I own a mac, they are over priced for what you get, and frankly the entire Apple INC is designed to get even more money out of you after you buy the units..."oh you want those features you have to sign up for mobileme" etc.
I run Ubuntu, XP, and OS X 10.5.6 at home, so I look for hardware I can afford, and what does the job, I don't get caught up in OS fascism or evangelicalism, and without fail building your own PC gives you a better, faster, less expensive machine than anything you can get from Apple, and you can run OS X on it.
IMO they want to milk their existing network rather than upgrade to todays standards of data transfer (illegal or not) and a cap does that with the guise of "piracy is an issue" in addition it wouldn't surprise me a bit if the RIAA and MPAA had a hand in this as it benefits them as well.
We need regulation on broadband ownership and split these corps up to foster some competition, other wise we will all be using 3G and 6 MB cable well into the future.
GIMP has come a long way you should try it now, and for me running CS3 there is a function in GIMP (I think it's MathMap)that Adobe didn't have (it's in CS4 now) but it was a math like function that created pretty interesting photos.
Tons of plug ins now, a lot of added functionality and as the other person said it's free and you can use the source as you see fit.
Takes some getting use to but it is very powerful and I currently use it side by side with photoshop (GIMP has some interesting features not in CS3) I want to say thanks for the people that toil over these free programs.
Is it just me or does the likelyhood of a terrorist attack seem pretty slim these days? Or is that it seems we are more likely to get "terrorism" from our own government rather than some Middle East country.
Finally, could you just as easily use a map? Really how much does an over head view of a hotel give you?
The thing with the RIAA, MPAA, and others, is that they are always behind the curve with technology, business models and ethics. (ha ha) I wonder what will happen to my internet connection when it's all encrypted, will they make that illegal too? Who does the Internet belong to? Us or Them.
At some point, if we let them, the Internet will be price tiered, monitored, and filtered to the point of uselessness.
Maybe this one instance was a good thing, "If the teacher doesn't like it I want to know more" or at least, when I was a kid and authority figures denounced something it made me want to know more about said thing. Hopefully kids still question authority.
My experience is that "on a Mac" Safari is faster, sure isn't on Windows. My point was though...why bother with Safari? Nothing unique and in the most meaningful sense it's redundant. (and not very pretty)
To me a matter of 1 or 2 seconds longer loading for Firefox is acceptable as it isn't native to OS X, however on Ubuntu it is much faster for em than either Windows or OS X.
This might all be acceptable if the only thing they ever fought were other robots, some how the idea of a machine created to soldier disturbs me deeply...it's a matter of time until Berserker's roam the streets.
Just use Firefox and be done with it, while all browsers have their faults (and features) Safari offers nothing unique (IMO) and Firefox most likely has a bigger team of coders behind it.
I use Firefox on Ubuntu, XP, and OS X Leopard so I have continuity/usability across the board, and that is what sells me on open source.
Apple decides who will make their crap batteries, like every other corporation they choose the lowest bid and then sell for the highest amount they feel they can sell them for.
In the end it's Apple's responsibility to make sure their batteries are functional, don't try to pan off Apple as some victim, the only victims here are the people that bought Apple products.
The question is still "why would anyone pay 3 times the amount when they can get it for cheaper and frankly better".
I can't tell you how many times I have heard stories like " I bought a 5000 dollar mac pro so I could start a music studio and now it isn't working" and I tell them "you could've bought 4 PC's that do the exact same thing for that price and if you had you would still be working right now thanks to redundancy".
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Scientologist should wear tin foil hats, I think that's more appropriate.
Is the solution.
Why is Arnold calling he does acting?
I own a mac, they are over priced for what you get, and frankly the entire Apple INC is designed to get even more money out of you after you buy the units..."oh you want those features you have to sign up for mobileme" etc.
I run Ubuntu, XP, and OS X 10.5.6 at home, so I look for hardware I can afford, and what does the job, I don't get caught up in OS fascism or evangelicalism, and without fail building your own PC gives you a better, faster, less expensive machine than anything you can get from Apple, and you can run OS X on it.
