Um. He didn't miss it... you didn't bother to RTFA, eh? He spent quite a bit of time talking about Fruit Menu and even pointed out its unfortunate name.
It's not just that "that was how you did it in OS 9 and X does it differently!" It's closer to, "that was how you did it in OS 9 and there's absolutely NO way to replicate that in OS X!"
OS 9 was definately behind the curve in some areas, but its UI was simply beyond reproach. Period. It was excellent.
How is the ability to move control panels to anywhere in the disk a bad thing?
By default, they were all in the Control Panels folder which, in icon view, looked pretty much like System Preferences in OS X does anyway...
But if I changed my appearance often, I could just drag that one to my desktop, or up a level to Apple Menu Items, or anywhere I pleased and it worked just fine.
So, seriously, how is *forcing* users to use System Preferences to change things rather than moving control panels where they want them an improvement?
Panther/OS X in general will be ahead of OS 9 when Apple adds back Tabbed Folders. That feature is critical.
Yeah, but there are two major points he makes that are very good regardless of what you think about the other stuff:
1) Removing tabbed folders (or tabbed menus as he calls them) was a mistake. In OS 9.2.2, I used these *constantly*... *constantly* and I can verify what he says that a power users with tabbed folders can get to ANY item on the disk twenty times quicker than with the Apple menu, with the Dock, with ANYTHING else invented up to this point. I'm still not productive in OS X because there's nothing to replace these tabbed folders. (Although, I read his article on utilities to make things better, and he pointed out an application that can replace them well.)
2) When dragging a file to the trash, it is very easy to miss the trash which causes the entire dock to stretch and actually move the trash can further from the icon you're dragging. If that happens, and you drag the icon down to get in the trash, the dock then contracts and you end up overshooting the trash can! His gripe isn't so much that the trash can is on the Dock, but more than the Dock moves the damned thing around while you're trying to drag files into it. Maybe you can hit the target 100% of the time, but I know that I miss sometimes, and when I miss it takes a long time to get that damned icon into the trash because of the Dock sliding it around.
3) People who buy a NEW version of some product generally gripe about features that were removed. We're at OS X 10.3, the fourth release, and we still don't have MANY features that were in OS 9.2.2... no tabbed folders, no 'connect to server automatically on login', no application switcher menu. What Apple did was *declare* to its loyal users that, "hey, tabbed folders that WE added into the OS and have been there for years are the wrong way of doing things, and you should be using the Dock now." A company can get away with that, IF the Dock replaces the functionality of tabbed folders... it doesn't even come close.
Anyway, a bit of a rant, but Apple did screw over a lot of users of OS 9.2.2, and I still say that NO copy of OS X can be made as efficient, UI-wise, as 9.2.2 was out-of-the-box.
The Genesis is better considered as competing with the Super Nintendo. And it did really well, in fact... I still have my Genesis with tons of game, and I love it.
Considering that Apple charges ~$700 to replace a logic board, and that the extended warranty costs $250 (or $200 if you get a deal at an Apple Store like I did), *not* having the extended warranty is pretty stupid.
I recommend a long warranty for any laptop, as their replacement parts are very, very expensive... no matter what goes wrong with it, your warranty will cost less than the fix.
There's Crimson Skies and MechAssault. Those are good exclusive games. Oh, and all the cross-platform games look and play best on XBox. And, natch, there are tons of exclusives coming up that look great.
The bigger question is what do you have against the XBox?
Maybe you should just buy a more reliable car, and then you wouldn't *have* to monitor the damn engine in real-time.
Criminy, how much money did you spent on that setup instead of just seeing a mechanic and fixing the damned problem in the first place?
What the hell is your car doing so wrong that you not only need to add *more* thermometers, but you need to check them constantly in real-time?
I have a 1996 Dodge Neon that leaks oil into the coolant, and I have no problem driving for 150-200 miles before stopping to check the engine. And that's when I'd stop anyway to take a break. It's more reliable than your hunk, you want it? I'll sell it for the price of your laptop and all the equipment you added to your crap-pile car.
If you don't have one, why do you even care? Why research a problem that doesn't even apply to you? And why post an off-topic post on Slashdot instead of an on-topic post on some Apple hardware discussion forum?
Considering that the cheapest replacement part for the iBook is *far* more than the $250 warranty, you'd be stupid to not get the warranty in the first place. I had to get the logic board in my iBook replaced, as well, but I didn't get mine back as quickly as the grandparent.
That's true of most, if not all, laptops and other small-but-expensive electronics, like iPods.
