I can't find any background to this thread (I may have deleted it if
it's a couple of months old), but Apple allows you to set a daily,
weekly or monthly automatic check for upgrades, and to download
upgrades in the background when they are available. Then you'll be
asked for confirmation. I doubt if any but the most naive Mac users
aren't aware of when upgrades are available. The default position is
to check for upgrades automatically. Apple may be as smug as they
are secretive, as security releases often follow information about
potential security breaches by several weeks. Installation of
upgrades is a trivial exercise (but I have cable). Some require
restarts, some not.
I have no comment on Vista, XP or any other Windows issues (except
that there seems to be a lot of them).
What is the third dimension in 3D that you're referring to? A z
axis? Or some other parameter? Apart from holograms and the like,
most of the images we deal with are spatially 2D. Any image has many
axes, if you want to get into details, e.g. the color space could be
a third dimension.
Roger
On 12 Feb 2008, at 11:59 PM, karl shah-jenner wrote:
Rich Mason writes:
: What's your point? Most of those updates overwrite existing files.
: They don't increase space consumed on the disk. I imagine they
would
: be a challenge for people with a dial-up connection., but for those
: with a high speed connection they're a matter of clicking to install
: and then restarting. Very little time involved, and even less
hassle.
:
: Rich
2 points
1 - update time for apple users who don't keep abreast of things.
I supposed not all users are immediately aware of updates as they
come to hand..
2 - it's a lot of fixes for an OS that claims to be a straight out
of the box OS. Not that I'm a fan of Windoze, certainly not the
latter OS's, but the MS fixes for the same period and comparable
repairs to the OS totalled 13.9MB for XP - also largely
overwrites. I found it a huge surprise.. not having looked
closely of late at what Mac has been doing.
On a different note and more along the lines of the Vista post,
does anyone have any idea how Apple is handling 2D these days?
Discovering that 2D was rendered, nay, emulated by a 3D engine
makes me very curious about what other operating systems are
doing.. specifically apple
for 2D to be so miserably handled makes Vista look like a total
*no* for image handling..
karl
