Never mind that DT also shows you related items - love that AI - surfs the web, clips, composes, views images, does the dishes and turns out the lights.
Are you thinking Mac OS X uber-app? I am. I run my computer and my life thru DevonTech, including writing to web and for print.
With Launchbar (or Quicksilver) and any Devon app, you don' need no steekin' Spotlight.
>People wanted a system that was easy to use, and didn't want to have to deal with unlocking all sorts of security measures just to get networking done.
No, a better analogy would be, the guy who sells wallets designs them so his company can control what goes in and what goes out. You thought it was your wallet? Ha. Get a Mac.
I haven't been following the situation too closely, but doesn't this seem like one more non-story in the recent, okay, flood of crap where stories used to be?
Insert minus one here. Next week/. will be offering me mod points like they do every week. I'm fed up. In 59 posts over more than a year, I have been rated twice above a 1. If I am that witless, perhaps it's time to tell tell the editors (and the scared little wimps who can't bear to assign points to a woman, it's not like I want your sperm, blech) exactly what internal they can write their mod points to. And it ain't firewire, honey.
After having run Mac OS Classic for since 1992 - and always on Powerbooks - until Jaguar, I have to say, Hey, I ran my own machine! I could do anything I wanted with it! It was my responsiblity!
I understand the power of Root, but as writer who works on her very own Powerbook, I am Up To Here with permissions. They have no meaning in my life whatsover, except as the constant price I do pay for using OS X.
What you have here, fellas, is - gasp - only a Point of View. Mere mortals have been in charge of their own machines, free to run riot through the OS thereupon. The world has not ended.
Have a point of view, but for god's sake, know so. I don't screw around with the 'nix underpinnings (much) . . but it is my computer.
This is called . ..growing up.
Congratulations.
I'm serious. Not many make it to adulthood. Too bad, as it makes for a hell of a lot more interesting life.
Much success on your new business!
"Convergence" exists in Bill Gates' head, and nowhere else. Everyone was supposed to be watching TV on their home entertainment computer by now, remember? Twelve years and he's still perserverating on that one. Meanwhile Jobs quietly delivers Not-Crap, the consumer recognizes Not-Crap (okay, and it's lickable too,) while Gates blithely leads every poor sod with a gadget down the road to Microsoft Hell. Which, in case this has escaped anyone's attention, is upon us.
I have terrible but really amusing visions of Gates and Ballmer hung by the shorts, slooowly twisting in the wind, when the day comes that the damage is totaled up. Somehow it make a perfect poem, however, that the world's richest man should also be singlehandedly responsible for the crumbling of the infrastructure. I don't know as much about Linux as I ought, but hope to god it's there to catch us as Microsoft's crap-for-code forks up everything. The Navy? That was just the beginning.
Honey, Wife 1.0 was going to expire on you anyway. Some guys know what it is to appreciate a fine piece of, um, software. And oooh, does that app ever perform. For them.
. . . never had a sluggish Powerbook, and that's all I've owned since 1992 and - hang on! - the 170. 16MB RAM, that baby was hot!
A smart way to save bucks is to buy new the next-to-newest model. I'm writing this on a 17" 1.33 with max third-party RAM (never pay for Apple RAM, oh nooo) and it is an immensely cool tool.
The grandparents mentioned above? Theirs was not a hypervigilant world, and I can perfectly well see why it would be a huge strain to begin to think like that in, say, one's seventies.
I hate, too, to see threads like this, as if perfectly well-controllable home computers didn't exist. You all contribute to the "that's just the way things are" mentality when you do not ever state, you are talking about life on Windows, on PCs.
Subtract that factor - I don't care how big, expensive, or overwhelming that may seem, y'all are supposed to be geeks - and what do you have? Macintosh OS X.
Where popup and ad-blocking, cookie-checking and calls home are such incidental, nearly- or wholly-automatic tasks . ..
Is it, like, Linux/Open Source heresy to let the word Mac cross your lips?
And if you don't understand what the Mac internet experience is, how the hell are you ever going to get Linux on the desktop?
You people have programs that install on your machine, collect data and send it back?
I can't tell you how strange this is to read.
I've been on Mac so many years, I genuinely take it for granted: my Powerbook belongs to me. As does the information stored within. All of it.
Mac OS X is fully networked . ..and no app makes a data call out without my approval. The default is set to No. It's hugely easy.
I post this not to be zealot-like, but with the idea that a free people should remain unco-opted. You don't have to put up with this shit at all.
