As you are an artist, what are you doing on slashdot? Though that does explain the AC posting - you haven't figured out how to signup for a login yet;-)
BTW My PCs and home entertainment system are all very cool shades of black. Apples love of white, and your snobbishness, reminds me of the dystopian society in THX 1138. Though everything else reminds me of Darth Vader, so go figure.
From the way it seemed to be bundled with every single TV card on the Apple Store website it made me feel like quite the only Mac oriented TV program out there. Obviously given AppleTV has come into being their may be a better native version out there.
As someone who has been trying out the Mac the past few months, I feel the above on the above topics:
Menu at the top issue: Half the time when I get to the top with the mouse its not
set to be the program that I'm expecting it to be. I then have to go click on the application that I want to activate. The UI research Apple did may not make sense anymore with the ability to have more apps and more screen estate in use. In addition, the 'more-intuitive and consistent app design' that I was expecting on the Mac is missing in flagship programs - eg EyeTV has four different windows available for viewing from 3 different menubar items. The Accelerator Keys are also made more obvious in Windows.
Installing Opening Applications:It took me a while to figure this out when I tried with Firefox. After clicking the installer package you get this thing saying 'drag this onto that' to install it. So i tried it in the window in front of me, but no, it was actually referring to going off and Opening the Applications folder, dragging whats on the desktop into it, rather than using the stuff that was there in front of you. If Windows wasn't polite enough to ask you about where you wanted stuff installed, that wouldn't be so bad. Linux may or may not be there yet depending on your distro.
Shouldn't the app be in the menu instead of in some folder hidden somewhere?
I definitely find the GNOME menu for launching better than having a folder full
of icons for application launching.
From a non-geeky friend viewpoint: my other half hates having to use the Mac but was completely at home using the Linux box straightaway. In fact she was really suprised when I told her she had been using Linux for the past two weeks!
Am I being trolled? Macs have had right-click for many, many years.: Well, maybe more applications need to actually start using it. GarageBand in particular is exceedingly annoying for not having a Context menu setup.
I like the fact with the Mac it has the Unix-backend, and that they've invented
a lot of what other people have used. Its a sleek front end as well. The hardware is a nice quiet package. It has some nice bundled apps, though half of those only seem useful if you are going to give more money to Apple. On the minus side it has some real boneheaded things going on with it - eg I'd hope to get a Movie DVD playing by double clicking on it on the desktop, or at least the option of playing it when right clicking on it, but no. Its a Mac Mini plugged into TV with an Apple keyboard (with the problems that throws up) and mouse. Most suprising thing: it crashes regularly (i've had to pull the power cord on it more times in the past three months than with any Windows machine in the past five years) but on the plus side its quick to boot up.
Bottom line - my Mac experience has been one of annoyance, and so has my other halfs. Given the price differential I'm in favour of Ubuntu or XP (though I would go and set XP up better) over OSX as an OS. I'd also get the option of a box that looks how I want it to look (though I suspect to go with the iPhone they might bring out a line of tempting black models soon).
So, did they vote on this at a board meeting? ANd if so, did they use the good old raising the hands method and counting? We should do this for national elections from now on.
Well what they should have done is copy Nintendo's approach to this: say the complete opposite is going to happen, and then proceed as planned anyway. Nintendo are great for doing this (eg we are not going to upgrade the DS) and in the long run people appreciate thats how Nintendo play the game. Its almost like Sony are going through the phase Nintendo were 10 years ago.
I'd agree on the PC front. I also think (as someone who did use a computer from an early age and having glasses from the age of 8) that the effect of staring closely at a screen at a close distance on younger, malleable eyeballs would need to be investigated as well.
There are times it could work - the TI Speak and Spell was a great and appropriate use of technology as 'edutainment'.
Well I haven't been able to get hold of one yet, but have consoled myself by eating lots of chocolate. And cakes. Especially cake. Even better when they are chocolaty ones.
Chocolate cake baseball is much more fun to play in the living room anyway.
I disagree with that (at least in current day Britain). But given you've made that point - having cameras everywhere would mean that you would have the truth caught on camera. And most disruptive behaviour and classroom violence that goes on is actually student-student.
Personally I'm with either completely banning the devices or evening the playing field if students are starting to manafacture situations to ruin the careers of the teachers (which is what this article is all about). It would also show parents that their kids aren't the perfect angels that they think they are.
How much annoying little niggling crap do teachers have to take from students as well? If you've got the situation where kids are provoking teachers into having arguments and then putting it on the web, lets have it both ways then - put cameras all around the schools and you solve so much potential issues in terms of classroom disruption.
Not a full desktop but I found Ultramon to be a great little item. Its also lightweight and non obtrusive, which were two features I found lacking when I tried other desktops out.
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As you are an artist, what are you doing on slashdot? Though that does explain the AC posting - you haven't figured out how to signup for a login yet ;-)
BTW My PCs and home entertainment system are all very cool shades of black. Apples love of white, and your snobbishness, reminds me of the dystopian society in THX 1138. Though everything else reminds me of Darth Vader, so go figure.
From the way it seemed to be bundled with every single TV card on the Apple Store website it made me feel like quite the only Mac oriented TV program out there. Obviously given AppleTV has come into being their may be a better native version out there.
