No it doesn't. It's all stored in the same place. The Music is just in a hidden folder. And even if you don't know how to view hidden folders there is about 40 utilities that would do it for you. Or completely synchronize both ways for you. Or download today's news to your iPod for you.
"Discover iSync, the cutting-edge new device-synchronization software that automatically synchronizes your contact and calendar information between your Mac, your cell phone, your PDA, your iPod, and your Mac OS X address book -- and lets you stay organized, on top of your schedule, and in touch with your family and friends with a click of your mouse. You can have your contact information and your calendar with you wherever you go, and you'll know the information is accurate and up to date."
Behind all the MarketSpeak(TM), you'll find the XML-based standard open protocol called SyncML. Synchronizing is clearly a better way than a big brotherish Central Repository Server. Especially if automated using a wirelessrendevouz based network or via bluetooth.
In earlier years mac users were ridiculed over investing in a "dying" platform, wasting money for licences that would cost us a fortune when we eventually were forced to switch.
Now it turns out that our investment was well worth it. Suddenly changing software licences is a problem for people wanting to switch from "the other side" to the platform that was once destined for doom.
Now O'reilly says Mac OS X is the most exciting thing happening in the industry and everyone and their dog's got mac envy. Funny how things work out indeed.
How long until Microsoft's lawyers are all over this? Did they really have to rip off Windows interface almost to the pixel? This is just begging for trouble.
And why rip off the worst interface from the start? Couldn't they take some cues from Mac OS X, combine it with some features from classic Mac OS and have a nice interface?
Look at all that wasted space in the settings dialog for instance. Yeck!
The themes was of course hacked out and made availible to Mac OS 8+. Apple Japan even made a cool brand new theme called architecht. The others were first showcased in screenshots released to magazines like MacFormat years earlier. And looking at them today they really were childish. But HiTech looked good in the movies though;)
I have the demo CD for System 8 (Copland not Mac OS 8). It demonstrates themes and other new features of Copland. I got a bunch of them for free from Apple Evangelist (Yes, there actually was a time when Apple sent you free promotional material anywhere in the world if you just asked for them). Perhaps I'll eBay it someday, might be worth something.
Of course. Why shouldn't I. Note that I say the GUI. The OS is/was righteous fast on every other account. And the fact that we have true multitasking now more than made up for that.
I'm a creative professional myself (Web Art Director) and even though what you are mentioning are interesting to me too, I know what I'm going to when I read the regular ArsTechnica Mac OS X review.
The way you convince your boss that it's worth it for the office is to try it out yourself at home first. Then you'll have first-hand experience on which to base your arguments on.
FYI, Quark runs great in Classic, printer support is getting better (CUPS for instance opens up a whole new world of previously windows-only printers), XTensions won't change in classic Quark. Speed for classic apps is mostly the same, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.
Mac OS X has always been faster in the underlying tasks such as networking and file operations. Now the GUI is well up to speed with OS 9 too. So yeah, basically you are a troll. The GUI used to be slower than OS 9, but that's simply not the case any more. Turn off shadows and install a bland theme if you want to and you'll gain even more UI speed.
Apple is actually right in the cases where they are trying to defend their intelectual property, even though you - or the copycats - might think otherwise. Poor clones hurt Apple's image much like cheap bootlegs or fake clothes hurt the original brands.
Just to try this out I checked, and indeed TextEdit (I assume you mean this since there no such thing as Simple Text Edit) rendered out the HTML. I agree this is strange, but not so when I thought of it. TextEdit is not just for plain text files, but for styled text. Much like Microsoft Word. It interprets RTF (Rich Text Format) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) as two different ways of styling text.
This is easily remedied by using a program meant for edititing plain text as the aforementioned BBEdit, PageSpinner or pretty much any other text-editor out there. Which is plenty for the Mac OS. Hope this helps.
I really love the Open-Source-At-Any-Cost people. They live in this little bubble of their own superiority, feeding on the belief that they are just fine as long as nobody owns or charge for the code they are using daily.
I mean, a program displays a web page as a web page? It actually interpreted the HTML? Wow, perhaps you shouldn't use that program then? Try something like BBedit Lite or something? Emacs or vi even?
Stop blaming Apple for your own incompetence.
And for the record, my Titanium is playing DVDs to the TV just fine. And VCDs, DIV-X's, WMV and whatnot too.
Learning Photoshop is one thing, mastering it is a whole other playfield. I've used Photoshop for work and play since 1.0a (on a IIsi and SE/30) and with Photoshop 7 today I still can't say I've tapped even 50% of it's potential.
A learning curve is always steep when you're standing on the bottom of the hill.
The only useful things we could do with a 2.5D interface is to create an illusion of 3d window-layering, ie stack windows in more layers than the two, old windows go the furthest back. But most of the things that could be done in 3d would be eye-candy. Spinning windows would look cool though.
You must however realize that the current way of implementing Quartz Extreme is that the GPU only takes care of the compositing. The actual window-drawing is still handled by the CPU. But once a window, menubar, icon or desktop is drawn you can use QE to manipulate it in 3d the way you want.
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VPN is supported by Jaguar (Mac OS X v.10.2)
No it doesn't. It's all stored in the same place. The Music is just in a hidden folder. And even if you don't know how to view hidden folders there is about 40 utilities that would do it for you. Or completely synchronize both ways for you. Or download today's news to your iPod for you.
I swear it. It's bleeding fast. Even on slashdot! Especially on image-heavy pages. It renders like a champ, or even *shrug* the windows-version.