It's not Cliff. (Okay, maybe it is Cliff, but that's another story.) Fact is, every damn OS X forum has been clogged - clogged, people! - with questions that a pulldown of the ol' Help Menu would answer. If Google is too much to ask. I don't get it. Why OS X? It is Switchers? Some kind of Learned Helpless that eventually besets all who use Windows?
In which case one must be patient and charitable. But forget completely about Apple "My screen is all funny writing and grey" Discussions. The dumb-down is everywhere. I have even seen (gasp, I know) semi-boneheaded idling on macosxhints.com. Now, that's serious. Though by this time, Panther hints must be running pretty sparse on the ground. . .
Take a look at the trailer on the QuickTime trailer page, apple.com.trailers.
Dispiriting. If you've read aloud to children, then you know they already see something more wonderful than any movie.
All this one offers is to substitute something of waaay lower quality for a child's own imaginative powers.
Is it, like, against your policy to Delete?
Put up a notice "Info Incorrect" or something, and quietly delete this thread?
I mean, look at the poor sods who posted like it was real. How do you think these idiots feel with egg all over their face?
I wish there were some way to post, "Outstanding!"
Okay, how about a way to nominate Best Post?
It's not so much Funniest - though that would be fine with me, too - as it is the post that combines a certain subtle but no less devestating wit with a highly literate economy of phrasing, artful punctuation, the meaning neither too thinly nor too thickly veiled, the - hell, you know what I mean: Best Post!
The next guy up bought a Mac, is running Panther and a third party background app called Little Snitch, which asks me whenever anything wants to call out, the default being: No.
Gee, that was tough.
You people are talking about Windows, a shocking piece of code-crap. It's important to remember that.
Slashdot Mirror
"Content indexing is currently four to five times faster than the one of Panther, not limited to the first 100 KB of the documents, not case insensitive, does include all words and all numbers . . . DEVONthink is able to preview found documents (including highlighting of occurrences)."
Never mind that DT also shows you related items - love that AI - surfs the web, clips, composes, views images, does the dishes and turns out the lights.
Are you thinking Mac OS X uber-app? I am. I run my computer and my life thru DevonTech, including writing to web and for print.
With Launchbar (or Quicksilver) and any Devon app, you don' need no steekin' Spotlight.
>Talk about having your balls shrivel up...
Must you?
>People wanted a system that was easy to use, and didn't want to have to deal with unlocking all sorts of security measures just to get networking done.
No, a better analogy would be, the guy who sells wallets designs them so his company can control what goes in and what goes out. You thought it was your wallet? Ha. Get a Mac.
to "Either way I don't get all the fluff," above
What torinth said.
(. . .but then, where would i find gems like this?)
(and the mod system is going to hell around here. or perhaps always has been. hell.)
(as you were, gentlemen.)
I haven't been following the situation too closely, but doesn't this seem like one more non-story in the recent, okay, flood of crap where stories used to be?
/. will be offering me mod points like they do every week. I'm fed up. In 59 posts over more than a year, I have been rated twice above a 1. If I am that witless, perhaps it's time to tell tell the editors (and the scared little wimps who can't bear to assign points to a woman, it's not like I want your sperm, blech) exactly what internal they can write their mod points to. And it ain't firewire, honey.
Insert minus one here. Next week
>This is coming from a guy who would have skewered his left testicle rather than deal with Macs . .
Eewew!
Still, I get your point.
After having run Mac OS Classic for since 1992 - and always on Powerbooks - until Jaguar, I have to say, Hey, I ran my own machine! I could do anything I wanted with it! It was my responsiblity!
I understand the power of Root, but as writer who works on her very own Powerbook, I am Up To Here with permissions. They have no meaning in my life whatsover, except as the constant price I do pay for using OS X.
What you have here, fellas, is - gasp - only a Point of View. Mere mortals have been in charge of their own machines, free to run riot through the OS thereupon. The world has not ended.
Have a point of view, but for god's sake, know so. I don't screw around with the 'nix underpinnings (much) . . but it is my computer.
This is called . .
Congratulations.
I'm serious. Not many make it to adulthood. Too bad, as it makes for a hell of a lot more interesting life.
Much success on your new business!
"A Ferrari rolling over a toad."
Nice work. Very nice. Can I have it?
"Why is it that we make it a habit of running off with as much money as we possibly can from a lawsuit?"
Ready, gang? One, two, three . . . LAWYERS!
Yea! . . I mean . . . HISSSS!
"Convergence" exists in Bill Gates' head, and nowhere else. Everyone was supposed to be watching TV on their home entertainment computer by now, remember? Twelve years and he's still perserverating on that one. Meanwhile Jobs quietly delivers Not-Crap, the consumer recognizes Not-Crap (okay, and it's lickable too,) while Gates blithely leads every poor sod with a gadget down the road to Microsoft Hell. Which, in case this has escaped anyone's attention, is upon us.
