Posts by three5

Apple has missed the video revolution

I work in film and commercial production, and the landscape there is 95% Apple on the producer / executive side, 80% Apple in the design / DTP world, and still very much Apple dominant in the edit suites, although I've seen a few places make the switch to more prosumer editorial solutions - Premiere on a PC. Editors in general are a crusty old guard that don't like change. I knew one that was still using an OS 9 machine because Media 100 had plugins that he liked. Editing isn't heavy on GPU, and is for more reliant on CPU and drive speed.

You'd be hard pressed to find a PC based audio house.

The 3d and composting world is nearly all PC, and that's almost all based on GPU availability.

My work straddles the line, so everything that isn't Houdini a simulation, Nuke comp or Redshift render is done on a Mac - all of the day to day tasks just work so much better in the Apple world (for me). Everything design, edit and audio based, all Mac.

Frontier sued by FTC, six states for allegedly over-promising, under-delivering broadband

I was a FOIS customer for years. Generally pretty good service. Verizon sold all of their California FIOS accounts to Frontier, and the service immediately went to shit. After asking for a reduction in my bill because they couldn't provide the service that I had paid for and received from FIOS for years, they sent a tech out. He tried to steal my personally owned router, couldn't find an issue, then Frontier tried some funny accounting on my bill, and that was all in the first 2 months of them taking over the service. I'm not rural, and nothing had fundamentally changed except the owner of the network.Dropped 'em like a hot potato.