This is just another reason why seperation of church and state is important. Its funny how Christians want to control the government but they fail to see the other side of it. But then again these stupid organizations such as Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Scientology etc are just fairytales being driven by stupid monkey like creatures we call "humans":)
I hate all fanboy's of god:) They just look silly as they argue their stupid rituals and fantasy stories as if they mean anything.
Do you think any 1 of you stupid monkeys has the answer to the world? Do you really think the "creator" has time to talk to you? What makes you so damn important?
Religion is organized insanity and should be burned out of the homes and lives of all those that are stupid to follow one.
I tried Red Bull Cola and it tastes horrible. Its not even good. It's just shit.
Perhaps the cocaine content is to help "sell" the product as something deliciously mmm mmm good? You would have to be on hallucinogens to enjoy Red Bull Cola's shit taste.
Lets just be honest... New York needs money. This is the 5th or 6th ridiculous new New York Tax featured on slashdot in the past year and a half. None of this has to do with anything they claim it does.
This is about poor management within NY state. Our government is out of f'n control here. We're litterally leading the state BLIND... and fucking hookers with state paychecks.
Tax soda, junk food, plastic bags, AMAZON.com.... etc... These are the brilliant ideas of our elected morons.
Lots of people pass through those toll booths every day. Supposedly they rake in 18+million a week on them... Where does all of that go? Oh wait... to BUILD 2 COMPLETELY NEW BASEBALL STADIUMS for 2 of the richest teams in baseball!
What the fuck are we doing? The Yankees should have paid for their stadium on their on. The Mets should pay for their own stadium. Let me ask you this.... Since all of our tax dollars went to building these 2 USELESS stadiums to replace 2 functioning (and 1 of which historic) stadiums... I can now assume that i can go to the games any time i want for free right? Nope. Not only did they take our tax dollars to build these redundant stadiums, they have the nerve to charge us ridiculous fees to get in. Talk about a fucking con job.
THAT is our political system at its "best"
So pay for your soda tax.... pay your GTA4 tax...:) Lets really talk about WHERE THE FUCKING MONEY GOES.... and who sells us out on a daily fucking basis.... and I'm for National Health care folks:)
Firefox loaded faster in win7 because windows 7 and vista have an intelligent cache system that pre-caches programs that it recognizes as regularly used applications and data into available ram. Firefox would be a regularly used application in just about everyones workflow, so vista pre-caches it, thus loading faster.
Its not loading off the hard disk, its been cached into ram... thats why it loaded faster.
Its a fundemental difference between xp and vista. Vista uses all of your free ram to cache things that it thinks you want to open.
XP just leaves all of the ram available.
I'm not convinced that MS has all of the quirks worked out yet. It tends to work ok for "average" users who just browse, email, play a game... but as far as i've seen in Vista... it can hamper performance for applications that require large amounts of ram such as 64-bit applications.
BTW my statements about FILE I/O are not unfounded. They are based on experience with Vista.
Again i have 8GB of ram. I'm a 3d animator... a professional one, who has worked in 3d since the dos days.
Vista is slower. I'm not saying Vista is entirely bad. Its more stable, and some of it is nicer... but at what COST?!
Vista does not do anything that XP cant (other than directx 10 and DRM). It does it all slower than XP 64.
Thats my point. I'm not saying Vista and 7 are not usable. They are, even with their faults. However on a performance level, Vista and windows 7 doesnt do anything that XP64 cant do... and XP64 does it faster.
No I'm not new. I remember when photoshop came to windows. My point was... back then you could make a case and say Apple was for artists. It was a valid statement because it did really have a good hold on publishing and so forth. John and Thomas Knoll were strictly Mac at the time. Its was a reality that Apple provided tools more commonly used by artists. NOW thats not true. Both platforms are used by professional artists... and In my experience, more artists use the PC. There's more software.
The difference now is that Apple still holds on to this "we're the artist friendly platform, and you need a Mac to be an artist". It still holds on to that, and its not true. So thats the change that i meant. It's not based on reality anymore, its now just a "lets be snobs about it" thing.
Why are you even comparing windows 98 vs XP? They are two completely different OS's. Win98 is a shell that runs on top of dos in 32bit protected mode. Its not a real operating system.
XP on the other hand is based on windows NT. An OS completely different technology wise. NT=New Technology) It has absolutely nothing in common with how windows 98 worked.
