Yesterday I was having a great time editing my masterpiece "When Trolls attack" on Final Cut Pro, especially after I finally was done tweaking the shots in Photoshop and After Effects.
Later I enjoyed solving another level of Halo while listening to my iTunes collection.
Swap out Final Cut Pro with Premiere and you can do all of that on Windows... thank god for Microsoft?
(Alt+Cmd+Click on Dock Icon minimises all other app's windows for example)
Christ. I was trying to do this yesterday. This is a perfect example of what drives me crazy about OS X sometimes.
Alt-click on a dock icon and it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what the hell the OS is doing. It seems like it's hiding the active application, and then shows the application you clicked on.. unless the icon you clicked on is already active and then it seems to hide that application and open a completely random one. Alt-clicking again will cause windows pop up and disappear immediately.
Cmd-click on a dock icon and it opens the folder the application sits in.. which doesn't seem to be as commonly used as, say, hiding all the other windows.
I'd say that OS X's window management (especially through the dock) is so brain damaged, that they had to invent Expose just to give users a Show Desktop ability.
I agree that hinting too little has been a problem with past versions of OS X, but whatever they added between Jaguar and Panther (I guess Apple prefers to call it "micro-pixel positioning") has done a lot to clean up the color problems that existed before.
This has been the first compelling reason I've heard to upgrade from Jaguar. The fonts in Jaguar look like crap on this powerbook. I really like XP's cleartype, and FreeType's sub-pixel rendering.. they look gorgeous on LCD screens.
If Panther's font rendering has subpixel rendering, I may have to look into upgrading.
Apple has decided that for UI, One Consistent Way is better than a huge amount of configurability.
No, Apple used to say that, now they say "our way(s) are better than your way". OS X is much less consistant than OS9 was.
Some things scale visually, some things don't. Some apps are metal, some aren't. Apple violates the HIG every other day.
Safari is a good example. The original HIG said not to use one widget for more than one thing. Yet the location bar doubles as a progress meter. And that doesn't even count Safari oddities like the fact that scrollbars don't show up on textareas if they have less than 5 rows.. regardless of how much text it contains.
Especially in the area of rapid development, few environments can even begin to work as well, or produce such clean and maintainable results, as Apple's tools for this job.
rapid development is the IT buzzword of the last 5 years. Originally RAD was used for prototyping.. but aparently lazy devs are using it for end-products.
For what people purport to use RAD for, I could develop apps just as quickly, if not quicker, using PHP+GTK.
If I had accesories, i'd make sure they worked with Linux before buying them,
You know, this is just common sense. But I'm sure someone is going to go on about how you don't need to do this on OSX, just plug it in and it works...
of course this isn't true. Plug in any 802.11b card other than an Airport card, and it's not going to "just work". You're going to have to spend $25 on driver software.. just like I had to get my D-Link card to work in my powerbook.
All those people with PocketPCs or Sony Clies will have to buy additional software to sync with their macs.
It's just common sense to find out if your hardware will work with your system before buying it.
The main feature is that it looks to have a speaker simulator. So you can just plug guitar into mac without needing to buy anything extra or be bothered with properly learning how to mic an amp.
If you don't want to be bothered with learning how to mic an amp, just plug your amp into your sound card. I've been doing this for years.
And using something like the Echo Labs sound cards with breakout boxes will provide *much* higher quality recording than any built-in mac soundcard.
And yet, here we have a product (for which a market may or may not really exist) which falls far outside Apple's traditional domain, but which seems to be clearly innovative.
I'm not sure how this is innovative. It's PVM with ZeroConf support.. this very thing has been discussed in zeroconf newsgroups. The consensus seems to be "neat idea, but dubious benefits"
On the topic of staffing, of course it is cheaper, you can just pay the janitor to click Start-Shutdown-Restart a few times a day.
It's even cheaper than that! You can just purchase a copy of QuicKeys (www.quickeys.com).. it's like a having an MCSE that you can automate and not pay!
What I *really* want to know, is where IDC keeps the time machine, because, if I count right, Windows 2000 was released less than 5 years ago making this study temporally improbable.
That reminds me of back when I was in college ('96) there were a bunch of job offers that required "at least 3 years of Java experience"
Which is funny if you consider that Java came out in 95.
