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Author Topic: Apple Unveils G5 Supercomputer Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-24-2003 07:42 PM                        I think maybe Bobby is hinting that companies should ship their software with both Mac and PC versions included in the same box. Not sure, but that's kind of the feeling I'm getting from reading his posts. Of course that would be awesome, especially for me since I own a Mac and a PC (both are used for their own purposes). But then companies like Adobe will whine "We can't do that!!!! You are paying for a single user license and you could install it on two different computers potentially! Yes we are being paranoid but we are Adobe! We don't like t' think rationally!"  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-24-2003 08:32 PM                     Joe, do you have your computers networked together? That alone might prevent you from making "EULA violations." Macromedia reportedly has software components in their StudioMX apps which sniff across a local network to see if more than one copy of the same serial numbered app is being used. I don't know if it works (because I don't install more than 1 copy of the app on more than 1 machine since I'm so honest ). Of course, everything could just move to security dongles. They're so much fun. They make it necessary for a PC to have three parallel ports just so it can print and run trade-specific software all at the same time! One should not miss out on the joy of HASP and Rainbow drivers. Finally, there's the cage match between the new USB dongles and aging Parallel keys. Which one will win and lock out the other app!? Find out on the pay per view event, broadcast "live on tape" on Dish500 for only $5,995!  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-24-2003 09:27 PM                     Adobe licensing allows for one user to put one copy of a software on two computers, as long as the primary user is the same for both units, AND no two people are using it at the same time (at least thats my understanding). For example, I can use Photoshop on my work computer and at home, as long as no one else is using that Photoshop at work while I am at home using it. They SHOULD extend that to a MAC and a PC, but I'm not holding my breath. I think Macromedia is more draconian, though (besides being ultra-expensive). For example, due to the MACS 256 color palette being different than the PC's 256 color palette, one needs BOTH PC and MAC to create cross-platform Director projects. And of course they make you buy BOTH. Anyway, as Joe predicted, PC's will come out with similiar horsepower soon, according to the L.A. Times. Final Cut Pro is the primary reason why I would want a MAC. My boss likes MACS and the IDEA of editing on a FCP, but budgetary concerns have put that on hold. Premiere works just fine, and I believe 90 percent of the problems people have with it originate with the hardware card drivers, not with the program itself.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-24-2003 10:12 PM                     David, I think of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates would have teamed together years ago instead of fighting each other and stealing each other's ideas, the G5 might now be obsolete to bigger and better things.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-25-2003 06:15 PM                     Actually, back in the early to mid 1980's Bill Gates actually tried to team up with Apple. At the time, Microsoft was getting its butt kicked by IBM, Lotus and others in the business software arena. Microsoft's #1 customer base was Mac users. Microsoft desperately wanted the Mac market to grow. Bill Gates visited with John Sculley and Mac OS designer, Jean Louis Gaseé and pitched the idea of cloning Mac computers. Gates lined up support from the top 25 computer hardware companies in the world -everyone from Compaq to Wang. Note, this is not long after Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple. Sculley and Gaseé laughed at Gates' idea, smugly stating that Apple would be the only computer hardware company left standing by 1990. Bill Gates has at least given them a shot at the idea. So, after Apple declined, Gates decided "if they're not going to do it, then I will" and developed Windows. Now he is the world's richest man. In the Wired Magazine article on this subject, both Sculley and Gaseé admit they made a very terrible mistake in declining Bill Gates' offer. In recent years, Jean Louis Gaseé developed BeOS, which was a "next generation" MacOS candidate, but has also been ported out to Intel CPU operation.  |  IP: Logged

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