Everybody I know who has tried and taken the time to learn it ends up enjoying it.
You're begging the question. Sure, everyone who liked the desktop enough to get it usable still likes it once it is usable. (shrug)
The problem is saying that anyone who doesn't meet that criterion is an idiot/luddite/adjective-of-choice-meaning-they're- the-problem.
I work in IT for a living (network and security). For my home machine, nobody's paying me to fight with the damn computer. EVERY TIME I try to accomplish something towards GUI productivity with a KDE/Gnome environment, I end up fighting with the damn computer. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. Either way I'm out a bunch of time, and what's worse, next version of the distribution/package I'm likely to find my approach either a) no longer necessary, so all that time was wasted, or b) no longer effective, so I have to start fighting with the damn computer again.
I've run FreeBSD for years as a server, and while there's some issues with that as well, it's NOTHING like trying to get a desktop environment stable and complete.
I latched onto OS X at it's inception with the specific assumption that if anyone could put a good UI on top of Unix and make it work, it would be Apple - I would never have considered a Mac running the earlier Mac OS. I'm now on my fourth Mac, I have a 17" PowerBook and a Mini that has replaced my FreeBSD server. It Just Works (tm). I can shut the lid and the PB is asleep. It will sleep all weekend on twenty minutes worth of power and wake up in three seconds. Ubuntu can't do that, I tried it. Wireless works great. Ubuntu can't do that, I tried it. I can shut the wireless down, sleep the machine, wake it up, click a selection in iTunes, and the computer reconnects my NFS mount to the Mini and starts playing the damned song. It Just Works (tm). And for the things that don't Just Work, I at least have a higher degree of confidence that figuring out how to make them work is time invested rather than spent, because the framework is consistent and stable from week to week.
If I want to geek around with the computer, I can - just spent time over the last week converting my IMAPS server from xinetd to launchd. But the fraction of time I want to do something new with the computer and It Just Works (tm) is an inverse between OS X and a Linux distro. If that means I'm not committed enough for Linux - fine. I'm not committed enough to run triathlons, either.
And I'm smart enough to know that, regardless of method used at the slaughter house, it ain't "sporting", and an animal died for that nice t-bone steak I'm having for dinner tonight.
Personally, I prefer to think it was just maimed, and may recover to live a long and happy life. Don't disillusion me!
So where are all the "low-powered" rifles, that we have to keep qualifying the ones for shooting deer as "high-powered"? I guess the low-powered ones just "fire" bullets instead of "blasting" them. Sheesh.
KeS
(Browning A-Bolt II Stainless Stalker in.30-06 for me, thanks.)
"Rate of fire" has nothing to do with hunting. You're thinking of warfare.
The issue with bows and (traditional) muzzleloaders is a) lock time (rifle) + flight time (bow) being both relatively long, and b) the net speed being subsonic so the target hears the incoming round. (Most muzzleload rounds are supersonic, but the long lock time gives the sound enough head start at typical hunting ranges.)
You don't need to slow down when it rains. You need to increase following distance when it rains. The fact that California drivers have absolutely no concept of following distance in the first place explains the problem.
1. Just add multiple email addresses in your Account preferences, separated by semicolons, if I remember correctly. I have about ten different addresses. You can select them on mail composition, and if you reply to a message, it will automatically default to the address the original came to.
2. I don't have this problem, my mail sits on my G5, in my ~/mail subdirectory, being served via WU-IMAP. Whether I'm on the G5 or my PowerBook, I see only the ~/mail structure, and can add and delete IMAP folders as one would expect. I think it may be a fix you need to make on your server side, I had to recompile WU-IMAP to export from ~/mail rather than ~. But it can definitely work the way you prefer.
What's with the political activism on the part of corporations? Is this just another adjunct of the "corporations are legal entities" fallout?
I saw the AMA posting a position on something or other that was none of their damned concern either. I don't get it - I assume this is PR posturing to align the company with whatever demographics it finds advantageous, but it strikes me as ridiculous whenever I see it. They should, literally, mind their own business.
BTW - someone posted "who hasn't thrown the controller across the room at some point?". I haven't with GTA - but I sure have with the @#$#$^%! rally penalties in Gran Turismo 4, which has absolutely no violence or sex in it at all, so far as I have discovered. In general, video games test my frustration level, not my anger management. I have no idea how 6-year olds running on sucrose handle these things.
There are just so many little things that bug me about OS X. Not being able to maximise properly is a pretty big one. The fact that the trackpad only has one button is another.
How can you possibly blame a single trackpad button on the OS?! If you install Linux on that iBook/PowerBook, does a second button magically appear?
If you plug in a multi-button mouse, you'll observe that OS X does indeed support it just fine.
I dislike the single-button trackpad on PowerBooks myself, but that has absolutely nothing to do with OS X. Geez.
