Indeed, if Apple tried to break into the Linux market with the iTMS (which would mean releasing quicktime with AAC support for Linux), people would just complain that they'd never buy any music unless it was either uncompressed, available in Ogg or have Britney come round to their house and perform the track personally every time...
My only evidence is the sensor on top of the lights (traffic lights are mounted on a short pole by the side of the road here). The sensor points at approaching traffic for that light.
It could be purely a counter, or a motion detector that changes the sequence whether I flash my lights or not,but they definately change in response to my car's presence. If anyone can tell me for sure I'd be grateful and am happyto be proved wrong.
Perhaps it is a weight sensor in the road, or the sensor on top of the lights is a motion detector. I just connected the info about flashing your lights with what I assumed this sensor was measuring.
Yes, the whole comment was a bit tongue in cheek - the subject line was "facetious but...".
And yeah, my typing sucks.
My comment was just to point out that the feature list the grandparent asked for was available on the G5's board. I'm well aware that it's likely the last system on his mind to buy when looking for a 64 bit solution.
Oh, and just to chuck in some Simpsons - my car gets 40 rods to the hog's head and that's the way I likes it. I also welcome our new 64 bit overlords.
apple.com/powermac for all your wants in that list (well, maybe not "low price" but low is a relative term at the cutting edge.
We just bought a Dual G5 and slapped a metric asston of RAM in it and it really is a video editor's dream. Final Cut Pro 4, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro 1.5 scream along.
We didn't really need to upgeade the Dual 450 G4 we were using, but we felt like treating ourselves.
We only recently retired a 9600/300 as our main production box (non linear editing). We replaced it with a dual 450 G4 which has served us very well, and we'll be keeping that box for a long time.
We bought a Dual G5 a couple of weeks ago to go alongside the dual 450.
Macs might be more expensive both used and new, but they last a very long time in the field.
Sure, I still have a P166 box running FreeBSD working as a file server, but it's no match for the Mac of similar age that I was working on with Photoshop last week.
There are sensors on the top of traffic lights in the UK that respond to headlights.
If an ambulance is approaching lights on red he can flash his full beams a few times and the sequence changes.
I use this feature all the time at the lights near my house, especially late at night when the deafult sequence on the lights is to stay green for the main road all the time unless a car approaches on the minor road.
Just open it and use the "Show" pop-up menu to see the "Network Port Configuration". Then, uncheck "AirPort" and check "Built-In Ethernet". Click on "Apple Now" to save your settings.
heh.
Apple Now! Sounds like a special move in Street Fighter or Streets of Rage (whoa, retro).
Well, you can buy it online from the Apple Store using one of the demo machines in the phyical Apple Store at the edu price, then they'll give you a box to walk out with. My friend did this after the staff at the store suggested it to him.
Indeed. I was looking forward to Halo with baited breath. I knew it wouldn't run on my iBook, but I was due for a dekstop Mac at about the time the game was supposed to come out.
I got the Mac, but not the game. Embrace and Fucking Extend(tm) saw to that.
I've never played on an X-box. I fear I'd beat myself to death with the ridiculously large and cumbersome controller.
Heh, Mac OS X will run on a B&W G3! How far back do you want to go?:o)
With a bit of coaxing and help from Xpostfacto, OS X will run on a 9600 - now that really is impressive.
I can understand the annoyance of being 'stuck' with the older OS. I was on 10.1 for a while before getting 10.2 and I used to get annoyed when programs would require 10.2 or above.
The iLife apps all run on 10.1 or higher, but most new software requires 10.2. There have been seven point upgrades for 10.2 in the year it has been out - not a bad series of upgrades by any shake of the stick, I just don't think there will be any more.
Microsoft should fix the 100+ critical security holes in IE, but they don't seem to want to - just to supress knowledge of them.
What do you think the 10.2.x releases are if not bug fixes? They might continue to update 10.2, but I doubtit - most of the effort will be directed towards the current OS release. Apple can't catch all the bugs although there aren't all that many too begin with that don't get addressed..
