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The Ledger Joker was a million times better than the campy Jack Nicholson version. Jack Nicholson's Joker was, well, Jack Nicholson with face paint. Ledger's joker was like being inside the mind of a madman, and understanding what's going on.
My wife said Jack Nicholson is mad because nobody "consulted" him on how to play the joker. If that's true, I'm burning my Jack Nicholson DVD collection tonight.
I saw the trailer and it touted itself as the number one graphic novel of all time, yet I've never even heard of it. Guess I don't run in those circles, or am I really just that far removed from reality now days (getting old sucks)?
My response was to "Anonymous Coward" who asked, "why should I list out all of the stupid problems I've had with MacOS". His laundry list included a bunch of made up stuff he read on the Internet somewhere.
I don't think the volume of hardcore Mac users is a voluminous (or hardcore) as you think. What I do see on/. is the opposite, in huge numbers of people with personality disorders that crawl out of their mothers' basements to post talking-point style attacks against OSX.
You know, AT&T sells voice and data plans that work with phones NOT made by Apple. Those plans cost the same too, regardless of your silly little rant.
The main reason I would like to see a list of problems is because my experience (admittedly anecdotal) here on slashdot is those people who claim to have long laundry lists of problems in OSX are just lying out of their asses. I don't know what personality disorder it is, but I'll never understand why some people come on here, never having used a Mac before, just to make up a bunch of obvious lies about how their "various macs" have "plenty of problems".
The other reason is because, in most cases, the "problems" people are experiencing have very basic fixes that I can share here for new users.
The recent converts just needed the reassurance that they COULD run Windows if they had to. That really was the last barricade for many of them. Apple retailers should be making a killing off of pre-installed Windows/Boot Camp partitions--I wonder if they are?
The amusing thing to me is that the upwards trend for Apple finally occured once they migrated to the Intel platform, and provided a dual-boot capability.
Why is that amusing? It merely shows that plenty of people were eager to switch to Macs but where too insecure to take the plunge. Now they have a safety net, and there is no risk in switching. If you hate OSX, you still have a nice Windows box.
And then there are things that OSX simply won't do. In Windows if I want to delete something I can click on the file, icon, object or whatever and press the Delete button my keyboard. In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can.
You sound like you've read the "Let's Bash Apple" talking points memo. So you claim OSX "simply won't do" deletes with the delete key eh? Something tells me you aren't trying hard enough (hint: applekey+delete...fail-safe key modifier so you don't accidentally delete something).
I have another gripe with the way OSX doesn't properly utilize the Delete key...Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete.
Yes you can put the cursor in front of the B and press delete. OSX handles it the same way Windows does, as long as your Mac keyboard has that key. MacBooks are the only Macs that don't, just like many entry-level PC laptops don't have full keyboards.
Every OSX geek I've talked to just brushes me off like I'm stupid for wanting to use the Delete key. That gives me the sense that there really isn't a solution to it and the GUI Gods at Apple do suck
Because your point isn't valid? And since this is a hardware shortcoming (on MacBooks only), it has nothing to do with the GUI.
Or maybe there is a special key on an Apple keyboard that acts like the Delete key on the computers that hold onto the other... what, 82% of the market share?
Yes there is a special key. It's labelled "Delete". It's next to "End" and below "Insert".
Ok, in all seriousness, you obviously are complaining about the lack of a physical delete key on MacBooks. Blaming the OS has no merit in this case. Blaming the MacBook might have some merit, but there are many consumer-level laptops that forgo the extra keys. Take a deep breath and reevaluate the OS.
Excellent point. I've been a home OSX user from day one of 10.0. Since I use Windows at work, I have to unlearn the Windows way just to use my computer of choice at home. It's only because Windows has made us all accustom to having to dork around with our stuff to get it to work that we go home and over-think (and forget how in some cases) how to do something on a Mac.
The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
You do not have to restart the finder (or any app for that matter) through a right-click menu. That is ONE method. You can also left click and hold the mouse down on the non-responding app in the dock, which invokes the right-click menu (not all apps, but many). You can hold down the apple key, the one next to it (I'm at work, so I'm not sure which it is) and the escape key to invoke the "task manager" where you pick the offending app and can force quit. You can also invoke that same window from the Apple menu. You can also pull up a shell and kill the process via a UNIX command. In any case, your example is dubious, as I'm not really sure where you would right click on the Finder, since the Finder doesn't have an icon to right click on to invoke the "force quit" option.
I don't mean to flame/troll whatever, but you have given us a perfect of example of a PC user trying to apply PC logic to the Mac. It doesn't work that way. Most of your "problems" are because you don't know how to do it on a Mac and are insisting on it working like Windows.
In contrast I've never found a problem like the ones listed above in Windows that I can't solve.
And in contrast, take a user with no very little experience with either system, and I think you'll see why the Mac is generally considered to be more user-friendly. Figuring things out requires less prerequisite knowledge.
