The Mac UI is awesome, but it's far from perfect. There are some things I'd love to see in the Finder, and some I'd like to see go. I would love to have the "shelf" back as a place to hold files up while you drill down into other directories, for example. The expose and window shuffle drag and drop way works, but I'd just like the option of another way.
I don't think any OS has it quite right just yet, but it's a bit of an impossible task. Making an interface that works well for every person is very difficult, unless you allow the individial user to customise everything in minute detail.
This is all well and good, and has been done to some extent on a small scale (just check out Adium's incredible flexibility) but it introduces complexity and makes support a nightmare.
Will they market it like those Centrino laptops that magically allow you to share your photos and do full screen, perfect quality video messaging over the internet while you're in the middle of nowhere with nary a cellphone tower, wireless access point or sign of civilization to be seen anywhere?
But Windows Movie Maker is so far behind iMovie it's laughable.
I don't see anything wrong with bundling software with your OS to give it function. It's when it's used in an illegal manner that it becomes a problem. Intertwining IE, Messenger and WMP with Windows and making them impossible or very difficult to remove and then manipulating the standards (Java, HTML, CSS etc) to ensure that IE is the only browser that "works" for most people is where the problem lies.
If Microsoft were to include a standalone IE with Windows that is easy to remove if you don't want it, and stop using the 90% install base to force everyone to use it, then I'd have no problem with it.
You also missed off "movie editing/DVD authouring" which was included in the list. Specifically easy to use movie and DVD making for people/families/the curious with camcorders who want to be able to share their home movies as easily as sharing their photos.
And thanks to libgaim, Adium can use a plethora of different IM protocols so you can keep track of friends and contacts that use different services without needing multiple clients.
It also has the best UI, features and stability/resourse use of any of the OS X chat clients (including iChat), in my opinion.
Whenever someone does something like this (selling something for much less than its value) scenes like these always happen.
Ikea did this with a new store in the UK, selling a £500 sofa for £50 and mob scenes resulted, with people fighting in the aisles, people trampled and people stealing sofas off feeble old people who were unable to hang onto their purchase.
When it comes to a bargain, I'm amazed people don't pack heat before setting off for the store.
Steam is colourless and odourless. You can't see it at all.
You can see the water vapour that condenses when steam hits cold air or other cold surfaces, but since you're using dry ice, you would get gaseous CO2 as a result, not water. No steam in sight.
It is a grammar issue. The wrong word was used to describe their actions, regardless of the semantics used to try and make it fit. It was simply incorrect.
To be proactive would be to think "thay guy might steal passwords so I'll change the locks"
Reacting is "that guy stole the passwords, so I'd better change them because they have been compromised".
It has been pointed out that a clever PR trick would be to say that the adjective refers to changing the passwords before they can be abused rather than refer to measures taken to prevent them being taken in the first place.
I guess proactive is used like criteria or myriad - one of those words that people know, but don't know how to use properly.
It doesn't render properly in IE, since IE doesn't support fixed background images for things other than Body, so the "transparent" boxes effect doesn't work.
Works in all browsers that properly support CSS1 though, instead of claim to but don't really like IE.
This special copyright provision also applies to the song "Happy Birthday".
I used to moderate the uk forums for a large multinational games console maker who doesn't make an operating system or have anything to do with Italian plumbers. Of the many rules we had to follow, deleting any lyrics from Happy Birthday was one of them. They just couldn't take the risk of being had for copyright infringement.
I'm almost ashamed to be human that such circumstances exist.
The problem is, of course, that you can't mix and match - if you do any stem cell research in a lab, then that whole lab (and any other research unconnected with stem cells is/also/ denied federal funding).
The only way to ensure that just the stem cell research is denied the funding is to set up a separate lab, which is expensive and difficult.
The blanket ban, driven by religious motives primarily (like the whole religious crusade against science in the middle and dark ages [earth is flat, world created in 7 days etc etc]) makes it very, very difficult to carry out stem cell research alongside other federally funded projects.
There was no way I'd have been able to watch the new Battlestar Galactica on Sky - for one, the frequent open-heart-surgery-length advert breaks would get on my nerves, and second it was always on at a time when I was busy - 8pm isn't really my ideal TV time.
So, I downloaded them bia bittorrent to check them out, and was very impressed. It was a necessary trial before going out and buying the DVDs - both the series 1 box set and the mini series. There's no way I'd put down cash for the DVDs without first checking out the show.
I do the same thing with music. If I hear something I like on the radio I download the album or single (I like to listen to the actual music - less chat, less adverts, more music please). If the album is an good, I'll buy it (better lately, since the iTunes Music Store came along, buying is quicker and easier than ever). If the album is crap, I'll just get rid of it (why keep it around if it's crap?)
Maybe the music industry (and the TV industry) loses money because I don't trial material by buying it o see if I like it, but given the price of music, TV and films, I prefer it my way.
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The Mac UI is awesome, but it's far from perfect. There are some things I'd love to see in the Finder, and some I'd like to see go. I would love to have the "shelf" back as a place to hold files up while you drill down into other directories, for example. The expose and window shuffle drag and drop way works, but I'd just like the option of another way.
I don't think any OS has it quite right just yet, but it's a bit of an impossible task. Making an interface that works well for every person is very difficult, unless you allow the individial user to customise everything in minute detail.
This is all well and good, and has been done to some extent on a small scale (just check out Adium's incredible flexibility) but it introduces complexity and makes support a nightmare.
I composite HD video for a living, tell me about 120 GB not being enough!
In a portable environment though, you just have to make sacrifices.
