61–70 of 179 posts
Please add [video] or something to indicate autoplay to the title - I just blared out the music to my office! I normally put in headphones before clicking on videos...
Besides HN links, where one might indicate "autoplay" there are also popup pages that play music and tons of other sources of unwanted audio.
Not sure if it's just me but I find this video remarkably uninspiring. It just seems to lack real content? Now I'm more than willing to accept that I'm not the exact target for this video, and that the subject matter of the following video makes it a slightly unfair comparison, but the contrast to the quality of the Steve Jobs tribute video is vast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2WpieYRks The latter video literal…
I burst out laughing at "truly worldwide democratisation of creativity". Yes, that expensive personal computer, intentionally aimed for most of its career at media and education in western markets. That was a bad bit of copy. And, more the fault of my mind than the copy, but "a tool for exploring new fields [that I otherwise couldn't]" - the same could be said of a machete. :)
Expensive compared to what? Because to do the things you can do with a $1000 PC, you needed $100,000 or more before depending on the field.
Your personal typesetting engine? 128-channel audio recording? With effects? Video editing? Bitmap editing? CAD?
Those are all things that existed only for high end workstations or specialized devices before the personal PC, and the Mac played a huge role in the development of this (it will take years for Windows to catch up.
Democratisation doesn't mean it also magically broke poverty barries.
Please add [video] or something to indicate autoplay to the title - I just blared out the music to my office! I normally put in headphones before clicking on videos...
Or you know, you could keep the volume down at all times. Besides HN links, where one might indicate "autoplay" there are also popup pages that play music and tons of other sources of unwanted audio.
I have seen it on some posts before.
Weird. It's the first time I see an Apple use an actual webfont instead of pictures—and it won't load for me.
I am not asking all the names but who are those people behind the various macs?
> who are those people behind the various macs? If you scroll past the video to the timeline, then click on any of the sections, it'll expand and say who the person is and what they did.
Here's the list of people and things featured: - 1984, original Macintosh - 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer - 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement - 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research - 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography - 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop…
http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
In some ways it's quite remarkable how little has changed.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Graphic designers, yes. But music and 3D is mostly Windows in my experience. Because how are you gonna fit a high end graphics card or audio interface into your mac? (and don't tell me about firewire please)
I'm in and out of recording studios all the time. I haven't seen anyone running a Windows rig in probably 8 years. Everyone I know is running Pro Tools or Ableton on a Mac. And even back when I saw people using Windows in that role, they used external audio interfaces, just like they do now. Except with Thunderbolt, you get the expandability with effectively no latency. I love Windows, but the recording industry live…