Windows 98 was a peice of shit as was windows 95. NT was an entirely different beast and a great OS at the time. NT 3.51 was killer. NT4 even better.
I agree with you that it is a fairly good operating system in that it is pretty stable, has better security... but the interface is worse (GPU GUI does not improve Vista's performance), the I/O is horrible and the performance overall for what it is.... IS TERRIBLE. That is where it fails.
Its not that its "bad" entirely... Its more so that its bad at what it does, and at what cost. Its too heavy of an OS and it doesnt really do anything different than XP.
You could say that they integrated search, so its slower. But thats not true. You can install Windows search on XP and XP will still be faster than Vista and Windows 7. I know because i did just that. I went back to XP and installed windows desktop search, comodo firewall, nod32 anti virus... and its all faster than Vista.
So what does Vista do for me that XP cant? Directx 10? Is that the reason why its so slow? I cant imagine how that could be.
Vista doesnt even doesnt support firewire! (maybe sp1 does but launch version did not)
So what does Vista give me that XP64-bit cant do? DRM? Slower performance??
I was running the Windows 7 beta for sometime and while i like some of the new ui, its still a VERY slow os.
When i went back to XP i realized just how slow Windows 7 is. It was as if i had put a new processor in my pc.
Windows 7 and Vista have terrible file I/O. Its just slow and bloated. XP ran siginificantly faster with windows desktop search, comodo firewall, and nod32 anti virus installed. One would think those extra processes would slow down XP, but it was still far faster than windows 7.
I've grown to hate vista because of how poor it is. I cant stand the UI. The automatic folder views suck. Vista never gets it right.
Vista loves to eat up all of your ram, and then when a program needs lots of ram, your system takes a giant shit because Vista goes into swapping mode to dump its giant "cache" to hd.
XP (XP64 also) is a better OS all around.
MS is hurting themselves by continueing to force Vista/Windows 7 on all of us. Its a slow OS, poorly designed. Its memory management sucks and while it may help those who just browse the internet... for those of us who use programs that demand lots of ram (video editing, 3d animationm, photography) Vista can be a nightmare. Such programs expect lots of free ram at any moment, but Vista eats up all of your ram, and when the programs need that ram vista chugs until it can free it up (IF IT EVER FREES IT UP)
Microsoft needs to dump Vista and Windows 7 all together and start over from nothing with the idea that leaner/faster is better. Take out the DRM. It is slow and ruins the OS's performance. Fix the dam kernal. The I/O is terrible.
It's one thing to copy Apple and make a pretty UI, but they forgot to copy the performance of osx... linux... and even xp. I cant remember which MS manager it was that said it... but he was correct when he said "We lost our way with Vista" in the leaked emails.
both platforms have their zealotry but there is a strange perception that artists use Macs and not Pcs.
Its so strange that i just saw that microsoft made a tv advertisement where they let a girl buy any laptop she wants, and she's supposedly a "film maker" and she needs to "cut movies on her laptop"... and she passes up the mac book pro in the commercial and picks up an HP laptop with Vista. The commercial is shot like its a documentary, but its clear that its all bullshit.
At the end of the commercial it ends with something like "I'm an artist and I'm a windows PC". Obviously Microsoft sees the same nonsense that i'm seeing. But whats insulting is that they have to try and pretend that they (Microsoft) are now the "artist platform". Its so silly.
Reality would clealy state she would probably like the mac book pro better because she could run final cut:P after all she said she is a "film maker" (which i doubt is real, and if it is... shes the youtube kind).
btw as far as color management. Vista now finally has universal color management throughout the os. I run keep my monitor's profiled all the time in vista with an eye one.
As for PDF support. I've witnessed how much better many "format" things are on a mac. They're more natively supported with in the OS etc. Its something that i wish microsoft would learn. Hell We FINALLY got tiff support with Vista. How absurd is that?
Frankly Microsoft sucks at formats. They dont support many natively... certainly none that us artists use. the media player on windows is a peice of shit compared to how well quicktime is integrated on a Mac. Its a shame that quicktime on a PC still sucks for the most part.
Like i said, I'm not one of those people that have a problem with Apple. I like Apple, and I plan to buy a Macbook soon myself. However what i dont like is that whole "the machine makes me an artist" attitude that a lot of untalented, in experienced people tend to use to make themselves feel like they are an artist or can be a professional. That zealotry can be PC, MAC, app etc... It's just silly. But my point is i tend to see it come from Apple more, and i tend to see more inexperienced people think they need a MAC to be an artist.
