One of the reasons Mac OS X is so exciting is all the new apps being developed for just what you describe. Tinderbox, BTW, being the least interesting, oldest and clunkiest of the bunch. I kinda resent that guy's riding the tails of new-paradigm apps like DEVONThink - clipping live web pages, in the built-in browser! - when Tinderbox has been around forever. It works if your brain works exactly like his. What I really respect are the apps that respect me, The Smart Braindumps, with intelligent retrieval. That's where the future is. For a text person, it's a wild feast, and changing every few weeks.
Despite the strange, new deathgrip Apple has kept on the OS X interface, clever elves have been at work long enough so that by now, there are a number of really spectacular ways to customize the entire OS X experience and smooth that workflow.
DragThing - an old standby, yes, but who knew it would come in so radically handy - allows - hell, it allows anything. Transparent folders, titles only visible (no icons.) Every dock or file list as a mouse-over only drawer.
Launchbar-a big fave-is just that, a small bar that glides in and out of view, just type in the first few letters of any file. A-Dock, which does everything the Dock ought to.
YouMenu, in which you run your computer from the menubar.
The thing is, you don't need to wonder about the future - it's here. And it's very cool.
Oh, gee, I hate to be the one. ..Say, Fat?
No, I can't.
Someone. Tell him about the widespread scam of rebates that never, ever come. Big companies, too. All those rebates add up. Tell him about employess instructed to "lose" submitted rebate forms. . .
. ..Naw, don't.
Much smarter, however, would be to give him ADD meds, such as Adderall XR, which supply in steady trickle the dopamine required for the executive function to perform its complex task, the regulation of interhemispheric behavior. Even more demanding, in the case of genius, a right brain vastly outperforming a left.
It would be a kindness, as well, had he suffered from a disabling lack of being able to organize his thoughts, or life. Many do.
Those who do not can, at times, be oddly dismissive of a condition about which they know, clearly, nothing - invariably delivering themselves of firm opinions on matters where opinion is irrelevant, betraying a touchingly pure, if foolish, ignorance.
I misspoke, it's Archive and Install, not reinstall.
It's actually a complete install - without the erase. Everything gets parked in Users - including your Applications folder - in a new subdirectory, Archived.
The process is risk free, painless, and only a little tedious, moving everything back. Nice opportunity, though, to let fresh preferences be generated for most things.
Repair permissions, run Disk Warrior, and you're good to go.
Actually, what you are dealing with is Aspergers. 85% of whom are male, 90% of whom *are* doofuses (doofi?) due to the fact that their emotional development seldom exceeds that of a fourteen-year-old.
Next we could discuss the protective Asperger's culture that has sprung up around Mr. Rocker and The Monkey Dancers. But that would depress me.
I'd say - and no, you didn't ask, but thanks - part of the problem might just stem family members applying the criteria: "someone who doesn't want to change" to a parent both chronically drunk and stoned.
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At risk of repeating self, it would be kinda nice if there were a machine. You know, to go along with that marvy Linux OS.
I don't know about you all, but I find I have a pesty need for one, every darn time I want to get any computing done.
This is why I own a Mac.
>I don't blame them for trying to get some money back for all the free stuff they have given us over the years
Let's you and me have a little chat of our own, about that use of the word "free," 'k?
What is it for? What is it for?
.(else they come to their senses and stop.)
You ask this here, on Slashdot, weblogger of The Bible In Lego? The inside-out, glow in the dark case mod?
Ask not for whom the webpage loads. .
What kind of lunkheads are modding posts like the two above as redundant.
A, one wonders, redundant of what? And, B, it's called wit - you lunkheads.
Lighten up. (cf. Light, speed of. Am too on-subject.)
Fine. Just give me my minus one and move along.
. .. or is this an entire thread exploring the concepts, A: eating food, and B: sleeping.
Oh, man. Please get girlfriends, 'k? I worry about you.
Will there still be electricity, by then?
> without their GUI to set them apart what do they really have to offer?
Dream on, fair geek. .
>With Linux making some slight headway into the desktop
Dream on.
. . .out of Legos.
