"We've got no business causing spinal injuries to animals, or any injuries for that matter. Test them on humans if humans are who they aim to benefit."
Right, glad you volunteered, just lay down please this won't hurt a bit...
I think I saw his face for ten seconds in one making of from pixar (Toy Story 2). The rest of all those making of's was filled with boring people who do stuff.
AFAIC the racoon is the only one trying to get KDE running natively on OS X and he's also a KDE on Fink contributor. Seems the best guy to approach for bug reporting and such. Be nice, I have the impression he works really hard on all this.
Curiosity, isn't that a damned good reason to look at a desktop environment? And btw, did you hear me complain about something? pffffffrt.
Now really seriously, you do realize this is the website where people get exited because someone gets OS X emulated through twenty different OS's and emulators (among them of course atari) and then proudly announces that resizing a window took less than twelve hours?
It looks way better than XP, that's for sure. I'm glad they don't take the "looks bad but you can make your own skin" route. The default look is professional and clean.
Can't comment on the feel. Last time I tried to get KDE running on top of OS X it did nothing (unless crashing is one of its hidden features).
Businesses that size will most likely have in-house graphical people. So IT already knows its way around macs, networking macs and providing good storage solutions. They can judge who'd be better served with macs than PC's and convince management to do this. After all, if you can keep a graphics department happy, you sure as hell can switch AD's, secretaries, salespeople and others who don't need to run specialized software. They know that after the initial pains they'll have effectively pacified the people most at risk of infecting the network and needing most one on one support (how do I open this file, what does this icon mean, where did all these popups come from,...)
My bet is that most smaller businesses won't try this as fast as bigger ones, for above reason: I won't try what I don't know. And in a sense they're justified in doing this. At least with MS they know what they're in for, Apple for them is a big unknown and IT investments weigh more in smaller businesses.
Good IT people will know when it's time to switch or mix.
The article talked about subduing a crowd before it got violent. That applies to a lot of situations. And it's that which worries a good deal of people.
Ratings are given based on content. The rating should enable parents to protect their children from unsuitable content. DVD's, CD's and videogames are subject to this.
The actual rating philosophy goes something like this: - violence: sort of OK - cursing: not good - sex: GOD NO!!!!!!! AAAAARGH!!!!!!
Man oh man, Iraq has been the playground of right-wing bastards for decades now. What you have there is the result of your own making. Go piss up another pole.
Executing enemy combatants in public is the surest way of making more enemy combatants, you ignorant fuck. Worst thing is, you probably know this already, but still think it's good therapy.
As an intelligent man once said (one of your presidents) the first casualty of war is reason.
Um, it's not stupid or reactionary to look at all the negatives and possible implications of such a device. We know where it'll be used in the future if it's deemed successful. And we know the people doing this deeming are very far removed from ourselves.
And btw being against a war being fought without a credible scenario for the peace being maintained is not the same as being against soldiers shooting back at people.
"The biggest problem with developing better weapons is that eventually other countries will also have them, either by stealing our plans & building one, or by just stealing one of the weapons & reverse engineering it."
No, that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that weapons are not built for defence. They're built to be sold. To the home country who after all puts so many of its tax dollars in them, sure, best customer. But the operative word is "customer".
So, people rioting to get rid of Saddam, shoot to kill? Stack up the bodies? Or are you only talking about young people protesting such and such stupid thing?
Nope. With all respect, most people think the US has gone mad.
All credible experts told them "Sure, you can win the war, but can you win the peace? We sure as hell don't think you can. Iraq and possibly the whole region will be a hotbed for all kinds of horrors for years to come".
To which we've gotten the "we don't really care" answer.
So, compared to that, microwaving protestors is really not that surprising.
Yes, agreed, but that's not the same as an independently propagating virus. That's something between a troyan and a phishing attempt . No platform is excempt from that (or naive users), but that's already a far more elaborate argument than 'if the mac becomes dominant the viruses will come'.
I don't agree with any of the preferences of the author, but that's beside the point, it's always good to look at other GUI's.
There is however one thing that I do like in Windows. All media you plug into a PC shows up in one directory (forgotten how it's called, My Devices, My Disks, My whatever). It's device-centric, which IMO (or maybe more honestly: in my experience) is ass-backwards but it does work.
So on the Mac, I wouldn't complain about having a sort of directory where all of your devices (printers, routers, etc. included) would show up, along with some relevant options, including access to the media inside the device.
Yes, I DO like the Mac way, and I wouldn't want to change it. Whatever you plug into your mac, the actual media will appear on the desktop, not the device carrying it (you'll see the CD, not the CD reader/writer). And as a bonus you can set the preferences to for instance open iTunes, or when inserting a camera, iPhoto. That's great, no sweat.
Nevertheless I think it wouldn't hurt to have both ways of looking at things, and incidentally one that switchers will be more familiar with.
