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A more fluid UI. Things should move the way they do when you are in expose and hit the space bar and then toggle between windows--that looks and feels fluid. You should be able to work with one window at a time with only it highlighted the way a window is highlighted in expose (so basically the expose interface, but let you edit the active window). To be clear, I do also mean that the rest of the screen would still be dimmed. When you hover over the menu bar it would light up, and the dock would etc, as well. But I think an environment where only the front window is lit could be marvelous in certain scenarios. As it is now, when you click on a window you've found through expose and you return to the jumble of windows, it's just sort of overwhelming. Also, expose will help you find a window you've dragged to the bottom of the screen, but once you find it with expose and click on it, it'll still be hidden at the bottom of the screen instead of moving to middle of the screen.

The dock at the bottom of the with naked icons that lap over other windows is too overwhelming looking too. Make all icons a square-ish shape like iOS icons and make the dock something much simpler than the shimmery tray it is now.

The menu bar will eventually need to go away. I'm not sure it can yet. I imagine the functions of the menu bar will go into the dock eventually as right click options or that Apple may move toward applications having all functions available maybe not as menus in windows, but in some way incorporated into the windows. I'm not sure what will happen exactly, but I know Apple likes the iOS concept of the app becoming the device. When you open Maps on an iPhone, it's a Maps machine, etc. So I think we will see a move toward even more simplicity. The Mac will become more like a very simple appliance that retains its power. I think Apple is considering that with the removal of title bars from Quicktime X and the album viewer in iTunes 10.

So to sum all of that up, everything looks junky with lots of windows scattered all over and the dock looks messy. Clean that up. Apple could do a lot of fundamental changes in the UI's look and behaviors. It's in no way at an end point of reaching a pinnacle of perfection. I haven't used Windows 7, but it looks like it may be continuing to make progress in appearance and behaviors, and there's no reason for Apple to not continue changing, which they haven't dramatically done since the very first version of OS X, in terms of UI. In fact the proposed single window mode of OS X that was dropped before its release may be due for a comeback in some new incarnation!

On to Spotlight. Is it just me or did Spotlight used to be a lot better? There are so few sorting options and by default it displays so much junk (web pages you've viewed, etc). Also, if you are constantly recording to the disk, Spotlight will not index and doesn't tell you this. Spotlight should have an indicator of whether it is up to date or not and a progress bar of when it is updating. The only way to tell right now is to go into activity monitor after stopping recording and let MDS start running and wait for it to return to 0% processor to know you can continue with disk recording activities (video recording in my case).

Safari seems to be the best browser on the Mac, but it takes up a whole lotta RAM.

I am sure there are more things I will think of in time . . .

I got a lot of what I asked for today! Pretty happy with the direction the OS is taking.

Sooo sexy. Can't wait to get my White iPhone 5! (whenever it's released) :apple:

Suddenly because Nokia is transitioning into the smart phone market all the fanboys consider them to be a company on the verge of bankruptcy, even though they dominate the market in most countries.

Nokia has been in the smart phone market for a very long time.

I can't wait, great idea to have a live broadcast.

i don't think it will be live...
their servers will not be able to handle the load..

Apple wallpaper for all of the gifts they have given us lately. :)
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how did you customize your logos ?
mostly the mail box

I'm surprised he'd let anyone write it for him. You'd think it would be an autobiography so he could have complete control every detail.

He probably still does. That's the beauty of it. :p

Awesome. So we can overload their network with reports of issues? And yes, it will be overloaded!

Here is my official plan. Let me know if anyone wants to sit next to me or if a bunch of MR people want to band together on site and maybe have lunch together. In addition if you reccomend a change for a better session or something else I can do, please let me know.


