The horrible truth, though, is that we depend on each other. Lose Manhattan, you go back to a pre-information age society and end up starving every other season. Lose Wyoming, uh... well, I guess we wouldn't really notice the difference. You depend on us, frankly, more than we depend on you. So go fuck yourself.
"I use Linux and MS Windows as well (at work), so Firefox provides some cross platform uniformity... The argument that it integrates better doesn't work with me, since I don't much like OS X's interface."
Dude, dumb question perhaps... but... if all this is the case, why are you even using a Mac at all?
Yeah, Safari has similar functionality. Also, if you like Firefox's DOM Element Inspector, you really owe it to yourself to check out the element inspector available in the latest nightly builds of WebKit. This thing is fucking amazing, and speaking for myself, I find it far more elegant, intuitive, and useful than aforementioned DOM Element Inspector.
Can I ask you why you prefer Firefox to Safari? Whenever I try Firefox, it always seems to me that Safari is faster, cleaner, renders pages better, and integrates better with OS X technologies like the Keychain, not to mention generally behaves in a more Maclike way. And KHTML supports more CSS properties (text-shadow and display: block come to mind). What am I missing that's so great about Firefox?
Sorry, I fail to see that advocating policy change, when current policy has so clearly failed to protect American interests and American security, is in any way damaging to the nation.
Personally, I'm grateful that the Times is pushing for an approach to foreign policy that would actually make America safer and more secure.
It's Excel 2003. I'd like to be able to view different spreadsheets on each of my two displays. The "Options" screen gives me a control for "Windows in Taskbar," which is the closest thing I've been able to find, but even with this preference enabled spreadsheets still show up in subwindows of the Excel window. Some advice?
Maybe you can help me, then, with one of my most pressing questions--how do I break out of MDI in Excel? I tried the manual but couldn't find anything.
Good Christ, I remember Uncyclopedia. I remember it as the unfunniest so-called humor site I'd ever had the misfortune to visit. It called to mind an autistic Carson Daly, if Carson Daly were two hundred pounds overweight and covered in grease.
For God's sake, please, don't encourage others to visit and risk entrapment in that land of dweebish comedic failure. One shit-riddled wiki is enough.
As a lifelong Mac user, never have I been so aggravated as I've been in the past week at my new job, where I'm forced to use Windows XP. My workstation never does what I tell it to do, constantly condescending to me when I attempt to delete files or go into system folders (oops, directories). It second-guesses my every action and forces me to click through endless confirmation dialogs. And it throws too many fucking options in your face--which would be better configured, by the way, from whatever the Windows equivalent is of property list files--only to fucking forget them the next time you open the application.
And this fucking "multiple document interface" is a piece of fucking shit, and what boggles me, with the endless screens of unnecessary configurability, there's no way to turn the fucking thing OFF. What happens when I want my tool palette on my second display? I'm fucking out of luck. And if I want different desktop pictures across my screens, well, shit, I have to fire up MS Paint and push the fucking pixels myself. That's just fucking retarded.
So if you want to be in the driver's seat, the Mac is for you. If you want to be treated like a child, go with Microsoft. Sorry for this rant.
Aqua is quite customizeable, thanks to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework's highly dynamic runtime. Look up method swizzling and class posing and learn how to tweak every last aspect of your desktop. Mind-blowing stuff there.
The whole point of the BSD license is that the code may be used freely, by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. BSD programmers care more about seeing their code put to good use than about getting something back in return. I'd just be happy to see my code being used to improve such a widely-used product, thereby improving the lives of millions. Much less likely with the GPL, you must admit.
They count them, but there's no reason (from their perspective) to actually read the name you wrote in the blank unless it's later determined that the winner could have been a write-in candidate. When I've been given an optical scan ballot, I've had to fill in a bubble next to the blank line so the machine knows I voted there. Same principle applies for the booths with levers. I don't know about electronic machines, though.
Sure, and the only proper way to stop shootings is by outlawing murder. Imposing restrictions on the ownership of firearms is too restrictive; someone who likes skeet shooting isn't doing anything wrong, and is having his right to do so unjustly taken away.
I disagree with the above statement for the same reason I disagree there is some supposed natural right to carry concealed chewing gum.
What if Singaporeans don't find it excessive? What if Singaporeans don't value non-conformity like you apparently do?
Polls show that a large majority of Singaporeans support government censorship of sex and violence in film and culture. Would you take to the streets and demand they cast off this veil of oppression, when they don't see it as oppression but rather as a public service?
