From his e-mail responses (you can read more at www.woz.org), admittedly this is from a while back when OS X was new:
Comment from E-mail:
My name is Adam W. I was wondering, since you've been "into" the apple scene forever. From the birth of the mac and it's OS, how do you feel about the new Max Os X? Does it appeal to you? Do you find things you'd rather remain the same to the old one? Any suggestions that you'd like to see innovated into it? I hope to hear from ya soon.
Woz:
I think that the MacOS X is the best one yet. It feels and looks nice and consumer machines should. It gets around accusations that MacOS 9 is ancient and weak. It was costly and the conversion is costly and difficult. I think it's as great a risk as switching to the Power PC was.
I haven't had enough time with it, due to a busy schedule, to explore my own suggestions. I'd try to look for a LONG time and think about things that really helped me using computers and then look for a way to slightly change something in MacOS X to make it 'smaller' but do everything as well including what I think of, or so well that I don't need what I think of. Fewer options about how you do things, but with the finest results, is the way I'd try to go, not to just add and add and add good things. But it's nerve racking to work this way and takes a lot out of you. Managers and programmers have to both work harder than ever.
Can't copy that floppy - PowerMac 8600 Goodbye Horror's Rose (Mourning Stephen King) - Trollaxor Return of the mac as rapped by the Slashdot staff Fear the Slashdot Effect! - Servers of the Universe (SSR to a new level with death metal!) BSD is Dead - Dead can dance
Why haven't they addressed the animated GIF problem yet? To see what I'm talking about, check out this example page of the flaw. Only the last instance of an animated GIF is ever animated.
I have no reason whatsoever to believe that the specs are wrong, having seen them with my own eyes on Apple's own online store. They are both plausible and in line with the rest of the site (there are other dashed lists around now for example). Heck, there's even a new opening for a web designer availible already;)
No nerve hit. In fact I have no regrets at all of buying my 17" PowerBook. It's without a doubt the finest piece of hardware ever estowed upon the world. I have a 20 GB iPod and my girlfriend has the new skinny 15 GB one. The value of which hardware monkeys like you would never realise.
In hope that you or someone else would open your eyes to the meta-values of computing instead of raw numbers I'll repost an article from the independent when Johnatan Ive, Apple's head industrial designer got the Designer of the Year award:
The added ingredient: Elegance
By Charles Arthur
Seen from a great height, Apple's products are specks in the huge world of computing - a few in every hundred. Yet in design terms, they're an oasis in a vast desert.
Touch most PCs and you'll feel a certain give, an uncertainty in assembly that is the curse of being one of the slaves to Microsoft's hegemony, built down to a price to run identical software. Even where it doesn't show physically, you can sense a missing ingredient - elegance.
Jonathan Ive is admired among designers because he pours elegance into products. The 1997 iMac was a gumdrop-inspired solution to making an all-in-one machine. The second, with its movable flat screen, alludes to a sunflower. The iPod is like an everlasting cigarette packet for those addicted to music instead of tobacco.
Rivals make comparable, even cheaper, products. But they don't have it. They don't look desirable. They're just objects for a task.
Careful attention is Mr Ive's métier. Item: a small light on the computer shows whether it is working or in a suspended "sleeping" state. Once sleeping was indicated by a slowly flashing light. Mr Ive changed that. Now the light pulses slowly, as though the machine were truly asleep, breathing in and out. What use is that? None. What value does it have? As much as you put on being pleased.
Mr Ive dislikes the computing business's obsession with ram and megabytes: "Inhuman and very cold". His work has always tried to make machines people would love. Could he ever be tempted away by a Windows PC manufacturer? I doubt it. He couldn't like the abrupt graphics or the zig-zag fonts. Not elegant; not stylish. He's made his own, more elegant world.
Unfortunally your attempts real points through (sub-par) humor fall between your cheap shots, your self-contradiction and personal attacks against a non-homogenous group.
Fading in and out of poor quality images of faces we know from the previous movies. Zooming through New Zeealand landscape. Some bows aiming upwards. Riding through the forest on Shadowfax.
And it ends with some crappy looking fighting by Gandalf that HAS to be from the video game, or I would kill myself watching that on a big screen.
Flimsy? I bet you've never tried connecting a grounded plastic monster on an appropriate socket.
That's the great thing about the European ones, you get them in sizes from the small, compact, easy to pull out one to huge power adapters that need a good yanking to pull loose.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. My PowerBook is already at 1GHz. Try again troll.
From his e-mail responses (you can read more at www.woz.org), admittedly this is from a while back when OS X was new:
Comment from E-mail:
My name is Adam W. I was wondering, since you've been "into" the apple scene forever. From the birth of the mac and it's OS, how do you feel about the new Max Os X? Does it appeal to you? Do you find things you'd rather remain the same to the old one? Any suggestions that you'd like to see innovated into it? I hope to hear from ya soon.
Woz:
I think that the MacOS X is the best one yet. It feels and looks nice and consumer machines should. It gets around accusations that MacOS 9 is ancient and weak. It was costly and the conversion is costly and difficult. I think it's as great a risk as switching to the Power PC was.
