Well, I think she's hot. But it's been my experience that we Mac users go for the dark, sarcastic, chain-smoking brunettes instead of your typical ditzy Windows-using middle America blondes. Yeah, we think different like that.
It's not just performance, though that would be bad enough. It's also the look and feel, including some very bizarre choices by the UI designers (if they even have any) about what features to expose where and to whom, aside from all the aforementioned problems with "ghastly undead widgets" syndrome and lack of integration into Mac OS X.
And for the Mac, there's Transmission, an open source Cocoa-native client that looks and feels like it was actually written by a true-blue Mac user with a sense of taste. Caveat: it doesn't support distributed tracking (yet). But for most torrents, it's the leanest, most Mac-like client out there.
That's because his visiting professorship was at Columbia, not Harvard. (Columbia's school of journalism is reputed to be tops. It also awards the Pulitzers.)
Something's fishy about that Alexa graph. It seems unlikely that Slashdot traffic suddenly jumped 3x higher at the beginning of December 2005, and it also seems unlikely that none of those new visitors would post any comments (or indeed that existing users would stop commenting). If the AC's stats are indeed taken from comment IDs endogenous to Slashdot, I'd be inclined to trust the AC over Alexa.
I'm guessing there was some Slashdot story at the end of 2005 that resulted in existing Slashdotters installing the Alexa toolbar, not new people coming to the site.
ignorance and/or stupidity and/or laziness of the home user... ignorant moron
Really? So Haruki Murakami is a "moron" for neither knowing, nor caring, about the difference between TCP and UDP? How about Santiago Calatrava? Or the president of Citibank? Or the guy down the street who does your taxes? Is he a "moron" too?
How about your brain surgeon? Do you want him (her) to spend his time learning the ins and outs of IP addressing, or do you want him practicing his surgery technique?
Your "IDIOTS" and "average Joes" who aren't "smart enough to care"--has the thought crossed your mind that maybe they just have different priorities than you? Lots of people devote their lives to worthy pursuits outside the realm of technology. Lots of people don't have the time to keep up with every latest goddamn development regarding DRM. This applies to architects, rocket scientists, and Ph.D.s in white coats curing cancer as much as it applies to the guys who come to pick up your trash. Also, reading Slashdot doesn't make you "smart," unless you think smart means asexual.
I know it wasn't your point, but it was your comment, on top of the rest of this entire discussion, that put me over the edge.
Because loud noises, such as from crunchy foods, jiggle the electronics in the LED. The same thing happens when you sneeze, if you can keep your eyes open to watch.
Exactly. It's perfectly possible to make a UI powerful while at the same time making it easy to use. Grandparent's excuses for lazy UI design are what lead to travesties like Azureus.
What many OSS developers miss is that "ease of use" doesn't only help some hypothetical Joe Average, it helps themselves as well. Even developers use email and browse the web. And well-designed development tools save time and stress, freeing up energy to focus on... development.
You're forgetting all the cruft under ~/Library/Application Support/ and ~/Library/Caches/, as well as the systemwide/Library/ equivalents and anything else the program may see fit to spew around your system (e.g. */Library/Safari/, */Library/Logs/, */Library/Scripting Additions/, */Library/Contextual Menu Items/, */Library/Fonts/ in the case of Microsoft Office, and on and on). And that's just for document-based applications, not even including system utilities.
I have to agree that the solution lies in abstracting the process of installing and uninstalling programs. There'd have to be a user-friendly, non-obnoxious way to pick and choose what data you want to keep (should deleting Mail.app also get rid of ~/Library/Mail/?). I'm not volunteering to program it, though.
If Windows apps running on OS X somehow manage to look and behave exactly like Cocoa-native apps, such that the user can't tell the difference, then what's the problem?
More likely is that Windows apps will continue to suck relative to Cocoa-native applications, lacking integration with OS X-specific features like the Keychain and Services, and generally designed with a Windows-centric philosophy and aesthetic. Hence there will always be a market for OS X native apps.
I guess we disagree as to the meaning of normal poster, or contributor. I consider myself both, and yet--having seen the evidence linked from this thread alone--I wouldn't be surprised to find myself on the receiving end of a bitchslap for speaking out on a controversial but still ontopic issue, or even just for moderating up the "wrong" comment. I daresay it runs counter to the nature of most "normal people" to watch their every word and every action for fear of being locked out of a discussion.
If the threat of arbitrary punishment discourages random, useless spewage like GNAA ascii art, then so much the better. But from where I stand, the reality is that it does much more to discourage posting by regular people like you and me. The good news is that it seems to be a rare occurrence nowadays.
That's one opinion. Other people see sport as a way to escape all that, to take a breather from the rat race that defines humanity in every other realm. That's why these people don't see medicine as a sport.
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Well, I think she's hot. But it's been my experience that we Mac users go for the dark, sarcastic, chain-smoking brunettes instead of your typical ditzy Windows-using middle America blondes. Yeah, we think different like that.
I prefer the pithier "Write once, suck everywhere."
