It's no longer Command-N for a new folder in Mac OS X - Command-N now opens a new finder window (useful, something I can't figure out how to do on my XP machine via a shortcut).
I totally support your post, but the command for a new folder is now something like Command-Option-N or similar.
I find the following is a very useful analogy to understand the difference between what we have now, and what software patents will mean:
Right now, any code you or I write is protected by Copyright - noone can steal the code verbatim from us, that's illegal. Books and plays are copywritten in exactly the same way, they're both seen as an act of personal expression/work.
To understand the difference that patents will make, let's look at what would happen if we were able to patent elements of plays instead of software. At the moment, I can write a love play between a man and a woman, and as long as I don't copy anyone elses work verbatim (word for word) I can happily publish my new masterpiece and profit off of it. Surely no problem with this right? Noone is being harmed by my play and I'm not stopping people write any more plays whether they be love themed or not - the theatres will be very happy.
But what if we allow literary patents, which, just like software patents, will take something out of the domain of copyright and into the domain of patenting? Well we have a different story altogether:
I now can't just go ahead and write my love play - noone can, the patent for love plays is held by someone else and he has the right to sue me just for writing a play about love. Now only one man on earth has the ability to write plays about love, and I have to pay him lots of money to be able to publish my particular play.
This is what happens when things are taken out of copyright, and moved into patent law.
Does it offer unlimited bitrate ripping of music into AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless?
Does it offer unbridled speed burning of Audio CDs?
Does it offer unbridled speed burning of MP3 CDs?
Does it offer complete integration with the music store?
Does it offer rendezvous library sharing?
Does it offer smart playlists?
Does it offer built in capability to back up your library to DVD or CDR with one click?
Does it offer an interface as easy to use, and as elegant as iTunes?
Just want to say how much my stomach lurched when reading this on the front page.
I love OS X, it's the only platform for me, it's incredible 'fit and finish' makes it such a nice place to be, and I have been hoping for over a year now for the Aqua OOo to be delivered.
Currently we only really have MS Office on the platform, and some smaller individual app (non-suite) offerings... this is such a disappointment. I have known for a long time that the project was struggling, but I had never imagined it could be cancelled.
I'm really upset I now have to keep using MS Office, but I do offer my extreme thanks to those people who have put work into the project so far... I'm sure they are more upset than me.
This is a budget Mac at $499. If you want a G5 and a faster card - there is a product just for you, called the PowerMac - but you'll have to pay for what you want.
This product is excellently placed and priced, now quit whining.
Apache is already installed on all machines, Tomcat works beautifully (first hand experience on that one) and I think MySQL would work equally as fantastically. in short - go for it.
Apple does the unthinkable - something they have CATAGORICALLY STATED was something they had no interest in, Something that has been asked of them for years, Something that Slashdot users are especially good at complaining about.
They finally release a sub-$500 Mac.
What is the Slashdot response?
"Meh, well it's cheaper but you know... I can get a cheaper box from WalMart so blah blah blah"
The machines that Apple are selling right now are very comparable with PCs of equivalent spec - it's just that they are VERY full featured, so when you compare the basics it looks like it's more expensive on the Mac side without taking into account the added kit like BT, 802.11g etc.
As for $400, man - will the whining never end? If this $500 machine isn't cheap enough for you, then I'm sorry it's very likely that Apple doesn't want you as a customer.
It's funny, one thing I remember from WWDC this year was one of the sessions that attempted to debunk the myths about Apple Enterprise Computing - one big one was "It'll be too difficult to train out users on different software"
The next slide simply showed a class of 4-to-5 year olds sitting on the floor of a classroom learning how to use some new Macs, they all looked like they were having a great time.
The implication was very clear - either your employees are less capable than the average four-year old, or it's going to be a breeze to train them.
More seriously though, the whole training thing is a bit of a myth in itself - Microsoft has made a habit out of taking something they see on the Apple platform (in terms of GUI innovation) and breaking it just enough to make sure it doesn't look like a complete rip-off of the original. The consequence that I have found in training PC users to use OS X, is that they already understand how a feature is supposed to work except that in OS X, it actually WORKS like they expect it to finally.
Tiger does NOT need a 64 meg graphics card. I am running it on this PowerBook with a 32MB card, and I would not be suprised at all to have it run on something even weaker.
A lot of things about the Mac experience is unqquntifiable - that is, I can't draw you a graph based on fact that shows you a heap of things better on the Mac platform. Instead the best anyone can do is explain that, the GUI at least, is just so much better than anything else they've ever used.
