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tomierna's Avatar Picture tomierna (Admin) – December 07, 2007 09:37PM Reply Quote
Talk about industry stock market mumbo-jumbo here.
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John Willoughby – July 26, 2008 07:22PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
>Jobs needs to be grooming someone to take over. He isn't. This worries me

How do you know? With the secrecy in every other aspect of the company, I'd be really surprised if we knew about the Steve-to-be. And the investors would drop the stock like a hot rock if they even had a hint Steve might leave. Besides, there's always Woz.
Cloudscout – July 26, 2008 07:42PM Reply Quote
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Woz is Scotty to Jobs' Captain Kirk.

Woz belongs in the engine room. He likes it there.
John Willoughby – July 27, 2008 08:07AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I know. It was kind of a joke. I can't see Woz in any serious board room. (And yes, I know he's on some boards. I just can't see it.)
El Jeffe – August 15, 2008 03:11AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
Apple overtakes Google?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/15/apple.apple
bahamut – August 19, 2008 04:57PM Reply Quote
was thinking about displays today and noticed how shabby apple's offering is. it was overdue for a replacement last year, but now they're in big trouble. does anybody buy any of these things? minimal (as in poor) controls, no usb goodness (maybe acknowledgement of apple's historic weakeness with usb devices), pricey pricey pricey. what else to say?
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – August 19, 2008 09:43PM Reply Quote
I agree Baha. Why is this less than half the price of this?

Specs seem the same to me...
bahamut – August 20, 2008 05:11AM Reply Quote
horrible response time on the mac. bad contrast ratio. i have one of those. it's in my closet. why would i use it. old, tired junk.
ddt – August 20, 2008 08:05AM Reply Quote
baha, you have an old display in the closet? which one? what would you want for it? (my old syncmaster 192t 19" is trying its best to die, so most anything would be an upgrade.)

ddt
Simon – August 20, 2008 04:19PM Reply Quote
You will probably find the cheap display sacrifices colour fidelity to get those high refresh rates. It seems to be an industry wide trend with low end displays.

Try comparing the apple displays to monitors like these: http://www.teamdigital.com.au/products.php?products_web_group=Hardware&products_web_category=Monitors

More info about ACD 30" colour accuracy here: http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/30-inch-cinema-display.htm (you gotta scroll past some unboxing crap first)

Another interesting discussion about LCDs for prepress here: http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00M571
This is the SWOP certification that they mention: http://www.swop.org/certification/monitorlist.asp not a lot of monitors on there but two of them are Apple's.



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Simon – August 20, 2008 04:23PM Reply Quote
Also, don't compare contrast ratio to dynamic contrast ratio. they aren't the same thing , and you certainly dont want dynamic contrast if colour fidelity is important to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_ratio#Dynamic_contrast_ratio
rino – August 20, 2008 04:40PM Reply Quote
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
The Samsung 226cw or it's replacement has a wider gamut than most and is bright with great response. Dunno about over time since I've had it only about 1/2 year.

But yeah...
rino – August 21, 2008 05:12AM Reply Quote
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
Had great trip to WA -- we stayed in Seattle for a few days then onto Oly to my brother-in-law's house. Did a day at Ranier, and Tolmie State Park at very low tide...

We actually escaped what had been weeks of rain in Maine for a sunny and hot week in Washington. Kind of funny.
Last day was in Seattle and it rained ... flights on Jet Blue rocked. We even caught an earlier flight back to Portland which is good since it let the kids get to bed on a somewhat normal schedule.
It's sunny in Maine now.
I needed this. Back to work next week.
ghidorah – August 22, 2008 06:36AM Reply Quote
Raise taxes on cavemen. --jw
sweet Rino! Glad you were able to get away from the grind for a while
rino – August 22, 2008 01:31PM Reply Quote
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
Thanks -- man it was great.

Now it's just gorgeous in Maine. And our park is LOADED with wild blackberries. In no time I had 2 quarts and my dog must have stripped a quart by himself. Nothing like weeks of rain and then warm weather.



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John Willoughby – August 23, 2008 09:02AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
That will drive RIM stock up.
John Willoughby – September 02, 2008 01:09PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Here we go again.
rino – September 10, 2008 05:23AM Reply Quote
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
Whither mac?

Whither Mac?
Dr Phred (Moderator) – September 11, 2008 09:27AM Reply Quote
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
Third from the left.
bahamut – September 13, 2008 04:28AM Reply Quote
sorry, i forgot that we'd put it in the wife's office, but it's no great shakes, certification or no certification. i do a lot of work that involves color and publication and i haven't found apple monitors to be that great. this one went faded quickly and that bugs me. oh and the firewire/usb fried out. they may have been good monitors five years ago, but the technology on monitors is a lot better now and they haven't kept up.
rino – September 14, 2008 08:24AM Reply Quote
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
I prefer my Samsung 226CW with a huge color gamut capability as compared to others...

---

In other news, Maine's Apple Store opened yesterday!
I was, ahem, busy:

Busy day on the water

So did not attend but will go later today and buy new router.
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