I agree with you about putting the Applications folder in the dock, but I would go further, by having each hard drive appear in the dock next to the middle line by default(instead of on the desktop by default), and by having removeable media appear in the dock next to that by default.
I would also include users' Documents, Movies, Music and Desktop folders, so users can get to their stuff quickly(I right-click on my Desktop folder in the dock frequently, to quickly see what's on the desktop).
I have a few more suggestions for the dock:
spring-loaded folders in the dock (I hear a rumor that this is in the 10.5 betas)
An option to reorganize [applications][folders][files][trash] and add separators, and put them on different sides of the screen if I want, or not have them pinned together.
hierarchical smart folders in the dock(Right now, you can drag them in, but you can't navigate them as a menu. WTF?)
Reverse the behavior when dragging to or out of the dock. You should have to hold apple to add something or drag something out, versus the way it is now, having to hold apple to prevent it from adding something or from dragging something out. Right now, if you hold apple and drag something out of the dock, it moves it. If you move it out of the dock and then hold only option, you copy it. If you move it out of the dock and then hold apple and option, it makes a shortcut.
This behavior would be more consistent by reversing the behavior.
Control-clicking on a minimized window should bring up an option to Close the damn window, not just open it.
When right-clicking on an app in the dock, the menu should include:
Hide [name of Application]
Hide Others
Show All
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Preferences
Hidden applications should be grayed out by default in the dock, rather than needing the terminal command
No, Apple didn't steal the use of extensions from Microsoft. OS X got extension support from NeXTSTEP. Windows originally did not include support for file extensions longer than three characters, while NeXTSTEP has since it was created in 1989.
OS X inherited NeXTSTEP's support for extensions, and inherited OS 9's file type code and creator code metadata support, so extensions are not necessary. Since OS X supports all three, users can have a default app for any extension and also set a different default app for any specific files.
This means two files, mpegs for instance, with the same extension, might open in different apps if you double-clicked on them. Your system might by default be set to open mpegs in Quicktime, but you might have set a certain.mpg file to open in VLC if you double-click on that file.
but with the new Macs booting Windows... after laying out almost as much as a PC system for a copy of Parallels and Windows XP ($269.98, $10 less than you can pick up a Dimension B110 from Dell).
Windows can run just fine by itself in boot camp. You don't need Parallels at all unless you want to run Windows in virtualization inside of OS X.
And if you already have a non-OEM copy of XP(not everyone, but many people do), you can transfer the license over and pay not a single red cent to run Windows on your Mac.
The new Macs are Core-2-Duo-based machines. The Dell Dimension B110 is a Celeron-D-based machine. Isn't it a bit dishonest to imply that running XP on a Celeron-D-based Dell would be comparable to running XP on a Core-2-Duo-based machine?
And Dell's site says "Desktops starting at $359".
There are big benefits from only needing the space for one computer. You pay less for upgrades, you need less physical space, and since the Mac can read the Windows partitions, you can move files between OS X and Windows much more easily when the partitions are on the same computer.
Having one machine that can run Windows and one that can run Mac OS X is not nearly the same as having one machine that can do both.
Case in point.. College age. What do they use a computer for? Does Apple do Kaza, bearshare, e-mule, and Bittorrent? What format are the popular games.
Gnutella, eDonkey, and Bittorrent clients are available for OS X. Within the last few hours, I've run both Limewire and Azureus on OS X.
If you accept the articles claims, and I don't, the perceived lack of games is a better point, but with the new Macs booting Windows, I think that will be less of an issue.
Why would I choose to be an agnostic only in order to just "get along" when the religious say I'm going to hell and the atheists tell me I'm just being indecisive?
I'm agnostic, but I'm also highly-critical in religious arguments. If I see something which I don't believe makes sense, I don't hesitate to point it out. I'm very confrontational.
My philosophy regarding religion isn't "Let's get along." My philosophy is "I haven't heard a single convincing argument yet, so I don't know."
Where I live, the FM stations seem to be spaced in just such a way that there are no dead frequencies. I have the aforementioned Sirius Sportster Replay, and I've tried to put the FM tuner on an empty section of radio. If I don't, I get interference.
