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The Invention of Solitude, Auster Life of Pi, Martel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers. I'm kind of busy with these three right now.. Auster being my favorite, and Martel a close second. Eggers is not bad either.
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Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat It does tell it all. 280 MB? Oh god, that's really making a dent in your RAM That's too much for an app that's just sitting idly. Did you notice any editing on the pic? That's right, you didn't, beca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker It's taste, not "bullshit". Fair enough. But, as with almost everything else; taste is relative.
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol Let's put it this way, Gene, if Quake 4 isn't super fast on your machine...neither will Aperture. There's a limit to what a GPU-bound app can do. It's like trying to run a car off vodka...it might run but d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Timmmy The problem with Firefox is that it's not a real Mac app. It doesn't integrate with the OS features that contribute to the Macs ease of use. I use Services extensively when I am browsing, and I also need access …
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Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat Is navigating rapidly through every single picture of those 15,000 pictures something you consider typical use? Yes, because in order to edit that image, I first need to find it. Quote: In Apertu…
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(Assuming that what you say is accurate...), since when are launch speeds indicative of overall speed? OO takes longer to launch, but once it launches, it is fast. Try running XP and Word 2003 inside Parallels with 384MB of RAM with longer documents…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hobbes On a quad-core Mac Pro? Aperture isn't Ghz-bound, it's RAM-bound and hungry. 1GB of RAM with Aperture is not enough. It's the bare minimum according to Apple. gregmightdothat: Quote: Aperture isn't wor…
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dp - sorry.
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Water Drops on Burning Rocks - François Ozon Faces - John Cassavetes Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky Before the Rain - Milcho Manchevski Mephisto - István Szabó A short film about killing - Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Mainly I was just saying the fact that you can launch an entire OS in a virtualization environment and the Windows version of Word faster than the likes of NeoOffice or OpenOffice is quite pathetic. False. Wor…
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I find it hard to believe that Aperture is "speedy" with just 1GB of RAM.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H I know I definitely would rather that they do that than rush it to try and coincide with Vista. Well that won't matter now, will it, seeing as Vista will never ship, as you say?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Pages's flowing of graphics over text is implemented a lot better than any other alternative I've seen. That's the definition of evolution, not revolution. Quote: Is it really? Well, it must be, since …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker As I said: iWork frequently does with its limited, but simple user interface, iWork frequently does experiment - and fail - badly. There's nothing innovative behind iWork. Hence it's very poor penetration …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker I. However, I don't feel it is anything at all beyond a MS Office clone. Which is what it's stated purpose is. It's not like they're promising to be the end-all be-all of productivity software, and ended up b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by T'hain Esh Kelch Gonna be interesting to see which one is the fastest and most stable - This hack or NeoOffice with a native GUI. This is not a hack. This is the OpenOffice team working on a native version of OpenOff…