And they're getting mad play, jesus, everyone looking at the ad online. I think it may play somewhat for them in the long run, but it's too early to tell.
Crowds gawk at the scene of a horrible accident, and watch videos of those online, too. So?
In fact, the only way I found to close the History window was counterintuitively through Bookmarks, Hide All Bookmarks.
The Show All History/Bookmark View is a strange transformation of the main window, not a dialog. If you are showing the Bookmarks toolbar then you'll see that the little book button is pressed in. Unpress it to go back to the previous web page. Otherwise to leave the History view you just have to go to another URL.
Maybe when it is released they'll actually call it the Apple Phone? Like the code name iTV turned into "Apple TV" (or, TV)? I'm thinking that maybe the name iPhone is a joke, a red herring. Like playing the Beatles on the iPod, er, iPhone, er, Apple Phone.
Surely they must be planning a single version, as they are doing with the apps. The fat binary supports a single executable for both platforms, so it seems like a configuration management and marketing nightmare unlikely to come from the company who tend to try to make things simple.
I'd expect it to be more likely that some day they will simply drop the PPC from the fat binary and ship only an Intel OS.
Also I might count a third retail version of Tiger (non-server): the Family Pack. However this is not a feature difference, but only a licensing price-break...
Back to the actual topic... you'd have to have a "movie" that would exploit DVD player. It is not at all the same as autorun, more like a question of JPG virus.
Not that this disproves your point, but the 1680x1050 display on the Samsung computer in TFA is a 1.6 aspect ratio. The new PowerBook 17" is also 1680x1050 = 1.6.
That's 20% wider than 4x3. Interesting that not all of the widescreens are the same aspect ratio. (And they're not 16x9, either.)
The revision abilities in Word are excellent - even better in Office X than in the MS Office XP version. I think this is something that should be built into the OS, not added to a word processor.
It is already built in to OS X. It is called CVS.;-)
Actually I just looked at one of my Pages documents. The document is a directory:
I'm really interested to see if Pages will automatically handle typographical ligatures. I see a comment about them in Apple's information (Pages' "free-form graphic canvas" blurb). But it will be great if character combinations like "fi", "ff", etc. are automatically changed to their ligature versions. I noticed recently that QuickTime Pro will display ligatures automatically (when creating text titles from a plaintext file), so I have high hopes that Pages will be able to do it as well.
Typographical ligatures are a big plus for professional-looking documents. Of course you can also get them automatically in TeX. I don't know how to get MS-Word to do them.
I know you're comparing to Linux, but I thought I'd add a bit about one experience comparing OS X to Windows (2k).
I bought a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer (USB R/F). I installed the MS driver on OS X, and it works great. I swap this mouse between my home computer (OS X) and work computer (Win2k). *Every* time I plug the USB dongle into the Win2k machine, after it thrashes the disk a bit, it prompts me to install a new USB device. I cancel the message and the Intellimouse functions OK in Windows.
On OS X, it Just Works. Plug, unplug, plug, unplug, plug... instant response, no messages, no trouble. Funny.
Yes, you probably want more than a 1-button mouse, but actually when I go back to using the Apple Pro Mouse, its small size feels quite nice in my hand, and I can do most everything I really need to do with it.
There have been rumors that Lando might show up in it...and where he goes G'Kar goes too.
Londo (Mollari) was in Babylon 5, Lando (Calrissian) was in Star Wars films. Probably a typo, but anyway. (Surprised I remember this, actually--I forgot all about Star Wars after seeing Babylon 5.)
Currently working in Wakayama City, probably I will end up seeing it in Kagoshima, though... Really kind of tempted by that Godzilla Final Box, but I guess I have better places to spend 80,000 yen...
Who would buy an iMac over a comparable laptop, and why?
I like the idea of having my keyboard & mouse where I want them, and still having the monitor at a decent height. (Sure, you can use an external keyboard & mouse with your PowerBook, but then you lose space.)
I also like the idea of having a fast hard disk drive.
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Well anyway Solaris is only SunOS 5+ ...
And they're getting mad play, jesus, everyone looking at the ad online. I think it may play somewhat for them in the long run, but it's too early to tell.
Crowds gawk at the scene of a horrible accident, and watch videos of those online, too. So?
10 million discs produced but never tested them in a PlayStation drive? I wonder what sort of testing they did?
