I use ClearType on both my CRT and LCD displays. Text looks awful with it disabled. Enabled, it's clear and crisp. ClearType is definitely one of those things that seems to be wildly subjective with reactions to it as varied as reactions to Star Trek...
Indeed. Roddenberry was also responsible for Wesley Crusher. Next Generation significantly improved the moment Roddenberry was involved in my humble opinion.
I think Enterprise and DS9 share structural similarities, in that stories travel across multiple episodes, as most good series do. Unfortunately this seems to be unpopular for some reason. Voyager, which I thought was the worst series of all of them, was very successful. It was painful. It lacked sophistication and any respect for its audience.
Sarcasm aside, good for you if you enjoy the product you bought. Satisfaction over your hard earned money is always better than disatisfaction. But market share seems to show that you're not the majority.
And Apple's marketshare in the the computer marketplace signifies what exactly then? So he's not in the majority. How is that significant?
Why? Because mistakes or misreads (you could have given him the benefit of the doubt and have been open to the possibility that others, including myself, read his post to mean a live cast since that was the subject at hand) open your posts to snide remarks from the likes of yourself?
The G4 in this system definitely does just that, along with a horrible amount of default memory and the 9200 is nothing special, as you say. But to each their own of course.
Unlike your Linux PC, my PowerMac's keyboard does include a shift key.
I've got news for you. His keyboard has a shift key too. He chose not to use it (and yes I realize you know this but your ahh, clever, response doesn't make much sense, or perhaps I'm just dense). And he could be using a Mac based Linux machine no?
I'd like to thank you for providing an excellent example. Comparing an AMD 64 3000+ system to a G4 system with half the RAM perfectly highlights the price and performance ratio that makes the Mac Mini less than attractive to yours truly and is indeed the main point I have made.
Thanks for the support.
Of course if performance isn't a major factor and preferences differ than one's opinion differs as well. I applaud Apple for filling in a niche for those who are interested in it.
Haven't run into it. I have run into people who don't realize that there are more than one button. I tell them there is and how they work. Done. No confusion. However, I don't equate not knowing with confusion, so perhaps we have a different perspective.
I've trained adults and children (adults professionally, children personally) and it has never been an issue. I usually use the keyboard as an analogy. You press a, a appears. You press b, b appears. They seem to understand this without any difficulty. You press CTRL-C, things are copied. Combined with visual cues on the screen of course.
I also use volume or channel buttons on remotes(some of which are physically one button) if a user is not familiar with a mouse. They've all gotten the concept right away.
Well I apologize, but I just don't see how it is more than just his opinion and perspective rather than trolling. You disagree. That's fine.
And the fanatics thing was meant to be ridiculous, much like your troll statement is...
Happy to be an A--hat in your world. It is truly a compliment not to mention not a surprise. Cheers mate.
Actually the exchange rate is quite favourable these days unless you're an exporter. Apple, like many companies, prices differently in different markets. This thing is far too expensive for the level of performance. I find the GUI slow in the iMac G5. This would be worse.
Anyone who has ever taught a complete novice to use a computer can tell you that on button is complex enough, and two, that do different things will completely confuse someone.
I don't dismiss that this was your experience but it hasn't been mine. If a person can learn how to use the multiple buttons that make up what we refer to as a keyboard I've found they usually don't have any problem figuring out how to use more than one button on a mouse. Mileage varies.
I know, I've been putting off buying a mac for quite some time, this makes it much harder to just say no.
Still too pricy for me here in Canada: Mac Mini upgraded to 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, Superdrive, AirPort Extreme Card - Only $1024.00 + tax. Unbelievable.
Of particular interest is this quote from the second page of the review:
"The screen itself is a very nice LG.Philips LCD LM201U04. This is perhaps the first true 16ms 24-bit LCD panel commercially produced and doesn't rely on over-inflated contrast ratio and brightness numbers to draw attention to itself. We will go into more detail about the panel later on."
Talks about true 24-bit colour rather than 18-bit colour.
Finally, though the review points out a startlingly unacceptable 5 dead pixels it was a preproduction unit. I have none thus far, but that is always a concern with LCDs of course.
Another excellent LCD may be the Sony SDM-P232W/B for those with a larger budget. Review:
LCDs are ok, but pretty much useless for graphics apps due to low contrast and washed out color.
How so? I'd say LCDs have superior colour (if you get a true 24bit display rather than 18). Nothing is washed out and it is extremely sharp. Use it all the time for graphics work in both print and screen (video and internet). Would never go back. The colour in particular is brilliant.
"No, this is different than F1 racing. EA is a company headquartered in the U.S. It has taken the licenses away from competitors in one of the top 3 U.S sports (baseball, basketball, football). F1 racing rarely made top 10 in sales in the U.S. EA could care less about F1 licenses. It's not the bulk of their revenue."
