>I am saddled with knowing too many languages as it is.
Saddled? If you're familiar with the syntax of C and the concepts of object-oriented programming, you can learn Objective C in an afternoon.
Add another half-day for the roadmap of the Cocoa classes and some commonly-used messages, and another to get the hang of [object release]; / [object retain]; / [object autorelease]; and how it handles memory management.
That's not very much time spent becoming really comfortable with a language, which is how you'll feel with Objective C. And once you get used to how blazingly fast you can code a kick-ass GUI app in Objective C using Project Builder and Interface Builder, you'll realize that--in terms of productivity--it will be the best investment of your time.
(Of course, you'll need to have a market for what you're doing to make it worth a damn...)
Ummm...out of the box with a Mac you get iMovie, and if you buy a SuperDrive Mac (DVD burner), you get iDVD, so you can download your DV, edit it in iMovie, make an interactive DVD with iDVD, all out-of-the-box.
$2000 for a 17-inch iMac, which comes with a SuperDrive, and you get a cool-looking computer that doesn't take up much space, and runs a sleek, easy-to-use GUI on top of UNIX.
A 17-inch iMac, by the way, is plenty damn fast. Now, if you're talking about G3s (I have an iBook with a 600mhz G3), I can certainly understand why people feel the Mac is sluggish. But the G4 in the 17-inch iMac flies...
Don't forget that a HUGE chunk of the economic activity generated WITHIN cities are the result of suburbanites commuting to them, and working and shopping in them. The tax revenue generated within cities by non-city residents is a large part of the reason why cities are "net payers into the tax pool".
So, to imply that CITIES==LIBERALS==PROVIDE TAX MONEY whereas EXURBAN==CONSERVATIVES==TAKE TAX MONEY is a completely bogus argument.
Besides, cities have MUCH higher tax rates anyway. Is this something we all aspire to?
FYI...I live in NYC, the municipality with the highest total tax burden in the U.S. I pay a sh!tload in taxes. Don't assume that just because much of NYC is liberal doesn't mean that all of its residents are liberal when it comes to tax policy. There are some of us out there who aren't.
The public is already being forced to pay for liberal commentary that nobody cares enough about to actually pay for themselves. On TV, it's called PBS, and on the radio, they call it NPR.
Of course, selling liberal opinions on the web might be difficult since you can get them for free from just about every other media outlet.
Aliases are backwards-compatible remnants of Mac systems dating back to OS 7.
They are kind of halfway between symlinks and hardlinks. If the target of an alias is moved, the alias still works. But if an alias is deleted, the original file itself is not deleted.
Most UNIX tools don't handle aliases properly just as most UNIX tools can't access a file's resource fork or metadata, two features of the Mac's native filesystem that UNIX doesn't understand.
For people shifting to Mac UNIX, there are scripts to convert some or all of the aliases in a given portion of the directory structure into symlinks.
Mac OS X-based UNIX-heads like me, use symlinks. Old-school Mac people can use aliases. It isn't likely that the old-school Mac guys are going to care unless they're delving into UNIX, and then they'll learn what to do soon enough anyway.
It should die because it is liberal? I see. You want no diversity of opinions. I can see how diversity would scare an stupid little AC like yourself.
How does having yet another liberal outlet in a media that is already heavily liberal help diversity of opinion? If I want Salon-style Liberalism, all I have to do is open up The New York Times, the New Yorker, New Republic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News...or if I ain't the readin' type, I can always get my dose of liberal propoganda from CNN, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, 60 Minutes...(in other words, from any "news" outlet except for talk radio and Fox News Channel)
I'm not saying that Salon should die, but its death will actually bring MORE balance to the universe of news coverage than its existence does...
Don't know about Exchange, but I think one of the older (OS 9) variants of Outlook can hook into Exchange. If so, you can run it in OS X using the Classic environment.
As for NTFS...share your drive in Windows and you can get to it using the built-in SMB client. Take the UNC name, such as:
//mycomputer/myshare
And access it in Finder using the SMB URL:
smb://mycomputer/myshare
And you can mount your NT drive. Same goes for any Samba share.
Samba serving comes with OS X Server, but I successfully installed a Samba server on regular OS X (it's fairly easy, no compiles anymore, there are binaries with installers)
So, you should be up and running pretty damn fast!
Total: $717.90 (assuming All discs are purchased from company)
You forgot one:
Realizing you're wetting yourself over a Linux-based Windows knockoff built with paperclips, rubber-bands, and gum--I mean XWindows--just because you cling to the outdated (by 5 years) notion that Mac hardware is too expensive and therefore you can't afford to run the best UI imaginable which, oh by the way, also happens to be Unix...OS X: PRICELESS
May I recommend a Macintosh running OS X, then?
Instant on? Wake up a Mac with OS X, and the thing is ready to use IMMEDIATELY. None of this bull...I mean LONGHORN-sh*t where you wait a minute while the OS decides if it is going to respond or not.