Even if it requires diving into the registry at least there exists a method.
There ARE methods in OSX , as I outlined above. Because OSX doesn't have a registry, you are out of your apparent comfort zone. That is really not OSX's fault.
Doing anything sufficiently advanced on a Mac seems impossible (even with the unix backend, a simple task like editing/etc/hosts requires jumping through tons of hoops on the mac just because it's designed to be "easier".)
What are the "tons of hoops" involved in launching a shell and editing your etc/host tables in OSX? That is a disingenuous claim, to say the least.
Ahh, the old 70% solution argument. Yes, Windows is "good enough". That's exactly why I don't use it at home. For my money, "good enough" doesn't cut it.
Actually, it's all these new asshole Mac users who have come to the party about 5 years late, acting as if they discovered OSX that are ruining it for the rest of us.
Me, pretentious? Please. South Park is my favorite tv show. I am the king of low-brow humor. All I'm saying is that the lack of sophomoric, laugh-out-loud humor doesn't make a movie not funny.
Y'know, I haven't seen the movie, but I really find this to be impossible. Indeed, the lack of dialogue is the single biggest reason I'm not going to see the movie until I, at the very least, pirate it to see if it's any good: stories without dialogue don't work. Period.
Wow, aren't you the stubborn one? Well, you'll be eating your words soon enough.
I thought it was genius that all one had to do to break from the mold was to fall out of the chair. That was a stingingly accurate comment on where we are heading.
Actually, Wall-E was much different than I expected... I found it to be a bit heavy for younger kids,
I hear this a lot. Frankly, I don't understand why a movie that doesn't pretend to be a kid-friendly movie gets dinged for, well, not being very kid-friendly. My 8 year-old liked it (the messages were a bit over his head) but my 12 year-old really liked it and he understood the deeper themes. What really bothers me about bad reviews of this movie is the claim like, "I didn't laugh out loud one time!". Gee, maybe that's because it doesn't rely on low-brow humor to get its point across?
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The Ledger Joker was a million times better than the campy Jack Nicholson version. Jack Nicholson's Joker was, well, Jack Nicholson with face paint. Ledger's joker was like being inside the mind of a madman, and understanding what's going on.
My wife said Jack Nicholson is mad because nobody "consulted" him on how to play the joker. If that's true, I'm burning my Jack Nicholson DVD collection tonight.
I saw the trailer and it touted itself as the number one graphic novel of all time, yet I've never even heard of it. Guess I don't run in those circles, or am I really just that far removed from reality now days (getting old sucks)?
I'd rather have 1 rock star coder than 20 mediocre ones.
The article is about IT. They don't do code.
And "all intensive purposes" is no longer (errrrm, has never been) a phrase.
And as I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than work in health care,
Keeping up the high demand for health care professionals since 2008!
My response was to "Anonymous Coward" who asked, "why should I list out all of the stupid problems I've had with MacOS". His laundry list included a bunch of made up stuff he read on the Internet somewhere.
I don't think the volume of hardcore Mac users is a voluminous (or hardcore) as you think. What I do see on /. is the opposite, in huge numbers of people with personality disorders that crawl out of their mothers' basements to post talking-point style attacks against OSX.
You know, AT&T sells voice and data plans that work with phones NOT made by Apple. Those plans cost the same too, regardless of your silly little rant.
As if finding on the Internet is good enough proof?
The main reason I would like to see a list of problems is because my experience (admittedly anecdotal) here on slashdot is those people who claim to have long laundry lists of problems in OSX are just lying out of their asses. I don't know what personality disorder it is, but I'll never understand why some people come on here, never having used a Mac before, just to make up a bunch of obvious lies about how their "various macs" have "plenty of problems".
The other reason is because, in most cases, the "problems" people are experiencing have very basic fixes that I can share here for new users.
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The recent converts just needed the reassurance that they COULD run Windows if they had to. That really was the last barricade for many of them. Apple retailers should be making a killing off of pre-installed Windows/Boot Camp partitions--I wonder if they are?
I challenge your assumption that a Thinkpad is better hardware than a MacBook Pro.
The amusing thing to me is that the upwards trend for Apple finally occured once they migrated to the Intel platform, and provided a dual-boot capability.
Why is that amusing? It merely shows that plenty of people were eager to switch to Macs but where too insecure to take the plunge. Now they have a safety net, and there is no risk in switching. If you hate OSX, you still have a nice Windows box.
And then there are things that OSX simply won't do. In Windows if I want to delete something I can click on the file, icon, object or whatever and press the Delete button my keyboard. In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can.
You sound like you've read the "Let's Bash Apple" talking points memo. So you claim OSX "simply won't do" deletes with the delete key eh? Something tells me you aren't trying hard enough (hint: applekey+delete...fail-safe key modifier so you don't accidentally delete something).