I haven't had enough time with it, due to a busy schedule, to explore my own suggestions. I'd try to look for a LONG time and think about things that really helped me using computers and then look for a way to slightly change something in MacOS X to make it 'smaller' but do everything as well including what I think of, or so well that I don't need what I think of. Fewer options about how you do things, but with the finest results, is the way I'd try to go, not to just add and add and add good things. But it's nerve racking to work this way and takes a lot out of you. Managers and programmers have to both work harder than ever.
X-plane already simulates both Space Shuttles and flying experimental planes on Mars, as well as other space-going crafts. Heck you can even take off into space with a Rocket!!
And a lot funnier written too. Thanks :D
SSR-expansion pack comes with:
Can't copy that floppy - PowerMac 8600
Goodbye Horror's Rose (Mourning Stephen King) - Trollaxor
Return of the mac as rapped by the Slashdot staff
Fear the Slashdot Effect! - Servers of the Universe (SSR to a new level with death metal!)
BSD is Dead - Dead can dance
I hope they put them all together in a huge microwave.
Zzzap!
PithHelmet is updated for Safari 1.0, you just need to replace ~/Library/InputManagers/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.b undle with this file. Bye bye ads!
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
In fact, that might be exactly what happened!
I have no reason whatsoever to believe that the specs are wrong, having seen them with my own eyes on Apple's own online store. They are both plausible and in line with the rest of the site (there are other dashed lists around now for example). Heck, there's even a new opening for a web designer availible already ;)
Be the guy in the audience to get a camera trown at you by wearing the G5-specs T-shirts !
If you need to connect to a IBM 3270 (and similar mainframes I guess), there's a very nice free client that's running just fine in Mac OS X.
You need to install 3gpp-support separately after you've installed QT 6.3.
No nerve hit. In fact I have no regrets at all of buying my 17" PowerBook. It's without a doubt the finest piece of hardware ever estowed upon the world. I have a 20 GB iPod and my girlfriend has the new skinny 15 GB one. The value of which hardware monkeys like you would never realise.
In hope that you or someone else would open your eyes to the meta-values of computing instead of raw numbers I'll repost an article from the independent when Johnatan Ive, Apple's head industrial designer got the Designer of the Year award:
The added ingredient: Elegance
By Charles Arthur
Seen from a great height, Apple's products are specks in the huge world of computing - a few in every hundred. Yet in design terms, they're an oasis in a vast desert.
Touch most PCs and you'll feel a certain give, an uncertainty in assembly that is the curse of being one of the slaves to Microsoft's hegemony, built down to a price to run identical software. Even where it doesn't show physically, you can sense a missing ingredient - elegance.
Jonathan Ive is admired among designers because he pours elegance into products. The 1997 iMac was a gumdrop-inspired solution to making an all-in-one machine. The second, with its movable flat screen, alludes to a sunflower. The iPod is like an everlasting cigarette packet for those addicted to music instead of tobacco.
Rivals make comparable, even cheaper, products. But they don't have it. They don't look desirable. They're just objects for a task.
Careful attention is Mr Ive's métier. Item: a small light on the computer shows whether it is working or in a suspended "sleeping" state. Once sleeping was indicated by a slowly flashing light. Mr Ive changed that. Now the light pulses slowly, as though the machine were truly asleep, breathing in and out. What use is that? None. What value does it have? As much as you put on being pleased.
Mr Ive dislikes the computing business's obsession with ram and megabytes: "Inhuman and very cold". His work has always tried to make machines people would love. Could he ever be tempted away by a Windows PC manufacturer? I doubt it. He couldn't like the abrupt graphics or the zig-zag fonts. Not elegant; not stylish. He's made his own, more elegant world.
Heh. You are so funny.
Unfortunally your attempts real points through (sub-par) humor fall between your cheap shots, your self-contradiction and personal attacks against a non-homogenous group.
I suggest you download PithHelmet for Safari. That should take care of most of your filtering woes.
Fading in and out of poor quality images of faces we know from the previous movies. Zooming through New Zeealand landscape. Some bows aiming upwards. Riding through the forest on Shadowfax.
And it ends with some crappy looking fighting by Gandalf that HAS to be from the video game, or I would kill myself watching that on a big screen.
Funny thing that they chose to use a Butterfly as it's icon as it's essentially a bug.
I believe these people took the slogan Apple ][ Forever more seriously than Apple ever imagined.
Flimsy? I bet you've never tried connecting a grounded plastic monster on an appropriate socket.
That's the great thing about the European ones, you get them in sizes from the small, compact, easy to pull out one to huge power adapters that need a good yanking to pull loose.
But it isn't.
And the Zen isn't better than the iPod either. The analogy still holds.
Well, let's just wait before we jump to conclusions shall we? ;)
Ah, Archos Jukebox. The big, fat bloated girlfriend of the MP3-players. You must be proud.
An Apple rep has already confirmed (off the record) that this will be an accessory to come the next months.
One can wonder why they didn't out it as a feature though.
Try converting your MP3-tags to a newer format:
Select all, then choose Convert ID3 Tags... from the Advanced menu.