The new MacBooks (MacBricks? HATE that name) and Intel iMacs offer as much or more bang for the buck as anything in the Windows world
(*pauses, waits for the inevitable screams of "Oh yeah? Well the PC that my brother's uncle's cousin's friend built from chips scavenged from the dumpster at Fry's and a case from an PC-AT can smoke your fancy MAC (sic) and it only cost me 25,000 lire or something like that. I don't know exactly, I paid him in chickens and pies." *)
To continue...
So why bother cracking OSX, when you can run Windows on your Mac (XP maybe, Vista definitely)? Or if you want something even cheaper, get at MacMini. Price/features wise, Macs are one of the best values out there. And slapping OSX on a beigebox PC and calling it the same as using a Mac is like saying putting Pirellis on your Chevy makes it a Ferrari.
I should have typed I have the iPod Photo, and my wife has a Shuffle. But now that my brother's got a Video iPod (a black 60gb one, too, that little so and so...), I feel tech envy taking hold...:-)
Seriously though, I can see a small iPod as useful to take along working out, and the bigger one being for the car or office.
You're still thinking that there's more money to be made in expanding your market than there is is catering to the customers you already have. Once you've bought an iPod, you're hooked. I bought a 1st Gen 5gb when the first came out, and now have a Photo and a Shuffle. Apple's got a cash machine for years to come with the iPod, and unlike Microsoft, by replacing the Mini with the Nano, they've shown they have the guts to kill them when needed.
Apple has set itself up to be the Sony of the next 25 years (hopefully without the malware DRM:-) with the iPod and Jobs' connection to Pixar.
Oh, God, I wish. I grovel at his feet. And to think he did that with flash *bulbs*... Amazing.
That amount of firepower is by no means unusual in architectural shooting, though, especially resort shots where there's people involved. When you've got to light a pool area at sunset and carry focus for yards on 4x5, it's time to bring out the big dawgs.:-)
If you were really serious about photography, you wouldn't be using 35mm in the first place.
My mind is reeling at how utterly stupid this comment is. I'm only hoping that it's due to your nickname here and not your actual beliefs. I shot professionally for 15 years as a commercial shooter, and had some of the biggest names in the Fortune 500 as my clients. You use the right tool for the right job. Sometimes it was my Nikons, sometimes it was the Hassies, sometimes it was the Sinars. Sometimes I lit the hell out of the shot (12,000 w/s going off makes a noise all it's own), sometimes I'd go with natural lite, no fill card, no nothing. I wouldn't shoot PR at an event on a 4x5, I wouldn't do tabletop product on a 35mm.
"Really serious"? You are going to tell me Walter Iooss, Robert Capa, Garry Winograd or Anton Corbijn weren't/aren't "really serious"?
Be my guest. And keep wondering why your prints aren't even shown at the county fair. It's the tools, it's the photos. However you get the picture you wanted is the right way, be it Holga, Minolta or Speed-graphic.
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Which is why when signing up for my discount card, I listed myself as a 60 year old lady with an address in a retirement center.
Makes me wonder what happens in their data centers when I make a late-night beer run...:-)
I'd say it would require promotion. At least (in theory) there's honour among thieves. And Michael Corrleone is a lot more sympathetic character than Hilary Rosen.
But Apple's iTunes Music Store is by no means the only online music available. There are others that offer flexible pricing models.
And guess what? Nobody uses them.
Asking for a cut of iPod revenue is like asking for a cut of turntable sales 30 years ago. Sure, there were other means of music playback (8-tracks, reel-reel), but the album was where it was at, just like the iPod today.
Defending charges of being greedy by complaining you don't have your fingers in someone else's revenue stream isn't the best way to get people on your side.:-).
1. Ogg support in the consumer world is inversely proportionate to it's support on/. 2. Video iPod's are useless. We've had small, portable TV's for decades now, and nobody uses them. Why would small, portable VCR's with a screen be any better? 3. Sure, a convergence device isn't as useful as a dedicated device. But a dedicated device that I don't carry with me due to weight/size issues is even less useful. The pictures I don't take are the worst ones of all. Give me a phone/iPod/PDA with a decent camera (2+ mp), and I don't care if I have to plug it in every night, especially if it recharges via USB while I'm syncing my files and music.
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The new MacBooks (MacBricks? HATE that name) and Intel iMacs offer as much or more bang for the buck as anything in the Windows world
(*pauses, waits for the inevitable screams of "Oh yeah? Well the PC that my brother's uncle's cousin's friend built from chips scavenged from the dumpster at Fry's and a case from an PC-AT can smoke your fancy MAC (sic) and it only cost me 25,000 lire or something like that. I don't know exactly, I paid him in chickens and pies." *)
To continue...
