And certainly Apple users haven't been completely happy with trends coming the other way with the iOS-ification of Lion. This may be a huge mistake to aim for unity between desktop and mobile so early.
Apple does not aim for a unification between desktop and mobile.
People misinterpret the signs here. Just because Apple takes some tried features from iOS does not mean it wants to make both systems into one hybrid system.
Don't like Launchpad? Don't use it. It's there for those people that already own an iOS device and buy a Mac for the first time. The reverse scrolling is actually great - if you use a trackpad or a touch enabled mouse. You can switch it off otherwise. Rubberbanding is also nice. Can't think of a downside here. So are additional gestures. The iOS style scollers are a mixed bag. Good in some situations, annoying in others. But that's really the only feature taken from iOS I can think of, that does have downsides. And of course you can still opt to always show scroll bars. I probably forgot some things; but overall I think some people completely overreact here.
Bummer, since Toshiba laptops are crap and I don't know where I'm going to be able to buy my next PC laptop. No, I don't want to buy it from the Chinese and I don't want one with the damn post sticking up in the middle of the keyboard.
You could buy a Macbook. I was told they work nicely as Windows or Linux boxes.
but a semi male probably wouldn't work with a full female, as nothing would hold it in contact.
Of course it would. Where do you propose this half circle would be moving to in a circle shaped hole?
But a requirement would be that there is not only a single contact on one side of the socket. Because that might be on the 'missing' side of the plug. I don't know if the standard requires contacts on both sides.
I still don't see why adding a new chip supplier has to mean dropping the old one.
Maybe Apple just want's to make sure it can still build new devices even if one supplier has problems. Maybe they need additional suppliers to meet the increasing demand (yes, there is increasing demand for iOS devices). Maybe they hope to gain something by having competing suppliers. Lower prices and/or better products. Faster, more efficient chips etc.
After all, Apple is a company and is doing business to make money; not to win a troll award.
Today I have an iPod touch with a built-in mic, which is plenty adequate for recording those bits of audio in the real world that I want to hang onto. However, the iPod doesn't have a mic input, so I can't stick in a better mic and record something at a higher quality.
Rather, I would like to see them include all these trade formats but only limited to "Item levels" (in game, mostly hidden ratings on items) viable to level 30 and below.
You could still trade expensive vanity pets (no level restriction on those). Also it seems like a nice incentive to join the game when someone wants to give you something and you can't trade.;)
but I see no harm in having trial players offer parties to others.
Gold sellers again. They would invite you into a party to spam you on the party channel. I actually had happen this to me once.
WoW is successful because people can be rich and famous
Would you like to explain to me, how I can get famous in WoW? I have been playing for years and I never met a player who is famous...
And about rich - you *do* know there is a gold cap? I myself have more or less stopped actively acquiring gold - because it is rather useless and you get enough to continue playing without actually trying.
So, no, I do not think, "getting rich and famous" is the reason WoW is successful.
I'm sure there's a WoW black market where gold and/or items are farmed and sold for RL currency.
You can sell gold and whole accounts. (And if you get caught by Blizzard, they will suspend your account. But anyway...)
Gold is only marginally useful, since almost all powerful items drop in instances and are 'soulbound'. Which means they are chained to the character that picked them up and can not be traded.
The same is true for bought characters/accounts. You may be able to buy a character - but you won't be able to transfer the items it holds to some other character(s).
So there's not much to sell in WoW that is worth real money.
Will Apple make more money selling music at $0.99/track, or $hundreds_or_thousands_or_millions selling infringers to the lawyers?
My money is on the lawyers.
Apple is making money by selling *hardware*. People who got f*cked over by you, won't buy your hardware. That's why there's no chance in hell that Apple would do something like that.
If suddenly Apple had 90% of it's customers who uploaded pirated music being sued because of a service Apple provided - it would be good.
No it wouldn't. I would probably never buy anything from them again. And you can bet that the value of my Macs and iDevices is a *lot* more than the value of the music I have.
the more he complains it doesn't work like his beloved Windows.
From what I've gathered, the main complaint is, that they copied elements from other UIs, but did so only partially. For some parts important functionality is missing, for others they made changes that completely negate the original value of the element (auto hiding the main menu bar).
To successfully copy something, you first have to understand it. Otherwise you will most likely create an unusable mess.
While Mac OS X uses AppKit for it's UI, Apple developed a completely new framework - UIKit - for iOS. There are certainly overlaps between UIKit and AppKit. But then the differences are too many to call UIKit 'the same' as AppKit.
It isn't clear to me how you respond to a hypothetical rebuttal of your argument that consists of simply outright killing you, with the explanation I'm simply following your own views--that you are, per yourself, in essence an automaton whose behavior is predetermined, and, according to you, I had no choice under the circumstances other than to kill you, anyway.
I'm not quite sure what type of response you expect?
