it changes my life because my completely silent 1.2Ghz PPC iBook blows my deafening 1.6GHz PC out of the water. THAT is the user experience. THAT is why I'm writing this on my "iBook desktop" (iBook + stand + bluetooth keyboard/mouse + wireless connection to speakers) while my PC sits useless, waiting to be given to a family member.
this is of course the low end. at the high end where raw performance is desired the dual G5s blow the intels out of the water too. so top to bottom PPC is better. THAT is why it is a better architecture.
how many thousands of devices are there that would need drivers? you think all the companies will just decide to help Apple out? you think Apple has the time to do it themselves, even if they could?
and for what? to run a great OS on crap hardware? even if I could run it on x86, which you can with an emulator, I wouldn't because I love the iBook hardware as much as the software.
PPC is a better architecture than x86 anyway.
so porting would be a world of pain and the potential market is tiny: take the small Mac market, take the tiny fraction that wants x86, subtract the large portion that would use linux instead - it would be simpler for Apple to just throw their money into a big pit, at least then they would save on tech support.
the whole point of the Mac voice control is that it DOESN'T NEED ANY TRAINING.
of course a "well trained" system will be better. jeez...
the Mac voice control isn't about, say, replacing typing (that will never work properly anyway). it's about commands. that's why it works so well - there are a limited number of words and phrases, though still some flexibility with precise phrasing.
the best use imo is the things like "home phone for Joe Bloggs" which will access the Address Book and display in huge font the home number. dismiss it with "ok" or "thank you" etc.
another good one is to select a file and say "mail this to Joe Bloggs" which open mail, starts a message to Joe and attatches the file. it's good because it actually saves time as opposed to a lot of voice control stuff which ends up taking LONGER than to just do it manually.
you don't "add on more stability, security...". either it's there from the start or not.
all you can do later is restrict usability to give the illusion of stability, security ("you are not allowed to use that driver", "your settings do not allow you to access this page" etc.)
>You cut out the middleman and a whole lot of manufacturing -, distribution and logistics in the process and I - as the consumer - want at least a part of that savings reflected on the price.
yes because we all know how expensive producing CDs is (*cough* AOL *cough*) whereas internet bandwidth is so cheap people never run out (*cough*/. effect *cough*).
Mac version is fine too (am currently using to watch snooker live on BBC).
I think the problem is just that MS treats its users like crap so everyone else just follows their lead. Linux and Mac don't have a large enough user base to play the "fling enough shit... some will stick" game with them, and the Mac/linux users are also more likely to seek out alternatives.
I do numerical simulations. calling fortran a POS language just reveals your retardness. maybe to you programming just means writing a gui for some file sharing protocol in the latest language but some of us have performance and a well-established code base to consider.
>People who want to indent with spaces need their heads examined.
speak for yourself. I know my 4-space indents will be the same regardless of whatever editor and/or settings are used. and I won't get warnings about the tab character from my f90 compiler.
er, yes there are. lots. most popular games get a mac port unless something specific stops it eg. need to use Steam and DX for HL2.
and those that focus on gameplay rahter than graphics are often released as dual-platform single-release eg. Football Manager (Championship Manager 5+).
your vivas are as follows: Person 1 Room 1 Time 1 Person 2 Room 2 Time 2...
ideally I would like these kind of lists to be done in plain text and put straight into the email, not in an attached Word or Excel document - that is NOT usable. and since we are a science department with clusters and linux workstations to work with those clusters, the assumption of Excel is not reasonable. and if something is going to go wrong with the file in, say, OpenOffice, then it will be the *formatting* that probably gets messed up. and that's the worst thing that can happen to a formatted list.
just a few days ago I got the very example I give above sent to me in an attached Excel document.
I spent 900 pound on my iBook and I'm delighted with it.
my PC cost lots more and before I considerd buying a Mac the laptops I was looking at were all over 1500 pounds. sure thy would have had better hardware than my iBook, but I wouldn't have been as happy with the overall package.
so I feel like I saved money because the cost of having a Mac I love is less than the cost of having a PC/laptop I love.
