I've just downloaded Safari and have to say its the best browser I've ever used. The only problem I had was importing my Chimera bookmarks but that didn't take long to fix. Safari also has the most stunning page rendering that I've ever seen!
1) proof-of-concept Cocoa applications.
2) stopgaps for the "why should I use the new OS which has no Apps, why should I write Apps for the OS with no users" conundrum.
3) setting the bar for 3rd party App quality
Not all iApps are Cocoa. Look at iTunes, iDVD and iMovie. All three are Carbon.
I use iTunes every day and iCal and iSync very frequently. These are some of the best apps that I've ever used.
They actually make a lot of third party apps seem useless!
What they need to try and copy from the Mac UI is its incredible consistency throughout all applications. This makes learning a new app so much easier than it is on Windows/KDE/Gnome.
It would also be a good idea to copy things like the application menu and the global menu bar. Its amazing that people still put quit/exit and other app related functionality in the file menu and other menus after all these years. The global menu bar is a good thing since it enables "muscle memory" to be used when choosing a menu. I've always found the windowed menu idea to be slow and cumbersome.
This, for me, was what totally ruined this film. The only good thing about the invisible car was what Paul Merton did on Have I Got News For You? last Friday. Unfortunately for you Americans its a British programme.
I was told that your cells would start to burst instantly. Then your eyeballs would pop and your ear dums explode... And surely your body would explode from the blood pressure?
OS X UI performance also largely depends on your graphics cards 3D support and your AGP bus bandwidth. So I don't think its possible to say that OS X has 85-90% of Linux performance on the same hardware.
Scrolling on OS X is extremely slow. I don't understand why this is.
Note that OS X runs much faster on a 400MHz G4 than it does on a 500MHz G3. The difference is simply incredible.
"does OS X have the capacity to run purely from the shell ?"
All you do is enter >console at the grapical login prompt to get rid of the GUI. Then log in as your user.
" can you customize a kernel under OS X?"
You recompile the kernel if you wish. Its available from www.apple.com/darwin if you are interested.
"exactly how much of a load does the OS X gui put onto the box ? is it comparable with what X does"
On Mac OS X 10.0.x to 10.1.x the GUI was extremely CPU intensive on every Mac model. Now, if you have a supported GPU, most of the graphics (including the extremely heavy image compositor) are offloaded onto the 3D graphics processor. Apparently the next major update to Windows (longhorn?) will have a similar graphics subsystem.
Apple has always done this. They always ship and support only the latest version of Mac OS on their computers, and Mac OS 9 is no longer the latest version. I'm one Mac user who could not care less about this descission. I've been running X for ages and have no problems with the classic enviornment. I just wish it would run its system out of a disk image rather than having a "System Folder."
I totally disagree with you on drag-and-drop installation. Not only does this keep consistancy with other file system operations, it is simply better than any other method around. With drag-and-drop you can put your app anywhere you want on disk, and if there is an update you can just replace it and have all aliases continue to work. This, in my opinion, is the greatest feature of the Mac UI.
Anyone with the most basic astronomy knowledge can debunk the stupid claims that the moon landing was faked.
My personal favorite claim is the one where the say the stars are not visible in any of the pictures on the moon. Maybe the existance of stars is also faked since they are NOT visible during the day on Earth.
It is thought that Apple will be adding AAC audio support to the iPod sometime in the near future. AAC supposedly has superior compression and quality to WMA.
It looks like a cheap iPod rip-off. I think that if I was going to invest in a portable music player then I would go for the real iPod and not something made to make people think that it is an iPod.
Here are some of the things that I think Linux on the desktop would need:
Single desktop environment
Consistent UI between apps
Easy one place configuration
Strict UI guidelines
The end of the cloning of the windows UI features. Linux developers need to look to other platforms for UI inspiration. Windows has never been very well designed.
