Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, if I take out my dashboard in my vw and I put in an after market dash, then my car stops working, you can bet its not going to be covered under warranty. If you do something unsupported with any product the maker of the product is never liable. That is just standard practice with any product. The reason for that is that in developing anything you just need to draw some limits to what crazy thing you are going to support. Apple assumed that people would not buy a mac ipod if they didn't have a mac.
Apple does not now, nor has it ever supported using Xplay. These problems are the sort of things you have to learn to accept if you are going to hack around on your own. Nothing wrong with that, just don't come complaining to apple when your ipod doesn't work anymore.
How is it that EVERY SINGLE story on slashdot has someone post "why is this news?" This is very interesting to me, maybe not to you. But you see, people have different interests.
I am a professional artists, and I appreciate that you pay for quality. I do not think $2k per event is unreasonable for a good photographers. Now the guys that are makin upwards of $10k...they are really no better than the average, and I personally scanned around 50,000 wedding photos at my old job. The guy that sent his assistant's stuff was really just mediocre.
Event photographers VERY RARELY develop their own photos. Most these days shoot either digitally or just send their negatives in to a web service, which scans them and makes digital prints. Even if they do traditional prints they get them done at a professional lab. moonlight is the most popular in Southern california. They have their prices for processing and prints so you can get an idea of the photographer's mark up. They do all the darkroom work as well, to the photographer's specs, but all the burning and dodging is up to the lab. And if your photographer is working digitally (like the guy that charges $60k) his cost per print is $0, the web service company eats that cost and makes up for it on a sales commision. It works out to around 25 cents per 8x10.
Wedding photographers! My god what a racket. I worked for a online wedding photography company and the top photographers contracted with us made $40-60k PER EVENT. One photographer I won't name routinely charged $40k for events that he didn't even bother to show up at. He sent an assistant. I am not making that up.
And what do you get for that price? That's right. NOTHING. They show up and shoot. But they make you pay for the prints. >$10 a pop. And if you want an album? Well...thats gonna cost extra.
Even if this were the case, which it isn't, how is this worse than the continuous emission of poison gas into the atmosphere? Or the KNOWN risks of nuclear power?
Are the moral dilemnas worse that buildings across all the big rivers or covering the earth with solar panels? I think I'd rather mess up the moon's surface than the earth's. Nothing lives on the moon.
This article is just a hand out to advertisers (like most everything in an ad-supported site like cnet):
The ipod doesn't do this, may we suggest this other product which we totally objectively decided to feature? And boy oh boy isn't the iRiver company great. Look, they make a product. You know they make a flash media player, and a hard drive jukebox too! Wow aren't they nice. Or maybe one of those mp3-cd players, and you know "Best of all, you can pick up a decent one (the iRiver ChromeX)" Damn, iRiver has got you covered. And I promise, no one from the iRiver company sent my freebies, sent me a "story suggestion" or took me out to dinner. I am a completely object reporter. And I just love my nice iRiver jacket.
For a website, maybe not. But my company creates online training for the medical industry. We used to build our course using Java...and sure, we can't do anything now with flash we couldn't do with java. But its so much easier (and faster). Flash is a great environment to develop applications very, very quickly. Better still, all anyone needs is the flash player. Its platform independant!
Works faster than it does on my mac on both my p4 1.5ghz at work and my 2.53ghz at home. (both have high end graphics and 1gb of ram though, and my mac is a 400mhz rev 1 tibook)
No one is arguing that being very tall is not inconvenient. I do think that being abnormal physically is difficult for anyone, but I really hate the whole napolean complex thing. I personally have only met one short man that fit this description. I think in actual fact some short people are insecure assholes. Just like some tall people. Or average people.
Being very tall or very short is a drag, because the majority of the world just isn't trying to accomidate you. I'm 5'3" and my biggest complaint is The Gap. The good news is they carry pants that fit me. The bad news is that they oh so cleverly shelve the pants with the shortest inseams on top, and the longest on bottom. Who thought of that? I can't reach the pants that fit. I have to go find someone who works at the store to get them down for me, while very tall people are hunched over on the floor looking for their pants. Grr.
BTW, I have a girlfriend, and I think she's pretty attractive. But I don't think I've ever seen her fling herself at me.
