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Mac OS X Panther 10.3 Reviewed
JigSaw writes "OSNews posted a (constructively) critical, but also favorable review of Mac OS X Panther 10.3. The article discusses the new features, what works great and what's still sour, and it also includes a plethora of screenshots." The review's conclusion suggests Panther is "...a worthy operating system, easy to use, easy to set up, easy to get pleased by it. It just works."
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
What is up with her gnome desktop?. What kind of sick designer made that window border. Gnome needs to employ some REAL designers to design some decent themes and the file dialog too!
Read this, and see how good KDE looks with the new Crystal SVG theme thats coming out for KDE 3.2! Along with Keramik, its eyecandy without the fisher price look!
Mod me flamebait gnome zealots, but it dosen't change the *FACT* that KDE is the DE-FACTO Linux GUI!
I noticed that with Jaguar and I noticed the same with Panther: about 10-20% of the third party applications just won't load anymore, or they will crash on load. I understand that this policy has dsitinct advantages, but that's a lot of incompatable apps (out of 7,000 available for OSX) and while most of these will be recompiled in the next few months by their authors, the inconvienience caused is already there.
I have never understood why Mac developers and users tolerate Apple screwing them over every couple of years. Say what you will about Microsoft, but they do spent enormous effort trying to avoid this problem on each release, and the effort shows in their market share. And of course open source doesn't require you to wait a few months to recompile...
And when I said #2, I wasn't talking about their position in the market.
If you are a troll, then no doubt you love to criticise linux and Macs everytime. You know what to do, Macs are expensive, Linux is ugly and Emacs is useless on 99.999% of computers because of the Lack of a meta key.
If you are a trooll, then please visit OS new more often, it is a breeding ground for trolling! She is a troll herself, infact she is more infamous than $$$$$exygal.
Most of her comments end up as Linux bashing, Mac zealotry..
Recently she implemented a "report abuse" mechanism that dosen't work, it give the victims a false sense of control. Even the most blatent flamebait is marked as "Already Reviewed" The only time it works if when you criticise her "Today" window decoration, which is undiputably the worst window decoration for the worst Window manager (metacity). The new Kwin3 from KDE cvs is so much better its not even funny!
So Get on the post comment section, and start trolling. Let them know power of the gothic slashtrolls!
Their conference event attracted about 24 developers from around the area. I'm not sure what their expectations were but most of the attendees felt that the future for Mac OS X Panther 10.3 looks increasingly bleak. In fact, there won't be a future at all for Mac OS X Panther 10.3 because Mac OS X Panther 10.3 is dying
Nothing short of a miracle could save it now. Efforts to resuscitate Mac OS X Panther 10.3 are one step away from spiritualists trying to communicate with the dead.
So Mac OS X Panther 10.3 is dying... big whoop! Deal with it and move on. Never let something as trivial as a computer program upset you.
OK, thanks, bye.
Did I mention that Mac OS X Panther 10.3 is dying?
What a shame? USA/CAN only?
Enough... I pirate it than...
(a G5 owner for 2 days only)