Yep. It would be hard to spin "We were a peaceful protest!" when footage of a Starbucks or McDonalds getting trashed (before the cops moved in) gets out there...
but I'd love to see a system with the same stats, without the LCD being offered to the education and enterprise markets. That would kick up Apple's market share in a heartbeat. I own a G4 17" iMac and love it, but I know my needs and the needs of the middle school down the road are two different things.
But the consistent quality of the Lord Of the Rings and Harry Potter and Shrek movies belies this. If it's a good movie, it's a good movie, regardless of the number of Roman Numerals behind the title.
That "special" (as in Special Ed, I guess) should have tipped me off as to what Lucas had in mind with the prequels.
I'd nominate those, but in reality, there are plenty of movies that are worse, though none that were hyped as much.
What kills me is how the wonder and magic of the movies I loved is gone. And it's not that I don't crave such experiences still (a good Disney movie like Aladdin or a Looney tunes cartoon still enthralls me), it's just that those things are lacking completely from the prequels.
Mac users are already assured to have the latest in security...
It's called OS X.:-D
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Wired Magazine's cover story of June 1997.
100 ways to save Apple.
Let's go through the top 20, shall we?
1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Okay, this didn't happen.
2. License the Apple name/technology to appliance manufacturers and build GUIs for every possible device. Or build the killer app for listening to music, the iPod.
3. Start pampering independent software vendors. The open-source roots of most of OSX and related items fills this need quite well.
4. Gil Amelio should steal a page from Lee Iacocca's book - work for one year without a salary, just to inspire the troops. Jobs' salary is still only a dollar a year.
5. Straighten out the naming convention. eMac, iMac, iBook, Powerbook, PowerMac. Done.
6. Apologize. You've let down many devoted users and did not deliver on the promise of the Macintosh platform. Hmmmn, hard to call this one.
7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Two words: Apple Stores.
8. Buy a song. Or build the first sucessful online music store. Whatever.
9. Fire the people who forecast product demand. Still a problem, given the recent iMac troubles.
10. Get a great image campaign. Switch. The colored iPod ads. The spinning iMacs. Done.
11. Instead of trying to protect your multicolored ass all the time, try looking forward. Done.
12. Build a fire under your ad agency. Given the Clios and other awards that recent Apple campaigns have one, I feel safe in calling this one done.
13. Exploit every Wintel user's secret fear that some day they're going to be thrown into a black screen with a blinking C-prompt. Advertise the fact that Mac users never have to rewrite autoexec.bat or sys.ini files. See: Switch campaign.
14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. Done. Oh boy, is this one done.
15. Dump (or outsource) the Newton, eMate, digital cameras, and scanners. Done.
16. Take better care of your customers. You need every one. Make customer service a point of pride. Many Mac users feel alienated and have jumped ship. Done.
17. Build some decent applications that the business community will care about. Maybe not business-related, but the iLife series trumps anything out there in the Wintel world.
8. Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac. Power Computing's "I'll give up my Mac when they pry it from my stiff, dying fingers" campaign hits the right note. In the tech world, it's still a crusade. Support the Mac community, and the Mac community will support you. Done.
19. Get rid of the cables. Go wireless. Done. 802.11, Bluetooth, you name it.
20. Tap the move toward push media by creating a network computer with state of-the-art technologies, e.g., videogame support for Nintendo 64, top notch graphics such as QuickDraw 3D, and the best possible bandwidth. Okay, is anybody supporting push media now? Let's just cross this one off the list, k?
So, all in all, they've done 17 of the first 20, with 2 maybes and a no. Not bad.
Well, considering that we have precision wesapons NOW that are as accurate, and with much greater range (The Tomahawk cruise missile, for one), it's easy to imagine.
What makes this gun so revolutionary is a) safety for the user. No gunpowder to go boom at inconvienent times and b) cost per round. Rather than spend the million+ to fire a Harpoon or SLAM at a target, we can now lob a few shells from this baby at it, at much lower cost.
Errm, no. Symphony from Lotus and a host of other suites preceed Office.
Microsoft was the first to do a halfway decent job of it. Which had NOTHING to do with their command of the OS as well. Nothing, you hear, NOTHING!
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Is there really a big difference in lens quality between makers?
Oh boy, if you think the Linux/Microsoft/Mac flamewars are bad, wait until optics geeks get the knives out...:-)
I've looked at the D70, and I'm used to that style of operation, as I own an old 8008 (I don't seem to buy a camera until it's at least a decade old...), but something about the EOS just seems right, moreso than the Nikon. Your mileage may vary.
Well, for 5 years, I did exactly that, except with Fujichrome 120 and service bureau's drum scanner. And after I went digital, the savings in lab fees and time were *dramatic*. Not to mention the joy of handing the art director a CD with his images on it 5 minutes after the shoot. No running to the lab for a clip, back to pick up the film, over to the service bureau for a scan, back to the bureau, an then to the client. That alone frees up at least a half day of assistant's work for more productive labours.
