I can say lot of bad things about Mac OS, and I agree that the pseudo-one-button mouse kind of sucks, but I've found right-click support in Mac OS to be top-notch. And I've actually found the hold-the-left-button-for-a-second right-button emulation is actually pretty cool once in a while.
Though I do know quite a few cultists who shit themselves in terror if you try to get them to touch a *real* mouse.
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Kids, today's character of the day is the hyphen.
I'm curious, as a programmer, doesn't it drive you mad having all those.DS_STORE (or whatever, I try not to pay too much attention fo them) and other hidden files mixed in with your project files? (Assuming you use an IDE)
It's actually one of my biggest pet-peeves with OS-X.
I agree with your wholeheartedly.
Having used both Mac OS (since back in the days when the Reality Distortion Field convinced people, myself included, that they only needed 2 colors) and Windows (since the days when it was a merely GUI for DOS) for fun and profit, I've learned that they both have their flaws and any reasonable person is perfectly capable of hating them both equally.
I'm inherently distrustful of anyone who doesn't hate their own OS as much their neighbor's.
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one.
I find that it's much more helpful to have the menu attached to the window to which it applies, establishing a context for those commands. I can't tell you how many times a day MacOS fails to properly or completely give an app focus when I click on it's window, or how often the OS fails to unambiguously demonstrate which app currently has the focus (granted, the former is clearly a bug in the OS or the app, not a flaw in the UI design). The latter being a big problem because though the correct app's name may show up in the corner, the gist of your point is (I believe) that the clarity and consistency of putting the menu bar on top allow you to use the OS with less conscious decision-making. This is negated if I have to double check whether the menu says "Photoshop" or "Firefox" or "Eclipse".
A bigger concern for me personally is that on a high-res monitor [If don't have a need for a high-res monitor, why are you using a Mac?] it takes noticeably longer to reach the menu bar on a Mac than it should.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a Windows fanboy. I was introduced to computers via the Mac as a youngling, and I use one every day at work. I've owned several Windows PCs (I'm typing this one of them now), and I'm speaking as someone who has a great deal of practical experience using both platforms for fun and profit.
PS [AND FLAMEBAIT]: Of all the OS UIs I've used, KDE is best.
I'm no fanboy. I have no interest whatsoever in the PS3.
However, Sony isn't just a consumer electronics company. They sell a lot of decent to high quality professional video and audio equipment around the world, and if you head over to Japan you'll find they produce and market damn near everything a person could exchange money for.
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Dude, you boot four OSes. You don't know any girls.
Really?
I can say lot of bad things about Mac OS, and I agree that the pseudo-one-button mouse kind of sucks, but I've found right-click support in Mac OS to be top-notch. And I've actually found the hold-the-left-button-for-a-second right-button emulation is actually pretty cool once in a while.
Though I do know quite a few cultists who shit themselves in terror if you try to get them to touch a *real* mouse.
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Kids, today's character of the day is the hyphen.
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I'm curious, as a programmer, doesn't it drive you mad having all those .DS_STORE (or whatever, I try not to pay too much attention fo them) and other hidden files mixed in with your project files? (Assuming you use an IDE)
It's actually one of my biggest pet-peeves with OS-X.
I agree with your wholeheartedly. Having used both Mac OS (since back in the days when the Reality Distortion Field convinced people, myself included, that they only needed 2 colors) and Windows (since the days when it was a merely GUI for DOS) for fun and profit, I've learned that they both have their flaws and any reasonable person is perfectly capable of hating them both equally. I'm inherently distrustful of anyone who doesn't hate their own OS as much their neighbor's.
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one.
I find that it's much more helpful to have the menu attached to the window to which it applies, establishing a context for those commands. I can't tell you how many times a day MacOS fails to properly or completely give an app focus when I click on it's window, or how often the OS fails to unambiguously demonstrate which app currently has the focus (granted, the former is clearly a bug in the OS or the app, not a flaw in the UI design). The latter being a big problem because though the correct app's name may show up in the corner, the gist of your point is (I believe) that the clarity and consistency of putting the menu bar on top allow you to use the OS with less conscious decision-making. This is negated if I have to double check whether the menu says "Photoshop" or "Firefox" or "Eclipse".
A bigger concern for me personally is that on a high-res monitor [If don't have a need for a high-res monitor, why are you using a Mac?] it takes noticeably longer to reach the menu bar on a Mac than it should.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a Windows fanboy. I was introduced to computers via the Mac as a youngling, and I use one every day at work. I've owned several Windows PCs (I'm typing this one of them now), and I'm speaking as someone who has a great deal of practical experience using both platforms for fun and profit.
PS [AND FLAMEBAIT]: Of all the OS UIs I've used, KDE is best.
-Graham
Well, I must be doing my nerding wrong, because I have a WRT54G ver 6 and I've had no problems with it at all.
You obviously don't know just how big Sony is.
I'm no fanboy. I have no interest whatsoever in the PS3.
However, Sony isn't just a consumer electronics company. They sell a lot of decent to high quality professional video and audio equipment around the world, and if you head over to Japan you'll find they produce and market damn near everything a person could exchange money for.