Is it just me, or does Apple hardware seem outrageously expensive?
It's not just you, it's everyone who hasn't done their homework. For more or less equivalent dual processor systems I get:
Dell - $4,763.00
Apple - $3,623.00
Note that the Apple price does not include the $50 or less you would have to spend on a mouse to keep you happy.
I used to feel the same way about sunglasses. I always bought the cheapest sunglasses, because I always lost them or sat on them or something. Then I once borrowed my sister's RayBans, and I was hooked. I had to get a good pair of shades. I ended up getting a pair of Gargoyles over seven years ago, which I still have.
If you have a somewhat expensive pen that you love, you are much less likely to lose it. I have had a colection of borderline expensive pens that I keep adding to, and using daily. I think I've only lost two pens in over 30 years of using quality pens.
There's very little money to be made in live performances, except at the very top of the food chain. A "normal" artist (defined as a working musician, not a "star") needs to maximize opportunities to make a dime at every turn. Being able to get at least some money from the distribution of music files is important.
A musician has to hone their skills over a long period, and put in long hours in rehearsal, songwriting, etc.
Having relatively high-paid geeks say that they need to have free access to a poor musician's output is sort of sad (and I'm a high-paid geek, myself). Saying that musicians should make their money from live performance is sort of a "let them eat cake" attitude, IMO.
Lots of professions are paid more (or less) than any subjective scale might dictate. How much is a musician worth?
Should programmers be paid more than teachers?
How about sanitary engineers?
Should university professors be paid more than elementary school teachers?
OK, I took your suggestion and went to Google to look up asshat, but I didn't find any information on Beowulf clusters. I did find out more that I ever knew possible about the word asshat, though.
Agreed. I really don't care for the Dock. It always seems to get in the way. (and to rebut the AC, I've been using the Mac since March 1984)
What I'd really like to see Apple do is document all the Dock APIs and allow it to be replaced with third party alternatives. For example the program DragThing performs much better than the Dock in many ways. There are better Command-Tab style application switchers, such as KeyboardMaestro. These great third party alternatives cannot truly replace the Dock until more of the workings of the Dock are documented.
There's one more stumbling block: Apple has been migrating more functionality into the Dock (for reasons that are unclear to me). For example, with Jaguar, the Dock owns the Desktop. It's responsible for painting the background image, and handling clicks on the Desktop. Pre-Jaguar this was handled by the Finder. This means that much more than Dock functionality is lost if the Dock is disabled.
There was another rumored feature of Panther called Smart Folders. This was supposed to be much like Smart Playlists in iTunes. The "Smart Folders" feature probably does a lot of what piles was supposed to do. From reading the original paper on Piles, I gather that it does two things:
1 - manage a selection based on some criteria
2 - display the selection in a new manner
If I understand what Smart Folders is supposed to do, it accomplishes the first of these things. My question now is whether Smart Folders is going to make it into Panther.
You can pick on Mac users all you want, they're used to it (and generally know the difference between to, too and two, too). But don't pick on Golden Retrievers!
Well, just like with multiple processors, you don't get a true doubling with a dual-arm system, there is some overhead. But you can reach two things in opposite directions simultaneously! The combined span is almost double!
The only way to do this with a single-tasking arm system is to actually pivot at one of the lowest levels of the OS... er, body.
Remember Bill Gates still owns a major chunk of Apple - they are not the bitter rivals people make them out to be!
That hasn't been true for years. Microsoft invested $150 Mil in non-voting stock, more or less when Jobs returned to the fold, and they sold it a couple of years later at a profit.
But seriously, this has 8 Gig of pricey RAM at a $3700 up-charge (cheaper from a 3rd party), a video subsystem consisting of a Radeon 9800 and TWO 23" Cinema displays with an added cost of about $4400, TWO 250 GB SATA drives (which cost $525 more than the single 160 GB), a Fiber Channel I/O card for $500, 5.1 surround speaker system with digital input for $343, Bluetooth, 802.11G wireless, Airport Extreme base station $250)
While I can see wanting a system like this, I don't think it's a system that really paints a picture of Apple being pricey. I invite you to put together a Dell equivalent and report back on that price. I imagine it's fairly close in price, but not as capable.
Of course, maybe I just missed the tongue stuck in your cheek.
At the top of the food chain, tours can be lucrative. But for almost every working band, the money from touring, combined with a day job, still makes a pretty meager living.