Ok, so Apple chose an easily misunderstood numbering system, it doesn't mean you can have the OS for free.
10.2 and 10.3 are akin to Windows 2000 and Windows XP - very similar, but different. I don't see people complaining that Microsoft didn't give away XP free to windows 2000 users (maybe because XP is horrific, but that;s another thread entirely).
Almost all portable music players will sync with iTunes - just don't expect them to play AAC files.
However, if you're only using mp3/wav/aif etc then it doesn't really mattter that only the iPod supports AAC. If you want to use AAC you'll get an iPod or just deal with not being able to take your music on the road.
The concept of buying from several different online music retaillers all with their own terms and conditions in the DRM schemes is a scary thought. It would be a nightmare to organise and keep track of what you bought from where!
Choice is good, but between one seller offering me a good deal and several sellers with a dodgy product I'm going with the single seller, even if there is a danger that your sole supplier is going to do something you don't like in the future,
The difference is that you don't have to use AAC if you don't plan on buying from the iTMS.
You can use iTunes with mp3/aiff/wav with no problems and it works with just about any portable music player out there. My friend uses his Rio with iTunes on the Mac for example.
If you want to buy music from the store then you're limited to iTunes (or Quicktime) and the iPod but how is this different from buying DRM-ed music in WMA format? You're limited to Windows Media Player and a portable machine that supports it (ok, so there are more of those available).
I couldn't play WMA music with DRM on my Mac becase I don't have a version of Windows Media Player that supports it (Microsoft delightfully decided not to update the Mac version of WMP so we can't play any videos or music encoded in version 9 format - how's that for choice?!).
Any competing service is going to contian some limitations as to what you can and can't use and can and can't do. It's the nature of things. Remember, both Apple and Microsoft are out to make money. The iTunes Music Store and iTunes exists primarily to sell iPods - Apple are a hardware company first and foremost.
You only use Apple software if you want to use their hardware, that's the way it's always been. iTunes for Windows is there as a resource for owners of iPods who use Windows and not Mac OS. If you don't have an iPod you have three choices:
1. Use iTunes but don't buy any music from the iTMS, ensure you rip in mp3 format and use any portable player on the market.
2. Use iTunes with an iPod - buy music from the iTMS and rip in either mp3 or AAC format.
3. Don't use iTunes. No one is forcing you, and it's not the law to do so (although the way things are going it might soon be illegal to use anything but WMP... just kidding)
We've done commercial videos for clients who were die hard Windows users who thought that Macs were just toys and rubbished them at every turn.
We were delighted to tell them that their whole video was digitised and edited in Final Cut Pro on a Dual 450 G4 and 15" Powerbook, encoded to mpeg2 using Discreet Cleaner 5 on that same Dual G4. Turned into a DVD using DVD Studio Pro 1.5 (menus created in Photoshop 7 on the Mac) and then burned onto DVD with Toast Titanium 5... all after they'd said how amazing the video was and what software we'd used so they could look at buying it. heh.
What the hell else are you going to use it for!:o)
The only time you'd be bothered is if you were working on some hefty photoshop imgages or doing some other task that required ll your RAM and you happened to want iTunes open at the same time.
Mac folks have griped about the memory usage of iTunes as well, most often ones with G4 boxes stacked with the stuff. The people hobbling along on an iBook SE with 128Mb don't seem too bothered!
But if you take any number of random Macs from the Apple store (or any new Mac) and plug them all together with a hub or switch they'll all be able to talk to each other without a problem.
By default, out of the box, they will self assign IP addresses if no DHCP server is present. You don't even have to open the networking pane, so it's a doddle for computer newbies.
You can, of course, change the settings if you know what you're doing, but by deafault it just works.
SDRC did this with I-Deas - you could get the student version for 70 and they gave quite nice volume licencing deals to universities to create graduates with a working knowledge of I-Deas, who might then reccommend it to their future bosses as a CAD/FEM package. The full version costs considerably more than the student edition, which lacks FEM capability but is pretty much fully functional otherwise.
