I too agree. I don't use it much myself, but keep the yahoo! cal in sync with Palm Desktop and my Clie- easiest way for my girlfriend tosee what my schedule is.
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Don't get me wrong, the iPod is great. My girlfriend has one, and I occasionally use it. We both use it a ton while at home- it's our jukebox connected to the stereo. No looking around for CDs, that's fer sure.
But for me, it is really overkill. Most of the time, I don't carry around the MP3 CD player; I'm a man of albums, and usually kind of get stuck on just one album for a day, at least when I'm away from a computer with a jazillion of my ripped tunes. Most of the time, I just use my PDA with one or maybe two albums on it, listening to it on the bus, etc. But when I'm gone on a trip or something the MP3 CD player comes in handy... With 4 CDs I have 90% of my preferred music.
Before I bought the $50 MP3 CD player, I really considered the iPod... I'd love to get a 5 GBer for $100 or so, but in the end decided to get the cd player. Works for me.
you may have ahd a mouse emulator, but i got you beat- i built a lil contraption with my lego mindstorms and a taken-apart trackball... hooked that shit up with alladbantage+everything else... i think there was about a 640x180 of usable space on the screen. but i didn't care- i did it whilst i sleapt, and in vmware. eh eh eh. worked like a charm, and nothing could detect it- alladvantage could sniff out a lot of the click emus later on...:D
I agree, that is, I would much rather have my GUI apps have the ability to be scripted in earnest rather than simply automated with events- clicking on buttons and the like.
But, no matter how many times you say it, it's not true. Without writing additional C code (or compiling someone elses) how can I ask my window manager what windows are open, and then perhaps switch to the one I want? Or, how do I ask my email client for a list of names in my addressbook? The sad thing is that most Linux and *nix apps don't support these features in any standard way. Sure, I could write *new* code that parses the addressbook format, or a new C-module for my window manager that will spit out a list of the windows and add some ability for me to tell it which one I want brought to the foreground... But that is a pain in the ass compared to a some sort of consistent scripting system.
Again, as I mentioned, KDE's DCOP or Qt's QCOP is a step in the right direction. But support is pretty spotty in KDE and Qt apps, and completely lacking in non KDE/Qt apps.
Note that I mentioned DCOP. I didn't provide a link though, which is easily found with Google. But as I had mentioned, support is spotty with DCOP and the Qt-only QCOP.
Wow, I didn't know people were so incredibly hardassed about this. If you go to http://store.apple.com , it is pretty plain that this is called "The Apple Store." It's not simply "an" Apple Store, one of many; but the one and only. When the Apple Store had come back into the world, it was kind of a big deal, one of the many indicators that Apple was back.
Even if I had made a goof, what is the big fucking deal?
It looks to be about the size of a CF card, but it certainly didn't look to have a CF interface. Is there one not shown in those photos?
I mentioned that here back when the mini first came out- I wanted to get out and take the card out for my PDA. I've been stuck with only a wee bit of space since I switched to a PDA with no PCMCIA slot- and missing the cheap, plentiful storage.
I would love an iPod, but I'm po'. So what I did is buy a $50 MP3 CD player. With a little research and time spent scouting eBay, you can get a very decent player for that amount of money. 6-10 albums per CD. Not bad, IMHO, and far more worth the cost for me than an iPod or a huge memory card for my PDA.
"macros" usually have to do with scripting GUI apps, yet another thing Linux mostly blows at, especially compared to AppleScript/OSA on Mac OS X but even Windows' WSH is better. There is KDE's and Qt's DCOP system, which is neat but very poorly supported.
There are a lot of things you can't do with bash or perl. The unix mindset would be to simply rewrite the whole app that they want to automate's functionality all over again in bash, perl or C, and then control that app with perl/bash/whatever. But that is a royal pain in the ass.
I don't think the poster would care if the particular macro package happened to be a perl module that added the ability to write automation macros for X apps, but if such a thing existed, it would be worth naming.
This, a troll? Wow, you must have some balls to mark that post as a troll. It's a true story, and a rather sour one. I didn't go into the full length version, but it involved a lot of bickering with Apple tech support and sales reps, being passed back and forth, which each claiming that it was the domain of the other. No one willing to give me to their supervisor. And I'm a pretty calm person, usually assertive, but not hotheaded.
