But this article is about the Mac version of Word 5.1, which was actually really, really good. You don't need to configure printer drivers, use DOS, or burn EEPROMs to use Word 5.1 on Macintosh.
Part of the reason, though, was by comparison of Word 6 for Mac, which really, really sucked.
Remember that rule, it's always correct. It apples to Mac users, Windows users, everybody. It's why the only difference between Windows being insecure (running as admin, enabled ActiveX, etc) and being perfectly secure is a few button presses that 99.9% of people never bother doing.
The default in Windows is to autoplay CDs that are inserted, therefore, the vast, vast majority of Windows users have autoplay turned on. It doesn't help that Microsoft makes it a little bit awkward to turn off. (It's located in the driver properties, not in the System control panel.)
In Washington State, it is *against the law* for a store to accept the return of a software product. (I assume this also applies to CDs and DVDs.) The store may be screwing you with their return policy, or they may be honoring local laws... find out before you make an ass of yourself.
He had autoplay turned on. The album relies on autoplay to install a driver file for the CD drive when it's inserted, the driver then garbles any read operations from the music tracks of the CD and lets the data tracks pass through.
Autoplay is off by default in OS X, so really very few people are going to get hit by this one in the Mac world.
The only drawback is the lack of a good, free office package: OpenOffice.org for OS X just isn't there yet, and it looks like we're going to have to wait at least a year. Apple should have addressed this problem earlier.
It's not killer, but AppleWorks is a pretty good product considering it ships with all new Macs for free. At least a lot better than WordPad that comes with Windows. Apple's addressed this already, bud.;)
I don't even agree with the grandparent about Myst.
Name a game that had Myst-like gameplay (regardless of the graphics quality) before Myst itself? I can't think of a single one. Now, you may not *like* the slow pace and puzzles of the game, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't innovative.
If you're telling people how to use *either* EMACS or VI, then you're completely missing the point. Both of those applications have apallingly bad interfaces and neither of them should be used by a newbie. (IMO, neither of them should be used by *anyone*. Sure, memorizing VI keystrokes might make your editing fast, but no more so than memorizing PICO keystrokes would... and look at that weird thing PICO puts at the bottom of the screen... is it... is it... it is! A help resource!)
Slashdot *nix users haven't used a version of Windows since Windows 95, 98 at best... so you just have to excuse their ignorance on points like this.
Of course, by making those moronic "Windows crashes ALL THE TIME!" arguments they're only making themselves look stupid and irrelevant. (As the user will just reply, "well, no it doesn't, so why would I bother with Linux?")
But, hey, look on the bright side: At least no one's brought up Microsoft BOB yet.
Person A who educated himself about viruses and how to keep his Windows system patched.
Person B who instead switched to Linux and became familiar with a popular distribution.
Now person A and person B buy one of those new HP photo printers with the memory card readers and the neat little LCD screen. Here's where we diverge:
Person A, who stuck with Windows, can run the installer from the HP CD, use his new updating knowledge to update the printer drivers to the newest version, and have a fully working printer complete with memory slots and a neat little LCD screen.
Person B, who switched to Linux, *might* be able to get the printer running as a printer, but there's no way he'd figure out how to get it to run as a memory card reader with his limited Linux experience, and he'd be screwed trying to get the neat little LCD screen to show anything other than the HP logo.
Now explain to me which user is better off. Both are immune to viruses, spyware and the such. But user A can make use of his new hardware without much effort while user B is still searching Google.
You know, I hear there's a forest in there among all those trees... you should take a look.
Seriously, what the hell? You're ignoring the grandparent's entire *point* to focus on two stupid minor software problems? What, exactly, are you trying to contribute to this discussion?
I don't know what kind of weird-ass funky PCI cards you're using, but I've never had to go to the registry for PCI or AGP cards. You download the driver from the website, hit install, and you're in business.
As for network configuration... it fubars them? How? What causes that? Why do you have to edit the registry manually instead of just hitting the connecting and clicking "Repair Connection?" (which releases and renews the DHCP lease.)