Premiere runs in Classic - straight away the Mac is crippled by having to (essentially) run two operating systems alongside each other. Classic is also limited - it can only use 2Gb of RAM (or it might be 1Gb) even if the box has more.
Final Cut Pro is the edit system of choice on the Mac and is pisses on anything else out there for the Mac, hence Adobe's decision to drop support for Premiere on the Mac.
A better test would have been After Effects - there are optimised versions for both Mac and PC. For pure grunt work, Discreet's Cleaner would also be good - as long as Version 6 was used on the Mac so both processors could be used properly, although Cleaner 5, which we're using currently, is OS X native with a simple patch, it lacks some of the finer coding of an app that was designed for OS X from the start. Discreet also has an optimised version of Cleaner for the PC so the tests would have been much fairer.
Edit a fairly complex video, throw in mixtures of video, graphics, effects and other assorted video tricks and export the lot as a file ready for chewing and encoding into mpeg2 by Cleaner. Fastest box wins.
I'm sorry, but Premiere, an app no longer available/supported on the Mac, running in Classic, vs an optimised Premiere running on the PC is as crooked as a politicians' banquet.
Adobe released an updated plugin for Photoshop 7 on the G5 - all seems well but it appears to have broken the save for web plugin on our Dual G5!
It's not mission critical to fix that right now, but I'll get around to reinstalling the job lot at a later date. We're working on graphics for video right now, not the web.
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Indeed, if Apple tried to break into the Linux market with the iTMS (which would mean releasing quicktime with AAC support for Linux), people would just complain that they'd never buy any music unless it was either uncompressed, available in Ogg or have Britney come round to their house and perform the track personally every time...
much like people do now in fact!
My only evidence is the sensor on top of the lights (traffic lights are mounted on a short pole by the side of the road here). The sensor points at approaching traffic for that light.
It could be purely a counter, or a motion detector that changes the sequence whether I flash my lights or not,but they definately change in response to my car's presence. If anyone can tell me for sure I'd be grateful and am happyto be proved wrong.
Perhaps it is a weight sensor in the road, or the sensor on top of the lights is a motion detector. I just connected the info about flashing your lights with what I assumed this sensor was measuring.
Yes, the whole comment was a bit tongue in cheek - the subject line was "facetious but...".
And yeah, my typing sucks.
My comment was just to point out that the feature list the grandparent asked for was available on the G5's board. I'm well aware that it's likely the last system on his mind to buy when looking for a 64 bit solution.
Oh, and just to chuck in some Simpsons - my car gets 40 rods to the hog's head and that's the way I likes it. I also welcome our new 64 bit overlords.
apple.com/powermac for all your wants in that list (well, maybe not "low price" but low is a relative term at the cutting edge.
We just bought a Dual G5 and slapped a metric asston of RAM in it and it really is a video editor's dream. Final Cut Pro 4, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro 1.5 scream along.
We didn't really need to upgeade the Dual 450 G4 we were using, but we felt like treating ourselves.
But they work for so much longer "as is".
We only recently retired a 9600/300 as our main production box (non linear editing). We replaced it with a dual 450 G4 which has served us very well, and we'll be keeping that box for a long time.
We bought a Dual G5 a couple of weeks ago to go alongside the dual 450.
Macs might be more expensive both used and new, but they last a very long time in the field.
Sure, I still have a P166 box running FreeBSD working as a file server, but it's no match for the Mac of similar age that I was working on with Photoshop last week.
There are sensors on the top of traffic lights in the UK that respond to headlights.
If an ambulance is approaching lights on red he can flash his full beams a few times and the sequence changes.
I use this feature all the time at the lights near my house, especially late at night when the deafult sequence on the lights is to stay green for the main road all the time unless a car approaches on the minor road.
Freudian slip by Apple in that tech note.
