I refuse to give money to companies that try and make me feel like an idiot.
How about:
"The Well-hung Guy's or Big Titted Girl's Guide to Database Design"?
Or "Database Design for Males with Large Penises and Slim, Large Breasted Females?
I'm a web developer/designer. And I also do graphic design, photography, and mulimedia.
OS X has it all in one, and done well. Sure, you can install Apatche etc on windows, but I've developed something on windows, only to find it not work quite right on a UNIX box (which is where it will end up most 99% of the time). It just makes things easier when you know your developing on the same platform the webapp will run.
And that platform being UNIX, it also has a few nice features that Windows doesn't have (little things like hardlinks etc).
The iTunes is brilliant. I was a hardcore Winamp fan (before Winamp 3 that it). And never liked the look of iTunes...Untill I used it.
Apple seems to be carrying this innivation thoughout all there iApps, hopefully this will continue.
I also find the GUI is better, and much nicer to look at (which it important when you have to see it all day long). Of course, it still has major issues which I won't go into. But Apple seem like a company which will do it's best to imporve the OS. Unlike MS, who seem to just do anything that might bring in more $. In general, their GUI is still much bette thabn anything else around (in terms of usability and looks).
Why not Linux? At the moment, the lack of apps that I use etc (sorry, GIMP is great for a lot of stuff, but it's deffinitly not a replacement for 'power' photoshop users).
There's also GUI, which I won't go into.
...Oh yeah. And Microsoft with their DRM et. al. make me want to jump ship as quick as possable.
Of course the most obvious clue as to the fact that this isn't a big conspiracy, is that it was allowed to be broadcasted on national TV! (International really, I saw it in NZ).
Come on, for crying out-loud. Do any of these nuts honestly believe that if it was a real conspiracy that it would ever make it to mainstream national TV as some cheap entertainment style sci-fi doco?
But given that they all sound the same, it's still possable to make that mistake, even if you are fully aware of the differences. It's just a mistake in a different part of the brain.
I've used 'their' instead of 'there' once on/., and got a big lecture about it. I already know the difference. It was just early in the morning and I wasn't thinking straight.
Does this make me stupid? No, just like making a typo doesn't mean I don't know the layout of a keyboard.
Also, a lot of times grammer errors are overlooked because people are looking so hard for typos.
I think I misslead you (me being a bit unclear). What I meant was. What kinda of person would of guessed to use shitty quality pics in order to make their fake screenshots look real? No one would expect MS to still ship such crappy pics with their OS, after all the money they have spent in other areas to (try and) make it look good.
It's kinda funny really, Everytime I'm reminded that Macs 'Just work' compared to PCs, I'm reminded when my iBook either:
Goes into the 'sleep coma' (from with is doesn't wake up without a re-boot.
Wakes up with none of the sound, screen, eject keys working (a big deal if you turned your screen off, and now can't see to adjust the brightness via the prefs panel).
Rips CD, and due to a bug, encodes all the gaps cause when the CD reader has a bit of reading the track (I have a 5 second delay right in the middle of Shine On You Crazy Diamond).
The entire machine locks up, due to win2k being an ass and dropping the network connection in the middle of a file transfer.
I have a few CDs that don't play well in some CD-ROMs. Sometimes I'm forced to re-boot the machine after puting a CD in (has Apple never head of timeouts?). Ï think I force ejected once. But untill the next re-boot, the CD-ROM was pretty much dead as far as the OS was conserned.
A lof of these problems are well knowen if you go to the applecare forums. None of them have any acceptable fixes. A lot of them are also a year old. Does Apple even care? Probably not.
I've been playing around a bit with my PIM info, to see if I can get it accross to the mac. And I agree, it's deffinitly not easy.
If anyone else is wondering. I think the best plan of attack is to move most of you stuff via PDA.
And move the rest (probaly e-mail mainly), or all of it if you don't have a PDA, via Mozilla.
Mozilla has the ability to import your Outlook database info via connecting to so some part of the OS (Any progam that wants info from the Outlook DB can only do it via this service IIRC).
From there, Mozilla can let you export your info with better options than Outlook. Then you can copy them over and import them into your iApps.
It still a lot of dicking around. I have only tried it once, and by the time I had imported to the iApps, some of the data was lost (Palm's custom fields I think). But it should be possable with a bit mucking about.
Since my main box is a 1.3Ghz AMD, with 512MBs RAM running win2k, and my Mac is a 600Mhz iBook. I won't be moving until I replace my win box with a PowerMac anyway. Hopefully by then, things will be a bit easier.
