Sleep: Press sleep/wake button briefly.
Off: Hold button for several seconds, slide red slider control that shows up.
Of course it downloads new messages when the display is sleeping. There'd be no point to sleep if it didn't.
Maybe the "Make sure everything works in IE" era will die off and grow in to the "Make sure everything works on iPhone." Then we could all let IE die or switch to Webkit/Gecko rendering. Since both of them aren't written by a bunch of faceless cubicle monkeys deep in a megacorporation we'd probably end up with a happy world of (correctly rendered) rainbows designed within the standards set forth by WC3!
Use of a new operating system is rising! Use of an operating system that's being upgraded within 3 months is flat! Who would have thought that consumers don't like to spend money on technology when they know that a better version at the same price will be available shortly?
Seriously though, how many people here bought a copy of XP in the few months before Vista was released?
You fail. Try again in 6 months when you can compare two recent releases.
As a long time user of utilities like Quicksilver, I have to say that I agree 100% with the superiority of the keyboard. It's much faster to find just about anything on my computer by using quicksilver that it would be using the standard interface.
For example, if I want to look up a phone number I have two options:
1) Open a new window and navigate to the Applications folder, double click on Address Book, wait for it to launch, and type the name in the search field.
2)Press Ctrl-Space, type a few letters of the name, press the right arrow key, select the number I want, and press enter to make it show up in large numbers on the screen. If I want an action other than the default (large type) I can press tab, type the first few letters of the desired action ("co" for "Copy to Clipboard"), and press enter.
Launching programs is even quicker:
Ctrl-space, "sa", enter. Safari opens.
It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to them it's a pain to use computers without easy keyboard access. I consider any Mac without Quicksilver to be broken.
Wooooooooooooo!!!!
I have four words for you:
Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians,
Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians,
Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians,
Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians!
Wooooooooooo!!!
Maybe not the best choice for an important position...
I'm not sure why this is modded down, because it's certainly true. You may not be able to run state of the art games too well, but if all you're trying to do is run a FPS from a few years ago and can do so under Parallels then I see no reason not to.
To me it sounds like requesting that Frefox turn in to Camino for Windows/Linux. As Firefox has become more and more popular, Camino has taken a back role, reserved for use on Macs by people who aren't impressed by massive lists of features that they'll never touch. In all honesty, I think Firefox is a great example of what open source projects should try to avoid as they become more popular. One developer may think that adding the capability to change the text color of individual lines by middle clicking and pressing Left, Left, Right, Up, A, S, Enter, followed by a hex color code would be an excellent idea, but that doesn't mean that it will add anything to the overall capability (or usability) of the software. Addons do have their place, but even they have become overcome by feature bloat these days.
The number listed on Macheist.com is the total raised for charity, not the total sold. To get that you need to multiply by 4.
Right now it's at $160,062. That comes out to $640,248 of shareware sold at greatly discounted prices. That's a LOT of sales.
I think the largest part of the gain for the participating developers isn't actually the money they'll make through the bundle selling well. It's going to be more through the fact that when you get over ten thousand additional users of your program, some percent of them will click the buy button when a "Version 3.0 is now available. Would you like to upgrade?" pops up a few months down the line. They also stand to gain more sales at regular price due to the "wow factor" when people who bought the bundle show off the beautiful programs like Delicious Library to their friends. Macheist is centered around the power user demographic, and there are a lot of average people out there who will want this stuff.
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Sleep: Press sleep/wake button briefly. Off: Hold button for several seconds, slide red slider control that shows up. Of course it downloads new messages when the display is sleeping. There'd be no point to sleep if it didn't.
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It definitely seems like a similar concept.
Maybe the "Make sure everything works in IE" era will die off and grow in to the "Make sure everything works on iPhone." Then we could all let IE die or switch to Webkit/Gecko rendering. Since both of them aren't written by a bunch of faceless cubicle monkeys deep in a megacorporation we'd probably end up with a happy world of (correctly rendered) rainbows designed within the standards set forth by WC3!
Use of a new operating system is rising! Use of an operating system that's being upgraded within 3 months is flat! Who would have thought that consumers don't like to spend money on technology when they know that a better version at the same price will be available shortly? Seriously though, how many people here bought a copy of XP in the few months before Vista was released? You fail. Try again in 6 months when you can compare two recent releases.
Ha! I told you Mac OS was more secure. What? Of course I'm not a fanboy! What gave you that idea! Jeez.
As a long time user of utilities like Quicksilver, I have to say that I agree 100% with the superiority of the keyboard. It's much faster to find just about anything on my computer by using quicksilver that it would be using the standard interface. For example, if I want to look up a phone number I have two options: 1) Open a new window and navigate to the Applications folder, double click on Address Book, wait for it to launch, and type the name in the search field. 2)Press Ctrl-Space, type a few letters of the name, press the right arrow key, select the number I want, and press enter to make it show up in large numbers on the screen. If I want an action other than the default (large type) I can press tab, type the first few letters of the desired action ("co" for "Copy to Clipboard"), and press enter. Launching programs is even quicker: Ctrl-space, "sa", enter. Safari opens. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to them it's a pain to use computers without easy keyboard access. I consider any Mac without Quicksilver to be broken.
And when the tank is "empty" do you siphon the remaining 2 gallons out and pour it down the sink to replace it with fresh gas? Yeah, I thought so.
Nice attempt at an analogy. Except not. Not at all.
Wooooooooooooo!!!! I have four words for you: Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians, Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians, Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians, Politicians, politicians, politicians, politicians! Wooooooooooo!!! Maybe not the best choice for an important position...
I'm not sure why this is modded down, because it's certainly true. You may not be able to run state of the art games too well, but if all you're trying to do is run a FPS from a few years ago and can do so under Parallels then I see no reason not to.
To me it sounds like requesting that Frefox turn in to Camino for Windows/Linux. As Firefox has become more and more popular, Camino has taken a back role, reserved for use on Macs by people who aren't impressed by massive lists of features that they'll never touch. In all honesty, I think Firefox is a great example of what open source projects should try to avoid as they become more popular. One developer may think that adding the capability to change the text color of individual lines by middle clicking and pressing Left, Left, Right, Up, A, S, Enter, followed by a hex color code would be an excellent idea, but that doesn't mean that it will add anything to the overall capability (or usability) of the software. Addons do have their place, but even they have become overcome by feature bloat these days.
I'm in high school. I got a part time job last summer. I bought myself a Macbook Pro. It's really not that difficult.
Your best bet is to stop being a whiny bitch on slashdot and learn how to do something useful. Companies tend to hire people who can do useful things.
Or I suppose you could keep browsing craigslist to see if anyone wants to pay you to be a whiny bitch. It just seems unlikely.
Oh wait, I think you were right. Missed the "per day" in your comment. The blood content of my caffeine stream must be getting too high :P
The number listed on Macheist.com is the total raised for charity, not the total sold. To get that you need to multiply by 4.
Right now it's at $160,062. That comes out to $640,248 of shareware sold at greatly discounted prices. That's a LOT of sales.
I think the largest part of the gain for the participating developers isn't actually the money they'll make through the bundle selling well. It's going to be more through the fact that when you get over ten thousand additional users of your program, some percent of them will click the buy button when a "Version 3.0 is now available. Would you like to upgrade?" pops up a few months down the line. They also stand to gain more sales at regular price due to the "wow factor" when people who bought the bundle show off the beautiful programs like Delicious Library to their friends. Macheist is centered around the power user demographic, and there are a lot of average people out there who will want this stuff.