2 days. Sorry, if you did this in the first place, but did you ever go to your local Mac reseller or called Apple to get your copy of OS X ?
There wd have been a chance I think. Then.
Well, I do.
Doing the work I do Nisus would be the right thing.
It is ever again astonishing how little imagination people have to consider some people to do other things than they are doing themselves.
>Mac users won't put up with that crap the way >*nix people will.
I'm definitely a long term Mac user, but I say I will put up with the crap. Why ? Well, a neat user interface is good, but it's not all. Free software gives the Mac platform immense opportunities and I'm not too shy to always learn new ways. Why not use a different model ? Apple has changed a number of things in their new OS for good. The Unix layer is a massive improvement.
Still you're right in that quality must be insured.
Okay, I'm a Mac user too and I do wish for an alternative to: MS office, MS Outlook, MS Explorer. Why ? Simply, because I like to use the SW that works for me. While MS office is certainly feature-packed, it simply is a pain to use. I have to use multiple languages etc. Altough having disabled all "autofarmat" etc. option it still does it ! When highlighting _one_ letter to make it upper case, it does so with the whole word. When two consecutive words start with an asterisk, autiformatting kicks in. I just can't stop it. It's tiring, time consuming. The other products aren't good either. I don't want to go on here with it. The plain fact why we need good products is, because the ones we "have" to use aren't.
Office is so overautomated, it takes me 5x more time to write a text with it, than, let's say,with SimpleText.
The news about Nisus sounds encouraging.
Here are a few featured I'd definitely like to see: a) Ask user whether he/she wants a progress automated.
b) Make it _easy_ to enable/disable autoformat.
c) Unicode support
d) right -to-left capability
e) print to pdf
f) high degree of customizability
okay, to get this really straight. Yes, English, Dutch and German are all Germanic languages. There are 3 branches of G. languages: 1) North-Germanic (nowadays Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish)
2) East-Germanic (now extinct, Gothic and the language of the Lombards figured here)
3) West Germanic (English, Dutch, Low German, High German)
Dutch and Low German are very closely related. Actually Dutch used to be just a dialect of Old Low German (the dialect's called "Low Frankonian" to be exact). However since the Netherlands formed a distinct state with their own standard language very early, Dutch took a course apart and must today be classed as an individual language. Low German did possess a standard language in the times of the Hansa. This language was also widely spoken in Scandinavian towns like Bergen and Stockholm (which explains a lot of loans from L.G. in Scandinavian). The 17th century saw the demise of L.G. when Modern Standard German replaced it as an official language (its influence being due to a considerable part to the Bible translation by M. Luther). Today L.G. is just an inofficial language in Northern Germany which, although still widely spoke (lots of dialects !!!) 50 years ago, is now rushing towards extinction. High German, on which Modern St. German is based can be distinguished from all other Germanic languages by the "High German Sound Shift". That is, certain consonants regularly shift, e.g. (first letter is relevant).
Engl. do, Dutch doen v German tun
Engl. tooth, Dutch tand v German Zahn.
English is a special breed of West Germanic.
Note e.g. the reduction of "n" before "th",e.g.
tooth v tand, zahn (v.s), Engl. mouth v Dutch mond, German mund. English also has tons of French, but also Scandinavian and Dutch loans (when the English learned how to build ships from the Dutch, a lot of Dutch came over to England).
As for the denomination "Dutch" and "Deutsch" they are of course of the same origin, meaning "of the people, popular". Thusly people wd denote their own language as opposed to the clerical Latin.
The truth is that if they want any market share they need to ditch the hardware so they can actually compete
The truth is if they ditched their hardware thing they wdn't have ANY market share right then. See that ?
Secondly, people are migrating from the PC to the Mac (market analysis shows it and I happen to know quite a number of people who did). Personally, what made me feel so comfortable buying a Mac was the very fact I used a PC before as a comparison.
Apple will try to expand their hardware base. What is attractive about the Mac platform ? Well, great hardware + (now) great software.
Apple software feeds on hardware no other animal can feed on. It's a niche. That's why they're still around.
Ad 1) Decent machines.
It's actually funny to see x86ers to go crazy about machines like AMD's just because they're slightly less crappy than the current Intel junk. No, the PPC IS decent hardware. Just take a look around and you'llsee that the PPC platform is very much alive and kicking.
However, there's something there: Motorola seems to be letting Apple down. They don't really seem to be working on their G5 64bit chip. So what ? Firstly, there's IBM and then...
(Can't give away too much, but be sure to see some more drastic step taken by Apple soon).
Ad 2) There may not be x86 machines running Mac OS X in secret Apple labs today, but I suspect they could do it in not very much time if they had to
As for x86, well... A lot of the development has taken place on Compaq Alpha processors though (quite a lot actually). Go figure...
