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August 07, 2006, 03:02:20 PM
Apple unveils the new Mac OS X Leapord. What is sad is that they claim it's the new Vista (Vista 2.0 at WWDC), yet it looks the exact same as the previous version. Vista is leaps and bounds ahead of XP in terms of looks and features.

Linus Torvalds is a fan of Visual Basic? Apparently it did more for programming than object-oriented programming did. Heh.

AMD dropping the ATi brand. Now you can brag that your processor is AMD and your graphics card is AMD as well! "omgz my amd radeon x850 xt pro roxx0rz joor nvidia".

Let's just hope they're gonna drop the horrible driver coding habits that ATi had for their graphics card, and will start coding good drivers for Windows and hopefully Linux. :)

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- Newby
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Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 AM
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

Warrior

#1
August 07, 2006, 03:05:10 PM
Leapord will flop. It has Virtual desktops (*woo*)
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Newby

#2
August 07, 2006, 03:13:13 PM
The thing about Leapord is that it has nothing innovative or impressive. Hell, they're advertising iChat as one of the features. When you are advertising a chat program in your new OS (I don't even think M$ does that with their "new" Live Messenger) and advertising features that aren't new ("Multiple Personalities", multiple logins for multiple networks has been done (gaim), and setting your status to invisible has been done as well (gaim) (gee, the same product too, cross-platform!)) you're running out of things to advertise as selling points.
- Newby
http://www.x86labs.org

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Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 AM
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

MyndFyre

#3
August 07, 2006, 08:33:08 PM
LOL, check this out.  I liked the CodingHorror website:


LOLOLOLOL
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deadly7

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August 07, 2006, 08:51:34 PM
Quote from: MyndFyrex86] link=topic=6945.msg85993#msg85993 date=1154997188]
LOL, check this out.  I liked the CodingHorror website:


LOLOLOLOL
Dude, that's awesome... I want to know how they did that.
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iago

#5
August 07, 2006, 09:14:39 PM
While Vista is supposed to be flashy and feature-heavy, whereas Leopard is supposed to be slimmed down and faster.  I posted about that a long time ago. 

Newby

#6
August 07, 2006, 09:45:30 PM
Leapord is definitely going about their advertising and campaigning the wrong way then. "Vista 2.0", "look at the widgets!!!", "iChat upgraded", "iCal added more features!" that's all useless crap that just bloats the OS IMO.
- Newby
http://www.x86labs.org

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Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 AM
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

iago

#7
August 07, 2006, 10:02:19 PM
Marketing people tend to suck, so I'm not surprised :P

d&q

#8
August 07, 2006, 10:07:00 PM
I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.
The writ of the founders must endure.

iago

#9
August 07, 2006, 10:12:48 PM
Quote from: Deuce on August 07, 2006, 10:07:00 PM
I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.
I wish Windows would, too, but that's not going to happen.

That's one thing I like about Linux/BSD over everything else -- customized installs. 

Ergot

#10
August 07, 2006, 11:56:12 PM
I'm caught in a dilemma... I love AMD but I hate ATi... would an ATi card with AMD written on it still be just an ATi? I really like nVidia... nForce and SLi is pretty cool, pair that with Athlon X2's seems like a dream. arg :(.
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#11
August 08, 2006, 02:08:01 AM
Quote from: Ergot on August 07, 2006, 11:56:12 PM
I'm caught in a dilemma... I love AMD but I hate ATi... would an ATi card with AMD written on it still be just an ATi? I really like nVidia... nForce and SLi is pretty cool, pair that with Athlon X2's seems like a dream. arg :(.

I don't think that this means AMD will be any less compatable with nVidia.  When Linksys was bought by Cisco, I noticed a significant improvment in their products, but the ones I'd seen before the change were pretty old... it could have been a coincidence.

zorm

#12
August 08, 2006, 02:57:55 AM
Quote from: Deuce on August 07, 2006, 10:07:00 PM
I wish they would let you download the utilities seperately, instead of all of it coming with the OS.

Dunno most of the stuff that comes with OSX is the best you can do or atleast from what I've seen. I guess I should rephrase that to be people use it unlike the stuff that ships with Windows which no sane person uses.

But this is just my experience from my school and they made us use IE5 for web development on OSX. It was like a crime against humanity.
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Warrior

#13
August 08, 2006, 02:41:23 PM
Quote from: iago on August 07, 2006, 09:14:39 PM
While Vista is supposed to be flashy and feature-heavy, whereas Leopard is supposed to be slimmed down and faster.  I posted about that a long time ago. 

Vista comes in different versions suiting the needs of the user, if you want a feature packed beast you got it. If you want a customized install, Install Home Basic and upgrade to Ultimate later.

Leapord is Mac trying to get some attention, Steve Jobs is a master of getting people hype with less than great features. It's sad when the highlight of WWDC is their Virtual Desktops and "Time Machine".

Hell, this is so bad it might make the programmers at Microsoft relax even more. I'm dissapointed in Leapord, I think SUSE 10 has a better chance against Vista. (Yes, I fell in love with SUSE 10 it's amazing)

Jesus christ.
One must ask oneself: "do I will trolling to become a universal law?" And then when one realizes "yes, I do will it to be such," one feels completely justified.
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Newby

#14
August 08, 2006, 02:42:54 PM
According to Wired, Steve Jobs wasn't even able to hype the crowd at Leapord successfully. They pitied him and clapped randomly. :(

SuSE 10 is really nice, actually. :)
- Newby
http://www.x86labs.org

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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 AM
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 
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