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Comment on A Night at Shea by metsfan

metsfan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:37:13 +0000

On second thought, I’m utterly demoralized.

Comment on A Night at Shea by metsfan

metsfan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:56:01 +0000

I’m just glad the Mets now have a chance to rest the bullpen for 180 days or so. Come April, they are gonna be ready!

Comment on Yankee Stadium: A Birds-eye view by metsfan

metsfan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:44:13 +0000

The Yankees? The O’s? How ’bout those Mets!!!

Comment on In the Air: Good and Bad by Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:03:27 +0000

What are you guys doing in Utah? You are so close to LA, wish you could stop by!
-J

Comment on Leopard– Apple Rant by GP

GP — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:44:13 +0000

Okay. Here’s my story…

I’ve done a couple of Leopard standard upgrades now (dual 2.5 GHz PowerMac and a dual 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro) with virtually zero problems. Some minor glitches on a just few older apps which needed updated, but no show stoppers. And it’s faster and prettier and has many great new subtle and not-so-subtle improvements. Steve’s 300 number is understated from my experience. I’m thinking there are many more.

Don’t let the doomsayers intimidate you. 10.5 rocks, and so far, I’m 100% happy running all the great new Leopard apps (iChat ROCKS) plus CS2 versions of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash; Fetch, Freehand 11, Font Agent Pro, Amadeus Pro, MYOB Account Edge, Firefox all simultaneously in 4.5GB ram.

Did I mention it’s faster and prettier?

Just my 2 cents.

Comment on Leopard– Apple Rant by Dave G.

Dave G. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:58:57 +0000

Of course for every user with a Leopard problem there are a hundred or more that have none. Got the Familiy Pack. Upgraded all the Family Powerbook, ibooks, and MacBook and a G4 Tower. Airport, Time Machine, Mail, Office, Adobe Apps, Aperture, XCode… all in use, all working — Zero Problems in week two.

Comment on Leopard– Apple Rant by Pete

Pete — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:30:28 +0000

I wrangled with this same dilemma when considering going from 10.3.9 to Leopard but in the end took the easy path. I cloned my existing install to my backup drive and did a nuke and pave. I knew I had some extra bits in the 10.3.9 system that might not surrender to the new overlord so went the destructo route. I am very glad I did. It took forever to backup and install but in the end it purrs. Sure I have enter passwords and copy libraries over, but that is much easier than the possibility of a blow up. Oh, iBook G4, 933 mhz with 1152 MB of ram. It seems a faster cat.

Comment on Leopard– Apple Rant by Walt French

Walt French — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:48:12 +0000

Lessee here… approx 2MM copies of Leopard sold, presumably to people hot to upgrade. Easily dozens of them have had troubles with 3rd party hardware or software. Unsanity is a fine example: Apple doesn’t go out of its way to diss the app, but ask a Genius about troubles with it and they say “it uses unsupported hacks to the OS.”

So, does Apple check every possible legit s/w combo? Hard to think that they would. But some of the troubles seem to be long-standing bugs/features in 3rd-party software, such as the Intuit scheduler that prohibits overlays from taking keystrokes, and now every Mac has Front Row for that bug to be seen. Again, Apple’s trouble? No, this is (possibly, a somewhat misguided security effort gone awry) a problem of 3rd party’s initiation.

So recognize what we investment types call “reporting bias”: hedge funds, investment strategies bury their results when they’re lousy, but shout from the rooftops when they’re good. “News” on the web about upgrades is only bad news. Ask the guys at Mac Fixit: this looks like a remarkably LOW level of hassles. And there are some serious changes here; put the benefits in the mix with the downsides.

Comment on Leopard– Apple Rant by Alex Eule

Alex Eule — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:46:54 +0000

In fact, Apple does seem to have taken a step backward. After finally joining the parade this past weekend with my first apple purchase, I was left watching a status bar at 2:30 a.m. as I attempted to get my computer up and running with the latest software — software that had been advertised to be “pre-installed.”

Status bars and linux commands don’t sound like the Apple that Steve Jobs has spent millions of dollars advertising on TV.

A few days later, everythign is up and working and I’m learning to like my iMac.

The PC versus Mac debate is not the Apples to Oranges comparison Steve Jobs would have you believe, however. Computers are computers, after all.