The "Move to Trash" item in the cmd-click(right click) menu in the Finder not only was moved from where it has been since 10.0, but it moves even more depending on what kind of file you cmd-click on. No longer is this menu confined to one menu, but, in a Microsoftian way, it now has a "more" item that will provide access to items that Apple has deemed less important.
Applications, Documents and Download folders have dark blue on slightly lighter blue folder icons. Squint and you can maybe tell the difference.
Stacks is a new feature rendered useless by its method of invocation, and its choice of which icon to show in the dock. Click on a folder and it opens up and tilted to the right, like a not quite hard penis. The icon you will see in the dock is the icon of the first file in the folder; so if you want to have your applications folder in the dock for quick access to apps, the icon looks like your address book. The least intuitive "feature" Apple has introduced since the IIgs.
The whole point here is that Apple has produced a decidedly non-Apple-like upgrade. I left out the details because it seems that anyone who is actually interested already knew them. My apologies.
I've been using OS X since the.0 release, and this is the first time that I regret an upgrade. They made many little changes to little things that drive me crazy. Moving menu items just because they can, redesigning icons to be unreadable, adding features that are useless, etc.
I have had the feeling that Apple went a little Microsoft with Leopard.
As it seems that no one has read the damned patent - here is the concise version:
This has nothing to do with Amazon deciding that Joe Smith projects to be a lousy customer so lets not care about the order he just placed.
This is all about trying to determine the most profitable way to fill orders from multiple distribution centers, using projected future orders for those centers.
Of course, it's much cooler to be a sheep and follow the herd, isn't it?
"I am not familiar with those laws, so I am going to rule on the one I know."
For those who are not familiar with condescending judicial humor, that is an example. He could have said, "Buddy, don't quit your day job", or "You dumb asshole, next time hire a lawyer", but judges like to be clever.
Wrong, on many levels. First, I do get a 200 charitable contribution tax deduction. Second, as a registered non-profit OLPC is subject to audit by state and federal authorities.
Actually, Time Machine only knows about directories. If FSEvents tells it that something in a directory changed it then compares the live directory to its last backup and backs up the changes.
My biggest beef is how Apple defines "changes". TM will rebackup a file if the permissions change. RSync won't.
Insightful comment above. For a "Chief Anything Officer" to be terminated the behavior must have been directly offensive to the CEO and/or the Board of Directors. Stealing their money is one, but I think it unlikely in this case. For one, you can be criminally charged for that, and why would they let him off so easy?
My guess is that he disclosed, to a third party, some information about Microsoft that, while not on the level of corporate espionage, was something Microsoft wanted kept secret. You know, something like "Vista was written in XCode on a iMac".
I don't like it either. My biggest beef is in how TM decides it needs to update files. Changing permissions is enough for TM to think it needs to recopy data. We have a shared iTunes library that we have to change permissions on every time we run iTunes so that we can share playlists and add songs, TM wants to backup 90GB of songs everytime it runs. Yes, I have now removed that folder from TM's backups, but it seems to me like a shotgun approach to a simple problem.
the folks at Macintouch confirmed this isn't just an SMB problem. They replicated the problem using firewire drives.
I learned long ago that using a move is a bad idea. I think it was with DOS. Never did it again.
Coming from a lifetime of DOS and Windows to the Mac, I never use those modifier keys when clicking and dragging, so I didn't even know you could do a move this way. Lucky me.
Hmmm. Don't know how you determined that my opinion is uninformed. I have worked with VOIP in a corporate setting for years. Just because I don't choose to trade $10 a month for lower quality, less reliable telephone service at home does not invalidate that.
The single most reliable network ever produced is the circuit-switched US telephone network. It is the best tool for the job it does, which is to enable telephone calls. If you choose to use a packet-switched network in lieu of that then you are, and will be, subject to the vagaries of an ISPs decisions on bandwidth management.
I was once the sole responsible person for all of the IT related issues for a $3 million a year "small shop". I was, unofficially, ALWAYS on call. That did not mean that I wouldn't go to dinner, to a show, on vacation. It did mean that I would check for messages when appropriate. I never assumed that this arrangement meant that I had the right to let my cellphone ring at the symphony.
Life is not work. In fact, life trumps work. If a company determines that downtime is that important then, yes, they should pay someone to sit in an office and watch for an emergency.
Cell phones have given almost everyone who uses them an increased sense of their own importance. The world can keep turning even if you don't maintain 24/7 connectivity to yourself.
Well, no. The telephone network is a circuit switched network. By making a call I am requesting that a private, one to one, circuit be established between my phone and the recipient's phone. Nothing public about it.
On the topic at hand (e-mail), while I am aware that there are multiple points in email transmission that can provide an opportunity for someone to see the contents of my mail, I do not, have not, and indeed quite possibly can not, waive my right to be protected from government surveillance without a warrant.
My wife knows my login password for our home computer. Does that mean that I have relinquished my right to keep the government from logging in to my computer to see my files?
"Cell phones have replaced pagers for most people. Am I allowed to get IMs, or do I have to turn those off too?"
