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In article , Darren
Bly wrote: I have a friend who is looking for image stacking software, he's really liked my images from Regstack, but he has that strange Mac disease. Can anyone out there help him? Darren in Bakersfield Doing a google search for Mac Image Stacking turns up: http://www.unm.edu/~keithw/keithsImageStacker.html I stopped at this one; there may be more. Hobenaro |
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Yeah tell him to use his brain and buy a PC.
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"GO VOLS!" wrote: Yeah tell him to use his brain and buy a PC. Better yet, why not give him a *useful* answer? As a previous poster said, start with looking for Keith's Image Stacker. |
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![]() "Steve Hix" wrote in message ... In article , "GO VOLS!" wrote: Yeah tell him to use his brain and buy a PC. Better yet, why not give him a *useful* answer? I did buy a PC is the best advice anyone can give. PC is better, it runs more software, it is faster, you can build your own, They can look better and they cost less. A PC is all advantage while a MAC is all disadvantage. |
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I'm not interested in playing computer games, I *am* interested
in a lot of Unix software, as well as producing video and print content with closely-controlled and consistent color management. PCs don't cut it *for those uses*, the Mac does. PC is far better for those uses. PC has just as good if not better controlled and consistent color management. Remember this isn't the 80's any more. The PC has pasted the Mac in print and graphics. In fact I use PhotoShop for my photography to create beautiful prints for sell, photo contest and to hang on my wall. I use InDesign on a PC at work and I am very strict with color management. You want unix. With a PC you have freedom. You can dual boot with Linux or run cygin right in Windows. Oh you want video editing, well you can do that better with the PC. Sure there isn't final cut pro but that is crap. There is Premier, Avid and 5 times more choices then Mac. If one even considers a Mac then they are an idiot. PC is where it is at. |
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Mark [ Windows]:
The idiot is the one who blindly follows the rest of the lemmings. It is common to refer to "Macs and PC's," as if the Mac isn't a Personal Computer. This is ironic, because the Mac is the most personal computer that one can own. Thus, I like to refer to "PC's" (Macs) and "LC's" (Lemming Computers). We're beating our heads against the wall, though. The guy who wrote "If one even considers a Mac then they [sic] are an idiot. PC is where it is at [sic]" has never used a Mac, and thus could not possibly know what he is talking about. Furthermore, his writing betrays him to have the mind of a juvenile -- regardless of his chronological age. He would argue that day is night and could not likely be shown otherwise. I have a Mac (OK, I have six Macs, but I regularly use three of them, two running 10.2.6 and one running 9.1) and an LC (Vaio laptop) running Win XP Pro. I used to say that Windows was a cheap imitation of the Mac OS. But I was guilty, too -- I didn't have enough experience with Windows to know what I was talking about. Now that I've become pretty good* at manipulating XP Pro I realize that it isn't nearly good enough to be called a cheap imitation of the Mac OS! *I call myself "pretty good" at using XP Pro because I have managed to make it do things that a lot of long-time LC users haven't managed (based on questions posted on LC forums) -- connect to an 802.11 (AirPort) network, print over the network, share files (with Macs), control it from a Mac with Timbuktu, etc. See my main "desktop" Mac at http://www.davidillig.com/cinema.shtml (non-commercial; no cookies, no counter, no ads; rated G). Davoud -- usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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What's a virus?
-Mac user. |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:18:08 -0400, Larry Brown
wrote: What's a virus? It is an unfortunate consequence of living in a society. Close contact with other individuals allows opportunistic parasites to propagate. Viruses can generally be avoided by eschewing all social contact. The term also describes an analogous situation in computers. It's an unfortunate consequence of using a popular platform. Here too, however, viruses can usually be avoided by using unpopular platforms that exist at too low a density to support natural propagation of viruses. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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IChris L Peterson:
It's an unfortunate consequence of using a popular platform. Here too, however, viruses can usually be avoided by using unpopular platforms that exist at too low a density to support natural propagation of viruses. ***** So true! Another way to avoid viruses is to use a Mac, however. Then you would have a very popular platform that is still immune to viruses and worms, as they don't seem to be able to get past the OS's built-in safeguards. Davoud -- usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:46:23 -0400, Davoud wrote:
So true! Another way to avoid viruses is to use a Mac, however. Then you would have a very popular platform that is still immune to viruses and worms, as they don't seem to be able to get past the OS's built-in safeguards. My website gets about 1000 visitors each day, and is popular with (I hope!) fairly well educated, intelligent people. 95% of my accesses are from Windows (38% XP, 55% W98), 1.2% are Mac (exact OS not reported), 0.75% are Unix/Linux, and the rest are some sort of robots. 91% of the browsers claim to be Internet Explorer. If that is anything typical of the Internet in general, I think only Windows users need be very concerned about being targeted by virus writers. Windows is the only popular operating system (which is not to say that the others aren't popular with their users, of course g). And I'd be cautious using words like "immune" lest you bring somebody's wrath down on yourself! Macs are no more "immune" to viruses than PCs, they just aren't popular (in the sense of "common") enough to attract much attention. The vast majority of viruses don't exploit any vulnerabilities of the operating system at all, but are simply executables attached to email. Malicious programs are easily coded for any platform, and require only a clueless user. And from my personal experience, the relative percentage of clueless users is higher amongst Macs than PCs. Should Macs suddenly increase in popularity, they are a disaster just waiting. The best strategy Mac users can adopt is to keep their little secret to themselves! _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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