I don't get this whole book metaphor of web pages. I've always pictures web pages as floating islands of information that I'm jumping from one to another. I actually hated the linear nature of Mosaic and really welcomed tabbed browsing.
As to other things I visualize, I 'see' numbers starting as an analog clock, running from one around to twelve and then heading straight up. Once they hit 100, they start to curve over to the left. -1 starts at the center of the clock and counts downward, passing behind the 6. Guess things will be different for my daughter, growing up with digital clocks.
If you ever have trouble in the snow with a rear wheel drive car, just put it in reverse. Worked great for an old Nova I had back in college, in a town with lots of hills. Got real good at being able to slide the car in 180's to get back in the direction I was going, too.
I had a teacher in college (1992) that said you should never have more than three folders deep on a Mac. Did not make sense to me. I was doing graphic design at the time and made use of a lot of prior artwork and graphics in my current projects. keeping all the stuff organized involved lots of layers and linking to other folders, via aliases. Yeah, it took an extra minute or two to set up a new project, creating several new folders and links but once done, was really fast to sit down and jump into what ever I wanted to work on.
Guess it all depends on how you think about working. Do you have a plan or methodology for getting things done or his your head all full of your newest project and how much fun it is? If people would step back from what they're doing and think about the big picture and how to get things done, things could go easier, regardless of the tools you use.
Every folder should be different because they contain different things. The fact that it remembers icon positions, view, emblems, can have different backgrounds, etc, is a breath of fresh air.
Sounds like MacOS 7. Not having used Linux since 2000, haven't been following such things but am getting ready to repurpose an old beige Mac with Mandrake. What's the opinions on KDE vs Gnome? Is there anything out there that does the column view like OSX?
I still use my Mac Quadra 650 (33MHz, 128MB RAM, 9GB SCSI HD, 512k VRAM) as a scanning station for an old Agfa SCSI scanner (that cost me $1400, back in '94). It's running OS 7.6.1 (circa 1995-6 OS), Photoshop 2.5, and Illustrator 5.5. The thing has a steel case that I can stand on and has never had any hardware failure. Good stuff!
Parts availability is one of the big problems with iMacs. The iMacs use laptop cd drives, so if you know of someone with a dead laptop, you should be able to use it's cd drive. The same goes for some Sun workstations. I just used a cd drive from an iMac to replace one in a Sun box. Sun guy was kinda' sad that it actually worked. He doesn't like Macs. I'd be glad to offer you another cd drive but we've already disposed of all the dead computers this year.
I doubt if your iMac has firewire, otherwise, you could use a firewire based cd drive. The iMacs can't boot from USB, either. About the only thing possible would be to remove the hard drive, plug it into a firewire case (I use a case from a dead cd burner) and then install the system from another Mac. As long as it's not a G5, it should be able to boot the iMac just fine.
I'm running OS X 10.3.4 on a first gen iMac. Maxed out the RAM and it runs ok. It just doesn't take advantage of GL rendering of the GUI. Still looks ok.
Oh hell no. I got a dead Chevy in the front yard, Miller High Life in the fridge and just fried up a mess of catfish. Yes, I do have a gigabit ethernet switch and have upgraded my G3 300 to a G4 900 and my Cube is running along at 800Mhz but I still consider myself a redneck. I've washed car parts in the dish washer and there's parts of a dead sheep hanging on the back fence. Gotta' love the country life. Just need to move out there so that the damn inspectors will stop hassling me about mowing the lawn and pick up my spare tires.
That explains my lower middle class standard of living. Social engineering seems the surest way to make money/gain influence. Being the loaner at the end of the block with the overgrown Chevy in the front yard and tinfoil over the windows certainly isn't doing it. Uttering a low growl at anyone at work whp approaches me, who isn't in IT, doesn't help things either. Any my hockey mask is beginning to get a bit smelly. Maybe I should take it off?
What ever this guy is smoking, it must be able to make Tommy Chong pause for a minute and wonder if it's a good idea to try it. Maybe it's that drain cleaner that that chick snorted in Up In Smoke?