I have terrible but really amusing visions of Gates and Ballmer hung by the shorts, slooowly twisting in the wind, when the day comes that the damage is totaled up. Somehow it make a perfect poem, however, that the world's richest man should also be singlehandedly responsible for the crumbling of the infrastructure. I don't know as much about Linux as I ought, but hope to god it's there to catch us as Microsoft's crap-for-code forks up everything. The Navy? That was just the beginning.
End of today's Smart-Rant.
Honey, Wife 1.0 was going to expire on you anyway. Some guys know what it is to appreciate a fine piece of, um, software. And oooh, does that app ever perform. For them.
Nooooo, I bought a 17" because it is - how can I put this - a bigger monitor on which to work than the 12". Why, it's even bigger than the 15"!
. . . never had a sluggish Powerbook, and that's all I've owned since 1992 and - hang on! - the 170. 16MB RAM, that baby was hot!
A smart way to save bucks is to buy new the next-to-newest model. I'm writing this on a 17" 1.33 with max third-party RAM (never pay for Apple RAM, oh nooo) and it is an immensely cool tool.
I hate to see posts like this - how old are you?
.
The grandparents mentioned above? Theirs was not a hypervigilant world, and I can perfectly well see why it would be a huge strain to begin to think like that in, say, one's seventies.
I hate, too, to see threads like this, as if perfectly well-controllable home computers didn't exist. You all contribute to the "that's just the way things are" mentality when you do not ever state, you are talking about life on Windows, on PCs.
Subtract that factor - I don't care how big, expensive, or overwhelming that may seem, y'all are supposed to be geeks - and what do you have? Macintosh OS X.
Where popup and ad-blocking, cookie-checking and calls home are such incidental, nearly- or wholly-automatic tasks . .
Is it, like, Linux/Open Source heresy to let the word Mac cross your lips?
And if you don't understand what the Mac internet experience is, how the hell are you ever going to get Linux on the desktop?
I give up. (Not. Sorreeee.) (Not.)
You people have programs that install on your machine, collect data and send it back? .and no app makes a data call out without my approval. The default is set to No. It's hugely easy.
I can't tell you how strange this is to read.
I've been on Mac so many years, I genuinely take it for granted: my Powerbook belongs to me. As does the information stored within. All of it.
Mac OS X is fully networked . .
I post this not to be zealot-like, but with the idea that a free people should remain unco-opted. You don't have to put up with this shit at all.
It's not Cliff. (Okay, maybe it is Cliff, but that's another story.) Fact is, every damn OS X forum has been clogged - clogged, people! - with questions that a pulldown of the ol' Help Menu would answer. If Google is too much to ask. I don't get it. Why OS X? It is Switchers? Some kind of Learned Helpless that eventually besets all who use Windows?
In which case one must be patient and charitable. But forget completely about Apple "My screen is all funny writing and grey" Discussions. The dumb-down is everywhere. I have even seen (gasp, I know) semi-boneheaded idling on macosxhints.com. Now, that's serious. Though by this time, Panther hints must be running pretty sparse on the ground. . .
Take a look at the trailer on the QuickTime trailer page, apple.com.trailers.
Dispiriting. If you've read aloud to children, then you know they already see something more wonderful than any movie.
All this one offers is to substitute something of waaay lower quality for a child's own imaginative powers.
Is it, like, against your policy to Delete?
Put up a notice "Info Incorrect" or something, and quietly delete this thread?
I mean, look at the poor sods who posted like it was real. How do you think these idiots feel with egg all over their face?
I wish there were some way to post, "Outstanding!"
Okay, how about a way to nominate Best Post?
It's not so much Funniest - though that would be fine with me, too - as it is the post that combines a certain subtle but no less devestating wit with a highly literate economy of phrasing, artful punctuation, the meaning neither too thinly nor too thickly veiled, the - hell, you know what I mean: Best Post!
Actually, now it doesn't seem all that funny.
"PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express."
What a guy.
Get well soon - We still need the iTablet/PDA!
The next guy up bought a Mac, is running Panther and a third party background app called Little Snitch, which asks me whenever anything wants to call out, the default being: No.
Gee, that was tough.
You people are talking about Windows, a shocking piece of code-crap. It's important to remember that.
Did I say email? Darn it, next thing you know I'll be giving away the secret handsha-- oops!
Would you like an invite? Had only 54 pieces of Brazilian spam in my Orkut mailbox today.