Just open it and use the "Show" pop-up menu to see the "Network Port Configuration". Then, uncheck "AirPort" and check "Built-In Ethernet". Click on "Apple Now" to save your settings.
heh.
Apple Now! Sounds like a special move in Street Fighter or Streets of Rage (whoa, retro).
Well, you can buy it online from the Apple Store using one of the demo machines in the phyical Apple Store at the edu price, then they'll give you a box to walk out with. My friend did this after the staff at the store suggested it to him.
Indeed. I was looking forward to Halo with baited breath. I knew it wouldn't run on my iBook, but I was due for a dekstop Mac at about the time the game was supposed to come out.
I got the Mac, but not the game. Embrace and Fucking Extend(tm) saw to that.
I've never played on an X-box. I fear I'd beat myself to death with the ridiculously large and cumbersome controller.
What fool modded this offtopic?
Redundant maybe, but offtopic? nah.
Heh, Mac OS X will run on a B&W G3! How far back do you want to go? :o)
With a bit of coaxing and help from Xpostfacto, OS X will run on a 9600 - now that really is impressive.
I can understand the annoyance of being 'stuck' with the older OS. I was on 10.1 for a while before getting 10.2 and I used to get annoyed when programs would require 10.2 or above.
The iLife apps all run on 10.1 or higher, but most new software requires 10.2. There have been seven point upgrades for 10.2 in the year it has been out - not a bad series of upgrades by any shake of the stick, I just don't think there will be any more.
Microsoft should fix the 100+ critical security holes in IE, but they don't seem to want to - just to supress knowledge of them.
What do you think the 10.2.x releases are if not bug fixes? They might continue to update 10.2, but I doubtit - most of the effort will be directed towards the current OS release. Apple can't catch all the bugs although there aren't all that many too begin with that don't get addressed..
The service is offered in the UK on cell phones already.
You call a special number and then listen to a short segment of a song playing on the radio or out of any speakers but just holding your phone nearby.
The computer on the other end then attempts to work out what song it is and it sends a text message with artist, album and track info.
I don't know how good it is since I don't have a cell phone that supports the service.
Ok, like Windows 98 and Windows XP then. The analogy will never be perfect, but 10.2 and 10.3 are more different than just a 0.1 update.
How many times does it have to be pointed out?
Ok, so Apple chose an easily misunderstood numbering system, it doesn't mean you can have the OS for free.
10.2 and 10.3 are akin to Windows 2000 and Windows XP - very similar, but different. I don't see people complaining that Microsoft didn't give away XP free to windows 2000 users (maybe because XP is horrific, but that;s another thread entirely).
Increase the speed of the high end G5? Is 2x 2Ghz not good enough for you?
More power!
Almost all portable music players will sync with iTunes - just don't expect them to play AAC files.
However, if you're only using mp3/wav/aif etc then it doesn't really mattter that only the iPod supports AAC. If you want to use AAC you'll get an iPod or just deal with not being able to take your music on the road.
Ah, I see what you mean now.
The concept of buying from several different online music retaillers all with their own terms and conditions in the DRM schemes is a scary thought. It would be a nightmare to organise and keep track of what you bought from where!
Choice is good, but between one seller offering me a good deal and several sellers with a dodgy product I'm going with the single seller, even if there is a danger that your sole supplier is going to do something you don't like in the future,
I can see your point, and I agree to some degree.
The difference is that you don't have to use AAC if you don't plan on buying from the iTMS.
You can use iTunes with mp3/aiff/wav with no problems and it works with just about any portable music player out there. My friend uses his Rio with iTunes on the Mac for example.
If you want to buy music from the store then you're limited to iTunes (or Quicktime) and the iPod but how is this different from buying DRM-ed music in WMA format? You're limited to Windows Media Player and a portable machine that supports it (ok, so there are more of those available).
I couldn't play WMA music with DRM on my Mac becase I don't have a version of Windows Media Player that supports it (Microsoft delightfully decided not to update the Mac version of WMP so we can't play any videos or music encoded in version 9 format - how's that for choice?!).
