"Electric boards at the entrances to the seating areas flash when the train's speed hits 452 kph, usually setting off excited cries and picture-taking among the passengers."
Can someone please explain this one?
What happen? Main electric board turn on. We get signal.
#2. You obviously have not used Mac OS X at all have you? But your comment did remind me of endless Conflict Catcher (which I lauded as a mac advantage at the time) sessions trying to stabilize my Mac OS. Now my uptime record is 60+ days before the power went out (go figure).
And I've had a single (1) kernel panic when using my PowerBook in FireWire target mode and having forgot to put in the power cable. Worked great until the battery ran out.
Jeebus! Open Source has a lot of left-brainers it seems. Isn't there a single graphic artist out there that could design a splash screen to save their life?
Splash screens are really redundant in this day and age, but if you have to have one, at least make it pretty. Like Chimera. Or Photoshop 7.
Sure. But it was not included in the operating system until Windows 98, released about the same time as 8.5, when Apple released their system. So I'd say there were about the same.
Third party utility SmoothType by Greg Landweber has existed since 24 June 1995. And now offers the same Subpixel Smoothing (as invented by Apple) as the ClearType found in Windows XP.
Adobe Type Manager has also provided anti-aliasing for a while.
Quartz text smoothing: Users of Mac OS X version 10.1.5 (which Apple hasn't released as of this story) or higher can take advantage of the Quartz drawing engine to smooth text edges. Quartz text smoothing makes on-screen text easier to read, particularly in Word and Entourage. Quartz text smoothing is also available in Excel and PowerPoint.
FileMaker Server integration: In Excel X, external data can be imported from FileMaker Pro databases hosted on a FileMaker Server. Data can also be imported from a local FileMaker Pro database.
ODBC integration: Excel X reintroduces support for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), enabling users to refresh existing queries that were created in Excel 98, Excel 2001 and Excel for Windows.
Button face customization: Button face customization in Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X allows users to easily change the image that appears on a toolbar button. Users can either choose from supplied images or create and paste button images with the graphics editor.
Office wide improvements provided in Service Release 1 include:
Performance of the Genie-effect in features such as the Formatting Palette in Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X has been improved significantly.
PowerPoint X, Excel X and Word X no longer quit on waking.
The overall stability and security of Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X have been improved.
The Office Assistant no longer displays as a blank or white box in any Office v. X program.
There is greater stability for users working with Visual Basic for applications in Office v. X programs.
Font improvements in Office v. X programs enable the former WYSIWYG font menu to behave as a Mac OS X font menu should.
Highly encrypted documents are easier to open.
Printing has been redesigned to work natively and seamlessly under Mac OS X.
Improvements in Word X:
Stability enhancements: To enable Word X to run more smoothly, stability enhancements have been made throughout the program, including for tasks such as creating large tables and using the rulers.
Performance improvements: Users will notice increased speed when printing documents with certain complex border art applied, and better performance when manipulating on-screen objects and scrolling vertically through long documents.
Toolbar customization: Toolbar customization and behavior work correctly.
Windows: Document windows work seamlessly with one another.
Custom dictionary: When adding words to the dictionary, users will no longer get an alert stating that the custom dictionary is full.
Accented characters: Users can enter accented characters in all fonts. Improvements in Excel X
Saving and opening: Users can save a file in Excel X and then open it in Excel 98 without getting an Out of Memory message.
Freezing panes and AutoComplete: AutoComplete works correctly when used with freezing panes.
Improved chart performance: Performance has been improved by as much as four times when charts are used in Excel.
Improvements in PowerPoint X:
Performance and appearance improvements:
Users will notice a better response time when caching two large or complex pictures during screen updates.
When the Free Rotate tool is used to rotate text on a slide, PowerPoint X will smooth the edges of characters on the screen, making the text more readable and as attractive as text running horizontally. The rotated text smoothing improvement is not related to Quartz text smoothing and cannot be turned off.
With Quartz, transparency effects are much faster in PowerPoint slide shows. The time required to prepare the next slide in a slide show is shortened. Transparent objects also animate correctly during a slide show.
Stability improvements: Improved stability means that users will have a smoother, and more reliable experience with PowerPoint X.
