No. It's not supposed to be intuitive. It's supposed to be useful.
Unfortunately Windows makes it painfully difficult to discover these shortcuts... but that's a different complaint.
Hardly different. The Mac way is far easier to discover than the Windows way(*), yet the article's authors haven't bothered to find it. Instead they decry why you can't do it the Windows way rather than learn (or even try to discover) the Mac way.
BTW, how do you zoom in the display under Windows XP Pro? On the Mac it is as easy as holding down the Control key and scrolling the mouse. Very easily discoverable (now, compared to earlier Mac OS X versions), but not too easily (i.e. mistakenly triggered) like how Control-Scroll changes font sizes in Linux Firefox (gets in the way of searching for the next instance of text on a page) because of how Control is used on that platform for a command key.
(*) And easier to remember. I didn't know you could hit F2 in Windows to rename a file, and I've used 95, 98, and have two machines with XP Pro installed at home. But without this griping about it now burning it into my memory I'd probably forget about it before I'd have the opportunity to use it. And such an inconvenient key to use, too, for such a common function like renaming a file! That reduces its usefulness too.
The only function key I know to use on a PC is F8 for Safe Mode, and it took 5 months before someone finally told me about it so I could fix an IRQ conflict with a sound card that was locking up my system on restart. I'd found on-line everything I'd need to know to fix the problem, every convoluted step including multiple restarts to get the sound card to use a different IRQ number, except which fucking key to use to get into Safe Mode! I remember it now by calling it the "fate" key. (I accept that Safe Mode is not a common operation, but as such one shouldn't assume general knowledge of how to get to it!)
You may now laugh at me for not knowing how to use the three seashells.
For finding stuff, applications in particular, try installing Quicksilver.
Funny, but when I'm looking for applications, I tend to just check in the Applications folder and start typing its name.
I guess I must be the odd one for installing Applications in the Applications folder.
I also look for utilities in the Utilities folder.
It's the filing of documents though where things start to break down for me. Stuff just tends to accumulate on the Desktop, much like my office, as the detritus of multiple tasks being worked on at once and then being forgotten, random-periodically all shoved into a folder with a date for its name.
2. Renaming Isn't Easy. The process of renaming files is highly mouse-centric on the Mac. There's no F2 option (as there is on Windows) that lets you select the file and press F2 to expose the filename-editing mode.
You hit F2 in Windows to rename files? And that's supposed to be intuitive?
He's (summarizing mrchaotica (681592)) saying it shouldn't be illegal. Countering that it is illegal misses their point entirely!
If you meant "unethical" you should have said so. If you meant "hurting someone" you should have said so. You said "illegal". I'm not into guessing what people mean based on what they actually say, so I asked if you wanted to rephrase. And I still don't know if you do or not.
No, I said you missed the point. There's something else rather basic to this discussion that I think you've missed: I'm not Taevin (85092), and neither of us is mrchaotica (681592). I'm HTH NE1 (675604). (You are nasch (598556).)
I think I'll just quietly step away from this conversation now. I don't feel comfortable communicating with people who can't tell one poster from another even when it's spelled out in front of them.
You might want to rephrase that, since making counterfeit money is illegal, no matter what you do with it.
Way to miss the point, buddy.
Should I be allowed to have military weapons as long as I haven't actually used them illegally? Anti-personnel mines, machine guns (not automatic rifles, machine guns), grenades, tanks, rocket launchers... I just collect them because I think they're neat. No problem?
Last I heard it was not illegal to self-manufacture any firearm (much like the minuscule hole in the DMCA which does allow you to manufacture your own tools for circumventing copy protection) except perhaps a potato gun in some states/municipalities.
Banning something hardly ever lowers the market for it...Witness illegal drugs.
And witness kids being arrested for possessing drug-like substances, such as a plastic bag of powdered sugar brought to school for a Home Economics cooking class.
God help us if 500 years from now our descendants are marveling at TV commercials in the National Madison Avenue Archives.
"I've seen the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener."
Strange then that the title of the page says "a PSP". Saying "my PSP" jives with the "my two front teeth" it borrows from, but then it also implies that he wants his PSP back, PSP back, PSP back, which doesn't work either unless you pronounce "PSP" with only two syllables: "piss-pee back", and then you might as well replace the kid with William Murderface (Murderface Murderface).
Now we need to come up with a term for what will eventually prove to be its opposite: corporate sabotage that seeks to inspire negative propoganda for another company.