01/09/2007 Tuesday
09:00 AM - 11:00 AM Keynote


01/10/2007 Wednesday

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Macworld Live! with David Pogue

11:00AM - 12:15 PM The Best of Mac OS X Hints

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Windows on a Mac

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Macworld Best of Show 2007

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Creating a Digital Portfolio with iLife


01/11/2007 Thursday

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MacBrainiac Challenge

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM iPod: Fully Loaded

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Mac OS X Wizardry

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Record, Produce, and Publish Your Podcast with iLife- GarageBand, iMovie and More

I'll be at MWSF all week. Where are people meeting?

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I'll be there as usual. This will be my, umm, 11th MacWorld. I thought about getting a flashforward package, but it's not worth it given what they're offering.
To tell you the truth about MacWorld in general; some of the workshops are alright, i guess. The parties are fun, of course the keynote is 'it.' But beyond that, MacWorld largely is something of a "yawn." Don't get me wrong... I go. Every year. Like a lemming. I get enough of the hype that I swear they pump into the AC, pretty quickly. Then I go home to watch the keynote like everyone else, on the overloaded, start and stop H264 stream.

Hoorah for MacWorld!

This has been a pretty big question as of late...

Why has there been no looting in Japan (ala New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina)

why is there no looting in japan (http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/why-is-there-no-looting-in-japan/)


I think this may go a long way in explaining it.

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I would suggest we clear our minds of our political paradigm and try to understand that Japan is quite a different culture. For example, they may be incredibly diligent about recycling, but they also frequently burn their trash. The reason is they are a large population on an island. They are very green but it is out of necessity. I used to live in Japan and I would guess that it would be difficult to loot and then return to society after the crisis without severely diminished standing in the community. You would be with all your surviving friends and neighbors and if you suggested stealing from all the remaining houses, no one would look at you the same way. It is the basic concept of whether you would do something if you could get away with it. In a sense, a Japanese person cannot "get away with it" the way an American can. Their work, social, and family lives consist of the same 50 or so people.

I remember having an enkai, "party," with my coworkers in Japan. It was one of my first nights there. Many of us were smoking. I tossed my butt onto the ground and looked around to see a few of them with their jaws dropped in shock. My Japanese friend casually picked up my butt and put it into his little portable ash tray. No one said anything because they were naturally thinking, "well that's just what foreigners do." I definitely made sure never to litter my cigarette butts ever again. I've lived in France as well, an equally smoking culture, with less inequality and better social services than the U.S. but they'll happily litter with ashtrays nearby and I'm sure they would loot as any American or Brit would. The Japanese culture seriously is a special case. You can't draw any conclusions based on what the Japanese do for what the U.S. should do. There are things that work in Japan that would never work in the U.S. and this no looting is simply a mark of their culture.

Do they mean 2 "full" people? What about that ad where you saw ppl playing a question game and hammering their palms with thier fists?
The company that makes the technology that MS uses to make Kinect is called PrimeSense. Here is some info talking about what you are questioning...
PrimeSense reps also told me that the camera can "see" any number of people on the screen -- you can fit as many people in that camera as possible, and the computer will see all of them and can even recognize them as human shapes. But it can only run calculations on two people at a time, just because the processing power required to track all of the body's locations and movements is so great (Update: See below). During our testing with the device, a person moving in front of the camera was able to "steal focus," but the computer can also be told through gestures to keep focus on a certain person.

Update: PrimeSense has gotten in touch with us to say that it was only the demo software it showed off at E3 that could support only two users, not the hardware itself. Theoretically, with enough processing power, PrimeSense's hardware licensed by Kinect could support any number of players.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/19/kinect-how-it-works-from-the-company-behind-the-tech/

So, there is still a while before it launches, and it could be updated down the line, but I think it is safe to say that you will probably only have 2 players playing most all games. But really, that sounds fine to me. I can't say 4 people jumping and flailing around my living room would work very well, so a limit of 2 is ok.

I take it compromise is not an option then? ... Ground Zero or Bust?

Compromise implies that both sides of a debate have some validity. How is that the case here?