That's certainly true for me. It's a mixture of thousands of small things - spring-loaded folders; labels; the application install process (or lack of); the dock (yes I like it); the way windows show you where they are coming from and where they are going with neat effects - this actually helps subconsciously build a better understanding of where your stuff is on screen and where it's gone to; beautiful icons; running a beautiful fullfeatured OS that runs MS Office, Photoshop and more but not being Windows; the way aliases (shortcuts) automatically update; the way searching is faster (there's a reason why the search functionality in Windows is called "Search", and in OS X it's called "Find"); the sheer "fit and finish" that goes into the GUI - NEVER will you have a busy or hung application that displays white contents when you drag something else over it, OS X stores the contents of a GUI app in a different way so that even when the app is hung it can be nicely moved around; the way you can Command-Click on any GUI element such as a scrollbar, and you can use it without forcing it to the front; the way you can close application windows without closing the app; the instant sleep instant wake function; bloody fantastic bluetooth support; seamless integration with Windows networks.
There's so much more, especially the little things, there's nothing bigger:)
And on top of all that it's built on a Unix foundation so, you have great things working out of the box, Apache can be turned on with the ticking of one easy to find check box - and BANG it's serving your "Sites" folder. Not to mention the security.
Unfortunately, the cost of making any drive is still going to have a basic foundation level of cost. So if Toshiba did go back to making 10GB drives (maybe they still do) then it's really not going to be much cheaper than the larger sized ones.
I think that is a Windows thing, the OS X version has no trouble getting out of my way.
I find Windows to be terrible in knowing what I want it to do with windows, for example in OS X, I can click the Photoshop icon in the Dock, and have it start to load, instantly i go back to my browser to continue reading/. while it loads in the background. When PS is ready does it come and bug me? No, it waits, this is an OSX thing though, not a Adobe enhancement.
Plus the ability to interleave windows of different applications is astoundingly useful when following tutorials.
The parent was just (rightly) pointing out the downside that Microsoft has because it supplies a lot of its products on CD, that is, that there are a hell of a lot of old unpatched software out there - as opposed to the traditional OSS method which is that you get everything at source every time you need it.
I certainly don't think the parent was having an unfair dig at Microsoft, just pointing out an interesting difference in the way commercial and free online software distribution has an effect on security.
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The G4 is fine, but that's not the problem, it's the anemic 167Mhz bus which is the bottleneck with the G4s.
It's no longer Command-N for a new folder in Mac OS X - Command-N now opens a new finder window (useful, something I can't figure out how to do on my XP machine via a shortcut).
I totally support your post, but the command for a new folder is now something like Command-Option-N or similar.
MAC == Media Access Control
Mac == abbreviation for Macintosh
iLife4 was NEVER £99GBP with or without VAT.
Amazon.co.uk sold this item at £36.00 (now £32.99). That is without student/teacher discount.
You are a pirating thieving liar - I know how hard the Apple engineers work on the iLife suite, and your attitude has sickened me.
I find the following is a very useful analogy to understand the difference between what we have now, and what software patents will mean:
Right now, any code you or I write is protected by Copyright - noone can steal the code verbatim from us, that's illegal. Books and plays are copywritten in exactly the same way, they're both seen as an act of personal expression/work.
To understand the difference that patents will make, let's look at what would happen if we were able to patent elements of plays instead of software. At the moment, I can write a love play between a man and a woman, and as long as I don't copy anyone elses work verbatim (word for word) I can happily publish my new masterpiece and profit off of it. Surely no problem with this right? Noone is being harmed by my play and I'm not stopping people write any more plays whether they be love themed or not - the theatres will be very happy.
But what if we allow literary patents, which, just like software patents, will take something out of the domain of copyright and into the domain of patenting? Well we have a different story altogether:
I now can't just go ahead and write my love play - noone can, the patent for love plays is held by someone else and he has the right to sue me just for writing a play about love. Now only one man on earth has the ability to write plays about love, and I have to pay him lots of money to be able to publish my particular play.
This is what happens when things are taken out of copyright, and moved into patent law.
Creative's software is not as good as iTunes.
Does it offer unlimited bitrate ripping of music into AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless?
Does it offer unbridled speed burning of Audio CDs?
Does it offer unbridled speed burning of MP3 CDs?
Does it offer complete integration with the music store?
Does it offer rendezvous library sharing?
Does it offer smart playlists?
Does it offer built in capability to back up your library to DVD or CDR with one click?
Does it offer an interface as easy to use, and as elegant as iTunes?
No.
Just want to say how much my stomach lurched when reading this on the front page.
I love OS X, it's the only platform for me, it's incredible 'fit and finish' makes it such a nice place to be, and I have been hoping for over a year now for the Aqua OOo to be delivered.
Currently we only really have MS Office on the platform, and some smaller individual app (non-suite) offerings... this is such a disappointment. I have known for a long time that the project was struggling, but I had never imagined it could be cancelled.
I'm really upset I now have to keep using MS Office, but I do offer my extreme thanks to those people who have put work into the project so far... I'm sure they are more upset than me.
- Nex
... in other news Microsoft unveils next generation Windows operating system... ""Windows XP".
Do you not understand? Is it that tricky?
This is a budget Mac at $499. If you want a G5 and a faster card - there is a product just for you, called the PowerMac - but you'll have to pay for what you want.
This product is excellently placed and priced, now quit whining.
You want to learn Cocoa - not Carbon.
