For starters it's extremely hard to read anti-alias text in comparison to 'clear' text in a pixel-oriented font.
That and it eats a ton of resources for no reason
That is a matter of personal preference. I find it easier to read small fonts which are anti-aliased, and welcome our new smoothing overlords. I mean, the anti-aliasing feature.
Two-button mice work on a Mac. If it's really such a pain in the ass, go buy a damn $20 Logitech USB mouse, I did. The scroll wheel even works, no extra software required.
First off, it's the "ctrl" key you press with one button; the Apple key is used for menu-shortcut combinations, i.e. Apple-X for cut. How can you complain about something if you're not even sure of what you're talking about? Secondly, you dont need the keyboard at all. Click-and-hold for a moment, and the same thing happens. It's an arbitrarily long-enough amount of time as to not be confusing; if it happens it's most likely on purpose.
One hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard makes much more efficient use of the computer. Right clicking is for the weak. I learn the menu shortcuts and with a series of three quick button presses, while the rest of you are reading and dragging, sometimes missing that menu and having to do do it again. I can do anything I want in the Mac Finder, as well as other programs. It's almost like mouse gestures.
Apple tried to appeal to the steep learning curves of computers that keep people like your own PHB from knowing shit about them, including this day in age. Nothing confusing ever happens when you click a one-button mouse; it just clicks.
I wonder why one would keep an Ethernet card hardware address in any kind of case to begin with; surely the chip it has been encoded into is enough? So it's certain that ColorCase wouldnt' have them... In fact I'm confused at what this has to do with the discussion at hand?
And finally: Who gives a flying fuck? You obviously don't use a Mac, or want to, so what is the problem here? It's either jealousy or attention whoring, because as a W.I.N.Te.L. user, I can't comprehend how this applies to you at all?
And finally: If one way of doing things works, why do we need 20 different ways? That's a 20-option choice to make when you want to do something, 20 ways to make a mistake, 20 sections of code that could introduce bugs into the system, 20 times the bloat. Drag me an advantage from that list. Even if you're "smart enough to comprehend the different methods to do it, unlke 'MAC' users", (which I know you'll pull from your ass by the way) you still need to take the cognitive time to decide apon a method. It's these few precious seconds that add up over the day, while Mac users have sailed along through GUI heaven on to their next task.
OpenDoc, like Hypercard, was way ahead of it's time. However, it was not a familiar way of computing and therefore seemed liek kind of a kludge.
Hell, I have been coding on Mac since I was 16 and I still dont' know wtf OpenDoc was really supposed to do. That was back in the days when Apple was pretty much really disorganized, from an outsider perspective at least.
Before I realized that no one would be stupid enough to file such a suit as the judge would obviously wipe his ass with the papers and toss it back at them, I almost had a heart attack.
Let's see how many people who don't normally keep up with this kind of thing I can fool <EVILGRIN>
Why don't you just sue Microsoft? They created Windows with this "don't load custom drivers" hole! Also, let's sue manual writers! I'm sure there has to be a manual somewhere which desctibes (IN DETAIL NO LESS) this method for circumventing CD security. And why don't we sue keyboard manufacturers, they're the ones who give users that fscking shift key IN THE FIRST PLACE!
This company is just pissed that their half-assed solution to a problem that cannot be fixed by means of a technological barrier was so easily defeated. One keystroke...jesus...and they actually went ahead and spent the money on the R&D for this? Is ANYONE awake over there?
They deserve what they got, and the RIAA should be pissed at them for pawning off this assinine scheme to them as a reasonable solution.
PS: This makes me realize exactly how bad a law the DMCA is; It is an attempt to, by law, enforce security through obscurity. If answers are outlawed, then only outlaws will have answers.
So they patented a timer in a computer which corresponds to keystrokes to make something happen if the user doesnt' press a key for a certain ammount of time?
Gee, good luck finding prior art to THAT!
Oh, wait, it triggers a packet to be send over a network! Oh, so this is a totally new and different thing then, completely devoid of any connection to past occurances of such functionality. That, and it's not obvious. Not at all. Go USPTO, pretty soon I'll have to pay royalties on my fucking LUNGS.
The world needs to forget about their pride for a while. It sickens me that the only reason any progress is ever made is because we're trying to "prove" ourselves over other nations, and that it's "an embarassment" and "an insult" when one nation achieves a goal before another does.
It's as if no one in any government (or any citizen, for that matter) has ever graduated from middle school.
Ahh, there is no MDI on a Mac, so yes, I'd imagine that could be a pain.
I like the right -click menus too but I'm not sure if I'd prefer full program control or the contexual right-click like Photoshop... perhaps it's time to give the ol' GIMP another shot...
