A majority of yesterdays games sucked as well. Its just that people tend to remember the good ones. I suspect that the same will be true of current games.
That may be marginally funny, but calling them "upgrades of the month" is petty. Expose, Multi User, and Spotlight have made my computing life much easier. Spotlight in particular is brilliant. I really don't have to worry about where anything is anymore. Not wanting to be mean here, but simply because you cant afford Apples upgrades doesn't mean they are not worth having.
I think he's probably proposing that they should stop acting like pussies and start taking some responsibility for their software. Like he said Google has turned the very concept of the Beta into a joke. If MS was to keep a major piece of software in Beta for three or four years (as does Google), they would be accused of incompetence. I think the same should apply to Google.
Microsoft: copy innovations without any consideration to the originators Apple: Watson, Konfabulator
Microsoft: choke the life out of people they have contracts with Apple: Clone manufacturers and Resellers
Microsoft: Even in their originally innovative products, they primarily engage in anti-competitive, intentional incompatibilities Apple: Fairplay DRM
So ok, I couldn't find an equivalent for your first example, but I'm sure many exist. The truth of the matter is that Apple, like any other company, will do what they have to do to make money. I love Apple products and use only Macs, but I don't think of them as saintly crusaders in the Tech industry.
12-18 months?? What the fuck are you talking about. Apple has been consistently profitable for the last five or six years. From being almost bankrupt they have, over the last half decade, built up a cash reserve of five billion dollars. They are also completely debt free. The interesting thing is that they achieved most of this before the massive success of the iPod. I would hardly call this a minor run-up in their fortunes.
As far as market share is concerned, they are doing very well in certain markets. Apple is still in a dominant position in professional graphics. They have also, over the last few years, gained a substantial foothold in the Video and Audio production markets some of the best software available on the market. Due the the popularity of OS X, the xserve is the fastest growing server platform in the world.
You should either check your facts or not bother posting.
LOL. You moron, the WMV file is not a Microsoft Download. Its from an unrelated site that happens to be distributing the commercial in WMV format. The "commercial" was not meant to be aired, and was probably originally recorded in VHS format.
Thats an easy one to answer. Your checklist is only valid if one precondition is met.
(0) Weak, defenseless country unable to fight back
(X) Totalitarian government
(X) Autocracy government
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) No human rights
(X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership
(X) Inhumane treatment of its people
(X) Government oppression and censorship
Well I don't know of too many rednecks that would use the word "maaderchode", which in Urdu (and Hindi I'm assuming) would translate to Mother Fucker. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
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I'm not sure if it would be amusing. In all likelihood, it would be a startling discovery. Can you imagine what would happen if we were to find large metallic unnatural object stuck in a commit. It would be the first potential evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
>>There is a big difference. India is a progressive economy with a very liberal-minded population, you can be fairly certain that they won't blow up anyone first. Pakistan is a conservative Islamic nation with a military ruler, you never know how they would react.
Really. Please tell me how this is any different from the United States. The United States has now become a conservative (extremist perhaps) Christian nation with a Christian fundamentalist ruler. Believe me when I tell you, the world does NOT know, or feel very comfortable about, how your government will react next.
You've got to be joking. MS is about as entrenched in Asia as it is in America. In Pakistan, MS is pretty much ubiquitous in home and corporate environments. The only difference is that in Pakistan, nobody pays for software. I really don't think that MS is going to accomplish much by pushing their inferior, budget, version of windows in these markets because everyone is already using XP pro. The only industry in Pakistan that is pretty much MS free is the ISP industry (Linux rules here). Apart from that, most people have never seen a non Windows operating system.
I remember I was once at a Mac exhibition here. You had people standing around looking at these computers in complete bewilderment. Part of that, of course, was that Apples industrial design is a step up from the usual crap Chinese hardware that people are used to. However, they were truly amazed that these machines weren't running windows. People were asking me if this operating system was made by Microsoft and, if not, then who makes it.
So anyway, its sad but true. MS really does have the entire world by its balls.
