LMAO,
completely and utterly poinltess but cool looking, much like Pimp My Ride stuff, Tv’s in trunks and whatnot.
This is the same with computers though.
I mean, outside of the aesthetic component, of course it’s “pointless.” Being an
artist, however, I feel like it’s a perfectly acceptable use of time/money to make computers prettier. Case
mods can be quite amazing. Another personal favourite of mine (which was hand-constructed by the owner) was the
TIE Fighter desk case mod, which is
functional as a desk in addition to looking really freaking awesome. 
Search case mod competitions on
Google sometime. You’ll find some pretty intensely awesome stuff.
technology is getting better and better. The funny part
is,in my opinion Apple is the one thats gonna pave the future. It’s just a matter of time really. Think about
it… Apple has produced ipods with an 80 gig hard drive that fits in yuor hand… wow…just wow. now you can
download movies. You can download Cars, and Toy Story… and watch them on your video ipods. That’s not even the
begining. Actually for those who wanna check out their newest achivements, go to Apple.com and watch all their
previews, and watch their “presentation” Steve Jobs gets up and talks about everything Apples doing.
it’s pretty great stuff
I’d also like to
state, when you think of viruses… you think of windows…right? Most (nearly all) viruses are directed
towards windows systems. not that macs cant get virues. I actually…disliked of Macs, for a while…sorta… but i
had a reality check.
You know, I really resent it when
people bring the virus issue up. Do you know why Windows machines get all of the
viruses? Because they have something like 80%, possibly more of the market. You cannot create mass chaos by
targeting Apple computers. They don’t make viruses for Linux machines, either, and those are still PCs. People
who write viruses don’t care who made your computer. They just want to wreak havoc on a grand scale. Besides,
my roommate sophomore year nearly killed her PowerBook G4 with a virus. My PC has always been in better shape
than her shiny laptop.
Also, I take issue with the smaller iPods these days because they’re switiching to
using Flash memory because it’s less space-consuming, in the 3-dimensional sense. But the problem with Flash
memory is that, over time, it wears out.
Hard drives have been getting smaller for years. Take a look at
any laptop hard drive- they’re tiny. You can hold it in the palm of your hand. The hard drive from my old HP
laptop, that was new eight years ago (and the design was discontinued shortly after, so it’d been around for at
least a year or two before that), was smaller than my iPod which, theoretically, holds the same amount of
information (and is five years newer). The technology’s not new. Apple just wrapped it up in different
packaging.
Also, I think the iPod video was among the dumber ideas they’ve ever had. I don’t want to
watch Toy Story or Cars on my freaking iPod. I don’t even want to put my high resolution photos on my iPod. I
cannot think of a good reason to put my beautiful pictures on such a small screen where you can’t even
appreciate them. I love high resolution. I love pictures where you can actually
see the detail you’re supposed to be looking at. If I want to watch digital
video… this is why I made sure I built my computer with a DVD player.
I like PCs and Macs. I
find it alot more useful to like both, that way I wont waste my time on picking and choosing. 
All I
know is that both companys work hard.
When you dont like something, when there’s something you dont
like… if it’s a person, a thing to do, a song even…with me at least alot of times… if I really think about
it, I really get down inside of myself, i’ll see that the reason I dont like it, is because of my own weakness,
I’m scared of it, or I’m jelous of it, I’m envyous, I dont understand it…I think it’s stupid…for some
reason. But if I really think “wow…where’s it comin from” that persons just like me at the end of the
day, this person that’s making this thing or said something,or did this thing or made me feel funny… I shouldnt
be offended by it, there just doing what they think they need to do, and if it’s wrong … I can only imagine
where it came from…and whos really to say if it’s wrong or not…who has that say you know? And all of a sudden
things dont seen as complicated. They get real clear… and you just see yourself in a mist of the world. and wow
what we can do in the time that were here.
I despise Macs. The ones we use at college are nearly always broken and irrational, they crash constantly, the
only difference is you cannot DO anything about it except switch it off and back on again. Their screens are too
dark (even with the brightness altered), they’re slower than both my laptop and my PC, and I’m sure that in the
1980s-90s they probably were better for graphics and video editing, etc, but PCs have certainly caught up - if
you’re going to buy a package PC from PC World or somewhere of course you’re going to pay a lot for what isn’t
up to scratch for what you need. Boxxtech make fantastic animation geared PCs, I didn’t get mine from them
because I cannot afford it, but I had someone build me something similar to their spec.
When a Mac is
obsolete you need to buy a new one, when your PC is getting old, you can simply replace components - if you made
a wise purchase initially (hooray for brandless PCs!). Macs have also started using Intel chips, which I’m sure
illustrates enough about what had the better internal setup all along
As for the iPod debate –
Creative Zen Vision M ftw! It can decode DivX and XviD and has an extra two hours of battery life even with video
on it - plus the screen is bigger, I think 
Oh, if only that were the way the world worked. That happy
hippie psychological feel-goodness might sound nice on paper, but doesn’t work. I work with computers. A lot.
