Cue the standard/. replies about how the Adventure game genre is dead from people who have never played Syberia, The Longest Journey, Myst IV, Beyond Good and Evil, or any of the other dozen adventure games that have come out in the few years.
The warranty covers replacements for the iBook, the warranty for iTools doesn't. In any case, iTools isn't buggy... the OP has never stated exactly what bug he seems to think it has. No bugs have come up for me.
Who says it's End of Life? The software still works just fine, and it still supported by Apple. The OP is just upset that he didn't get an upgrade to iLife '05 for free. That has nothing to do with iLife '04 being end of life.
There's no "moral right" to pirate software, especially when he got exactly what he purchased. (Or pirated in the first place, considering he apparently doesn't even know how much iLife costs.) If you want to support companies that fix flaws in their software for free, SURE! Go seek out those companies and do so. But that's a long way from declaring a company "pirate-bait" by not doing it... especially Apple
Apple just gave me a free iBook to replace a shoddy one, even though the warranty says that mine should have failed twice more before I was entitled to a replacement. Believe me, if there is *one* company in the computer industry that really cares about its users and tries to make their experience as great as possible, it's Apple. You won't get that from IBM or Dell or HP or Intuit or Microsoft, bud.
I'm with Anonymous Coward here. Maybe my +1 karma bonus will get this showing on the listing for more people...
If you pirate software (even if you 'know it's wrong'), you have NO PLACE telling someone else who pirates software that what they're doing is wrong. Grow up, join the adult world, and pay for the products you use, then you can start lecturing the 'spoiled brats' out there how to live. But right now there's a big credibility gap.
For the record, all the software on my three computers is entirely legal, and I think you're both assholes for pirating.
Of course I realize you can use shift-enter in many applications, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a problem. For instant, in IM software, you're much more likely to need return than enter... (at least, you would be if people typed correctly in IM clients, but because of the whole Enter key thing, most people don't.)
Normal people don't use telnet, terminal emulators, etc so I won't bother replying to that point.
Interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder why IBM decided to make only a single Enter key instead of adding a Return key for the PC if they'd already had two keys in previous products?
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OK, let's all ban together and maybe this post will be what we need to finally convince Slashdot admins that there should be an "unfunny" moderation.
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Apple used to employ a (male) engineer who came to work in a dress. Col. Klinger-style. And their products seem to be pretty good...
(My source here is Gil Amelio's book about his time as CEO of Apple. Suffice it to say Amelio's style of management couldn't really handle men who came to work in dresses... and while he was CEO, Apple's products were generally the worst they'd ever been.)
I know everyone's going to consider me the Mac zealot, but what we need is the equilivant of the Macintosh inventors... a close-knit group of really smart and creative people working to create something that is not only unique from everything else out there, but better than everything else out there.
(Ok, ok, arguably they didn't succeed. But some of their ideas were tremendous, the small basic ones, and still haven't been adopted by the PC world. For instance, Macs have a 'Return' key to add a new line of text and an 'Enter' key to send information to the computer. These are two very different and distinct functions, but on PCs, the 'Enter' key does both. The Macintosh way, in this case, just makes more sense.)
But I think the important thing is that it needs to be done from scratch. The Mac creators didn't worry about backwards compatibility, they didn't care if their keyboard was different than everyone else's or if their screen had a pixel size that nobody had seen before, they just did the best work they could with the limitations they were given. And technology like USB and Firewire and Bluetooth and 802.11x would make work like that *easier* today, because there's no reason to re-invent USB.
Anyway, the last people to try this were Be, Inc. And, although their operating system was pretty damned good, they didn't have the business sense to succeed.
I already use MacOS' text-to-speech code with AOL Instant Messenger to have my computer speak IMs to me out-loud as I recieve them, and it's extremely handy. Unfortunately, even though Windows XP includes text-to-speech code, there's no way to get the Windows version of AIM to do the same thing-- and there's no other IM client that uses text-to-speech.
What we really need is the *developers* to install some of these new interface ideas into their programs, as AOL did with AIM, and then we'll see how people figure out how to use them.
(Many MacOS text editors also allow you to use text-to-speech to read your documents out loud... this is a great way of finding typos and grammar mistakes.)
Then try to CHANGE the law to allow "trial downloads" instead of simply BREAKING the law and opening yourself up to lawsuits.
That's what pisses me off. If everybody who's illegally downloading music and movies right now would, instead, either run for office on that platform, or start a letter-writing campaign, or just write a letter themselves... well, you'd see the law changed a hell of a lot quicker. But breaking the law doesn't change anything.
What plug-in changes the tabs in the way you describe in your first paragraph? That sounds handy to me...
Also, remember that the Internet is Hypertext. When talking about stuff like that, you COULD help people out and provide links.;) Or at least a name to Google for.
What people don't realize is that Microsoft has no incentive in changing how they work until people actually start refusing to use their software... Microsoft doesn't give a crap if you're happy or if you're sad, as long as the next computer you buy comes with Windows on it. If they were losing money, though, then maybe they'd have some incentive to make sure their customers were happy, eh?
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Really? I often get "negative inertia" on sunday afternoons... I wondered who came up with that.
Cue the standard /. replies about how the Adventure game genre is dead from people who have never played Syberia, The Longest Journey, Myst IV, Beyond Good and Evil, or any of the other dozen adventure games that have come out in the few years.
The warranty covers replacements for the iBook, the warranty for iTools doesn't. In any case, iTools isn't buggy... the OP has never stated exactly what bug he seems to think it has. No bugs have come up for me.
Too bad Trillian's interface is a huge unusable mess of shit, glossed over by more shit in the guise of 'skins'. No thanks.
