Well I think it's a little more insightful to look at just mp3 players, since Zune doesn't compete with HD TVs or blank CD-Rs. And to restrict it further, to just the hard drive based MP3 players, since people looking to buy a 4GB MP3 player won't even consider Zune, it shows up at #6: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/1 5752041/ref=pd_ts_e_nav/002-0155549-1503201 . You could even argue that it should really only be compared with the other 30 GB MP3 players, which would make it #4. So really that's not too bad considering what a bad rep MS has and how strong the iPod is in this market.
What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time.
Oh is that what we need? Maybe we can synergize our core-concepts to think outside of the box, thereby ensuring we work smarter not harder, and then we can leverage our paradigms to holistically obtain next generation perspective.
Is it so damn hard to to say "we need a new approach"?
hopefully this is something that can be patched via a hotfix and that we don't have to wait for Fiji to get something as simple as UNC support built in."
I must have missed something. What the hell's Fiji? (besides a small island in the south pacific)
You use the same thing that's been used for centuries - paper contracts. You have you employees sign a paper agreement, keep it on file, and don't let them use your computers until you have their signature. Then, when they violate the agreement, you have a document that can be referred to, and presented in court if needed. Extra work for the IT department - yes. But it's actually a legally binding contract. If you're going to police your network then you need to lay precedent for it.
There's also that group of people who are not willing to shell out $300+ for a new digital audio player when their current one that cost $300+ works just fine. It doesn't have anything to do with brand loyalty, just an unwillingness to take on an totally unnecessary expense.
The two companies have also agreed to develop technologies to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft's Windows on their computers.
I thought we already had technology to do this, called lilo and grub.
So you're saying that I should buy a new file manager and a new mouse because the ones that come with the mac, which I've already paid for, are inadequate? Apple charges $50 for their mouse on their store, who knows how much you pay for it when it comes with the Mac because the cost is hidden in the total. Yes, Pathfinder is better than the Finder, but it's slow, especially on network shares, and it's not free. Are we going to buy a copy for everyone in the district because I hate the finder? Are we going to buy new mice for everyone because the ones we paid for are a joke? Hardly.
Maximization - some websites actually make use of all available space. If you "optimal size" the window on a site that doesn't, then go to another site, it's too small and you have to click that yellow button twice, and the first time the entire window moves elsewhere. Not exactly an efficient design.
The Dock - no matter where I move it on the screen, no matter what size the icons are, it's in my way and pops up when I don't want it too. Perhaps you have some huge widescreen monitor where you can view stuff at a comfortable size and still have room for the dock. Horray for you. I don't, as I stated I'm forced to work on 12" Powerbooks and iBooks which have a maximum resolution of 1024x768 and it makes the dock a huge annoyance. I never said anything about the windows start bar. Better or worse than the dock, it has nothing to do with the fact that the dock constantly gets in my way.
Yes, all computers need maintenance to run smoothly. I've just never seen another platform that messes its own filesystem up constantly through normal use, the way the Mac does.
Holding the mouse button down during startup, apart from being counterintuitive and absurd, also takes far longer than simply pressing eject. As do all the start up key combinations - there's no feedback of any kind that the computer understood your command and you have to keep holding the keys for 30+ seconds. Is it that hard to display a message that says "entering startup chooser" or whatever to let you know you can let go of the keys?
If maintaining the system is a pain in the ass, it's a pain in the ass for everyone. Other hardware has a feature that lets you password protect the system configuration, and it's easy to use so the users can't get into it but it's not harder than it needs to be for the administrator. You don't need to remember a bunch of 2, 3, and 4 key combinations to maintain other systems. That's all I'm saying.
You can do that for individual folders, but not universally. Not even by editing the plists directly. And if you have to look at a folder someone else modified, such as a network shared volume, it opens how they viewed it last. Which is a situation I constantly find myself in. Besides, it doesn't matter what you prefer when I'm using the computer. I should be able to select what I prefer.
I maintain a school district full of Macs (almost 1200 machines, including desktops, laptops, and servers) so I'd say I'm fairly familiar with their hardware and software, including the new Intel macs and OSX 10.4. So here are my criticisms of the Mac platform:
1. The finder is the worst file manager I have ever used. Nautilus, Konqueror, and even Explorer are vastly superior for manipulating files. You can't set it to default to list view or even alphabetized icon view, its "column view" is absurd, its tree view shows you everything in every folder(instead of just showing the folders), so moving something from one folder to another is a real pain, you can't have it list folders before files, it's slow over the network, it can connect to ftp sites but only in read only mode. It remembers how far you were scrolled down in a file list, even if you change view modes, so if you switch from icon view to list view and you're scrolled down to the bottom, you're suddenly looking at a blank space and have to scroll up to view files. If someone moves stuff around in a folder, and then you go to look at it, you see it as they left it - an arbitrary mess. In every other file manager you can set it to ignore customized folders, but not in the finder. I could go on but I think you get the point.
