That has worked for so long I don't even remember when it was added. I'm thinking 10.2 maybe.
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That has worked for so long I don't even remember when it was added. I'm thinking 10.2 maybe.
haha well i discovered it by accident and I didn't know it was there before.
I guess it's a general little thing about OS X on the whole that i enjoy.
It won't work with many flash videos, such as Dailymotion and many from YouTube stopped working since Lion for me at least. It just says "You do not have permission to access the requested resource."
It hasn't changed since Leopard. It's translucent if your graphics card supports it. It's very light grey if your graphics card is too crappy for eye candy -or- if you've manually disabled it via Desktop settings in System Preferences.
On a side note: I wish they'd bring back an option for rounded corners on the upper left and right hand sides of the menu bar. Been missing that since 10.4 Tiger. 3rd party apps do a horrible job at replicating this using image overlays that overlap everything, including full screen videos, which is annoying.
Right now, no.
But hopefully the official Twitter app will be updated to support Notification Center. And given they just updated the iOS app with push notifications for tweets, it seems likely they'll do the same with the Mac app.
Thought it looked more white than usual on http://www.apple.com/osx/ but I could be wrong. I used OnyX to whiten it but it seemed to not work with Lion.
I honestly think that would get annoying after a while, but i can see that getting added later down the line.
slower?
Did anyone notice that as later versions of OSX are released they tend to get slower? As in spinning ball of death?
The reason? More and more pieces of the operating system are moved into a LLVM (low level virtual machine). Now even compiling fast C code needs a virtual machine in the back end!!! This is backwards. And it is probably why Lion was so slow. Everyone know how slow Java is, and how it is probably going to destroy the Android apps market. It already destroyed Corel when they tried to port everything into Java. They are probably moving things back out of the virtual machine to make it quicker in Mountain Lion, but if they don't it is just bandaid patches. The reason .NET and their games (XBOX third party games) was a failure is also due to .NET being a virtual machine also, copying Java. It is tainting all future technology. Crippling them. Games and operatings systems should NOT have virtual machines in them. They are performance software, the require straight to the metal computations.
OK back on topic. Mountain Lion seems more stable in the GM release. But TextEdit can't search case-sensitive letters. Also if you open file from textedit, and list by Date Modified, it sorts it in reverse order.
Did anyone notice that as later versions of OSX are released they tend to get slower? As in spinning ball of death?
The reason? More and more pieces of the operating system are moved into a LLVM (low level virtual machine). Now even compiling fast C code needs a virtual machine in the back end!!! This is backwards. And it is probably why Lion was so slow. Everyone know how slow Java is, and how it is probably going to destroy the Android apps market. It already destroyed Corel when they tried to port everything into Java. They are probably moving things back out of the virtual machine to make it quicker in Mountain Lion, but if they don't it is just bandaid patches. The reason .NET and their games (XBOX third party games) was a failure is also due to .NET being a virtual machine also, copying Java. It is tainting all future technology. Crippling them. Games and operatings systems should NOT have virtual machines in them. They are performance software, the require straight to the metal computations.
OK back on topic. Mountain Lion seems more stable in the GM release. But TextEdit can't search case-sensitive letters. Also if you open file from textedit, and list by Date Modified, it sorts it in reverse order.
In addition, you can just drag the dock item to the trash to delete it right away instead of waiting for the mouse to turn into a cloud that puffs away.
Source? As far as I'm aware, LLVM is not a typical virtual machine per se. Apps are certainly not run in a way similar to Java.
As time's gone by, optimisations made to LLVM-Clang and improvements to processors have largely negated any performance degradation as opposed to GCC.
I'm not the most well-versed in this arena, so I'd like to hear more about how LLVM-Clang degrades Lion's runtime performance.
Well, I think there are a lot of slow things in OSX.
A lot of the operating system (OSX) uses Objective-C, which uses messages passing instead of procedural calls (like in C), which is just plain slower.
Even without the virtual machine, just using LLVM-Clang for binary programs resulted in OSX trailing windows machines for same games running on same hardware. Just take any same game running on the same hardware (but loading windows or osx) and compare the framerates.
"LLVM 2.9 trails GCC 4.6.1 in code quality (speed of the compiled programs) by about 10% on average".
Of course, you have the LLVM IR (like bytecode in Java), which points towards a virtual machine.
Since Leopard, in OpenGL there is a LLVM JIT layer that acts as a middle man (a thin layer) slowing down performance. The layer stays there even
if you have a high end GPU. Taking away crucial framerate per second.
Of course, LLVM allows a virtual machine. sometimes when you see that spinning circle take a long time to stop, guess what it is doing? disk thrashing most likely from the garbage collector starting up, or JIT starting up.
I don't know if these have been mentioned in the other pages but the little dot below an open app are not even. Some dots are right below the app icon while some are spaced below it (this is what it was in Lion). Small little offset issue.
Still playing around with Mountain Lion!
EDIT: Another thing I found was calling up the Notification pane. It always slides in scrolled to the bottom which requires me to scroll up to see the first notification! Annoying! I thought it was me doing the gesture too quick and I'm scrolling down without noticing it but I did the gesture slowly and it still comes up scrolled to the bottom.
Still playing around with Mountain Lion!
EDIT: Another thing I found was calling up the Notification pane. It always slides in scrolled to the bottom which requires me to scroll up to see the first notification! Annoying! I thought it was me doing the gesture too quick and I'm scrolling down without noticing it but I did the gesture slowly and it still comes up scrolled to the bottom.
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