Back in '89 I had money to buy a computer. Seeing as they averaged around $2500.00 I wanted to make an informed decision. Since I'd just started college and needed some computer class credits, I took Intro to DOS. I looked for Intro to Mac but the closest thing they had was Desk Top Publishing. Halfway through the semester, I was still learning how to move files around and change system settings in the DOS class. In the DTP class, we were editing scanned in pictures in Photoshop and laying out the school paper. Which system to get...?
A couple of years later, my roommate gets a PC and it has something called Windows on it. "Jump on it anytime. Feel free to play some of the games I have." I try this a few times but it totally blows. Back to my room and my Quadra 650 and Marathon, with stereo sound, monitor w/subwoofer built in and video I/O.
Several times this last year, I've been asked to help out in running virus software and MS updates on the OS for the little darlings at my school. What a pain in the ass. Hell, just reading the text in any web browser sucks ass compared to OSX. The total user experience is shite.
So far, nothing no MS OS has ever had a better user experience than my Macs.
I think there are some apps out there (Versiontracker.com) that let you remote control iTunes. All Apple needs to do is come up with a tablet Mac to control all this stuff.
I do. I have a tabloid plus size laser in the family room and a small laser in the living room/libray. In the living room, I have an old one piece Mac (Color Classic) running my library software database. Makes it easy to keep track of our books.
My wife is major solitare freak. I don't get it. I've tried getting her interested in Myst, Sims, Mah Jong, etc. No go. Need to find some kind of word game or something. Scrabble on computers?
At least now that my daughter's getting older, I've found someone who likes to game with me. I've been intro her to old school MAME, Atari, etc. Frogger is her favorite, though she also likes to watch me play my 'bad guy game' (Baldur's Gate II). She likes to see goblins get shot with arrows.
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I don't get this whole book metaphor of web pages. I've always pictures web pages as floating islands of information that I'm jumping from one to another. I actually hated the linear nature of Mosaic and really welcomed tabbed browsing.
As to other things I visualize, I 'see' numbers starting as an analog clock, running from one around to twelve and then heading straight up. Once they hit 100, they start to curve over to the left. -1 starts at the center of the clock and counts downward, passing behind the 6. Guess things will be different for my daughter, growing up with digital clocks.
If you ever have trouble in the snow with a rear wheel drive car, just put it in reverse. Worked great for an old Nova I had back in college, in a town with lots of hills. Got real good at being able to slide the car in 180's to get back in the direction I was going, too.
I had a teacher in college (1992) that said you should never have more than three folders deep on a Mac. Did not make sense to me. I was doing graphic design at the time and made use of a lot of prior artwork and graphics in my current projects. keeping all the stuff organized involved lots of layers and linking to other folders, via aliases. Yeah, it took an extra minute or two to set up a new project, creating several new folders and links but once done, was really fast to sit down and jump into what ever I wanted to work on.
Guess it all depends on how you think about working. Do you have a plan or methodology for getting things done or his your head all full of your newest project and how much fun it is? If people would step back from what they're doing and think about the big picture and how to get things done, things could go easier, regardless of the tools you use.
Every folder should be different because they contain different things. The fact that it remembers icon positions, view, emblems, can have different backgrounds, etc, is a breath of fresh air.
Sounds like MacOS 7. Not having used Linux since 2000, haven't been following such things but am getting ready to repurpose an old beige Mac with Mandrake. What's the opinions on KDE vs Gnome? Is there anything out there that does the column view like OSX?
Their heads would asplode?
I still use my Mac Quadra 650 (33MHz, 128MB RAM, 9GB SCSI HD, 512k VRAM) as a scanning station for an old Agfa SCSI scanner (that cost me $1400, back in '94). It's running OS 7.6.1 (circa 1995-6 OS), Photoshop 2.5, and Illustrator 5.5. The thing has a steel case that I can stand on and has never had any hardware failure. Good stuff!
Parts availability is one of the big problems with iMacs. The iMacs use laptop cd drives, so if you know of someone with a dead laptop, you should be able to use it's cd drive. The same goes for some Sun workstations. I just used a cd drive from an iMac to replace one in a Sun box. Sun guy was kinda' sad that it actually worked. He doesn't like Macs. I'd be glad to offer you another cd drive but we've already disposed of all the dead computers this year.
