You want to know how I pick my detergent? I choose the one with the most patents, because then I can be reasonably sure that time, money and effort went into researching how to keep my brights bright. (FYI, it's invariably P&G's Tide.)
Yeah, I've seen that thing in action and it's fucking awesome. I wish it were a little smaller and came in a Bluetooth edition, so I could tote it around with my PowerBook without a nasty USB dongle.
Well, I wasn't offended. I just find it annoying when people go on completely offtopic rants, seemingly in order to prove their own superiority (not saying that this was your motive). Sorry for the humorlessness. It's been a long day.
The one-button mouse doesn't need defending; it suits a lot of people just fine. Obviously I can't speak for everybody, but I have never, ever seen my parents use anything but the left mouse button on their PCs, not even the scroll wheel (gasp!). My parents aren't stupid--they just have better things to worry about than mastering their input devices. These are the people for whom Apple wants to make computers easy to use.
You and I, on the other hand, we throw away whatever mouse was bundled with our computers, and we buy the nine-button Logitech mouse, and it suits us just fine. This doesn't need defending either.
Thanks for the clarification. I think I understand what you're saying now, but can you give a concrete example? I mean, Mac menus can have submenus too (thus avoiding clutter) and Mac contextual menus are item-specific. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say the disadvantage is here.
As far as keyboard access to the interface, you're mistaken. You can turn on full keyboard access from the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane: "Turn on full keyboard access to use the tab key, arrow key, and other keys to select buttons, lists, and other items on your screen." Full keyboard access applies to every Cocoa and Carbon widget on your screen (including the menu bar).
Go to your local university computer lab and watch the people on Windows PCs. How many people do you see using the right mouse button? Unless you're in the engineering department (and maybe not even then), it won't be very common.
And university students take forever to die. Trust me.
Useless for you, you mean. For those who just have to have their contextual menus on the button--despite the fact that all the same options are available from the menubar, despite the fact that you can just control-click--there's SideTrack. (Yeah, I'm one of those too.)
SideTrack lets you assign different functions to trackpad tap vs. button press. I've got my tap assigned to regular mouse click and button press assigned to right click. Of course, some people find this annoying too...
If you're spending $6,999 on Maya, I don't think the additional purchase of a a three-button mouse is going to break your budget. Maybe you could even splurge on a deluxe four-button mouse with a scroll wheel and leather grip, unless you think that extra $20 is really going to set you back.
Ideally, you should even be able to replicate double-clicking in a more intuitive way. For example, in the Finder, double-clicking has always just been a shortcut for File -> Open. I imagine Windows has the equivalent.
Uh, isn't your post logically self-defeating? First paragraph, paraphrased: "Even on PCs, contextual menus duplicate options available elsewhere." Second paragraph, paraphrased: "Duplicating options means the menubar gets cluttered." But somehow this last point only applies to Macs.
Nah, people still die on construction projects all the time--right here in America--and nobody considers it "hugely threatening" to the project. In fact, a common superstition among construction workers is that a site isn't safe to work on until a death has occurred. The ground demands blood, or something like that.
But yeah, it'd be weird nowadays if a bridge claimed upwards of 20 lives in its construction. OSHA and the unions would throw a fit, at the very least.
I believe that figure is US$1/day at market exchange rates, as this is the international standard used by organizations like the UNDP. By purchasing power parity the poverty rate would be lower, but--it must be said--almost certainly still much higher than in the U.S. et al.
Playing devil's advocate. Your "executive" has provided someone in India with a well-paying job that didn't exist before. In the process, an American employee lost his job.
Now why is that "pure evil"? Why shouldn't an executive be rewarded for helping out a developing economy like India's, even at the (relatively lesser) expense of an economy like ours?
I had the same problem, but fortunately you can just send a note to Apple asking that they reset the authorization count on your account. I've done this and they were happy to oblige.
Of course, you might run into problems if you accidentally type something like "My friends are having problems listening to music I bought..."
Nope. There's always an easier, more intuitive way to do the same thing (clicking the gear icon, for example). Right-clicking is a shortcut, nothing more.
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You want to know how I pick my detergent? I choose the one with the most patents, because then I can be reasonably sure that time, money and effort went into researching how to keep my brights bright. (FYI, it's invariably P&G's Tide.)
And I'm not kidding.