Computers will be my way of making a living once I leave this world of higher education and enter that strange
dimension called the Real World. It does, in fact, very much concern me how they work, and I don’t give a
flying spaghetti monster how hard anyone’s working, so long as it works.
As previously stated, Apple
computers have their place. My housemates find them to be very useful, since they don’t really care to mess
with all the settings and such. They want word processing, music, and occasionally some other media option. And
they really love their PowerBooks for that purpose. And that’s cool. But I would not be happy with the same
computers. In fact, I have contemplated eventually picking up the newest generation of Mac laptop, but that’s
almost entirely because they have motion sensors in them that you can program to do your bidding. Seriously- I
want to program my laptop so that whenever I whack it on the side it’s the equivalent of pressing
“return.” Just like a typewriter! Pretty fantastic.
I will have to disagree on the superiority
of the Intel chip, however. THe Intel 80x86 architecture is… a mess. I took a computer architecture course
last year, and I’ve seen the diagrams for how that thing is put together. It is a behemoth. It starts with an
itty bitty 8-bit architecture, and they just kept adding more bits, and more instruction sets, so that by now
what used to be a Reduced Instruction Set Computer processor now has more
instructions tacked on to it than there were in the original instruction set. What they
need to do is entirely restructure the architecture and phase the old chips out
completely. But will they do that? Noooooooooo. We want our precious backwards compatibility.
Here’s
my solution: redesign the architecture so it’s efficient and awesome. Introduce it to work with the next
generation of Windows after Vista. Offer tech support on all hardware/software using the old architecture for
the next 10 years. By that time, most people will have replaced their computers, and it will no longer be a
problem.
I have no concept of whether or not the G4s and G5s were better, but I really hate the Intel
architecture.
Point is, however, I’m sure the Intel people work hard. I’m sure Windows people work
hard, and I’m sure Apple people work hard. But really, I don’t have much of a choice but to choose which one
is better for my situation. I have to care. And I don’t find the idea that I’m
insecure about myself being my motivation for disliking Apple to be very useful. Not to say I know more about
computers than most people… but I know more about computers than most people. Within the year, I’ll have my
degree in computer science. I can play bit hockey, yo.
That being said, I need to implement matrix
multiplication before dinner.
Haha, pwned! Caught - I am a recreational nerd I’m no
expert on hardware, so that comment was a little ignorant I admit - didn’t mean to imply Intel were perfect, but
the backwards compatibility is I think part of the strength over Apple - or at least, upgradability XD I use AMD
Athlon Processors myself, but I would take Intel Pentium over an Apple set up (I might go so far as to say I’d
use an Intel Celeron over an Apple setup…) - unfortunately I hear that Windows Vista is graphically set to look
and act rather like OSX. If this is the case I won’t be upgrading, ever.
It is my theory that Macs are
built specifically into their own monitors so that they can be more easily chucked unceremoniously from a window
- and it’s not from not knowing how to use them, because I do know how to use both! If it came down to it and I
had a choice of a great company that worked with Macs or not, I’d bite the bullet, but I really don’t see the
benefit of using them over PCs (in terms of graphical ability, etc) any more. They’re expensive to acquire,
maintain and repair, difficult to upgrade and as I said above, have a myriad of problems. Maybe if your company
is owned by Steve Jobs, it’s less of a problem (though rendering at Pixar is done with Linux/Irix, isn’t it?)
At least with a PC the insides of it are fairly easily replaced and as you said, customised - it doesn’t feel
like it’s mine until it’s got my extra hardware hiving out of it
Oh, Vista is very, very shiny. I know someone who’s testing a Beta version. I’m not
especially a fan, to be truthful. It’s a waste of system resources. I don’t know what the OSX implementation
of their shiny graphics is, but it must be better than whatever the Vista implementation is, because it runs so
very slowly if you don’t have enough memory. I’m not certain I want to pay for Vista. And, in fact, I
probably won’t even bother until I upgrade my computer to a 64-bit processor, since I really can’t take
advantage of all the “improvements” until I have the processor that can keep up with the system. I
mean, my current 32-bit processor can simulate the 64-bit processes, but it takes twice as long as it would with
the proper processor. So really, it’s not worth it until my hardware can run it. And I have no immediate
desire to replace my motherboard and my processor, since something as shiny and new
as a 64-bit processor would require an entirely new motherboard.
But I bet I could put even more memory in
it. rubs hands together diabolically
And I like the Apple Defenestration theory. I think I’ll run with
it.
64-bit is beautiful - I have two Make sure you have a
decent fan though, my laptop’s fan was chugging not long ago and it overheated pretty much the moment it
switched on till I went and had it fixed XD
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, tut tut.
Stereotype fest. You can
actually by parts for Macs you know. And you seem to not tell us the actual model of the Mac. I mean, I have used
some PCs which crash constantly and also are really really slow. That’s because they are
old