Sounds like you're suffering with the stock 128MB of ram your 800mhz "flat panel mac" came with.
In the time it took for you to post this, you could have upgraded the RAM in your hated "flat panel Mac".
If you don't even know or can't even bother to give us the appropriate designation of the machine you own, or call your machine "slow" without even mentioning how much ram the machine is using, how are we supposed to take your rant seriously?
I have a Mini with a 20" Cinema Display and expose is already choppy...
I'm calling you out.
I have a Spring 2000 (holy shit my iMac is 5 years old now!) G3 iMac with 8MB graphics memory and 256MB of RAM and Exposé works rather decently. Only about a 0.2 second delay.
In fact I can't wait to put Tiger on it to how much faster it runs.
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One reason Apple is more streamlined than Windows is that it refuses to keep backwards compatability.
Not flaming you (although I think that's what you want). Most anti-Mac folks I run into these days haven't touched a Mac since the System 7 days and continue to carry that prejudice.
Stating that Apple refused to adopt backward compatibility is ignoring the fact that you can still run ancient software in Classic layer and will be able to for some time.
Can't use a floppy? I haven't missed it, but I can go buy a USB external for peanuts.
No two-button mouse? Never mind, I'm not going there...
Seriously... have you even used a Mac in this century? Or are you just busting on them because people are migrating from the platform you like and you don't: understand why, fear change, fear being a follower or that you just plain like what you're using and get a funny feeling when others find something they like better.
Anyway, I guess I don't understand where you get "Apple thinks it's customers are idiots" out of any of this.
All I can say is fear not, there is enough room in this town for two OS's.
They can switch. I'll stick with *nix and free updates, and save myself $140 every other year in upgrade costs.
Too bad, those $140 (sic) upgrades are friggin' awesome.
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Are you saying the PC, MS Windows and MS Office were around before the internet, and Unix?
Well at least you haven't been modded insightful (yet). The way moderation has been lately, I'd half expect you to be at +5 by now.
Being based on BSD has nothing to do with anything, the userland/desktop space is where most exploits have been in recent years and the Aqua shell is no more free from exploits than Explorer is.
Textbook misinformation used to spread FUD.
Being modded insightful is textbook bad moderation.
Today the US uses the smallest percentage of their wealth for exploration of any large world power in history, heck even at the height of our spending on the Apollo program we barely matched what the Spanish did with Columbus.
Yes, but that was before governments were in the business of maintaining social safety nets, infrastructure and making sure people don't use the f-word on radio and TV broadcasts.
If terrorists decide to detonate a nuke anywhere in the United States, the retaliation would make Afghanistan and Iraq look like an episode of the Ashlee Simpson Show in comparison.
There would be no surgical strikes, there would be no "trying to spare innocent casualties" there will be "shock and awe" on a scale never before seen in human history.
The United States would project its full power and might and the rest of the world would have to band together in a mighty big hurry to stop it.
Can you do that? Will you do that?
Who could?
China?
Europe?
And even if they did... what then?
World War III?
The America haters of the world have a deep rooted fear of the power of the United States, and any self-respecting America-hater better hope to whatever God you believe in that terrorists are smart enough to never detonate a nuke anywhere near the USA or its allies.
Unfortunately I think the hatred of the USA by the extremists (and the casual hater, and there are a lot of you) is more powerful than the foresight to see what a catastrophe such an act would bring to the world...
The United States would wipe the earth into a barren wasteland, starting with the Arab States (innocent or not) and moving on to whomever else decides they want to stand in its way.
There will be no winners. There will be no "good guys" or "bad guys", just a lot of death, destruction, grief and misery not seen since the Mongol Hordes marches across Asia and Europe.
This is just one take, but I'm sure a lot of folks whether they want to or not, have to reluctantly agree that this is the case.
... the final raping of your childhood memories of Star Wars...
I've held my tongue (keyboard) for almost six years of Star Wars Slashdot posts talking about George Lucas "raping of your childhood memories" with the new trilogy and I just have one thing to say:
ENOUGH ALREADY - Christ they were just friggin' movies for crying out loud!!!
If I had mod-points you'd receive my first ever -1 (Redundant) because that's just what it is... fscking redundant.
OK we get it; George Lucas has ruined your childhood memories.
Established.
Sucks to be you that you identify your developing years by how you reacted to three movies.
But to each their own.
Thank you.
Back to your regularly scheduled griping and complaining.
.. until Apple fixes some really fundamental problems with the Macintosh operating system and GUI...
You're joking right?
Windows and Linux (and every other platform on the planet for that matter) have perfect OSs and GUIs I suppose or by your logic you should never buy anything until it's perfect.
Seriously, sounds like you played around with OS X once and decided that because it wasn't what you were used to it has "fundamental OS and GUI problems."
Quark XPress users who spend their whole day in the program laying out newspaper pages tell me often that Photoshop has "fundamental GUI problems" too.