You're either using the registry for things you don't *need* to, or you're doing something very strange with your computer.
Yeah, I know, an Apple snob. But this is the kind of thing that Apple did *right*.
What Linux really needs is some sort of website where you could upload screenshots of really lousy GUI decisions, offer commentary on them, and have some facility of directing the developers to the page so they can read comments and make the appropriate changes. You'd have it cover everything, from dinky stuff like "you used a checkbox instead of a radio button" to huge errors like "this application is impossible to use by the blind because a screenreader can't pick up the text in it."
Someone do then, then give me credit and 30% of the ad revenue.;)
Joke's on you! I use my ISP's mail relay! Like most NORMAL people do.
Like I said, there's only like.001% who gives a crap about creating their own mail servers, and those people are all capable of adapting to a closed port 25, so I don't see why they're all whining about this.
Seriously, shut up. The.001% of broadband subscribers who run their own mail servers seem to think that blocking port 25 is the same as armageddon. If port 25 causes you so much damn trouble, then switch ISPs when it gets blocked. Just let me and the other average users out there reduce our spam without you having a hissy about it.
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Rapscallion can display triggers in palettes allowing you to trigger them at any time or easily turn them on or off without having to open up dialog boxes. No other MUD client I've seen is capable of that. It's not hard, they're just too lazy to implement it.
...all of which is charged back to the artist, indebting them to the label until the release makes money.... the artist who knew the exact terms and conditions the instant they signed up with the label.
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The only thing keeping my OS 9 system folder around is my MUD client.
The best MUD client ever written for Macintosh is Rapscallion. It hasn't been updated in like 6 years, but it still has twice the features of newer clients. (The website is at www.rapscallion.co.uk... he's been promising to open-source the project so someone else can port it to OS X, but that message has been there over a year now and no source code in sight.)
Anyway, when I find a MUD client as good as Rapscallion I'll delete my Classic system folder. So there are still a few applications out there that don't exist for OS X yet. (And to be fair, there are also a few OS X MUD clients, but none of them hold a candle to Rapscallion.)
Vin Diesel founded Tigon studios. A *lot* of the work in this game was done by Tigon studios. (I think their logo is first in the sequence when it loads up... they have a cool tiger logo with glowing eyes.) To my knowledge, this is also the first game Tigon has been really involved with as it is a very new company.
But, in short, yes Vin Diesel had a lot of involvement in the making of the game. A lot more than a bit of motion capture and voice-overs.
(On that note, one of the things that makes Chronicles of Riddick so impressive is the motion capture. It's flawless! When Riddick reaches out to grab something, he actually grabs it instead of the object hovering a few centimeters away from his fingers.)
I've always wondered about this. I've been programming computers for over five years, and I've *never* seen a program crash or behave strangely because of a 'bit error' before... needless to say, I've also never used ECC RAM in my workstation computer. Is this really a threat? What are the odds of seeing a bit error with normal non-error-correcting RAM?
What are you talking about? The parent here should be moderated -1 Wrong.
Look, you click the "Safely Remove Hardware" button. You select your device on the list. You hit Ok. One window open and you're done. You even get a nice friendly little speech bubble that says "device can now be unplugged." I have no clue what weird-ass configuration the parent has, but he should install whatever program is making him jump through all those hoops to do something so simple.
It might not be as quick as Apple's "drag it to the dock," but it's pretty durned close.
In what way is OS X cheaper than Windows XP or Linux? Hardware to run it is more expensive. Updates to the OS are the same price as upgrade installs to Windows, and they come more frequently... so I don't get how OS X can be cheaper. (I use OS X myself, FYI, but I admit it's an expensive habit.)
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But this article is about the Mac version of Word 5.1, which was actually really, really good. You don't need to configure printer drivers, use DOS, or burn EEPROMs to use Word 5.1 on Macintosh.
Part of the reason, though, was by comparison of Word 6 for Mac, which really, really sucked.
The Golden Rule of software:
99.9% of people NEVER CHANGE THE DEFAULT.
