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Holy shit balls, mom!
- Thread starter dodgechargerfan
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A nice Canadian boy that's made it big doing the crooner bit.
He's a pretty big deal actually. But, as successful as he is, he's really a funny guy who knows how lucky he is and works hard at what he does.
He's a pretty big deal actually. But, as successful as he is, he's really a funny guy who knows how lucky he is and works hard at what he does.
68R/T
I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
No idea who that singer was but, his reaction was pretty funny!!
Both of you need to turn off those iPods and broaden your interests.:naughty: He's the son of a fisherman that has finally seen his career flourish in the last 5 years. Already, during this time he has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
J.C. Corbett
or something.....
Why? Just curious.
Diplomat_Wagon
Hiding In The Bushes While
71ChargerRT
Well-known member
I have a 6 year old iPod, it was free though and I don't pay for my music through iTunes... I flat out refuse to buy an iPad or phone because I'm not paying their inflated charges for apps and such. My android phone gets the stuff I need for FREE!!!
J.C. Corbett
or something.....
Fair enough. I really wasn't aware of any of that when I bought my IMac. At the time, it was the best platform for film editing, so that's what I use. A computer is a computer to me. Kinda like a car to most other people.
Fishy
Omnipotent Seaweasel
Same.
Fishy
Omnipotent Seaweasel
For film editing and graphics, few things will actually top a Mac for that. We had Macs in high school for our computer graphics class and, no other machine came close to doing what that Mac could do. I personally have nothing against Mac or Apple for that matter, I just don't want an iPod or an iPhone.
68R/T
I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
As with many other things to us old pharts, a common manufactorers name become synonomous with any other brand of a similar product. Such as, all tissues are called a Kleenex, clear tape is Scotch tape, etc. We use many of these different products each day, like Jell-o, Xerox, Frisbie, Tampax, Kotex, Whiteout, Vaseline, Poptarts....and the list goes on.
My point is.......to me......any MP3 player is an iPod. :huh:
My point is.......to me......any MP3 player is an iPod. :huh:
Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
Actually, there are several platforms that are far better, but they're not something you'd use at home or could even afford for that matter. They're UNIX-based, which is one of the reasons Apple went to being UNIX-based on OS X. In the mid-1990s, the Amiga operating system was ported to standard PC, and by 1999 it was doing stuff with graphics that had Apple guys creaming in their jeans. The Amiga OS was designed to run on tiny little mid-80s computers, so its graphics capabilities made a lot more use of processor speeds and such since the OS used virtually nothing. There was a legal battle over it for several years, but development began anew a couple of years ago. It'll be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
Most of your movie/TV CGI and editing is not done on Macs. In fact, more of it is done on PC-based platforms than Apple-based ones. I used to have some very-expensive, very complex CGI programs I had nowhere near the capabilities to use, including the one used to do all the animation for the movie Garfield. Back then, you needed "rendering farms"--imagine SETI online for graphics processing--to process the data to make it happen in any kind of time. A five-second simple animation of about half the quality of that movie's work took my overclocked dual-processor machine over a week to process on its own, with both processors loaded at 100% and running very-near meltdown temperature-wise, even with 7 fans--one on each processor, one on the graphics card, and four case fans--all screaming bloody murder. Imagine a Piper Cub in your bedroom, as well as a cupola of molten iron. At the time, that was likely the fastest home computer within a couple hundred miles, too--in 2000, 1.4GHz was an unheard-of processor speed and 1GB of memory was considered beyond excessive. There wasn't an Apple home computer in the country that could keep up with it.
68R/T
I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
They were for me about 10 years ago, but unlike cars you can't build one without needing to upgrade it again within a year. I ran that dual-processor rocket sled for a few years; one day it just didn't power. I fiddled with it a little (changed out the PS, etc.) but it never did run again. I had a bunch of coin tied up in that thing (including dual 17" CRTs--big investment at the time). I knew if I built another I'd spend half again or more. I bought a used tower from a gamer friend, ran that for about a year until it died, then I inherited my Mom's Gateway 400MHz from 1999. Bought another used gaming tower after about a year; that one lasted me until I built this one. My current machine is plenty fast for what I need, and I have a total of about $400 into it, case, monitor and all.
I still have the old dual-processor wreck in the basement, as well as the dual CRTs. Three old HP towers lined up behind me, a couple more in the basement, etc. You can't give the stuff away anymore.
I still have the old dual-processor wreck in the basement, as well as the dual CRTs. Three old HP towers lined up behind me, a couple more in the basement, etc. You can't give the stuff away anymore.
mannye
Well-known member
Well, I'm sure the latest edition of Final Cut (now really aptly named) has made you an AVID fan of the PC. (I'm just punny today)