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I installed 10.8.1 about an hour ago. It's too early to say about the battery life, but before and after the update my rMBP runs hotter than the sun when I'm running Diablo III. According to the iStat Pro Dashboard widget, my GPU was running cl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX And if they lose? Appeal?
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Quote:Originally Posted by aross99 Cord cutting is dead in the water for a lot of us, as long as the cable companies can pressure content providers not to release content online. Replacing the Cable Box with an Apple TV Styled "Tivo" is a g…
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So much for the cord cutters.
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i am a zither zather zuzz wrote: » Agreed. Tell that to all the fortune 500 companies that run their businesses on Java on the server. Also, desktop Java GUIs (ie Swing) aren't entirely dead for custom stuff. Agreed about killing Flash.
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nht wrote: » Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy It would have been better if Apple never was the only source of Java on OS X in the first place. Apple raised the bar in terms of Java look and feel. It's pretty much the only pl…
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lukevaxhacker wrote: » Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy Good. Now OS X is finally a first class citizen in the Java world. I can expect JDK 8 at the same time and Windows, Linux and Solaris users and don't have to deal with A…
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Good. Now OS X is finally a first class citizen in the Java world. I can expect JDK 8 at the same time and Windows, Linux and Solaris users and don't have to deal with Apple dragging its feet, as it did when it shipped Leopard with only JDK 5 (6…
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Oracle is currently working on a Mac version of Java 7 for OS X, but the end user version won't be ready until the fall. Currently, only Apple distributes any version of Java for OS X. Quote: Originally Posted by ddarko That's ridiculous. Wh…
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As long as Apple distributes a version of Java, it must live up to its responsibilities to patch that version promptly with security updates. Patching a known security vulnerability 2 months after Oracle did is unacceptable.
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I'm generally on Apple's side whenever some media outlet cries wolf over some imagined Apple security blunder. In the past, it's all been massively exaggerated. However, in this case, Apple really screwed up. They screwed up because 10 years …
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This goes to show why Apple did the right thing by handing over Mac Java to Oracle and getting out of the game of rolling their own JDK/JRE. Apple has always been quite late in updating Java, not just for major releases, but for security fixes as…
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I'm fine with Apple taking away the optical drive on the new MacBook Pros, but if they reduce hard drive space, that's not going to work with me. The current specs have a max hard drive of 750 GB. If they maintain this, I'm fine with it. If, …
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None of you probably care, but this probably mean that Linux users either get left out entirely or have to install legally grey H.264 plugins themselves.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU Billions of dollars worth of research and investment went into the work of h264. The innovators deserve to be compensated for their work. Asking businesses and developers to work for free is not fair or m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell But mathematical algorithms are patentable. First of all, I don't believe software patents should exist. While I'm sure some software algorythms are truly innovative, there are just far too many one-click sh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez HTML5 is not a codec, and the standard still supports the use of plugins. Flash and HTML5 are not necessarily mutually-exclusive; very different things, really. Yes it is because nobody will re-encode thei…
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If Google were all about open and free standards, they'd drop support for Flash as well in Chrome. Now they're ensuring Flash gets an advantage over HTML5.
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This is one detail I'm not entirely clear on, as per Mike Swingler: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java.../msg00104.html "There are several parts of our Java SE 6 implementation (like the AWT widgets) that are not contributable, in much the s…
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I've bought 3 Macs and 4 iPods over the last 10 years, so don't conclude that I'm an Apple basher. My wife recently switched from a BB to an iPhone at work. She hated the iPhone and switched to a Torch about 2 weeks later. This is despite the f…