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Beautiful? There's a reason why it got the name, it looks like a trashcan. And the old mac pro is filled with garbage(how fitting, right?). If it was any good then apple would have stuck to it, but it was garbage, so they didn't. Now we have the new mac pro, and it's a big step up from the trashcan.
From trashcan to cheese grater.
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Yes, and lots of very smart designers have put lots of time over many decades into making trashcans look good. The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available workstations.
It's a shame really, I feel like we've lost something from the years of SGI workstations that looked like they came straight from the future.
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It's a shame really, I feel like we've lost something from the years of SGI workstations that looked like they came straight from the future.
You mean bright LED's and transformer-like mods? I don't think so, seems like ALL gaming PC's are like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro#/media/File:Silicone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOcta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Gra...
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From trashcan to cheese grater.
You mean back to cheese grater. The cheese grater name was applied to the previous generations before the trash can.
Whats with this kneejerk advice? Honestly who turns off their macs? Are they talking about sleep mode?
It's worth doing fairly regularly to at least check the process still works as you expect. At some point you'll actually have to restart your PC, and the last thing you want is to be surprised by some problem or other. (OK, so I've never had any serious rebooting problem with OS X, but I have had a reboot show up stuff missing from launchctl and the login items, the sort of thing that's an outsize pain to fix when you were in the middle of something.)
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What you're describing sounds like industry-specific anecdotes from a very common, cross-industry reality about non technical users.
I'd revise that to the far more irritating segment of users who think they're more technical than they really are. Actual non technical users are fine, because they generally know when they don't understand a thing. The thinks-their-technical users will bravely throw in whatever phrases they've heard mentioned in relation to a completely unrelated problem.
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What you're describing sounds like industry-specific anecdotes from a very common, cross-industry reality about non technical users.
I'd revise that to the far more irritating segment of users who think they're more technical than they really are. Actual non technical users are fine, because they generally know when they don't understand a thing. The thinks-their-technical users will bravely throw in whatever phrases they've heard mentioned in relation to a completely unrelated problem.
"Please just describe the problem and, if possible, how you reproduce it. No, just describe the problem. What's happening when you press the button? No, just the problem! Not what you think is causing it."
It's a conundrum because good super-users can help less technical people in their groups. But, their issues tend to take more time to unravel.
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Oh, it's not just Avid. Some audio production software such as ReFX Nexus still uses a USB dongle. There is no way to use the software without it plugged in. It also has a policy where if you damage the dongle, you have to buy again and get a 10% discount off the FULL price of the VST. In the age of people gigging on laptops, I'm not entirely sure how they think they are gonna sell any more of them. I fancy it myself…
To add to that, it's not just media production. In the medical field, almost all software for performing and analyzing EKGs, X-rays, MRIs etc. comes by default with some sort of dongle-based protection. Apparently, it's not enough that you need the biggest dongle in the world (i.e. the machine itself!) to use the software. Some vendors do offer alternatives if you fight them hard enough but the default still is a tri…
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It's a shame really, I feel like we've lost something from the years of SGI workstations that looked like they came straight from the future.
You mean bright LED's and transformer-like mods? I don't think so, seems like ALL gaming PC's are like that.
https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/746965/original_3c751a...
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We also call them "trashcans" in conversation. It's an identifiable and memorable term, rather than "mac pro (original/2006)", "mac pro (cylinder/2013)" or "mac pro (cheese grater/2019)"
Cheese grater will definitely stick just like trashcan. Both highly utilitarian tools, mind you.
