See my baby walking down the street, I see red, I see red, I see red
The cable (the ever-so-nifty Apple® cable that only Apple manufacture (and because they're the only ones, do it at a rather steep price) because their computers are the only ones with this absolutely brilliant video out port while all the other laptops are stuck in the dark ages with a so-standard-it-hurts VGA out port that almost any monitor can
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And yes, colour and the brain is fascinating. They did an experiment where they gave people tinted glasses - for example, yellow-tinted glasses, so everything looked yellow. The guinea pigs reported that the first day everything was yellow, but by the second day everything was normal (bear in mind that for this experiment to work they have to never take off the glasses). Then they took the glasses off, and everything was tinted blue! Complementary colours and all, and showing just what the brain was doing to compensate for the glasses! Clever little mound of noodles, it is.
Having said that, the cable died completely last week, so I spent several days with no computer, then my girlfriend found a cheap cable online for about a sixth the price of the one at the Apple store. Also, it works perfectly. I want to know how someone can make something like that and make a profit and yet Apple has to charge through the nose for it.
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Clever little mound of noodles, it is.
That made me LOL! But so true, and a very fascinating study! We have little hue/saturation sliders in our brains. Who knew?
I want to know how someone can make something like that and make a profit and yet Apple has to charge through the nose for it.
Wow, yeah I'd want to know as well! It's the one thing I've noticed about Apple, that they're rather expensive on a lot of things, and I'm not really sure where they justify it. Of course, I say that being an opensource hog at this point. I'll probably never go back, now. xD
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Of course, there's also Gnome, and I hear they recently got a big update with graphics as well. If you go Ubuntu, you're probably better with the Gnome desktop--but these days, I'm really happy with Suse & KDE. Go check out the types, ect, and pick one: http://distrowatch.com/
/fangirling. ^^
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Most desktop environments these days (and this includes Mac OS X, despite the improvements they've made) are actually pretty pathetic at what they're supposed to do. They're stuck using technology from ten or twenty years ago, only prettier. Why is it, for example, that no windowing environment I know of has an automatic way of grouping windows by task? Most can now group windows by application (Mac OS does this out of the box, welcome to the party Windows but you're still a bit behind, and I'm sure the Linux desktops can do it but I don't know what their solution is), but the best anyone's come up with for task groups is multiple desktops, and that's a hack and a half. You have to manually set up which applications should go in which desktops, and they have an annoying habit of forgetting, especially if one application has windows on more than one desktop (this goes for Window, Linux and Mac). This is basic functionality, yet it constantly gets shafted in favour of the next shiny thing. Linux is admittedly a better breeding group for ideas - no-one loses profit margins if an experiment doesn't work - but there are precious few experiments even there, as they all try to play catch-up to the commercial desktops and prove that Linux isn't ugly. Cool, it's not ugly. Now bring functionality back. :D
Lack of iTunes on Linux will grieve me, but not kill me. Best damn music management software out there. The little things, though, will:
Still, I'll live, and find new tools. What I really want, of course, as hinted above, is for someone to do things even better than Mac OS. It can and should be done.
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