i'm kinda new to this apple os release, but i really don't see leopard coming out next friday. i think there will be an announcement in the next day or so to announce that leopard will be out on november 16th, one week before black friday.
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they said October and I don't think they will delay it again, from what I've heard about the latest developer builds, any bugs with them are not serious enough that fixing it with a software update after shipping would be worse publicity than delaying it again.
Remember, there are 2 Fridays left in October. Next Friday isn't the last Friday. I don't see any reason why Apple would delay it again. Its not like there's 10 or 15 major issues to work out. There was one major issue with performing an upgrade with a PPC Mac. Then there were some minor issues that needed to be worked out like the WiFi and Safari issues. Both, if it doesn't make your Mac totally inoperable, could easily be fixed in a 10.5.1 update immediately after Leopard starts shipping.
/agreed
The bugs they have said that were left werent major bugs and could be patched with 10.5.1
They delayed Leopard from April to now so they've had enough time to work on it...they'll get it out sometime in october even meaning the 31st if they so choose but im sure its time (and im sure its ready) to go GM!
We should hear something either tomorrow, but definitely hear SOMETHING new by this friday. This week is just going to drag on forever, I can feel it
Seriously, im checking by every like 10 seoncds hahahaha. Do you think they will just spring it on us? or actually have an announcement from the middle of some desert telling us.
Well, I used 10.4.0 and it introduced QuickTime 7. Man, that one gave me headaches. First off, I headed to the newly introduced HD-trailer section. Then I found out, I had some hickups on my PB G4 1,5 GHz while watching that trailer.
O.K., I thought to myself. So you have a measily 1.5 year old Powerbook, that won't run HD trailers. I then fired up a normal .mpeg I watched several times before and actually had the same hiccups. I found myself rolling back to QuickTime 6 on Panther or VLC on Tiger.
But QT 7 has improved
Hopefully they just blind side us with it, with a date of release on main page. But I would love one final special media event demoing it one last time on a new MacPro that comes out with it.
???this sucks...leopard wont have Halo 3
I love this: 'does the noise in my head keep you awake?' - classic stuff!
Of course it won't - operating systems aren't bundled with games for other platforms...it won't have chrome bumpers or tailfins, either.
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hopefully they'll just put it up on their site
hopefully they'll just put it up on their site
No, they won't. Actually they can't afford to, because if I remember correctly Steve made a joke about Microsoft delaying Vista over and over again. So if my memory serves me right, there's no chance Apple could delay Leopard again and get away with it.
It was already bad enough they had to delay it once. I myself consider being let down, because I planned to move from PowerBook to MBP in July (and I did) and a part of the plan was to get Leopard for free. Now I got neither. I have a strong temptation to only buy a single-user upgrade for my two computers
Now, everyone's hopes are riding on Tuesday, October 16th, and Friday, October 19th. I'm waiting for an announcement on Tuesday, personally. The lucky ones here though are the developers; they receive Leopard GM before it even hits the factory floor for production. Oh jealousy.
Even so, this is going to be the shortest Apple OS countdown we've ever seen. And the most exciting.
Even so, this is going to be the shortest Apple OS countdown we've ever seen.
And the most exciting.
Haven't poked around enough to see this anywhere, but, just came across it on "looprumors.com" ....
It appears that rumors of an October 26th Leopard launch may have been confirmed this weekend with an official notice that went out to Apple employees.
The notice to Apple retail store employees calls for "All hands on deck until midnight, Friday, October 26th."
It appears that rumors of an October 26th Leopard launch may have been confirmed this weekend with an official notice that went out to Apple employees.
The notice to Apple retail store employees calls for "All hands on deck until midnight, Friday, October 26th."
Golden Master Not Gold Master
I have to be pedantic but the correct phrase, in the Software Industry, is "Golden Master" not "Gold Master". The latter is the term used in the music recording industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_master
I've been working for Apple, testing prerelease OSes for a long time, and it's always been Golden Master. It's driving me crazy seeing idiots use the wrong term.
I have to be pedantic but the correct phrase, in the Software Industry, is "Golden Master" not "Gold Master". The latter is the term used in the music recording industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_master
I've been working for Apple, testing prerelease OSes for a long time, and it's always been Golden Master. It's driving me crazy seeing idiots use the wrong term.
I hate to be pedantic, but periods belong inside quotation marks.
I'd hardly label anyone an idiot in this case.
whether anyone is pedantic or not aside for a moment, please consider that the majority of the software industry doesn't say "Golden Master" and that saying that is the "correct" term is silly as it doesn't really have anything to do with gold. Most references to a release-to-manufacturing copy of a software application are simply "gold" or "went gold" or something like that. I haven't heard anyone use the term "golden master" in years. The developers of the two biggest software titles this fall referred to their shipping builds as "gold master" not "golden master" (Halo 3 and the Orange Box).
And yes, please do put your commas and periods inside your quotation marks where appropriate. It's very important.
And yes, please do put your commas and periods inside your quotation marks where appropriate. It's very important.
I do "similar" work and most engineers I communicate with refer to the Golden Master as "Master" or "GM" or Gold Master or even "Final Build".While technically it is indeed Golden Master the slang has become the main termonology.At least in my circle.
Periods CAN go outside quotation marks; sometimes, often in England, it is done according to sense. Say you're quoting from the middle of a sentence, and ending your own sentence with the quote, you might put the period outside; but if the thing you're quoting ends in a period, you would put the period on the inside. Thus:
Shakespeare said, "If music be the food of love".
Shakespeare said, "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
(I don't know why one would ever say the first one, but it's an example.)
I think this way makes more sense in many cases, but of course you would be safer always putting punctuation inside quotation marks, since that is the rule more people are familiar with -- and as Professor Strunk says, it is always (I say usually) better to use the standard rules than the nonstandard.
One rule I think is more important to follow is to distinguish ignorance and stupidity. If someone doesn't know a trivial technicality such as the one in question, is he less intelligent for it? Less learned, even? --For, he might well be very knowledgeable in other fields. When we know a fact, it always seems obvious to us: how could it seem anything else? You either know it, or you don't -- you either understand it perfectly, or not at all. What facts are worth more than other facts?