Perhaps. I was eating in a restaurant with a colleague once; a restaurant that does not permit the use of cell phones, period. He had his phone on the table, IMing away, when the front manager came over and very politely told him to turn his phone off. He pretended to, but kept it on. I took it from him and turned it off.
If the proprietor of a business wants to prohibit the use of cell phones in her establishment, that is her right. Respect it. If you are expecting important calls, don't go to such places.
remember that his TV persona is far, far from his regular guy persona. he's a great comic actor on the show, and he does a very good job of lampooning the punditocracy, but in real life he's someone else. this was all part of his role as Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report.
Stewart, on the other hand, is just Jon Stewart. I don't think he's acting when he does his show.
Colbert has successfully pointed out some of the silliness in our current political system. I doubt he ever intended anything more. He sold some books, got some great publicity, and can spend the next year grooving on it.
I can't see why anyone took his "candidacy" even a little seriously.
"Frankly, I would prefer that my ISP have some sort of QoS so that my bulk traffic is at a lower priority than VoIP. Wouldn't you???"
No. I do not want my data traffic to be lower priority than someone else's VOIP. I don't use VOIP, I HAVE PHONE SERVICE. When I first heard of VOIP in 1996 I thought it was a bad idea, and I think it's worse now.
I'm a small company developing some new kind of networked mass storage system with what I think are novel ways to manage the backup and restoration of applications and data. Given that many others have done similar things I run the risk of infringing some obscure patent out there. Rather than devote resources I don't have to lawyers and research, I subscribe to IBM's new "super-patent" service.
I get sued by a patent holder over a method of deciding where and when to backup a file. I enter said patent into the search function of my uber-patent GUI. I get a hit on something IBM has patented that could allow me to counter sue the troll. I hit the "license now" button and now I have a patent that I can use to discourage the troll's suit.
Yup, that's it. Someone else mentioned here that IBM could sell this as a service regardless of the patenting of it, and it does sound like an innovative idea.
My original post referred to Gore's statement that he will donate HIS portion of the $1.5 million dollar prize to The Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit group of which a person named Al Gore is the Chairman, and whose mission is as stated above.
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The "Move to Trash" item in the cmd-click(right click) menu in the Finder not only was moved from where it has been since 10.0, but it moves even more depending on what kind of file you cmd-click on. No longer is this menu confined to one menu, but, in a Microsoftian way, it now has a "more" item that will provide access to items that Apple has deemed less important.
Applications, Documents and Download folders have dark blue on slightly lighter blue folder icons. Squint and you can maybe tell the difference.
Stacks is a new feature rendered useless by its method of invocation, and its choice of which icon to show in the dock. Click on a folder and it opens up and tilted to the right, like a not quite hard penis. The icon you will see in the dock is the icon of the first file in the folder; so if you want to have your applications folder in the dock for quick access to apps, the icon looks like your address book. The least intuitive "feature" Apple has introduced since the IIgs.
The whole point here is that Apple has produced a decidedly non-Apple-like upgrade. I left out the details because it seems that anyone who is actually interested already knew them. My apologies.
Seriously - if your headline for a story contains the word "may", you're a lazy journalist.
But this has to happen once every few years, everyone needs to blow off steam.
I've been using OS X since the .0 release, and this is the first time that I regret an upgrade. They made many little changes to little things that drive me crazy. Moving menu items just because they can, redesigning icons to be unreadable, adding features that are useless, etc.
I have had the feeling that Apple went a little Microsoft with Leopard.
As it seems that no one has read the damned patent - here is the concise version:
This has nothing to do with Amazon deciding that Joe Smith projects to be a lousy customer so lets not care about the order he just placed.
This is all about trying to determine the most profitable way to fill orders from multiple distribution centers, using projected future orders for those centers.
Of course, it's much cooler to be a sheep and follow the herd, isn't it?
"I am not familiar with those laws, so I am going to rule on the one I know."
For those who are not familiar with condescending judicial humor, that is an example. He could have said, "Buddy, don't quit your day job", or "You dumb asshole, next time hire a lawyer", but judges like to be clever.
they'll hold off on switching to Windows 7 until SP1 hits.
Maybe this whole "upgrade the OS" thing isn't such a good business plan after all?
WTF?
There are states that don't let their citizens see the risk assessment of their own decoded genes?
"If I choose to wear a particular shoe, it does not in any real way constrain my choice of sock, trouser, or top."
but in many cases, it should.
kind of defeats the purpose, I'd say.
Wrong, on many levels. First, I do get a 200 charitable contribution tax deduction. Second, as a registered non-profit OLPC is subject to audit by state and federal authorities.
Third, not everyone is a crook.
Actually, Time Machine only knows about directories. If FSEvents tells it that something in a directory changed it then compares the live directory to its last backup and backs up the changes.
My biggest beef is how Apple defines "changes". TM will rebackup a file if the permissions change. RSync won't.
Insightful comment above. For a "Chief Anything Officer" to be terminated the behavior must have been directly offensive to the CEO and/or the Board of Directors. Stealing their money is one, but I think it unlikely in this case. For one, you can be criminally charged for that, and why would they let him off so easy?
