However, let me say that the new Intel Core Duo Mac Mini has been rock solid. I have two of these. I also have an Intel iMac which is also rock solid.
We have a MacBook Pro that has had some problems, but Apple recently changed the motherboard. I don't use that machine day to day, so I would have to ask the guy who uses it all the time. The desktop machines are totally fine. This is a laptop issue - and the worst 80% of the problems are probably already over.
My company uses a spam filter in Microsoft Exchange. It filters about half of the mail I get from mailing lists I have signed up for (mostly Apple development mailing lists) to the spam folder. About half of my actual spam is sent to the spam folder and about half gets into my inbox. Sometimes mail from other people I work with gets marked as spam. Basically this filter would do the same thing if it just threw about 1/3 or 1/2 of all the email I receive into the spam folder randomly.
I also have an Apple.mac email address and use Mail in Tiger on MacOS X. The junk email filter does not have very many false positives, but it still lets a lot of spam into my inbox.
On one of my machines I am doing a trial with Spam Sieve. It is doing a better job, but has had misses and false positives, but it is better than either Apple's filter or the useless Exchange filter.
Aside from also being a very good cross platform library, Qt is also just a very nice programming API period. If you are just writing Windows applications, Qt is a pretty good choice. I highly recommend it. In fact, you are soaking in it now!
The recent items thing you are referring to made its debut in System 7.5. It was not in System 7.0. It was copied from a shareware extention that did the same thing.
This is actually one feature I was not all that impressed with. I don't see the point. I use ASM (which is a reimplementation of the old System 7 Application Menu) and LiteSwitch X to navigate between applications on the Mac. I don't see the point to using virtual desktops - I never have before. If someone else likes this feature - more power to them, I just don't think that it will ever become part of my workflow.
No, it is not quicker and easier to do what you describe. If Qt saves you time, it pays for itself very quickly. The cost of the license is NOTHING to a real software development organization.
It is mostly where Apple tries to educate developers about their latest programming APIs.
There are several technologies that Apple comes out with that depend on 3rd party support. For example, Spotlight works better when third parties make adopt its protocols to make data spotlight indexable/searchable. Dashboard is another example.
The main reasons people don't adopt these new APIs are: lack of education and need for backward compatibility.
WWDC also is a good place to give feedback to Apple about what they are doing right/wrong/could improve. Also, if you have specific issues you need resolved, it is a good place to go in order to speak with Apple employees.
For example, I had a specific issue in an application I was developing with OpenGL. I was able to arrange a meeting at WWDC to speak with the manager of the graphics group. I was able to show him my application and explain why we needed this particular issue addressed. All of the people from DTS (Developer Tech Support) who are used to dealing with 3rd party developers like to never make hard promises. However, this particular manager told me "this WILL be fixed in 10.3" and it was.
This year, I have a short list of issues that I want to speak with Apple about.
I can't say I've ever come away from WWDC with specific information about future hardware products, but I have come away with specific knowledge I need in order to guide my development roadmap.
Plus, we do have the RAZR market-testing as a toe Apple put in the water, very carefully.
I think you mean the ROKR. And I would have got a ROKR except for two things: it looks very lame sitting next to the RAZR (why couldn't they have put iTunes in the RAZR!), and it stores a paltry 100 songs. The whole point of the iPod (for me at least) is that it stores my entire music library. (I don't quite understand the appeal of the smaller iPods which proves I'm not perhaps the target audience.)
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And ALL of these technologies still work better than televisions did back in the 1950s.
You do realize that Apple's laptops come from the EXACT SAME factory in China that makes Dell and HP's laptops?
Can I say something about the link??? Their advice is IDIOTIC.
First, you want to buy something when you need it and when it makes sense in your life for you to buy it.
Second, when something is long in the tooth, it may be the BEST time to buy it. At least you will know what you are getting.
I have to second this.
However, let me say that the new Intel Core Duo Mac Mini has been rock solid. I have two of these. I also have an Intel iMac which is also rock solid.
We have a MacBook Pro that has had some problems, but Apple recently changed the motherboard. I don't use that machine day to day, so I would have to ask the guy who uses it all the time. The desktop machines are totally fine. This is a laptop issue - and the worst 80% of the problems are probably already over.