Well, the sense of superiority among Mac users at times can be a bit much. However, some of your other concerns are nothing short of idiotic. For one, the concept of maximize doesn't exist in the Mac. So what you are interpreting as the Maximize button actually isn't the maximize button.
The reason Apple doesn't subscribe to the maximize concept is because it is basically illogical, and detrimental to productivity. For one, if you have a maximized window, you can't drag and drop objects and files between different windows and the desktop. Additionally, you can also not click on background windows to make them active. Apart from this Maximize windows make little sense. If you are working on a word document that only takes up half your screen, why would you want the window to take up the entire screen. When you work on your physical desk, do you insist on clearing the entire desk when you want to write on a little post-it note. I would imagine that you don't, and likewise Mac application windows only take up as much space as they need to. The rest of the space is there for you to be able to manipulate other objects on your desktop.
The plus button is actually a toggle that allows windows to switch between two states. The first state is the manufacturers default window size for the application. The second state is the state that you define. When you resize the window, this state becomes saved as your defined state. After this, you will be able to use the plus to switch between the applications default window size and your defines size. Now the interesting thing about this is that you can actually set your defined window size the cover the entire screen (by dragging the edge of the window to cover the whole screen). So in the future when you press the plus button, viola, you window will cover the whole screen. You can find a good explanation of the Mac way of doing this, and the disadvantages of Windows way here.
The aesthetics of the OS are a matter of personal preference. I happen to think that the Mac OS doesn't provide any iCandy that doesn't genuinely make the computing experience more enjoyable. Besides, most of it can be deactivated. So you can disable dock icon resizing, window genie effect, and even hide the dock. This will remove most of OS X's obvious iCandy.
Either way, OS X's os is certainly more tasteful that XP's fisher price theme. As far as Linux is concerned, it may be a great OS, but its hardly knows for its GUI. Most Linux GUI's are simply attempts at copying the Windows GUI. At least Mac OS X and Apple have their own design paradigm when it comes to GUI's. Like it or not, they have defined the most basic concepts of how a Graphical User Interface should work. There is a lot of history behind their UI, and there are strict Human Interface Guidelines that determine the logic for even the smallest elements in the OS X GUI.
So you asked, "Why in the world would anyone choose, willingly, to use an OS that refused to maximize a window when told to?Or that insisted on being "cute" at every opportunity, even when being so is distracting, unnecessary and reeks of an out of control case of eyecandyitis?"
Well, because the very concept of maximized windows is idiotic. However, if you do want to be an idiot OS X does give you a convenient way to Maximize. The cuteness can be deactivated in about 10 seconds, so if it bothers you, you don't need to see it.
>> I believe those factors make it impossible to compete with Google in the short term, even if their hardware and code could be replicated for a few hundred million dollars (a more likely figure than $50M).
I, quite frankly, don't buy into any of this. I believe that Microsoft is currently the biggest threat to Googles search monopoly. Their intention has always been to control as much of the users internet experience as possible. I think MS missed the Internet boat with XP, and hence allowed a lot of brands to be established. However, with Longhorn, they are taking OS/internet integration to a new level.
Despite what Geeks would like to believe, MS has a lot of credibility with regular consumers. The MS search service is going to be pushed very aggressively in Longhorn. You'll most likely see a search bar integrated into the Longhorn desktop. If you see the Longhorn beta's, there is a large vertical bar on the right side of the screen, which gives the user access to a variety of local and remote services. Who wants to bet that an Internet+local file search bar will be a permanent resident on this bar.
With this level of integration, MS doesn't have to provide a much better serviced than Google. All they have to do is provide a service that doesn't suck, and Google will have major problems on their hands.
>>Of course, then they wouldn't be able to sell many dual systems since even a lot of professionals really don't need the tiny speed boost one gets from using a dual CPU machine if a fast single CPU machine is available.
Notice the tiny speed boost that the dual 1.8 gets over the single 1.8, particularly in the Cinebench test.
