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Can someone give a quick non-marketing-speak version of what Grand Central Dispatch really does?
The following does contain marketeering, but also has some decent technical details:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_...
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> and the prominent featuring of those two products as a component of a whole new version of an OS makes it feel like a service pack. point me to a page that only displays those 2 updates as the main features. In my browser Apple is clearly marketing the 64-bit, Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL as the main reasons to upgrade. Also stop referring to an OS upgrade as a service pack. Because it isn't. Microsoft release…
Also stop referring to an OS upgrade as a service pack. Because it isn't. Well, that convinced me!
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What Unix upgrades?
Leopard was the first version of OSX (actually, first BSD based OS) to receive UNIX 03 certification http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm
It could be if you were required by some regulation to use a UNIX certified OS. IIRC, there were little feature changes that warranted the certification.
As for myself, I have an older iMac that won't run SL, a netbook that runs Linux and I am perfectly happy with both.
What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?
I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.
I also wouldn't trust Tiger security on an external network.
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Also stop referring to an OS upgrade as a service pack. Because it isn't. Well, that convinced me!
Thras, I'll ask you this completely sincerely, because I don't and never have understood this. Why do you, and people like you, get off from reading a lengthy debate on a topic online, and ignoring every point except the one that's not a point, then snarking about it? It's not just you: A lot of people do it, and it baffles me. I always really enjoy being told why my opinion on something is wrong, and these snarky re…
The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.
Can someone give a quick non-marketing-speak version of what Grand Central Dispatch really does?
GCD is an updated and up-rated scheduler for Mac OS X. The following does contain marketeering, but also has some decent technical details: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool_pattern for the basics on the idea - which has been around for a long time.
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Thras, I'll ask you this completely sincerely, because I don't and never have understood this. Why do you, and people like you, get off from reading a lengthy debate on a topic online, and ignoring every point except the one that's not a point, then snarking about it? It's not just you: A lot of people do it, and it baffles me. I always really enjoy being told why my opinion on something is wrong, and these snarky re…
You more or less said that the grandparent was wrong "just because." You were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument. Exactly what you complained about with me, btw. The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.
Uh.. no it's not. You could respond like you just did now and explain that they "were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument."
What's with the query string on the link, is that an affiliate identifier? The link works just fine without it, in either case.
No, not an affiliate id I simply copied the url straight out of my address bar - I'm guessing it's a session id or something. Here is the id-less link for anyone who doesn't believe me (I can't change the url of the post unfortunately): http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL
Anyone know how those of us who bought an mac recently get it for $10? I didn't see a link on that page.
It seems so: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
http://images.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/docs/OSX_HW_UTD_FF.p...
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True, but unlike practically everyone else they didn't allow their work to fit the expanded time available. Everyone builds in buffers and pads their estimates, but few people are able to work to their original true estimate.
OpenBSD has done it 26 times in a row: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2322203/Why-OpenBSDs... PS: This article was written before 4.6 has was minted; it will actually be released a full month early.