It seems more condescending to suggest that Singapore should adopt Western principles on the basis that our values are somehow better than theirs, when they seem on the whole to be perfectly happy with theirs. I wouldn't want to live in a state where selling cocaine could get me hanged, but why would I presume a Singaporean would want to live under a regime that basically winked and nodded at such depravity? Would you press on and tell him "No, this is true freedom—this is what you should be doing"?
My Singaporean friends seem to be content with their government, for the most part. They complain about it like anyone complains about their government. They certainly didn't come to the States to escape their authoritarian regime (which it is, let's not kid ourselves), and they obviously haven't found it too repressive to move back and enjoy life there.
In my state, at least, they only go to the trouble of reading and recording write-ins if there's a possibility they'd affect the outcome. So if any of the (regular) candidates on the ballot gets more votes than there are total write-ins, the write-ins for that office don't get recorded.
Perhaps the culture in Singapore is such that gum chewing is considered immoral, if everyone agrees that (a) when chewing gum, it's all too tempting to spit it on the sidewalk instead of finding a trash can, and if everyone also agrees (b) the best way to prevent people from chewing gum is to enforce strict punishments against it. Simply banning spitting on sidewalks wouldn't be considered an adequate solution because of (a) above. Now I understand Singapore's no democracy, but from what I've seen this is a completely reasonable assessment of mainstream Singaporean culture.
In short, it's a mistake to force Western notions of freedom and morality on a culture that already has its own conceptions of both.
Here, I found this interview with John Hodgman, in which he drops this telling quote: "I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . . . Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC's efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he's much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they're standing in that white room is because he's trying to help the Mac out."
Justin Long has only been using Macs for a few years, from what I hear, just since they became trendy. But John Hodgman is the real deal—a Mac user since '84, and a talented writer in Brooklyn, too. I've seen him around the neighborhood, and all the girls go wild for him in real life. No kidding.
Slashdot Mirror
I know you didn't really ask, but right here. Scroll down to "Weekly Carnage."
But the better they get at copying the Windows look and feel, the less reason there is to switch. I would have thought that was obvious.
Only on Slashdot would me-tooism be celebrated as a virtue.
And we don't care about your flyover country.
The horrible truth, though, is that we depend on each other. Lose Manhattan, you go back to a pre-information age society and end up starving every other season. Lose Wyoming, uh... well, I guess we wouldn't really notice the difference. You depend on us, frankly, more than we depend on you. So go fuck yourself.
"I use Linux and MS Windows as well (at work), so Firefox provides some cross platform uniformity... The argument that it integrates better doesn't work with me, since I don't much like OS X's interface."
Dude, dumb question perhaps... but... if all this is the case, why are you even using a Mac at all?
Yeah, Safari has similar functionality. Also, if you like Firefox's DOM Element Inspector, you really owe it to yourself to check out the element inspector available in the latest nightly builds of WebKit. This thing is fucking amazing, and speaking for myself, I find it far more elegant, intuitive, and useful than aforementioned DOM Element Inspector.
Can I ask you why you prefer Firefox to Safari? Whenever I try Firefox, it always seems to me that Safari is faster, cleaner, renders pages better, and integrates better with OS X technologies like the Keychain, not to mention generally behaves in a more Maclike way. And KHTML supports more CSS properties (text-shadow and display: block come to mind). What am I missing that's so great about Firefox?
Sorry, I fail to see that advocating policy change, when current policy has so clearly failed to protect American interests and American security, is in any way damaging to the nation.
Personally, I'm grateful that the Times is pushing for an approach to foreign policy that would actually make America safer and more secure.
It's Excel 2003. I'd like to be able to view different spreadsheets on each of my two displays. The "Options" screen gives me a control for "Windows in Taskbar," which is the closest thing I've been able to find, but even with this preference enabled spreadsheets still show up in subwindows of the Excel window. Some advice?
Maybe you can help me, then, with one of my most pressing questions--how do I break out of MDI in Excel? I tried the manual but couldn't find anything.
Good Christ, I remember Uncyclopedia. I remember it as the unfunniest so-called humor site I'd ever had the misfortune to visit. It called to mind an autistic Carson Daly, if Carson Daly were two hundred pounds overweight and covered in grease.
For God's sake, please, don't encourage others to visit and risk entrapment in that land of dweebish comedic failure. One shit-riddled wiki is enough.
