- Finder is rather primitive filemanager when compared to Konqueror
That is highly subjective. What are you looking out of a filemanager? Does Konqueror support spring loaded folders? Have you tried the the column view?
- The Dock is horrible. It doesn't even use screen-corners properly (thus violating Fitt's law). And it tries to act as a tool to launch apps, and manage running apps in the same time. It ends up being confusing.
There are preference settings you can set for the dock to have it against a screen corner. Unfortunately, Apple did not provide an interface for them but you can use Tinkertool or Cocktail to change those settings.
Running Apps are denoted by a black triangle below the icon.
- Buttons to minimize/maximise/close windows are terrible. They have no symbols in them (unless you hover over them with a mouse) and they are too small.
They are colour coded. Red means stop/close yellow means minimize and green mean maximize/go.
- And when I click "maximise", I want the windows to REALLY maximise, not to adjust it's size to some arbitary size.
Aren't you asking it to resize to an arbitrary size regardess of content? The maximize button is used for resizing the window to show all of the contents. That size is determined by the contents. Maybe you are used to MDI style interfaces where you cannot see the desktop and other windows. I'm used to a multi-window interface and I like to be able to switch windows by clicking on them. It also give the impression that you are cooperatively multitasking or task switching rather than having them visibly updating in the background.
- I find it rather confusing that closing the window does not close the app. I fail to see the added benefit of having Safari-window close (for example), but the app keeps on running in the background. When I re-launch the Safari-window, it starts from the beginning, so what's the point of keeping the app running?
Launch time for one. If an application supports multiple documents, it will use behave that way. Applications with a single window will close when you close it.
- Why do I have to double-click the icons in order to open them?
If they worked on a single click, you could end up accidentally launching applications/documents. Even an experienced users could end up wasting time opening things accidentally let alone new users. How would you click select files to move or delete? How do you select a file to view it's metadata in say column mode? How do you select it to rename it?
- Where are virtual desktops?
There are several in at sourceforge including Virtue and Desktop Manager. Unfortunately, neither work in Tiger at the moment. However, I don't see a lot of people clamoring for them.
- No window-specific-settings?
Sorry? Are you talking about finder windows? Show View options (CMD-J) has a "this window only/all windows" option group.
- I don't like how Safari handles tabs. Each tab has a close-button of it's own. That means if I want to close bunch of tabs, I have to move the mouse around, instead of keeping the mouse still and just clicking the mouse-button.
How is that intuitive to anyone other than a Firefox user? Think about it for a moment. How does the uninitiated user know which tab they are closing? What if I only want to close every other tab?
Are you trying to tell us that you find MDI useful? I would go crazy having to use MDI on two monitors in Photoshop.
I find the Window GUI to be extremely frustrating for the following reasons:
- GDI+ blows chunks. Windows stop updating when a program is busy and you end up with window blow through.
- Task switching becomes extremely slow under a heavy load. With a long delay for feedback.
- No Spring loaded folders.
- Taskbar is useless and too cluttered.
- Quick launch is too small.
- Start menu is too big in XP
- Have to use Start menu to shutdown
- Each window has a menu causing a huge waste in space and breaks Fitts law.
- Close button too close to other buttons.
- FUS does not work in a domain.
- MS Office apps do not use standard widgets.
- The built in search in XP is broken.
- Programs have different keystrokes for common tasks.
I could go on. I find programs like MS VSS extremely frustrating to use because it uses a 3.1 style file dialog.
Well those activities do not, as you say require a powerful computer. Suffice to say, those user would not have any incentive to "upgrade" in the future. Having no reason to upgrade would mean that you would see a decline in X86 "marketshare".
With all of these consoles going with PPC are the days of the X86 platform numbered? Don't most people buy PC's for games?
With these consoles coming out with HD support, fast multi-core CPU's (PPC), I'm wondering if Intel and AMD are worried that they might loose market shared to the consoles especially if they supported web, IM and email through optional keyboards/mice.
Will Apple receive a 3+ Ghz multicore processor soon from Apple?
Will this lead to more games being ported to the Mac "first"?
No ad filtering, no configurability. Brushed metal. Hardwired Google search. Built on stolen KHTML webcore that Apple pilfered from KDE.
