I never said it was confusing, I said it was inconsistent. I'll stick by that. And while we're at it, let's add gaudy to the list too.
The only reason I can say it's not inconsistent is that it's obviously standard fare for Apple apps. The brushed metal is simply meant to distinguish that.
And I never compared it to Windows, you did. Which just proves that you're either biased toward OS X, or against Windows.
You're completely right on both counts here, but I believe I have good reason for my choice and I'm willing to illustrate them to those who would hear me. In this case, I find no fault with, say, XFree86 being sluggish, for example, in my experience, it's not. I don't have enough experience with other interfaces to make a reasonable judgement for/against them, so I picked Windows.
Personally, I think XP's new interface is an ugly piece of shit as well. I want my operating system to fade into the background so I can focus program I'm using, not be so tacky that it detracts. I don't need drop shadows, menus fading in and out, jumping icons, etc. That's just for people who are dazzled by shiny objects.
I see your point here, and the only reason OS X's features keep me excited is because adding that new dimension into a GUI could actually have vast implecations on overall functionality, and everyday I hope Apple (or whomever else thinks of implementing it) will make the jump from impressiveness to utility. Fast user switching is a good start; it's visual feedback on your actions. Suppose, for instance, there is a keystroke to activate it? I'd be rather confused if my desktop suddenly changed, but with the cube animation, at least I know where I went wrong and can correct my mistake quicker. Also, take Expose; if the windows where to just snap into a grid, I waste my time searching that grid for the window I was just working with. Utilizing the animation, I can follow said window to it's grid position, which leaves my time free to hunt down the other window with which I wish to, say, drag something from. Just like writing kernel code, every optimization counts towards a larger whole.
Hopefully we've only begun to scratch the surface with what can be done using such techniques.
Funny, I run OS X on a G4 400MHz and it's quite snappy. Perhaps the 512MB RAM has something to do with it, but I've never had a problem with a sluggish interface.
Bet they could increase performance significantly if they got rid of all this "gee-whiz" garbage.
The video card handles most of this Gee-Whiz garbage, whereas it slows the fuck out of XP because hardware acceleration won't be implemented in Windows until Longhorn.
And what is with these brushed metal applications? I thought the whole point of an OS was to have a consistent GUI.
The GUI is consistent. It's not like a huge radical departure, changing the look and position of the window controls, making the buttons work differently, etc. The metal windows are metal so as to easily stand out from the rest of the windows on the screen. It's easy to pick out iTunes, iCal, or now a Finder window. All the GUI elements look similar enough that it's not confusing. If it really fools you that much perhaps you should be using a computer at all.
Oh, I'm sorry, I must be an idiot! Of COURSE I don't know what I prefer! Thank you helpful sir for arguing against a feature which I mistakenly found useful! What was I thinking!?!
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All my "gadget guy" friends here in the states are now getting their bluetooth phones. I want one too, it's neat.
Unfortunately, you then moved on and spent the bulk of your message in something completely different - pretending that porn is a good thing in and of itself. It is NOT "good clean fun" for all parties. You may not feel the pain of it - but the woman who is objectified feels the pain. Do you want your daughter to learn that her only value or worth is her appearance or her ability to get people to look at her in a way for their own desires?
What a sack of dumb ass bullshit. So, seeing someone have sex on a video or in a picture suddenly created an "objectivity"? I never understood this crap ass argument. If that's true than the men in the porn are just as much "objects" as the women are.
The only reason anyone lost any "dignity" from doing porn is because people like you put them down for it. I, for one, congradulate them on having the confidence and skill to do such a job, who, like regular movie actors, provide countless hours of wonderful entertainment.
And what the shit is this:
Sure they can make money, but what about their dignity? Are they given a chance to do anything else? They are just as capable, given the training, of doing anything you do.
Yea, a buddy of mine's girlfriend is religious against porn and always rambles off about some kind of women degrading thing and then bitches about how women are just as capable as men...Honestly, what the hell? No one said ANYTHING about anyone being incapable to do something else.
Oh, I'm sorry, no I forgot. 90% of women are forced to do porn, and kept in cages, and off camera they are beaten and told that they're worthless little tarts. Porn is so bad for the women. Save the women.
Men definately do not ever appear naked in pictures or films, and therefore are much less "degraded" than women.
Put down your Bible and look at the real world for a few minutes. Seeing someone have sex is not bad for you, and it's certainly not "degrading" for the woman who AUDITIONED for the part.
This is easy to end run. HTML != XHTML, heck you could even get the server to send RDF/XML and use a client based XSLT library to convert it into HTML and/or XHTML. no probs..
Except that it's a bitch for every website in the world to have to do, just because Microsoft can get away with patenting the obvious. Which hurts everyone except of Microsoft, as opposed to leaving everyone alone and helping Microsoft like a patent is supposed to do.
WHY is it, that on a page with a bunch of geeks, audiophilism is so derided on slashdot?
