It was more the quantity of paper than the act of printing that stopped me; we had an Apple LaserWriter II NT at the time, with a LocalTalk port. My Performa 6400 was also the print server, so that my father's iMac rev B could print, though he complained that he couldn't if I was playing a game at the time. I just though that all that paper would be too unwieldily.
I had Turbo Pascal 5.5 for my old PC(8088 later upgraded with 286 motherboard). Bought it for a class at UMR. It was the only language that I actually wrote programs for my own use at home. I later tried to write a C version of one of them, but the DOS libraries had less features and I couldn't do everything I wanted, and the compiled file size was 50k instead of 12k.
Though with all the college level classes I had from '89 to '97, none of them had anything to do with programing in a GUI, which is why I've still never done so. I picked up the Discovery Edition of CodeWarrior in about '98, but couldn't figure out how to do anything but compile the examples. The documentation was only in PDF format, which would have taken two reams of paper to print out, and was VERY slow to scroll through on a 200 MHz Performa 6400.
Since I can't find didly squat on LimeWire anymore, I'd say no. Not that I ever search for software, but these days, there's so few other servers to connect to, a *.* search comes up nearly empty.
Actually, I do care about what I'm playing an MP3 with, and don't care so much where the actual files are kept. There's a world of difference between QuickTime Player and iTunes 3, including some audio differences.
Games, save for a few PopCap games I have, rarely have windows to close. PC game ports in particular hide all outside interface elements, and my brother used to complain loudly if he saw a Mac Open File dialogue box to open his saved game.
I didn't refer to the multimedia files as documents, since I rarely make any changes to such files, save for ID4 tags in MP3 files.
Question: I'm a UNIX command line newbie, but I'm trying this Open command, and wondering how you handle files, applications, and directories with spaces in the name. They don't seem to be usable this way.
Because the application is irrelevant and should be completely transaparent. The user doesn't (and shouldn't have to) care what application is being used to open their documents. All they care about is the data in those documents, and the UI should reflect that. "
That depends on the way you use the computer. I'm not particularly document-centric, and have a whole six files in my Documents folder, not counting application specific folders like "AppleWorks User Data". This of course doesn't include data types like mp3's, movie clips, and pictures, which are all stored in other folders or partitions. My Applications folder, on the other hand, has 66 items, not counting dozens of games on another partition. But this is a home computer, not somthing out of a cubicle.
Well, since I almost never read MacSlash, posting it here saves me the trouble of looking elsewhere. Though I did read this store elsewhere today, Mac Central, I think. Or perhaps yesterday.
I have no desire to carry either a cell phone or pager, even if they were completely free. Anyone needing to reach me can call me at home, and if I'm not there, CallNotes can take a message. I've long considered pagers to be a form of those radio transmitters they tag wild animals with to track them, and I don't want to be tracked. Making a call? I hardly dial out on my phone at home that often, and it's not like there won't be a phone anywhere I go if an emergency comes up!
I use email, sometimes AIM/iChat, and a corded phone with Caller ID. That's all I need.
After using Safari, Camino felt a little pokey, not so much in rendering speed as in scrolling speed and general responsiveness. On the other hand, if I go back to OmniWeb, the scroll wheel feels too responsive, and I often overshoot what I'm looking for.
I'm not a fan of Tabbed Browsing so far. I have plenty of memory and DSL, so I don't see much need for them.
I've heard the suggestion before that it might be my video memory, but since it runs fine in OS 9, it didn't make much sense. Anyway, the video is non-upgradable, and I've been told it would be about $250 for Apple to go in and give me another Rage 128 8MB, so I'm putting up with it for now.
Actually, MacOS 9.22 is more stable for me than OS X, unfortunately. Perhaps it's how you maintain it, but I can't think offhand of the last crash I had in 9.22. It's less feature rich than X, and doesn't multitask anywhere near as well, and doesn't manage memory as well, but it was rock solid for me, and better for 3D gaming.
