I'd also add he'd have a Gretag Monitor Calibrator or the like, and have his Computer-printer combination finely color-matched as well. With digital, it's *always* about color calibration.
Not to blow your head apart, but the PhaseOne Back I used in the studio had an 18(!) stop dynamic range. Compare that to Velvia or Ektachrome. I could bring details into blown-out windows, or bring up dark shadows with ease. AA was the first to present photography as an integrated process, from veiwing to composing to metering to exposure to developing to print. He would have *loved* the color calibration that's possible today with digital.
With Dell, HP, Gateway and the like jumping onto the bandwagon, there's little chance that Microsoft will introduce an upgrade that will break the functionality of the iTMS.
One thing that's missing from all other online music stores it seems, though, is outside promotions. Apple seems to have the jump on everyone with it's Pepsi promotion. I don't see Napster or Dell trying the like to gain market share and brand awareness.
And it was not available on all platforms, so the Wachowski's threw a big middle finger out to those who may have liked The Matrix, but are on Mac, Linux, etc....
My iBook still dual-boots into OS 9, I use that for Battlefront. And there's a workaround on somewhere Battlefront's site (no link, work firewall blocks all gaming stuff) for OS X.
Actually, I've found that between Ghost Recon, Links 2003 and the Combat Missions series from Battlefront.com, all my gaming needs are taken care of on the Mac (except for the glaring hole of sports games.)
And with the command line waiting for me, MS Office, Photoshop and Illustrator, aside from hanging out with all the l33t CS kiddies, there's not much I can't do on a Mac.
As most of the benchamarks showed a dramatic difference between the single 1.8 and the dual 2 ghz. If only they're kept the single 1.8 at a lower price point as an intro to the wonderful world of Serial ATA and a faster FSB.
These are still both great machines. I love my 17" iMac as a home machine, and a 20" screen is even more alluring.
Five years ago, Pentium III chips blew away anything that Apple had.
From Low End Mac.com "Offering up to twice the performance of the G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 was Apple's first serious pro computer after Steve Jobs became iCEO." I could find more, but it's late, I'm tired, I have work tomorrow, and I assume you can use Google.
I don't know about you, but I prefer a music industry that produces Benny Goodman, Elvis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry to one that produces drek like someone droning "Number Nine" over and over again just to fill a spot on an album playlist.
When music industry hypes up Brittany spears or Shakira (looks good, sounds bad) every geek worth his salt hates it. When Apple does the same thing its a good thing ?
That's because any geek can go buy an iPod, but has zero chance of getting ahold of Shakira or Britney SPears.;-)
I would, but that's too fast. Insted, I plan on forging my own barrel, making my gunpowder from scratch, turning my own stock building my own action and shaping my own flint for the lock.
By the tone of your post, it seems your the one that's in a hurry.
1. I can buy jewel cases for the CD's I burn. And with iTMS, I get the album art. Liner notes, lyrics, etc haven't been the same since the switch from 12" LP to CD forced everyone to 6pt Arial. 2. I like record stores. But I get weird looks from the help there when I ask them if I can rip open the packaging so I can listen to 30 seconds of each track like I can on iTMS;-). 3. 128kbps AAC sounds just fine to me, but I admit I'm not the most passionate audiophile.
HBO, Showtime and PPV movies haven't killed video stores yet because of the reasons you mention, that going shopping can be a social event. I like having another option open to me when the urge to buy hits me.
But with a CD, I have to go to the store buy it, return home, and rip it. Or wait until it gets delivered to me if purchased online. With iTMS, if I want it, 2 minutes later I own it. For someone like me, with the attention span of a gnat with ADD, that's very valuable. There will always be a need to own a phusical copy for some, and I treasure my old CD's and albums, but the convenience of online distribution just rocks.
I don't use iTMS for all my music desires.I'm guessing this, but I'd say the music on my iPod consists of 1/3 ripped tracks from my CD's, 1/3 um, "found" music, and 1/3 songs from iTMS. I like having another option open to me from which I can get the music I want.
At $1 per song, you're paying roughly the same price for an album...
Entire albums are, for the most part, $9.99 on iTMS. There are some exceptions due to number of tracks/partial albums, but on the whole, it's a great deal.
You can burn a given playlist 10 times to CD. After that, you have to mix the tracks up to get another 10 burns, and so on. Any particular song can be burned as many times as you want.
