The collected works of guardian452 - Page 14

shyouko wrote: Genius, as printed on my business card.

But they hire too many idiots, so I'm quitting.

R-ten-K wrote: Old foggies don't like change and are scared by it... News at 11.

ianj wrote:

commodorejohn wrote: Yeah, and that's great, if you like Unix .

If you don't like Unix, what are you doing here?

(couldn't resist)

As for OS X 10.6 vs. newer versions... I've been through the 10.6 -> 10.7 -> 10.8 upgrade cycle, and I have no idea what people who think something went bad after 10.6 are talking about. Unless you're like the OP and think the smaller window controls look "cheap" (huh?), or you really, really care about having colored sidebar icons, that is. But really, if you're going to obsess over the details of your UI to that level and insist that they never change, you should be using a different platform. As far as I can tell, the actual user experience is the same across all three versions.

ianj wrote:

guardian452 wrote: found the facebook/twitter integration with lion (or ML?) annoying, since I use neither and found it a bit insulting at first. I think that was the tipping point for me to become a greybeard geezer even though I don't consider myself that old or having been around all that long. https://web.archive.org/web/20110207204 ... m/science/

You have a fair point in that Apple is narrowing the markets it wants to focus on, but I find this particular bit absurd. I don't care for Facebook either, and I have never noticed the Facebook integration in the latest Apple operating systems because I have not gone looking for it. If there is some unavoidable change to the UI that gets in your way, by all means, talk about that, but feeling insulted by an optional feature that you will never see without deliberately deciding to use it is crossing a line into ideological craziness. That's like saying Mac OS 9 is insulting because the Setup Assistant asks you once, on first boot, whether or not you'd like the enable Simple Finder (for those who don't remember, the default is "no").

Cory5412 wrote:

guardian452 wrote: But at the time... it was like "wow! my computer is turning into a facebook machine, man!"

I'm sure this isn't what you meant by it, but there are actually people out there who dislike the fact that any given machine they buy can likely be afforded and used by a much less technical person and used for accessing web sites and viewing videos.

Computers and the Internet are the phones of our era, whether we use them to conduct hard-hitting journalism, serious business, or just staying in touch with friends and playing FarmCrush Saga III.

I don't think the point was ever to make your Mac into a Facebook machine, as much as to simply make that access more convenient, should you want it. That turning point where in 2005 or 2006, Mac laptops began to outsell Mac desktops was also the point at which many Mac laptops were being bought by college students, and it was probably at that point that Macs started being Facebook machines for many people anyway.

I know (hope) nobody here was actually thinking it (that it's bad that computers are usable by non-technical people), but, y'know, just to put it out there I guess. I think it's great that computers are easy to use and that the vendors continue to put effort into researching different form factors and different user experiences, to make computers easier to use as they truly become the telephones of the era, for all your general purpose two-way communication and information needs.

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modology wrote: why they use Helvetica Neue for the system font. It looks cheap and out of place for one simple fact that helvetica neue does not look good in small size.

hamei wrote:

guardian452 wrote: Have not been all that satisfied with my apple @me.com service lately...

Do you have a local ISP with a brain and email service ? I know, costs more but it might be worth it.

hamei wrote:

Would I be better off running my own server? Seems overkill tho I do have an almost-always-on machine...

Did this for several years, running the server was easy and nowadays you could do it on a very low-power box that wouldn't cost anything.

The problems I had were all from the other end : "It's from China ! Omigod, must be spam !"

Stupid dipshits. This was a correctly set up mail server with reverse spiffydiff and everything. The people running mail servers are so fucking stupid. You won't believe it until you try.

If you are lucky they can handle mail from the US but if you run dynamic dns, you may have the same problem.

My ISP charges an extra $10/mo for static IP tho I think there are a few other things that come with it. Would rather spend $10/year

If you are interested in VOIP, VPN, or any other functions, a static IP is really nice. It would help with the mail server situation, for example. Plenty of morons just blacklist any dynamic ip right off the bat.

hamei wrote: Tinfoil hat time : (but it's the truth) - the entire Spam ! Spam ! Spam ! How can we control spam ? thing is just a shuck to remove control of the internet from individuals and place it in the hands of "content providers". Shut up, serf, and take what we give you.

It would be trivial to stop spam right at the source. No normal human being sends out 465,000 emails an hour. Any ISP can detect a spammer within five minutes. If they really wanted, they could stop it at the source with no muss, no fuss.

But they don't want and never have wanted. What they really wanted and what they got is to remove control of our lives from our hands and place it in theirs.

And we went for it. Google goes through all email they handle. "Big Data" to quote the Big Bitch. There's not a tyrant in the history of mankind who wouldn't sacrifice his entire family tree for that power. We are fools.

Trippynet wrote: That's pretty neat! I was always amazed that SGI took the dumb decision to put incandescent bulbs there originally.

calvin wrote: And considering the rampant amount of... less than tolerant words around here, I don't see much moderation.

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ClassicHasClass wrote:

robespierre wrote: I never suspected that Apple's multicolor iMac experiment was thought up to separate "collectors" from their money, but this is strong evidence

"Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!"

I have a snow, a strawberry and a blueberry, and I think I only actually paid money for one of them, and only one of them (the strawberry) is actually in use. I can't see the point of getting the whole spectrum except if you're really obsessive. They're too damn bulky.

jwp wrote:

theinonen wrote: Basically, MS Windows is around for compatibility reasons on x86 PCs (MS Office). At some point in the future, computing will change enough that Microsoft will become irrelevant. Then everyone will sail away into the future with Plan 9...