Dunno, I've never run into that problem or heard anyone run into it up to now. Usually, it just works: You select your network, if it's not secured Mac OS X will ask you whether you trust it, and then it's in your list of preferred networks and will be selected automatically. I have no idea how to make that easier to use.
I know how to make it harder to use, though. Just look at Windows.
Trust me, I played it more than a few minutes. Shooting is just broken (it's already quite broken on the PS2 version compared to the PC version, but at least it's acceptable), and normal fighting barely works.
As for not needing to go there, please tell me how to have my Mac automatically select my preferred wireless network (there are two here I have connected to in the past) using only the menu. Just to remind you, the problem the GGGP was having was that it was selecting the wrong network. The only workaround for that using only the menu is to manually select the network every time, assuming it's not a closed network which doesn't appear in the list in which case you'd have to enter the name manually.
Okay, I'm guessing what happened is that GGGP selected the wrong network once, and Mac OS X now assumes that this is his preferred network. To fix that, go to your Network settings, go to Airport and delete the "wrong" network from the list. If the setting for auto-connection is not set to "preferred networks," change that too.
I feel your pain about Word. Had to go through this a few times until I found Mellel.
p.s., how in the world does your iSight camera scan dvds onto your hard drive?
Most DVD library apps on the Mac support scanning of barcodes using the iSight camera. You just hold the DVD to the camera, it scans the barcode, looks up the DVD on a database such as amazon.com, and then puts the DVD in your library. Personally, I use Delicious Library.
2. You're just making stuff up. There's no "configuration panel" in which to select wireless networks at all. You just click on the WiFi icon in the menu bar then select one from the list.
System Preferences > Network > AirPort > Configure, or launch Internet Connect (by clicking on 'Connect' in the Network panel, or from/Applications/Utilities).
As GP has said, there's no need to go there. Just select the network from the menu. Mac OS X will remember that you've used this network. It keeps a list of preferred networks and will automatically connect to one of these networks if in the vincinity.
And the "zoom to fit" button (a.k.a. "green skittle") is - in my opinion - one of the greatest advantages Macs have over Windows. I hate Windows' zoom feature.
It can't be changed on OS X. You authenticate, then you get privileges, then you can use these for a small amount of time and change everything that requires these privileges. These are real privileges, too. Mac OS X doesn't just ask you for the password to see whether it's you, it needs to password to gain the privileges. There are two situations where this whole process starts:
If you're starting an action which requires more privileges (copying a file into a folder not owned by you, for example)
If you're opening a preferences window where some prefs need more privs. In that case, these prevs are grayed out until you enter your password, and then stay enabled until you close the pref window
I'm guessing that Windows used to require the password each time, too, but users found it too complicated, so Microsoft changed it to just ask whether something is okay.
I guess I'm a nasty Mac fanboy for pointing out a few facts, too. I don't know of even one Mac application which doesn't prompt where to save files. What app are you talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about with regards to "change a view, or edit, or even to just save something." Examples of what exactly is confusing you?
I think you're making part of this up. Yes, clicking on a name once puts it into edit mode (which is actually equal to a normal selection unless you type something). But you can't "rename the folder to have no name." If the name is empty, it will revert to its last name as soon as you deselect it.
Yeah, Mac OS X behaves differently than Windows. You have to adapt to some changes if you switch. It isn't hard, though. I've seen stupid people do it.
Nuff said. Actually, not nuff: I've never seen anyone more mean-spirited towards Mac users and Apple in general than Welch. He's a lot of things (definitely a Mac geek, among less nice things), but most certainly no Apple fanboy.
(Disclaimer: Bertrand Meyer was one of my comp sci professors, so I have been brainwashed into thinking that Eiffel is perfect:-)
Eiffel does indeed avoid some of the C++ problems with multiple inheritance, but there are some issues which are inherent to the concept and can't be avoided. You get the good along with the bad, I guess:-)
Go to any Mac user, and look at the installed apps on his computer, and you'll see that nearly 100% of them are from Apple
Interestingly, that's exactly what I'm seeing on Windows. Most Windows users have very few non-Microsoft apps on their PCs. Probably Adobe Reader and Yahoo! Messenger or ICQ (but many are switching to stuff like Meebo instead), and that's the extent of their adventures into non-MS land. Windows users are way too scared to install new stuff on their PCs if they aren't forced to.
