The media, and the political forum, as of late has focused heavily on violence in computer games, and has blamed them for the supposed increase in violence among children.
Thus far all that has been proposed is an out-right banning of such games, which brings up issues with the first ammendment. What other ideas/proposals do you have to perhaps reach a more reasonable solution to this issue? (i.e. enforced rating systems, like the ratings on movies etc...)
The Feed article left a bad taste in my mouth. Here we have an article gushing about how much nicer this window looks because of this effect, and how nifty it looks when you minimize a window, or move a cursor over an icon, however not much was said for actual functionality. When all is said and done, it's just a new face to the standard Macintosh Operating System.
I started my computing life as a mac user.
I left the mac world for the PC world some 6 years ago and haven't much looked back. Why did I switch? My needs outpaced what the Macintosh could do, I wanted to work with the latest net technologies, run the newest applications and play the latest games, but most importantly, I wanted to figure out how these silly things ran. The mac has never, and even with OS X, still doesn't let me at the guts of the OS like Windows (errgghhh, I can't believe I'm praising Windows at all...) or Linux does.
One of the biggest points of praise the article had for OS X was its startup sequence and how it compared to the "ugly" startup of a PC. I've always prefered the PC startup to the Mac one. While it may not be as pretty, it's MUCH more informative. If something goes wrong with the startup of MacOS, you have no real idea what went wrong, you just have to restart and hope for the best.
From everything I've seen and read, OS X is just a new face on an old standard. Jobs and mac addicts the world over are looking at this and thinking this is what will help topple the PC industry, and bring everyone over to Apple. Keep dreaming. The mac has always been the computer of multimedia and publishing professionals, and computer novices (meaning it's newbie-friendly, not that mac users are idiots, many of my friends are mac users), not the computer of technical professionals. If you want to get to the guts of a computer and make it work the way YOU want it to work, a mac is not the way to go. If you want the latest flashy thing in GUI, then OSX is the OS for you.
Substance over appearance! Look at what it can actually do as opposed to how it looks doing it.
I can't exactly say that back in the day when I learned computers that things were impossible or that it took me hours to get a computer to boot up because every morning I had to recode my OS... because well, I started to use computers when they started getting easy. I've grown up on the ease of GUI operating systems. However I went under the hood of my OSes and fiddled, tweaked and made things work better.
I started using Linux about 2 years ago, before it was the next big thing amongst all computer geek wannabes, when you had console, or MAYBE a basic GUI, and all hardware had to be manually fiddled with to get it to work. Ahh, linux, an OS where getting things to work right was a true accomplishment. Now anyone who wants can install Linux with an easy graphical install (*ahem* Corel).
Then there's HTML, I started doing webpages when the web was still primarily University run, before all the junk showed up. Doing it all in notepad was the only way you could do it. Now any idiot who can use a word processor can make webpages.
Everything is getting so easy that no one bothers to learn the underlying mechanics or components to technology. This of course is great news to those of us who have learned it/understand it. Because we have all these people dependant on the pretty point and click buttons that when something goes wrong (as is always the case with computers) they will come running to us.
Once again the seperation of geek and wannabe is becoming more clearly defined, as things should be.
AOL will do with it's technology as it pleases, as it is their right. They own the servers and the software protocol. While blocking the 3rd party clients is an incredibly stupid move on their part, it is understandable, and it's fully within their right.
Do we have a right to complain/gripe? yes. Do we have a right to demand or expect AOL to change its ways? No, we don't pay for instant messenger service, it's a free program we are given the privledge of using. Don't like what AOL is doing? Go to another service. Your friends staying on AOL IMs and refusing to switch? That's your problem. You can't have everything your way, so get over it.
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The media, and the political forum, as of late has focused heavily on violence in computer games, and has blamed them for the supposed increase in violence among children.
Thus far all that has been proposed is an out-right banning of such games, which brings up issues with the first ammendment. What other ideas/proposals do you have to perhaps reach a more reasonable solution to this issue? (i.e. enforced rating systems, like the ratings on movies etc...)
I started my computing life as a mac user. I left the mac world for the PC world some 6 years ago and haven't much looked back. Why did I switch? My needs outpaced what the Macintosh could do, I wanted to work with the latest net technologies, run the newest applications and play the latest games, but most importantly, I wanted to figure out how these silly things ran. The mac has never, and even with OS X, still doesn't let me at the guts of the OS like Windows (errgghhh, I can't believe I'm praising Windows at all...) or Linux does.
One of the biggest points of praise the article had for OS X was its startup sequence and how it compared to the "ugly" startup of a PC. I've always prefered the PC startup to the Mac one. While it may not be as pretty, it's MUCH more informative. If something goes wrong with the startup of MacOS, you have no real idea what went wrong, you just have to restart and hope for the best.
From everything I've seen and read, OS X is just a new face on an old standard. Jobs and mac addicts the world over are looking at this and thinking this is what will help topple the PC industry, and bring everyone over to Apple. Keep dreaming. The mac has always been the computer of multimedia and publishing professionals, and computer novices (meaning it's newbie-friendly, not that mac users are idiots, many of my friends are mac users), not the computer of technical professionals. If you want to get to the guts of a computer and make it work the way YOU want it to work, a mac is not the way to go. If you want the latest flashy thing in GUI, then OSX is the OS for you.
Substance over appearance! Look at what it can actually do as opposed to how it looks doing it.
I started using Linux about 2 years ago, before it was the next big thing amongst all computer geek wannabes, when you had console, or MAYBE a basic GUI, and all hardware had to be manually fiddled with to get it to work. Ahh, linux, an OS where getting things to work right was a true accomplishment. Now anyone who wants can install Linux with an easy graphical install (*ahem* Corel).
Then there's HTML, I started doing webpages when the web was still primarily University run, before all the junk showed up. Doing it all in notepad was the only way you could do it. Now any idiot who can use a word processor can make webpages.
Everything is getting so easy that no one bothers to learn the underlying mechanics or components to technology. This of course is great news to those of us who have learned it/understand it. Because we have all these people dependant on the pretty point and click buttons that when something goes wrong (as is always the case with computers) they will come running to us.
Once again the seperation of geek and wannabe is becoming more clearly defined, as things should be.
AOL will do with it's technology as it pleases, as it is their right. They own the servers and the software protocol. While blocking the 3rd party clients is an incredibly stupid move on their part, it is understandable, and it's fully within their right. Do we have a right to complain/gripe? yes. Do we have a right to demand or expect AOL to change its ways? No, we don't pay for instant messenger service, it's a free program we are given the privledge of using. Don't like what AOL is doing? Go to another service. Your friends staying on AOL IMs and refusing to switch? That's your problem. You can't have everything your way, so get over it.