I have a similar problem. My advice: If you're still a student, buy Adobe CS5.5 Production for $450. The Premiere interface looks a lot like FCP and it reads FCP and FCE files like a champ. And it's 64 bit, uses GPU acceleration (if your hardware supports it) and runs on both MacOS and Windows. You get platform independence with backward compatibility.

Good luck.

I read the article itself. I do not need you to interpret it for me. I encourage everyone to click on your link and judge for themselves. You're full of it.

You didn't read the article you cited, did you? It made the exact opposite point of what you argue - that iTunes is immensely profitable for the firm. Read the link you posted.

And they'll be okay with that, just so long as you keep using iTunes for your media and software needs.

Excellent point. Fortunately, iTunes doesn't install on FreeBSD. -M

Cite that please. You're arguing that they make little to no money from content distribution through iTunes? I think you're full of it.

Hi Apple! Been a big fan since I dumped Linux in '04 or so. I've really enjoyed MacOS X and my laptops. You sold me a good UNIX with support for Microsoft Office - which I need. But you know what? Ever since you started making money hands over fist with iTunes, you've started REALLY SUCKING as a company. I don't want to buy from you any longer. My next phone will NOT be an iPhone. My next laptop will NOT be another Macbook. I think I'll be perfectly happy with an unlocked Nexus and a laptop running FreeBSD. So... FUCK OFF, Apple. For me, your time has come and gone. -M

To remove my credit card from their database. Also, to remove my customer record. And finally, to let them know just how displeased I am with their business practices.

I was a customer for over ten years. Spent well over ten thousand dollars there in books and other items. But for the last several years their customer support has declined, their partner businesses engage in numerous disreputable practices that mirror the abuses at ebay, their manipulation of book rankings on so-called adult material (gay), and they seem intent on monopolizing the epublishing trade. I closed my account and won't look back.

Yes, the Kindle-DX looks like a nice machine. But what one gives up in basic rights as a reader is more than enough to keep me buying used books printed on dead trees for some time. And I can always scan the books I buy to load on an ereader with less virulent DRM limitations and corporate controls. I own an iRex iLiad, that while not the best manufacturer, at least they offer a free Linux development environment to download and install. Users are hacking new software on that platform. Does anyone here expect Amazon to allow that? Not me.

BTW: closing my account with Amazon took several phone calls and numerous transfers from one department to the next. They don't like it when customers attempt to leave them and make the process as difficult as possible. Yet another reason to never give them my money again.

There's a huge difference between publishing a legitimate paper by an unknown and an author knowingly writing falsehoods for a journal he or she knows is a sham. When academics knowingly violate standards of truth, those academics risk losing their credentials. It really does happen. Ph.Ds, M.Ds and licenses to practice are really revoked by accredited institutions and state licensing boards in certain circumstances like these.

Make an example of this academic sophistry. Yank everyone's credentials who knowingly published false information in a false academic journal. Do the world a favor.

Any scientist or doctor found to have knowingly written a paper making false scientific claims in a propaganda journal should lose their academic standing. Period. Ph.D? Revoked by the granting institution. M.D? Gone. Along with his or her medical license.

That's how the scientific and medical communities ought to fix this. Because when bogus science is published in medical journals, some innocent people needlessly die.