For a while I worked with someone else to put together websites. They would come up with a design mockup in photoshop. Then he gave me a PDF and I did the actual implementation. I would ask him for specific graphical elements when needed. The results were very nice. They looked good and worked well and reliably.
I have seen the results of several 'designers' who made websites themselves, I must emphatically say that they have no business making websites. I can write a book for web designers too. It would be composed of a single page that says:
If you want to design a website, go ahead. But for the love of $(deity) please then hand it off to an actual programmer. You do not understand the underlying technologies to make it work. You do not understand the security implications of what you are doing. Just because you know how to uncompress a drupal or wordpress archive doesn't mean you know WTF you're doing. Even if you manage to get a working site put together, there is a good chance that it will run poorly because you bolted on way too many plugins, and it is almost guaranteed that you've left gaping security holes that will bite the client in the rear down the road.
So please, get an actual programmer to help you with implementation.
Maybe you were using a screen resolution that wasn't native to the device?:D
But yeah, if you insist on lots of customizability, then a Mac is NOT for you.
I agree that some behaviours were downright goofy, like the mouse settings. I also found the inconsistent handling of maximizing windows to be amazingly annoying. But I was able to solve that by buying a few cheap addons. Divvy for window management. TotalFinder to give me tabs on the finder windows. Terminal was good, but iTerm is just so much better. Etc.
That being said, you went back to Linux so none of this will help you anyway.;)
How is it that the owner of an internet cafe is responsible for what a user posts, but the cell phone company isn't responsible for subversive use of a mobile phone? This law sounds so knee jerk I'm surprised they didn't dislocate several bones.
I can't speak for others, but I just wanted to personally refute what you're saying. I myself was a big linux fan, until I realized that Mac did everything I wanted that was *nix-y, but in a stable platform that could run commercial software. So I get to have my command line terminal AND run microsoft office on the same box without having to jump through hoops.
Add to that the fact that everything 'just works', and I'm ecstatic. I don't have to cross my fingers and hope that suspend/resume works. I don't have to carve up windows drivers and use fwcutter to get my wifi working. I got to the point where I really just wanted to get my job done, and linux was getting in my way more than it was helping me. That was several years ago. I switched to OSX, and haven't looked back.
I have parallels installed for when I have to run the occasional Windows app, and almost every linux app I could want is runnable on my mac.
And I'm not saying this because I'm a fanboi (fangrrl?). I'm saying this because I'm pragmatic. I use the tools I feel are best for the job. At work I ended up switching to a Windows 7 box because I was doing enough windows-dependent development that using OSX as my primary OS was a pain.
All that being said, I've seen how linux has been making some big strides recently. But now I have the enertia of having everything as Mac, and unless Apple does something unforgivably stupid like outright restrict what applications I can install on my computer (which I can't imagine them doing...), I'm probably not going to change anytime soon.
"To understand the universe and creation is to come closer to understanding the creator behind it all."
So what you're saying is that people are encouraged to learn as much about the universe as possible, but only up until we reach some arbitrary point where a magical stop sign will appear in front of us that says, "You've reached the end! Just God now!"
At absolute best, that's still a fundamental collapse of basic logic and critical thinking skills.
My own view of 'creationism' is based on what 'creationists' say. And based on that, it IS that "God simply put things where they are now". People who believe in creationism are either intellectually bankrupt, are running some kind of power play, or both.
I mean, they actually think that their chosen deity placed dinosaur bones into the ground to "test their faith". I have no idea how you can claim that while at the same time saying you believe in a rational ordered universe and keep a straight face.
Development of major software projects require discipline and expertise from all it's contributors. There needs to be a clear goal, both overall as well as what each individual contributor does. Each contributor also needs to feel that they have ownership of their piece.
If a company fosters an environment where the above is not true, then yeah the project is going to run into problems.
Yes, gratuitous control (what used to be called 'micromanagement') can be a great way to hurt a projects long term success, but to say that Anonymous has things to teach the general development community is absurd. Anonymous is essentially an anarchy. Sure, what they do requires some coordination between individuals, but there's a huge difference between a handful of hackers spending a day or three hacking into a company under the cover of a DDOS attack and a group of individuals that work together every day for months to put together a product to solve specific problems for their customers.
