-the.app packaging format. The icon is the entire app. Just drag it to the trash to uninstall it. No registry fragments left behind.
Not quite true as the 'Library' settings are still left in either the 'System' level library or the 'Users' level library depending on the application. What I would really like to see (and I have just started dipping my hand in development on Mac OS X) is, say an applescript in the.app folder that would detect being moved to the Trash and prompt the user to clean-up the applications settings etc. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Probably the same thing we did before SCO came onto the scene. Masturbate furiously.
What you mean you stopped when this whole SCO thing started? Man you have some serious staying power! Next you will be telling me you read the article too:)
Honestly instead of those stupid this is your brain on drugs commericials with eggs being scrambled, for drug education kids should be shown that trailer!
The concept of only a single window frame with a single menu bar at the top of the screen is easy for new users to grok.
Sorry, I have always considered this a confusing, bad design. It's a relic of single-tasking from the original Mac OS.
I always thought this myself comming from the Windows land, however, think of it this way...
It is a multi-tasking OS, however, as a user you can only interface with one thing at a time. Hence you can only interfact with a single menu item no matter how many menu items are displayed on the screen. Therefore, the fact that there is only a single menu item is a moot point.
In regards to the "visual mapping", that is why it is a standard on the Mac to have the application name as the first entry in the menu item. It gives you that visual mapping so to speak... off course it is generally obvious which application you are working with in any case.
they musn't be /. readers ...
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The can't be regular/. readers given this announcement...
Our server is slow/down for the time being due to increased load. Until Slashdot.org users forget we exist, things will be a little slow / inaccessible. On Monday, we will ensure access from on-campus computers and possibly from the internet at large.
If they were regular/. readers they would realise that come Monday there would be a dupe of this article and therefore a repeat of the/.ing on their server come Monday morning;)
4 and a half years ago? Man you have high standards!
The editors have a hard enough job trying to keep dupes from aprearing on the same front page for news that is not for nerds and that doesn't matter!
Man if only you had a longer joke line you could have karma hored a little more;)
Challenge:Someone must make a post and reply to the same thing again and again so they get +5 Informative, Interesting and Funny... and to top it off end with a -1 Troll:)
hy aren't they waiting for the Xserve update? Rhetorical question, but still...
There is a reason the G5 desktops have 9 fans in them... and no it is not for the hard drives or for the Radeon 9800 Pro card in them... it is for the G5! The IBM.G5 draws more power and is hotter than a G4... therefore having two G5's in the same XServe enclosure would probably not fit the bill... unless you want a hot-plate.
IF we were to see XServe machines based on the G5 I would expect 2U (possibly 3U) enclosures designed for them. Given that apple would want a new desktop before server means that obviously the first product based on the G5 would be a desktop. IF apple are planning on ramping up the server/enterprise market I would be expecting a new range of G5 XServe's coming for '04. Off course that is just wild speculation on my part based on no fact what-so-ever.
If only I worked for IBM instead of moto maybe I would know;)
My god wo/man... at least RTFA you link! It was not Gillette watching the customers (they used it for tracking inventory), it was the freaking supermarket.
And to think I only read the article to make sure, afterall I at least remembered this story from not so long ago... looks like you didn't read the article then either, did ya:)
In any case, though the public opinion coming out of it was quite likely biased for her ("She's in the industry! She knows what she's talking about!") The fact of the matter is she blatently lied and danced around my question. Needless to say, it's quite ego-boosting to realize that a 17-year-old kid had to make a member of MS management lie and dance around the answer...
Sorry to burst that EGO bubble, but it is the JOB of every management position to lie and dance around any question being asked of them. The really successful ones enter a long journey into marketing;)
Sounds like they want their cake and to eat it, too
I am fucking sick of hearing this stupid saying (who knows the roots of it?). If I buy a cake what the fuck else am I going to do with it... keep it on display for some ants to get a free feed... OFF COURSE I AM GOING TO EAT IT!
Ahhhh that feels better... another day... another rant completley unreleated to the topic... my job as a/. boob is done for another day:)
Quite simply because Logic is no longer being developed for Windows (now that doesn't happen every day!). So to make the comparison "fair" they choose the next competing product. Simple as that really.
The above is based on the live feed done by iPalindrome @ arstechnica.com. The important bit is as follows:
[14:51] Qbase on windows vs. Logic on Mac
[14:51] Complex music piece created for the Matrix trailier
[14:51] Play the PC first then the Mac
[14:52] PC CPU is spiking aroujnd 85-90%
[14:52] Audio is skipping
[14:52] skipped again [14:52] Used Qbase for the bakeoff because Logic isn't available for Windows anymore
[14:53] massive skipping and jumping ahead
[14:53] Music has stopped ast the CPU meter is at 100%
[14:53] On the Mac now
[14:53] CPU is >30%
[14:53] One CPU is at 50%, the other a
[14:53] Music is playing smoothly
[14:54] SJ again
How about the news that moviegoers are going to be metal-detected when going to see Finding Nemo? Is that trust?