It doesn't matter if I'm an automaton. Rules dictate that you are not allowed to kill me. If you do so anyway, you will be punished according to those rules. It doesn't matter if you had a choice or not. The punishment is still useful because it will reduce the possibility of you - or someone else - to infringe upon those rules in the future. Take it as just an additional input to the automaton that makes up your self. Also, it is still rational to resort to more or less severe punishment according to circumstances. Since the more external and short lived the circumstances are that influenced your decision, the less it will help to adjust your inner state.
Yes Apple fanbois your machines are not perfect and 100% invulnerable.
Um. What are you talking about? I will still have to actively acknowledge the installation of said malware.
Of course, if you include the situations where the user willingly installs the malware himself, there can be no system that is open (as in you may install what you want) and secure at the same time.
Note that I don't think my machine is perfect and/or invulnerable. There will never be a perfect system in this world. And Apple has to patch security problems all the time. Still, this malware is no real threat. It's just another form of social engineering.
and automatically executed something. I'm not technically knowledgeable enough about OS X to know that, even though we immediately exited the malware installer, that nothing bad could possibly have happened.
It executed the system's installer application. Nothing bad could possible have happened up until that point. You will have to at least click a button to have anything installed. In many situations you will additionally be required to input your system administrator's name and password.
And I'm still not convinced the malware installer didn't do something bad before it popped up its first GUI window.
If you didn't acknowledge the installation, no foreign code will have been executed.
I have no choice but to nuke the site from orbit (reinstall OS X).
That's totally unnecessary.
At the end of the day, Apple/Safari's amazingly fucked up defaults burned us good and hard.
It didn't. It was you who decided not to trust the system.
From this point onwards though, it's the user's fault the software was installed. They would need to double-click on the downloaded installer and then enter an administrator's password to continue to install the malware.
This is wrong. The installer is opened automatically.
Of course it won't proceed without user confirmation. So no real harm done.
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Atheists claim the bible is just story without any value
I'm not sure where you got that "without any value" from.
It's just that today the bible seems to create more problems - by virtue of its followers - than it solves.
Nobody needed to bring us such a message.
I guess he thought it was a good idea at that time.
Not sure Jesus would be happy with the current state of affairs.
And certainly Apple users haven't been completely happy with trends coming the other way with the iOS-ification of Lion. This may be a huge mistake to aim for unity between desktop and mobile so early.
Apple does not aim for a unification between desktop and mobile.
People misinterpret the signs here. Just because Apple takes some tried features from iOS does not mean it wants to make both systems into one hybrid system.
Don't like Launchpad? Don't use it. It's there for those people that already own an iOS device and buy a Mac for the first time.
The reverse scrolling is actually great - if you use a trackpad or a touch enabled mouse. You can switch it off otherwise.
Rubberbanding is also nice. Can't think of a downside here. So are additional gestures.
The iOS style scollers are a mixed bag. Good in some situations, annoying in others. But that's really the only feature taken from iOS I can think of, that does have downsides. And of course you can still opt to always show scroll bars.
I probably forgot some things; but overall I think some people completely overreact here.
Bummer, since Toshiba laptops are crap and I don't know where I'm going to be able to buy my next PC laptop. No, I don't want to buy it from the Chinese and I don't want one with the damn post sticking up in the middle of the keyboard.
You could buy a Macbook. I was told they work nicely as Windows or Linux boxes.
but a semi male probably wouldn't work with a full female, as nothing would hold it in contact.
Of course it would. Where do you propose this half circle would be moving to in a circle shaped hole?
But a requirement would be that there is not only a single contact on one side of the socket. Because that might be on the 'missing' side of the plug. I don't know if the standard requires contacts on both sides.
Nobody has thus far been able to make Apple bring back [...] nor the fullscreen-quicktime videos
The QuickTime Player will happily play your videos fullscreen. That functionality has been back for quite some time.
I still don't see why adding a new chip supplier has to mean dropping the old one.
Maybe Apple just want's to make sure it can still build new devices even if one supplier has problems.
Maybe they need additional suppliers to meet the increasing demand (yes, there is increasing demand for iOS devices).
Maybe they hope to gain something by having competing suppliers. Lower prices and/or better products. Faster, more efficient chips etc.
After all, Apple is a company and is doing business to make money; not to win a troll award.
Here here! What is "uninstall" in Mac terms?
Drop into the trash.
And it's "hear, hear".
Today I have an iPod touch with a built-in mic, which is plenty adequate for recording those bits of audio in the real world that I want to hang onto. However, the iPod doesn't have a mic input, so I can't stick in a better mic and record something at a higher quality.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipod+touch+mic
Rather, I would like to see them include all these trade formats but only limited to "Item levels" (in game, mostly hidden ratings on items) viable to level 30 and below.
You could still trade expensive vanity pets (no level restriction on those). ;)
Also it seems like a nice incentive to join the game when someone wants to give you something and you can't trade.
but I see no harm in having trial players offer parties to others.
Gold sellers again. They would invite you into a party to spam you on the party channel. I actually had happen this to me once.
WoW is successful because people can be rich and famous
Would you like to explain to me, how I can get famous in WoW? I have been playing for years and I never met a player who is famous ...
