Laura

Tried using a touch screen for general purposes, but my arm got tired, fast. I have a rather large trackpad, but I still prefer mice.

Yeah, I can't do 'em because they hurt my back. My back has been in spasm three times this year. :? Better posture seems like better advice, but meh.

I agree, it is a good analogy.

Snow Leopard is the new operating system made on the OS X platform. It's announcement was first seen at the 2008 keynote with the announcement of 10.5 Leopard, it was elucidated during the '09 keynote. The major focus of this OS is seamless integration and refinements. [hide=Specifications]Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory 5GB of free disk space DVD drive for installation QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration requires a Mac with a NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor. 64-bit support requires a Mac with a 64-bit processor. All Intel processors save the original Core Duo are 64-bit. For clarification, if you have a Core 2 Duo or a Xeon processor, you're fine. OpenCL NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130. ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870[/hide] Refinements OS X Snow Leopard is the final transition from Carbon to Cocoa. The advantages to using Cocoa include a shorter code length, more intuitive and seamless transitions, a greater number of improved features that can be taken advantage of by developers. As of OS X 10.5 Leopard, the majority of applications are written in both Carbon and Cocoa as they are able to work together. 64-bit Every application is now 64-bit, from the finder to the built-in dictionary. A newer addition to the 64-bit family includes GCD (Grand Central Dispatch). "With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether theyre running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between. Once developers start using GCD for their applications, youll start noticing significant improvements in performance." It allows the developer to easily code for use of both cores, previously it was difficult for a developer to acknowledge both cores for their application. The Finder Again, this application has moved to 64-bit and onto Cocoa. Improvements to this include faster load times for documents, previews, and searches. Exposé and Stacks. "Exposé is refined and more convenient. Its now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one. Exposé also has a whole new look. Windows are displayed in an organized grid, making it even easier to find what youre looking for. And stacks Dock items that give you fast access to a folder of files are now scrollable, so you can easily view all items. You can also navigate through folders in a stack to see all the files inside it." [hide=Exposé within the Dock][/hide] iChat Thanks to newer compression technologies, iChat is able to provide higher resolutions at a fraction of the bandwidth. Currently, Leopard uses 900kbps to display the chat. Snow Leopard only uses 300kbps and offers a greater resolution at 640 x 480. Text Selection You now have the option to copy text and pictures right within an application and send it to Mail, displaying it in the format it originated. Even further, you now have the option to enable Accessibility Options to create a spoken track through iTunes. [hide=Text Refinments][/hide] And ever tried to select PDF documentation only to see it's not a simple as it could be? Gone are the days of selecting bits of texts at each time, Snow Leopard automatically recognizes columns and row, even if it's from a Windows program. [hide=PDF][/hide] Safari 4 Safari 4 has became available to Mac and Windows users on June 8th '09. It has transitioned to 64-bit and implemented a feature known as sandboxing, keeping tabs in their own process. Even further, Apple implemented plugins to their own tasks. "It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running." [hide=SunSpider][/hide] QuickTime X You can now trim video clips right within QuickTime, rather than open up iMovie or another video editing clip. Ever wanted to capture video on your screen without the use of third-parties? QuickTime allows the user to select a portion of the screen and record it. Quality yet to be determined. System Snow Leopard improves upon general tasks in the OS, allowing a 75% faster shutdown over Leopard and is 55% faster when joining wireless networks. Boot Camp users will rejoice, as Apple now includes HFS+ support on Windows, allowing users to access files from their OS X partition from Windows. Using the Multi-Touch trackpad, users can now insert Chinese characters which will appear on the input window. It'll even suggest your next character. Time Machine backups will be 50% faster. The default gamma is changed to 2.2 rather than 1.8, giving better color accuracy for digital content. Open CL "Now a new technology in Mac OS X Snow Leopard called OpenCL takes the power of graphics processors and makes it available for general-purpose computing. No longer will graphics processors be limited to graphics-intensive applications such as games and 3D modeling. Instead, once developers begin to use OpenCL in their applications, youll experience greatly improved speed in a wide spectrum of applications." It'll allow developers to better take use of the GPU/IGP to give the user a better experience. I created this thread to give users some overview about 10.6 Snow Leopard, but these are only a glimpse at the features. All of these features and more available September '09 for just $29 for Leopard users.

Yes, you can. Leopard itself is 64-bit. Your GPU will not be able to take advantage of Open CL, however. I might make a Snow Leopard thread to clear up the confusion.

Yup, a very nice jaw structure.

I was comparing it more to Chrome, which has a smaller footprint by far. The point I'm making is that people shouldn't force other things down other's throats, something all to common on these forums. He doesn't want Opera, he wants to use Chrome. Some say that may be his problem, as it may, but nothing was done to rectify the problem on that specific browser. Rather, the majority of replies are that he should get a new browser without first ever diagnosing the main issue. Opera may have features that entice users, such as mouse gestures (and before you ask, I do use Opera when I rarely play Runescape because Firefox glitches) but it's a long way from having the stability features that Chrome and Safari 4 have. First, Chrome and Safari 4 (and IE8) have a feature that puts tabs as a separate process, this is known as sandboxing. What does this mean for the end user? If one tab crashes, it doesn't bring down the entire browser. Safari 4 goes a little further and runs plugins separately, so if a plugin crashes it simply leaves you with a blank box fixed by a refresh. And I'm somewhat confused when you say that Safari is buggy on Windows because the newest version just launched during WWDC on the 8th. I'm not going to argue which browser is the best because that's an opinion left to the user, in this case the OP doesn't want to switch to a new browser and we should abide by that.

