I HATE APPLE

zzzz baiting zealots

- the tiresome old argument brooker propounds

- the fact someone as incisive as brooker should bother his arse to propound such an argument, even at the behest of a commissioning editor waving a bag of loot

- the shrieking shrew suggesting "writers" should be consulted about every edit to their copy

- the fact i've wasted two minutes of my life reading it

- the fact i obviously care.

ARGHHH FUCK YOU APPLE FOR REQUIRING ME TO GET A ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR DVI TO ADC ADAPTOR, I MEAN FOR THE FUCK OF GOD, REALLY.

WAHT?

I had no idea. I have an extra one on my desk right now. THERE'S CASH IN THESE THINGS. EBAY, HERE I COME.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS AFTER SHIPPING. IT MAY TAKE ME A WEEK TO CALM DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK.

I really don't get it. Is it scented or something?

IT'S THE SIZE OF A BRICK AND HAS ITS OWN POWER SUPPLY AND USB PORT. WAHT THE FUKC!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOOOOooooooh. I was thinking of a DVI to VGA adapter.

haha u got an ADC monitor sucka

well, so do I, all the cinema displays are ADC iirc. And a ADC to VGA is like 10 bucks.

;_;

current Cinema Displays (metal bezel) are all DVI.

The plastic monitors from the last series go by a different name, don't they?

http://images.apple.com/displays/images/digital_sidebar_dviport20060721.png

ah ha. you are correct.

ok so wtf is an adc monitor?

Same name, different housing, different connection. I got this monitor four years ago when I bought my last Mac. Dumb of me not to check connection compatibility when I bought the new computer. (xpost)

Monitor with custom cable that has everything -- USB, display and power in the one cord. You need the box to split them and provide the power. Basically so that everything was neat. xp

The Apple Display Connector (ADC) is a proprietary modification of the DVI connector that combines analog and digital video signals, USB, and power all in one cable. Apple used ADC for its LCD-based Apple Cinema Displays and their final CRT displays, before deciding to use standard DVI connectors on later models.

bastards

Do Geffen make a cheaper alternative?

http://www.smalldog.com/product/12651830

Should just plug into one end of your current power brick and then into a Mac Pro, right?

That one's the wrong thing: it lets a Mac with an ADC port use a DVI screen. The other way round is the expensive one.

Apple haters a shrinking minority

"The only thing that kept people from getting Macs before is that they thought it was expensive and you couldn’t do some Windows programs on them," Snorek said. "But they’ve taken down all those barriers, and that’s why you’ve seen it take off."

Well, ONE of those claims is true.

Actually, the second one isn't entirely true: you can run all Windows programs on your Mac if you have a Mac w/Windows & OSX.

If someone hadn't given me a G4, I probably would not own a Mac. But if someone hadn't given me a G4, I'd probably still be writing papers in Notepad I had on the 386 I owned before the G4.

It's more that PC prices are rising, not that Apple's are falling. A computer that runs Vista effectively is not going to run you much less than a comparable Mac.

Fuckin' Vista.

here's a very stupid question: i'm using a program that has a shortcut which is listed as ^⌘n. what key is the '^' referring to?!

shift?

ctrl

ctrl! i would have sworn i'd tried that unsuccessfully, but it works now. thanks!

i'm so awesome!

I just bought my first mac yesterday - an imac.

It looks beautiful, but I'm not finding it that intuitive so far. In particular, what is going on when i download a programme e.g. firefox for macs? I get two icons on the desktop? And when it try to delete one - it says 'eject firefox?"

One is the disk image and the other is the virtual 'disk' that ha mounted on this system to delete, first eject the virtual disk and delete the .dmg file.

How to make Leopard less smug

the best takedown is here

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/1

no blind spots in leopard's eyes

can only help to jeopardize

the lives of lambs that shape the grass

haha sorry, that wz fairly unforgivable

i laughed :)

So can we talk about Leopard? Anyone? Anyone?

Is anyone else getting mad crashes since the installed it? I didn't have a single crash, ever, before I put Leopard on my MPB.

Ok, here's my take:

The new dock is pretty silly. About ten seconds of visual wow, and then the "ok wait, this is pretty silly" sets in. "Stacks" are no more useful than having aliases on your desktop. Hey look, a leaning tower of documents! The default dock at the bottom is pretty much a disaster -- too shiny, too indistinct, too much and too little at the same time. Real crap. But -- here's the upside -- the dock as it is on the left or right is (I think) actually *better* looking and clearer then in Tiger. And having your dock at the bottom is just bad screen space management anyway, so I'm not hurt by that particular flub at all.

The new stuff in iChat is pretty cool, I gotta say. Also, I have yet to find a practical use for any of it. There's this: tabbed chat window, multiple logins -- you know, stuff that Adium already does. Yay Apple for catching up! (I still use Adium.)

Time Machine: yes. A++, would back up again.

Mail pretty much rocks. I'll be setting it up later today and forgetting Entourage ever happened, God willing. The included HTML templates are gosh-awful, of course, but when I get to creating my own templates I may actually have a use for this very mom-style feature.

The file sharing options are a lovely thing indeed. Thank you thank you for giving me control of what I share at a folder level. Thank you. This makes everything better. No, really. Thanks.

The finder with the "slick scroll" or whatever they call it is nice when you're flipping through photos, which I do a lot of at work, so yay. It would be nice if "quick view" could also see Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign documents. Someone write this, plz. The finder as a whole is not really changed much apart from that.

Spaces is just virtual desktops, so it's hard to crap about it, but it works very smoothly -- much moreso than any third-party software I've used. And I swear by virtual desktops at work.

But here's the thing, the big kicker: it's faster. It's more efficient. It's not faster in any souped-up, dumbed-down way, it simply allocates memory better. It's just a bit easier to work with.

Spaces is awesome with drag and drop

Also you can drag into command tab now..

Also Safari 3 is much better

Is anyone else getting mad crashes since the installed it?

Two crashes yesterday as I fiddled around with it, but for reasons that I can't blame the OS for. One was Dreamweaver: I defined a site where the remote directory was the root directory of our entire web server, with dozens of sites in it, and the local directory was also remote, on the network. Dreamweaver will handle that, but not at startup. Totally gags on that site cache.

And the other was Font Book. Need I say more? Actually, I will say more -- without telling Font Book thing one about which fonts I want activated, and with only one huge font folder stuck into the root directory, Font Book still silently finds and activates any fonts I need for docs I am opening. And then it silently closes them. Sweet. My plan is to let it keep doing that little thing, and also keep using FontExplorer for browsing fonts and activating them for my own projects and stuff. I do not ever want to touch Font Book ever again. It's a cranky motherfucker.