And about rich - you *do* know there is a gold cap? I myself have more or less stopped actively acquiring gold - because it is rather useless and you get enough to continue playing without actually trying.
So, no, I do not think, "getting rich and famous" is the reason WoW is successful.
I'm sure there's a WoW black market where gold and/or items are farmed and sold for RL currency.
You can sell gold and whole accounts. (And if you get caught by Blizzard, they will suspend your account. But anyway ...)
Gold is only marginally useful, since almost all powerful items drop in instances and are 'soulbound'. Which means they are chained to the character that picked them up and can not be traded.
The same is true for bought characters/accounts. You may be able to buy a character - but you won't be able to transfer the items it holds to some other character(s).
So there's not much to sell in WoW that is worth real money.
Well, why not?
Will Apple make more money selling music at $0.99/track, or $hundreds_or_thousands_or_millions selling infringers to the lawyers?
My money is on the lawyers.
Apple is making money by selling *hardware*. People who got f*cked over by you, won't buy your hardware. That's why there's no chance in hell that Apple would do something like that.
If suddenly Apple had 90% of it's customers who uploaded pirated music being sued because of a service Apple provided - it would be good.
No it wouldn't. I would probably never buy anything from them again. And you can bet that the value of my Macs and iDevices is a *lot* more than the value of the music I have.
the more he complains it doesn't work like his beloved Windows.
From what I've gathered, the main complaint is, that they copied elements from other UIs, but did so only partially. For some parts important functionality is missing, for others they made changes that completely negate the original value of the element (auto hiding the main menu bar).
To successfully copy something, you first have to understand it. Otherwise you will most likely create an unusable mess.
Introducing the global menu bar now was simply a waste of time and effort for something which will be gone in the next two or three years.
Care to explain what is going to replace it?
And, no, hiding it behind a single button is not the same as getting rid of it.
heck, they even took the same UI framework!
Actually, they didn't.
While Mac OS X uses AppKit for it's UI, Apple developed a completely new framework - UIKit - for iOS.
There are certainly overlaps between UIKit and AppKit. But then the differences are too many to call UIKit 'the same' as AppKit.
It isn't clear to me how you respond to a hypothetical rebuttal of your argument that consists of simply outright killing you, with the explanation I'm simply following your own views--that you are, per yourself, in essence an automaton whose behavior is predetermined, and, according to you, I had no choice under the circumstances other than to kill you, anyway.
I'm not quite sure what type of response you expect?
It doesn't matter if I'm an automaton. Rules dictate that you are not allowed to kill me. If you do so anyway, you will be punished according to those rules. It doesn't matter if you had a choice or not. The punishment is still useful because it will reduce the possibility of you - or someone else - to infringe upon those rules in the future. Take it as just an additional input to the automaton that makes up your self.
Also, it is still rational to resort to more or less severe punishment according to circumstances. Since the more external and short lived the circumstances are that influenced your decision, the less it will help to adjust your inner state.
obviously i nixed the installer
Good.
and power-cycled
Why would you do that?
but you have to run a mpkg manually
No. The system will do that for you. I just tried.
No, Safari won't execute a an .mpkg as standard
It will. Actually, it just did for me. It unpacked the zip file and automatically started the installer by opening the mpkg.
Still no problem unless you decide to continue with the installation.
but automatically opening random files that have been downloaded isn't something that should be allowed, with or without the users approval.
I disagree. It's a very convenient setting and I have never seen a situation where anything bad happened.
Just now I had that nice malware discussed here open the installer. Cute. I closed it and trashed the installer package.
(It seems to be from russia and will try to execute the malware after installation. Didn't investigate further.)
Yes Apple fanbois your machines are not perfect and 100% invulnerable.
Um. What are you talking about? I will still have to actively acknowledge the installation of said malware.
Of course, if you include the situations where the user willingly installs the malware himself, there can be no system that is open (as in you may install what you want) and secure at the same time.
Note that I don't think my machine is perfect and/or invulnerable. There will never be a perfect system in this world. And Apple has to patch security problems all the time. Still, this malware is no real threat. It's just another form of social engineering.
and automatically executed something. I'm not technically knowledgeable enough about OS X to know that, even though we immediately exited the malware installer, that nothing bad could possibly have happened.
It executed the system's installer application. Nothing bad could possible have happened up until that point. You will have to at least click a button to have anything installed. In many situations you will additionally be required to input your system administrator's name and password.
And I'm still not convinced the malware installer didn't do something bad before it popped up its first GUI window.
If you didn't acknowledge the installation, no foreign code will have been executed.
I have no choice but to nuke the site from orbit (reinstall OS X).
That's totally unnecessary.
At the end of the day, Apple/Safari's amazingly fucked up defaults burned us good and hard.
It didn't. It was you who decided not to trust the system.
From this point onwards though, it's the user's fault the software was installed. They would need to double-click on the downloaded installer and then enter an administrator's password to continue to install the malware.
This is wrong. The installer is opened automatically.
Of course it won't proceed without user confirmation. So no real harm done.