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Players who try to control the ball after it's bounced are being deceived by the bounce as the ball seems to move off the pitch like it's very wet (but it doesn't look that wet on the TV). Passes over the head of the forwards (for the forward to run onto) are going straight to the keeper or out unless the forward is very quick.

It's three generations. The iPhone 3G is a supported platform for iPhone OS 4.0. You do miss out on multitasking though.

>I think its interesting that Mr. Lyons is "blown away" by Android features that will be coming to his iPhone in 30-60 days, with the exception of teathering (which isn't Apple's fault, but AT&T's).

Lack of tethering is both Apple's and AT&T's fault. It's AT&T's fault for not activating it in the carrier profile but its also Apple's for making sure that the iPhone only allowed signed carrier profiles with iPhone OS 3.1 so that you could no longer download an alternate carrier profile with tethering enabled.

I don't use VMs on this machine but at work there is a server full of VirtualBox VMs for testing deployed apps in a production-like environment.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10.1...

In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under either Linux or Mac OS X. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs. The Flash Player team will continue to evaluate adding hardware acceleration to Linux and Mac OS X in future releases.

If the jeans that suit you are designer jeans or more expensive than you would typically pay, do get them. Not only do you benefit from the fit, the girls recognise the brands.

I judge the fit of the jeans that I buy by putting my keys/wallet/phone in my pockets when trying them on to make sure that the jeans fits properly in the typical conditions that I'll be wearing them. Also note that your jeans will stretch slightly as you wear them, but that is brand/material dependent.

Do not get jeans that are too long. They should never, never touch the ground and they should cover 1/4 to 1/2 of your shoe laces when you are standing.

To me it's more important that your socks (anklets only with low-cut shoes) or ankles can't be seen when sitting down than worrying about if they touch the ground. I'm short and have short legs, so I counter the length of my jeans by wearing slightly bulkier shoes. I make sure that I wear my favorite casual shoes (at the time) to double check this.

How much of your shoe they cover is based on the cut at the bottom as well as the length. You should be able to at least see some shoelaces, and that's about it.

Casual Shoes. Women notice shoes. Seriously. It's really interesting how much they look at your shoes. You can have everything else right, but if your shoes are big blocky white gym shoes, you have failed.... The good news is that you can crowd source style selection by looking at Zappos's most popular (http://bit.ly/bep8vN).

The golden rule of casual shoes is don't buy black. Black shoes are for suits. I personally prefer white or bright red as it breaks up the dark jeans and t-shirts that I usually wear.

Crowd-sourcing your shoe selection is interesting, but you'll notice that Zappos most popular shoes were all low-cut retro shoes by Asics, Converse and Vans. If you find as nice/nicer shoes that didn't appear on that page when you're out and about shopping, get those before the crowd-sourced ones. Why? If the girls are paying attention to your shoes, they'll also be paying attention as to whether you are wearing something similar to the others or whether your shoes are very nice and something they haven't seen at all.

Boots.

I like my Cherry Red Doc Martens, but red is my favourite colour for shoes so I'm heavily biased with that choice.

You said 'fanbois'. I replied to 'fanbois'. You took the 'fanboi' reply and blew it out.

> as per your post history/above, you appear to use Apple hardware. Just because of the marketing?

I bought Apple because OS X 10.1 looked like a way of running Linux while still having access to commercial apps should I need them. That was in 2001. I've not bought a non-apple computer since (5 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 iPhones).

As for the other comments...

Dell's Adamo was meant to be a competitor in design and functionality for the MacBook Air but is strangled by CPU and price. There is also a thin 16" laptop but it too is strangled by CPU. It looks like they inaccurately forecasted a 15" Macbook Air, designed and implemented a competitor without Apple coming to the game, which they should have.

You also have to remember that Zune/Pink and Android are late to the market in comparison to Apple. If Apple were showing Android's AdMob numbers this early you'd be talking up their chances. Because Apple are leading the market and their competitors are in their early stages of market entrance it's acceptable to look at their total numbers and go 'pah' rather than focusing on the growth.

Some of them appear to need to follow the underdog, conform but not conform, or are spoken to through the marketing.

> In any case, Gruber is talking about industry conformity, not consumer conformity, which is a whole 'nother pigeon.

The industry is conforming to follow Apple. HP through marketing. Dell through design. MS through marketing/Zune/Pink. Google through Android.

edit: You jump through additional hoops to get Linux working properly. Video drivers and sound drivers are poor, sound quality is poor. Getting used to the synaptics driver for the glass trackpad was hard. And you need the drivers from Apple for Windows, which they tend to take their time with.

I suppose with all the downvotes I'll expand.

The conformity is what makes Apple stuff work. A small range of hardware for the chosen operating system. Running Linux or Windows on Apple hardware is hard.

Conformity also happens with the iPhone. Unless I bother to jailbreak my iPhone, I'm forced to use the functionality on my iPhone agreed by my carrier and Apple through the carrier updates.