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Full-screen terminal is [sadly] the only feature I really want in this update.
No love for command+tab number? That alone made me move to iTerm 2.
Yeah, like it's such a hustle to support shortcuts! Love iTerm too!
Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
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Re: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
#192>This isn’t actually the first time Apple has offered an OS upgrade at a steep discount compared to its Windows rival (which typically runs over $100) — Snow Leopard made its debut at $29. A pretty flawed apples to oranges comparison. OS X is more similar to bios updates... you buy the hardware, the vendor makes money off it and gives away the software. With Microsoft, you're paying the OEM money for the hardware(wit…
I have 10.5 and held off on purchasing 10.6 because I was waiting for 10.7. It bums me out that now I'll need to purchase both 10.6 and 10.7, regardless of how much the Windows upgrades cost. Judging from some of the tweets & comments I'm seeing elsewhere, a lot of other consumers are bummed too.
Any money says 10.5 -> 10.7 will work (some how ;-)
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That is sharecropping. If you play on another corporation's turf, expect this to happen and expect your income to be destroyed with zero days notice.
So you should create your own smartphone?
And your own distribution, payment processing (don't forget the ~$0.30 credit card transaction fee on your 99 cent sale), SDK, etc.
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Well, I used folders and filenames for years, from 1998ish through June 2003. Worked fine; I mostly wanted to listen to entire albums, which mapped well to folders. Then I got a Mac, and pointed iTunes at my music without backing it up first (because, after all iTunes was an MP3 player , and why would it write to my MP3 collection?!). Oops. Later I found that there was some import option I shouldn't have checked, and…
I agree the default option should be "DO NOT TOUCH" And about the single track folders, tick "part of a compilation" in info box will do the trick. Keep listen to Pandora while it last.
While it's lasts? Pandora going someplace?
Re: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
#195Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
On another forum[1], I read that the download includes a disk image for an emergency boot disk.
[1] http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/news/foren/S-Re-Mac-OSX-Lion-n...
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have 10.5 and held off on purchasing 10.6 because I was waiting for 10.7. It bums me out that now I'll need to purchase both 10.6 and 10.7, regardless of how much the Windows upgrades cost. Judging from some of the tweets & comments I'm seeing elsewhere, a lot of other consumers are bummed too.
Any money says 10.5 -> 10.7 will work (some how ;-)
Yes, in spite of claims to the contrary, 10.4 -> 10.6 worked for several people I know.
Re: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
#197any news on whether it is for 64-bit processors ONLY? my core-solo mac mini wants to know :-S
Lion is 64-bit only. Although the early minis have socketed CPUs, so you could theoretically replace it with a Core 2: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/mac_mini_core_2_duo_swaps...
oh! good to know!
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Maybe not that specific example, but the situation of listening to Indian film music is a classic case of folders being 100% inadequate. Any given Indian movie corresponds to an 'album' of songs. However, each song can in the album have a different set of artistes associated with it. Hell, sometimes there are multiple composers within the same movie's soundtrack. And Indian movie soundtracks are more tightly coupled…
I don't understand... do you not typically want to listen to the soundtrack in the order it was in the movie (that is, exactly the case in which a single folder for the soundtrack excels)? If not, how?
Confusingly enough - no. From what I do [and what I've seen most people do], there's an equal split between listening to:
1) All songs from the movie
2) All songs by the composer(s) (or 'music director')
3) All songs by the singer(s)
...with other edge cases like a specific combination of composer and singer, the decade of movie release, genre or even by the movie director.
ID3 tags and smart playlists are a frickin boon to managing a large set of Indian film music!
Re: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29
#1994GB isn't insignificant in countries with bandwidth caps.
The extra bandwidth cost seems like it would be covered in the severely discounted OS price.
Cost of the bandwidth is one issue. The amount of time it takes to download is another. I have a 4mbps connection but power cuts and fluctuations makes it difficult to do a 4gb download from Apple. Every upgrade of Xcode is a horror. The download stalls in the middle and then fails to re-continue because the session timed out. I have to end up doing some gymnastics by exporting cookies from the browser to a file and then coaxing wget to use that.
I hope they've got a decent pause/resume system on the Mac App Store downloads.
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According to [1], Phil Schiller said "no reboots". Any idea how that is accomplished, or was it a misstatement? [1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/wwdc-2011-liveblog-steve-... , Ctrl+F for "reboots"
They probably mean no additional reboots; in many OSes first you boot the installer/upgrader, then you install, then you boot the installed OS.
He said that no reboot from optical disk will be needed to start the installation.