OS X runs Office, Quicken, Photoshop, Illustrator, Cubase, Logik, etc.... No more wondering if your resume is going to display correctly in Microsoft Word, or having to keep a Windows box around to make PowerPoints.
No more/dev/dsp clusterfuck. No more wondering how to turn on anti-aliased fonts in X... or did you only enable them for GTK apps... or was that KDE aps...
In short, OS X is a great OS because you don't have to spend time fucking with things you don't care about, you can spend your time actually doing your work, leaving you that much more time to play.
everything is turned upside down? Did you follow the same link I did? The startup procedure is different though it still just runs shell scripts. The filesystem is laid out differently, and it uses NetInfo instead of/etc/hosts,/etc/group and/etc/passwd.
Is it a big change? yes. Is the whole world upside down? ummm.... no. You still have a shell, all the standard unix utilities and most everything is done the Unix way, even when it's done through the GUI. Personal Web Sharing is Apache. Windows File Sharing is Samba. Printer Sharing is cups. The firewall is a default deny ipfw setup.
Sounds like Unix to me. Though admittedly I'm biased, since I really like the fact that I'm posting this message from a unix box (OS X 10.2.1) that's currently running Illustrator, Photoshop and Quicken, while charging up my iPod.
clock skew, a problem which we get better and better at handling, and which isn't particulary difficult to solve if the application allows for the addition of a small amount of latancy.
To use the DS3 example that somebody mentioned previously, it's entirely possible to create hardware on each side of the link that would send simultaneously over each link, and on the other side the bits would be reassembled, with some small reassembly delay.
Using this method you could greatly outstrip the bandwidth available from the current top of the line serial link, at the cost of a small amount of latency. And yes, I understand that 8 lines wouldn't get you 8 times the speed, because there'd need to be protocol overhead.
That being said, this is slashdot, so I tend to avoid real debate. Very few people have the capability to thoughtfully discuss technical topics, and those that do are often unreasonable, unable to recognize humor and generally unwilling to engage in anything interesting or useful. Thus, it's far easier to just use a quip and a quote to imply that your statement is clearly wrong than it is to explain why you're wrong.
Who are you to say whether or not my phone calls are important? As long as I'm speaking in a normal speaking voice, nobody should care whether I'm talking to the person next to me, somebody on a cell phone, or my imaginary friend, Fred.
As far as incessant ringing goes, I also dislike the use of annoying ringtones at the extra loud setting, but that doesn't mean that I hate cell phone users.
That has nothing to do with SCSI. The only reason it's even remotely related is because people have a tendancy to buy SCSI drives like this one, which is a 15K RPM drive with a 3.2ms seek, and the ability to sustain a 75MB/sec data throughput rate, whereas high-end ATA drives like this one spin at 7200 RPM, have a 9ms seek, and don't list their maximum sustained data throughput rate on the data sheet.
Is IDE appropriate for the desktop? absolutely.
Will retards continue using IDE in applications where SCSI is far more appropriate? definitely.
Does your post make any fucking sense at all? nope.
Don't worry, this article is forgetting an important point, OEM contracts.
Currently XM and Sirius are almost exclusively available as high-end aftermarket add-ons. Obviously this isn't conducive to helping the satellite radio companies reach their break-even points (if memory serves me correctly from other articles I've read, the break even point is either 500,000 or 1,000,000 customers).
Sirius is partnered with Ford (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Mazda, Volvo), Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrylser (Mercedes, Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep), and Nissan (Infiniti and Nissan). XM also has an impressive partnership list, including GM and more.
Once these OEMs start selling cars with satellite equipped radios from the showroom, sales are going to skyrocket.
Such devices exist. GW Micro can set you up with a kiosk that will do just that.
The thing about the SouthWest case is that they do include alt tags, they're just really dumb. res is the alt tag for a graphic that says reservations. sched is the alternative to a graphic that says schedules. click is the alternative to click 'n save.
So SouthWest created a site, demonstrated their ability to include the alt tags that make browsers for the impaired work, but then populated those alternatives with garbage. It may or may not be illegal, but it's definitely ignorant.
Well, I haven't had the opportunity to use nautilus in a long, long time, though I have used Finder, so some of my points may no longer be valid.
