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Comment Re:Early days of stereo audio.... (Score 1) 594

You beat me to the punch...The technology is still under development, like when the first flat screen TVs came out.... Everybody needs to stop whining right now and give it time. No-one is forcing you to buy it anyways, f'ing hell...

Oh, that's just crap. Stereoscopy has existed for almost as long as conventional photography. So what are we talking about? Almost 200 years now? Personally i have St. John comics from the 1950s (red/cyan tech), a bunch of the Ray Zone comics from the 1980s, not to mention who-knows-how-many Viewmaster disks. Creature From The Black Lagoon? Andy Warhol's Frankenstein? Monsters Vs. Aliens? 3D is a gimmick. They roll it out every 20 years or so. And holography? Wow, i have a keyring from Las Vegas with a holographic skull from the 1990s. Avatar, Shemp in a graveyard...it's a gimmick.

Until the actual presentation hardware advances, that is, until the presentation is no longer confined to a two-dimensional screen a la TV monitor or cinema screen (think R2D2 transmitting Princess Leia's message OR a Holodeck situation), it will continue to remain a gimmick.

And to the GP, the early Beatles duophonic/stereo stuff doesn't ping-pong. It's mostly vox panned left, everything else panned right. Now go and listen to Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and you'll hear loads of ping-ponging.

Now get off my lawn.

Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 3, Informative) 505

Okay, try this...

1) CTRL-F2 (yes, yes, bear with me)
2) Type the first letter of the menu item you want*
3) Down arrow
4) Repeat step 2
5) Repeat 2-3 until you drill down to the desired command and hit "enter"

* If by chance there are two menu items with the same first letter, it's sufficient to type the first and second letter.

How is this slower if not more efficient than ALT-whatever?

Only happy to help.

Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 4, Informative) 505

System Prefs > Mouse & Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts*.

A quick look tells me that CTRL-F2 puts focus on the menubar, CTRL-F3 places focus on the Dock, etc etc. OSX has had this since (someone correct if i'm wrong) since at least 10.2 .

So, that's about enough of this "can't navigate in OSX without the mouse" propaganda. [/wishful thinking]

* Apologies if the wording isn't exact as i'm translating from the italian.

Comment Re:Vodka (Score 1) 770

Think ATM/Cashpoint/Bancomat. Whether they're on-screen or real metal buttons, they're always there.

All appliances have an OK button. Call it an ON switch, call it what you will but there is a Big Obvious OK button (or that silly "Apply" button*) that begs "press me to do what i'm supposed to do". And it's always somewhere visible, usually right there on its face. Not in the other room hiding. Not in some other dimension waiting to be invoked by a ouija board.

Being how software that follows a windowed GUI model has no other side than its face (even when it's pretending to be 3D), the "press to continue" button always has to be visible.

Anything less, documented in the FM or not, is a secret handshake. And not spoiled.

As far as dragging a window without finding its title bar, that is an optional interaction. The "chrome" (i believe that's the term) is where all primary interaction with the window container happens. The contents of the window is where data interaction happens. I want to push pixels, i click and drag and dance inside a window; i want to move/resize said window to different coordinates, i drag its chrome around.

*"Apply" (imho) has always seemed a redundant way of being redundant. And repetitively and unnecessarily repetitive.

Comment Re:Vodka (Score 5, Insightful) 770

-nod- I suspect most people who've been using Linux for a while are spoiled by alt-window-dragging, which renders that problem moot

I'm sorry but on what planet is knowing a "secret handshake" to see a UI element you should never have to search for to begin with being spoiled?

Comment Re:Dear RMS (Score 1) 621

Consider Mac OS X Leopard. If you do not choose a hint for your password, it will happily display your password in cleartext at the login screen when the hint button is clicked.

What? WHAT??? Where on earth did you see that? I just did a logout to see if this was true, maybe never noticing a hint button when i log on. Silly me. I fell for it too. "Hint button", indeed.

There's no, i repeat, no "hint button" on the OSX login screen, Leopard or otherwise.

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