then hit command w, or go to file-> close. Or if it's the last window open in an app or you want to close all an apps windows, you could hit command Q. How many more options do you need?
Some hints. command tab switches apps, command ~ switches windows within the app. Hide an application by option clicking outside that app (i.e. on another applications window)
Apple's future looks dim? Since when was time travel invneted, and tell me, is it wierd going back to 1996? YOu must still have time-lag, but let me bring you back up to speed. It's 2002 again, Apple is sucessful, selling many iMacs and G4s (compared to past years) and is one of the few tech companies that manage to turn a decent profit. LIke someone else here said, you can't innovate on a 2% profit margin.
It would be difficult to implemnt. Suddenyl all programs have to behave one of two ways, either a single command reference, and the currently active window is where all commands are referenced. Or Window by window, in which the system has to keep track of multiple menus each with defferent sets of possiblbe instructions, and that's just within one program.
All that fun fun teaking. Like wastng an entire saturday fixing a sound card because it broke when Win2k updated. Or like following Billy Bob Tech's guide to over-clocking. Or trying to figure out why despite everything you've tried, your monitor still flickers every half hour.
Macs are computers you can tweak when you want, not because you have to. And it's more challenging therefore more fun. What the hell is so fun about over clocking your computer from the BIOS? Nothing. Now do it on a mac, and you need to get out your soldering iron. That's fun. So tell me what wonderful tweaks I can do to my PC that are any where near as fun as they would be on a mac (I dare you to get a mac classic running a color monitor, or get an LC up and running OS 9)
As for cost, too fsking bad. Maybe if you stopped buying $500 sound and video cards every 6 months, you would have enough money for a mac.
1) File extantions are a resul tof switching to the UNIX underlay.
2) What does it matter wheather it's called COacoa, Carbon, Darwin, Java, C++ or Pearl. It's just a name. And acronyms are annoying more often than not because they aren't pronounceable so how do you indicate tham verbaly? i.e. GUI (yeah you can say Gooey, or G-U-I, so how is it worse that just saying Aqua?
Because by learning different ways to approach a problem you are better able to make a better solution. Not to mention that most of the HIG are portable to other platforms and make a hell of a lot of sense. And if you ever want to continue to maintain the hope that someday maybe when hell freezes over that you will be able to run OS X on your computer, you better show Apple you and your fellow developes can conform to certain HIGs or your programs will fail miserably.
I remember using the built in file deletion features of Microsoft Word to delete the "At Ease" preference file , thus exorcising the broken interface from the computer. Ah memories...
Now why did you bother doing that? You should have done what I did, and built up trust with the teachers. After helping fix a dead file, convert PC to Mac and back again and remove a broken floppy 4 or 5 times, the librarians just gave me the administation passwords to do as I pleased, so that I could work with my programs and with others without calling them over to remove a lock.
I was always able to do other stuff while my modem dialed (though I often just used the time to catch a snack). Did you ever try clicking into another application? Or did you just look at the watch cursor and go "Aw damn"
these aren't exact screen shots. They are examples used to convey a point. In the same way a survey is not an exact representation of the US opinion, it's used to get a point across.
Actualy, speaking as a mac user, I like being able to click one applications window and bring the entire app to the forefront. If I'm working with 3 or 4 windows in an app, it makes my job that much faster
The close button, like the most destructive button of any set of options, should be further away from the other options. I don't care for the new design in OSX nor for the design in window. Even less so in windows becasue the menu is on one side and the controls are on the other
Once again with the sad and pathetic attempts by lonely dead ednd slashdot posters to associate sexuality with a computer. TH emore I see these posts, the more I think it's a reflex of die hard Wintel weenies to deny that it's actualy becoming cool to once again own a mac.
It's all about being user friendly. If you've never used a computer before, or are just starting out, a single button mouse is worlds easier. Apple relies on the idea that if you are accustomed to having a 2 or more button mouse, you already own one and therefore it is not nessesary to include one.
personaly speaking, if you're going to do complete consistancy across all platforms, you should try following the design layout of KDX (www.haxial.com)
How many times do users loose these dialouge boxes behind other windows though? I can't tell you how oten I've been working in a document, called up a dialouge, had to check a couple other things, and never found the dialouge again till I minimized all windows. That to me is not efficient
Productivity and ease of use? The whole purpose of Apple's Interface Guidelines is to make things easier to use and more productive. Take for example having one menue bar. The location of everything the you ned to access commands is in one spot, always. Or what about even something as simple as the window controls. In windows, all the menue commands are on the left, but all the window controls are on the right. How is that efficient? Or even the save dialouges. THe Don't Save button is off to the left and further spaced than all the other buttons. Why? Because it is the most destructive of the option, and because most people are right handed so they tend to look for the best options on the right (or something like that, it's psycological).