Accented characters: Users can now enter accented characters in all fonts while the Formatting Palette is displayed.
Faxing: Faxing from PowerPoint X print options now works as it should.
Improvements in Entourage X:
Database improvements: The size limit for Entourage X databases has been increased from 2GB to 4GB. Entourage X also can rebuild some damaged databases that could not be rebuilt before.
Performance improvements: Entourage X requires less use of a computer's hard drive and access to the user's identity on the network, which improves performance and reduces laptop computers' reliance on the battery.
IMAP mail improvements: Users with an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) mail account can synchronize folders as they switch between working offline and online. They will receive a more accurate display of information about what's on the IMAP server, such as the number of unread messages in a folder.
Improved overall stability: Stability has been improved overall, and particularly when the Entourage Database Daemon is running in the background. Working offline in Entourage X also is more stable, as is the case when running IMAP.
How utterly ironic that the Xserve has been much lauded for being very competivly priced. Perhaps you should have done a little bit more research before posting?
Apart from being posted on macopinion.com, contains the word iMac in the title and being slightly slanted in the mac-direction, why-oh-why were it placed in just the Apple-section?
The Sorenson Codec? Uhm... WHAT? The Soerenson Codec is beyond doubt the most efficient of all broadband codecs. What's your point? No Linux-support?
Threats against skin authors? Oh yeah that's right to defend their intellectual property. And not having people diluting Aqua. How cruel!
Crippled DVD authoring software. Oh you REALLY have to explain this one. Which is crippled? The consumer easy-to-use iDVD that they are giving away for free? Or the high-end fully featured DVD Studio Pro?
Licensing the one-click patent? I'm not even going to comment this one. Troll.
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More often than you'd think. All those minutes really add up. Never mind that it actually charges when transferring.
"Is that an Archos in your pocket or are you just REALLY happy to see me?"
What happen? Main electric board turn on. We get signal.
Wow. I love it. In addition to look good it actually works well too. Yet another case for Apple's attention to form, function and usability.
:)
Listen up Jakob: Web design can both be usable and sexy
#2. You obviously have not used Mac OS X at all have you? But your comment did remind me of endless Conflict Catcher (which I lauded as a mac advantage at the time) sessions trying to stabilize my Mac OS. Now my uptime record is 60+ days before the power went out (go figure).
And I've had a single (1) kernel panic when using my PowerBook in FireWire target mode and having forgot to put in the power cable. Worked great until the battery ran out.
Aside for this being completely bullshit, what's wrong with Apple selling more computers because of the iPod?
Jeebus! Open Source has a lot of left-brainers it seems. Isn't there a single graphic artist out there that could design a splash screen to save their life?
Splash screens are really redundant in this day and age, but if you have to have one, at least make it pretty. Like Chimera. Or Photoshop 7.
Why does JVC use the i.Link moniker? Everyone knows that IEEE 1394 should only be adressed as FireWire now.
Third party utility SmoothType by Greg Landweber has existed since 24 June 1995. And now offers the same Subpixel Smoothing (as invented by Apple) as the ClearType found in Windows XP.
Adobe Type Manager has also provided anti-aliasing for a while.
Minidisk-player? Jeebus man, I'd stick with my 8-track any day. You youngsters and your toys.
- Quartz text smoothing: Users of Mac OS X version 10.1.5 (which Apple hasn't released as of this story) or higher can take advantage of the Quartz drawing engine to smooth text edges. Quartz text smoothing makes on-screen text easier to read, particularly in Word and Entourage. Quartz text smoothing is also available in Excel and PowerPoint.
- FileMaker Server integration: In Excel X, external data can be imported from FileMaker Pro databases hosted on a FileMaker Server. Data can also be imported from a local FileMaker Pro database.
- ODBC integration: Excel X reintroduces support for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), enabling users to refresh existing queries that were created in Excel 98, Excel 2001 and Excel for Windows.
- Button face customization: Button face customization in Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X allows users to easily change the image that appears on a toolbar button. Users can either choose from supplied images or create and paste button images with the graphics editor.
Office wide improvements provided in Service Release 1 include:- Performance of the Genie-effect in features such as the Formatting Palette in Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X has been improved significantly.
