Maybe you should learn to remember what you said 60 minutes ago.
And maybe you should learn to read things in context.
emilymildew wasn't saying they were outrageously expensive, but rather, "that's a good argument to use when someone else says Macs are outrageously expensive."
And this was the good argument:
Same with desktops. Why can't somebody come up with a decent design? And why are the Apple guys able to just get it right? And not just once, but most of their stuff looks really amazing. It's not like there aren't any designers out there...
You were doing so well up until the end. That should be refugee chefs. If you're going to rip on someone for poor spelling, at least have the decency to proof your own post.
Okay, whatever. There are numerous articles debunking this myth, but since you can't be bothered to actually read any of them, I clearly can't change your mind.
Plus, you know Italian, so you're clearly out of my league.
No. It was designed to stop *jamming*. It was not designed to slow down typing.
I'm not arguing that a QWERTY keyboard is good current design; I'm just trying to stop that "QWERTY was designed to slow down typing" myth from propogating any further.
But my very limited understanding of the MP3 format is that it's simply impossible to have no delay between tracks.
Nope. Ever used WinAmp? I remember back in 1998 Nullsoft had a plugin for gapless playback. Worked perfectly.
I don't see why it's so hard to make this happen. Listening to live albums or concept albums on an iPod really sucks due to that short gap between all songs.
In other news, http://www.apple.com/ical/library/ is a pretty sweet page. Just as a mailto: link opens your mail client with the proper info in place, they have webcal:// links that automatically open in iCal. nice.
Sadly, my copy of Mozilla doesn't do this. I click, and it just sits there. I had to copy the link location, choose "Subscribe" in iCal, and paste the location in. Not too painful, but not one-step easy.
Where would one define "webcal" as a protocol, anyway?
Would it kill you people to spend two seconds and do a spell-check before posting? "Babby?"
Whole new OS? I don't think so. It's an upgrade. 10.0 was a whole new OS.
Why is everyone comparing the cost of upgrading OS X to Windows XP? I can't run XP on my Mac (no, VPC doesn't count.) Therefore, even if it's $900 for XP and $129 for OS X, it's still $129 I'm bitching about, not the relative difference between X and XP.
A "Mac developer" without CodeWarrior ($500 vs $450 for Visual Studio on Windows) gets approximately zero work done most days.
Really? Damn, I guess all those applications I created with Project Builder are complete junk then, huh? Might as well re-write 'em with.. shudder.. PowerPlant.
I haven't used CodeWarrior since X 10.0 came out and I haven't regretted it at all. Applescript Studio is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time, and you can't use CW with that.
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emilymildew wasn't saying they were outrageously expensive, but rather, "that's a good argument to use when someone else says Macs are outrageously expensive."
And this was the good argument:
Okay, whatever. There are numerous articles debunking this myth, but since you can't be bothered to actually read any of them, I clearly can't change your mind. Plus, you know Italian, so you're clearly out of my league.
No. It was designed to stop *jamming*. It was not designed to slow down typing. I'm not arguing that a QWERTY keyboard is good current design; I'm just trying to stop that "QWERTY was designed to slow down typing" myth from propogating any further.
Uh, Apple does want their convention in the Big Apple, they just don't want it in Beantown.
I thought nor was only if you had a "neither" at the beginning, not an "either?"
Actually, I think Reagan did it first, with more of a "yuh" sound in there than "ye." As in "nuke-yuh-ler."
And while we're at it ... one of my pet peeves is apostrophes in the wrong place. That first sentence should be:
"There have been lots of cases ..."
Sounds good to me. It's always great when crime rates sour.
What the hell are you smoking? Where does a comment like that even come from?
Sadly, my copy of Mozilla doesn't do this. I click, and it just sits there. I had to copy the link location, choose "Subscribe" in iCal, and paste the location in. Not too painful, but not one-step easy.
Where would one define "webcal" as a protocol, anyway?
(include sarcasm tags as you feel appropriate)
Or maybe no one felt like including the tags? :)
Whole new OS? I don't think so. It's an upgrade. 10.0 was a whole new OS.
Why is everyone comparing the cost of upgrading OS X to Windows XP? I can't run XP on my Mac (no, VPC doesn't count.) Therefore, even if it's $900 for XP and $129 for OS X, it's still $129 I'm bitching about, not the relative difference between X and XP.
Because all hell would break lose with any application that required, say, version 9.0 of the OS. It would see 1.2, and it would fail to launch.
I haven't used CodeWarrior since X 10.0 came out and I haven't regretted it at all. Applescript Studio is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time, and you can't use CW with that.