1. Blame Apple. They should include a 2-button mouse standard with every Mac (let's ignore that they now, in fact, do just that). 2. Blame WoW. Poor design decisions by the developers have made the game difficult and unintuitive. 3. Blame the user. He or she should have known to buy a multibutton mouse along with WoW. Licensing should be mandatory for computer use by the general public (read: fucking stupid idiots).
If I were Michael Dell or an autistic tweleve-year-old, I'd pick #1. On Macslash or in blue states, #2. But since this is Slashdot, I'm gonna go with the crowd and pick #3.
Apple's had widescreen laptops for years. I think your parent post was saying they'd be the first to drop 4:3 entirely. Hence the world "entirely" contained therein.
Not mechanical in the sense that it stays down when pressed, but there's a LED that shows you whether caps lock is on, and as far as I know it's impossible to disable it in software. If you remap it to control (using one of any number of free utilities), therefore, you'll toggle the LED every time you use the control key. It's been a while since I looked into it, so things might have changed with the new PowerBooks that finally ditched the ADB architecture for their keyboards and trackpads.
Sounds like you could really use a visit to an Apple store. Is there none in your area?
As a Japanese (by ancestry) American (by birth), perhaps it's navel-gazing that piques my interest in this article from The Economist regarding the importance of cultural differences between Japan and the West in driving not only technological adoption, but innovation and development, too. Even if so, I bet plenty of people reading this Slashdot comment would find the article just as fascinating. The author's perspective, basically, is that people brought up in Japan's "culture of shame" are more comfortable interacting with machines than with people, while the Western "culture of guilt" (n.b. these terms are from elsewhere, and don't actually appear in the article), in which social fuckups aren't quite so stigmatized, doesn't need or even want technology to insulate individuals from one another. The first paragraph, which would probably be moderated flamebait in any other context:
HER name is MARIE, and her impressive set of skills comes in handy in a nursing home. MARIE can walk around under her own power. She can distinguish among similar-looking objects, such as different bottles of medicine, and has a delicate enough touch to work with frail patients. MARIE can interpret a range of facial expressions and gestures, and respond in ways that suggest compassion. Although her language skills are not ideal, she can recognise speech and respond clearly. Above all, she is inexpensive. Unfortunately for MARIE, however, she has one glaring trait that makes it hard for Japanese patients to accept her: she is a flesh-and-blood human being from the Philippines. If only she were a robot instead.
Like I say, an interesting take on things. If only the Economist Troll were to stop by to make it available to non-subscribers.
Wiping out your personal files wouldn't be nearly as bad as forwarding them to everyone in your address book, or so I've always thought. I'm just waiting for the day a worm author catches onto this simple fact.
Apple's opening two more stores in Manhattan this year (2006), one in midtown opposite Empire State, another on Fifth Ave at the GM Plaza. Hopefully that'll alleviate some of the crush.
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Yeah. Ugh. I'll never understand why people with enough good taste to use Macs then go blithely on ahead and ruin it by installing Firefox.
"the name Safari is more likely to conjure up images of an African hunting expedition..."
Good, because that establishes a connection with exploration into territories unknown--which is what Web browsing is all about. This really shouldn't take an English major to point out.
I'd have to agree with the court on this one. Are you suggesting that geeks lack the imagination to think of any words other than "illustrator"? C'mon, there are plenty of words and ideas to associate with vector image editing. "Freehand," for starters.
You have to get away from the idea that there's one "best" name for any concept. Even if they were, the featureset and audience of Adobe Illustrator (the product) isn't the same as those of Killustrator; thus, the concepts differ, and so should the name. Nuance is everything.
C'mon, try exercising your right brain for a change. Say "Excel" out loud and you'll find it contains the word "cell," as in spreadsheet cell. "Outlook" helps you make plans and schedule things, besides giving you an overview of your little empire, and letting you look over your communications with the outside world. Can't explain Acrobat, but I'm gonna go ahead and guess you probably think "Safari" is a terrible name for a browser, because you don't make the connection with surfin' and exploring. Maybe this is why open-source programs appeal to the stereotypical geek, linguistically/artistically/critically challenged. Too left-brained.
Firefox's name and icon are both so meaningless and divorced from the program's function as to be useless. (The guy who drew Firefox's icon, by the way, has since switched to Safari, a program with a much better name and icon--perhaps also reflecting its overall philosophy.)