>My time is worth less then my mental healh. Yet I only pay in time when learning GNU/Linux, learning Windows costs both.
My money is worth less then my mental healh. Yet I only pay in money when using Mac/OSX, learning linux costs both (I still need to buy a computer to run linux on).
we need a "spreadsheets make people stupid" like with powerpoint.
at my work we use linux, but the retarded admin staff need to use windows and office for their crap.
need to email people a list of something? they reach for Word. want a 2-column list? Excel!
ffs. openoffice or my mac can deal with them fine, but it's the same sort of retardedness as HTML-emails. it's like proof that god exists and he doesn't want us to be happy using computers.
wtf does anything I said have to do with thinking my views represent everyone?
I love certain Apple products because they do exactly what I want. I am very happy about that. Spotlight is one of them, as is Dashboard and OSX in general.
all I've said in this topic is that I think Spotlight is a great feature and I look forward to it. I don't know why you have such a bad attitude about this, but you can go fuck yourself.
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it changes my life because my completely silent 1.2Ghz PPC iBook blows my deafening 1.6GHz PC out of the water. THAT is the user experience. THAT is why I'm writing this on my "iBook desktop" (iBook + stand + bluetooth keyboard/mouse + wireless connection to speakers) while my PC sits useless, waiting to be given to a family member.
this is of course the low end. at the high end where raw performance is desired the dual G5s blow the intels out of the water too. so top to bottom PPC is better. THAT is why it is a better architecture.
why bother?
how many thousands of devices are there that would need drivers? you think all the companies will just decide to help Apple out? you think Apple has the time to do it themselves, even if they could?
and for what? to run a great OS on crap hardware? even if I could run it on x86, which you can with an emulator, I wouldn't because I love the iBook hardware as much as the software.
PPC is a better architecture than x86 anyway.
so porting would be a world of pain and the potential market is tiny: take the small Mac market, take the tiny fraction that wants x86, subtract the large portion that would use linux instead - it would be simpler for Apple to just throw their money into a big pit, at least then they would save on tech support.
>It doesn't do searching inside of docs though, that's true.
then yes, Spotlight is pretty much like Launchbar. in the same way that Google is pretty much like an old yahoo portal.
> Hmmm... do you have kids? From your comments I doubt it.
wow, nothing gets past you does it?
he said, "I don't have kids..."
you either live in a real shit hole or have been watching too much TV... "YOUR KIDS MIGHT DIE ON THE INTERNET, we'll tell you why afer the break..."
the whole point of the Mac voice control is that it DOESN'T NEED ANY TRAINING.
of course a "well trained" system will be better. jeez...
the Mac voice control isn't about, say, replacing typing (that will never work properly anyway). it's about commands. that's why it works so well - there are a limited number of words and phrases, though still some flexibility with precise phrasing.
the best use imo is the things like "home phone for Joe Bloggs" which will access the Address Book and display in huge font the home number. dismiss it with "ok" or "thank you" etc.
another good one is to select a file and say "mail this to Joe Bloggs" which open mail, starts a message to Joe and attatches the file. it's good because it actually saves time as opposed to a lot of voice control stuff which ends up taking LONGER than to just do it manually.
should be here soon. (as a student it cost me less than 60 quid.)
has anyone heard of any issues with doing a simple upgrade instead of clean install or archive and install?
no if it's a MS clock it will just buffer overflow after the first 24 hours and then say the time is -32768 from then on.
is this supposed to be a joke?
you don't "add on more stability, security...". either it's there from the start or not.
all you can do later is restrict usability to give the illusion of stability, security ("you are not allowed to use that driver", "your settings do not allow you to access this page" etc.)
>You cut out the middleman and a whole lot of manufacturing -, distribution and logistics in the process and I - as the consumer - want at least a part of that savings reflected on the price.
/. effect *cough*).
yes because we all know how expensive producing CDs is (*cough* AOL *cough*) whereas internet bandwidth is so cheap people never run out (*cough*
Mac version is fine too (am currently using to watch snooker live on BBC).
