We have three macs at home running OS X. The 12" powerbook has gone from 10.2 to 10.5 and the macbook from 10.4 to 10.5 (we retired the one last summer that had gone from 10.1 to 10.3); the imac is new so this will be its first upgrade.
On my wife's macbook I just upgraded in place. Zero problems. On my powerbook I archived and installed just to see what was different. Both went perfectly smoothly. I'm planning on just upgrading in place the macbook and the imac. My powerbook will be retired and replaced with an air since it won't run 10.6 and it's so beat up the battery falls out randomly.
If you have a backup (seriously, 320GB USB drives are like $30. What are you waiting for?) just upgrade in place.
There were economic policies that he supported when the Clinton Administration proposed them and opposed when the Bush Administration proposed them.
Really? I haven't seen that. Can you point me to some of his work from the most recent Bush-era that contradicts work from the Clinton-era? I'd be very interested to check into this.
Compare to OS X running on PPC or Intel: almost completely seamless to the end user.
Look at the clusterfuck that Windows AND Linux have with 32-bit vs. 64-bit architectures. Again, Apple made it the 68K to PPC to Intel almost completely seamless to the end-user.
Apple doesn't get enough credit for the amazing job they did engineering OS X.
Yeah, it's too bad that it's harder to find good apps in the App Store when there are 50,000 than when there were 5,000.
But that only means you now have to work for your supper, like any one else who publishes anything from books to music to movies to software.
The same goes for those who complain that if they charge $50 for their app no one buys it.
Wow, welcome to the world of microeconomics and price theory. And, again, promotion.
Here's a clue: you don't have to use the app store as the only or even primary venue for promotion and discovery of your app. Yes, it's harder now than it was, but that's life in a competitive market place. The barriers to entry are lower than they've ever been for such an awesome platform, but that doesn't mean that becoming a success is any easier (nor should it be, if economic theory even kind of works as we understand it to) than it ever has been.
Frakin' cry babies. Suck it up, wipe off your crocodile tears, and make something awesome.
If you have anything legitimate to cry about it is Apple's dystopian app approval process.
Pickens showed a lot of interest in ND and in developing a wind farm here back in 2007-2008.
Ultimately nothing came of it because of similar problems he is having in Texas: * no transmission lines suitable to get power from the wind farms out of the state, * no capital to build and no one willing to share the risk of building the transmission lines necessary, and * no leverage over the oil/coal/hydro interests--hat already have their own lines and control the state legislature and governor's office to prevent competitor's from getting their own lines--to get the state to build the lines.
In Texas he was able to fix the third point by getting the power to essentially declare eminent domain by himself wherever he wanted the lines to go since he was the established oil interest in the state. However, his backers that would have fixed point two backed out because of the financial crisis and collapse of oil prices.
Also, aesthetics should have nothing--at most very, very little--to do with power generation. I think wind turbine farms are beautiful and a tribute to human ingenuity and progress. But I think the same thing of the coal plants and oil operations in the state. My brother works in the oil fields of Western Dakota and fraking operations are incredible.
Five years ago I was telling clients that anti-malware software is like childhood immunizations. They aren't going to protect us from the next flu pandemic, but they'll make sure we don't get polio. Windows machines still need AV to keep them from getting reinfected with stuff we know about and have fixed, but you have to have additional defenses and processes in place to mitigate e.g. Conficker when it was a zero-day.
I mean, what can explain their slowness in Java porting? I wish I knew. It's a real annoyance.
Apple wants external developers to use Cocoa. They want to focus internal efforts on making Cocoa better.
From Apple's strategic perspective, why support an alternative platform (and Java is an alternative platform) that doesn't lead to great Mac software, especially great Mac-only software?
This is AT&T trying to get back some leverage in their relationship with Apple.
Right now:
* If you are on AT&T already, either you have an iPhone or you want one.
* If you aren't on AT&T, the only reason to switch to it is to get the iPhone.
* The iPhone is still a great device without AT&T, but AT&T is not great without the iPhone.
