As for the Chevy/Mercedes comparison, it's a wholly false analogy. Nobody drives a Mercedes with reversed pedals or a joystick. A better one would probably be automatic vs. manual transmission, but even that fails to take into account the subtleties of the issue.
A far better analogy would be American-standard automobiles versus UK-standard automobiles--if you still had the directional mechanism on the left hand side--which would be antithetical to a manual transmission, as you're often hitting the directional and downshifting simultaneously.
I can deal with going back and forth between this Windows PoS at the office and my Macs at home... the problem occurs when I switch between Adobe apps and Quark XPress, it adds a 3rd dimension to the key command retardation (literal sense intended).
Operating system companies really should err on the side of paranoia whenever possible.
As is apparently the angle Microsoft is lately coming from--according to Paul Thurott's latest Vista Beta preview. It sounds absolutely attrocious. I wonder where the balanced middleground is... If Apple or Microsoft will get there first.
Imagine what it's like to have a main with a Japanese name... Seems like i get 5 "ni hao"s every time I set foot in a 55-60 zone.
Someone tell me how to say "I really hate Chinese gold farmers" in pinyin?
That's odd, I assumed Journaling gave a slight performance hit... unless you kernel panic etc. and your recovery has it's ass covered.
And then there's the fact that I just today figured out how to prevent chronic fatal drive thrashing cycles on my sidekick iMac G3 (running Tiger): format the drive HFS non-journaled.
Your continent is plagued by cholera, scabies, bubonic, AIDS, herpes, influenza, ebola, malaria, papilloma, rhino, streptococcus, conjunctivitus, etc. SIMULTANEOUSLY and your doctors can't keep up.
One of us gets so much as the sniffles and the problem is quickly notated, quarantined, treated, and cured.
Doesn't hurt that our long history of 'digital genetic' disease-immunity-through-natural-selection far surpasses yours.
An even more novel solution: Apply a big fat red exclamation point to the bottom-right of the icon if the executable has never been run before--alongside prompting the user before running the executable for the first time (as is currently the case).
...in many areas you don't even have to get out your car to use one.
Anyway, you can always use my perferred method of transportation: a bicycle. Fast and anonymous. There's these things called vehicle registrations and insurance policies that bike riders never have to deal with. Save a remarkable amount of money that way.
No, but you see, Ireland is WEE TINY and America has many thousands of miles of fruited plain from sea to shining sea. Thus broadband rollout and adoption has been much greater per capita in Ireland, creating demand for initiatives such as streamed news broadcasts. You'd think the populations of NYC, LA, SF and Chicago would more than make up for the geographic hindrances (and you'd think we'd have far more residential fiber in those population centers) but alas they have not.
Have you honestly been able to access their Jabber network via iChat recently? Both I and another friend haven't been able to access the network for a few weeks, and he claimed they were aware of the issue yadda yadda...
Uh.. Firefox? I click once to highlight the address string, then Firefox lets me drag it to create a bookmark (something Opera doesn't do).
Uh.. Firefox on the Mac conforms to sensible text UI standards by default. And I fixed my.config file on my Winderz work machine to behave subjectively consistent in that manner many moons ago.
Interestingly enough, once you've clicked on the address field in newer versions of Opera it changes state; becomes a standard "1=insertcursor 2=selectword 3=selectstring" text input field beyond that initial click. Goofy!
Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to.
Well, here's one salient reason keeping me from switching:
A certain amount of Opera's UI functionality doesn't conform to OS X (or sensible) standards. A single-click in the address field, for instance, selects the entire string. No other text manipulation field or application acts like this. It's not as though saving me those extra two clicks to select the entire string trumps everyone having to learn a new modality (and having to devote extra thought to our UI's).
It seems to be a running belief that putting one's poorly thought out, poorly edited words into pdf forms makes it professional - just like the big boys!
I believe that when Charlie Rose interviewed Mossberg recently, and then Charlie asked "Why is Apple so good" (or thereabouts), Walt said something along the lines of "I used strictly Windows based PC's as of 4 years ago, but OS X changed all that.."
Seemed as though he was simply anti OS 7-9 (and ya gotta admit, it took a special voodoo knowledge to keep those things running smoothly. "Ahh time for my monthly extensions directory divination")
Print to PDF is a pretty horrible way of creating PDFs. It strips out anything that can't be displayed on a printer, and often loses a lot more. For example, text is often printed as graphics, so rather than having a copy of the font embedded and pointers to each character, you have a series of bezier curves for each character, making the whole thing bigger.
I'm not sure about other systems and implementations of the pdf output standard, but this is certainly not the way OS X "print to PDF" works by default, and naturally professional Adobe applications allow you to control text and editability output at a very finite level. For instance, just to confirm my belief, I "printed" this entire thread out of Safari, and was able to copy entire posts in Preview as text strings.
There's nothing to suggest that Microsoft couldn't write an output engine that offered similar functionality to Apple's.
If there's only one mechanical switch to detect a click from the top (excluding the scroll-ball button) and the touch-sensitive areas are used to determine which "button" you're pressing (which side is getting most pressure) then it would be very difficult to differentiate pressing one or the other button versus pressing both. Maybe even impossible because of limitations in the capacitive sensor technology used.