Does it do what you need? Can you afford it? Then why worry about it.
Everyone is now required to use gmail (best spam filter I've seen)..maybe the G is for green not google.
Doesn't a good encryption system stop DPI from giving any useful information?
IMO they want to milk their existing network rather than upgrade to todays standards of data transfer (illegal or not) and a cap does that with the guise of "piracy is an issue" in addition it wouldn't surprise me a bit if the RIAA and MPAA had a hand in this as it benefits them as well.
We need regulation on broadband ownership and split these corps up to foster some competition, other wise we will all be using 3G and 6 MB cable well into the future.
Just my opinion.
For everything.... now mark me as a troll!!!
ummm yeah... "Once validated, the game never needs to connect to the Internet again." more fun for crackers.
How will they decide what is piracy and what isn't? Using a 256 bit encryption to newsgroups should be enough protection but is it?
So is lens flare but it still exist.
GIMP has come a long way you should try it now, and for me running CS3 there is a function in GIMP (I think it's MathMap)that Adobe didn't have (it's in CS4 now) but it was a math like function that created pretty interesting photos.
Tons of plug ins now, a lot of added functionality and as the other person said it's free and you can use the source as you see fit.
Takes some getting use to but it is very powerful and I currently use it side by side with photoshop (GIMP has some interesting features not in CS3)
I want to say thanks for the people that toil over these free programs.
Is it just me or does the likelyhood of a terrorist attack seem pretty slim these days? Or is that it seems we are more likely to get "terrorism" from our own government rather than some Middle East country.
Finally, could you just as easily use a map? Really how much does an over head view of a hotel give you?
In other words how many are actual new converts as opposed to current users.
All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
Its really just a question
Of your honesty
Highest incidence of alcohol related brain shrinkage in the world.
The thing with the RIAA, MPAA, and others, is that they are always behind the curve with technology, business models and ethics. (ha ha) I wonder what will happen to my internet connection when it's all encrypted, will they make that illegal too? Who does the Internet belong to? Us or Them.
At some point, if we let them, the Internet will be price tiered, monitored, and filtered to the point of uselessness.
Maybe this one instance was a good thing, "If the teacher doesn't like it I want to know more" or at least, when I was a kid and authority figures denounced something it made me want to know more about said thing.
Hopefully kids still question authority.
Are you stupid?
Read what I posted...I don't even use Safari it's complete crap IMO
My experience is that "on a Mac" Safari is faster, sure isn't on Windows.
My point was though...why bother with Safari? Nothing unique and in the most meaningful sense it's redundant. (and not very pretty)
To me a matter of 1 or 2 seconds longer loading for Firefox is acceptable as it isn't native to OS X, however on Ubuntu it is much faster for em than either Windows or OS X.
This might all be acceptable if the only thing they ever fought were other robots, some how the idea of a machine created to soldier disturbs me deeply...it's a matter of time until Berserker's roam the streets.
Help us John Connor.
Just use Firefox and be done with it, while all browsers have their faults (and features) Safari offers nothing unique (IMO) and Firefox most likely has a bigger team of coders behind it.
I use Firefox on Ubuntu, XP, and OS X Leopard so I have continuity/usability across the board, and that is what sells me on open source.
Apple decides who will make their crap batteries, like every other corporation they choose the lowest bid and then sell for the highest amount they feel they can sell them for.
In the end it's Apple's responsibility to make sure their batteries are functional, don't try to pan off Apple as some victim, the only victims here are the people that bought Apple products.
The question is still "why would anyone pay 3 times the amount when they can get it for cheaper and frankly better".
I can't tell you how many times I have heard stories like " I bought a 5000 dollar mac pro so I could start a music studio and now it isn't working" and I tell them "you could've bought 4 PC's that do the exact same thing for that price and if you had you would still be working right now thanks to redundancy".