, and easy to use video editing suite I've ever seen.
I pity the people stuck with PCs to do their video editing. I've tried it on my Pentium III before, and it is slow as all hell. Pity, too, but you really do get what you pay for.
Isn't bundling applications with an operating system and computer what got Microsoft in trouble in the first place? I hardly think a large multinational like Sony would be any more generous than the money-grubbers in Redmond. Beware.
Apparently, you are unfamiliar with spellcheck. Come on, this isn't even a contextual error. There is no apparant in the English language. I pity the loosers who pay to read this crap.
You are confusing serial communications with parallel communications. Please research further before flaming. Thx.
Is that like "alternative lifestyles"?
Well, I don't know, MAYBE YOU SHOULD ASK A LAWYER. Sheesh, when will people learn?
I do not appreciate this kind of surveillance of my daily life. Furthermore, using my penis as a radio transmitter for the imagery is NOT polite at all, but they are hovering their black helicopters and spy satellites over my home so they need to boost the signal somehow. If they keep watching me, I'm going to put a stop to it when I go out to the hardware store to buy my radiation shield so the NSA won't watch me anymore
Fuck you and your cameras, fuckers!
Do you think for a second that the NSA and the Alien Studies Administration (a secret, classified offshoot of the CIA) will ever let this come to light and compromise the Roswell coverup and numerous other incidents throughout the decades that have helped the government implant thought-tracking devices in the heads of key international figures in exchange for allowing the aliens to abduct a fixed quota of non-desirable citizens each year? Fat fucking chance! They are still out there, in their black helicopters and UFO-saucers, aiming their laser rifles at all the fuckers who think they have them beat. I can block their radiation brain wave modifiers with a special metal I concocted in my basement.
I can't prolong this transmission because they are getting a fix on my location. Please, please, listen to me and believe me when I say that you need to steal this for the short time it is up before THEY realize it is there. Fight the power!
At least it's Scientific American this time, and not you guys hawking ThinkGeek's wares. Bravo.
I am SHOCKED! It couldn't possibly be because it was just another shitty sci fi series, could it?
OpenAFS. Click that link.
Look at OpenAFS.
You can never see too many sweaty monkey boy video clips.
I'm not at all familiar with the "Tintin" series, but I have a bad feeling about it already. Does anybody remember the end of AI? Yeah. I thought so.
Now, if I'm lucky, I can get half the hardware on my machine working under BeOS and enjoy the dozens of applications available for it! I cannot express the sheer joy of being able to use something considerably less functional than even Linux.
I'm sorry, man, but that's just a load of shit. I have stopped counting the times that I've had to reboot my Jaguar workstation in the school's art lab after it failed to handle some bizarre error in Classic environment. It just gets worse with every release; you'd think that they'd want to provide something decent, considering that major apps like Quark still don't exist as OS X-native code.
I've got nothing against Jaguar other than that. The Aqua interface is great. It's just that it was only a marginal gain in stability over OS 9 and company.
I guess the comments in the first article provided aspiring Photoshoppers with enough feedback on their mistakes to not repeat them for the second posting on Slashdot.
Seriously, just look at those screenshots. It looks just like the last hoax (the big clock, the same background, etc.), it just looks like they fixed some of the more glaring errors from last time (like the poorly-blended window-close buttons and the nonsensical Internet Explorer copyright screen).
So be careful about the DoD. Just because they draw one of their insidious plans back into their black helicopter doesn't mean there's one of the fuckers right behind you ready to steal your precious radioactive bodily fluids for further study.
You must remain constantly vigilant. I have not slept in 4 weeks, and neither should you, if you knew what they were up to!
I doubt that such a compiler would be any faster than the Free gcc compiler. Sure, Intel makes the chips, but they have not had the advantage of thousands of software experts and academics being able to look over their code and fix bugs. I wouldn't trust it at all, especially not a .0 release. I'm surprised that commercial companies even use this when there is a far superior alternative available for Free.
I was thinking about buying hardware from, you know, non-Microsoft companies, but this idea is much better...
Of course. I apologize for including abstinence in there. It is, in fact, true that the Virgin Mary was impregnated without ever having sex.
Please, people, be responsible.
The logical conclusion I have arrived at after reading Slashdot for 1 week straight without sleep is thus: your organs will be tagged and stolen by radioactive agents of the CIA who use their penises to transmit secret recipies for Swedish meatballs. Just look at the latest article on embeddable tagging and tracking devices. They are out to violate your privacy! Before long, all your Constitutionally-protected privacy information will be in linked up in a big government database so that deranged mechanicals can encase you in concrete and have their way with you before torturing you to death!
I can't stress enough the importance of stopping this technology now. You will not be able to sleep until this insidious global conspiracy is stopped.
Send them as many emails as you can. Use spamming/flooding software if necessary. You need to make sure that they get the message that the DMCA is wrong, even if you may have to make it look like you are more than one person.