Hey NS, Apple doesn't care what you think. If the company calls it a personal computer than it's a personal computer.
If Apple wants to make machine that has "lots of gigahertz" but with the premium trim, I welcome it, but it's the morons who spend $3000 on a machine that they didn't want at fault, not apple, stop whining because you want Apple hardware but don't want to pay for their looks. If you hate Apple's product that much guess what you can do? Not buy it.
"I think I'd rather have as little of my screen possible dedicated to menus"
I was referring to that possibility too, it's a waste of pixels. Why would I want all that white space to the right of File, Edit, and View because Whatever has to extend the size of the bar. If you're planning on having floating text without framing it in a menu bar, things are going to start looking way too cluttered.
Vertical menu bars? I think I'd rather have as little of my screen possible dedicated to menus, unless you're from an asian country where the written language is read from top to bottom, right to left or plan on replacing every menu text with an icon, vertical menu bars are a stupid idea. Reading english like this:
F i l e
is bad UI design, as is turning the text on it's side. You want to make thing easier for users, not harder.
How the hell is this modded off topic, whoever did that should be punched in the face and never given mod points again, in fact people who prove they can't read should be banned from slashdot altogether.
Irrational haters, because they usually have no real arguments.
"I HATE APPLE BECAUSE THEY MAKE THEIR PRODUCTS LOOK GOOD! TECHNOLOGY SHOULD LOOK UGLY BECAUSE...LOOKS DON'T MATTER!" is not an argument, just sounds like the people saying that are just angry because they're ugly themselves and as a result can't get a date.
You are the definition of a PC zealot. Why do you care so much that someone wants to put a mac in their car instead of a PC? Maybe the person decided that if they were going to take on this project that they'd rather not have to worry about building the machine themselves or setting up the OS.
It's his fucking choice. Plus I rather not have drivers playing UT on the road, cars are for driving (and racing on the track), not playing PC games.
So adding more options and making things more confusing to people who aren't as computer knowledgeable is better for their customers who by majority don't even know what a hard drive looks like.
I don't know... hard coded laws of any kind can backfire. What we really should try to enforce with robots is getting them to understand (if possible) why those laws exist in case they need to be broken. For example, I'd like my robot to knock out another human being if they're trying to harm my child and I wouldn't want it to follow the orders of someone who intends to harm the child.
Programming a bunch of hard coded if statements is bad when there's a better way in any kind of programming, I'd rather the robot have data on society and make good decisions based on that.
Just make sure the robot can at least be restrained/stopped in the same way as humans in case something does go wrong. A gunshot to the CPU by the police might be necessary.
As a mac user I have found a lot of Windows users are snobs when they find out you use a mac, they come off just like you, assholes who don't know what they're talking about.
There's nothing wrong with someone being excited about their new machine, I see PC users bragging about how nicely certain games run.
Apple's ads pompous? Dude, they're just trying to target people who don't know much about computers. Think about it, what else does Apple have to advertise? Ghz? (which mean very little), Computability with games?
The only thing they can advertise to get users who are clueless about what all those specs mean is: "This machine works better than Windows, is easy to use (you don't have to be a computer geek to use it just because it's based off unix), and we try to make it fit well into a home environment (believe it or not, some people really value having a machine that runs quietly and doesn't look like an eyesore in your living room).
Stop being a snobbish anti-Apple AC and try to see the reasoning behind Apple's business model, SURPRISE! A corporation needs money to survive, you don't think Apple is going to let this chance to not 'die' (as they were doing for so long) slip by do you? Be happy that they at least have the innovation to make up for any 'snobby' business tactics they make.
In OS X it's called alias. Look in the file menu while in the finder, drag the alias to the desktop. There are other faster ways such as holding down command+option while dragging it as well. Also in the mac world, most people don't put apps on their desktop. If they want something quickly accessible they use the dock, otherwise they just go to the applications folder. If you really have a lot of programs you might want to build your own folder tree to categorize things like I do. If you want a "start menu" then drag that folder into your dock and right-click/ctrl-click on it when you want to use it.