I don't know about the scroll wheel, whether M$ did that first or not, but I have not come aross a single button on M$ keyboards that is so useful it boosts my prouctivity.
You're right, they do play out differently. And in 99% of the cases, the mac OS is easier, more intuitive and faster.
Still, most setting boxes in windows have multiple save/OK buttons, and it's not always clear which ones do what. Not to mention the OK and Apply buttons. Some apps, OK means apply and close, some OK means close just like cancel does, other won't let you click OK till you've clicked apply. That gets annoying.
ON the other hadn, that's all you see. The only other thing they have to try to stop the evil pirates is you're not supposed to be able to copy from the iPod to a mac. But that "bug" was "fixed" a few weeks after the iPod debuted.
But what about all the well meaning parents that buy the computer for their kids?
"Look honey, we bought you a nice new computer. See, it's got shiny parts and blinking lights, and it even is approved by that nice company that writes our software for us.... what was their name? Oh yeah, microsoft/
Do PC users always have to connect machines with sexuality? Is this some leftover instinct from the days of oogling at 256 color jpegs? Was the pleasure you got from your floppy drive that wonderful that you hold such a grudge against Apple for killing it? Or is it simply because you want to present the immage of immaturity to the rest of the world?
I personaly think the real reason we don't see any challenging games any more is that the majority of gammers have become dumb. FPS is all they really understand. They don't want to solve puzzels or make decisions, they want to blow stuff up. So sad.
And some really cool japaneese games never make it to the US, which is sad. Plus it takes forever for the ports to get to the US (still waiting for FF XI). And then to top it off, often, the translation is watered down. Don't believe me, find an american version of FF IV (that's II here in the us) and then find on an emulator site, a real translation of the FF IV game. It's different, new dialouge, better dialouge, harder bosses, much more entertaining.
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then hit command w, or go to file-> close. Or if it's the last window open in an app or you want to close all an apps windows, you could hit command Q. How many more options do you need?
Some hints. command tab switches apps, command ~ switches windows within the app. Hide an application by option clicking outside that app (i.e. on another applications window)
Apple's future looks dim? Since when was time travel invneted, and tell me, is it wierd going back to 1996? YOu must still have time-lag, but let me bring you back up to speed. It's 2002 again, Apple is sucessful, selling many iMacs and G4s (compared to past years) and is one of the few tech companies that manage to turn a decent profit. LIke someone else here said, you can't innovate on a 2% profit margin.
It would be difficult to implemnt. Suddenyl all programs have to behave one of two ways, either a single command reference, and the currently active window is where all commands are referenced. Or Window by window, in which the system has to keep track of multiple menus each with defferent sets of possiblbe instructions, and that's just within one program.
All that fun fun teaking. Like wastng an entire saturday fixing a sound card because it broke when Win2k updated. Or like following Billy Bob Tech's guide to over-clocking. Or trying to figure out why despite everything you've tried, your monitor still flickers every half hour.
Macs are computers you can tweak when you want, not because you have to. And it's more challenging therefore more fun. What the hell is so fun about over clocking your computer from the BIOS? Nothing. Now do it on a mac, and you need to get out your soldering iron. That's fun. So tell me what wonderful tweaks I can do to my PC that are any where near as fun as they would be on a mac (I dare you to get a mac classic running a color monitor, or get an LC up and running OS 9)
As for cost, too fsking bad. Maybe if you stopped buying $500 sound and video cards every 6 months, you would have enough money for a mac.
Define Nerd....
1) File extantions are a resul tof switching to the UNIX underlay.
2) What does it matter wheather it's called COacoa, Carbon, Darwin, Java, C++ or Pearl. It's just a name. And acronyms are annoying more often than not because they aren't pronounceable so how do you indicate tham verbaly? i.e. GUI (yeah you can say Gooey, or G-U-I, so how is it worse that just saying Aqua?
Because by learning different ways to approach a problem you are better able to make a better solution. Not to mention that most of the HIG are portable to other platforms and make a hell of a lot of sense. And if you ever want to continue to maintain the hope that someday maybe when hell freezes over that you will be able to run OS X on your computer, you better show Apple you and your fellow developes can conform to certain HIGs or your programs will fail miserably.
