wade walker : flash developer

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The doctors basically told me that I don’t need to be doing anything for a month. That includes driving, riding my motorcycle, working out, etc. I am hoping that I will be good to go in 2 weeks because I feel the need to be at work and doing something productive. I am with my parents at their home right now so that they can take care of me while I am unable to get out and drive. At times I have trouble standing and get dizzy. I also feel so weird not having my iMac with me. My parents asked me if I wanted to bring my computer and I said yes at first then changed my mind thinking that I wouldn’t have the time or ability to work. That was a mistake. Well, I need to go back to lying down for now and rest.

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That is one of the things that bothers me about Tiger, is that going from one application to the next, the interface is different on each. By that I mean that some applications have the brushed metal interface, while others have something closer to what is featured in Leopard.

One thing I hope is still being worked on is the Finder. At this point in time, I don’t believe there is any reason that the Finder shouldn’t have Tabs like Safari, so you don’t have to have multiple Finder windows open. I am someone that finds myself often having multiple Finder windows open, whether it be to move/copy files or just browsing multiple folders at once. So having Tabs inside the Finder would be awesome.

There are a lot of little details that I noticed(I will only cover one). One thing that I liked is located under the Finder Preferences. When you are under the Sidebar tab to select what items are displayed in the Finder sidebar, the “Computer” icon now has an icon that represents what kind of Mac you have. In other words, if you have a G5 or Mac Pro, it has a Mac Tower icon. If you have a laptop, it has a laptop icon.

I did notice a few glitches with this build, but it is far better then the previous builds I have tested and I can’t wait for the final release that is going to be released in October.

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For example, one might ask how the Transformers can speak English and talk to the people of Earth. To answer that, all the Transformers basically download the entire internet and every media possible to “learn” languages. Something else I thought was great is relationship between main human character(played by Shia LaBeouf) and Bumblebee. In the movie, Bumblebee is a mute from a previous battle not shown in the movie, so he communicate with Sam Witwicky(Shia LaBeouf) by playing music through the radio to express what he is thinking or feeling.

The only thing I didn’t like about the book is how the author wrote it. Here is the problem I had with author. When you are reading about a certain character(s) in a specific location and then in the next paragraph you start reading about a different character(s) and a different location, typically that break in characters and location is separated visibly by three centered dots or some other method to indicate that the next paragraph does not deal with the same setting as the last paragraph you read.

This author does not do that and I would get confused sometimes by this instant change from one paragraph to the next with no indication of such change in the setting. He wouldn’t even do a line break separation. I would have to say that this is the first time I haven’t fully enjoyed reading a book and I would also say its my first pet peeve when it comes to reading a novel. But with all that negative thoughts aside, it is still a good story and I hope that the movie can convey the same feelings.

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The processor also saw an update to the Santa Rosa series of the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. One thing that I have been waiting a long time for is an update to the video which did happen with this update. The new video card is a brand new release of the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M series. What I am especially excited about is that this is a DirectX 10 compatible video card. Taking a guess from memory, it also appears that the hard drives received a boost in memory from 120 Gigs standard to 160 Gigs, which is great for someone like me who utilizes BootCamp so I can have a Windows operating system of a decent partition size.

Well, thats all I got for now about the update. Now just to find a way to start saving money.

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