It's hideously ugly, all the numbers look curly and feminine and if I put my fully charged phone to sleep on Friday when I leave the office, the battery of this unused sleeping phone dead when I come in on Monday.
It's not just my phone, but all other members on my team too.
I hate (really hate) that Apple will never let you go back to a previous version of iOS. In fact, I dread if any of my iOS 6 devices ever mistakenly get updated to 7.
So, rollback?
It's expected that we should be able to do this. Especially if your device is more than a few years old, and you update it, then the update doesn't work for you you can't roll it back AND Apple will no longer support the device, so you're simply screwed.
The ability to rollback an OS should be a requirement, unless that version of the OS is fatally flawed for some reason.
Thanks. Some of those shortcuts in Onyx and Tinkertool are ones that I discovered.
The disabling of the bouncy rubber banding views is one of them, but in anything that uses webKit (Safari, iTunes), the bouncyness is actually hardcoded on if the OS is > 10.6.8. Pretty damned annoying.
Snow Leopard is the last usable version of the Mac OS.
In the latest, you have what once was a snappy UI marred by excessive animations that you simply can't turn off if you want the faster UI.
From Safari's "flying cockroach" download icon, to the damn forced animated roll out and roll up of all disclosure triangles, Apple's addition of animations to EVERYTHING and without "a please don't animate this, I liked it when I clicked on something and the results were instant" switch, the Mac UI has gotten more and more annoying and distracting to use.
Bouncing Safari screens? Windows that pop open in your face? Email that flies off the screen? Who needs them? Not me.
Previously, you could hold control command D over text in Safari, in Mail and in TextEdit and the results would display as fast as they could in a dictionary window.
Now, the word highlights, pops open, then shrinks back, the dictionary pops open, then cascades the results down as it draws the window.
All this distracting animation, when all the user wanted was to see the definition of the word as fast as they could see it. That's why they pressed the command keys in the first place.
Apple's UI designers have lost their focus and are no longer creating user interfaces that help users without getting in their way. All too often, the interface appears to exist simply to be as busy and as distracting as it can be.
This is why I still use Snow Leopard as my primary operating system on my 5 Macs at home.
I once knew a guy (20+ years ago) who had a microwave element mounted in front of his radiator, the radiator shielding him from the glorious waves. He had his radar detector wired to trigger the microwave when it detected a radar gun signal, effectively roasting the radar gun.
At least this is what he told me.
I think he did this after getting fed up with Connecticut State Troopers, their speed traps and unmarked Ford Tauruses and Jeeps pulling people over at 56 miles an hour. Setting my memory back to 20 - 30 years ago, I don't blame him one bit.
When the laser hits the glass/plexiglass, it spreads all around the cabin, making it near impossible to see and possibly temporarily blinding the pilot.
Well, as a man with both Italian and Swiss ancestors, I can tell you there are places in the Alps where both of the countries meet. The San Gotthard Pass is one of them.
But even though you bring up a case in the 1960s/1970s where this happened, the case I am referring to in Switzerland was reported in New Scientist a few years ago.
Lakes form behind ice dams and they can exist for a year, for decades, for a while. When the water finds a way through, the ice dams will break and whole towns can and have disappeared.
Actually, I do mean the Dakota badlands. There was a massive inland lake up in Canada that seems to have burst the same way. But again, you have brought new information to my attention. It may have been so large that it also affected the Channeled Scablands - or simply I am wrong. Or, there may have been more than one massive inland lake with the bursting of each creating these structures.
Yeah, quick Google searches indicate that you are indeed correct on the Scablands, but I recall watching some nature/history of the Earth show stating that the same happened for the badlands.
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in its* infinite wisdom
it's = it is
It's hideously ugly, all the numbers look curly and feminine and if I put my fully charged phone to sleep on Friday when I leave the office, the battery of this unused sleeping phone dead when I come in on Monday.
It's not just my phone, but all other members on my team too.
I hate (really hate) that Apple will never let you go back to a previous version of iOS. In fact, I dread if any of my iOS 6 devices ever mistakenly get updated to 7.
So, rollback?
It's expected that we should be able to do this. Especially if your device is more than a few years old, and you update it, then the update doesn't work for you you can't roll it back AND Apple will no longer support the device, so you're simply screwed.
The ability to rollback an OS should be a requirement, unless that version of the OS is fatally flawed for some reason.
So do I. iOS 7 is a horrid interface.
> For all it's faults
For all its* faults
it's = it is
Someone's got to pay to fund the research.
