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Hey SPG, why do you feel the need to explain yourself? Just post as you see fit and nevermind if someone out there takes you too seriously. Honestly, threatening to report you for posting a reply to your own post? Ooops! Now you did it.
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Originally posted by SPG
Hey SPG, why do you feel the need to explain yourself? Just post as you see fit and nevermind if someone out there takes you too seriously. Honestly, threatening to report you for posting a reply to your own post? Ooops! Now you did it.
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Actually I was referring to your third post which was an identical copy of your first post.

That is blatant and a waste of bandwidth...no need to get snippy...you're not cute.
 
Re: Re: Re: The batery won't push it, yet...

Originally posted by buffsldr


Lol....ftaok, I am not trying to slam you, but the scenario you painted is odd. If this project is so important, why do you need to go home and eat dinner. whats wrong with take out in your office? If you have to go home (an emergency or unbreakable appointment) what good does having the computer with you do? you cant work anyway. If commute time is huge, then you have a point. But its cheaper, more ergonomic to get 2 desktops, 1 for home, 1 for work. I dont know, you might be right, but I just think you have to draw the line somewhere. Present technology just doesnt give the laptop the ability to be all things to all people.
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buffsldr,

I'm glad that I could give you a laugh. But while you think that scenario is odd, I argue that something like that could be quite common.

Perhaps this video pro's wife (or girlfriend or domestic partner) feels that he spends too much time at the office. So this pro gets home by 7pm, eats dinner and is then able to get back to work by 9pm. This kinda stuff is probably more common than you think.

And why in the world would you want to have 2 computers (one at work, one at home) when you could have a TiBook that's capable of doing the work by itself? Personally, I hate having to keep the files on each computer synched properly. Never have liked doing that.

But I'm sure there's hundreds of wacky scenarios that I could come up with.;)
 
whoa

Is this the "you posted to many times or not in accordance to posting rules" thread? or better yet " text the bandwidth killer! "

Post as you desire, those that have trouble with bandwidth concerns of text or in great need of a valium speedball chased by a good canadian beer!

By the way i posted this to merely irritated and up my posting numbers, NOT!
 
Hey, I'm just relaying info from other threads...don't kill the messenger. If the guy wasn't aware that he was multiple posting then he needs to know.

There has been a lot of discussion recently about multiple posting/ post count boosting...
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php3?threadid=3185

As for your quip about text and bandwidth...it's a question of scale. Sure, one person loading a page with an extra KB of text won't be too bad...but multiply that by several people hitting the page at once...and people on slower connections who have to wait longer for the page to load and you see how it all adds up...
Interesting choice of drink...a regular of yours?
 
re: mobile editing and burning.
The take your work home scenario isn't all that much of a stretch, I take home project files all the time on my iPod. It's just nicer sometimes to be able to finish your work comfortably after a nice home cooked meal...besides I prefer to edit while wearing a bathrobe and boxers and having a nice cold beer.
There are a few other reasons that a mobile edit and DVD system is appealing: If it's your only computer. If you work on location and want to share your edits. If you don't own or work at a studio but want to learn it as in being a student.
A DVD burning laptop may not be the solution for most DVD pros, but it's a great solution for just about everyone else.

"Actually I was referring to your third post which was an identical copy of your first post.

That is blatant and a waste of bandwidth...no need to get snippy...you're not cute."

re: Double posting. SORRY! already! It happened while I was hitting the back button and I didn't even notice it. And fwiw Rover, you were attacking my post to myself and my girlfriend says I'm cute.
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Ooooh! 1 more post.
 
FWIW...
You can remove accidental posts by clicking on the edit button beneath your post and then clicking the delete thread tab and button at the edit post screen...
 
Originally posted by SPG
re: Double posting. SORRY! already! It happened while I was hitting the back button and I didn't even notice it. And fwiw Rover, you were attacking my post to myself and my girlfriend says I'm cute.
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I'm sorry about attacking you too...it just came across as weird to me, and then when I saw that 3rd post in a row I thought you were messing around on purpose...I guess I take things too seriously sometimes...
No hard feelings? :D
 
Hmmm, Just noticed this: Pioneer is running a rebate offer on the AO3 drive that ends 4/30/02 or while inventory lasts. Looks like they might have something new in the pipeline perhaps?


Rover, It's cool. It takes a lot more than that to piss me off, a lot more. I'm just playin anyway. (Notice the conservation of posting here? 1 post two topics!)
 
Uh, sorry. I really only noticed just now that your handle is Rower and not Rover. No disrespect intended on that one. Crew? Kayak? Or am I missing something here?
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Oh yeah it is snappy.
 
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Originally posted by serpicolugnut
Apple gives iDVD away. The reason Apple developed it was to sell hardware with DVD-RW drives built in. This is hardly anticompetitive. It's a very common business practice.
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So, obviously, M$'s giving away IE and optimizing everything to use its software couldn't possibly be anti-competitive?

The fact of the matter is that if Apple had 95% of the market right now, their business practices would be tested in court. I don't know if they would hold up or not, but I guarantee you an attorney (like me who isn't completely computer literate) will see what Apple is doing as sounding enough like anti-competive behaviour to bring suit.

Just like viruses which are designed to go after the OS that is used in the majority of systems, attorneys for private companies and the government see M$ as the deep pockets, and thus the target.

Right now, Apple isn't really on the radar screen, and I would worry that if the stars all line up and Apple becomes the dominant player in the OS/Hardware/Server market, it will be attacked, because it's actions "look" anticompetitive enough for an attorney with minimal skills to draft a complaint that would survive a motion to dismiss.
 
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Originally posted by mcrain
So, obviously, M$'s giving away IE and optimizing everything to use its software couldn't possibly be anti-competitive?

The fact of the matter is that if Apple had 95% of the market right now, their business practices would be tested in court. I don't know if they would hold up or not, but I guarantee you an attorney (like me who isn't completely computer literate) will see what Apple is doing as sounding enough like anti-competive behaviour to bring suit.

Just like viruses which are designed to go after the OS that is used in the majority of systems, attorneys for private companies and the government see M$ as the deep pockets, and thus the target.

Right now, Apple isn't really on the radar screen, and I would worry that if the stars all line up and Apple becomes the dominant player in the OS/Hardware/Server market, it will be attacked, because it's actions "look" anticompetitive enough for an attorney with minimal skills to draft a complaint that would survive a motion to dismiss.
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macrain,

I hear you on the anti-trust stuff, but to compare what Apple does to what Microsoft has done is really apples and oranges. And I'm not talking about market share either.

What Microsoft has been found doing is optimizing the Windows code to make competitors products as unstable as their own stuff. It would be like Company A making a great word processor for Windows that's super-stable and bug-free. Then, Microsoft would change the Windows code (in some sort of update) to deliberately make Company A's word processor buggy. They've been called to the table for that kind of behavior. To my knowledge, Apple has not done that.

Furthermore, what Apple does with iDVD is their business. Would I like to see it work with external DVD burners? Yes. Do I expect it? No. There is no anti-competitive shananigans here at all. Apple bundles iDVD with their own hardware. Since Apple does not sell external DVD burners, they shouldn't have to add support for such devices. Here's an analogy: Is Apple guilty of anti-trust behavior because they do not bundle Windows software for iPods? Of course not, so why should Apple be expect to support hardware that they do not sell?
 
I'd also like to point out that iDVD is free. Apple doesn't make their machines incompatible with external burners. You can very easily buy a third party software package and a DVD burner that will work fine together, though not as seamlessly as iDVD and a built in superdrive.
 
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