But that wasn't the point. Indeed, that is completely irrelevant to the original point which was that not having the ability to sell a licensed game does not really mean that much and won't prevent other unlicensed games from being made. EA was the distributor for the F1 games and not they won't even bother without a license. How was the revenue for the F1 games in Europe? Why did they make at least 5 versions of the game and 2 in one year if it didn't generate enough revenue? Should companies merely concentrate on what makes the "bulk" of their revenue and drop all other avenues? I'm sure they were willing to pay the ridiculous licensing fees for so many years out of some sort of generosity.
to assume that because EA has an advantage that other companies are going to stop making a product is just silly
And yet EA lost the F1 license to Sony for the next few years. Result. No more F1 games from EA, which were the best.
Mods can happen quite easily on computers, but consoles are a different story. There's a reason software companies bother about what can be rather expensive licenses, and that reason is it helps to sell games to the general public who may own consoles that aren't easily modded, or to the general computer-using public who may not bother with modding. If it isn't much of a factor then why bother with licensing whatsoever?
Strangely enough people use all sorts of different systems for all sorts of different reasons, be they Linux, Mac, Windows for example. I use my computer for video editing, audio engineering, media content creation and management, bookkeeping, surfing the web, that sort of thing. It's not a Mac. I do use Macs at some of the places I freelane at though. One computer is much like another...
Thanks for the suggestion but neither suit my needs or preferences at this moment. To each his own and all that. Don't suffer from virii or spyware regardless.
Professionals use Photoshop on Windows too. You can easily drag everything but the image windows away. It is a drawback for those who prefer to have the total freedom and isn't for those who don't. Simple really. I have no problems using Photoshop on either platform and adjust accordingly.
"Apple has the Holy Trinity of online music: Software (iTunes), Store (iTMS), Player (iPod)"
Which is exactly why I favour the iRiver. Don't have deal with the trinity and the way it works. To each their own, glad for the variety, and all that.
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Mileage obviously varies. The same amount of time you list of OS X is the same amount of time for XP for me.
I use ClearType on both my CRT and LCD displays. Text looks awful with it disabled. Enabled, it's clear and crisp. ClearType is definitely one of those things that seems to be wildly subjective with reactions to it as varied as reactions to Star Trek...
Indeed. Roddenberry was also responsible for Wesley Crusher. Next Generation significantly improved the moment Roddenberry was involved in my humble opinion. I think Enterprise and DS9 share structural similarities, in that stories travel across multiple episodes, as most good series do. Unfortunately this seems to be unpopular for some reason. Voyager, which I thought was the worst series of all of them, was very successful. It was painful. It lacked sophistication and any respect for its audience.
I found the iRiver to be preferable to the iPod and think it sounds better to boot. But they're both great players.
Sarcasm aside, good for you if you enjoy the product you bought. Satisfaction over your hard earned money is always better than disatisfaction. But market share seems to show that you're not the majority.
And Apple's marketshare in the the computer marketplace signifies what exactly then? So he's not in the majority. How is that significant?
This is why I hate posting to slashdot.
Why? Because mistakes or misreads (you could have given him the benefit of the doubt and have been open to the possibility that others, including myself, read his post to mean a live cast since that was the subject at hand) open your posts to snide remarks from the likes of yourself?
or the CPU will blow
The G4 in this system definitely does just that, along with a horrible amount of default memory and the 9200 is nothing special, as you say. But to each their own of course.
Unlike your Linux PC, my PowerMac's keyboard does include a shift key.
I've got news for you. His keyboard has a shift key too. He chose not to use it (and yes I realize you know this but your ahh, clever, response doesn't make much sense, or perhaps I'm just dense). And he could be using a Mac based Linux machine no?
I'd like to thank you for providing an excellent example. Comparing an AMD 64 3000+ system to a G4 system with half the RAM perfectly highlights the price and performance ratio that makes the Mac Mini less than attractive to yours truly and is indeed the main point I have made.
Thanks for the support.
Of course if performance isn't a major factor and preferences differ than one's opinion differs as well. I applaud Apple for filling in a niche for those who are interested in it.
Haven't run into it. I have run into people who don't realize that there are more than one button. I tell them there is and how they work. Done. No confusion. However, I don't equate not knowing with confusion, so perhaps we have a different perspective. I've trained adults and children (adults professionally, children personally) and it has never been an issue. I usually use the keyboard as an analogy. You press a, a appears. You press b, b appears. They seem to understand this without any difficulty. You press CTRL-C, things are copied. Combined with visual cues on the screen of course. I also use volume or channel buttons on remotes(some of which are physically one button) if a user is not familiar with a mouse. They've all gotten the concept right away.