Who says it's End of Life? The software still works just fine, and it still supported by Apple. The OP is just upset that he didn't get an upgrade to iLife '05 for free. That has nothing to do with iLife '04 being end of life.
There's no "moral right" to pirate software, especially when he got exactly what he purchased. (Or pirated in the first place, considering he apparently doesn't even know how much iLife costs.) If you want to support companies that fix flaws in their software for free, SURE! Go seek out those companies and do so. But that's a long way from declaring a company "pirate-bait" by not doing it... especially Apple
Apple just gave me a free iBook to replace a shoddy one, even though the warranty says that mine should have failed twice more before I was entitled to a replacement. Believe me, if there is *one* company in the computer industry that really cares about its users and tries to make their experience as great as possible, it's Apple. You won't get that from IBM or Dell or HP or Intuit or Microsoft, bud.
I'm with Anonymous Coward here. Maybe my +1 karma bonus will get this showing on the listing for more people...
If you pirate software (even if you 'know it's wrong'), you have NO PLACE telling someone else who pirates software that what they're doing is wrong. Grow up, join the adult world, and pay for the products you use, then you can start lecturing the 'spoiled brats' out there how to live. But right now there's a big credibility gap.
For the record, all the software on my three computers is entirely legal, and I think you're both assholes for pirating.
So the solution is for everyone to act like Courtney Love? ... I'm not so sure that's a good idea.
Of course I realize you can use shift-enter in many applications, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a problem. For instant, in IM software, you're much more likely to need return than enter... (at least, you would be if people typed correctly in IM clients, but because of the whole Enter key thing, most people don't.)
Normal people don't use telnet, terminal emulators, etc so I won't bother replying to that point.
Interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder why IBM decided to make only a single Enter key instead of adding a Return key for the PC if they'd already had two keys in previous products?
OK, let's all ban together and maybe this post will be what we need to finally convince Slashdot admins that there should be an "unfunny" moderation.
Apple used to employ a (male) engineer who came to work in a dress. Col. Klinger-style. And their products seem to be pretty good...
(My source here is Gil Amelio's book about his time as CEO of Apple. Suffice it to say Amelio's style of management couldn't really handle men who came to work in dresses... and while he was CEO, Apple's products were generally the worst they'd ever been.)
Yeah, but it was a Powerbook 3400c... those things were pretty powerful.
I know everyone's going to consider me the Mac zealot, but what we need is the equilivant of the Macintosh inventors... a close-knit group of really smart and creative people working to create something that is not only unique from everything else out there, but better than everything else out there.
(Ok, ok, arguably they didn't succeed. But some of their ideas were tremendous, the small basic ones, and still haven't been adopted by the PC world. For instance, Macs have a 'Return' key to add a new line of text and an 'Enter' key to send information to the computer. These are two very different and distinct functions, but on PCs, the 'Enter' key does both. The Macintosh way, in this case, just makes more sense.)
But I think the important thing is that it needs to be done from scratch. The Mac creators didn't worry about backwards compatibility, they didn't care if their keyboard was different than everyone else's or if their screen had a pixel size that nobody had seen before, they just did the best work they could with the limitations they were given. And technology like USB and Firewire and Bluetooth and 802.11x would make work like that *easier* today, because there's no reason to re-invent USB.
Anyway, the last people to try this were Be, Inc. And, although their operating system was pretty damned good, they didn't have the business sense to succeed.
I already use MacOS' text-to-speech code with AOL Instant Messenger to have my computer speak IMs to me out-loud as I recieve them, and it's extremely handy. Unfortunately, even though Windows XP includes text-to-speech code, there's no way to get the Windows version of AIM to do the same thing-- and there's no other IM client that uses text-to-speech.
What we really need is the *developers* to install some of these new interface ideas into their programs, as AOL did with AIM, and then we'll see how people figure out how to use them.
(Many MacOS text editors also allow you to use text-to-speech to read your documents out loud... this is a great way of finding typos and grammar mistakes.)
Then try to CHANGE the law to allow "trial downloads" instead of simply BREAKING the law and opening yourself up to lawsuits.
That's what pisses me off. If everybody who's illegally downloading music and movies right now would, instead, either run for office on that platform, or start a letter-writing campaign, or just write a letter themselves... well, you'd see the law changed a hell of a lot quicker. But breaking the law doesn't change anything.
Uh... nothing... uh... can you hand me some paper towels please?
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Oh, come on, it's the obvious punchline...
It's the year 2005. I'm not editing a text file to get that to work. Call me when someone makes an extension that does it EASILY.
What plug-in changes the tabs in the way you describe in your first paragraph? That sounds handy to me...
;) Or at least a name to Google for.
Also, remember that the Internet is Hypertext. When talking about stuff like that, you COULD help people out and provide links.
Who moderates this crap as funny? Criminy.
Then you have two choices: Switch to Windows 2000, or just bite the bullet.
So buy a Mac and play World of Warcraft on that.
What people don't realize is that Microsoft has no incentive in changing how they work until people actually start refusing to use their software... Microsoft doesn't give a crap if you're happy or if you're sad, as long as the next computer you buy comes with Windows on it. If they were losing money, though, then maybe they'd have some incentive to make sure their customers were happy, eh?
The easier trick to Blaster was to simply set the clock back a few months when the dialog came up. And most people can master that easily. ;) Just FYI.
You have a LOT of free time for someone who can't actually make an actual game.
So get a fucking team. When are you going to stop making excuses for your pathetic self and go out there and change the world?
Those MOD makers in the Unreal contest I talked about? They put together teams to get their games made. What the hell's stopping you?