People complain that everything in Java must be a class, but that is a good message to pound into the mind of the noob - we don't need any more aspies banging out unreadable C monoliths.
You know that everything you do with OOP, can also be done with procedural programming
Chrome might feel snappier, but for some time Firefox uses less memory.
I don't think that you should write every library you use from scratch, but I think that, if you consider yourself a programmer, you should be able to it if the need arises.
Thanks a bunch
Would you mind posting the links to the build you installed? Thanks
My device came with Froyo so I don't know about Eclair, but Gingerbread brings better battery life on my Galaxy S and also a nice battery profiling tool. Also it looks a little better. Probably there are other features and security updates I don't know about.
In that page there's a fairly big list of competitors. Maybe some offer cheaper products.
... and they still manage to get them so mucked up I have to spend about 30 mins every month cleaning them up
Sound like a job for Deep Freeze. Makes tech support for clueless relatives much easier.
Same in Romania
How about everyone does what they enjoy in their time? Why does the state or you for that matter think you know what's best for someone else?
The idea that Windows keyboard shortcuts are correct and Mac OS ones are wrong is just moronic. Neither is wrong or right - they're just different. Note that Mac OS keystrokes came first. Most of the Windows ones are the same, but with using the CTRL key, because Microsoft copied them yet didn't have an Apple Command key.
Which one sounds sane: Ctrl+Down to open (a 2 key combination to do the most used thing on a computer) and Enter to rename, or Enter to open (the key's name is Enter after all and is one of the biggest keys on the keyboard) and F2 to rename (still a one key shortcut, which is not necessarily easy to discover, but easy enough to use once you know it).
Note that Mac OS keystrokes came first.
So we should all be using Xerox and CP/M shortcuts because they came first? I vote for sensible and popular. I'm not bothered because Apple thinks that some shortcuts might work better, but for fuck's sake
As to defrag, again that's your preconceived Windows idea.
Ok, maybe it doesn't need defrag, although I don't understand why it shouldn't, but it was really, really slow and the HDD was grinding all the time. After reinstallation with the exact same apps and data on the disk it flew. If you have another theory I can't wait to hear it.
Vuze is explained below in another post.
Mac OS isn't perfect, but it's so much better than Windows.
Maybe for you. The marketshare of Windows says otherwise for the rest of the world.
Really? So what are all those options in the System Preferences tool that let you change things?
It's really not enough. The mindset of OS X and the app ecosystem is broken from this point of view. Most apps have 5 to 10 times less options than their Windows or Linux equivalents. If most people don't need to fine tune applications that doesn't mean that ALL people don't need to do that. Usually power users and content creators will need to do that in order to be more efficient in their work. If you want just to consume content then the Mac is just fine, but then again, you can do that for less money with an iPad or an Android tablet.
It's not that you're trying to configure OSX to be like Windows is it?
No, I'm trying to make OS X sane. I'm in no mood now to make a list with all its design flaws and problems. These are not because Apple is stupid, it's because Apple wants to differentiate itself from everybody (Cmd+down to open, Enter to rename, Sort folders with the rest of the files, Play/pause key starts iTunes even if you are in another music app, the piece of shit that is Mission Control as the only way to manage your open windows, the crap fest that is the Dock and the fact that you can't see all open documents, just the open apps - unfortunately it spreads like the plague to other OSes and I could go on for a long, long time).
Heck, why would you do a clean install in the first place?
Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that it took 5 minutes to start the computer. Possible fragmentation issues, I don't know since there is no defrag tool included with the OS, and defrag programs cost a lot of money for the Mac.
I really don't understand people who want this kind of resolution in such a small form factor. Greater pixel density is great if we'd have at least one OS that is resolution independent, but since we don't all you do if you go with a higher res is hurt your eyes. For 13'' 1280x800 is more than enough.
As for OS X, it's a plus if you like being told how you can use your computer, because you can be sure as hell that Apple won't let you change one damn thing. When I do a clean install of OS X, I spend a few hours tweaking obscure plist files and installing all sorts of tools to make it more bearable and I'm still not satisfied in the end.
For now Thunderbolt isn't an advantage. Until there are more devices that support it and most important - dead cheap devices, not having Thunderbolt is a non-issue. Also I'm not going to buy something that I can't plug into any other computer.
Microphone & webcam - I don't know, some people need them, some don't
- Posted from Windows 7 on my first (and last) Mac
Perhaps this might help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wired-marker/
Because version numbers are a non-issue and a lot of us are really sick of people whining about version numbers. They have absolutely no relevance and addons work from one version to another with few issues.
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