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To: Swordmaker
Both local papers use Macs. the old paper still has the original iMacs in their ad departments. The new paper uses new iMacs for most production and their presses are across Humboldt Bay...
9 posted on 11/20/2006 7:00:40 PM PST by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: tubebender

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.)


12 posted on 11/20/2006 7:16:26 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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