One of the reasons Mac OS X is so exciting is all the new apps being developed for just what you describe. Tinderbox, BTW, being the least interesting, oldest and clunkiest of the bunch. I kinda resent that guy's riding the tails of new-paradigm apps like DEVONThink - clipping live web pages, in the built-in browser! - when Tinderbox has been around forever. It works if your brain works exactly like his. What I really respect are the apps that respect me, The Smart Braindumps, with intelligent retrieval. That's where the future is. For a text person, it's a wild feast, and changing every few weeks.
Despite the strange, new deathgrip Apple has kept on the OS X interface, clever elves have been at work long enough so that by now, there are a number of really spectacular ways to customize the entire OS X experience and smooth that workflow.
DragThing - an old standby, yes, but who knew it would come in so radically handy - allows - hell, it allows anything. Transparent folders, titles only visible (no icons.) Every dock or file list as a mouse-over only drawer. Launchbar-a big fave-is just that, a small bar that glides in and out of view, just type in the first few letters of any file. A-Dock, which does everything the Dock ought to. YouMenu, in which you run your computer from the menubar.
The thing is, you don't need to wonder about the future - it's here. And it's very cool.
Oh, gee, I hate to be the one. . .Say, Fat?
No, I can't.
Someone. Tell him about the widespread scam of rebates that never, ever come. Big companies, too. All those rebates add up. Tell him about employess instructed to "lose" submitted rebate forms. . .
. . .Naw, don't.
Look to autism. The autistic mind assumes its own thoughts and beliefs to be identical with objective reality. Then all hell breaks loose.
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Idiocy: The swift, wholly uneducated dismissal of that which is above one.
I suppose he could be drugged with narcotics.
Much smarter, however, would be to give him ADD meds, such as Adderall XR, which supply in steady trickle the dopamine required for the executive function to perform its complex task, the regulation of interhemispheric behavior. Even more demanding, in the case of genius, a right brain vastly outperforming a left.
It would be a kindness, as well, had he suffered from a disabling lack of being able to organize his thoughts, or life. Many do.
Those who do not can, at times, be oddly dismissive of a condition about which they know, clearly, nothing - invariably delivering themselves of firm opinions on matters where opinion is irrelevant, betraying a touchingly pure, if foolish, ignorance.
>to imply that they would tweak the odds is just tinfoil hatting
The birth of a new verb?
I misspoke, it's Archive and Install, not reinstall.
It's actually a complete install - without the erase. Everything gets parked in Users - including your Applications folder - in a new subdirectory, Archived.
The process is risk free, painless, and only a little tedious, moving everything back. Nice opportunity, though, to let fresh preferences be generated for most things.
Repair permissions, run Disk Warrior, and you're good to go.
Um, the last time I did an Archive and Reinstall, gee, it must have taken all of ten minutes.
Yes. That does require that I keep the install CD.
Whoa. The suffering.
"Doing something decent now means all misdeeds hereby pardoned," God reportedly announced today. More at 11. Stay tuned.
You Linux guys can't see beyond the end of your pocket protectors. Go ahead. Set up your families with Linux boxes.
Let me know how it goes.
Curious, though. Are you gonna send them to Circuit City or what.
Zo, got her Mac.
Actually, what you are dealing with is Aspergers. 85% of whom are male, 90% of whom *are* doofuses (doofi?) due to the fact that their emotional development seldom exceeds that of a fourteen-year-old.
Next we could discuss the protective Asperger's culture that has sprung up around Mr. Rocker and The Monkey Dancers. But that would depress me.
Zo
You just wrote nicely into the heart of the mystery, didn't you. Into the heart of our powerlessness, really, to help even those we love.
In the end-you already know this-it's either in him or it isn't. Some people's bottom is death.The family's love can grace his days, either way.
Wishing you much luck.
I'd say - and no, you didn't ask, but thanks - part of the problem might just stem family members applying the criteria: "someone who doesn't want to change" to a parent both chronically drunk and stoned.
. . .gee, they just gave it to me - twice - after three months.
you should be so lucky. and i would imagine, you never have been.