Perhaps that's because Vista has such terrible file support and image;) And I'm not even a vista fan myself personally.
BTW MS has no idea what to do with a RAW format:P They never will and they never will make software for raw conversion that comes anywhere close to adobe's lightroom or apple's aperture. Thats one of the major problems with Microsoft from my point of view. MS just does not make software that is usable by profesionals. They make clunky, half featured programs that are for grandmother. This is where i give apple a lot of credit, they tend to provide more advanced tools, where as Microsoft has no itnerest in providing software for anyone above a BASIC level. Its sad.
MS makes a decent OS from time to time, but its all of the great software that makes windows a very useful platform.
This is funny as hell, because I'm running Vista right now, with Aero on, on a machine considerably slower than what you allege to be using (Core 2 Duo T6400, 4GB RAM), and it's just as responsive as XP
I said the same thing about windows 7 beta. I thought it was just as fast as xp and they had finally fixed vista. When i switched back to XP, i realized how wrong i was.
I agree with what you're saying except for the experience in college;P
I see it all the time. Not in college tho. i'm 32 now, and have worked professionally in NY since i was 20 (and i've been doing graphics since the commodore 64, apple 2e, first mac etc. I have run into my share of "newbie kids" who are just getting into art that ask me for advice and turn around and say "and you dont use a Mac?". A lot of people fail to realize that most studios are running windows workstations. You generally see the Macs being used by Final Cut guys, while 3d animation, fx guys etc are still all windows.
I have a friend who's girlfiend now thinks she wants to be a photographer and thinks she needs a Mac because "all photographers use Macs". She can barely use a camera, and I have published studio fashion photography that i've done... He told her to ask me about learning photography and what she needs to do. She never asked and just kept insisting to him that "photographers use macs, i need a mac". So instead of using the PC she currently has which is perfectly fine, she has this idea that she needs to spend more money to buy a machine that will supposedly turn her into an artist. It's sad.
I see it a lot though. It stems from the old days where it was once true that a Mac did do desktop publishing well and was the dominant platform in the field. But those days are long gone, just like the old days of "must have an SGI workstation to do 3d animation":P
Apple has this image that people tend to think makes them better or into something they want to be. Its a bizarre thing. I'm not saying its unique to Apple, but I do think Apple plays it up and promotes the idea.
There is a lot to say for branding when it comes to tricking people into thinking they need brand X to be something they're not. Its funny to me.
"See, it's so clear. It's obvious that they should change what works so successfully just because Jackie_Chan_Fan on Slashdot doesn't like it."
So you're saying Vista was successful?
Its not 1998 any more. Kids are now a lot more tech savy, teens are, and so are young adults. They grew up with win95 machines as children and with xp machines as teens.
Is it really that hard for a "dumb user" to figure out search in specific locations, or by date duration, or non indexed locations?
Dont you think its a little confusing when your folder display keeps changing and for some reason your mp3 folder stopped dispaying "bitrate" data because you put some jpgs in there and now vista thinks its a picture folder?
I cant imagine a user going "OH! I know... I have to go to right click on the folder, set the folder back to being displayed as a music folder"
I think thats harder! BUT Sure it sounds simple to do right? ITS NOT. Its a fucking headache to go to the dam properties menu of every folder that goes haywire. Its like playing "Wack-A-Mole" because Vista keeps fucking changing the dam things no matter how many times you set it to default to a specific view. The result is vista creates more work in your explorer work flow and makes it very confusing for "dumb users"
AND... VISTA I/O sucks. What does that have to do with MS making a dumbed down OS? WHY does simple file I/O suck so much? Even after MS supposedly fixed it with SP1??????????????????
Vista is a fucking bloated, disaster with a pretty interface that DOES NOT improve windows performance. It simply does not. I would LOVE to think that a GPU accelerated gui would improve performance but strangely it does not (at least in Windows).
I'm sorry, these things specifically stung hard this week with me because they got in the way of EVERYTHING i did this week.
Vista has other faults.
My hatred for Vista now comes from another area. I was running Windows 7 beta on one of my machines. When i finally removed Windows 7 beta and put back XP... It was like i had bought a new f'n computer with a 16core processor!
Its clear that vista and windows 7 are SLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. They are the same fucking disaster.
