I have nfi what Blackberry is.. other than some sort of fruit.
However I strongly recognise Apple (mm fruit.. i mean computers)and Google. For one, I use an Apple ibook G4. And two, I use google probably 5 times a day, and every web browser I use has a search bar specifically for google (Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Konqueror).
The only major cities in Australia I've been to are Darwin, Adelaide, and Brisbane (going to melbourne for the first time in 3 weeks).
Now I live in Adelaide, so I'm quite biased I guess. But I've asked some people about why they settled on Adelaide (I considered it a boring place). Generally the feeling is that Adelaide has all the facilities of a big city, but is much smaller and easier to get around. The CBD is very compact and surrounded by park lands. There are lots of cycling tracks suitable for families, etc. One that I like to travel on is the Torrens River bike track, which is very popular. It travels from west beach all the way into the centre of the city and further on.
There is a mountain biking park called fox creek and has colour coded trails depending on skill. Ive only been there once, but it is very enjoyable. There are a number of cycling groups here that meet and go on rides, bikesa is one example (www.bikesa.asn.au).
I will probably be looking at moving away because of work (unfortunately), because most engineering/IT work here is defense related, and I don't want to work on those sorts of projects. But if you don't mind, then go for it. Most of my friends who graduated from university are working in defense, and they seem to enjoy it, but it's not for me.
The bottom line is, it's probably a more relaxed lifestyle and less of a rat race than the bigger cities.
Brisbane is very nice (if you like tropical weather), but I don't know what it's like to live there. The Gold Coast is only a 1 hour drive away, if you like beaches and touristy kinds of places. I've been to the gold coast 5+ times, and I'm a tad tired of the commercialism. But it does have a very nice relaxed atmosphere.
Darwin is awful. The weather is just dreadful. It is a tiny tiny town, and it is HOT. I don't mean just hot. It is DAMN HOT. Awful awful awful heat. Yuck. So damn humid. I'll never go back there.
Ok so Darwin isn't my cup of tea, sorry Darwinites:)
I guess it's up to you, and what you want. Moving to a new country would be so exciting!
What is with Microsoft and their Not Invented Here attitude ? They have to create everything themselves. No wonder it takes ages for them to get something out. 5 years is a ridiculous time between major operating system releases (assuming Longwait comes out next year).
I got a DS for my birthday, and I love it. The thing is, I'm not normally a console gamer, but a PC gamer (barely even that lately, I've been really disenchanted with the mainstream gaming industry). I think the DS is much more accessible and interesting to people like me.
My girlfriend *hates* games. Hates them with a passion. Thinks they are boring and pointless.
She has played my DS more than I have.
The DS is really accessible, even to non traditional gamers. The touch screen interface for a handheld gaming unit is great. Playing games with it is so simple. It also acts as a great mouse device for games like Metroid (i've never been able to play a FPS on a console with such ease).
Yeah the graphics aren't up to scratch compared with the PSP. But the bottom line is, the DS is *fun*. And not just to traditional gamers. I think it opens up new possibilities.
And unlike some others posting here, I don't think that every game has to make use of the touch screen to feel "complete". Not every style of game is suitable to a touch screen interface, e.g. mario kart (although it could use the bottom screen as an analog control (optional), like ridge racer) or fighting games.
I think people should cut Nintendo some slack. If they keep going in this direction, I will be buying my first (non-handheld) console ever, with the revolution.
... is freaking dragging and dropping between windows with it!!! No more lining windows up side by side, then doing a drag and dropping it somewhere, or hovering over the taskbar waiting for it to popup. Just start dragging, activate expose, mouseover the window you want, deactive expose, drop the data. Or dragging to the desktop... start the drag, press f11, let go. done. f11 to get back to your app.
Windows just does not compare (not just because of this, but because of everything about Mac OS X).
I don't own a DS (yet), but I've been playing with my friends DS and I've really loved it. Mostly playing "Wario Touched!", which is damn cool, and makes innovative use of the controls.
My friend has Zoo Keeper (I think that's what it's called), Wario, and Mario. Wario is by far the most fun, and zoo keeper is surprisingly addictive. But lack of games is really hurting. The DS has sooo much promise and there could be some really great games (RPG's, even RTS's) for it in the future, because of the capabilities of the touch screen.
Here's hoping the DS survives long enough for that to happen.