I've only seen one actual Kernal Panic in X, running Escape Velociy: Nova, of all things. But I do get hard freezes, when everything stops and there's nothing to do but reach for the reset button. Most occur when I try and run a 3D game, pretty much any 3D game besides Quake III. I've also had one or 2 a day lately when playing Diablo II:LoD, using software rendering; I actually reinstalled the game this week, to see if it would fix some problems, but no, it's acting exactly the same. But I *AM* using a Fall '99 model of iMac, not exactly cutting edge technology, so hopefully people with newer hardware won't encounter them.
I should note that my reinstall of Diablo II was my first time in recent memory that I've tried to reinstall anything to improve performance, and it didn't change anything, because that wasn't the problem. Reinstalling isn't the Mac way.
I pay no attention to PC prices, but everything I've heard recently says that current PowerBooks beat the PC laptops in both features and price. Perhaps the iBooks, too, but I'm not certain.
In any case, your 2 cheap PC's would probably be light on extra features, like high speed Ethernet, wireless networking, FireWire ports, and so forth.
I downloaded it at my full DSL speed of 142K/sec. No slowdowns. On the other hand, it's actually taking longer to uncompress than download. Not too unusual for DSL and a 3 year old iMac. 10 minutes to download, 15 for StuffIt Expander to expand...
Moving files? Doesn't it give you a progress bar showing how much is left? It does for me, save for when it's done so fast that it doesn't bother putting it up. Plus, all file operations are a LOT faster in OS X than OS 9 and earlier. I can now copy 40MB files from one partition to another in about 2 seconds, and moving a file to another folder on the same drive is instant.
I do agree about the Free Space problem, but it's generally a minor annoyance, as I'm always thowing something out to keep it up to date.
OS X users don't really need the iDisk tool, either, as we can connect automatically to ours from the Go menu. It does simplify things for connecting to other people's Public folders, but I've not had a need for that so far.
I've also had a Linux user from Slashdot log onto my Public folder on my iDisk and send me some files, over dialup even!
I was expecting a little more info, perhaps another page or two. But mainly he complained about the lack of an app that I've naturally not heard of, and IE for Mac. I've got 5 web browsers installed myself, there's plenty to choose from. It just seemed to end abruptly, like part of the article is missing.
What, that's suppost to be old? MacPlay published Mac versions of Hexen 2 and Heretic 2 last year!
Myth II at least was available for the Mac before(and released on a Mac/Windows hybrid CD's), just not native to OS X.
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Yes, I'm quite happy to see these games updates for OS X, not least of which because I'm dead broke and can't afford new games, or new hardware. I reinstalled Quake 3 on Sunday night, and updated it to 1.32 for OS X last night, and it works perfectly. Surprising, since pretty much all other 3D games make my old iMac freeze. Now if MacPlay would release a Carbon version of Majesty, like they said they would..
Myth II? I guess it has better multiplayer options than Myth I, but I hated the single player missions in Myth II. Too many missions where your goal is to keep some of your troops alive while the Enemy is closing in in nearly all directions. 'Gonan's Bridge' sucks! I've beaten it a couple of times, but that doesn't make latter attempts any easier.
There are many Mac users who disagree with some, or even most, of Apple's business decisions, but they'll buy from no one else. There's a difference between loving the product and loving the company.
Huge profit margins? They're still barely breaking even in this economy, but then all the PC manufacturers are having practically no profit margins, after Dell destroyed them with their low overhead business model. If Apple went the same way, they couldn't afford any R&D, and the only 'innovation' in the industry would be the new ways Microsoft dreams up to screw the customers and competition.
I'll gladly pay the premium for a better OS, better hardware software integration, and an almost complete lack of viruses and security problems. Or at least I will when I find a job and pay off my credit card debt...
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It was more the quantity of paper than the act of printing that stopped me; we had an Apple LaserWriter II NT at the time, with a LocalTalk port. My Performa 6400 was also the print server, so that my father's iMac rev B could print, though he complained that he couldn't if I was playing a game at the time. I just though that all that paper would be too unwieldily.