Actually, it isn't. I have always found the mouse settings on Mac OS (X and classic) to be far too slow. I also can't stand the acceleration at all. First thing I do to a new mac is install some 3rd party mouse software so I can use my mouse without thinking.
If Apple are trying to get people to switch, then you'd think they'd atleast emulate the settings avalible for PCs. Because the range of settings are very different.
The funny thing is, if people see faults in the screenshots, the automaticly assume that it must be a fake, and can't be due to the fact that it's in alpha (an alpha MS product aswell).
If you where to make that many near-perfect screenshots, don't you think you would see all those details because you were wanting to make sure that they didn't look like fakes?
I saw the same thing when the Palm 505 or whatever was leaked....All these 'photoshop experts' agreeing that the images were clearly fake, and provided detailed proof of it.
What was released a few days after? The exact same device in the photo.
If those screenshots looked flawless, that's when I'd be conderned if they were fakes or not.
BTW. I'm not saying that these are real, rather that you can't dissmiss them as being fake by the evidence you gave.
Anyway, the biggest evidence that these are real screenshots is that the background image is of such shitty quality. What kind of person could believe that MS would still give you such a collection of crappy images after all the $ spent of marketing fluff and trying the make the GUI look good?;)
Although IE for win still doesn't support a lot of CSS2. I find it generally less buggy than IE 5 for Mac.
IE for Mac has some major problems in terms of positioning. In one example I had, what was supposed to be a footer at the bottom of each page, was now somewhere above the top of the page, completely invisible.
I can live without support for targeting child elements, but I can't live with bugs that will render pages useless to users.
There is a way to turn it on and off at will via shortcuts (in win200), it works well.
I made the same comlaint a wile back, and someone told me how. Unfortunatly, since/.'s search engine leave much to be desired. I can't find the origonal post on how to do it. Hopefully someone will post it again.
After your inspiring speach about Jabber. You never really tell us exactly what it is, or provide a link for more info. A link wold be nice. We like links.
4. HTML lock in. Your code will forever live in HTML, if you want a different display format (unlikely) you're stuck. ie. what if you want to have a propriatary client instead of html on your plam, you have to rewrite all the logic.
Bad example. If you wanted to do something for a Palm, you should code HTML, and write a browser for the Palm, and serve it a 'handheld' stylesheet.
I also don't see how I'm locked into HTML. Yes, PHP does have a lot of pre-made functions out of the box. But that dosn't mean you have to use them.
I've only ever programmed for the HTML/web, so could you please give me an example of how PHP would be much more work to compared to another language if somebody decided to use something other than HTML?
Also, your code logic should not be affected that much if you're coding proper HTML and using CSS.
Hopefully (from what I've heard), PHP5 will be better suited for OO etc.
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Yes, just like a plug-in is needed to view Verdana, or Times New Roman etc.
How about:
"The Well-hung Guy's or Big Titted Girl's Guide to Database Design"?
Or "Database Design for Males with Large Penises and Slim, Large Breasted Females?
OS X has it all in one, and done well. Sure, you can install Apatche etc on windows, but I've developed something on windows, only to find it not work quite right on a UNIX box (which is where it will end up most 99% of the time). It just makes things easier when you know your developing on the same platform the webapp will run.
And that platform being UNIX, it also has a few nice features that Windows doesn't have (little things like hardlinks etc).
The iTunes is brilliant. I was a hardcore Winamp fan (before Winamp 3 that it). And never liked the look of iTunes...Untill I used it.
Apple seems to be carrying this innivation thoughout all there iApps, hopefully this will continue.
I also find the GUI is better, and much nicer to look at (which it important when you have to see it all day long). Of course, it still has major issues which I won't go into. But Apple seem like a company which will do it's best to imporve the OS. Unlike MS, who seem to just do anything that might bring in more $. In general, their GUI is still much bette thabn anything else around (in terms of usability and looks).
Why not Linux? At the moment, the lack of apps that I use etc (sorry, GIMP is great for a lot of stuff, but it's deffinitly not a replacement for 'power' photoshop users).
There's also GUI, which I won't go into.
Come on, for crying out-loud. Do any of these nuts honestly believe that if it was a real conspiracy that it would ever make it to mainstream national TV as some cheap entertainment style sci-fi doco?
HA! I had that exact same though a few weeks ago!
Well....not quite. I was thinking free beech or free speer. Not sure which one I prefer.
It was then, that I realised I was indeed, a true geek.
But given that they all sound the same, it's still possable to make that mistake, even if you are fully aware of the differences. It's just a mistake in a different part of the brain. /., and got a big lecture about it. I already know the difference. It was just early in the morning and I wasn't thinking straight.