No, the barrier is much higher in Linux. I was an experienced Windows user, no problem there. I was comfortable with Unix underpinnings and terminal usage, no problem there. I gave up trying to configure CDE on a Solaris 7 box, went to Linux/BSD alternatives, and gave up trying to configure KDE/Gnome as well. OS X gives me a more consistent and effective paragidgm, not just for the user interface itself, but for the configuration and modification maintenance.
In your terms, I started with no investment in OS X nor KDE/Gnome, and found the investment in OS X expertise much more rewarding. This is still true, I try a new Linux/Gnome install about every six months, and don't make it to a stable network/browser/newsreader/word processor/CD player-burner status before my patience runs out.
(shrug) Call me impatient, call me stupid, call me whatever; but no, it's NOT as easy to get a Linux box set up and running basic applications. For JUST web browsing, you *may* have a point, but you have to learn the package management system to get to that point, and I know I've tripped over library dependencies and font issues just with Mozilla. My definition of a basic usable systme is a bit beyond just web browsing, as described above.
Actually, though everyone posts this as though it's obvious, it's NOT obvious to me that within the range of typical passenger vehicles (1.5 - 3 tons), the road wear is proportionate to the weight. Most road surfaces don't "wear out", they get broken/torn up, and it's probable that there's a minimum weight involved with that kind of damage. I've never seen a report either way, but I've certainly seen lots of damage caused specifically by 18-wheelers.
In 2000, I drove my 1999 Corvette from the Bay Area to Kansas and back. Total round trip average at a preferred speed of 80mph was 34.2mpg. 80mph let me get into sixth gear without lugging the engine.
Now I have a Miata, and I don't ever see anything approaching that mileage - overall I average 18-20mpg, since most of the time my foot is flat to the floor trying to encourage the hamsters.
Anyway, just interesting data points. I don't agree with the OP that bigger/faster = $$, but I don't think there was a problem with the flat gas tax either, I think it apportioned the tax at least as evenly as this new proposal would. If that isn't enough money, they'll crank it up, I'm sure. My best guess is that if they introduce this hideously intrusive new proposal, we'll find that it ends up being an ADDITIONAL tax above and beyond the flat gas tax. Hooray.
I got caught up in exactly that scenario, except mine was just a little worse: I bought an HP desktop about three years ago to run BSD on. Not only did HP refuse to negotiate the Windows refund on it, the machine came without a restore CD (at the time the first I'd ever encountered that). The restore was from a hidden 10GB (out of 30) partition. So not only did I not get a refund for Windows, I had to pull the whole hard drive and set it aside against the day I might want to sell the machine.
I'm very curious as to how Apple is going to implement the search features so as to preserve privacy across user accounts. Are they going to have user-specific metadatabases, or a single database with user tags on each record, or what?
Because once you have one, you are not far from using it. Even if you just use it for threatening other people because they act in a way that you do not like.
Definitely sounds like you should not own a gun. Or a car, for that matter.
BTW, I've been to several firearm training courses since I decided, relatively late in life, that learning to handle personal firearms was a worthwhile endeavor. ALL of them spent EXTENSIVE amounts of time discussing the various likely horrific legal and personal consequences of displaying, drawing, or firing a handgun. Nobody in those classes showed any disposition afterward to treat the situation frivolously.
4) I'll tell you right now what the next step will be: "Since we have these now, there is no need to let the old guns stay legal." Just wait, people will start urging that "unsafe" older guns become illegal "for the sake of the children".
This is *exactly* what happened in California. In, if I recall, 1994, legislation was enacted that required extensive and expensive new "safety tests" for each model of handgun that a manufacturer wished to offer for sale in California. And oh, by the way, that applies to used handguns as well.
Result? Any model obsoleted before 1994, or any model for which the manufacturer didn't want to jump through the hoops - instantly banned from import into CA. Oops, so sorry, we never intended that!
KeS
(owns one of what must be an extremely few HK P7M10s in CA)
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Try a six-foot cable - two feet may be too short for carrier sense to be working right. KeS
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You're begging the question. Sure, everyone who liked the desktop enough to get it usable still likes it once it is usable. (shrug)
The problem is saying that anyone who doesn't meet that criterion is an idiot/luddite/adjective-of-choice-meaning-they're- the-problem.
I work in IT for a living (network and security). For my home machine, nobody's paying me to fight with the damn computer. EVERY TIME I try to accomplish something towards GUI productivity with a KDE/Gnome environment, I end up fighting with the damn computer. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. Either way I'm out a bunch of time, and what's worse, next version of the distribution/package I'm likely to find my approach either a) no longer necessary, so all that time was wasted, or b) no longer effective, so I have to start fighting with the damn computer again.
I've run FreeBSD for years as a server, and while there's some issues with that as well, it's NOTHING like trying to get a desktop environment stable and complete.