Dead Or Alive 3 most certainly supports 480p. My TV does not display 480i from the HD input, and yet I can play Dead Or Alive 3 just fine. Don't spread lies, I hate that. At least spend the 3 seconds it took to look up that list on Google.
The XBox doesn't ask you to switch before it loads the game because it already asked you to select which video modes it should use. If you said it should use 480p, it will... if not, it'll downsample the 480p game to 480i
Look at the list above. The list of HDTV-enabled XBox games is pretty much the same as the list of all XBox games, except 5 or 6.
There's EVE Online... that's pretty innovative. It's basically built around the dynamic player-created-and-maintained economic system. It's like "future spaceship capitalism: the game" or something.
There are creative MMOGs out there... go pick up a copy of EVE, they could use the support.
I used to share the same opinion, but now I realize that Star Trek III really, really sucked... even worse than V did. Watch it again, and pay particular attention to the casting...
Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64 was probably the best game ever published for that system.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a very good RPG based in the Star Wars universe (but not on any specific movie.)
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (and Elite Force II) are very well-done Star Trek games. (TV, not movies, close enough.) They even had the cast of the show do the voices.
So does Ad-Aware, if you pay for the program. It runs like a virus checker, keeps an eye on files that are created, and can warn you about spyware before it ends up installed.
In the Blockbuster version of Mission To Mars on VHS, they cut out the 'alien cries a single tear' shot. (At first, I thought they did this just to make the movie less goddamned LAME... but it turns out that the shot was replaced for the retail DVD release.)
I'm ashamed to admit to seeing it in the theater, from Blockbuster, and from a retail store, though.:(
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Um. He didn't miss it... you didn't bother to RTFA, eh? He spent quite a bit of time talking about Fruit Menu and even pointed out its unfortunate name.
Did you ever use tabbed folders in OS 9?
It's not just that "that was how you did it in OS 9 and X does it differently!" It's closer to, "that was how you did it in OS 9 and there's absolutely NO way to replicate that in OS X!"
OS 9 was definately behind the curve in some areas, but its UI was simply beyond reproach. Period. It was excellent.
Genuine curiousity:
How is the ability to move control panels to anywhere in the disk a bad thing?
By default, they were all in the Control Panels folder which, in icon view, looked pretty much like System Preferences in OS X does anyway...
But if I changed my appearance often, I could just drag that one to my desktop, or up a level to Apple Menu Items, or anywhere I pleased and it worked just fine.
So, seriously, how is *forcing* users to use System Preferences to change things rather than moving control panels where they want them an improvement?
Panther/OS X in general will be ahead of OS 9 when Apple adds back Tabbed Folders. That feature is critical.
Yeah, but there are two major points he makes that are very good regardless of what you think about the other stuff:
1) Removing tabbed folders (or tabbed menus as he calls them) was a mistake. In OS 9.2.2, I used these *constantly*... *constantly* and I can verify what he says that a power users with tabbed folders can get to ANY item on the disk twenty times quicker than with the Apple menu, with the Dock, with ANYTHING else invented up to this point. I'm still not productive in OS X because there's nothing to replace these tabbed folders. (Although, I read his article on utilities to make things better, and he pointed out an application that can replace them well.)
2) When dragging a file to the trash, it is very easy to miss the trash which causes the entire dock to stretch and actually move the trash can further from the icon you're dragging. If that happens, and you drag the icon down to get in the trash, the dock then contracts and you end up overshooting the trash can! His gripe isn't so much that the trash can is on the Dock, but more than the Dock moves the damned thing around while you're trying to drag files into it. Maybe you can hit the target 100% of the time, but I know that I miss sometimes, and when I miss it takes a long time to get that damned icon into the trash because of the Dock sliding it around.
3) People who buy a NEW version of some product generally gripe about features that were removed. We're at OS X 10.3, the fourth release, and we still don't have MANY features that were in OS 9.2.2... no tabbed folders, no 'connect to server automatically on login', no application switcher menu. What Apple did was *declare* to its loyal users that, "hey, tabbed folders that WE added into the OS and have been there for years are the wrong way of doing things, and you should be using the Dock now." A company can get away with that, IF the Dock replaces the functionality of tabbed folders... it doesn't even come close.
Anyway, a bit of a rant, but Apple did screw over a lot of users of OS 9.2.2, and I still say that NO copy of OS X can be made as efficient, UI-wise, as 9.2.2 was out-of-the-box.
The Genesis is better considered as competing with the Super Nintendo. And it did really well, in fact... I still have my Genesis with tons of game, and I love it.
Personally, I like the American games better anyway. If the Japanese don't want to develop for XBox, who cares?
