Sorry, but the release notes say "Updated applications" can take advantage of Quartz text smoothing. You'll have to wait until IE is updated in a few weeks (although it may be sooner than you think). But, Office X will definately take advantage of this feature with this past Monday's SR1 update.
The fact that the advertising is for Mac retailers means that whoever did this (Vicente Peiro Crespo?) did it with malicious intent! This was no mistake - I bet they are getting tens of thousdands of hits each day this goes on and making money off of our interest in the scandal. MacMall and Amazon should be notified about this so they don't pay these bastards.
You ever hear of Hotline - while its really client/server, it offers everything else you are looking for and its free. Try Carracho if you are an OS X user.
I find it funny how there are people who will actually read this and be upset - just don't read it. Is it that hard to just read a different story until it comes on in your timezone?
Even though this guy is going for troll status, you have to admit - he did an excellent job very quickly!
It wasn't horrible because as lame as it sounds, who knew Mulder would find salvation in religion? So, for what its worth, I was completely surprised - something Carter and company have failed at for some time.
I just watched AOTC last night and it really was a good Star Wars movie. All the bitching about Anakin's part is realative to the story. His character is supposed to be a bitchy immature teenager - he's a confused kid who has no real social skills and it shows - look at his life story so far and its plain as day as to why he's such a pain in the ass. Same goes for Amidalla - she's royalty, you think the Queen of England was a dynamic person - she was born into roayalty and thats what she knows. You will see her character come to life by the end of the movie. She goes from a stiff Senator to a young adult in love, and she does a damn good job of it. All of the fears I had going into this movie faded very quickly when I realized how important this movie is to the series. Seeds that were sown in Episode 1 are sprouting and its exciting to see the forthcomming downfall of the Jedi and rise of the Dark Side. Overall, I say don't listen to these critics because they are not looking at it the same way a true fan would (your not supposed to like Anakin - he becomes a murderous villain, remember). As a Star Wars movie, AOTC is right up there with Empire Strikes Back - Its dark and vicious and I loved every minute of it.
I got one of those the other day - what got me is they wanted me to "renew" at a cost double than what I currently pay! It reminds me of the AT&T scam where they send you a check that if you cash it they change your phone service. Marketing people are just bad bad people.
I agree with you - not just programmers, all IT workers are being shit on now and its time we band together. Only one stipulation: our union numbers must be in binary (local 0110). I might accept hex if the feeling is stronger amongst the masses, but I'm personally leaning towards binary.
Musicians like Wilco, Weezer, and Dave Mathews are proving that as musicians, you still can have a lot of control over your output and still be very successful. I went out and bought the new Wilco CD the day it came out and it was worth every penny, and even though I've downloaded every song from the forthcomming Weezer CD, I can't wait to pick that one up this month.
Nintendo should read this!
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They can develop an organic light emitting lcd that is flexible, yet my GBA still has no backlight!! Thank God for the afterburner (www.tritonlabs.com).
One thing I hope you realize is that no one here has anything good to say about Sony laptops. That is because they are the equivalent to one of those suped-up Honda Civics you see with the suspension dropped down and neon lights around the license plate and a mysterious "R Type" logo on the side. All show and no performance. It seems like you are in the market for a Windows capable machine, so I would suggest the Tecra line from Toshiba - they are great machines and aren't as bulky as the Dell laptops. Thinkpads are good, but compared to the Toshibas they are not as feature rich for the buck.
Yes, the fine community at Macslash.com debunked this hoax earlier today - This was one of the greatest attempts at trolldom I have ever witnessed toward the Mac community (we're such an easy target too).
Didn't they learn their lesson from the Ewoks? Jar Jar = the Ewoks to the nth degree.
Not for nothing, but I was quite young when Jedi came out and I loved the Ewoks - they were something for me to appreciate and I found them very entertaining - maybe the kids today feel that way about Jar Jar. I didn't really appreciate the whole series until I was older, but those Ewoks really turned me on to the Star Wars Trilogy because of their childish appeal. I can see why George felt the need to include Jar Jar in the first Movie this time instead of the third - he wants the kids involved so they stick through all 3 new movies and hopefully watch the other 3.
Just yesterday I was going to try out some software and I went through the registration using my usual info (Joe@yahoo.com, 1313 Mockingbird Lane....) And realized that they were going to email the password to me. I didn't bother downloading for obvious reasons, and I would not send my real info for a trial because frankly I did not know the company enough to trust them with that info. If you want to let people try out your software, let them try it out without any registration codes. Smart people trust no one, especially midsized software companies.