And dont say its because the OS is doing more. I have Windows desktop search installed in xp, anti virus, comodo firewall... I have a decent amount of processes going, but on XP i can finally play back an HD video without it studdering.
OH and while i was doing a lot of file management this week on Vista... I noticed that the audio subsystem is some how effected heavily by Vista's file I/O. I wasnt copying data and bogging down the machine... I simply was listing files in directories with several windows open on a Quad core machine.
Vista is garbage. My older PC is faster with xp than my newer quad core is with vista. Not in terms of cpu crunching power, but in terms of OS performance.
File I/O in vista Sp1 is as fucking horrible as it was with the release version of vista.
I cant stand the fucking dumb fucking search bar any more. Why do i have to click to "show advanced features"? Why does it take 2 FUCKING CLIKCS TO DO IT?
WHY DOES AN OS have to be written for fucking morons? Why cant the advanced features be displayed by DE-FUCKING-FAULT?!?!?!
WHY do i have to CONSTANTLY wrestle with the OS's fucking brilliant choice of folder view modes?! ITS ALWAYS FUCKING WRONG.
Microsoft makes SHIT. Its fucking time they stop making crayola fucking operating systems because i cant stand it. XP is 50x faster than VISTA!!!!... AND ITS STILL FUCKING poorly designed.
Why the hell cant you get it right microsoft? WHY?
I just have this ridiculous hang up about when i see no talent hacks who think their computer makes them an artist. They always fail to realize that a Mac is an intel PC now. Its silly.
Adobe actually doesnt treat the platforms equally. Adobe yanked premiere pro from Mac because Final Cut is kicking their ass.
I like Macs... beleive it or not:) I JUST HATE when i run into snobby kids who think you're a caveman for using a PC.
iTunes sells Trent Reznors Music but wont distribute his App?
HUH?
Shouldnt Apple be giving the big "DUH" on this. What the fuck is Apple thinking?
I thought Apple was the "artist" friendly computer platform. You know that image they try to sell us on, using that hip "Mac guy"...
BEGIN SCENE
MAC GUY: "Hey PC, I'm a MAC, I dress like an artist, but really I'm just another fake image driven sock puppet for an evil corporation"
PC GUY: "Boy, I sure know how what it feels"
FADE TO WHITE
Apple.. Think What We Allow You To.
END SCENE.
Apple really has changed over the years. Its a very snobby platform for so called "artists". I find it histerical when I see college students thinking they MUST get a MAC if they will ever be an artist. Its just embarrasing. As if a platform makes you talented... If only it were that easy.
Image is everything, and Apple really needs to change direction and stop censoring song titles on itunes, and stop censoring applications. Simply have parenting mode settings in Itunes. Thats all you need. Let the parent decide what is right for their children. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY... Let us ADULTS choose what is right for us.
Oh and btw to you snobby college students that think you're artists because you just bought a Mac. You're wrong:) 95% of todays blockbuster films are made with windows pcs and linux pcs running various kinds of special fx software. Photography is done on both platforms but windows users out number mac users by a far.
Music? Sure... Protools for the Mac... of course! No wait... How about Nuendo for the PC?:) Far better.
Final Cut? ok you got us.:P
Hey will still have avid though... and the entire 3d animation industry.
PS3 media server is pretty dam good however while it will play MKV, it will usually transcode them to mpeg2. PS3 media server is very picky about what streams are in an MKV and there fore usually transcodes it.
Its supposed to remux MKVs that have ps3 friendly streams in them but MKVs just vary too much. Some have AAC audio, some have mp4 streams that ps3 does not support etc.
But overall it is nice software and the better of the streaming server options out there.
But can linux take full advantage of the PS3 hardware? No. Sony decided not to give you that freedom.
A PC will always win as long as they are open and free. Microsoft and many others are trying their hardest to put an end to computer freedom. Consoles are in fact evidence of this.
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This is just another reason why seperation of church and state is important. Its funny how Christians want to control the government but they fail to see the other side of it. But then again these stupid organizations such as Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Scientology etc are just fairytales being driven by stupid monkey like creatures we call "humans" :)
I hate all fanboy's of god :) They just look silly as they argue their stupid rituals and fantasy stories as if they mean anything.
Do you think any 1 of you stupid monkeys has the answer to the world? Do you really think the "creator" has time to talk to you? What makes you so damn important?
Religion is organized insanity and should be burned out of the homes and lives of all those that are stupid to follow one.