So for $250 she ends up getting the iBook fixed, plus whatever few months remain on the extended warrenty.
Wait, shouldn't she get a new warranty on the remanufactured machine?
Here's how out-of-warranty things should work:
My TiVo died last year, it was out of warranty. TiVo told me to send it in, along with $100 (half the cost of a new one) and they'll send me a remanufactured one. The remanufactured one has a 1 year warranty.
While opera allows you to use one of many pre-defined searches through a variety of means (including typing "g " + subject into the address bar), adding any search would be a powerful and useful ability.
Mozilla/Firebird does this too. I love it, I have my browser set up so if I type php + searchterm in the address bar, it'll search php.net
See here on how to make your own: http://www.joeyday.com/archives/individual/0 00560. php
Actually, some of the implementation looks pretty good. I spend most of my online time on my laptop, which means for "Open in a new tab" I have to do the Control-Click contortion,
In Mozilla and Firebird, you can drag links up to the tab bar and they'll open in a new tab.
snuglybaer493 (1:40:12 AM): cool. i was just hangin out. kinda bord.. kinda horny:) kwabla78 (1:40:27 AM): are you horny like a rosebush? snuglybaer493 (1:40:33 AM): should i take that as a yes? kwabla78 (1:40:34 AM): or wait... was that "thorny"
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And I could swear that the D-Link wireless card I have works very nicely in my Powerbook.
You failed to mention that you had to spend $25 to get a driver for that card from aerocard.
Yesterday I was having a great time editing my masterpiece "When Trolls attack" on Final Cut Pro, especially after I finally was done tweaking the shots in Photoshop and After Effects.
Later I enjoyed solving another level of Halo while listening to my iTunes collection.
Swap out Final Cut Pro with Premiere and you can do all of that on Windows... thank god for Microsoft?
xcode: based off gcc, and is completely FREE unlike visual studio .net.
No, it costs $120. I can't run it under Jaguar... it will cost me $120 to use xcode.
(Alt+Cmd+Click on Dock Icon minimises all other app's windows for example)
Christ. I was trying to do this yesterday. This is a perfect example of what drives me crazy about OS X sometimes.
Alt-click on a dock icon and it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what the hell the OS is doing. It seems like it's hiding the active application, and then shows the application you clicked on.. unless the icon you clicked on is already active and then it seems to hide that application and open a completely random one. Alt-clicking again will cause windows pop up and disappear immediately.
Cmd-click on a dock icon and it opens the folder the application sits in.. which doesn't seem to be as commonly used as, say, hiding all the other windows.
I'd say that OS X's window management (especially through the dock) is so brain damaged, that they had to invent Expose just to give users a Show Desktop ability.
I agree that hinting too little has been a problem with past versions of OS X, but whatever they added between Jaguar and Panther (I guess Apple prefers to call it "micro-pixel positioning") has done a lot to clean up the color problems that existed before.
This has been the first compelling reason I've heard to upgrade from Jaguar. The fonts in Jaguar look like crap on this powerbook. I really like XP's cleartype, and FreeType's sub-pixel rendering.. they look gorgeous on LCD screens.
If Panther's font rendering has subpixel rendering, I may have to look into upgrading.
Apple has decided that for UI, One Consistent Way is better than a huge amount of configurability.
No, Apple used to say that, now they say "our way(s) are better than your way". OS X is much less consistant than OS9 was.
Some things scale visually, some things don't. Some apps are metal, some aren't. Apple violates the HIG every other day.
Safari is a good example. The original HIG said not to use one widget for more than one thing. Yet the location bar doubles as a progress meter. And that doesn't even count Safari oddities like the fact that scrollbars don't show up on textareas if they have less than 5 rows.. regardless of how much text it contains.
Especially in the area of rapid development, few environments can even begin to work as well, or produce such clean and maintainable results, as Apple's tools for this job.
rapid development is the IT buzzword of the last 5 years. Originally RAD was used for prototyping.. but aparently lazy devs are using it for end-products.
For what people purport to use RAD for, I could develop apps just as quickly, if not quicker, using PHP+GTK.
If I had accesories, i'd make sure they worked with Linux before buying them,
You know, this is just common sense. But I'm sure someone is going to go on about how you don't need to do this on OSX, just plug it in and it works...
of course this isn't true. Plug in any 802.11b card other than an Airport card, and it's not going to "just work". You're going to have to spend $25 on driver software.. just like I had to get my D-Link card to work in my powerbook.
