Yeah, I agree wizards are usually awful. However, in VLC on OS X, it operates more like a "Save As..." command. There's no egregious handholding, it's just a far more Mac-like way to transcode video than digging through the standard method.
Oh, and I don't like the new icon.
Yeah, the corners are very strange, as they're not rounded at all.
If you look closely, say, by turning on Zoom in the Universal Access System Preference, the corners don't appear to be curved. They're at a 45-degree angle.
They look like this:
Top of window -----
\ -corner
|
| --side of window
|
Very strange. I've never seen a window like that on a Mac. And it's a very ugly corner; you can see the individual three pixels stair-stepping down.
Does anybody thinkg this looks a lot more like a Windows Vista window?
But thank god, it's not brushed metal anymore. I'll take just about anything instead of that crap.
Oh, and I need more character to balance out my pitiful ASCII art. Anyway, another site just pointed out it looks a lot like the old SoundJam application upon which iTunes is based. I don't think so for the window itself, but when you look at the display, wow, it does.
A thousand bucks for Office and Photoshop? Really?
Since you've got PS 5.5 you can jump right up to CS2 for 150 dollars. Right here on Adobe's site.
For Office, you can upgrade from the 98 version to 2004 for $240, or if you're a student/teacher/have a student, you can get it for $150. Details here.
Nowhere near a thousand dollars. Smart shopping, it's a miraculous idea.
Or there's always piracy.
There are two 1080p trailers right there on the page: Serenity and Batman Begins.
Although, as the parent said, you need some high-end power to play 'em well. I've got a 2.0 GHz G5 iMac, and I'm getting about 13 frames per second.
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What's the upset customer going to do, go there and beat up a billion people?
If the customer is Chuck Norris, then, yes.
Whew, that is ugly. It looks like, I dunno, Limewire.
The tabs that haven't been used since 10.2, the cheesy movement controls, the ugly shiny candy headers on Places and Layers...
Well, at least it's not metal.
Yeah, I agree wizards are usually awful. However, in VLC on OS X, it operates more like a "Save As..." command. There's no egregious handholding, it's just a far more Mac-like way to transcode video than digging through the standard method. Oh, and I don't like the new icon.
Yeah, the corners are very strange, as they're not rounded at all.
If you look closely, say, by turning on Zoom in the Universal Access System Preference, the corners don't appear to be curved. They're at a 45-degree angle.
They look like this:
Top of window
-----
\ -corner
|
| --side of window
|
Very strange. I've never seen a window like that on a Mac. And it's a very ugly corner; you can see the individual three pixels stair-stepping down.
Does anybody thinkg this looks a lot more like a Windows Vista window?
But thank god, it's not brushed metal anymore. I'll take just about anything instead of that crap.
Oh, and I need more character to balance out my pitiful ASCII art. Anyway, another site just pointed out it looks a lot like the old SoundJam application upon which iTunes is based. I don't think so for the window itself, but when you look at the display, wow, it does.
...No.
Here's an excellent summary of why an Apple computer based on an IBM PC clone design wouldn't have been a Mac.A thousand bucks for Office and Photoshop? Really? Since you've got PS 5.5 you can jump right up to CS2 for 150 dollars. Right here on Adobe's site. For Office, you can upgrade from the 98 version to 2004 for $240, or if you're a student/teacher/have a student, you can get it for $150. Details here. Nowhere near a thousand dollars. Smart shopping, it's a miraculous idea. Or there's always piracy.
There are two 1080p trailers right there on the page: Serenity and Batman Begins. Although, as the parent said, you need some high-end power to play 'em well. I've got a 2.0 GHz G5 iMac, and I'm getting about 13 frames per second.
It'll be between the liquidus and solidus lines, so you'll have a composition of liquid plus some small amount of alpha-phase.