- PowerPoint X, Excel X and Word X no longer quit on waking.
- The overall stability and security of Word X, Excel X and PowerPoint X have been improved.
- The Office Assistant no longer displays as a blank or white box in any Office v. X program.
- There is greater stability for users working with Visual Basic for applications in Office v. X programs.
- Font improvements in Office v. X programs enable the former WYSIWYG font menu to behave as a Mac OS X font menu should.
- Highly encrypted documents are easier to open.
- Printing has been redesigned to work natively and seamlessly under Mac OS X.
Improvements in Word X:- Stability enhancements: To enable Word X to run more smoothly, stability enhancements have been made throughout the program, including for tasks such as creating large tables and using the rulers.
- Performance improvements: Users will notice increased speed when printing documents with certain complex border art applied, and better performance when manipulating on-screen objects and scrolling vertically through long documents.
- Toolbar customization: Toolbar customization and behavior work correctly.
- Windows: Document windows work seamlessly with one another.
- Custom dictionary: When adding words to the dictionary, users will no longer get an alert stating that the custom dictionary is full.
- Accented characters: Users can enter accented characters in all fonts. Improvements in Excel X
- Saving and opening: Users can save a file in Excel X and then open it in Excel 98 without getting an Out of Memory message.
- Freezing panes and AutoComplete: AutoComplete works correctly when used with freezing panes.
- Improved chart performance: Performance has been improved by as much as four times when charts are used in Excel.
Improvements in PowerPoint X:- Performance and appearance improvements:
- Users will notice a better response time when caching two large or complex pictures during screen updates.
- When the Free Rotate tool is used to rotate text on a slide, PowerPoint X will smooth the edges of characters on the screen, making the text more readable and as attractive as text running horizontally. The rotated text smoothing improvement is not related to Quartz text smoothing and cannot be turned off.
- With Quartz, transparency effects are much faster in PowerPoint slide shows. The time required to prepare the next slide in a slide show is shortened. Transparent objects also animate correctly during a slide show.
- Stability improvements: Improved stability means that users will have a smoother, and more reliable experience with PowerPoint X.
- Accented characters: Users can now enter accented characters in all fonts while the Formatting Palette is displayed.
- Faxing: Faxing from PowerPoint X print options now works as it should.
Improvements in Entourage X:Plugging their competitior twice, isn't that just the sweetest thing?
Thanks for noticing Sherlock. Welcome to the Apple-section.
Uhm... using the halt commando does not allow processes to shut themselves down and can possibly corrupt data on your HD.
I recommend using an AppleScript or just using ctrl-eject + return instead. Less hassle.
How utterly ironic that the Xserve has been much lauded for being very competivly priced. Perhaps you should have done a little bit more research before posting?
Apart from being posted on macopinion.com, contains the word iMac in the title and being slightly slanted in the mac-direction, why-oh-why were it placed in just the Apple-section?
Did the editor read the article at all?
Yes, it's an excellent name. It even rhymes with itself:
Fire
Wire
So simple. So poetic.
Can any of you name...
Top three mac-viruses?
The deadliest mac-virus and the damage it did?
The virus that last affected your computer...
...and when?
The Sorenson Codec? Uhm... WHAT? The Soerenson Codec is beyond doubt the most efficient of all broadband codecs. What's your point? No Linux-support?
Threats against skin authors? Oh yeah that's right to defend their intellectual property. And not having people diluting Aqua. How cruel!
Crippled DVD authoring software. Oh you REALLY have to explain this one. Which is crippled? The consumer easy-to-use iDVD that they are giving away for free? Or the high-end fully featured DVD Studio Pro?
Licensing the one-click patent? I'm not even going to comment this one. Troll.
Microsoft Bob was the GUI-ideas that led to such astrophies as Clippy and the Windows XP assistants.
Uhm... why don't you try turning it off for a change? And you need to fix that fridge of yours too...
Yes, 2001 is definitly a time that have passed.
Redundant, I know. But if you want the speed of gecko, with quartz-rendering and tabbed browsing too, you can do worse than use Chimera.
*cough* Chimera *cough*
Mirrors anyone?