Comments on: The Jobs Keynote http://tantannoodles.com/2006/08/07/the-jobs-keynote/ msg free since 2005 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Joe Tan http://tantannoodles.com/2006/08/07/the-jobs-keynote/#comment-6185 Joe Tan Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:05:15 +0000 http://tantannoodles.com/2006/08/07/the-jobs-keynote/#comment-6185 I dont know... that kind of functionality (like to roll back a word doc) seems like it should be within the domain of the application, and not the filesystem. And from what I understand, MS Word actually can do this kind of versioning... I guess it just seems to me that the application would know best about what kind of things make sense to be actually "undo-able", and is not just random temporary data being written to disk (for whatever reason). I dont know… that kind of functionality (like to roll back a word doc) seems like it should be within the domain of the application, and not the filesystem. And from what I understand, MS Word actually can do this kind of versioning…

I guess it just seems to me that the application would know best about what kind of things make sense to be actually “undo-able”, and is not just random temporary data being written to disk (for whatever reason).

]]> By: djchuang http://tantannoodles.com/2006/08/07/the-jobs-keynote/#comment-6165 djchuang Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:27:02 +0000 http://tantannoodles.com/2006/08/07/the-jobs-keynote/#comment-6165 I think Time Machine is the biggest wow on the new features list. You're right that recovering deleted files is probably not that big a deal, BUT to be able to roll-back in time and recover a previous version of a Word doc I've been working on, that's gold! I think Time Machine is the biggest wow on the new features list. You’re right that recovering deleted files is probably not that big a deal, BUT to be able to roll-back in time and recover a previous version of a Word doc I’ve been working on, that’s gold!

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