Agreed! What I did, when GE put a similar policy in place was just to ignore the policy. No one did anything about it because I did not abuse the priviledge (subject to individual interpretation). GE was concerned about employee utilization and trade secrets being leaked. At least, that was their rationale...
He did not ask about what operating system would be best for dvd authoring, he's just looking for some software that'll work with his current OS.
Do you realize people are not telling him to change operating systems? They're saying the best solutions are iDVD and DVD Studio Pro, which just happen to run only on the Mac.
I know what you're saying, but they're not telling him to switch to Mac because it's a better operating system, they're telling him to switch because these applications are only available on Mac.
Seriously, though, I've been looking for commercial and non-commercial DVD authoring solutions for Windows and I still cannot find anything that matches iDVD and DVD Studio Pro for the Macintosh.
You know how people are always saying, "Macs are for creative people only"? Well, my friend, you have ventured into "creative people" territory.
At first I thought it was lossless but on testing it is lossy (quite lossy actually).
Quite lossy? Are you setting the quality slider all the way to Best? Yes, Pixlet is lossy, but it's also a keyframe-less CODEC that brings data rates well over 3MB/second at DV resolution. That's almost as high as native DV and right around the same data rate as MJPEG. Yes, it's not uncompressed video, but that's not what Pixlet was designed for.
Safari also has an intelligent pop-up blocker. Pop-ups that you request are let through. Others are never even displayed.
Even if you choose to use Internet Explorer (that comes with OS X) and you get lots of pop-ups, just select Explorer, Quit (or press Apple-Q) and ALL the windows go away and the program quit.
This feature, by itself, IMHO, makes IE for the Mac more usable than IE for the PC because there is an "out" even for cascading pop-ups.
Shall I even mention not having to worry about Messenger pop-ups, rouge ActiveX controls, and spyware...? I can't even stand to browse the Internet on a PC anymore.
What a great story... but it's true. You will not likely have to use any Japanese language skills in Narita at all.
I had a 4-hour stop over in Narita last November and had no problems communicating with anyone there. Even the products in the gift shops that were labeled completely in Japanese had a small sign on the shelf describing what the product was in English.
They say this is going to be a multi-processor console. Who says the other processor cannot be a Pentium III like what's in the current XBox?
Early Apple PowerPC computers (and other computers -- Amiga 2000, AT&T 7300/3B1 -- I owned both) actually used a daughterboard with a separate processor (8088, 80386, 80486) rather than software-based emulation.
Why couldn't Microsoft do this again with the XBox 2? By the time the XBox 2 comes out, the price on the componentry will be very inexpensive.
That's particularly impressive since the iPod sells for $299 (15GB), $399 (20GB), and $499 (40GB). Even if Apple only sold the 40GB iPods, the $349 per unit revenue would be more than a 200% markup over cost. If that's true, why haven't other manufacturers been able to undercut Apple more significantly?
Being that the median price of the iPod (not sales-weighted) is $399, I can't believe it only costs $50 to make an iPod.
It is looking like EFI is becoming a Windows loader, doesn't it? God forbid they use an open standard like OpenFirmware. That would be far too Mac-like.
Frankly, I don't care, as long as they don't bother to implement the cassette motor start and stop commands that are still in today's BIOSes.
If you're pointing to the MSIE 6.0 statistics, that can include Windows 98, ME, 2000, AND XP. Where are you seeing statistics on Google's usage page that specifically denotes XP users?
Given the fact that all those versions of Windows combined are 42% of web traffic, that leaves a majority that are using other web browsers and operating systems.
I agree with rudy_wayne. "You get what you pay for", especially when asking for professional-level applications.
There is a lot of time and effort to put together an application like Final Cut Pro or Premiere. Spend a little less money on the hardware and spend some money to get some professional-level software.
Please no flames -- I am not anti-open source software! I just have realistic expectations of what I can and cannot get for free.
What I think is funny isn't the 1024K real-mode limitation, but that today's BIOSes still have the function call to turn on and off the cassette drive motor.
His favorite argument is that Apple should go Intel. I asked him on the PC World message board why, other than sheer clock speed, should Apple do that? He couldn't give a real answer. I told him Apples aren't all about speed -- it's about being able to work on your computer without having to work on your computer!:)
The weasels that are writing the spyware are able to do so because of the Swiss-cheese operating system called Windows. Until Micro$oft makes a secure operating system or until there is no motivation (e.g., money, marketing info, etc.) for making spyware, you will have to deal with it. Or buy yourself the same Mac that you bought for your mother.
Additionally, consider the amount of data being transferred at 8X -- most PCs cannot sustain that kind of data transfer rate, let alone the 16X mentioned on a previous article!
Assuming the drive has buffer underrun technology, the disk would not be ruined because of lack of sustained data transfer rate, but the speed would be effectively slowed down, possibly to 4X or even 2X on slower machines.
Both the DVD burners I own are 2X drives, and with good media, I have 100% reliability with them.
The impact of this giant ice cube would be a sure-fire way to devistate a planet, then replenish it with life-giving water... or possibly give life to a lifeless planet?
-Aaron-
If I'm going to plop down $40K for a desk, I want to see pictures of the real thing! The zoomed pictures are obviously 3D renders! Does this desk really exist?
