Actually it is possible but you have to open two Finder windows first and then use Exposé or click with the mouse to move one Finder window on top of the other application's window. When you close the foremost window the next Finder window is brought to the forefront. This behavior is only useful if you are trying to close all Finder windows. If you were simply done with that Finder window and wanted to do something with the other application window directly under the Finder window but above the bottom Finder window (probably the most common of the two tasks) then you have to switch applications.
This is horrible behavior that doesn't just happen in Finder but across OS X. The comment about view styles for all Finder windows is also very relevant, it is possibly the most frustrating part about Finder just above not providing relevant, easily accessible information about files. You are right, OS X Finder is CRAP and the alternatives which have all the features that Finder should have and more, do not integrate smoothly with the system.
The most useful upgrade that could possibly happen to OS X is a better version of Finder. Then they can improve Spotlight search. Only after that is done should they add all their other pretty features.
Things would change if more developers started combining options 3 and 4. If you provide a IE fork that just shows a link to alternate browsers and a short explanation of why this is (something that the average user can understand but is not insulting to their intelligence) you could remove your headaches as a developer, encourage some forward movement in the industry, put some limited pressure on Microsoft, and still get your content to the majority of users.
Of course all of this banks on more than just three developers using this scheme. If one web page works that way then its customers will turn to a competitor site, but if people begin seeing this over and over and over, they will convert.
The only sites that need to provide compatibility for IE are the download pages for alternative browsers.
That may have something to do with the quality of Apple products when they are not failing. Apple made stuff is nice. Very nice. It looks pretty, it works well, usually its intuitive. All this means that when it breaks its a big deal. Add in the price that you pay for it and it becomes a very big deal. When something goes wrong on other hardware that isn't so nice to begin with people expect it. It's like buying things from Wal-Mart, you don't expect them to last because you paid half of what you would have paid elsewhere and all it does is do the job, it doesn't do it nicely or exceptionally.
When you hold yourself to higher quality standards and something goes wrong, it is a big deal.
Why are developers still writing to support IE? If they just wrote the way web pages should be and then let people know with an alternative link that IE was not going to show them the page correctly (possibly even only letting them into a splash page explaining why they don't support IE) wouldn't more people start to use these alternatives? In reality web developers are the ones in control, not Microsoft.
It's a shame that web developers have LET IE define the standard.
Why do people still support IE at all? Normally obsolete software gets ignored when it becomes too much of a hassle to deal with. If web designers would stop supporting IE and provided links to compatible alternatives, then the masses would certainly upgrade.
That would probably work the best if it were burned all the way full so there was no visible burn line, then placed in a stack of empty CDs and given away as blank media.
The other option would be labeling it as popular music, the latest movie release, or porn.
Along with that point, iLife is hardly aimed at the professional crowd. It may appeals to adults, but anyone from the pre-teen age group up (also people who enjoy games) is heavily attracted to that software suite. The summary makes a good point about it being one mans opinion, and his "professional oriented" argument is definitely an opinion.
Firing a person for things they write may be a tactic to pressure them into being quiet in the future, but it is not blatant censorship. Censorship would involve pulling all of those books from shelves, burning them, preventing the publisher from printing any more, and monitoring that persons writings to make sure nothing else they produced with that viewpoint ever gets published again.
You also missed the point: If the original statement is true then there are enough people in the world who disagree with censorship to keep it at bay by preventing it. It is not a decision on whether or not the statement is true, only an observation of possible causes of the current level of openness of the internet.
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On my Mac, creating a new account does not by default make an admin. That box is unchecked by default.
The reviewer is blind.
This is horrible behavior that doesn't just happen in Finder but across OS X. The comment about view styles for all Finder windows is also very relevant, it is possibly the most frustrating part about Finder just above not providing relevant, easily accessible information about files. You are right, OS X Finder is CRAP and the alternatives which have all the features that Finder should have and more, do not integrate smoothly with the system.
The most useful upgrade that could possibly happen to OS X is a better version of Finder. Then they can improve Spotlight search. Only after that is done should they add all their other pretty features.
Of course all of this banks on more than just three developers using this scheme. If one web page works that way then its customers will turn to a competitor site, but if people begin seeing this over and over and over, they will convert.
The only sites that need to provide compatibility for IE are the download pages for alternative browsers.
If someone with less than good intentions ever gained access to wherever WGA connects there could be a very, very bad situation.
They probably got tired of waiting.
That explains this:
For many of us coffee is as bad as crack...
I had a coworker who used an architectural sample of granite for his too. It worked incredibly well, much better than the drafting table under it.
After a rebuttal like that, I know you felt like saying "Owned."
On Doom's birthdays the candles come blown out already.
Parent should be modded "+5 Scary" instead of funny.
Who says Librarians aren't cool?
Librarians.
When you hold yourself to higher quality standards and something goes wrong, it is a big deal.
I wonder how many of them use Firefox instead. Or how many aren't even running windows.
Or maybe skydiving without a parachute.
It's a shame that web developers have LET IE define the standard.
Why do people still support IE at all? Normally obsolete software gets ignored when it becomes too much of a hassle to deal with. If web designers would stop supporting IE and provided links to compatible alternatives, then the masses would certainly upgrade.
He should have left out some LEDs and bought a camera tripod instead. Either that or refilled his Parkinson's medication.
They certainly are good at digging up dirt on each other.
I remember websites that would make your CD tray go crazy a few years back. Imagine the insanity when he visits one of those.
The other option would be labeling it as popular music, the latest movie release, or porn.
Along with that point, iLife is hardly aimed at the professional crowd. It may appeals to adults, but anyone from the pre-teen age group up (also people who enjoy games) is heavily attracted to that software suite. The summary makes a good point about it being one mans opinion, and his "professional oriented" argument is definitely an opinion.
You also missed the point: If the original statement is true then there are enough people in the world who disagree with censorship to keep it at bay by preventing it. It is not a decision on whether or not the statement is true, only an observation of possible causes of the current level of openness of the internet.