Ah, the wonders of Apple upgrades. Instead of buying a £400 graphics card I can buy a £500 computer and still have another complete computer spare to put in my study/studio/cinema room for Reason 3.0 and DVD playing.
New Mac mini, here I come!
This article is clearly a half-arsed attempt at pulling in curious traffic by producing something controversial about OSX. Either that, or the writer really is as moronic as he sounds. It's a tough call.
1) Compatible control keys
Long story short, the Apple keyboard is a piece of hardware. Can we tell the difference between hardware and software, I think so. Can he? Evidently not. Here is a simple tutorial:
Buy standard USB keyboard
Plug USB keyboard into Mac
2) Save button on toolbars
He wants to click a button to save? What the bejesus is the CTRL+S key combination for? I have never even noticed this problem because, odly enough, my Mac is capable of running software not manufactured by Apple- funny that. Even so, how are save buttons in software a feature that the operating system could use from Windows? Can we tell the difference between operating systems and applications? Maybe. Can he? I'll let you work that out for yourself.
3) A multi button mouse
Looks like he is having the hardware/software confusion problem again! What a terrible shame. Wait, he claims it is not a windows feature "per se"... yet he is still incapable of connecting any standard USB mouse to a Macintosh. Idiot. If I had a penny for every moron who complained about the one button mouse I would be rich, rich, rich, and they would still be whinging about their one button mouse rather than plugging in a standard two, three, five, or eight billion button one.
By god, the final 3 points are minor but actually relevant! Looks like he saved me from having to waste my time shooting down his entire article- bravo! Moron. You lose anyway.
The only thing OSX needs from windows is its user base!
Chalk up another mouth-breathing moron incapable of buying a regular USB mouse and connecting it to a Mac. Will the pain ever end?
The INFAMOUS Apple mouse is NOT part of OSX, it is not included with OSX, it is not necessary to use OSX, and it is not necessary to use a Mac. If you don't like having just one button then, GASP, buy a mouse with two, or three, or even five!
"detracted from the creative merits of this award winning product" - TFA
Yeah, because statistics prove that 99.9% of American mothers prefer mindless ultra-voilence and crime sprees to poorly realised, blocky sexual content which is not really even pornographic.
I'm all for voilence, but the words "creative merits" and "san andreas" do not deserve to be in the same sentence. They took their GTA series, which has been a train-wreck sold only through controversy since the original GTA (the only good version, in my opinion) and slapped a few poorly realised RPG-like features into it and those goddamn irritating DDR-like missions.
San Andreas got rave reviews (99.9% of reviewers are morons who will lap anything up as long as it is called "Halo" or "GTA"), sold like hot cakes, and got stolen en-masse from GAME stores but it's just the same old game repacked and regurgitated.. buying the original GTA every time a new GTA is released is a smarter idea. How I long for the days when the word "original" could be used to describe a game without an acompanying din of laughter.
Conclusion: Sex and voilence is a great way to sell crap to the masses, and people favour marketing-hyped crap to original ideas. But we knew that already, right?
Well, driven by my capitalist girlfriend we make the most of peoples computer problems and get between £10 and £20 an hour, often with bonuses and the odd bit of free hardware, for popping to peoples houses and helping the out with problems privately. I definately do not have a degree, I would notice something like that. That makes me a not degreed computer techie getting over $20 for my time- of course it's not a full time occupation, and a lot of people do better.
I have seen many a computer bogged down by spyware and bloatware crap like Norton Antivirus, they perform so dismally that it's no surprise people give up and buy a new one- but if you can make a wad of cash doing difficult and technical things like "uninstalling Norton Antivirus" then why complain? Go out there and sell yourself!
Oh, and someone grab me a computer from the dumpster- I could use some old DIMMs for my ageing linux box, and perhaps a Duron better than 1.1ghz.
As the impressionable gadget lover that I am, I fell in love with the Mac mini as soon as I saw it and was bought one as part of a design contract shortly after. I never even bother putting mine to sleep, it stays on 24/7 serving up my personal micro-site, downloading random stuff, and annoying my MSN contacts by sending them automessages when they try to talk to me.
Consequently I have only touched my PC-Laptop for playing GuildWars and I no longer have a functional desktop PC.