Any competing service is going to contian some limitations as to what you can and can't use and can and can't do. It's the nature of things. Remember, both Apple and Microsoft are out to make money. The iTunes Music Store and iTunes exists primarily to sell iPods - Apple are a hardware company first and foremost.
You only use Apple software if you want to use their hardware, that's the way it's always been. iTunes for Windows is there as a resource for owners of iPods who use Windows and not Mac OS. If you don't have an iPod you have three choices:
1. Use iTunes but don't buy any music from the iTMS, ensure you rip in mp3 format and use any portable player on the market.
2. Use iTunes with an iPod - buy music from the iTMS and rip in either mp3 or AAC format.
3. Don't use iTunes. No one is forcing you, and it's not the law to do so (although the way things are going it might soon be illegal to use anything but WMP... just kidding)
We've done commercial videos for clients who were die hard Windows users who thought that Macs were just toys and rubbished them at every turn.
:o)
We were delighted to tell them that their whole video was digitised and edited in Final Cut Pro on a Dual 450 G4 and 15" Powerbook, encoded to mpeg2 using Discreet Cleaner 5 on that same Dual G4. Turned into a DVD using DVD Studio Pro 1.5 (menus created in Photoshop 7 on the Mac) and then burned onto DVD with Toast Titanium 5... all after they'd said how amazing the video was and what software we'd used so they could look at buying it. heh.
Adobe Premiere eat your heart out
You state you have 768Mb of RAM...
:o)
What the hell else are you going to use it for!
The only time you'd be bothered is if you were working on some hefty photoshop imgages or doing some other task that required ll your RAM and you happened to want iTunes open at the same time.
Mac folks have griped about the memory usage of iTunes as well, most often ones with G4 boxes stacked with the stuff. The people hobbling along on an iBook SE with 128Mb don't seem too bothered!
But if you take any number of random Macs from the Apple store (or any new Mac) and plug them all together with a hub or switch they'll all be able to talk to each other without a problem.
By default, out of the box, they will self assign IP addresses if no DHCP server is present. You don't even have to open the networking pane, so it's a doddle for computer newbies.
You can, of course, change the settings if you know what you're doing, but by deafault it just works.
SDRC did this with I-Deas - you could get the student version for 70 and they gave quite nice volume licencing deals to universities to create graduates with a working knowledge of I-Deas, who might then reccommend it to their future bosses as a CAD/FEM package. The full version costs considerably more than the student edition, which lacks FEM capability but is pretty much fully functional otherwise.
I was shocked at the Premiere test.
Premiere runs in Classic - straight away the Mac is crippled by having to (essentially) run two operating systems alongside each other. Classic is also limited - it can only use 2Gb of RAM (or it might be 1Gb) even if the box has more.
Final Cut Pro is the edit system of choice on the Mac and is pisses on anything else out there for the Mac, hence Adobe's decision to drop support for Premiere on the Mac.
A better test would have been After Effects - there are optimised versions for both Mac and PC. For pure grunt work, Discreet's Cleaner would also be good - as long as Version 6 was used on the Mac so both processors could be used properly, although Cleaner 5, which we're using currently, is OS X native with a simple patch, it lacks some of the finer coding of an app that was designed for OS X from the start. Discreet also has an optimised version of Cleaner for the PC so the tests would have been much fairer.
Edit a fairly complex video, throw in mixtures of video, graphics, effects and other assorted video tricks and export the lot as a file ready for chewing and encoding into mpeg2 by Cleaner. Fastest box wins.
I'm sorry, but Premiere, an app no longer available/supported on the Mac, running in Classic, vs an optimised Premiere running on the PC is as crooked as a politicians' banquet.
Adobe released an updated plugin for Photoshop 7 on the G5 - all seems well but it appears to have broken the save for web plugin on our Dual G5!
It's not mission critical to fix that right now, but I'll get around to reinstalling the job lot at a later date. We're working on graphics for video right now, not the web.