This has been around since maya 4. It IS NOT the full version of maya. It saves in a format not compatible with the commercial version, doesn't include mental ray and it watermarks renders. It is useful for learning maya or just playing with it. Its not suitable for creating anything useable, even for your star wars fan films. You'll have to keep using the crack.
I did some research because I am a geek. The earliest post on usnet is from 1992 and it is someones sig. The closest real, attributed reference that might be the origination of this I could find is this:
It's certainly enough memory. The Mac started out with 64K, which is
one sixteenth of what the Lisa started out with. Because the Mac's
bit map is smaller than the Lisa's, we thought we could do something
with that amount of memory. But we were pushing for 128K all the way,
and about a year ago we switched to 128K. We figured out how to squeeze
the applications down to that size.
When you're writing applications that are going to be simple to use,
it's important to have some boundaries that prevent you from throwing
in an unlimited number of features; the memory size provides that limit.
Certainly what we've got in terms of Multichart, Multifile, Multiplan,
and Microsoft BASIC on the Mac are as rich as on any other machine we've
seen. I think the people at Apple would openly admit that Plan, File,
and Chart are more powerful than their equivalents on the Lisa, and
yet they run on an eighth as much memory.
When you do get more memory, you'll be able to have multiple applications
active or have more data space available. It's partly those boundaries
that have forced us to find more clever ways to do things and stay within
the memory size. It's caused us to be more innovative than we would have
been if we'd had a megabyte.
-- Bill Gates, interviewed by David Bunnell in
Macworld, volume 1, issue 1, 1984, pages 44-45.
The indy labels are on iTunes! yeah. Download tracks from NOfx, Rancid, Sleater Kinney, Modest Mouse and many more! Now that is what I call a music service.
Have you ever tried COUNTING dollars? What a huge pain in the ass, you have to be very careful that 100s or 20s don't get mixed in with the ones, and the only way to make sure is to look at all the bills one by one. I worked in a hotel in america for a while, and then I worked in Paris. Counting euros was a dream...you can just look at a stack and know its value, and be sure of how much each bill is worth, without having to carefully look at all of them.
The Viewsonic keyboard I got for free with my PC is just garbage, it has thousands of useless keys that I accidentaly bump and switch apps or something. Worse still, the Function keys are disabled by default in favor of some "office" keys.
So I got a Kensington "keyboard in a box" usb keyboard on my PC. It was made for macs, but it works fine on the PC...and it has no stupid internet keys, and it doesn't have acres of useless plastic. It is also a lot cheaper than apple's keboards.
Most of these applications run server side...interaction with them is based on forms. Look at PeopleSoft's HR offerings for a good example. They run fine most on any browser.
I think its the beginning of the end for microsoft. I think sun may be right about the future. Perhaps we'll see the majority of corporate desktops as Linux thin clients managed centrally on a "big Iron" server from Sun or IBM or whoever. People in the art department can run on Macs or full fledged Lintel desktops, because they will need the power. Developers will also need real linux desktops. But everyone will be able to run X-windows unix client apps for the corporate stuff (ximian evolution, star office/openOffice.org). Client-server inhouse apps like PeopleSoft for HR or whatever will all be web based apps that are client agnostic. Open standards will allow the hardware to match the job and greatly simplify administration. I'm sure microsoft will still be around, especially in the home. Home users will still need, or at least want, full featured desktops for media and cd burning, gaming, etc. Sure this all sounds idealistic...but wouldn't IBM's open future be great?
I am going to assume the AC is trolling, but I may as well respond: I didn't say it was superior. I prefer macs. And macs allow me to do the work I need to do as well as a pc. Movies studios are very different places then the workplaces of most artists (or our home offices). In an effect studio artists specialize. If I was a ful time 3d modeler, animator or Technical Director I could spend my days in Linux on x86, with no need for shake/combustion/after effects or photoshop or what have you.
If I am building a render farm I just want a lot of CPU, cheap (sun render farms were common until recently, when linux intel clusters started to pull ahead in price/performance) In my work I don't have that luxury. I need to work in Maya, next to photoshop, and I need flash as well. My choice is between a mac or a wintel (currently much faster, but the g5 should change that). I also need to pop into Office to some typing or reading documents. Now, given the CHOICE. I can choose to work on a mac, which I find to be a much more pleasant experience. I like macs better. I also like building commodity pcs, and I like to play games on my pc as well. So I do run both, but I prefer to use a mac, especially considering it runs all the apps I need.
