It's true that it's harder as a first time user in gnome or whatever coming from Windows, but for someone like my mom which doesn't use computers in general it wouldn't matter, she wouldn't have a clue on how to switch resolution in any of the options.
So what says the Windows way of doing it is the best one just because people are used to it? (OS X once makes much more sense then right clicking on the desktop: System Preferences -> Displays -> There you are, choose your resolution...
I use OS X atm and I would prefer if it was more configurable, althought I don't really know what I would like to change since it's pretty perfect as is. I would put the close window gadget on the opposit side of all other buttons and the two scroll arrows on each side of the scroll thought, and I would prefer if there was a good way to just minimize away all Windows (no, not just show desktop because then I can't drag anything from it to another window, which leaves me with the option of minimizing all windows I have which takes time and is annoying. Over all I think it sucks how minimizing works in OS X so I just don't use it and press F9 for exposes show all windows stuff instead. Example of why it sucks: 1) I don't want lots of icons in my dock but minimized windows sometimes ends up in there even thought the running application got an arrow under itself aswell. 2) When running Quicktime with the Window open but in the back you bring it forward by clicking Q-icon, when it instead is minimized that doesn't work and you have to press the minimized Video-window instead, logical?)
Also here in Sweden we don't throw tubes containing mercury in landfills, or batteries, or any electronics at all longer. Atleast if people does what they are supposed to do.
We got collection for paper/magazines, paper boxes, glas, hard plastic, soft plastic (which i think they just burn), metal, batteries and electronics and compost/organic. So the only rest is uhm.. mostly soft plastic since it gets burned anyway, small plastic pieces on bread bags, cat litter, uhm.. =P
In that case no since only regular bulbs and halogen bulbs give full spectrum light, light tubes does not and the energy saving light bulbs are just light tubes in disgues (spelling..)
There exist light tubes which are supposed to have a better light spectrum but I've got the impression they are made with 3 or 5 various kinds of phosfors which just gives you more "peaks" in the spectrum instead of 1 but not one large smooth spectrum as in the ones where you actually got something burning.
Also there are the issue with color temperature, thought I guess most of them are around 2700K or whatever and similair to light bulbs, halogen might get higher and with light tubes and so you can get 6000 and 6500K or so to.
Btw I would like to have a light solution with very natural light with good contrasts, colors, no "reflections" and so on, could anyone suggest something? Ott-lites are expensive so not those =P
What sucks most in Spotlight is that it doesn't tell WHERE its hits are. Yesterday I search for quicktime and found multiple files/dirs but which one was the one I wanted? Sure you can select all of them and look at the path that is pretty annoying.
Exactly, when people compare things they always compare how like-Windows-or-not it's, none of my grandmas uses computers (well one of them is dead so she definitly doesn't) but neither does my dad or mom either, but if they where they wouldn't have any fucking idea they should look for a setup.exe, or open the dmg-file and drag the icon if there was one to Applications, where to find the application to remove files or where to look for an word like application, mail reader or whatever. So if it's like Windows or not doesn't matter, and it might very well be so that my mom would prefer to search for "mail" in synaptic, click the checkbox for an application or 10 and install those, and try them out and see which one she likes best instead of searching the Interweb for them, find download links, go thru mirrors, install them all and so on.
Why would you want to manually install binaries in an OS which got mirrors and premade packages easily available in stable versions at your fingertips with no extra work?
I do find the apt-get way superior to anything else thought since it's consistant and work for all software. In Windows and OS X you have to find the app first, find the download link, search your way thru various mirrors and better hope you get a fast one, get the file, eventually unextract it, run the installer with all it's various dialogs and shit in Windows or open the dmg and drag the icon to Applications in OS X (Or run the package and answer some more shit.)
The Debian way is muuuuch faster, and more convenient, and there are graphical package managers you know, thought they take longer time than typing probably.
It's a little funny how it's ok to say "ohnoz this shit I have on my computer doesn't come installed by default in OS X!" when people have to add this and that functionality themself.
It's not hard to install desktop manager or quicksilver on a mac. I just wished they had a decent mp3 player aswell;D (you know, like amarok!)
I'd like to type something like "Yeah, that makes beagle the awesomest, beagle invented the search, to bad noone uses it!" (Althought I do know Apple didn't invented it and that mac fanatics will belive everything Steve does is the best and perfect no matter what, and that some people probably actually DO use beagle, but I doubt it's that many yet compared to Spotlight and that makes additional spotlight features more of a news item.) Thought haven't this been known for quite a while? I think I've read about it before.
Also as someone said I think the and operators have been there long, I think I've seen some gui with various operators earlier, might have been for their Mail application thought.
Actually there are like three variants on that one and in some games they all do various things, such as say 10, 30 or unlimited lifes. So no, they aren't the same, atleast not always.
Since it have the same graphics and so on aswell I would assume both games are more or less exact copies of each other but with different control schemes.
No, not a chance, Word 2007 is a reason NOT to run openoffice.