Because a woman's breast is obviously a sexual object and tear apart the fabric of the universe if seen. Apparently we forget that most of us were breast fed at one point as children.
Of course since the kind of response I'd get if I said, "Women should be allowed to breast feed their babies in public places," would be along the lines of, "You just want to see women's tits you perv" despite the fact that breast feeding is considered healthier for the developing child, there's no surprise that people only see the human body as a sex toy.
That's especially necessary on some phones that refuse to allow you to turn it off while it's ringing and also refuse to understand "End" as sending the call to voicemail, no instead you're forced to stare at the phone between the time it starts ringing to the time it stops and allows you to turn it off. I keep my phone ringer off most of the time anyway, If someone calls when I'm walking somewhere, driving, in class, tuff, I'll get back to them when I pull my phone out and see missed calls/new messages. If I'm in front of my computer my phone is right below the monitor so I'll see it suddenly light up if there's an incoming call.
Flash could be a great thing if it weren't so horribly abused. Even if most things can be done with regular HTML and Java for web apps, Flash makes the lives of web developers easier. Now if only IE would support PNG I'd have less usage for Flash's transparency feature.
And those libraries are emulating the Microsoft coded libraries. Unless the WINE project has been using Microsoft's code to build from then they are building things that act like the original aka. emulators.
Firewire drive + Knoppix CD + Freshly activated windows installation = trouble-free reinstall the next time windows activates it's self-destruct sequence.
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Sorry but he's not, I'd feel safer if our president was less horny for dropping bombs on smaller countries.
"Making too much money"
Hey NS, Apple doesn't care what you think. If the company calls it a personal computer than it's a personal computer.
If Apple wants to make machine that has "lots of gigahertz" but with the premium trim, I welcome it, but it's the morons who spend $3000 on a machine that they didn't want at fault, not apple, stop whining because you want Apple hardware but don't want to pay for their looks. If you hate Apple's product that much guess what you can do? Not buy it.
"I think I'd rather have as little of my screen possible dedicated to menus"
I was referring to that possibility too, it's a waste of pixels. Why would I want all that white space to the right of File, Edit, and View because Whatever has to extend the size of the bar. If you're planning on having floating text without framing it in a menu bar, things are going to start looking way too cluttered.
Vertical menu bars? I think I'd rather have as little of my screen possible dedicated to menus, unless you're from an asian country where the written language is read from top to bottom, right to left or plan on replacing every menu text with an icon, vertical menu bars are a stupid idea. Reading english like this:
F
i
l
e
is bad UI design, as is turning the text on it's side. You want to make thing easier for users, not harder.
You still have the issue with the icons being small and meaningless.
Right click on the non-DRMed AAC file (after using the thing this article is about) and select "Convert Selection to MP3"
Also you might be able to make iTunes burn your AAC files as an MP3 formatted CD, I've never tried it but I know with non DRMed files you can.
How the hell is this modded off topic, whoever did that should be punched in the face and never given mod points again, in fact people who prove they can't read should be banned from slashdot altogether.
Because these laws are stupid.
Irrational haters, because they usually have no real arguments.
"I HATE APPLE BECAUSE THEY MAKE THEIR PRODUCTS LOOK GOOD! TECHNOLOGY SHOULD LOOK UGLY BECAUSE...LOOKS DON'T MATTER!" is not an argument, just sounds like the people saying that are just angry because they're ugly themselves and as a result can't get a date.
You are the definition of a PC zealot. Why do you care so much that someone wants to put a mac in their car instead of a PC? Maybe the person decided that if they were going to take on this project that they'd rather not have to worry about building the machine themselves or setting up the OS.
It's his fucking choice. Plus I rather not have drivers playing UT on the road, cars are for driving (and racing on the track), not playing PC games.
So adding more options and making things more confusing to people who aren't as computer knowledgeable is better for their customers who by majority don't even know what a hard drive looks like.
