Seems fairly accurate to me. Would you like to pinpoint what Troll-action you spot? All I see is brief summary highlighting the blatant bias by the second guy and his inability to give objective reasoning why Vista is good.
I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but nothing has really changed now, has it?
The installer still loads everything in 16 color 800x600 mode, can't find simple pieces of hardware, and takes bloddy forever to simply get on with it. I saw Vista crash to BSOD in less than five minutes of installing it, and due to a sound card driver from a not even obscure sound card, nonetheless.
Instead of saying (basically) that OS X sucks, why don't you point out some strengths of Vista as evidence, other than a few lame wiki links? Anyone complaining about IE7 issues starts off with a hit against their credibility anyway.
The two subsequent builds of Vista, however, had no support for it, so until I downloaded an XP version of the driver from the Sound Blaster Web site, and installed it in XP-compatibility mode, I had no sound.
I'm pretty sure OS X has always had right click functionality, that is if you install a two button mouse.
Of course OS X has had it. I was talking about mid 90s Mac OS, when they first added the right mouse click (or in this case the control click). It wasn't until later (USB) that you could buy any off the shelf mouse and throw it on to your a Mac.
My gripe is more directed at giving PC dorks ammo (as wimpy as it is) against why Macs suck. Granted, I would think Mac OS X sucked if it didn't have right mouse click functionality, but I didn't mind living through the control click years. As a pro Photoshopper from version 1.0, the control or option + click is a very logical maneuver for me. I don't use right click for anything in Photoshop, as I stick to the control or option options, and keep the right click for simple copy/paste type actions.
Wow are your attacks misguided! I've been using Mac since 1988 and they are my primary machines. I'm simply stating that if you are going to have right-mouse functionality built into your OS, and sell mice with 2 buttons, why in the world would you have it set to "off" by default?
It took Apple 10 years to add right click functionality to the OS
MacOS supported multi-button mice back in the 90s.
Yes, I know. I was there when they added it (OS 7.6, maybe? Too long to remember). 1995 is still 11 years after the original Mac, thus my "10 years" comment.
What's annoying about it is there are thousands of additional user interface advantages by having right click. Even more annoying is that NO Apple mouses are one button anymore, so why have an OS that is only one button by default?
In windows you don't switch apps by a combination of multi finger keystrokes or moving the mouse to the corner, waiting for the screen to redraw a representation of all the apps and then picking the right one.
In Windows, like Mac, you push Alt+Tab. Both are the same "multi-finger keysroke". Or you can push the center mouse button and "wait for the screen to redraw" (all 3 nanoseconds), or you can squeeze the sides or you can push the F11, or you can do whatever you programmed to envoke Expose and pick the app you want.
No, all you do is move the mouse to the task bar and click once. That's it. Simple and effective.
Yes, and in Mac OS X "all you do is move the mouse to the [dock] and click once." Unlike Windows, Mac OS brings that program to the focus, instead of launching a new instance of that program.
With the taskbar you only get a text description and a small icon, and the text is genenerally truncated if you have more than five or so apps open. AND the task bar doesn't hold directories, doesn't let you rearrange the order of open apps, doesn't differentiate between apps and docs, doesn't launch a document, doesn't let you shut down a hanging program, doesn't let you choose which app to open a document with, doesn't allow you to drag and drop to add or remove items (even if it is a bad idea for removing), doesn't allow you to drag and drop a document on the program with which you wish to open the document, and doesn't allow you to choose "next song" in iTunes (or do anything to any running app for that matter, other than close it)...all things the dock in OS X allow the users to do. Should I stop there or keep going?
The dock isn't perfect, but it definitely does more stuff than the task bar, which isn't necessarily a good thing when speaking of simplicity/elegance. In my experience, people who try to rip on the dock do so because they are used to Windows.
DRM is terrible for any band but the absolute largest, and even for them it is bad because the new fan base wants to have nothing to do with it.
I respectfully disagree and give you this example: I was sitting at home, bored, surfing iTunes when I came across a free iTunes download by some unknown band. What the hell, its free, I can delete it if it sucks. The song was "Over My Head" by then unheard of The Fray.
My point is that DRM never hurt them and I consider their song being a free iTunes download the #1 factor to their success. I am not downplaying their musical ability at all, as I myself am a musician. I'm sure they've worked hard to get where they are, but the truth is they are just like any thousands of other bands just like mine, but they actually caught the break they needed to make it big. Good for them, and good for iTunes.
Yeah, so what? I generally love live music when I'm there, but dread the stuff in my house. Your list is supposed to be impressive? "Whitesnake - Glacgow Apollo"? Man, how have I lived without this track!?
