If you mention "Power Company" in a sentence without the words "in my stock portfolio", some people are just going to assume you're Bush bashing. You're getting too close for comfort.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tiger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Tiger on a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 with 2.5 GB of RAM for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Power Mac running OS 8.5, which by all standards should be a lot slower than the dual G5, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iWork is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Tiger, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Spotlight run faster than Sherlock, despite Tiger's modern kernel. My Fat Mac with 512K of ram runs faster than this dual G5 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Tiger is a superior OS.
Tiger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tiger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
(For those of you who are new here, please see the original before you get your panties in a wad.)
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tiger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Tiger on a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 with 2.5 GB of RAM for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Performa 600 running OS 8.5, which by all standards should be a lot slower than the dual G5, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even TextWrangler is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Tiger, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Spotlight run faster than Sherlock, despite Tiger's modern kernel. My Fat Mac with 512K of ram runs faster than this dual G5 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Tiger is a superior OS.
Tiger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tiger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
(For those of you who are new here, please see the original before you get your panties in a wad.)
Well, either way, I'm still looking at upgrading the hardware. I love this TiBook, but it's days as my main machine are numbered. I'll probably keep it, though. It still boots OS 9. I don't think any recent computers from Apple will actually boot into OS 9, though you can run "Classic".
Bah, that's nothing new. My mom used to user-modify popular music when she was growing up. She used software called "sheet music" with a hardware device called a "piano." She was even able to add her voice to the mix!
Bah! You kids and your new-fangled "shit music", and your fancy-schmancy "pyaners", and your crazy long hair.
Back in my day, we banged two rocks together and howled at the moon, AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
Maybe you forgot to RTFA, but this is about the pro apps, namely FC Studio. Neither your 400 Ti nor my 800 Ti will be able to run most of the apps in FC Studio. I don't think your PB will run any, in fact.
G5 Powerbooks might be a pipe dream, but Dual Core G4s aren't exactly shipping either.
I'm well aware I'm not getting a G5 PB by June, outside of a miracle.
But why is it important to me? Did you see the system requirements for FC Studio if you want to work with HDV or HD DVD?
For the time being this will mean getting an iMac or a Powermac if the need for using HDV comes up. A Powerbook would be a whole lot more useful to me. If a small HDV job comes up, I might be able to use a partner's Powermac.
If the dual core freescales meet the FC Studio requirements for HDV, then great.
I've been holding out for the longest time, waiting for the mythical G5 Lappy. My PB G4 800 has been enough to get by until now. I can hold out until June, September at the latest.
Then the choice will be between the 17" or the 12" with my 22" cinema display.
OK, let's say that this hamburger is a Nissan Sentra. And this baked potato is a BMW. So, by analogy, an Apple computer is a baked potato. I still haven't figured out how music fits into this. ..
Wait! I know! With Napster, you have to pay every month to enjoy that baked potato (the potato is now music), but with iTunes, uh . ...
OK, how's this? With iTunes you only pay for as many bites of that potato as you want. Unless you drive a Chevy Asparagus.
Good luck, dude. I've cut way back on my slashdot habit. The trick for me was to find something interesting enough to do that wasting a lot of time here became unappealing. I'm still here, I just don't spend anywhere near the same amount of time.
It's actually a puff piece on Longhorn's new file system (which I thought had already been dropped because it was taking too long). I think this is even more damning, since it's so obviously (to you and I) that this is just MS marketing in the guise of tech journalism. Sadly, most tech journalism amounts to little more than marketing.
I used to work for a company that did training in digital video technology. I was a trainer, sent around the country to train people on Final Cut Pro. I was also a producer on several tutorial CD Roms, and did product reviews on the company website.
We also did marketing CDs for several equipment manufacturers, although our name never appeared in any credits. That part of the business was hush hush. We weren't to disclose those relationships.
We got lots of free equipment from these manufacturers, and others that wanted to be reviewed. We were specifically told to push certain products at the seminars and classes, and to give good reviews to "our" manufacturers products. We were also supposed to push product on the web site's forums, when people asked for advice. We never returned anything. In fact, the boss would give product to us employees as bonuses. I just checked the website, and they're still doing the same thing.
I openly questioned the ethics of this, and this and other factors led the boss to conclude that I wasn't a "team player", so I was let go. Honestly, I was glad, because there was a lot of other bullshit at that company as well. For a while, though, I was able to rationalize this because the products we were pushing were good products (for example, Canon DV cameras or Miller tripods). Still, when something is wrong, you know it's wrong, no matter how you try to justify it. If it wasn't wrong, why did we have to hide our business relationship with Canon?
Since this is pretty much par for the course, I think that if a magazine or web site really wanted to present unbiased, ethical reviews, they should state somewhere that they return the equipment, that their editorial is separate from advertising, and also disclose if the product manufacturer is an advertiser.
Of course, there still could be abuses, but when someone puts a policy in writing, it's a little harder to wiggle around basic ethics.
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I should hope so, otherwise there will be a sweater shortage this winter.
I think you meant to say:
In other marklar, Marklar is marklared to have marklared marklar to Marklar.
If you mention "Power Company" in a sentence without the words "in my stock portfolio", some people are just going to assume you're Bush bashing. You're getting too close for comfort.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tiger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Tiger on a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 with 2.5 GB of RAM for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Power Mac running OS 8.5, which by all standards should be a lot slower than the dual G5, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iWork is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Tiger, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Spotlight run faster than Sherlock, despite Tiger's modern kernel. My Fat Mac with 512K of ram runs faster than this dual G5 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Tiger is a superior OS.
