There's a difference between "dumbing down" an OS, and giving an OS and applications consistent and easy-to-use interfaces. Apple makes things easy by giving programs similar interfaces and similar menu structures.
Microsoft's interfaces are much more Fisher-Price than Apple's. Unfortunately, Fisher-Price doesn't mean simpler to understand.
The area where OS X really excels is the GUI. Apple/NeXT's operating systems and the programs that run on them tend to have more consistent, simpler graphical interfaces.
-and you should know that not one word of what you said about Apple or Yahoo was correct.
Yahoo made $205 million net profit for q1 2005, and "excluding the fees that Yahoo pays to its advertising partners, revenues grew to $821m, up from $550m a year earlier."
Apple made $295 million net profit for q1 2005, and "saw sales of $3.49bn, compared to $2bn a year ago, a 75% increase," "the highest quarterly figures in its history and ahead of Wall Street expectations."
Based on that, I'd say Apple is much more profitable, has more market capitalization, and is in much more solid financial standing than Yahoo, but then again what do I know? I'm just quoting facts.
-except that you don't remove widgets through Dashboard; you remove them by dragging the.wdgt file out of the ~/Library/Widgets folder, or by moving them using the command line.
I have had some real issues with iTunes 4.x losing files. I spend a few weeks renaming all of my misnamed song filenames, and iTunes lost track of several of them. It really doesn't seem to like when you rename files.
I could swear iTunes didn't used to use hard links in previous versions.
I couldn't have put it better myself. Some images look like text documents. Some websites look like text documents. Some websites look like images. If icons are just previews, it will be hard to tell them apart. It's a good thing to be able to quickly distinguish "This application created this file, and this application created that file."
Microsoft seems to be taking a step backward here.
Blu-Ray seems to have more support from the companies that matter right now: Sony is using Blu-Ray in the next Playstation, and blu-ray.com lists many the companies in the Blu-Ray Consortium as "Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson", which points to Blu-Ray's support in the PC industry. And with Sony's support in the gaming industry, and Dell, HP, Sony, Apple and others' support in the PC industry, I think people will be more likely to have a BD-ROM(Blu-Ray) in their house.
Also, contrary to what you may have heard, Blu-Ray discs will not require a cartridge. Blu-Ray discs should be more scratch-resistant than even current CDs and DVDs.
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Microsoft's interfaces are much more Fisher-Price than Apple's. Unfortunately, Fisher-Price doesn't mean simpler to understand.
What better motivation to get a blackberry?
The area where OS X really excels is the GUI. Apple/NeXT's operating systems and the programs that run on them tend to have more consistent, simpler graphical interfaces.
The apple, option(alt) and control keys are used quite a bit in situations where a Windows user would be right-clicking.
I use the keyboard much more frequently when using a Mac than I do with Windows.
Isn't that the WIPO's goal?
"The thing that finally kills Microsoft"
Last time I checked, Firefox works in Windows 2000.
OS X is based on NeXTSTEP, an operating system created in 1985 by NeXT, the company which Apple bought in 1996.
I'd mod you up if I had any points today.
I agree with that. Isohunt, in particular, seems to be giving me much better results than this new bittorrent.com search.
That's not what he said on this week's TWIT.
Yahoo made $205 million net profit for q1 2005, and "excluding the fees that Yahoo pays to its advertising partners, revenues grew to $821m, up from $550m a year earlier."
Apple made $295 million net profit for q1 2005, and "saw sales of $3.49bn, compared to $2bn a year ago, a 75% increase," "the highest quarterly figures in its history and ahead of Wall Street expectations."
Apple is also a debt-free company, and has been since last year.Based on that, I'd say Apple is much more profitable, has more market capitalization, and is in much more solid financial standing than Yahoo, but then again what do I know? I'm just quoting facts.
-except that you don't remove widgets through Dashboard; you remove them by dragging the .wdgt file out of the ~/Library/Widgets folder, or by moving them using the command line.
And if there is, please, show us. I'm interested.
Monopolies aren't inherently evil. Monopolies that use their position to hurt consumers are evil, but I don't know of Google doing that.
Yeah, but imagine trying to explain that feature to your employer.
or as I like to call it, Tuesday.
They all are.
Yes, Kevin Rose was a late addition to TSS, but he wasn't a bad addition to the show. He seems to know his stuff.
I could swear iTunes didn't used to use hard links in previous versions.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items /Users/Shared/Music"
do shell script "chmod -R go+rw
end adding folder items to
Now any file you put in that folder will have read/write permissions for everyone.
You can create another script that does the same thing for a shared Pictures folder.
Microsoft seems to be taking a step backward here.
Also, contrary to what you may have heard, Blu-Ray discs will not require a cartridge. Blu-Ray discs should be more scratch-resistant than even current CDs and DVDs.
And about capacity: HD-DVD can only hold 30GB(15GB per layer), but Blu-Ray can hold 54GB(27GB per layer). In the future, Blu-Ray discs could even hold up to 200GB.
Go Blu-Ray!
"Adult film producer"