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I've been using it basically since day one of MacOS X. For me it's indispensable. It doesn't slow down anything BTW...
2 days. Sorry, if you did this in the first place, but did you ever go to your local Mac reseller or called Apple to get your copy of OS X ?
There wd have been a chance I think. Then.
Well, I do. Doing the work I do Nisus would be the right thing. It is ever again astonishing how little imagination people have to consider some people to do other things than they are doing themselves.
>Mac users won't put up with that crap the way >*nix people will. I'm definitely a long term Mac user, but I say I will put up with the crap. Why ? Well, a neat user interface is good, but it's not all. Free software gives the Mac platform immense opportunities and I'm not too shy to always learn new ways. Why not use a different model ? Apple has changed a number of things in their new OS for good. The Unix layer is a massive improvement. Still you're right in that quality must be insured.
Okay, I'm a Mac user too and I do wish for an alternative to: MS office, MS Outlook, MS Explorer. Why ? Simply, because I like to use the SW that works for me. While MS office is certainly feature-packed, it simply is a pain to use. I have to use multiple languages etc. Altough having disabled all "autofarmat" etc. option it still does it ! When highlighting _one_ letter to make it upper case, it does so with the whole word. When two consecutive words start with an asterisk, autiformatting kicks in. I just can't stop it. It's tiring, time consuming. The other products aren't good either. I don't want to go on here with it. The plain fact why we need good products is, because the ones we "have" to use aren't. Office is so overautomated, it takes me 5x more time to write a text with it, than, let's say ,with SimpleText.
The news about Nisus sounds encouraging.
Here are a few featured I'd definitely like to see: a) Ask user whether he/she wants a progress automated.
b) Make it _easy_ to enable/disable autoformat.
c) Unicode support
d) right -to-left capability
e) print to pdf
f) high degree of customizability
okay, to get this really straight. Yes, English, Dutch and German are all Germanic languages. There are 3 branches of G. languages: 1) North-Germanic (nowadays Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish) 2) East-Germanic (now extinct, Gothic and the language of the Lombards figured here) 3) West Germanic (English, Dutch, Low German, High German) Dutch and Low German are very closely related. Actually Dutch used to be just a dialect of Old Low German (the dialect's called "Low Frankonian" to be exact). However since the Netherlands formed a distinct state with their own standard language very early, Dutch took a course apart and must today be classed as an individual language. Low German did possess a standard language in the times of the Hansa. This language was also widely spoken in Scandinavian towns like Bergen and Stockholm (which explains a lot of loans from L.G. in Scandinavian). The 17th century saw the demise of L.G. when Modern Standard German replaced it as an official language (its influence being due to a considerable part to the Bible translation by M. Luther). Today L.G. is just an inofficial language in Northern Germany which, although still widely spoke (lots of dialects !!!) 50 years ago, is now rushing towards extinction. High German, on which Modern St. German is based can be distinguished from all other Germanic languages by the "High German Sound Shift". That is, certain consonants regularly shift, e.g. (first letter is relevant). Engl. do, Dutch doen v German tun Engl. tooth, Dutch tand v German Zahn. English is a special breed of West Germanic. Note e.g. the reduction of "n" before "th",e.g. tooth v tand, zahn (v.s), Engl. mouth v Dutch mond, German mund. English also has tons of French, but also Scandinavian and Dutch loans (when the English learned how to build ships from the Dutch, a lot of Dutch came over to England). As for the denomination "Dutch" and "Deutsch" they are of course of the same origin, meaning "of the people, popular". Thusly people wd denote their own language as opposed to the clerical Latin.
The truth is that if they want any market share they need to ditch the hardware so they can actually compete The truth is if they ditched their hardware thing they wdn't have ANY market share right then. See that ? Secondly, people are migrating from the PC to the Mac (market analysis shows it and I happen to know quite a number of people who did). Personally, what made me feel so comfortable buying a Mac was the very fact I used a PC before as a comparison. Apple will try to expand their hardware base. What is attractive about the Mac platform ? Well, great hardware + (now) great software. Apple software feeds on hardware no other animal can feed on. It's a niche. That's why they're still around.
Ad 1) Decent machines. It's actually funny to see x86ers to go crazy about machines like AMD's just because they're slightly less crappy than the current Intel junk. No, the PPC IS decent hardware. Just take a look around and you'llsee that the PPC platform is very much alive and kicking. However, there's something there: Motorola seems to be letting Apple down. They don't really seem to be working on their G5 64bit chip. So what ? Firstly, there's IBM and then... (Can't give away too much, but be sure to see some more drastic step taken by Apple soon). Ad 2) There may not be x86 machines running Mac OS X in secret Apple labs today, but I suspect they could do it in not very much time if they had to As for x86, well... A lot of the development has taken place on Compaq Alpha processors though (quite a lot actually). Go figure...