One of the main things I had to unlearn on the Mac was pressing home/end to go to the beginning/end of a line - in OSX, they go to top and bottom of the document. Ctrl-left/right arrows are what are used instead.
Yeah, unless you're using Microsoft Office X, in which case the home/end and all other keys work like Windows. I just don't understand this at all. It really screws me up!
I gave up on the Japanese layout because of the location apostrophe. I seem to end up typing with quite a few contractions, and couldn't get used to shift-7. I agree about the non-shifted colon, though--nice for vi. Hm, only one apostrophe in this message.
Perceived speed is actually quite important; from the perspective of a personal computer user, it is quite possibly more important than actual throughput.
This brings to mind my constant headache with my Windows notebook. The percieved speed of this (new in 2003) 2GHz IBM T70 (Windows 2000) seems slow, slow, slow, and I hate working on it. Just switching from one app to another seems to take forever. Just opening a command prompt can take forever, if I need to push on the Start menu.
I don't care if it takes a long time to compile software, I just want to switch between my web browser and email without waiting! It could be that I am used to a 7200rpm desktop HDD, and this machine is only equipped with a 5200rpm drive... Yet my wife's (new in 2004) 17" PowerBook (OS X 10.3) with an identical spec HDD does not seem to be sluggish like this Windows machine.
"Perceived speed" is right at the tippy-top of my list.
Your windows background will help you zilch using Office for the Mac.
It is a Mac platform product completely different from its Microsoft Windows Counterpart.
I have to disagree just on this one point: the document keyboard navigation in Office (at least in Office v.X for the Mac) is very similar to Windows behavior, not Mac (OS X) behavior. Page Up, Page Down, shift-select, cmd-select, home, end... they all work like Windows. When switching back & forth from Mail.app or TextEdit.app to Word, it can be a real pain just to remember how to select to the end of a line.
I wonder if the keyboard control has changed in Office 2003? At least it would be nice to make its behavior configurable. I can understand that some people might *want* to make the keyboard work like Windows.
I do an automated backup of my OS X home directory every night to a Firewire disk that is mounted as/Volumes/BakDisk. So if the script does
rm -rf/
Won't it delete my backup, too?
I think so, but I'm not going to test it and find out. I thought backing up to a HDD was supposed to be a better idea than using those unreliable CD-R/DVD-R discs. Now I'm not so sure. (I guess I'd better get a tape drive?)
MiniDisc has a large following in Japan. In fact they are very common in new car stereos in Japan these days. I see all kinds of people "still" carrying around MiniDisc players and discs on the train. The technology is not just going away, so it makes sense for Sony to support it with their online service.
Also the MiniDisc format is fairly convenient and powerful for mobile digital recording.
Not that this means it is necessarily better than a portable MP3 player for your walk-music, but I do know plenty of people who love their MiniDisc, or who at least take its existence for granted.
my AAC/MP3 collection - yes, they're "recoverable" but not without literally a week or more of work sitting over the CD drive, rewriting lousy CDDB entries
Why not just back them up to your iPod? I don't make backups of my iTunes Music folder, since it is all on my iPod. Everything else goes onto an external HDD every night (I use PsyncX for making backups of my home directory and some other stuff).
Thankfully, installing Microsoft Office v.X for Mac OS X also works the Macintosh way. Instead of installing all over the place, everything (except possibly some optional fonts) just goes into Applications : Microsoft Office.
Microsoft bit me when I upgraded my MDD to Panther, kind of--the service patches for Office X encountered some weird Classic error, so I couldn't run the patch intstaller.
But I was able to just drag the Office installation from my wife's PowerBook to an external hard drive, and then drag it into my Applications folder. Viola! Installed! No registry (blech) updates needed.
Yeah, that's the way it should be to install an application. Although Office v.X isn't great in every way, its installation, at least, is good. Actually, I guess I should say, its lack of installation!
Headphones in a recording situation do have another use. Headphone listening can be pretty useful in evaluating a mix, if you want to know what it will sound like for a listener on headphones. Also car speakers, and cheap jamboxes.