More than likely the same reason Mac users are shunned. We look beyond just numbers, using a computer means something too us. It needs to be comfortable and realistic. Finely tuned.
When we say that most people look at us funny, as if that's too much to ask, and go back to their Windows box, turn up their Sony CD boombox, and at the end of the day drive home in their Toyota.
Computer is clunky? - Hey, it does what I need it too.
Radio is fuzzy? - Meh, I can hear it.
Engine has a knock? - It gets me where I need to go.
Now, moron, if you're going to karma whore, next time at least attempt to understand the article and the terminology the author uses. It might not make you look like such an idiot.
Likewise, when you attempt to flame at the end of a (most informative, I must say) rant, next time at least attempt to understand the situation and at most, take a stab at something the parent poster actually did wrong. What am I talking about?
I have the AIX disks for it, up to version 4.3.x, IIRC. These machines are just for me to mess with, I got them for free (yes plural...2 of them), along with 2 SSA RAID towers + hardware to put them together. I'd probably have to run AIX to access those, but I really just wanted to have an OS I knew I could mess with because once I wipe these things out, I'm not sure I have a C compiler I can install for AIX (missing disc).
If you can't tell, I'm not really experienced with bare bones OS installs (I.e. usually the CD goes in and I wait 45 minutes, i never have to tinker with anything), and I'm also not familiar with how easy it will be to get gcc and put it on these things with AIX. I suppose some research is in order.
First order of business, however, will be to find either a video card, a male-to-male 9-pin RS-232 cable for the Planar ELT320-P1, or a keyboard for the IBM InfoWindow II 3153 so that I can actually use the damn things. I attempted to put a Rage128 from one of my older G4s in it, which works fine with firmware until AIX tries to boot, then I get an error about drivers being too large or something ("APPL Mac ATI Rage size too large > 1024 bytes" or something, 3 lines of it, screen goes dark before i can really read it, I assume that means "Video card no good, dumbass").
I remmeber when FastLane has just come out in Mass, I let a friend (heh) borrow my car to move some stuff from Pittsfield to Boston. Well they used FastLane, which is fine and dandy and all, except for the fact that at the time I didn't have a transponder. I promptly was mailed a picture of my car running the toll booth at Lee, MA (Pike Exit 2), and a $50 fine. Dunno what's wrong with NJ's system, MA is on our asses about the violations. I promptly picked up a tag, though, and I must say, it's been great since... unless traffic is backed up, there is literally never a line.
However, they'd really have to ticket everyone in order to make it fair on the Mass Pike, which would probably discourage use. Even the cops speed ridiculously.
Hey, I'm a Mac zealot, I know. I love to make Apple look good, for any reason. But this story has too many inconsistencies.
The Slashdot blurb and the article don't even match. And As The Apple Turns is being quoted as a technically informed Mac news source?
Anyways, yes, $5 million for the G5s. Now let's add in the price of those racks they sit on. Let's add in the price of the cooling system, the network equipment, cables, power supply. Contractors. $38 million doesnt' sound so far off the mark when you think about what all that stuff.
Indeed, the only time they ever give me any shit is when I'm riding the left lane (it's usually clear, so you can bomb down it easily), and then they usually just tailgate me until i pull a lane over and then they pass.
I'll leave my transponder inthe trash then, thanks, as I'm sure thousands of others will do. (Everyone speeds on the Mass Pike, even the cops known this and honestly don't really care, as long as you're not reckless and as long as you dont' ride the left lane) If it becomes required then the bastard who legalized it gets voted out and the only person i vote for agrees to repeal it.
BRI'm not sure how easy it is to "detect" what signal a reciever is tuned too, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to estimate, by signal strength, when a police car boradcast from your vicinity.
In Mass we have the FastLane tags to automatically pay tolls on the highway. NY and surrounding states have E-Z Pass. Never once have I gotten a speeding ticket on the Mass Pike, and indeed never from FastLane. There is technology already in place to do this, and they don't. It's far too big a pain in the ass.
Wouldnt' it be hard to patent key parts of.NET if Mono already implements it? Prior art? Sure they might get the patent but Mono would win a lawsuit and you bet we'd all donate to the legal fund. Well, I know I would...
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Hopefully we've only begun to scratch the surface with what can be done using such techniques.
Funny, I run OS X on a G4 400MHz and it's quite snappy. Perhaps the 512MB RAM has something to do with it, but I've never had a problem with a sluggish interface.
Speaking of typos on the Internet...It's VeriSign. Verizon is phones, VeriSign is DNS.
Do you hear me now? Good.
"Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed." - Linus
This is the reason we all stand behind Linux.
When I read that I spit beer into my keyboard and monitor...and MY house burnt down, you insensitive clod!
Oh, I'm sorry, I must be an idiot! Of COURSE I don't know what I prefer! Thank you helpful sir for arguing against a feature which I mistakenly found useful! What was I thinking!?!
All my "gadget guy" friends here in the states are now getting their bluetooth phones. I want one too, it's neat.