What I've reasoned - given the fact that people never raise thier index finger when they depress thier middle/ring finger to right-click - the capacitance gages the greater signature of the two zones and interprets it either way. Being that people have vastly different finger sizes and volumes, it would be hard to conceive a system where the hardware can work within a margin across both zones and interpret it as a chorded click.
And lo, on the 6th day, Jobs saw the trolls he had created, and he saw their annoyance unto man. And the trolls, which The Lord Jobs had created from Macintosh, would be smited by multiple buttons, and those buttons were brought unto the Macintosh. Therefore shall a mouse click unto left and right, and shall cleave unto a scroll: and they shall be one flesh.
It'd definitley have to be visiting my dad's Digital Equipment office in Geneva and playing VAX INVADORS on the VT terminals while we called our family back in the states.
I switch back and forth between both platforms daily, and I reitterate an above post: The Mac method is vastly superior to the Windows method. And at least for me, it takes only one "oops use THUMB HERE not PINKY THERE" once I'm back on my Mac to get back in the mental state... Not too hard, but annoying nonetheless.
Now, switching between Adobe CS and Quark on both platforms on the other hand...
12 x 7 on a 14" screen would be the logical choice. Perhaps the new iBooks will sport the next wave in Apple's more general laptop design, much as the original iBook did, and later as the icebook heralded the era of "white-is-for-consumer".
Yeah and under Windows, when you hold the alt key, the number pad would start cascading a bazillion different number possibilities for Unicode commands. Study up, Tank!:\
--Been away from a Mac at work for farrrr too long.
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I can deal with going back and forth between this Windows PoS at the office and my Macs at home... the problem occurs when I switch between Adobe apps and Quark XPress, it adds a 3rd dimension to the key command retardation (literal sense intended).
Imagine what it's like to have a main with a Japanese name... Seems like i get 5 "ni hao"s every time I set foot in a 55-60 zone. Someone tell me how to say "I really hate Chinese gold farmers" in pinyin?
And then there's the fact that I just today figured out how to prevent chronic fatal drive thrashing cycles on my sidekick iMac G3 (running Tiger): format the drive HFS non-journaled.
Your continent is plagued by cholera, scabies, bubonic, AIDS, herpes, influenza, ebola, malaria, papilloma, rhino, streptococcus, conjunctivitus, etc. SIMULTANEOUSLY and your doctors can't keep up.
One of us gets so much as the sniffles and the problem is quickly notated, quarantined, treated, and cured.
Doesn't hurt that our long history of 'digital genetic' disease-immunity-through-natural-selection far surpasses yours.
An even more novel solution: Apply a big fat red exclamation point to the bottom-right of the icon if the executable has never been run before--alongside prompting the user before running the executable for the first time (as is currently the case).
No, but you see, Ireland is WEE TINY and America has many thousands of miles of fruited plain from sea to shining sea. Thus broadband rollout and adoption has been much greater per capita in Ireland, creating demand for initiatives such as streamed news broadcasts. You'd think the populations of NYC, LA, SF and Chicago would more than make up for the geographic hindrances (and you'd think we'd have far more residential fiber in those population centers) but alas they have not.
Have you honestly been able to access their Jabber network via iChat recently? Both I and another friend haven't been able to access the network for a few weeks, and he claimed they were aware of the issue yadda yadda...
Interestingly enough, once you've clicked on the address field in newer versions of Opera it changes state; becomes a standard "1=insertcursor 2=selectword 3=selectstring" text input field beyond that initial click. Goofy!
A certain amount of Opera's UI functionality doesn't conform to OS X (or sensible) standards. A single-click in the address field, for instance, selects the entire string. No other text manipulation field or application acts like this. It's not as though saving me those extra two clicks to select the entire string trumps everyone having to learn a new modality (and having to devote extra thought to our UI's).
hrm. September 8th... mods fuck off, his queefe-mail address isn't public
Seemed as though he was simply anti OS 7-9 (and ya gotta admit, it took a special voodoo knowledge to keep those things running smoothly. "Ahh time for my monthly extensions directory divination")
There's nothing to suggest that Microsoft couldn't write an output engine that offered similar functionality to Apple's.
Man... You don't want to screw with the Dutch and their proper noun pronounciations. M-oh-g was playing with fijr on that one.
And lo, on the 6th day, Jobs saw the trolls he had created, and he saw their annoyance unto man. And the trolls, which The Lord Jobs had created from Macintosh, would be smited by multiple buttons, and those buttons were brought unto the Macintosh. Therefore shall a mouse click unto left and right, and shall cleave unto a scroll: and they shall be one flesh.
It'd definitley have to be visiting my dad's Digital Equipment office in Geneva and playing VAX INVADORS on the VT terminals while we called our family back in the states.
I switch back and forth between both platforms daily, and I reitterate an above post: The Mac method is vastly superior to the Windows method. And at least for me, it takes only one "oops use THUMB HERE not PINKY THERE" once I'm back on my Mac to get back in the mental state... Not too hard, but annoying nonetheless.
Now, switching between Adobe CS and Quark on both platforms on the other hand...
12 x 7 on a 14" screen would be the logical choice. Perhaps the new iBooks will sport the next wave in Apple's more general laptop design, much as the original iBook did, and later as the icebook heralded the era of "white-is-for-consumer".
Yeah and under Windows, when you hold the alt key, the number pad would start cascading a bazillion different number possibilities for Unicode commands. Study up, Tank! :\
--Been away from a Mac at work for farrrr too long.