There are so many things wrong and out of touch with this article that I can't decide where to begin. It sounds like the author was nothing more than a really lousy manager. What he needs is management training, not random perceived lessons from a random nebulous collective.
Wow, your comment beggars belief. You do release that while Bush was in power, dissent WAS equated to being unpatriotic? While I won't deny that Obama is a major dissappointment, it is an unequivocal fact that it was and is the Republican party that demands mindless unquestioning obedience.
The TSA. Elimination of habius corpus. The list goes on and on.
I'd watch the koolaid drinking if I were you. The next batch may be poisonous.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that companies will do whatever the hell they want and as customers we can suck it up or do something about it. Unfortunately, like spam, they make enough money from people that they see no reason to change.
I refuse to buy Ubisoft products anymore. Same with Blizzard and Sony. And when other people complain about how they got screwed as if it was some new revelation, I just sit back and enjoy the schadenfreude.
A whole pound CAN make a difference in many situations. And as the AC said, SOME people prioritize that over modularity. Just because your use case doesn't match the ACs, doesn't warrant such an obnoxious reply.
What next? Beating people up for their lunch money?
Oh sure, you say that now.... But the next thing you know they're sealing your starship in an intricate web and you have to pierce a weakened points of space/time to escape!
Ok, I have to ask... You say Apple reliability and consistency is overrated?
You *like* having your computer crash on you? You *like* playing a game of treasure hunt, trying to find the function you want to use?
When I was on Windows, I could go maybe a day or two between reboots, a week if I'm lucky. On Mac, I go *weeks* between reboots. And that's including suspend/resuming constantly.
Why in the world would you buy a Mac if you are that concerned about customizing every little button and knob in the OS?
More importantly, where do you work that pays you enough to buy Apple products but still gives you the freedom to worry about such pointless details?
The purpose of an OS is to facilitate you running applications and getting work done. Everything else is gravy.
I bought my MB because I was sick of Windows crashing. I was sick of Windows randomly rebooting because of incessant updates. That Windows couldn't even reliably suspend/resume properly. The list goes on and on. In other words, reliability and consistency are hell of a lot more important to me than the ability to set my window borders to exactly 3 pixels wide.
Windows 7 seems to have finally stabilized the platform, but unless Apple does something unfathomably stupid to make using a Mac untenable, I won't be jumping ship anytime soon.
If OSX bothers you that much, just put Windows on it and be done with it. But understand that something isn't stupid just because it doesn't do what you want it to do. That's like buying a car and complaining that you can't drive across the lake. You use the product that serves your needs the best, no more, no less.
Because by using VNC you are running a remote desktop. If you have something graphical you want to run, and want it to stay running even when you disconnect, then tunnelling X isn't going to do it.
Personally, I can't think of a single example that would require the above, but it's a use case none the less.
If I may ask, what specifically is it about ML that's bothering you? Interface-wise, isn't it pretty much identical to Lion?
I myself am still on Lion, because Apple always seems to screw something up with the initial OS release, and for ML it's the battery usage. There are some nice features I want in ML but I like my battery life more.
I spent a year or so *working* for Apple tech support your miserable dumbass.
I was anti-Apple prior to that job. But I was unemployed at the time, I needed money, and I just wanted to know what tech support was like at the time.
And you know what? I came out of that job respecting Apple. The support people care about their work. They go out of their way to help the people that call in.
But it's still staffed by human beings, and they can only put up with some much crap from customers. If you had a bad time with their support, I can guarantee that it was because you came across as a flaming asshole. Your post lends ample evidence to that fact.
While I find Apple's legal practises distasteful, their customer service is absolutely above reproach.
To be honest I don't know. I haven't performed an extensive test. I'm running on a Mac so the majority of the old stuff isn't available for my platform anyway so maybe I just never noticed.
Slashdot Mirror
For a while I worked with someone else to put together websites. They would come up with a design mockup in photoshop. Then he gave me a PDF and I did the actual implementation. I would ask him for specific graphical elements when needed. The results were very nice. They looked good and worked well and reliably.
I have seen the results of several 'designers' who made websites themselves, I must emphatically say that they have no business making websites.