Mmmm...I've both lost and won to girls in arm wrestling, never gotten made fun of for either.
I don't know... hard coded laws of any kind can backfire. What we really should try to enforce with robots is getting them to understand (if possible) why those laws exist in case they need to be broken. For example, I'd like my robot to knock out another human being if they're trying to harm my child and I wouldn't want it to follow the orders of someone who intends to harm the child.
Programming a bunch of hard coded if statements is bad when there's a better way in any kind of programming, I'd rather the robot have data on society and make good decisions based on that.
Just make sure the robot can at least be restrained/stopped in the same way as humans in case something does go wrong. A gunshot to the CPU by the police might be necessary.
As a mac user I have found a lot of Windows users are snobs when they find out you use a mac, they come off just like you, assholes who don't know what they're talking about.
There's nothing wrong with someone being excited about their new machine, I see PC users bragging about how nicely certain games run.
Apple's ads pompous? Dude, they're just trying to target people who don't know much about computers. Think about it, what else does Apple have to advertise? Ghz? (which mean very little), Computability with games?
The only thing they can advertise to get users who are clueless about what all those specs mean is: "This machine works better than Windows, is easy to use (you don't have to be a computer geek to use it just because it's based off unix), and we try to make it fit well into a home environment (believe it or not, some people really value having a machine that runs quietly and doesn't look like an eyesore in your living room).
Stop being a snobbish anti-Apple AC and try to see the reasoning behind Apple's business model, SURPRISE! A corporation needs money to survive, you don't think Apple is going to let this chance to not 'die' (as they were doing for so long) slip by do you? Be happy that they at least have the innovation to make up for any 'snobby' business tactics they make.
In OS X it's called alias. Look in the file menu while in the finder, drag the alias to the desktop. There are other faster ways such as holding down command+option while dragging it as well. Also in the mac world, most people don't put apps on their desktop. If they want something quickly accessible they use the dock, otherwise they just go to the applications folder. If you really have a lot of programs you might want to build your own folder tree to categorize things like I do. If you want a "start menu" then drag that folder into your dock and right-click/ctrl-click on it when you want to use it.
Because a woman's breast is obviously a sexual object and tear apart the fabric of the universe if seen. Apparently we forget that most of us were breast fed at one point as children.
Of course since the kind of response I'd get if I said, "Women should be allowed to breast feed their babies in public places," would be along the lines of, "You just want to see women's tits you perv" despite the fact that breast feeding is considered healthier for the developing child, there's no surprise that people only see the human body as a sex toy.
Ever heard of parental controls? Newly manufactured TVs have had them for a long time now...
Yeah since Microsoft has the overwhelmingly large user base, at least 80% of the front page should be dedicated to them
Holy crap...That sucked! Never post again!
That's especially necessary on some phones that refuse to allow you to turn it off while it's ringing and also refuse to understand "End" as sending the call to voicemail, no instead you're forced to stare at the phone between the time it starts ringing to the time it stops and allows you to turn it off. I keep my phone ringer off most of the time anyway, If someone calls when I'm walking somewhere, driving, in class, tuff, I'll get back to them when I pull my phone out and see missed calls/new messages. If I'm in front of my computer my phone is right below the monitor so I'll see it suddenly light up if there's an incoming call.
Flash could be a great thing if it weren't so horribly abused. Even if most things can be done with regular HTML and Java for web apps, Flash makes the lives of web developers easier. Now if only IE would support PNG I'd have less usage for Flash's transparency feature.
Which sucks compared to Apple's Pages in quality.
And those libraries are emulating the Microsoft coded libraries. Unless the WINE project has been using Microsoft's code to build from then they are building things that act like the original aka. emulators.
Firewire drive + Knoppix CD + Freshly activated windows installation = trouble-free reinstall the next time windows activates it's self-destruct sequence.
I believe I read somewhere that USB has more overhead than Firewire for the same transfer rate.