Imho word is piece of shit and openoffice tries very hard to be exactly the same, which can only result in one thing: Shit, sligthly less shit imho but still shit.
Word 2007 on the other hand have had a major UI clean up and looks like something which might be usable, so by trying so hard to be just like word instead of better than word openoffice loses.
I hate this "let's make it like windows/word" crap, Windows UI isn't the greatest, perfect and flawless, word UI definitly isn't. So stop copying it and come up with something better instead.
KDE 2 also looked and worked like shit because it was way to much of a Windows copy, still imho.
So what word processors do I like then? Had a look at the iWork Pages videos? It looks sweet, and comes with a non-bloated UI. Personally I use LaTeX thought, and I guess the best alternative is to just make the information and have an applications which knows how good text should look do the rest.
Yeah, I hate the moron who tagged the story darwin/darwinaward. Idiots, there is nothing fun with people dying:(
I don't know how much of common knowledge it is that drinking massive amounts of water isn't good for you but I'm very sure that many people don't know that it is, especially elder people who don't know anything about ecstasy or drugs in general.
I feel so sorry for her and her family, she tried to give them a console and they ended up without a mom:(
I agree with you that I don't consider much private. I'm very open in forums and in private messages to unknown people (even thought that isn't open to everyone, but it's still pretty much information for being to an anonymous unkown receiver), but I don't give a shit. It's my life, thoughts, ideas, arguments and so on, take it or leave it. If you don't like it? Fine.
21500 hits on google for the combination of my nick name and the forum I visit the most. 1430 for the combination of my irc nickname and the word irc. 1310 hits on my name.
Better sue them for 1.6 trillion of lost income. Imagine how much money everyone must lose on youtube!... But maybe the law doesn't apply to everyone (Already seen here in Sweden where The Pirate Bay was taken down for, uhm, I don't know =P)
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Yeah, gconf is great! Because everyone loves the windows registry.
Very userfriendly to!
(Gconf is also used to get rid of those annoying multiple-locales-boxes-on-all-windows-in-Solaris, to bad it never worked.)
Good idea to hide the setting in gconf...
It's true that it's harder as a first time user in gnome or whatever coming from Windows, but for someone like my mom which doesn't use computers in general it wouldn't matter, she wouldn't have a clue on how to switch resolution in any of the options.
So what says the Windows way of doing it is the best one just because people are used to it? (OS X once makes much more sense then right clicking on the desktop: System Preferences -> Displays -> There you are, choose your resolution...
I use OS X atm and I would prefer if it was more configurable, althought I don't really know what I would like to change since it's pretty perfect as is. I would put the close window gadget on the opposit side of all other buttons and the two scroll arrows on each side of the scroll thought, and I would prefer if there was a good way to just minimize away all Windows (no, not just show desktop because then I can't drag anything from it to another window, which leaves me with the option of minimizing all windows I have which takes time and is annoying. Over all I think it sucks how minimizing works in OS X so I just don't use it and press F9 for exposes show all windows stuff instead. Example of why it sucks: 1) I don't want lots of icons in my dock but minimized windows sometimes ends up in there even thought the running application got an arrow under itself aswell. 2) When running Quicktime with the Window open but in the back you bring it forward by clicking Q-icon, when it instead is minimized that doesn't work and you have to press the minimized Video-window instead, logical?)
Also better support for themes would be great.
Btw, I like KDE, I don't like gnome.
Also here in Sweden we don't throw tubes containing mercury in landfills, or batteries, or any electronics at all longer. Atleast if people does what they are supposed to do.
We got collection for paper/magazines, paper boxes, glas, hard plastic, soft plastic (which i think they just burn), metal, batteries and electronics and compost/organic. So the only rest is uhm.. mostly soft plastic since it gets burned anyway, small plastic pieces on bread bags, cat litter, uhm.. =P
Cheaper as in $4 + energy cost vs regular bulb + energy cost for the same amount of time.
cfl = energy saving light bulb?
In that case no since only regular bulbs and halogen bulbs give full spectrum light, light tubes does not and the energy saving light bulbs are just light tubes in disgues (spelling..)
There exist light tubes which are supposed to have a better light spectrum but I've got the impression they are made with 3 or 5 various kinds of phosfors which just gives you more "peaks" in the spectrum instead of 1 but not one large smooth spectrum as in the ones where you actually got something burning.
Also there are the issue with color temperature, thought I guess most of them are around 2700K or whatever and similair to light bulbs, halogen might get higher and with light tubes and so you can get 6000 and 6500K or so to.
Btw I would like to have a light solution with very natural light with good contrasts, colors, no "reflections" and so on, could anyone suggest something? Ott-lites are expensive so not those =P
What sucks most in Spotlight is that it doesn't tell WHERE its hits are. Yesterday I search for quicktime and found multiple files/dirs but which one was the one I wanted? Sure you can select all of them and look at the path that is pretty annoying.
Except on a real mac there of course aren't any place to put your discs in except on the mac pro.
