Your employer likes the idea of Trusted Computing.
Then your employer is run by idiots. After all, the company doesn't have control over the TPM either! Think of it this way: if it screws up on a home machine, you lose access to your vacation photos. If it screws up on a business machine, it can cripple the whole company. And that goes for WGA too.
What kind of idiot do you have to be to trust your business to a third party? And don't even get me started on governments using Windows...
Well, you were talking about using an OpenGL light for each "stoplight" button. I don't know if you're aware of this, but OpenGL is only required to support 8 lights total. And for each light you use, you're doubling the number of calculations needed to draw the scene. (By the way, if you're wondering about stuff that appears to have more lights, like Splinter Cell, that all uses hacks -- those aren't really lights.)
In other words, your suggestion would run unacceptably slow even on SLI GeForce 8800s, if you had more than a couple of windows open. (Okay, so I'm exaggerating... a little.)
I don't know about pop-ups in particular, but Adblock has (or at least had) a setting where you could choose either to download the ads and not display them, or not download them at all.
Yeah, but they're analog. When they do have a problem, how will you know? It'll just look like a slightly degraded picture or sound, which you might either not notice or might attribute to the player.
I hate to break it to you, but Windows developers can override the defaults too (and yes, CMD-H is an Apple-provided default -- if you program nothing, your app can still hide). Hell, Microsoft is almost as bad as Apple in terms of breaking their own guidelines -- just look at Windows Media Player or Office!
No they don't; they get removed from your vocabulary (because there's a system-wide spell checking service). Remember, it was the (non-Mac-using) original poster who used the word. I was just quoting him.
Example: I can have three Adobe applications from the same creative suite, and they all have different shortcuts for hide application (one of them has none at all.) Why is this menu option even created/controlled by the application?
First of all, that's Adobe's problem -- if they'd used the defaults, the shortcut would be CMD-H. Second, Apple lets the developer have the ability to change it because it's possible that he might actually have a good reason for deviating from the default.
I don't know about you, but I just don't tend to go back-and-forth between applications that often -- and certainly not while trying to use the menus in each. Also, you have to remember that (in addition to CMD-Tab, as the other reply mentioned), there's also Exposé and such.
True, but who says the things will be presented at small sizes? The reason I'm most looking forward to resolution independence is that it'll allow practical use of higher DPI displays. For example, I'm planning to get a Thinkpad X60 Tablet in a couple of days, and one thing I'm really excited about is that I can order it with an SXGA+ (1400x1050) display instead of a normal XGA (1024x768) one like on my current laptop, even though they're both 12". I don't anticipate scaling things down too often, but I do anticipate possibly scaling them up.
Close: it's PDF for displays, which I think means it's a subset of Display Postscript.
But anyway, that doesn't matter -- all those little buttons (e.g. the close/minimize/zoom ones) and gradients are bitmaps regardless of the fact that they're arranged in a PDF-like way.
I don't care whether there's one theme or a million themes. What I want is for the user to be able to pick the them rather than the application designer so that everything will use the same one instead of being forced to see fifty different ones at once like Apple does now!
Hopefully Leopard will have a vector-based UI -- we already know it's going to have a resolution-independent one, and presumably the people at Apple are smart enough to realize that scaling bitmaps all the time would look horrible...
The single main menu at the top is a thing that you love or hate, but it can feel very strange to change the focus of the application to just access a menu.
You have to do this on Windows too, you know. Even though you can see the menu of another application, when you try to click on it the first time it focuses the app rather than accessing the menu. Now, some Unix window managers (with focus-follows-mouse), on the other hand...
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Unfortunately for you, I'm a spelling pedant (with only one 'n')!
Then your employer is run by idiots. After all, the company doesn't have control over the TPM either! Think of it this way: if it screws up on a home machine, you lose access to your vacation photos. If it screws up on a business machine, it can cripple the whole company. And that goes for WGA too.