(Disclaimer: I'm no expert on the subject of UNIX, GNU, or GNU/Linux code. However, having written code before, this only stands to make sense in my head.)
Can some one please explain to me how he claims to have designed features that have been around in unix a lot longer than 1984? GNU software basicly copied a millon other applications as Unix replacements.
If that logic where to hold true, SCO might have actually had a case. All GNU code would be an exact duplicate of any other UNIX code.
Think of it this way: just because a program's end result is the same as another (I.E. GNU's inetd vs. a closed inetd) does not mean the actual code of said programs aren't different, or more secure. GNU is designed with security in mind, and once again, has the advantage of being open. Anyone looking over the code might find some major mistakes which need fixing. To be fair, perhaps there are closed implementations which are far more secure than their GNU counterparts; it can go either way.
Now, if the flaw where to be in the actual UNIX model of operation (POSIX, correct?), as opposed to a programmers mistake, then that would be the fault of mimicking the features in UNIX. This is also something you can design against, granted of course you spot the problem. However, I would think that the whole arrangement would have been scrutinized over enough by now that fundemental flaws in the overall design are minimal at worst, considering there have been so many different versions for such a long time.
Boot time and Adobe (and iMovie), that's all they offer for benchmarks? How pathetic. Once again, Apple proves they're just full of marketing hot air.
And if Apple had anything at all to do with this guy, that would mean something. Why don't you bitch out the submitter for calling this an article on "benchmarks", or perhaps the/. editors for posting such a time wasting crock?
Right on. Who cares when it's released? That's actually the first time I've seen something worthwhile done to combat piracy. I'm suprised that's not easier...simply have the local offices in each country overnight all the copies the day before. Safe, sound, no piracy. Unless the mailman has a projector in his basement.
I agree with the rest of the rant though. I'd love to help keep Hollywood rich, but Hollywood is NOT allowed to slack, and they have been.
And yes, I will be seeing The Matrix Revolutions in theaters.
So MS and **AA will then have been bankrupted, too, DMCA & Patriot Act will have been pulled back, and DRM technologies will have been criminalised, right?
Oh, hey, remember Linux? What ever happened to that, anyways?;-)
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Here is a list of reasons why:
- Two-button mice work on a Mac. If it's really such a pain in the ass, go buy a damn $20 Logitech USB mouse, I did. The scroll wheel even works, no extra software required.
- First off, it's the "ctrl" key you press with one button; the Apple key is used for menu-shortcut combinations, i.e. Apple-X for cut. How can you complain about something if you're not even sure of what you're talking about? Secondly, you dont need the keyboard at all. Click-and-hold for a moment, and the same thing happens. It's an arbitrarily long-enough amount of time as to not be confusing; if it happens it's most likely on purpose.
- One hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard makes much more efficient use of the computer. Right clicking is for the weak. I learn the menu shortcuts and with a series of three quick button presses, while the rest of you are reading and dragging, sometimes missing that menu and having to do do it again. I can do anything I want in the Mac Finder, as well as other programs. It's almost like mouse gestures.
- Apple tried to appeal to the steep learning curves of computers that keep people like your own PHB from knowing shit about them, including this day in age. Nothing confusing ever happens when you click a one-button mouse; it just clicks.
- I wonder why one would keep an Ethernet card hardware address in any kind of case to begin with; surely the chip it has been encoded into is enough? So it's certain that ColorCase wouldnt' have them... In fact I'm confused at what this has to do with the discussion at hand?
And finally: Who gives a flying fuck? You obviously don't use a Mac, or want to, so what is the problem here? It's either jealousy or attention whoring, because as a W.I.N.Te.L. user, I can't comprehend how this applies to you at all?And finally: If one way of doing things works, why do we need 20 different ways? That's a 20-option choice to make when you want to do something, 20 ways to make a mistake, 20 sections of code that could introduce bugs into the system, 20 times the bloat. Drag me an advantage from that list. Even if you're "smart enough to comprehend the different methods to do it, unlke 'MAC' users", (which I know you'll pull from your ass by the way) you still need to take the cognitive time to decide apon a method. It's these few precious seconds that add up over the day, while Mac users have sailed along through GUI heaven on to their next task.
OpenDoc, like Hypercard, was way ahead of it's time. However, it was not a familiar way of computing and therefore seemed liek kind of a kludge.
Hell, I have been coding on Mac since I was 16 and I still dont' know wtf OpenDoc was really supposed to do. That was back in the days when Apple was pretty much really disorganized, from an outsider perspective at least.
Tokerat's Interweb Law #1:
- Every message board/forum/weblog/whatever on the Web features at least one person trying to be funny by indirectly quoting a Kevin Smith movie.