What might be fun is if Apple and McDonald's have the rumored (and since pretty well disproven) iTunes music give away promotion. Then you can get a Big Mac (sandwich), win some music, and play that music on the Big Mac (supercomputer).
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Wow. I didn't know the Macintosh ever came with a green screen...
Don't forget the checksum value... for some reason it keeps coming up as "666"...
Agreed! What I did, when GE put a similar policy in place was just to ignore the policy. No one did anything about it because I did not abuse the priviledge (subject to individual interpretation). GE was concerned about employee utilization and trade secrets being leaked. At least, that was their rationale...
Do you realize people are not telling him to change operating systems? They're saying the best solutions are iDVD and DVD Studio Pro, which just happen to run only on the Mac.
I know what you're saying, but they're not telling him to switch to Mac because it's a better operating system, they're telling him to switch because these applications are only available on Mac.
Seriously, though, I've been looking for commercial and non-commercial DVD authoring solutions for Windows and I still cannot find anything that matches iDVD and DVD Studio Pro for the Macintosh.
You know how people are always saying, "Macs are for creative people only"? Well, my friend, you have ventured into "creative people" territory.
Even with the Amish, you still would have a house without electricity...
Quite lossy? Are you setting the quality slider all the way to Best? Yes, Pixlet is lossy, but it's also a keyframe-less CODEC that brings data rates well over 3MB/second at DV resolution. That's almost as high as native DV and right around the same data rate as MJPEG. Yes, it's not uncompressed video, but that's not what Pixlet was designed for.
Even if you choose to use Internet Explorer (that comes with OS X) and you get lots of pop-ups, just select Explorer, Quit (or press Apple-Q) and ALL the windows go away and the program quit.
This feature, by itself, IMHO, makes IE for the Mac more usable than IE for the PC because there is an "out" even for cascading pop-ups.
Shall I even mention not having to worry about Messenger pop-ups, rouge ActiveX controls, and spyware...? I can't even stand to browse the Internet on a PC anymore.
So, that's what they were using those missing cadavers for...
I had a 4-hour stop over in Narita last November and had no problems communicating with anyone there. Even the products in the gift shops that were labeled completely in Japanese had a small sign on the shelf describing what the product was in English.
Early Apple PowerPC computers (and other computers -- Amiga 2000, AT&T 7300/3B1 -- I owned both) actually used a daughterboard with a separate processor (8088, 80386, 80486) rather than software-based emulation.
Why couldn't Microsoft do this again with the XBox 2? By the time the XBox 2 comes out, the price on the componentry will be very inexpensive.
That's particularly impressive since the iPod sells for $299 (15GB), $399 (20GB), and $499 (40GB). Even if Apple only sold the 40GB iPods, the $349 per unit revenue would be more than a 200% markup over cost. If that's true, why haven't other manufacturers been able to undercut Apple more significantly?
Being that the median price of the iPod (not sales-weighted) is $399, I can't believe it only costs $50 to make an iPod.
"You wanna dance?"
Frankly, I don't care, as long as they don't bother to implement the cassette motor start and stop commands that are still in today's BIOSes.
If you're pointing to the MSIE 6.0 statistics, that can include Windows 98, ME, 2000, AND XP. Where are you seeing statistics on Google's usage page that specifically denotes XP users?
Given the fact that all those versions of Windows combined are 42% of web traffic, that leaves a majority that are using other web browsers and operating systems.
There is a lot of time and effort to put together an application like Final Cut Pro or Premiere. Spend a little less money on the hardware and spend some money to get some professional-level software.
Please no flames -- I am not anti-open source software! I just have realistic expectations of what I can and cannot get for free.
What I think is funny isn't the 1024K real-mode limitation, but that today's BIOSes still have the function call to turn on and off the cassette drive motor.
His favorite argument is that Apple should go Intel. I asked him on the PC World message board why, other than sheer clock speed, should Apple do that? He couldn't give a real answer. I told him Apples aren't all about speed -- it's about being able to work on your computer without having to work on your computer! :)
The weasels that are writing the spyware are able to do so because of the Swiss-cheese operating system called Windows. Until Micro$oft makes a secure operating system or until there is no motivation (e.g., money, marketing info, etc.) for making spyware, you will have to deal with it. Or buy yourself the same Mac that you bought for your mother.
Additionally, consider the amount of data being transferred at 8X -- most PCs cannot sustain that kind of data transfer rate, let alone the 16X mentioned on a previous article! Assuming the drive has buffer underrun technology, the disk would not be ruined because of lack of sustained data transfer rate, but the speed would be effectively slowed down, possibly to 4X or even 2X on slower machines. Both the DVD burners I own are 2X drives, and with good media, I have 100% reliability with them.
The impact of this giant ice cube would be a sure-fire way to devistate a planet, then replenish it with life-giving water... or possibly give life to a lifeless planet? -Aaron-
If I'm going to plop down $40K for a desk, I want to see pictures of the real thing! The zoomed pictures are obviously 3D renders! Does this desk really exist?
What might be fun is if Apple and McDonald's have the rumored (and since pretty well disproven) iTunes music give away promotion. Then you can get a Big Mac (sandwich), win some music, and play that music on the Big Mac (supercomputer).