Something a friend of mine said some four years back (when everybody shouted "tinfoil hat" at the idea): if a few seconds can do this, imagine doing it for a few minutes.
Isn't it nice we have all these backward countries to test our toys with and send our kids to to teach them some geography?
"I'm a firm believer that this is primarily a result of market share"
Well, belief is something we all need once in a while, but it shouldn't deter you from some facts... I hope you evaluated the inbuilt mac security and updating mechanism before you came into your belief, since those two things alone account for about 99% of the mac's very real security.
In case you haven't noticed, there are more than enough potential security risks plugged all the time, and the reason it doesn't pay to try and exploit them is that virtually everybody installs the security updates.
While with Windows you just have to wait until a patch comes out and then write your exploit since depressingly few people will update.
Installing security updates is so easy and automated a child can do it, a 72 years old with no prior computer experience can do it. I'm not making this up, BTW, I'm talking about a real child and a real 72 years old, who're mostly clueless but nevertheless keep their OS up to date and secure.
I want to say two things that should be at the back of your mind when reading such an article:
1) Mac OS is and will always be a mix of an entry level system and a power house. A (sometimes awkward) marriage of a first-timer computer and a professional work station. So if you want the kind of contextual menu's Windows has (with every option available), dream on. That's way too much for a novice. If you want a system that actually needs a three button mouse, stick to what you're used to. I wouldn't dream of only using one mouse but know quite a few intelligent people who can't master more than one button. If this depresses you, go out and smell the roses;-) OTOH OS X does allow for a fair amount of tweaking, so at least some of the author's preferences can be met by digging in preferences settings or third party add-ons.
2) These kind of usability opinion pieces are always better when they come from the kind of person who spends about 50/50 time on each system he tries to evaluate. I'm not saying the guy doesn't have points, but most of them only make sense when you're actually a windows guy stuck on OS X.
I'm not out to blow this article away, just saying that if you take these two points into consideration, it all makes a bit more sense and helps differenciate between the author's personal preferences and genuine usability issues.
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"We've got no business causing spinal injuries to animals, or any injuries for that matter. Test them on humans if humans are who they aim to benefit."
Right, glad you volunteered, just lay down please this won't hurt a bit...
Just kidding...
I think I saw his face for ten seconds in one making of from pixar (Toy Story 2). The rest of all those making of's was filled with boring people who do stuff.
"I know Jobs wanted to move Pixar from linux or OS X but I guess that just didn't go anywhere..."
Where did you get that information?
"And last night?! There was this movie?!
And all the good guys were using a macintosh?!!!!!!
I think I even saw an iPod. Isn't that cool?!"
So all this talk about linux in the film industry is totally misguided...
Ahem, yes, I thought you were being sarcastic.
Excuse...
AFAIC the racoon is the only one trying to get KDE running natively on OS X and he's also a KDE on Fink contributor. Seems the best guy to approach for bug reporting and such. Be nice, I have the impression he works really hard on all this.
Cheers
Curiosity, isn't that a damned good reason to look at a desktop environment? And btw, did you hear me complain about something? pffffffrt.
Now really seriously, you do realize this is the website where people get exited because someone gets OS X emulated through twenty different OS's and emulators (among them of course atari) and then proudly announces that resizing a window took less than twelve hours?
Get it, got it? Good.
It looks way better than XP, that's for sure. I'm glad they don't take the "looks bad but you can make your own skin" route. The default look is professional and clean.
Can't comment on the feel. Last time I tried to get KDE running on top of OS X it did nothing (unless crashing is one of its hidden features).
Businesses that size will most likely have in-house graphical people. So IT already knows its way around macs, networking macs and providing good storage solutions. They can judge who'd be better served with macs than PC's and convince management to do this. ...)
After all, if you can keep a graphics department happy, you sure as hell can switch AD's, secretaries, salespeople and others who don't need to run specialized software. They know that after the initial pains they'll have effectively pacified the people most at risk of infecting the network and needing most one on one support (how do I open this file, what does this icon mean, where did all these popups come from,
My bet is that most smaller businesses won't try this as fast as bigger ones, for above reason: I won't try what I don't know. And in a sense they're justified in doing this. At least with MS they know what they're in for, Apple for them is a big unknown and IT investments weigh more in smaller businesses.
Good IT people will know when it's time to switch or mix.
The article talked about subduing a crowd before it got violent. That applies to a lot of situations. And it's that which worries a good deal of people.
Ratings are given based on content. The rating should enable parents to protect their children from unsuitable content. DVD's, CD's and videogames are subject to this.
The actual rating philosophy goes something like this:
- violence: sort of OK
- cursing: not good
- sex: GOD NO!!!!!!! AAAAARGH!!!!!!
get it, got it? good.
Who was also thinking about VISA?
;-)
As in
- keep paying
- what you need to enter our beautiful OS
- what you'll have to endlessly renew
Who cares about the view if you're not allowed to wander freely?