Poor bastards don't know the joke's on them.
Same could be said for your point of view too IMO.
With that in mind, I am going to get an SUV next year.
I just bought an Audi Quattro. Three members of my family drive Subaru Outbacks. All these cars get great gas milage (much better than an SUV anyway) and plow through the snow better than the top-heavy SUVs. I was in the same storm that you mentioned and weaved my way through a multitude of stranded cars and SUVs with ease.
(most of the SUVs were stranded out of stupidity apparently, seems folks who drive these things thing they're invulnerable in the snow.)
There is always a happy medium and a lot of times it's the best for all.
Every post here is saying global warming is a sham...
Hardly.
I thought slashdotters were intelligent.
So by your logic, someone who is skeptical of this is by your definition not intelligent?
A little elitist are we?
Perhaps this is the attitude that turns people off. Calling people who don't believe the same things you do unintelligent is doing more harm to your cause than saying nothing at all.
I'm openly skeptical of any doomsday scenario because people have been proposing them my whole life. I'm open to any argument, but by your definition I'm unintelligent.
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Sounds like you're suffering with the stock 128MB of ram your 800mhz "flat panel mac" came with.
In the time it took for you to post this, you could have upgraded the RAM in your hated "flat panel Mac".
If you don't even know or can't even bother to give us the appropriate designation of the machine you own, or call your machine "slow" without even mentioning how much ram the machine is using, how are we supposed to take your rant seriously?
Wow the thread police is out in full force today.
9.3 was a typo dude, get over yourself.
OS X "Lite"
... OS X Lite.
Not sure exactly what you really need, but 'Simple Finder' came instantly to mind when i saw "OS X lite."
We use it for a lot of the Graphic Artists here who can't be bothered to learn the new OS after upgrading their systems from OS 9.3.
You create a new user and under 'Limitations' set up a "Simple Finder"
Viola
New widgets and OS features can make you more productive. Just ask some Mac users about Exposé ...
... who knows?
As a daily user I'm glad to authenticate your statement. =)
I can't for the life of me understand how I did my day to to work with 5-20 windows open without Exposé.
I had to use a Jaguar machine the other day and felt naked without being able to use it.
Perhaps I'll feel the same way about Spotlight
I have a Mini with a 20" Cinema Display and expose is already choppy ...
I'm calling you out.
I have a Spring 2000 (holy shit my iMac is 5 years old now!) G3 iMac with 8MB graphics memory and 256MB of RAM and Exposé works rather decently. Only about a 0.2 second delay.
In fact I can't wait to put Tiger on it to how much faster it runs.
One reason Apple is more streamlined than Windows is that it refuses to keep backwards compatability.
...
... have you even used a Mac in this century? Or are you just busting on them because people are migrating from the platform you like and you don't: understand why, fear change, fear being a follower or that you just plain like what you're using and get a funny feeling when others find something they like better.
Not flaming you (although I think that's what you want). Most anti-Mac folks I run into these days haven't touched a Mac since the System 7 days and continue to carry that prejudice.
Stating that Apple refused to adopt backward compatibility is ignoring the fact that you can still run ancient software in Classic layer and will be able to for some time.
Can't use a floppy?
I haven't missed it, but I can go buy a USB external for peanuts.
No two-button mouse?
Never mind, I'm not going there
Seriously
Anyway, I guess I don't understand where you get "Apple thinks it's customers are idiots" out of any of this.
All I can say is fear not, there is enough room in this town for two OS's.
They can switch. I'll stick with *nix and free updates, and save myself $140 every other year in upgrade costs.
Too bad, those $140 (sic) upgrades are friggin' awesome.
Are you saying the PC, MS Windows and MS Office were around before the internet, and Unix?
Well at least you haven't been modded insightful (yet).
The way moderation has been lately, I'd half expect you to be at +5 by now.
Being based on BSD has nothing to do with anything, the userland/desktop space is where most exploits have been in recent years and the Aqua shell is no more free from exploits than Explorer is.
Textbook misinformation used to spread FUD.
Being modded insightful is textbook bad moderation.
that's remarkable insight, because most other CEOs sit around meetings and tell everyone that they want to make a mediocre product.
Assuming your post is sarcasm, I'm sure the executives at eMachines are doing just that while trying to break into the Wal-Mart home PC market.
Kudos and cheers to you for correcting yourself.
[insert obnoxious buzzer sound from The Family Feud with Richard Dawson here]
/OS X.
Apple is the company that makes the Macintosh computer which runs the operating system Mac OS
The machine may run a flavor of Linux as its operating system, but it's still a Power Macintosh G5.
Give credit where credit is due.
There should be a (Score:-1, Misinformed).
Today the US uses the smallest percentage of their wealth for exploration of any large world power in history, heck even at the height of our spending on the Apollo program we barely matched what the Spanish did with Columbus.