The Phase One back paid for itself and the 733mhz G4 it was hooked up to in less than year.
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That's good to hear, as it can drive me NUTS. It was bad enough getting used to the differences between various 35mm SLR's. At least with them, the shutter trip, ISO set and aperture ring were USUALLY always the same (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Olympus OM series. WTH was THAT?)
I shot with a Canon EOS-10d recently, and being an ex-Nikon guy ("No, our lenses mount the correct way. It's the rest of you that are screwed up!":-) ), it took me a while to get used to the layout and functionality of the Canon. Once I did, I grew to love it, great little SLR, and the first one I can see retiring my beloved old FM2 to use on a daily basis.
Actually, we can add "99.9% of budiour/glamor photographers" to that as well.
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unfortunately, i haven't seen many (if any) cameras with an optical zoom capability higher than 3X.
Anything longer than 3x optical zoom requires some optical tirickery, which results in a) higher price if done right or b) lower quality if it's done cheaply. And beyond that, the more glass = slower lens f-stop, means more need to use flash (and shorter flash when you do) or it means having to use a higher IS) equivalent, which means more noise on your pictures (think gain-up).
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Let me just add "Hell-freaking-yeah" to what that article says. My poor old 6 megapixel Phase One back would be sneered upon by all the MegaPixel Nazis. The fact that it kicked out an 18mb TIF and used Hasseblad glass is lost on them.
One thing I hope future articles touch on is ergonomics. Unlike SLR's, which have had the same basic layout since the Exaktaflex, digital cameras are a hodgepodge of knobs, buttons and dials, laid out (apparently) at random at times. And the difference in features between cameras of the same pixel size can be stunning.
When people as me what's the best camera out there, I usually tell them find one that they find first easy to use, is a camera-brand (better glass), and has a decent image size. No amount of features will make up for a missed photo due to fumbling with a camera, and what's important to me (manual controls, accessory shoe, RAW/TIF, etc) may not be important to them.
All goods considered necessities would be tax-free allowing one to live almost without paying taxes if you were surviving on a povery level income.
See, this won't work, because programmers will petition for Mountain Dew and everything at ThinkGeek to be declared a neccesity, teens will demand that Abercrombie & Fitch clothing be considered one as well, I'd say that The History Channel is a neccesity and so my cable bill is tax-free, and so on...:-)
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One of those little extra touches that always puts Apple products ahead of their competitors.
Yep. It would be hard to spin "We were a peaceful protest!" when footage of a Starbucks or McDonalds getting trashed (before the cops moved in) gets out there...
but I'd love to see a system with the same stats, without the LCD being offered to the education and enterprise markets. That would kick up Apple's market share in a heartbeat. I own a G4 17" iMac and love it, but I know my needs and the needs of the middle school down the road are two different things.
But the consistent quality of the Lord Of the Rings and Harry Potter and Shrek movies belies this. If it's a good movie, it's a good movie, regardless of the number of Roman Numerals behind the title.
I'd nominate those, but in reality, there are plenty of movies that are worse, though none that were hyped as much.
What kills me is how the wonder and magic of the movies I loved is gone. And it's not that I don't crave such experiences still (a good Disney movie like Aladdin or a Looney tunes cartoon still enthralls me), it's just that those things are lacking completely from the prequels.Mac users are already assured to have the latest in security...
:-D
It's called OS X.
Wired Magazine's cover story of June 1997.
100 ways to save Apple.
Let's go through the top 20, shall we?
1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Okay, this didn't happen.
2. License the Apple name/technology to appliance manufacturers and build GUIs for every possible device. Or build the killer app for listening to music, the iPod.
3. Start pampering independent software vendors. The open-source roots of most of OSX and related items fills this need quite well.
4. Gil Amelio should steal a page from Lee Iacocca's book - work for one year without a salary, just to inspire the troops. Jobs' salary is still only a dollar a year.
5. Straighten out the naming convention. eMac, iMac, iBook, Powerbook, PowerMac. Done.
6. Apologize. You've let down many devoted users and did not deliver on the promise of the Macintosh platform. Hmmmn, hard to call this one.
7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Two words: Apple Stores.
8. Buy a song. Or build the first sucessful online music store. Whatever.
9. Fire the people who forecast product demand. Still a problem, given the recent iMac troubles.
10. Get a great image campaign. Switch. The colored iPod ads. The spinning iMacs. Done.
11. Instead of trying to protect your multicolored ass all the time, try looking forward. Done.
12. Build a fire under your ad agency. Given the Clios and other awards that recent Apple campaigns have one, I feel safe in calling this one done.