As a lifelong Mac user, never have I been so aggravated as I've been in the past week at my new job, where I'm forced to use Windows XP. My workstation never does what I tell it to do, constantly condescending to me when I attempt to delete files or go into system folders (oops, directories). It second-guesses my every action and forces me to click through endless confirmation dialogs. And it throws too many fucking options in your face--which would be better configured, by the way, from whatever the Windows equivalent is of property list files--only to fucking forget them the next time you open the application.
And this fucking "multiple document interface" is a piece of fucking shit, and what boggles me, with the endless screens of unnecessary configurability, there's no way to turn the fucking thing OFF. What happens when I want my tool palette on my second display? I'm fucking out of luck. And if I want different desktop pictures across my screens, well, shit, I have to fire up MS Paint and push the fucking pixels myself. That's just fucking retarded.
So if you want to be in the driver's seat, the Mac is for you. If you want to be treated like a child, go with Microsoft. Sorry for this rant.
Aqua is quite customizeable, thanks to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework's highly dynamic runtime. Look up method swizzling and class posing and learn how to tweak every last aspect of your desktop. Mind-blowing stuff there.
The whole point of the BSD license is that the code may be used freely, by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. BSD programmers care more about seeing their code put to good use than about getting something back in return. I'd just be happy to see my code being used to improve such a widely-used product, thereby improving the lives of millions. Much less likely with the GPL, you must admit.
They count them, but there's no reason (from their perspective) to actually read the name you wrote in the blank unless it's later determined that the winner could have been a write-in candidate. When I've been given an optical scan ballot, I've had to fill in a bubble next to the blank line so the machine knows I voted there. Same principle applies for the booths with levers. I don't know about electronic machines, though.
Sure, and the only proper way to stop shootings is by outlawing murder. Imposing restrictions on the ownership of firearms is too restrictive; someone who likes skeet shooting isn't doing anything wrong, and is having his right to do so unjustly taken away.
I disagree with the above statement for the same reason I disagree there is some supposed natural right to carry concealed chewing gum.
What if Singaporeans don't find it excessive? What if Singaporeans don't value non-conformity like you apparently do?
Polls show that a large majority of Singaporeans support government censorship of sex and violence in film and culture. Would you take to the streets and demand they cast off this veil of oppression, when they don't see it as oppression but rather as a public service?
It seems more condescending to suggest that Singapore should adopt Western principles on the basis that our values are somehow better than theirs, when they seem on the whole to be perfectly happy with theirs. I wouldn't want to live in a state where selling cocaine could get me hanged, but why would I presume a Singaporean would want to live under a regime that basically winked and nodded at such depravity? Would you press on and tell him "No, this is true freedom—this is what you should be doing"?
My Singaporean friends seem to be content with their government, for the most part. They complain about it like anyone complains about their government. They certainly didn't come to the States to escape their authoritarian regime (which it is, let's not kid ourselves), and they obviously haven't found it too repressive to move back and enjoy life there.
In my state, at least, they only go to the trouble of reading and recording write-ins if there's a possibility they'd affect the outcome. So if any of the (regular) candidates on the ballot gets more votes than there are total write-ins, the write-ins for that office don't get recorded.
Perhaps the culture in Singapore is such that gum chewing is considered immoral, if everyone agrees that (a) when chewing gum, it's all too tempting to spit it on the sidewalk instead of finding a trash can, and if everyone also agrees (b) the best way to prevent people from chewing gum is to enforce strict punishments against it. Simply banning spitting on sidewalks wouldn't be considered an adequate solution because of (a) above. Now I understand Singapore's no democracy, but from what I've seen this is a completely reasonable assessment of mainstream Singaporean culture.
In short, it's a mistake to force Western notions of freedom and morality on a culture that already has its own conceptions of both.
Not Maclike at all. The site is badly laid out and bland, very unpleasant to use. Yes, I did leave feedback.
For Wikipedia, I use http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:en.wikip edia.org+%@&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky (as long as we're taking shortcuts, why not get rid of that first click too?)
BTW, Safari users can get plugins for quick search here. I particularly like Inquisitor.
If by "typical Mac user" you mean John Hodgman is smarter and funnier than you.
Here, I found this interview with John Hodgman, in which he drops this telling quote: "I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . . . Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC's efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he's much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they're standing in that white room is because he's trying to help the Mac out."
Justin Long has only been using Macs for a few years, from what I hear, just since they became trendy. But John Hodgman is the real deal—a Mac user since '84, and a talented writer in Brooklyn, too. I've seen him around the neighborhood, and all the girls go wild for him in real life. No kidding.
Whatever, man, the fact is that Neil Armstrong lied to us. And we gobbled it up. So what else are those phonies at NASA lying to us about? HMMMM?