Apple Cinema Displays have great contrast, wide viewing angles, and [when properly calibrated with professional hardware/software] great color accuracy. I worked in prepress for 6 years and we had no problem moving to ACD's for all of our color critical work.
And Apple [unfortunately] still makes a CRT- the eMac, not that you would catch a color professional using one...
Nice use of the difference filter. You should also compress the heck out of the histogram using the levels command and that will really exaggerate any differences (however minor they may be).
Just an FYI- all very good suggestions, but your #2 suggestion is only possible when booted from a Panther Server install CD. The terminal is not an available option from a normal install CD.Disk Utility, Password Reset, and now Startup Disk are the only non-installer options available.
Another available option is to use Firewire Target Disk mode (Command-T at startup) to mount the drive on another Mac.
The actual reason the scientists are looking for water-ice at the north pole of Mercury is because there are small regions of permanent shadow in craters at the poles.
Permanent shadows = lower temperatures which could mean ice.
Similar studies have been done for other celestial bodies (including our Moon).
I understand that you can get a digital quartz keychain from the gumball machine in a supermarket for a whole quarter, but please don't confuse a mechanical timepiece with mass produced digital quartz trinket.
There is no 'fine' [mechanical] timepiece that only loses "a few seconds every few years." None.
We are spoiled by modern technology. Could you imagine being able to take one of these digital timekeepers back 100 years and show it to a watchmaker (or Railroad Conductor)? They would probably cry and declare you a god for possessing such a thing- a small plastic digital doodad that keeps time more accurately than the best mechanical time pieces available.
Ahh, but once upon a time there were quality timepieces being created here in the Good 'ol U. S. of A.
My grandfather was a conductor for the Pensylvania Railroad, and I was lucky enough to inherit the pocketwatch that he used for his job. You can understand that it was pretty important for a conductor to have accurate time. The pocketwatch in question was made by the Ilinois Watch Co. (Springfield), and had a Bunn Special 21-jewel movement. He had to submit it for calibration every 30 days and I believe they were to have them hold time within 5 or 10 seconds a day for the calibration.
There are some fine european timepieces out there, but there are not the only source for a precise mechanical timepiece.
I can speak for MATLAB. It runs just fine on a Mac (OS 9 or OS X) and it's pretty easy to edit the launch script and move all of it's components into a SINGLE application bundle for a drag and drop install for OS X. I have no experience with any of the other apps listed, but in an enterprise environment like mine, drag and drop installs make MATLAB on OS X makes the Mac the easiest to support of all platforms.
I apologize for the repeat. That's what I get for doing something else like work during my post.
proprietary argument disappeared about 5 years ago
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Instead, like all other Apple technology, they chose something so proprietary that you can't buy one anywhere else...
I suppose you are referring to all of the other proprietary hardware that Apple has chosen over the years like SCSI/IDE/Serial ATA drives, PCI/PCI-X/AGP expansion, USB 1.1 and 2.0, 1394, PC100/PC133/DDR 400 SDRAM, VGA/DVI video connectors.
I worked in the Prepress field for 6+ years and we used Apple Studio Displays for color critical work for the last 2 or 3 years that I was there. We also made extensive use of ColorSync- we had a full Colorsync workflow from beginning to end. There's the rub. Consult a professional consultant for help with this. It's easy to find conflicting information when it comes to color theory and ColorSync, and the experience that an experienced ColorSync consultant can bring to your operation is very valuable.
The prepress outfit I worked for experimented with various ColorSync technologies and techniques for almost three years before we were confident enough to put in into production. Once we did, we cut our wasteful interim proofs by about 2/3, and our clients really appreciated how close our proofs were to the final printed piece. Commercial printers also appreciated our work because the files and proofs we delivered were damn near what the final printed piece looked like.
ColorSync and a good LCD are THE accurate color solution.
"I'm not one to come out and harp on SUV owners..."
I AM!
The SUV [I prefer ASS-U-V] craze that has hit America and that's now being exported around the world is an unsustainable manifestaion of our arrogant and selfish 'bigger is better/fuck everybody else on the planet 'cause I wanna big honkin' vehicle so I can cart all of my earthly posessions with me to the beach on the weekend and get a whompin' 8 MPG-
/rant
Nevermind- I have work to do instead of ranting on slashdot...