I tried Red Bull Cola and it tastes horrible. Its not even good. It's just shit.
Perhaps the cocaine content is to help "sell" the product as something deliciously mmm mmm good? You would have to be on hallucinogens to enjoy Red Bull Cola's shit taste.
I understand that... :) I just dont know why everyone else doesnt get it. ;P
Lets see, Verizon decided to not allow law enforcement to TRACK a customer. That is a GOOD THING.
It's a cell phone, not an invasion of privacy device used on a whim by any police officer at will.
Lets just be honest... New York needs money. This is the 5th or 6th ridiculous new New York Tax featured on slashdot in the past year and a half. None of this has to do with anything they claim it does.
This is about poor management within NY state. Our government is out of f'n control here. We're litterally leading the state BLIND... and fucking hookers with state paychecks.
Tax soda, junk food, plastic bags, AMAZON.com.... etc... These are the brilliant ideas of our elected morons.
Lots of people pass through those toll booths every day. Supposedly they rake in 18+million a week on them... Where does all of that go? Oh wait... to BUILD 2 COMPLETELY NEW BASEBALL STADIUMS for 2 of the richest teams in baseball!
What the fuck are we doing? The Yankees should have paid for their stadium on their on. The Mets should pay for their own stadium. Let me ask you this.... Since all of our tax dollars went to building these 2 USELESS stadiums to replace 2 functioning (and 1 of which historic) stadiums... I can now assume that i can go to the games any time i want for free right? Nope. Not only did they take our tax dollars to build these redundant stadiums, they have the nerve to charge us ridiculous fees to get in. Talk about a fucking con job.
THAT is our political system at its "best"
So pay for your soda tax.... pay your GTA4 tax... :) Lets really talk about WHERE THE FUCKING MONEY GOES.... and who sells us out on a daily fucking basis. ... and I'm for National Health care folks :)
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You Hack.
OSX is Unix...
Windows 7 is... Vista.
Vista is... garbage.
Linux is... Free Unix.
Firefox loaded faster in win7 because windows 7 and vista have an intelligent cache system that pre-caches programs that it recognizes as regularly used applications and data into available ram. Firefox would be a regularly used application in just about everyones workflow, so vista pre-caches it, thus loading faster.
Its not loading off the hard disk, its been cached into ram... thats why it loaded faster.
Its a fundemental difference between xp and vista. Vista uses all of your free ram to cache things that it thinks you want to open.
XP just leaves all of the ram available.
I'm not convinced that MS has all of the quirks worked out yet. It tends to work ok for "average" users who just browse, email, play a game... but as far as i've seen in Vista... it can hamper performance for applications that require large amounts of ram such as 64-bit applications.
BTW my statements about FILE I/O are not unfounded. They are based on experience with Vista.
Again i have 8GB of ram. I'm a 3d animator... a professional one, who has worked in 3d since the dos days.
Vista is slower. I'm not saying Vista is entirely bad. Its more stable, and some of it is nicer... but at what COST?!
Vista does not do anything that XP cant (other than directx 10 and DRM). It does it all slower than XP 64.
Thats my point. I'm not saying Vista and 7 are not usable. They are, even with their faults. However on a performance level, Vista and windows 7 doesnt do anything that XP64 cant do... and XP64 does it faster.
8 GB of ram is not enough? hmmm.
I have plenty of ram.
I have run both, Vista/Windows 7 on a QX6700 extreme system and an overclocked 3500+ system.
Tested them both on the highest of systems and the lowest that i would expect to be able to run the OS on..
Windows7 and Vista are slower than XP and do not provide any significant new features to support their performance hit.
Tell me, what's it like, being wrong about everything?
I wouldnt know.
No I'm not new. I remember when photoshop came to windows. My point was... back then you could make a case and say Apple was for artists. It was a valid statement because it did really have a good hold on publishing and so forth. John and Thomas Knoll were strictly Mac at the time. Its was a reality that Apple provided tools more commonly used by artists. NOW thats not true. Both platforms are used by professional artists... and In my experience, more artists use the PC. There's more software.
The difference now is that Apple still holds on to this "we're the artist friendly platform, and you need a Mac to be an artist". It still holds on to that, and its not true. So thats the change that i meant. It's not based on reality anymore, its now just a "lets be snobs about it" thing.