...and maybe you should take a little bit longer to think.:) It was a joke. See how he mentioned his inbox? A lot of folks get "ONLINE CASINO!@$!" email. Think about it.
I think there is some distinction to make- the Apple Store sucks. Apple owns the Apple Store, sure. Not so say Apple's not off the hook, but something to note.
I for one will never buy anything more than an accessory at the Apple Store. A few years back, I bought a new G4 tower. My first Mac. I had been running Rhapsody DR2/x86 on my PC for a while, and when OS X DP3 came out thought that now was the time to switch. I ended up going with the Apple Store because of the edu discount, although that was entirely equalized by taxes, which a place like Mac Mall wouldn't have added. (Apple has to add them, not them being tricky)
Anywho, I got the computer and it was slow. Not ha-ha-macs-are-slow but although utilities were reporting that it was running at 400 MHz, it felt like it was a 90 MHz 601 in OS 9. What I wanted was to send it back and have Apple send me a new one. I had nothing customized; I put the RAM in myself for what Apple charges. But the Apple Store wouldn't take it back- I had to take it to an authorized Apple service rep. Which is a pain in the ass for me, being a frosh college kid with no car.
A lot of dicking around, getting my roomate's buddy to drive me downtown a few times. First time I took it down, they replaced the mobo. Then a week later, they call back and need it back again, as they put the wrong board in. Which perplexed me, because this one worked fine and looked like a G4 board. Who knows. Both times it came back with all sorts of ugly ass "COMPUTER WORLD" stickers on it. fuckers.
A good retailer would've taken it back and send me a new one and dealt with the thing on their own end. Mac Mall has taken shit back in the past, even when the manufacturer wouldn't; not sure if they'd do that in the case of a whole PowerMac, but next time I'll take my chances with them. (and I did when I bought an iBook two years ago)
That because you're on a Mac, which handles an MDI setup a *ton* better than on Windows (or pretty much any other toolkit). On Windows, if you've an app like Photoshop that has multiple windows, it's all encased in a bigger window, so you don't have to duplicate the menu for each document. The Mac does this by default by having the oh-so-handy menu bar at the top of the screen.
Sorry, speaking to the the majority before. I am a Mac user too, but used to talking about Windows.:P
Yes, you've been able to do that with Photoshop for ages. But they're not talking about that, rather the ability to have two different documents, each on a different monitor. They say you can't do that, because Photoshop has an MDI. I think you can make the window double-wide, although it's a bit goofy.
But what would you have the GIMP do that Photoshop doesn't? Photoshop sets the mark, similar tools try to keep up. Nothing new in that. What innovation are you itching to show up in the GIMP?
The Alto was a neat machine. I've programmed one in Mesa, and I visited PARC in 1975, long before Jobs.
Man, you must be old. (sorry, all in good fun!)
Doug did a lot of really important work, but it's not like what Kay and the other folks at PARC did was just to take Doug's work and fit it in a work station. A good many of the ideas that we see on our "modern" computers were invented at PARC and not by Doug.
Alan still calls his Apple PowerBook his "interim dynabook.":) The computers we have today are still pretty far behind, though more so on software IMHO; at least as far as the mainstream is concerned.
The closed mindset you speak of may have been the idea for the Star, but that isn't all the work that Kay and PARC produced. There was also a vision- part of the vision behind the Dynabook- that the system would be open, in a way that OSes like Linux, Windows and Mac OS dream of. That vision was- and is- Smalltalk. Kay had seen a future where programming was something a lot of end-users could do. If a secretary wanted to tweak something in the speadsheet software she used, she would have the small amount of knowledge- and an environment that supported her- needed to make that small code change and go on using her better spreadsheet. Truly personal computing.
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I need to emulate one because mine kept dying. :P But to capture that lovin' NES feeling, I bought a Dreamcast and put all my ROMs on one CD. mmmm.
I too agree. I don't use it much myself, but keep the yahoo! cal in sync with Palm Desktop and my Clie- easiest way for my girlfriend tosee what my schedule is.
It's called fines not dust, you insensitive clod!
That's like calling dust gravel, jeeze.