It's "Taikonaut", you insensitive clod!
The only reason anyone lost any "dignity" from doing porn is because people like you put them down for it. I, for one, congradulate them on having the confidence and skill to do such a job, who, like regular movie actors, provide countless hours of wonderful entertainment.
And what the shit is this:Yea, a buddy of mine's girlfriend is religious against porn and always rambles off about some kind of women degrading thing and then bitches about how women are just as capable as men...Honestly, what the hell? No one said ANYTHING about anyone being incapable to do something else.
Oh, I'm sorry, no I forgot. 90% of women are forced to do porn, and kept in cages, and off camera they are beaten and told that they're worthless little tarts. Porn is so bad for the women. Save the women.
Men definately do not ever appear naked in pictures or films, and therefore are much less "degraded" than women.
Put down your Bible and look at the real world for a few minutes. Seeing someone have sex is not bad for you, and it's certainly not "degrading" for the woman who AUDITIONED for the part.
And that's why software patents are bad.
When we say that most people look at us funny, as if that's too much to ask, and go back to their Windows box, turn up their Sony CD boombox, and at the end of the day drive home in their Toyota.
Computer is clunky? - Hey, it does what I need it too.
Radio is fuzzy? - Meh, I can hear it.
Engine has a knock? - It gets me where I need to go.
Being moderated "Funny" does not affect your Karma.
/me places "RFTA" sticky note on monitor and dunce cap on head.
I have the AIX disks for it, up to version 4.3.x, IIRC. These machines are just for me to mess with, I got them for free (yes plural...2 of them), along with 2 SSA RAID towers + hardware to put them together. I'd probably have to run AIX to access those, but I really just wanted to have an OS I knew I could mess with because once I wipe these things out, I'm not sure I have a C compiler I can install for AIX (missing disc).
If you can't tell, I'm not really experienced with bare bones OS installs (I.e. usually the CD goes in and I wait 45 minutes, i never have to tinker with anything), and I'm also not familiar with how easy it will be to get gcc and put it on these things with AIX. I suppose some research is in order.
First order of business, however, will be to find either a video card, a male-to-male 9-pin RS-232 cable for the Planar ELT320-P1, or a keyboard for the IBM InfoWindow II 3153 so that I can actually use the damn things. I attempted to put a Rage128 from one of my older G4s in it, which works fine with firmware until AIX tries to boot, then I get an error about drivers being too large or something ("APPL Mac ATI Rage size too large > 1024 bytes" or something, 3 lines of it, screen goes dark before i can really read it, I assume that means "Video card no good, dumbass").
Releases happen between the time they finalize everything for GM release and the time of the actual release?
I remmeber when FastLane has just come out in Mass, I let a friend (heh) borrow my car to move some stuff from Pittsfield to Boston. Well they used FastLane, which is fine and dandy and all, except for the fact that at the time I didn't have a transponder. I promptly was mailed a picture of my car running the toll booth at Lee, MA (Pike Exit 2), and a $50 fine. Dunno what's wrong with NJ's system, MA is on our asses about the violations. I promptly picked up a tag, though, and I must say, it's been great since... unless traffic is backed up, there is literally never a line.
However, they'd really have to ticket everyone in order to make it fair on the Mass Pike, which would probably discourage use. Even the cops speed ridiculously.
I was wondering what had become of Mandrake.
Now, if only Gentoo woudl release a version that would boot an IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 from a CD, I'd be happy.
Hey, I'm a Mac zealot, I know. I love to make Apple look good, for any reason. But this story has too many inconsistencies.
The Slashdot blurb and the article don't even match. And As The Apple Turns is being quoted as a technically informed Mac news source?
Anyways, yes, $5 million for the G5s. Now let's add in the price of those racks they sit on. Let's add in the price of the cooling system, the network equipment, cables, power supply. Contractors. $38 million doesnt' sound so far off the mark when you think about what all that stuff.
Indeed, the only time they ever give me any shit is when I'm riding the left lane (it's usually clear, so you can bomb down it easily), and then they usually just tailgate me until i pull a lane over and then they pass.
I'll leave my transponder inthe trash then, thanks, as I'm sure thousands of others will do. (Everyone speeds on the Mass Pike, even the cops known this and honestly don't really care, as long as you're not reckless and as long as you dont' ride the left lane) If it becomes required then the bastard who legalized it gets voted out and the only person i vote for agrees to repeal it.
BRI'm not sure how easy it is to "detect" what signal a reciever is tuned too, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to estimate, by signal strength, when a police car boradcast from your vicinity.
Turn the damn thing off.
In Mass we have the FastLane tags to automatically pay tolls on the highway. NY and surrounding states have E-Z Pass. Never once have I gotten a speeding ticket on the Mass Pike, and indeed never from FastLane. There is technology already in place to do this, and they don't. It's far too big a pain in the ass.
Wouldnt' it be hard to patent key parts of