Suppose a 90% Windows marketshare - and be very nice and political and give Linux and the Mac each 5%.
So what you mean is the whole Linux 5% would switch over to PPC beige boxes?
Considering the fact they already can today (well, beige is a bit out of the question, but Linux on PPC is a definite - and pretty cool - option today, and there's always Darwin, BSD and related options) don't you think that even a 5% increase of PPC's is far-fetched in this scenario?
Or is Windows supposed to support IBM chips suddenly?
Seriously, am I missing something?
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Now why was I expecting this?
"in order to do it right, undress, dance around at full moon and eat twelve frogs.";-
Let's put it another way: it makes a lot of sense to record and master from the highest hz and dither down to CD quality. And - not taking into account bad mixes - that makes a difference even non-professional audiophiles can hear. It's not about being able to spot where something has been tweaked, it's about having a preference for the better mixes and also not having fatigue when listening to music on normal volumes.
That's the analogy that works perfectly for colour space as well.
Incidentally, sad but true, for really good mastering examples in modern music, listen to a recent Madonna CD.
"All you people are freaking nuts. If you think you can tell the difference your deluding yourselves. "
This is really like saying that in music, CD quality recording and mastering is good enough, since virtually no-one can hear the difference between CD and mastertape.
Which is bull. Professionals do, and these are the people making good sounding mixes (dithered down to CD quality) or in the case of DTP and digital imagery, nice looking pictures...
So, to come to the point: "all you people" are not as freaking nuts as you think they are. They may have a better grasp of how to get good results instead of the nitty gritty theoretical stuff. But they are right in asking for good color depth nevertheless.
Or I should say, it looks a whole lot better than before. A jump from Photoshop 4 to 5.
Especially the many preview screens will make a big difference to average users.
While I still have a Photoshop around (several years old) I won't go for the Gimp, there's no incentive, but it is slowly becoming a program you can actually reccommend to people on a budget...
Yeah yeah, that sounds blasé... but I do like PSD's text tools, multiple undo's, actions and well, just about everything. It grows on you. Someone just starting could now get used to the Gimp and maybe feel lost in Photoshop? It's possible.
Seems to me that the only way to do this cost-effective is to first build a space elevator on earth in order to get the material needed to the moon cheaply...
Repeat after me: - Apollo - Space Shuttle - Arms Race
All totally not profitable in the normal sense. That doesn't mean there isn't money to be made in the process...
Political will and inventiveness. That's where money will come from. Anyway, it's still a pittance compared the annual Arms budget of the USA. It could be paid by 10% of the annual income of the richest 1% of the USA.
And, after all, what is money, a shared illusion...
Mind, I haven't even talked about profits when the elevator is working. Don't know if that should be a consideration;-)
Well, given Apple's amount of cash in the bank and the amount of shares issued, it was indeed a "token" amount.
We mere mortals can only dream about this kind of cash but we're talking about one of the - if not the - richest individuals on the planet and one of the biggest companies on the planit.
If for instance we see the emergence of speciality shops, like everything Jazz, everything Classical, stuff like that, if the collection is not matched by iTMS and if the format sold is WMA.
Then I could imagine being pissed off by using an iPod. Now we have like ten shops selling the same stuff, and the Apple store is both the biggest and the nicest one around.
At the moment I'd be pissed off by using anything but iPod.
Disclaimer: I don't use any mp3 player, I do use iTunes, it's really nice in everything it does, imo. Which incidentally makes it an almost 100% certainty that if I buy an mp3 player, it'll be an iPod.
I'd go one further, let the electronic votes be added in real-time for entertainment value, so that people can hold their victory speach and so forth and so on, but let the paper trail be counted and make that outcome the legally binding one.
The best of two worlds, as long as you don't give the electronic result legal status.
OTOH they've done the necessary research to make it a good project for other institutions with the budget and the need for (clustered) HPC. So all in all not entirely wasted.
Still, good point and still kudo's for the Spanish.
If you're into games, buy a PC. Sad but true. The coolest, most fun game I ever played was on a PC. I had all the typical PC/Windows horrors on drivers, soundcards, upgrades, viruses and whatmore, but I enjoyed the game tremendously.
And yes, I'm a lifelong Mac user (since '84). I have a PS2, it still doesn't come close to the wonderful gaming experience I had with that piece of junk PC I finally had to bury with a hatchet...
Asshole? Nice. Be my guest, by all means, very constructive, adult and erm... smelling of fan-boy stupidity.
I've read pretty interesting posts on the issue, talking where cost, clustering or even simple stupid speed isn't the issue. The vast majority enabled to bring the point across without being 6year old anal retentives in the process.
So why not make the world a less smelly place and either make your point without drooling and pissing around or post your own articles on/. without any mention whatsoever of whatever makes you go agagagaga
I've read a few posts on how Slashdot is taken hostage by Apple fanboys.