You had a good argument until you brought this one up. How can the movie industry trust people watching a film when they are going to record it on a hani-cam and then release it on the WEB? Why should an 'organisation' have complete trust in users when this happens?
You could say this is similar to CD 'protection' and that my point is mute, however there are inportant differences here:
When I pay to see a movie, thats all I do... I just watch the movie and thats it... there is nothing on the ticket that says I get to see it for life or distribute it as such.
When I buy a CD, I buy it for keeps and to listen on a CD player (not necessarily to rip-mix & burn). When I can't play that said CD on a CD player device (my PowerBook for instance) then the product I bought is defective and the company I have bought it from is not living up to its part of the excahnge.
Being able to rip music to my PowerBook to listen to it where I want without the need of carrying aorund my CD's is nice, but is it required that the CD support that? I would hope so from the persective of fair use, but no where on the CD's I buy does it say anything about that, or discourging for that matter.
The problem that they have (MPAA) is they need to product their buisness from bootleg copies hitting the market. Having metal detectors at theaters is really quite subtle these days (go through them boarding planes and to go to school in certain places), and stops it at the source, but off course only inital showings currently. Sure they should be targetting the people doing the illegal distrubtion, however this requires help and collaboration from law enforcement accross the globe... something that isn't going to happen anytime soon for 'bootleg' films.
Legality of recording radio content (IANAL, but I am sure there is some law against that, and IF there isn't I am sure to get flammed for saying as such) asside, paying for music is time saving in that...
You getting the song you want... not some renamed piece of crap.
You know what quality you are getting and can be assured of no 'pops' etc. (I live in Australia so I am assuming that the stuff from Apple's iTMS doesn't have issues like that).
You get a constant download rate that isn't hampered by people coming and going from the service... i.e. big for us lowly dial-up users.
... and, you can use your upstream for eDonkey and alikes;)
All of the above equates to you saving time and getting what you want when you want.
That's right, Microsoft's defects are our problem, we should get our lazy arses into gear becuase we haven't got anything better to do than evaluate, install, test and support Microsoft's constant patches. God forbid that we spend anytime on what we actually bought the software for, running our business or whatever. Lets all just be extensions of Microsoft's flawed development strategy: we're all testers!
Well if YOU choose to use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000 as the product to get your work done, then you also decided that you will ensure that the said products will not be a vunrability to your buisness (ie. ensuring that it was out of view from the WEB and/or that it was protected by checking bullitens about security flaws fixed or otherwise!). Maybe when people select software to do a said task they should factor in maintenance of the said product, rather than installation and runtime?
Consider the story of the Ariane 5 [around.com], which was destroyed because of an overlooked feature in a piece of code reused from a smaller rocket. No software engineer can say that they haven't made a similar mistake.
Well I have never made such a mistake. Now back to that third wheel:)
Anyway, Sun are currently valued at $12Bn, and have $5.5Bn sitting in the bank.
Well that's it then isn't it. SUN is doomed! I mean considering apple is always touted as going the way of the dodo and all the apple proponents touting the fact that they have 5-6 billion in the bank it is the only logical conclusion is it not?;)
ANY... and I mean ANY application that brings up a text field in a dialogue for me to type yes (or in this case y/n) to approve a selection I made (in this case using spaces for tabs) and let alone that same selection requiring me to press the 'OK' button anyways ('return' did not work) does not get my user time. It did need a confirmation dialogue considering that the menu items have vertiually no spacing what-so-ever between each option!.
Put simply... each product will probably have information about it on the kiosk similar and possibly more informative than whats on current shrink-wrap software packages. I didn't 'RTFA' but this just seems like the logical choice for browsing does it not?
I didn't read it because it didn't really interest me... as for comments about missing hard copy documentation... most shrink wrap packages I have bought have basic install information and the rest in PDF format as it is.
I didn't try running it prior to updating my Developer tools to December 2002 and the JAVA 1.4.1 developer update so maybe you could try this?
You might also try changing your default JAVA to use the 1.3.1 JRE that is still left behind if the above doesn't fix it the problem. There is a post somewhere around this thread about the reasons for apple keeping the 1.3.1 release and how to use it:)
Enough with the fricken restarts... this isn't part of the OS.
I first thought of this but realised the following:
When upgrading from JAVA 1.1.x to 1.2 on a Solaris platform I had to install a mirrad of software updates for the OS for JAVA to run. This has probably been the case for going to 1.3 and 1.4 although I havn't had to "administrate" a Solaris system to do this in the last couple of years.