Well I can't give you any empirical data (though I'm sure it exists) but I can speak from my own experience. I currently own a Powerbook which runs at 1.5 Ghz. About six months ago I bought a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M laptop for my mother. The speed difference between the Pentium M and the Powerbook is huge. The Powerbook is simply MUCH faster than the Pentium M laptop in everyday use.
I was really under the impression that the new Pentium M chips are fast, but its performance was really quite poor compared to my powerbook. I haven't done any application benchmarking, but I can tell you for sure that the Powerbook feels much faster.
The G4 and Pentium certainly can't be compared clock for clock. You would get people equating a 1.5 G4 with anything between a 1.8-2.5 Ghz Pentium 4. All I can tell you is that the Powerbook feels very responsive, much more so than any Pentium M or Pentium 4 laptop I've used (I haven't yet used the psycho Alienware type laptops).
Or you can try You Control. It gives you a highly customizable Menubar RSS reader plus a large number of other customizable menus. The application is a bit expensive, but you might want to check it out for the amazing variety of customizable menu's it lets you create.
Thats funny, I have this HP bluetooth printer, and getting it to work has been a major pain in the ass on two different XP laptops. When I use the bluetooth detection wizard in OS X to setup the printer (default drivers), it just works.
The thing you have to remember about OS X is that things that are supposed to work with it always work, easily. A large number of the things that are supposed to work with Windows are a pain in the ass to set up.
All you have to do is make sure your device is compatible with OS X. With the very large number of printers, digital cameras, digital camcorders, phones, and PDAs that are compatible, that is usually a pretty trivial task. As least with OS X you know that if the thing is supposed to work, its usually just a matter of plugging it in. With Windows its still plug and pray.
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So I suppose its the programmers that are censoring sentitive content in China then.
A majority of yesterdays games sucked as well. Its just that people tend to remember the good ones. I suspect that the same will be true of current games.
To the guy who rated this insightful. There really are easier ways to check email.
That may be marginally funny, but calling them "upgrades of the month" is petty. Expose, Multi User, and Spotlight have made my computing life much easier. Spotlight in particular is brilliant. I really don't have to worry about where anything is anymore. Not wanting to be mean here, but simply because you cant afford Apples upgrades doesn't mean they are not worth having.
I think he's probably proposing that they should stop acting like pussies and start taking some responsibility for their software. Like he said Google has turned the very concept of the Beta into a joke. If MS was to keep a major piece of software in Beta for three or four years (as does Google), they would be accused of incompetence. I think the same should apply to Google.
Very simple. You can't use OS X.
Microsoft: copy innovations without any consideration to the originators
Apple: Watson, Konfabulator
Microsoft: choke the life out of people they have contracts with
Apple: Clone manufacturers and Resellers
Microsoft: Even in their originally innovative products, they primarily engage in anti-competitive, intentional incompatibilities
Apple: Fairplay DRM
So ok, I couldn't find an equivalent for your first example, but I'm sure many exist. The truth of the matter is that Apple, like any other company, will do what they have to do to make money. I love Apple products and use only Macs, but I don't think of them as saintly crusaders in the Tech industry.
12-18 months?? What the fuck are you talking about. Apple has been consistently profitable for the last five or six years. From being almost bankrupt they have, over the last half decade, built up a cash reserve of five billion dollars. They are also completely debt free. The interesting thing is that they achieved most of this before the massive success of the iPod. I would hardly call this a minor run-up in their fortunes.
As far as market share is concerned, they are doing very well in certain markets. Apple is still in a dominant position in professional graphics. They have also, over the last few years, gained a substantial foothold in the Video and Audio production markets some of the best software available on the market. Due the the popularity of OS X, the xserve is the fastest growing server platform in the world.
You should either check your facts or not bother posting.
Maybe these guys would have a use for this technology.
LOL. You moron, the WMV file is not a Microsoft Download. Its from an unrelated site that happens to be distributing the commercial in WMV format. The "commercial" was not meant to be aired, and was probably originally recorded in VHS format.
