Photoshop Elements is $63 after rebates on Amazon as we type.
For most of the crowd, Elements will be more than enough. For photography/graphic arts/etc students who need more, there's an educational version.
If you're one of the few image editing professionals that needs the full Photoshop, you're probably making enough to justify Photoshop as a business expense.
Photoshop is one of those apps that targets the professional class. Adobe doesn't care about that 90% of the pirates who warez the software and use it once a month to airbrush themselves into Natalie Portman's publicity shot. Adobe cares about the design shops who buy the legal version and use it eight hours a day, every day. There are enough of these folks paying full price to cover the development costs, and turn a nice profit besides. Everyone else can use Elements, or the GIMP.
Replace "PowerBook" with "laptop" and it makes perfect sense. It's not about the brand name, so much as the flexibility that a portable offers. Some people, upon buying a laptop, get rid of all their desktops and live off of the notebook. It becomes a "lifestyle," inasmuch as your work files, eMail, calendar, address book, etc. are all on a single machine. Like the Blackberry lifestyle, or the Palm Pilot (remember those?) lifestyle, or the cell-phone lifestyle.
For the longest time, Mac-heads used "PowerBook" to mean "laptop" the way some people use "Kleenex" to mean "facial tissue."
If Apple did sue (or more likely, threatened legal action until Google gave in) then I'll appologize.
In fact, I appologize now, just in case that's what happened. We may never know for sure.
This in no way threatened Apple's business. I hope that even Apple's overzealous lawyers realize that. Let me also go on record as saying that I hope Apple gets its ass handed to it when the rumor sites appeal their free speech case.
It's flamebait becauas you're jumping to an unjustified conclusion. There's no evidence that anyone from Apple was involved in the takedown. Yes, sometimes it seems Apple sues everything in sight, but to say that "Apple sucks for doing this" is not warranted at this juncture.
So naturally, instead of recouping part of the manufacturing cost by selling the remaining cars to the EV-zealots, GM decided to pay to haul them off to the desert, crush them, and recycle the carcasses.
And yes, the would-be buyers were willing to sign liability waivers to absove GM of that supposed hurdle.
Ford said the same thing with it's electric-converted Ranger pickups, until lessees banded together and signed waivers absolving Ford of all responsibility for maintenance, parts, and other liabilities.
The EV-1 owners proposed a similar scheme to GM, but GM wouldn't budge.
The reason I asked in the first place is that I have many friends that are graphic designers. They are currently using g5s for their work and they do not want to use windows based laptops. They tried the same tasks on the g4 powerbooks and they seemed sluggish compared to the g5 counterpart.
Obviously. G5 desktops, with dual cpus, clock rates up to 2.5GHz, and desktop-speed hard disks are much faster than 1.67GHz PowerBooks. Similarly, a Pentium M laptop is sluggish compared to a dual Xeon workstation. That doesn't mean a PowerBook or a P-M laptop aren't worth buying.
I am personally in science and there is a major lack of support for many software titles outside of windows.
Completely seperate issue, but...what branch of the sciences? About half of the scientists I've met use some flavor of Unix, and have nothing but disdain for Windows. The other half don't seem to care.
I do not think an OS update will change the ability to work with large graphic files (not without a hardware update to go with it).
This is not a rumor about another dual-core chip. There is no mention of a chip at all. Apple uses IBM chips,and, as you mention, "IBM has been doing it for a while."
This is about Apple's diagnostic and performance tools supporting more than 2 CPU cores. The implication is, whatever prototypes Apple's working on needs these tools *right now.*
Further, Apple is not much of a server vendor. XServe is great, sure, but it's not how Apple makes its money. You can bet that, if Apple's going 4-way, it's going to have 4-way desktops or workstations.
Windows XP, on the other hand, does not yet support more than two logical CPUs. So any dual-core chip used on an XP box would be by itself...a two-way box. 4-way or larger Windows boxes would have to run Server 2003. Windows Server is not usually blessed for use on personal machines. (Though plenty of people do it.)
So what's the point? The point is, four cores on your desk, not in your closet.
No, they were about the last to jump into the market.
and brought the current rendition to market. Fortunately for us and for all PC users they allowed their designs to be copied (clones anyone) No, they fought the clones tooth and nail. Several were successfully sued for copying IBM's BIOS. Only those that were able to get a reverse-engineered BIOS survived.
thus putting apple forever in the dark. Since they did this, market forces have determined that IBM should no longer be in the PC business. Frankly, who cares? There are thousdands of other businesses that makes PCs now.