I know I'm asking for trouble by replying to someone who can't even use their username to post (do you wear a white hood too?), but here goes: I work at the world's largest media company and I can attest that most of the Macintosh techs are leagues ahead of their PC tech counterparts because they carry much more responsibility - and get paid better too. They handle many more aspects of the business than your average pc tech and tend to have a better grasp on the latest technology in both the Mac world & PC one, as well as networking equipment, printers (ask a PC guy to calibrate a color laser printer and watch him squirm), and infrastructure. But I'm positive you have never even learned the Mac OS or its corresponding programming languages to cast a valid judgment anyway so I'll rest assured that you'll get modded down so quickly that no one else will even read your post and wonder what the hell I'm bitching about.
...but my first reaction to the idea of this merger is that a lot of jobs at those companies are gonna be lost. My second reaction was damn those CEO's always look so happy when the screw the rest of the company. Oh well.
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Admium is by far the best stand alone AIM client out there - it looks good and is reliable as hell! I love it.
I really do like the new characters on the show - they have a lot of depth and talent, but the writing has weakened so much in the last couple of seasons that it seems that Chris Carter and crew gave up on the show completely (although last week's episode was the best in about 2 years). I really hope they give us:
1) Some good movies down the road
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2) A final episode that kills everything and everyone and leaves you with your jaw dropped.
I know a lot of PC users will say that the specs are yesterday's technology, but they obviously have never had the pleasure of owning a Mac within the last couple of years. What you get when you by a Mac is so much more than a computer and the new iMac is a perfect example why. The original iMac was a fashion statement. It was something every college kid lusted after for their dorm rooms. This one is so stylish, that people will have them proudly diplayed in their houses, not just their kids' rooms. The fact that they gave the new iMac a G4 and an NVidia 32MB graphics card in that design is amazing to me.
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Sorry, but the release notes say "Updated applications" can take advantage of Quartz text smoothing. You'll have to wait until IE is updated in a few weeks (although it may be sooner than you think). But, Office X will definately take advantage of this feature with this past Monday's SR1 update.
The fact that the advertising is for Mac retailers means that whoever did this (Vicente Peiro Crespo?) did it with malicious intent! This was no mistake - I bet they are getting tens of thousdands of hits each day this goes on and making money off of our interest in the scandal. MacMall and Amazon should be notified about this so they don't pay these bastards.
You ever hear of Hotline - while its really client/server, it offers everything else you are looking for and its free. Try Carracho if you are an OS X user.
To put it bluntly, to set up the next X-Files movie that Duchovny and Anderson signed on to earlier a few months ago.
I find it funny how there are people who will actually read this and be upset - just don't read it. Is it that hard to just read a different story until it comes on in your timezone?
Even though this guy is going for troll status, you have to admit - he did an excellent job very quickly!
It wasn't horrible because as lame as it sounds, who knew Mulder would find salvation in religion? So, for what its worth, I was completely surprised - something Carter and company have failed at for some time.
Leia's charachter developed over 4,5, and 6 - at first she was a shallow bitch.
Yeas, she was "elected", but at a VERY YOUNG AGE.
Try seeing the movie and then complain about her personality in it - I'm telling you that you start to see her come to life by the end of the movie.
I usually ignore Anonymous Cowards - get your balls out of your mother's purse and use your real ID.
I would think Jar Jar to be more like "Clippy" - and luckily he's been killed off in XP - so can we hope for the same fate for Jar Jar in Episode 3?
I just watched AOTC last night and it really was a good Star Wars movie. All the bitching about Anakin's part is realative to the story. His character is supposed to be a bitchy immature teenager - he's a confused kid who has no real social skills and it shows - look at his life story so far and its plain as day as to why he's such a pain in the ass. Same goes for Amidalla - she's royalty, you think the Queen of England was a dynamic person - she was born into roayalty and thats what she knows. You will see her character come to life by the end of the movie. She goes from a stiff Senator to a young adult in love, and she does a damn good job of it. All of the fears I had going into this movie faded very quickly when I realized how important this movie is to the series. Seeds that were sown in Episode 1 are sprouting and its exciting to see the forthcomming downfall of the Jedi and rise of the Dark Side. Overall, I say don't listen to these critics because they are not looking at it the same way a true fan would (your not supposed to like Anakin - he becomes a murderous villain, remember). As a Star Wars movie, AOTC is right up there with Empire Strikes Back - Its dark and vicious and I loved every minute of it.