A meaningful (to ordinary people) filesystem layout
Other stuff I can't think of right now
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In the menu bar: Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks->Export BookMarks
1) Export from Chimera 2) Import the file in IE 3) Use "show all bookmaks" in Safari and move them to where you want to
I've just downloaded Safari and have to say its the best browser I've ever used. The only problem I had was importing my Chimera bookmarks but that didn't take long to fix. Safari also has the most stunning page rendering that I've ever seen!
1) proof-of-concept Cocoa applications. 2) stopgaps for the "why should I use the new OS which has no Apps, why should I write Apps for the OS with no users" conundrum. 3) setting the bar for 3rd party App quality
Its 18 years of near nationalist tory government. It still shocks me today that people actually ever voted for that witch Thatcher.
To know recursion you must first know recursion. :-)
Don't know where I first heard this but after doing a functional programming module I've found it to be perfectly true!
What they need to try and copy from the Mac UI is its incredible consistency throughout all applications. This makes learning a new app so much easier than it is on Windows/KDE/Gnome. It would also be a good idea to copy things like the application menu and the global menu bar. Its amazing that people still put quit/exit and other app related functionality in the file menu and other menus after all these years. The global menu bar is a good thing since it enables "muscle memory" to be used when choosing a menu. I've always found the windowed menu idea to be slow and cumbersome.
This, for me, was what totally ruined this film. The only good thing about the invisible car was what Paul Merton did on Have I Got News For You? last Friday. Unfortunately for you Americans its a British programme.
I was told that your cells would start to burst instantly. Then your eyeballs would pop and your ear dums explode... And surely your body would explode from the blood pressure?
OS X UI performance also largely depends on your graphics cards 3D support and your AGP bus bandwidth. So I don't think its possible to say that OS X has 85-90% of Linux performance on the same hardware. Scrolling on OS X is extremely slow. I don't understand why this is. Note that OS X runs much faster on a 400MHz G4 than it does on a 500MHz G3. The difference is simply incredible.
"does OS X have the capacity to run purely from the shell ?"
All you do is enter >console at the grapical login prompt to get rid of the GUI. Then log in as your user.
" can you customize a kernel under OS X?"
You recompile the kernel if you wish. Its available from www.apple.com/darwin if you are interested.
"exactly how much of a load does the OS X gui put onto the box ? is it comparable with what X does"
On Mac OS X 10.0.x to 10.1.x the GUI was extremely CPU intensive on every Mac model. Now, if you have a supported GPU, most of the graphics (including the extremely heavy image compositor) are offloaded onto the 3D graphics processor. Apparently the next major update to Windows (longhorn?) will have a similar graphics subsystem.
Apple has always done this. They always ship and support only the latest version of Mac OS on their computers, and Mac OS 9 is no longer the latest version. I'm one Mac user who could not care less about this descission. I've been running X for ages and have no problems with the classic enviornment. I just wish it would run its system out of a disk image rather than having a "System Folder."
I totally disagree with you on drag-and-drop installation. Not only does this keep consistancy with other file system operations, it is simply better than any other method around. With drag-and-drop you can put your app anywhere you want on disk, and if there is an update you can just replace it and have all aliases continue to work. This, in my opinion, is the greatest feature of the Mac UI.
Anyone with the most basic astronomy knowledge can debunk the stupid claims that the moon landing was faked. My personal favorite claim is the one where the say the stars are not visible in any of the pictures on the moon. Maybe the existance of stars is also faked since they are NOT visible during the day on Earth.
It is thought that Apple will be adding AAC audio support to the iPod sometime in the near future. AAC supposedly has superior compression and quality to WMA.
It looks like a cheap iPod rip-off. I think that if I was going to invest in a portable music player then I would go for the real iPod and not something made to make people think that it is an iPod.
Here are some of the things that I think Linux on the desktop would need: Single desktop environment Consistent UI between apps Easy one place configuration Strict UI guidelines The end of the cloning of the windows UI features. Linux developers need to look to other platforms for UI inspiration. Windows has never been very well designed. A meaningful (to ordinary people) filesystem layout Other stuff I can't think of right now