(with apologies to KSR's Red Mars)
Don't get me wrong, the iPod is great. My girlfriend has one, and I occasionally use it. We both use it a ton while at home- it's our jukebox connected to the stereo. No looking around for CDs, that's fer sure.
But for me, it is really overkill. Most of the time, I don't carry around the MP3 CD player; I'm a man of albums, and usually kind of get stuck on just one album for a day, at least when I'm away from a computer with a jazillion of my ripped tunes. Most of the time, I just use my PDA with one or maybe two albums on it, listening to it on the bus, etc. But when I'm gone on a trip or something the MP3 CD player comes in handy... With 4 CDs I have 90% of my preferred music.
Before I bought the $50 MP3 CD player, I really considered the iPod... I'd love to get a 5 GBer for $100 or so, but in the end decided to get the cd player. Works for me.
Last night was rough, let me tell you. Lots of absinthe, lots of absinthe. Made a couple loopy posts. eh eh eh!
you may have ahd a mouse emulator, but i got you beat- i built a lil contraption with my lego mindstorms and a taken-apart trackball... hooked that shit up with alladbantage+everything else... i think there was about a 640x180 of usable space on the screen. but i didn't care- i did it whilst i sleapt, and in vmware. eh eh eh. worked like a charm, and nothing could detect it- alladvantage could sniff out a lot of the click emus later on... :D
fuck the xbox. i mean, sure, the ps2 is underpowered; but the gamecube? YAH RIGHT BIATRCH.
For us, that game was Mario Kart 64. Freshman year, we played more MK than I've played any one video game since. Good times. :)
I agree, that is, I would much rather have my GUI apps have the ability to be scripted in earnest rather than simply automated with events- clicking on buttons and the like.
But, no matter how many times you say it, it's not true. Without writing additional C code (or compiling someone elses) how can I ask my window manager what windows are open, and then perhaps switch to the one I want? Or, how do I ask my email client for a list of names in my addressbook? The sad thing is that most Linux and *nix apps don't support these features in any standard way. Sure, I could write *new* code that parses the addressbook format, or a new C-module for my window manager that will spit out a list of the windows and add some ability for me to tell it which one I want brought to the foreground... But that is a pain in the ass compared to a some sort of consistent scripting system.
Again, as I mentioned, KDE's DCOP or Qt's QCOP is a step in the right direction. But support is pretty spotty in KDE and Qt apps, and completely lacking in non KDE/Qt apps.
Note that I mentioned DCOP. I didn't provide a link though, which is easily found with Google. But as I had mentioned, support is spotty with DCOP and the Qt-only QCOP.
Wow, I didn't know people were so incredibly hardassed about this. If you go to http://store.apple.com , it is pretty plain that this is called "The Apple Store." It's not simply "an" Apple Store, one of many; but the one and only. When the Apple Store had come back into the world, it was kind of a big deal, one of the many indicators that Apple was back.
Even if I had made a goof, what is the big fucking deal?
It looks to be about the size of a CF card, but it certainly didn't look to have a CF interface. Is there one not shown in those photos?
I mentioned that here back when the mini first came out- I wanted to get out and take the card out for my PDA. I've been stuck with only a wee bit of space since I switched to a PDA with no PCMCIA slot- and missing the cheap, plentiful storage.
I would love an iPod, but I'm po'. So what I did is buy a $50 MP3 CD player. With a little research and time spent scouting eBay, you can get a very decent player for that amount of money. 6-10 albums per CD. Not bad, IMHO, and far more worth the cost for me than an iPod or a huge memory card for my PDA.
"macros" usually have to do with scripting GUI apps, yet another thing Linux mostly blows at, especially compared to AppleScript/OSA on Mac OS X but even Windows' WSH is better. There is KDE's and Qt's DCOP system, which is neat but very poorly supported.
There are a lot of things you can't do with bash or perl. The unix mindset would be to simply rewrite the whole app that they want to automate's functionality all over again in bash, perl or C, and then control that app with perl/bash/whatever. But that is a royal pain in the ass.
I don't think the poster would care if the particular macro package happened to be a perl module that added the ability to write automation macros for X apps, but if such a thing existed, it would be worth naming.
But support for WSH can be *very* spotty. I imagine PowerPoint supports it pretty well, no idea about Flash, though.
but not by that much. it looks like windows reloaded really kicked some arse, though.