My company uses a spam filter in Microsoft Exchange. It filters about half of the mail I get from mailing lists I have signed up for (mostly Apple development mailing lists) to the spam folder. About half of my actual spam is sent to the spam folder and about half gets into my inbox. Sometimes mail from other people I work with gets marked as spam. Basically this filter would do the same thing if it just threw about 1/3 or 1/2 of all the email I receive into the spam folder randomly.
.mac email address and use Mail in Tiger on MacOS X. The junk email filter does not have very many false positives, but it still lets a lot of spam into my inbox.
I also have an Apple
On one of my machines I am doing a trial with Spam Sieve. It is doing a better job, but has had misses and false positives, but it is better than either Apple's filter or the useless Exchange filter.
You can integrate iCal stuff into your application. This does appeal to many people.
Also, you didn't think Core Animation was cool???
$4000????
Aside from also being a very good cross platform library, Qt is also just a very nice programming API period. If you are just writing Windows applications, Qt is a pretty good choice. I highly recommend it. In fact, you are soaking in it now!
However, Apple doesn't do product announcements like that during the WWDC.
The original iMac was announced at WWDC in 1998.
What software do you want?
This was just a total letdown.
I am here at the conference and I don't feel "let down". And the lasagna was pretty good too.
The recent items thing you are referring to made its debut in System 7.5. It was not in System 7.0. It was copied from a shareware extention that did the same thing.
My only complaint is that it's hard to move windows between desktops
Then you will like "Spaces" (the thing in Leopard), because it makes this very easy.
For me since I graduated 2001 it makes most sience) In college you wore very libral clothings and in the Corprate enviroment you are more town down
I think you should consider returning to school (and perhaps slapping the teacher who was supposed to have taught you to spell.)
This is actually one feature I was not all that impressed with. I don't see the point. I use ASM (which is a reimplementation of the old System 7 Application Menu) and LiteSwitch X to navigate between applications on the Mac. I don't see the point to using virtual desktops - I never have before. If someone else likes this feature - more power to them, I just don't think that it will ever become part of my workflow.
Dude, your customers are not your QA department.
technicians will say I am not a tech and that there is nothing wrong according to their certified tools
Technicians don't know shit about fuck - otherwise they wouldn't be technicians.
Microsoft hardly dominates the video game business. Out of the last generation consoles, they were only one to consistantly lose money.
Are you saying that they form a Kepler's Rosette?
It is more fair to say that the two bodies orbit their collective center of gravity.
Isn't that what all versions of Windows have always been?
I have not been able to find an Apple LaserWriter for sale anywhere at a reasonable price.
No, it is not quicker and easier to do what you describe. If Qt saves you time, it pays for itself very quickly. The cost of the license is NOTHING to a real software development organization.
It is mostly where Apple tries to educate developers about their latest programming APIs.
There are several technologies that Apple comes out with that depend on 3rd party support. For example, Spotlight works better when third parties make adopt its protocols to make data spotlight indexable/searchable. Dashboard is another example.
The main reasons people don't adopt these new APIs are: lack of education and need for backward compatibility.
WWDC also is a good place to give feedback to Apple about what they are doing right/wrong/could improve. Also, if you have specific issues you need resolved, it is a good place to go in order to speak with Apple employees.
For example, I had a specific issue in an application I was developing with OpenGL. I was able to arrange a meeting at WWDC to speak with the manager of the graphics group. I was able to show him my application and explain why we needed this particular issue addressed. All of the people from DTS (Developer Tech Support) who are used to dealing with 3rd party developers like to never make hard promises. However, this particular manager told me "this WILL be fixed in 10.3" and it was.
This year, I have a short list of issues that I want to speak with Apple about.
I can't say I've ever come away from WWDC with specific information about future hardware products, but I have come away with specific knowledge I need in order to guide my development roadmap.
Plus, we do have the RAZR market-testing as a toe Apple put in the water, very carefully.
I think you mean the ROKR. And I would have got a ROKR except for two things: it looks very lame sitting next to the RAZR (why couldn't they have put iTunes in the RAZR!), and it stores a paltry 100 songs. The whole point of the iPod (for me at least) is that it stores my entire music library. (I don't quite understand the appeal of the smaller iPods which proves I'm not perhaps the target audience.)