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But that doesn't mean that someone who does see a problem with the original statements must also see a problem with yours.
Saddled? If you're familiar with the syntax of C and the concepts of object-oriented programming, you can learn Objective C in an afternoon.
Add another half-day for the roadmap of the Cocoa classes and some commonly-used messages, and another to get the hang of [object release]; / [object retain]; / [object autorelease]; and how it handles memory management.
That's not very much time spent becoming really comfortable with a language, which is how you'll feel with Objective C. And once you get used to how blazingly fast you can code a kick-ass GUI app in Objective C using Project Builder and Interface Builder, you'll realize that--in terms of productivity--it will be the best investment of your time.
(Of course, you'll need to have a market for what you're doing to make it worth a damn...)
Ummm...out of the box with a Mac you get iMovie, and if you buy a SuperDrive Mac (DVD burner), you get iDVD, so you can download your DV, edit it in iMovie, make an interactive DVD with iDVD, all out-of-the-box.
$2000 for a 17-inch iMac, which comes with a SuperDrive, and you get a cool-looking computer that doesn't take up much space, and runs a sleek, easy-to-use GUI on top of UNIX.
A 17-inch iMac, by the way, is plenty damn fast. Now, if you're talking about G3s (I have an iBook with a 600mhz G3), I can certainly understand why people feel the Mac is sluggish. But the G4 in the 17-inch iMac flies...
So, to imply that CITIES==LIBERALS==PROVIDE TAX MONEY whereas EXURBAN==CONSERVATIVES==TAKE TAX MONEY is a completely bogus argument.
Besides, cities have MUCH higher tax rates anyway. Is this something we all aspire to?
FYI...I live in NYC, the municipality with the highest total tax burden in the U.S. I pay a sh!tload in taxes. Don't assume that just because much of NYC is liberal doesn't mean that all of its residents are liberal when it comes to tax policy. There are some of us out there who aren't.
Of course, selling liberal opinions on the web might be difficult since you can get them for free from just about every other media outlet.
Aliases are backwards-compatible remnants of Mac systems dating back to OS 7.
They are kind of halfway between symlinks and hardlinks. If the target of an alias is moved, the alias still works. But if an alias is deleted, the original file itself is not deleted.
Most UNIX tools don't handle aliases properly just as most UNIX tools can't access a file's resource fork or metadata, two features of the Mac's native filesystem that UNIX doesn't understand.
For people shifting to Mac UNIX, there are scripts to convert some or all of the aliases in a given portion of the directory structure into symlinks.
Mac OS X-based UNIX-heads like me, use symlinks. Old-school Mac people can use aliases. It isn't likely that the old-school Mac guys are going to care unless they're delving into UNIX, and then they'll learn what to do soon enough anyway.
If Linux is a UNIX, but GNU's Not Unix, then isn't GNU/Linux an oxymoron?
Without batteries (or some power source), how could pouring water in the remote cause it to spark?
OS X gives you both, without requiring you to have 2 computers or to reboot into a different OS if you have 1 computer with dual-boot.
How does having yet another liberal outlet in a media that is already heavily liberal help diversity of opinion? If I want Salon-style Liberalism, all I have to do is open up The New York Times, the New Yorker, New Republic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News...or if I ain't the readin' type, I can always get my dose of liberal propoganda from CNN, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, 60 Minutes...(in other words, from any "news" outlet except for talk radio and Fox News Channel)
I'm not saying that Salon should die, but its death will actually bring MORE balance to the universe of news coverage than its existence does...
Don't know about Exchange, but I think one of the older (OS 9) variants of Outlook can hook into Exchange. If so, you can run it in OS X using the Classic environment.
As for NTFS...share your drive in Windows and you can get to it using the built-in SMB client. Take the UNC name, such as:
//mycomputer/myshare
And access it in Finder using the SMB URL:
smb://mycomputer/myshare
And you can mount your NT drive. Same goes for any Samba share.
Samba serving comes with OS X Server, but I successfully installed a Samba server on regular OS X (it's fairly easy, no compiles anymore, there are binaries with installers)
So, you should be up and running pretty damn fast!
>If I couldn't buy one, I would give my left nut for one of their cinema displays. Make it the right one and you've got yourself a deal...
You forgot one:
Realizing you're wetting yourself over a Linux-based Windows knockoff built with paperclips, rubber-bands, and gum--I mean XWindows--just because you cling to the outdated (by 5 years) notion that Mac hardware is too expensive and therefore you can't afford to run the best UI imaginable which, oh by the way, also happens to be Unix...OS X: PRICELESS
May I recommend a Macintosh running OS X, then? Instant on? Wake up a Mac with OS X, and the thing is ready to use IMMEDIATELY. None of this bull...I mean LONGHORN-sh*t where you wait a minute while the OS decides if it is going to respond or not.