Nah. If we Mac users cared about speed, we'd have switched to Windows long ago.:)
IE/Mac was a great OS 9 program, but when it got ported to OS X, the GUI just didn't fit in. Tastefulness is a pretty important GUI feature, at least to me, and IE was missing that essential quality on OS X. Firefox is still almost as bad. Safari and Camino are really the only OS X browsers that match Aqua.
Surely the point is that all the stuff that makes Safari Safari--all the stuff that makes it so much more of a pleasure to use than Firefox or IE--is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa frameworks. The rendering engine is just the guts of the thing, and they're a dime a dozen these days.
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Really? Firefox is incredibly ugly, in my opinion. Popup menu selections don't blink, and they're set in the wrong font to begin with. The preferences dialog looks like a Frankensteinian cross between OS 9 preferences and something out of OS X 10.1. Buttons don't pulsate and sheets pop up in unexpected, illogical places. That's just to start.
Perhaps more significantly, Firefox's HTML rendering is inarguably inferior to WebKit's. Small text is often antialiased strangely, and kerning is strange all over, lending text an uneven, drunken quality. On top of that, there's no integration with the system Keychain or firewall preferences. And that's not even mentioning the truly useful CSS properties missing from Gecko, like display: inline-block and run-in. The best you can say about Firefox is that it might be decent for Windows and Linux, but it barely achieves mediocrity on Mac OS X.
I do agree with you, however, that Camino is excellent.
It's suspicious, sure, but there actually have been a number of recent developments in the study of evolution that might merit its declaration as the scientific advancement of the year. This week's Economist actually includes a well-written, comprehensive survey of discoveries and new theories in human evolution (a.k.a. anthropology). Stuff about understanding the importance of evolution in fields like psychology, sociology, and even literature. Well worth the read if you have the time.
Some of the articles therein may be subscription only. Maybe the Economist Troll will stop by to give us the full contents, no? Maybe too much to hope for this holiday season?
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Yeah, you go ahead and keep telling yourself that.
Fuck you and fuck off, asshole. My best friend's little brother was killed in the north tower and I don't appreciate you presuming to speak for him, especially when I know where he would stand politically on issues like these, and believe me, that's nowhere near flag-waving rednecks like you.
Parent makes a good point, I think, and is no more trollish than grandparent. That it was modded down while grandparent stands at +1 Insightful is a clear reflection on the (in)ability of certain Slashdotters to get along with other people.
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I didn't say I found it funny. Just that making a joke like that doesn't mean you share the political leanings of Pat Buchanan.
It's a fucking joke. Sensitivity is fast becoming a reactionary trait, anyway.
I knew James Fenimore Cooper, and you, sir, are no James Fenimore Cooper. For one thing, he wrote The Last of the Mohicans on a Mac.
Our options here are threefold:
1. Blame Apple. They should include a 2-button mouse standard with every Mac (let's ignore that they now, in fact, do just that).
2. Blame WoW. Poor design decisions by the developers have made the game difficult and unintuitive.
3. Blame the user. He or she should have known to buy a multibutton mouse along with WoW. Licensing should be mandatory for computer use by the general public (read: fucking stupid idiots).
If I were Michael Dell or an autistic tweleve-year-old, I'd pick #1. On Macslash or in blue states, #2. But since this is Slashdot, I'm gonna go with the crowd and pick #3.
"Im ... the first to refer to an OS X release with a [Napoleon Dynamite] reference"
You sure? The comment's not that original, you know.
Apple's had widescreen laptops for years. I think your parent post was saying they'd be the first to drop 4:3 entirely. Hence the world "entirely" contained therein.
Not mechanical in the sense that it stays down when pressed, but there's a LED that shows you whether caps lock is on, and as far as I know it's impossible to disable it in software. If you remap it to control (using one of any number of free utilities), therefore, you'll toggle the LED every time you use the control key. It's been a while since I looked into it, so things might have changed with the new PowerBooks that finally ditched the ADB architecture for their keyboards and trackpads.
Sounds like you could really use a visit to an Apple store. Is there none in your area?
"Arrogance is an excellent stand in for wit any day!" -- Ah-heh. Your comment being Exhibit A.
Wiping out your personal files wouldn't be nearly as bad as forwarding them to everyone in your address book, or so I've always thought. I'm just waiting for the day a worm author catches onto this simple fact.