Well, there were only two spots for that: the very low end of the radio dial, and **.*. I used the station at the bottom end of the dial until Clear Channel put a station right at that spot, and then I moved to **.*. Soon after that, a very weak Spanish-language station started broadcasting on **.*. In all but one small area of the very geographically-large city where I live, my Sirius radio can overpower the **.* signal in my car enough not to get static. So I stay on **.*.
Sorry, but I paid and continue to pay for my radio, and you can bitch at Clear Channel for not leaving any dead frequencies. If you're going to bitch about people broadcasting on a channel, you should make sure that there's some dead space available on the dial to begin with.
90% of installers use drag-and-drop installation. Installations for things like drivers, system updates, or third-party system utilities, which put things into ~/Library or/Library come in packages(.pkg) which use Apple's installer program,/Applications/Utilities/Installer.app. It would be possible(easy, actually) to write your own installer, but I've been using OS X since the day OS X came out, and I can't remember running into one.
there is no dependency management on the Mac: you can't tell what packages you need to download, and when you upgrade something, things that depend on it may break, or it may break because its dependencies aren't updated
I'm not sure what you're saying here, but it doesn't seem even close to the way things work.
In OS X, applications are actually folders, but don't appear that way to the user. You can't tell they're folders unless you right-click on an application and choose "Show package contents", which shows you what's inside the folder: the actual executable and that application's dependencies.
Removing one application won't cause another application to break because those other applications' dependencies are inside their respective applications/folders. And you don't need to look up what dependencies a program will need when you are installing, because applications come with their dependencies inside of the application/folder or Installer package. That's why you can drag-and-drop install and uninstall.
I'm not sure if you might be referring to X11 or command-line apps, but there are programs like Fink and DarwinPorts to take care of dependency management and package installation for those.
Many applications do check for updates over the internet. Most applicationss which can update this way have "Check for updates" in the application menu, but a few, like Firefox, which aren't very good at using the correct Mac menus, put "Check for updates" in the Help menu.
While I do like the simplicity of a apt, the update-on-launch way of keeping up-to-date works just fine. If an application is allowed to check for updates on its launch, that will make sure that any applications which you actually use do get updated to the current version. It also makes it easy to stay with an older version of a program if you don't want to update.
The spell-checker is system-wide, and is available to every application whose developer chooses to use it. Only developers who are too lazy to learn how to do things correctly use their own spell-checker. Off the top of my head, I know of two applications that use their own spell-checker: Appleworks, which hasn't received a major update since OS X came out, and Firefox, whose developers have failed to make Firefox a proper Mac application even after three-and-a-half years in development.*
To install an application in Mac OS X, you usually download a.dmg file(disk image), open the disk image, drag the application to the/Applications and eject the disk image. Very few programs use Installer.
To uninstall most applications in Mac OS X, you can just drag the application's icon to the trash.
Some people would point out that some applications also put files in ~/Library or/Library, which is true. If you want to remove these files, you could use a program like CleanApp, which will delete them.
The point is that you obviously can't name any Senators from other states whose elections had voting regularities because those things aren't covered much in the national media, regardless of the party accused.
You just wanted to say that the media was biased for reporting voting irregularities where Republicans were put into office and not where Democrats were. I was pointing out the reality that Presidential elections are more widely covered than Senatorial elections, and not because of "the liberal media".
No, you hear less about it because they were statewide elections and not a federal one, and didn't have much impact on those of us in other states.
The media is not choosing to ignore Washington's statewide elections, and especially not to make Democrats look good; Washington's statewide elections just aren't as relevant nationally.
Or you can boot from the install CD and just reset the password from there. Or boot from another OS X drive and change things from there. Or open the machine and do any of several different things.
If you can boot into single user mode, the machine is toast anyway. The best thing to do is to install Open Firmware Password to keep people from booting into single user mode or booting from another drive without the admin password, and then physically lock the machine so someone can't open it.
I migrated from my own 1999 G3 to a 2004 G5 using the Apple Migration Assistant, and it copied everything over very easily.
I have even just moved hard drives from G3 machines directly to G4 machines and worked like nothing happened.
It's very easy to upgrade Macs. They use the same RAM, hard drives, optical drives and expansion cards as Windows-based systems, and have for many years now.