My guess is that he disclosed, to a third party, some information about Microsoft that, while not on the level of corporate espionage, was something Microsoft wanted kept secret. You know, something like "Vista was written in XCode on a iMac".
I don't like it either. My biggest beef is in how TM decides it needs to update files. Changing permissions is enough for TM to think it needs to recopy data. We have a shared iTunes library that we have to change permissions on every time we run iTunes so that we can share playlists and add songs, TM wants to backup 90GB of songs everytime it runs. Yes, I have now removed that folder from TM's backups, but it seems to me like a shotgun approach to a simple problem.
the folks at Macintouch confirmed this isn't just an SMB problem. They replicated the problem using firewire drives.
I learned long ago that using a move is a bad idea. I think it was with DOS. Never did it again.
Coming from a lifetime of DOS and Windows to the Mac, I never use those modifier keys when clicking and dragging, so I didn't even know you could do a move this way. Lucky me.
Hmmm. Don't know how you determined that my opinion is uninformed. I have worked with VOIP in a corporate setting for years. Just because I don't choose to trade $10 a month for lower quality, less reliable telephone service at home does not invalidate that.
The single most reliable network ever produced is the circuit-switched US telephone network. It is the best tool for the job it does, which is to enable telephone calls. If you choose to use a packet-switched network in lieu of that then you are, and will be, subject to the vagaries of an ISPs decisions on bandwidth management.
I was once the sole responsible person for all of the IT related issues for a $3 million a year "small shop". I was, unofficially, ALWAYS on call. That did not mean that I wouldn't go to dinner, to a show, on vacation. It did mean that I would check for messages when appropriate. I never assumed that this arrangement meant that I had the right to let my cellphone ring at the symphony.
Life is not work. In fact, life trumps work. If a company determines that downtime is that important then, yes, they should pay someone to sit in an office and watch for an emergency.
Cell phones have given almost everyone who uses them an increased sense of their own importance. The world can keep turning even if you don't maintain 24/7 connectivity to yourself.
Well, no. The telephone network is a circuit switched network. By making a call I am requesting that a private, one to one, circuit be established between my phone and the recipient's phone. Nothing public about it.
On the topic at hand (e-mail), while I am aware that there are multiple points in email transmission that can provide an opportunity for someone to see the contents of my mail, I do not, have not, and indeed quite possibly can not, waive my right to be protected from government surveillance without a warrant.
My wife knows my login password for our home computer. Does that mean that I have relinquished my right to keep the government from logging in to my computer to see my files?
"Cell phones have replaced pagers for most people. Am I allowed to get IMs, or do I have to turn those off too?"
Perhaps. I was eating in a restaurant with a colleague once; a restaurant that does not permit the use of cell phones, period. He had his phone on the table, IMing away, when the front manager came over and very politely told him to turn his phone off. He pretended to, but kept it on. I took it from him and turned it off.
If the proprietor of a business wants to prohibit the use of cell phones in her establishment, that is her right. Respect it. If you are expecting important calls, don't go to such places.
I would be more amazed at the resolving power of my telescope if I could see a tiny robot mining on the moon.
remember that his TV persona is far, far from his regular guy persona. he's a great comic actor on the show, and he does a very good job of lampooning the punditocracy, but in real life he's someone else. this was all part of his role as Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report.
Stewart, on the other hand, is just Jon Stewart. I don't think he's acting when he does his show.
Colbert has successfully pointed out some of the silliness in our current political system. I doubt he ever intended anything more. He sold some books, got some great publicity, and can spend the next year grooving on it.
I can't see why anyone took his "candidacy" even a little seriously.
"Frankly, I would prefer that my ISP have some sort of QoS so that my bulk traffic is at a lower priority than VoIP. Wouldn't you???"
No. I do not want my data traffic to be lower priority than someone else's VOIP. I don't use VOIP, I HAVE PHONE SERVICE. When I first heard of VOIP in 1996 I thought it was a bad idea, and I think it's worse now.
Thanks for validating my experience with Psychonauts. I have simply decided to let the little fucker die.
My take on this is as follows:
I'm a small company developing some new kind of networked mass storage system with what I think are novel ways to manage the backup and restoration of applications and data. Given that many others have done similar things I run the risk of infringing some obscure patent out there. Rather than devote resources I don't have to lawyers and research, I subscribe to IBM's new "super-patent" service.
I get sued by a patent holder over a method of deciding where and when to backup a file. I enter said patent into the search function of my uber-patent GUI. I get a hit on something IBM has patented that could allow me to counter sue the troll. I hit the "license now" button and now I have a patent that I can use to discourage the troll's suit.
I like it.
Yup, that's it. Someone else mentioned here that IBM could sell this as a service regardless of the patenting of it, and it does sound like an innovative idea.
My original post referred to Gore's statement that he will donate HIS portion of the $1.5 million dollar prize to The Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit group of which a person named Al Gore is the Chairman, and whose mission is as stated above.
PR and politics.