I had Turbo Pascal 5.5 for my old PC(8088 later upgraded with 286 motherboard). Bought it for a class at UMR. It was the only language that I actually wrote programs for my own use at home. I later tried to write a C version of one of them, but the DOS libraries had less features and I couldn't do everything I wanted, and the compiled file size was 50k instead of 12k.
Though with all the college level classes I had from '89 to '97, none of them had anything to do with programing in a GUI, which is why I've still never done so. I picked up the Discovery Edition of CodeWarrior in about '98, but couldn't figure out how to do anything but compile the examples. The documentation was only in PDF format, which would have taken two reams of paper to print out, and was VERY slow to scroll through on a 200 MHz Performa 6400.
More specifically, today's CRT iMacs have just CD-ROMs. My 3 year old iMac DV has a DVD-ROM. But I've never put a DVD in it that wasn't just a movie.
Since I can't find didly squat on LimeWire anymore, I'd say no. Not that I ever search for software, but these days, there's so few other servers to connect to, a *.* search comes up nearly empty.
Actually, I do care about what I'm playing an MP3 with, and don't care so much where the actual files are kept. There's a world of difference between QuickTime Player and iTunes 3, including some audio differences.
Games, save for a few PopCap games I have, rarely have windows to close. PC game ports in particular hide all outside interface elements, and my brother used to complain loudly if he saw a Mac Open File dialogue box to open his saved game.
I didn't refer to the multimedia files as documents, since I rarely make any changes to such files, save for ID4 tags in MP3 files.
Question: I'm a UNIX command line newbie, but I'm trying this Open command, and wondering how you handle files, applications, and directories with spaces in the name. They don't seem to be usable this way.
So do you browse Slashdot without using a mouse? Sounds like the hard way of going about it.
I do know one computer user who uses the keyboard exclusively, but then he's blind, so the mouse doesn't help him much.
"Why not?
Because the application is irrelevant and should be completely transaparent. The user doesn't (and shouldn't have to) care what application is being used to open their documents. All they care about is the data in those documents, and the UI should reflect that. "
That depends on the way you use the computer. I'm not particularly document-centric, and have a whole six files in my Documents folder, not counting application specific folders like "AppleWorks User Data". This of course doesn't include data types like mp3's, movie clips, and pictures, which are all stored in other folders or partitions. My Applications folder, on the other hand, has 66 items, not counting dozens of games on another partition. But this is a home computer, not somthing out of a cubicle.
Well, since I almost never read MacSlash, posting it here saves me the trouble of looking elsewhere. Though I did read this store elsewhere today, Mac Central, I think. Or perhaps yesterday.
Heh, not even close.
I have no desire to carry either a cell phone or pager, even if they were completely free. Anyone needing to reach me can call me at home, and if I'm not there, CallNotes can take a message. I've long considered pagers to be a form of those radio transmitters they tag wild animals with to track them, and I don't want to be tracked. Making a call? I hardly dial out on my phone at home that often, and it's not like there won't be a phone anywhere I go if an emergency comes up!
I use email, sometimes AIM/iChat, and a corded phone with Caller ID. That's all I need.
After using Safari, Camino felt a little pokey, not so much in rendering speed as in scrolling speed and general responsiveness. On the other hand, if I go back to OmniWeb, the scroll wheel feels too responsive, and I often overshoot what I'm looking for.
I'm not a fan of Tabbed Browsing so far. I have plenty of memory and DSL, so I don't see much need for them.
I've heard the suggestion before that it might be my video memory, but since it runs fine in OS 9, it didn't make much sense. Anyway, the video is non-upgradable, and I've been told it would be about $250 for Apple to go in and give me another Rage 128 8MB, so I'm putting up with it for now.
Actually, MacOS 9.22 is more stable for me than OS X, unfortunately. Perhaps it's how you maintain it, but I can't think offhand of the last crash I had in 9.22. It's less feature rich than X, and doesn't multitask anywhere near as well, and doesn't manage memory as well, but it was rock solid for me, and better for 3D gaming.