All those people with PocketPCs or Sony Clies will have to buy additional software to sync with their macs.
It's just common sense to find out if your hardware will work with your system before buying it.
The main feature is that it looks to have a speaker simulator. So you can just plug guitar into mac without needing to buy anything extra or be bothered with properly learning how to mic an amp.
If you don't want to be bothered with learning how to mic an amp, just plug your amp into your sound card. I've been doing this for years.
And using something like the Echo Labs sound cards with breakout boxes will provide *much* higher quality recording than any built-in mac soundcard.
she don't care, since it's cheaper, smaller, lighter, and PINK.
She should date a Ken doll instead of you.. he's cheaper, smaller, lighter and PINK as well.
Apple gives consumer stuff "i" and geeky stuff "X", hence iPod, iApps, iMac, iLife etc against XServe, XCode, XGrid, etc.
They couldn't have called it iGrid.. there is no I in team.
Dude, PVM works under OSX and has for quite a while.. if everyone in biotech is going nuts, it's because they're ignorant.
And yet, here we have a product (for which a market may or may not really exist) which falls far outside Apple's traditional domain, but which seems to be clearly innovative.
I'm not sure how this is innovative. It's PVM with ZeroConf support.. this very thing has been discussed in zeroconf newsgroups. The consensus seems to be "neat idea, but dubious benefits"
On the topic of staffing, of course it is cheaper, you can just pay the janitor to click Start-Shutdown-Restart a few times a day.
It's even cheaper than that! You can just purchase a copy of QuicKeys (www.quickeys.com).. it's like a having an MCSE that you can automate and not pay!
What I *really* want to know, is where IDC keeps the time machine, because, if I count right, Windows 2000 was released less than 5 years ago making this study temporally improbable.
That reminds me of back when I was in college ('96) there were a bunch of job offers that required "at least 3 years of Java experience"
Which is funny if you consider that Java came out in 95.
So for $250 she ends up getting the iBook fixed, plus whatever few months remain on the extended warrenty.
Wait, shouldn't she get a new warranty on the remanufactured machine?
Here's how out-of-warranty things should work:
My TiVo died last year, it was out of warranty. TiVo told me to send it in, along with $100 (half the cost of a new one) and they'll send me a remanufactured one. The remanufactured one has a 1 year warranty.
That's how things should be done.
I've had an iBook G3 for more than two years now with *gasp* no problems!
My friend owned a Ford Pinto for 10 years with no problems.. obviously that means there is nothing wrong with the Pinto's design.
While opera allows you to use one of many pre-defined searches through a variety of means (including typing "g " + subject into the address bar), adding any search would be a powerful and useful ability.
0 00560. php
Mozilla/Firebird does this too. I love it, I have my browser set up so if I type php + searchterm in the address bar, it'll search php.net
See here on how to make your own:
http://www.joeyday.com/archives/individual/
Actually, some of the implementation looks pretty good. I spend most of my online time on my laptop, which means for "Open in a new tab" I have to do the Control-Click contortion,
In Mozilla and Firebird, you can drag links up to the tab bar and they'll open in a new tab.
No offense, but I'm not going to use a Radio Shack poll to gauge anything about my high-end devices.
I'd say that email was UnDead... it's like an evil zombie that wants to eat your brains.. and increase your penis size.
or by making them fail the Turing test.
:)
snuglybaer493 (1:40:12 AM): cool. i was just hangin out. kinda bord.. kinda horny
kwabla78 (1:40:27 AM): are you horny like a rosebush?
snuglybaer493 (1:40:33 AM): should i take that as a yes?
kwabla78 (1:40:34 AM): or wait... was that "thorny"
So... which one is the bot?
Very easy: Take a telescope, look at some star, and check each year if it is where it should be according to calculations using atomic clock time.
Ok.
01:42:32.682 : Star is currently.. up there... check.
Everything's ok over here.
The appropriate response was "There are only 10 types of people.. those who understand binary and you"
An Earth day was approximately 18 hours in duration 900 million years ago.
Hah! that's nothing, a Work Day was approximately 18 hours just 100 years ago.