As a Latex user I was not aware that there even existed Office power users who are also geeks. Either way I figured you would just use the keyboard, right? Keyboard shortcuts are unhindered and unchanged by the ribbon.
As far as I am aware, Microsoft changed none of the hotkeys, so users such as yourself are completely unhindered and the ribbon is therefore not relevant to your usage case. Hey I'm a massive geek too mate but I do it how real geeks should: render Latex markup which you type up in vim. I don't understand Word power users... it is a tool for the computer illiterate - in which case the ribbon is a dramatic improvement over the old system.
Because features are not obfuscated into nested drop-down menus for one, they are prominently displayed. For another, more common features are easier to access because they occupy a larger area of the UI, in drop-down menus the most obscure and little used feature has the same level of exposure to the user as those features which are used frequently.
Disclaimer: I do 100% of my document writing in Latex using vim. I work on a helpdesk so I have to know Office and help people with it, Office 2007 is significantly easier to use from the point of view of a computer illiterate than Office 2003 by my observations.
No matter how you look at it, Ribbons are inefficient, badly designed UI elements.
Are you kidding me? So hiding all the tools in nested drop-down menus is somehow more efficient and intuitive? The Ribbon was a huge improvement to the Office interface, it does remain to be seen how it turns out for Explorer.
The only valid argument I've seen against the ribbon amounts to: I do not like change. And you have presented nothing new right here.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back. After doing this tell me whether you still think the ribbon is a bad idea. Personally I believe almost everyone who bitches about the ribbon is actually complaining about change in general - so eliminate that from the equation.
The ribbon is an improvement in user interface design, even if you don't personally like it.
I believe the claim that that this, this and this are all invalid due to prior art. None of these patents detail anything you listed, and all detail simple pictures of a tablet-like device almost identical in description to those in the film (and hundreds of others). So maybe you should just sit down and stop calling people names, huh?
Australian here, the liberals are stil the conservatives over here. We don't really associate the word liberal with `left wing', we might say progressive vs conservative but really we just say `left wing' or `right wing'.
Great theory but you should really give Lion a try, it almost the very definition of "new bling and features" and has introduced a non-trivial amount of instability for many users.
iTunes on my 2011 MBP with SSD is without a doubt the slowest piece of software on my system. It is consistently the slowest to load, and slowest to run. It is not some magical experience on OSX, iTunes sucks horrbly over here too.
I don't see why it would be any longer than a four-way stop.
As an Australian (we have a lot of roundabouts) I'll explain. There are primarily two reasons why roundabouts fail in heavy traffic, the first reason is that the intersection will typically involve one more busy street and one less busy street, roundabout mechanics work by giving way (yielding?) to people on your right (left in the US) and people already on the roundabout. The result is that if traffic flows from a source, it will not change in heavy traffic until there is a break in that source. Think about it, if cars are entering in a steady stream from opposite sides of the roundabout, the cars which are on the perpendicular street have no opportunity to enter until there is a gap, assuming they obey the give way rules. I'm not sure if I explained that well enough, but trust me it is a pain in the ass. The second reason roundabouts fail in heavy traffic is obvious: they don't work in congestion. As soon as cars drive up until they have to physically stop in the roundabout, the roundabout ceases to function any more. This is compounded by the first problem, being that one direction will have the heavier traffic, once this direction is congested, the other direction cannot move through either, unless the drivers are being kind and cooperative.
A roundabout is a good way to keep traffic flowing in light to moderate traffic. Lights are absolutely needed in heavy traffic and full on congestion.
I still spend more time in the Control Panel actually looking for the icons than I do changing my IP address for instance
You are doing it wrong. If you know where the icon is you find it and click it, otherwise you use the ubiquitous search box which responds quickly and extremely well to fairly generic search terms.
This is pretty far from the truth, iPods sync nicely with quite a few linux programs. You may need to open it in iTunes just once in order to set it to hard drive mode first. The problem you may have had is that it is just a bit too new for the open source software to work with it. Give it a few months and somebody will have gotten it working.
I have the same problem right now with a new Nano using Media Monkey in Windows. An update will fix it soon enough.
Actually, the iPad generally has the fanciest screen.
At a fairly low resolution.
Apple designed their own processor (basically)
Utter garbage, Apple decided on how much RAM and what few extra little things to stick onto a standard Cortex A8 die. Basically they gave it a crappier GPU and less RAM than the Qualcomm Snapdragon. Other than that they are the same damn chip and Apple didn't design shit, I don't even know how ARM have let them get away with that one.
You do realize those store say it has less security tools available because they are unnecessary right?
In what way is this relevant to the security of OSX? You basically just said: OSX is not as secure as windows by design. There is no such thing as unnecessary security in an OS.
How so? If I have the slightest problem with my phone line I call Telstra, and within days they have a tech onsite repairing or replacing whatever length of cable required
All they have to do when they rush out to help you is make a "temporary repair", this is little more than twisting some new copper together and wrapping it up in electrical tape. The repair is then flagged "temporary" and goes into a list of temporary repairs which all need to be fixed within a certain time. Except that they almost always screw up again before they are fixed properly and the whole cycle repeats itself.