A purely visual point, finder has a very attractive interface, whereas nautilus looks a lot like netscape 1.
An opinion piece, I like that finder launches an appropriate viewer for each file, instead of viewing things within the interface proper like Nautilus does.
I find that the side pane in nautilus is generally a waste of space, though clearly that's a matter of opinion.
I don't recall that Nautilus has search capabilities that are as nice as the search in the finder in Jaguar. (you click on search and you get a new window saying 'search in: everywhere, local disks, home, or specific places'. if you choose specific places you get a little window that lets you choose which drives to search on.
Then there's a window that says 'Search for items whose: then you choose any number of criteria (filename, date modified, date created, kind, extension, visibility), and depending on which criteria you choose you get an appropriate list of modifiers: (contains, starts with, ends with, is) for file name, (is, is not, no value) for type, then you get an appriate last box (maybe a text input box, maybe a drop down, maybe nothing if the first two things say it all).
Mostly, I think I just don't like the explorer metaphor, where one application manages your files, views your images, browses the internet, renders html, and more. It makes, IMO, for a somewhat bizarre user experience.
The fact of the matter is that adding the words 'with a computer' to a process shouldn't fundamentally change the way we regard it, legally. There are already specific accessility guidelines in place for the federal government, i.e. Section 508. These guidelines should be followed by businesses as well.
The idea that a website that sells things is not a store, solely because it doesn't have a door and a roof is asinine. We live in an age where some of our largest retailers do not exist in any traditional sense, i.e. amazon.com, and many others offer special incentives that are only available if you use their web-based storefront, i.e. SouthWest's Click 'n Save fares.
I understand that the judge was under a great deal of pressure to find in this manner, because requiring websites to be accessible to people with disabilities would have non-trivial initial costs for big business, but arguing that a website which engages in commerce isn't a store is a lot like arguing over the meaning of the word 'is'.
Nearly all office phones stop working once the UPS on the PBX goes out anyway. If you need to call 911, the phones will probably be working, and if they're not, odds are good that every single person in the office has a cell phone anyway.
This is shocking. I bet Google will have the gall to claim that they were only making these changes so that the most relevant results are listed, instead of admitting the truth, that they were attempted to destroy the very reputable SearchKing. Now how are on-line casino owners supposed to make themselves the top results for searches like 'Britney Spears Naked', or 'Busty Ladies'.
Clearly, this is a move by Google designed to hurt not only SearchKing, but the general consumer!
Actually, outlook for mac is called Outlook:mac.
Entourage is a completely seperate program that has nothing to do with Outlook, and doesn't play well with Exchange.
Imagine if you will, a world where it's possible to hook your laptop up to a 1024x768 15" lcd panel, then switch to a 2048x1536 22" crt, then to a 3840x2400
high-res lcd panel.
In that sort of world, it's a lot easier to specify how big you want things to be than to specify how many pixels anything should be.
Where is that in IE 5.2? I'm using 5.2 on 10.2 to reply to your message and christ if I can figure out what you're talking about. The only find i can see requires i hit cmd-f, then type shit into a window.
Yeah, the nerve of them, charging $9 so that you can sit in a $150 seat, watching a movie on a $8,000 screen, being displayed from a $90,000 projector, that's playing a $50,000 film while listening to a $100,000 sound system that's located in a $2,000,000 building!
I mean christ, they must think we're crazy!
* figures used in the above are based on a THX theater with a Barco DLP projector, showing a first-weekend movie
It's hard to believe that an arrogant, authoritarian prick like you can ALSO be sane enough to see that the U.S. is being too internationally arrogant for its own good.
hey now, I'm not authoritarian.
Never did I say globally mandated DRM would actually stand, nor do I think it will. But I do think it's what will happen if the entertainment industry can't find a way to put the kibosh on music-stealing and movie-stealing networks like kazaa.
There's a lot of law that's in the 'shit, what do we do about this?' stage, and people need to realize two things. First, that those laws aren't passed simply because some megacorp wants to restrict their rights. Secondly, most of the laws slashdot visitors are upset about are direct responses to "cool, stick it to the man" activities, like creating massive global networks designed to efficiently move copyright protected works to people who don't have the copyrights.
