On the very first powerbooks, there were two buttons - one above the trackball and one below the trackball. In those days, the two buttons actually did the same thing. However, I could imagine having the second mouse button be above the trackpad which wouldn't be too bad.
On the other hand, how often do you really use the right click? I hardly ever use it and I think it is a sign of poor UI design when you need to use it.
I believe there are a few things in the Finder context menus that you can't do from the pull down menus. For example, I'm seeing an item called "Slide Show" which I think must be put there by iPhoto, and then I also see some Automator related items, and some Norton Anit-Virus related items. But for the most part, you can access things from the pull down menus which, if the item has a hot key, I prefer to use instead of using right click.
The reason Apple has been a historic "also ran" has NOTHING to do with the fact they didn't license their hardware design to cloners vs. the PC platform that did. It has to do with the fact that Apple was run by bozo the fucking clown for several very critical years.
I agree with you. I used to live in what you might call a "2 horse" town (just slightly bigger). The local grocery stores were all owned by a very wealthy family who were all jerks and the prices they charged were unreasonably high. The local hardware store would tell you that if they didn't have it, you didn't need it.
Today they have a Wal Mart and a Home Depot. It doesn't meet all of the needs, but groceries are cheaper and supplies are available for most home improvement projects.
The formerly wealthy family now has only one store - they had to close the other six. The one store they still have is a small one in a part of town where mostly really old and/or poor people live who can't drive to Wal-Mart.
Then you recollect incorrectly. The proprietary BIOS wasn't enough to keep the crooks out. IBM would have known that if they had bothered to do any due diligence on their design. Instead, they let a small group have "free reign" to do whatever they wanted. Which was a good move in the sense that they got a product to market, but a bad move in that they were not able to establish a sustainable business for themselves.
If you look at how the IBM PC affected IBM, it basically caused them to have to lay off a third of their workers. They should have owned that market. Instead, they were so afraid of Apple that they lost all common sense and made a stupid mistake.
If you are IBM, what does it matter that your product became the basis for all PCs when the result to your bottom line is a fucking disaster.
Yet idiots like you keep claiming that Apple is somehow stupid for not making the same idiotic mistake that IBM made. (Actually they did make that mistake - when they tried to clone the Mac. And it had predictable results.) Historically, cloning does not help the company that developed the architecture.
If that is what you are referring to, then it is pretty stupid to say that Apple is "following IBMs model" with a line of computers they introduced 3 years before the model.
Sometime check into the sophisticated things Apple did with the original Mac to prevent someone else from doing a clone of it. IBM certainly did not intend that the PC should be cloned. That happened because of plain sloppyness on IBM's part. For one thing, Apple had already had the problem of another company (Franklin) trying to clone the Apple II. So, the concept of cloning a hardware platform was out there in the open already.
No developer is going to expect a large number of users to run their program in that method.
A middle manager might decide to make this kind of decision, especially if Apple were to add some kind of WINE-like emulation layer to make Win32 apps run on the Mac.
You can't come up with a better example of a record store than Best Buy? Best Buy?
First of all, Best Buy sells records and refrigerators. Second, they often advertise things incorrectly in their circular, then have their customers arrested if they try to buy the product.
They have a tiny record section. It's like calling a truck stop a "record store" because they sell 8 tracks of "Convoy".
Then you would be wrong. Paul McCartney is a billionaire. He is the only rock star who is a billionaire. The reason seems to have been savings and wise investment of his original fortune. Type "Paul McCartney net worth" into Google and you will find several articles about this.
You are correct in that Ringo is not a billionaire.
Nobody has been tortured to death recently in Iraq.
Note that you didn't qualify this in any way. You didn't say for example "by the US Army". So, I can say you are wrong merely by pointing out the people who have been beheaded.
Um. There was a whole generation before Mario who grew up on Pong, Space Invadors, Asteriods, etc. To us, we think of the character from Donkey Kong as being called "jumpman" which was his name before they named him "mario".
OK. Please explain why you would want to downgrade your system's RAM?
I'm making the case that Apple should just max out all the ram in all their computers by default. They could probably get a really good price since they would be buying in bulk. It would just make everyone's life easier.
I have had a similar experience. Once I called 911 because I had lost my TV Guide and I needed to know when Seinfeld was on. They were totally rude and unhelpful.
When I was scrolling this page, I saw the title of your post and thought you were referring the E.T. video game by Atari. So, I stopped to read your post figuring it was probably a joke.
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On the very first powerbooks, there were two buttons - one above the trackball and one below the trackball. In those days, the two buttons actually did the same thing. However, I could imagine having the second mouse button be above the trackpad which wouldn't be too bad.
On the other hand, how often do you really use the right click? I hardly ever use it and I think it is a sign of poor UI design when you need to use it.
I believe there are a few things in the Finder context menus that you can't do from the pull down menus. For example, I'm seeing an item called "Slide Show" which I think must be put there by iPhoto, and then I also see some Automator related items, and some Norton Anit-Virus related items. But for the most part, you can access things from the pull down menus which, if the item has a hot key, I prefer to use instead of using right click.
