We just got a new G4 in our (exclusively Win95) department for video editing and I got a second video card with it so I could hook up an extra monitor we had. Everyone was blown away with how easy it was and how nice to use.
One thing I've noticed in regard to efficiency: The buttons in the Win95 taskbar don't go all the way to the edge of the screen. When you move the pointer to the bottom of the screen, you have to "slow down" as you get close to the button so you don't over-shoot it. On a Mac, the menu items (and soon the OS X dock) go all the way to the edge of the screen, so you only need to worry about side-to-side targeting.
It's these little touches that enhance a GUI. Not that I'm saying MacOS is the better GUI, but these are the kinds of details that need to be thought of for a truly great UI.
According to Yahoo, "A company headed by former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed said Tuesday it made "an error we regret" when it asked influential Republicans to lobby presidential candidate George Bush on behalf of Microsoft..."
The Personal Edition only works in conjuction with another OS (however this can be worked around, see http://skippy.dhs.org [sorry if you get/.ed skippy]). The OS's that can be used with the personal edition are Win9x and NT/2k, and Linux on the Intel platform. This is due to the fact that Apple will not supply the required hardware specifications to Be (not because of the NeXT over BeOS crap, just because Apple when with NeXT doesn't mean Be would ditch a platform's user base, because when your company is that small, you can't ditch users by choice).
Sorry, I don't think Be ditched Apples user base because of the "NeXT over BeOS crap", but simply because they don't have the $$$ to support the smaller user base with a different version of the OS.
Jean-Louis Gasseée writes:
Some have suggested that we look into the Linux sources for such data. Perhaps, but I see little reason to open ourselves to possible accusations of reverse-engineering.
I don't know. Seems like a pretty weak excuse. Lot's of companies reverse engineer hardware all the time with no problem.
I truly feel that Mac OS X can be the future (If Apple doesn't screw something up again like they have in the past.)
Imagine:
A GUI as easy to use as the Mac OS
The power and stability of *nix
The wealth of free tools abvailable on the 'net
I don't think Linux will ever have a GUI as easy to use as the Mac OS. There are just too many people working in too many different directions.
"But Linux got this far...", you say. Yes, but if the kernel crashes, that's a bug and needs to be fixed. But if someone says, "This menu needs to be over here," well, I might not agree and it might not change.
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We just got a new G4 in our (exclusively Win95) department for video editing and I got a second video card with it so I could hook up an extra monitor we had. Everyone was blown away with how easy it was and how nice to use.
One thing I've noticed in regard to efficiency: The buttons in the Win95 taskbar don't go all the way to the edge of the screen. When you move the pointer to the bottom of the screen, you have to "slow down" as you get close to the button so you don't over-shoot it. On a Mac, the menu items (and soon the OS X dock) go all the way to the edge of the screen, so you only need to worry about side-to-side targeting.
It's these little touches that enhance a GUI. Not that I'm saying MacOS is the better GUI, but these are the kinds of details that need to be thought of for a truly great UI.
According to Yahoo, "A company headed by former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed said Tuesday it made "an error we regret" when it asked influential Republicans to lobby presidential candidate George Bush on behalf of Microsoft..."
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Sorry, I don't think Be ditched Apples user base because of the "NeXT over BeOS crap", but simply because they don't have the $$$ to support the smaller user base with a different version of the OS.
Jean-Louis Gasseée writes:
I don't know. Seems like a pretty weak excuse. Lot's of companies reverse engineer hardware all the time with no problem.
On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone else think the Mozilla logo reminds them of the russian hammer & sickle logo?
I truly feel that Mac OS X can be the future (If Apple doesn't screw something up again like they have in the past.)
Imagine:
I don't think Linux will ever have a GUI as easy to use as the Mac OS. There are just too many people working in too many different directions.
"But Linux got this far...", you say. Yes, but if the kernel crashes, that's a bug and needs to be fixed. But if someone says, "This menu needs to be over here," well, I might not agree and it might not change.