IBM made darned good laptops. Besides, this has implications for the "thousands of other businesses that make PCs" with the possible exception of Dell and the other Chinese companies.
If IBM can't make it, we may be facing a future in which the PC market consists of Dell, other low-overhead Chinese companies, and Apple. Oops, forgot, Apple has been in the dark all this time.
...is actually a pretty good ice cream shop. Most of us don't have an ice cream maker, and the vast majority are far too lazy to actually make the stuff, and we'd probably screw it up if we did.
Want to come over and make me some?
Didn't think so.
BR is certainly better than Marble Slab and Coldstone. (The stone ends up re-freezing the ice cream. Yum, ice crystals.) Ben & Jerry's and Hagen-Dazs are better, since they use a "full-fat" recipe (which is pretty much what it sounds like...they use about twice as much milkfat.) Free BR is not something I'll turn down.
I mean, she makes the argument that OSX is a more productive environment because it has better icons
Icons under OS X are 128x128-pixel, infinitely scaleable images.
I know you're thinking "oooh...pretty colors...shiny..." so I'll spell it out for you:
- Bigger icons are easier to see and click - Higher resolution icons are easier to differentiate - Scaling icons allows you to take advantage of the above benefits while conserving screen real estate.
I can also sympathize with the need for a locking blade, and the Leatherman PST and PSTII don't have one.
However, so long as you always fold a classic Leatherman's handle completely before using the blad (As opposed to keeping the pliers exposed) the blade will never collapse onto your exposed fingers (It will be blocked by the other half of the handle, which will prevent it from cutting your hand.)
Bank of America has rolled out the same ATMs in my area (color, touch-screen NCR models.) Every time you insert a card, it flashes "Retrieving user customizations" or something like that.
Indeed, it keeps track of my preferred Fast Cash amount.
But it still asks me every time whether I would like English or Español. I guess it's hoping I'll learn Spanish someday.
iTunes, of course, can stream lossless audio over a wireless network to computers or dedicated devices (AirPort Express.) It can do this using MP3s as the source, running in the background as other applciations are used.
To make this work, we'd need a codec capable of carrying high-quality video at 802.11g speeds (easy enough, already done) and a computer capable of transcoding it on the fly, in the background.
Maybe a dual-processor G5 could handle this load, or a future Mac with a cell processor. I very much doubt this could be done on an iMac, and definitely not on a mini.
I'm pretty sure you're trolling, with that dig at Mac users, but it's a valid question.
OS X Server appeals to two classes of buyers:
First are traditonal Mac shops that need servers. They have no experience with the command line, need an easy, graphical interface, and support for AppleTalk. A Linux server is hopelessly beyond these people, while OS X Server requires only a little more homework.
Second are those attracted by the XServe rackmount server and XServe RAID storage system. XServe is a competitive 64-bit server, and XServe RAID is a nice fibre channel storage box with fairly low cost-per-gigabyte. Sure, you could buy the hardware, wipe OS X, and install Linux, but there's no real reason to do so.
In general, people are attracted to Mac servers for the same reason they're attracted to Mac laptops and desktops: a nice face on top of Unix, and sexy hardware.
So, nobody ever crashes a truck into a transmission pole in Winnipeg?
Ice never builds up on the lines in Winnipeg?
Nobody ever cuts a buried line with a backhoe in Winnipeg?
This happened because someone tripped a circuit breaker in the building where the servers were located. The grid itself was fine. No matter how reliable the generation facility, people will always muck thing sup.
This isn't what Apple does...it just sells its products at such high wholesale costs that resellers can't possibly sell below "Suggested" retail price and make a profit.
Since Apple is in competition with resellers, setting a fixed price would constitute price fixing.
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Photoshop Elements is $63 after rebates on Amazon as we type.
For most of the crowd, Elements will be more than enough. For photography/graphic arts/etc students who need more, there's an educational version.
If you're one of the few image editing professionals that needs the full Photoshop, you're probably making enough to justify Photoshop as a business expense.
Photoshop is one of those apps that targets the professional class. Adobe doesn't care about that 90% of the pirates who warez the software and use it once a month to airbrush themselves into Natalie Portman's publicity shot. Adobe cares about the design shops who buy the legal version and use it eight hours a day, every day. There are enough of these folks paying full price to cover the development costs, and turn a nice profit besides. Everyone else can use Elements, or the GIMP.