I'm no fan of religion, but if the majority of the center will be open to the general public and can help open a dialog and improve the understanding of Muslim culture, I think it ought to be closer to Ground Zero, if anything.

People seem to be missing that to provide the 3D illusion with this effect it requires an almost constant motion, otherwise it will just resemble a flat image of a 3d surface.

This makes any actual use of this kind of silly, and makes the viewing of 3D videos and images still impossible for the iPad This is because both videos and 3D images (.mpo files) have two images sent to each eye separately which this method of 3D is completely incapable of because it requires fully rendered models for viewing.

A parallax barrier, such as the one on the 3DS, or other legitimate 3D viewing method would be required to have any real use, particularly without forcing the user to constantly move their head or the device that they're holding to maintain the 3D effect.

I totally agree. Though the effect is cool, it's not practical to move your head constantly to achieve the effect. That would be quite annoying while playing a game or watching a 3D movie.

What the hell are you talking about?

She is on the hood, and you are prevented from moving.

What the Hell do you call that??

BBBBBBSSSSSSSS, they cant keep anything.

OK , let me say this... I work for the government. As I said, they can and will keep it. Care to throw the BS flag out again zipzap?

The title should really be iSteve to follow up on iWoz. I cannot see anything but both hardcover and e-book releases being concurrent. And hopefully this is not being done because of anything really imminent. I've been Apple since 1979 when I started the Apple labs in the school I taught at (we had over 160 when I retired in 2009 with over 60 more on the way!) and having experienced most of Apple's ups & downs, I'm loving every moment of the company's current success.

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Maybe, when you rank the individual product models. But when you rank the underlying platforms, iOS is no longer leading the pack. Android has taken over the lead and that was to be expected, because Google did the smart thing: Divide and rule. Everybody can build Android gadgets, but only Apple builds iOS devices. And the systems that everybody can use have ALWAYS dominated the market. Just remember Windows vs Mac OS or VHS vs Betamax and Video 2000.

Nice try, but also false. iOS has a >50% higher number of devices than Android.

Hang on a moment. You say:

"iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS are the #1 and #2 selling handsets."

So in that case they would be at the very top of the phone sales, not at 5% they can't be the top selling handsets in No.1 and No.2 positions and not be at the top. that just does not make sense.

Not much of a math person either, eh?

I think driving fast and swerving erratically is a good way to remove a moron from your windshield.Probably a good way to kill someone, probably not the ideal way to deal with an argument, though.

People are very exited about this price cut. I am not, because now Apple has to sell way more of them to keep it as profitable, thus time will be spent making features that will draw people in or it will be spent on other things entirely.

I see Apple making MUCH more money off of selling it at a lower cost to more people, then selling the entire suite at a higher price to a select few. I think it will fuel more people to get into professional video editing and more Mac Pro sales.

While I see all these complaints Apple is not into Pro software & Machines, I think this is a good decision by Apple to compete in the professional market.

The chip alone doesn't really distinguish the macbook from the macbook pro. In the wake of the first wave, the pro was upped in GHz just a bit so that no model was slower than a macbook, but for that period of time they use the same exact chip but were obviously not the same computer. The fact that the pro has better display real estate, a dedicated graphics card, the aluminum shell, 2 firewire ports, a slot for an express card, a double layer superdrive and now support for 3GB of RAM make a seriously big difference when compared to the macbook's hardware. simply adding C2D wont make it equal to the pro at all. also, how much more overhead does apple actually see compared to what they'd make if macbooks had core 2 duos in them?

I agree. They don't distinguish them with different processors, just different clock speed ranges. MBP from 2.16 to 2.33 and MB (I would guess) 2.0 to 2.16.

musicians who travel a lot (like me) would not be happy with this at all. the process of miniaturization has allowed us to fill up the free space with more junk. i love that my powerbook is small and (mostly) all it needs is built inside. i got enough to worry about with my ipod and external drive. and yeah, something feels very 80s about this. keep thinking apple.

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