It's not just performance, though that would be bad enough. It's also the look and feel, including some very bizarre choices by the UI designers (if they even have any) about what features to expose where and to whom, aside from all the aforementioned problems with "ghastly undead widgets" syndrome and lack of integration into Mac OS X.
And for the Mac, there's Transmission, an open source Cocoa-native client that looks and feels like it was actually written by a true-blue Mac user with a sense of taste. Caveat: it doesn't support distributed tracking (yet). But for most torrents, it's the leanest, most Mac-like client out there.
Free for individuals, but not for corporate use. Businesses had to pay for Netscape licenses. If memory serves.
No kidding. So is Photoshop. But most people would prefer a legally free solution, if one were to exist à la IE.
Final Cut Pro (v. Adobe's Premiere) and Aperture (v. Lightroom) immediately spring to mind. The domain, of course, being "creative tools."
That's because his visiting professorship was at Columbia, not Harvard. (Columbia's school of journalism is reputed to be tops. It also awards the Pulitzers.)
Stupidly, no, not in the standard, although you can resort to Safari-/Mozilla-/Opera-specific hacks and selectors.
Something's fishy about that Alexa graph. It seems unlikely that Slashdot traffic suddenly jumped 3x higher at the beginning of December 2005, and it also seems unlikely that none of those new visitors would post any comments (or indeed that existing users would stop commenting). If the AC's stats are indeed taken from comment IDs endogenous to Slashdot, I'd be inclined to trust the AC over Alexa.
I'm guessing there was some Slashdot story at the end of 2005 that resulted in existing Slashdotters installing the Alexa toolbar, not new people coming to the site.
All life is staving off the inevitable. It's what you do in the meantime that makes it interesting.
How about your brain surgeon? Do you want him (her) to spend his time learning the ins and outs of IP addressing, or do you want him practicing his surgery technique?
Your "IDIOTS" and "average Joes" who aren't "smart enough to care"--has the thought crossed your mind that maybe they just have different priorities than you? Lots of people devote their lives to worthy pursuits outside the realm of technology. Lots of people don't have the time to keep up with every latest goddamn development regarding DRM. This applies to architects, rocket scientists, and Ph.D.s in white coats curing cancer as much as it applies to the guys who come to pick up your trash. Also, reading Slashdot doesn't make you "smart," unless you think smart means asexual.
I know it wasn't your point, but it was your comment, on top of the rest of this entire discussion, that put me over the edge.
Well, I sure hope you fixed the mistake in the Wikipedia.
Actually, I'm still a little confused. Could you try an analogy using cars instead? Thanks.
Because loud noises, such as from crunchy foods, jiggle the electronics in the LED. The same thing happens when you sneeze, if you can keep your eyes open to watch.
Exactly. It's perfectly possible to make a UI powerful while at the same time making it easy to use. Grandparent's excuses for lazy UI design are what lead to travesties like Azureus.
What many OSS developers miss is that "ease of use" doesn't only help some hypothetical Joe Average, it helps themselves as well. Even developers use email and browse the web. And well-designed development tools save time and stress, freeing up energy to focus on... development.
You're forgetting all the cruft under ~/Library/Application Support/ and ~/Library/Caches/, as well as the systemwide /Library/ equivalents and anything else the program may see fit to spew around your system (e.g. */Library/Safari/, */Library/Logs/, */Library/Scripting Additions/, */Library/Contextual Menu Items/, */Library/Fonts/ in the case of Microsoft Office, and on and on). And that's just for document-based applications, not even including system utilities.
I have to agree that the solution lies in abstracting the process of installing and uninstalling programs. There'd have to be a user-friendly, non-obnoxious way to pick and choose what data you want to keep (should deleting Mail.app also get rid of ~/Library/Mail/?). I'm not volunteering to program it, though.
Yup, and that's why even now, we go for the Mac ports instead.
If Windows apps running on OS X somehow manage to look and behave exactly like Cocoa-native apps, such that the user can't tell the difference, then what's the problem?
More likely is that Windows apps will continue to suck relative to Cocoa-native applications, lacking integration with OS X-specific features like the Keychain and Services, and generally designed with a Windows-centric philosophy and aesthetic. Hence there will always be a market for OS X native apps.
I guess we disagree as to the meaning of normal poster, or contributor. I consider myself both, and yet--having seen the evidence linked from this thread alone--I wouldn't be surprised to find myself on the receiving end of a bitchslap for speaking out on a controversial but still ontopic issue, or even just for moderating up the "wrong" comment. I daresay it runs counter to the nature of most "normal people" to watch their every word and every action for fear of being locked out of a discussion.
If the threat of arbitrary punishment discourages random, useless spewage like GNAA ascii art, then so much the better. But from where I stand, the reality is that it does much more to discourage posting by regular people like you and me. The good news is that it seems to be a rare occurrence nowadays.
That's one opinion. Other people see sport as a way to escape all that, to take a breather from the rat race that defines humanity in every other realm. That's why these people don't see medicine as a sport.
I'm sorry, but as a lifelong Mac user, I refuse to read comments set in monospace type. It is most displeasing to the eye.