I remember using the built in file deletion features of Microsoft Word to delete the "At Ease" preference file , thus exorcising the broken interface from the computer. Ah memories...
Now why did you bother doing that? You should have done what I did, and built up trust with the teachers. After helping fix a dead file, convert PC to Mac and back again and remove a broken floppy 4 or 5 times, the librarians just gave me the administation passwords to do as I pleased, so that I could work with my programs and with others without calling them over to remove a lock.
I was always able to do other stuff while my modem dialed (though I often just used the time to catch a snack). Did you ever try clicking into another application? Or did you just look at the watch cursor and go "Aw damn"
these aren't exact screen shots. They are examples used to convey a point. In the same way a survey is not an exact representation of the US opinion, it's used to get a point across.
Actualy, speaking as a mac user, I like being able to click one applications window and bring the entire app to the forefront. If I'm working with 3 or 4 windows in an app, it makes my job that much faster
MP3's played quite nicely in QT, what are you talking about?
The close button, like the most destructive button of any set of options, should be further away from the other options. I don't care for the new design in OSX nor for the design in window. Even less so in windows becasue the menu is on one side and the controls are on the other
Once again with the sad and pathetic attempts by lonely dead ednd slashdot posters to associate sexuality with a computer. TH emore I see these posts, the more I think it's a reflex of die hard Wintel weenies to deny that it's actualy becoming cool to once again own a mac.
It's all about being user friendly. If you've never used a computer before, or are just starting out, a single button mouse is worlds easier. Apple relies on the idea that if you are accustomed to having a 2 or more button mouse, you already own one and therefore it is not nessesary to include one.
personaly speaking, if you're going to do complete consistancy across all platforms, you should try following the design layout of KDX (www.haxial.com)
How many times do users loose these dialouge boxes behind other windows though? I can't tell you how oten I've been working in a document, called up a dialouge, had to check a couple other things, and never found the dialouge again till I minimized all windows. That to me is not efficient
Productivity and ease of use? The whole purpose of Apple's Interface Guidelines is to make things easier to use and more productive. Take for example having one menue bar. The location of everything the you ned to access commands is in one spot, always. Or what about even something as simple as the window controls. In windows, all the menue commands are on the left, but all the window controls are on the right. How is that efficient? Or even the save dialouges. THe Don't Save button is off to the left and further spaced than all the other buttons. Why? Because it is the most destructive of the option, and because most people are right handed so they tend to look for the best options on the right (or something like that, it's psycological).
I don't know about the scroll wheel, whether M$ did that first or not, but I have not come aross a single button on M$ keyboards that is so useful it boosts my prouctivity.
You're right, they do play out differently. And in 99% of the cases, the mac OS is easier, more intuitive and faster.
Still, most setting boxes in windows have multiple save/OK buttons, and it's not always clear which ones do what. Not to mention the OK and Apply buttons. Some apps, OK means apply and close, some OK means close just like cancel does, other won't let you click OK till you've clicked apply. That gets annoying.
ON the other hadn, that's all you see. The only other thing they have to try to stop the evil pirates is you're not supposed to be able to copy from the iPod to a mac. But that "bug" was "fixed" a few weeks after the iPod debuted.
(Quotes added for the less intelligent among us)
But what about all the well meaning parents that buy the computer for their kids?
"Look honey, we bought you a nice new computer. See, it's got shiny parts and blinking lights, and it even is approved by that nice company that writes our software for us.... what was their name? Oh yeah, microsoft/
Do PC users always have to connect machines with sexuality? Is this some leftover instinct from the days of oogling at 256 color jpegs? Was the pleasure you got from your floppy drive that wonderful that you hold such a grudge against Apple for killing it? Or is it simply because you want to present the immage of immaturity to the rest of the world?
I personaly think the real reason we don't see any challenging games any more is that the majority of gammers have become dumb. FPS is all they really understand. They don't want to solve puzzels or make decisions, they want to blow stuff up. So sad.
And some really cool japaneese games never make it to the US, which is sad. Plus it takes forever for the ports to get to the US (still waiting for FF XI). And then to top it off, often, the translation is watered down. Don't believe me, find an american version of FF IV (that's II here in the us) and then find on an emulator site, a real translation of the FF IV game. It's different, new dialouge, better dialouge, harder bosses, much more entertaining.