Dragging to the dock creates an alias (shortcut for you Windows users). Dragging away from the dock simply d-letes the alias
Isn't OSX supposed to be "so easy, even my grandmother can use it"? My grandmother doesn't like it when she tries to drag a document icon to the desktop and it goes POOF. Alias or not, this is as stupid as removable media to the trash to eject it.
The best feature about the dock, is the ability to drag a file to an application that sits in the dock. Even if the app is not currently running, the drag and drop action will load the app and the file that was dropped on top of it.
DragThing lets you do this as well.. and it's a better solution than the Dock by a long shot.
I think most of the problem is centered around "But the Dock is stupid because OS 9 did this instead.
No, the dock is stupid because it combines the Applications menu with the running processes menu. The only way to differentiate between apps that are running and apps that aren't is a tiny little black triangle. It makes switching between apps a pain in the ass because you have to sort through a bunch of apps that AREN'T running. It just leads to clutter and confusion.
I use DragThing simply because I can have a process list at the bottom (which works sanely, alt-clicking on an icon hides all other apps and shows the app you clicked on.. something the Dock should have done), and a nice categorized app launcher at the top.
The only way to categorize your dock is to make folders which then don't open like menus unless you click and hold... which is retarded.
I have yet to see someone use the dock proficiently. There's a lot of hunting trying to locate the app they wish to switch to.
It continues on to only 15.00 kodak batteries will charge in the base station.
All Kodak Easy Share cameras come with NiMH batteries.
Had I known that they were doing "series based" peripherals for the digital camera - I would NOT have gone with Kodak.
The 4000 series accessories (Printer Dock, Base Station, etc) work with all 3000 and 4000 series cameras. That's like 20 cameras right there.
Then Kodak changed with the 6000 series.
Serves you right for not even looking at the peripherals when you bought your camera. I bet you complain about having to buy all new ink cartridges when you get a different model printer.
If you like RPGs, there's only one platform you should be playing on.. the gameboy advance. More RPGs than you can shake a stick at.. and I can shake my share of sticks.
If only there was a way for the computer to read the audio data on the cd. Then they wouldn't have to include both the audio data and the wmas for computer users.
Then if the user wanted WMAs, he could somehow "rip" this audio data into any format he wanted.
Um, isn't MS currently prevented from exclusionary licensing? Meaning they have to license WMA for the same price to everyone (excepting things like Bulk discounts).
Plus, say what you will, AAC is much more expensive than WMA. MPEG4 licensing is obscene.
If you buy Mac OS X and don't want iTunes, simple. Drag the iTunes app to the trash and it is gone. No registry mess, just a clean simple removal. Try that with Internet Explorer. I'm betting you can't.
A corporate web designer's job SHOULD be to make the web site look nice and make it easily navigable. Code is not the first priority. Why pay for a code monkey AND a web monkey if you only need very basic code with a nice layout?
I don't know of any corporate web site that doesn't require programming.
If a site is important and complex enough to require a web designer, it will also require a web programmer.
. Jobs stated in the last conference call (look it up at apple.com), there is no need to work with #2 when they are #1.
Wow, did he really say this? I wouldn't be suprised to see Entourage and Office disappear from the mac platform after statements like that. Talk about reckless words.
Nero encodes to AAC, Real encodes to AAC and plays it, and there are a number of flash players I have read about over the last few weeks that are supporting AAC.
Real encodes to AAC that only works under Real.. won't work on your ipod.
The word "nu" (depending on the nuance) in Mandarin Chinese (ie: that spoken in Mainland China and Taiwan, ROC) is "woman" (or, more generally, Female).
Cool, it also means "naked" in french, and "now" in swedish.
Possibly because you can already play.ogg files in iTunes if you have the appropriate QT plug-in installed, as I've been doing for about a year and a half?
But you can't stream them from a website.. make an m3u, but a url to an ogg.. itunes will just sit there, confused.
Kind of sucks since I use Zina (http://zina.sf.net) to organize all my music (way better than any mp3 player I've used)
If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.
Yes, but most people can get on the net. According to omniture's SiteCatalyst (aka SuperStats) only 39% of web users connect with a modem, 60% use broadband.
(for our own site, it's even more dramatic, only 26% use a modem, 71% use broadband)
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Dragging to the dock creates an alias (shortcut for you Windows users). Dragging away from the dock simply d-letes the alias
Isn't OSX supposed to be "so easy, even my grandmother can use it"? My grandmother doesn't like it when she tries to drag a document icon to the desktop and it goes POOF. Alias or not, this is as stupid as removable media to the trash to eject it.
The best feature about the dock, is the ability to drag a file to an application that sits in the dock. Even if the app is not currently running, the drag and drop action will load the app and the file that was dropped on top of it.
DragThing lets you do this as well.. and it's a better solution than the Dock by a long shot.
I think most of the problem is centered around "But the Dock is stupid because OS 9 did this instead.
No, the dock is stupid because it combines the Applications menu with the running processes menu. The only way to differentiate between apps that are running and apps that aren't is a tiny little black triangle. It makes switching between apps a pain in the ass because you have to sort through a bunch of apps that AREN'T running. It just leads to clutter and confusion.