Umm. Neither does Firefox without a plugin but you can block ads with a crafted usercontent.css file which you can pick on the Advanced tab of Safari. This method also works with Opera. Alternatively, you could install Pithhelmet.
No configurability? What the hell do you think "customize toolbar" is used for? Are you talking about skins? Most people use their browser to "browse" the web not to skin it.
Don't like brushed metal? Fire up Interface builder in the development tools and change it.
What is wrong with google? If you had used google, you would not have posted such drivel and FUD.
Stolen? Apple contributed fixes when they started using KHTML, have complied with the LGPL licence and they have offered to work with the KHTML developer to resolve any issues that exist now due to the fork in the code. Stop spreading FUD.
Webcore is open source and there is a port to linux called gtk-webcore.
Firefox needs some work but I would hardly call it a piece of shit.
Smart guys != common sense. Look at the "smart guys" that came up with the tablet pc. It's going nowhere fast. Look at the PDA market. Does anyone outside of hardcore geeks and business guys even want one? Look at the "geniuses" who came up with the subscription services and WMA players "before" iTMS and the iPod came out. Are they on the radar of the average Joe anymore? No.
Sure those products are selling some units but they are still niche products compared to consumer electronic.
Given that people are going for smaller and simpler devices, how are you going to cram in a phone, PDA and music player with a usable interface into a phone that should be smaller than what we have now?
Cellphones are disposable and become obsolete really fast these days. Would you really spend hundreds of dollars on a multi-funtion device that could be obsolete next year?
My 2nd generation 10 GB iPod is still a viable device but the same could not be said for a cell phone from the same era in many markets.
He would not put my on iPods? Really? Take a look at the iPod Shuffle. People on slashdot said it was lame because it did not have even have a screen let alone an FM tuner, voice recorder etc... People, non-geeks who are jogging do not need any of those things when they are "exercising". Look at Apple's marketshare in the flash market segment after only being in it for a few months.
Ask yourself, why is the iPod and and iTMS so damn popular? Because it "just works", follows the KISS principle and you get to keep your songs.
There are these round and shiny things called "CDs". Perhaps you've heard of them? They store music and you can buy them online or at a brick and mortar store.
Alternatively, you could support independent bands and buy music without DRM legally at emusic.com.
Apple Tax? Are you sure they are not giving OSX "free" with the machine?
499.00 USD (price of mac mini)
-129.00 USD (price of OS X)
-79.00 USD (price of iLife 05)
=291 USD
Does anyone really believe that Apple is making a lot of money on the minis? Show me an X86 machine with similar features/form factor for anywhere near that cheap.
How would this be a good deal for me? I can listen to songs for free through the iTunes Radio feature and I can "buy" a song or two per month to keep forever "and" I can use the songs I purchased in my IMovie/iDVD projects.
Of course, as a mac user, I cannot play DRM'ed WMA files anyway.
Stop with this "RIAA" shit you sad deluded loser. The RIAA are an industry association that represent artists and their labels. They are like a union which represent the collective interests of their members.
You argument is as lame as saying it is ok to hold up taxi cab drivers at gun point because you hate their union.
The RIAA are no more directly involved with the day to day business of the music industry than any other union or professional association is with their industry/sector.
You are a clueless idiot. Besides the fact that they knowingly do not pay a cent to the artists/labels, they have not entered into an agreement for distribution rights. Copyright provides for the right to assign "distribution" rights. It would not matter if they offered to pay the labels, their service would still be illegal outside of Russia because they do not have the "right" to copy and distribute the music.
This has nothing to do with the RIAA but rather the internationally recognized "copyright" a content creator automatically receives the moment it is created.
Do you think spouting slogans, rhetoric and acronyms makes you sound insightful? Not outside of slashdot.
So who gets the money? The artists? No. The labels? No.
Ask yourself where does the money go? How is this different "morally" than paying for a P2P network membership?
Go ahead and continue to try and convince yourself that it's ok because of the broken copyright laws in Russia allow for it. This kind of service would "not" be legal in Canada or many other countries because they are infringing copyright for profit. They have not signed any agreement with the labels/copyright holders for distribution rights.