I've used 'their' instead of 'there' once on
Does this make me stupid? No, just like making a typo doesn't mean I don't know the layout of a keyboard.
Also, a lot of times grammer errors are overlooked because people are looking so hard for typos.
I think I misslead you (me being a bit unclear). What I meant was. What kinda of person would of guessed to use shitty quality pics in order to make their fake screenshots look real? No one would expect MS to still ship such crappy pics with their OS, after all the money they have spent in other areas to (try and) make it look good.
I suspect that if they do release it for OS X, it won't be free any longer.
I really need a native OS X solution though. But it's still handy do know I spose. MAy still be of use when exporting etc.
A lof of these problems are well knowen if you go to the applecare forums. None of them have any acceptable fixes. A lot of them are also a year old. Does Apple even care? Probably not.
As the many posts above suggest: If you can install Linux, then you probably don't need or want this software.
Can the iApps import from Outlook for mac? ;)
If so, I might just have to find myself a copy of the Outlook for Mac demo
If anyone else is wondering. I think the best plan of attack is to move most of you stuff via PDA.
And move the rest (probaly e-mail mainly), or all of it if you don't have a PDA, via Mozilla.
Mozilla has the ability to import your Outlook database info via connecting to so some part of the OS (Any progam that wants info from the Outlook DB can only do it via this service IIRC).
From there, Mozilla can let you export your info with better options than Outlook. Then you can copy them over and import them into your iApps.
It still a lot of dicking around. I have only tried it once, and by the time I had imported to the iApps, some of the data was lost (Palm's custom fields I think). But it should be possable with a bit mucking about.
Since my main box is a 1.3Ghz AMD, with 512MBs RAM running win2k, and my Mac is a 600Mhz iBook. I won't be moving until I replace my win box with a PowerMac anyway. Hopefully by then, things will be a bit easier.
If Apple are trying to get people to switch, then you'd think they'd atleast emulate the settings avalible for PCs. Because the range of settings are very different.
Priceless?
You vote for a party. The seats are divided to the percentage that that party got of the total votes.
If you where to make that many near-perfect screenshots, don't you think you would see all those details because you were wanting to make sure that they didn't look like fakes?
I saw the same thing when the Palm 505 or whatever was leaked....All these 'photoshop experts' agreeing that the images were clearly fake, and provided detailed proof of it.
What was released a few days after? The exact same device in the photo.
If those screenshots looked flawless, that's when I'd be conderned if they were fakes or not.
BTW. I'm not saying that these are real, rather that you can't dissmiss them as being fake by the evidence you gave.
Anyway, the biggest evidence that these are real screenshots is that the background image is of such shitty quality. What kind of person could believe that MS would still give you such a collection of crappy images after all the $ spent of marketing fluff and trying the make the GUI look good? ;)
Then why not just cancel their account? Calling in the FBI is just overkill and silly.
It isn't impossible when there is someone inside it.
*WHACK* "Ouch!"
IE for Mac has some major problems in terms of positioning. In one example I had, what was supposed to be a footer at the bottom of each page, was now somewhere above the top of the page, completely invisible.
I can live without support for targeting child elements, but I can't live with bugs that will render pages useless to users.
Chimera
Disable: %windir%\SYSTEM32\regsvr32.exe C:\WinNT\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx /u
Enable: %windir%\SYSTEM32\regsvr32.exe C:\WinNT\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
That's what I have for my shorcuts, you may have to change the path a bit for your box.
There is a way to turn it on and off at will via shortcuts (in win200), it works well.
I made the same comlaint a wile back, and someone told me how. Unfortunatly, since /.'s search engine leave much to be desired. I can't find the origonal post on how to do it. Hopefully someone will post it again.
I've always found lynx seems to take forever to load images. ;)
After your inspiring speach about Jabber. You never really tell us exactly what it is, or provide a link for more info. A link wold be nice. We like links.
Bad example. If you wanted to do something for a Palm, you should code HTML, and write a browser for the Palm, and serve it a 'handheld' stylesheet.
I also don't see how I'm locked into HTML. Yes, PHP does have a lot of pre-made functions out of the box. But that dosn't mean you have to use them.
I've only ever programmed for the HTML/web, so could you please give me an example of how PHP would be much more work to compared to another language if somebody decided to use something other than HTML?
Also, your code logic should not be affected that much if you're coding proper HTML and using CSS.
Hopefully (from what I've heard), PHP5 will be better suited for OO etc.