I've only seen one actual Kernal Panic in X, running Escape Velociy: Nova, of all things. But I do get hard freezes, when everything stops and there's nothing to do but reach for the reset button. Most occur when I try and run a 3D game, pretty much any 3D game besides Quake III. I've also had one or 2 a day lately when playing Diablo II:LoD, using software rendering; I actually reinstalled the game this week, to see if it would fix some problems, but no, it's acting exactly the same. But I *AM* using a Fall '99 model of iMac, not exactly cutting edge technology, so hopefully people with newer hardware won't encounter them.
I should note that my reinstall of Diablo II was my first time in recent memory that I've tried to reinstall anything to improve performance, and it didn't change anything, because that wasn't the problem. Reinstalling isn't the Mac way.
I pay no attention to PC prices, but everything I've heard recently says that current PowerBooks beat the PC laptops in both features and price. Perhaps the iBooks, too, but I'm not certain.
In any case, your 2 cheap PC's would probably be light on extra features, like high speed Ethernet, wireless networking, FireWire ports, and so forth.
I downloaded it at my full DSL speed of 142K/sec. No slowdowns. On the other hand, it's actually taking longer to uncompress than download. Not too unusual for DSL and a 3 year old iMac. 10 minutes to download, 15 for StuffIt Expander to expand...
Moving files? Doesn't it give you a progress bar showing how much is left? It does for me, save for when it's done so fast that it doesn't bother putting it up. Plus, all file operations are a LOT faster in OS X than OS 9 and earlier. I can now copy 40MB files from one partition to another in about 2 seconds, and moving a file to another folder on the same drive is instant.
I do agree about the Free Space problem, but it's generally a minor annoyance, as I'm always thowing something out to keep it up to date.
OS X users don't really need the iDisk tool, either, as we can connect automatically to ours from the Go menu. It does simplify things for connecting to other people's Public folders, but I've not had a need for that so far.
I've also had a Linux user from Slashdot log onto my Public folder on my iDisk and send me some files, over dialup even!
I was expecting a little more info, perhaps another page or two. But mainly he complained about the lack of an app that I've naturally not heard of, and IE for Mac. I've got 5 web browsers installed myself, there's plenty to choose from. It just seemed to end abruptly, like part of the article is missing.
What, that's suppost to be old? MacPlay published Mac versions of Hexen 2 and Heretic 2 last year!
Myth II at least was available for the Mac before(and released on a Mac/Windows hybrid CD's), just not native to OS X.
Yes, I'm quite happy to see these games updates for OS X, not least of which because I'm dead broke and can't afford new games, or new hardware. I reinstalled Quake 3 on Sunday night, and updated it to 1.32 for OS X last night, and it works perfectly. Surprising, since pretty much all other 3D games make my old iMac freeze. Now if MacPlay would release a Carbon version of Majesty, like they said they would..
Myth II? I guess it has better multiplayer options than Myth I, but I hated the single player missions in Myth II. Too many missions where your goal is to keep some of your troops alive while the Enemy is closing in in nearly all directions. 'Gonan's Bridge' sucks! I've beaten it a couple of times, but that doesn't make latter attempts any easier.
Since I get an instant 'could not connect' message, it could well be Apple's team of ninja-lawyers. It just doesn't feel like the Slashdot effect.
Or at least the sales of Office X have been 'disappointing'. Well, if you stop asking nearly $500 for it, it might sell a bit better!
Oh? And what are the computers like on your planet? ;-)
There are many Mac users who disagree with some, or even most, of Apple's business decisions, but they'll buy from no one else. There's a difference between loving the product and loving the company.
Huge profit margins? They're still barely breaking even in this economy, but then all the PC manufacturers are having practically no profit margins, after Dell destroyed them with their low overhead business model. If Apple went the same way, they couldn't afford any R&D, and the only 'innovation' in the industry would be the new ways Microsoft dreams up to screw the customers and competition.
I'll gladly pay the premium for a better OS, better hardware software integration, and an almost complete lack of viruses and security problems. Or at least I will when I find a job and pay off my credit card debt...