Nice post new Apple user, but as a long time Apple user myself, I'll start worrying about your "sky-is-falling" scenario once it actually starts happening (if ever). Twenty years on and I'm still waiting...Call me arrogant if you must, but I'll continue to live in my arrogant and ignorant world, because it's done me well thus far. I "think" Macs are well enough mainstream that there would have to be a least a small pocket of hateful geeks that would love to hack the hell out of OSX. The problem is they exist, but they just aren't having any success.
Not taking away from the supposed seriousness of the problem, but using.mac isn't the ONLY way to login to iDisk. I would suggest that it isn't even the main way (for anyone using a Mac for more than a few years). You don't even need a web broswer, as you can mount your iDisk to the desktop of any Mac connected to the net (through the finder). When you are done, you simply unmount the drive (drag to trash, choose from a menu, right click and choose). As usual, there are lots of ways to accomplish something on a Mac, but the detractors always focus on the one that is most offensive to the geek culture.
They may have a bad forum policy as far as removing contentious points, but the end product is for the better. When new Mac converts go looking to figure out how to do something on their mac, they don't have to wade through hundreds of threads planted by trolls and haters.
Except iDisk makes it possible for people like your mom (i.e., have no idea what ssh means) to do what you do when you ssh to your desktop. That's iDisk's sole purpose in life; to marry a powerful geek function (ssh) with something most common people know how to do (browse the web). And geeks who are too full of themselves take offense to Apple's simplification..which is the whole reason geeks generally hate Macs.
I got my kid an electric guitar AND a trumpet...and he totally kicks butt on Guitar Hero II. I'm getting him Guitar Hero III this year for Christmas. Why not encourage ALL of these endeavors? Life's not limited to choosing between "real instruments" vs. "Guitar Hero".
Guitar Hero has given him an understanding of the structures and tempos of modern rock music that he can apply to his real guitar. I see no harm in that.
Hyperbole. There are plenty of good flicks. Granted, they are buried under tons of crap, but just because most movies are crap doesn't mean you can't find ONE that is worth $5 off. Same goes for music, btw.
Life was so much simpler when law enforcement restricted their efforts to catching criminals who made money from pirated wares. Unless I'm reselling the songs and movies I've downloaded for a profit, law enforcement is wasting their time coming after me. Bust the losers that sell pirated DVDs from the trunks of their cars and leave the soccer mom's who download pop singles alone.
You have no times for fools, yet plenty of time for Vista and RC1? Who is the fool here?;-)
Back to the issue. No I haven't installed RC1, nor have I even used Vista. Granted, I am speaking in generalities, using 15 years of experience with Microsoft. Hell, I might like Vista, but I have a long running track record of hoop jumping with ANYTHING Microsoft related. Why would this be any different, especially considering the extra negative press surrounding Vista?
My point is simply that the MS apologists say "there ARE no HOOPS!" then go on to list a litany of what most "normal" people consider jumping through hoops. Anything more than a double click and a restart is jumping through hoops, especially when compared to the relative ease of other OSes (cough, OSX, cough).
Call me a finger-pointer if you must, but it is not, nor should it ever be, the regular user's responsibility (read: job) to uninstall the old version and install the new version of the company's critical document repository software. Never ever ever. Why do you IT guys think WE should do something that is above the general user's ability? When we dork it up, you blame us, when if you'd just do it yourself nothing should go wrong.
Another thing, if I'm supposed to install my own updates and installs, then why do you IT guys take my ability to install iTunes away, all the while expecting me to install *your* software for you? Which is it going to be? Am I a buffoon operator that shouldn't be allowed to put iTunes on my computer, or am I a tech guru that is expected to do all the IT stuff myself? We finger-pointers have a hard time accepting this, and you IT guys can't have it both ways.
Well it isn't hyperbole when you do your three steps, then you get to the "Vista will automatically download all updates you need" part, something goes awry like it always seems to with MS products, leaving your system in limbo right in the middle of some random install. Bring in the hoops, start jumpin'.
Just like almost everything else in the Army, it would be cheaper and have better quality to contract it out. This, on the other hand, is a monumental waste of taxpayer money and thins the fighting force out even more than it already is.
