Mozilla Mail alphas now features Bayesian filters as seen in Apple Mail 1.2? Cool. I love Mail's spam filtering in OS X. It works extremely well! I very, very rarely get spam in my inbox anymore and I used to get dozens a day.
I wonder how well Jaguar's Mail spam filters work for CmdrTaco and his hundreds of spams a day on his PowerBook...
The issues are intertwined. If DRM succeeds as it is now envisioned (a combo software/hardware approach) open source will have fewer choices for hardware to deploy their softwares on.
This is why you shouldn't support hardware vendors that support DRM.
Sure. I was obviously being flippant about the Mac, but the point remains that it's not really a commercially viable games platform right now.
I bought WarCraft 3 for my Mac. It's a dual-platform disc, but I rarely play it on my Windows box (even thought it has a much better graphics card) -- I just hate using those crufty boxes anymore.
Odd that Apple doesn't sell their own 2-button mouse, though. It's almost as if Apple is trying to help hardware manufacturers get business from Mac users. What could be the advantage of that?
Aaaaaarrrrrggghh! Apple replaces one Wrong Thing with another. Before 10.2.2, Apple's installer would blindly write files into/Applications/Mail.app/contents/resources without first checking to see whether Mail.app was still in the/Applications folder.
Actually, it appears to be working properly now. Evidently the tech writer just wasn't capable of putting the behavior into a one-liner. Many people have noted that applications that exist in folders other than/Applications were updated by 10.2.2.
It's possible that perhaps the UNIX community needs to move past case-sensitivity in filenames and foldernames. Just because UNIX has been doing it that way for 30 years doesn't mean that it needs to be done that way, and apparently both Windows and MacOS have a hard time cooperating with it.
I think the Mac filesystem's way of handling case is superior. It preserves case, but isn't sensitive to it. It also preserves accents, but isn't sensitive to them. This means that "bjork" and "Björk" sort as if they are the same artist, which they are!
Resizing a window in OSX has the same issues as scrolling. The last time a Windows or Linux user experienced sluggishness and frame skipping when resizing a simple file manager or browser window was like... 1995.
BS. I'm typing this on my 1GHz Compaq Win2000 box at work. It's got 256MB RAM. I have "show window contents while dragging" turned on and it's jerky. This is Mozilla. I'll try something else... Command line is jerky. HomeSite is jerky. Not only are these apps jerky, it's also a flicker fest that could kill an epileptic. Everything in OS X is double-buffered so there is no flickering when resizing or dragging.
The only reason you guys don't have jerky window resizing is because you almost always use outline dragging.
If you do full window dragging, it's jerky, flickery, and then you have to wait for the rest of the screen to update behind it. My G3 Macs (600Mhz, and 450Mhz) only have one of those problems at half the clockrate, it's jerky.
I don't know if Quartz Extreme alleviates the jerkiness or not because both of my Macs have ATI Rages.
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I'm pretty fast in Windows explorer, I have to be navigating between hundreds of source files. I've learned just about all the shortcut keys and my hands move to wherever is fastest to accomplish a given task, mouse or keyboard. When I started working on the mac I was frustrated by the amount of mouse effort I had to expend. If my hands are on the keyboard and I need to do some UI navigation I don't want to have to use the mouse. I call that poor UI. I know there are probably keys there I don't know about, but they certainly aren't readily apparent in the help files. The tab between controls functionality windows has seems to be largely missing. I'm not incapable of learning new shortcut commands, I just need to be able to find out what they are without installing 4 third party applications that add them.
You can use the Command key with all of the arrows to do just about anything you should need to do via the keyboard in Finder. I hated the fact that in Finder hitting enter renames the file instead of opening it like Windows does when I first got my Mac. Now I love it and wish Windows did the same thing. Command+o opens a folder or file. I believe Command+down does the same thing. Command+n opens a new Finder window and Command+Shift+n creates a new folder.
Don't talk smack about Finder until you've spent more time with Finder in 10.2. It's largely been re-written AFAIK. It is far faster than previous versions and has a few new features as well.
Basically what they really need to know is 'interface latency'. How long between when you click and when something happens. Things like Vector engines are not going to help this.
The Velocity Engine helps out when you're ripping a CD in iTunes.
You've been able to do the speech recognition on the Mac for several years. The zero configuration of your mail tool just arrived with Mail and.Mac. The first time you launch Mail it asks if you want to use it with a.Mac account and if you do, you're done. If not you have to setup the mail account as your normally would.
