lorin schultz

Rayz2016 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

entropys said:

It does not matter how expensive macs were in the past. Heck I paid over USD$4000 for a PowerBook G3 “Wallstreet” back in the day.  
What matters today is the price of a Mac compared with comparable windows machines.

Not hardly, as Macs have also nearly always been more expensive than a comparable Windows machine. The argument that we've been assaulted with, with a new battery after the Mac mini rollout, is that Tim Cook has unnecessarily jacked up prices, and only he has ever had the gall to price machines so high.

That is false, at its face.

And of course, if price is your overriding concern then then by all means by a Windows machine. They will always be cheaper because they have no significant development costs for hardware or the operating system. 

Windows machines include development costs too, the difference is just that Microsoft isn't always the one doing the development. The cost of CPU development is built in to the price of the CPUs. The cost of graphics card development is built in to the cost of the graphics card. Even if Asus, Dell, Microsoft, et al don't do any development themselves, the cost of advancements is included in the cost of the components they buy.

mjbadagliacco said:

I always find it funny that virtually the ONLY people who complain about Apple products are the IT hacks! BooHoo, you are going to have to get out of your comfort zone and actually work instead of just applying the same dinosaur applications and code... The placement of the smart connector is a precursor to the way they will connect the iPhone in the future... follow the logic! It is all coming together exactly as Apple envisions, not through your ancient eyes! I have BOTH iOS and Android devices, Mac and PC... I actually work with REAL PEOPLE, and techies... The "REAL PEOPLE" prefer iOS over Android all day... the Techies, not so much... The techies all think everyone wants anything but a walled garden, while the REAL PEOPLE don't really care... they actually like the "walled garden" because they don't spend all day trying to figure out how to change everything on their devices. They just want to use them!

I don't necessarily agree or disagree with your fundamental premise, but I gotta ask why you demean anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly embrace whatever is SHINY and NEW! with derogatory epithets like "ancient" and "dinosaur?" What leads you to believe that only old people have preferences different than yours? Why do you think old is automatically bad? What do you accomplish by insulting anyone who doesn't share your opinion?

Consider this: Sometimes procedures, methods, structures, and technologies only get to BE old by being good in the first place. If they weren't good, they wouldn't have been around long enough to be old. Also consider that mature methods have had time to iron out the wrinkles so they're generally pretty reliable and tolerant of varied circumstances. Finally, consider that long-standing systems enjoy a wealth of shared knowledge and experience, so there's common language and understanding among users. Even things that aren't perfect may have an advantage by virtue of the shortcomings being well known and understood, rather than being an unwelcome surprise at an inopportune moment.

Bottom line: Newer is not automatically better. Older is not automatically better. Nothing is best for everyone -- what works best for some people will be an utter disaster for others. Keep an open mind, constantly strive for better (as opposed to just newer), and don't assume that YOUR way is always the BEST way for EVERYBODY.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

The woman is correct. If the simple, easy to understand web page shows items below an offer of a gift card, you should not be expected to read a very long legal agreement to find the exemptions buried within it.

Perhaps you didn't look at Apple's web site during the sale period. It was not immediately and obviously apparent which items were included, but it was pretty easy to figure out. A buyer would have to be inattentive and/or distracted to get it wrong.

Apple didn't make it as clear or simple as possible, but it sure didn't seem to me that there was any intent to obfuscate what was and wasn't on sale.

cpsro said:

Rayz2016 said:

cpsro said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple can't praise the security of its walled garden while not even looking at apps that make it on the App Store. This app is currently still alive on the App Store, though we expect it to be promptly removed.

Apple certainly can praise the security, as I do. Yes, it's awful that this app made it into the App Store--and how it did so needs to be discovered and corrected--but the app is gone now. GONE.

I get that it's gone, but the point is that it shouldn't have gotten to the store in the first place.

We're all agreed the app shouldn't have made into the store, but ridding the world of it was easy, fast and complete--important security features of the App Store. Oh, yes, a bad app made it through app review. Well, imagine if there was no review or the bad app was sold through a myriad of stores. Good luck with that.
To the person who analogized this to committing murder... it was only money lost in this case, which Apple should refund.

Yeah, the murder analogy was more than a little over the top, but I figured it was enough so that people would recognize I didn't intend equivalence, but was simply making an easy to understand comparison.

I'll try harder next time.

cgWerks said:

lorin schultz said:
That's one area in which I remain unapologetically old-fashioned in my audio work. "Never use wireless anywhere a perfectly good wire will do." Unfortunately it means I spend more time doing the old over-under... (to anyone who doesn't know what that means, don't worry, it's a wink to other sound grunts. It refers to the way we coil cables so they lay out flat the next time we use them).

What part of Canada are you in? I'm in Vancouver.

Yeah, I'm still trying to get family members to coil cords properly, so as not to damage them. I've run sound a number of times over the years and played in some bands... lots of cords.  We lived in Vancouver for a number of years and then up north in PG, but now we're in the Victoria area.

You both run sound and play? You could start a company: Cords & Chords.

I was helping pack up the P.A. system after the kids baseball game last summer, and someone walked up and asked where I do sound for a living. Being a former sound tech himself, he recognized the way I was coiling the cables. It's like a secret handshake.