I do have a lot of downlaoded, less than legal music, but I dont feel bad.
I own 3 Radiohead CD's, and have seen them in concert 3 times at $50+ per time. I dont feel bad about the 3 other studio albums i downloaded, or the 100 songs of rarities, bootlegs, and otherwise comerical unavialable stuff I have.
I spent around $300 on music and another $400 or so on going to concerts every year. my budget can't afford much more than that
This may be the socialist in me, but who needs choice when you you have now works perfectly?
I am willing to give up my rights of choice for the superior technolgy of the iPod.
Your argument isn't very strong thouhg. Microsoft's operating system runnings on far more hardware than Apple's, does that make it more consumer freindly?
I've only purchsed 6 songs off iTunes anyways. If i want an Album, I buy the CD on sale,a nd then i can rip it to my computer in WMA, AAC, OOG, or my favorite 256kbps MP3.
I'm huge music fan and if got nearly 50 gigs of music on my computer. and more than half of that is stuff I've ripped from my CD collection or close friends at 256. I have the majority of the stuff I listen to on my iPod, but frequently I get the urge to listen to a song that I don't have.
For those people who complain that it doesn't make sense for a player to hold more music than it can play on a single charge, there is a reason why they sell so many car adapters for iPods. Anyone who has ever driven San Diego to Portland knows how much nice it is to have 16-18 hours of music non-stop. Other than that, an ipod charge lasts me fine on any average day.
Let me qualify this comment by saying that I've been an apple fan since I was 5 (I still miss my IIgs), but...
In its software development, Apple has gone the way of micro$oft and innovated by buying other companies. Logic, Final Cut, Shake, and even OS X (as neXt step) all came to apple from other companies. I think apple has done great things with these acquisitions, but but it certainly can't be credited entirely to apple.
Looking at shake's system requirements [apple.com] I noticed that it lists a 3 button mouse as required. Apple didn't develop shake, but it speaks to the fact that more than one button is required for real productivty. you can get along all right cmd-clicking in quark, but for something as complex as video compositing, you need the extra buttons.
When my apple mouse died, I went with a 5 button kensington, and now I couldn't live without it. The side buttons control forward/back in mozilla out of the box!
UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both ranked very high, but they both have small centeralized campi. UC San Diego, like The Farm is a big spread out campus. I also wonder if they count the universty owned nature reserves around campus. On a good day, I get wireless acess on the beach.
In terms of productivity, It's great to do research while eating lunch, but sometimes, it become a bit of a distraction when you are trying to write a paper. Having no will power, I have to pull out my wireless card in order to finish writing papers
The closest lab to my dorm contains 15 MDD dual processor G4s. At any given moment there are 2-3 people using Final Cut Pro, iDVD or some other processor intensive task. Another 3-4 computers have folks browsing the web or checking their email. The rest of the computers sit idle. It would be awesome if the folks using FCP could use all the other computers as a renderfarm. With xGrid [apple.com] and gigabit Ethernet, it doesn't seem like this would be hard to implement. The university paid for the computers, it might as well get full use of them.
Another new focus: scientists. Here at UC San Diego, you see a lot of professors and researchers running around with PowerBooks, and not just in the art department. At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, [ucsd.edu] almost everyone has a PowerBook. A bunch of the legacy scientific software has been ported to OS X and everyone loves that they can get work done and then give a lecture using the same computer. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the old UNIX servers that they track weather and ocean currents on migrate to xServe.
I carry around a man purse, and I think it's pretty manly. I belive its a Korean war army surplus sholder bag that my dad used for boy scouts when he was young. Inside it holds my 12" powerbook, my ipod, and my cell phone perfectly. I love the looks I get when I pull my shinny Ai book out of the faded green bag...
My uncle worked at AT&T Bell Labs (now Lucent Technologies) for over 30 years, and I remember him telling me about an argument he had with a co-worker in the early 1970's. they couldn't decide if digital imaging was going to become standard in 1985 or 1990. Kodak could very well have done lots of R&D on digital cameras in the 80's but not have anything with it.
Right now he is working with AMD to develop a new process for silicon lithography using x-rays. It is projected to reach market around 2015. Of course, he will probably still be working then, since his lucent stock based retirement is worth nothing now.
I use win2k because it is stable and there is no driver support for 95, namely USB. There certainly have been improvements behind the scenes, but the user interface is basically the same. If you look at OS X, not only is there a completely different core (UNIX/BSD), but also the user interface is new and better. The interesting thing about OS X is it will still run (although not as well) on macs that are 5 and 6 years old. I tried running XP on a P2 400 with 128 ram, it would barely run at all. Microsoft bloatware justifies intel's constant mhz increases.
