That's ridiculous. The encrypted binaries don't affect the end user in any way. They only make life harder for people who want to run OS X on their Dell. And unlike breaking Windows' or QuarkXpress' or Photoshop's activation, users breaking this (which isn't activation at all) en masse could have major, potentially negative implications for the platform.
Maybe Apple is becoming evil, but this certainly isn't an indication of it.
Hmm.. I don't know if this really goes along with the openness aspect that Wikis have. I do know what they mean though; vandalism is a problem.
Maybe for the "frozen" entries, updates should be allowed to be submitted, but then there'd be a voting, where the update would only be applied if enough people accepted it.
Maybe they could even impliment a reputation system, where the votes of people with higher reputations count more, and/or where people with higher reputations can make changes without needing a vote...
After reading Apple's pages about the Mighty Mouse, I noticed a few interesting things.
First of all, it actually has a speaker embedded inside it, to make feedback sounds when you click. I've gotta admit, that definitely sounds like an industry first, but it has to be kind of weird. Like the digital cameras that make camera sounds when you take a picture.
Also, there is a Viacom copyright notice near the bottom of the page, so I guess no one's getting sued.
But my question is, how will you be able to use this? I mean, if the buttons are touch-sensitive, will you still be able to rest your hand on the mouse buttons when you're not actually clicking, like you can do with "regular" mice? Because it'd be ridiculous if you couldn't, but then I wonder how they got around it...
I went to Microsoft's website to see what they had to say about Vista, and noticed that they slightly changed the Windows logo from what XP had.
They still have the same colors (of course) and general shape, but as opposed to the XP logo, where it's shaded normally, the logo for Vista as drawn as if there's a light shining on the center. Indeed, there's a circle of lightness focused directly on the center, and the outside is darker, as if there was a spotlight shining on it. This, of course, is exactly what Apple did a few months ago with the Tiger logo, because of Spotlight being its major feature...
Wow. When I saw what you said about Dvorak and the System Idle Process, I was skeptical, and thought that I'd really have to see it to believe it. I didn't think he could be that ignorant, after all these years of writing about technology.
"Idle-Time Process. Once in a while the system will go into an idle mode, requiring from five minutes to half an hour to unwind. It's weird, and I almost always have to reboot. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Once in a while, after you've clicked all over the screen trying to get the system to do something other than idle, all your clicks suddenly ignite and the screen goes crazy with activity. This is not right."
This is incredible. I used to respect John Dvorak's opinion - mostly a few years ago, when I read PCMag more, although I still did somewhat until today. But for him to be quite that ignorant, is really amazing. Needless to say, after this and all the other things he's recently said, it's clear that he really is a hack.
"If even 'knowledgeable' OSX users like you get it wrong, what are novices to think?"
Thanks for the compliment, but while I would consider myself a knowledgeable computer user, right now I'm on XP; I am, however, interested in buying a Mac, so I've used the OS fairly extensively to test it out.
Anyway, I just fired up PearPC, and tried to recreate your screenshot. You're right, the About window has the focus (right?). That definitely is a flaw; the shadow of the first window doesn't shrink when the About window gains focus. Now, you can tell if the About window has the focus based on if its title bar is "dark" or "light with pinstripes." But it should also have a large shadow, which it doesn't.
Actually, I just noticed that the title bar of the initial window doesn't change either, when the About box gets focus. It actually seems kind of like a bug with the About window, that the OS doesn't realize that the initial window has lost focus. PearPC is kind of slow; so I'll ask you - do other windows similar to the About box have the same effect when they take the focus?
The Software Update window has the focus. As one of the design innovations of OS X, the shadow behind the window with the focus is consideribly larger and more obvious than that of the others. And it only took about a second for me to figure it out.
Yes, it's true, they do seem to have not made the About dialog indicate (by dimming the title text) when it's lost the focus. This is a problem. But in general, Aqua does show which window has the focus.. actually often better than Windows, since they also dim some of the controls when a window loses focus (such as scroll bars). And the shadow method is always there as a last resort.