Real men use cassette tapes on their TRS-80.
Can we stop using the term, "cyber" to mean "on or over the internet"?
Ballmer just comes across as a big fat baby with all the charisma of a loose turd.
Will someone tell me why he was there in the first place?
Correction: settings that I aided in discovering.
Thanks. Some of those shortcuts in Onyx and Tinkertool are ones that I discovered.
The disabling of the bouncy rubber banding views is one of them, but in anything that uses webKit (Safari, iTunes), the bouncyness is actually hardcoded on if the OS is > 10.6.8. Pretty damned annoying.
Mavericks sucks ass. Too much white. Too much useless animation. Too much UI crap that you can't turn off. Don't waste your time.
If you can live with 10.6.8, stay there. If you have to upgrade, 10.8.5 has less annoying UI crap than 10.9.x does.
Snow Leopard is the last usable version of the Mac OS.
In the latest, you have what once was a snappy UI marred by excessive animations that you simply can't turn off if you want the faster UI.
From Safari's "flying cockroach" download icon, to the damn forced animated roll out and roll up of all disclosure triangles, Apple's addition of animations to EVERYTHING and without "a please don't animate this, I liked it when I clicked on something and the results were instant" switch, the Mac UI has gotten more and more annoying and distracting to use.
Bouncing Safari screens? Windows that pop open in your face? Email that flies off the screen? Who needs them? Not me.
Previously, you could hold control command D over text in Safari, in Mail and in TextEdit and the results would display as fast as they could in a dictionary window.
Now, the word highlights, pops open, then shrinks back, the dictionary pops open, then cascades the results down as it draws the window.
All this distracting animation, when all the user wanted was to see the definition of the word as fast as they could see it. That's why they pressed the command keys in the first place.
Apple's UI designers have lost their focus and are no longer creating user interfaces that help users without getting in their way. All too often, the interface appears to exist simply to be as busy and as distracting as it can be.
This is why I still use Snow Leopard as my primary operating system on my 5 Macs at home.
I once knew a guy (20+ years ago) who had a microwave element mounted in front of his radiator, the radiator shielding him from the glorious waves. He had his radar detector wired to trigger the microwave when it detected a radar gun signal, effectively roasting the radar gun.
At least this is what he told me.
I think he did this after getting fed up with Connecticut State Troopers, their speed traps and unmarked Ford Tauruses and Jeeps pulling people over at 56 miles an hour. Setting my memory back to 20 - 30 years ago, I don't blame him one bit.
That if they do grab Tesla, that Ive and his garish design team keep their pixels far away from any UI that Tesla might have.
Well, DUH!
We all know that for all the 6+ billion people in the world, there can only be 12 possible futures for their upcoming day.
For you though, looking at your astrological horoscope, I predict you will face challenges today.
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Macintosh...
Except for the newer versions of iOS and the Mac. Apple is putting fluff over function and it is annoying as hell when you can't turn the fluff off.
When the laser hits the glass/plexiglass, it spreads all around the cabin, making it near impossible to see and possibly temporarily blinding the pilot.
It's pretty damn dangerous.
Is what we do when we breed cattle or dogs or the like for the traits we want.
We already do "natural selection" ourselves!
Amazing that the very people arguing against teaching the science are oblivious to this fact.
Well, as a man with both Italian and Swiss ancestors, I can tell you there are places in the Alps where both of the countries meet. The San Gotthard Pass is one of them.
But even though you bring up a case in the 1960s/1970s where this happened, the case I am referring to in Switzerland was reported in New Scientist a few years ago.
Lakes form behind ice dams and they can exist for a year, for decades, for a while. When the water finds a way through, the ice dams will break and whole towns can and have disappeared.
Actually, I do mean the Dakota badlands. There was a massive inland lake up in Canada that seems to have burst the same way. But again, you have brought new information to my attention. It may have been so large that it also affected the Channeled Scablands - or simply I am wrong. Or, there may have been more than one massive inland lake with the bursting of each creating these structures.
Yeah, quick Google searches indicate that you are indeed correct on the Scablands, but I recall watching some nature/history of the Earth show stating that the same happened for the badlands.
Cheers.
Geez. That possibility just gave me the willies.
No profit.
Sigh. Wish I had mod points left to upvote you.
Damn shame we didn't build one in Texas when we had the chance.
How is sending a notice to a company to cease breaking the law harassment ?
Honestly. Bad Vice.
As it appears, this is based off of/is a Linux distro.
Nothing home grown about it.