No kidding, the cellphones are everywhere. From people shopping, walking, riding bikes, in the office, driving cars, they are everywhere in Japan. The Vodaphone store near my apartment is packed with people all the time.
I recently watched a rented Japanese drama from ~10 years ago. There were scenes of people walking across the street and there were no cell phones! It was shocking! Also the show contained scenes of people waiting in lines to use the green public phones. Those days are long gone!
Based on the details of the photo, it looks like the buyer is going to be responsible for clean the pigeon poop off, too. And potentially evicting the current residents. Hm.
Hey, that's an idea. Enlist some of those hefty pigeons to fly the thing home...
I have used Macs for a long time, but only for music-recording work. I never took the platform seriously for anything else since I became well-acquainted with the annoying bomb icon on the SE/30 machines in my university dorm's computer lab. For other "real" work (web, email, some programming, etc), I loaded Linux/PPC on my beige PowerMac. But since OS X (actually since a 10.2 for me) I am a 100% OS X convert. Having a real BSD system under the nice GUI is a huge plus, and I'm not looking back. If an app needs Classic, these days (especially now since SoundDiver OS X beta), I don't bother to run that app.
Although this shift-click technique is beyond the level of many basic users' knowledge. Never mind control-click, I know some people who ruthlessly double-click on everything, including web links, just because they think they probably have to.
The problem (and the great thing, from a different point of view) with the current state of affairs is that people have been given a very powerful general purpose computer. And they really don't know how to really use it to its full potential. Is there another example of this kind of difference between capability of machine and operator? I thought of an untrained operator driving a power shovel or bulldozer, but I'm not sure it fits?
Path Finder 3.1 is really quite good, I'm having much better results than with the older versions. I've been using it almost exclusively since my upgrade to Panther this year.
It has a shelf, which is the perfect thing you wish for as a drag halfway point. Maybe that is one of the biggest things I can't live without in the Finder.
My own relatively complex Swing-based Java app works fine, that is, as well as in 10.3.2. (No rebuild.) It uses the OS X Java extensions (com.apple.eio, com.appl.eawt). But alas, the PostScript printing fix did not fix a problem that I have when printing Japanese via Java.
I think what we all wanted was the old Finder back, not this NeXT "browser" thing. Or at least an option (OK, sometimes I like the column view). At least with Windows Explorer I pretty much understand it and it pretty much works consistently. But the OS X Finder is just a mess.
So I'm still waiting for a new Finder (maybe , PLEASE, in OS XI?). Until then, it's Path Finder for me... (which still is nothing like the pre-OS X Finder).
Kodak recognizes itself as a leaking ship, but is trying very hard to fix things by cutting out its non-core businesses (for instance, it just got rid of its government business) and at the same time diversify into core-related businesses. They seem to be focusing more on the output of images now than the capture of images. They just bought the other half of the digital color press NexPress in its entirety (it was already a Kodak joint venture).
Return of the King was shot on Fuji. I pay attention when I watch movies, and I noticed this (I just saw the film yesterday). Maybe Kodak doesn't have good film distribution in New Zealand?
Hey, how about somebody making the iCrank for the iPod? Give your little iPod the boost of power it needs after the battery dies! Soon for the iPod mini, but it no longer fits in your pocket. (You heard the name here first!)
Actually, this might not be that bad of an idea, after all there are already battery alternatives for the iPod, including an AA battery pack by Belkin.
Too bad, I'd like to see Kaneko write & direct another one. I just happened to watch Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah (2001) and it really was quite good, almost as good as the 1954 Godizlla. No stupid kids, no superheroes, only a teeny-bit of weapon X... just people struggling against the unknown, with a bit of superstition thrown in for spice.
It's not true that this would be changing what Kodak is about. Kodak is largely a chemical and paper company; and so if they can encourage people to print lots of digital pictures (whether that is at a photo lab, or at a kiosk, or at home with some kind of Kodak product), then it is right up their alley.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, unless you're using Microsoft Office X, in which case the home/end and all other keys work like Windows. I just don't understand this at all. It really screws me up!