I think they added a suicide template in iEndOfLife.
Does they still require BOTH boxtops to become a canadian citizen?
An actual real lawn mower dealer WILL help you with that. And guess what - they are also in the retail business.
The reason Apple has been a historic "also ran" has NOTHING to do with the fact they didn't license their hardware design to cloners vs. the PC platform that did. It has to do with the fact that Apple was run by bozo the fucking clown for several very critical years.
In Oregon, we like our Target stores clean and our hippies dirty.
I agree with you. I used to live in what you might call a "2 horse" town (just slightly bigger). The local grocery stores were all owned by a very wealthy family who were all jerks and the prices they charged were unreasonably high. The local hardware store would tell you that if they didn't have it, you didn't need it.
Today they have a Wal Mart and a Home Depot. It doesn't meet all of the needs, but groceries are cheaper and supplies are available for most home improvement projects.
The formerly wealthy family now has only one store - they had to close the other six. The one store they still have is a small one in a part of town where mostly really old and/or poor people live who can't drive to Wal-Mart.
Then you recollect incorrectly. The proprietary BIOS wasn't enough to keep the crooks out. IBM would have known that if they had bothered to do any due diligence on their design. Instead, they let a small group have "free reign" to do whatever they wanted. Which was a good move in the sense that they got a product to market, but a bad move in that they were not able to establish a sustainable business for themselves.
If you look at how the IBM PC affected IBM, it basically caused them to have to lay off a third of their workers. They should have owned that market. Instead, they were so afraid of Apple that they lost all common sense and made a stupid mistake.
If you are IBM, what does it matter that your product became the basis for all PCs when the result to your bottom line is a fucking disaster.
Yet idiots like you keep claiming that Apple is somehow stupid for not making the same idiotic mistake that IBM made. (Actually they did make that mistake - when they tried to clone the Mac. And it had predictable results.) Historically, cloning does not help the company that developed the architecture.
If that is what you are referring to, then it is pretty stupid to say that Apple is "following IBMs model" with a line of computers they introduced 3 years before the model.
Sometime check into the sophisticated things Apple did with the original Mac to prevent someone else from doing a clone of it. IBM certainly did not intend that the PC should be cloned. That happened because of plain sloppyness on IBM's part. For one thing, Apple had already had the problem of another company (Franklin) trying to clone the Apple II. So, the concept of cloning a hardware platform was out there in the open already.
No developer is going to expect a large number of users to run their program in that method.
A middle manager might decide to make this kind of decision, especially if Apple were to add some kind of WINE-like emulation layer to make Win32 apps run on the Mac.
And these are also typically the firms that have idiotic policies and the reason why they have them dates back to some political thing years ago.
This is why I'm at my third software startup.
there is a graphical version of otool that is perhaps a bit easier to use. It is called "TimmyOTool" and is located here.
"kill -KILL pid" should work.
You watch too much star wars.
You can't come up with a better example of a record store than Best Buy? Best Buy?
First of all, Best Buy sells records and refrigerators. Second, they often advertise things incorrectly in their circular, then have their customers arrested if they try to buy the product.
They have a tiny record section. It's like calling a truck stop a "record store" because they sell 8 tracks of "Convoy".
Ballmer's song was "Developers, Developers, Developers!"
I seriously doubt that McCartney is a billionaire
Then you would be wrong. Paul McCartney is a billionaire. He is the only rock star who is a billionaire. The reason seems to have been savings and wise investment of his original fortune. Type "Paul McCartney net worth" into Google and you will find several articles about this.
You are correct in that Ringo is not a billionaire.
If you ask any random 16-24 yr old person on the street the name of the Beatles label you'll probably get a low percentage of correct answers.
Parlophone.
I hereby place a wager of $100 on Mr. Valenti.
Nobody has been tortured to death recently in Iraq.
Note that you didn't qualify this in any way. You didn't say for example "by the US Army". So, I can say you are wrong merely by pointing out the people who have been beheaded.
It's like getting 3 women pregnant so you can have a baby in 3 months.
You need a better analogy - one that the Slashdot audience can relate to.
Um. There was a whole generation before Mario who grew up on Pong, Space Invadors, Asteriods, etc. To us, we think of the character from Donkey Kong as being called "jumpman" which was his name before they named him "mario".
OK. Please explain why you would want to downgrade your system's RAM?
I'm making the case that Apple should just max out all the ram in all their computers by default. They could probably get a really good price since they would be buying in bulk. It would just make everyone's life easier.
I have had a similar experience. Once I called 911 because I had lost my TV Guide and I needed to know when Seinfeld was on. They were totally rude and unhelpful.
When I was scrolling this page, I saw the title of your post and thought you were referring the E.T. video game by Atari. So, I stopped to read your post figuring it was probably a joke.