Why are you even comparing windows 98 vs XP? They are two completely different OS's. Win98 is a shell that runs on top of dos in 32bit protected mode. Its not a real operating system.
XP on the other hand is based on windows NT. An OS completely different technology wise. NT=New Technology) It has absolutely nothing in common with how windows 98 worked.
Windows 98 was a peice of shit as was windows 95. NT was an entirely different beast and a great OS at the time. NT 3.51 was killer. NT4 even better.
Actually, Vista really is garbage.
I agree with you that it is a fairly good operating system in that it is pretty stable, has better security... but the interface is worse (GPU GUI does not improve Vista's performance), the I/O is horrible and the performance overall for what it is.... IS TERRIBLE. That is where it fails.
Its not that its "bad" entirely... Its more so that its bad at what it does, and at what cost. Its too heavy of an OS and it doesnt really do anything different than XP.
You could say that they integrated search, so its slower. But thats not true. You can install Windows search on XP and XP will still be faster than Vista and Windows 7. I know because i did just that. I went back to XP and installed windows desktop search, comodo firewall, nod32 anti virus... and its all faster than Vista.
So what does Vista do for me that XP cant? Directx 10? Is that the reason why its so slow? I cant imagine how that could be.
Vista doesnt even doesnt support firewire! (maybe sp1 does but launch version did not)
So what does Vista give me that XP64-bit cant do? DRM? Slower performance??
Now you see the problem.
I was running the Windows 7 beta for sometime and while i like some of the new ui, its still a VERY slow os.
When i went back to XP i realized just how slow Windows 7 is. It was as if i had put a new processor in my pc.
Windows 7 and Vista have terrible file I/O. Its just slow and bloated. XP ran siginificantly faster with windows desktop search, comodo firewall, and nod32 anti virus installed. One would think those extra processes would slow down XP, but it was still far faster than windows 7.
I've grown to hate vista because of how poor it is. I cant stand the UI. The automatic folder views suck. Vista never gets it right.
Vista loves to eat up all of your ram, and then when a program needs lots of ram, your system takes a giant shit because Vista goes into swapping mode to dump its giant "cache" to hd.
XP (XP64 also) is a better OS all around.
MS is hurting themselves by continueing to force Vista/Windows 7 on all of us. Its a slow OS, poorly designed. Its memory management sucks and while it may help those who just browse the internet... for those of us who use programs that demand lots of ram (video editing, 3d animationm, photography) Vista can be a nightmare. Such programs expect lots of free ram at any moment, but Vista eats up all of your ram, and when the programs need that ram vista chugs until it can free it up (IF IT EVER FREES IT UP)
Microsoft needs to dump Vista and Windows 7 all together and start over from nothing with the idea that leaner/faster is better. Take out the DRM. It is slow and ruins the OS's performance. Fix the dam kernal. The I/O is terrible.
It's one thing to copy Apple and make a pretty UI, but they forgot to copy the performance of osx... linux... and even xp. I cant remember which MS manager it was that said it... but he was correct when he said "We lost our way with Vista" in the leaked emails.
Windows 7 is a continuation of that nightmare.
Try it yourself, Uninstall it for yourself :P
both platforms have their zealotry but there is a strange perception that artists use Macs and not Pcs.
Its so strange that i just saw that microsoft made a tv advertisement where they let a girl buy any laptop she wants, and she's supposedly a "film maker" and she needs to "cut movies on her laptop"... and she passes up the mac book pro in the commercial and picks up an HP laptop with Vista. The commercial is shot like its a documentary, but its clear that its all bullshit.
At the end of the commercial it ends with something like "I'm an artist and I'm a windows PC". Obviously Microsoft sees the same nonsense that i'm seeing. But whats insulting is that they have to try and pretend that they (Microsoft) are now the "artist platform". Its so silly.
Reality would clealy state she would probably like the mac book pro better because she could run final cut :P after all she said she is a "film maker" (which i doubt is real, and if it is... shes the youtube kind).
btw as far as color management. Vista now finally has universal color management throughout the os. I run keep my monitor's profiled all the time in vista with an eye one.
As for PDF support. I've witnessed how much better many "format" things are on a mac. They're more natively supported with in the OS etc. Its something that i wish microsoft would learn. Hell We FINALLY got tiff support with Vista. How absurd is that?
Frankly Microsoft sucks at formats. They dont support many natively... certainly none that us artists use. the media player on windows is a peice of shit compared to how well quicktime is integrated on a Mac. Its a shame that quicktime on a PC still sucks for the most part.
