It's little things like this that keep me coming back to Sony's consoles. Sure, the DS and the 360 may have better game libraries as the leaders of their respective fields, but you just can't beat the Sony products for expandability and the sheer nerd factor. I live for stuff like this.
Oh, and THIS is the Windows laptop I'm looking to get, if indeed I do decide to drop the fundage for one. The specs seem solid, and the price is right for what I'd be getting.
Mar 22, 2009
ATC isn't going so hot. I've been studying religiously just like I've been told, but it's just not clicking. The part of my brain that processes air traffic is apparently on indefinite hiatus, and certainly won't make it back in time to save me from washing back this coming week. I can't say it would surprise me if I do end up washed back or washed out, but it would come as a bit of a personal failure. I've always prided myself on academic achievment, but then I've never come up against anything quite like ATC. I suppose it's like most controllers have said so far, you really do either get it or you don't. Failure or not, it would come as a bit of a relief to end up in a different career field. The idea of having millions of dollars in equipment and potentially hundreds of lives depending on my actions is a bit of an eerie one to me, and I'd much rather do something with less far-reaching possible consequences. Those computer systems jobs are looking mighty fantastic right about now. Can anybody remind me of why I took this in the first place?
*sigh*
Whatever. I suppose things will work themselves out in time. They always seem to. Just so long as I'm still on Keesler for tech school--what with my wife being mere feet from the base--I'll be a happy camper. Or Airman. Or whatever.
In oddly unrelated news, I find myself increasingly tempted into buying a Windows laptop. Playing around with Tifno's has really brought back all of the good feelings that came with tinkering around and customizing the Windows operating environment and how you used it. For all the things that Apple and Mac OS X can provide, customizability is not one of them, and I do miss the expandability available. I can't say for sure whether it would be an all-out switch, or just an extra laptop to mess with. An all-out switch would present a few problems, though there's little ultimately tying me to Mac OS X. I'd need to reformat my iPod, and I'd need to transfer my music collection, but other than that I can't see a ton being lost in transition. Certainly, it would take an obtusely long amount of time to acclimate myself to Vista--an OS for which I have very little love--but the advantages would no doubt prove themselves worthy in time. For one, I'd love to play PC games again. I've been console-only for a long time, and it would be nice to play a good MMO or do some online FPS action.
Hmmm...while I'm here I might as well break it down. Here goes--these are the features and programs I use in Mac OS X, and how they might transfer, be replaced, or be unreplaceable in a Microsoft OS.
Firefox - No worries here. Firefox launches faster under Windows anyway, so there's a huge plus. And the security that goes along with it helps alleviate some of the worries of using Windows insted of OS X.
iChat - It's really only AIM anyway, so I'm not losing anything at all.
Photo Booth - Always good for a fun snapshot or two with friends, I can't recall a program off the top of my head that would be quite as workable under Windows. It would be a loss, but not a huge one by any stretch of the imagination.
iTunes - I'd dump iTunes entirely in a switch back to Windows. I'd go MediaMonkey all the way and never look back. I've always been a bit sad that there's no MediaMonkey for OS X, to be completely honest. Still, I would miss simply how well iTunes runs on an Apple, it's a thing of beauty.
NeoOffice - Easily replaced by it's source, OpenOffice.
iMovie - Only once or twice have I really had the chance to test iMovie out, but it's always been a dream to work with. There's simply no program under Windows that I've encountered that works anywhere near as well as iMovie as simply as iMovie does. The likely situation would be that I would still do any video editing necessary on my MacBook, rather than try to find an alternative under Windows.
Photoshop - It's never run quite as well under Windows, but with a good processor and enough RAM it wouldn't be a huge issue to make the switch. I doubt I'd think anything of it after just a little while.
That's all I'll go over individually, because those just happen to be a few of the programs in my dock. There would defintely be advantages to a Windows laptop, certainly. I could fork over a bit of cash and score a sweet graphics card an a cool 4GBs of RAM, not to mention a bitching processor. Apple's fixed hardware configurations have always been a bit of a sticking point for me, but I've accepted them as just coming with the territory. I would enjoy the access to the ginormous Windows software catalog, which would make it possible to find a program to do just about anything I needed one to do. And I would enjoy the bells and whistles that come with a Windows laptop. I could use a media card reader. Seriously.
I'll give it some more thought and update on what I come up with. It could be fun times if I do end up springing for one.
*sigh*
Whatever. I suppose things will work themselves out in time. They always seem to. Just so long as I'm still on Keesler for tech school--what with my wife being mere feet from the base--I'll be a happy camper. Or Airman. Or whatever.
In oddly unrelated news, I find myself increasingly tempted into buying a Windows laptop. Playing around with Tifno's has really brought back all of the good feelings that came with tinkering around and customizing the Windows operating environment and how you used it. For all the things that Apple and Mac OS X can provide, customizability is not one of them, and I do miss the expandability available. I can't say for sure whether it would be an all-out switch, or just an extra laptop to mess with. An all-out switch would present a few problems, though there's little ultimately tying me to Mac OS X. I'd need to reformat my iPod, and I'd need to transfer my music collection, but other than that I can't see a ton being lost in transition. Certainly, it would take an obtusely long amount of time to acclimate myself to Vista--an OS for which I have very little love--but the advantages would no doubt prove themselves worthy in time. For one, I'd love to play PC games again. I've been console-only for a long time, and it would be nice to play a good MMO or do some online FPS action.
Hmmm...while I'm here I might as well break it down. Here goes--these are the features and programs I use in Mac OS X, and how they might transfer, be replaced, or be unreplaceable in a Microsoft OS.
Firefox - No worries here. Firefox launches faster under Windows anyway, so there's a huge plus. And the security that goes along with it helps alleviate some of the worries of using Windows insted of OS X.
iChat - It's really only AIM anyway, so I'm not losing anything at all.
Photo Booth - Always good for a fun snapshot or two with friends, I can't recall a program off the top of my head that would be quite as workable under Windows. It would be a loss, but not a huge one by any stretch of the imagination.
iTunes - I'd dump iTunes entirely in a switch back to Windows. I'd go MediaMonkey all the way and never look back. I've always been a bit sad that there's no MediaMonkey for OS X, to be completely honest. Still, I would miss simply how well iTunes runs on an Apple, it's a thing of beauty.
NeoOffice - Easily replaced by it's source, OpenOffice.
iMovie - Only once or twice have I really had the chance to test iMovie out, but it's always been a dream to work with. There's simply no program under Windows that I've encountered that works anywhere near as well as iMovie as simply as iMovie does. The likely situation would be that I would still do any video editing necessary on my MacBook, rather than try to find an alternative under Windows.
Photoshop - It's never run quite as well under Windows, but with a good processor and enough RAM it wouldn't be a huge issue to make the switch. I doubt I'd think anything of it after just a little while.
That's all I'll go over individually, because those just happen to be a few of the programs in my dock. There would defintely be advantages to a Windows laptop, certainly. I could fork over a bit of cash and score a sweet graphics card an a cool 4GBs of RAM, not to mention a bitching processor. Apple's fixed hardware configurations have always been a bit of a sticking point for me, but I've accepted them as just coming with the territory. I would enjoy the access to the ginormous Windows software catalog, which would make it possible to find a program to do just about anything I needed one to do. And I would enjoy the bells and whistles that come with a Windows laptop. I could use a media card reader. Seriously.
I'll give it some more thought and update on what I come up with. It could be fun times if I do end up springing for one.
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