That's funny that the Know-it-all user sounds an awful lot like most the IT people I know:
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Know-It-Alls often insist on doing things their own way. They change options and settings on their computers just because they can, and they have a tendency to connect devices and download software to their computers that IT does not support.
Pretty much every hack IT guy I've ever known, and it seems there are 8 of these guys for every 10.
As someone who cares not one bit about my "privacy", I'd love to see more of these types of deals. The only thing that makes me wary when dealing with "privacy" is I prefer not to be spammed for the rest of my life. I could, however, give a flyin' f*&k if anyone is monitoring what I do on my computer. If you are monitoring me, be prepared to be bored to tears.
That's a funny anecdote! I find that my love of my Commodore 64 (second computer, after my Vic-20) has made me hate PCs but like Macs a lot. I wonder if there is any connection? I never saw my C-64 in any role other than FUN, whereas a PC (for me) equates to WORK. I remember really not liking PCs of the time, as my Commodore 64 did 100 times cooler things than the monochrome IMBs of the time. Kind of how the entire 90s went for me, once I discovered Macs in the late 80s. At every stage of technology, I was doing something cool on a C-64 or a Mac long before the PCs caught up. The early 90s was the pinnacle (desktop publishing, millions of colors, full array of sound editing tools, stuff that "just worked", etc. etc.) Even today, I'm amazed to see PC users discovering things that I've been doing for well over 15-20 years now (editing video/music on computers, for example).
Apple innovates new features and improves existing features. Microsoft "upgrades" existing features and tells you the old ones were crap so you need to buy the new one. People free-willingly and eagerly purchase OS X upgrades. Microsoft ones..not so much. Big difference there.
Not because Vista is particularily bad (it isn't), but because XP is good enough already.
Well it doesn't really matter if Vista is bad or not (it is), but the perception is out there that it is. Perception trumps reality at every juncture. You know there is no software available for Macintosh and they only have one mouse button, right? Unfortunately for Apple, most people think you can't run MS Office on a Mac (and some even think you can't "go on the Internet" either). Although this is obviously not true, it keeps millions of people from buying Macs every year.
Intel processors DID used to suck (compared to available RISC chips at the time) and OS 6-9 WAS awesome (copmared to Win 3, 95, 98, 98SE, ME). Everything is relative.
interestingly enough, all three problems you gave are directly related to microsoft (ms mouse, running windows via bootcamp, and networking with a windows machine).
if you must rent, get your facts straight! Quicklook is accessible by hitting the space bar. He rants against one of the best features because he can't find a space bar on his keyboard.
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Nice post new Apple user, but as a long time Apple user myself, I'll start worrying about your "sky-is-falling" scenario once it actually starts happening (if ever). Twenty years on and I'm still waiting...Call me arrogant if you must, but I'll continue to live in my arrogant and ignorant world, because it's done me well thus far. I "think" Macs are well enough mainstream that there would have to be a least a small pocket of hateful geeks that would love to hack the hell out of OSX. The problem is they exist, but they just aren't having any success.
Not taking away from the supposed seriousness of the problem, but using .mac isn't the ONLY way to login to iDisk. I would suggest that it isn't even the main way (for anyone using a Mac for more than a few years). You don't even need a web broswer, as you can mount your iDisk to the desktop of any Mac connected to the net (through the finder). When you are done, you simply unmount the drive (drag to trash, choose from a menu, right click and choose). As usual, there are lots of ways to accomplish something on a Mac, but the detractors always focus on the one that is most offensive to the geek culture.
They may have a bad forum policy as far as removing contentious points, but the end product is for the better. When new Mac converts go looking to figure out how to do something on their mac, they don't have to wade through hundreds of threads planted by trolls and haters.
Except iDisk makes it possible for people like your mom (i.e., have no idea what ssh means) to do what you do when you ssh to your desktop. That's iDisk's sole purpose in life; to marry a powerful geek function (ssh) with something most common people know how to do (browse the web). And geeks who are too full of themselves take offense to Apple's simplification..which is the whole reason geeks generally hate Macs.