Like i said, I'm not one of those people that have a problem with Apple. I like Apple, and I plan to buy a Macbook soon myself. However what i dont like is that whole "the machine makes me an artist" attitude that a lot of untalented, in experienced people tend to use to make themselves feel like they are an artist or can be a professional. That zealotry can be PC, MAC, app etc... It's just silly. But my point is i tend to see it come from Apple more, and i tend to see more inexperienced people think they need a MAC to be an artist.
Perhaps that's because Vista has such terrible file support and image ;) And I'm not even a vista fan myself personally.
BTW MS has no idea what to do with a RAW format :P They never will and they never will make software for raw conversion that comes anywhere close to adobe's lightroom or apple's aperture. Thats one of the major problems with Microsoft from my point of view. MS just does not make software that is usable by profesionals. They make clunky, half featured programs that are for grandmother. This is where i give apple a lot of credit, they tend to provide more advanced tools, where as Microsoft has no itnerest in providing software for anyone above a BASIC level. Its sad.
MS makes a decent OS from time to time, but its all of the great software that makes windows a very useful platform.
Microsoft seems to just get in the way. :P
This is funny as hell, because I'm running Vista right now, with Aero on, on a machine considerably slower than what you allege to be using (Core 2 Duo T6400, 4GB RAM), and it's just as responsive as XP
I said the same thing about windows 7 beta. I thought it was just as fast as xp and they had finally fixed vista. When i switched back to XP, i realized how wrong i was.
I agree with what you're saying except for the experience in college ;P
I see it all the time. Not in college tho. i'm 32 now, and have worked professionally in NY since i was 20 (and i've been doing graphics since the commodore 64, apple 2e, first mac etc. I have run into my share of "newbie kids" who are just getting into art that ask me for advice and turn around and say "and you dont use a Mac?". A lot of people fail to realize that most studios are running windows workstations. You generally see the Macs being used by Final Cut guys, while 3d animation, fx guys etc are still all windows.
I have a friend who's girlfiend now thinks she wants to be a photographer and thinks she needs a Mac because "all photographers use Macs". She can barely use a camera, and I have published studio fashion photography that i've done... He told her to ask me about learning photography and what she needs to do. She never asked and just kept insisting to him that "photographers use macs, i need a mac". So instead of using the PC she currently has which is perfectly fine, she has this idea that she needs to spend more money to buy a machine that will supposedly turn her into an artist. It's sad.
I see it a lot though. It stems from the old days where it was once true that a Mac did do desktop publishing well and was the dominant platform in the field. But those days are long gone, just like the old days of "must have an SGI workstation to do 3d animation" :P
Apple has this image that people tend to think makes them better or into something they want to be. Its a bizarre thing. I'm not saying its unique to Apple, but I do think Apple plays it up and promotes the idea.
There is a lot to say for branding when it comes to tricking people into thinking they need brand X to be something they're not. Its funny to me.
"See, it's so clear. It's obvious that they should change what works so successfully just because Jackie_Chan_Fan on Slashdot doesn't like it."
So you're saying Vista was successful?
Its not 1998 any more. Kids are now a lot more tech savy, teens are, and so are young adults. They grew up with win95 machines as children and with xp machines as teens.
Is it really that hard for a "dumb user" to figure out search in specific locations, or by date duration, or non indexed locations?
Dont you think its a little confusing when your folder display keeps changing and for some reason your mp3 folder stopped dispaying "bitrate" data because you put some jpgs in there and now vista thinks its a picture folder?
I cant imagine a user going "OH! I know... I have to go to right click on the folder, set the folder back to being displayed as a music folder"
I think thats harder! BUT Sure it sounds simple to do right? ITS NOT. Its a fucking headache to go to the dam properties menu of every folder that goes haywire. Its like playing "Wack-A-Mole" because Vista keeps fucking changing the dam things no matter how many times you set it to default to a specific view. The result is vista creates more work in your explorer work flow and makes it very confusing for "dumb users"
AND... VISTA I/O sucks. What does that have to do with MS making a dumbed down OS? WHY does simple file I/O suck so much? Even after MS supposedly fixed it with SP1??????????????????
Vista is a fucking bloated, disaster with a pretty interface that DOES NOT improve windows performance. It simply does not. I would LOVE to think that a GPU accelerated gui would improve performance but strangely it does not (at least in Windows).