In the slashdot spirit of things, I would like to differ-
Apple has historically (at least for the last 3 years or so) shipped it's computers with 2-2-2 spec'd RAM, OS X typically doesn't like to install on a computer that has 3-2-2 latency RAM installed. A workaround that many people with the slow (read: cheap) RAM must deal with is uninstalling their non-OEM RAM for the OS X install, then reinstall the RAM after the OS installation. The reason being the RAM tests performed during bootup from the install CD/DVD are more stringent than the normal booting-from-the-HD startup RAM tests. There are multiple threads on macintouch, macfixit, [and probably even] apple.com's message boards et el to document this.
Tell your friend with the iMac that he needs to increase his physical RAM to 1 GB. That will help immensely with keeping many apps open at the same time.
I have a 450 MHz Cube that can run dozens of apps at a time- but I also have 1.25 GB of RAM.
Installing Acrobat 6 on Mac OS X is now only a drag and drop install. I'd imagine on a G5 that would take only a few seconds.
Windows can't touch that yet.
Double Dutch Bus is one helluva cool song- when done by Frankie Smith.
I fired up the ITMS to hear this version and I was glad it only lasted 30 seconds
I just upgraded my Cube's internal drive about two weeks ago, and I had to run to Sears to purchase a 9T Torx driver for this very thing- my 10T was too big.
I worked in Prepress for 6 years before I saw the light and entered the IT melee as a Mac tech. In all of my 6 years doing high-end catalog and even billboards, I have never seen the need for a 600 to 1200 dpi file. I have worked on files that saved in the compressed Photoshop file format (RGB too) at around 1 to 1.5 GB, but even those were only 400 dpi.
What the hell are you working on that requires 1200 frickin' dpi?!?!?
And a real prepress house uses a ColorSync RGB workflow. CMYK is generated for proofing and final files out the door only.
I like the handles. I like the case design. I especially like the pull out locking handle mechanism for the side door. There is no case out there that is easier to work on. The drive carriers snap into and out of place, the RAM and PCI slots are super accessable. Even the optical bays are easy to get to. From a desktop IT point of view, these current enclosures are a joy to work on.
I have faith that if Apple changes the design of their boxen, they will change it for the better. But then I remember the hockey-puck mouse too. : (
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Apple Cinema Displays have great contrast, wide viewing angles, and [when properly calibrated with professional hardware/software] great color accuracy. I worked in prepress for 6 years and we had no problem moving to ACD's for all of our color critical work.
And Apple [unfortunately] still makes a CRT- the eMac, not that you would catch a color professional using one...
I thought it was written somewhere that the word 'beleaguered' could only be used to describe Apple's latest situation...
It's nice to see that word and Micro$oft in the same sentence.
Nice use of the difference filter. You should also compress the heck out of the histogram using the levels command and that will really exaggerate any differences (however minor they may be).
#3 on the desktop? To what- Linux? I kinda doubt that...
/. nevermind.
Sources please. Oh wait, this is
Just an FYI- all very good suggestions, but your #2 suggestion is only possible when booted from a Panther Server install CD. The terminal is not an available option from a normal install CD.Disk Utility, Password Reset, and now Startup Disk are the only non-installer options available.
Another available option is to use Firewire Target Disk mode (Command-T at startup) to mount the drive on another Mac.
If only Microsoft Bob was like Baghdad Bob-
... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies"
"The [Linux Zealots], they always depend on a method what I call
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their [Pentiums]"
"Let the [Linux] infidels bask in their illusion."
"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of [Redmond]. Be assured, [Microsoft] is safe, protected."
The actual reason the scientists are looking for water-ice at the north pole of Mercury is because there are small regions of permanent shadow in craters at the poles.
Permanent shadows = lower temperatures which could mean ice.
Similar studies have been done for other celestial bodies (including our Moon).
pr0n fueled the rapid growth of the internet (Kurzweil said it in The Age Of Spiritual Machines, read it), why not fund space exploration too?
I understand that you can get a digital quartz keychain from the gumball machine in a supermarket for a whole quarter, but please don't confuse a mechanical timepiece with mass produced digital quartz trinket.
There is no 'fine' [mechanical] timepiece that only loses "a few seconds every few years." None.
We are spoiled by modern technology. Could you imagine being able to take one of these digital timekeepers back 100 years and show it to a watchmaker (or Railroad Conductor)? They would probably cry and declare you a god for possessing such a thing- a small plastic digital doodad that keeps time more accurately than the best mechanical time pieces available.
Ahh, but once upon a time there were quality timepieces being created here in the Good 'ol U. S. of A.
My grandfather was a conductor for the Pensylvania Railroad, and I was lucky enough to inherit the pocketwatch that he used for his job. You can understand that it was pretty important for a conductor to have accurate time. The pocketwatch in question was made by the Ilinois Watch Co. (Springfield), and had a Bunn Special 21-jewel movement. He had to submit it for calibration every 30 days and I believe they were to have them hold time within 5 or 10 seconds a day for the calibration.
