how is it "marketing hype" if I want it and in a few days I'll actually have it?
if you don't want this feature then fine but to the people who "get it" it's absolutely fantastic and exactly what is wanted, like the iPod shuffle.
it's only hype if nobody wanted it in the first place. but the first time I used iTunes' search box I thought "wow, that'd be really cool if it was in all programs". now it is.
>Search: Maybe I'm missing something, but name one somewhat modern OS without a built in search function.
yes, like most other people, you are missing something.
this is built into pretty much everything. for example if you open the system preferences and want to know where a setting is you type it into the search bar and it will highlight where it is no matter how deep linked. this will happen in real-time as you type and will be instant. I have never seen anything like this on Mac, Windows or linux before. usually you have to open a separate help application/window and do a long search on contents or select something from an index.
have you used iTunes? compare its live-updating search with the Windows/linux type-then-press-enter-then-wait-a-bit. it's not just evolutionary, its like the difference between going through various Yahoo portal screens or just Googling something. searching will always just be a variation on a theme, it's the *user interface* to the search that makes the difference between awkward and genius.
also, the results of *anything* are included in this instant, live-updating search. I love the prospect of having loads of PDFs of scientific papers and not needing any order to the filenames or directories because I can search for the relevant content and it will be much easier to adapt my filter as I go because I'll see how many results are being returned.
just imagine not just the invention of Google, but a Google that would change its results in real-time and which would do web page, image, PDF search etc. all at the same time. everyone accepts Google has changed the web but is so blind to how Spotlight changes the desktop even more.
he's a link troll, probably amigoro in a new user name, or some other pathetic twat with nothig better to do than try to get ad views with fake articles.
because I've worked on checkouts and I know what they're often like.
like the 'tard girl I served once who was buying two apples and wanted to pay with two separate card transactions because one was for a friend and she couldn't work out how much her friend would owe her otherwise.
in my experience, anyone paying for a transaction of less than 1 pound with a card is doing so because they're too retarded to be allowed to carry coins (probably for fear of eating them). YMMV.
now I only read the summary, but it seems you didn't bother even doing that. it talks about ACTIVATING your card (i.e. once), not using it 24-7.
maybe you jusk freaked out because you're one of those 'tards who insists on using a card for every single purchase and worried you'd have to interupt your worthless mobile phone conversation to pay for your 35p packet of low-fat crisps.
I just typed in my home postcode. In the UK a postcode typically localises you to one side of a particular street. The google map was off by 2 whole streets and offered no other info about the precise location, despite the fact that 99% of all web shops can fill in my entire address (except for a list of 10 or so possible house numbers) just from my postcode.
this is very funny. as a new mac convert I thought the "mac just works" was a bit of an exaggeration, but at a physics conference recently, over 50% of the laptops were macs. and with those that weren't, most had at least one problem with an image or animation that wouldn't work with the local projection system.
this is, of course, just yet another anecdote for all of you reading this, but for me it's complete confirmation that mac is best (even with the non-mac PCs, most were running linux).
I wasn't surprised that macs worked better, but was surprised just how much better they worked in general.
you guys reading this can take what you want from this, I'm happy and convinced, and nothing you do or say will change that.
"Apple touts the ease with which you can upgrade your existing Mac OS X installation to Tiger, or perform a clean install. But if you're not really paying attention during Setup, you can quite easily do the wrong thing, especially if you want to do a clean install."
if you're not fucking paying attention when installing a new OS you can make a mistake!?!?! oh noes, what were Apple THINKING!!!???
...the iPod is great not just because it's stylish and functional, but because it's as simple as possible wrt DRM. no DRM simply isn't going to happen, but with the iPod (and its *seamless* integration with iTunes) DRM is hidden from the user in 99.9% of cases.
if this Sony DRM stuff even requires a SINGLE extra click, then imo it has failed and has no chance of making me move away from my iPod (even though the designs I've seen look very nice).
if you are in UK don't bother having to mess around on ebay, just refuse to accept the delivery and have it sent back for automatic refund. even if you accept you can send it back within 7 days.
BS, look at small form factor PCs and you'll pay $200 just on the chasis, and it still won't be as small or quiet as a Mac mini.
the Mac mini is very cheap if any off the following have value to you: -footprint -noise -beautiful, fully-functional, secure, stable OS -style
if you don't care about usability and judge things on "just the specs ma'am", then you can stick with your Intel box and continue to believe that uptimes should be measured in hours or that you only need 50% of your components supported anyway.
in the UK you have the option to defend yourself but you're right in that we don't sanction assault. it's called civilisation. I thought the Simpsons episode about wanting to kick Bart was just a joke, but is sounds like you guys really are fucked up.
