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  • Quote: Again, I have to ask. Are you nuts? Do you have any idea how much faster the GPU can draw things than the CPU? Orders of magnitude faster in many cases. Doesn't matter how fast your G5 is... the GPUs in the latest cards are blindingly …
    in Quartz 2D Extreme Comment by john October 2004
  • Quote: Just like most people must think Windows Media Player on Mac is fine. Come now...who thinks that? Quote: Actually, WMP:mac is fine, for most purposes. Ack! Are you insane? I have yet to find any WMV file that a) doesn't look like…
    in Latest Tiger builds sport new QuickTime controls, iCal 1.6, Font Book 2.0 Comment by john September 2004
  • Quote: If it is the Lacie display, it is heavily modified. Colored tape is "heavily modified"? Look at the curve of the "backpack" on the Lacie display and in the photos. The odds of that curve being exactly the same--same position, size, and…
    in What could this be? Comment by john August 2004
  • What, is everyone ignoring vinney57? Take a look: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10074 Looks like a pretty good match to me. Case closed?
    in What could this be? Comment by john August 2004
  • Hey, how'd my dog get here? (Er..."there"...previous page) He's wily!
    in What could this be? Comment by john August 2004
  • First, the thing the pictures is big. It looks bigger than 17" to me. In fact, it look nearly as big as a 23" display, but it's probably 20" or so. Forget about it being a tablet Second, the box is matte black. The recent Apple black boxes a…
    in What could this be? Comment by john August 2004
  • Was this posted yet? Sigh...
    in Post All your iMac 3 Mockups here Comment by john August 2004
  • Quote: 1. The video specs are wrong - period. It would be disastrous to release that. Uh oh, this guarantees that they'll end up being correct!
    in TS reports on new imac specs Comment by john August 2004
  • Quote: Konfabulator's problem is that it's not a very original product. All they did was "update" Apple's original implementation, and sassied it up with Apple's "look" They were lucky enough that Dashboard wasn't a priority while Apple was deve…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: Konsposé or whatever the hell it's called was introduced well after Arlo Rose was aware of Dashboard I asked Arlo about this a while ago: Quote: Q: Was Konspose a result of leaked information about Apple's Expose-like feature of Dashb…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: Here's a quote from developer John Gruber: "Konfabulator is not a lightweight or small-footprint environment ? every Konfabulator widget runs as a separate process, with its own runtime environment in memory. Most Konfabulator widgets use…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: If Dashboard gadget suck up RAM and CPU when they are not on screen then I won't use them. Why do you think that "being on screen" makes such a big difference? If a widget is polling a web site periodically to get stock prices or the wea…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: There's more to it than that, Konfab has a pretty bad reputation for being a resource hog, depending on the widget you use. Again, what makes you think Dashboard will be better in this regard? I'm not claiming anything one way or the oth…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: "Have you actually compared the resource usage of Dashboard and Konfabulator" No I haven't John, but are you presuming to tell me that If I have 8 Dashboard widgets chosen, yet I have not conjured them up, they use as much CPU or Memory a…
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: Dashboard! One button hide/reveal. No resource hog Have you actually compared the resource usage of Dashboard and Konfabulator?
    in Dashboard: konfabulator fights back. Comment by john July 2004
  • Quote: translation to english please? I was scolding him, as in "Don't you touch that!" Quote: Siracusa, what's your take on all of this? Is it metadata or not? I am withholding final judgement until I know more about the system. I'm not…
    in new search Comment by john June 2004
  • Quote: what the nerds over at ars dont get, is that if this stuff works and appears to the user the same way, it doesnt matter what the underlying technology is. Don't you presume to know what the nerd(s) at Ars do and don't "get" :-P
    in new search Comment by john June 2004
  • Quote: IT IS NOT APPLE'S FAULT IBM COULDN'T DELIVER!!! s/IBM/Motorola/ and rewind a year or two...
    in The New G5 PowerMacs Comment by john June 2004
  • Quote: Originally posted by KANE Maybe Apple is waiting for *sigh* Microsoft? Perhaps Apple needs to keep its implementation of metadata compatible with that in Longhorn and therefore are holding off implementing it until Longhorn has shipped... …
    in A reason why Mac OS X Pather's Finder is Brushed Metal... Comment by john May 2004
  • Quote: Say, John. What's your take on MS's approach to metadata in Longhorn? Have you browsed through MSDN's Longhorn UE documents, and are you intrigued... or dismissive of what you see? My reaction is that at least they're doing something. …
    in A reason why Mac OS X Pather's Finder is Brushed Metal... Comment by john May 2004