Guess what? All that technology you mentioned either runs an MSFT OS or has licensed software/codecs from MSFT. Can you transfer that music to a mac and have it play? No. MSFT has refused to update their WMP to support playback, syncing or purchase of DRMed WMA.
Uh, the amount of time you are going to spend interacting with the window manager should be minimal compared to using the applications. If you are spending an inordinate amount of time interacting directly with the window manager, then there is something wrong with your environment.
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That is highly subjective. What are you looking out of a filemanager? Does Konqueror support spring loaded folders? Have you tried the the column view?
- The Dock is horrible. It doesn't even use screen-corners properly (thus violating Fitt's law). And it tries to act as a tool to launch apps, and manage running apps in the same time. It ends up being confusing.
There are preference settings you can set for the dock to have it against a screen corner. Unfortunately, Apple did not provide an interface for them but you can use Tinkertool or Cocktail to change those settings.
Running Apps are denoted by a black triangle below the icon.
- Buttons to minimize/maximise/close windows are terrible. They have no symbols in them (unless you hover over them with a mouse) and they are too small.
They are colour coded. Red means stop/close yellow means minimize and green mean maximize/go.
- And when I click "maximise", I want the windows to REALLY maximise, not to adjust it's size to some arbitary size.
Aren't you asking it to resize to an arbitrary size regardess of content? The maximize button is used for resizing the window to show all of the contents. That size is determined by the contents. Maybe you are used to MDI style interfaces where you cannot see the desktop and other windows. I'm used to a multi-window interface and I like to be able to switch windows by clicking on them. It also give the impression that you are cooperatively multitasking or task switching rather than having them visibly updating in the background.
- I find it rather confusing that closing the window does not close the app. I fail to see the added benefit of having Safari-window close (for example), but the app keeps on running in the background. When I re-launch the Safari-window, it starts from the beginning, so what's the point of keeping the app running?
Launch time for one. If an application supports multiple documents, it will use behave that way. Applications with a single window will close when you close it.
- Why do I have to double-click the icons in order to open them?
If they worked on a single click, you could end up accidentally launching applications/documents. Even an experienced users could end up wasting time opening things accidentally let alone new users. How would you click select files to move or delete? How do you select a file to view it's metadata in say column mode? How do you select it to rename it?
- Where are virtual desktops?
There are several in at sourceforge including Virtue and Desktop Manager. Unfortunately, neither work in Tiger at the moment. However, I don't see a lot of people clamoring for them.
- No window-specific-settings?
Sorry? Are you talking about finder windows? Show View options (CMD-J) has a "this window only/all windows" option group.
- I don't like how Safari handles tabs. Each tab has a close-button of it's own. That means if I want to close bunch of tabs, I have to move the mouse around, instead of keeping the mouse still and just clicking the mouse-button.
How is that intuitive to anyone other than a Firefox user? Think about it for a moment. How does the uninitiated user know which tab they are closing? What if I only want to close every other tab?
I find the Window GUI to be extremely frustrating for the following reasons:
- GDI+ blows chunks. Windows stop updating when a program is busy and you end up with window blow through.
- Task switching becomes extremely slow under a heavy load. With a long delay for feedback.
- No Spring loaded folders.
- Taskbar is useless and too cluttered.
- Quick launch is too small.
- Start menu is too big in XP
- Have to use Start menu to shutdown
- Each window has a menu causing a huge waste in space and breaks Fitts law.
- Close button too close to other buttons.
- FUS does not work in a domain.
- MS Office apps do not use standard widgets.
- The built in search in XP is broken.
- Programs have different keystrokes for common tasks.
I could go on. I find programs like MS VSS extremely frustrating to use because it uses a 3.1 style file dialog.
BTW. Your comment is completely off-topic. There is no need to be a fucking grammar nazi.
Well those activities do not, as you say require a powerful computer. Suffice to say, those user would not have any incentive to "upgrade" in the future. Having no reason to upgrade would mean that you would see a decline in X86 "marketshare".
Do I have a PC at home? No.
Doh! That should be "soon from IBM".
Shiny powerbooks and being a metrosexual appeals to the chicks.
