I'm not an authority on developing for Mac OS X, but the claim that "bottom-end" and second-hand Macs are incapable of running OS X acceptably is just about the most ridiculous thing I've read in a long time. Macs, historically and currently, have a long usable life. I'm running OS X on an iMac G4 1 GHz and a PowerMac G4 Dual-533 and it works great on both of them. The iMac G4 is capable of running 10.5, though currently I'm running 10.4 on both (I haven't bought 10.5 yet.) For best results, max out the ram, but I haven't even done that and they work great (I've got 768 MB in the iMac G4, and 1 GB in the PM G4.) Now, having said that, I imagine for development you are going to want an Intel-based Mac, but you can certainly go second-hand and/or low-end with that and get a completely usable system.
Well, unfortunately what you are saying isn't true as I did try installing another app and... that app wouldn't launch either, and everything else continued to fail to launch.
Let me point out what I said in my original post: by doing this "clean install", and very unlike a PC/Mac, you lose all your application data, and there is no way to recover it. The exceptions are contacts and calendars if you sync those with something else, and, in my case, SplashID, which syncs with the desktop app. All my game data and other application data is gone and there is no obvious way to recover it. So, no, it is *not* like a clean install of a computer OS, where you can backup and restore your data.
I didn't say anything the first time, but this time.... Really, how do you follow up the first Disagree Mail with something even worse even when you know you're going to get hammered for it? Let's all hope this is the last Disagree Mail episode, because it obviously isn't going to get any better.
First, let me say that others have not had the same experience, so it isn't universal, but I've also seen others saying they had the same result, so it isn't unique to my iPod Touch either.
After I updated to 2.0.2 on my 16 GB iPod Touch, I could no longer launch any 3rd party apps. They would start to load, then quit back to the home screen. I tried powering off and starting back up. Didn't help. I tried a restore and setup from backup. No help. Finally I resorted to a restore and setup as a new iPod. This worked (at least so far). Of course, it means that I lost all my app data. Fortunately all my key data was recoverable (contacts, calendar, email and SplashID), but my progress in the game Vay, for example, is gone as well as other games.
This isn't the first problem I've had with 2.0.x firmware. Previously I had individual applications stop working. In some cases powering off and on would fix it, but more recently (with 2.0.1) I had some applications where that didn't help. In fact, neither did a restore and setup from backup. Indeed, the most recent restore and setup as a new device is the *second* time I've done it.
Also, twice I experienced a problem where I tried to launch the AppStore app where it never finished loading. It didn't quit to the home screen, it just got stuck. Pressing Home didn't do anything. Nor did pressing the sleep button. Finally I held the Home button down to force quit the AppStore, but instead of just force quitting the app, it caused an onscreen flash and then my iPod started to reboot, but it never finished. I tried forcing another reboot and still it didn't finish starting up. Endless Apple logo. I let it go for hours and it never finished. Finally I had to force my iPod into recovery mode and do a restore and setup from backup. In this case, that worked, but it happened again another time and again I had to restore from backup.
The 2.0.x firmware has, as far as I'm concerned, been pretty much a disaster. I love the features it brings to my iPod, but this is beta, or really alpha software. It shouldn't have been released, or at least it should have been labeled as such and not been distributed through normal means. Then the problems wouldn't sting quite so much if you ran into them.
I hope the promised September update will put all this nonsense to rest and finally give us release-quality firmware. I must admit to being a bit skeptical, though.
It's kind of funny that some people are saying they got so frustrated with PC game DRM, that they started buying console games instead. How are console games better than PC games with DRM? A console game can only be played if you have the disc inserted in the console - that is DRM. Even though an upcoming 360 update is suppose to allow you to install games to the drive, you still have to have the disc inserted. Moreover, console games generally cost more than their PC counterparts, so you are getting DRM, and paying more for it. I don't get it. Rather, I don't believe what they are saying - if they were pirating PC games yesterday, they are pirating console games today, or they will once they get their mod chip installed.
I've been watching the Olympics. Exxon apparently is worried there won't enough scientists in the future for them to be able to go from just mucking up the environment to complete planetary devastation.
I had been reading/hearing that this was suppose to be the "secret" Star Wars film. It wasn't going to have a big advertising budget and was a labor of love. Obviously that was all a bunch of malarky, just another gimmick to get it in the news. I've been seeing commercials for this film pretty regularly now.
Sadly, I'll be seeing this travesty on Saturday with my two boy and my nephews.
The first Olympic fake-out was back at Olympics 776 BC. In 720 BC it was discovered that olympian Ephorus Pausanias was actually wearing "artistically enhanced" tights.