Man oh man, Iraq has been the playground of right-wing bastards for decades now. What you have there is the result of your own making. Go piss up another pole.
Executing enemy combatants in public is the surest way of making more enemy combatants, you ignorant fuck. Worst thing is, you probably know this already, but still think it's good therapy.
As an intelligent man once said (one of your presidents) the first casualty of war is reason.
So someone being bombed the shit out of himself by that same army can't say something insightful?
Um, it's not stupid or reactionary to look at all the negatives and possible implications of such a device. We know where it'll be used in the future if it's deemed successful. And we know the people doing this deeming are very far removed from ourselves.
And btw being against a war being fought without a credible scenario for the peace being maintained is not the same as being against soldiers shooting back at people.
"The biggest problem with developing better weapons is that eventually other countries will also have them, either by stealing our plans & building one, or by just stealing one of the weapons & reverse engineering it."
No, that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that weapons are not built for defence. They're built to be sold. To the home country who after all puts so many of its tax dollars in them, sure, best customer. But the operative word is "customer".
So, people rioting to get rid of Saddam, shoot to kill? Stack up the bodies?
Or are you only talking about young people protesting such and such stupid thing?
"Anyone else think the world's going a bit mad?"
Nope. With all respect, most people think the US has gone mad.
All credible experts told them "Sure, you can win the war, but can you win the peace? We sure as hell don't think you can. Iraq and possibly the whole region will be a hotbed for all kinds of horrors for years to come".
To which we've gotten the "we don't really care" answer.
So, compared to that, microwaving protestors is really not that surprising.
Yes, agreed, but that's not the same as an independently propagating virus. That's something between a troyan and a phishing attempt . No platform is excempt from that (or naive users), but that's already a far more elaborate argument than 'if the mac becomes dominant the viruses will come'.
Cheers
I don't agree with any of the preferences of the author, but that's beside the point, it's always good to look at other GUI's.
There is however one thing that I do like in Windows. All media you plug into a PC shows up in one directory (forgotten how it's called, My Devices, My Disks, My whatever). It's device-centric, which IMO (or maybe more honestly: in my experience) is ass-backwards but it does work.
So on the Mac, I wouldn't complain about having a sort of directory where all of your devices (printers, routers, etc. included) would show up, along with some relevant options, including access to the media inside the device.
Yes, I DO like the Mac way, and I wouldn't want to change it. Whatever you plug into your mac, the actual media will appear on the desktop, not the device carrying it (you'll see the CD, not the CD reader/writer). And as a bonus you can set the preferences to for instance open iTunes, or when inserting a camera, iPhoto. That's great, no sweat.
Nevertheless I think it wouldn't hurt to have both ways of looking at things, and incidentally one that switchers will be more familiar with.
Purists will hate the idea, but who cares.
Something a friend of mine said some four years back (when everybody shouted "tinfoil hat" at the idea): if a few seconds can do this, imagine doing it for a few minutes.
Isn't it nice we have all these backward countries to test our toys with and send our kids to to teach them some geography?
Mac minae?
You've got to laugh at the moderation system once in a while. I found this post positively funny, hilarious even. But insightful?
"I'm a firm believer that this is primarily a result of market share"
Well, belief is something we all need once in a while, but it shouldn't deter you from some facts...
I hope you evaluated the inbuilt mac security and updating mechanism before you came into your belief, since those two things alone account for about 99% of the mac's very real security.
In case you haven't noticed, there are more than enough potential security risks plugged all the time, and the reason it doesn't pay to try and exploit them is that virtually everybody installs the security updates.
While with Windows you just have to wait until a patch comes out and then write your exploit since depressingly few people will update.
Installing security updates is so easy and automated a child can do it, a 72 years old with no prior computer experience can do it. I'm not making this up, BTW, I'm talking about a real child and a real 72 years old, who're mostly clueless but nevertheless keep their OS up to date and secure.
I want to say two things that should be at the back of your mind when reading such an article:
;-)
1) Mac OS is and will always be a mix of an entry level system and a power house. A (sometimes awkward) marriage of a first-timer computer and a professional work station. So if you want the kind of contextual menu's Windows has (with every option available), dream on. That's way too much for a novice. If you want a system that actually needs a three button mouse, stick to what you're used to. I wouldn't dream of only using one mouse but know quite a few intelligent people who can't master more than one button. If this depresses you, go out and smell the roses
OTOH OS X does allow for a fair amount of tweaking, so at least some of the author's preferences can be met by digging in preferences settings or third party add-ons.
2) These kind of usability opinion pieces are always better when they come from the kind of person who spends about 50/50 time on each system he tries to evaluate. I'm not saying the guy doesn't have points, but most of them only make sense when you're actually a windows guy stuck on OS X.
I'm not out to blow this article away, just saying that if you take these two points into consideration, it all makes a bit more sense and helps differenciate between the author's personal preferences and genuine usability issues.