and if you don't believe Lucas is politically correct, I refer you to the scene in the re-released first star wars movie where Han Solo is confronted by Greedo the bounty hunter. I seem to recall that the original version had Solo blasting Greedo from under the table with out warning or mercy. In the enhanced re-release, Greedo shoots first so Solo can fire in self defense. No reason for it, other than to be pc.
I never realized the peril LOTR fans were in. What would Lucas have done to us? Gollum with a jamaican accent, tripping and falling down all the time. Frodo yelling yippee as the ring is destroyed. Sauron and Gandalf oweing their powers to parasites in the blood. The fact that George couldn't get his politically correct, ages 12 and under hands on Tolkein is something for which we can all be greatful.
Nanosaur seems like one of the best reasons to buy a Macintosh -- smooth action, good controls, nice textures, and action suitable even for small kids. But if you can put Nanosaur and a close-enough-to-Aqua theme on a Linux box, the premium for The Real Thing suddenly looks a little steeper.
Dude, I totally just slapped a Porsche sticker on my 98 Eclipse and now noone can tell the difference. Thanks for the advice.
It is so much easier to go through windows by clicking on thier title bars, and not having to go all the way to the bottom of the screen. (a la The Dock)
Also, something I don't know if Apple's though of.. what happens with 2 monitors? And with full screen games?
It is my understanding that the dock does have the option to be hidden. ...and I agree, please bring back window shade and also the ability to hide open windows (sucking them into the dock doesn't work for me). How else will I be able to read/. at work?
I'm sorry but I believe portions of your comment are misleading.
I'm at work right now and I'm using Photoshop and while I can not run filters on 2 photos at the same time, I can save to my drive or run a big filter and then pop over to Illustrator or Pagemaker or any other program (or more likely to my browswer) and continue working with no problem. I'm running a filter in Photoshop, sending files to an ftp site with Fetch and am posting to slashdot all at the same time right now. I also just recieved email.
I realize that as I have more and more tasks running, they will run slower as the processor distributes attention from one to the next, but it isn't as if everytime I hit the okay button I sit and twiddle my fingers.
I would prefer pre-emptive multitasking, but in many cases, concerning the Mac OS, a lot of what you are excluded from doing is the fault of the application for not being threaded and not a specific OS limitation.
as an example, say you are surfing the web, and you would like to do something else while waiting for a big web page to load over a slow modem. with the co-op mac scheduling, the computer often won't even respond until the page load is complete ( in my experience ). I'm not sure what your "experience" is but I surf with the browser in the background every single day. In fact I often click open 5 or more links at the same time and let them all load as I read another page or work in another app. If I weren't able to do this, I'd never read slashdot. It'd take all day.
Well, let me be the first to thank you for pointing all that out cankerman.
Would you please tell us why someone of your intelligence would waste their valuable worktime reading and posting to Apple articles if Mac Nazis make you so mad.
I'll tell you what, why don't you post your name and the address of the advertising agency where you work and I'll send your boss a "My employee is a fuckhead on Slashdot" t-shirt to wear around the office.
I would like to work for you on the basis that there is absolutely no evidence your company is currently developing anything.
Because I am very smart, I have deduced that the average daily work load per employee must be nill.
Assuming this low-stress slow-paced work environment would give me unlimited time to post to slashdot, I would be willing to spend a period of one year at your company before moving on to a future life of playing video games and eating corn nuts while living in the basement of my mothers house.
Regards
Che G.
P.S. I apologise to all posters of slashdot as I know they may not want to read this but I find getting jobs using my resume and a telephone very frustrating. I hope posting application letters to message boards will eventually land me "the Big One".
I would like to work for you on the basis that there is absolutely no evidence your company is currently developing anything.
Because I am very smart, I have deduced that the average daily work load per employee must be nill.
Assuming this low-stress slow-paced work environment would give me unlimited time to post to slashdot, I would be willing to spend a period of one year at your company before moving on to a future life of playing video games and eating corn nuts while living in the basement of my mothers house.
Regards
Che G.
P.S. I apologise to all posters of slashdot as I know they may not want to read this but I find getting jobs using my resume and a telephone very frustrating. I hope posting application letters to message boards will eventually land me "the Big One".
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and if you don't believe Lucas is politically correct, I refer you to the scene in the re-released first star wars movie where Han Solo is confronted by Greedo the bounty hunter. I seem to recall that the original version had Solo blasting Greedo from under the table with out warning or mercy. In the enhanced re-release, Greedo shoots first so Solo can fire in self defense. No reason for it, other than to be pc.
