Apple has a text editor already - TextEdit. It's pervasive across the OS X system, and technically I'm using it right now in this Safari text box.
No you're not. Technically you're using an instance of NSTextView which just happens to be used by TextEdit.app (you can confirm this by deleting TextEdit.app and observing that Safari will still let you type into HTML forms).
Pages is a page layout program that calls on TextEdit (I presume)
Calls on the AppKit libraries which contain all the stuff that makes NSTextViews function, actually.
It is by using the AppKit classes that all MacOS X applications get stuff, that should be standard in all (non-lightweight) GUI toolkits, like spell checking in any text box or text entry field (unless the UI design specifically disabled it). This is also why "foreign" programs such as FireFox are not as nice to use on MacOS X, nifty features such as system wide spell-checking are not available.
I can't understand why other GUI toolkits don't offer similar functionality. Ii also irritates me when I see a website that implements spell-checking instead of leaving it to the users browser/GUI.
One school I worked at in NSW had a network of Windows 98 boxes drowning in malware,
Just out of curiosity: when was this? I've seen several high school networks in a sorry state but it's been a long time since I came across one where Windows 98 was still in (major) usage.
The article has been changed since the comments started appearing. Some comments attached to the story have also been deleted. What the screenshot showed was the spotlight search results for "tiger" which included the XiSO release of Tiger.
The program saves him over 200 hours of DOING HIS FUCKING JOB. If he didnt want to read papers -- hes in the wrong line of work. End of story, finish him.
Looks like someone didn't read the article. The program doesn't give the final grades for the papers, that is done by hand.
How the system operates:
Computer reads drafts of papers and gives them a score (this counts for a third of the mark for the paper).
Student gets feedback and continues working on paper.
Student submits paper to the professor who grades it.
Posting like this saved Monkelectric over 3 minutes of READING THE FUCKING ARTICLE. If he didn't want to read articles -- he's in the wrong line of posting. End of story, finish him.
Dashboard is crap...who wants a bunch of shit all over the screen
Dashboard is cool because it stops you from needing to have crap all over the screen. If you've ever seen someone regularly use Stickies.app you'd understand how Dashboard will reduce the crap they have lying around.
(My Powerbook has crashed more in the past 6 months than either of my Windows machines - and I then have to remove the battery to restart the fucking thing because of the "soft" power button).
I'd get that looked at if I were you, if you can't restart by holding down the power button for 10 seconds then something is very, very wrong.
Honestly: I feel the need to inflict pain and suffering on Slashdot posters that insist Windows frequently crashes for everyone. THAT WAS IN 1995. Windows 2000, fully patched, with stable drivers and applications, behind a firewall and not running IE or Outlook - IS STABLE.
So a version of an OS that you won't find in stores with security that home users don't know how to setup and which isn't running the default software (which can't be completely uninstalled in any case) is stable? Amazing.
And on systems that have spell checking ability built into every GUI element that can contain text (Cocoa apps on OS X at least but I'm sure there are others) there is still no spell checking.
It just doesn't feel right on a mac when text boxes don't let you spell check things. Perhaps this kind of thing will be more common when the rest of the software world catches up;-)
They make money off of OSX, and they deserve to. They don't have activation keys and other piracy prevention measures because Apple users are less likely to pirate their OS
And because they have already paid for the hardware (which is where most of Apple's money is made).
OS X is really just the icing on the cake as far as making money for Apple goes.
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Apple has a text editor already - TextEdit. It's pervasive across the OS X system, and technically I'm using it right now in this Safari text box.
No you're not. Technically you're using an instance of NSTextView which just happens to be used by TextEdit.app (you can confirm this by deleting TextEdit.app and observing that Safari will still let you type into HTML forms).
Pages is a page layout program that calls on TextEdit (I presume)
Calls on the AppKit libraries which contain all the stuff that makes NSTextViews function, actually.
It is by using the AppKit classes that all MacOS X applications get stuff, that should be standard in all (non-lightweight) GUI toolkits, like spell checking in any text box or text entry field (unless the UI design specifically disabled it). This is also why "foreign" programs such as FireFox are not as nice to use on MacOS X, nifty features such as system wide spell-checking are not available.
I can't understand why other GUI toolkits don't offer similar functionality. Ii also irritates me when I see a website that implements spell-checking instead of leaving it to the users browser/GUI.
That doesn't really answer the question.
The link you posted only shown pictures of a prototype in an existing case deign.
In the keynote it was announced that Macs with Intel processors will use a bios.
When in the keynote? I don't hearing that in the keynote.