There are some fine european timepieces out there, but there are not the only source for a precise mechanical timepiece.
I can speak for MATLAB. It runs just fine on a Mac (OS 9 or OS X) and it's pretty easy to edit the launch script and move all of it's components into a SINGLE application bundle for a drag and drop install for OS X. I have no experience with any of the other apps listed, but in an enterprise environment like mine, drag and drop installs make MATLAB on OS X makes the Mac the easiest to support of all platforms.
I apologize for the repeat. That's what I get for doing something else like work during my post.
Instead, like all other Apple technology, they chose something so proprietary that you can't buy one anywhere else...
I suppose you are referring to all of the other proprietary hardware that Apple has chosen over the years like SCSI/IDE/Serial ATA drives, PCI/PCI-X/AGP expansion, USB 1.1 and 2.0, 1394, PC100/PC133/DDR 400 SDRAM, VGA/DVI video connectors.
I worked in the Prepress field for 6+ years and we used Apple Studio Displays for color critical work for the last 2 or 3 years that I was there. We also made extensive use of ColorSync- we had a full Colorsync workflow from beginning to end. There's the rub. Consult a professional consultant for help with this. It's easy to find conflicting information when it comes to color theory and ColorSync, and the experience that an experienced ColorSync consultant can bring to your operation is very valuable.
The prepress outfit I worked for experimented with various ColorSync technologies and techniques for almost three years before we were confident enough to put in into production. Once we did, we cut our wasteful interim proofs by about 2/3, and our clients really appreciated how close our proofs were to the final printed piece. Commercial printers also appreciated our work because the files and proofs we delivered were damn near what the final printed piece looked like.
ColorSync and a good LCD are THE accurate color solution.
"I'm not one to come out and harp on SUV owners..."
/rant
I AM!
The SUV [I prefer ASS-U-V] craze that has hit America and that's now being exported around the world is an unsustainable manifestaion of our arrogant and selfish 'bigger is better/fuck everybody else on the planet 'cause I wanna big honkin' vehicle so I can cart all of my earthly posessions with me to the beach on the weekend and get a whompin' 8 MPG-
Nevermind- I have work to do instead of ranting on slashdot...
In the slashdot spirit of things, I would like to differ- Apple has historically (at least for the last 3 years or so) shipped it's computers with 2-2-2 spec'd RAM, OS X typically doesn't like to install on a computer that has 3-2-2 latency RAM installed. A workaround that many people with the slow (read: cheap) RAM must deal with is uninstalling their non-OEM RAM for the OS X install, then reinstall the RAM after the OS installation. The reason being the RAM tests performed during bootup from the install CD/DVD are more stringent than the normal booting-from-the-HD startup RAM tests. There are multiple threads on macintouch, macfixit, [and probably even] apple.com's message boards et el to document this.
Tell your friend with the iMac that he needs to increase his physical RAM to 1 GB. That will help immensely with keeping many apps open at the same time. I have a 450 MHz Cube that can run dozens of apps at a time- but I also have 1.25 GB of RAM.
Installing Acrobat 6 on Mac OS X is now only a drag and drop install. I'd imagine on a G5 that would take only a few seconds. Windows can't touch that yet.
Double Dutch Bus is one helluva cool song- when done by Frankie Smith.
I fired up the ITMS to hear this version and I was glad it only lasted 30 seconds
I just upgraded my Cube's internal drive about two weeks ago, and I had to run to Sears to purchase a 9T Torx driver for this very thing- my 10T was too big.
I worked in Prepress for 6 years before I saw the light and entered the IT melee as a Mac tech. In all of my 6 years doing high-end catalog and even billboards, I have never seen the need for a 600 to 1200 dpi file. I have worked on files that saved in the compressed Photoshop file format (RGB too) at around 1 to 1.5 GB, but even those were only 400 dpi.
What the hell are you working on that requires 1200 frickin' dpi?!?!?
And a real prepress house uses a ColorSync RGB workflow. CMYK is generated for proofing and final files out the door only.
I like the handles. I like the case design. I especially like the pull out locking handle mechanism for the side door. There is no case out there that is easier to work on. The drive carriers snap into and out of place, the RAM and PCI slots are super accessable. Even the optical bays are easy to get to. From a desktop IT point of view, these current enclosures are a joy to work on.
I have faith that if Apple changes the design of their boxen, they will change it for the better. But then I remember the hockey-puck mouse too. : (