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-Spikey

Nice to see you back! Thanx for the rec. I'm not sure what people are complaining about. That was much more articulate and much less flamingly vulgar than some of your older posts. That, and several good points.
 
My thoughts

Here are my basic impressions from the latest MacWorld.

I think it was much more impressive than NY last year, since the flat-panelled iMac was finally released. I was impressed how close-lipped the new iMac was. I didn't even see anything about spy shots or leaked news about the new iMac, even though it has been in development for quite awhile. As for the new iMac itself, I'm still trying to figure out if I like it or hate it. All I can say at this point is that it is quite different. Fairly nice specs, and it would make an interesting center piece in an office, but it looks a little unstable and I wouldn't want to have it in a house with kids. It looks too fragile and could be broken by small children. It will be interesting to see if the new iMac becomes a great success, a mediocre product, or a bomb.

However, it is probably the fault of viewing rumor sites, but I was expecting a little more to come out. I was curious to see if Apple was going to release a 19" LCD monitor, and maybe even release something on the server side of things. However, the newer iBook was a surprise, and it's tempting to get it with the larger screen size.

What about this iWalk? My guess is that this might be a prototype (or a great spoof) which might see the light of day in either March or July. Also, I think we might start seeing G5 processors in March or July, also. Time will tell. There is still plenty to wait for.
 
Canadians/Canada

Lemme see..... how many can I name? Nev Campbell, Steve Martin, pretty much the whole cast of Smallville, Any X-files extra from before the film came out, pretty much the whole cast of the Highlander TV series, Jon Candy, ...........
It'd be a pretty boring place without us. Vancouver and Toronto have doubled for more Cities worldwide than any others. The Canadian constitution was the first to include freedom of thought and freedom of information in it's bill of rights.

This concludes our cultural enrichment section. Please come back again for more samples.
 
Easy Wasper!

I didn't mean to inflame! I know and like many Canadians. Johnny LaRue is my IDOL! All of the people you mentioned are great personalities, BUT Neve's legs are gettin kinda hammy, agree?
 
just some thoughts

Everyone seems to beating on about "Pro" users and the great unwashed that is the "consumer". Well I'm a pro-user and a consumer. G4 867 at work and iMac 600 MHz at home. I love them both and they both do different things. With 6 million iMacs sold I think Mr Jobs has some sort of responsibility to the requirements of the "consumer" who likes to do nothing but surf the web, play with iPhoto (beauty of an app), build websites on homepage, speak with family members, help with homework and basically have fun - which I do after work...not much really!

I want a new iMac. the more you see it the more you want one. It screams "friendly" at you. I also want new "pro" or "prosumer" machines but am prepared to wait. An 867 is pretty fast with OS X.

Take it easy........even BMW sells compact cars...
 
I dont understand

am I alone in thinking that a lot of people are getting a little hung up over the power/speed of a computer. I have a 400MHz G3 (and a umax sp 200!) whith which I run a sucessfull video production and design studio, premiere6, freehand, pshp etc. I will snap up the next tower that apple throws at us, but in the meantime I love my set up, wake up turn on, create, write invoice...it all works. A couple of minutes extra rendering time, or a few seconds more to apply a blur, so what? I sit back look and think, good design? bad edit? Untill I can buy a faster processor for my brain, I'm going to enjoy and utilise the few moments I have free to really think, even if it is slowly.



[Edited by sparky on 01-08-2002 at 09:48 PM]
 
To Sparky

3D animation software is extremely complex and requires as much processing power as you can throw at it. I'm not just talking about a blur or 3d transition. I'm talking about digital compositing hundreds of layers to make a short 3d piece of video. I say buy what you need with some headroom. I'm not avocating that everyone needs a system capable of this kind of power. There are however, digital artists that would love to take advantage of a new, faster more powerful system. Render On!

 
I agree, but...

Saffron, you are right . But how many of the people posting are 3d animators/Illustrators. I DO use my G3 for 3d animation, modelling and illustration, I may be wrong, but say a 1 minute pal sequence rendered from C4d or similar took 8 hours on this machine only took 5 hours on a g4 800, in the scale of things this is not a huge difference, unless you are producing an 80 minute animated feature, which I imagine is not the case with "most" apple users.

8 hours is perfect for a couple of beers and a bit of shuteye..

http://www.cannonball.com.au
 
Sparky,

You're right! For a feature you would need a render farm. I've been on projects where there was no time for sleep with the client there all night. And, after the render completed, they might ask if we could move the position of a light source. Sleep! What a nice concept! A certain music video that was taken by hand with the client to the airport. It seems the faster we go the faster they want us to go.
 
until everything is realtime and there is no need to wait for a render, I could always use more power. I understand where you are coming from when talking about 1 or 2 minute renders not being a big deal, but there are times when I have to wait hours for a render in cinema 4d and maya, even premiere has some pretty long renders sometimes. I don't mind waiting for a photoshop filter that takes 5 or 10 seconds, but in photoshop, when I have to wait for 5 or 10 minutes to resize 100 layers, it can become tedious and effects the work.

besides render times there is also the issue of new technology that requires faster processors. Things that could really help in the future with media production but may not exist now. I am happy and content with my G4, but I yearn for more.
 