I'm sorry, these things specifically stung hard this week with me because they got in the way of EVERYTHING i did this week.
Vista has other faults.
My hatred for Vista now comes from another area. I was running Windows 7 beta on one of my machines. When i finally removed Windows 7 beta and put back XP... It was like i had bought a new f'n computer with a 16core processor!
Its clear that vista and windows 7 are SLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. They are the same fucking disaster.
And dont say its because the OS is doing more. I have Windows desktop search installed in xp, anti virus, comodo firewall... I have a decent amount of processes going, but on XP i can finally play back an HD video without it studdering.
OH and while i was doing a lot of file management this week on Vista... I noticed that the audio subsystem is some how effected heavily by Vista's file I/O. I wasnt copying data and bogging down the machine... I simply was listing files in directories with several windows open on a Quad core machine.
Vista is garbage. My older PC is faster with xp than my newer quad core is with vista. Not in terms of cpu crunching power, but in terms of OS performance.
File I/O in vista Sp1 is as fucking horrible as it was with the release version of vista.
I cant stand the fucking dumb fucking search bar any more. Why do i have to click to "show advanced features"? Why does it take 2 FUCKING CLIKCS TO DO IT?
WHY DOES AN OS have to be written for fucking morons? Why cant the advanced features be displayed by DE-FUCKING-FAULT?!?!?!
WHY do i have to CONSTANTLY wrestle with the OS's fucking brilliant choice of folder view modes?! ITS ALWAYS FUCKING WRONG.
Microsoft makes SHIT. Its fucking time they stop making crayola fucking operating systems because i cant stand it. XP is 50x faster than VISTA!!!! ... AND ITS STILL FUCKING poorly designed.
Why the hell cant you get it right microsoft? WHY?
I agree.. I was alive and lived through it :)
I just have this ridiculous hang up about when i see no talent hacks who think their computer makes them an artist. They always fail to realize that a Mac is an intel PC now. Its silly.
Adobe actually doesnt treat the platforms equally. Adobe yanked premiere pro from Mac because Final Cut is kicking their ass.
I like Macs... beleive it or not :) I JUST HATE when i run into snobby kids who think you're a caveman for using a PC.
iTunes sells Trent Reznors Music but wont distribute his App?
HUH?
Shouldnt Apple be giving the big "DUH" on this. What the fuck is Apple thinking?
I thought Apple was the "artist" friendly computer platform. You know that image they try to sell us on, using that hip "Mac guy"...
BEGIN SCENE
MAC GUY: "Hey PC, I'm a MAC, I dress like an artist, but really I'm just another fake image driven sock puppet for an evil corporation"
PC GUY: "Boy, I sure know how what it feels"
FADE TO WHITE
Apple.. Think What We Allow You To.
END SCENE.
Apple really has changed over the years. Its a very snobby platform for so called "artists". I find it histerical when I see college students thinking they MUST get a MAC if they will ever be an artist. Its just embarrasing. As if a platform makes you talented... If only it were that easy.
Image is everything, and Apple really needs to change direction and stop censoring song titles on itunes, and stop censoring applications. Simply have parenting mode settings in Itunes. Thats all you need. Let the parent decide what is right for their children. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY... Let us ADULTS choose what is right for us.
Oh and btw to you snobby college students that think you're artists because you just bought a Mac. You're wrong :) 95% of todays blockbuster films are made with windows pcs and linux pcs running various kinds of special fx software. Photography is done on both platforms but windows users out number mac users by a far.
Music? Sure... Protools for the Mac... of course! No wait... How about Nuendo for the PC? :) Far better.
Final Cut? ok you got us. :P
Hey will still have avid though... and the entire 3d animation industry.
PS3 media server is pretty dam good however while it will play MKV, it will usually transcode them to mpeg2. PS3 media server is very picky about what streams are in an MKV and there fore usually transcodes it.
Its supposed to remux MKVs that have ps3 friendly streams in them but MKVs just vary too much. Some have AAC audio, some have mp4 streams that ps3 does not support etc.
But overall it is nice software and the better of the streaming server options out there.
"YellowDog Linux runs just fine on My PS3"
But can linux take full advantage of the PS3 hardware? No. Sony decided not to give you that freedom.
A PC will always win as long as they are open and free. Microsoft and many others are trying their hardest to put an end to computer freedom. Consoles are in fact evidence of this.