How did you parrot on Windows know how to setup the e-mail account?
Computers will be simpler when somebody can just say "Email" and not have to worry about Outlook, or POP, or any of that nonsense. That's my two bits.
You mean like you can on a Mac today? It has speech recognition that will allow you to tell the computer to open Mail. And you don't need to configure your e-mail account at all if you use.Mac.
Instead of bickering about which of these two formats to use, stop and consider that you can write postscript without using any proprietary software. And you can view postscript on pretty much any platform you desire using ghostview.
You don't have to use Acrobat to create PDFs. You can use one of the many third party tools available to create PDFs. Hell, Mac OS X can create PDFs from any print dialog.
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Mozilla Mail alphas now features Bayesian filters as seen in Apple Mail 1.2? Cool. I love Mail's spam filtering in OS X. It works extremely well! I very, very rarely get spam in my inbox anymore and I used to get dozens a day.
I wonder how well Jaguar's Mail spam filters work for CmdrTaco and his hundreds of spams a day on his PowerBook...
The issues are intertwined. If DRM succeeds as it is now envisioned (a combo software/hardware approach) open source will have fewer choices for hardware to deploy their softwares on.
This is why you shouldn't support hardware vendors that support DRM.
Well, then by your standards OS X is UNIX. You can boot straight to the CLI by pressing Command+S during startup.
OS X is UNIX.
Actually, it appears to be working properly now. Evidently the tech writer just wasn't capable of putting the behavior into a one-liner. Many people have noted that applications that exist in folders other than
I think the Mac filesystem's way of handling case is superior. It preserves case, but isn't sensitive to it. It also preserves accents, but isn't sensitive to them. This means that "bjork" and "Björk" sort as if they are the same artist, which they are!
Blue is the new high-tech color. As well as titanium. I read that somewhere.
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Must be because of the new PowerBook and Aqua.
Don't confuse DVD Player with iDVD. iDVD is a consumer oriented DVD authoring application.
Do you know if there is a transcript of his Grammy acceptance speech anywhere? I tried Googling for it with no luck.
BS. I'm typing this on my 1GHz Compaq Win2000 box at work. It's got 256MB RAM. I have "show window contents while dragging" turned on and it's jerky. This is Mozilla. I'll try something else... Command line is jerky. HomeSite is jerky. Not only are these apps jerky, it's also a flicker fest that could kill an epileptic. Everything in OS X is double-buffered so there is no flickering when resizing or dragging.
The only reason you guys don't have jerky window resizing is because you almost always use outline dragging.
If you do full window dragging, it's jerky, flickery, and then you have to wait for the rest of the screen to update behind it. My G3 Macs (600Mhz, and 450Mhz) only have one of those problems at half the clockrate, it's jerky.
I don't know if Quartz Extreme alleviates the jerkiness or not because both of my Macs have ATI Rages.
You can use the Command key with all of the arrows to do just about anything you should need to do via the keyboard in Finder. I hated the fact that in Finder hitting enter renames the file instead of opening it like Windows does when I first got my Mac. Now I love it and wish Windows did the same thing. Command+o opens a folder or file. I believe Command+down does the same thing. Command+n opens a new Finder window and Command+Shift+n creates a new folder.
Read this article for more pointers.
Don't talk smack about Finder until you've spent more time with Finder in 10.2. It's largely been re-written AFAIK. It is far faster than previous versions and has a few new features as well.
The Velocity Engine helps out when you're ripping a CD in iTunes.
You've been able to do the speech recognition on the Mac for several years. The zero configuration of your mail tool just arrived with Mail and .Mac. The first time you launch Mail it asks if you want to use it with a .Mac account and if you do, you're done. If not you have to setup the mail account as your normally would.
How did you parrot on Windows know how to setup the e-mail account?
Isn't "Java Programming for Windows" an oxymoron? Even if Microsoft still supported Java.
You mean like you can on a Mac today? It has speech recognition that will allow you to tell the computer to open Mail. And you don't need to configure your e-mail account at all if you use
Commies don't pay for Windows.
USB 2.0 is slower than FireWire. USB is good enough for pointing devices.
I have a 10GB iPod and I am an Ogg fanboy. I'd give my 10GB to my girlfriend and get a 20GB right away if they started supporting Ogg.
How does this differ from PDF?
You don't have to use Acrobat to create PDFs. You can use one of the many third party tools available to create PDFs. Hell, Mac OS X can create PDFs from any print dialog.
No, OmniWeb drags a copy of the image. That's what drag and drop should do.