And most people want computers to be practical, as in paycheck.
I don't really give a whiz about freedom. I'll use the best tool for the job. Sometimes it's a Mac, sometimes it's Linux, sometimes (but not very often) it's Windows. If I can use something with a BSD license, I will, but that doesn't govern my decision. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm starting to think of all of this push for GNU, the Green Party, and the like as simple immaturity on the part of people who don't have enough other things to do in the real world. Call that a troll if you like, but it's about how I feel.
Hehe. Yep, I'm a known troll. And you're an AC. (I think the appropriate term is "nanny nanny boo boo.")
Okay. To your (his?) points: "OS X machines need upgrades and patches all the time, and even worse, they are user-specific." Upgrades and patches all the time? A glance at debian.org reports ten security vulnerabilities in deb packages that need to be addressed. I'm not saying that those are weaknesses in the system (I see them as strengths, in fact) but to say that Mac OS X's regular software updates are a weakness is to be grasping for a point where one really doesn't exist. I installed 10.2 on my PowerBook. I downloaded the 10.2.3 joint updater, the IE security update (a non-Apple product), the Stuffit security update (a non-Apple product), and the AirPort software update because I wanted to update my base station. Ta daa!
Oh, and they aren't user-specific by default. Are you (is he?) suggesting that when I update IE, I have to update my local IE? Nope. The admin installs updates and the system-wide software is updated. You're (he's) just wrong on that one.
The Mac is fairly friendly. But it's still a complicated modern operating system and can be confusing. No biggie there. I'd still (and did) give my grandmother that instead of Windows.
10.2 is a whole 'nother operating system! It's like going from Win95 to Win98. I agree that there should have been upgrade pricing, but it's not that big a deal, really. It's a new OS. Not a patch, not a maintenance release, a whole new OS!
Power consumption? What the hell? I don't really care. I've never seen anyone to whom I care to pay attention to trying to argue that Macs consume less power than PCs (though they may, I really don't know.) For all I know, you (he) may be right, though I suspect that you'll (he'll) be hard-pressed to find many tasks that take 1 hour on a PC and 5-6 on a Mac.
What kind of crap-ass LCDs are you (is he) using that die in 3 years? I have hardware with LCDs that's a heck of a lot older than that. And eMacs use CRTs.
Quality? How do Mac(')s suck in terms of quality? I haven't gotten that picture from any of your (his) to-date arguments, but I have a couple of burned out midrange PC motherboards and notebook computers sitting in my closet to dump into your (his) Honda if you (he) want(s) to haul them away for me.
P.S., I wasn't suggesting that your (his?) grammatical errors prove that a Mac is better than a PC. I was simply suggesting that you (he?) might think about addressing your (his) use of apostrophes in the future. It takes a mind itchin' for a fight to jump from my comment to "Where the fuck have you learnt such a moronic logic?" But I like to feed trolls.
It is the meaning of life. And it's the aspect of the post that you missed completely: humor and lightness.
I haven't gotten laid in ages. Hell, I haven't been on a successful date in ages. Sure it bugs me, but what the hell? I drive a Volvo, I have a pleasantly quiet stereo, and I gave up golf years ago. And I still manage to have fun and be a reasonably balanced person.
My point is that at the core of it, you're right, but you seem to be drawing the wrong lesson: Let the people have their girls/boys and fast cars. If you don't have that, then find something you do have and can enjoy. Poke some fun at the dumbass jock who's making the CEO's salary while you're a code monkey in the basement. If you let yourself, you'll be a lot happier than him in the end.
I'll opt to ignore all of your factual errors and point out that in the English language it is unnecessary to use an apostrophe to pluralize proper nouns.
A little slow in the relationship department? Chin up, things will get better eventually.
And if IHBT, then good job!
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Thank you! What is it about hardware review sites that are written by people who sound like they're struggling to present each sentence. I know a lot of them are written by people for whom English isn't their native language, and this is not directed at them. I'm bitching about the people who are just plain dumb. This quote is from the LCD panel review:
"Image quality was excellent using the analog cable, which lead me to believe things could only get better with DVI. Sadly enough, I was wrong. I had the opportunity to test the monitor using a Radeon 7500 that supported both analog and DVI. Using the analog with the 7500, the overall picture quality was poor at best. Switching to DVI fixed this, giving image quality equal to that of the GF3 using the analog cable. This confused me greatly. I was under the impression that DVI was a step above analog."
Uh...unless I'm reading this totally incorrectly, this guy is a moron. That and it sounds like he's trying very very hard to sound intelligent. I have absolutely no faith in this guy's ability to come up with a single thing worth reading about an LCD display.
