For whatever it's worth, the Star Wars kits were superb LEGO sets, not just hacky movie tie in schlock. Can't speak for their other lines, but I was consistently impressed with the Star Wars line. Nice new pieces, and not too much big molded crap.
I'm certainly no advocate of factory farming...I'm just an advocate of a healthy diet that includes dead animals. Other people have different diets, and that's fine. I just don't happen to think that vegetarianism is for me.
You have to eat a whole lot of bread to get the protein from a four ounce serving of beef. I'm not sure that that kind of carbohydrate intake is healthy.
Yeah, because everybody takes everything they learn at school very, very seriously. Like when the gym coach was teaching Health class. Riveted, I was. Hanging on his every mispronounced word.
Microsoft is a machine that increases the stock price. Everything in the company is designed to provide shareholder value. The only reason they care about the bottom line is because a healthy one sells stock.
Do I think that's a rational goal? Certainly not. It is, however, the raison d'etre of corporations.
With the conspicuous exception of 10.3 to 10.4 (which added Spotlight file indexing), each release of OS X has been faster than the previous one.
Turn off Spotlight, and 10.4 continues the trend. It's up to the user to determine if the utility is worth the slight performance hit. I find it very, very useful.
If you don't percieve the utility, I recommend not buying the upgrade. However, my guess is that you don't own a Mac, which makes me wonder why you care.
I do not understand why you wish to do that. I understand you think it is important. You have not communicated WHY you think it's important, or why you wouldn't be able to do it the same way you do in whatever OS you seem to think isn't "dumb".
"Where is the dialog box to make the Mac OS X window manager behave like KDE or Windows wrt applications with many windows?"
Uh, yeah. Windows (and its stupid work-alike KDE) handle windows in a remarkably stupid way. Personalization is fine and dandy, I guess, but I prefer well-designed interfaces. Turning off a well-designed interface is not a feature.
"Why isn't the root tree easily accessible in Finder?"
Because it doesn't need to be. It's there if you need it, but not if you don't. Again: Good design.
"Where are the normal Unix folders like/etc, etc. (eh!)?"
See above.
"Where are the text files for configuring applications?"/Library. Why would you want to do it that way?
"Because preventing me from doing stupid things also prevents me from doing clever ones."
The entire UNIX CLI is still there. The GUI takes the parts that people actually use to get work done, and makes them easier to operate.
If you work on your machine for working on your machine's sake, all those tools are there. If you want to GET WORK DONE, that's easier with the GUI.
But, hey, whatever floats your boat. "it feels empty". And they say that Mac users are artsy-fartsy flaky types who care about how their computers make them "feel". How's that electron microscope thing working for you?
What "needs" would dictate re-compiling the OS? And what SPECIFIC tasks are not handled by well-designed dialog boxes?
Sure, you could change your IP address by manually swapping bits on your hard drive. That'd be CONTROL, right? But why would you want to do that?
You're just parroting bullet points. If you have a specific gripe, share it. If you don't, well, I won't take any more of your time away from reading your hard drive with an electron microscope and a pencil.
"Dems are taking advantage of a situation to try and expand it for political gain"
Uh, yeah, because the Republicans would never stoop so low, right?
The Republicans are despicable. The Democrats are almost equally despicable. The only difference is, the Republicans are doing their level best to destroy the ideals of our nation, AND raise taxes (Or the deficit, which is the same thing with a lousy interest rate). The Democrats just want to raise taxes.
Yeah, you ask John McCain if he's "just this guy".
Karl Rove is the master of the whisper campaign. I think he is responsible for the tenor of modern American politics, which is a Bad Thing. He is indeed successful. I just wish success tracked more closely to integrity than to stooping to anything.
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For whatever it's worth, the Star Wars kits were superb LEGO sets, not just hacky movie tie in schlock. Can't speak for their other lines, but I was consistently impressed with the Star Wars line. Nice new pieces, and not too much big molded crap.
I'm certainly no advocate of factory farming...I'm just an advocate of a healthy diet that includes dead animals. Other people have different diets, and that's fine. I just don't happen to think that vegetarianism is for me.
You have to eat a whole lot of bread to get the protein from a four ounce serving of beef. I'm not sure that that kind of carbohydrate intake is healthy.
Yeah, because everybody takes everything they learn at school very, very seriously. Like when the gym coach was teaching Health class. Riveted, I was. Hanging on his every mispronounced word.
He'll just have a house-slave cross his fingers, so it won't count.
Could be worse. Could be an objectivist.