Guitar Hero has given him an understanding of the structures and tempos of modern rock music that he can apply to his real guitar. I see no harm in that.
Hyperbole. There are plenty of good flicks. Granted, they are buried under tons of crap, but just because most movies are crap doesn't mean you can't find ONE that is worth $5 off. Same goes for music, btw.
Life was so much simpler when law enforcement restricted their efforts to catching criminals who made money from pirated wares. Unless I'm reselling the songs and movies I've downloaded for a profit, law enforcement is wasting their time coming after me. Bust the losers that sell pirated DVDs from the trunks of their cars and leave the soccer mom's who download pop singles alone.
Back to the issue. No I haven't installed RC1, nor have I even used Vista. Granted, I am speaking in generalities, using 15 years of experience with Microsoft. Hell, I might like Vista, but I have a long running track record of hoop jumping with ANYTHING Microsoft related. Why would this be any different, especially considering the extra negative press surrounding Vista?
My point is simply that the MS apologists say "there ARE no HOOPS!" then go on to list a litany of what most "normal" people consider jumping through hoops. Anything more than a double click and a restart is jumping through hoops, especially when compared to the relative ease of other OSes (cough, OSX, cough).
Another thing, if I'm supposed to install my own updates and installs, then why do you IT guys take my ability to install iTunes away, all the while expecting me to install *your* software for you? Which is it going to be? Am I a buffoon operator that shouldn't be allowed to put iTunes on my computer, or am I a tech guru that is expected to do all the IT stuff myself? We finger-pointers have a hard time accepting this, and you IT guys can't have it both ways.
And yes, this rant stems from a real scenario.
Well it isn't hyperbole when you do your three steps, then you get to the "Vista will automatically download all updates you need" part, something goes awry like it always seems to with MS products, leaving your system in limbo right in the middle of some random install. Bring in the hoops, start jumpin'.
It's called "advertising" not proselytizing. It's a volunteer Army too, just in case you forgot.
Just like almost everything else in the Army, it would be cheaper and have better quality to contract it out. This, on the other hand, is a monumental waste of taxpayer money and thins the fighting force out even more than it already is.
I'm an instructional designer. The best instructional design for any computer related task is to teach the user how to find the help files.
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Pretty much every hack IT guy I've ever known, and it seems there are 8 of these guys for every 10.We know it is propaganda because slashdot says so!
As someone who cares not one bit about my "privacy", I'd love to see more of these types of deals. The only thing that makes me wary when dealing with "privacy" is I prefer not to be spammed for the rest of my life. I could, however, give a flyin' f*&k if anyone is monitoring what I do on my computer. If you are monitoring me, be prepared to be bored to tears.
That's a funny anecdote! I find that my love of my Commodore 64 (second computer, after my Vic-20) has made me hate PCs but like Macs a lot. I wonder if there is any connection? I never saw my C-64 in any role other than FUN, whereas a PC (for me) equates to WORK. I remember really not liking PCs of the time, as my Commodore 64 did 100 times cooler things than the monochrome IMBs of the time. Kind of how the entire 90s went for me, once I discovered Macs in the late 80s. At every stage of technology, I was doing something cool on a C-64 or a Mac long before the PCs caught up. The early 90s was the pinnacle (desktop publishing, millions of colors, full array of sound editing tools, stuff that "just worked", etc. etc.) Even today, I'm amazed to see PC users discovering things that I've been doing for well over 15-20 years now (editing video/music on computers, for example).
Apple innovates new features and improves existing features. Microsoft "upgrades" existing features and tells you the old ones were crap so you need to buy the new one. People free-willingly and eagerly purchase OS X upgrades. Microsoft ones..not so much. Big difference there.
Intel processors DID used to suck (compared to available RISC chips at the time) and OS 6-9 WAS awesome (copmared to Win 3, 95, 98, 98SE, ME). Everything is relative.
interestingly enough, all three problems you gave are directly related to microsoft (ms mouse, running windows via bootcamp, and networking with a windows machine).
if you must rent, get your facts straight! Quicklook is accessible by hitting the space bar. He rants against one of the best features because he can't find a space bar on his keyboard.
as if making an album is easy work...