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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview
An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider has been publishing some very detailed articles on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating system, which include numerous screenshots of the system. So far the publication has discussed overall installation and Spotlight search technology, Safari with RSS, a new Mail revision with
Smart Mailbox technology, and a websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application."
FP you stupid fucking niggers. Oh yea..
I mean you're going ON and ON and ON and ON about an Apple OS that won't ship for 6 months, if we're lucky!
YOU FAIL IT like Mary-Kate Olsen fails a drug test!
Why would you pay premium for a closed source operating system and handicapped hardware (one button mouse)?
He's gonna shove it up your tight lily white ass.
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Don't worry, maybe mum and dad will help you out after you finished first grade.
Thanks for that link. Most of us who weren't at WWDC completly missed that on the Apple homepage, countless news stories and web logs covering the preview release. It's a good thing you are there to provide the link.
Look! My God, it's huge! ...it's because we were thinking of training as taxidermists and we want to get the feel of it from the animal's point of view. ...and I expect we'll have to take all of the blame.
[growl]
[bang bang bang...]
[rewwr]
REAR END: Uhh. Uh, don't shoot. Don't shoot. We're not a tiger. W-- Uhh, we were jus-- s-- st, um,--
AINSWORTH: Why are you dressed as a tiger?
REAR END: Hm? Oh, 'why'! 'Why'! 'Why'! Haahh, isn't it a lovely day today?
AINSWORTH: Answer the question.
REAR END: Oh, we were just, um,--
FRONT END: Well, uhh, actually, we're-- we're dressed like this because, uh,-- Oh. No, that's not it.
REAR END: Uh, we did it for a lark. Part of a spree. High spirits, you know. Simple as that. Hm.
FRONT END: Nothing more to it. Hah.
REAR END: Ha ha.
FRONT END: Well, actually, we're on a mission for British Intelligence. Th-- th-- there's a pro-Tsarist Ashanti Chief, uh,--
REAR END: No, no. No. No, no.
FRONT END: Uh, no. No, no, no. No. No. No.
REAR END: No. No, no, no, no. No. No, we're doing it for an advertisement.
FRONT END: Ah, that's it.
REAR END: Mhm.
FRONT END: Uhh, forget about the Russians.
REAR END: Mhm.
FRONT END: Uh, we're-- we're doing an advert for 'Tiger' brand coffee.
REAR END: 'Tiger' brand coffee is a real treat. Even tigers prefer a cup of it to real meat. Mm.
AINSWORTH: Now look.
REAR END: All right. All right. We are dressed as a tiger because he had an auntie who did it in eighteen-thirty-nine, and this is the fiftieth anniversary.
FRONT END: No. We're doing it for a bet.
REAR END: God told us to do it.
FRONT END: To tell the truth, we are completely mad.
REAR END: [grimacing]
FRONT END: We are-- we are inmates of a Bengali psychiatric institution and we escaped by making this skin out of old, used cereal packets.
REAR END: Mhm.
PERKINS: It doesn't matter!
AINSWORTH: What?
PERKINS: It doesn't matter why they're dressed as a tiger. Have they got my leg?
AINSWORTH: Good thinking! Well, have you?
REAR END: Actually,...
AINSWORTH: Yes?
REAR END:
AINSWORTH: Be quiet. Now look. We're just asking you if you've got this man's leg.
FRONT END: A wooden leg?
AINSWORTH: No, no. A proper leg! Look. He was fast asleep, and someone or something came in and removed it.
FRONT END: Without waking him up?
AINSWORTH: Yes.
FRONT END: I don't believe you.
REAR END: We found the tiger skin in a bicycle shop in Cairo. The owner wanted it taken down to Dar Es Salaam--
AINSWORTH: Shut up! Now look. Have you or have you not got his leg?
REAR END: Yes.
FRONT END: No.
REAR END: No.
FRONT END: No, no, no.
REAR END: No. No, no, no.
FRONT END: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
REAR END: No, no, no. No. No. No. No.
AINSWORTH: Why did you say 'yes'?
FRONT END: I didn't.
AINSWORTH: I'm not talking to you.
REAR END: Uum. Uum. Hmmhh.
AINSWORTH: Right! Search the thicket.
FRONT END: Oh, come on. I mean, do we look like the sort of chaps who'd creep into a camp at night, steal into someone's tent, anaesthetise them, tissue-type them, amputate a leg, and run away with it?
AINSWORTH: Search the thicket.
FRONT END: Oh, 'leg'! You're looking for a leg! Actually, I think there is one in there somewhere. Uhh, somebody must have abandoned it here, knowing you were coming after it, and we stumbled across it, actually, and wondered what it was, and they'll be miles away by now,... [thock]
Why don't you shitheads have any sense of aesthetics?
Whoa Deja Vu! Must be a glitch in the Matrix...
You could've checked your awesome cut and paste commenting a bit more closely before posting. Oh, by the way, Dell sucks.
Ok more screenshots of the features shown in Apple's broadcast, nice for end users I guess, but what about some details for developers?
Does Apple solve the problems for international users? Or must we wait until KDE has perfected it and Apple starts losing international users? I want to share my shareware with people who's language I cannot speak or write. No I'm not a paying Apple Developer, so that are things a nerd like me wants to know.
Dennis SCP
Ugggh! iTunes has some serious and very significant problems with its user-interface design and implementation for Windows. Now, I've used OS X and really quite like it. I'd consider picking up a Mac for my next computer. Sure, there are things I don't like about OS X but in general, it's the best user interface I've used.
But iTunes is not a good way to introduce people to the OS X way. In fact, it seems more likely to turn people off the idea. iTunes doesn't use the right mouse button, a serious problem for a Windows app. iTunes becomes non-responsive for long periods of time when used with my iPod. iTunes requires you use the menu to perform simple tasks like adding a new playlist (or at least, I could find no way around that). It also wouldn't work with my iPod until I allowed it to delete every song on my iPod, a horrible design decision that I believe was made for political reasons.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that iTunes is crap. All I'm saying is that it is a lousy way to introduce someone to the OS X way and is more likely to turn users off. I mean, come on... they can't be bothered to turn the cursor into an hourglass on long-running processes? They just make the UI completely unresponsive during that time? Please.
I'll happily introduce anyone who cares to the OS X environment, and expect after a couple of days that they'll be quite happy in using it. I'd hesitate to recommend iTunes to any Windows users if there's a reasonable alternative, though, and although it does many things well, it has far too many annoying idiosynchrasies to use as a teaching tool.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
If you want to see what's in the NEXT OS-X, just look at Windows 95. That's where most of the features are stolen from.
We are all very proud of you that you have a "sweetie". Good job proposing to the first girl who didn't run away when you talked to her. And she said yes! Congrats! Way to settle. Sure beats growing some balls and being a man.