Apple's opening two more stores in Manhattan this year (2006), one in midtown opposite Empire State, another on Fifth Ave at the GM Plaza. Hopefully that'll alleviate some of the crush.
Yeah. Ugh. I'll never understand why people with enough good taste to use Macs then go blithely on ahead and ruin it by installing Firefox.
Yeah, I don't really buy into the whole left-brain right-brain thing at all. It's just a nice shorthand for people who are creative in different ways.
"the name Safari is more likely to conjure up images of an African hunting expedition..."
Good, because that establishes a connection with exploration into territories unknown--which is what Web browsing is all about. This really shouldn't take an English major to point out.
I'd have to agree with the court on this one. Are you suggesting that geeks lack the imagination to think of any words other than "illustrator"? C'mon, there are plenty of words and ideas to associate with vector image editing. "Freehand," for starters.
You have to get away from the idea that there's one "best" name for any concept. Even if they were, the featureset and audience of Adobe Illustrator (the product) isn't the same as those of Killustrator; thus, the concepts differ, and so should the name. Nuance is everything.
C'mon, try exercising your right brain for a change. Say "Excel" out loud and you'll find it contains the word "cell," as in spreadsheet cell. "Outlook" helps you make plans and schedule things, besides giving you an overview of your little empire, and letting you look over your communications with the outside world. Can't explain Acrobat, but I'm gonna go ahead and guess you probably think "Safari" is a terrible name for a browser, because you don't make the connection with surfin' and exploring. Maybe this is why open-source programs appeal to the stereotypical geek, linguistically/artistically/critically challenged. Too left-brained.
Firefox's name and icon are both so meaningless and divorced from the program's function as to be useless. (The guy who drew Firefox's icon, by the way, has since switched to Safari, a program with a much better name and icon--perhaps also reflecting its overall philosophy.)
Nah. If we Mac users cared about speed, we'd have switched to Windows long ago. :)
IE/Mac was a great OS 9 program, but when it got ported to OS X, the GUI just didn't fit in. Tastefulness is a pretty important GUI feature, at least to me, and IE was missing that essential quality on OS X. Firefox is still almost as bad. Safari and Camino are really the only OS X browsers that match Aqua.
Surely the point is that all the stuff that makes Safari Safari--all the stuff that makes it so much more of a pleasure to use than Firefox or IE--is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa frameworks. The rendering engine is just the guts of the thing, and they're a dime a dozen these days.
Really? Firefox is incredibly ugly, in my opinion. Popup menu selections don't blink, and they're set in the wrong font to begin with. The preferences dialog looks like a Frankensteinian cross between OS 9 preferences and something out of OS X 10.1. Buttons don't pulsate and sheets pop up in unexpected, illogical places. That's just to start.
Perhaps more significantly, Firefox's HTML rendering is inarguably inferior to WebKit's. Small text is often antialiased strangely, and kerning is strange all over, lending text an uneven, drunken quality. On top of that, there's no integration with the system Keychain or firewall preferences. And that's not even mentioning the truly useful CSS properties missing from Gecko, like display: inline-block and run-in. The best you can say about Firefox is that it might be decent for Windows and Linux, but it barely achieves mediocrity on Mac OS X.
I do agree with you, however, that Camino is excellent.
It's suspicious, sure, but there actually have been a number of recent developments in the study of evolution that might merit its declaration as the scientific advancement of the year. This week's Economist actually includes a well-written, comprehensive survey of discoveries and new theories in human evolution (a.k.a. anthropology). Stuff about understanding the importance of evolution in fields like psychology, sociology, and even literature. Well worth the read if you have the time.
Some of the articles therein may be subscription only. Maybe the Economist Troll will stop by to give us the full contents, no? Maybe too much to hope for this holiday season?
Yeah, you go ahead and keep telling yourself that.
Oh, we're still caring about illegal and unconstitutional behavior?
Fuck you and fuck off, asshole. My best friend's little brother was killed in the north tower and I don't appreciate you presuming to speak for him, especially when I know where he would stand politically on issues like these, and believe me, that's nowhere near flag-waving rednecks like you.
Parent makes a good point, I think, and is no more trollish than grandparent. That it was modded down while grandparent stands at +1 Insightful is a clear reflection on the (in)ability of certain Slashdotters to get along with other people.