This, a troll? Wow, you must have some balls to mark that post as a troll. It's a true story, and a rather sour one. I didn't go into the full length version, but it involved a lot of bickering with Apple tech support and sales reps, being passed back and forth, which each claiming that it was the domain of the other. No one willing to give me to their supervisor. And I'm a pretty calm person, usually assertive, but not hotheaded.
...and maybe you should take a little bit longer to think. :) It was a joke. See how he mentioned his inbox? A lot of folks get "ONLINE CASINO!@$!" email. Think about it.
Works fine fer me.
Including their message board. Sounds like a good place to start complaining.
Would you happen to have Steve Job's private number for the guy in the other article?
I think there is some distinction to make- the Apple Store sucks. Apple owns the Apple Store, sure. Not so say Apple's not off the hook, but something to note.
I for one will never buy anything more than an accessory at the Apple Store. A few years back, I bought a new G4 tower. My first Mac. I had been running Rhapsody DR2/x86 on my PC for a while, and when OS X DP3 came out thought that now was the time to switch. I ended up going with the Apple Store because of the edu discount, although that was entirely equalized by taxes, which a place like Mac Mall wouldn't have added. (Apple has to add them, not them being tricky)
Anywho, I got the computer and it was slow. Not ha-ha-macs-are-slow but although utilities were reporting that it was running at 400 MHz, it felt like it was a 90 MHz 601 in OS 9. What I wanted was to send it back and have Apple send me a new one. I had nothing customized; I put the RAM in myself for what Apple charges. But the Apple Store wouldn't take it back- I had to take it to an authorized Apple service rep. Which is a pain in the ass for me, being a frosh college kid with no car.
A lot of dicking around, getting my roomate's buddy to drive me downtown a few times. First time I took it down, they replaced the mobo. Then a week later, they call back and need it back again, as they put the wrong board in. Which perplexed me, because this one worked fine and looked like a G4 board. Who knows. Both times it came back with all sorts of ugly ass "COMPUTER WORLD" stickers on it. fuckers.
A good retailer would've taken it back and send me a new one and dealt with the thing on their own end. Mac Mall has taken shit back in the past, even when the manufacturer wouldn't; not sure if they'd do that in the case of a whole PowerMac, but next time I'll take my chances with them. (and I did when I bought an iBook two years ago)
That because you're on a Mac, which handles an MDI setup a *ton* better than on Windows (or pretty much any other toolkit). On Windows, if you've an app like Photoshop that has multiple windows, it's all encased in a bigger window, so you don't have to duplicate the menu for each document. The Mac does this by default by having the oh-so-handy menu bar at the top of the screen.
:P
Sorry, speaking to the the majority before. I am a Mac user too, but used to talking about Windows.
Yes, you've been able to do that with Photoshop for ages. But they're not talking about that, rather the ability to have two different documents, each on a different monitor. They say you can't do that, because Photoshop has an MDI. I think you can make the window double-wide, although it's a bit goofy.
But what would you have the GIMP do that Photoshop doesn't? Photoshop sets the mark, similar tools try to keep up. Nothing new in that. What innovation are you itching to show up in the GIMP?
The Alto was a neat machine. I've programmed one in Mesa, and I visited PARC in 1975, long before Jobs.
:) The computers we have today are still pretty far behind, though more so on software IMHO; at least as far as the mainstream is concerned.
Man, you must be old. (sorry, all in good fun!)
Doug did a lot of really important work, but it's not like what Kay and the other folks at PARC did was just to take Doug's work and fit it in a work station. A good many of the ideas that we see on our "modern" computers were invented at PARC and not by Doug.
Alan still calls his Apple PowerBook his "interim dynabook."
The closed mindset you speak of may have been the idea for the Star, but that isn't all the work that Kay and PARC produced. There was also a vision- part of the vision behind the Dynabook- that the system would be open, in a way that OSes like Linux, Windows and Mac OS dream of. That vision was- and is- Smalltalk. Kay had seen a future where programming was something a lot of end-users could do. If a secretary wanted to tweak something in the speadsheet software she used, she would have the small amount of knowledge- and an environment that supported her- needed to make that small code change and go on using her better spreadsheet. Truly personal computing.