With these consoles coming out with HD support, fast multi-core CPU's (PPC), I'm wondering if Intel and AMD are worried that they might loose market shared to the consoles especially if they supported web, IM and email through optional keyboards/mice.
Will Apple receive a 3+ Ghz multicore processor soon from Apple?
Will this lead to more games being ported to the Mac "first"?
I'm talking about the main site: http://www.army.mil/
Go troll somewhere else.
Netcraft confirms it: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.army.mil
I'm talking about the main site: http://www.army.mil/
Because of the architecture of that OS, bringing down the webserver software will not expose the OS.
Umm. Neither does Firefox without a plugin but you can block ads with a crafted usercontent.css file which you can pick on the Advanced tab of Safari. This method also works with Opera. Alternatively, you could install Pithhelmet.
No configurability? What the hell do you think "customize toolbar" is used for? Are you talking about skins? Most people use their browser to "browse" the web not to skin it.
Don't like brushed metal? Fire up Interface builder in the development tools and change it.
What is wrong with google? If you had used google, you would not have posted such drivel and FUD.
Stolen? Apple contributed fixes when they started using KHTML, have complied with the LGPL licence and they have offered to work with the KHTML developer to resolve any issues that exist now due to the fork in the code. Stop spreading FUD.
Webcore is open source and there is a port to linux called gtk-webcore.
Firefox needs some work but I would hardly call it a piece of shit.
Sure those products are selling some units but they are still niche products compared to consumer electronic.
Given that people are going for smaller and simpler devices, how are you going to cram in a phone, PDA and music player with a usable interface into a phone that should be smaller than what we have now?
Cellphones are disposable and become obsolete really fast these days. Would you really spend hundreds of dollars on a multi-funtion device that could be obsolete next year?
My 2nd generation 10 GB iPod is still a viable device but the same could not be said for a cell phone from the same era in many markets.
He would not put my on iPods? Really? Take a look at the iPod Shuffle. People on slashdot said it was lame because it did not have even have a screen let alone an FM tuner, voice recorder etc... People, non-geeks who are jogging do not need any of those things when they are "exercising". Look at Apple's marketshare in the flash market segment after only being in it for a few months.
Ask yourself, why is the iPod and and iTMS so damn popular? Because it "just works", follows the KISS principle and you get to keep your songs.
PS. PHD stands for Pile it Higher and Deeper.
Alternatively, you could support independent bands and buy music without DRM legally at emusic.com.
Apple would not be bound by the GPL if Apple did not use the new code licensed under the GPL.
IIRC, they would still be able to make use of any code before the license change and continue development under a separate fork.
Wrong. KHTML is licensed under the LGPL. Stop spreading FUD.
499.00 USD (price of mac mini)
-129.00 USD (price of OS X)
-79.00 USD (price of iLife 05)
=291 USD
Does anyone really believe that Apple is making a lot of money on the minis? Show me an X86 machine with similar features/form factor for anywhere near that cheap.
Do you want me to spell out the letters o n e b y o n e?
Of course, as a mac user, I cannot play DRM'ed WMA files anyway.
You argument is as lame as saying it is ok to hold up taxi cab drivers at gun point because you hate their union.
The RIAA are no more directly involved with the day to day business of the music industry than any other union or professional association is with their industry/sector.
ITMS does have some exclusives that you can "purchased".
This has nothing to do with the RIAA but rather the internationally recognized "copyright" a content creator automatically receives the moment it is created.
Do you think spouting slogans, rhetoric and acronyms makes you sound insightful? Not outside of slashdot.
This type of service would be illegal in Canada.
Ask yourself where does the money go? How is this different "morally" than paying for a P2P network membership?
Go ahead and continue to try and convince yourself that it's ok because of the broken copyright laws in Russia allow for it. This kind of service would "not" be legal in Canada or many other countries because they are infringing copyright for profit. They have not signed any agreement with the labels/copyright holders for distribution rights.
Guess what? All that technology you mentioned either runs an MSFT OS or has licensed software/codecs from MSFT. Can you transfer that music to a mac and have it play? No. MSFT has refused to update their WMP to support playback, syncing or purchase of DRMed WMA.
I don't see how Aqua get's in your way.