This is why I never do internet banking on anything other than my GNU/Linux home computer. I will NOT do it even on a relatives/friends computer (especially a relatives computer, most likely to be h4x0red).
When my girlfriend was overseas recently (I didn't go), she gave me her account number and password and I did her internet banking for her (paid bills, told her how much she had left, looked for evidence of CC fraud, etc). No *way* would I let her do internet banking on a public terminal.
Well there are plenty of mentions of Linuxworlds in New York and San Francisco, etc.. that's pretty damn inconvenient to attend for us. 20+ hours on a flight. Not to mention KDE Konferences in Germany, GNOME conferences in the US, etc etc.
And yes I've flown to Europe from Australia, and it was the longest day of my life. 8 hours to singapore, 13 hours to france, 45 minutes to london (+ airport wait times of about 5-9 hours, can't remember now)...
So yeah, stop complaining. It's about time we had something happen here for once so I don't have to go "if only I had $3k to spend, and felt like a 30 hour journey...".
I've been using Mandrake since 8.0. But lately it's started annoying me a bit. It just doesn't seem all that polished or professional. I've avoided updating to 10.1 because of all the reported problems with it (from personal accounts from friends).
Their tools are okay, but I tend to just use the command line these days (faster). The tools don't integrate into the system at all. I mean, why use perl with GTK bindings to write your tools, when your default desktop is KDE ? It just looks all out of place. A lot of the dialogs and text in their tools just screams "amateur".
I just want something that looks and feels like it was put together by professionals. Finely tuned and polished.
I'm sticking with it for the time being, but I'm definitely on the look out for something better - Ubuntu being my first preference (if I can get used to Gnome).
Why can't people use separate programs for separate purposes? I don't get this desire for monolithic do-everything programs.
One of the things I like about Mac OS X and Apples applications, is that they are small apps that do specific tasks, but they all talk to eachother and share information. I think this is good design, and it simplifies the interface.
It's one thing that has been annoying me about KDE's Konqueror for some time. It tries to be too much, and it makes it difficult to simplify the interface. My girlfriend has no problem using Mac OS X, but struggles with KDE (_far_ too many options and buttons to press).
Mac OS X lost marks for poor help files but was easier to use for most common tasks. Windows XP had excellent help files but scored lower for installation, which was complicated and time-consuming.
What? I find the Mac OS X Help to be really good. The help viewer absolutely utterly *craps all over* anything in windows. I don't get it. I've found one of the positive points about Mac OS X is the help system.
Everybody making comparisons seems to forget the fact that you get loads of *useful* software out of the box with *all* Macs.
OS X Panther and iLife '05 allows you to do useful things with your machine out of the box. Not only that, but the software is *good* and it all works together.
There is nothing comparable to a Mac in the PC world. Apple build the machine from the ground up, including the operating system and utilities. It all works nicely.
I only realised that when I bought my iBook, so I don't expect people who haven't owned a Mac to understand.
Hmm, it seems that GNOME has copied the Mac OS X open/save dialog. I use OS X regularly, and haven't felt limited by the open/save dialog yet. I don't suppose I would feel limited by the GNOME one.
I like KDE's open/save dialog as well. But to be honest, I never type the name of the file in and use the tab completion. The most I'll ever do is manually change the filter.
I can't imagine Apple putting that functionality in their open/save dialogs. The average Apple user probably wouldn't know what to do with them (what's a wildcard?).
Interesting, I just opened the open dialog in safari, and while it shows all the files in a directory, any files that aren't registered to be handled by this program are greyed out. There is no way to change the filter either.
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I have nfi what Blackberry is.. other than some sort of fruit.
However I strongly recognise Apple (mm fruit.. i mean computers)and Google. For one, I use an Apple ibook G4. And two, I use google probably 5 times a day, and every web browser I use has a search bar specifically for google (Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Konqueror).
I only have a Ti4400, so I guess I'll be cancelling this download then...
Had the same problem. Updated iPhoto to 5.0.2, and it worked.
The only major cities in Australia I've been to are Darwin, Adelaide, and Brisbane (going to melbourne for the first time in 3 weeks).