Replace "PowerBook" with "laptop" and it makes perfect sense. It's not about the brand name, so much as the flexibility that a portable offers. Some people, upon buying a laptop, get rid of all their desktops and live off of the notebook. It becomes a "lifestyle," inasmuch as your work files, eMail, calendar, address book, etc. are all on a single machine. Like the Blackberry lifestyle, or the Palm Pilot (remember those?) lifestyle, or the cell-phone lifestyle.
For the longest time, Mac-heads used "PowerBook" to mean "laptop" the way some people use "Kleenex" to mean "facial tissue."
As Kid Plutonium said, your post is BS. 4.7.1 will encode MP3s or AACs at anywhere between 16 and 320 Kbps.
Steve also holds a majority stake (51% or so) in Pixar, so he'd have to vote himself out in order to lose the CEO spot.
He has, apparently, learned his lesson from the Apple/John Sculley experience.
...but Apple's patent application was first.
How long until Apple forces IBM to remove it or pay royalties?
And how does it feel to be subsidising European justice?
I wouldn't know. I've never given any money to Microsoft.
If Apple did sue (or more likely, threatened legal action until Google gave in) then I'll appologize. In fact, I appologize now, just in case that's what happened. We may never know for sure. This in no way threatened Apple's business. I hope that even Apple's overzealous lawyers realize that. Let me also go on record as saying that I hope Apple gets its ass handed to it when the rumor sites appeal their free speech case.
It's flamebait becauas you're jumping to an unjustified conclusion. There's no evidence that anyone from Apple was involved in the takedown. Yes, sometimes it seems Apple sues everything in sight, but to say that "Apple sucks for doing this" is not warranted at this juncture.
So naturally, instead of recouping part of the manufacturing cost by selling the remaining cars to the EV-zealots, GM decided to pay to haul them off to the desert, crush them, and recycle the carcasses.
And yes, the would-be buyers were willing to sign liability waivers to absove GM of that supposed hurdle.
Ford said the same thing with it's electric-converted Ranger pickups, until lessees banded together and signed waivers absolving Ford of all responsibility for maintenance, parts, and other liabilities.
The EV-1 owners proposed a similar scheme to GM, but GM wouldn't budge.
...or WMA, or FLAC, or any of the dozen other things people gripe about.
Because most of the potential buyers don't mind not having it. The potentialb buyers who do are not a large enough market to justify changing things.
The reason I asked in the first place is that I have many friends that are graphic designers. They are currently using g5s for their work and they do not want to use windows based laptops. They tried the same tasks on the g4 powerbooks and they seemed sluggish compared to the g5 counterpart.
Obviously. G5 desktops, with dual cpus, clock rates up to 2.5GHz, and desktop-speed hard disks are much faster than 1.67GHz PowerBooks. Similarly, a Pentium M laptop is sluggish compared to a dual Xeon workstation. That doesn't mean a PowerBook or a P-M laptop aren't worth buying.
I am personally in science and there is a major lack of support for many software titles outside of windows.
Completely seperate issue, but...what branch of the sciences? About half of the scientists I've met use some flavor of Unix, and have nothing but disdain for Windows. The other half don't seem to care.
I do not think an OS update will change the ability to work with large graphic files (not without a hardware update to go with it).
Funny you should mention that.
Hmmm. Blu-Ray is supported by Sony, JVC, Panasonic/Matsushita, Phillips, Thomson...
Sony + Phillips = CDs
JVC+Panasonic/Matsushita = VHS
Thomson (owns RCA and Telefunken) = SECAM, PAL, and NTSC television formats
Yup, that standard's doomed to failure.
This is not a rumor about another dual-core chip. There is no mention of a chip at all. Apple uses IBM chips,and, as you mention, "IBM has been doing it for a while."
This is about Apple's diagnostic and performance tools supporting more than 2 CPU cores. The implication is, whatever prototypes Apple's working on needs these tools *right now.*
Further, Apple is not much of a server vendor. XServe is great, sure, but it's not how Apple makes its money. You can bet that, if Apple's going 4-way, it's going to have 4-way desktops or workstations.
Windows XP, on the other hand, does not yet support more than two logical CPUs. So any dual-core chip used on an XP box would be by itself...a two-way box. 4-way or larger Windows boxes would have to run Server 2003. Windows Server is not usually blessed for use on personal machines. (Though plenty of people do it.)
So what's the point? The point is, four cores on your desk, not in your closet.