(External discs? Yeah, mac users are very likely to use four of those...)
Exactly, when people compare things they always compare how like-Windows-or-not it's, none of my grandmas uses computers (well one of them is dead so she definitly doesn't) but neither does my dad or mom either, but if they where they wouldn't have any fucking idea they should look for a setup.exe, or open the dmg-file and drag the icon if there was one to Applications, where to find the application to remove files or where to look for an word like application, mail reader or whatever. So if it's like Windows or not doesn't matter, and it might very well be so that my mom would prefer to search for "mail" in synaptic, click the checkbox for an application or 10 and install those, and try them out and see which one she likes best instead of searching the Interweb for them, find download links, go thru mirrors, install them all and so on.
Why would you want to manually install binaries in an OS which got mirrors and premade packages easily available in stable versions at your fingertips with no extra work?
I do find the apt-get way superior to anything else thought since it's consistant and work for all software. In Windows and OS X you have to find the app first, find the download link, search your way thru various mirrors and better hope you get a fast one, get the file, eventually unextract it, run the installer with all it's various dialogs and shit in Windows or open the dmg and drag the icon to Applications in OS X (Or run the package and answer some more shit.)
The Debian way is muuuuch faster, and more convenient, and there are graphical package managers you know, thought they take longer time than typing probably.
It's a little funny how it's ok to say "ohnoz this shit I have on my computer doesn't come installed by default in OS X!" when people have to add this and that functionality themself.
;D (you know, like amarok!)
It's not hard to install desktop manager or quicksilver on a mac. I just wished they had a decent mp3 player aswell
I run Desktop Manager in OS X on Intel (or well, not on Intel, but we don't have to go into that subject ;D)
I'd like to type something like "Yeah, that makes beagle the awesomest, beagle invented the search, to bad noone uses it!" (Althought I do know Apple didn't invented it and that mac fanatics will belive everything Steve does is the best and perfect no matter what, and that some people probably actually DO use beagle, but I doubt it's that many yet compared to Spotlight and that makes additional spotlight features more of a news item.) Thought haven't this been known for quite a while? I think I've read about it before.
Also as someone said I think the and operators have been there long, I think I've seen some gui with various operators earlier, might have been for their Mail application thought.
Yeah, I to wanna wish them a big good luck with their service, they will need it...
Actually there are like three variants on that one and in some games they all do various things, such as say 10, 30 or unlimited lifes. So no, they aren't the same, atleast not always.
Since it have the same graphics and so on aswell I would assume both games are more or less exact copies of each other but with different control schemes.
What? The DS had better games than the PSP and Wii got an awesome launch line up. And both are very popular.
So of course it does.
At first when I just glanced your text I "read"/thought:
"but it won't be long before somebody mods a Wii controller and make killing fun again".
That's the purpose of it afterall.
As long as you software is released under GPL aswell there is no problem with using QT.
No, not a chance, Word 2007 is a reason NOT to run openoffice.
Imho word is piece of shit and openoffice tries very hard to be exactly the same, which can only result in one thing: Shit, sligthly less shit imho but still shit.
Word 2007 on the other hand have had a major UI clean up and looks like something which might be usable, so by trying so hard to be just like word instead of better than word openoffice loses.
I hate this "let's make it like windows/word" crap, Windows UI isn't the greatest, perfect and flawless, word UI definitly isn't. So stop copying it and come up with something better instead.
KDE 2 also looked and worked like shit because it was way to much of a Windows copy, still imho.
So what word processors do I like then? Had a look at the iWork Pages videos? It looks sweet, and comes with a non-bloated UI. Personally I use LaTeX thought, and I guess the best alternative is to just make the information and have an applications which knows how good text should look do the rest.
Yeah, I hate the moron who tagged the story darwin/darwinaward. Idiots, there is nothing fun with people dying :(
:(
I don't know how much of common knowledge it is that drinking massive amounts of water isn't good for you but I'm very sure that many people don't know that it is, especially elder people who don't know anything about ecstasy or drugs in general.
I feel so sorry for her and her family, she tried to give them a console and they ended up without a mom
I agree with you that I don't consider much private. I'm very open in forums and in private messages to unknown people (even thought that isn't open to everyone, but it's still pretty much information for being to an anonymous unkown receiver), but I don't give a shit. It's my life, thoughts, ideas, arguments and so on, take it or leave it. If you don't like it? Fine.
;)
21500 hits on google for the combination of my nick name and the forum I visit the most.
1430 for the combination of my irc nickname and the word irc.
1310 hits on my name.
Go figure =P, information wants to be free
Better sue them for 1.6 trillion of lost income. Imagine how much money everyone must lose on youtube! ... But maybe the law doesn't apply to everyone (Already seen here in Sweden where The Pirate Bay was taken down for, uhm, I don't know =P)
To me it's the opposit, I'd trade if my PS3 looked like that ;)
(Or well, rather, I wouldn't have got the PS3 in the first place.)