No. Not quite. But according to CERT, It's damn close.
VU#147587 10/22/2001 Mac OS X utility gm4 contains format string vulnerability
VU#869548 05/19/2003 Apple Mac OS X IPSec mechanism fails to handle certain incoming security policies that match by port
VU#177243 09/10/2001 Mac OS X Finder creates world-readable ".FBCIndex" file thereby disclosing sensitive information
VU#439395 06/10/2001 Apache web server performs case sensitive filtering on Mac OS X HFS+ case insensitive filesystem
VU#945747 10/18/2001 Mac OS X executes 'recent items' with privileges of foreground application
VU#467828 05/27/2003 Mac OS X LDAP plugins transmit user credentials in clear text
VU#583020 05/07/2003 XMMS Remote input validation error
VU#479268 05/28/2003 Apache HTTPD contains denial of service vulnerability in basic authentication module.
Now compare those results to a search for Windows.
And in regards to Virex/Norton AntiVirus etc. Just because a product exists doesn't mean it's useful or needed. In ten years of using Macs, I've had one problem with malware, total, and that was eight years ago.
Is it really completely virus-free? I find it hard to believe that there aren't any Mac viruses out there. Anyhow, being more secure through obscurity is something that comes with any non-Windows platform. It's certainly an advantage, but it's difficult to say that this is somehow a failing of Windows.
Read this, then do a search for OS X here, followed by one for Windows.
Web (Opera also blocks popups) Safari does that, and it's free. Games (Reality: most games DO NOT make it to Macs. Even some of the good ones)
Good point. I wouldn't use the word "most" though. I'm quite happy with the selection out there ( I play the Rainbow Six franchise a lot, plus America's Army, SOFII, etc.), and for anything else, there's always PlayStation. Email (Use my work email exclusively through an exchange server. Well I also have some disposable web accounts) I'll deal with this below. Office Aps (Sometimes have to work from home) Office X works nicely with Windows, and its mail client, Entourage, works with Exchange.
I need a Mac why?
50 known viruses/malware on a Mac versus 500,000+ of the same for Windows, perhaps?;-)
Just like any profession, the good designers tend to be the ones who try harder. Working with many designers in the studio for years taught me that the best ones had a) a vision for what the final piece would look like and b) the ability to communicate that vision to their artists/photogs/flash etc. The ones that came in with no ideas and expected me to create magic drove me *nuts*.
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I'd also add he'd have a Gretag Monitor Calibrator or the like, and have his Computer-printer combination finely color-matched as well. With digital, it's *always* about color calibration.
Limited Dynamic Range of Digital?
Not to blow your head apart, but the PhaseOne Back I used in the studio had an 18(!) stop dynamic range. Compare that to Velvia or Ektachrome. I could bring details into blown-out windows, or bring up dark shadows with ease. AA was the first to present photography as an integrated process, from veiwing to composing to metering to exposure to developing to print. He would have *loved* the color calibration that's possible today with digital.
FWIW, most tests show that 128 kbps AAC sounds as good or better than 192 kbs MP3.
And the bandwidth requirements for d/l lossless formats will prohibit that from being an effective option, ever.
With Dell, HP, Gateway and the like jumping onto the bandwagon, there's little chance that Microsoft will introduce an upgrade that will break the functionality of the iTMS.
One thing that's missing from all other online music stores it seems, though, is outside promotions. Apple seems to have the jump on everyone with it's Pepsi promotion. I don't see Napster or Dell trying the like to gain market share and brand awareness.
And it was not available on all platforms, so the Wachowski's threw a big middle finger out to those who may have liked The Matrix, but are on Mac, Linux, etc....
My iBook still dual-boots into OS 9, I use that for Battlefront. And there's a workaround on somewhere Battlefront's site (no link, work firewall blocks all gaming stuff) for OS X.
And with the command line waiting for me, MS Office, Photoshop and Illustrator, aside from hanging out with all the l33t CS kiddies, there's not much I can't do on a Mac.
These are still both great machines. I love my 17" iMac as a home machine, and a 20" screen is even more alluring.
From Low End Mac .com "Offering up to twice the performance of the G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 was Apple's first serious pro computer after Steve Jobs became iCEO."
I could find more, but it's late, I'm tired, I have work tomorrow, and I assume you can use Google.