2. The Dock sucks. If you're using a resolution of 1024x768 or less (which is the default, and maximum size of the 12" powerbook and ibooks, which I use every day), then the dock constantly gets in your way. If you have it set to hidden, if your mouse gets anywhere near the edge of the screen it pops up, even if you moved to an area where the dock isn't - it's centered on the screen, and doesn't take up the whole width of the screen, but if you move the mouse to the corner of the screen it pops up anyway. You have no idea where the dock is when it's hidden. On windows and in gnome, kde, xfce, etc. you see a thin line on the edge of the screen to show you where you hidden taskbar/panel/whatever is hidden. With the dock, you just have to try the left, right, and bottom of the screen until you find it. The difference between running and non-running programs in the dock is minuscule - running programs have a tiny black triangle underneath them which is very easy for a new osx user to miss. We have people in our district who have been using osx for 3 years who still don't get this distinction. Since mac applications can still run without having any windows open, it's very easy for someone to have a bunch of stuff open and not realize it, then wonder why their computer is performing so slowly.
3. There's no "maximize window" button. I like to run some applications in full screen, such as my web browser. Instead of "maximize window", the mac has "optimal size". It makes the window just big enough to show you everything it contains. If you happen to be viewing a web page that's very small when you hit this button, then browser window will be very small. In order to get it to fill the screen, you have to move the window so it's top left corner is in the top left of the screen, then grab the resize handle and drag it into the bottom right of the screen. Also, the window controls are ambiguous - the don't show their icons until you hover on them, then they show the "dash square x". Granted, these glyphs are ambiguous in themselves, but at least someone familiar with other operating systems would be able to figure out what there were immediately.
4. OSX seems to corrupt its own file system through normal use. We have a lot of incidences of computers not booting - either they get to the apple logo and hang, or they flashing mac logo with a question mark icon. In order to fix them, we have to run a third party utility called Disk Warrior. Yes, macs come with fsck but this doesn't always do a good job of fixing the errors, and it doesn't fix the metadata in the filesystem (aka, the "resource fork"). I'm sure I see these kind of problems far more often than a home user does since I deal with so many computers on a daily basis, so my view of this is probab
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There is, actually (at least the rendering engine) http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/28
Oh, apple related puns. Will the ever get old? At their core, I think not.
Well I think it's a little more insightful to look at just mp3 players, since Zune doesn't compete with HD TVs or blank CD-Rs. And to restrict it further, to just the hard drive based MP3 players, since people looking to buy a 4GB MP3 player won't even consider Zune, it shows up at #6: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/1 5752041/ref=pd_ts_e_nav/002-0155549-1503201 . You could even argue that it should really only be compared with the other 30 GB MP3 players, which would make it #4. So really that's not too bad considering what a bad rep MS has and how strong the iPod is in this market.
Don't be squirting oggs. That's just gross, dude.
I've heard they've had good results with unicorn farts.
Is it so damn hard to to say "we need a new approach"?
I don't have to search for stupid. It comes to me.
Damn it!
Two more years. I'd hit it.
Wait, you're saying this ISN'T a haven for pirates, hackers, and pornographers? I've been hanging out in the wrong place!
There's also that group of people who are not willing to shell out $300+ for a new digital audio player when their current one that cost $300+ works just fine. It doesn't have anything to do with brand loyalty, just an unwillingness to take on an totally unnecessary expense.
I know. That was a (apparently weak) joke.
So you're saying that I should buy a new file manager and a new mouse because the ones that come with the mac, which I've already paid for, are inadequate? Apple charges $50 for their mouse on their store, who knows how much you pay for it when it comes with the Mac because the cost is hidden in the total. Yes, Pathfinder is better than the Finder, but it's slow, especially on network shares, and it's not free. Are we going to buy a copy for everyone in the district because I hate the finder? Are we going to buy new mice for everyone because the ones we paid for are a joke? Hardly.
Maximization - some websites actually make use of all available space. If you "optimal size" the window on a site that doesn't, then go to another site, it's too small and you have to click that yellow button twice, and the first time the entire window moves elsewhere. Not exactly an efficient design.
The Dock - no matter where I move it on the screen, no matter what size the icons are, it's in my way and pops up when I don't want it too. Perhaps you have some huge widescreen monitor where you can view stuff at a comfortable size and still have room for the dock. Horray for you. I don't, as I stated I'm forced to work on 12" Powerbooks and iBooks which have a maximum resolution of 1024x768 and it makes the dock a huge annoyance. I never said anything about the windows start bar. Better or worse than the dock, it has nothing to do with the fact that the dock constantly gets in my way.
