Just a simple sharing. Nothing more. No centric work.
iTunes und iPhoto are still single-User Apps.
Single user? Care to explain in detail?
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Apple Already Working on Mac OS X 10.7 Development?
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Single user? Care to explain in detail?
I'm a heavy internet user, currently using the Mid 2007 MB running 10.6.2, and the bugs are definitely worse than 10.6.1. However I have seen one improvement, in an email client I use called FirstClass, attaching a file to an email would make it freeze. That doesn't happen anymore. I should have waited to 10.6.3 or 4
My problem was with using the Open dialog to attach or upload files through a web page. I had a 100% crash rate in Safari.
Though it appears to work now in Safari in 10.6.2 for me. I only used it for a few minutes though because other issues soured the Snow Leopard experience and I was ready to just hop back to 10.5.8.
I'll give you my life savings if OS X 11.0 is based on the Linux kernel. Seriously.
UAC is definitely *not* disabled in Windows 7. It has been toned down a bit - basically if you click on something you won't get a UAC prompt, but if a program attempts a privileged operation you will. (In other words, usually if the user requests something through the UI, there's no UAC prompt.)
One exception to this is starting a task as administrator that can do multiple things over its lifetime. For example, if you wrong-click command prompt and say "Run as administrator", you'll get a UAC prompt. That's because that terminal window can be used to do many things.
You get far fewer UAC popups with Windows 7, but they still happen. A good description is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.07.uac.aspx
That no longer works, since Vista. The default administrative shares have been locked down, so the simplest approach is to explicitly share mount points.
No, no it didn't. Leopard came with minor tweaks like every other version of OS X. Apple has never referred to the current OS X UI as "Illuminous," they still call it Aqua. (because that's what it is)
Users should use UAC with the highest settings (by default this is not the case and 7 is more insecure).
I'm pretty sure it's up to Nvidia or ATI to ship hardware acceleration support for OS X. Not up to Apple. After all Nvidia ships VDPAU for Win and Linux.
About Open GL, yes OS X needs to catch up with GL versions, but I think they were always outdated. Then again, I doubt they can go another 2 years with an outdated version so they'll probably get 3.2 support before 10.7.
exactly - the development process is not linear but parallel...
don't see how this is that shocking - more obvious as you mentioned...
Graphics,graphics,graphics.
Let me tell ya something about graphics. Something I wouldn't normally say.
Unix was never designed for graphics. Until the day comes that Apple doesn't depend on Darwin OSX will always be behind in graphics.
Let me tell ya something about graphics. Something I wouldn't normally say.
Unix was never designed for graphics. Until the day comes that Apple doesn't depend on Darwin OSX will always be behind in graphics.
Toned down may be a better way of putting it, but it's possible to get into trouble with it set as-is with Win7 (depending on the user/s understanding of the risks, and what they're doing).
It just needs to be explained with a little caution IMO, is all.
Those that download everything under the sun without consideration to it's potential dangers are their own worse enemies, despite any security features. Such users have to learn the hard way I guess.
I don't think so.
Quicktime is able to use the hardware acceleration of the 9400m.
For me it looks like that apple doesn't want an open api for acceleration. e.g. for mpeg2 you find this:
"Mac OS X also includes MPEG-2 acceleration capabilities, but Apple has chosen not to expose that API for use outside their own DVD-Video player application."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_Motion_Compensation
So maybe it is the same for h.264 & co.
Windows: DXVA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration
Microsoft ships that API for Windows and not NVidia or ATI/AMD.
whatcha reckon? they have a poster of this wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_cats posted up around the design offices.. with lil smiley faces for ones that they have done, n unhappy faces for ones not done?
Seriously? them design folks probably work quite hard at making OSX what it is. So im not particularly surprised that they are working on Mac OSXI/ OSX.6 i hope they include some new bits n pieces that havent been thought of before.. they seem to do it with everything else lol
PTP
Seriously? them design folks probably work quite hard at making OSX what it is. So im not particularly surprised that they are working on Mac OSXI/ OSX.6 i hope they include some new bits n pieces that havent been thought of before.. they seem to do it with everything else lol
PTP
Ever heard of a company called Silicon Graphics?
Or an OS called Irix?
Any credibility you ever had has just flown out the window.
Keep a light on for it. Stranger things have happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics,_Inc.
news?
This is news? Do we expect them to sit on their hands for a year? Oh wait, this is supposed to get me excited and antsy about the next Mac OS...
WTFOMGLOLZ!!!!111`` a new Mac OS! I can't wait! Apple Rockz!
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This is news? Do we expect them to sit on their hands for a year? Oh wait, this is supposed to get me excited and antsy about the next Mac OS...
WTFOMGLOLZ!!!!111`` a new Mac OS! I can't wait! Apple Rockz!
/s
Ever heard of a company called Silicon Graphics?
Or an OS called Irix?
Any credibility you ever had has just flown out the window.
Keep a light on for it. Stranger things have happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics,_Inc.
Not to mention that most commercial renderfarms are based on linux or unix.
I'm not talkin super-computer graphics. I'm talkin about consumer stuff.
But hey! Think what you will. It's still a free country
But hey! Think what you will. It's still a free country
It hasn't been fixed in 10.6.2. It's much less noticeable in 10.6.2 but it'll show up like 1 in every 20 open/save dialogs instead of every one in 10.6/10.6.1.
There are some subtle but important differences.
With the Windows example, you don't have to be explicitly connected to the server and share in question. If you're in a managed environment (e.g., Active Directory) the system checks to see if you can have access to the server then puts you there with no connecting to any shares or mounting of drives. It's effortless.
On the Mac, you have the intermediate step of mounting the drive. Also, you can't specify a path in the command+K window. Just the server and share. Then you have to dig your way down to it. Clunky and prone to error.
I could write two books about Windows in general not to mention networking suck on Windows too
I'm definitely in the you'll-take-my-Mac-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-fingers camp but I have to disagree with you. Networking on Windows is light-years ahead of the Mac. You may not encounter it until you get into the deeper aspects of it however. I love using a Mac at work to automate tasks, but if it involves staying connected to network shares or moving things across the network, I usually have to fire up VB and do it on Windows because the Mac is simply not reliable as far as networking goes.
I'm not talkin super-computer graphics. I'm talkin about consumer stuff.
But hey! Think what you will. It's still a free country
You said unix was not designed for graphics. We say it was designed for graphics. For a decade, the word "graphics workstation" was synonymous with unix. NeXT was famous for its graphics and was based on Unix. In heavily graphics-intensive industries Unix is used for graphics.
Windows, on the other hand, was not designed for more than simple, slow, 2D graphics. Over time they've attempted to bolt proprietary solutions on (Direct3D), but it certainly wasn't architected for such things initially.