My sister has a Vizio 32 inch LCD HDTV (720p), and their Gamecube looks OK on it. Note that I said OK. Not GOOD. Not GREAT. It's a little fuzzy and pixely at the same time. Note that it's hooked up via component. It looked worse when it was hooked up via composite (of course, there's debate on which looks the least worse: composite, s-video or component, when playing an NGC on an LCD HDTV, even more so with the PS2, which should tell you something.) My Gamecube looks GREAT on my tube SDTV. Ditto for the PS2 and N64 (well, as good as an N64 can look).
Lag does vary on different LCD HDTVs. I have spent a significant number of hours trying to find out which ones are best with regard to lag, but also look good, only to find out that when most people say that their TV has "no lag" they are talking about with HD sources, and not SD sources. Trying to figure out which LCD HDTVs handle SD video game systems best has been a real chore. Also, though entirely circumstantial at this point, it seems as if the TVs that have the least lag with SD, also tend to be the ones that look the worst. Not a great trade off when my SD video game systems look great and have no lag at all on my tube SDTV.
I guess I'm going to have to wait for something better to come along. LCD and Plasma aren't it.
I was recently really into the idea of getting an HDTV, but I've decided I don't really care. For one thing, if I buy an LCD HDTV, my SD video game systems (N64, NGC, PS2), which are important to me, will look pretty crappy on it and have new-found lag, thus making them suck balls. If I buy a Plasma HDTV you have to deal with burn in and annoyances like slowly fading menus and such - that seems even worse to me. So the best option is still a tube TV and, uh, I've got one. LCD TVs suck due to pixillation and lag. Plasma TVs suck due to burn in. Tube TVs are big and heavy, and that sucks a little, but they look great and have no lag. I'll take it.
It's actually half true. They *were* going to buy Japan's spacecraft, until they found out that it wouldn't include one of those nifty escape pod vending machines.
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I thought it was funny. "Extreme" sports and its generic-ness have been asking to be parodied, and this was a pretty good one.
I'm not an authority on developing for Mac OS X, but the claim that "bottom-end" and second-hand Macs are incapable of running OS X acceptably is just about the most ridiculous thing I've read in a long time. Macs, historically and currently, have a long usable life. I'm running OS X on an iMac G4 1 GHz and a PowerMac G4 Dual-533 and it works great on both of them. The iMac G4 is capable of running 10.5, though currently I'm running 10.4 on both (I haven't bought 10.5 yet.) For best results, max out the ram, but I haven't even done that and they work great (I've got 768 MB in the iMac G4, and 1 GB in the PM G4.) Now, having said that, I imagine for development you are going to want an Intel-based Mac, but you can certainly go second-hand and/or low-end with that and get a completely usable system.
Well, unfortunately what you are saying isn't true as I did try installing another app and... that app wouldn't launch either, and everything else continued to fail to launch.
Let me point out what I said in my original post: by doing this "clean install", and very unlike a PC/Mac, you lose all your application data, and there is no way to recover it. The exceptions are contacts and calendars if you sync those with something else, and, in my case, SplashID, which syncs with the desktop app. All my game data and other application data is gone and there is no obvious way to recover it. So, no, it is *not* like a clean install of a computer OS, where you can backup and restore your data.
I didn't say anything the first time, but this time.... Really, how do you follow up the first Disagree Mail with something even worse even when you know you're going to get hammered for it? Let's all hope this is the last Disagree Mail episode, because it obviously isn't going to get any better.
First, let me say that others have not had the same experience, so it isn't universal, but I've also seen others saying they had the same result, so it isn't unique to my iPod Touch either.
After I updated to 2.0.2 on my 16 GB iPod Touch, I could no longer launch any 3rd party apps. They would start to load, then quit back to the home screen. I tried powering off and starting back up. Didn't help. I tried a restore and setup from backup. No help. Finally I resorted to a restore and setup as a new iPod. This worked (at least so far). Of course, it means that I lost all my app data. Fortunately all my key data was recoverable (contacts, calendar, email and SplashID), but my progress in the game Vay, for example, is gone as well as other games.
This isn't the first problem I've had with 2.0.x firmware. Previously I had individual applications stop working. In some cases powering off and on would fix it, but more recently (with 2.0.1) I had some applications where that didn't help. In fact, neither did a restore and setup from backup. Indeed, the most recent restore and setup as a new device is the *second* time I've done it.