I can write a book for web designers too. It would be composed of a single page that says:
If you want to design a website, go ahead. But for the love of $(deity) please then hand it off to an actual programmer. You do not understand the underlying technologies to make it work. You do not understand the security implications of what you are doing. Just because you know how to uncompress a drupal or wordpress archive doesn't mean you know WTF you're doing. Even if you manage to get a working site put together, there is a good chance that it will run poorly because you bolted on way too many plugins, and it is almost guaranteed that you've left gaping security holes that will bite the client in the rear down the road.
So please, get an actual programmer to help you with implementation.
Blurred? O_o I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Maybe you were using a screen resolution that wasn't native to the device? :D
But yeah, if you insist on lots of customizability, then a Mac is NOT for you.
I agree that some behaviours were downright goofy, like the mouse settings. I also found the inconsistent handling of maximizing windows to be amazingly annoying. But I was able to solve that by buying a few cheap addons. Divvy for window management. TotalFinder to give me tabs on the finder windows.
Terminal was good, but iTerm is just so much better. Etc.
That being said, you went back to Linux so none of this will help you anyway. ;)
How is it that the owner of an internet cafe is responsible for what a user posts, but the cell phone company isn't responsible for subversive use of a mobile phone? This law sounds so knee jerk I'm surprised they didn't dislocate several bones.
I can't speak for others, but I just wanted to personally refute what you're saying. I myself was a big linux fan, until I realized that Mac did everything I wanted that was *nix-y, but in a stable platform that could run commercial software. So I get to have my command line terminal AND run microsoft office on the same box without having to jump through hoops.
Add to that the fact that everything 'just works', and I'm ecstatic. I don't have to cross my fingers and hope that suspend/resume works. I don't have to carve up windows drivers and use fwcutter to get my wifi working. I got to the point where I really just wanted to get my job done, and linux was getting in my way more than it was helping me. That was several years ago. I switched to OSX, and haven't looked back.
I have parallels installed for when I have to run the occasional Windows app, and almost every linux app I could want is runnable on my mac.
And I'm not saying this because I'm a fanboi (fangrrl?). I'm saying this because I'm pragmatic. I use the tools I feel are best for the job. At work I ended up switching to a Windows 7 box because I was doing enough windows-dependent development that using OSX as my primary OS was a pain.
All that being said, I've seen how linux has been making some big strides recently. But now I have the enertia of having everything as Mac, and unless Apple does something unforgivably stupid like outright restrict what applications I can install on my computer (which I can't imagine them doing...), I'm probably not going to change anytime soon.
"To understand the universe and creation is to come closer to understanding the creator behind it all."
So what you're saying is that people are encouraged to learn as much about the universe as possible, but only up until we reach some arbitrary point where a magical stop sign will appear in front of us that says, "You've reached the end! Just God now!"
At absolute best, that's still a fundamental collapse of basic logic and critical thinking skills.
My own view of 'creationism' is based on what 'creationists' say. And based on that, it IS that "God simply put things where they are now". People who believe in creationism are either intellectually bankrupt, are running some kind of power play, or both.
I mean, they actually think that their chosen deity placed dinosaur bones into the ground to "test their faith". I have no idea how you can claim that while at the same time saying you believe in a rational ordered universe and keep a straight face.
Development of major software projects require discipline and expertise from all it's contributors. There needs to be a clear goal, both overall as well as what each individual contributor does. Each contributor also needs to feel that they have ownership of their piece.
If a company fosters an environment where the above is not true, then yeah the project is going to run into problems.
Yes, gratuitous control (what used to be called 'micromanagement') can be a great way to hurt a projects long term success, but to say that Anonymous has things to teach the general development community is absurd. Anonymous is essentially an anarchy. Sure, what they do requires some coordination between individuals, but there's a huge difference between a handful of hackers spending a day or three hacking into a company under the cover of a DDOS attack and a group of individuals that work together every day for months to put together a product to solve specific problems for their customers.
There are so many things wrong and out of touch with this article that I can't decide where to begin. It sounds like the author was nothing more than a really lousy manager. What he needs is management training, not random perceived lessons from a random nebulous collective.