By withholding tethering and MMS and not having a 7.2Mbps network in place, AT&T will try to make Apple look bad. AT&T will miss the "late-summer" "deadline" and they are gambling that pressure will grow on Apple to do something about it. Apple can't do anything about it and AT&T will use this in 2010 contract negotiations as a bargaining chip.
AT&T is wagering the backlash against Apple will be worse than the backlash against themselves and that they will get concessions from Apple that will make them the most attractive iPhone carrier even after they lose exclusivity.
If you're one of those text-while-you-drive people
The last person I caught doing that I got out of my car at the next red light, tapped on their window, and punched them in the face, took their phone, and threw it against the building across the street.
You are a time bomb you stupid fuck. You will have earned your reward when you kill someone, you walking abortion.
Apple decided that they'd be better than Sun at creating a JVM for their OS, so they did it themselves.
That might have been the initial reason. Maybe.
But Apple really, really wants developers to use Objective-C and Cocoa when they are creating software for OS X. From Apple's strategic perspective, why support an alternative platform (and Java is an alternative platform) that doesn't lead to great Mac software, especially great Mac-only software.
And about that agreement between Sun and Apple that keeps Sun off OS X: now that Java is open sourced, what is keeping the community from creating and releasing an OS X-native client?
I'd say the writing on the wall is pretty clear: If you are developing on OS X, Apple wants you to use Objective-C and Cocoa. Get over it. Accept it and move on. Yeah, it seems a little crazy for Apple to reject 6 million customers, but it's their right. It seems a little crazy to me for Java developers to still be bitching about this.
If you are devoted to Java and don't want Windows, move to Solaris, Linux, or a BSD. If you want to rock OS X, pick up Objective-C and Cocoa.
Or, since Java is open source now, work with the community to build an open source community project to create a release for OS X separate from Sun.
Frak, someone always has to make this post, don't they?
Of course OS X has security flaws: it's a modern, general purpose operating system.
The fact remains that by many metrics it is much more secure than Windows. For one, there are no where near the number of malware in the wild targeting OS X as there are for Windows. Most people who run OS X have never, ever had to worry about contracting a virus, trojan, or worm. That is not the same thing as saying they never will, but it is a remarkable track record.
I am concerned about Apple's slow response to newly identified flaws. Their lack of candor in discussing vulnerabilities, their potential impact on the platform, or details of its remediation in patches' release notes is also worrisome. They need to pick up their game if they want to keep that track record as the platform expands.
I loved the cinematography and lighting. It was beautiful and implied a bright world with a bright future. Compare to the dark scenes in the Romulan ship.
More likely the mod was trying to do you a favor. You don't get karma for funny mods, but you do for insightful and informative. The mod really liked your joke and gave you karma for it, and you've basically turned it down.
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft. I really like the ergonomics and how I can just use my fingertips to use the thing instead of having to death grip my mouse, unlike most Logitech mice I've tried.
I get a year out of a pair of Energizer Lithium.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience with the Might Mouse.
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft. Also, it is the best feeling mouse under my hand--i.e. has the best ergonomics--that I've ever used.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience.
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience.
After seeing the realism of the first Call of Duty I refused to play any more WWII FPS. I've convinced many of my gamer friends to do the same. Obviously that's not enough to turn the tide of an entire industry. But I continue trying to reach out and change minds. Posts like yours give me hope that more people will start to think about what they are simulating when they play these types of games.
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Yep.
We have three macs at home running OS X. The 12" powerbook has gone from 10.2 to 10.5 and the macbook from 10.4 to 10.5 (we retired the one last summer that had gone from 10.1 to 10.3); the imac is new so this will be its first upgrade.
On my wife's macbook I just upgraded in place. Zero problems. On my powerbook I archived and installed just to see what was different. Both went perfectly smoothly. I'm planning on just upgrading in place the macbook and the imac. My powerbook will be retired and replaced with an air since it won't run 10.6 and it's so beat up the battery falls out randomly.
If you have a backup (seriously, 320GB USB drives are like $30. What are you waiting for?) just upgrade in place.
