Yep it's not a bad thing at all. After all i buy a mac that "keeps it's value" and our government writes the tax law based on the commodity boxes. So i write the whole value off and still sell the computer and get lots of productive work done on my trouble free mac.
Bring on cheap disposable computers. They only make the situation better for mac owners.
Wouldn't wearing this in a lighting storm be a good idea. after all the lighting wants to travel the easiest way in can. if it can travel in the suit it won't travel in you.
in the same way people who are completely soaked when hit by lightinging will only be burnt where there aren't wet on the skin, and the current can't travel in the water.
I know the standard Aluminium Xservers look pretty good, but those black ones are just too sexy. Servers shouldn't look that good they should all be butt ugly just like these new IBM ones.
For all your comments about Mac Os, this is one of the reason Mac's held ground in creative businesses. as wierd as us architects, interior/graphics/web designers seem, we are still designers and most of us have a good handle on tech. Not to mention we tend to work in smaller companies (100 people would be very large as architecture firms go)
Meaning with an office full of Mac's we can be Creative Professionals First, and the computer guy on the side.
With windows this would be impossible, with linux it would be crazy. I've seen windows based offices employ an IT guys, they tend not to last long, they don't save the company enough money.
You tend to answer your own question. Mac's take less time than linux, because on the surface Mac os X dictates a way of working and everyone works to the same base. It can be changed, but apple tends to in touch how we work, so not much value in the change.
Linux can be configured any way you like, and yes you free to dream about how you would like it to be, which is good.
I would tend to ask the question - Will linux really take off until some ones start to pull together a "product" and target it at a market? In the end wouldn't this create more jobs?
After All as architects we do this all day, taking timber, nails steel, and various other open standard items and turn them it to a product, it's a very common model in world business.
For Me Linux is interesting, but i'd rather dream about that cool new house i'm working on, getting paid full fees for, and use the IT stuff as a fun distraction.
I'm not it is another technology...
i think you will find the way apple can offer linux and *BSD clients into their system is that apple has taken one of the standards cleaned it up and put a pretty interface on it.
By pretty i don't just mean aqua, and gunmetal, but the logic that takes these standards and brings them to mass practical use.
Was going to say University of Technology Sydney too
and even more perfect they could partner with the Powerhouse Museam down the road.
Which is Full of this sort of thing anyway, from collections of "Matchbox Cars" to half a space shuttle.
the difference between a space and an average, or just down right bad space, is the detail. Sometimes it worth paying someone to get this detail right.
Like an Archititect, (the building kind) even if most programmers have read "a pattern language".
The biggest hint is keep it clean and simple.
Then add the human touch. Start with a clean base colour like off white (cream to grey, not biege) and colour with texture, like timber, fabric, plants. and lighting.
Let the staff bring there own touches to it, with art work, lighting, music. the challange here is not to let one person dominate the space and to still have a unified image for the company.
In many ways a good office will be similar to a good home. thinking about the parrallels between the rooms in a house to areas in an office can be a good start. Remember you don't need walls to divid space.
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Yep it's not a bad thing at all.
After all i buy a mac that "keeps it's value" and our government writes the tax law based on the commodity boxes.
So i write the whole value off and still sell the computer and get lots of productive work done on my trouble free mac.
Bring on cheap disposable computers.
They only make the situation better for mac owners.
Wouldn't wearing this in a lighting storm be a good idea. after all the lighting wants to travel the easiest way in can. if it can travel in the suit it won't travel in you. in the same way people who are completely soaked when hit by lightinging will only be burnt where there aren't wet on the skin, and the current can't travel in the water.
I know the standard Aluminium Xservers look pretty good, but those black ones are just too sexy. Servers shouldn't look that good they should all be butt ugly just like these new IBM ones.
You'd have to ask the farmer, of the apple farms the steves where working at the time of naming the company.
and you though someone would come out with a more appealing product.
For all your comments about Mac Os, this is one of the reason Mac's held ground in creative businesses. as wierd as us architects, interior/graphics/web designers seem, we are still designers and most of us have a good handle on tech. Not to mention we tend to work in smaller companies (100 people would be very large as architecture firms go) Meaning with an office full of Mac's we can be Creative Professionals First, and the computer guy on the side. With windows this would be impossible, with linux it would be crazy. I've seen windows based offices employ an IT guys, they tend not to last long, they don't save the company enough money. You tend to answer your own question. Mac's take less time than linux, because on the surface Mac os X dictates a way of working and everyone works to the same base. It can be changed, but apple tends to in touch how we work, so not much value in the change. Linux can be configured any way you like, and yes you free to dream about how you would like it to be, which is good. I would tend to ask the question - Will linux really take off until some ones start to pull together a "product" and target it at a market? In the end wouldn't this create more jobs? After All as architects we do this all day, taking timber, nails steel, and various other open standard items and turn them it to a product, it's a very common model in world business. For Me Linux is interesting, but i'd rather dream about that cool new house i'm working on, getting paid full fees for, and use the IT stuff as a fun distraction.
The idea opens up lots of interesting questions.
If "dashboard" is an overlay of useful information
would apple calls this sort of thing "heads up display"?
If both of you is looking at the same text window,
does one person have to read the text backwards?
Does this mean all the tech supprt people will mount the camera under the screen, so they always seem like there looking down their nose at you?
I'm not it is another technology... i think you will find the way apple can offer linux and *BSD clients into their system is that apple has taken one of the standards cleaned it up and put a pretty interface on it. By pretty i don't just mean aqua, and gunmetal, but the logic that takes these standards and brings them to mass practical use.
seeing the best supercomputer in Oz is overpriced Dell that does 1.2 terraflops that would be a really good idea.
Was going to say University of Technology Sydney too and even more perfect they could partner with the Powerhouse Museam down the road. Which is Full of this sort of thing anyway, from collections of "Matchbox Cars" to half a space shuttle.
the difference between a space and an average, or just down right bad space, is the detail. Sometimes it worth paying someone to get this detail right. Like an Archititect, (the building kind) even if most programmers have read "a pattern language". The biggest hint is keep it clean and simple. Then add the human touch. Start with a clean base colour like off white (cream to grey, not biege) and colour with texture, like timber, fabric, plants. and lighting. Let the staff bring there own touches to it, with art work, lighting, music. the challange here is not to let one person dominate the space and to still have a unified image for the company. In many ways a good office will be similar to a good home. thinking about the parrallels between the rooms in a house to areas in an office can be a good start. Remember you don't need walls to divid space.