"I'm now happily "LEAP"ing along in ghetto style by making full use of the "Find" command in Netscape/Moz/IE"
I thought that that was how most people did it. The "/" key is the one I use most in vi, and I make liberal use of cmd-f in OmniWeb. Hell, it's vaguely related to the research given to my by my roommate showing that people would rather use Google to access frequently-used sites than their bookmarks (I'm one of those.)
It looks like a white square with text in it. It appears to be mostly keyboard. You can read the manual, but it really helps to be using the program at the same time.
And it's really funky! I'm trying, but it's fairly strange.
IIRC, Steve said as early as the first Byte (I think) article about the Cube in 1988 that if the Mach kernel didn't work out well, they would willingly switch to another. The kernel wasn't the key to the system, it was just a means to an end.
I think you made my point in reverse. If a wizard can simplify only simple tasks, why have a wizard? Why not just let the user do it?
I think, though, that wizards are a symptom of the problem. If it's that bloody hard to do something, then putting a big button on top to mash all of the little buttons at once is a problem.
Not to be rude, but I'm glad you were never my teacher. I don't know what you teach, but you should be aware that the plural form of PC is PCs, and the contraction of "it is" is "it's."
("i have seen education go from macs to pc's" and "it doesn't matter if its KDE or GNOME, or in my clients")
About your dialog box proposition: because without an error message I have no idea what's wrong and I have to keep casting about until the "OK" button isn't grayed out? That seems like bad UI. Particularly because half of the dialog box will be filled with instructions for how to fill it in. If I enter " 5643" for the last four digits of my SSN, I'd much rather get a message saying saying "there may be no spaces in the SSN" or something like that than have to hunt around all of my entries and try and figure out what is wrong.
The biggest usability mistake ever made (as I see it) is the idea that wizards make things easier to use. They make it easier to use the wizard and produce pat results from a known good starting point, but as soon as you have to do something outside the wizard, you'll find that your previous use of the wizard has made it harder to do what you want. It's the whole give fish, eat for day; teach to fish, eat for life story with windows and scroll bars instead of fish.
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And all of those words describe like fifteen boxes that actually exist on desks somewhere.
And most people want computers to be practical, as in paycheck.
I don't really give a whiz about freedom. I'll use the best tool for the job. Sometimes it's a Mac, sometimes it's Linux, sometimes (but not very often) it's Windows. If I can use something with a BSD license, I will, but that doesn't govern my decision. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm starting to think of all of this push for GNU, the Green Party, and the like as simple immaturity on the part of people who don't have enough other things to do in the real world. Call that a troll if you like, but it's about how I feel.
If yours is, you won't either. I've heard of a few people who've gotten burned by sexist/offensive comments in their code.
Forget Lance Bass, the Raeleans say that they're going to open the first colony for business tomorrow. Independent verification pending.
It's about the rejection of bathing, goddamn it. Geeks will never go for Mac OS X because of Aqua; that's a concept that's just *too* traumatic.
You're clearly not Catholic. Six of one...
Hehe. Yep, I'm a known troll. And you're an AC. (I think the appropriate term is "nanny nanny boo boo.")
Okay. To your (his?) points: "OS X machines need upgrades and patches all the time, and even worse, they are user-specific." Upgrades and patches all the time? A glance at debian.org reports ten security vulnerabilities in deb packages that need to be addressed. I'm not saying that those are weaknesses in the system (I see them as strengths, in fact) but to say that Mac OS X's regular software updates are a weakness is to be grasping for a point where one really doesn't exist. I installed 10.2 on my PowerBook. I downloaded the 10.2.3 joint updater, the IE security update (a non-Apple product), the Stuffit security update (a non-Apple product), and the AirPort software update because I wanted to update my base station. Ta daa!
Oh, and they aren't user-specific by default. Are you (is he?) suggesting that when I update IE, I have to update my local IE? Nope. The admin installs updates and the system-wide software is updated. You're (he's) just wrong on that one.
The Mac is fairly friendly. But it's still a complicated modern operating system and can be confusing. No biggie there. I'd still (and did) give my grandmother that instead of Windows.
10.2 is a whole 'nother operating system! It's like going from Win95 to Win98. I agree that there should have been upgrade pricing, but it's not that big a deal, really. It's a new OS. Not a patch, not a maintenance release, a whole new OS!
Power consumption? What the hell? I don't really care. I've never seen anyone to whom I care to pay attention to trying to argue that Macs consume less power than PCs (though they may, I really don't know.) For all I know, you (he) may be right, though I suspect that you'll (he'll) be hard-pressed to find many tasks that take 1 hour on a PC and 5-6 on a Mac.
