What $0.99 video format converters do you know of that will give you real
professional quality results, because I couldn't find any. Also there are a
ton of free programs for synchronizing your drives on windows and I couldn't
find any for OSX that didn't cost money. BTW, I'm talking about Mac
programs, not unix programs. The people I work with would be completely lost
if they had to do anything in a terminal. They're mac users after all.
Oh, there was one free program that I found useful. I can't think of the
name at the moment, but it allows me to search drives that have not been
indexed yet, and use wildcards (2 things that should have been built into
the OS IMO). I would love one that would stop the computer from asking me if
I want to use an external drive for time machine every time I plug a drive
in and also stop it from wanting to open every freaking window and program I
had open every time I reboot the computer. But apparently Apple seems to
think we want to open all the same programs and windows every time we
restart the computer.
As far as how much I know about macs, I know that every time I've searched
for a utility to help out with a job it either costs us money (and my boss
does not like to part with money) or has to be done on a windows box.
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From: Gene Crucean
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
What? hehe. Is that whole $0.99 gonna break the bank for ya? Don't you
think all those hard working developers deserve a little money for
what they do for YOU?
Regarding everything costing money: That's a complete load of crap
btw. There are TONSSS of free and open source apps/tools available for
OSX. There are even full blown package managers like yum/apt-get for
osx... just like linux.
I respect your opinion... but to me, it just says a lot about how
little you know about the platform. It's HOT right now for development
and there are zillions of apps made for it every day. Well maybe not
"zillions" but there are a lot. ;)
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Sam Bowling <[email protected]> wrote:
One of the big surprises when I started working at this company that uses
a
lot of macs was the complete lack of free utilities available on a mac.
You
can get almost any kind of converter/utility for windows for free, but
EVERYTHING on a mac will cost you money and most of them don’t even have
demo versions so you can see if it even work. Hopefully they will continue
to allow people to downgrade to earlier versions of windows, but with the
way they are pushing their cell phone OS they probably won’t allow it on
this version.
From: Martin yara
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
We gained stability directx and some other things with winXP so it was a
good change from win98 and 2000. It felt like a 98 and 2000 mixed and with
the SPs blue screens were pretty rare.
XP 64 and Vista never felt like a finished product so Win7 64 was a huge
change for designers. 2 or 3Gb per application was just not enough.
This time, I just don't see any reason to upgrade. Not yet at least. It
seems that the upgrade price will be quite cheap so it may be worth to
give
it a try, specially if there is a no Metro GUI option.
Linux and OSX are quite limited in software and plugins library so I don't
think they are a valid option for a designer / generalist.
M.Yara
On 2012/08/19, at 8:22, Andreas Bystrom <[email protected]> wrote:
"You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running
windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually
liked, but most other people didn’t)."
ofcourse, there are still people using win2k/nt even.
also i did not forget vista, i ran it myself for years and was quite happy
with it, win7 is better but overall vista wasn't that terrible either.
also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can
get
used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it
long
enough really, even though I still would never bother using linux at
home..
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam Bowling <[email protected]> wrote:
You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running
windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually
liked, but most other people didn’t).
From: Andreas Bystrom
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
". So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far
I'm
really impressed with the speed and the response from the system.
Softimage
works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3."
hmm, it's not april.... did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan
jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes
over..
on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come
out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing "this will be terrible,
I'm
staying with win xxxx forever" yet those same people somehow upgraded
throughout the years and found themselves quite happy...
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>
wrote:
It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet
use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves
stand
it?
On a side note.
I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy
wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed
Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with
the
speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother
on
Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3.
Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty.
And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a "side-note". They are already
talking about Windows9.
regards
stefan
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]> wrote:
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac
pros...
Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all
professional
market get's ignored!!
i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!!!!!
wtf is going on with these guys!?
sly
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Paul Griswold
Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM
My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately.
Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone
had
tested it out yet?
I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface,
but
I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it.
I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over anyway.
Thanks,
Paul
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