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Quote: Originally Posted by OllieWallieWhiskers Leopard doesn't choke on network shares. And to be fair this wasn't the Finder's fault anyway. The network filesystem plug-ins were far to synchronous and would simply block (e.g. pinwheel) whate…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hubfam The above statement makes it clear that Shields thinks that they diserve all your money. After all you should be paying more because he runs a company that pays Actors, Directors, and Producers outragous sums of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xdaniel I would love to see CoreText get rid of (or at least depreciate) AAT in place of a standardizerd OpenType solution. The stuff that AAT can do (auto-ligatures, contextuals, etc.) can all be done with OpenType --…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Any text field in 10.5's Cocoa will have support for Office Open XML as well as OASIS OpenDocument. That includes iWork. I think you and the OP have different definitions of "interopability". Sure iWork will…
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Quote: Originally Posted by franksargent Ecma Approves Microsoft's Open XML I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Office 2007 (Mac/Win), iWork 2007, and Leopard will fully support Open XML. Given the status of the Office suite (quote above), Wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker In Leopard, any Cocoa app will support them. Wouldn't surprise me if iWork will have it even before that. Anybody that has tried to use the Tiger support for Office document formats will realize that Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker In Leopard, any Cocoa app will support them. Wouldn't surprise me if iWork will have it even before that. Anybody
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Quote: Originally Posted by franksargent I don't have any hard numbers, so I wouldn't disagree with that statement. I wouldn't disagree that even most FP programs only need 32-bit operations. I was just sighting, perhaps, the only other rea…
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Quote: Originally posted by mdriftmeyer People need to realize a ton of work went into reinventing the wheel just to keep legacy developers happy FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS. COCOA is the Future of OS X. Don't believe me. Go get a job at Apple E…
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Quote: Originally posted by schmidm77 All I want to hear is that the intel macs will still use open firmware so I can boot with target disk mode. Apple has already stated on its developer Web site that the Intel Macs will NOT use OpenFirmware…
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Quote: Originally posted by RBR People dislike Norton in general, and Systemworks in particular, for good reason. Their product has caused as many problems as it has solved. They completely and utterly fail to support their product and have an …
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha You're right. Now you've got me trying to find the discussion about what Spotlight uses to accomplish the same thing. Bing, and go. From arstech: Spotlight uses fsevents, the source code of which can be…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Pros: it works. Cons: not a public API, but then neither were the methods used previously. Sure, if you want to use a private API, go ahead. Commercial software vedors will avoid them at all costs. Apple d…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Not in 10.4. kqueue can be used to inform a daemon when new files are created, saved, or accessed. No more kernel extensions needed. kqueues must be attached to a specific vnode. kevent takes a file descr…
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Quote: Originally posted by aegisdesign b) ClamAV is updated quicker than Norton and is free and doesn't rely on terrible kernel extensions to wedge it's way in to your system. ClamAV doesn't rely on kernel extensions because it doesn't perf…
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Quote: Originally posted by rok depends on your definition of the term "worse." like i said earlier, norton got all "kernel extension happy" when they had to update stuff for mac os x. this, in turn, broke other apps and updates because they were…
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Quote: Originally posted by WhiteRabbit Quicktime and iTunes are not complex applications. It's not that difficult for them to maintain two different versions, one for Mac and another for Windows. They only need to have a few different functions …
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Quote: Originally posted by Sopphode I reckon an update to iTunes will be released at that time as well. Hopefully one that's rewritten in cocoa and hooks right up to CoreAudio & the new AAC VBR encoder. People have this anti-Carbon bias …