Add to that most Telstra pits (the things with cement or plastic lids which give cable access) have broken lids, or broken drainage. If a pit lid is broken it is meant to be flagged and replaced, except that they never are, and consequently half the pits in the nation fill up with water and hence phone lines go bad whenever it rains: enter the temporary repair jobs mentioned previously. Add to this the fact that much of the copper installed is original cabling and never had proper insulation to begin with, this is mostly the case on the fringes of the network though.
I'm no fan of a new government monopoly, but we desperately NEED an infrastructure upgrade like the NBN. Telstra (and its competitors) have had the opportunity to prove to us that the private sector can handle such a vast network spread over such a thin populace, and they have shown that they will do as little as possible. The NBN also means structural separation of Telstra, which is something that should have been implemented from the outset.
They make pretty nice cases for computers, and even assemble some hardware into them for you. But no, they don't really make computers. I compare Apple to companies like Alienware.
It has all these things. If you saw it you would not dispute my claim. Screw it,,a href=http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/321957-321957-64295-304455-306995-1847962-1849071-3245781.html>here is a liink. It is not up to the same build quality as a thinkpad, hence it being a "clone", but it has a trackpoint, matte screen, firm and solid keyboard, magnesium chassis with high quality build, and a fairly similar look and feel to a thinkpad.
Wow, bitter much? The MBP is $300 more than the base macbook, not $500, and the base macbook I find looks pretty cheap and shitty. I'll pay the extra for the nice case, not to mention the fact that the base macbook is a C2D, the Pro is an i5 sandy bridge, but hey lets not let details like that get in the way of a good whinge (like that fact that the new bottom of the line MBP 13" CPU benchmarks higher than the top of the line 17" from last year, yep, might as well get the C2D huh?). I don't really compare my laptop to a hammer personally, but yes I understand the basement dwellers of slashdot seem to view it as nothing more. As for the adapter cable for video output, I almost never plug my laptop into anything when I'm out and about, and the adapters themselves are about 3" long. Not exactly a pain in the ass to carry around. The price is far too high (from apple) but luckily you can pick them up for $5 from ebay.
In all I think you are just whining because you can, and almost none of your points are valid IMO.
Are you running OSX, Windows or Linux? I'm planning on dual booting Ubuntu on mine, not sure if I can manage OSX on a day-to-day basis but at least it has bash.
Yeah I've seen those, they are nice but not quite nice enough, the main thing is I think it has a sub-par trackpad. Cheers for the heads up though, I've ordered my MBP and I'm still paying slightly less than $1400.
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As a Latex user I was not aware that there even existed Office power users who are also geeks. Either way I figured you would just use the keyboard, right? Keyboard shortcuts are unhindered and unchanged by the ribbon.
As far as I am aware, Microsoft changed none of the hotkeys, so users such as yourself are completely unhindered and the ribbon is therefore not relevant to your usage case. Hey I'm a massive geek too mate but I do it how real geeks should: render Latex markup which you type up in vim. I don't understand Word power users... it is a tool for the computer illiterate - in which case the ribbon is a dramatic improvement over the old system.
Because features are not obfuscated into nested drop-down menus for one, they are prominently displayed. For another, more common features are easier to access because they occupy a larger area of the UI, in drop-down menus the most obscure and little used feature has the same level of exposure to the user as those features which are used frequently.
Disclaimer: I do 100% of my document writing in Latex using vim. I work on a helpdesk so I have to know Office and help people with it, Office 2007 is significantly easier to use from the point of view of a computer illiterate than Office 2003 by my observations.
Ironically I use bash a lot and I do all my documents in Latex using vim.
And yet I still defend the ribbon.
Are you kidding me? So hiding all the tools in nested drop-down menus is somehow more efficient and intuitive? The Ribbon was a huge improvement to the Office interface, it does remain to be seen how it turns out for Explorer.
The only valid argument I've seen against the ribbon amounts to: I do not like change. And you have presented nothing new right here.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back. After doing this tell me whether you still think the ribbon is a bad idea. Personally I believe almost everyone who bitches about the ribbon is actually complaining about change in general - so eliminate that from the equation.
The ribbon is an improvement in user interface design, even if you don't personally like it.
Android 3.1 will be a phone/tablet OS, the two are being merged.
I believe the claim that that this, this and this are all invalid due to prior art. None of these patents detail anything you listed, and all detail simple pictures of a tablet-like device almost identical in description to those in the film (and hundreds of others). So maybe you should just sit down and stop calling people names, huh?
Australian here, the liberals are stil the conservatives over here. We don't really associate the word liberal with `left wing', we might say progressive vs conservative but really we just say `left wing' or `right wing'.
Great theory but you should really give Lion a try, it almost the very definition of "new bling and features" and has introduced a non-trivial amount of instability for many users.
Yes because reversing the default scrolling direction for everyone and completely overhauling expose is just a 'subtle' change...
iTunes on my 2011 MBP with SSD is without a doubt the slowest piece of software on my system. It is consistently the slowest to load, and slowest to run. It is not some magical experience on OSX, iTunes sucks horrbly over here too.