I take it this has nothing to do with the other meaning for KVM, Keyboard, Video, Mouse switches... there I was thinking that my Belkin KVM switch was finally gonna work properly (I have two mice connected as the switch cannot switch the mice correctly)
I have one of their 4-port USB SOHO KVM switches. I have no problems when I'm switching between Macs hooked up to it, but for the machine running Windows XP, it always takes several seconds for the OS to re-recognize the USB keyboard and USB mouse. I don't know if their PS/2-based switches have this problem.
The only big problem remaining is when it decides to start chirping incessantly for no apparent reason, requiring it to be completely powered down. And if it happened while displaying one of the machines, disconnect the USB connection from that machine. I think I've satisfied it by using a real USB keyboard and not a:CueCat plugged into the KVM's keyboard port.
Oh, and you can't play games with the keyboard connected to its keyboard port. If you hold down a key too long, it stops forwarding the signal to the computer until you release it and press it again. Very annoying. Keyboards plugged into any other port on the KVM work fine, but the special port is the only one that allows keyboard control of the KVM itself.
Maybe it's because I'm not from the USA that I don't immediately think of drugs and slander/libel and suing people.
No, it's just you're not so much of a paranoid pessimist as I am. I tried to turn it into a cautionary tale using dark humor which, judging by the moderation, I failed miserably at this time.
My point was how easily a clever turn of phrase can be misinterpreted and offense registered:
"How fast does the poison work?" "Very quickly, he said. Almost instantaneously." "'Almost'? How fast is almost? Time enough for him to stagger back into the main room and cry out, 'Londo killed me!', hmm? Or maybe just enough time for him to say, 'Londo kill-- aargh'?" "And then he won't even get that out, he just maybe go, 'Lond-- aargh'." "Hehe." "Or maybe just be totally delirious and say everything backwards and say, 'Kill Londo! Arrgh.'" "...?" "I was just having fun with..." "Yes, well..."
I suspect that the rights tied up in games may preclude a Director's Cut as we're used to seeing for movies on DVD. At best we might get a Director's Supplementary disk, which might include a patch for the game to incorporate the extra material. Or even just the extra material in printed screenplay format.
Really? To me, "putting his money where his nose is," is more easily interpreted as a euphemism meaning he's addicted to cocaine, and thus is a turn of phrase that should be avoided unless you want to be sued.
Just because the computer knows the peripherals are there doesn't necessarily mean the peripherals know the computer is there, and that is state not contained inside the computer's memory. Indeed, if they've stayed on while the computer was off, they may be in a non-initial state until a startup procedure tells them to reset.
To borrow your subject as a example, what if you had a computer-controlled (USB-enabled) coffee maker which when the restart profile was taken it was empty of coffee and full of beans but on restart it was empty of beans and full of coffee, and the computer decided it was time to fill the pot without a querying the state? As far as the computer knows, it just did query the state at startup, but that information was stale. If you're checking for staleness, then you're checking every time, and you're back where you started.
Also consider how long it takes Windows XP to re-recognize a USB keyboard and mouse when using a USB-based KVM switch. That alone takes several seconds during which you can't type or move the mouse pointer. (However, somehow Mac OS recognizes them practically instantaneously. This is one of my frequent issues with Windows XP.)
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen that means we can breathe." -- Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
One more reason for me to stick with Word 5.1a, for writing term papers (like that's ever going to happen again). 'Course, this (and SMAC/X) will keep me from moving to Intel based Mac.
It hasn't stopped me from moving to an Intel Mac. I just don't get rid of my old machines and use a KVM switch. Though the PowerMac 7500/100 isn't getting much use anymore, even with the B&W G3's original processor in it (the B&W was upgraded to a faster G4 than my stock G4 Cube has).
Now if only I could find a KVM solution for the older Macs that use DA-15 and ADB, though I'd probably have more luck finding DA-15->VGA and ADBUSB adapters.
The networking problem is child's play compared to that. Except... does anyone know if, after all the necessary bridges are connected, I could boot my Apple IIgs off of NAS?
You could go the traditional church route and get a bunch of monks to "illuminate" the excerpts you want by having them painstakingly reproduce each frame by hand and scan each frame back into a computer and sequence it for full motion playback. Get a few more trained in the foley arts and some excellent impressionists to get the soundtrack.
With the man hours involved, no one would dare accuse you of exploiting the works for profit.
I, too, am perplexed by the lack of 720p. I also have a similar model by Toshiba (same dimensions and restrictions).
As I had heard it explained before, at 1080i the CRT's electron gun only has to light up 540 lines per pass. To do 720p it has to do, well, 720, and that was more difficult and made the sets more expensive.
Any idea on how we might fix this?
Maybe an upconverter that can bring video up from 720p to 1080i. I don't know if such things even exist for that resolution pair.