:)
Now I live in Adelaide, so I'm quite biased I guess. But I've asked some people about why they settled on Adelaide (I considered it a boring place). Generally the feeling is that Adelaide has all the facilities of a big city, but is much smaller and easier to get around. The CBD is very compact and surrounded by park lands. There are lots of cycling tracks suitable for families, etc. One that I like to travel on is the Torrens River bike track, which is very popular. It travels from west beach all the way into the centre of the city and further on.
There is a mountain biking park called fox creek and has colour coded trails depending on skill. Ive only been there once, but it is very enjoyable. There are a number of cycling groups here that meet and go on rides, bikesa is one example (www.bikesa.asn.au).
I will probably be looking at moving away because of work (unfortunately), because most engineering/IT work here is defense related, and I don't want to work on those sorts of projects. But if you don't mind, then go for it. Most of my friends who graduated from university are working in defense, and they seem to enjoy it, but it's not for me.
The bottom line is, it's probably a more relaxed lifestyle and less of a rat race than the bigger cities.
Brisbane is very nice (if you like tropical weather), but I don't know what it's like to live there. The Gold Coast is only a 1 hour drive away, if you like beaches and touristy kinds of places. I've been to the gold coast 5+ times, and I'm a tad tired of the commercialism. But it does have a very nice relaxed atmosphere.
Darwin is awful. The weather is just dreadful. It is a tiny tiny town, and it is HOT. I don't mean just hot. It is DAMN HOT. Awful awful awful heat. Yuck. So damn humid. I'll never go back there.
Ok so Darwin isn't my cup of tea, sorry Darwinites
I guess it's up to you, and what you want. Moving to a new country would be so exciting!
Wow I didn't know you could get wireless in the markets, I'm taking my laptop next time :) Sit in bean bar with a coffee and surf the web, yum.
hahaha, it's funny cos it's true.
:) Nice place to live, but probably not the nicest tourist spot.
I live there.
Wait we have the Adelaide hills, hahndorf and... um.. victor harbor.. yeah...
We've got some good mountain biking trails. Seriously, Adelaide isn't that bad
What is with Microsoft and their Not Invented Here attitude ? They have to create everything themselves. No wonder it takes ages for them to get something out. 5 years is a ridiculous time between major operating system releases (assuming Longwait comes out next year).
:)
Oh well. Tiger should arrive on friday for me
I tried that, but couldn't get the 32 bit firefox to install. How do you get 32 bit GTK apps to actually find the libraries in /usr/lib32 ?
I tried the LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing when running realplayer, but it was *still* trying to load the 64 bit libs (and failing) no matter what I did.
It's a bit of a mess. I'm moving to Ubuntu 32 bit until it's sorted out.
I got a DS for my birthday, and I love it. The thing is, I'm not normally a console gamer, but a PC gamer (barely even that lately, I've been really disenchanted with the mainstream gaming industry). I think the DS is much more accessible and interesting to people like me.
My girlfriend *hates* games. Hates them with a passion. Thinks they are boring and pointless.
She has played my DS more than I have.
The DS is really accessible, even to non traditional gamers. The touch screen interface for a handheld gaming unit is great. Playing games with it is so simple. It also acts as a great mouse device for games like Metroid (i've never been able to play a FPS on a console with such ease).
Yeah the graphics aren't up to scratch compared with the PSP. But the bottom line is, the DS is *fun*. And not just to traditional gamers. I think it opens up new possibilities.
And unlike some others posting here, I don't think that every game has to make use of the touch screen to feel "complete". Not every style of game is suitable to a touch screen interface, e.g. mario kart (although it could use the bottom screen as an analog control (optional), like ridge racer) or fighting games.
I think people should cut Nintendo some slack. If they keep going in this direction, I will be buying my first (non-handheld) console ever, with the revolution.
"Plus their incessent insistance that "mature" games be not included on their consoles, "
Erm, what's resident evil 4?
What is with opera mounting a DMG when it launches? Everytime I launch opera, an Opera disk image shows up in the finder. What the hell?
I just tried 8.0b1, and it looked exactly the same as 7.54, and it still did the damn disk image mounting thing. Annoying.
Just installed 10.3.9. Opened up eclipse no problems.
Weird.
... is freaking dragging and dropping between windows with it!!! No more lining windows up side by side, then doing a drag and dropping it somewhere, or hovering over the taskbar waiting for it to popup. Just start dragging, activate expose, mouseover the window you want, deactive expose, drop the data. Or dragging to the desktop... start the drag, press f11, let go. done. f11 to get back to your app.