Remember that rule, it's always correct. It apples to Mac users, Windows users, everybody. It's why the only difference between Windows being insecure (running as admin, enabled ActiveX, etc) and being perfectly secure is a few button presses that 99.9% of people never bother doing.
The default in Windows is to autoplay CDs that are inserted, therefore, the vast, vast majority of Windows users have autoplay turned on. It doesn't help that Microsoft makes it a little bit awkward to turn off. (It's located in the driver properties, not in the System control panel.)
Uh. Check local law, of course.
In Washington State, it is *against the law* for a store to accept the return of a software product. (I assume this also applies to CDs and DVDs.) The store may be screwing you with their return policy, or they may be honoring local laws... find out before you make an ass of yourself.
He had autoplay turned on. The album relies on autoplay to install a driver file for the CD drive when it's inserted, the driver then garbles any read operations from the music tracks of the CD and lets the data tracks pass through.
Autoplay is off by default in OS X, so really very few people are going to get hit by this one in the Mac world.
The only drawback is the lack of a good, free office package: OpenOffice.org for OS X just isn't there yet, and it looks like we're going to have to wait at least a year. Apple should have addressed this problem earlier.
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It's not killer, but AppleWorks is a pretty good product considering it ships with all new Macs for free. At least a lot better than WordPad that comes with Windows. Apple's addressed this already, bud.
RTFP (Read The Fucking Post) he said kudos for *NOT* charging 99p a track. Go a little slower next time before you comment.
Good comprehension skills. Read the grandparent again.
I don't even agree with the grandparent about Myst.
Name a game that had Myst-like gameplay (regardless of the graphics quality) before Myst itself? I can't think of a single one. Now, you may not *like* the slow pace and puzzles of the game, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't innovative.
If you're telling people how to use *either* EMACS or VI, then you're completely missing the point. Both of those applications have apallingly bad interfaces and neither of them should be used by a newbie. (IMO, neither of them should be used by *anyone*. Sure, memorizing VI keystrokes might make your editing fast, but no more so than memorizing PICO keystrokes would... and look at that weird thing PICO puts at the bottom of the screen... is it... is it... it is! A help resource!)
Slashdot *nix users haven't used a version of Windows since Windows 95, 98 at best... so you just have to excuse their ignorance on points like this.
Of course, by making those moronic "Windows crashes ALL THE TIME!" arguments they're only making themselves look stupid and irrelevant. (As the user will just reply, "well, no it doesn't, so why would I bother with Linux?")
But, hey, look on the bright side: At least no one's brought up Microsoft BOB yet.
Ok, so we have these two people:
Person A who educated himself about viruses and how to keep his Windows system patched.
Person B who instead switched to Linux and became familiar with a popular distribution.
Now person A and person B buy one of those new HP photo printers with the memory card readers and the neat little LCD screen. Here's where we diverge:
Person A, who stuck with Windows, can run the installer from the HP CD, use his new updating knowledge to update the printer drivers to the newest version, and have a fully working printer complete with memory slots and a neat little LCD screen.
Person B, who switched to Linux, *might* be able to get the printer running as a printer, but there's no way he'd figure out how to get it to run as a memory card reader with his limited Linux experience, and he'd be screwed trying to get the neat little LCD screen to show anything other than the HP logo.
Now explain to me which user is better off. Both are immune to viruses, spyware and the such. But user A can make use of his new hardware without much effort while user B is still searching Google.
I believe that is the grandparent's point.
You know, I hear there's a forest in there among all those trees... you should take a look.
Seriously, what the hell? You're ignoring the grandparent's entire *point* to focus on two stupid minor software problems? What, exactly, are you trying to contribute to this discussion?
You're doing something wrong.
I don't know what kind of weird-ass funky PCI cards you're using, but I've never had to go to the registry for PCI or AGP cards. You download the driver from the website, hit install, and you're in business.
As for network configuration... it fubars them? How? What causes that? Why do you have to edit the registry manually instead of just hitting the connecting and clicking "Repair Connection?" (which releases and renews the DHCP lease.)
You're either using the registry for things you don't *need* to, or you're doing something very strange with your computer.