Apple seems to have integrated JAVA quite a bit in to the overall OSX structure (look at those pretty bubble diagrams showing all the OS layers). This probably explains why JAVA applications run so damn fast compared to Windows machines running the same application.
As noted in point 2, your comment "this isn't part of the OS" is probably not correct. From what I see at the layer point of view... it seems JAVA is a 'part' of the OS.
I don't think it is a bad price to pay considering the performance of JAVA applications on OSX... but your right it was annoying, I hate losing my uptime on the powerbook:)
This has to be one of the best tools I have seen written in JAVA... Poseidon UML from Gentleware.
It is a little rough around the edges and really needs some fine tunning but runs like a dream on my PowerBook running on JAVA 1.3 no less. With any luck they will upgrade it to use the 1.4 code base they are already using for Windows and Linux clients. It is quite resource intensive, however on the Powerbook I don't notice that at all (just on the Windows development machine at work ~sigh~).
I like Windows XP compared to previous versions of Windows basically because it has almost been the most stable (although Windows 2000 only blue-screened once in 2 years of use for me and didn't have the following problem...). However there is one problem that forced me to re-install twice, and after working it out... recover it twice be re-installing applications.
Basically the system and/or software configuration files got corrupted. I re-installed the OS twice, but later after reading through some resource documentation found that their is a 'repair' directory that has fresh copies of these files so you don't have to re-install the OS (just the applications because the settings are flaked after this). Luckliy it hasn't happened for a while, but I can' say that anything like this has ever happened with my PowerBook.
OSx is a fine OS, but its not the end all - be all. If Office is the problem use something else, like 602Suite or StarOffice or OpenOffice, but don't blame windows for it.
Windows might have caused the problem with Office that he had... both you and him could be right though... thats the problem with debugging those problems you just don't know what caused them most of the times. As for using something else... how could he? His entire company and customers use office, just because he had problems you think others are going to change? With the exception of inline Word created images (which I personaly hate), Office v.X works fine with Office 2k/XP documents generated on the Windows counterpart.
As far as I can tell he made the right decision to get where we wanted to be (working wiithout constant problems not caused by himself) without affecting any other person in his environment.
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Not quite true as the 'Library' settings are still left in either the 'System' level library or the 'Users' level library depending on the application. What I would really like to see (and I have just started dipping my hand in development on Mac OS X) is, say an applescript in the .app folder that would detect being moved to the Trash and prompt the user to clean-up the applications settings etc. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Masturbate furiously.
What you mean you stopped when this whole SCO thing started? Man you have some serious staying power! Next you will be telling me you read the article too :)
Dont worry it seems you have 'badly formed scentences' to be proud of as well ;)
Sorry, I have always considered this a confusing, bad design. It's a relic of single-tasking from the original Mac OS.
I always thought this myself comming from the Windows land, however, think of it this way ...
It is a multi-tasking OS, however, as a user you can only interface with one thing at a time. Hence you can only interfact with a single menu item no matter how many menu items are displayed on the screen. Therefore, the fact that there is only a single menu item is a moot point.
In regards to the "visual mapping", that is why it is a standard on the Mac to have the application name as the first entry in the menu item. It gives you that visual mapping so to speak ... off course it is generally obvious which application you are working with in any case.
Our server is slow/down for the time being due to increased load. Until Slashdot.org users forget we exist, things will be a little slow / inaccessible. On Monday, we will ensure access from on-campus computers and possibly from the internet at large.
If they were regular /. readers they would realise that come Monday there would be a dupe of this article and therefore a repeat of the /.ing on their server come Monday morning ;)
4 and a half years ago? Man you have high standards!
The editors have a hard enough job trying to keep dupes from aprearing on the same front page for news that is not for nerds and that doesn't matter!
Challenge: Someone must make a post and reply to the same thing again and again so they get +5 Informative, Interesting and Funny ... and to top it off end with a -1 Troll :)
There is a reason the G5 desktops have 9 fans in them ... and no it is not for the hard drives or for the Radeon 9800 Pro card in them ... it is for the G5! The IBM.G5 draws more power and is hotter than a G4 ... therefore having two G5's in the same XServe enclosure would probably not fit the bill ... unless you want a hot-plate.
IF we were to see XServe machines based on the G5 I would expect 2U (possibly 3U) enclosures designed for them. Given that apple would want a new desktop before server means that obviously the first product based on the G5 would be a desktop. IF apple are planning on ramping up the server/enterprise market I would be expecting a new range of G5 XServe's coming for '04. Off course that is just wild speculation on my part based on no fact what-so-ever.
If only I worked for IBM instead of moto maybe I would know ;)
And to think I only read the article to make sure, afterall I at least remembered this story from not so long ago ... looks like you didn't read the article then either, did ya :)
Sorry to burst that EGO bubble, but it is the JOB of every management position to lie and dance around any question being asked of them. The really successful ones enter a long journey into marketing ;)
I am fucking sick of hearing this stupid saying (who knows the roots of it?). If I buy a cake what the fuck else am I going to do with it ... keep it on display for some ants to get a free feed ... OFF COURSE I AM GOING TO EAT IT!