Yeah, I've seen that thing in action and it's fucking awesome. I wish it were a little smaller and came in a Bluetooth edition, so I could tote it around with my PowerBook without a nasty USB dongle.
Well, I wasn't offended. I just find it annoying when people go on completely offtopic rants, seemingly in order to prove their own superiority (not saying that this was your motive). Sorry for the humorlessness. It's been a long day.
The one-button mouse doesn't need defending; it suits a lot of people just fine. Obviously I can't speak for everybody, but I have never, ever seen my parents use anything but the left mouse button on their PCs, not even the scroll wheel (gasp!). My parents aren't stupid--they just have better things to worry about than mastering their input devices. These are the people for whom Apple wants to make computers easy to use.
You and I, on the other hand, we throw away whatever mouse was bundled with our computers, and we buy the nine-button Logitech mouse, and it suits us just fine. This doesn't need defending either.
Thanks for the clarification. I think I understand what you're saying now, but can you give a concrete example? I mean, Mac menus can have submenus too (thus avoiding clutter) and Mac contextual menus are item-specific. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say the disadvantage is here.
As far as keyboard access to the interface, you're mistaken. You can turn on full keyboard access from the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane: "Turn on full keyboard access to use the tab key, arrow key, and other keys to select buttons, lists, and other items on your screen." Full keyboard access applies to every Cocoa and Carbon widget on your screen (including the menu bar).
Maybe you'd be better off asking one of the hundreds of thousands of happy iTMS customers.
Holy shit, what a pompous jackass. Seriously, dude. Don't be so obnoxious.
I've never seen this point made so elegantly. Thank you.
Hey, cool. Hope it works out for you. :)
Go to your local university computer lab and watch the people on Windows PCs. How many people do you see using the right mouse button? Unless you're in the engineering department (and maybe not even then), it won't be very common.
And university students take forever to die. Trust me.
Useless for you, you mean. For those who just have to have their contextual menus on the button--despite the fact that all the same options are available from the menubar, despite the fact that you can just control-click--there's SideTrack. (Yeah, I'm one of those too.)
SideTrack lets you assign different functions to trackpad tap vs. button press. I've got my tap assigned to regular mouse click and button press assigned to right click. Of course, some people find this annoying too...
If you're spending $6,999 on Maya, I don't think the additional purchase of a a three-button mouse is going to break your budget. Maybe you could even splurge on a deluxe four-button mouse with a scroll wheel and leather grip, unless you think that extra $20 is really going to set you back.
Ideally, you should even be able to replicate double-clicking in a more intuitive way. For example, in the Finder, double-clicking has always just been a shortcut for File -> Open. I imagine Windows has the equivalent.
Uh, isn't your post logically self-defeating? First paragraph, paraphrased: "Even on PCs, contextual menus duplicate options available elsewhere." Second paragraph, paraphrased: "Duplicating options means the menubar gets cluttered." But somehow this last point only applies to Macs.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
Nah, people still die on construction projects all the time--right here in America--and nobody considers it "hugely threatening" to the project. In fact, a common superstition among construction workers is that a site isn't safe to work on until a death has occurred. The ground demands blood, or something like that.
But yeah, it'd be weird nowadays if a bridge claimed upwards of 20 lives in its construction. OSHA and the unions would throw a fit, at the very least.
I believe that figure is US$1/day at market exchange rates, as this is the international standard used by organizations like the UNDP. By purchasing power parity the poverty rate would be lower, but--it must be said--almost certainly still much higher than in the U.S. et al.
Playing devil's advocate. Your "executive" has provided someone in India with a well-paying job that didn't exist before. In the process, an American employee lost his job.
Now why is that "pure evil"? Why shouldn't an executive be rewarded for helping out a developing economy like India's, even at the (relatively lesser) expense of an economy like ours?
I had the same problem, but fortunately you can just send a note to Apple asking that they reset the authorization count on your account. I've done this and they were happy to oblige.
Of course, you might run into problems if you accidentally type something like "My friends are having problems listening to music I bought..."
What are you babbling about?
(OT) Are you related to Saskia Sassen?
You're talking about the kernel and other low-level things. The rest of us are talking about user-space software.
Mac "Metro"? Surely this is an Apple-is-gay troll?
Oh, no! Mac OS X has too much software. Someone please save me from all these choices!
Nope. There's always an easier, more intuitive way to do the same thing (clicking the gear icon, for example). Right-clicking is a shortcut, nothing more.