Macs are so cool

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: JonathanYoung
Macs are so cool because there's only one friggin' way to resize a window, so that when your 24" 1900x1200 monitor breaks and you switch to a 22" 1680x1050 all your windows are too big and you can't resize them because the fuckin' resizer is at the bottom-right of the window, off the screen!

See, if it were a PC, all I'd have to do was Alt-space-M arrow-key and then use my mouse to resize the window to fit in the 22" screen. But of course, PCs aren't cool enough, and who wants to see 100% of a window anyway?

EDIT: Fuck, if it were a PC, all I'd have to do was hover my mouse pointer over any part of the window frame, and I'd be able to resize!

All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
lol, i just about choked some mother fucker at a party last weekend who wouldn't shut about how much better macs were than PCs. he started ragging on DLLs, so i asked him what they were.

"direct link libraries"
"no. dynamically linked library. do you even know what they do?"
"ummm....no."

:roll:

please don't invite me to your parties....

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: nkgreen
lol, i just about choked some mother fucker at a party last weekend who wouldn't shut about how much better macs were than PCs. he started ragging on DLLs, so i asked him what they were.

"direct link libraries"
"no. dynamically linked library. do you even know what they do?"
"ummm....no."

:roll:

please don't invite me to your parties....

if someone started that shit at my party i'd throw em out to the streets

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

Exactly - but the OP, among other AT users, feel it's so much cooler to come here and bash an OS they don't know, don't care to understand, and wish to extend their e-penis by +1 by throwing negatives; it's the ATOT way.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: RESmonkey

Originally posted by: nkgreen
lol, i just about choked some mother fucker at a party last weekend who wouldn't shut about how much better macs were than PCs. he started ragging on DLLs, so i asked him what they were.

"direct link libraries"
"no. dynamically linked library. do you even know what they do?"
"ummm....no."

:roll:

What kind of parties do you go to, lol?

LMAO, exactly what I was thinking. :laugh:

KT

They sure sound fun. All that talk about DLL's instead of :beer::beer::beer: :gift::gift::gift: :beer::beer::beer:

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Click ZOOM off the Window menu.. fixed.

Edit: oh and another one is hold down the option key and click the green button.

TESTED AND CONFIRMED

O/P ownage ...

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: sourceninja
All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

Exactly - but the OP, among other AT users, feel it's so much cooler to come here and bash an OS they don't know, don't care to understand, and wish to extend their e-penis by +1 by throwing negatives; it's the ATOT way.

That's what you get from a group of highschoolers and/or call tech support people that consider themselves "powerusers" and love their e-peen. "Nwah nwah my custom themed windows with jessica alba background is is soo much better because it's custom and I can change the registry nwah nwah..."

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: drum
of all the things he could have ragged about, he chose DLLs? 😕
That's a point you can drive home that everyone there would surely understand! :thumbsup:

I think some Mac users hear of DLLs as being part of the "bad part" of Windows that causes it to get hacked and such. They just hear that, but they have no idea what they do.

Most have only heard the phrase "DLL hell" and nothing else. So they repeat it.

 

[sutahz]

Macs just work, DUH!

 

[UnatcoAgent]

I love both my macs, I'm running XP / 7 on my 8 core Xeon and it's faster and more stable than anything I've seen. Mac hardware is expensive, get over it.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: halik

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

Really? I am a comp sci grad and know quite a few besides me, and they're about 60/40 windows vs nix and a singular osx user...

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
lol, i just about choked some mother fucker at a party last weekend who wouldn't shut about how much better macs were than PCs. he started ragging on DLLs, so i asked him what they were.

"direct link libraries"
"no. dynamically linked library. do you even know what they do?"
"ummm....no."

:roll:

I'm sure it's already been done, but ahem.

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: Sabot
I love both my macs, I'm running XP / 7 on my 8 core Xeon and it's faster and more stable than anything I've seen. Mac hardware is expensive, get over it.

Until Apple manufacturers their own parts (PowerPC anyone?), it is still a PC/PC hardware with OSX on it.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: zerogear

Originally posted by: Sabot
I love both my macs, I'm running XP / 7 on my 8 core Xeon and it's faster and more stable than anything I've seen. Mac hardware is expensive, get over it.

Until Apple manufacturers their own parts (PowerPC anyone?), it is still a PC/PC hardware with OSX on it.

Mac did not make the powerPC. That was IBM.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: halik

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

Really? I am a comp sci grad and know quite a few besides me, and they're about 60/40 windows vs nix and a singular osx user...

Yeah,
there are quite a bit of people that are impressed with .NET (myself included) - MSFT did a fantastic job with that framework. But that still doesn't mean you like the operating system.

To me XP has had a lot of shortcoming in terms of UI, but with Vista MSFT seems to have gone the Microsoft Bob route again. Instead of doing UI research, they keep on trying to dumb it down and hide things*, rather than running most common use cases.

* Things automatically download into Downloads folder, but with the default set up in Vista you gotta go Start->My Computer - > Downloads. Anyone that's taken any UI classes will tell you that picking things from contextual menu is one of the slowest things you can do on an interface. If you find users click that over and over, put it on the god damn desktop!

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: sourceninja
All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

Exactly - but the OP, among other AT users, feel it's so much cooler to come here and bash an OS they don't know, don't care to understand, and wish to extend their e-penis by +1 by throwing negatives; it's the ATOT way.