Congratulations! You've made the cliche claim that your music is ruined because of DRM. Here's a counter claim for you: 99% of people can't hear a difference anyway.
On one hand it is stupid that Apple would turn off a feature like tabbed browsing by default. On the other hand, it is perfectly consistent with Apple's simplicity first mantra. But still... It took Apple 10 years to add right click functionality to the OS (not to mention another 10 years to add a second button), and even then they turned it off by default. Now it is on by default in the OS, but you have to turn the hardware on (MacBook) since it is set to single mouse click by default. Annoying.
I used to think this way. I figured the "tight integration" would be just like all the other goodies provided with Mac OS. However, Safari is slower, crashes more, less functional, and displays stuff worse (parallelism/grammar be damned) than Firefox. Ideally, I'd rather run Internet Explorer...ok, that was a joke.
I like what you posted. I have to say, though, that "putting up" with DRM for me has had about as much impact on my life as clipping my fingernails every three weeks or so. I have five computers and three iPods and DRM (iTunes DRM at least) have never caused me any grief. I think I remember authorizing a computer on my new iMac once, and maybe on my old computer once? For the record, I listen to almost every genre imaginable, as I am a gigging drummer. I like Country and Jazz. Country Jazz band anyone?
Spoken like a true anonymous coward. If all of us yanks died, that would only leave U.S. Southerners...Then y'all (yanks don't say y'all, btw)would be legit in your stereotypes of close-minded gun-lovin' over-eatin' big truck drivin' Americans.
Yes, my post is nearly as stupid as yours.
And exactly how is your definition of "body-worship" any different than that of objectifying women?
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The lady that was substitute teaching and had porn pop-ups jump all over her screen was found guilty of exposing students to that stuff. I haven't heard what the sentencing was. It wasn't her account, her computer, and she was only a temporary (substitute) employee, so I really can't see how that backwoods jury could have found her guilty. If I were her, I'd find out what "blocking" software they have and sue them (and the school district).
Apple should use the three screen shots in the article for their commercials. These screens basically sum up why Microsoft sucks, and why Mac OS X is vastly superior...
If anything, ram requirements on OS X will go down as Rosetta is slowly rendered useless. I run 1Gig on my MacBook, and it runs fast enough. For more heavy stuff, I'd rather be using my Intel iMac with the 2Gigs of ram (and the roughly.5ghz speed boost on the cpu).
I would just like to flame myself and mock my subject-verb agreement in the previous post. Some grad student I is, eh? The risks of trying to make a post while at work...
You are correct in your assumption that Spotlight with intel Macs don't have an issue with speed. I have the slowest Intel Mac (MacBook Core Duo, 1.82GHz) and Spotlight searches are nearly instantaneous.
A lot of people claim no need for Spotlight, but as a graduate student, I can tell you that Spotlight is a Godsend; especially since all my material is in ebooks, word documents and pdfs. Finding the one paper containing the term "standards-based reform" amongst my 50 e-books and my 200 or so journal pdf's took me about as long as it took to type the search term. The sad thing is I'm usually looking for something I wrote!:-)
Firefox users by their very nature are the sort of people to try something new.
Actually, by our very nature, we are the sort of people who like shit to work. Mac OS X + Firefox is a good start. Even in XP I'll take the 2 minutes to dowload and install Firefox if not for the fact it works, to be free of Microsoft's secret pact with ever spam-dealing ad-ware installing sleeze bag on the planet.
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Seems fairly accurate to me. Would you like to pinpoint what Troll-action you spot? All I see is brief summary highlighting the blatant bias by the second guy and his inability to give objective reasoning why Vista is good.
Instead of saying (basically) that OS X sucks, why don't you point out some strengths of Vista as evidence, other than a few lame wiki links? Anyone complaining about IE7 issues starts off with a hit against their credibility anyway.
Twelve years later and nothing has changed...
My gripe is more directed at giving PC dorks ammo (as wimpy as it is) against why Macs suck. Granted, I would think Mac OS X sucked if it didn't have right mouse click functionality, but I didn't mind living through the control click years. As a pro Photoshopper from version 1.0, the control or option + click is a very logical maneuver for me. I don't use right click for anything in Photoshop, as I stick to the control or option options, and keep the right click for simple copy/paste type actions.
What's annoying about it is there are thousands of additional user interface advantages by having right click. Even more annoying is that NO Apple mouses are one button anymore, so why have an OS that is only one button by default?
In Windows, like Mac, you push Alt+Tab. Both are the same "multi-finger keysroke". Or you can push the center mouse button and "wait for the screen to redraw" (all 3 nanoseconds), or you can squeeze the sides or you can push the F11, or you can do whatever you programmed to envoke Expose and pick the app you want.