I latched onto OS X at it's inception with the specific assumption that if anyone could put a good UI on top of Unix and make it work, it would be Apple - I would never have considered a Mac running the earlier Mac OS. I'm now on my fourth Mac, I have a 17" PowerBook and a Mini that has replaced my FreeBSD server. It Just Works (tm). I can shut the lid and the PB is asleep. It will sleep all weekend on twenty minutes worth of power and wake up in three seconds. Ubuntu can't do that, I tried it. Wireless works great. Ubuntu can't do that, I tried it. I can shut the wireless down, sleep the machine, wake it up, click a selection in iTunes, and the computer reconnects my NFS mount to the Mini and starts playing the damned song. It Just Works (tm). And for the things that don't Just Work, I at least have a higher degree of confidence that figuring out how to make them work is time invested rather than spent, because the framework is consistent and stable from week to week.
If I want to geek around with the computer, I can - just spent time over the last week converting my IMAPS server from xinetd to launchd. But the fraction of time I want to do something new with the computer and It Just Works (tm) is an inverse between OS X and a Linux distro. If that means I'm not committed enough for Linux - fine. I'm not committed enough to run triathlons, either.
KeS
That's not a trade secret, quite the opposite, it's information that *has* to be public. Google "trade secret".
KeS
Personally, I prefer to think it was just maimed, and may recover to live a long and happy life. Don't disillusion me!
KeS
KeS
(Browning A-Bolt II Stainless Stalker in .30-06 for me, thanks.)
KeS
KeS
2. I don't have this problem, my mail sits on my G5, in my ~/mail subdirectory, being served via WU-IMAP. Whether I'm on the G5 or my PowerBook, I see only the ~/mail structure, and can add and delete IMAP folders as one would expect. I think it may be a fix you need to make on your server side, I had to recompile WU-IMAP to export from ~/mail rather than ~. But it can definitely work the way you prefer.
KeS
I saw the AMA posting a position on something or other that was none of their damned concern either. I don't get it - I assume this is PR posturing to align the company with whatever demographics it finds advantageous, but it strikes me as ridiculous whenever I see it. They should, literally, mind their own business.
KeS
KeS
BTW - someone posted "who hasn't thrown the controller across the room at some point?". I haven't with GTA - but I sure have with the @#$#$^%! rally penalties in Gran Turismo 4, which has absolutely no violence or sex in it at all, so far as I have discovered. In general, video games test my frustration level, not my anger management. I have no idea how 6-year olds running on sucrose handle these things.
KeS
How can you possibly blame a single trackpad button on the OS?! If you install Linux on that iBook/PowerBook, does a second button magically appear?
If you plug in a multi-button mouse, you'll observe that OS X does indeed support it just fine.
I dislike the single-button trackpad on PowerBooks myself, but that has absolutely nothing to do with OS X. Geez.
KeS
In your terms, I started with no investment in OS X nor KDE/Gnome, and found the investment in OS X expertise much more rewarding. This is still true, I try a new Linux/Gnome install about every six months, and don't make it to a stable network/browser/newsreader/word processor/CD player-burner status before my patience runs out.
(shrug) Call me impatient, call me stupid, call me whatever; but no, it's NOT as easy to get a Linux box set up and running basic applications. For JUST web browsing, you *may* have a point, but you have to learn the package management system to get to that point, and I know I've tripped over library dependencies and font issues just with Mozilla. My definition of a basic usable systme is a bit beyond just web browsing, as described above.
KeS
KeS
KeS
Just PUSH them in until they POP, eh? ;)
KeS
KeS
In 2000, I drove my 1999 Corvette from the Bay Area to Kansas and back. Total round trip average at a preferred speed of 80mph was 34.2mpg. 80mph let me get into sixth gear without lugging the engine.
Now I have a Miata, and I don't ever see anything approaching that mileage - overall I average 18-20mpg, since most of the time my foot is flat to the floor trying to encourage the hamsters.
Anyway, just interesting data points. I don't agree with the OP that bigger/faster = $$, but I don't think there was a problem with the flat gas tax either, I think it apportioned the tax at least as evenly as this new proposal would. If that isn't enough money, they'll crank it up, I'm sure. My best guess is that if they introduce this hideously intrusive new proposal, we'll find that it ends up being an ADDITIONAL tax above and beyond the flat gas tax. Hooray.
KeS
I got caught up in exactly that scenario, except mine was just a little worse: I bought an HP desktop about three years ago to run BSD on. Not only did HP refuse to negotiate the Windows refund on it, the machine came without a restore CD (at the time the first I'd ever encountered that). The restore was from a hidden 10GB (out of 30) partition. So not only did I not get a refund for Windows, I had to pull the whole hard drive and set it aside against the day I might want to sell the machine.
KeS
KeS
KeS
KeS
BTW, I've been to several firearm training courses since I decided, relatively late in life, that learning to handle personal firearms was a worthwhile endeavor. ALL of them spent EXTENSIVE amounts of time discussing the various likely horrific legal and personal consequences of displaying, drawing, or firing a handgun. Nobody in those classes showed any disposition afterward to treat the situation frivolously.
KeS
Result? Any model obsoleted before 1994, or any model for which the manufacturer didn't want to jump through the hoops - instantly banned from import into CA. Oops, so sorry, we never intended that!
KeS
(owns one of what must be an extremely few HK P7M10s in CA)