Tiger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tiger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
(For those of you who are new here, please see the original before you get your panties in a wad.)
The upcoming George Lucas Segway-Tennis (available exclusively for the mac) will make you shit your pants.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tiger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Tiger on a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 with 2.5 GB of RAM for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Performa 600 running OS 8.5, which by all standards should be a lot slower than the dual G5, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even TextWrangler is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Tiger, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Spotlight run faster than Sherlock, despite Tiger's modern kernel. My Fat Mac with 512K of ram runs faster than this dual G5 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Tiger is a superior OS.
Tiger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tiger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
(For those of you who are new here, please see the original before you get your panties in a wad.)
Hey, you're right. I misread that.
Well, either way, I'm still looking at upgrading the hardware. I love this TiBook, but it's days as my main machine are numbered. I'll probably keep it, though. It still boots OS 9. I don't think any recent computers from Apple will actually boot into OS 9, though you can run "Classic".
Were these the same guys that did the country medley of Radiohead songs called Rodeohead?
I think he was implying that ordinary people AreTools.
Bah, that's nothing new. My mom used to user-modify popular music when she was growing up. She used software called "sheet music" with a hardware device called a "piano." She was even able to add her voice to the mix!
Bah! You kids and your new-fangled "shit music", and your fancy-schmancy "pyaners", and your crazy long hair.
Back in my day, we banged two rocks together and howled at the moon, AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
It's actually kind of fun when the old timers come out of the woodwork for a UID pissing match.
My dear friend, Amichalo:
Maybe you forgot to RTFA, but this is about the pro apps, namely FC Studio. Neither your 400 Ti nor my 800 Ti will be able to run most of the apps in FC Studio. I don't think your PB will run any, in fact.
G5 Powerbooks might be a pipe dream, but Dual Core G4s aren't exactly shipping either.
I'm well aware I'm not getting a G5 PB by June, outside of a miracle.
But why is it important to me? Did you see the system requirements for FC Studio if you want to work with HDV or HD DVD?
For the time being this will mean getting an iMac or a Powermac if the need for using HDV comes up. A Powerbook would be a whole lot more useful to me. If a small HDV job comes up, I might be able to use a partner's Powermac.
If the dual core freescales meet the FC Studio requirements for HDV, then great.
I've been holding out for the longest time, waiting for the mythical G5 Lappy. My PB G4 800 has been enough to get by until now. I can hold out until June, September at the latest.
Then the choice will be between the 17" or the 12" with my 22" cinema display.
Well said, Oh Mighty and Wise Golias (176380), if this lowly maggot (593551) may be so bold as to comment.
Personally I think he's a pear short of a fruit bowl...
I think you've hit upon a viable method of cylon detection:
Sound off like you got a pear!
OK, let's say that this hamburger is a Nissan Sentra. And this baked potato is a BMW. So, by analogy, an Apple computer is a baked potato. I still haven't figured out how music fits into this. . .
..
Wait! I know! With Napster, you have to pay every month to enjoy that baked potato (the potato is now music), but with iTunes, uh . .
OK, how's this? With iTunes you only pay for as many bites of that potato as you want. Unless you drive a Chevy Asparagus.
Good luck, dude. I've cut way back on my slashdot habit. The trick for me was to find something interesting enough to do that wasting a lot of time here became unappealing. I'm still here, I just don't spend anywhere near the same amount of time.
It's actually a puff piece on Longhorn's new file system (which I thought had already been dropped because it was taking too long). I think this is even more damning, since it's so obviously (to you and I) that this is just MS marketing in the guise of tech journalism. Sadly, most tech journalism amounts to little more than marketing.
That sounds almost like the G5 Powerbook. [Drool!]
The Dell Inspiron 9100 runs Linux as well as it does Windows
Now, that's a ringing endorsement on slashdot!
That's not a moon!
I used to work for a company that did training in digital video technology. I was a trainer, sent around the country to train people on Final Cut Pro. I was also a producer on several tutorial CD Roms, and did product reviews on the company website.
We also did marketing CDs for several equipment manufacturers, although our name never appeared in any credits. That part of the business was hush hush. We weren't to disclose those relationships.
We got lots of free equipment from these manufacturers, and others that wanted to be reviewed. We were specifically told to push certain products at the seminars and classes, and to give good reviews to "our" manufacturers products. We were also supposed to push product on the web site's forums, when people asked for advice. We never returned anything. In fact, the boss would give product to us employees as bonuses. I just checked the website, and they're still doing the same thing.
I openly questioned the ethics of this, and this and other factors led the boss to conclude that I wasn't a "team player", so I was let go. Honestly, I was glad, because there was a lot of other bullshit at that company as well. For a while, though, I was able to rationalize this because the products we were pushing were good products (for example, Canon DV cameras or Miller tripods). Still, when something is wrong, you know it's wrong, no matter how you try to justify it. If it wasn't wrong, why did we have to hide our business relationship with Canon?
Since this is pretty much par for the course, I think that if a magazine or web site really wanted to present unbiased, ethical reviews, they should state somewhere that they return the equipment, that their editorial is separate from advertising, and also disclose if the product manufacturer is an advertiser.
Of course, there still could be abuses, but when someone puts a policy in writing, it's a little harder to wiggle around basic ethics.
Don''t forget Cherry Poptart. (NSFW)
Clarity and precision of language are very important, especially when discussing anything having to do with law.