Public speaking is important, I agree. I regret not having taken speech classes in high school.

Alex, I also regret that you didn’t take those classes. You suck at public speaking, and it really embarrasses me sometimes. Remember how badly your last press conference went?

BTW, it’s interesting to hear about the differences between US and other country’s colleges. I always hear that our colleges are becoming way worse–and I felt like that when I was in school too. My theory is that US colleges today will let you coast more than ever before, and get through with a B average while doing very little work. But if you apply yourself and are self-motivated, you maybe still get more out of it than you do in a lot of other places, just because of the variety and the resources that these schools have to draw on. I mean, my school had one of the largest library systems in the world among colleges, yet I hardly ever went there.

I honestly like going to college here more. My attitude changed a bit too though (I really want to learn something useful).

And school here definitely has more resources than the one in Minsk (which is normal, since US is wealthier than Belarus); for example I’m pretty impressed with our own little trading floor.

That’s very interesting news. I was more interested in the SDK pricing than anything else. I’m a little puzzled by “it will be available to a limited number of people”. The SDK price tag per year isn’t bad, even the enterprise one. I recall Verizon charges $200 *per application*. 30% cut per application is a lot, but I wanted to develop free client applications anyway, so they’re welcome to take 30% of that

If you ask me, you got lucky not seeing it on broadway, b/c I think the two leads are Rosie O’Donnel and Harvey Fierstein. Both are incredibly annoying. Sarah saw it a year or two ago when it was starring Dr. Octopus from Spiderman, and she said it was amazing. Yeah, movie’s great too…go Topol.

What? Thats heresy! Honestly, is there any reason to have a Mac in this world when such a huge library of software is available, in many cases for free, on the PC platform? Do you want to be one of those people constantly asking if such and such software is “available for Mac”?

Yes, these days we all think that we can pass time with WoW and Photoshop, but really the question of platform is dependant not on what software is available but rather the “loss of opportunity” by not utilizing the largest software library ever.

I probably should have said that I’m not throwing my PCs away.

The main reason is really the fact that iPhone SDK only runs on a Mac, and I really want to try that. I’m fairly certain that I will get an iPhone this summer or fall — as soon as they 2nd one comes out.

Also it is a nice platform by now, and I think I’ll enjoy doing certain things on it more then on Windows.

But no, no way I’m going to switch to Mac as my primary computer, pretty much for all the reasons you stated above.

Why am I not surprised that the iPhone SDK is only compatible with Mac OS? You know whats ironic? That Apple is always embraced by these freedom loving “hippies”, yet they are the foremost leaders on closed platforms.

I’m surprised myself by all these iPhone developments. Apple is finally doing it right. I hope they stay the course this time.

Man, I bet you’ll get Mac ASAP. You seem so obsessed with this new SDK! So how’s Objective-C looking? Good?

By the way, are you sure that you can’t run MacOS on Vmware?

> The biggest difference seems to be an on-board
> video card vs a dedicated one.

And how about the bigger display? For a developer, working with source code and other texts, the screen size is something of a key importance. I think so.

I don’t think the display matters much in this case. I would actually prefer a smaller one because I hate lugging around my current laptop when I travel.

While at home I’m going to be hooking the thing up to the desktop monitor anyhow, and that’s where the most of the work happens anyway.

That’s kinda disappointing…

I use multitasking a lot (IE, IM, Notes running at the same time)

I’m wondering when they’re going to address this issue if they’re planning at all… ??:

Out of the programs you listed the only one that would have a problem is IM. Why would you need to run Notes in the background? It does nothing there. You can easily start and switch between the apps. The problem is with those that actually do something, like IM.

I don’t know if they will do anything. The thing is that jail-broken iPhones have no problems with running programs in the background. So I guess SDK won’t kill all of that after all.

Oh, I see what you’re saying. I though you could only run one at a time. Then it’s not so critical

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Yeah, this guy’s very good. Notice how he must sit perfectly straight and motionless.

Awesome! I wanna have this weird “guitar” in my collection Sounds really fantastic! I can definitely see myself playing it!