I got one of those the other day - what got me is they wanted me to "renew" at a cost double than what I currently pay! It reminds me of the AT&T scam where they send you a check that if you cash it they change your phone service. Marketing people are just bad bad people.
I agree with you - not just programmers, all IT workers are being shit on now and its time we band together. Only one stipulation: our union numbers must be in binary (local 0110). I might accept hex if the feeling is stronger amongst the masses, but I'm personally leaning towards binary.
Musicians like Wilco, Weezer, and Dave Mathews are proving that as musicians, you still can have a lot of control over your output and still be very successful. I went out and bought the new Wilco CD the day it came out and it was worth every penny, and even though I've downloaded every song from the forthcomming Weezer CD, I can't wait to pick that one up this month.
They can develop an organic light emitting lcd that is flexible, yet my GBA still has no backlight!!
Thank God for the afterburner (www.tritonlabs.com).
One thing I hope you realize is that no one here has anything good to say about Sony laptops. That is because they are the equivalent to one of those suped-up Honda Civics you see with the suspension dropped down and neon lights around the license plate and a mysterious "R Type" logo on the side. All show and no performance. It seems like you are in the market for a Windows capable machine, so I would suggest the Tecra line from Toshiba - they are great machines and aren't as bulky as the Dell laptops. Thinkpads are good, but compared to the Toshibas they are not as feature rich for the buck.
Yes, the fine community at Macslash.com debunked this hoax earlier today - This was one of the greatest attempts at trolldom I have ever witnessed toward the Mac community (we're such an easy target too).
Didn't they learn their lesson from the Ewoks? Jar Jar = the Ewoks to the nth degree.
Not for nothing, but I was quite young when Jedi came out and I loved the Ewoks - they were something for me to appreciate and I found them very entertaining - maybe the kids today feel that way about Jar Jar. I didn't really appreciate the whole series until I was older, but those Ewoks really turned me on to the Star Wars Trilogy because of their childish appeal. I can see why George felt the need to include Jar Jar in the first Movie this time instead of the third - he wants the kids involved so they stick through all 3 new movies and hopefully watch the other 3.
I just tried opening a Slashdot article with well over 200 comments on my iBook (500MHz) and it rendered the whole page in less than 4 seconds.
You need to look at your whole setup - I'm running much lower class of machine and have no issues with speed in IE.
Just yesterday I was going to try out some software and I went through the registration using my usual info (Joe@yahoo.com, 1313 Mockingbird Lane....) And realized that they were going to email the password to me. I didn't bother downloading for obvious reasons, and I would not send my real info for a trial because frankly I did not know the company enough to trust them with that info. If you want to let people try out your software, let them try it out without any registration codes. Smart people trust no one, especially midsized software companies.
Do patents work like trademarks, where if the holder of the patent does not defend it, he loses it?
I know I'm asking for trouble by replying to someone who can't even use their username to post (do you wear a white hood too?), but here goes: I work at the world's largest media company and I can attest that most of the Macintosh techs are leagues ahead of their PC tech counterparts because they carry much more responsibility - and get paid better too. They handle many more aspects of the business than your average pc tech and tend to have a better grasp on the latest technology in both the Mac world & PC one, as well as networking equipment, printers (ask a PC guy to calibrate a color laser printer and watch him squirm), and infrastructure. But I'm positive you have never even learned the Mac OS or its corresponding programming languages to cast a valid judgment anyway so I'll rest assured that you'll get modded down so quickly that no one else will even read your post and wonder what the hell I'm bitching about.
Wasn't he dead at 54 last year too?
...but my first reaction to the idea of this merger is that a lot of jobs at those companies are gonna be lost. My second reaction was damn those CEO's always look so happy when the screw the rest of the company. Oh well.
Admium is by far the best stand alone AIM client out there - it looks good and is reliable as hell! I love it.
I really do like the new characters on the show - they have a lot of depth and talent, but the writing has weakened so much in the last couple of seasons that it seems that Chris Carter and crew gave up on the show completely (although last week's episode was the best in about 2 years). I really hope they give us:
1) Some good movies down the road
or
2) A final episode that kills everything and everyone and leaves you with your jaw dropped.
I know a lot of PC users will say that the specs are yesterday's technology, but they obviously have never had the pleasure of owning a Mac within the last couple of years. What you get when you by a Mac is so much more than a computer and the new iMac is a perfect example why. The original iMac was a fashion statement. It was something every college kid lusted after for their dorm rooms. This one is so stylish, that people will have them proudly diplayed in their houses, not just their kids' rooms. The fact that they gave the new iMac a G4 and an NVidia 32MB graphics card in that design is amazing to me.