So why bother cracking OSX, when you can run Windows on your Mac (XP maybe, Vista definitely)? Or if you want something even cheaper, get at MacMini. Price/features wise, Macs are one of the best values out there. And slapping OSX on a beigebox PC and calling it the same as using a Mac is like saying putting Pirellis on your Chevy makes it a Ferrari.
Your response was enlightening, well-written and erudite.
:-)
What it's doing on Slashdot, I'll never know.
Seriously, though, that's the best summary of the current state of Mac security I've read. Well-done.
I should have typed I have the iPod Photo, and my wife has a Shuffle. But now that my brother's got a Video iPod (a black 60gb one, too, that little so and so...), I feel tech envy taking hold... :-)
Seriously though, I can see a small iPod as useful to take along working out, and the bigger one being for the car or office.
You're still thinking that there's more money to be made in expanding your market than there is is catering to the customers you already have. Once you've bought an iPod, you're hooked. I bought a 1st Gen 5gb when the first came out, and now have a Photo and a Shuffle. Apple's got a cash machine for years to come with the iPod, and unlike Microsoft, by replacing the Mini with the Nano, they've shown they have the guts to kill them when needed. :-) with the iPod and Jobs' connection to Pixar.
Apple has set itself up to be the Sony of the next 25 years (hopefully without the malware DRM
Amazing.
That amount of firepower is by no means unusual in architectural shooting, though, especially resort shots where there's people involved. When you've got to light a pool area at sunset and carry focus for yards on 4x5, it's time to bring out the big dawgs. :-)
My mind is reeling at how utterly stupid this comment is. I'm only hoping that it's due to your nickname here and not your actual beliefs.
"Really serious"? You are going to tell me Walter Iooss, Robert Capa, Garry Winograd or Anton Corbijn weren't/aren't "really serious"? Be my guest. And keep wondering why your prints aren't even shown at the county fair. It's the tools, it's the photos. However you get the picture you wanted is the right way, be it Holga, Minolta or Speed-graphic.I shot professionally for 15 years as a commercial shooter, and had some of the biggest names in the Fortune 500 as my clients. You use the right tool for the right job. Sometimes it was my Nikons, sometimes it was the Hassies, sometimes it was the Sinars. Sometimes I lit the hell out of the shot (12,000 w/s going off makes a noise all it's own), sometimes I'd go with natural lite, no fill card, no nothing. I wouldn't shoot PR at an event on a 4x5, I wouldn't do tabletop product on a 35mm.
Which is why when signing up for my discount card, I listed myself as a 60 year old lady with an address in a retirement center.
:-)
Makes me wonder what happens in their data centers when I make a late-night beer run...
*golf clap*
And will the one with the goatee turn out to be (pinkie to mouth) evvvilll (/pinkie to mouth) ????
Does the winner or loser of this competition get to code for Bill? :-)
does that thing have a Hemi?
... if the fed Miles Davis' Bitches Brew into this.
:-)
Darn thing would BSOD right on the spot, I'll bet.
was an analogy stretched so far it just snapped like an overwound violin string. :-)
Those apes dancing around in the beginning of 2001 are the firt modders, with their l33t femur-bone mod.
Mark Cuban seems to think that's the important part of the video iPod. As do others.
ummn, "Correct formatting...sorry! " ? :-)
beachfront property in Sacramento!
Apple leads the way for the Windows world to follow.
Now this.
That does it. I'm buying lots of big guns and moving to the Mojave Desert.Like there's a GOOD week to be an RIAA exec. :)
I'd say it would require promotion. At least (in theory) there's honour among thieves. And Michael Corrleone is a lot more sympathetic character than Hilary Rosen.
Like I care if I fatfinger the url to that lousy site. ;-) If this that's the future that Bronfman wants, count me out.
And guess what? Nobody uses them.
Asking for a cut of iPod revenue is like asking for a cut of turntable sales 30 years ago. Sure, there were other means of music playback (8-tracks, reel-reel), but the album was where it was at, just like the iPod today.Defending charges of being greedy by complaining you don't have your fingers in someone else's revenue stream isn't the best way to get people on your side. :-).
Yet.
But when WE do it, it'll be the right way.they certainly had some crappy ideas on design. :-)
1. Ogg support in the consumer world is inversely proportionate to it's support on /.
2. Video iPod's are useless. We've had small, portable TV's for decades now, and nobody uses them. Why would small, portable VCR's with a screen be any better?
3. Sure, a convergence device isn't as useful as a dedicated device.
But a dedicated device that I don't carry with me due to weight/size issues is even less useful. The pictures I don't take are the worst ones of all. Give me a phone/iPod/PDA with a decent camera (2+ mp), and I don't care if I have to plug it in every night, especially if it recharges via USB while I'm syncing my files and music.