The problem is expecting the government to help them out with special laws to cram it down everybody's throats.
The government isn't helping them out with "special laws". Most of the laws just say things like 'stealing things is bad, even if those things are bits', or 'helping people steal bits is bad'. They're still a bit overbroad, but burglary tools are illegal in the meatworld, they should be in the electronic world too. A lot of the stuff the slashbots like to get excited about is stuff that will sort itself out over the next few years.
Right now there are more important things to take care of, like trying to convince our fearless leader not to piss off the rest of the world any more than is actually neccessary.
"mosch is an abrasive asshole"
I prefer to be referred to as a real bastard or simply a bad person, but whatever floats your boat.
I'd suggest you make mosch a link to this page, so they can see what an asshole I am. Or maybe you could just link to a specifically chosen post, such as this one, or maybe this anti-rationalization comment whichgot a few people to mark me as an enemy. And this comment speaks of drug use, which clearly allies me with the axis of evil.
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Jesus christ, The Interface Hall of Shame should be featured on the massively outdated content hall of shame.
Is there some sort of geek mafia that I'm not aware of? If so, could somebody make one of those Apple 23" HD flat panels fall off a truck for me?
No more /dev/dsp clusterfuck. No more wondering how to turn on anti-aliased fonts in X... or did you only enable them for GTK apps... or was that KDE aps...
In short, OS X is a great OS because you don't have to spend time fucking with things you don't care about, you can spend your time actually doing your work, leaving you that much more time to play.
Is it a big change? yes. Is the whole world upside down? ummm.... no. You still have a shell, all the standard unix utilities and most everything is done the Unix way, even when it's done through the GUI. Personal Web Sharing is Apache. Windows File Sharing is Samba. Printer Sharing is cups. The firewall is a default deny ipfw setup.
Sounds like Unix to me. Though admittedly I'm biased, since I really like the fact that I'm posting this message from a unix box (OS X 10.2.1) that's currently running Illustrator, Photoshop and Quicken, while charging up my iPod.
To use the DS3 example that somebody mentioned previously, it's entirely possible to create hardware on each side of the link that would send simultaneously over each link, and on the other side the bits would be reassembled, with some small reassembly delay.
Using this method you could greatly outstrip the bandwidth available from the current top of the line serial link, at the cost of a small amount of latency. And yes, I understand that 8 lines wouldn't get you 8 times the speed, because there'd need to be protocol overhead.
That being said, this is slashdot, so I tend to avoid real debate. Very few people have the capability to thoughtfully discuss technical topics, and those that do are often unreasonable, unable to recognize humor and generally unwilling to engage in anything interesting or useful. Thus, it's far easier to just use a quip and a quote to imply that your statement is clearly wrong than it is to explain why you're wrong.
As far as incessant ringing goes, I also dislike the use of annoying ringtones at the extra loud setting, but that doesn't mean that I hate cell phone users.
Actually most of the better displays have a pixel response time of 25ms, not 35ms. Which works out to 40 "fps".
Is IDE appropriate for the desktop? absolutely.
Will retards continue using IDE in applications where SCSI is far more appropriate? definitely.
Does your post make any fucking sense at all? nope.
As Will Rogers once said, "It's always risky to make predictions, especially about the future."
I don't know where you live, but in the Philadelphia metropolitan area Commerce Bank has consumer-friendly hours.
Currently XM and Sirius are almost exclusively available as high-end aftermarket add-ons. Obviously this isn't conducive to helping the satellite radio companies reach their break-even points (if memory serves me correctly from other articles I've read, the break even point is either 500,000 or 1,000,000 customers).
Sirius is partnered with Ford (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Mazda, Volvo), Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrylser (Mercedes, Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep), and Nissan (Infiniti and Nissan). XM also has an impressive partnership list, including GM and more.
Once these OEMs start selling cars with satellite equipped radios from the showroom, sales are going to skyrocket.
The thing about the SouthWest case is that they do include alt tags, they're just really dumb. res is the alt tag for a graphic that says reservations. sched is the alternative to a graphic that says schedules. click is the alternative to click 'n save.