So what I propose is that even when Apple related posts are few and far between, we should always add one of the following conclusions: 1) Apple is still expensive, even if they're proven cheaper than the alternative. 2) Apple is still slow compared to anything my cousin Ned can build in his back-yard. 3) Jobs is an ass-hole. 4) You know, any objective computer user has to acknowledge the simple truth: Apple sux and anyway is dead, gone and dying. 5) Apple's are sissy.
And if that doesn't prove enough, maybe some "Linux Rulez!"
"Be a little more logical, open minded, less fanatic people."
So we should say "It's really no achievement to have a supercomputer in a pricerange available to institutions other than military. The fact that they use Apple's G5 and OS X, an almost out of the box solution is totally irrelevant. If you like you can build your own courtesy of Virginia University, but who would want a supercomputer that's cheaper than the other twenty first contenders in the list of supercomputers. Remember, they're Apple, so they're crap. And expensive, whatever the calculations say. They must be. They're Apple. I repeat, they're Apple. Crap. Be realistic, don't be a fan-boy."
Seriously, how can anybody let anything that undermines the basis of democracy die?
I'm sure it undermines your patriotic senses, but us north-europeans are marvelling at your totally inadequate, undemocratic and flawed voting system. It should/could be fixed, but something as stupid as politics and partisanship seems to be in the way.
The need to register alone is so totally outlandish. But each to his own. You like it, you keep it.
Well, here's to the land of the free, that they'll please remember where their borders are.
I remember doing thumbnail batches with Debabelizer. Don't know if it still excists, but it was one hell of a tool for automization of just about *anything* graphic.
Insightful, or simply "truthful" would make sense, but funny? As in sarcastic maybe, but what the poster says is plain and simple truth, no one at MS or any other corporation would deny it.
BTW it only is shameless if you don't at least try a leeetle bit to be better than average. I've been told MS actually makes good developer tools. Maybe it's there that they find redemtion for all the crap they inflict on unthinking customers or hapless office victims of Office?
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"Anybody tried iTunes/Win on VMWare yet?"
Nope, but I've tried iTunes/mac on a mac, and guess what, it works!
Suppose a 90% Windows marketshare - and be very nice and political and give Linux and the Mac each 5%.
So what you mean is the whole Linux 5% would switch over to PPC beige boxes?
Considering the fact they already can today (well, beige is a bit out of the question, but Linux on PPC is a definite - and pretty cool - option today, and there's always Darwin, BSD and related options) don't you think that even a 5% increase of PPC's is far-fetched in this scenario?
Or is Windows supposed to support IBM chips suddenly?
Seriously, am I missing something?
Now why was I expecting this?
;-
"in order to do it right, undress, dance around at full moon and eat twelve frogs."
Let's put it another way: it makes a lot of sense to record and master from the highest hz and dither down to CD quality. And - not taking into account bad mixes - that makes a difference even non-professional audiophiles can hear. It's not about being able to spot where something has been tweaked, it's about having a preference for the better mixes and also not having fatigue when listening to music on normal volumes.
That's the analogy that works perfectly for colour space as well.
Incidentally, sad but true, for really good mastering examples in modern music, listen to a recent Madonna CD.
I stand (partly) corrected :)
Cheers
"All you people are freaking nuts. If you think you can tell the difference your deluding yourselves. "
This is really like saying that in music, CD quality recording and mastering is good enough, since virtually no-one can hear the difference between CD and mastertape.
Which is bull. Professionals do, and these are the people making good sounding mixes (dithered down to CD quality) or in the case of DTP and digital imagery, nice looking pictures...
So, to come to the point: "all you people" are not as freaking nuts as you think they are. They may have a better grasp of how to get good results instead of the nitty gritty theoretical stuff. But they are right in asking for good color depth nevertheless.
Or I should say, it looks a whole lot better than before. A jump from Photoshop 4 to 5.
Especially the many preview screens will make a big difference to average users.
While I still have a Photoshop around (several years old) I won't go for the Gimp, there's no incentive, but it is slowly becoming a program you can actually reccommend to people on a budget...
Yeah yeah, that sounds blasé... but I do like PSD's text tools, multiple undo's, actions and well, just about everything. It grows on you. Someone just starting could now get used to the Gimp and maybe feel lost in Photoshop? It's possible.
Arg, ack, puh, I spittuh on you you Ingilish son of a female doguh!
Seems to me that the only way to do this cost-effective is to first build a space elevator on earth in order to get the material needed to the moon cheaply...
Funny, really.
"Now that our worrying caps are on, let's think about why the Bush administration is keen on weaponizing space. "
Uh, because there's money to be made? Do the neocons need another reason?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a liberal french coward...
Repeat after me:
;-)
- Apollo
- Space Shuttle
- Arms Race
All totally not profitable in the normal sense. That doesn't mean there isn't money to be made in the process...
Political will and inventiveness. That's where money will come from. Anyway, it's still a pittance compared the annual Arms budget of the USA. It could be paid by 10% of the annual income of the richest 1% of the USA.