I never realized the peril LOTR fans were in. What would Lucas have done to us? Gollum with a jamaican accent, tripping and falling down all the time. Frodo yelling yippee as the ring is destroyed. Sauron and Gandalf oweing their powers to parasites in the blood. The fact that George couldn't get his politically correct, ages 12 and under hands on Tolkein is something for which we can all be greatful.
Nanosaur seems like one of the best reasons to buy a Macintosh -- smooth action, good controls, nice textures, and action suitable even for small kids. But if you can put Nanosaur and a close-enough-to-Aqua theme on a Linux box, the premium for The Real Thing suddenly looks a little steeper.
Dude, I totally just slapped a Porsche sticker on my 98 Eclipse and now noone can tell the difference. Thanks for the advice.
Bring back the windowshade!
It is so much easier to go through windows by clicking on thier title bars, and not having to go all the way to the bottom of the screen. (a la The Dock)
Also, something I don't know if Apple's though of.. what happens with 2 monitors? And with full screen games?
It is my understanding that the dock does have the option to be hidden.
You forgot the 8-ball jacket. In one episode he bought a leather jacket with a big 8-ball on the back.
What did he say about that jacket? Something like,"Tell it to the 8-ball". I can't remember, anyone know?
Plug and Play? What are you joking? Not only did they not develop it, they still can't get it to work.
--The day MS makes something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
I'm sorry but I believe portions of your comment are misleading.
I'm at work right now and I'm using Photoshop and while I can not run filters on 2 photos at the same time, I can save to my drive or run a big filter and then pop over to Illustrator or Pagemaker or any other program (or more likely to my browswer) and continue working with no problem. I'm running a filter in Photoshop, sending files to an ftp site with Fetch and am posting to slashdot all at the same time right now. I also just recieved email.
I realize that as I have more and more tasks running, they will run slower as the processor distributes attention from one to the next, but it isn't as if everytime I hit the okay button I sit and twiddle my fingers.
I would prefer pre-emptive multitasking, but in many cases, concerning the Mac OS, a lot of what you are excluded from doing is the fault of the application for not being threaded and not a specific OS limitation.
as an example, say you are surfing the web, and you would like to do something else while waiting for a big web page to load over a slow modem. with the co-op mac scheduling, the computer often won't even respond until the page load is complete ( in my experience ).
I'm not sure what your "experience" is but I surf with the browser in the background every single day. In fact I often click open 5 or more links at the same time and let them all load as I read another page or work in another app. If I weren't able to do this, I'd never read slashdot. It'd take all day.
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Well, let me be the first to thank you for pointing all that out cankerman.
Would you please tell us why someone of your intelligence would waste their valuable worktime reading and posting to Apple articles if Mac Nazis make you so mad.
I'll tell you what, why don't you post your name and the address of the advertising agency where you work and I'll send your boss a "My employee is a fuckhead on Slashdot" t-shirt to wear around the office.
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AppleInsider is running a photo of what appears to be the graphite "Best" model.
http://www.appleinsider .com/articles/9909/kihei-photo.shtml
What operating system was it using and can the martians use it to make a sweet beowulf cluster?
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Whatever you're smoking, give me some.
Dr Mr Ditzel
I would like to work for you on the basis that there is absolutely no evidence your company is currently developing anything.
Because I am very smart, I have deduced that the average daily work load per employee must be nill.
Assuming this low-stress slow-paced work environment would give me unlimited time to post to slashdot, I would be willing to spend a period of one year at your company before moving on to a future life of playing video games and eating corn nuts while living in the basement of my mothers house.
Regards
Che G.
P.S. I apologise to all posters of slashdot as I know they may not want to read this but I find getting jobs using my resume and a telephone very frustrating. I hope posting application letters to message boards will eventually land me "the Big One".
Dr Mr Ditzel
I would like to work for you on the basis that there is absolutely no evidence your company is currently developing anything.
Because I am very smart, I have deduced that the average daily work load per employee must be nill.
Assuming this low-stress slow-paced work environment would give me unlimited time to post to slashdot, I would be willing to spend a period of one year at your company before moving on to a future life of playing video games and eating corn nuts while living in the basement of my mothers house.
Regards
Che G.
P.S. I apologise to all posters of slashdot as I know they may not want to read this but I find getting jobs using my resume and a telephone very frustrating. I hope posting application letters to message boards will eventually land me "the Big One".