Wow, your comment beggars belief. You do release that while Bush was in power, dissent WAS equated to being unpatriotic? While I won't deny that Obama is a major dissappointment, it is an unequivocal fact that it was and is the Republican party that demands mindless unquestioning obedience.
The TSA. Elimination of habius corpus. The list goes on and on.
I'd watch the koolaid drinking if I were you. The next batch may be poisonous.
Thats fantastic! Thanks for the link.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that companies will do whatever the hell they want and as customers we can suck it up or do something about it. Unfortunately, like spam, they make enough money from people that they see no reason to change.
I refuse to buy Ubisoft products anymore. Same with Blizzard and Sony. And when other people complain about how they got screwed as if it was some new revelation, I just sit back and enjoy the schadenfreude.
A friend of Vern's.
Please, no more puns. I'll go catatonic...
I can't wait to see vi rendered in 32-bit photorealistic glory!
You mean "Web Scale" is a term that people ACTUALLY use? I thought that that youtube video was just exaggerating for theatrical effect.
*face palm*
Nice penis you have there... Take it out often?
A whole pound CAN make a difference in many situations. And as the AC said, SOME people prioritize that over modularity. Just because your use case doesn't match the ACs, doesn't warrant such an obnoxious reply.
What next? Beating people up for their lunch money?
Oh sure, you say that now.... But the next thing you know they're sealing your starship in an intricate web and you have to pierce a weakened points of space/time to escape!
Ok, I have to ask... You say Apple reliability and consistency is overrated?
You *like* having your computer crash on you? You *like* playing a game of treasure hunt, trying to find the function you want to use?
When I was on Windows, I could go maybe a day or two between reboots, a week if I'm lucky. On Mac, I go *weeks* between reboots. And that's including suspend/resuming constantly.
Why in the world would you buy a Mac if you are that concerned about customizing every little button and knob in the OS?
More importantly, where do you work that pays you enough to buy Apple products but still gives you the freedom to worry about such pointless details?
The purpose of an OS is to facilitate you running applications and getting work done. Everything else is gravy.
I bought my MB because I was sick of Windows crashing. I was sick of Windows randomly rebooting because of incessant updates. That Windows couldn't even reliably suspend/resume properly. The list goes on and on. In other words, reliability and consistency are hell of a lot more important to me than the ability to set my window borders to exactly 3 pixels wide.
Windows 7 seems to have finally stabilized the platform, but unless Apple does something unfathomably stupid to make using a Mac untenable, I won't be jumping ship anytime soon.
If OSX bothers you that much, just put Windows on it and be done with it. But understand that something isn't stupid just because it doesn't do what you want it to do. That's like buying a car and complaining that you can't drive across the lake. You use the product that serves your needs the best, no more, no less.
Because by using VNC you are running a remote desktop. If you have something graphical you want to run, and want it to stay running even when you disconnect, then tunnelling X isn't going to do it.
Personally, I can't think of a single example that would require the above, but it's a use case none the less.
If I may ask, what specifically is it about ML that's bothering you? Interface-wise, isn't it pretty much identical to Lion?
I myself am still on Lion, because Apple always seems to screw something up with the initial OS release, and for ML it's the battery usage. There are some nice features I want in ML but I like my battery life more.
Ah, serves me right for not reading more carefully.
I just got as far as "bail out" and threw my hands up in disgust.
Whoa.... and I thought we in Canada had it bad.... I'm sorry to hear.
ROFLMAO
I spent a year or so *working* for Apple tech support your miserable dumbass.
I was anti-Apple prior to that job. But I was unemployed at the time, I needed money, and I just wanted to know what tech support was like at the time.
And you know what? I came out of that job respecting Apple. The support people care about their work. They go out of their way to help the people that call in.
But it's still staffed by human beings, and they can only put up with some much crap from customers. If you had a bad time with their support, I can guarantee that it was because you came across as a flaming asshole. Your post lends ample evidence to that fact.
While I find Apple's legal practises distasteful, their customer service is absolutely above reproach.
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/08/wall_street_to_bail_out_jersey.html
Stop bailing these bastards out every time they screw up.
To be honest I don't know. I haven't performed an extensive test. I'm running on a Mac so the majority of the old stuff isn't available for my platform anyway so maybe I just never noticed.