I don't know about you, but I prefer a music industry that produces Benny Goodman, Elvis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry to one that produces drek like someone droning "Number Nine" over and over again just to fill a spot on an album playlist.
Owner? No.
A beleaguered computer can now run a dying OS.
;-)
Or is that the other way around?
That's because any geek can go buy an iPod, but has zero chance of getting ahold of Shakira or Britney SPears. ;-)
I would, but that's too fast. Insted, I plan on forging my own barrel, making my gunpowder from scratch, turning my own stock building my own action and shaping my own flint for the lock.
By the tone of your post, it seems your the one that's in a hurry.
1. I can buy jewel cases for the CD's I burn. And with iTMS, I get the album art. Liner notes, lyrics, etc haven't been the same since the switch from 12" LP to CD forced everyone to 6pt Arial. ;-).
2. I like record stores. But I get weird looks from the help there when I ask them if I can rip open the packaging so I can listen to 30 seconds of each track like I can on iTMS
3. 128kbps AAC sounds just fine to me, but I admit I'm not the most passionate audiophile.
HBO, Showtime and PPV movies haven't killed video stores yet because of the reasons you mention, that going shopping can be a social event. I like having another option open to me when the urge to buy hits me.
I don't use iTMS for all my music desires.I'm guessing this, but I'd say the music on my iPod consists of 1/3 ripped tracks from my CD's, 1/3 um, "found" music, and 1/3 songs from iTMS. I like having another option open to me from which I can get the music I want.
Entire albums are, for the most part, $9.99 on iTMS. There are some exceptions due to number of tracks/partial albums, but on the whole, it's a great deal.
You can burn a given playlist 10 times to CD. After that, you have to mix the tracks up to get another 10 burns, and so on. Any particular song can be burned as many times as you want.
100% Virus free?
No. Not quite. But according to CERT, It's damn close.- VU#147587 10/22/2001 Mac OS X utility gm4 contains format string vulnerability
Now compare those results to a search for Windows.VU#869548 05/19/2003 Apple Mac OS X IPSec mechanism fails to handle certain incoming security policies that match by port
VU#177243 09/10/2001 Mac OS X Finder creates world-readable ".FBCIndex" file thereby disclosing sensitive information
VU#439395 06/10/2001 Apache web server performs case sensitive filtering on Mac OS X HFS+ case insensitive filesystem
VU#945747 10/18/2001 Mac OS X executes 'recent items' with privileges of foreground application VU#467828 05/27/2003 Mac OS X LDAP plugins transmit user credentials in clear text
VU#583020 05/07/2003 XMMS Remote input validation error
VU#479268 05/28/2003 Apache HTTPD contains denial of service vulnerability in basic authentication module.
And in regards to Virex/Norton AntiVirus etc. Just because a product exists doesn't mean it's useful or needed. In ten years of using Macs, I've had one problem with malware, total, and that was eight years ago.
Read this, then do a search for OS X here, followed by one for Windows.
That should answer a lot of your questions.
Safari does that, and it's free.
Games (Reality: most games DO NOT make it to Macs. Even some of the good ones)
Good point. I wouldn't use the word "most" though. I'm quite happy with the selection out there ( I play the Rainbow Six franchise a lot, plus America's Army, SOFII, etc.), and for anything else, there's always PlayStation.
Email (Use my work email exclusively through an exchange server. Well I also have some disposable web accounts)
I'll deal with this below.
Office Aps (Sometimes have to work from home)
Office X works nicely with Windows, and its mail client, Entourage, works with Exchange.
I need a Mac why?
50 known viruses/malware on a Mac versus 500,000+ of the same for Windows, perhaps?Not at all. Only music purchased from the iTunes store has any restrictions placed on it.
1. Take a deep breath.
2. Step away from you computer and walk out side for a bit. Try not to be scared by all the blue sky and that really bright yellow ball up there.
3. Come back in after sudden exposure to intense light causes immediate sunburn.
4. Read about Deja Vu here.
Soundtrack for slideshows, that's what.
Just like any profession, the good designers tend to be the ones who try harder. Working with many designers in the studio for years taught me that the best ones had a) a vision for what the final piece would look like and b) the ability to communicate that vision to their artists/photogs/flash etc. The ones that came in with no ideas and expected me to create magic drove me *nuts*.