Windows just does not compare (not just because of this, but because of everything about Mac OS X).
I think he meant nobody *who counts* has tried...
N-Gage is a joke
I don't own a DS (yet), but I've been playing with my friends DS and I've really loved it. Mostly playing "Wario Touched!", which is damn cool, and makes innovative use of the controls.
My friend has Zoo Keeper (I think that's what it's called), Wario, and Mario. Wario is by far the most fun, and zoo keeper is surprisingly addictive. But lack of games is really hurting. The DS has sooo much promise and there could be some really great games (RPG's, even RTS's) for it in the future, because of the capabilities of the touch screen.
Here's hoping the DS survives long enough for that to happen.
This is why I never do internet banking on anything other than my GNU/Linux home computer. I will NOT do it even on a relatives/friends computer (especially a relatives computer, most likely to be h4x0red).
When my girlfriend was overseas recently (I didn't go), she gave me her account number and password and I did her internet banking for her (paid bills, told her how much she had left, looked for evidence of CC fraud, etc). No *way* would I let her do internet banking on a public terminal.
Well there are plenty of mentions of Linuxworlds in New York and San Francisco, etc.. that's pretty damn inconvenient to attend for us. 20+ hours on a flight. Not to mention KDE Konferences in Germany, GNOME conferences in the US, etc etc.
And yes I've flown to Europe from Australia, and it was the longest day of my life. 8 hours to singapore, 13 hours to france, 45 minutes to london (+ airport wait times of about 5-9 hours, can't remember now)...
So yeah, stop complaining. It's about time we had something happen here for once so I don't have to go "if only I had $3k to spend, and felt like a 30 hour journey...".
I've been using Mandrake since 8.0. But lately it's started annoying me a bit. It just doesn't seem all that polished or professional. I've avoided updating to 10.1 because of all the reported problems with it (from personal accounts from friends).
Their tools are okay, but I tend to just use the command line these days (faster). The tools don't integrate into the system at all. I mean, why use perl with GTK bindings to write your tools, when your default desktop is KDE ? It just looks all out of place. A lot of the dialogs and text in their tools just screams "amateur".
I just want something that looks and feels like it was put together by professionals. Finely tuned and polished.
I'm sticking with it for the time being, but I'm definitely on the look out for something better - Ubuntu being my first preference (if I can get used to Gnome).
Why can't people use separate programs for separate purposes? I don't get this desire for monolithic do-everything programs.
One of the things I like about Mac OS X and Apples applications, is that they are small apps that do specific tasks, but they all talk to eachother and share information. I think this is good design, and it simplifies the interface.
It's one thing that has been annoying me about KDE's Konqueror for some time. It tries to be too much, and it makes it difficult to simplify the interface. My girlfriend has no problem using Mac OS X, but struggles with KDE (_far_ too many options and buttons to press).
Not to mention Motion, which uses OpenGL to apply effects to video in real time.
Unfortunately, you can't run Modelsim, Synopsys, or other EDA tools on it :(
I know some people who would be interested in it as a Unix workstation if those apps were ported.
Come on EDA vendors, get your SH*T together!
Everybody making comparisons seems to forget the fact that you get loads of *useful* software out of the box with *all* Macs.
OS X Panther and iLife '05 allows you to do useful things with your machine out of the box. Not only that, but the software is *good* and it all works together.
There is nothing comparable to a Mac in the PC world. Apple build the machine from the ground up, including the operating system and utilities. It all works nicely.
I only realised that when I bought my iBook, so I don't expect people who haven't owned a Mac to understand.
Hmm, it seems that GNOME has copied the Mac OS X open/save dialog. I use OS X regularly, and haven't felt limited by the open/save dialog yet. I don't suppose I would feel limited by the GNOME one.
I like KDE's open/save dialog as well. But to be honest, I never type the name of the file in and use the tab completion. The most I'll ever do is manually change the filter.
I can't imagine Apple putting that functionality in their open/save dialogs. The average Apple user probably wouldn't know what to do with them (what's a wildcard?).
Interesting, I just opened the open dialog in safari, and while it shows all the files in a directory, any files that aren't registered to be handled by this program are greyed out. There is no way to change the filter either.
Damn you fuckers move quick.