I think the problem is just that MS treats its users like crap so everyone else just follows their lead. Linux and Mac don't have a large enough user base to play the "fling enough shit... some will stick" game with them, and the Mac/linux users are also more likely to seek out alternatives.
don't blame PDFs just because you choose to view them with POS software.
you wouldn't tell the W3C to go fuck themselves every time a new Internet Explorer exploit was discovered would you?
I do numerical simulations. calling fortran a POS language just reveals your retardness. maybe to you programming just means writing a gui for some file sharing protocol in the latest language but some of us have performance and a well-established code base to consider.
>Warning 4 at (315:boundary.f90) : Tab characters are an extension to standard Fortran 95
you were saying?
(I said warnings, not "croak", but way to build a straw man you leet haxor you)
>People who want to indent with spaces need their heads examined.
speak for yourself. I know my 4-space indents will be the same regardless of whatever editor and/or settings are used. and I won't get warnings about the tab character from my f90 compiler.
I have an iBook that's a few months old and I have a few games on it, including the brand-new Football Manager.
I'm not really bothered about games, my iBook is for work, but I have them just in case. the point is if you want games they are there.
the argument about having to have bought a mac in the last 2 years is kinda weak. my 2 year old PC is struggling with modern games.
I was under the impression that a race car was meant to win races and a minivan was meant to move objects about.
maybe you meant Windows is only supposed to go around in circles whereas Mac OSX is supposed to actually get things done?
>There aren't any games for mac
er, yes there are. lots. most popular games get a mac port unless something specific stops it eg. need to use Steam and DX for HL2.
and those that focus on gameplay rahter than graphics are often released as dual-platform single-release eg. Football Manager (Championship Manager 5+).
so you memorise the contents of hundreds of papers so you never need to search for a particular citation?
why do you even bother having the computer then?
no I mean a fixed text list such as:
...
your vivas are as follows:
Person 1 Room 1 Time 1
Person 2 Room 2 Time 2
ideally I would like these kind of lists to be done in plain text and put straight into the email, not in an attached Word or Excel document - that is NOT usable. and since we are a science department with clusters and linux workstations to work with those clusters, the assumption of Excel is not reasonable. and if something is going to go wrong with the file in, say, OpenOffice, then it will be the *formatting* that probably gets messed up. and that's the worst thing that can happen to a formatted list.
just a few days ago I got the very example I give above sent to me in an attached Excel document.
not to me.
I spent 900 pound on my iBook and I'm delighted with it.
my PC cost lots more and before I considerd buying a Mac the laptops I was looking at were all over 1500 pounds. sure thy would have had better hardware than my iBook, but I wouldn't have been as happy with the overall package.
so I feel like I saved money because the cost of having a Mac I love is less than the cost of having a PC/laptop I love.
maybe that's just me though.
I'd still need to buy a computer is what I meant - so there are no zero cost options, just
Windows = computer money + OS money + lots of pain
Linux = computer money + lots of effort
Mac = computer money + OS money
>My time is worth less then my mental healh. Yet I only pay in time when learning GNU/Linux, learning Windows costs both.
My money is worth less then my mental healh. Yet I only pay in money when using Mac/OSX, learning linux costs both (I still need to buy a computer to run linux on).
only if you assume your time is worth nothing or that you already know linux.
we need a "spreadsheets make people stupid" like with powerpoint.
at my work we use linux, but the retarded admin staff need to use windows and office for their crap.
need to email people a list of something? they reach for Word. want a 2-column list? Excel!
ffs. openoffice or my mac can deal with them fine, but it's the same sort of retardedness as HTML-emails. it's like proof that god exists and he doesn't want us to be happy using computers.
what a prick.
wtf does anything I said have to do with thinking my views represent everyone?
I love certain Apple products because they do exactly what I want. I am very happy about that. Spotlight is one of them, as is Dashboard and OSX in general.
all I've said in this topic is that I think Spotlight is a great feature and I look forward to it. I don't know why you have such a bad attitude about this, but you can go fuck yourself.