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>"Just settling a little dispute officer."
so when does it become illegal? can you consent to a duel to the death? can two families consent to a private war and firebomb each others property if they happen to live far enough from other people?
you should be ashamed of your country, you filthy peasant.
no, it is extreme arrogance to use a word like need to describe SUVs. if you need it so much, how the fuck did people survive before they existed?
and if it is so important to those people, why can't they pay the true price of such a machine instead of the subsidised costs used by the US to prop up its economy at the expense of the environment?
okay so now you're adding bribery to the list of okay things as well as fraud?
AFAIK, rebates are non-transferable and for the people who actually bought the item. I've never actually used one though, we don't have that sort of crap where I live.
even if you happen to live in one of the covered areas and want to use one of the participating companies, what help would this map be?
where I live you don't need any of this "use the internet for the sake of it" crap. you phone the cab company and it asks you to press 1 if you want to go as soon as possible, otherwise hold for an operator to make a booking manually. when the cab get's close to your house the phone rings twice. the whole thing needs about 10 seconds of effort on your part so where's the room for improvement?
I've just been looking at the Tiger preview stuff on Apple's website. it's been there for ages but I never bothered with it until now.
I knew the features were cool but there were a few extra surprises, like in Dashboard there's a language translator that translates your words as you're typing. it looked really cool - he was typing "French fries" which was dynamically translated frenc->francais->pommes frites as more letters were typed. I didn't notice a USA ("Freedom fries") option in the language list though.
Automator looked far cooler than I'd imagined too.
I must say I don't like the new look of the email app though. I love the current skin.
1. Apple's AACs don't *need* an iPod to work 2. don't make the download more expensive than just clicking on Amazon next-day delivery 3. don't only make new films available to download 6 months after general availability
yes we think it's hilarious. we often screen videos of dumb Americans bouncing on the down arrow key at the weekly meetings of the "No USAians" club.
so far none of them have realised you can press the 'U' key.
the funniest ones are where they get all the way to countries beginning with the letter 'H', stopping to read and think about each one, before finally realising it's alphabetical and they can just scroll until countries beginning with 'U' appear.
when you guys finally figure out our plot, we'll start putting the USA in random places.
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how is it "marketing hype" if I want it and in a few days I'll actually have it?
if you don't want this feature then fine but to the people who "get it" it's absolutely fantastic and exactly what is wanted, like the iPod shuffle.
it's only hype if nobody wanted it in the first place. but the first time I used iTunes' search box I thought "wow, that'd be really cool if it was in all programs". now it is.
>Search: Maybe I'm missing something, but name one somewhat modern OS without a built in search function.
yes, like most other people, you are missing something.
this is built into pretty much everything. for example if you open the system preferences and want to know where a setting is you type it into the search bar and it will highlight where it is no matter how deep linked. this will happen in real-time as you type and will be instant. I have never seen anything like this on Mac, Windows or linux before. usually you have to open a separate help application/window and do a long search on contents or select something from an index.
have you used iTunes? compare its live-updating search with the Windows/linux type-then-press-enter-then-wait-a-bit. it's not just evolutionary, its like the difference between going through various Yahoo portal screens or just Googling something. searching will always just be a variation on a theme, it's the *user interface* to the search that makes the difference between awkward and genius.
also, the results of *anything* are included in this instant, live-updating search. I love the prospect of having loads of PDFs of scientific papers and not needing any order to the filenames or directories because I can search for the relevant content and it will be much easier to adapt my filter as I go because I'll see how many results are being returned.
just imagine not just the invention of Google, but a Google that would change its results in real-time and which would do web page, image, PDF search etc. all at the same time. everyone accepts Google has changed the web but is so blind to how Spotlight changes the desktop even more.
he's a link troll, probably amigoro in a new user name, or some other pathetic twat with nothig better to do than try to get ad views with fake articles.
stay away from mithuro.com
because I've worked on checkouts and I know what they're often like.
like the 'tard girl I served once who was buying two apples and wanted to pay with two separate card transactions because one was for a friend and she couldn't work out how much her friend would owe her otherwise.
in my experience, anyone paying for a transaction of less than 1 pound with a card is doing so because they're too retarded to be allowed to carry coins (probably for fear of eating them). YMMV.
read the first sentence of the summary.
THAT's why.
now I only read the summary, but it seems you didn't bother even doing that. it talks about ACTIVATING your card (i.e. once), not using it 24-7.
maybe you jusk freaked out because you're one of those 'tards who insists on using a card for every single purchase and worried you'd have to interupt your worthless mobile phone conversation to pay for your 35p packet of low-fat crisps.
I just typed in my home postcode. In the UK a postcode typically localises you to one side of a particular street. The google map was off by 2 whole streets and offered no other info about the precise location, despite the fact that 99% of all web shops can fill in my entire address (except for a list of 10 or so possible house numbers) just from my postcode.
this is very funny. as a new mac convert I thought the "mac just works" was a bit of an exaggeration, but at a physics conference recently, over 50% of the laptops were macs. and with those that weren't, most had at least one problem with an image or animation that wouldn't work with the local projection system.
this is, of course, just yet another anecdote for all of you reading this, but for me it's complete confirmation that mac is best (even with the non-mac PCs, most were running linux).