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Hardly different. The Mac way is far easier to discover than the Windows way(*), yet the article's authors haven't bothered to find it. Instead they decry why you can't do it the Windows way rather than learn (or even try to discover) the Mac way.
BTW, how do you zoom in the display under Windows XP Pro? On the Mac it is as easy as holding down the Control key and scrolling the mouse. Very easily discoverable (now, compared to earlier Mac OS X versions), but not too easily (i.e. mistakenly triggered) like how Control-Scroll changes font sizes in Linux Firefox (gets in the way of searching for the next instance of text on a page) because of how Control is used on that platform for a command key.
(*) And easier to remember. I didn't know you could hit F2 in Windows to rename a file, and I've used 95, 98, and have two machines with XP Pro installed at home. But without this griping about it now burning it into my memory I'd probably forget about it before I'd have the opportunity to use it. And such an inconvenient key to use, too, for such a common function like renaming a file! That reduces its usefulness too.
The only function key I know to use on a PC is F8 for Safe Mode, and it took 5 months before someone finally told me about it so I could fix an IRQ conflict with a sound card that was locking up my system on restart. I'd found on-line everything I'd need to know to fix the problem, every convoluted step including multiple restarts to get the sound card to use a different IRQ number, except which fucking key to use to get into Safe Mode! I remember it now by calling it the "fate" key. (I accept that Safe Mode is not a common operation, but as such one shouldn't assume general knowledge of how to get to it!)
You may now laugh at me for not knowing how to use the three seashells.
Funny, but when I'm looking for applications, I tend to just check in the Applications folder and start typing its name.
I guess I must be the odd one for installing Applications in the Applications folder.
I also look for utilities in the Utilities folder.
It's the filing of documents though where things start to break down for me. Stuff just tends to accumulate on the Desktop, much like my office, as the detritus of multiple tasks being worked on at once and then being forgotten, random-periodically all shoved into a folder with a date for its name.
2. Renaming Isn't Easy. The process of renaming files is highly mouse-centric on the Mac. There's no F2 option (as there is on Windows) that lets you select the file and press F2 to expose the filename-editing mode.
You hit F2 in Windows to rename files? And that's supposed to be intuitive?
He's (summarizing mrchaotica (681592)) saying it shouldn't be illegal. Countering that it is illegal misses their point entirely!
No, I said you missed the point. There's something else rather basic to this discussion that I think you've missed: I'm not Taevin (85092), and neither of us is mrchaotica (681592). I'm HTH NE1 (675604). (You are nasch (598556).)
I think I'll just quietly step away from this conversation now. I don't feel comfortable communicating with people who can't tell one poster from another even when it's spelled out in front of them.
You might want to rephrase that, since making counterfeit money is illegal, no matter what you do with it.
Way to miss the point, buddy.
Should I be allowed to have military weapons as long as I haven't actually used them illegally? Anti-personnel mines, machine guns (not automatic rifles, machine guns), grenades, tanks, rocket launchers... I just collect them because I think they're neat. No problem?
Last I heard it was not illegal to self-manufacture any firearm (much like the minuscule hole in the DMCA which does allow you to manufacture your own tools for circumventing copy protection) except perhaps a potato gun in some states/municipalities.
Banning something hardly ever lowers the market for it...Witness illegal drugs.
And witness kids being arrested for possessing drug-like substances, such as a plastic bag of powdered sugar brought to school for a Home Economics cooking class.
God help us if 500 years from now our descendants are marveling at TV commercials in the National Madison Avenue Archives.
"I've seen the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener."
In advertising, any press is good press. It's about name recognition -- at least that's what friends in the business have told me.
Sure. Why just be famous when you can be infamous with a plethora of free publicity?
Strange then that the title of the page says "a PSP". Saying "my PSP" jives with the "my two front teeth" it borrows from, but then it also implies that he wants his PSP back, PSP back, PSP back, which doesn't work either unless you pronounce "PSP" with only two syllables: "piss-pee back", and then you might as well replace the kid with William Murderface (Murderface Murderface).
Just say no to advertising and advertised goods and services.
OK, so I'll just go by word of mouth then.
Wait a minute....
It already has a name. It's called Astroturfing.
Now we need to come up with a term for what will eventually prove to be its opposite: corporate sabotage that seeks to inspire negative propoganda for another company.
Sodium tetrasulfating?
Investiage: an investigation employing the triage method.
I'd prefer this (DNA-inspired) phrasing:
New Zealand's rich bird fauna had evolved there because they had no competition from land mammals, or at least none worth speaking of.
