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Quote: Originally Posted by parksgm As I remember, the initial diagnosis was NOT metastatic pancreatic cancer, but a more rare form of pancreatic cancer that was amenable to resection; the very fact that it was resected means that it almost certa…
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it's absolutely disgusting that he got a liver transplant when he had metastatic cancer. Tens of thousands of pancreatic cancer patients are denied liver transplants every year because they have pancreatic cancer. But Steve Jobs could get a new live…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RoboNerd Hmm, my bad. I must have missed that part. I guess my first question is what would justify the expense and complications involved in opening the Windows API to XCode? hahaha as we said it was completed a co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RoboNerd The problem here is that the Windows API is quite a different animal from any of the Core services, Carbon, or Cocoa. In fact, there are several incompatibilities that would sabotage this idea. First off, the …
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Should we be thinking of something completely different... maybe an OpenCL play?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin This can't be done because the libraries have to be installed before the apps will run on Windows. For example, apps that depend on Core Image don't have these libraries bundled with each application. This means…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage It benefits developers more than it benefits Apple. Apple will only profit if computer buyers switch to Mac. And with YellowBox - it could argued that the reason to switch is a bit less. Perhaps if Apple…
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Think more strategically. Apple has no desire to help users troubleshoot installing crappy windows software on OS X. Leave that to Parallels, etc., and open source efforts are also catching up. There's no need for Apple to make a contribution here. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Olternaut In the menatime, I'm not even satisfied with my zero gravity perfect chair. I KNEW I should have gotten the motorized version. Bah!! uhhhh.... you DO know that lying weightless leeches calcium from your…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT Well, hard to comprehend, but yup, I think Mr. Jobs has bet the Apple farm on iPhone. If they are successful, Apple can become a 50 billion/year company in 4 or 5 years with the stock going up 4 to 10 times or it'l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JupiterOne Or you could just tap the "S" in the alphabet that runs down the side of the screen and it will jump directly to your "S" contacts. No scrolling necessary. Right, and scrolling or even jumping to the cor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveGee Not to mention imagine Steve trying to explain gestures in the demo... The press would have had a field day with comparisons to the failed Newton and the whole outlook on the iPhone would have suffered in the p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me Wow! Apple has been flailing about with ink and gestures since the Newton, yet you know so much more about the technology than it does. Apple needs your expertise. Umm... iphone has demoed and will ship with …
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Well now it also seems AppleInsider forum members have become blind kiddie faithful. Anyway, back to a useful discussion, Apple could have enabled it as an "Advanced" feature that you have to turn on in the iphone preferences so as not to confuse…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Saiko How about we wait for the thing to come out before we start complaining. Huh? Ink and gesturing would be a great improvement to the interface, so much so that they would have demo'ed it back in January if it h…
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Quote: Originally posted by wizard69 This is not the case there are a number of ways to extend the address space and maintain a 32 bit real address space for programs. In effect this is what OS/X does at the moment in one manner. On intel 32…
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well, so much for that discussion... it IS coming for virtual ram capabilities, but it looks like more for battery performance than overall speed. guess i didn't need to speculate after all: Linky link link Interesting that some manufacturers (r…
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Quote: Originally posted by Hiro This is technologically beyond the ability of modern OSes. It's technologically possible in some future OS, but dynamically deciding where to write an OS data file depending on resource load is an exceptionally ha…
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Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Hymie Chucker is succinctly describing the issue with using Flash in lie of RAM. It simply isn't a performance benefit today. Perhaps in the future but I tend to think that we'll still be using dram chi…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker Yes it can. So what? You just don't get it, do you? I'll write it out for you again. FLASH MEMORY IS NOT ONLY SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWER, BUT ALSO MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE LAPTOP'S BUILT-IN HARD DRIVE. …