GUI. Graphical User Interface. It's an art and a science all it's own. In the past, I did GUI programming for 4 years. It's an entire world when done right, with things like GUI standards, best practices, things called "deferred-create" and other cute names for ways to organize things on the screen.
I am shocked that a company like Microsoft can actually fuck up every GUI best practice rule out there.
IMO they spent a ton of time trying to rip of OS X and Aqua, but then change it enough so it has a look and feel as if it had Win XP roots. But it's a total mess. Scroll bars do not look like scroll bars, and are extremely faded. THERE IS DEAD SPACE EVERYWHERE!!! Six inch by one inch desk space areas just to show a word or two off text. Some buttons look like buttons, others look like internet links that are underlined, others only have an underline when you roll-over! I could go on and on, but I am seriously shocked. I know it's beta, but the UI will not change much, you are pretty much looking at the final product from a UI standpoint.
This is bad enough to make me leave the last Windows machine I have, and deal with windows just within a virtual environment on OS X. I "HAVE" to leave now, it's that bad a GUI. Shameful.
After much research, I found a way to have perfect CRM and financials for the small businesses out there that need to leave but can't because of those two reasons, those two kind of apps that DO run well on Windows.
Look at Salesforce.com, it works great in Safari (HTML and JavaScript, nothing else) and it misses nothing. And look at QuickBooks PRO for Mac OS X. You can only get Pro, not Premium for the Mac, but the few differences there will not be missed by most other than advanced accountants. And go with Apples Pages and Keynote or go with Open Office for the office work. Even MS Office for Mac if you need to, it's actually ok. That Salesforce.com + QuickBooks for Mac is what will help me live without Windows.
Bill G deserves a bitch smack for pushing such a counter-productive OS onto the world for the next several years. he will be wasting many decades worth of man hours for doing so. Criminal.
I don't want articles like this to waste my time here! What's next, photoshop contests? Let Fark.com handle this shit and give me more tech news, please.
Try getting a hold of $40 and buy yourself a Linksys firewall. That would give you a TON of time to upgrade a naked box. (hehe, I just said naked box).
If the assholes at Citibank used encryption, it would be a non issue. What kind of encryption do YOU use? Winzip with passwords? PGP Whole Disk? Any recomendations for encrypting an entire disk on Mac/Lin/Windoze?
I always though a good solution would be to give a code on the back of the recipt that would give you free wifi for 20 minutes, with the clock automatically starting from the time of purchase. Set the minimum price that gets the code to a medium coffee and a cookie. Yum. Cookies.
Many people will use many, if not all, of Googles services. That means one single company can aggregate the data of a persons:
Website visits Emails Web Searches Photos Hard Disk Drive contents Hard Disk Drive searches...and now everything about every page they visit, cookies and all, since they are acting as a proxy!
Just the aggregation of this data on people who use all of their services could make their current income seam like pennies. This is the type of think that governments like a lot, not just large corporations. I know they have a "don't be evil" pholosophy (their words) but shit, even Skynet was nice at one point.
My powerbook gets uptimes of MONTHS. I reboot in the rare, rare event of a security patch that requires it (usually kernel stuff I think). When I want to use the computer, I open it up and it's ready in UNDER 3 seconds, everything running. When I'm done, I just close the lid and the laptop sleeps. I do this a dozen times a day, for MONTHS without a single thing freezing. The notion of rebooting or turning a computer off at night is archaic and obsolite for me.
Another ease-of-use thing is this: I don't maintain ANYTHING. Patches are automatically checked for daily, and install automatically, on their own. No virii or spyware to worry about. Backups happen automatically to another comp via FTP. OSX defrags ON THE FLY! I don't "do" anything to maintain the comp. I just USE it. Being a programmer/geek/self-employed computer lover, it is so sweet going to this setup after living with Dos 3.22 through Windows XP SP2 and everything in between. I'll shut up now:)
Who would ever think of such a thing! I can't wait until end of next year for Longhorn, where I can enjoy this wonderful new feature!
Oh... http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/printing/ you mean anything can print to a PDF? Natively? With a built in accelerated viewer? IT'S BEEN OUT ALREADY HOW LONG!?! Uh... nevermind then.
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What will you do when ALL the stored ask you to leave the bad at the door?
Unlike the rest of the world, we have such great Freedom of SpeE&F@%&**#$@HDTH+H+[NO CARRIER]
ACTUAL SIZE!
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
GUI. Graphical User Interface. It's an art and a science all it's own. In the past, I did GUI programming for 4 years. It's an entire world when done right, with things like GUI standards, best practices, things called "deferred-create" and other cute names for ways to organize things on the screen.