:) )
(You have been away for some time then
Apache is already installed on all machines, Tomcat works beautifully (first hand experience on that one) and I think MySQL would work equally as fantastically. in short - go for it.
Yeah... uh... because it's not like Apache doesn't have twice the market share of IIS already.
AARRARARARGH GOD!!!!!!!!!
I do not believe it.
Apple does the unthinkable - something they have CATAGORICALLY STATED was something they had no interest in, Something that has been asked of them for years, Something that Slashdot users are especially good at complaining about.
They finally release a sub-$500 Mac.
What is the Slashdot response?
"Meh, well it's cheaper but you know... I can get a cheaper box from WalMart so blah blah blah"
Whinypants.
The machines that Apple are selling right now are very comparable with PCs of equivalent spec - it's just that they are VERY full featured, so when you compare the basics it looks like it's more expensive on the Mac side without taking into account the added kit like BT, 802.11g etc.
As for $400, man - will the whining never end? If this $500 machine isn't cheap enough for you, then I'm sorry it's very likely that Apple doesn't want you as a customer.
It's funny, one thing I remember from WWDC this year was one of the sessions that attempted to debunk the myths about Apple Enterprise Computing - one big one was "It'll be too difficult to train out users on different software"
The next slide simply showed a class of 4-to-5 year olds sitting on the floor of a classroom learning how to use some new Macs, they all looked like they were having a great time.
The implication was very clear - either your employees are less capable than the average four-year old, or it's going to be a breeze to train them.
More seriously though, the whole training thing is a bit of a myth in itself - Microsoft has made a habit out of taking something they see on the Apple platform (in terms of GUI innovation) and breaking it just enough to make sure it doesn't look like a complete rip-off of the original. The consequence that I have found in training PC users to use OS X, is that they already understand how a feature is supposed to work except that in OS X, it actually WORKS like they expect it to finally.
You won't want to be running Motion on this hardware unfortunately - to use that for any length of time and keep your sanity, you'll need a G5.
FCP should be usable if you pump up the RAM though.
Tiger does NOT need a 64 meg graphics card. I am running it on this PowerBook with a 32MB card, and I would not be suprised at all to have it run on something even weaker.
A lot of things about the Mac experience is unqquntifiable - that is, I can't draw you a graph based on fact that shows you a heap of things better on the Mac platform. Instead the best anyone can do is explain that, the GUI at least, is just so much better than anything else they've ever used.
:)
:)
That's certainly true for me. It's a mixture of thousands of small things - spring-loaded folders; labels; the application install process (or lack of); the dock (yes I like it); the way windows show you where they are coming from and where they are going with neat effects - this actually helps subconsciously build a better understanding of where your stuff is on screen and where it's gone to; beautiful icons; running a beautiful fullfeatured OS that runs MS Office, Photoshop and more but not being Windows; the way aliases (shortcuts) automatically update; the way searching is faster (there's a reason why the search functionality in Windows is called "Search", and in OS X it's called "Find"); the sheer "fit and finish" that goes into the GUI - NEVER will you have a busy or hung application that displays white contents when you drag something else over it, OS X stores the contents of a GUI app in a different way so that even when the app is hung it can be nicely moved around; the way you can Command-Click on any GUI element such as a scrollbar, and you can use it without forcing it to the front; the way you can close application windows without closing the app; the instant sleep instant wake function; bloody fantastic bluetooth support; seamless integration with Windows networks.
There's so much more, especially the little things, there's nothing bigger
And on top of all that it's built on a Unix foundation so, you have great things working out of the box, Apache can be turned on with the ticking of one easy to find check box - and BANG it's serving your "Sites" folder. Not to mention the security.
Well, just try it, ok
Unfortunately, the cost of making any drive is still going to have a basic foundation level of cost. So if Toshiba did go back to making 10GB drives (maybe they still do) then it's really not going to be much cheaper than the larger sized ones.
Europe (Arianespace) already lifts more commercial payloads into space than all other organisations in the world put together.
Ask yourself "how many 'd's are there in 'advertisement'?"
Now think about how that word should be abbreviated.
I think that is a Windows thing, the OS X version has no trouble getting out of my way.
/. while it loads in the background. When PS is ready does it come and bug me? No, it waits, this is an OSX thing though, not a Adobe enhancement.
I find Windows to be terrible in knowing what I want it to do with windows, for example in OS X, I can click the Photoshop icon in the Dock, and have it start to load, instantly i go back to my browser to continue reading
Plus the ability to interleave windows of different applications is astoundingly useful when following tutorials.
Does anyone know if they plan to run a DICT server on this information?
The parent was just (rightly) pointing out the downside that Microsoft has because it supplies a lot of its products on CD, that is, that there are a hell of a lot of old unpatched software out there - as opposed to the traditional OSS method which is that you get everything at source every time you need it.
I certainly don't think the parent was having an unfair dig at Microsoft, just pointing out an interesting difference in the way commercial and free online software distribution has an effect on security.
didn't work in safari.
It will be real nice when it's finished.