In an aside, the woman you mentioned was quite clearly a certifiable addict. The questions we should ask to see if gaming passes the addiction test: have you tried to quit and couldn't? Has your gaming caused you to miss work or severely hampered your work? Have you been fired over your gaming?
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Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, if I take out my dashboard in my vw and I put in an after market dash, then my car stops working, you can bet its not going to be covered under warranty. If you do something unsupported with any product the maker of the product is never liable. That is just standard practice with any product. The reason for that is that in developing anything you just need to draw some limits to what crazy thing you are going to support. Apple assumed that people would not buy a mac ipod if they didn't have a mac.
Apple does not now, nor has it ever supported using Xplay. These problems are the sort of things you have to learn to accept if you are going to hack around on your own. Nothing wrong with that, just don't come complaining to apple when your ipod doesn't work anymore.
Why would they want to? If they REALLY want satallite imaging they could get better images from space imaging for less.
How is it that EVERY SINGLE story on slashdot has someone post "why is this news?" This is very interesting to me, maybe not to you. But you see, people have different interests.
I am a professional artists, and I appreciate that you pay for quality. I do not think $2k per event is unreasonable for a good photographers. Now the guys that are makin upwards of $10k...they are really no better than the average, and I personally scanned around 50,000 wedding photos at my old job. The guy that sent his assistant's stuff was really just mediocre.
Event photographers VERY RARELY develop their own photos. Most these days shoot either digitally or just send their negatives in to a web service, which scans them and makes digital prints. Even if they do traditional prints they get them done at a professional lab. moonlight is the most popular in Southern california. They have their prices for processing and prints so you can get an idea of the photographer's mark up. They do all the darkroom work as well, to the photographer's specs, but all the burning and dodging is up to the lab. And if your photographer is working digitally (like the guy that charges $60k) his cost per print is $0, the web service company eats that cost and makes up for it on a sales commision. It works out to around 25 cents per 8x10.
Wedding photographers! My god what a racket. I worked for a online wedding photography company and the top photographers contracted with us made $40-60k PER EVENT. One photographer I won't name routinely charged $40k for events that he didn't even bother to show up at. He sent an assistant. I am not making that up.
And what do you get for that price? That's right. NOTHING. They show up and shoot. But they make you pay for the prints. >$10 a pop. And if you want an album? Well...thats gonna cost extra.
Even if this were the case, which it isn't, how is this worse than the continuous emission of poison gas into the atmosphere? Or the KNOWN risks of nuclear power?
Are the moral dilemnas worse that buildings across all the big rivers or covering the earth with solar panels? I think I'd rather mess up the moon's surface than the earth's. Nothing lives on the moon.
This article is just a hand out to advertisers (like most everything in an ad-supported site like cnet):
The ipod doesn't do this, may we suggest this other product which we totally objectively decided to feature? And boy oh boy isn't the iRiver company great. Look, they make a product. You know they make a flash media player, and a hard drive jukebox too! Wow aren't they nice. Or maybe one of those mp3-cd players, and you know "Best of all, you can pick up a decent one (the iRiver ChromeX)" Damn, iRiver has got you covered. And I promise, no one from the iRiver company sent my freebies, sent me a "story suggestion" or took me out to dinner. I am a completely object reporter. And I just love my nice iRiver jacket.
For a website, maybe not. But my company creates online training for the medical industry. We used to build our course using Java...and sure, we can't do anything now with flash we couldn't do with java. But its so much easier (and faster). Flash is a great environment to develop applications very, very quickly. Better still, all anyone needs is the flash player. Its platform independant!
Works faster than it does on my mac on both my p4 1.5ghz at work and my 2.53ghz at home. (both have high end graphics and 1gb of ram though, and my mac is a 400mhz rev 1 tibook)
No one is arguing that being very tall is not inconvenient. I do think that being abnormal physically is difficult for anyone, but I really hate the whole napolean complex thing. I personally have only met one short man that fit this description. I think in actual fact some short people are insecure assholes. Just like some tall people. Or average people.
Being very tall or very short is a drag, because the majority of the world just isn't trying to accomidate you. I'm 5'3" and my biggest complaint is The Gap. The good news is they carry pants that fit me. The bad news is that they oh so cleverly shelve the pants with the shortest inseams on top, and the longest on bottom. Who thought of that? I can't reach the pants that fit. I have to go find someone who works at the store to get them down for me, while very tall people are hunched over on the floor looking for their pants. Grr.