There were economic policies that he supported when the Clinton Administration proposed them and opposed when the Bush Administration proposed them.
Really? I haven't seen that. Can you point me to some of his work from the most recent Bush-era that contradicts work from the Clinton-era? I'd be very interested to check into this.
I've got your semantic context for numbers right here.
Compare to OS X running on PPC or Intel: almost completely seamless to the end user.
Look at the clusterfuck that Windows AND Linux have with 32-bit vs. 64-bit architectures. Again, Apple made it the 68K to PPC to Intel almost completely seamless to the end-user.
Apple doesn't get enough credit for the amazing job they did engineering OS X.
What do these jerks do to the incidence of accidents?
I'd rather continue to wait than significantly increase my chances of being involved in a collision.
(No, I haven't read the article yet.)
NYMBY
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Actually, washing machine repair is pretty easy. Not much to them, really.
Yeah, it's too bad that it's harder to find good apps in the App Store when there are 50,000 than when there were 5,000.
But that only means you now have to work for your supper, like any one else who publishes anything from books to music to movies to software.
The same goes for those who complain that if they charge $50 for their app no one buys it.
Wow, welcome to the world of microeconomics and price theory. And, again, promotion.
Here's a clue: you don't have to use the app store as the only or even primary venue for promotion and discovery of your app. Yes, it's harder now than it was, but that's life in a competitive market place. The barriers to entry are lower than they've ever been for such an awesome platform, but that doesn't mean that becoming a success is any easier (nor should it be, if economic theory even kind of works as we understand it to) than it ever has been.
Frakin' cry babies. Suck it up, wipe off your crocodile tears, and make something awesome.
If you have anything legitimate to cry about it is Apple's dystopian app approval process.
I'm also in North Dakota.
Pickens showed a lot of interest in ND and in developing a wind farm here back in 2007-2008.
Ultimately nothing came of it because of similar problems he is having in Texas:
* no transmission lines suitable to get power from the wind farms out of the state,
* no capital to build and no one willing to share the risk of building the transmission lines necessary, and
* no leverage over the oil/coal/hydro interests--hat already have their own lines and control the state legislature and governor's office to prevent competitor's from getting their own lines--to get the state to build the lines.
In Texas he was able to fix the third point by getting the power to essentially declare eminent domain by himself wherever he wanted the lines to go since he was the established oil interest in the state. However, his backers that would have fixed point two backed out because of the financial crisis and collapse of oil prices.
Also, aesthetics should have nothing--at most very, very little--to do with power generation. I think wind turbine farms are beautiful and a tribute to human ingenuity and progress. But I think the same thing of the coal plants and oil operations in the state. My brother works in the oil fields of Western Dakota and fraking operations are incredible.
Where is the "-1 Whinny/Pussy" mod?
Five years ago I was telling clients that anti-malware software is like childhood immunizations. They aren't going to protect us from the next flu pandemic, but they'll make sure we don't get polio. Windows machines still need AV to keep them from getting reinfected with stuff we know about and have fixed, but you have to have additional defenses and processes in place to mitigate e.g. Conficker when it was a zero-day.
I mean, what can explain their slowness in Java porting? I wish I knew. It's a real annoyance.
Apple wants external developers to use Cocoa. They want to focus internal efforts on making Cocoa better.
From Apple's strategic perspective, why support an alternative platform (and Java is an alternative platform) that doesn't lead to great Mac software, especially great Mac-only software?
This is AT&T trying to get back some leverage in their relationship with Apple.
Right now:
* If you are on AT&T already, either you have an iPhone or you want one.
* If you aren't on AT&T, the only reason to switch to it is to get the iPhone.
* The iPhone is still a great device without AT&T, but AT&T is not great without the iPhone.
By withholding tethering and MMS and not having a 7.2Mbps network in place, AT&T will try to make Apple look bad. AT&T will miss the "late-summer" "deadline" and they are gambling that pressure will grow on Apple to do something about it. Apple can't do anything about it and AT&T will use this in 2010 contract negotiations as a bargaining chip.
