>> ^jmd:

Last I checked, wheep is directly synonymous with cry.


*sigh* Way to ruin a joke.
Hint: Check your spelling.

>> ^jmzero:

Oh please - stop it with the DIY PC vs. Mac Pro comparisons, they are just ridiculous.
A HP Z8x0 or a Dell Precision for example

Well... I can't really compare it to, say, the Dell machines we get at work - and for just the kind of reasons you mention. My company pays a premium to Dell (though not as much as we'd pay for Apple) because Dell will drop-ship us a replacement at our whim and gives us reasonable corporate support.
With an Apple you're pretty much just getting the box at that price as far as I've ever figured (we do have some Macs here at work). And if you just want a box, I think it's fair to compare out the price of pats. That's why I compared it like I did.

Did you even read the rest of my post? No onsite support with replacement options is a HUGE drawback of the Mac Pro, but you won't get a Dell or HP workstation much cheaper even without those support options.

>> ^jmd:

Seriously? I mean... really? were upvoting for a sound effect that has been in effect since the beginning of time itself.. and has been on the most basic and oldest of sound editors.. all recorded on some dudes awesome cell phone mic...
I wheep for you guys..


The reverb of your basic sound editor is cheap tinny crap. Good reverb is computationally expensive and hard to get right. We've been getting there in the past years, but still great to have the real stuff.
I agree with the mic though - 1080p video but shitty compressed mono sound in a video that's _about_ sound...*sigh*

Oh and I'm a bit confused about your last sentence...referencing urbandictionary, are you farting underwater or are you going to piss in my sink?

>> ^jmzero:

Or you could buy good PCs and see the price is pretty much the same.

Lol @budzos. Mac people have always said this, and it has always been funny. They used to have some magic wiggle room because so many parts were different (different processor, especially) - but that's mostly gone now. OK, so here you can get a quad core Mac Pro for $2499. Let's see what those parts it lists are worth:
Processor: $316 (here's the specific model)
Graphics Card: $109 (here's actually a slightly better model)
6GB of RAM: $100 (good RAM for that premium)
1TB hard disk: $100 (decent hard disk for that)
Motherboard: $250 (let's get a nice one)
Case: $250 (let's get a nice one)
Optical drive: $100
So far we're at $1225. Maybe they've got some Apple magic (whoo! Superdrive!) to make up a couple hundred more dollars - but it's going to take a lot to spend another $1275 (ie. more than double). If you prefer a Mac, go ahead and get one - but pretending they're the same price is silly.
To be clear, I don't hate Apple and some of their products are reasonably priced now. A Macbook Air, for example, has been a good deal for a while and is still much nicer than its competitors. But their hardware has historically been way more expensive, and lots of it still has a significant premium attached.


Oh please - stop it with the DIY PC vs. Mac Pro comparisons, they are just ridiculous.
A HP Z8x0 or a Dell Precision for example - those are the machines you should compare to.
You'll find that they are in the same ballpark.

Price is definitely not something I'd hold against the Mac Pro, that would be stuff like:
- weak expandability (1 PCIe16+2 PCIe4, 4 drive bays, max 64GB RAM),
- lacking features (eg. no SAS or SATA 6G, no USB3.0, weak selection of graphics/GPGPU cards)
- weak support options (no onsite support available at all?! I'm running a business here - do you really expect me to haul my workstation to the Genius Bar when a deadline is imminent?)

Nice cover and a beautiful voice, but TBH the mix kills it for me.
That "breathy hipster singing"? Yeah, wouldn't be so tiring if the guy behind the mixer didn't rub our noses..erm, ears in it so much.

>> ^raverman:

Seriously... Did mummy never teach him how to hold a spoon? Spoon fisting really irritates me.>> ^A10anis:
Ignorant mong. Note the trousers, and the neanderthal method of holding implement..



I dare you to google "spoon fisting".

Ever since someone mentioned it to me, I can't unhear them singing about a "master race down in Africa".

>> ^ChaosEngine:

My day job is programming, so you would imagine I'd spend a lot of time typing, but you'd be wrong. Because the editor understands the context of what I am writing, I rarely type more than a few letters before the editor suggests what I want. Obviously human languages are much more complex and ambiguous, but a best effort is certainly possible.


I know where you're coming from (developer myself) - but the ambiguity of natural language is exactly the problem. At least from my experience, the rate of errors in business mails nowadays from some clients would have been unacceptable just a few years ago. And frankly, it's embarrasing. But everyone seems ok with it: "Haha, stupid autocorrection! :-)" - it drives me nuts!

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

NO spider is poisonous, they are however all venomous (man that irks me when people get that wrong).


I bet you must HATE Alice Cooper, then.

>> ^nock:
Also, this car sounds like a boyscout (travels center of the lane, never passes on the right) whereas google's car is programmed to drive more like a human would when necessary.


You do realize that it's only following german regulations (e.g. no overtaking on the right allowed)?

Heheh. He said caucus. Heh. "Caucus Maximus". Eerheheheh.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^Yogi:
What book?

A book is a medium of communicating information. Kind of like an iPad, but it needs fewer batteries. Books are no longer popular among the general populace, and are almost exclusively used by Communists, Liberals, Intellectuals and other Nazis.


But that's not important right now.

>> ^luxury_pie:

How is temporarily negating a symptom solving the problem?
ONCE AND FOR ALL!

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Taxes cut. Tax revenues up. It works every time.

I'd love to see you backing that up with facts. Especially since the Bush tax cuts showed the exact opposite.

*brief