Over the next few centuries, the average IQ of the human race will drop to 60-70.
I think you mean the average will drop to 60-70 using the current scale. The average itself wont change. It's 100 by definition.
One school I worked at in NSW had a network of Windows 98 boxes drowning in malware,
Just out of curiosity: when was this? I've seen several high school networks in a sorry state but it's been a long time since I came across one where Windows 98 was still in (major) usage.
Is it just me or do articles starting with copies of letters from lawyers always turn out to be good?
Apple to Release first Tiger Update
Oh good! I was worried it would be released by Microsoft.
The article has been changed since the comments started appearing. Some comments attached to the story have also been deleted. What the screenshot showed was the spotlight search results for "tiger" which included the XiSO release of Tiger.
It's literally just a new front-end for an existing game.
Actually, it is a new back end for some existing graphics and sounds.
You could replace all the graphics if you liked, but nobody has bothered yet.
You can get the complete source from the project's svn repository.
You might be confusing OpenTTD with TTDPatch, an inferior game that will be forever dependant on the original game and graphics.
I just can't get enough of remakes of classic games, there are some real gems out there.
My personal favourite is Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, it's multiplayer gameplay makes a nice change from the shoot everything that moves action of most things people play over the net.
Anyway, I'll end this post now, I'm feeling the urge to go play freeciv.
Or do you think that Apple might cave, and put out GarageBand for windows?
No.
Why on Earth would they do that?
Metric BSUs or standard BSUs?
In every country other than the USA metric BSUs are the standard.
Looks like someone didn't read the article. The program doesn't give the final grades for the papers, that is done by hand.
How the system operates:
Posting like this saved Monkelectric over 3 minutes of READING THE FUCKING ARTICLE. If he didn't want to read articles -- he's in the wrong line of posting. End of story, finish him.
Dashboard is crap...who wants a bunch of shit all over the screen
Dashboard is cool because it stops you from needing to have crap all over the screen. If you've ever seen someone regularly use Stickies.app you'd understand how Dashboard will reduce the crap they have lying around.
Solar Power Put to Good Use
Excellent! I was getting tired of all the bad uses it is put to.
We only have one set of clothes and we're wearing them.
I'm not.
MacOS X is UNIX-like but Linux is a type of UNIX? Do you know what the 'N' in GNU stands for?
(My Powerbook has crashed more in the past 6 months than either of my Windows machines - and I then have to remove the battery to restart the fucking thing because of the "soft" power button).
I'd get that looked at if I were you, if you can't restart by holding down the power button for 10 seconds then something is very, very wrong.
Honestly: I feel the need to inflict pain and suffering on Slashdot posters that insist Windows frequently crashes for everyone. THAT WAS IN 1995. Windows 2000, fully patched, with stable drivers and applications, behind a firewall and not running IE or Outlook - IS STABLE.
So a version of an OS that you won't find in stores with security that home users don't know how to setup and which isn't running the default software (which can't be completely uninstalled in any case) is stable? Amazing.
I travel by train every day, and I've lost count of the number of iPod users who take them out of their pockets, and then do nothing with them.
Did you know iPods have screens?
Did you know the screen usually shows what song is playing?
Did you ever think that perhaps people might like to take advantage of this functionality?
With several thousand songs in your pocket you can easily end up listening to music that you don't immediately recognise.
No spell check suggester
;-)
And on systems that have spell checking ability built into every GUI element that can contain text (Cocoa apps on OS X at least but I'm sure there are others) there is still no spell checking.
It just doesn't feel right on a mac when text boxes don't let you spell check things. Perhaps this kind of thing will be more common when the rest of the software world catches up
And a Web browser takes about half a page worth of calls to wininet.dll.
Or no code at all if you're a Cocoa programmer.
They make money off of OSX, and they deserve to. They don't have activation keys and other piracy prevention measures because Apple users are less likely to pirate their OS
And because they have already paid for the hardware (which is where most of Apple's money is made).
OS X is really just the icing on the cake as far as making money for Apple goes.
I imagine a number of interesting things will be exposed.
Based on the way Picasa looks, compared with Apple's iPhoto, I'd guess A browser from Google would look something like Safari.
I was going to work a joke into this but nothing comes to mind.
I would love to have my users collaboratively developing the user manual - what do I need to get this going?
You could set up your own wiki using the same software as the Wikipedia.
As an experiment you might like to start a Lilypond book at Wikibooks (the textbook/manual/howto sister project of the Wikipedia).
If you want to try and make the wiki world a better place you could help develop a Lilypond plugin for the wikipedia software.