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Posted on 11/20/2006 6:29:48 PM PST by Swordmaker
Al Jazeera International, the English version of the leading Middle East broadcaster, has switched to Mac.
The broadcaster has deployed a swathe of Apple products across its organisation, covering editing, post-production and archiving solutions.
It has reached a deal with Arab Business Machines to deploy a major installation of Macs: 41 MacBook Pros (with Final Cut Studio) for journalists; a 70TB Apple storage solution using ten 7TB Xserve and RAID systems; 14 Xsan licences; 12 PowerMac G5 Quads; two Power Mac G5 Dual Cores; and 19 23-inch Apple Cinema Displays.
Based in Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera International has the status of being the world's first English-speaking channel to be based in the Middle East.
Ghassan Bendali, deputy general manager of Arab Business Machines said: "Al Jazeera International is definitely a big name in the region today, and is anticipated to become one of the worlds' biggest broadcasters in coming years. We are absolutely delighted that they have chosen to be powered by Apple technology, and we are confident that they will soon reap rich benefits through the implementation of Apple's leading range of solutions from the MacBook Pro to the Xsan."
He continued: "Our detailed solution for Al Jazeera will set the benchmark for all major television stations across the region."
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Made on a Mac
all leftists and liberals are mac users. at least that's what I think. Men/mars/msft women/venus/mac. only half kidding.
Hopefully Mr. Q put some custom-designed bugs there.
Were I someone to be influenced by the decisions of others, this alone would make me swear off Apple products.
My son's orthodontist has his office standardized on Macs. He'd always used them for 3-D rendering in the 'back room', but switched the front-office over about two years back.
From an alternate viewpoint, every laptop computer we have captured with Al Qaida members have been PCs...
". . . This was the man who that December would take $1,100 from me in exchange for two of al-Qaeda's most valuable computers—a 40-gigabyte IBM desktop and a Compaq laptop. He had stolen them from al-Qaeda's central office in Kabul on November 12, the night before the city fell to the Northern Alliance."A couple of products that Al Qaida DOES use that I have sworn off of completely because of their using them is C4 and Semtex... I won't ever use those products!
My best friend's dental practice is 100% Mac based using MacPractice Dental (also available in MP-Medical, MP-Chiropractic, and MP-Optometry). He has nine networked OS X Macs... plus two or three at home tied in with VPN.
A Chiropractor sharing the same building, fed up with Windows problems, is seriously considering switching to Macs. Several of my clients are optometrists who are also talking about switching.
Actually, because of their superior ability to deal with graphics, Macs are fairly common in journalism.
Despite a full-court press by the central Computing and Network Services department to standardize our university on Wintel boxes, Journalism and Architecture are Mac-only. (My department is a Unix/Linux network with a few Windows hold-outs: even the front office now uses Linux as the default OS.) Somewhat amusingly, our student union computer store, while it stocks Windows machines, plainly favors Macs: there are a lot more of them on display, and they are placed much more prominently.
(Personally, I have a guild-loyalty to the two dominant Unix-syntax OS's: the Free BDS kernel--underlying Mac OS X--was written by a categorist who went into CS, and Linux was boot-strapped up from Minux (a demonstration OS for student projects), which was also written by a categorist.)
Arab Business Machines? Clearly a violation of the ABM treaty. The bombing starts in five minutes.
Okay, so, the bombing started a few minutes after they started using Wintel machines, and they got tired of that, and switched. Nothin' to see here, move along everyone...
Not really... I have an antique Winchester 10 Ga. Salute Cannon:
It makes a great BIG BOOM! producing lot's of white smoke from the black powder blank shells.
It's great fun on New Years' Eve as well...
One year, about 30 years ago, when we were living on a court, all the neighbors in the court had a 4th of July block party. We blocked off the court and were shooting off our safe-and-sane fireworks and I had my cannon. I pulled the lanyard, firing the cannon toward the entrance to the court... just as a Police car turned on to our street! Lucky for me the officer was one of my customers at The Old Sacramento Armoury, the gun shop I managed.
Looking for a picture for you, I just learned they are being manufactured again and are again available for sale! $525.95 at the Cannon Store. Amazing.
Mine's an antique.
Other users of Mac computers: Shimmer
My son's orthodontist too.
Sword, take the Army off of the list. They haven't used Macs for years now (they used to use Classic for web servers, with Webstar software). Add Richard Dreyfuss, who was called an "Apple Master" by knowledgeable users. Also, Stephen King has a PowerBook. Ana Marie Cox, the original Wonkette and now a writer for Time (and she of the obsession over anal sex) uses a Powerbook, as does gay faux-conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan. Writer/Director/Geek Kevin Smith is a Mac user, as is Joss Wheedon of Buffy/Firefly fame.
While they did initially move to an Mac OS 9 version in early 1999, they later moved to OS X according to Apple and the US Army:
"In June 1999, a Wisconsin teenager breached the security of the Windows NT system that hosted the site, replacing the home page with a defiant message from a hacker group. The site was moved temporarily to a Mac OS (9.1 - Swordmaker) — based system while the Army and its website contractor, CherryRoad Technologies, evaluated a number of platforms to ensure that such an incident could never happen again. After analyzing the security of a variety of platforms and reviewing security advice from the World Wide Web Consortium, CherryRoad recommended that the Army remain on the Mac platform.Today, an Xserve server running Mac OS X Server and WebSTAR delivers the www.army.mil content to millions of visitors each month. (That number has doubled almost yearly.) Despite the fact that the Army website is the target of hundreds of attacks every day, not one has succeeded since the switch to Mac systems in 1999. And uptime for the site is running at 99.995 percent."- June 2005
This is also very interesting:
"The architectural firm that designed Bill Gates' $50 million residence, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Seattle, is a Mac shop, and Bill bought his mom a new iMac, because he said it was too hard for her to understand computing and the Mac is so much easier for a novice to use. Gates says his mom doesn't bother him so much with computing questions now. The high-tech electronics inside Gates' mansion are Windows-based. The first evening at home, his drop-from-the-ceiling bigscreen TV would not shut off -- Gates had to throw a blanket over it to get to sleep. - (Barbara Walters 20/20 interview)So apparently we can add Bill Gates' mother to the list...
Nope... using your URL, army.mil, returns a "Failed to open page" and "Safari can't find the server army.mil".
However, when you use the real Army website www.army.mil you get the following response:
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