Well I apologize, but I just don't see how it is more than just his opinion and perspective rather than trolling. You disagree. That's fine. And the fanatics thing was meant to be ridiculous, much like your troll statement is... Happy to be an A--hat in your world. It is truly a compliment not to mention not a surprise. Cheers mate.
Actually the exchange rate is quite favourable these days unless you're an exporter. Apple, like many companies, prices differently in different markets. This thing is far too expensive for the level of performance. I find the GUI slow in the iMac G5. This would be worse.
Anyone who has ever taught a complete novice to use a computer can tell you that on button is complex enough, and two, that do different things will completely confuse someone.
I don't dismiss that this was your experience but it hasn't been mine. If a person can learn how to use the multiple buttons that make up what we refer to as a keyboard I've found they usually don't have any problem figuring out how to use more than one button on a mouse. Mileage varies.
Oh well, trolls will be trolls...
And some people just have a different perspective and aren't, in anyway, trolling or being a troll. How was his statement trolling?
Oh well, fanatics will be fanatics...
I know, I've been putting off buying a mac for quite some time, this makes it much harder to just say no.
Still too pricy for me here in Canada: Mac Mini upgraded to 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, Superdrive, AirPort Extreme Card - Only $1024.00 + tax. Unbelievable.
I got a Dell 2001FP which uses the LG.Philips LCD LM201U04 for the LCD. A pre-production review can be found http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1918.
r ticle.jsp?id=20358
Of particular interest is this quote from the second page of the review:
"The screen itself is a very nice LG.Philips LCD LM201U04. This is perhaps the first true 16ms 24-bit LCD panel commercially produced and doesn't rely on over-inflated contrast ratio and brightness numbers to draw attention to itself. We will go into more detail about the panel later on."
This link:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1918&p=5
Talks about true 24-bit colour rather than 18-bit colour.
Finally, though the review points out a startlingly unacceptable 5 dead pixels it was a preproduction unit. I have none thus far, but that is always a concern with LCDs of course.
Another excellent LCD may be the Sony SDM-P232W/B for those with a larger budget. Review:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewa
LCDs are ok, but pretty much useless for graphics apps due to low contrast and washed out color.
How so? I'd say LCDs have superior colour (if you get a true 24bit display rather than 18). Nothing is washed out and it is extremely sharp. Use it all the time for graphics work in both print and screen (video and internet). Would never go back. The colour in particular is brilliant.
"No, this is different than F1 racing. EA is a company headquartered in the U.S. It has taken the licenses away from competitors in one of the top 3 U.S sports (baseball, basketball, football). F1 racing rarely made top 10 in sales in the U.S. EA could care less about F1 licenses. It's not the bulk of their revenue."
But that wasn't the point. Indeed, that is completely irrelevant to the original point which was that not having the ability to sell a licensed game does not really mean that much and won't prevent other unlicensed games from being made. EA was the distributor for the F1 games and not they won't even bother without a license. How was the revenue for the F1 games in Europe? Why did they make at least 5 versions of the game and 2 in one year if it didn't generate enough revenue? Should companies merely concentrate on what makes the "bulk" of their revenue and drop all other avenues? I'm sure they were willing to pay the ridiculous licensing fees for so many years out of some sort of generosity.
"If you don't like it, don't buy it."
And that's the message Apple is sending by doing this. Look what we'll do, by an iRiver instead...
to assume that because EA has an advantage that other companies are going to stop making a product is just silly
And yet EA lost the F1 license to Sony for the next few years. Result. No more F1 games from EA, which were the best.
Mods can happen quite easily on computers, but consoles are a different story. There's a reason software companies bother about what can be rather expensive licenses, and that reason is it helps to sell games to the general public who may own consoles that aren't easily modded, or to the general computer-using public who may not bother with modding. If it isn't much of a factor then why bother with licensing whatsoever?
It's a pleasure to have the Fonz onboard here. If we hang together can I become cool too?
Strangely enough people use all sorts of different systems for all sorts of different reasons, be they Linux, Mac, Windows for example. I use my computer for video editing, audio engineering, media content creation and management, bookkeeping, surfing the web, that sort of thing. It's not a Mac. I do use Macs at some of the places I freelane at though. One computer is much like another...
Thanks for the suggestion but neither suit my needs or preferences at this moment. To each his own and all that. Don't suffer from virii or spyware regardless.
Professionals use Photoshop on Windows too. You can easily drag everything but the image windows away. It is a drawback for those who prefer to have the total freedom and isn't for those who don't. Simple really. I have no problems using Photoshop on either platform and adjust accordingly.
"Apple has the Holy Trinity of online music: Software (iTunes), Store (iTMS), Player (iPod)"
Which is exactly why I favour the iRiver. Don't have deal with the trinity and the way it works. To each their own, glad for the variety, and all that.