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  1. "Beta" annoyance

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    Has anyone else noticed the recent slew of things tagged with "beta" that are around recently? Google, Digg, Flickr (though Flickr uses "Gamma) and Famster are just a few. I don't understand why they are calling these sites "Beta" when they seem nearly 100% stable! It's some kind of web pop culture movement maybe.

    Anyway, I was having a look at new releases on the ITMS and I came across another shiny beta tag (see attached). This was the straw that broke the camels back for me. Why would something be called "beta" that is being blatantly released to the general public with 0 expectation of feedback? It boggles my mind.

    Shiira seems to be about the only true beta software around these days.

    /endrant

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  5. iWork '06

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    I use Pages and Keynote: both excellent programs. The templates are great but the capabilities that you have with making custom templates and/or custom brochures are the really awesome thing. Pages also does plain text stuff and actually has a few pre made templates for things like essays and reports.

    Personally, unless I'm writing a book or something, I rely on different fonts and text art rather than images for professional looking papers, but pages also has the capability for commercial brochures and announcments.

  10. Thinking about WWDC06? Think again

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    Maybe I have been kept out of the know on this one and am going to look an idiot posting this, but I don't really care:

    For one a person a ticket to WWDC costs: $1,595

    That seems like quite a bit of cash to me. If I wanted to, I could get a top quality pro DSLR for that much, or a very nice, top of the line lens. Maybe even a Macbook to go along with my Macbook Pro? Who knows.

    Could someone please inform me why this costs so effing much?

    http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/registration.html

  13. Official "I Switched" Thread

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    I know, I know...mods will yell at me to put this into the Hardware thread but, being a "veteran" of AS from the old days I figured that I deserved my own 8(

    I just ordered a new Macbook Pro yesterday, with a keyboard, Aperture and 2gb of ram. Since 2001 I have modded my computer to be like a Mac, and in 2006 I finally scrape the cash together to buy one.

    Thanks for all the cool customization and bantering over the years.

  21. Apple's "Get a Mac" Ad Campaign

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    The reason people say Macs suck is because before OSX they were really, really bad, at least in my opinion.(I'd argue that they still sucked until 10.2)

    The Macs my school uses are so dumbed down by security they have pretty much all the cool stuff about Macs disabled (expose, all animation etc) so lots of kids think they just suck.

    We also use purely eMacs which are shown to be the absolute worst Macs ever made performance wise.

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