Well, why would you want to delete the Trash Can from OS X - unlike the Recycle Bin it is not useless.As for TweakUI - you also never wanted to to add tweakui.exe to the Control Panel folder?As for being able to Tab - gee, that's "a simple checkbox". Not to mention that you can turn it on/off by a key command.
You sound like quite the microsoft basher. Let me ask you something. What makes the Recycle Bin that much different than the Trash Can? The fact that stuff you delete with a keyboard command ends up in the Trash Can, but not in the Recycle Bin, for one.
1 - I've never wanted to put the tweakui into the Control Panel. It goes into the Administrative Tools folder quite easily thank you very much So it doesn't really change the UI preferences, but only does something an admin would want to do? Is this something like the "Press Start to stop" paradigm?
2 - You did realize that in the page you linked to, you just download the.reg file and double click don't you. Sounds pretty easy like a pretty simple solution, wouldn't you agree. Yeah, it's sooo much easier than to download one of the million of "change one of the settings you want to change changer thingies" for MacOS X. Why, was that a double standard I just showed up?
I just found the Tab option yesterday. But since this behavior seemed like it was just the way the OS handled it I didn't even think that they had an option for it. Took me a little while but I'll get down the global shortcut keys soon enough. Not that I would actually want to turn it off/turn it off by accident. Personally I think they should leave that setting in the system preferences and not allow it to be a key command. If I accidentally turn it on I'm sure it'll take me some time figuring out how to change it back. But that's my preference. So you are used to your OS only being able to do what you stumble upon by accidently hitting a key and ruining the work you just did. Hell, I just love it when I have to manouver out of some mess because I accidently touched the Windows button - I can see why you fear accidently hitting ctrl-F1 (it's so close to one of the "close window" key-commands on Windows).
You mean you never deleted a key like "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace?
Nope. Does that make me a bad person? I've never had to mess with registry settings for the Recycle Bin. I've also never tried to delete the Trash Can from OS X(How do you do that anyways?). But then again, you bring up a better point. Maybe that setting should be a little hidden. You don't want just anyone to go around screwing with stuff that they don't understand. But I know that if I do need to do something like that I'd just download and use TweakUI. Clear, easy to understand programs are more reliable and better for comprehension than any reading of manuals and editing of text files.
I hope this comes out clear. I don't have time to learn everything that there is in a OS. I just want the options to be available using programs that I can use. A simple checkbox and my life can go on. And being able to Tab to it makes it a great time saver. Well, why would you want to delete the Trash Can from OS X - unlike the Recycle Bin it is not useless.
So you don't want to "type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files", but instead you want to have to write cryptic strings into hard to remember subsections of the Registry.
In the over 10 years I have had to live with a Registry, I have never, not once, had to write cryptic strings into hard to remember subsections in the Registry. If I did have to write something in the registry it's exactly where I would expect it to be... In the software section under the heading of company name. I dunno. seems quite easy to me.
The real problem with the registry (for me anyways) has never been editing it. It's portability. You just can't take it with you easily.
But again, because almost all of the possible options are exposed in the options panel of any decent software, I have rarely(once maybe every 6 months) had to use any sort of registry editor. Honestly it doesn't get any easier than that. You mean you never deleted a key like "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace?
The problem is, both these groups have shortcut support (and some basic accessibility support for some disabilities) support when they use Windows (and to some extend Ubuntu) out of the box *without special tailoring*. So Windows and Ubuntu are *almost* usable out of the box for them. To be actually useable, the real accessibility support has to enabled in all OSs.
> If you're the sort of person who wants to use keyboard shortcuts then you're the sort of person who's able to go to the preferences and activate them.
Are you sure about? How about people who are blind or have mobility problems? And how about touch typist secretaries?
Keyboard shortcuts aren't some "guru feature", their a natural part of a well designed accessible interface.
