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If there is justice in this world, the landlords at these stores will act just like MS does with its customers. "We see that you wanted to actually SELL things to your customers. Please submit another $1,499/mo for the upgrade to the Ultimate Edi…
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Wow, a patent suit that WASN'T filed in Texas. Amazing! Is it just me or does anyone else think that it's time to scrap the patent system? The abuses are more damaging than actual infringements.
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison What I need now is a good demo of what OpenCL can do. I still feel like this is a dark horse technology. My #1 wish is to bring OpenCL's extra math capabilities to bear on apps like HandBrake, and with P…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I believe their revolution is dealing with threads from a developer level and making it as trivial as possible and that is in fact revolutionary to someone who really doesn't want to micromanage their thread…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage And no 32bit and 64bit versions either! C. Yeah, neither of which work with each other. Yeeeeesh.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jonnyboy i can see there being just a simple "please insert you leopard disc as proof of purchase" verification Or for that matter, trust your customers. Believe it or not, software houses once survived without oner…
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Here's a quick primer from another former PC guy. You need to decide which version of Mac OS X you want. Choose between the following options: 1 - Mac OS X Server. If you don't know why you would need this, then just buy: 2 - Mac OS X Desktop.…
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Generally if you use a non-privileged account, you shouldn't have much to worry about as far as wiping out anything important. Assuming you back up, of course. I think the reason there are no real malware apps out there for Macs is due to two maj…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MTO Dam people! Stop whining so much. Grow a pair. Only a bunch of pussies will complain about their back hurting because of a shiny computer screen. This school should be putting their resources into more importan…
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Office 2008 for the Mac isn't that bad, although I still dislike Entourage -- mainly because it does a horrible job of playing nice with (non-Exchange) IMAP servers. But Word and Excel are worth the price of admission, especially if (like me) you ha…
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Buying a Mac now will probably last you through your entire term at school. Buying a Windows-based notebook, I doubt it seriously. Macs have better longevity in terms of hardware quality and the inevitable phenomenon of Windows slowly grinding itsel…
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There's always going to be something bigger and better just over the horizon. You're not buying an iMac to get the biggest bang hardware. (Mac Pros are for that.) You're buying it to do stuff with it. If it does everything you need, then don't worry…
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Software should not be patentable. Period. Copyrighted, sure. Patented, no.
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While your experience is definitely unfortunate, what others are trying to point out (some more eloquently than others) is that two systems does not constitute a sample size large enough to constitute alarm. Furthermore, you would have to eliminate …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mitz Heres an idea, instead of telling me I'm wrong and directing me to wikapedia. Why not give me the specs on an Apple that matches those specs in the home computer line? Seriously give me some descent apple specs...…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones Don't you mean NextStep? Well, technically, OpenStep. Coming from a jack-of-all-trades experience in all things computing, I'd like to throw my two cents in with the whole Microsoft advertising campai…
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Good grief, people, why are you counting megahertz? It's all about the efficiency of the data path, not the raw clock speed. Plus the Nehalem can "Turbo Boost" into about a 20% faster clock rate for single-thread calculations. Look at a 2.0 GHz C…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MotherBrain File sizes are already twice their size now! Three times their size?!? Oh lord! Though nice to have UBs for simplicity's sake for those who don't know the difference, I just wish companies would break …
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder My biggest concern is that there will be apps that won't run on 10.5, say if Logic 8.1 ships this fall. I doubt that would be the case: the Pro apps have always supported one generation of OS X backward…
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No surprises. It's time for Apple to move on from the PowerPC. I would like to see any major security holes plugged in Leopard for some time, which I'm sure Apple will. Beyond that, the only thing I'd ask is for XCode to maintain the ability to comp…