Yes, but that was before governments were in the business of maintaining social safety nets, infrastructure and making sure people don't use the f-word on radio and TV broadcasts.
... might as well be me.
... what then?
...
Let's not pussyfoot around this issue.
If terrorists decide to detonate a nuke anywhere in the United States, the retaliation would make Afghanistan and Iraq look like an episode of the Ashlee Simpson Show in comparison.
There would be no surgical strikes, there would be no "trying to spare innocent casualties" there will be "shock and awe" on a scale never before seen in human history.
The United States would project its full power and might and the rest of the world would have to band together in a mighty big hurry to stop it.
Can you do that? Will you do that?
Who could?
China?
Europe?
And even if they did
World War III?
The America haters of the world have a deep rooted fear of the power of the United States, and any self-respecting America-hater better hope to whatever God you believe in that terrorists are smart enough to never detonate a nuke anywhere near the USA or its allies.
Unfortunately I think the hatred of the USA by the extremists (and the casual hater, and there are a lot of you) is more powerful than the foresight to see what a catastrophe such an act would bring to the world
The United States would wipe the earth into a barren wasteland, starting with the Arab States (innocent or not) and moving on to whomever else decides they want to stand in its way.
There will be no winners. There will be no "good guys" or "bad guys", just a lot of death, destruction, grief and misery not seen since the Mongol Hordes marches across Asia and Europe.
This is just one take, but I'm sure a lot of folks whether they want to or not, have to reluctantly agree that this is the case.
And if I were your teacher, I'd make you write:
their teacher
100 times on the chalk board.
Pieces ... pieces ... pieces of me ... ... leaving the galaxy!"
Hey that rhymes.
Sorry. Carry on.
Your [sic] right.
Most native English speakers cant[sic] even properly use there [sic] own language in proper context.
Its[sic] really depressing; not to mention annoying as hell.
I love Applescript though. It helps me to use my system real good [sic].
Goddammit you beat me to that observation.
...
fsck
Oh, but they'll come. Oh yes. I can hear the bottles of Vaseline opening as we speak.
I don't accept hugs from AC's. Nice try though.
... the final raping of your childhood memories of Star Wars ...
I've held my tongue (keyboard) for almost six years of Star Wars Slashdot posts talking about George Lucas "raping of your childhood memories" with the new trilogy and I just have one thing to say:
... fscking redundant.
ENOUGH ALREADY - Christ they were just friggin' movies for crying out loud!!!
If I had mod-points you'd receive my first ever -1 (Redundant) because that's just what it is
OK we get it; George Lucas has ruined your childhood memories.
Established.
Sucks to be you that you identify your developing years by how you reacted to three movies.
But to each their own.
Thank you.
Back to your regularly scheduled griping and complaining.
.. until Apple fixes some really fundamental problems with the Macintosh operating system and GUI...
You're joking right?
Windows and Linux (and every other platform on the planet for that matter) have perfect OSs and GUIs I suppose or by your logic you should never buy anything until it's perfect.
Seriously, sounds like you played around with OS X once and decided that because it wasn't what you were used to it has "fundamental OS and GUI problems."
Quark XPress users who spend their whole day in the program laying out newspaper pages tell me often that Photoshop has "fundamental GUI problems" too.
Poor bastards don't know the joke's on them.
Same could be said for your point of view too IMO.
But hey, 6 Billion people, 6 billion opinions.
Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen?
www.allrecipies.com
With that in mind, I am going to get an SUV next year.
I just bought an Audi Quattro. Three members of my family drive Subaru Outbacks. All these cars get great gas milage (much better than an SUV anyway) and plow through the snow better than the top-heavy SUVs. I was in the same storm that you mentioned and weaved my way through a multitude of stranded cars and SUVs with ease.
(most of the SUVs were stranded out of stupidity apparently, seems folks who drive these things thing they're invulnerable in the snow.)
There is always a happy medium and a lot of times it's the best for all.
Every post here is saying global warming is a sham...
Hardly.
I thought slashdotters were intelligent.
So by your logic, someone who is skeptical of this is by your definition not intelligent?
A little elitist are we?
Perhaps this is the attitude that turns people off. Calling people who don't believe the same things you do unintelligent is doing more harm to your cause than saying nothing at all.
I'm openly skeptical of any doomsday scenario because people have been proposing them my whole life. I'm open to any argument, but by your definition I'm unintelligent.
Thanks pal.
That was The Medieval Warming Period.
Apparently there many contemporary sources mentioning palm trees as far north as Yorkshire back then.
Not to mention the fact that the Vikings were able to habitate Greenland, build towns and grow crops there.
But if you look further down in the article, there is a big move to understate this event.
Could the "Global Warming is Humanity's Fault" crowd be practicing a little revisionist history to get their point across easier?
God, I hope not.
-24 degrees Fahrenheit this morning in Glens Falls.
Who wants to get together with some old cans of hairspray?