Still, at the rate at which OSX is adopting Windows' UI conventions and disfunctions, you won't be able to tell the difference in 2 years time anyway...
It's the people who DON'T read the small print that allow companied to write all kinds of restrictive terms and conditions INTO the small print. Just like it's the people not questioning WHY there are three kinds of artificial sweetener and six different artificial colours added to your strawberry yoghurt that allows the manufacturers to carry on doing it.
"I've had a hell of a time trying to figure out why my friends have been buying awful computers (a Compaq, for example, just one month ago! Wonder how long that brand is going to last...) without consulting me."
Imagine people doing things without consulting YOU first!
A dead technology? We bought 3 Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SBs at work the other day which are now installed and running at 1344x1008@100Hz on our Mac workstations. These monitors only cost 250 quid each and yet have a better picture (better colour and response) than ANY LCD at ANY PRICE.
That's some dead technology alright. My advice is to buy superior CRTs while you still can!
If this guy was designing racing cars as a profitable sideline, I think he'd probably have a case, but as he seems to be designing useful utilities for MacOSX, he's just putting in overtime as far as Apple is concerned. Apple should give him a bonus and then take the software as stipulated in their contract.
People who don't read the small print are the bane of modern life.
Such laws are actually very common - certainly here in Britain. The hard part is to try and enforce them, I'm rather surprised Apple is doing so. In some industries it's also common to try and prevent temporary workers employed through agencies to take full time employment with the same company - the agencies often have ludicrous clauses that try and extract fees from both parties, no one ever pays them, of course.
America DEFINITELY doesn't have enough terrorist problems. What have you had, 2 or 3 attacks in living memory? It's time you joined the rest of the world and felt the cleansing sting of terrorism, rather than just using the CIA to inflict it on everyone else.
I like the way that the IRA is used to train guerilla groups in South America to destabilise their governments too. You've got to admit that the CIA is crafty!
Looked at the other way, the UK is obviously not the 51st state, but the 1st state of the USA - after all, it not only outranks all US states in terms of population, but easily in terms of GNP too, quite apart from the fact that it WAS first. To be totally fair, the UK could be broken down further into it's constituent countries (England would STILL hold top rank) and Scotland would become a middle ranking state rather than a low ranking country. Might as well chuck Ireland in too, and we now have a glorious 55 states in total!
"Click "My Documents" and a search field appears on the folder into which you type "Budget spreadsheet June" and three or four candidates pop up. Most likely your doc is there otherwise you could click to display the other, less likely, candidates."
I cannot imagine how this would be faster than current methods - in MacOS9 I'd just have pop-up folders for my working documents and Apple menu aliases for my drives and apps. Even MacOSX and Windows let you alias files in several different ways that obviate the need to search for meta data that PROBABLY ISN'T THERE.
I don't like it much either. But Windows Explorer is pre-BASIC by comparison. Seriously, there's not much point arguing about whether Mac OSX or Win2K has the better 'Finder' when they're both about 1/10th as good as that of MacOS9.
Nonsense, mass produced items are almost always more reliable than custom jobs. When you tool up for mass production, you make sure that you get it right - that's why a Ford Focus is more reliable than an Aston Martin DB7.
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It wouldn't be a SECRET BALLOT then, would it?
Frankly, the only possible reason to favour electronic voting is to ALLOW fraud.
You're right.
Consistently crap.
Still, at the rate at which OSX is adopting Windows' UI conventions and disfunctions, you won't be able to tell the difference in 2 years time anyway...
And who are you?
No, no!
It's the people who DON'T read the small print that allow companied to write all kinds of restrictive terms and conditions INTO the small print. Just like it's the people not questioning WHY there are three kinds of artificial sweetener and six different artificial colours added to your strawberry yoghurt that allows the manufacturers to carry on doing it.
Some Macs (like my Colour Classic) also had an Apple proprietary expansion slot known as the PDS (Processor Direct Slot).
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"I've had a hell of a time trying to figure out why my friends have been buying awful computers (a Compaq, for example, just one month ago! Wonder how long that brand is going to last...) without consulting me."
Imagine people doing things without consulting YOU first!
Why the very idea makes my blood boil!
A dead technology? We bought 3 Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SBs at work the other day which are now installed and running at 1344x1008@100Hz on our Mac workstations. These monitors only cost 250 quid each and yet have a better picture (better colour and response) than ANY LCD at ANY PRICE.
That's some dead technology alright. My advice is to buy superior CRTs while you still can!
"i bought a mac like 6 weeks before they announced the G5. needless to say i was pissed."
You really shouldn't go out and buy expensive consumer products when drunk, you'll only regret it later on.
Apple develop software for Windows too.
If this guy was designing racing cars as a profitable sideline, I think he'd probably have a case, but as he seems to be designing useful utilities for MacOSX, he's just putting in overtime as far as Apple is concerned. Apple should give him a bonus and then take the software as stipulated in their contract.
People who don't read the small print are the bane of modern life.
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Such laws are actually very common - certainly here in Britain. The hard part is to try and enforce them, I'm rather surprised Apple is doing so. In some industries it's also common to try and prevent temporary workers employed through agencies to take full time employment with the same company - the agencies often have ludicrous clauses that try and extract fees from both parties, no one ever pays them, of course.
You need URGENT spelling lessons.
URGENT!
The Germans seem to think it's pretty reliable.
America DEFINITELY doesn't have enough terrorist problems. What have you had, 2 or 3 attacks in living memory? It's time you joined the rest of the world and felt the cleansing sting of terrorism, rather than just using the CIA to inflict it on everyone else.
Most?
I like the way that the IRA is used to train guerilla groups in South America to destabilise their governments too. You've got to admit that the CIA is crafty!
Looked at the other way, the UK is obviously not the 51st state, but the 1st state of the USA - after all, it not only outranks all US states in terms of population, but easily in terms of GNP too, quite apart from the fact that it WAS first. To be totally fair, the UK could be broken down further into it's constituent countries (England would STILL hold top rank) and Scotland would become a middle ranking state rather than a low ranking country. Might as well chuck Ireland in too, and we now have a glorious 55 states in total!
MacOS9's "Find by Content' feature would be right up your street.
"Click "My Documents" and a search field appears on the folder into which you type "Budget spreadsheet June" and three or four candidates pop up. Most likely your doc is there otherwise you could click to display the other, less likely, candidates."
I cannot imagine how this would be faster than current methods - in MacOS9 I'd just have pop-up folders for my working documents and Apple menu aliases for my drives and apps. Even MacOSX and Windows let you alias files in several different ways that obviate the need to search for meta data that PROBABLY ISN'T THERE.
You got 'spatial' wrong, too!
"Maybe he just doesn't like it?"
I don't like it much either. But Windows Explorer is pre-BASIC by comparison. Seriously, there's not much point arguing about whether Mac OSX or Win2K has the better 'Finder' when they're both about 1/10th as good as that of MacOS9.
Nonsense, mass produced items are almost always more reliable than custom jobs. When you tool up for mass production, you make sure that you get it right - that's why a Ford Focus is more reliable than an Aston Martin DB7.
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if you still live with your mother, you shouldn't be thinking about spending over a THOUSAND on a video projector
Absofuckinglutely!
Surround sound too!