Wrong - ICM in Windows makes it just as easy.
I think that you accidentally pulled out a standard Mac argument from 1999(when ColorSync actually was better than ICM)
In fact, color managment in WinXP is beter than in OSX - OSX has so many Color Management bugs that most Mac people who actually know anything about digital color matching are sticking with OS 9 or switching to Windows.
Apple may have helped invent color management as we know it, but they dropped the ball over the past 2 years.
Isn't this the same as needing a hardware dongle to run an application?
I deal with this everyday for some of the apps that I use - when the app costs $5000, then the manufacturer has a vested interest in making sure that something as easy to procure as a serial number won't unlock it.
Then again, maybe the reason it costs $5000 is because piracy cut into profits so greatly that they can't recoup r&d any other way.
Oh, but I forgot, stealing services and intangibles is OK if you're a geek...
With Apple buying up every motion picture software company in sight, it's just a matter of time before Disney ports their in-house apps over to the BSD based OS X. The Pixar connection probably doesn't hurt in this regard...
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Wrong - ICM in Windows makes it just as easy. I think that you accidentally pulled out a standard Mac argument from 1999(when ColorSync actually was better than ICM) In fact, color managment in WinXP is beter than in OSX - OSX has so many Color Management bugs that most Mac people who actually know anything about digital color matching are sticking with OS 9 or switching to Windows. Apple may have helped invent color management as we know it, but they dropped the ball over the past 2 years.
Isn't this the same as needing a hardware dongle to run an application?
I deal with this everyday for some of the apps that I use - when the app costs $5000, then the manufacturer has a vested interest in making sure that something as easy to procure as a serial number won't unlock it.
Then again, maybe the reason it costs $5000 is because piracy cut into profits so greatly that they can't recoup r&d any other way.
Oh, but I forgot, stealing services and intangibles is OK if you're a geek...
Yeah - but I just can't wait to see the specs once someone builds a Beawulf cluster with these things...
With Apple buying up every motion picture software company in sight, it's just a matter of time before Disney ports their in-house apps over to the BSD based OS X. The Pixar connection probably doesn't hurt in this regard ...