So ... Mac OS circa version 8.5?
;)
Yeah, I know, an Apple snob. But this is the kind of thing that Apple did *right*.
What Linux really needs is some sort of website where you could upload screenshots of really lousy GUI decisions, offer commentary on them, and have some facility of directing the developers to the page so they can read comments and make the appropriate changes. You'd have it cover everything, from dinky stuff like "you used a checkbox instead of a radio button" to huge errors like "this application is impossible to use by the blind because a screenreader can't pick up the text in it."
Someone do then, then give me credit and 30% of the ad revenue.
Joke's on you! I use my ISP's mail relay! Like most NORMAL people do.
.001% who gives a crap about creating their own mail servers, and those people are all capable of adapting to a closed port 25, so I don't see why they're all whining about this.
Like I said, there's only like
God. Then freakin' prioritize.
.001% of broadband subscribers who run their own mail servers seem to think that blocking port 25 is the same as armageddon. If port 25 causes you so much damn trouble, then switch ISPs when it gets blocked. Just let me and the other average users out there reduce our spam without you having a hissy about it.
Do you prefer having your own email server?
Or do you prefer having twice as much spam?
Seriously, shut up. The
Rapscallion can display triggers in palettes allowing you to trigger them at any time or easily turn them on or off without having to open up dialog boxes. No other MUD client I've seen is capable of that. It's not hard, they're just too lazy to implement it.
...all of which is charged back to the artist, indebting them to the label until the release makes money. ... the artist who knew the exact terms and conditions the instant they signed up with the label.
The only thing keeping my OS 9 system folder around is my MUD client.
... he's been promising to open-source the project so someone else can port it to OS X, but that message has been there over a year now and no source code in sight.)
The best MUD client ever written for Macintosh is Rapscallion. It hasn't been updated in like 6 years, but it still has twice the features of newer clients. (The website is at www.rapscallion.co.uk
Anyway, when I find a MUD client as good as Rapscallion I'll delete my Classic system folder. So there are still a few applications out there that don't exist for OS X yet. (And to be fair, there are also a few OS X MUD clients, but none of them hold a candle to Rapscallion.)
Please God tell me that line about MacIE being built in RealBasic is a joke?
To my knowledge, it's built in good ol' C++ like almost everything.
Vin Diesel founded Tigon studios. A *lot* of the work in this game was done by Tigon studios. (I think their logo is first in the sequence when it loads up... they have a cool tiger logo with glowing eyes.) To my knowledge, this is also the first game Tigon has been really involved with as it is a very new company.
But, in short, yes Vin Diesel had a lot of involvement in the making of the game. A lot more than a bit of motion capture and voice-overs.
(On that note, one of the things that makes Chronicles of Riddick so impressive is the motion capture. It's flawless! When Riddick reaches out to grab something, he actually grabs it instead of the object hovering a few centimeters away from his fingers.)
I've always wondered about this. I've been programming computers for over five years, and I've *never* seen a program crash or behave strangely because of a 'bit error' before... needless to say, I've also never used ECC RAM in my workstation computer. Is this really a threat? What are the odds of seeing a bit error with normal non-error-correcting RAM?
The word "install" in my previous post should, of course, be "uninstall." I hate typos that result in the exact opposite of what I want to say.
What are you talking about? The parent here should be moderated -1 Wrong.
Look, you click the "Safely Remove Hardware" button. You select your device on the list. You hit Ok. One window open and you're done. You even get a nice friendly little speech bubble that says "device can now be unplugged." I have no clue what weird-ass configuration the parent has, but he should install whatever program is making him jump through all those hoops to do something so simple.
It might not be as quick as Apple's "drag it to the dock," but it's pretty durned close.
Everything there makes sense except "cheaper."
In what way is OS X cheaper than Windows XP or Linux? Hardware to run it is more expensive. Updates to the OS are the same price as upgrade installs to Windows, and they come more frequently... so I don't get how OS X can be cheaper. (I use OS X myself, FYI, but I admit it's an expensive habit.)