Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also thought it was because of MS's crappy half-hearted support of Hebrew.
You're practically there. The straw that broke the camel's back was MS's refusal to add Hebrew support to Office for Mac. This ran afoul of Israel's monopoly laws. Hell, there were even those that tried to negotiate with MS, offering to pay for bespoke development, and MS wouldn't even discuss it with them.
After Effects is not a video editing solution. It's compositing software.
Premiere doesn't hold a candle to FCP. How many features have you heard of that were cut on premiere? If you're going to compare premiere to anything, compare it to FCE, which can be had for as little as $99.
Granted, your time isn't worth much, but I don't think you're really realizing a cost savings with your PC/Premiere bundle.
I've never tried Virtual Dub, but I'm sure it's a fine program. The fact that you mention it as comparable to iMovie, though, makes me wonder what sort of crunch you're smoking, and where can I get some?
You seem to be misinformed as to how the iPod operates. When you select a song and press play, the HD spins up and loads the song into the buffer. (I'm not sure about the size of the buffer.) Then it spins down until more data is needed in the buffer. I believe this alleviates much of the problem of using a hard drive while engaged in physical activity, although I won't argue that it is less robust than a solid state device.
I have a friend who is waiting for the 250 GB iPod. He'll get his wish, eventually, but I'm not going to wait that long!
To each his own. The 10 Gig model is useful to me as more than a music player. It's also my emergency boot disk and is useful for moving large files or large groups of files (I sometimes do video work, and it's a handy way to grab clips off of someone else's computer). I was able to get mine for $170 - it's a second gen.
However, for your sake and the sake of all those others who don't need this functionality, I do hope the rumors are true.
If I were a cafe owner and not the geek that I am, your set up would be more trouble than it's worth. Cafes are in the coffee business.
However, it's a different story if you're specifically setting up an internet cafe or a community access center in an area where few people have internet access at home. Internet cafes make a lot of sense in countries that don't have high penetration of home internet access.
In these other cases, your idea has a lot more merit.
A good line of thought. Initial equipment costs are so cheap that it doesn't really matter who pays, really. Rather than compete with the employees tip jar, split it with the employees, or give it to them outright once montly costs are covered.
This might (big might) give the employees incentive to learn enough to help customers troubleshoot during non-busy periods. Customers are more likely to tip if the staff is helpful.
Even if a cafe forgoes a tip jar, or if the tip jar doesn't cover costs, costs are easily covered by selling an extra 20 - 50 lattes a month. (I'm guessing that a cafe makes $2 profit on a $4 latte. I might be way off base on this.)
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You mis-spelled "licensed". Should I be questioning your integrity?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also thought it was because of MS's crappy half-hearted support of Hebrew.
You're practically there. The straw that broke the camel's back was MS's refusal to add Hebrew support to Office for Mac. This ran afoul of Israel's monopoly laws. Hell, there were even those that tried to negotiate with MS, offering to pay for bespoke development, and MS wouldn't even discuss it with them.
And this is suprising, given the lack of support for Hebrew in the Mac version of Office?
"Oh, he's a Star Belly Sneetch. You can tell because he's got the cheap iPod."
After Effects is not a video editing solution. It's compositing software.
Premiere doesn't hold a candle to FCP. How many features have you heard of that were cut on premiere? If you're going to compare premiere to anything, compare it to FCE, which can be had for as little as $99.
Granted, your time isn't worth much, but I don't think you're really realizing a cost savings with your PC/Premiere bundle.
I've never tried Virtual Dub, but I'm sure it's a fine program. The fact that you mention it as comparable to iMovie, though, makes me wonder what sort of crunch you're smoking, and where can I get some?
You work at a Seven Eleven?
Home Depot or Lowe's
You seem to be misinformed as to how the iPod operates. When you select a song and press play, the HD spins up and loads the song into the buffer. (I'm not sure about the size of the buffer.) Then it spins down until more data is needed in the buffer. I believe this alleviates much of the problem of using a hard drive while engaged in physical activity, although I won't argue that it is less robust than a solid state device.
I have a friend who is waiting for the 250 GB iPod. He'll get his wish, eventually, but I'm not going to wait that long!
Well, at least he wasn't attacked by 20 - 30 huge craps while trying to take a carp.
Don't the call that a log jam?
He was good in LoTR, but otherwise Pippen has sucked without Michael Jordan.
To each his own. The 10 Gig model is useful to me as more than a music player. It's also my emergency boot disk and is useful for moving large files or large groups of files (I sometimes do video work, and it's a handy way to grab clips off of someone else's computer). I was able to get mine for $170 - it's a second gen.
However, for your sake and the sake of all those others who don't need this functionality, I do hope the rumors are true.
Which then gets OCR'd for the $0 folks.
I'll sell you a jpeg of my iPod for cheap.
Not to mention Rendezvous aka ZeroConf.
BTW, I thought MOTU already was a ProTools killer. =)
Offtopic: I'm getting an error page when I use the Black Monday contact page.
I use and love OS X, but have you checked out Sun's Looking Glass?
Looks mighty promising.
OK, back to the trolling in progress.
Just flip the video and sell the car as a adnoH.
. . . you have probes up on cinderblocks scattered across your lawn.
And that's not even getting into the subject of range.
If I were a cafe owner and not the geek that I am, your set up would be more trouble than it's worth. Cafes are in the coffee business.
However, it's a different story if you're specifically setting up an internet cafe or a community access center in an area where few people have internet access at home. Internet cafes make a lot of sense in countries that don't have high penetration of home internet access.
In these other cases, your idea has a lot more merit.
A good line of thought. Initial equipment costs are so cheap that it doesn't really matter who pays, really. Rather than compete with the employees tip jar, split it with the employees, or give it to them outright once montly costs are covered.
This might (big might) give the employees incentive to learn enough to help customers troubleshoot during non-busy periods. Customers are more likely to tip if the staff is helpful.
Even if a cafe forgoes a tip jar, or if the tip jar doesn't cover costs, costs are easily covered by selling an extra 20 - 50 lattes a month. (I'm guessing that a cafe makes $2 profit on a $4 latte. I might be way off base on this.)
What if the original poster was setting up access at his local swing club?
To be fair, the eMac sports a 17" crt.
For a grandma, or in my case, my dad, I went with the eMac. He's actually using it, and since I'm his tech support, I couldn't be happier!
BTW, I paid $699 + tax.
Yeah it is NICE, but if it doesn't work and the 100x wight/cost version does, you can pretty much guess what has to be done.
Yeah, send out 10 at a time. Hopefully, one of them will make it.
On the other hand, this will make the Beagle 2's attorneys rich after they file a class action suit against Apple.
Perhaps they didn't know how to program the clock, and left it flashing 12:00, like my dad's VCR.