Who mods this crap as funny? Do you really think this is funny? Did you laugh at this comment even a little? Yeah, I thought not.
Why is this moderated "funny?" Do the moderators even read the article before assigning a score to it?
Are you kidding? People still post Microsoft BOB jokes!
Facts don't really bother the true zealots.
Considering that Apple charges ~$700 to replace a logic board, and that the extended warranty costs $250 (or $200 if you get a deal at an Apple Store like I did), *not* having the extended warranty is pretty stupid.
I recommend a long warranty for any laptop, as their replacement parts are very, very expensive... no matter what goes wrong with it, your warranty will cost less than the fix.
There's Crimson Skies and MechAssault. Those are good exclusive games. Oh, and all the cross-platform games look and play best on XBox. And, natch, there are tons of exclusives coming up that look great.
The bigger question is what do you have against the XBox?
Maybe you should just buy a more reliable car, and then you wouldn't *have* to monitor the damn engine in real-time.
Criminy, how much money did you spent on that setup instead of just seeing a mechanic and fixing the damned problem in the first place?
What the hell is your car doing so wrong that you not only need to add *more* thermometers, but you need to check them constantly in real-time?
I have a 1996 Dodge Neon that leaks oil into the coolant, and I have no problem driving for 150-200 miles before stopping to check the engine. And that's when I'd stop anyway to take a break. It's more reliable than your hunk, you want it? I'll sell it for the price of your laptop and all the equipment you added to your crap-pile car.
If you don't have one, why do you even care? Why research a problem that doesn't even apply to you? And why post an off-topic post on Slashdot instead of an on-topic post on some Apple hardware discussion forum?
Criminy.
Considering that the cheapest replacement part for the iBook is *far* more than the $250 warranty, you'd be stupid to not get the warranty in the first place. I had to get the logic board in my iBook replaced, as well, but I didn't get mine back as quickly as the grandparent.
That's true of most, if not all, laptops and other small-but-expensive electronics, like iPods.
Oh yeah, good solution. To use GAIM with native widgets, he only has to re-write GAIM from *scratch* to use a different toolkit.
Did you comprehend the original poster's problem at all, or are you just trying to campaign for your favorite cross-platform toolkit?
http://www.is2k.com/game reviews/HDGames_xbox.htm
Dead Or Alive 3 most certainly supports 480p. My TV does not display 480i from the HD input, and yet I can play Dead Or Alive 3 just fine. Don't spread lies, I hate that. At least spend the 3 seconds it took to look up that list on Google.
The XBox doesn't ask you to switch before it loads the game because it already asked you to select which video modes it should use. If you said it should use 480p, it will... if not, it'll downsample the 480p game to 480i
Look at the list above. The list of HDTV-enabled XBox games is pretty much the same as the list of all XBox games, except 5 or 6.
Um. All XBox games are 480p (from launch) unless the game uses some graphical effect that requires 480i. But the XBox also supports 720p and 1080i.
So anyway, I find it odd that that impressed you about the GameCube, but not about the XBox.
Score 3, Informative?
How do these people get mod points?
There's EVE Online... that's pretty innovative. It's basically built around the dynamic player-created-and-maintained economic system. It's like "future spaceship capitalism: the game" or something.
There are creative MMOGs out there... go pick up a copy of EVE, they could use the support.
Watch the original six again.
I used to share the same opinion, but now I realize that Star Trek III really, really sucked... even worse than V did. Watch it again, and pay particular attention to the casting...
Um. Are the moderators smoking crack?
Yes, StarFlight was a good game... and this post is interesting (slightly)... but this post is WAY off-topic and should be moderated as such.
-1 Off-Topic.
Yikes, how about READING the grandparents post before you comment?
Specifically the word "if" in the sentence containing the phrase "juvenile Saturday morning."
You utterly missed the point of what he was saying.
Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64 was probably the best game ever published for that system.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a very good RPG based in the Star Wars universe (but not on any specific movie.)
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (and Elite Force II) are very well-done Star Trek games. (TV, not movies, close enough.) They even had the cast of the show do the voices.
So yes, they do exist.
So does Ad-Aware, if you pay for the program. It runs like a virus checker, keeps an eye on files that are created, and can warn you about spyware before it ends up installed.
Stupid example:
:(
In the Blockbuster version of Mission To Mars on VHS, they cut out the 'alien cries a single tear' shot. (At first, I thought they did this just to make the movie less goddamned LAME... but it turns out that the shot was replaced for the retail DVD release.)
I'm ashamed to admit to seeing it in the theater, from Blockbuster, and from a retail store, though.