"The team behind Songbird has members who previously developed for both Winamp"
Ah, I was wondering why 'skins and themes and monitoring a folder for new music' were considered missing features. Now I know the answer.
No thanks, guys. I consider simplicity a feature in a music player, not spending 3 minutes wondering where the 'Play' button went on some new skin made to look like Batman's tool belt or something.
That's just right clicking on the current Windows taskbar and selecting Toolbars. By default they're set to Small Icons, but if you select Large Icons you get this. Most Windows users freak out when they see when I enable this on a Windows desktop.
Quicklists? You can already right click on a running app in the OS X Dock and it has contextual tasks. Microsoft has a long way to go if this is what they consider groundbreaking UI.
As a former user of PMMail/2, Pegasus, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Outlook, Entourage, Evolution, Lotus Notes (eesh), I'm surprised to find someone who actually doesn't like Mail.app. I use it on my Mac and I especially like it on the iPod touch.
"to doing whatever the hell I want with my systems."
Considering the 30 year legacy of the PC, we are all free to install any copy of Microsoft Office 2007 we want at work, any copy of Microsoft Windows at home we want. This should allow us to play any computer games we want as long as they're Games for Windows that work on any copy of DirectX 10 we want. This considerable amount of freedom will lead us to the seemingly inevitable freedom of using any Bittorrent client we wish to download and install whatever the hell we want to pirate today to do whatever the hell it is we want.
1) Use a smaller handheld device to take notes with. All manager of PDAs, Nintendo DS, iPhone and iPod touch can take notes in an instant.
2) If you're going to use a laptop, then leave it in suspend mode and don't power it off when you go mobile.
3) If you must power off the laptop off when mobile, then power it off in Hibernate mode.
Most laptops are hard drive based which means no matter what OS you choose you will be waiting a period of time for the OS to overcome the speed bottleneck of the hard drive.
Your post somewhat strengthens our point. On the NASA page you linked I had to scroll down a ways to find the first "approximately true-color image". The small handful of others were also labelled "approximately true-color image" as well as "false color image."
Seconded. The quality of the images we get from NASA and the eSA are rivaled by those of Mathew Brady and his Civil War photographs.
Expect several lectures on the nature of filters, how digital cameras really work and how photographs aren't 'real science'. But don't expect to be satisfied with any other explanation.
The Best Buy here in Overland Park, KS (few blocks away from the Sprint headquarters) has an Apple booth near the entrance. I got to see the Macbook Air there for the first time.
"Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers."
Well they do have control over the Certified for Vista logo program.
And as an aside, I find it somewhat amusing when Windows users this as a defense but at the same time use it as a reason Linux sucks. I know that's not what you're doing here, but I see that a lot on various Internet message boards.
(Potentially) Less OS on the hard disk could mean lower resource utilization and I'm sure a few enterprising users would find further ways to enhance performance maybe something a kin to tuning current Window's services so as to prevent unnecessary network access?
The puck mouse and the current Mighty Mouse that sits unused in my cabinet I agree with.
But the ultra-thin keyboards that are out now are awesome. I own the previous model keyboard which is good too, but the newer ones are surprisingly good.
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"Talk about timing. I'm considering building a gesture control system for my TV as a project in a comp vision class"
On the contrary, good timing would have been you building this BEFORE the election...
Then you visit the site in the parent post, download the script and you're done.
Doesn't this fall under the 'plugin' feature the article claims iTunes is missing?
"What if I want iTunes to match my OS's color scheme?"
We are talking about iTunes on OS X, are we not?
The nice folks at Panic may cry all they want. I never did like Audion for the very reason of the ugly skins.
To throw Panic a bone I did purchase their excellent Unison newsreader. And Coda is very nice as well.
"The team behind Songbird has members who previously developed for both Winamp"
Ah, I was wondering why 'skins and themes and monitoring a folder for new music' were considered missing features. Now I know the answer.
No thanks, guys. I consider simplicity a feature in a music player, not spending 3 minutes wondering where the 'Play' button went on some new skin made to look like Batman's tool belt or something.
Yes, tell us all about that proprietary Apple audio format.
This should be it right here
That's just right clicking on the current Windows taskbar and selecting Toolbars. By default they're set to Small Icons, but if you select Large Icons you get this. Most Windows users freak out when they see when I enable this on a Windows desktop.
Quicklists? You can already right click on a running app in the OS X Dock and it has contextual tasks. Microsoft has a long way to go if this is what they consider groundbreaking UI.
Maybe that's why the Army is 'near-bankrupt'.
Wet and sticky.
Moshe is on his way now to squash these iPhone replicants.
Namaste.
As a former user of PMMail/2, Pegasus, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Outlook, Entourage, Evolution, Lotus Notes (eesh), I'm surprised to find someone who actually doesn't like Mail.app. I use it on my Mac and I especially like it on the iPod touch.
"to doing whatever the hell I want with my systems."
Considering the 30 year legacy of the PC, we are all free to install any copy of Microsoft Office 2007 we want at work, any copy of Microsoft Windows at home we want. This should allow us to play any computer games we want as long as they're Games for Windows that work on any copy of DirectX 10 we want. This considerable amount of freedom will lead us to the seemingly inevitable freedom of using any Bittorrent client we wish to download and install whatever the hell we want to pirate today to do whatever the hell it is we want.
I suggest:
1) Use a smaller handheld device to take notes with. All manager of PDAs, Nintendo DS, iPhone and iPod touch can take notes in an instant.
2) If you're going to use a laptop, then leave it in suspend mode and don't power it off when you go mobile.
3) If you must power off the laptop off when mobile, then power it off in Hibernate mode.
Most laptops are hard drive based which means no matter what OS you choose you will be waiting a period of time for the OS to overcome the speed bottleneck of the hard drive.
Thank goodness. Warriors are the most OPed class in PvP.
Your post somewhat strengthens our point. On the NASA page you linked I had to scroll down a ways to find the first "approximately true-color image". The small handful of others were also labelled "approximately true-color image" as well as "false color image."
Seconded. The quality of the images we get from NASA and the eSA are rivaled by those of Mathew Brady and his Civil War photographs.
Expect several lectures on the nature of filters, how digital cameras really work and how photographs aren't 'real science'. But don't expect to be satisfied with any other explanation.
The Best Buy here in Overland Park, KS (few blocks away from the Sprint headquarters) has an Apple booth near the entrance. I got to see the Macbook Air there for the first time.
"Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers."
Well they do have control over the Certified for Vista logo program.
And as an aside, I find it somewhat amusing when Windows users this as a defense but at the same time use it as a reason Linux sucks. I know that's not what you're doing here, but I see that a lot on various Internet message boards.
...was right before I switched to NT 4.0.
Seriously, why?
The iPhone App store better get cracking on those Archie, Gopher and WAIS clients.
(Potentially) Less OS on the hard disk could mean lower resource utilization and I'm sure a few enterprising users would find further ways to enhance performance maybe something a kin to tuning current Window's services so as to prevent unnecessary network access?
You mean like... a console?
Someone should tell PopCap who managed to get Bejeweled on almost every cheap mobile device out there.
The puck mouse and the current Mighty Mouse that sits unused in my cabinet I agree with.
But the ultra-thin keyboards that are out now are awesome. I own the previous model keyboard which is good too, but the newer ones are surprisingly good.
As far as the Model Ms, let it go...
Thanks for this. I just checked it and noticed that they've moved the iPod nano and iPod games I've downloaded to this new Applications tab.