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Why Apple Really Ditched PowerPC
Sounds plausible.
Note: this is macslash, which is runing kinda' slow at the moment. The short version was that IBM and Motorolla were both busy doing other things....
After looking at Motorola and IBM and their chip businesses, it becomes clear that Apple was a victim of apathy, and that Apple really needed a chip company whose business was desktops, portables, workstations, and servers — not routers or mainframes or game consoles. These criteria basically left one choice for Apple, and there was no one to dissuade them this time. Apple announced their switch to Intel processors in June '05 and just recently announced and released their first such systems to wide acclaim.
The rest, as they say, will be history. The Intel transition will be the smoothest one Apple has ever gone through, much smoother than the 68k-to-PowerPC switch and a lot quicker than the Mac OS X migration. With their own development tools, and Tiger presenting a mature, stable API, the cross-grade to Intel chips is almost seamless. And Apple will never again find itself embarrassingly behind its rivals for clock-speed, or number of cores, or any other feature that becomes important to CPUs. It's obvious Apple wants to complete the move as quickly as possible and get on with things, which is why they're six months ahead of the Intel schedule.
I have a live journal question. I've noticed that some journals have customized pictures at the top. How do I do that?
Exactly how to customize it depends on whether it's a free or paid LJ and what style layout you're using. Most of the styles have their own communities where you can find customization information appropriate for the style.
From MacSlash:
At least one rumour looks to be coming true: in a move that seems certain to spell the beginning of the end for the iPod Shuffle, Apple has quietly launched the 1GB iPod nano. Same features, smaller capacity, and at $149 US, smaller price. At the same time, Apple is cutting prices on the Shuffle by $30, to $69 and $99 for the 512 MB and 1GB versions.
The new Nano is already up on the Apple store....
It is several months later and I am still trying to figure out why my filter options in several forms on the Access database I use are greyed out. I also tried making a find button, but that did not work.
The database "designer" (my boss) did not grey these filters out on purpose, but if you remember, there are 600 records and the only way to find one is to click through them all.
I found a Help item which said that filtering might be turned off in the form properties, but it was set to "allow filters".
The remove filter command is not grayed out, but I can't seem to remove any filter.
Does anyone have any ideas? Could a filter somehow be imbedded in the button that opens the form?
Does anyone know of a good Access forum where I can post this?
My other information is that in the form view, I have no menu bar etc , however if I right click in the title bar I get and option to Apply sort or silter or Remove sort or Filter. If I hit apply, it sorts all the records alphabetically. If I remove, they are in entry order.
What I can't do is right-click on last name, and filter by selection, or type in lastname to get the lastname.
Also, the table the form is made of has 2 fields label "primary key"? Could this be a problem?
This is driving me crazy! I think I have spent the work equivilant of 40 hours on this problem!
Sophia, is this Access 2002?
Also, the table the form is made of has 2 fields label "primary key"? Could this be a problem?
This means that two fields together comprise the primary key. (Unless I misunderstand - where are you seeing that they're the primary key?)
I can't find the answer to this...
I'm on a PC, and I'd like to know how to delete all the Calendar data from Microsoft Outlook. How do I do this?
Stupid Question Alert:
I'm helping my husband craft a cover letter for a job listing that requires as one of the skills, "Knowledge of integrated online systems."
What might they mean?