I've never seen a Mac user who didn't load his disk with all kinds of apps, though. And many of these Mac users even pay for their third-party apps, imagine that.
.NET is nice, but not perfect. Documentation is often crappy or missing, and backwards compatibility with older MS technologies is ugly. Also, pretty much all features in C# have been available in other languages, and often better implemented.
I think comparing C# to Objective-C is a little bit unfair. Objective-C is a much lower-level language. There's room for both languages. Obviously, programming in C# is much more convenient, but that doesn't mean that Objective-C is dated - it's just for a different audience. Mac OS X supports Java quite nicely, too, and I'm looking forward to what Apple's doing with Ruby in 10.5.
Yeah, Spotlight isn't perfect, but in my opinion, it's better than the old search function. I mostly use Spotlight to search inside the currently open window using the search field on the upper right of the window. That works quite nicely and is usually fast, too.
I couldn't agree more. Recently, I needed a tool to quickly create a Windows icon. I guess I should be able to find something which is free or at least has a functional demo, does not come with spyware and works reasonably well? Maybe I should, but neither Google, nor download.com nor versiontracker.com found anything. After wading through dozens of apps, I ended up with an ugly piece of crap that did what I wanted in a half-assed way and worked for 30 days. Man, never before have I missed my Mac so much.
Actually, dick, I don't. The Mac community is so stingly elitest, it's sick. I'm regretting my decsion in getting an iMac just because of all the assholes I run into like you.
What a fascinating approach to computer buying. Reminds me of when I was a kid: When I was mad at my mom, I would refuse to eat the meals she cooked. Obviously, that only hurt me because I ended up being hungry, so I got over that behaviour when I was four or five, I guess.
Plus, the existence of 'Final Cut Pro' on the Mac platform crowds out and eliminates the motivation for other people to come in and develop competing products
As long as Apple doesn't unfairly use its advantage of owning the OS FCP runs on, competition is good. If they changed to OS to hurt Premiere, then FCP would be a bad thing. They don't.
At the end of the day though, I can do MORE stuff on Windows, and Vista will be no exception.
Interestingly, my experience has been the exact opposite. I can do more stuff on my Mac (and more easily) than on Windows.
Cutting movies and creating DVDs (with slideshows and menus and all that good stuff) is still a PITA on Windows. It works perfectly well on a Mac. I hate creating presentations using Office. My presentations made using Keynote are much better - guess what, Mac only. Using Parallels, I can run Mac and Windows applications side by side. Can your Windows PC do that? Can your PC easily scan in your DVD collection using its built-in webcam? Does it have something like MemoryMiner, which allows you to sort your pictures by subject, time or person? Does it come with a free development environment like Xcode? Does it run Java out of the box? Where's your Garage Band? Your Mellel (oh my, I wouldn't want to write a dissertation in Office, I love my Mac just for Mellel alone)?
At the end of the day, I just feel constrained and unhappy whenever I use Windows. I can do much more on my Mac, and I like to do stuff on my Mac.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time isn't so much an RPG as it is an adventure. It's more Zelda than anything else. However, it is an awesome game, and you really should check it out. It's for our own good, mate:-)
I've seen this behavior in quite a lot of people who'd I'd label "fanboys". Curiously, I see these traits far more often in Apple and Nintendo supporters and less often in Linux, Microsoft and Sony supporters. I'm not sure why.
You don't recognize a negative trait in yourself, only in others? I'm flabbergasted!
And yes, the japanese numbers are relevant because:
Japan is one of the big three areas (although the smallest behind US and Europe)
Good sales numbers in Japan mean important games like Dragon Quest and FF are coming to a console
These numbers are correct
Besides, the difference between the DS and the PSP is so huge in Japan, it's almost impossible for Sony to make up for it in other areas, and, well, they aren't.