Also, twice I experienced a problem where I tried to launch the AppStore app where it never finished loading. It didn't quit to the home screen, it just got stuck. Pressing Home didn't do anything. Nor did pressing the sleep button. Finally I held the Home button down to force quit the AppStore, but instead of just force quitting the app, it caused an onscreen flash and then my iPod started to reboot, but it never finished. I tried forcing another reboot and still it didn't finish starting up. Endless Apple logo. I let it go for hours and it never finished. Finally I had to force my iPod into recovery mode and do a restore and setup from backup. In this case, that worked, but it happened again another time and again I had to restore from backup.
The 2.0.x firmware has, as far as I'm concerned, been pretty much a disaster. I love the features it brings to my iPod, but this is beta, or really alpha software. It shouldn't have been released, or at least it should have been labeled as such and not been distributed through normal means. Then the problems wouldn't sting quite so much if you ran into them.
I hope the promised September update will put all this nonsense to rest and finally give us release-quality firmware. I must admit to being a bit skeptical, though.
What I do know, however, is that there needs to be more coverage of women's beach volleyball signals.
It's kind of funny that some people are saying they got so frustrated with PC game DRM, that they started buying console games instead. How are console games better than PC games with DRM? A console game can only be played if you have the disc inserted in the console - that is DRM. Even though an upcoming 360 update is suppose to allow you to install games to the drive, you still have to have the disc inserted. Moreover, console games generally cost more than their PC counterparts, so you are getting DRM, and paying more for it. I don't get it. Rather, I don't believe what they are saying - if they were pirating PC games yesterday, they are pirating console games today, or they will once they get their mod chip installed.
I've been watching the Olympics. Exxon apparently is worried there won't enough scientists in the future for them to be able to go from just mucking up the environment to complete planetary devastation.
I had been reading/hearing that this was suppose to be the "secret" Star Wars film. It wasn't going to have a big advertising budget and was a labor of love. Obviously that was all a bunch of malarky, just another gimmick to get it in the news. I've been seeing commercials for this film pretty regularly now.
Sadly, I'll be seeing this travesty on Saturday with my two boy and my nephews.
Every one of us would choose William Shatner's, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".
The first Olympic fake-out was back at Olympics 776 BC. In 720 BC it was discovered that olympian Ephorus Pausanias was actually wearing "artistically enhanced" tights.
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When I bought that iPhone App, Verified by Visa outright verified that it was *I* who was rich, and not some spineless imposter.
Oh... that guy. He has reviewed pretty much everything on the AppStore. Multiple times.
Hackers will get so frustrated with the repeated, "Are you sure you want root privileges?" dialogs that they'll give up.
Put a talking point in it for McCaine, and at the very least you might win a toaster
My sister has a Vizio 32 inch LCD HDTV (720p), and their Gamecube looks OK on it. Note that I said OK. Not GOOD. Not GREAT. It's a little fuzzy and pixely at the same time. Note that it's hooked up via component. It looked worse when it was hooked up via composite (of course, there's debate on which looks the least worse: composite, s-video or component, when playing an NGC on an LCD HDTV, even more so with the PS2, which should tell you something.) My Gamecube looks GREAT on my tube SDTV. Ditto for the PS2 and N64 (well, as good as an N64 can look).
Lag does vary on different LCD HDTVs. I have spent a significant number of hours trying to find out which ones are best with regard to lag, but also look good, only to find out that when most people say that their TV has "no lag" they are talking about with HD sources, and not SD sources. Trying to figure out which LCD HDTVs handle SD video game systems best has been a real chore. Also, though entirely circumstantial at this point, it seems as if the TVs that have the least lag with SD, also tend to be the ones that look the worst. Not a great trade off when my SD video game systems look great and have no lag at all on my tube SDTV.
I guess I'm going to have to wait for something better to come along. LCD and Plasma aren't it.
I was recently really into the idea of getting an HDTV, but I've decided I don't really care. For one thing, if I buy an LCD HDTV, my SD video game systems (N64, NGC, PS2), which are important to me, will look pretty crappy on it and have new-found lag, thus making them suck balls. If I buy a Plasma HDTV you have to deal with burn in and annoyances like slowly fading menus and such - that seems even worse to me. So the best option is still a tube TV and, uh, I've got one. LCD TVs suck due to pixillation and lag. Plasma TVs suck due to burn in. Tube TVs are big and heavy, and that sucks a little, but they look great and have no lag. I'll take it.
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The math in this study was done by girls.
You could always try the Spanish fly card
That's a misquote. What he said was "village people". He also noted that they were captured are on film in the documentary, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure".
It's actually half true. They *were* going to buy Japan's spacecraft, until they found out that it wouldn't include one of those nifty escape pod vending machines.