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- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Well, it is a 'pro site'. Pro as in, you have to have two 23" cinema displays or you have no business there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42That was a sad moment for mankind.
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45On behalf of the Canadian People(tm) we hereby revoke your citizenship.
Now that that's taken care of, can I offer you a welfare cheque? - dtrinh, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29brain stop working for a second, eh? :P
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I do see your point, but the thing is there is a difference in the advertising. This site is about workflow solutions, and using macs to get there. Whereas iDon't is basically "LOLOMGIPODSSUCK." I don't know there is a difference in quality I think, but I see this more as integrated advertising. "Let's solve your problems using our technology" sort of thing.
- leohart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Sorry mate but life is like that. The crowd dictates. From their traffic stats, they see that most people visit the site with big enough resolution (width >= 1024 px). You are just at the short end of the stick.
Come on, all of their Mac has 1024x768 resolution. - patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Did anyone think that this was some sort of promo for the Mac Pro's when they read the description?
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Well, I think you're so driven against macs that you don't see the iDon't campaign being nothing more than the infamous switch campaign rewritten. Personally, I'm not approaching that campaign as something anti-apple, I'm approaching it as a bad advertisement period. It's horrible when apple does it too. It's really dumb to insult the person you're trying to appease.
- HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm on a 1280 x 800 monitor (MacBook) and its kinda wide, but not that much of a problem. It is geared towards Pros.
- Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17I am personally disappointed with Apple's disregard to those who don't keep their browser windows open at a huge resolution. With the work power they have it would have been no trouble to make it non-fixed width.
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10There are way too many masochists on digg. Too many users just want to be dugg down.
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10gleepskip: Yes.
- sonofalink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/airside/
awesome profile - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7For all those complaining about this story being dugg - even though it's from Apple, how is it any different from the myriad "10 Ways To Make Windows Tastier" we see rise to the front page of Digg all the time? The site has a lot of good tips, even if it is also chock full of marketing. At least it's all tasteful Apple marketing instead of a million clashing banner ads I get to see on the Windows tip sites.
- FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey... um.. you can do some pretty awesome sh*t on Mac OS that just doesn't come as easiliy to other operating systems.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Holy hell, where does Apple come up with the bandwidth to play those giant 300 KB/sec movies? They start playing almost immediately.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16The difference is Apple's marketing has its claws so deep into these people that they don't even realize they are mindless zombies at this point.
- msmyth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Don't get me wrong...I love and use Macs, but Apple release a new page on their website and its like a new version of Windows getting released on Digg? This a true showing of the Apple cult :)
- coolbru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3QuickTime rules. Nice to see someone using video quality that doesn't suck.
- SugarRay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Bro, that's the meth talking.
- Cameleopard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The whole point of language "purity" is so people can understand each other...."
Ideally, that's true. Grammar nazis often attempt to use proper/real/original/correct language as a tool in their will to snobbery, as is exemplified perfectly in the drivel of the elitist prig* above.
"I wish Americans would either learn the language or call it something different (American?) to differentiate."
Though not explicitly stated, I get the impression that your idea of true-blue English is of the British species. Have you been exiled from your country for so long as to forget the garbled piles of syncopated vowel mush available in several dialects? I find them captivating; nonetheless, your claim to correctitude is presumptuous and what little personality can be gleaned from these comments is cast in a brown light given the quality of grammar, let alone pronunciation, seemingly ubiquitous in Britannia. Oh, yes, what shining examplars, what ubermen. Wot?
*prig Pronunciation Key (prg)
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1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. - Majdaa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I think apple could've made a better looking header....same with the rest of the page...
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That part of the site is centered around the professional crowd in a lot of forms of media, and how Apple helps their digital workflow. It's basically advertisement for their pro series of applications in case someone in the media hasn't used or heard of them before. Which of course, is impossible.
- cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why yes, yes you are.
- kuya, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I'm using 1024 x 768 and I have horizontal scroll bars? The Apple site designer(s) were not paying attention to detail.
- obezyana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Language 'purity' movements are barely above ethnic cleansing and racism."
Ili mozhno ludi prosto hotyat ponimat drug druga?
The whole point of language "purity" is so people can understand each other; you speak a language you know the other person can understand, and it really helps if you speak it in a way they can understand as well, instead of using bad grammar and incomprehensible slang. Nobody's going to lynch people because he can't understand them but he's not going to respect their bad language skills either. - gleepskip, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I tend to think of a company as a single entity. So, "Apple reveals" and "Apple has."