As an Australian (we have a lot of roundabouts) I'll explain. There are primarily two reasons why roundabouts fail in heavy traffic, the first reason is that the intersection will typically involve one more busy street and one less busy street, roundabout mechanics work by giving way (yielding?) to people on your right (left in the US) and people already on the roundabout. The result is that if traffic flows from a source, it will not change in heavy traffic until there is a break in that source. Think about it, if cars are entering in a steady stream from opposite sides of the roundabout, the cars which are on the perpendicular street have no opportunity to enter until there is a gap, assuming they obey the give way rules. I'm not sure if I explained that well enough, but trust me it is a pain in the ass. The second reason roundabouts fail in heavy traffic is obvious: they don't work in congestion. As soon as cars drive up until they have to physically stop in the roundabout, the roundabout ceases to function any more. This is compounded by the first problem, being that one direction will have the heavier traffic, once this direction is congested, the other direction cannot move through either, unless the drivers are being kind and cooperative.
A roundabout is a good way to keep traffic flowing in light to moderate traffic. Lights are absolutely needed in heavy traffic and full on congestion.
You are doing it wrong. If you know where the icon is you find it and click it, otherwise you use the ubiquitous search box which responds quickly and extremely well to fairly generic search terms.
The global menu is one of the worst aspects of the OSX user interface, I have no idea why Ubuntu would copy that.
This is pretty far from the truth, iPods sync nicely with quite a few linux programs. You may need to open it in iTunes just once in order to set it to hard drive mode first. The problem you may have had is that it is just a bit too new for the open source software to work with it. Give it a few months and somebody will have gotten it working.
I have the same problem right now with a new Nano using Media Monkey in Windows. An update will fix it soon enough.
At a fairly low resolution.
Utter garbage, Apple decided on how much RAM and what few extra little things to stick onto a standard Cortex A8 die. Basically they gave it a crappier GPU and less RAM than the Qualcomm Snapdragon. Other than that they are the same damn chip and Apple didn't design shit, I don't even know how ARM have let them get away with that one.
In what way is this relevant to the security of OSX? You basically just said: OSX is not as secure as windows by design. There is no such thing as unnecessary security in an OS.
All they have to do when they rush out to help you is make a "temporary repair", this is little more than twisting some new copper together and wrapping it up in electrical tape. The repair is then flagged "temporary" and goes into a list of temporary repairs which all need to be fixed within a certain time. Except that they almost always screw up again before they are fixed properly and the whole cycle repeats itself.
Add to that most Telstra pits (the things with cement or plastic lids which give cable access) have broken lids, or broken drainage. If a pit lid is broken it is meant to be flagged and replaced, except that they never are, and consequently half the pits in the nation fill up with water and hence phone lines go bad whenever it rains: enter the temporary repair jobs mentioned previously. Add to this the fact that much of the copper installed is original cabling and never had proper insulation to begin with, this is mostly the case on the fringes of the network though.
I'm no fan of a new government monopoly, but we desperately NEED an infrastructure upgrade like the NBN. Telstra (and its competitors) have had the opportunity to prove to us that the private sector can handle such a vast network spread over such a thin populace, and they have shown that they will do as little as possible. The NBN also means structural separation of Telstra, which is something that should have been implemented from the outset.
They make pretty nice cases for computers, and even assemble some hardware into them for you. But no, they don't really make computers. I compare Apple to companies like Alienware.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/security-snow-leopard/
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hack-windows-security-snow-leopard,8704.html
It has all these things. If you saw it you would not dispute my claim. Screw it, ,a href=http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/321957-321957-64295-304455-306995-1847962-1849071-3245781.html>here is a liink. It is not up to the same build quality as a thinkpad, hence it being a "clone", but it has a trackpoint, matte screen, firm and solid keyboard, magnesium chassis with high quality build, and a fairly similar look and feel to a thinkpad.
Wow, bitter much? The MBP is $300 more than the base macbook, not $500, and the base macbook I find looks pretty cheap and shitty. I'll pay the extra for the nice case, not to mention the fact that the base macbook is a C2D, the Pro is an i5 sandy bridge, but hey lets not let details like that get in the way of a good whinge (like that fact that the new bottom of the line MBP 13" CPU benchmarks higher than the top of the line 17" from last year, yep, might as well get the C2D huh?). I don't really compare my laptop to a hammer personally, but yes I understand the basement dwellers of slashdot seem to view it as nothing more. As for the adapter cable for video output, I almost never plug my laptop into anything when I'm out and about, and the adapters themselves are about 3" long. Not exactly a pain in the ass to carry around. The price is far too high (from apple) but luckily you can pick them up for $5 from ebay.
In all I think you are just whining because you can, and almost none of your points are valid IMO.
Are you running OSX, Windows or Linux? I'm planning on dual booting Ubuntu on mine, not sure if I can manage OSX on a day-to-day basis but at least it has bash.
Yeah I've seen those, they are nice but not quite nice enough, the main thing is I think it has a sub-par trackpad. Cheers for the heads up though, I've ordered my MBP and I'm still paying slightly less than $1400.