Yes, all computers need maintenance to run smoothly. I've just never seen another platform that messes its own filesystem up constantly through normal use, the way the Mac does.
Holding the mouse button down during startup, apart from being counterintuitive and absurd, also takes far longer than simply pressing eject. As do all the start up key combinations - there's no feedback of any kind that the computer understood your command and you have to keep holding the keys for 30+ seconds. Is it that hard to display a message that says "entering startup chooser" or whatever to let you know you can let go of the keys?
If maintaining the system is a pain in the ass, it's a pain in the ass for everyone. Other hardware has a feature that lets you password protect the system configuration, and it's easy to use so the users can't get into it but it's not harder than it needs to be for the administrator. You don't need to remember a bunch of 2, 3, and 4 key combinations to maintain other systems. That's all I'm saying.
You can do that for individual folders, but not universally. Not even by editing the plists directly. And if you have to look at a folder someone else modified, such as a network shared volume, it opens how they viewed it last. Which is a situation I constantly find myself in. Besides, it doesn't matter what you prefer when I'm using the computer. I should be able to select what I prefer.
News to me, thanks for the tip.
I maintain a school district full of Macs (almost 1200 machines, including desktops, laptops, and servers) so I'd say I'm fairly familiar with their hardware and software, including the new Intel macs and OSX 10.4. So here are my criticisms of the Mac platform: 1. The finder is the worst file manager I have ever used. Nautilus, Konqueror, and even Explorer are vastly superior for manipulating files. You can't set it to default to list view or even alphabetized icon view, its "column view" is absurd, its tree view shows you everything in every folder(instead of just showing the folders), so moving something from one folder to another is a real pain, you can't have it list folders before files, it's slow over the network, it can connect to ftp sites but only in read only mode. It remembers how far you were scrolled down in a file list, even if you change view modes, so if you switch from icon view to list view and you're scrolled down to the bottom, you're suddenly looking at a blank space and have to scroll up to view files. If someone moves stuff around in a folder, and then you go to look at it, you see it as they left it - an arbitrary mess. In every other file manager you can set it to ignore customized folders, but not in the finder. I could go on but I think you get the point. 2. The Dock sucks. If you're using a resolution of 1024x768 or less (which is the default, and maximum size of the 12" powerbook and ibooks, which I use every day), then the dock constantly gets in your way. If you have it set to hidden, if your mouse gets anywhere near the edge of the screen it pops up, even if you moved to an area where the dock isn't - it's centered on the screen, and doesn't take up the whole width of the screen, but if you move the mouse to the corner of the screen it pops up anyway. You have no idea where the dock is when it's hidden. On windows and in gnome, kde, xfce, etc. you see a thin line on the edge of the screen to show you where you hidden taskbar/panel/whatever is hidden. With the dock, you just have to try the left, right, and bottom of the screen until you find it. The difference between running and non-running programs in the dock is minuscule - running programs have a tiny black triangle underneath them which is very easy for a new osx user to miss. We have people in our district who have been using osx for 3 years who still don't get this distinction. Since mac applications can still run without having any windows open, it's very easy for someone to have a bunch of stuff open and not realize it, then wonder why their computer is performing so slowly. 3. There's no "maximize window" button. I like to run some applications in full screen, such as my web browser. Instead of "maximize window", the mac has "optimal size". It makes the window just big enough to show you everything it contains. If you happen to be viewing a web page that's very small when you hit this button, then browser window will be very small. In order to get it to fill the screen, you have to move the window so it's top left corner is in the top left of the screen, then grab the resize handle and drag it into the bottom right of the screen. Also, the window controls are ambiguous - the don't show their icons until you hover on them, then they show the "dash square x". Granted, these glyphs are ambiguous in themselves, but at least someone familiar with other operating systems would be able to figure out what there were immediately. 4. OSX seems to corrupt its own file system through normal use. We have a lot of incidences of computers not booting - either they get to the apple logo and hang, or they flashing mac logo with a question mark icon. In order to fix them, we have to run a third party utility called Disk Warrior. Yes, macs come with fsck but this doesn't always do a good job of fixing the errors, and it doesn't fix the metadata in the filesystem (aka, the "resource fork"). I'm sure I see these kind of problems far more often than a home user does since I deal with so many computers on a daily basis, so my view of this is probab
I thought the Enterprise was powered by dilithium crystals, not a nuclear reactor.
"Come son of Jor-el, kneel before VOD!!"
Oh, what, that was Zod.
We already have those players. They're called "Laptops".