I'm really surprised by this. I thought Apple learned its lessons years ago when they added "Apple key short cuts" to their menus by default. At least I thought they were on by default (I don't own a Mac, I've just occasionally used one for testing for cross platform support at work). Isn't it odd that most touch typist secretaries still use the mouse to operate Windows dialog boxes even after years of use?
Not quite. Ever since I got my MacBook I've been triple booting. It's all about best tools for the job and for me that isn't any one OS.
I want to believe that one OS is the best... OS X is great. But I need MORE options not less. I don't want to type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files. I just want an option box that gives me all the options. OS X software typically does the kind of handholding where I'm given the least amount of options which can lead to decent output. Call me a tweaker or an option whore. I just like my software to behave exactly the way I want to, best practices be damned. So you don't want to "type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files", but instead you want to have to write cryptic strings into hard to remember subsections of the Registry.
All I ask for is that the OS doesn't treat me like I'm a brain dead child. I can learn and I'd rather learn once than be slower all the time. So you want to use Mac OS X insted of Windows.
The Mac approach - simplicity and usability with the option for power use - wins out every time.
Except it confuses the hell out of the power users coming from Windows, ya know, the ones (like me) that don't know it can even be turned on. So "Windows power users" think using the online help is futile, as is Googleing for information on how to use a computer.
Yes it *needs* to open coal plants. Which is why it will produce more CO2 than any other country by 2009.
Of course we *need* to cut out carbon emissions because the Chinese have obviously produced a non-greenhouse enhancing version of CO2 and we produce the nasty stuff.
Ahh, so you are worried that the US isn't world leader anymore? Hey, you'll still lead them in CO2 per capita by a couple of hundred percent.
You know, maybe it IS the volcanos. So the obvious thing to do against Global Warming is to offer some sacrifice to them. Obviously this would only work when the sacrifice believes its the volcanos.
Well why didn't you resort to ad-hominem attacks earlier? Now I'm convinced. You'll find your efforts at persuasion are much enhanced with extensive use of insults and name-calling. (See how I came around to define the term "ad-hominem" just in case a humorless tool like yourself didn't know what it meant?) Let me have one last go at your persuasive technique: "You are an an asshole" Do you agree with me now? If not, let me know and I can certainly call you more names. Things like "self-important gasbag" or "martial-arts-referencing dickweed" or "joke-about-weather-forecasting-misapprehending asshat" ("misapprehending" is fancy-talk for "you treated my sarcasm like an argument") or perhaps "condescending twit". What "ad-hominem attacks" did he use? Why didn't you just quote them? Right, because your claims are just as unfunded as those in your original post, where you also didn't back them up.
Now calling you an idiot would have been an ad hominem - before your post proving that you are infact an idiot.
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy won a shitload of awards and was the best selling song of last year. BREAKING NEWS: You live under a rock. Yeah, but it wasn't Internet-only for more than a week (unless you insist on counting that it was leaked months in advance), and even that was just a promo - a big regular release has been planned from the beginning, and it didn't get awards before that release.
"Still, no Internet-only song wins a Grammy or is even recognized as existing."
August 6, 1945Object Touches GroundAn object was reported to have touched the ground in Hiroshima city today. Gravity was the confirmed cause of the object's apparent movement. Errm, actually that object failed to hit the ground by 2000ft.
'Modern' sarin munitions are usually binary munitions (they contain two precursors which are mixed when a shell is fired) and don't degrade for decades. So these munitions are either defective binary munitions or very obsolete munitions with sarin.
Hey I tell you what how about I open a few in your house? They are not dangerous RIGHT?
What a frigging tool Less dangerous than most so-called non-lethal weapons.
Just because "Cancer is not 'roaring ahead'", Joanna Lumley's "We cannot go on force-feeding animals chemicals and growth stimulants the way we are." isn't wrong either.
All those TV shows where a crime was solved by analyzing surveilance camera tapes were lies? Apart from them zooming in to see the make of watch the murderer wore, reflected in a window of a car driving by, I mean.
