The reduction in file size is nice, but I bet their speed improvements fall along the lines of their battery improvements. There will be some, but nowhere near what they advertise.
I think it's already useful. I look at snow leopard as adding a bunch of junk no one needs yet.
I'll be buying and installing it because it's cheap and I'm a mac user and I want to be cutting edge. But honestly, there is nothing special about the release, if they tried to charge full price for it I would pass for sure.
If vista was 29 bucks, I would of upgraded that as well.
This is the truth. I gave up playing windows games, the DRM, the bugs, the half developed releases, I play console games now where the QA is slightly higher, I can rent the game for a few bucks to see if it is any good, and I get to play it from my living-room on a 50 inch HD tv.
Depends how they do the mac 'port'. Most game dev's are using cider to 'port' to mac. Lets them have a best of both worlds. Many of the development companies doing this make no mention of cider (which is just wine in a nice wrapper). So if they do port the game that way you can just run it in wine and it should work.
I"m going to invalidate any mod points I used to post this.
He may be joining EA in how they 'port' to mac. That being, write a dx10 game with a dx9 fallback path, then use cider (a wine wrapper library for OSX) to 'port' the game to mac.
To mac users it looks and acts like a mac app, but doesn't feel like a mac app because it was written for windows. So it works about 90% as good as it should, and keeps those mac users happy.
I find facebook is more and more the way people are talking to me. I'm not sure why. I still use video/voice chat over IM to talk to my friends more then the phone however.
It started with switching to AT&T uverse. Then I got google voice, finally I decided to use google voice as my primary number. Once everyone was using that I called AT&T and dropped my home phone service, keeping only tv and internet.
So far it works great and is saving me about 35.00 a month.
I work at a college, when I started the main thing we were doing was changing our system to assign unique ID's to all students and remove all SSN numbers in places where it was used as ID's.
The whole project took about a year to do. Now there is only one place where you can still find the SSN number, and that is only because it is required for some financial aid things.
Just do the things that made you happen when you were dating. Add to that doing things for each other not because you want to, but because it makes them happy. Never take your spouse, or yourself seriously.
And never go to bed angry, unless it's for sweet sweet angry sex.
I've been married for almost 6 years. We still haven't had our first big fight like everyone says we should.
Yea, we are talking now about targeting blackberry and android. For us this is our first attempt and this market. Learning the ropes and seeing if it's even worth the frustration.
I think our idea is solid and I personally would love to use the app, but I'm not sure I'm financially in a position to stake a claim on it only to be beat down by apple. I think we might just stick to the desktop software component.
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I still want to know if their map editor for starcraft 2 will be available for osx.
The reduction in file size is nice, but I bet their speed improvements fall along the lines of their battery improvements. There will be some, but nowhere near what they advertise.
If enough people say of, we can change the damn grammar and I can keep typing less.
I think it's already useful. I look at snow leopard as adding a bunch of junk no one needs yet.
I'll be buying and installing it because it's cheap and I'm a mac user and I want to be cutting edge. But honestly, there is nothing special about the release, if they tried to charge full price for it I would pass for sure.
If vista was 29 bucks, I would of upgraded that as well.
This is the truth. I gave up playing windows games, the DRM, the bugs, the half developed releases, I play console games now where the QA is slightly higher, I can rent the game for a few bucks to see if it is any good, and I get to play it from my living-room on a 50 inch HD tv.
Or directX and cider...or opengl and cider.
Opengl games with windows only releases run really well in emulated in wine/cider.
How many of us with decent PC's and run linux, but gave up on PC gaming years ago?
I have the hardware, I just don't have the interest. I play console games now and then, but that is about it.
I'll gladly let it die when we get DirectX for mac. OSX needs 3d applications too you know. It's not just for games.
Depends how they do the mac 'port'. Most game dev's are using cider to 'port' to mac. Lets them have a best of both worlds. Many of the development companies doing this make no mention of cider (which is just wine in a nice wrapper). So if they do port the game that way you can just run it in wine and it should work.
I"m going to invalidate any mod points I used to post this.
He may be joining EA in how they 'port' to mac. That being, write a dx10 game with a dx9 fallback path, then use cider (a wine wrapper library for OSX) to 'port' the game to mac.
To mac users it looks and acts like a mac app, but doesn't feel like a mac app because it was written for windows. So it works about 90% as good as it should, and keeps those mac users happy.
Except when I had a landline all my phones were cordless, making them worthless just as fast as my cell phone.
I find facebook is more and more the way people are talking to me. I'm not sure why. I still use video/voice chat over IM to talk to my friends more then the phone however.
I just dropped my home line.
It started with switching to AT&T uverse. Then I got google voice, finally I decided to use google voice as my primary number. Once everyone was using that I called AT&T and dropped my home phone service, keeping only tv and internet.
So far it works great and is saving me about 35.00 a month.
Maybe I'm not reading this right, if there is a deadline to opt out, and I write my first book after that deadline, can I still opt out?
I forgot to add, Thanks mom!
It's also void if laminated.
So my SS Card is void.
If you dropped it off it wouldn't matter. I've owed comcast from back when they were AT&T broadband in my area.
I turned in the cable modem, att sold to comcast and then comcast started billing me for my modem.
They then asked me to prove to them I didn't have the modem. How the fuck do you prove that?
I work at a college, when I started the main thing we were doing was changing our system to assign unique ID's to all students and remove all SSN numbers in places where it was used as ID's.
The whole project took about a year to do. Now there is only one place where you can still find the SSN number, and that is only because it is required for some financial aid things.
I always used to go though my textbooks before I turned them in and highlighted useless phrases and wrote totally incorrect notes in them.
But I am an asshole after all.
Just do the things that made you happen when you were dating. Add to that doing things for each other not because you want to, but because it makes them happy. Never take your spouse, or yourself seriously.
And never go to bed angry, unless it's for sweet sweet angry sex.
I've been married for almost 6 years. We still haven't had our first big fight like everyone says we should.
This is oh so true. I like KDE, but I also like the ease of ubuntu. It seems you can have one or the other.
Yea, we are talking now about targeting blackberry and android. For us this is our first attempt and this market. Learning the ropes and seeing if it's even worth the frustration.
I think our idea is solid and I personally would love to use the app, but I'm not sure I'm financially in a position to stake a claim on it only to be beat down by apple. I think we might just stick to the desktop software component.
Google voice is not voip.
Seriously. There is no voip at all. All it is is a proxy phone number.
When someone calls it, it calls you. When you make a call it calls you. You are spending your cell phone minutes every time.
You are very right. I was in the process of starting a business to write a few iphone applications.
We are seriously rethinking if it's even worth it.
Sure we are a 3 man team, but the cost of entry for what we planned to do would set us back a few thousand if apple denied the app.
I can tell you how long I'm willing to put up with it.
1 year.
Because after that my contract is up and I'm moving to a phone that lets me run the apps I want.