BTW, I have a girlfriend, and I think she's pretty attractive. But I don't think I've ever seen her fling herself at me.
This has been around since maya 4. It IS NOT the full version of maya. It saves in a format not compatible with the commercial version, doesn't include mental ray and it watermarks renders. It is useful for learning maya or just playing with it. Its not suitable for creating anything useable, even for your star wars fan films. You'll have to keep using the crack.
The indy labels are on iTunes! yeah. Download tracks from NOfx, Rancid, Sleater Kinney, Modest Mouse and many more! Now that is what I call a music service.
Have you ever tried COUNTING dollars? What a huge pain in the ass, you have to be very careful that 100s or 20s don't get mixed in with the ones, and the only way to make sure is to look at all the bills one by one. I worked in a hotel in america for a while, and then I worked in Paris. Counting euros was a dream...you can just look at a stack and know its value, and be sure of how much each bill is worth, without having to carefully look at all of them.
>>"...for girls, I'll take ugly and cool over cute and hot every
>>day)."
>De gustibus non est disputandum.
Translation: Of [matters of]taste, there is no arguing, "There's no accounting for taste"
The Viewsonic keyboard I got for free with my PC is just garbage, it has thousands of useless keys that I accidentaly bump and switch apps or something. Worse still, the Function keys are disabled by default in favor of some "office" keys. So I got a Kensington "keyboard in a box" usb keyboard on my PC. It was made for macs, but it works fine on the PC...and it has no stupid internet keys, and it doesn't have acres of useless plastic. It is also a lot cheaper than apple's keboards.
Most of these applications run server side...interaction with them is based on forms. Look at PeopleSoft's HR offerings for a good example. They run fine most on any browser.
I think its the beginning of the end for microsoft. I think sun may be right about the future. Perhaps we'll see the majority of corporate desktops as Linux thin clients managed centrally on a "big Iron" server from Sun or IBM or whoever. People in the art department can run on Macs or full fledged Lintel desktops, because they will need the power. Developers will also need real linux desktops. But everyone will be able to run X-windows unix client apps for the corporate stuff (ximian evolution, star office/openOffice.org). Client-server inhouse apps like PeopleSoft for HR or whatever will all be web based apps that are client agnostic. Open standards will allow the hardware to match the job and greatly simplify administration. I'm sure microsoft will still be around, especially in the home. Home users will still need, or at least want, full featured desktops for media and cd burning, gaming, etc. Sure this all sounds idealistic...but wouldn't IBM's open future be great?
Hmm, I read that "the fans of the G5 are computer controlled"...I always knew Steve Jobs was trying to take over the world.
See it in what ever format you prefer...the future is open people.
"My family in Indianapolis couldn't even get DSL or cable until about 5 years ago"
Considering cable modems weren't even available before 1997, availablitiy in 1998 is EARLY. I lived in Vail for a while and we just got in 2002.
I am going to assume the AC is trolling, but I may as well respond: I didn't say it was superior. I prefer macs. And macs allow me to do the work I need to do as well as a pc. Movies studios are very different places then the workplaces of most artists (or our home offices). In an effect studio artists specialize. If I was a ful time 3d modeler, animator or Technical Director I could spend my days in Linux on x86, with no need for shake/combustion/after effects or photoshop or what have you.
If I am building a render farm I just want a lot of CPU, cheap (sun render farms were common until recently, when linux intel clusters started to pull ahead in price/performance) In my work I don't have that luxury. I need to work in Maya, next to photoshop, and I need flash as well. My choice is between a mac or a wintel (currently much faster, but the g5 should change that). I also need to pop into Office to some typing or reading documents. Now, given the CHOICE. I can choose to work on a mac, which I find to be a much more pleasant experience. I like macs better. I also like building commodity pcs, and I like to play games on my pc as well. So I do run both, but I prefer to use a mac, especially considering it runs all the apps I need.
In an aside, the woman you mentioned was quite clearly a certifiable addict. The questions we should ask to see if gaming passes the addiction test: have you tried to quit and couldn't? Has your gaming caused you to miss work or severely hampered your work? Have you been fired over your gaming?
here is an AA questionare, maybe its applicable...