Leave the big disks on the main edit suite and just tae what you need if you're on the road.
And while you're fumbling with cables and an external battery to power that 3.5" drive, I'll be in the next seat over with an internal HD and no fuss.
Will they market it like those Centrino laptops that magically allow you to share your photos and do full screen, perfect quality video messaging over the internet while you're in the middle of nowhere with nary a cellphone tower, wireless access point or sign of civilization to be seen anywhere?
You can always use Disk Utility to create encrypted disk images of any size that you can mount when needed.
But Windows Movie Maker is so far behind iMovie it's laughable.
I don't see anything wrong with bundling software with your OS to give it function. It's when it's used in an illegal manner that it becomes a problem. Intertwining IE, Messenger and WMP with Windows and making them impossible or very difficult to remove and then manipulating the standards (Java, HTML, CSS etc) to ensure that IE is the only browser that "works" for most people is where the problem lies.
If Microsoft were to include a standalone IE with Windows that is easy to remove if you don't want it, and stop using the 90% install base to force everyone to use it, then I'd have no problem with it.
Paint!
You're having a laugh right?
You also missed off "movie editing/DVD authouring" which was included in the list. Specifically easy to use movie and DVD making for people/families/the curious with camcorders who want to be able to share their home movies as easily as sharing their photos.
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And thanks to libgaim, Adium can use a plethora of different IM protocols so you can keep track of friends and contacts that use different services without needing multiple clients.
It also has the best UI, features and stability/resourse use of any of the OS X chat clients (including iChat), in my opinion.
Whenever someone does something like this (selling something for much less than its value) scenes like these always happen.
Ikea did this with a new store in the UK, selling a £500 sofa for £50 and mob scenes resulted, with people fighting in the aisles, people trampled and people stealing sofas off feeble old people who were unable to hang onto their purchase.
When it comes to a bargain, I'm amazed people don't pack heat before setting off for the store.
Except it's not steam, it's water vapour. Steam is colourless and 100C, not cold and white/visible.
Steam is colourless and odourless. You can't see it at all.
You can see the water vapour that condenses when steam hits cold air or other cold surfaces, but since you're using dry ice, you would get gaseous CO2 as a result, not water. No steam in sight.
You miss the point - the word proactive means to take measures in case something happens, or to plan ahead to afect the outcome.
Defined as "creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than reacting to it"
Passwords already compromised: result, cisco changes them.
It is a grammar issue. The wrong word was used to describe their actions, regardless of the semantics used to try and make it fit. It was simply incorrect.
To be proactive would be to think "thay guy might steal passwords so I'll change the locks"
Reacting is "that guy stole the passwords, so I'd better change them because they have been compromised".
It has been pointed out that a clever PR trick would be to say that the adjective refers to changing the passwords before they can be abused rather than refer to measures taken to prevent them being taken in the first place.
I guess proactive is used like criteria or myriad - one of those words that people know, but don't know how to use properly.
The poster is referring to the adjective used: proactive.
Cisco are reacting to events, they are not being proactive.
It doesn't render properly in IE, since IE doesn't support fixed background images for things other than Body, so the "transparent" boxes effect doesn't work.
Works in all browsers that properly support CSS1 though, instead of claim to but don't really like IE.
I would invade Iraq for $2.50 a gallon gas prices. /UK driver currently paying $7 per gallon.
It's overt sarcasm. I found it better than "I like your comment".
Hey, it's got to be better than "In Soviet Russia, university course puts up you!"
Zealots hate the early Zergling rush.
You must be new here.
/., we leave informative, well-thought-out discussion at the door.
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Now, what do you think of Apple's move to Intel. Four words or less, one of them must include the word "zealot".
This special copyright provision also applies to the song "Happy Birthday".
I used to moderate the uk forums for a large multinational games console maker who doesn't make an operating system or have anything to do with Italian plumbers. Of the many rules we had to follow, deleting any lyrics from Happy Birthday was one of them. They just couldn't take the risk of being had for copyright infringement.
I'm almost ashamed to be human that such circumstances exist.
Or finally playing Duke Nukem Forever.
In fact, I'm installing it right now!
The problem is, of course, that you can't mix and match - if you do any stem cell research in a lab, then that whole lab (and any other research unconnected with stem cells is /also/ denied federal funding).
The only way to ensure that just the stem cell research is denied the funding is to set up a separate lab, which is expensive and difficult.
The blanket ban, driven by religious motives primarily (like the whole religious crusade against science in the middle and dark ages [earth is flat, world created in 7 days etc etc]) makes it very, very difficult to carry out stem cell research alongside other federally funded projects.
I guess it depends on the quality of the show.
There was no way I'd have been able to watch the new Battlestar Galactica on Sky - for one, the frequent open-heart-surgery-length advert breaks would get on my nerves, and second it was always on at a time when I was busy - 8pm isn't really my ideal TV time.
So, I downloaded them bia bittorrent to check them out, and was very impressed. It was a necessary trial before going out and buying the DVDs - both the series 1 box set and the mini series. There's no way I'd put down cash for the DVDs without first checking out the show.
I do the same thing with music. If I hear something I like on the radio I download the album or single (I like to listen to the actual music - less chat, less adverts, more music please). If the album is an good, I'll buy it (better lately, since the iTunes Music Store came along, buying is quicker and easier than ever). If the album is crap, I'll just get rid of it (why keep it around if it's crap?)
Maybe the music industry (and the TV industry) loses money because I don't trial material by buying it o see if I like it, but given the price of music, TV and films, I prefer it my way.