Thank you Apple! Jaguar is even more impressive now!
Now go fix the finder FTP-implementation.
In earlier years mac users were ridiculed over investing in a "dying" platform, wasting money for licences that would cost us a fortune when we eventually were forced to switch.
Now it turns out that our investment was well worth it. Suddenly changing software licences is a problem for people wanting to switch from "the other side" to the platform that was once destined for doom.
Now O'reilly says Mac OS X is the most exciting thing happening in the industry and everyone and their dog's got mac envy. Funny how things work out indeed.
How long until Microsoft's lawyers are all over this? Did they really have to rip off Windows interface almost to the pixel? This is just begging for trouble.
And why rip off the worst interface from the start? Couldn't they take some cues from Mac OS X, combine it with some features from classic Mac OS and have a nice interface?
Look at all that wasted space in the settings dialog for instance. Yeck!
Yes, that is cool :)
;)
The themes was of course hacked out and made availible to Mac OS 8+. Apple Japan even made a cool brand new theme called architecht. The others were first showcased in screenshots released to magazines like MacFormat years earlier. And looking at them today they really were childish. But HiTech looked good in the movies though
I have the demo CD for System 8 (Copland not Mac OS 8). It demonstrates themes and other new features of Copland. I got a bunch of them for free from Apple Evangelist (Yes, there actually was a time when Apple sent you free promotional material anywhere in the world if you just asked for them). Perhaps I'll eBay it someday, might be worth something.
No download.
No "foreign" subscriptions.
No Mac OS X supports.
No thanks.
Reminds me of the old April's Fools-extension that ran on Classic Mac OS. It would reverse any text on your whole system, even as you typed.
Of course. Why shouldn't I. Note that I say the GUI. The OS is/was righteous fast on every other account. And the fact that we have true multitasking now more than made up for that.
But who cares about slowness in the past?
OK, what Part of ArsTECHnica didn't you get?
I'm a creative professional myself (Web Art Director) and even though what you are mentioning are interesting to me too, I know what I'm going to when I read the regular ArsTechnica Mac OS X review.
The way you convince your boss that it's worth it for the office is to try it out yourself at home first. Then you'll have first-hand experience on which to base your arguments on.
FYI, Quark runs great in Classic, printer support is getting better (CUPS for instance opens up a whole new world of previously windows-only printers), XTensions won't change in classic Quark. Speed for classic apps is mostly the same, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.
Hope this answers a few of your questions.
No, you're still a troll.
Slow GUI != Slow OS.
Mac OS X has always been faster in the underlying tasks such as networking and file operations. Now the GUI is well up to speed with OS 9 too. So yeah, basically you are a troll. The GUI used to be slower than OS 9, but that's simply not the case any more. Turn off shadows and install a bland theme if you want to and you'll gain even more UI speed.
I thought it said "Do Cell Phones Make U Stupid?"
and that was be4 I read that Prince-article.
Time to put away my cellphone I guess.
Apple is actually right in the cases where they are trying to defend their intelectual property, even though you - or the copycats - might think otherwise. Poor clones hurt Apple's image much like cheap bootlegs or fake clothes hurt the original brands.
This looks like some of those terrorist networks from that other article just below could need.
Just to try this out I checked, and indeed TextEdit (I assume you mean this since there no such thing as Simple Text Edit) rendered out the HTML. I agree this is strange, but not so when I thought of it. TextEdit is not just for plain text files, but for styled text. Much like Microsoft Word. It interprets RTF (Rich Text Format) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) as two different ways of styling text.
This is easily remedied by using a program meant for edititing plain text as the aforementioned BBEdit, PageSpinner or pretty much any other text-editor out there. Which is plenty for the Mac OS. Hope this helps.
This feels like an intro to a good post. Care to elaborate?
Mod parent up, funny... and insightful.
I really love the Open-Source-At-Any-Cost people. They live in this little bubble of their own superiority, feeding on the belief that they are just fine as long as nobody owns or charge for the code they are using daily.
Wow. Now that's stupid!
I mean, a program displays a web page as a web page? It actually interpreted the HTML? Wow, perhaps you shouldn't use that program then? Try something like BBedit Lite or something? Emacs or vi even?
Stop blaming Apple for your own incompetence.
And for the record, my Titanium is playing DVDs to the TV just fine. And VCDs, DIV-X's, WMV and whatnot too.
Learning Photoshop is one thing, mastering it is a whole other playfield. I've used Photoshop for work and play since 1.0a (on a IIsi and SE/30) and with Photoshop 7 today I still can't say I've tapped even 50% of it's potential.
A learning curve is always steep when you're standing on the bottom of the hill.
No.
Yup... JewelToy is the most engrossing puzzle game since Tetris. It must be eradicated from this planet before it destroys our economy!
The only useful things we could do with a 2.5D interface is to create an illusion of 3d window-layering, ie stack windows in more layers than the two, old windows go the furthest back. But most of the things that could be done in 3d would be eye-candy. Spinning windows would look cool though. You must however realize that the current way of implementing Quartz Extreme is that the GPU only takes care of the compositing. The actual window-drawing is still handled by the CPU. But once a window, menubar, icon or desktop is drawn you can use QE to manipulate it in 3d the way you want.
Of all the moderations to this post no one rated it funny?
Please... 3D interfaces? Not before we get true VR-glasses/implants and a revolutionary input device. A flying mice? A bat?
"I know this. It's a UNIX-system" - indeed.