I wasn't surprised that macs worked better, but was surprised just how much better they worked in general.
you guys reading this can take what you want from this, I'm happy and convinced, and nothing you do or say will change that.
"My history with Mac" - ugg... skip to the end.
and skim-reading, wtf is this?
"Apple touts the ease with which you can upgrade your existing Mac OS X installation to Tiger, or perform a clean install. But if you're not really paying attention during Setup, you can quite easily do the wrong thing, especially if you want to do a clean install."
if you're not fucking paying attention when installing a new OS you can make a mistake!?!?! oh noes, what were Apple THINKING!!!???
>This one really bugs me: in all the main OS X browsers (Safari, Firefox, Camino) you cannot Tab to a checkbox or...
3. there's an option in Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard shortcuts to "turn on full access". tried that?
4. tried clicking the down arrow to the right of the save name?
...the iPod is great not just because it's stylish and functional, but because it's as simple as possible wrt DRM. no DRM simply isn't going to happen, but with the iPod (and its *seamless* integration with iTunes) DRM is hidden from the user in 99.9% of cases.
if this Sony DRM stuff even requires a SINGLE extra click, then imo it has failed and has no chance of making me move away from my iPod (even though the designs I've seen look very nice).
if you are in UK don't bother having to mess around on ebay, just refuse to accept the delivery and have it sent back for automatic refund. even if you accept you can send it back within 7 days.
BS, look at small form factor PCs and you'll pay $200 just on the chasis, and it still won't be as small or quiet as a Mac mini.
the Mac mini is very cheap if any off the following have value to you:
-footprint
-noise
-beautiful, fully-functional, secure, stable OS
-style
if you don't care about usability and judge things on "just the specs ma'am", then you can stick with your Intel box and continue to believe that uptimes should be measured in hours or that you only need 50% of your components supported anyway.
yes, but my use of a phrase was done ironically, whereas your use is recursive and totally fscked up :-)
in the UK you have the option to defend yourself but you're right in that we don't sanction assault. it's called civilisation. I thought the Simpsons episode about wanting to kick Bart was just a joke, but is sounds like you guys really are fucked up.
>"Just settling a little dispute officer."
so when does it become illegal? can you consent to a duel to the death? can two families consent to a private war and firebomb each others property if they happen to live far enough from other people?
you should be ashamed of your country, you filthy peasant.
> Can you say, "Wheel of Misfortune"?
no I can't, every time I tried to say it I got interupted, because the 1990s called, and they wanted their phrase back.
no, it is extreme arrogance to use a word like need to describe SUVs. if you need it so much, how the fuck did people survive before they existed?
and if it is so important to those people, why can't they pay the true price of such a machine instead of the subsidised costs used by the US to prop up its economy at the expense of the environment?
you keep using that word ("need"). I don't think it means what you think it means.
okay so now you're adding bribery to the list of okay things as well as fraud?
AFAIK, rebates are non-transferable and for the people who actually bought the item. I've never actually used one though, we don't have that sort of crap where I live.
where I live "private hire" taxis are far cheaper than flagged ones.
the idea of trying to chase a taxi with a PDA is ridiculous.
the amount of work Google would need to do to make this idea even remotely useful is staggering.
excellent? why on Earth would anyone want this?
even if you happen to live in one of the covered areas and want to use one of the participating companies, what help would this map be?
where I live you don't need any of this "use the internet for the sake of it" crap. you phone the cab company and it asks you to press 1 if you want to go as soon as possible, otherwise hold for an operator to make a booking manually. when the cab get's close to your house the phone rings twice. the whole thing needs about 10 seconds of effort on your part so where's the room for improvement?
I've just been looking at the Tiger preview stuff on Apple's website. it's been there for ages but I never bothered with it until now.
I knew the features were cool but there were a few extra surprises, like in Dashboard there's a language translator that translates your words as you're typing. it looked really cool - he was typing "French fries" which was dynamically translated frenc->francais->pommes frites as more letters were typed. I didn't notice a USA ("Freedom fries") option in the language list though.
Automator looked far cooler than I'd imagined too.
I must say I don't like the new look of the email app though. I love the current skin.
some quick clues to get you started:
1. Apple's AACs don't *need* an iPod to work
2. don't make the download more expensive than just clicking on Amazon next-day delivery
3. don't only make new films available to download 6 months after general availability
yes we think it's hilarious. we often screen videos of dumb Americans bouncing on the down arrow key at the weekly meetings of the "No USAians" club.
so far none of them have realised you can press the 'U' key.
the funniest ones are where they get all the way to countries beginning with the letter 'H', stopping to read and think about each one, before finally realising it's alphabetical and they can just scroll until countries beginning with 'U' appear.
when you guys finally figure out our plot, we'll start putting the USA in random places.