It's good to have a post that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.<APPLAUSE>
A mouse could NEVER get elected as Governor.
I prefer to use Homsar, the captain of the gravy train. It's a song form the sixties.
Before I realized that no one would be stupid enough to file such a suit as the judge would obviously wipe his ass with the papers and toss it back at them, I almost had a heart attack.
Let's see how many people who don't normally keep up with this kind of thing I can fool <EVILGRIN>
Why don't you just sue Microsoft? They created Windows with this "don't load custom drivers" hole! Also, let's sue manual writers! I'm sure there has to be a manual somewhere which desctibes (IN DETAIL NO LESS) this method for circumventing CD security. And why don't we sue keyboard manufacturers, they're the ones who give users that fscking shift key IN THE FIRST PLACE!
This company is just pissed that their half-assed solution to a problem that cannot be fixed by means of a technological barrier was so easily defeated. One keystroke...jesus...and they actually went ahead and spent the money on the R&D for this? Is ANYONE awake over there?
They deserve what they got, and the RIAA should be pissed at them for pawning off this assinine scheme to them as a reasonable solution.
PS: This makes me realize exactly how bad a law the DMCA is; It is an attempt to, by law, enforce security through obscurity. If answers are outlawed, then only outlaws will have answers.
AIM has had this for years.
So they patented a timer in a computer which corresponds to keystrokes to make something happen if the user doesnt' press a key for a certain ammount of time?
Gee, good luck finding prior art to THAT!
Oh, wait, it triggers a packet to be send over a network! Oh, so this is a totally new and different thing then, completely devoid of any connection to past occurances of such functionality. That, and it's not obvious. Not at all. Go USPTO, pretty soon I'll have to pay royalties on my fucking LUNGS.
You can't put an IP on the DNCL. Since most end-user IPs are dynamic anyways, it'd be pointless.
The world needs to forget about their pride for a while. It sickens me that the only reason any progress is ever made is because we're trying to "prove" ourselves over other nations, and that it's "an embarassment" and "an insult" when one nation achieves a goal before another does.
It's as if no one in any government (or any citizen, for that matter) has ever graduated from middle school.
Ahh, there is no MDI on a Mac, so yes, I'd imagine that could be a pain.
I like the right -click menus too but I'm not sure if I'd prefer full program control or the contexual right-click like Photoshop... perhaps it's time to give the ol' GIMP another shot...
Perhaps you missed your calling as board-game world champion?
Perhaps you'd care to elaborate for us? Some specifics, please: What makes GIMP so much easier than Photoshop?
Not that I don't like GIMP at all, but I def. prefer Photoshop, and therefore wonder what the hell you people are talking about...
]?? they'd raise their prices for registrars that offer their namespace once that starts happening and be profiteering gluttons again.
It's sad to see that after the tech boom, the only survivors are the absolute top and bottom of the barrel.
(Disclaimer: I'm no expert on the subject of UNIX, GNU, or GNU/Linux code. However, having written code before, this only stands to make sense in my head.)If that logic where to hold true, SCO might have actually had a case. All GNU code would be an exact duplicate of any other UNIX code.
Think of it this way: just because a program's end result is the same as another (I.E. GNU's inetd vs. a closed inetd) does not mean the actual code of said programs aren't different, or more secure. GNU is designed with security in mind, and once again, has the advantage of being open. Anyone looking over the code might find some major mistakes which need fixing. To be fair, perhaps there are closed implementations which are far more secure than their GNU counterparts; it can go either way.
Now, if the flaw where to be in the actual UNIX model of operation (POSIX, correct?), as opposed to a programmers mistake, then that would be the fault of mimicking the features in UNIX. This is also something you can design against, granted of course you spot the problem. However, I would think that the whole arrangement would have been scrutinized over enough by now that fundemental flaws in the overall design are minimal at worst, considering there have been so many different versions for such a long time.
...and it's pretty obvious he means the closest x86 configuration running Windows.
Get off your high horse.
Damn...we're in a tight spot!
Right on. Who cares when it's released? That's actually the first time I've seen something worthwhile done to combat piracy. I'm suprised that's not easier...simply have the local offices in each country overnight all the copies the day before. Safe, sound, no piracy. Unless the mailman has a projector in his basement.
I agree with the rest of the rant though. I'd love to help keep Hollywood rich, but Hollywood is NOT allowed to slack, and they have been.
And yes, I will be seeing The Matrix Revolutions in theaters.
If you download them all day and night, sure.
What I want to know is, what if I am viewing a media stream? Then again, I suppose that's why it's more than just a bandwidth gauge...