Ahhhh that feels better ... another day ... another rant completley unreleated to the topic ... my job as a /. boob is done for another day :)
The above is based on the live feed done by iPalindrome @ arstechnica.com. The important bit is as follows:
[14:51] Qbase on windows vs. Logic on Mac
[14:51] Complex music piece created for the Matrix trailier
[14:51] Play the PC first then the Mac
[14:52] PC CPU is spiking aroujnd 85-90%
[14:52] Audio is skipping
[14:52] skipped again
[14:52] Used Qbase for the bakeoff because Logic isn't available for Windows anymore
[14:53] massive skipping and jumping ahead
[14:53] Music has stopped ast the CPU meter is at 100%
[14:53] On the Mac now
[14:53] CPU is >30%
[14:53] One CPU is at 50%, the other a [14:53] Music is playing smoothly
[14:54] SJ again
You had a good argument until you brought this one up. How can the movie industry trust people watching a film when they are going to record it on a hani-cam and then release it on the WEB? Why should an 'organisation' have complete trust in users when this happens?
You could say this is similar to CD 'protection' and that my point is mute, however there are inportant differences here:
The problem that they have (MPAA) is they need to product their buisness from bootleg copies hitting the market. Having metal detectors at theaters is really quite subtle these days (go through them boarding planes and to go to school in certain places), and stops it at the source, but off course only inital showings currently. Sure they should be targetting the people doing the illegal distrubtion, however this requires help and collaboration from law enforcement accross the globe ... something that isn't going to happen anytime soon for 'bootleg' films.
No one will ever need more than 640k ... ehhh "4 Billion times 4 Billion times 4 Billion times the size of the IPv4 address space" ;)
All of the above equates to you saving time and getting what you want when you want.
Well if YOU choose to use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000 as the product to get your work done, then you also decided that you will ensure that the said products will not be a vunrability to your buisness (ie. ensuring that it was out of view from the WEB and/or that it was protected by checking bullitens about security flaws fixed or otherwise!). Maybe when people select software to do a said task they should factor in maintenance of the said product, rather than installation and runtime?
Well I have never made such a mistake. Now back to that third wheel :)
Well that's it then isn't it. SUN is doomed! I mean considering apple is always touted as going the way of the dodo and all the apple proponents touting the fact that they have 5-6 billion in the bank it is the only logical conclusion is it not? ;)
ANY ... and I mean ANY application that brings up a text field in a dialogue for me to type yes (or in this case y/n) to approve a selection I made (in this case using spaces for tabs) and let alone that same selection requiring me to press the 'OK' button anyways ('return' did not work) does not get my user time. It did need a confirmation dialogue considering that the menu items have vertiually no spacing what-so-ever between each option!.
Put simply ... each product will probably have information about it on the kiosk similar and possibly more informative than whats on current shrink-wrap software packages. I didn't 'RTFA' but this just seems like the logical choice for browsing does it not?
I didn't read it because it didn't really interest me ... as for comments about missing hard copy documentation ... most shrink wrap packages I have bought have basic install information and the rest in PDF format as it is.
I first thought of this but realised the following:
I don't think it is a bad price to pay considering the performance of JAVA applications on OSX ... but your right it was annoying, I hate losing my uptime on the powerbook :)
It is a little rough around the edges and really needs some fine tunning but runs like a dream on my PowerBook running on JAVA 1.3 no less. With any luck they will upgrade it to use the 1.4 code base they are already using for Windows and Linux clients. It is quite resource intensive, however on the Powerbook I don't notice that at all (just on the Windows development machine at work ~sigh~).
Basically the system and/or software configuration files got corrupted. I re-installed the OS twice, but later after reading through some resource documentation found that their is a 'repair' directory that has fresh copies of these files so you don't have to re-install the OS (just the applications because the settings are flaked after this). Luckliy it hasn't happened for a while, but I can' say that anything like this has ever happened with my PowerBook.
OSx is a fine OS, but its not the end all - be all. If Office is the problem use something else, like 602Suite or StarOffice or OpenOffice, but don't blame windows for it.
Windows might have caused the problem with Office that he had ... both you and him could be right though ... thats the problem with debugging those problems you just don't know what caused them most of the times. As for using something else ... how could he? His entire company and customers use office, just because he had problems you think others are going to change? With the exception of inline Word created images (which I personaly hate), Office v.X works fine with Office 2k/XP documents generated on the Windows counterpart.
As far as I can tell he made the right decision to get where we wanted to be (working wiithout constant problems not caused by himself) without affecting any other person in his environment.