What kind of crap-ass LCDs are you (is he) using that die in 3 years? I have hardware with LCDs that's a heck of a lot older than that. And eMacs use CRTs.
Quality? How do Mac(')s suck in terms of quality? I haven't gotten that picture from any of your (his) to-date arguments, but I have a couple of burned out midrange PC motherboards and notebook computers sitting in my closet to dump into your (his) Honda if you (he) want(s) to haul them away for me.
P.S., I wasn't suggesting that your (his?) grammatical errors prove that a Mac is better than a PC. I was simply suggesting that you (he?) might think about addressing your (his) use of apostrophes in the future. It takes a mind itchin' for a fight to jump from my comment to "Where the fuck have you learnt such a moronic logic?" But I like to feed trolls.
It is the meaning of life. And it's the aspect of the post that you missed completely: humor and lightness.
I haven't gotten laid in ages. Hell, I haven't been on a successful date in ages. Sure it bugs me, but what the hell? I drive a Volvo, I have a pleasantly quiet stereo, and I gave up golf years ago. And I still manage to have fun and be a reasonably balanced person.
My point is that at the core of it, you're right, but you seem to be drawing the wrong lesson: Let the people have their girls/boys and fast cars. If you don't have that, then find something you do have and can enjoy. Poke some fun at the dumbass jock who's making the CEO's salary while you're a code monkey in the basement. If you let yourself, you'll be a lot happier than him in the end.
I'll opt to ignore all of your factual errors and point out that in the English language it is unnecessary to use an apostrophe to pluralize proper nouns.
Good day, sir.
It's actually on-topic. The poster is correct: Chernobyl is in Ukraine.
A little slow in the relationship department? Chin up, things will get better eventually.
And if IHBT, then good job!
Uh...unless I'm reading this totally incorrectly, this guy is a moron. That and it sounds like he's trying very very hard to sound intelligent. I have absolutely no faith in this guy's ability to come up with a single thing worth reading about an LCD display.
I kind of dig it. You see, you've fallen into the trap that he was suggesting that the original poster try harder to perfect. Bing!
FYI, Java's object model is very close to that of SmallTalk.
And being home on a modem makes the best site around seem slow. Agh, I miss DSL.
"I'm now happily "LEAP"ing along in ghetto style by making full use of the "Find" command in Netscape/Moz/IE"
I thought that that was how most people did it. The "/" key is the one I use most in vi, and I make liberal use of cmd-f in OmniWeb. Hell, it's vaguely related to the research given to my by my roommate showing that people would rather use Google to access frequently-used sites than their bookmarks (I'm one of those.)
It looks like a white square with text in it. It appears to be mostly keyboard. You can read the manual, but it really helps to be using the program at the same time.
And it's really funky! I'm trying, but it's fairly strange.
Don't worry, it's fairly redundant, too.
Your point is right, but your reason is wrong. Gist for the parent poster? Get a life! Sorry, but it's true.
Your signature makes me dizzy.
IIRC, Steve said as early as the first Byte (I think) article about the Cube in 1988 that if the Mach kernel didn't work out well, they would willingly switch to another. The kernel wasn't the key to the system, it was just a means to an end.
I think you made my point in reverse. If a wizard can simplify only simple tasks, why have a wizard? Why not just let the user do it?
I think, though, that wizards are a symptom of the problem. If it's that bloody hard to do something, then putting a big button on top to mash all of the little buttons at once is a problem.
Not to be rude, but I'm glad you were never my teacher. I don't know what you teach, but you should be aware that the plural form of PC is PCs, and the contraction of "it is" is "it's."
("i have seen education go from macs to pc's" and "it doesn't matter if its KDE or GNOME, or in my clients")
Oh, but no! Now he's hocking fancy watches in an attempt to sell ... cars!
Here.
About your dialog box proposition: because without an error message I have no idea what's wrong and I have to keep casting about until the "OK" button isn't grayed out? That seems like bad UI. Particularly because half of the dialog box will be filled with instructions for how to fill it in. If I enter " 5643" for the last four digits of my SSN, I'd much rather get a message saying saying "there may be no spaces in the SSN" or something like that than have to hunt around all of my entries and try and figure out what is wrong.
The biggest usability mistake ever made (as I see it) is the idea that wizards make things easier to use. They make it easier to use the wizard and produce pat results from a known good starting point, but as soon as you have to do something outside the wizard, you'll find that your previous use of the wizard has made it harder to do what you want. It's the whole give fish, eat for day; teach to fish, eat for life story with windows and scroll bars instead of fish.