I am shocked that a company like Microsoft can actually fuck up every GUI best practice rule out there.
IMO they spent a ton of time trying to rip of OS X and Aqua, but then change it enough so it has a look and feel as if it had Win XP roots. But it's a total mess. Scroll bars do not look like scroll bars, and are extremely faded. THERE IS DEAD SPACE EVERYWHERE!!! Six inch by one inch desk space areas just to show a word or two off text. Some buttons look like buttons, others look like internet links that are underlined, others only have an underline when you roll-over! I could go on and on, but I am seriously shocked. I know it's beta, but the UI will not change much, you are pretty much looking at the final product from a UI standpoint.
This is bad enough to make me leave the last Windows machine I have, and deal with windows just within a virtual environment on OS X. I "HAVE" to leave now, it's that bad a GUI. Shameful.
After much research, I found a way to have perfect CRM and financials for the small businesses out there that need to leave but can't because of those two reasons, those two kind of apps that DO run well on Windows.
Look at Salesforce.com, it works great in Safari (HTML and JavaScript, nothing else) and it misses nothing. And look at QuickBooks PRO for Mac OS X. You can only get Pro, not Premium for the Mac, but the few differences there will not be missed by most other than advanced accountants. And go with Apples Pages and Keynote or go with Open Office for the office work. Even MS Office for Mac if you need to, it's actually ok. That Salesforce.com + QuickBooks for Mac is what will help me live without Windows.
Bill G deserves a bitch smack for pushing such a counter-productive OS onto the world for the next several years. he will be wasting many decades worth of man hours for doing so. Criminal.
Buy a Dell printer. They always break. You won't print shit. So nothing to track...
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#c ached
Funniest shit I've read all month. Thank you.
Wow... I thought it would be obvious!
Upload speed it zero. They devote everything to the download, that's why it's so fast.
What about all those experiments on the Discov... uh... nevermind.
I don't want articles like this to waste my time here! What's next, photoshop contests? Let Fark.com handle this shit and give me more tech news, please.
WTF? +4 Insightful? Try Spotlight on OSX, dumbass.
Yeah, it's called Unix.
Try getting a hold of $40 and buy yourself a Linksys firewall. That would give you a TON of time to upgrade a naked box. (hehe, I just said naked box).
1) Every idiot in PC Magazine will go "WOW! Can't wait"
2) Store opens up. Late.
3) User interface sucks.
4) iTunes keeps on truckin'.
Old world: recall the calculators!
New world (to which I subscribe): recall the fucking tests!
If the assholes at Citibank used encryption, it would be a non issue. What kind of encryption do YOU use? Winzip with passwords? PGP Whole Disk? Any recomendations for encrypting an entire disk on Mac/Lin/Windoze?
I always though a good solution would be to give a code on the back of the recipt that would give you free wifi for 20 minutes, with the clock automatically starting from the time of purchase. Set the minimum price that gets the code to a medium coffee and a cookie. Yum. Cookies.
Just find this guy and kick his ass. Problem fixed, no need to patch shit.
Yeah, it's called a Mac. I don't deal with this crap on OS X.
Many people will use many, if not all, of Googles services. That means one single company can aggregate the data of a persons:
...and now everything about every page they visit, cookies and all, since they are acting as a proxy!
Website visits
Emails
Web Searches
Photos
Hard Disk Drive contents
Hard Disk Drive searches
Just the aggregation of this data on people who use all of their services could make their current income seam like pennies. This is the type of think that governments like a lot, not just large corporations. I know they have a "don't be evil" pholosophy (their words) but shit, even Skynet was nice at one point.
My powerbook gets uptimes of MONTHS. I reboot in the rare, rare event of a security patch that requires it (usually kernel stuff I think). When I want to use the computer, I open it up and it's ready in UNDER 3 seconds, everything running. When I'm done, I just close the lid and the laptop sleeps. I do this a dozen times a day, for MONTHS without a single thing freezing. The notion of rebooting or turning a computer off at night is archaic and obsolite for me.
:)
Another ease-of-use thing is this: I don't maintain ANYTHING. Patches are automatically checked for daily, and install automatically, on their own. No virii or spyware to worry about. Backups happen automatically to another comp via FTP. OSX defrags ON THE FLY! I don't "do" anything to maintain the comp. I just USE it. Being a programmer/geek/self-employed computer lover, it is so sweet going to this setup after living with Dos 3.22 through Windows XP SP2 and everything in between. I'll shut up now
Oh... http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/printing/ you mean anything can print to a PDF? Natively? With a built in accelerated viewer? IT'S BEEN OUT ALREADY HOW LONG!?! Uh... nevermind then.