Ah, that brings back sweet memories.
(CoCo3 was 68B09e.)
http://www.fact-index.com/t/tr/trs_80_color_comput er.html
I gave up on the Japanese layout because of the location apostrophe. I seem to end up typing with quite a few contractions, and couldn't get used to shift-7. I agree about the non-shifted colon, though--nice for vi.
Hm, only one apostrophe in this message.
This brings to mind my constant headache with my Windows notebook. The percieved speed of this (new in 2003) 2GHz IBM T70 (Windows 2000) seems slow, slow, slow, and I hate working on it. Just switching from one app to another seems to take forever. Just opening a command prompt can take forever, if I need to push on the Start menu.
I don't care if it takes a long time to compile software, I just want to switch between my web browser and email without waiting! It could be that I am used to a 7200rpm desktop HDD, and this machine is only equipped with a 5200rpm drive... Yet my wife's (new in 2004) 17" PowerBook (OS X 10.3) with an identical spec HDD does not seem to be sluggish like this Windows machine.
"Perceived speed" is right at the tippy-top of my list.
I have to disagree just on this one point: the document keyboard navigation in Office (at least in Office v.X for the Mac) is very similar to Windows behavior, not Mac (OS X) behavior. Page Up, Page Down, shift-select, cmd-select, home, end... they all work like Windows. When switching back & forth from Mail.app or TextEdit.app to Word, it can be a real pain just to remember how to select to the end of a line.
I wonder if the keyboard control has changed in Office 2003? At least it would be nice to make its behavior configurable. I can understand that some people might *want* to make the keyboard work like Windows.
So if the script does Won't it delete my backup, too?
I think so, but I'm not going to test it and find out.
I thought backing up to a HDD was supposed to be a better idea than using those unreliable CD-R/DVD-R discs. Now I'm not so sure. (I guess I'd better get a tape drive?)
Who do you know who loves their MiniDisc Player?
MiniDisc has a large following in Japan. In fact they are very common in new car stereos in Japan these days. I see all kinds of people "still" carrying around MiniDisc players and discs on the train. The technology is not just going away, so it makes sense for Sony to support it with their online service.
Also the MiniDisc format is fairly convenient and powerful for mobile digital recording.
Not that this means it is necessarily better than a portable MP3 player for your walk-music, but I do know plenty of people who love their MiniDisc, or who at least take its existence for granted.
Why not just back them up to your iPod? I don't make backups of my iTunes Music folder, since it is all on my iPod. Everything else goes onto an external HDD every night (I use PsyncX for making backups of my home directory and some other stuff).
Thankfully, installing Microsoft Office v.X for Mac OS X also works the Macintosh way. Instead of installing all over the place, everything (except possibly some optional fonts) just goes into Applications : Microsoft Office.
Microsoft bit me when I upgraded my MDD to Panther, kind of--the service patches for Office X encountered some weird Classic error, so I couldn't run the patch intstaller.
But I was able to just drag the Office installation from my wife's PowerBook to an external hard drive, and then drag it into my Applications folder. Viola! Installed! No registry (blech) updates needed.
Yeah, that's the way it should be to install an application. Although Office v.X isn't great in every way, its installation, at least, is good. Actually, I guess I should say, its lack of installation!
Headphones in a recording situation do have another use. Headphone listening can be pretty useful in evaluating a mix, if you want to know what it will sound like for a listener on headphones. Also car speakers, and cheap jamboxes.
No kidding, the cellphones are everywhere. From people shopping, walking, riding bikes, in the office, driving cars, they are everywhere in Japan. The Vodaphone store near my apartment is packed with people all the time.
I recently watched a rented Japanese drama from ~10 years ago. There were scenes of people walking across the street and there were no cell phones! It was shocking! Also the show contained scenes of people waiting in lines to use the green public phones.
Those days are long gone!
natsukashii...