And, after all, what is money, a shared illusion...
Mind, I haven't even talked about profits when the elevator is working. Don't know if that should be a consideration
Well, given Apple's amount of cash in the bank and the amount of shares issued, it was indeed a "token" amount.
We mere mortals can only dream about this kind of cash but we're talking about one of the - if not the - richest individuals on the planet and one of the biggest companies on the planit.
If for instance we see the emergence of speciality shops, like everything Jazz, everything Classical, stuff like that, if the collection is not matched by iTMS and if the format sold is WMA.
Then I could imagine being pissed off by using an iPod. Now we have like ten shops selling the same stuff, and the Apple store is both the biggest and the nicest one around.
At the moment I'd be pissed off by using anything but iPod.
Disclaimer: I don't use any mp3 player, I do use iTunes, it's really nice in everything it does, imo. Which incidentally makes it an almost 100% certainty that if I buy an mp3 player, it'll be an iPod.
No they don't. You refer to the time Gates bought a bit of stock and signed a deal to ensure 5 years of Office and IE development on the Mac.
The stock has been sold and it was a token amount anyway.
What does help Gates is the fact that the Mac unit at MS does brisk business. So in that sense he wins either way.
I'd go one further, let the electronic votes be added in real-time for entertainment value, so that people can hold their victory speach and so forth and so on, but let the paper trail be counted and make that outcome the legally binding one.
The best of two worlds, as long as you don't give the electronic result legal status.
OTOH they've done the necessary research to make it a good project for other institutions with the budget and the need for (clustered) HPC. So all in all not entirely wasted.
Still, good point and still kudo's for the Spanish.
Good points, and yes, the Spanish accomplishment is something, muy impresionante por supuesto.
It's hard to be sarcastic on mac versus PC games.
If you're into games, buy a PC. Sad but true. The coolest, most fun game I ever played was on a PC. I had all the typical PC/Windows horrors on drivers, soundcards, upgrades, viruses and whatmore, but I enjoyed the game tremendously.
And yes, I'm a lifelong Mac user (since '84). I have a PS2, it still doesn't come close to the wonderful gaming experience I had with that piece of junk PC I finally had to bury with a hatchet...
Cheers
Asshole? Nice. Be my guest, by all means, very constructive, adult and erm... smelling of fan-boy stupidity.
/. without any mention whatsoever of whatever makes you go agagagaga
I've read pretty interesting posts on the issue, talking where cost, clustering or even simple stupid speed isn't the issue. The vast majority enabled to bring the point across without being 6year old anal retentives in the process.
So why not make the world a less smelly place and either make your point without drooling and pissing around or post your own articles on
Rrrright.
Us dumb, stupid people with our virus- and bluescreen-free machines. Stupid stupid stupid.
I've read a few posts on how Slashdot is taken hostage by Apple fanboys.
So what I propose is that even when Apple related posts are few and far between, we should always add one of the following conclusions:
1) Apple is still expensive, even if they're proven cheaper than the alternative.
2) Apple is still slow compared to anything my cousin Ned can build in his back-yard.
3) Jobs is an ass-hole.
4) You know, any objective computer user has to acknowledge the simple truth: Apple sux and anyway is dead, gone and dying.
5) Apple's are sissy.
And if that doesn't prove enough, maybe some "Linux Rulez!"
I'm only slightly kidding here...
"Be a little more logical, open minded, less fanatic people."
So we should say "It's really no achievement to have a supercomputer in a pricerange available to institutions other than military. The fact that they use Apple's G5 and OS X, an almost out of the box solution is totally irrelevant. If you like you can build your own courtesy of Virginia University, but who would want a supercomputer that's cheaper than the other twenty first contenders in the list of supercomputers. Remember, they're Apple, so they're crap. And expensive, whatever the calculations say. They must be. They're Apple. I repeat, they're Apple. Crap. Be realistic, don't be a fan-boy."
Fan-boy indeed.
Spoken as a true democrat.
Seriously, how can anybody let anything that undermines the basis of democracy die?
I'm sure it undermines your patriotic senses, but us north-europeans are marvelling at your totally inadequate, undemocratic and flawed voting system. It should/could be fixed, but something as stupid as politics and partisanship seems to be in the way.
The need to register alone is so totally outlandish. But each to his own. You like it, you keep it.
Well, here's to the land of the free, that they'll please remember where their borders are.
I remember doing thumbnail batches with Debabelizer. Don't know if it still excists, but it was one hell of a tool for automization of just about *anything* graphic.
How can this be modded funny?
Insightful, or simply "truthful" would make sense, but funny? As in sarcastic maybe, but what the poster says is plain and simple truth, no one at MS or any other corporation would deny it.
BTW it only is shameless if you don't at least try a leeetle bit to be better than average. I've been told MS actually makes good developer tools. Maybe it's there that they find redemtion for all the crap they inflict on unthinking customers or hapless office victims of Office?