Thats an easy one to answer. Your checklist is only valid if one precondition is met.
(0) Weak, defenseless country unable to fight back
(X) Totalitarian government
(X) Autocracy government
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) No human rights
(X) Unstable, Irresponsible leadership
(X) Inhumane treatment of its people
(X) Government oppression and censorship
I meant to say it is the Urdu/Hindi word for Mother Fucker.
Well I don't know of too many rednecks that would use the word "maaderchode", which in Urdu (and Hindi I'm assuming) would translate to Mother Fucker. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
I'm not sure if it would be amusing. In all likelihood, it would be a startling discovery. Can you imagine what would happen if we were to find large metallic unnatural object stuck in a commit. It would be the first potential evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
>>There is a big difference. India is a progressive economy with a very liberal-minded population, you can be fairly certain that they won't blow up anyone first. Pakistan is a conservative Islamic nation with a military ruler, you never know how they would react.
Really. Please tell me how this is any different from the United States. The United States has now become a conservative (extremist perhaps) Christian nation with a Christian fundamentalist ruler. Believe me when I tell you, the world does NOT know, or feel very comfortable about, how your government will react next.
You've got to be joking. MS is about as entrenched in Asia as it is in America. In Pakistan, MS is pretty much ubiquitous in home and corporate environments. The only difference is that in Pakistan, nobody pays for software. I really don't think that MS is going to accomplish much by pushing their inferior, budget, version of windows in these markets because everyone is already using XP pro. The only industry in Pakistan that is pretty much MS free is the ISP industry (Linux rules here). Apart from that, most people have never seen a non Windows operating system.
I remember I was once at a Mac exhibition here. You had people standing around looking at these computers in complete bewilderment. Part of that, of course, was that Apples industrial design is a step up from the usual crap Chinese hardware that people are used to. However, they were truly amazed that these machines weren't running windows. People were asking me if this operating system was made by Microsoft and, if not, then who makes it.
So anyway, its sad but true. MS really does have the entire world by its balls.
Well, the sense of superiority among Mac users at times can be a bit much. However, some of your other concerns are nothing short of idiotic. For one, the concept of maximize doesn't exist in the Mac. So what you are interpreting as the Maximize button actually isn't the maximize button.
The reason Apple doesn't subscribe to the maximize concept is because it is basically illogical, and detrimental to productivity. For one, if you have a maximized window, you can't drag and drop objects and files between different windows and the desktop. Additionally, you can also not click on background windows to make them active. Apart from this Maximize windows make little sense. If you are working on a word document that only takes up half your screen, why would you want the window to take up the entire screen. When you work on your physical desk, do you insist on clearing the entire desk when you want to write on a little post-it note. I would imagine that you don't, and likewise Mac application windows only take up as much space as they need to. The rest of the space is there for you to be able to manipulate other objects on your desktop.
The plus button is actually a toggle that allows windows to switch between two states. The first state is the manufacturers default window size for the application. The second state is the state that you define. When you resize the window, this state becomes saved as your defined state. After this, you will be able to use the plus to switch between the applications default window size and your defines size. Now the interesting thing about this is that you can actually set your defined window size the cover the entire screen (by dragging the edge of the window to cover the whole screen). So in the future when you press the plus button, viola, you window will cover the whole screen. You can find a good explanation of the Mac way of doing this, and the disadvantages of Windows way here.
The aesthetics of the OS are a matter of personal preference. I happen to think that the Mac OS doesn't provide any iCandy that doesn't genuinely make the computing experience more enjoyable. Besides, most of it can be deactivated. So you can disable dock icon resizing, window genie effect, and even hide the dock. This will remove most of OS X's obvious iCandy.
Either way, OS X's os is certainly more tasteful that XP's fisher price theme. As far as Linux is concerned, it may be a great OS, but its hardly knows for its GUI. Most Linux GUI's are simply attempts at copying the Windows GUI. At least Mac OS X and Apple have their own design paradigm when it comes to GUI's. Like it or not, they have defined the most basic concepts of how a Graphical User Interface should work. There is a lot of history behind their UI, and there are strict Human Interface Guidelines that determine the logic for even the smallest elements in the OS X GUI.
