Posts by GBW

Mac sales tripled since 2005

Onscreen Asian Languages Tell It All

Strictly speaking for the Asian market share gains, apart from the iPod, iPhone and iPad enthusiasm working as a propellant, every Asian I've ever spoken to on the matter have always been astonished at how much better and natural their double-byte languages look on the Mac as compared to Windows. The onscreen difference, regardless of screen resolution, is similar to the difference of laser printers as compared to dot matrix.

Windows displays single-byte languages just fine, but Asian double-byte ones very poorly. It's like they're not even trying. They apply no text smoothing whatsoever, and unless you're using large headline style font sizes, you can't even tell the difference between serif and sans serif. It's just a jagged mess.

I use Windows extensively at work, and for certain tasks at home, but for all my Asian language tasks, I only use the Mac.

Woman cuffed for deleting virtual husband

Ah, ye olde Japan is wacked out ploy

Having read the story in the Japanese papers, it should be stated that she's not being arrested for deleting the character, but for illegally accessing the guy's account.

It's unlikely she'll see time, though because the idiot voluntarily gave her his login info and then brilliantly neglected to change it after the "divorce". Real bright guy, that.

Leopard security bug puts Mail users at risk

@Ivan Headache

I have the same 3.1 (914/915) version of Mail, but as I noted earlier the security alert is working. I think Anonymous Coward may be correct about a third party application interfering (I had to uninstall a third party app that was causing other applications to randomly crash after upgrading to Leopard), or it could be something with the preference settings within Mail.

All is well here

I to am using 10.5.1 and have tried the test several times, and every time the message displays noting it as a suspected application and that it would open in the terminal and asks if I really want to open it.

I wonder if Heise is on 10.5.0. I'm not going to revert to find out if the problem exists prior to the .1 update, though.