That's what you get from a group of highschoolers and/or call tech support people that consider themselves "powerusers" and love their e-peen. "Nwah nwah my custom themed windows with jessica alba background is is soo much better because it's custom and I can change the registry nwah nwah..."

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

I've seen a fair amount of professors for each OS.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: sourceninja
All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

Exactly - but the OP, among other AT users, feel it's so much cooler to come here and bash an OS they don't know, don't care to understand, and wish to extend their e-penis by +1 by throwing negatives; it's the ATOT way.

That's what you get from a group of highschoolers and/or call tech support people that consider themselves "powerusers" and love their e-peen. "Nwah nwah my custom themed windows with jessica alba background is is soo much better because it's custom and I can change the registry nwah nwah..."

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

Have you met any yet? Seriously...I have used Mac */*nix/Windows, as a Comp Sci graduate I support the infrastructure for a large organization. Their stuff runs on Windows so my stuff runs on Windows.

Outside of scaling to mega users, ancient hardware or being free, there isn't a lot of benefit to Unix. I don't have crashes in XP but then I am not running every smiley and screensaver malware addon. I don't get viruses. I know if I see something advertised chances are it will run on my system.

It's much like saying a 30HP weedwacker is better than the .3hp or whatever power they are...either one at the end of the day gets the job done at the same time with the same result.

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: LS8

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: LS8
I have this keyboard from Dell, it's great, and you can magically feel the keys, too.

No offense, but that's the same keyboard they've been throwing with dell boxes since 2006... they just added a gloss panel on top and some buttons.

I know exactly what it is and don't take offense to it, in fact, it's been around longer than that and it's about the best keyboard I have used. I've had my current unit for 3+ years.

lol thats my keyboard at work. not bad not bad. i prefer my lenovo x200's keyboard

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: halik

I have yet to meet any CompSci grad that prefers windows to some sort of *nix flavour (osx included)

Really? I am a comp sci grad and know quite a few besides me, and they're about 60/40 windows vs nix and a singular osx user...

Yeah,
there are quite a bit of people that are impressed with .NET (myself included) - MSFT did a fantastic job with that framework. But that still doesn't mean you like the operating system.

To me XP has had a lot of shortcoming in terms of UI, but with Vista MSFT seems to have gone the Microsoft Bob route again. Instead of doing UI research, they keep on trying to dumb it down and hide things*, rather than running most common use cases.

* Things automatically download into Downloads folder, but with the default set up in Vista you gotta go Start->My Computer - > Downloads. Anyone that's taken any UI classes will tell you that picking things from contextual menu is one of the slowest things you can do on an interface. If you find users click that over and over, put it on the god damn desktop!

Did that UI class also inform you it's 1000x times faster to type "downloads" then click a button on the desktop? Google desktop search FTW!

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Sorry, but thinkpads are the coolest computer EVER!

I mean, if I were given a choice - either I could get another Thinkpad, or I could get to spend a night with Jessica Alba & she'd do anything I wanted, well then, I'd choose the night with Jessica Alba. First on the agenda that night would be for her to go out and buy a Thinkpad for me.

yep thinkpads are awesome - luckily lenovo seems to maintain the quality on the higher-end ones (i have an x200 - 30% off because of where I used to work 😀)

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: LS8

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: LS8
I have this keyboard from Dell, it's great, and you can magically feel the keys, too.

No offense, but that's the same keyboard they've been throwing with dell boxes since 2006... they just added a gloss panel on top and some buttons.

I know exactly what it is and don't take offense to it, in fact, it's been around longer than that and it's about the best keyboard I have used. I've had my current unit for 3+ years.

lol thats my keyboard at work. not bad not bad. i prefer my lenovo x200's keyboard

I use that basic dell keyboard in the office too...it's not bad. I like the ergonomics at home though.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: sourceninja

Originally posted by: JonathanYoung
Macs are so cool because there's only one friggin' way to resize a window, so that when your 24" 1900x1200 monitor breaks and you switch to a 22" 1680x1050 all your windows are too big and you can't resize them because the fuckin' resizer is at the bottom-right of the window, off the screen!

See, if it were a PC, all I'd have to do was Alt-space-M arrow-key and then use my mouse to resize the window to fit in the 22" screen. But of course, PCs aren't cool enough, and who wants to see 100% of a window anyway?

EDIT: Fuck, if it were a PC, all I'd have to do was hover my mouse pointer over any part of the window frame, and I'd be able to resize!

All you have to do is click the green dot. mac problem solved.

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Click ZOOM off the Window menu.. fixed.

Edit: oh and another one is hold down the option key and click the green button.

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
Press the green button.

Yeah, I don't get it. I have used a Mac for only a few weeks and I knew the answer to that one (unless I am misunderstanding the question/problem).

MotionMan

 

[cheesehead]

Things I've learned about the Apple AirPort Extreme router:

-No QOS.
-No IP filtering.
-Almost zero support for NAT.
-Does extremely strange things with bandwidth priority when using wired and wireless connections simultaneously.
-Does not play nice with some DSL modems (you have to run it in bridge mode, which makes some other aspects of networking....interesting.)

A Linksys or Netgear router at less than 1/2 the price does much, much more. So much so that I'm using an old Linksys router as a hardware firewall running between his Airport Extreme and DSL modem.
Also, iPod OS = fail (rockbox FTW) and I flatly refuse to own a Mac unless I've installed at least one alternate OS on it. And Apple's refusal to support everyone else's codecs (you want lossless, you use ALAC!) is really annoying.