Based on the details of the photo, it looks like the buyer is going to be responsible for clean the pigeon poop off, too. And potentially evicting the current residents. Hm.
Hey, that's an idea. Enlist some of those hefty pigeons to fly the thing home...
I have used Macs for a long time, but only for music-recording work. I never took the platform seriously for anything else since I became well-acquainted with the annoying bomb icon on the SE/30 machines in my university dorm's computer lab.
For other "real" work (web, email, some programming, etc), I loaded Linux/PPC on my beige PowerMac.
But since OS X (actually since a 10.2 for me) I am a 100% OS X convert. Having a real BSD system under the nice GUI is a huge plus, and I'm not looking back. If an app needs Classic, these days (especially now since SoundDiver OS X beta), I don't bother to run that app.
At least in Japan, you can order an Apple computer with your choice of either the Japanese or US-English keyboard. This includes notebooks.
Although this shift-click technique is beyond the level of many basic users' knowledge. Never mind control-click, I know some people who ruthlessly double-click on everything, including web links, just because they think they probably have to.
The problem (and the great thing, from a different point of view) with the current state of affairs is that people have been given a very powerful general purpose computer. And they really don't know how to really use it to its full potential. Is there another example of this kind of difference between capability of machine and operator? I thought of an untrained operator driving a power shovel or bulldozer, but I'm not sure it fits?
Path Finder 3.1 is really quite good, I'm having much better results than with the older versions. I've been using it almost exclusively since my upgrade to Panther this year.
It has a shelf, which is the perfect thing you wish for as a drag halfway point. Maybe that is one of the biggest things I can't live without in the Finder.
Path Finder is from http://www.cocoatech.com/
Yikes, well, for one thing, it presented the location and view settings of folders with a 1-to-1 correspondence.
- 1.html
Read John Siracusa's famous (at least I thought it was famously great) article at Ars Technica : http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder
My own relatively complex Swing-based Java app works fine, that is, as well as in 10.3.2. (No rebuild.) It uses the OS X Java extensions (com.apple.eio, com.appl.eawt). But alas, the PostScript printing fix did not fix a problem that I have when printing Japanese via Java.
I think what we all wanted was the old Finder back, not this NeXT "browser" thing. Or at least an option (OK, sometimes I like the column view). At least with Windows Explorer I pretty much understand it and it pretty much works consistently. But the OS X Finder is just a mess.
So I'm still waiting for a new Finder (maybe , PLEASE, in OS XI?). Until then, it's Path Finder for me... (which still is nothing like the pre-OS X Finder).
And Ran is King Lear, which is also really great, and impresses the audience with zero computer-animated warriors. What a concept!
Kodak recognizes itself as a leaking ship, but is trying very hard to fix things by cutting out its non-core businesses (for instance, it just got rid of its government business) and at the same time diversify into core-related businesses. They seem to be focusing more on the output of images now than the capture of images. They just bought the other half of the digital color press NexPress in its entirety (it was already a Kodak joint venture).
Return of the King was shot on Fuji. I pay attention when I watch movies, and I noticed this (I just saw the film yesterday). Maybe Kodak doesn't have good film distribution in New Zealand?
Hey, how about somebody making the iCrank for the iPod? Give your little iPod the boost of power it needs after the battery dies! Soon for the iPod mini, but it no longer fits in your pocket.
(You heard the name here first!)
Actually, this might not be that bad of an idea, after all there are already battery alternatives for the iPod, including an AA battery pack by Belkin.
Too bad, I'd like to see Kaneko write & direct another one. I just happened to watch Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah (2001) and it really was quite good, almost as good as the 1954 Godizlla. No stupid kids, no superheroes, only a teeny-bit of weapon X... just people struggling against the unknown, with a bit of superstition thrown in for spice.
And those pupil-less eyes. Cool.
It's not true that this would be changing what Kodak is about. Kodak is largely a chemical and paper company; and so if they can encourage people to print lots of digital pictures (whether that is at a photo lab, or at a kiosk, or at home with some kind of Kodak product), then it is right up their alley.