So SouthWest created a site, demonstrated their ability to include the alt tags that make browsers for the impaired work, but then populated those alternatives with garbage. It may or may not be illegal, but it's definitely ignorant.
A purely visual point, finder has a very attractive interface, whereas nautilus looks a lot like netscape 1.
An opinion piece, I like that finder launches an appropriate viewer for each file, instead of viewing things within the interface proper like Nautilus does.
I find that the side pane in nautilus is generally a waste of space, though clearly that's a matter of opinion.
I don't recall that Nautilus has search capabilities that are as nice as the search in the finder in Jaguar. (you click on search and you get a new window saying 'search in: everywhere, local disks, home, or specific places'. if you choose specific places you get a little window that lets you choose which drives to search on. Then there's a window that says 'Search for items whose: then you choose any number of criteria (filename, date modified, date created, kind, extension, visibility), and depending on which criteria you choose you get an appropriate list of modifiers: (contains, starts with, ends with, is) for file name, (is, is not, no value) for type, then you get an appriate last box (maybe a text input box, maybe a drop down, maybe nothing if the first two things say it all).
Mostly, I think I just don't like the explorer metaphor, where one application manages your files, views your images, browses the internet, renders html, and more. It makes, IMO, for a somewhat bizarre user experience.
Actually, most catalogues are blind-accessible, because they can be read aloud by machines that are available at most larger libraries.
The fact of the matter is that adding the words 'with a computer' to a process shouldn't fundamentally change the way we regard it, legally. There are already specific accessility guidelines in place for the federal government, i.e. Section 508. These guidelines should be followed by businesses as well.
The idea that a website that sells things is not a store, solely because it doesn't have a door and a roof is asinine. We live in an age where some of our largest retailers do not exist in any traditional sense, i.e. amazon.com, and many others offer special incentives that are only available if you use their web-based storefront, i.e. SouthWest's Click 'n Save fares.
I understand that the judge was under a great deal of pressure to find in this manner, because requiring websites to be accessible to people with disabilities would have non-trivial initial costs for big business, but arguing that a website which engages in commerce isn't a store is a lot like arguing over the meaning of the word 'is'.
Nearly all office phones stop working once the UPS on the PBX goes out anyway. If you need to call 911, the phones will probably be working, and if they're not, odds are good that every single person in the office has a cell phone anyway.
Clearly, this is a move by Google designed to hurt not only SearchKing, but the general consumer!
Actually, outlook for mac is called Outlook:mac. Entourage is a completely seperate program that has nothing to do with Outlook, and doesn't play well with Exchange.
In that sort of world, it's a lot easier to specify how big you want things to be than to specify how many pixels anything should be.
oh, so it can only find links? that would explain why i couldn't find it.
Where is that in IE 5.2? I'm using 5.2 on 10.2 to reply to your message and christ if I can figure out what you're talking about. The only find i can see requires i hit cmd-f, then type shit into a window.
I mean christ, they must think we're crazy!
* figures used in the above are based on a THX theater with a Barco DLP projector, showing a first-weekend movie
those are the same, for all intensive purposes. after all, in this doggy dog world, we have better things to worry about than people who can't spel.
Never did I say globally mandated DRM would actually stand, nor do I think it will. But I do think it's what will happen if the entertainment industry can't find a way to put the kibosh on music-stealing and movie-stealing networks like kazaa.
There's a lot of law that's in the 'shit, what do we do about this?' stage, and people need to realize two things. First, that those laws aren't passed simply because some megacorp wants to restrict their rights. Secondly, most of the laws slashdot visitors are upset about are direct responses to "cool, stick it to the man" activities, like creating massive global networks designed to efficiently move copyright protected works to people who don't have the copyrights.
Right now there are more important things to take care of, like trying to convince our fearless leader not to piss off the rest of the world any more than is actually neccessary.
I prefer to be referred to as a real bastard or simply a bad person, but whatever floats your boat.I'd suggest you make mosch a link to this page, so they can see what an asshole I am. Or maybe you could just link to a specifically chosen post, such as this one, or maybe this anti-rationalization comment whichgot a few people to mark me as an enemy. And this comment speaks of drug use, which clearly allies me with the axis of evil.
Love ya you sexy thang,
MWAH