It's not difficult to plug it in while you're not using it
Except it is. I mean, listen to yourself. "It's no problem that your phone has to be recharged during the day! Just plug it in while you're not using it!" Not good enough. Plugging a portable device in during the night is acceptable. Everything else isn't.
I don't want to take the freaking charger with me all the time, and even if I do have the charger with me, I don't want the PSP plugged in all the time. The perfect example is my GBA micro. It just sits in my jacket pocket and I take it out whenever I'm waiting for a bus or otherwise bored. I charge it about once a week, and it has never run out of juice, no matter how much I use it. That's how portable devices are supposed to work.
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Dunno, I've never run into that problem or heard anyone run into it up to now. Usually, it just works: You select your network, if it's not secured Mac OS X will ask you whether you trust it, and then it's in your list of preferred networks and will be selected automatically. I have no idea how to make that easier to use.
I know how to make it harder to use, though. Just look at Windows.
Trust me, I played it more than a few minutes. Shooting is just broken (it's already quite broken on the PS2 version compared to the PC version, but at least it's acceptable), and normal fighting barely works.
Okay, I'm guessing what happened is that GGGP selected the wrong network once, and Mac OS X now assumes that this is his preferred network. To fix that, go to your Network settings, go to Airport and delete the "wrong" network from the list. If the setting for auto-connection is not set to "preferred networks," change that too.
I feel your pain about Word. Had to go through this a few times until I found Mellel.
Most DVD library apps on the Mac support scanning of barcodes using the iSight camera. You just hold the DVD to the camera, it scans the barcode, looks up the DVD on a database such as amazon.com, and then puts the DVD in your library. Personally, I use Delicious Library.
System Preferences > Network > AirPort > Configure, or launch Internet Connect (by clicking on 'Connect' in the Network panel, or from /Applications/Utilities).
As GP has said, there's no need to go there. Just select the network from the menu. Mac OS X will remember that you've used this network. It keeps a list of preferred networks and will automatically connect to one of these networks if in the vincinity.
And the "zoom to fit" button (a.k.a. "green skittle") is - in my opinion - one of the greatest advantages Macs have over Windows. I hate Windows' zoom feature.
It can't be changed on OS X. You authenticate, then you get privileges, then you can use these for a small amount of time and change everything that requires these privileges. These are real privileges, too. Mac OS X doesn't just ask you for the password to see whether it's you, it needs to password to gain the privileges. There are two situations where this whole process starts:
I'm guessing that Windows used to require the password each time, too, but users found it too complicated, so Microsoft changed it to just ask whether something is okay.
I guess I'm a nasty Mac fanboy for pointing out a few facts, too. I don't know of even one Mac application which doesn't prompt where to save files. What app are you talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about with regards to "change a view, or edit, or even to just save something." Examples of what exactly is confusing you?
I think you're making part of this up. Yes, clicking on a name once puts it into edit mode (which is actually equal to a normal selection unless you type something). But you can't "rename the folder to have no name." If the name is empty, it will revert to its last name as soon as you deselect it.
Yeah, Mac OS X behaves differently than Windows. You have to adapt to some changes if you switch. It isn't hard, though. I've seen stupid people do it.
Thurott's site: winsupersite.com
Welch's site: bynkii.com
Nuff said. Actually, not nuff: I've never seen anyone more mean-spirited towards Mac users and Apple in general than Welch. He's a lot of things (definitely a Mac geek, among less nice things), but most certainly no Apple fanboy.
(Disclaimer: Bertrand Meyer was one of my comp sci professors, so I have been brainwashed into thinking that Eiffel is perfect :-)
Eiffel does indeed avoid some of the C++ problems with multiple inheritance, but there are some issues which are inherent to the concept and can't be avoided. You get the good along with the bad, I guess :-)
Interestingly, that's exactly what I'm seeing on Windows. Most Windows users have very few non-Microsoft apps on their PCs. Probably Adobe Reader and Yahoo! Messenger or ICQ (but many are switching to stuff like Meebo instead), and that's the extent of their adventures into non-MS land. Windows users are way too scared to install new stuff on their PCs if they aren't forced to.
I've never seen a Mac user who didn't load his disk with all kinds of apps, though. And many of these Mac users even pay for their third-party apps, imagine that.