As for a fairly-major hardware upgrade, I've replaced every single part in a Mac case before with an upgraded part. That includes the power supply, which I upgraded to a higher-capacity ATX power supply by switching one cable.
When you start a Mac without any existing users(like a new machine or one which you've just installed OS X on), OS X Migration Assistant automatically launches and asks you if you want to transfer things from another computer.
At that point, you can select any drive in the system you're on or in a connected computer and OS X will give you a checkbox list of things you can copy over, including system settings, personal settings, files, or even volumes.
If the machine you're running already has users, and you just want to copy users or settings from another machine, you can launch/Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app, and it will go through the same process.
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How about cable and satellite DVR devices?
The question isn't "Why is he trying?"
The question is "Why is he being allowed to succeed?"
It also prioritizes those with higher share ratios.
I agree with you about putting the Applications folder in the dock, but I would go further, by having each hard drive appear in the dock next to the middle line by default(instead of on the desktop by default), and by having removeable media appear in the dock next to that by default.
I would also include users' Documents, Movies, Music and Desktop folders, so users can get to their stuff quickly(I right-click on my Desktop folder in the dock frequently, to quickly see what's on the desktop).
I have a few more suggestions for the dock:
This behavior would be more consistent by reversing the behavior.
What? You don't realize that F2 to let you rename a selected file is easier to remember than hitting enter?
No, Apple didn't steal the use of extensions from Microsoft. OS X got extension support from NeXTSTEP. Windows originally did not include support for file extensions longer than three characters, while NeXTSTEP has since it was created in 1989.
OS X inherited NeXTSTEP's support for extensions, and inherited OS 9's file type code and creator code metadata support, so extensions are not necessary. Since OS X supports all three, users can have a default app for any extension and also set a different default app for any specific files.
This means two files, mpegs for instance, with the same extension, might open in different apps if you double-clicked on them. Your system might by default be set to open mpegs in Quicktime, but you might have set a certain .mpg file to open in VLC if you double-click on that file.
And if you already have a non-OEM copy of XP(not everyone, but many people do), you can transfer the license over and pay not a single red cent to run Windows on your Mac.
And Dell's site says "Desktops starting at $359".
Having one machine that can run Windows and one that can run Mac OS X is not nearly the same as having one machine that can do both.
Case in point.. College age. What do they use a computer for? Does Apple do Kaza, bearshare, e-mule, and Bittorrent? What format are the popular games.
Gnutella, eDonkey, and Bittorrent clients are available for OS X. Within the last few hours, I've run both Limewire and Azureus on OS X.
If you accept the articles claims, and I don't, the perceived lack of games is a better point, but with the new Macs booting Windows, I think that will be less of an issue.
Why would I choose to be an agnostic only in order to just "get along" when the religious say I'm going to hell and the atheists tell me I'm just being indecisive?
I'm agnostic, but I'm also highly-critical in religious arguments. If I see something which I don't believe makes sense, I don't hesitate to point it out. I'm very confrontational.
My philosophy regarding religion isn't "Let's get along." My philosophy is "I haven't heard a single convincing argument yet, so I don't know."
Virus Inoculates Humans?
Apple has six percent of the market. Rather than thousands of people using Macs, I believe that there are millions of people using Macs.
Where I live, the FM stations seem to be spaced in just such a way that there are no dead frequencies. I have the aforementioned Sirius Sportster Replay, and I've tried to put the FM tuner on an empty section of radio. If I don't, I get interference. Well, there were only two spots for that: the very low end of the radio dial, and **.*. I used the station at the bottom end of the dial until Clear Channel put a station right at that spot, and then I moved to **.*. Soon after that, a very weak Spanish-language station started broadcasting on **.*. In all but one small area of the very geographically-large city where I live, my Sirius radio can overpower the **.* signal in my car enough not to get static. So I stay on **.*. Sorry, but I paid and continue to pay for my radio, and you can bitch at Clear Channel for not leaving any dead frequencies. If you're going to bitch about people broadcasting on a channel, you should make sure that there's some dead space available on the dial to begin with.
There are already YouTube downloader-converters and standalone .flv converters for the iPod.
