Netkas was incorrect and making a knee-jerk attempt to dismiss their efforts for some reason. Heck, did you even read the addendum to the very article you're posting about? http://netkas.org/?p=435
Essentially it translates Source Engine calls to OpenGL commands at the same level that they get turned into DirectX commands on Windows.
I skimmed the entire page with Safari 5 (cause the math content made no sense to me!) up and down several times, and reloaded a bunch of times without any issues. Obviously I haven't had it for long, but I've observed no stability problems at all. Is it possible that page is using a special font for the math symbols that may be corrupt on your system? (Wild guess) Did/do you have any Safari "enhancers" installed? Those probably aren't compatible between releases.
That's where the Barnes and Noble analogy fails.
Apple isn't buying up apps from suppliers to 'stock' their store. The developer has to actively sign up and pay for an account, AND agree to the terms of the App store before they even get to submit an application for sale there. I haven't checked specifically, but they might have even run into trouble with the usage terms in the SDK that they had to agree to before even building the app in the first place. None of that is beyond the developer's control, but they willfully ignored all of that and submitted the application anyway - asserting they had the right to do so.
Those are different things than the specific setting I was talking about. I checked since I wrote it, though the label (on 10.5 at least) is "Full Keyboard Access", the setting is "Text boxes and lists only" or "All controls", and it is indeed toggled by Control-F7. I do think that the OTHER shortcuts, such as Spotlight as you mention, are always on regardless however.
It also appears that there's a default-on setting called "Full Keyboard Access" that can only be toggled by Ctrl-F1 as far as I can see. That seems to enable/disable keyboard controls like "Move focus to the menu bar" and "Move focus to the Dock"
But the setting I was originally referring to controls the tab-stops in dialogs (And actually, on web forms in Safari). The default is historically more "Mac-like", but I personally greatly prefer "All controls"
What you're probably missing (besides possibly knowledge of the keys themselves) is that you need to go to System Preferences->Keyboard, and turn on "Full Keyboard Access". (IIRC, Control F7 toggles this setting by default) This is one of the first things I do on any new user account of mine on an OSX system. This allows tab-focus between UI elements in a window same as anywhere else, among other things. With that on, I can't think of much that can't be done from the keyboard alone. Perhaps physically resizing/repositioning a window...
That same System Preference panel has a "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab (might even be the same tab that has the Full Keyboard Access control) that tell you the keyboard shortcuts currently assigned to various system functions (and allows editing them), and then has an "Application Keyboard Shortcuts" section at the bottom which allows you do define both Global and Per-App keyboard shortcut sequences for named Menu Items.
If I may throw in my own anecdote, I have six friends with an XBox 360, seven with a Wii, and one of these friends additionally has a PS3. Not a single one of them (including myself) has modified any of these or pirated any games for them. But look at our game libraries and the 360 is far and away the biggest for all of us.
I think it's more a matter of the 360 having had a significant head start on the PS3, and a continuing entry price advantage. Since so many games are cross platform, and the PS3 has had so few worthwhile exclusives (obviously opinion) the momentum stays with the 360. If it's a cross platform release, I have no incentive to get a PS3 for it, the 360 was usually the lead platform for these resulting in inferior PS3 ports anyway, and the 360 version lets me add to my gamerscore.
If piracy were really the big decider here, MS's game sales (as reported by NPD) wouldn't be as high as they are.
They do, but it's not Windows:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2006/02/17/534421.aspx
You are correct, and here is the relevant link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2006/02/17/534421.aspx
Before the 360 development hardware was complete, there was some form of Windows running on PowerMac G5s serving as the development environment for studios, but that was a stop gap.
It doesn't run Windows:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2006/02/17/534421.aspx
What if you get an e-mail from a business associate asking for a price of one of your widgets? You would have to memorize what the quantity was, go to your spreadsheet app, and pull that price from the list and memorize it. Then you have to go back and write it in the e-mail. Room for error? I think so.
Not offering an opinion on multitasking vs not, but for this specific example I'd assume one would use the Copy & Paste feature. I typically do that even on my desktop just to make sure I don't brainfart and typo something even if I'm looking right at it.
As another poster correctly pointed out, you can put non-DRM books on the iPad. There's actually a number of alternative eBook applications too if you don't like iBooks - INCLUDING Amazon's Kindle for reading your Kindle content. I will, however, be interested to see if Apple's app approval no-no of "Not duplicating built-in functionality" will be retroactively applied to those applications on the iPad now that iBooks exists....
You know it can watch YouTube right? Just like the iPhone/iPod, it even has a built-in app for this. Somehow it doesn't need Flash to do that. Also, you're perfectly free to load your own videos in from your computer and watch those - or any of the increasingly common websites that are offering HTML5 video players.
But I guess that would get in the way of your uninformed ranting about being forced to buy videos from Apple.
If you'd had experience with the MacOS version of Flash, you wouldn't blame Apple for not wanting to use it. It's simply a lousy product, not only is it horribly unstable but it's a MASSIVE CPU hog, watching a 20 minute Flash video on my Mac Book Pro drives the CPU temp up a good 20 degrees C within minutes, and then the fans kick in full speed. No thanks, I'd prefer to keep some battery life on my iPod. What I like is that Apple has enough clout these days to push sites towards the HTML5 *standard* and away from Flash.
Apple has done and will continue to do a lot of questionable things that are worthy of healthy debates. But let's not pretend that giving Flash the cold shoulder is a bad thing =)
Not on iPhone it doesn't.
(Search for iPhone)
Assuming you didn't mind the incredibly short cord. That thing kept me from being able to sit on a couch while playing. I actually switched to Master System controllers (which were compatible) for games like Sonic that didn't need more than 1 button as those had insanely long cords.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