What kind of idiot do you have to be to trust your business to a third party? And don't even get me started on governments using Windows...Well, you were talking about using an OpenGL light for each "stoplight" button. I don't know if you're aware of this, but OpenGL is only required to support 8 lights total. And for each light you use, you're doubling the number of calculations needed to draw the scene. (By the way, if you're wondering about stuff that appears to have more lights, like Splinter Cell, that all uses hacks -- those aren't really lights.)
In other words, your suggestion would run unacceptably slow even on SLI GeForce 8800s, if you had more than a couple of windows open. (Okay, so I'm exaggerating... a little.)
I don't know about pop-ups in particular, but Adblock has (or at least had) a setting where you could choose either to download the ads and not display them, or not download them at all.
A real geek would build a Bluetooth interface into the Roomba directly.
Well, I think using actual geometry and lighting (especially lighting) would be way overkill just for those, but SVG would be reasonable.
He speaks the truth.
What are your thoughts on removable hard drives? Some of us [home users] don't want to spend the $2000 entry fee to get into tapes...
Yeah, but they're analog. When they do have a problem, how will you know? It'll just look like a slightly degraded picture or sound, which you might either not notice or might attribute to the player.
He didn't say "piracy," he said "backup!"
Sorry, I stand corrected then.
I hate to break it to you, but Windows developers can override the defaults too (and yes, CMD-H is an Apple-provided default -- if you program nothing, your app can still hide). Hell, Microsoft is almost as bad as Apple in terms of breaking their own guidelines -- just look at Windows Media Player or Office!
No they don't; they get removed from your vocabulary (because there's a system-wide spell checking service). Remember, it was the (non-Mac-using) original poster who used the word. I was just quoting him.
Cool, thanks! I really wanted one without the blue swoop overlay, but this is great too.
First of all, that's Adobe's problem -- if they'd used the defaults, the shortcut would be CMD-H. Second, Apple lets the developer have the ability to change it because it's possible that he might actually have a good reason for deviating from the default.
I don't know about you, but I just don't tend to go back-and-forth between applications that often -- and certainly not while trying to use the menus in each. Also, you have to remember that (in addition to CMD-Tab, as the other reply mentioned), there's also Exposé and such.
True, but who says the things will be presented at small sizes? The reason I'm most looking forward to resolution independence is that it'll allow practical use of higher DPI displays. For example, I'm planning to get a Thinkpad X60 Tablet in a couple of days, and one thing I'm really excited about is that I can order it with an SXGA+ (1400x1050) display instead of a normal XGA (1024x768) one like on my current laptop, even though they're both 12". I don't anticipate scaling things down too often, but I do anticipate possibly scaling them up.
Well, maybe a second and a half. Certainly less than 10, though -- if it's still under warranty, you might want to have that checked.
Nah, it'd look like this! : )
(Of course, a wallpaper showing the circuitry on the inside of my iMac would be really cool... I wish I could find one.)
You know, that would almost-sorta-kinda-not-really make sense, except that in a computer THE POWER CORD GOES STRAIGHT INTO A TRANSFORMER ANYWAY!
Close: it's PDF for displays, which I think means it's a subset of Display Postscript.
But anyway, that doesn't matter -- all those little buttons (e.g. the close/minimize/zoom ones) and gradients are bitmaps regardless of the fact that they're arranged in a PDF-like way.
I don't care whether there's one theme or a million themes. What I want is for the user to be able to pick the them rather than the application designer so that everything will use the same one instead of being forced to see fifty different ones at once like Apple does now!
Hopefully Leopard will have a vector-based UI -- we already know it's going to have a resolution-independent one, and presumably the people at Apple are smart enough to realize that scaling bitmaps all the time would look horrible...
Too bad it would only work for Chess and WebKit!
You have to do this on Windows too, you know. Even though you can see the menu of another application, when you try to click on it the first time it focuses the app rather than accessing the menu. Now, some Unix window managers (with focus-follows-mouse), on the other hand...