Windows users can already paste a url into iTube, and it will download YouTube's .flv files, convert them to .mp4 format, and add them to iTunes, which will then sync those movies to your iPod.
Mac users can already paste a url into PodTube, and it will download YouTube's .flv files, convert them to .mp4 format, and add them to iTunes, which will then sync those movies to your iPod.
SUPER is another Windows program that converts .flv files to .mp4 for iPod.
iSquint is another Mac program that converts .flv files to .mp4 for iPod.
Every one of the programs I mentioned are freeware.
In OS X, applications are actually folders, but don't appear that way to the user. You can't tell they're folders unless you right-click on an application and choose "Show package contents", which shows you what's inside the folder: the actual executable and that application's dependencies.
Removing one application won't cause another application to break because those other applications' dependencies are inside their respective applications/folders. And you don't need to look up what dependencies a program will need when you are installing, because applications come with their dependencies inside of the application/folder or Installer package. That's why you can drag-and-drop install and uninstall.
I'm not sure if you might be referring to X11 or command-line apps, but there are programs like Fink and DarwinPorts to take care of dependency management and package installation for those.
While I do like the simplicity of a apt, the update-on-launch way of keeping up-to-date works just fine. If an application is allowed to check for updates on its launch, that will make sure that any applications which you actually use do get updated to the current version. It also makes it easy to stay with an older version of a program if you don't want to update.
*Firefox is my main browser.
To install an application in Mac OS X, you usually download a .dmg file(disk image), open the disk image, drag the application to the /Applications and eject the disk image. Very few programs use Installer.
To uninstall most applications in Mac OS X, you can just drag the application's icon to the trash.
Some people would point out that some applications also put files in ~/Library or /Library, which is true. If you want to remove these files, you could use a program like CleanApp, which will delete them.
The point is that you obviously can't name any Senators from other states whose elections had voting regularities because those things aren't covered much in the national media, regardless of the party accused.
You just wanted to say that the media was biased for reporting voting irregularities where Republicans were put into office and not where Democrats were. I was pointing out the reality that Presidential elections are more widely covered than Senatorial elections, and not because of "the liberal media".
Among both Democrats and Republicans, how many Senators from other states can you name whose elections have had widely-reported voting irregularities?
No, you hear less about it because they were statewide elections and not a federal one, and didn't have much impact on those of us in other states.
The media is not choosing to ignore Washington's statewide elections, and especially not to make Democrats look good; Washington's statewide elections just aren't as relevant nationally.
Or you can boot from the install CD and just reset the password from there. Or boot from another OS X drive and change things from there. Or open the machine and do any of several different things.
If you can boot into single user mode, the machine is toast anyway. The best thing to do is to install Open Firmware Password to keep people from booting into single user mode or booting from another drive without the admin password, and then physically lock the machine so someone can't open it.
Didn't this site predict Kerry would win in 2004?
I migrated from my own 1999 G3 to a 2004 G5 using the Apple Migration Assistant, and it copied everything over very easily.
I have even just moved hard drives from G3 machines directly to G4 machines and worked like nothing happened.
It's very easy to upgrade Macs. They use the same RAM, hard drives, optical drives and expansion cards as Windows-based systems, and have for many years now.
As for a fairly-major hardware upgrade, I've replaced every single part in a Mac case before with an upgraded part. That includes the power supply, which I upgraded to a higher-capacity ATX power supply by switching one cable.
When you start a Mac without any existing users(like a new machine or one which you've just installed OS X on), OS X Migration Assistant automatically launches and asks you if you want to transfer things from another computer.
/Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app, and it will go through the same process.
At that point, you can select any drive in the system you're on or in a connected computer and OS X will give you a checkbox list of things you can copy over, including system settings, personal settings, files, or even volumes.
If the machine you're running already has users, and you just want to copy users or settings from another machine, you can launch
The point is that you don't lose access to the apps you already have from your old Windows machine.
Parallels was introduced as a carrot to lure more switchers, and not as something for old Mac users to run Windows.
Maybe non-Mac users see it that way, but even in that case, the G4 iMac was would be a fourth-generation iMac.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the G4 iMac was something like the fifth-generation of iMacs, although the article called them the second generation.