Keep in mind that version 0.9.x could be followed not by 1.0 but 0.10.0.
I take it this has nothing to do with the other meaning for KVM, Keyboard, Video, Mouse switches... there I was thinking that my Belkin KVM switch was finally gonna work properly (I have two mice connected as the switch cannot switch the mice correctly)
:CueCat plugged into the KVM's keyboard port.
I have one of their 4-port USB SOHO KVM switches. I have no problems when I'm switching between Macs hooked up to it, but for the machine running Windows XP, it always takes several seconds for the OS to re-recognize the USB keyboard and USB mouse. I don't know if their PS/2-based switches have this problem.
The only big problem remaining is when it decides to start chirping incessantly for no apparent reason, requiring it to be completely powered down. And if it happened while displaying one of the machines, disconnect the USB connection from that machine. I think I've satisfied it by using a real USB keyboard and not a
Oh, and you can't play games with the keyboard connected to its keyboard port. If you hold down a key too long, it stops forwarding the signal to the computer until you release it and press it again. Very annoying. Keyboards plugged into any other port on the KVM work fine, but the special port is the only one that allows keyboard control of the KVM itself.
So now when one receives anthrax through e-mail, it won't necessarily be an MP3 attachment; it could be a PostScript attachment instead.
No, it's just you're not so much of a paranoid pessimist as I am. I tried to turn it into a cautionary tale using dark humor which, judging by the moderation, I failed miserably at this time.
My point was how easily a clever turn of phrase can be misinterpreted and offense registered:
I suspect that the rights tied up in games may preclude a Director's Cut as we're used to seeing for movies on DVD. At best we might get a Director's Supplementary disk, which might include a patch for the game to incorporate the extra material. Or even just the extra material in printed screenplay format.
His scents sense makes cents.
Really? To me, "putting his money where his nose is," is more easily interpreted as a euphemism meaning he's addicted to cocaine, and thus is a turn of phrase that should be avoided unless you want to be sued.
Just because the computer knows the peripherals are there doesn't necessarily mean the peripherals know the computer is there, and that is state not contained inside the computer's memory. Indeed, if they've stayed on while the computer was off, they may be in a non-initial state until a startup procedure tells them to reset.
To borrow your subject as a example, what if you had a computer-controlled (USB-enabled) coffee maker which when the restart profile was taken it was empty of coffee and full of beans but on restart it was empty of beans and full of coffee, and the computer decided it was time to fill the pot without a querying the state? As far as the computer knows, it just did query the state at startup, but that information was stale. If you're checking for staleness, then you're checking every time, and you're back where you started.
Also consider how long it takes Windows XP to re-recognize a USB keyboard and mouse when using a USB-based KVM switch. That alone takes several seconds during which you can't type or move the mouse pointer. (However, somehow Mac OS recognizes them practically instantaneously. This is one of my frequent issues with Windows XP.)
"Minor and casual criticism can quickly ferment into a difficult stink, and attempts to burry it can often just make it worse."
Worse for everyone, worse for the northern England and Scottish readers, or for everyone but them?
See burry(3) and burr(n:5a,5b).
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen that means we can breathe." -- Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
One more reason for me to stick with Word 5.1a, for writing term papers (like that's ever going to happen again). 'Course, this (and SMAC/X) will keep me from moving to Intel based Mac.
It hasn't stopped me from moving to an Intel Mac. I just don't get rid of my old machines and use a KVM switch. Though the PowerMac 7500/100 isn't getting much use anymore, even with the B&W G3's original processor in it (the B&W was upgraded to a faster G4 than my stock G4 Cube has).
Now if only I could find a KVM solution for the older Macs that use DA-15 and ADB, though I'd probably have more luck finding DA-15->VGA and ADBUSB adapters.
The networking problem is child's play compared to that. Except... does anyone know if, after all the necessary bridges are connected, I could boot my Apple IIgs off of NAS?
You could go the traditional church route and get a bunch of monks to "illuminate" the excerpts you want by having them painstakingly reproduce each frame by hand and scan each frame back into a computer and sequence it for full motion playback. Get a few more trained in the foley arts and some excellent impressionists to get the soundtrack.
With the man hours involved, no one would dare accuse you of exploiting the works for profit.
I, too, am perplexed by the lack of 720p. I also have a similar model by Toshiba (same dimensions and restrictions).
As I had heard it explained before, at 1080i the CRT's electron gun only has to light up 540 lines per pass. To do 720p it has to do, well, 720, and that was more difficult and made the sets more expensive.
Any idea on how we might fix this?
Maybe an upconverter that can bring video up from 720p to 1080i. I don't know if such things even exist for that resolution pair.