I have legal licenses for windows 3.1/dos 6.22, windows95, windows 98, windows 2000, and windows xp. That being said, I have 4 computers running win2k. Every time I have bought a new computer, it has come with the latest windows, why can't I just use the same OS if I stop using my old computer? I think I have paid the microsoft tax far to many times and have gotten very little. WIN95 crashed all the time, and XP would freeze at least once a day. I recently picked up a powerbook, and I am very impressed with OS X. I hadn't used a mac in years, and there has been some really innovation there. Windows hasn't changed much since WIN95. I think my next desktop is going to be a G5
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I do have a lot of downlaoded, less than legal music, but I dont feel bad. I own 3 Radiohead CD's, and have seen them in concert 3 times at $50+ per time. I dont feel bad about the 3 other studio albums i downloaded, or the 100 songs of rarities, bootlegs, and otherwise comerical unavialable stuff I have. I spent around $300 on music and another $400 or so on going to concerts every year. my budget can't afford much more than that
I am willing to give up my rights of choice for the superior technolgy of the iPod.
Your argument isn't very strong thouhg. Microsoft's operating system runnings on far more hardware than Apple's, does that make it more consumer freindly? I've only purchsed 6 songs off iTunes anyways. If i want an Album, I buy the CD on sale,a nd then i can rip it to my computer in WMA, AAC, OOG, or my favorite 256kbps MP3.
I'm huge music fan and if got nearly 50 gigs of music on my computer. and more than half of that is stuff I've ripped from my CD collection or close friends at 256. I have the majority of the stuff I listen to on my iPod, but frequently I get the urge to listen to a song that I don't have. For those people who complain that it doesn't make sense for a player to hold more music than it can play on a single charge, there is a reason why they sell so many car adapters for iPods. Anyone who has ever driven San Diego to Portland knows how much nice it is to have 16-18 hours of music non-stop. Other than that, an ipod charge lasts me fine on any average day.
all it takes is a bottle full of tequilla, an ipod full of tunes, some nice portable speakers and I'm ready to party!
Let me qualify this comment by saying that I've been an apple fan since I was 5 (I still miss my IIgs), but...
In its software development, Apple has gone the way of micro$oft and innovated by buying other companies. Logic, Final Cut, Shake, and even OS X (as neXt step) all came to apple from other companies. I think apple has done great things with these acquisitions, but but it certainly can't be credited entirely to apple.
When my apple mouse died, I went with a 5 button kensington, and now I couldn't live without it. The side buttons control forward/back in mozilla out of the box!
UC Irvine and UC Riverside are both ranked very high, but they both have small centeralized campi. UC San Diego, like The Farm is a big spread out campus. I also wonder if they count the universty owned nature reserves around campus. On a good day, I get wireless acess on the beach. In terms of productivity, It's great to do research while eating lunch, but sometimes, it become a bit of a distraction when you are trying to write a paper. Having no will power, I have to pull out my wireless card in order to finish writing papers
The closest lab to my dorm contains 15 MDD dual processor G4s. At any given moment there are 2-3 people using Final Cut Pro, iDVD or some other processor intensive task. Another 3-4 computers have folks browsing the web or checking their email. The rest of the computers sit idle. It would be awesome if the folks using FCP could use all the other computers as a renderfarm. With xGrid [apple.com] and gigabit Ethernet, it doesn't seem like this would be hard to implement. The university paid for the computers, it might as well get full use of them.
Another new focus: scientists. Here at UC San Diego, you see a lot of professors and researchers running around with PowerBooks, and not just in the art department. At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, [ucsd.edu] almost everyone has a PowerBook. A bunch of the legacy scientific software has been ported to OS X and everyone loves that they can get work done and then give a lecture using the same computer. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the old UNIX servers that they track weather and ocean currents on migrate to xServe.
I carry around a man purse, and I think it's pretty manly. I belive its a Korean war army surplus sholder bag that my dad used for boy scouts when he was young. Inside it holds my 12" powerbook, my ipod, and my cell phone perfectly. I love the looks I get when I pull my shinny Ai book out of the faded green bag...
My uncle worked at AT&T Bell Labs (now Lucent Technologies) for over 30 years, and I remember him telling me about an argument he had with a co-worker in the early 1970's. they couldn't decide if digital imaging was going to become standard in 1985 or 1990. Kodak could very well have done lots of R&D on digital cameras in the 80's but not have anything with it.
Right now he is working with AMD to develop a new process for silicon lithography using x-rays. It is projected to reach market around 2015. Of course, he will probably still be working then, since his lucent stock based retirement is worth nothing now.
I use win2k because it is stable and there is no driver support for 95, namely USB. There certainly have been improvements behind the scenes, but the user interface is basically the same. If you look at OS X, not only is there a completely different core (UNIX/BSD), but also the user interface is new and better. The interesting thing about OS X is it will still run (although not as well) on macs that are 5 and 6 years old. I tried running XP on a P2 400 with 128 ram, it would barely run at all. Microsoft bloatware justifies intel's constant mhz increases.
I have legal licenses for windows 3.1/dos 6.22, windows95, windows 98, windows 2000, and windows xp. That being said, I have 4 computers running win2k. Every time I have bought a new computer, it has come with the latest windows, why can't I just use the same OS if I stop using my old computer? I think I have paid the microsoft tax far to many times and have gotten very little. WIN95 crashed all the time, and XP would freeze at least once a day. I recently picked up a powerbook, and I am very impressed with OS X. I hadn't used a mac in years, and there has been some really innovation there. Windows hasn't changed much since WIN95. I think my next desktop is going to be a G5