And this is yet another myth. Java is NEVER used by any seriou scientist. Why? It's to slow. Nor do serious scientists use C or even C++, because they'd rather have auto-vectorizing with FORTRAN.
The language naming started at A, not 0. Our programming languages start with eleven.
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he offers a fresh look from outside the field. Here's an email I received some months back:
June 8th, 2006 (email text below)
THIS PAPER SOURCE IS DESTINED TO BECOME FAMOUS:
Levitus, who has become one of the old men of oceanography and related earth history, cited in oceanography lit. and esp. related to global warming, is very soft spoken but is clearly telling his colleagues in the backhanded way academics often say things that greenhouse gas theory is a crock. The climate change mostly is being induced by the heating of the ocean, he says....which he does not explain directly in this latest article, but he sure does lay the ground work for a lot of other oceanographers who are very very close to getting bold enough to talk about the extensive underwater volcanism they have found during the last 15 years.
For those of technical bent, get his article and try letting it frame your thoughts about how global warming really does work.
National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Received 22 September 2004; revised 24 November 2004; accepted 8 December 2004; published 22 January 2005. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L02604, doi:10.1029/2004GL021592, 2005
notes taken from article, some verbatim, going into my books:
Did you also believe the Penis Enlargement mail you got?
Why didn't anybody else notice this increase in underwater volcanic activity (there seems to be no increase in overwater volcanic activity) - and what the heck causes it?
Last but not least, why does this guy quote an article that does not mention volcanos, but instead says:
Discussion and Perspective
[10] In terms of the causes of the increase in ocean heat
content we believe that the long-term trend as seen in these
records is due to the increase of greenhouse gases in the
Earth's atmosphere [Levitus et al., 2001].
So where is all this internet buzz describing how Jobs 'profited' from $7.5 million in stock options that he surrendered without exercising?
Yep, and when I gave back all that money I stole because I knew the cops were on to me, it totally kept me from being accused of theft!!!
So when exactly did Jobs give back the options? Last week? Last year? 2002? And why didn't "the cops" do anything for years if they were after him all the time?
Hence, the overblown alarmism of today that compares to the global cooling scare of the 1970s. The only alarmists are those who predict the downfall of civilisation if CO2 production isn't increased (at least in the US that is).
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You sound like quite the microsoft basher. Let me ask you something. What makes the Recycle Bin that much different than the Trash Can? The fact that stuff you delete with a keyboard command ends up in the Trash Can, but not in the Recycle Bin, for one.
1 - I've never wanted to put the tweakui into the Control Panel. It goes into the Administrative Tools folder quite easily thank you very much
So it doesn't really change the UI preferences, but only does something an admin would want to do? Is this something like the "Press Start to stop" paradigm? 2 - You did realize that in the page you linked to, you just download the
Yeah, it's sooo much easier than to download one of the million of "change one of the settings you want to change changer thingies" for MacOS X. Why, was that a double standard I just showed up?
I just found the Tab option yesterday. But since this behavior seemed like it was just the way the OS handled it I didn't even think that they had an option for it. Took me a little while but I'll get down the global shortcut keys soon enough. Not that I would actually want to turn it off/turn it off by accident. Personally I think they should leave that setting in the system preferences and not allow it to be a key command. If I accidentally turn it on I'm sure it'll take me some time figuring out how to change it back. But that's my preference. So you are used to your OS only being able to do what you stumble upon by accidently hitting a key and ruining the work you just did. Hell, I just love it when I have to manouver out of some mess because I accidently touched the Windows button - I can see why you fear accidently hitting ctrl-F1 (it's so close to one of the "close window" key-commands on Windows).
Nope. Does that make me a bad person? I've never had to mess with registry settings for the Recycle Bin. I've also never tried to delete the Trash Can from OS X(How do you do that anyways?). But then again, you bring up a better point. Maybe that setting should be a little hidden. You don't want just anyone to go around screwing with stuff that they don't understand. But I know that if I do need to do something like that I'd just download and use TweakUI. Clear, easy to understand programs are more reliable and better for comprehension than any reading of manuals and editing of text files.