Mac mini- as fast as you'll need, reliable, compact and quiet. Sure, even OSX isn't infallible but it's a damn sight better than my experiences with windows.
Well, back to the point, because I never turn it off, and never put it to sleep, wake up is essentially instantanous. I have an apple mouse but use a Saitek Notebook mouse (white, mmm) which has never spontaneously brought it out of monitor power-saving mode.
Rather- all the other solutions were so buried in peoples silly blogs that I couldn't find a single one of them, re-invented the wheel, and claimed the "fame" by using my journalistic hyping talent to slide it by the Slashdot moderators.
You can climb on that mountain all you like, but if you don't take a flag nobody is going to know you've been there.
Aha, I never thought of that one!
Should not be too difficult to implement though, if anyone adds a disabled form field I will just add some javascript to crash their browser with a billion popups.
Well spotted!
And, yes, that is half of the point. The other half is the global accesibility but some people are complaining it does not work quite as I expected- despite the fact I tested the script in recent versions of IE, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Safari and Netscape. Back to the tweaking board, I guess!
On a side and slightly off topic note- I don't think there is any point in complaining about the news-worthyness of Slashdot articles because they all inspire very interesting and entertaining conversions which are quite often read instead of the actual article. At least by myself, anyway.
My primary goal is to make it accessible, easily degradable, cross browser compatible, and easy to use all in one go.
I tried an awful lot of methods using regular expression replacement of HTML to replace the form elements with the styled ones, this ultimately failed miserably.
As for adding onClick events, I tried element.onclick and never actually got anywhere- probably because I am not much of a JavaScripter. I will take your suggestion to heart and try again, anything to make it less clunky, more streamlined and easier to plug-in to web based projects is good for me.
I'm surprised this made Slashdot, but it will prove extremely helpful in perfecting the script- It's great to have the comments of a veritable army of discerning braniacs at my disposal.
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Ah, the wonders of Apple upgrades. Instead of buying a £400 graphics card I can buy a £500 computer and still have another complete computer spare to put in my study/studio/cinema room for Reason 3.0 and DVD playing. New Mac mini, here I come!
I now use a Mac mini instead of my VAIO Notebook.
Will I ever go back to Windows for the kind of light, personal, browsing/chat/development I do at home? I doubt it.
Will I even bother with windows PCs once gaming really takes off on the Mac? I doubt it.
Why have water when you can have eye-melting grain gin!
In other news, 400,000 males were born on this planet. Useless statistics abound!
SHENS as Genmayers would say.. I think.
This article is clearly a half-arsed attempt at pulling in curious traffic by producing something controversial about OSX. Either that, or the writer really is as moronic as he sounds. It's a tough call.
1) Compatible control keys Long story short, the Apple keyboard is a piece of hardware. Can we tell the difference between hardware and software, I think so. Can he? Evidently not. Here is a simple tutorial:
2) Save button on toolbars He wants to click a button to save? What the bejesus is the CTRL+S key combination for? I have never even noticed this problem because, odly enough, my Mac is capable of running software not manufactured by Apple- funny that. Even so, how are save buttons in software a feature that the operating system could use from Windows? Can we tell the difference between operating systems and applications? Maybe. Can he? I'll let you work that out for yourself.
3) A multi button mouse Looks like he is having the hardware/software confusion problem again! What a terrible shame. Wait, he claims it is not a windows feature "per se"... yet he is still incapable of connecting any standard USB mouse to a Macintosh. Idiot. If I had a penny for every moron who complained about the one button mouse I would be rich, rich, rich, and they would still be whinging about their one button mouse rather than plugging in a standard two, three, five, or eight billion button one.
By god, the final 3 points are minor but actually relevant! Looks like he saved me from having to waste my time shooting down his entire article- bravo! Moron. You lose anyway.
The only thing OSX needs from windows is its user base!
"And yes, it includes the right-click mouse."
Chalk up another mouth-breathing moron incapable of buying a regular USB mouse and connecting it to a Mac. Will the pain ever end?
The INFAMOUS Apple mouse is NOT part of OSX, it is not included with OSX, it is not necessary to use OSX, and it is not necessary to use a Mac. If you don't like having just one button then, GASP, buy a mouse with two, or three, or even five!