AT&T is wagering the backlash against Apple will be worse than the backlash against themselves and that they will get concessions from Apple that will make them the most attractive iPhone carrier even after they lose exclusivity.
If you're one of those text-while-you-drive people
The last person I caught doing that I got out of my car at the next red light, tapped on their window, and punched them in the face, took their phone, and threw it against the building across the street.
You are a time bomb you stupid fuck. You will have earned your reward when you kill someone, you walking abortion.
You'd think so, wouldn't you.
Apple decided that they'd be better than Sun at creating a JVM for their OS, so they did it themselves.
That might have been the initial reason. Maybe.
But Apple really, really wants developers to use Objective-C and Cocoa when they are creating software for OS X. From Apple's strategic perspective, why support an alternative platform (and Java is an alternative platform) that doesn't lead to great Mac software, especially great Mac-only software.
And about that agreement between Sun and Apple that keeps Sun off OS X: now that Java is open sourced, what is keeping the community from creating and releasing an OS X-native client?
I'd say the writing on the wall is pretty clear: If you are developing on OS X, Apple wants you to use Objective-C and Cocoa. Get over it. Accept it and move on. Yeah, it seems a little crazy for Apple to reject 6 million customers, but it's their right. It seems a little crazy to me for Java developers to still be bitching about this.
If you are devoted to Java and don't want Windows, move to Solaris, Linux, or a BSD. If you want to rock OS X, pick up Objective-C and Cocoa.
Or, since Java is open source now, work with the community to build an open source community project to create a release for OS X separate from Sun.
Obviously Apple is doing this so app developers must use the Cocoa libraries and internal devs can focus on improving Cocoa.
I don't know why any platform developer would devote resources to Java support. That should be up to Sun and the Java community.
Bitch and moan at Apple if you want, but it is Sun who signed an agreement with Apple promising not to release a OS X version of Java from Sun.
Frak, someone always has to make this post, don't they?
Of course OS X has security flaws: it's a modern, general purpose operating system.
The fact remains that by many metrics it is much more secure than Windows. For one, there are no where near the number of malware in the wild targeting OS X as there are for Windows. Most people who run OS X have never, ever had to worry about contracting a virus, trojan, or worm. That is not the same thing as saying they never will, but it is a remarkable track record.
I am concerned about Apple's slow response to newly identified flaws. Their lack of candor in discussing vulnerabilities, their potential impact on the platform, or details of its remediation in patches' release notes is also worrisome. They need to pick up their game if they want to keep that track record as the platform expands.
I loved the cinematography and lighting. It was beautiful and implied a bright world with a bright future. Compare to the dark scenes in the Romulan ship.
More likely the mod was trying to do you a favor. You don't get karma for funny mods, but you do for insightful and informative. The mod really liked your joke and gave you karma for it, and you've basically turned it down.
Matching anecdotes for anecdotes:
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft. I really like the ergonomics and how I can just use my fingertips to use the thing instead of having to death grip my mouse, unlike most Logitech mice I've tried.
I get a year out of a pair of Energizer Lithium.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience with the Might Mouse.
Matching anecdotes for anecdotes:
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft. Also, it is the best feeling mouse under my hand--i.e. has the best ergonomics--that I've ever used.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience.
Matching anecdotes for anecdotes:
I have to say, I've had my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse since about six months after they were released. It lives in my canvas messenger bag--and so gets banged up a bit and dusty--when I'm not using it and carrying it from home to work to the coffeeshop to gaming night, etc.
I've never had a problem with it. The scrollball has never stuck. Never. It just works.(tm)
I also have less problem with the virtual right mouse button than the weird, tiny buttons that are littered all over "high-end" mice from Logitech and Microsoft.
Not saying you're wrong, just that I've had a very different and positive experience.
After seeing the realism of the first Call of Duty I refused to play any more WWII FPS. I've convinced many of my gamer friends to do the same. Obviously that's not enough to turn the tide of an entire industry. But I continue trying to reach out and change minds. Posts like yours give me hope that more people will start to think about what they are simulating when they play these types of games.