We cannot know that which we do not know the absence of. To answer your question, there is nothing for me as well.

My views are linear. EDIT: Ah, didn't see your last post.

Reinstall Chrome. Sandboxing is a newer technology for browsers and they may have some flaw with their code. I only use the OS X version of Chrome which doesn't allow the user to play Runescape at the moment, so I can't comment on what it can/can't do. I'm surprised at the influx of Opera recommendations, as its javascript engine is subpar to Safari 4 which leads the pack and Chrome. It also carries a larger footprint without the myriad of third-party support you see from Firefox.

Sounds like an issue with Chrome's sandboxing.

Got a preferable operating system? The Asus posted first looks decent with a great GPU for RSHD but users reported low battery life. Do you use a laptop for portability?

Same with AVG really, it's all based on synthetic performance. One scores higher than the other and one person takes this data without considering variables, which then spreads to another person; it's an epidemic. That, or they are real tests and one scores higher in detection rates, low in false positives, and low in resource consumption.

OS X Leopard is 64 bit already. Some applications are not 64 bit, such as mail. Snow Leopard rewrites Carbon into Cocoa, further expounding the 64 bit kernel. All of the applications then will be 64 bit compatible alongside Open CL. Though, I don't believe your iMac is capable of the latter. Today at WWDC, they updated the MacBook Pros (adding the 13" unibody MacBook to it as well), released the iPhone 3GS, showed the iPhone OS 3.00 platform, and gave a release date to Snow Leopard which will be made available to all Leopard users in September for $29. But yes, 10.5.xx Leopard is 64-bit; that's how they get 32GB of RAM into the Mac Pro. Next will be 16TB. :P

When you hear the bathtub overflow, what do you do? Ok, what about when someone rings the doorbell? What if you hear something fall? Not that i'm defending him but how is a bathtub overflowing, doorbell ringing, or something falling insanely hard to believe? They're all responses to stimuli. As is the child's ringtone that supposedly increases breast size. Albeit, the last is actually changing a physical characteristic, but it's not that unbelievable.

You actually look like quite an idiot as what Dizzle says is relatively true. Although I'll never agree with nor condone the Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the Japanese at the time were so patriotic and nationalistic civilians had no problem to take up arms and sacrifice their life if a full scale land invasion occurred, "for the better of the empire" as they saw it. Although it killed so many people and caused so much suffering afterwords, many more civilians would have died if Japan was invaded. The biggest losses through wars are always civilians. For example in WW2, China lost 3.8 million soldiers but lost 16.2 million civilians. In the initial invasion of Poland, 240,000 soldiers were killed, over 10 times as many civilians were killed......2,760,000 civilians. Japan would lose even more if an invasion by land occurred. They wouldn't wave American flags as the troops went by "liberating" them from the empire, no, they'd be arming themselves with weapons of any kind to try and defeat the foreign invaders. If an Invasion of Japan occurred, losses would be astronomical. I would assume that it would be more American losses than Japanese. Geographically, Japan is isolated from the world and has been a very difficult land to conquer. A look back in history shows the Mongol's defeat a Japan because of the 'kamikaze' or divine winds. The island is surrounded by rather shallow water, making navigation difficult in such waters. Communication has also been halted by the mountainous terrain; it's only recently that communication has been a simply feat in Japan less other countries. Thus the main deployment of soldiers would be via aircraft, which given the strength of the Japanese fleet, found to have been even more difficult. As you point out in your reply, it would have been very difficult to invade Japan sparring the civilians America did.

When you hear the bathtub overflow, what do you do? Ok, what about when someone rings the doorbell? What if you hear something fall?

Eh, I had 64-bit Vista with that Dell. It ended up being the reason I nearly sued them; bad drivers. Until Microsoft makes the transition easier and more fluid, I won't buy another 64-bit Windows product. At the present, I am running 64-bit OS X.

It's possible to lactate simply because you want to. Your knowledge of the female anatomy concerns me. It's a medical degree, though the name escapes me. When a woman wants a child so badly that it becomes her main concern, it is possible for a woman to begin lactating despite not having conceived a child.

It's possible to lactate simply because you want to. Because generally society likes girls with extraordinarily large breasts. Which is unfortunate.

And then he'll spend another hour reconfiguring the router. Yay for simple solutions. And he already spent 24 trying to figure it out. Yay indeed. I'm unsure what you change on your router, but changing mine takes about five minutes.

There should be a restart button on your router. Press and hold it for 30 seconds and the password should be removed.

Is that not the reason why people get locked up? Pun intended.

Exactly, Zierro. ;) They are both sexualities. Are they that different? Are you implying that humans are not animals?

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