"detracted from the creative merits of this award winning product" - TFA
Yeah, because statistics prove that 99.9% of American mothers prefer mindless ultra-voilence and crime sprees to poorly realised, blocky sexual content which is not really even pornographic.
I'm all for voilence, but the words "creative merits" and "san andreas" do not deserve to be in the same sentence. They took their GTA series, which has been a train-wreck sold only through controversy since the original GTA (the only good version, in my opinion) and slapped a few poorly realised RPG-like features into it and those goddamn irritating DDR-like missions.
San Andreas got rave reviews (99.9% of reviewers are morons who will lap anything up as long as it is called "Halo" or "GTA"), sold like hot cakes, and got stolen en-masse from GAME stores but it's just the same old game repacked and regurgitated.. buying the original GTA every time a new GTA is released is a smarter idea. How I long for the days when the word "original" could be used to describe a game without an acompanying din of laughter.
Conclusion: Sex and voilence is a great way to sell crap to the masses, and people favour marketing-hyped crap to original ideas. But we knew that already, right?
Well, driven by my capitalist girlfriend we make the most of peoples computer problems and get between £10 and £20 an hour, often with bonuses and the odd bit of free hardware, for popping to peoples houses and helping the out with problems privately. I definately do not have a degree, I would notice something like that. That makes me a not degreed computer techie getting over $20 for my time- of course it's not a full time occupation, and a lot of people do better.
I have seen many a computer bogged down by spyware and bloatware crap like Norton Antivirus, they perform so dismally that it's no surprise people give up and buy a new one- but if you can make a wad of cash doing difficult and technical things like "uninstalling Norton Antivirus" then why complain? Go out there and sell yourself!
Oh, and someone grab me a computer from the dumpster- I could use some old DIMMs for my ageing linux box, and perhaps a Duron better than 1.1ghz.
As the impressionable gadget lover that I am, I fell in love with the Mac mini as soon as I saw it and was bought one as part of a design contract shortly after. I never even bother putting mine to sleep, it stays on 24/7 serving up my personal micro-site, downloading random stuff, and annoying my MSN contacts by sending them automessages when they try to talk to me.
Consequently I have only touched my PC-Laptop for playing GuildWars and I no longer have a functional desktop PC.
Mac mini- as fast as you'll need, reliable, compact and quiet. Sure, even OSX isn't infallible but it's a damn sight better than my experiences with windows.
Well, back to the point, because I never turn it off, and never put it to sleep, wake up is essentially instantanous. I have an apple mouse but use a Saitek Notebook mouse (white, mmm) which has never spontaneously brought it out of monitor power-saving mode.
Rather- all the other solutions were so buried in peoples silly blogs that I couldn't find a single one of them, re-invented the wheel, and claimed the "fame" by using my journalistic hyping talent to slide it by the Slashdot moderators.
You can climb on that mountain all you like, but if you don't take a flag nobody is going to know you've been there.
FORMSTYLE UPDATED
I have updated the script based on some of your concerns, suggestions and whinings. Thanks for your input!
The new FormStyle is available for download here.
Aha, I never thought of that one! Should not be too difficult to implement though, if anyone adds a disabled form field I will just add some javascript to crash their browser with a billion popups. Well spotted!
(what's with the tables?)
I'm lazy.
And, yes, that is half of the point. The other half is the global accesibility but some people are complaining it does not work quite as I expected- despite the fact I tested the script in recent versions of IE, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Safari and Netscape. Back to the tweaking board, I guess!
On a side and slightly off topic note- I don't think there is any point in complaining about the news-worthyness of Slashdot articles because they all inspire very interesting and entertaining conversions which are quite often read instead of the actual article. At least by myself, anyway.
My primary goal is to make it accessible, easily degradable, cross browser compatible, and easy to use all in one go.
I tried an awful lot of methods using regular expression replacement of HTML to replace the form elements with the styled ones, this ultimately failed miserably.
As for adding onClick events, I tried element.onclick and never actually got anywhere- probably because I am not much of a JavaScripter. I will take your suggestion to heart and try again, anything to make it less clunky, more streamlined and easier to plug-in to web based projects is good for me.
I'm surprised this made Slashdot, but it will prove extremely helpful in perfecting the script- It's great to have the comments of a veritable army of discerning braniacs at my disposal.
Thanks for your comments!