Is treating a company in plural a Europeanism? - MartinB3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There's never been only one 'correct' English. Language is defined by who speaks it. Language 'purity' movements are barely above ethnic cleansing and racism.
- geminem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i tried playing it in Firefox, my Firefox doesn't crash, but it DOES show a black box in the center with "Quicktime 7 Required" in the box.
I have the newest version of Quicktime however, so I don't know what could be causing this. (I'm referring to Airside's profile page by the way.) - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2digg needs a fricking undo button...
- nfxmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Considering the audience, Pro users don't use 1024x768 resolutions for the most part. I'm using 1280x854 and don't see any horizontal scrolls. They used a wider format for a reason.
- thinkdifferent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@SpaceCat85
"I bought my Mac when Apple was pushing ADC, so I don't have a DVI port on my current machine " ADC is DVI combined with power and USB. There are splitter boxes that provide the USB and Power connections seperately to hook an ADC display up to a DVI card and there are adaptors to convert ADC to DVI (eliminating power & USB functionality). The latter, which is what you'd need runs about $20. - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I understand where you're coming from, but can the really say that people aren't going to browse the site on a laptop with bog-standard XGA screen? Pros are even more likely to have more than one machine - I have a laptop for browsing while watching my big-screen TV, and my PC with 20" UXGA + 18" SXGA sidescreen for doing some work.
Having said that, if I had specified the laptop myself I wouldn't have got this one. :) - rockintom99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, if this is the pro site, where's the n00b site?
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fits my 1024x768 snugly, with one line of white pixels on each side.
- soupenvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They don't have the background color set to white. White is not a default, you think the Apple "pros" would know that.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The argument that "It's okay to make a site require a huge screen resloution because Pros always use high screen resoloutions" is utter crap for many reasons.. For example, theres quite a chance they wont be reading it on their work computer that has these shiney-high screen res's. Also, more than just "Pro's" read the site, I read it at college on the crappy old iMacs (With the various coloured panels) when I get bored..
If it doesn't work on lower screen res's, it's bad design, not that "their aiming it at people with high-screen resolutions"...
- Ben - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually all Pro apps use fonts about like that, so the page is also a test to see if you should really be using pro apps in the first place. This ain't no Web 2.0 100pt rounded font page boy, it's for serious work.
- obezyana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pro users don't use 1024x768... but wanna-be-pro students who can't afford any better yet do. : (
Even so, the site isn't so big that anyone using 1024x768 actually *needs* to scroll, there's just the annoying little horizontal scrollbar - which I could probably get rid of myself if it bugs me too much. Otherwise the site looks pretty useful. - generic109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, Sspooner, as far as accent is concerned, American speech sounds closer to an older British accent. What makes the modern British accent sound 'British'--what makes it sound different than the American accent--probably comes from a French influence. In any case, I do agree with the above posters that the idea of a 'pure' language is unsound and usually used for nefarious purposes.
- generic109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless you consider that corporations and governments are described in corporeal terms, as "bodies." That is why they are treated as singular. Sspooner is proving to be a bit of an idiot.
- Metal_Guru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Genuine question here.... does anybody have trouble with the site? I tried it in Firefox, Opera, and finally in IE (LOL IE shows only parts), but they all crash when viewing one of the three videos.
- Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It's so bad that this has got Dugg to the front page. The page itself is nothing revolutionary/exciting. But you know, it is Apple so I suppose it's ok. Just like the 2000+ diggs on Apple MacBook stories...
- BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4i may be retarded, but what is this page for?
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Basically it provides a number of tips for pro apps or advanced features of OS X that are geared towards pros (like colorsync stuff).
So it's a really stylized hint site. - bertdevriese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3kuya: no PRO uses these kinds of resolutions any more... since PRO's are the target audience for this website, i dont think the resolution's a problem
- j.carcinogen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3If a single company is plural, is a single country also treated as a plural in EuroEnglish? As in 'Canada reveal'... just curious.
- sedition, on 10/12/2007, -12/+12"On behalf of the Canadian People(tm) we hereby revoke your citizenship. " - Or send him to somewhere where he fits in better.. you know, with people more like him.. like say farther south.. *ducks*.. I kid!!
- lowmagnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's true in Amerian English too. Except we forget the lession because companies are legally people in the US. Think of Apple as 'they' and 'they have' and 'Apple have' makes perfect sense.
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