.NET is nice, but not perfect. Documentation is often crappy or missing, and backwards compatibility with older MS technologies is ugly. Also, pretty much all features in C# have been available in other languages, and often better implemented.
I think comparing C# to Objective-C is a little bit unfair. Objective-C is a much lower-level language. There's room for both languages. Obviously, programming in C# is much more convenient, but that doesn't mean that Objective-C is dated - it's just for a different audience. Mac OS X supports Java quite nicely, too, and I'm looking forward to what Apple's doing with Ruby in 10.5.
And finally, Visual Studio rots the mind.
Yeah, Spotlight isn't perfect, but in my opinion, it's better than the old search function. I mostly use Spotlight to search inside the currently open window using the search field on the upper right of the window. That works quite nicely and is usually fast, too.
I have a Mac and a Wii. Perfect computer experience, perfect gaming experience.
Of course, since you probably need to buy a new computer to run Vista anyway, you might as well buy a Mac and run Vista using Boot Camp.
I couldn't agree more. Recently, I needed a tool to quickly create a Windows icon. I guess I should be able to find something which is free or at least has a functional demo, does not come with spyware and works reasonably well? Maybe I should, but neither Google, nor download.com nor versiontracker.com found anything. After wading through dozens of apps, I ended up with an ugly piece of crap that did what I wanted in a half-assed way and worked for 30 days. Man, never before have I missed my Mac so much.
What a fascinating approach to computer buying. Reminds me of when I was a kid: When I was mad at my mom, I would refuse to eat the meals she cooked. Obviously, that only hurt me because I ended up being hungry, so I got over that behaviour when I was four or five, I guess.
Okay, I take it from your ramblings that the Mac does not have an app you need. Which one is it?
Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac.
As long as Apple doesn't unfairly use its advantage of owning the OS FCP runs on, competition is good. If they changed to OS to hurt Premiere, then FCP would be a bad thing. They don't.
Interestingly, my experience has been the exact opposite. I can do more stuff on my Mac (and more easily) than on Windows.
Cutting movies and creating DVDs (with slideshows and menus and all that good stuff) is still a PITA on Windows. It works perfectly well on a Mac. I hate creating presentations using Office. My presentations made using Keynote are much better - guess what, Mac only. Using Parallels, I can run Mac and Windows applications side by side. Can your Windows PC do that? Can your PC easily scan in your DVD collection using its built-in webcam? Does it have something like MemoryMiner, which allows you to sort your pictures by subject, time or person? Does it come with a free development environment like Xcode? Does it run Java out of the box? Where's your Garage Band? Your Mellel (oh my, I wouldn't want to write a dissertation in Office, I love my Mac just for Mellel alone)?
At the end of the day, I just feel constrained and unhappy whenever I use Windows. I can do much more on my Mac, and I like to do stuff on my Mac.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time isn't so much an RPG as it is an adventure. It's more Zelda than anything else. However, it is an awesome game, and you really should check it out. It's for our own good, mate :-)
You only need a DS-X for DS homebrew.
It's super convenient, needs no hacking, and no tracking down of old DSs is required.
...and it was uncontrollable with only one analog nub. In case you can't tell, I use my PSP to watch Lost episodes.
You don't recognize a negative trait in yourself, only in others? I'm flabbergasted!
And yes, the japanese numbers are relevant because:
Besides, the difference between the DS and the PSP is so huge in Japan, it's almost impossible for Sony to make up for it in other areas, and, well, they aren't.
Except it is. I mean, listen to yourself. "It's no problem that your phone has to be recharged during the day! Just plug it in while you're not using it!" Not good enough. Plugging a portable device in during the night is acceptable. Everything else isn't.
I don't want to take the freaking charger with me all the time, and even if I do have the charger with me, I don't want the PSP plugged in all the time. The perfect example is my GBA micro. It just sits in my jacket pocket and I take it out whenever I'm waiting for a bus or otherwise bored. I charge it about once a week, and it has never run out of juice, no matter how much I use it. That's how portable devices are supposed to work.
That would require a constant internet connection. Ever heard of the N-Gage? Yeah. Me neither.