13. Exploit every Wintel user's secret fear that some day they're going to be thrown into a black screen with a blinking C-prompt. Advertise the fact that Mac users never have to rewrite autoexec.bat or sys.ini files. See: Switch campaign.
14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. Done. Oh boy, is this one done.
15. Dump (or outsource) the Newton, eMate, digital cameras, and scanners. Done.
16. Take better care of your customers. You need every one. Make customer service a point of pride. Many Mac users feel alienated and have jumped ship. Done.
17. Build some decent applications that the business community will care about. Maybe not business-related, but the iLife series trumps anything out there in the Wintel world.
8. Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac. Power Computing's "I'll give up my Mac when they pry it from my stiff, dying fingers" campaign hits the right note. In the tech world, it's still a crusade. Support the Mac community, and the Mac community will support you. Done.
19. Get rid of the cables. Go wireless. Done. 802.11, Bluetooth, you name it.
20. Tap the move toward push media by creating a network computer with state of-the-art technologies, e.g., videogame support for Nintendo 64, top notch graphics such as QuickDraw 3D, and the best possible bandwidth. Okay, is anybody supporting push media now? Let's just cross this one off the list, k?
So, all in all, they've done 17 of the first 20, with 2 maybes and a no. Not bad.
Or, say, a second iMac in that same range.
Well, considering that we have precision wesapons NOW that are as accurate, and with much greater range (The Tomahawk cruise missile, for one), it's easy to imagine.
What makes this gun so revolutionary is a) safety for the user. No gunpowder to go boom at inconvienent times and b) cost per round. Rather than spend the million+ to fire a Harpoon or SLAM at a target, we can now lob a few shells from this baby at it, at much lower cost.
You realize, of course, that you contradicted yourself, right?
So the quality of code inside an OS has *nothing* to do with security?Right.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.Given:
a) The spectacular lack of success of mini-tv's.
b) The existence of portable DVD players and DVD-R's.
c) You can't watch it while driving, working, running or 9/10th's of the locations you can listen to music on an mp3 player.
d) Size/weight/cost of comparable mp3-only players.
This just smacks of a "gadget for gadget's sake" mentality, and is a marketing disaster waiting to happen, IMO.
The last time I looked, iTunes was a free program
*goes to apple.com/itunes*Yep, still is.
And it's not "Your music." You're not allowed to broadcast it, share it with your freinds, or distribute it in anyway, regardless of the format.
./~ High on a hill, stood a lonely Rover, yodel-lay-he yodel-lay-he yodel-lay-he-hoo ./~ /me ducks ands runs. :-)
Codes were meant to be broken.
Microsoft was the first to do a halfway decent job of it. Which had NOTHING to do with their command of the OS as well. Nothing, you hear, NOTHING!
Oh boy, if you think the Linux/Microsoft/Mac flamewars are bad, wait until optics geeks get the knives out... :-)
I've looked at the D70, and I'm used to that style of operation, as I own an old 8008 (I don't seem to buy a camera until it's at least a decade old...), but something about the EOS just seems right, moreso than the Nikon. Your mileage may vary.
The Phase One back paid for itself and the 733mhz G4 it was hooked up to in less than year.
I shot with a Canon EOS-10d recently, and being an ex-Nikon guy ("No, our lenses mount the correct way. It's the rest of you that are screwed up!" :-) ), it took me a while to get used to the layout and functionality of the Canon. Once I did, I grew to love it, great little SLR, and the first one I can see retiring my beloved old FM2 to use on a daily basis.
If only I shot for a living anymore... :-)
Actually, we can add "99.9% of budiour/glamor photographers" to that as well.
Anything longer than 3x optical zoom requires some optical tirickery, which results in a) higher price if done right or b) lower quality if it's done cheaply. And beyond that, the more glass = slower lens f-stop, means more need to use flash (and shorter flash when you do) or it means having to use a higher IS) equivalent, which means more noise on your pictures (think gain-up).
One thing I hope future articles touch on is ergonomics. Unlike SLR's, which have had the same basic layout since the Exaktaflex, digital cameras are a hodgepodge of knobs, buttons and dials, laid out (apparently) at random at times. And the difference in features between cameras of the same pixel size can be stunning.
When people as me what's the best camera out there, I usually tell them find one that they find first easy to use, is a camera-brand (better glass), and has a decent image size. No amount of features will make up for a missed photo due to fumbling with a camera, and what's important to me (manual controls, accessory shoe, RAW/TIF, etc) may not be important to them.Ahh, these are the kids who want to become Doctor Who, I take it. ;-)
And posting this twice in the same discussion makes me believe you half as much.
See, this won't work, because programmers will petition for Mountain Dew and everything at ThinkGeek to be declared a neccesity, teens will demand that Abercrombie & Fitch clothing be considered one as well, I'd say that The History Channel is a neccesity and so my cable bill is tax-free, and so on... :-)