There's still half a season left to air, and will start in January.
What is the Solaris?
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Review: Solaris
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Somehow, after reading this "review" here, I still have no idea what Solaris is about. From the theater poster, I can gather that there's a love story, and now I know it's at least somewhat "sci-fi" (the title seems to suggest that, but who knows), but beyond that, I'm clueless.
It annoys the hell out of me too (also because half the times that I see paths written in the GUI, they have to be cropped because they are too long). So, the first thing I do after installing Windows (with an answer file to change "Documents and Settings" to "Users") is change "Program Files" to "Programs" (and search/replace "\Program Files" to "\Programs" in the registry).
"I don't find Mac OS X that slow at all, however, there are some things that do take a little longer than I am used to, but I think these things are application-specific."
I don't think people are refering to things that you normally have to wait for (saving large files, searching your hard drive, etc.). It's the little things like the way that objects like windows and scrollbars lag behind the cursor in most drag operations, and how mouse wheel scrolling is often very jumpy, especially in web browsers. There are often short but annoying pauses before the Aqua animation effects (Dock magnification, genie/scale zoom, fades, etc.), and some of them are just plain jerky.
I'll admit my only real experiences with OS X (PB to 10.2) are on 300 mhz (G3/Radeon) and 400 mhz (Powerbook G4) machines and I guess it might be a bit better on the newest systems, but considering my 10 year old 25 mhz Centris running system 7.1 or 7.6 sometimes feels faster, I'm far from satisfied.
Anyway, I blame Aqua/Quartz, and I'd like to see an optional UI like the way that Windows XP let's you switch off the Luna effects and more for better performance. And I wont get into the difference between it and my Athlon 1800+ box (Windows/Linux), but I'll say that I doubt it's just a mhz gap...
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The screens are from The GUI Gallery, and the author even says he "picked them up" from the net.
Oops on the link. :)
First, many of the screens from the article appear to have been taken from The GUI Gallery, which is kinda lame since it's basically just a copy of that site anyway. The author even says that he "picked them up" from the internet. :P
And second, wasn't this posted here like a week ago?
"...but since Quark unlike Adobe only has that one product everybody calls the software "Quark"
Actually, it's kinda funny how so many people also refer to "Photoshop" as "Adobe".
...that title of the next episode is Kansas.
In the second episode of Taken on SciFi, the first guest star listed in the opening credits is James Kirk. What's up with that?
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In the second episode of Taken on SciFi, the first guest star listed in the opening credits is James Kirk. What's up with that?
There's still half a season left to air, and will start in January.
Somehow, after reading this "review" here, I still have no idea what Solaris is about. From the theater poster, I can gather that there's a love story, and now I know it's at least somewhat "sci-fi" (the title seems to suggest that, but who knows), but beyond that, I'm clueless.
Actually Joss Whedon wrote the theme himself. Apparently it was the first thing he did after getting the show approved.
I didn't trust any previous version of Windows to not do something without my consent, so why should I care that Microsoft is at least warning me now?
It annoys the hell out of me too (also because half the times that I see paths written in the GUI, they have to be cropped because they are too long). So, the first thing I do after installing Windows (with an answer file to change "Documents and Settings" to "Users") is change "Program Files" to "Programs" (and search/replace "\Program Files" to "\Programs" in the registry).
"I don't find Mac OS X that slow at all, however, there are some things that do take a little longer than I am used to, but I think these things are application-specific."
I don't think people are refering to things that you normally have to wait for (saving large files, searching your hard drive, etc.). It's the little things like the way that objects like windows and scrollbars lag behind the cursor in most drag operations, and how mouse wheel scrolling is often very jumpy, especially in web browsers. There are often short but annoying pauses before the Aqua animation effects (Dock magnification, genie/scale zoom, fades, etc.), and some of them are just plain jerky.
I'll admit my only real experiences with OS X (PB to 10.2) are on 300 mhz (G3/Radeon) and 400 mhz (Powerbook G4) machines and I guess it might be a bit better on the newest systems, but considering my 10 year old 25 mhz Centris running system 7.1 or 7.6 sometimes feels faster, I'm far from satisfied.
Anyway, I blame Aqua/Quartz, and I'd like to see an optional UI like the way that Windows XP let's you switch off the Luna effects and more for better performance. And I wont get into the difference between it and my Athlon 1800+ box (Windows/Linux), but I'll say that I doubt it's just a mhz gap...