Thank God!

Thank God I only do graphics and layouts mostly. I do have to render but I don't quite have the stress that you do saff. I usually am the one that the CEO calls and says, "Hey, I need a new logo for the (insert your faorite new machine here) done by 8 am tomorrow for a presentation to some investors". I reply "But it's 20 till 5 now" he then replies. "You've got keys. Oh, and make it something flashy". Grrrrrrrrrrr. Call the girl up, "Dinner's off. I'll be in midnightish". Man I hate that. LOL got me a coffee pot in me office now. I did have to stay up and work on video all night once, but not on a Mac. I had to do it on a damn Casablanca! I hate that Satanic piece of ****.

Cheers
 
And add to that the system crashes half way through the render after you fell asleep in your chair for a nap. Re-booting the pig of an OS WINNT took forever. I never want to see Dr. Watson again with its cryptic messages that mean nothing to anyone but programmers. I will wait for a new Dual PowerMac.
 
Hyped

I'm sorry guys, but Apple didn't create the hype. We did. We started the fire, they just threw some oil on it.

I for one knew from the start that I risked being disappointed, but I went along just as well. And I admit being angry when "only" the new iMac was shown, but you've got to be able tot take a different perspective on things after the initial feeling dies down.

This IS a great computer. It really answers all the "tease lines" on Apple's site. If it's not what you hoped for, then I think this is more your own fault than Apple's.

And trust me, no matter what they would've come with, someone was bound to be disappointed anyway. Face it, even if they WOULD have made a starship enterprise, some of you would just be nagging about the fact that it wouldn't have real sliding doors. And that they wouldn't like the design, of course. (iSaucer, anybody?)
 
lol, americans calling canadians names???
you lot have got some nerve.

If only you knew you lived in a country that has to bastardise everything to inflate your ego.
 
-Spikey

Yeah, without Canada there'd be no way for Americans to travel in some places without being lynched. "No, I'm from Canada and what have WE ever done to you?" More Americans have used "being Canadian" as a way out of trouble abroad than used their own embassies. Just, please study the Accent first, or the cannuck Peacekeepers that may be nearby may laugh at you and spoil it.

Not to bash Americans, for the most part yer all decent people, it's just that a very few of the greedier bastards among you have been screwing the 3rd world for more than a century. I'm a dual citizen by birth BTW so I do understand America,often better than "pure" Americans. It's the US's odd dicotamy, where the immigrants often understand the fundamentals of US societies better than ancestral Americans that gives it strength.
 
As American as Apple pie

Funny that all these anti-American sentiments are being expressed on American Web site about an American company.

What better expression of the free speech and free market that make America great.
 
I'm not "Anti-America at all.

I live in the US. I just feel that Americans really don't know (and often don't want to know) what goes on elsewhere. This is an old attitude, it stems from being physically isolated from the rest of the world. Really, I like americans, I feel that they're getting almost as screwed as other countries are BY THE SAME PEOPLE.

I want to see Americans wake up to the fact that a few rich Old Boys are screwing them AND making them look bad. The reason so many poor countries "hate americans" is that, for the most part the only Americans they see are millitary, which makes them feel Occupied, or businessmen who want Banana Republics.

I would love to see americans prove those stygmas wrong, but it would take far more questioning of those in power than current generations may be capable of. The whole attitude of it being okay to commit atrocities, as long as it's somewhere else is DANGEROUS because it means that it's easy to erode american society in a series of small, "temporary" inconveniences that never go away.

It pains me to see a country's people wounded for the selfish actions of it's financial elite. It causes me deep sadness to see that many americans won't see it, or worse see it and ignore it. I'l say it once: ignoring oppression does NOT make it go away.

Millitarily occupying third world countries that already mis-identify atrocities with Americans as a people will only agrivate the problem.Smaller countries assume that Americans know what their power brokers are doing, they are amazed that that is not the case.

Americans, as a people need to HELP the third world: educate, build infrastructure, encourage human rights. These are thing that must not be left to government institutions, but undertaken by the common man, by families, and in person.

Canada has been watching this with dismay for 200 years. We want Americans to wake up and live up to their own dreams of being the model society. The whole world has seen the dream of a democratic and fair society, and those of us who know how far the model is from reality are seriously depressed by it. Don't call me anti-american, I'm trying to be what used to be called a patriot. I'm trying to express my love and pain for my adopted home.
 
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