So you asked, "Why in the world would anyone choose, willingly, to use an OS that refused to maximize a window when told to?Or that insisted on being "cute" at every opportunity, even when being so is distracting, unnecessary and reeks of an out of control case of eyecandyitis?"
Well, because the very concept of maximized windows is idiotic. However, if you do want to be an idiot OS X does give you a convenient way to Maximize. The cuteness can be deactivated in about 10 seconds, so if it bothers you, you don't need to see it.
>> I believe those factors make it impossible to compete with Google in the short term, even if their hardware and code could be replicated for a few hundred million dollars (a more likely figure than $50M).
I, quite frankly, don't buy into any of this. I believe that Microsoft is currently the biggest threat to Googles search monopoly. Their intention has always been to control as much of the users internet experience as possible. I think MS missed the Internet boat with XP, and hence allowed a lot of brands to be established. However, with Longhorn, they are taking OS/internet integration to a new level.
Despite what Geeks would like to believe, MS has a lot of credibility with regular consumers. The MS search service is going to be pushed very aggressively in Longhorn. You'll most likely see a search bar integrated into the Longhorn desktop. If you see the Longhorn beta's, there is a large vertical bar on the right side of the screen, which gives the user access to a variety of local and remote services. Who wants to bet that an Internet+local file search bar will be a permanent resident on this bar.
With this level of integration, MS doesn't have to provide a much better serviced than Google. All they have to do is provide a service that doesn't suck, and Google will have major problems on their hands.
How about you not having a chip on your shoulder and learning to relax a little bit.
>>Of course, then they wouldn't be able to sell many dual systems since even a lot of professionals really don't need the tiny speed boost one gets from using a dual CPU machine if a fast single CPU machine is available.
Notice the tiny speed boost that the dual 1.8 gets over the single 1.8, particularly in the Cinebench test.
Well I can't give you any empirical data (though I'm sure it exists) but I can speak from my own experience. I currently own a Powerbook which runs at 1.5 Ghz. About six months ago I bought a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M laptop for my mother. The speed difference between the Pentium M and the Powerbook is huge. The Powerbook is simply MUCH faster than the Pentium M laptop in everyday use.
I was really under the impression that the new Pentium M chips are fast, but its performance was really quite poor compared to my powerbook. I haven't done any application benchmarking, but I can tell you for sure that the Powerbook feels much faster.
The G4 and Pentium certainly can't be compared clock for clock. You would get people equating a 1.5 G4 with anything between a 1.8-2.5 Ghz Pentium 4. All I can tell you is that the Powerbook feels very responsive, much more so than any Pentium M or Pentium 4 laptop I've used (I haven't yet used the psycho Alienware type laptops).
Or you can try You Control. It gives you a highly customizable Menubar RSS reader plus a large number of other customizable menus. The application is a bit expensive, but you might want to check it out for the amazing variety of customizable menu's it lets you create.
Yeah, I remember the first time I used the Internet as well. I remember thinking, just one more line and I'll be able to see her nipple.
English porn?? What exactly is that. Most of the porn I see uses the universal language of "aaaah" and "ooooh".
Thats funny, I have this HP bluetooth printer, and getting it to work has been a major pain in the ass on two different XP laptops. When I use the bluetooth detection wizard in OS X to setup the printer (default drivers), it just works.
The thing you have to remember about OS X is that things that are supposed to work with it always work, easily. A large number of the things that are supposed to work with Windows are a pain in the ass to set up.
All you have to do is make sure your device is compatible with OS X. With the very large number of printers, digital cameras, digital camcorders, phones, and PDAs that are compatible, that is usually a pretty trivial task. As least with OS X you know that if the thing is supposed to work, its usually just a matter of plugging it in. With Windows its still plug and pray.