The "Smart Folders" feature probably does a lot of what piles was supposed to do. From reading the original paper on Piles, I gather that it does two things:
1 - manage a selection based on some criteria
2 - display the selection in a new manner
If I understand what Smart Folders does, it accomplishes the first of these things.
> Apple's "new" OS attempts were complete failures until they decided to base their new OS on open source software.
Apple's previous attempts were failures because they were trying for 100% backward compatibility. Trying to build a forward looking OS while being compatible with all the quirks of the past is a recipe for disaster, IMO.
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It's not just you, it's everyone who hasn't done their homework.
For more or less equivalent dual processor systems I get:
Dell - $4,763.00
Apple - $3,623.00
Note that the Apple price does not include the $50 or less you would have to spend on a mouse to keep you happy.
If you have a somewhat expensive pen that you love, you are much less likely to lose it. I have had a colection of borderline expensive pens that I keep adding to, and using daily. I think I've only lost two pens in over 30 years of using quality pens.
I've had good results from Pen City
So that's why these artists never release greatest hits albums, right?
And that is quite slow compared to the Sony / Zeiss, which is f/2.0 to 2.8. The Zeiss lenses on the Sony's are quite nice.
A musician has to hone their skills over a long period, and put in long hours in rehearsal, songwriting, etc.
Having relatively high-paid geeks say that they need to have free access to a poor musician's output is sort of sad (and I'm a high-paid geek, myself). Saying that musicians should make their money from live performance is sort of a "let them eat cake" attitude, IMO.
"It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole."
Yeah, and guns don't kill people, people do. Get real.
Both of these statements are "facts" with only vague connection to "truth".
How do you feel about robots to talk on /. about it?
Should programmers be paid more than teachers?
How about sanitary engineers?
Should university professors be paid more than elementary school teachers?
OK, I took your suggestion and went to Google to look up asshat, but I didn't find any information on Beowulf clusters. I did find out more that I ever knew possible about the word asshat, though.
Is the Intel compiler available under Linux? Will it make Linux-compatible object files or binaries?
Why do you think we're talking about dogs, now?
What I'd really like to see Apple do is document all the Dock APIs and allow it to be replaced with third party alternatives. For example the program DragThing performs much better than the Dock in many ways. There are better Command-Tab style application switchers, such as KeyboardMaestro. These great third party alternatives cannot truly replace the Dock until more of the workings of the Dock are documented.
There's one more stumbling block: Apple has been migrating more functionality into the Dock (for reasons that are unclear to me). For example, with Jaguar, the Dock owns the Desktop. It's responsible for painting the background image, and handling clicks on the Desktop. Pre-Jaguar this was handled by the Finder. This means that much more than Dock functionality is lost if the Dock is disabled.
1 - manage a selection based on some criteria
2 - display the selection in a new manner
If I understand what Smart Folders is supposed to do, it accomplishes the first of these things. My question now is whether Smart Folders is going to make it into Panther.
Ok, Dune-boy,
You can pick on Mac users all you want, they're used to it (and generally know the difference between to, too and two, too). But don't pick on Golden Retrievers!
Check out dog intelligence rankings
The only way to do this with a single-tasking arm system is to actually pivot at one of the lowest levels of the OS... er, body.
Well, obviously, it's:
step n. - Profit!!!
You mean Ivyoronics?
That hasn't been true for years. Microsoft invested $150 Mil in non-voting stock, more or less when Jobs returned to the fold, and they sold it a couple of years later at a profit.
But seriously, this has 8 Gig of pricey RAM at a $3700 up-charge (cheaper from a 3rd party), a video subsystem consisting of a Radeon 9800 and TWO 23" Cinema displays with an added cost of about $4400, TWO 250 GB SATA drives (which cost $525 more than the single 160 GB), a Fiber Channel I/O card for $500, 5.1 surround speaker system with digital input for $343, Bluetooth, 802.11G wireless, Airport Extreme base station $250)
While I can see wanting a system like this, I don't think it's a system that really paints a picture of Apple being pricey. I invite you to put together a Dell equivalent and report back on that price. I imagine it's fairly close in price, but not as capable.
Of course, maybe I just missed the tongue stuck in your cheek.
Bottom line: Don't become a musician for money.
1 - manage a selection based on some criteria
2 - display the selection in a new manner
If I understand what Smart Folders does, it accomplishes the first of these things.
Apple's previous attempts were failures because they were trying for 100% backward compatibility. Trying to build a forward looking OS while being compatible with all the quirks of the past is a recipe for disaster, IMO.
Multiple?
That song alone must be a pretty effective method of birth control.