(I use the lowercase o because it annoys them.)
"but penalizing starving peasants is never the right thing."
Neither is subsidizing their dictator.
Um, humans also have flat teeth for a reason. It's almost like they're adapted to a diet of both meat and plant matter.
If the nutritional output of a field of grain were identical to a herd of cattle, you might have a point. Since they're not, you don't.
Humans have pointy teeth for a reason.
Microsoft is a machine that increases the stock price. Everything in the company is designed to provide shareholder value. The only reason they care about the bottom line is because a healthy one sells stock.
Do I think that's a rational goal? Certainly not. It is, however, the raison d'etre of corporations.
What possible reason would Microsoft have to release a free player, if they don't think it will in some way improve their stock price?
With the conspicuous exception of 10.3 to 10.4 (which added Spotlight file indexing), each release of OS X has been faster than the previous one.
Turn off Spotlight, and 10.4 continues the trend. It's up to the user to determine if the utility is worth the slight performance hit. I find it very, very useful.
If you don't percieve the utility, I recommend not buying the upgrade. However, my guess is that you don't own a Mac, which makes me wonder why you care.
I prefer the acronym "PICNIC" - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.
Whatever other warts it may have, MS Office's help files are superb. OO's? Not so much.
"people have a right to determine what is decent and what isn't for their community"
Really? How do you figure? You certainly don't have the right to determine what is decent for me. That is true for all values of "you" and "me".
See, now that's what I call an insightful argument.
How, exactly, is the whole country being penalized? We're talking about a press release.
Pointing out other peoples' idiocy is not bias.
"Huh? Altering the kernel, for one?"
/etc, etc. (eh!)?"
/Library. Why would you want to do it that way?
I do not understand why you wish to do that. I understand you think it is important. You have not communicated WHY you think it's important, or why you wouldn't be able to do it the same way you do in whatever OS you seem to think isn't "dumb".
"Where is the dialog box to make the Mac OS X window manager behave like KDE or Windows wrt applications with many windows?"
Uh, yeah. Windows (and its stupid work-alike KDE) handle windows in a remarkably stupid way. Personalization is fine and dandy, I guess, but I prefer well-designed interfaces. Turning off a well-designed interface is not a feature.
"Why isn't the root tree easily accessible in Finder?"
Because it doesn't need to be. It's there if you need it, but not if you don't. Again: Good design.
"Where are the normal Unix folders like
See above.
"Where are the text files for configuring applications?"
"Because preventing me from doing stupid things also prevents me from doing clever ones."
The entire UNIX CLI is still there. The GUI takes the parts that people actually use to get work done, and makes them easier to operate.
If you work on your machine for working on your machine's sake, all those tools are there. If you want to GET WORK DONE, that's easier with the GUI.
But, hey, whatever floats your boat. "it feels empty". And they say that Mac users are artsy-fartsy flaky types who care about how their computers make them "feel". How's that electron microscope thing working for you?
What "needs" would dictate re-compiling the OS? And what SPECIFIC tasks are not handled by well-designed dialog boxes?
Sure, you could change your IP address by manually swapping bits on your hard drive. That'd be CONTROL, right? But why would you want to do that?
You're just parroting bullet points. If you have a specific gripe, share it. If you don't, well, I won't take any more of your time away from reading your hard drive with an electron microscope and a pencil.
Please give me a specific instance of the Mac OS GUI "taking control away from you".
"Mac OS is user friendly because it dumbs down the system"
Would somebody please explain to me what this means? Are GUIs "dumb" by definition?
"and he can issue a variety of usually-lower-grade (compared to criminal convictions)"
Like indefinite detention in prison? Yeah, that's lower-grade.
Nature is not sentient. I am. Therefore, I choose to attempt to preserve my sentience as long as is practical.
Nature is not going to come "get me", stupid movie hijinks to the contrary.
"Dems are taking advantage of a situation to try and expand it for political gain"
Uh, yeah, because the Republicans would never stoop so low, right?
The Republicans are despicable. The Democrats are almost equally despicable. The only difference is, the Republicans are doing their level best to destroy the ideals of our nation, AND raise taxes (Or the deficit, which is the same thing with a lousy interest rate). The Democrats just want to raise taxes.
Guess which is the lesser of two weevils.
Yeah, you ask John McCain if he's "just this guy".
Karl Rove is the master of the whisper campaign. I think he is responsible for the tenor of modern American politics, which is a Bad Thing. He is indeed successful. I just wish success tracked more closely to integrity than to stooping to anything.