iLife, the software that regularly wins praise when Apple computers are reviewed and has yet to have any kind of real competitor in the windows world is 'annoying'? If you don't want to use it, it just sits there. Trash the applications if you don't need them. How this is like getting spyware is beyond me.
I disagree here. Drag and drop can be incredibly intuitive if it's implemented in a sensible way.
I use drag and drop a lot when using Mac OS X simply because it works so well. Dragging files to the trash, dragging files to applications to open them, dragging images off web pages to save them etc.. it just comes naturally after a while (whereas digging through menus to find features like that has to be learnt every time). And with Exposé, you never need to rearrange windows.
Just because Windows (and therefore Linux, as sadly the linux desktops have heavily copied windows as opposed to OS X) can't do drag and drop effectively doesn't mean it's inviable. It just means that it's been made inviable through poor design.
I always believed that this was not technically legal (you don't pay a license fee) and people only picked up the channels because they are broadcast unencrypted on a satellite with coverage over much of Western Europe.
Have you considered that it probably does cost $30 to Dell? I remember hearing that dell pays $15 per license for plain XP, so this isn't an unreasonable price.
Microsoft offer tremendous volume discounts to OEMs to ensure they ship their computers with Windows.
People in the UK definitely care. I believe they simply would not be allowed to let anyone outside of the UK access the content as it would be in breach of their licensing terms -- in the interests of fairness, money paid by British TV license holders should not be spent on giving content to those in other countries who don't pay.
My version: abolish open/save dialogs and just use Finder/Explorer.
This is exactly what RISCOS does. Example. You type in the name and drag the icon to a folder to save. To open, you drag the icon from the folder onto the application's icon. Too bad the hardware never seemed to reach the USA (Acorn, the creator was UK based).
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iLife, the software that regularly wins praise when Apple computers are reviewed and has yet to have any kind of real competitor in the windows world is 'annoying'? If you don't want to use it, it just sits there. Trash the applications if you don't need them. How this is like getting spyware is beyond me.
I disagree here. Drag and drop can be incredibly intuitive if it's implemented in a sensible way.
I use drag and drop a lot when using Mac OS X simply because it works so well. Dragging files to the trash, dragging files to applications to open them, dragging images off web pages to save them etc.. it just comes naturally after a while (whereas digging through menus to find features like that has to be learnt every time). And with Exposé, you never need to rearrange windows.
Just because Windows (and therefore Linux, as sadly the linux desktops have heavily copied windows as opposed to OS X) can't do drag and drop effectively doesn't mean it's inviable. It just means that it's been made inviable through poor design.
You make some good points, but let's not think Microsoft innovated here! That would be news.
Omniweb is one of those innovators -- you can see the image of the tabs there, as is Shiira (tab exposé)
The OpenBSD move was on the server side, not client side.
They will still do their taxes on the windows clients.
I always believed that this was not technically legal (you don't pay a license fee) and people only picked up the channels because they are broadcast unencrypted on a satellite with coverage over much of Western Europe.
Have you considered that it probably does cost $30 to Dell? I remember hearing that dell pays $15 per license for plain XP, so this isn't an unreasonable price.
Microsoft offer tremendous volume discounts to OEMs to ensure they ship their computers with Windows.
Because Netcraft says so :)
This 'special way' being "copying song files over to Ipod Volume:iPod Control and updating a database file?
It's not reduced in functionality. I've used other apps and they work perfectly.
Also, have you looked at it in the sense that maybe nobody else has bothered to write software to use this non-existent 'fast way'?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. I believe it even states on the box 'iPod+iTunes'.
You're absolutely right -- the 2gb nano was actually cheaper than a respectable 2gb USB stick (Iomega IIRC).
I think these prices were plucked out of the air.
This is slashdot , of _course_ he can't!
People in the UK definitely care. I believe they simply would not be allowed to let anyone outside of the UK access the content as it would be in breach of their licensing terms -- in the interests of fairness, money paid by British TV license holders should not be spent on giving content to those in other countries who don't pay.
My version: abolish open/save dialogs and just use Finder/Explorer.
This is exactly what RISCOS does. Example. You type in the name and drag the icon to a folder to save. To open, you drag the icon from the folder onto the application's icon. Too bad the hardware never seemed to reach the USA (Acorn, the creator was UK based).