I have another gripe with the way OSX doesn't properly utilize the Delete key...Now if I want to delete the B, I have to put the cursor after the B and press backspace. I can't put the cursor in front of the B and press Delete.
Yes you can put the cursor in front of the B and press delete. OSX handles it the same way Windows does, as long as your Mac keyboard has that key. MacBooks are the only Macs that don't, just like many entry-level PC laptops don't have full keyboards.
Every OSX geek I've talked to just brushes me off like I'm stupid for wanting to use the Delete key. That gives me the sense that there really isn't a solution to it and the GUI Gods at Apple do suck
Because your point isn't valid? And since this is a hardware shortcoming (on MacBooks only), it has nothing to do with the GUI.
Or maybe there is a special key on an Apple keyboard that acts like the Delete key on the computers that hold onto the other ... what, 82% of the market share?
Yes there is a special key. It's labelled "Delete". It's next to "End" and below "Insert".
Ok, in all seriousness, you obviously are complaining about the lack of a physical delete key on MacBooks. Blaming the OS has no merit in this case. Blaming the MacBook might have some merit, but there are many consumer-level laptops that forgo the extra keys. Take a deep breath and reevaluate the OS.
Excellent point. I've been a home OSX user from day one of 10.0. Since I use Windows at work, I have to unlearn the Windows way just to use my computer of choice at home. It's only because Windows has made us all accustom to having to dork around with our stuff to get it to work that we go home and over-think (and forget how in some cases) how to do something on a Mac.
it's easier to reinstall from scratch than fix anything but the simplest of OS problems
The biggest Windows fans on the planet have no defense against this major flaw.
The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
You do not have to restart the finder (or any app for that matter) through a right-click menu. That is ONE method. You can also left click and hold the mouse down on the non-responding app in the dock, which invokes the right-click menu (not all apps, but many). You can hold down the apple key, the one next to it (I'm at work, so I'm not sure which it is) and the escape key to invoke the "task manager" where you pick the offending app and can force quit. You can also invoke that same window from the Apple menu. You can also pull up a shell and kill the process via a UNIX command. In any case, your example is dubious, as I'm not really sure where you would right click on the Finder, since the Finder doesn't have an icon to right click on to invoke the "force quit" option.
I don't mean to flame/troll whatever, but you have given us a perfect of example of a PC user trying to apply PC logic to the Mac. It doesn't work that way. Most of your "problems" are because you don't know how to do it on a Mac and are insisting on it working like Windows.
In contrast I've never found a problem like the ones listed above in Windows that I can't solve.
And in contrast, take a user with no very little experience with either system, and I think you'll see why the Mac is generally considered to be more user-friendly. Figuring things out requires less prerequisite knowledge.
Even if it requires diving into the registry at least there exists a method.
There ARE methods in OSX , as I outlined above. Because OSX doesn't have a registry, you are out of your apparent comfort zone. That is really not OSX's fault.
Doing anything sufficiently advanced on a Mac seems impossible (even with the unix backend, a simple task like editing /etc/hosts requires jumping through tons of hoops on the mac just because it's designed to be "easier".)
What are the "tons of hoops" involved in launching a shell and editing your etc/host tables in OSX? That is a disingenuous claim, to say the least.
Ahh, the old 70% solution argument. Yes, Windows is "good enough". That's exactly why I don't use it at home. For my money, "good enough" doesn't cut it.
I've had plenty of problems with OSX. Don't let the commercials fool you.
I thought anecdotal evidence was bad enough, but you didn't even bother to provide that!
Judging by the number of responses, it's posts like yours that perpetuate said flame wars ;-)
Actually, it's all these new asshole Mac users who have come to the party about 5 years late, acting as if they discovered OSX that are ruining it for the rest of us.
Me, pretentious? Please. South Park is my favorite tv show. I am the king of low-brow humor. All I'm saying is that the lack of sophomoric, laugh-out-loud humor doesn't make a movie not funny.
Y'know, I haven't seen the movie, but I really find this to be impossible. Indeed, the lack of dialogue is the single biggest reason I'm not going to see the movie until I, at the very least, pirate it to see if it's any good: stories without dialogue don't work. Period.
Wow, aren't you the stubborn one? Well, you'll be eating your words soon enough.
I thought it was genius that all one had to do to break from the mold was to fall out of the chair. That was a stingingly accurate comment on where we are heading.
Actually, Wall-E was much different than I expected... I found it to be a bit heavy for younger kids,
I hear this a lot. Frankly, I don't understand why a movie that doesn't pretend to be a kid-friendly movie gets dinged for, well, not being very kid-friendly. My 8 year-old liked it (the messages were a bit over his head) but my 12 year-old really liked it and he understood the deeper themes. What really bothers me about bad reviews of this movie is the claim like, "I didn't laugh out loud one time!". Gee, maybe that's because it doesn't rely on low-brow humor to get its point across?