I hope this comes out clear. I don't have time to learn everything that there is in a OS. I just want the options to be available using programs that I can use. A simple checkbox and my life can go on. And being able to Tab to it makes it a great time saver. Well, why would you want to delete the Trash Can from OS X - unlike the Recycle Bin it is not useless.
As for TweakUI - you also never wanted to to add tweakui.exe to the Control Panel folder?
As for being able to Tab - gee, that's "a simple checkbox". Not to mention that you can turn it on/off by a key command.
In the over 10 years I have had to live with a Registry, I have never, not once, had to write cryptic strings into hard to remember subsections in the Registry. If I did have to write something in the registry it's exactly where I would expect it to be... In the software section under the heading of company name. I dunno. seems quite easy to me.
The real problem with the registry (for me anyways) has never been editing it. It's portability. You just can't take it with you easily.
But again, because almost all of the possible options are exposed in the options panel of any decent software, I have rarely(once maybe every 6 months) had to use any sort of registry editor. Honestly it doesn't get any easier than that. You mean you never deleted a key like "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
Are you sure about? How about people who are blind or have mobility problems? And how about touch typist secretaries?
Keyboard shortcuts aren't some "guru feature", their a natural part of a well designed accessible interface.
I'm really surprised by this. I thought Apple learned its lessons years ago when they added "Apple key short cuts" to their menus by default. At least I thought they were on by default (I don't own a Mac, I've just occasionally used one for testing for cross platform support at work).
Isn't it odd that most touch typist secretaries still use the mouse to operate Windows dialog boxes even after years of use?
Not quite. Ever since I got my MacBook I've been triple booting. It's all about best tools for the job and for me that isn't any one OS.
I want to believe that one OS is the best... OS X is great. But I need MORE options not less. I don't want to type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files. I just want an option box that gives me all the options. OS X software typically does the kind of handholding where I'm given the least amount of options which can lead to decent output. Call me a tweaker or an option whore. I just like my software to behave exactly the way I want to, best practices be damned. So you don't want to "type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files", but instead you want to have to write cryptic strings into hard to remember subsections of the Registry.
Except it confuses the hell out of the power users coming from Windows, ya know, the ones (like me) that don't know it can even be turned on. So "Windows power users" think using the online help is futile, as is Googleing for information on how to use a computer.
Of course we *need* to cut out carbon emissions because the Chinese have obviously produced a non-greenhouse enhancing version of CO2 and we produce the nasty stuff.
Ahh, so you are worried that the US isn't world leader anymore? Hey, you'll still lead them in CO2 per capita by a couple of hundred percent.
You go first.
Now calling you an idiot would have been an ad hominem - before your post proving that you are infact an idiot.
"Still, no Internet-only song wins a Grammy or is even recognized as existing."
Hey I tell you what how about I open a few in your house?
They are not dangerous RIGHT?
What a frigging tool Less dangerous than most so-called non-lethal weapons.
Just because "Cancer is not 'roaring ahead'", Joanna Lumley's "We cannot go on force-feeding animals chemicals and growth stimulants the way we are." isn't wrong either.
All those TV shows where a crime was solved by analyzing surveilance camera tapes were lies? Apart from them zooming in to see the make of watch the murderer wore, reflected in a window of a car driving by, I mean.
Nice try, the article does not say Huston already has cameras on the streets, so you're making up the slippery slope.
Your arguments never made any sense. Must be my fault of course. Without Microsoft I'd still be using an Abacus - whatever.
Yep, and when I gave back all that money I stole because I knew the cops were on to me, it totally kept me from being accused of theft!!!
So when exactly did Jobs give back the options? Last week? Last year? 2002? And why didn't "the cops" do anything for years if they were after him all the time?So what exactly causes the climate to change? Don't say the fact that it has always changed.
So you are proving Global Warming wrong by pointing to an article that says there is Global Warming.