Since this thread is about software for Windows vs. Mac OS, I should point out that nowhere in the latest version of Windows Media Player, on either platform, does it indicate if it loses focus. But again, in Aqua, you can tell if it has focus by the shadow.
While the fact that the About dialog didn't indicate it lost focus is a problem, I'd say that Aqua comes out ahead, since it was able to show which window had the focus anyway (in a way that Windows can't do).
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Maybe Apple is becoming evil, but this certainly isn't an indication of it.
The corollary to that being that versions of Windows shipped retail, usually should never have made it out of RC phase...
It's kind of funny.. they're based in Australia, and they can serve everyone but citizens of their own country...
So true! Very funny...
Maybe for the "frozen" entries, updates should be allowed to be submitted, but then there'd be a voting, where the update would only be applied if enough people accepted it.
Maybe they could even impliment a reputation system, where the votes of people with higher reputations count more, and/or where people with higher reputations can make changes without needing a vote...
After reading Apple's pages about the Mighty Mouse, I noticed a few interesting things. First of all, it actually has a speaker embedded inside it, to make feedback sounds when you click. I've gotta admit, that definitely sounds like an industry first, but it has to be kind of weird. Like the digital cameras that make camera sounds when you take a picture. Also, there is a Viacom copyright notice near the bottom of the page, so I guess no one's getting sued. But my question is, how will you be able to use this? I mean, if the buttons are touch-sensitive, will you still be able to rest your hand on the mouse buttons when you're not actually clicking, like you can do with "regular" mice? Because it'd be ridiculous if you couldn't, but then I wonder how they got around it...
They still have the same colors (of course) and general shape, but as opposed to the XP logo, where it's shaded normally, the logo for Vista as drawn as if there's a light shining on the center. Indeed, there's a circle of lightness focused directly on the center, and the outside is darker, as if there was a spotlight shining on it. This, of course, is exactly what Apple did a few months ago with the Tiger logo, because of Spotlight being its major feature...
Hmm. Copying Tiger's features and its logo?
Well, he is.
I just did a Google search, and the first result was this PC Magazine article.Here's a quote:
This is incredible. I used to respect John Dvorak's opinion - mostly a few years ago, when I read PCMag more, although I still did somewhat until today. But for him to be quite that ignorant, is really amazing. Needless to say, after this and all the other things he's recently said, it's clear that he really is a hack.
Mirrordot has it now...
Thanks for the compliment, but while I would consider myself a knowledgeable computer user, right now I'm on XP; I am, however, interested in buying a Mac, so I've used the OS fairly extensively to test it out.
Anyway, I just fired up PearPC, and tried to recreate your screenshot. You're right, the About window has the focus (right?). That definitely is a flaw; the shadow of the first window doesn't shrink when the About window gains focus. Now, you can tell if the About window has the focus based on if its title bar is "dark" or "light with pinstripes." But it should also have a large shadow, which it doesn't.
Actually, I just noticed that the title bar of the initial window doesn't change either, when the About box gets focus. It actually seems kind of like a bug with the About window, that the OS doesn't realize that the initial window has lost focus. PearPC is kind of slow; so I'll ask you - do other windows similar to the About box have the same effect when they take the focus?
Yes, it's true, they do seem to have not made the About dialog indicate (by dimming the title text) when it's lost the focus. This is a problem. But in general, Aqua does show which window has the focus.. actually often better than Windows, since they also dim some of the controls when a window loses focus (such as scroll bars). And the shadow method is always there as a last resort.
Since this thread is about software for Windows vs. Mac OS, I should point out that nowhere in the latest version of Windows Media Player, on either platform, does it indicate if it loses focus. But again, in Aqua, you can tell if it has focus by the shadow.
While the fact that the About dialog didn't indicate it lost focus is a problem, I'd say that Aqua comes out ahead, since it was able to show which window had the focus anyway (in a way that Windows can't do).