The Show All History/Bookmark View is a strange transformation of the main window, not a dialog. If you are showing the Bookmarks toolbar then you'll see that the little book button is pressed in. Unpress it to go back to the previous web page. Otherwise to leave the History view you just have to go to another URL.
Maybe when it is released they'll actually call it the Apple Phone? Like the code name iTV turned into "Apple TV" (or, TV)? I'm thinking that maybe the name iPhone is a joke, a red herring. Like playing the Beatles on the iPod, er, iPhone, er, Apple Phone.
Surely they must be planning a single version, as they are doing with the apps. The fat binary supports a single executable for both platforms, so it seems like a configuration management and marketing nightmare unlikely to come from the company who tend to try to make things simple.
I'd expect it to be more likely that some day they will simply drop the PPC from the fat binary and ship only an Intel OS.
Also I might count a third retail version of Tiger (non-server): the Family Pack. However this is not a feature difference, but only a licensing price-break...
OS X is already available off the shelf, as long as you buy a supported hardware configuration. :-)
Aren't most movies flawed?
Back to the actual topic... you'd have to have a "movie" that would exploit DVD player. It is not at all the same as autorun, more like a question of JPG virus.
Not that this disproves your point, but the 1680x1050 display on the Samsung computer in TFA is a 1.6 aspect ratio.
The new PowerBook 17" is also 1680x1050 = 1.6.
That's 20% wider than 4x3. Interesting that not all of the widescreens are the same aspect ratio. (And they're not 16x9, either.)
Thanks for the info. Alas, my machine is FW400. Anyway I think I'll wait until I see what next year brings before I think about upgrading...
Nano spec says USB 2.0 only -- and no firewire -- this means I don't think I can plug it into my MDD PowerMac. :-(
Actually I just looked at one of my Pages documents. The document is a directory:Contents of index.xml.gz begin like this:
instead of both insulting him for living in Poland and insulting his intelligence about the Mac Mini.
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Really? I don't see them as ligatures in Safari. What font are you using as your standard font? Mine is "Times 14."
fi ff fl ffl
I'm really interested to see if Pages will automatically handle typographical ligatures. I see a comment about them in Apple's information (Pages' "free-form graphic canvas" blurb). But it will be great if character combinations like "fi", "ff", etc. are automatically changed to their ligature versions.
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I noticed recently that QuickTime Pro will display ligatures automatically (when creating text titles from a plaintext file), so I have high hopes that Pages will be able to do it as well.
Typographical ligatures are a big plus for professional-looking documents. Of course you can also get them automatically in TeX. I don't know how to get MS-Word to do them.
Ligatures info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography
I know you're comparing to Linux, but I thought I'd add a bit about one experience comparing OS X to Windows (2k).
I bought a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer (USB R/F). I installed the MS driver on OS X, and it works great. I swap this mouse between my home computer (OS X) and work computer (Win2k). *Every* time I plug the USB dongle into the Win2k machine, after it thrashes the disk a bit, it prompts me to install a new USB device. I cancel the message and the Intellimouse functions OK in Windows.
On OS X, it Just Works. Plug, unplug, plug, unplug, plug... instant response, no messages, no trouble.
Funny.
Yes, you probably want more than a 1-button mouse, but actually when I go back to using the Apple Pro Mouse, its small size feels quite nice in my hand, and I can do most everything I really need to do with it.
Currently working in Wakayama City, probably I will end up seeing it in Kagoshima, though...
Really kind of tempted by that Godzilla Final Box, but I guess I have better places to spend 80,000 yen...
Yes, finally I will be here at the right time to be able see one in the theatre!
(eijimaku ga nai kedo)
"They're butchering the classics. John Williams must be rolling over in his grave!"
/ Williams+John
Huh? John Williams is not dead.
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/wnames-nf
You mean like linking statically to Microsoft's GDI+ JPEG library because it isn't in the standard distro of every MS-Windows OS?
Hmmm...
I'm not a MS-Windows fan, but people were just saying the opposite of your post over in the JPEG Virus threads...
Oh yes, I already have that one. It's called Mac OS X. Infectious!
Who would buy an iMac over a comparable laptop, and why?
I like the idea of having my keyboard & mouse where I want them, and still having the monitor at a decent height. (Sure, you can use an external keyboard & mouse with your PowerBook, but then you lose space.)
I also like the idea of having a fast hard disk drive.
Note that many apps will often leave junk (particularly prefs) hanging around in your home directory.
Also note that many apps running on UNIX systems have historically left junk (particularly invisible dotfiles) hanging around in your home directory.