Yes, and in Mac OS X "all you do is move the mouse to the [dock] and click once." Unlike Windows, Mac OS brings that program to the focus, instead of launching a new instance of that program.
With the taskbar you only get a text description and a small icon, and the text is genenerally truncated if you have more than five or so apps open. AND the task bar doesn't hold directories, doesn't let you rearrange the order of open apps, doesn't differentiate between apps and docs, doesn't launch a document, doesn't let you shut down a hanging program, doesn't let you choose which app to open a document with, doesn't allow you to drag and drop to add or remove items (even if it is a bad idea for removing), doesn't allow you to drag and drop a document on the program with which you wish to open the document, and doesn't allow you to choose "next song" in iTunes (or do anything to any running app for that matter, other than close it)...all things the dock in OS X allow the users to do. Should I stop there or keep going?
The dock isn't perfect, but it definitely does more stuff than the task bar, which isn't necessarily a good thing when speaking of simplicity/elegance. In my experience, people who try to rip on the dock do so because they are used to Windows.
I respectfully disagree and give you this example: I was sitting at home, bored, surfing iTunes when I came across a free iTunes download by some unknown band. What the hell, its free, I can delete it if it sucks. The song was "Over My Head" by then unheard of The Fray.
My point is that DRM never hurt them and I consider their song being a free iTunes download the #1 factor to their success. I am not downplaying their musical ability at all, as I myself am a musician. I'm sure they've worked hard to get where they are, but the truth is they are just like any thousands of other bands just like mine, but they actually caught the break they needed to make it big. Good for them, and good for iTunes.
Yeah, so what? I generally love live music when I'm there, but dread the stuff in my house. Your list is supposed to be impressive? "Whitesnake - Glacgow Apollo"? Man, how have I lived without this track!?
Congratulations! You've made the cliche claim that your music is ruined because of DRM. Here's a counter claim for you: 99% of people can't hear a difference anyway.
Having a bad day much? (Althought I agree.) A little attention to detail goes a long way towards one's credibility.
On one hand it is stupid that Apple would turn off a feature like tabbed browsing by default. On the other hand, it is perfectly consistent with Apple's simplicity first mantra. But still... It took Apple 10 years to add right click functionality to the OS (not to mention another 10 years to add a second button), and even then they turned it off by default. Now it is on by default in the OS, but you have to turn the hardware on (MacBook) since it is set to single mouse click by default. Annoying.
I used to think this way. I figured the "tight integration" would be just like all the other goodies provided with Mac OS. However, Safari is slower, crashes more, less functional, and displays stuff worse (parallelism/grammar be damned) than Firefox. Ideally, I'd rather run Internet Explorer...ok, that was a joke.
I like what you posted. I have to say, though, that "putting up" with DRM for me has had about as much impact on my life as clipping my fingernails every three weeks or so. I have five computers and three iPods and DRM (iTunes DRM at least) have never caused me any grief. I think I remember authorizing a computer on my new iMac once, and maybe on my old computer once? For the record, I listen to almost every genre imaginable, as I am a gigging drummer. I like Country and Jazz. Country Jazz band anyone?
I want what this guy is smoking.
Spoken like a true anonymous coward. If all of us yanks died, that would only leave U.S. Southerners...Then y'all (yanks don't say y'all, btw)would be legit in your stereotypes of close-minded gun-lovin' over-eatin' big truck drivin' Americans. Yes, my post is nearly as stupid as yours.
And exactly how is your definition of "body-worship" any different than that of objectifying women?
The lady that was substitute teaching and had porn pop-ups jump all over her screen was found guilty of exposing students to that stuff. I haven't heard what the sentencing was. It wasn't her account, her computer, and she was only a temporary (substitute) employee, so I really can't see how that backwoods jury could have found her guilty. If I were her, I'd find out what "blocking" software they have and sue them (and the school district).
Apple should use the three screen shots in the article for their commercials. These screens basically sum up why Microsoft sucks, and why Mac OS X is vastly superior...
If anything, ram requirements on OS X will go down as Rosetta is slowly rendered useless. I run 1Gig on my MacBook, and it runs fast enough. For more heavy stuff, I'd rather be using my Intel iMac with the 2Gigs of ram (and the roughly .5ghz speed boost on the cpu).
I would just like to flame myself and mock my subject-verb agreement in the previous post. Some grad student I is, eh? The risks of trying to make a post while at work...
A lot of people claim no need for Spotlight, but as a graduate student, I can tell you that Spotlight is a Godsend; especially since all my material is in ebooks, word documents and pdfs. Finding the one paper containing the term "standards-based reform" amongst my 50 e-books and my 200 or so journal pdf's took me about as long as it took to type the search term. The sad thing is I'm usually looking for something I wrote!