I use DragThing simply because I can have a process list at the bottom (which works sanely, alt-clicking on an icon hides all other apps and shows the app you clicked on.. something the Dock should have done), and a nice categorized app launcher at the top.
The only way to categorize your dock is to make folders which then don't open like menus unless you click and hold... which is retarded.
I have yet to see someone use the dock proficiently. There's a lot of hunting trying to locate the app they wish to switch to.
Film has always had molecular-scale resolution - kind of an innate property of film, itself
Actually, Film is limited by the grain of the film, which is at a higher level than the molecular scale.
That says nothing at all of what a professional can do in either form factor.
Yup, just take a look at those photos of Mars that we were all ooohing and aahing over.. those were digital photos taken by a professional.
It continues on to only 15.00 kodak batteries will charge in the base station.
All Kodak Easy Share cameras come with NiMH batteries.
Had I known that they were doing "series based" peripherals for the digital camera - I would NOT have gone with Kodak.
The 4000 series accessories (Printer Dock, Base Station, etc) work with all 3000 and 4000 series cameras. That's like 20 cameras right there.
Then Kodak changed with the 6000 series.
Serves you right for not even looking at the peripherals when you bought your camera. I bet you complain about having to buy all new ink cartridges when you get a different model printer.
If you like RPGs, there's only one platform you should be playing on.. the gameboy advance. More RPGs than you can shake a stick at.. and I can shake my share of sticks.
No, it's obvious from how the controls work in the PC version that it's an console RPG that was ported to the PC.
If only there was a way for the computer to read the audio data on the cd. Then they wouldn't have to include both the audio data and the wmas for computer users.
Then if the user wanted WMAs, he could somehow "rip" this audio data into any format he wanted.
Too bad this technology eludes us.
Microsoft is their enemy, so why support one of their closed formats?
Makes you wonder why MS bothers with Mac Office.
AAC, meanwhile, is equal for everybody.
Um, isn't MS currently prevented from exclusionary licensing? Meaning they have to license WMA for the same price to everyone (excepting things like Bulk discounts).
Plus, say what you will, AAC is much more expensive than WMA. MPEG4 licensing is obscene.
There are no digital watch family heirlooms.
Yeah, I wonder why my great grandmother didn't pass on the family's digital watch.
Yeah, because it'd be a lot of fun having to show up at work at different hours each day.
Let's see... today I show up at 10:32, tomorrow it's 43:16
There is at most one player that plays iTunes music: iPod.
What's funny is people keep listing the mini iPod and the HP iPod as examples of how many players support AAC.
I'm suprised they don't list the 10, 15, 20 gig iPods separately.
If you buy Mac OS X and don't want iTunes, simple. Drag the iTunes app to the trash and it is gone. No registry mess, just a clean simple removal. Try that with Internet Explorer. I'm betting you can't.
Try it with QuickTime.
No different from what some of the people in this thread are saying about AAC.
"You can play AACs in any player you want, as long as it's one made by Apple"
guess Dell and friends just don't want the "industry standard" to turn out to be MPEG-4/AAC.
Add me to that list then.. I don't think an industry standard should be any format that requires insane royalties.
Plus AAC is the only audio format out there that doesn't work on Linux.
KISS claims to be able to play some files that mplayer can't play without MS's DLLs.. so is KISS also violating MS's IP by distributing MS's DLLs?
Maybe mplayer doesn't have the resources to smack KISS, but MS does.
A corporate web designer's job SHOULD be to make the web site look nice and make it easily navigable. Code is not the first priority. Why pay for a code monkey AND a web monkey if you only need very basic code with a nice layout?
I don't know of any corporate web site that doesn't require programming.
If a site is important and complex enough to require a web designer, it will also require a web programmer.
The first sign that I see of Novell trying to pull a Redhat Fedora on us SuSE users I'm going to switch to Debian for good.
Why don't you just switch to debian now and quit your bitching.
Entire classes of addresses are reserved for things we don't REALLY use like multicast and so on.
Oh really? I thought all slashdot readers used Apple's Rendezvous.
. Jobs stated in the last conference call (look it up at apple.com), there is no need to work with #2 when they are #1.
Wow, did he really say this? I wouldn't be suprised to see Entourage and Office disappear from the mac platform after statements like that. Talk about reckless words.
Nero encodes to AAC, Real encodes to AAC and plays it, and there are a number of flash players I have read about over the last few weeks that are supporting AAC.
Real encodes to AAC that only works under Real.. won't work on your ipod.
The word "nu" (depending on the nuance) in Mandarin Chinese (ie: that spoken in Mainland China and Taiwan, ROC) is "woman" (or, more generally, Female).
Cool, it also means "naked" in french, and "now" in swedish.
Nu = naked woman, now!
Possibly because you can already play .ogg files in iTunes if you have the appropriate QT plug-in installed, as I've been doing for about a year and a half?
But you can't stream them from a website.. make an m3u, but a url to an ogg.. itunes will just sit there, confused.
Kind of sucks since I use Zina (http://zina.sf.net) to organize all my music (way better than any mp3 player I've used)
If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.
Yes, but most people can get on the net. According to omniture's SiteCatalyst (aka SuperStats) only 39% of web users connect with a modem, 60% use broadband.
(for our own site, it's even more dramatic, only 26% use a modem, 71% use broadband)