I doubt if your iMac has firewire, otherwise, you could use a firewire based cd drive. The iMacs can't boot from USB, either. About the only thing possible would be to remove the hard drive, plug it into a firewire case (I use a case from a dead cd burner) and then install the system from another Mac. As long as it's not a G5, it should be able to boot the iMac just fine.
I'm running OS X 10.3.4 on a first gen iMac. Maxed out the RAM and it runs ok. It just doesn't take advantage of GL rendering of the GUI. Still looks ok.
One of the reasons I liked Oni is it was smooth but had a very anime look to it. No creep out factor.
What, am I the only redneck who owns a mac?
Oh hell no. I got a dead Chevy in the front yard, Miller High Life in the fridge and just fried up a mess of catfish. Yes, I do have a gigabit ethernet switch and have upgraded my G3 300 to a G4 900 and my Cube is running along at 800Mhz but I still consider myself a redneck. I've washed car parts in the dish washer and there's parts of a dead sheep hanging on the back fence. Gotta' love the country life. Just need to move out there so that the damn inspectors will stop hassling me about mowing the lawn and pick up my spare tires.
Mac guys care about Mac shit.
Duh?
Is coffee the new black?
I like Chevy Novas ('68-'72) but I wouldn't stick a Porsche engine in one. That's asinine. An aluminum 454 big block would be just fine, thank you.
That explains my lower middle class standard of living. Social engineering seems the surest way to make money/gain influence. Being the loaner at the end of the block with the overgrown Chevy in the front yard and tinfoil over the windows certainly isn't doing it. Uttering a low growl at anyone at work whp approaches me, who isn't in IT, doesn't help things either. Any my hockey mask is beginning to get a bit smelly. Maybe I should take it off?
I thought that was a butthead?
What ever this guy is smoking, it must be able to make Tommy Chong pause for a minute and wonder if it's a good idea to try it. Maybe it's that drain cleaner that that chick snorted in Up In Smoke?
Back in '89 I had money to buy a computer. Seeing as they averaged around $2500.00 I wanted to make an informed decision. Since I'd just started college and needed some computer class credits, I took Intro to DOS. I looked for Intro to Mac but the closest thing they had was Desk Top Publishing. Halfway through the semester, I was still learning how to move files around and change system settings in the DOS class. In the DTP class, we were editing scanned in pictures in Photoshop and laying out the school paper. Which system to get...?
A couple of years later, my roommate gets a PC and it has something called Windows on it. "Jump on it anytime. Feel free to play some of the games I have." I try this a few times but it totally blows. Back to my room and my Quadra 650 and Marathon, with stereo sound, monitor w/subwoofer built in and video I/O.
Several times this last year, I've been asked to help out in running virus software and MS updates on the OS for the little darlings at my school. What a pain in the ass. Hell, just reading the text in any web browser sucks ass compared to OSX. The total user experience is shite.
So far, nothing no MS OS has ever had a better user experience than my Macs.
Now, I guess I should be complaining that there is no MacAmp
I think there are some apps out there (Versiontracker.com) that let you remote control iTunes. All Apple needs to do is come up with a tablet Mac to control all this stuff.
but who keeps their printer in the living room?
I do. I have a tabloid plus size laser in the family room and a small laser in the living room/libray. In the living room, I have an old one piece Mac (Color Classic) running my library software database. Makes it easy to keep track of our books.
Think how bad Troy McClure has it.
I think there's a TLA for this: FUD.
My wife would hate it if her download speed dropped...
I can reach 7 access points from different corners of my 400 square foot apartment now.
Damn! My bedroom's just under 400 sq feet (18'x20'). The whole house is just a hair under 1700 sqr feet. This on an income of 60k a year.
My wife is major solitare freak. I don't get it. I've tried getting her interested in Myst, Sims, Mah Jong, etc. No go. Need to find some kind of word game or something. Scrabble on computers?
At least now that my daughter's getting older, I've found someone who likes to game with me. I've been intro her to old school MAME, Atari, etc. Frogger is her favorite, though she also likes to watch me play my 'bad guy game' (Baldur's Gate II). She likes to see goblins get shot with arrows.