So IBM developed the PC
No, they were about the last to jump into the market.
and brought the current rendition to market. Fortunately for us and for all PC users they allowed their designs to be copied (clones anyone)
No, they fought the clones tooth and nail. Several were successfully sued for copying IBM's BIOS. Only those that were able to get a reverse-engineered BIOS survived.
thus putting apple forever in the dark. Since they did this, market forces have determined that IBM should no longer be in the PC business. Frankly, who cares? There are thousdands of other businesses that makes PCs now.
IBM made darned good laptops. Besides, this has implications for the "thousands of other businesses that make PCs" with the possible exception of Dell and the other Chinese companies.
If IBM can't make it, we may be facing a future in which the PC market consists of Dell, other low-overhead Chinese companies, and Apple. Oops, forgot, Apple has been in the dark all this time.
...is actually a pretty good ice cream shop. Most of us don't have an ice cream maker, and the vast majority are far too lazy to actually make the stuff, and we'd probably screw it up if we did.
Want to come over and make me some?
Didn't think so.
BR is certainly better than Marble Slab and Coldstone. (The stone ends up re-freezing the ice cream. Yum, ice crystals.) Ben & Jerry's and Hagen-Dazs are better, since they use a "full-fat" recipe (which is pretty much what it sounds like...they use about twice as much milkfat.) Free BR is not something I'll turn down.
I mean, she makes the argument that OSX is a more productive environment because it has better icons
Icons under OS X are 128x128-pixel, infinitely scaleable images.
I know you're thinking "oooh...pretty colors...shiny..." so I'll spell it out for you:
- Bigger icons are easier to see and click
- Higher resolution icons are easier to differentiate
- Scaling icons allows you to take advantage of the above benefits while conserving screen real estate.
Any questions?
I can also sympathize with the need for a locking blade, and the Leatherman PST and PSTII don't have one.
However, so long as you always fold a classic Leatherman's handle completely before using the blad (As opposed to keeping the pliers exposed) the blade will never collapse onto your exposed fingers (It will be blocked by the other half of the handle, which will prevent it from cutting your hand.)
...at least not here.
Bank of America has rolled out the same ATMs in my area (color, touch-screen NCR models.) Every time you insert a card, it flashes "Retrieving user customizations" or something like that.
Indeed, it keeps track of my preferred Fast Cash amount.
But it still asks me every time whether I would like English or Español. I guess it's hoping I'll learn Spanish someday.
Obviously, this is not practical yet.
iTunes, of course, can stream lossless audio over a wireless network to computers or dedicated devices (AirPort Express.) It can do this using MP3s as the source, running in the background as other applciations are used.
To make this work, we'd need a codec capable of carrying high-quality video at 802.11g speeds (easy enough, already done) and a computer capable of transcoding it on the fly, in the background.
Maybe a dual-processor G5 could handle this load, or a future Mac with a cell processor. I very much doubt this could be done on an iMac, and definitely not on a mini.
http://www.g4tv.com/freshgear/features/39129/USB_2 0_Versus_FireWire_pg3.html
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http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html"
http://www20.tomshardware.com/storage/20040402/fi
Those last two include FireWire 800 (1394b) and 400 (1394a)
I'm pretty sure you're trolling, with that dig at Mac users, but it's a valid question.
OS X Server appeals to two classes of buyers:
First are traditonal Mac shops that need servers. They have no experience with the command line, need an easy, graphical interface, and support for AppleTalk. A Linux server is hopelessly beyond these people, while OS X Server requires only a little more homework.
Second are those attracted by the XServe rackmount server and XServe RAID storage system. XServe is a competitive 64-bit server, and XServe RAID is a nice fibre channel storage box with fairly low cost-per-gigabyte. Sure, you could buy the hardware, wipe OS X, and install Linux, but there's no real reason to do so.
In general, people are attracted to Mac servers for the same reason they're attracted to Mac laptops and desktops: a nice face on top of Unix, and sexy hardware.
So, nobody ever crashes a truck into a transmission pole in Winnipeg?
Ice never builds up on the lines in Winnipeg?
Nobody ever cuts a buried line with a backhoe in Winnipeg?
This happened because someone tripped a circuit breaker in the building where the servers were located. The grid itself was fine. No matter how reliable the generation facility, people will always muck thing sup.
I frequently see articles in the New York Times that mention men and their male partners without explicitly saying "GAY!" anywhere in the article.
This isn't what Apple does...it just sells its products at such high wholesale costs that resellers can't possibly sell below "Suggested" retail price and make a profit.
Since Apple is in competition with resellers, setting a fixed price would constitute price fixing.