As someone who has been trying out the Mac the past few months, I feel the above on the above topics:
Menu at the top issue: Half the time when I get to the top with the mouse its not set to be the program that I'm expecting it to be. I then have to go click on the application that I want to activate. The UI research Apple did may not make sense anymore with the ability to have more apps and more screen estate in use. In addition, the 'more-intuitive and consistent app design' that I was expecting on the Mac is missing in flagship programs - eg EyeTV has four different windows available for viewing from 3 different menubar items. The Accelerator Keys are also made more obvious in Windows.
Installing Opening Applications:It took me a while to figure this out when I tried with Firefox. After clicking the installer package you get this thing saying 'drag this onto that' to install it. So i tried it in the window in front of me, but no, it was actually referring to going off and Opening the Applications folder, dragging whats on the desktop into it, rather than using the stuff that was there in front of you. If Windows wasn't polite enough to ask you about where you wanted stuff installed, that wouldn't be so bad. Linux may or may not be there yet depending on your distro.
Shouldn't the app be in the menu instead of in some folder hidden somewhere? I definitely find the GNOME menu for launching better than having a folder full of icons for application launching.
From a non-geeky friend viewpoint: my other half hates having to use the Mac but was completely at home using the Linux box straightaway. In fact she was really suprised when I told her she had been using Linux for the past two weeks!
Am I being trolled? Macs have had right-click for many, many years.: Well, maybe more applications need to actually start using it. GarageBand in particular is exceedingly annoying for not having a Context menu setup.
I like the fact with the Mac it has the Unix-backend, and that they've invented a lot of what other people have used. Its a sleek front end as well. The hardware is a nice quiet package. It has some nice bundled apps, though half of those only seem useful if you are going to give more money to Apple. On the minus side it has some real boneheaded things going on with it - eg I'd hope to get a Movie DVD playing by double clicking on it on the desktop, or at least the option of playing it when right clicking on it, but no. Its a Mac Mini plugged into TV with an Apple keyboard (with the problems that throws up) and mouse. Most suprising thing: it crashes regularly (i've had to pull the power cord on it more times in the past three months than with any Windows machine in the past five years) but on the plus side its quick to boot up.
Bottom line - my Mac experience has been one of annoyance, and so has my other halfs. Given the price differential I'm in favour of Ubuntu or XP (though I would go and set XP up better) over OSX as an OS. I'd also get the option of a box that looks how I want it to look (though I suspect to go with the iPhone they might bring out a line of tempting black models soon).
Depends. Does it come with a seperate force feedback module?
You're confusing them with Star Trek movies?
So, did they vote on this at a board meeting? ANd if so, did they use the good old raising the hands method and counting? We should do this for national elections from now on.
Well what they should have done is copy Nintendo's approach to this: say the complete opposite is going to happen, and then proceed as planned anyway. Nintendo are great for doing this (eg we are not going to upgrade the DS) and in the long run people appreciate thats how Nintendo play the game. Its almost like Sony are going through the phase Nintendo were 10 years ago.
I met a very nice lady called Beryl the other day...
I'd agree on the PC front. I also think (as someone who did use a computer from an early age and having glasses from the age of 8) that the effect of staring closely at a screen at a close distance on younger, malleable eyeballs would need to be investigated as well. There are times it could work - the TI Speak and Spell was a great and appropriate use of technology as 'edutainment'.
And, in break with horror movie tradition, the actresses for these forthcoming movies aren't being asked to scream during their auditions.
Nothing here in Lynx.
Mind you, the video plug-in for lynx sucks anyway.
Well I haven't been able to get hold of one yet, but have consoled myself by eating lots of chocolate. And cakes. Especially cake. Even better when they are chocolaty ones.
Chocolate cake baseball is much more fun to play in the living room anyway.
Won't bother me. I'll still be able to listen to anything in my Supertramp collection as much as I want without being billed again.
With a peak power consumption of 380 watts as opposed to 19 watts for the Wii, its obviously so we can pay higher electricity bills as well!
My mother-in-law keeps her fingers crossed that she'll have a similar experience.
I disagree with that (at least in current day Britain). But given you've made that point - having cameras everywhere would mean that you would have the truth caught on camera. And most disruptive behaviour and classroom violence that goes on is actually student-student.
Personally I'm with either completely banning the devices or evening the playing field if students are starting to manafacture situations to ruin the careers of the teachers (which is what this article is all about). It would also show parents that their kids aren't the perfect angels that they think they are.
How much annoying little niggling crap do teachers have to take from students as well? If you've got the situation where kids are provoking teachers into having arguments and then putting it on the web, lets have it both ways then - put cameras all around the schools and you solve so much potential issues in terms of classroom disruption.
And this is before they've played a Grand Theft Auto title on it. Imagine what these guys are gonna be like afterwards!
Yes. I've indeed found that all controllers are throwable.
My internet problems more of an addiction than depression.
But what happens when they meet Chuck Norris?
A shotgun works pretty well too!
Not a full desktop but I found Ultramon to be a great little item. Its also lightweight and non obtrusive, which were two features I found lacking when I tried other desktops out.
Well I've just come back from the pub and I'm going to have one right now!* Don't think I can hold on until December.
*well in five minutes when I'm in the bathroom anyway**
**and yes checking slashdot after I've come back after a night out does mean I haven't bought a lady home***
***though my other half will be pleased about this****
****that is the not bringing a lady home, not the checking the slashdot bit*****
*****OK now I really do have to go, but the question is - To Preview or not to Preview?
Someimes I wish real life was more like games. Especially now I'm hungry.
*silently prays*