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  • Hey, maybe this one is the "chosen one" since it managed to actually get through layers of detection scans on the ISP end, just to end up in a Mac. Maybe it has the "unbundled bit" that equalizes the Matrix? It could happen!
  • I've been waiting to pull the trigger on the installer. I was waiting for that point where I finally grow tired of Aqua and want a change. Strangely, this time hasn't come, yet, as I expected it should have (believe me, I was a BIG Kaleidoscope fr…
  • ...still mulling this over (and still don't have a running PC). Was I supposed to make the first partition 6 GB or less, or something like that? I forgot if this matters for Windows still...
  • I guess where I went faaaarrrrr astray was having to go into the bios. This computer is actually a hand-me-down, so naturally there is no documentation, and the bios setup was customized for somebody else's uses long ago. So I got to go in and fig…
  • I've never done a transaction like this, as well (but have been curious). So is that what these product cards that come with your Apple computer are for? If you are within a certain time window, you can use these cards to get a discount, or are th…
  • Eeeek! Don't get me started with F-keys! "F" is definitely the applicable name! I'm frequently overshooting the numbers and scraping an F-key (this is something I think most laptop and mini keyboard users can appreciate). Ironically, it's not…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Juha Otus Well, not for me. I'm a Dvorak layout user: Code: 12345 67890[] ',.PY FGCRL/= AOEUI DHTNS-\\ `;QJKX BMWVZ This layout has been better on my wrist problems than qwerty. However, I've been …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Juha Otus Well, how about using the menus, they have a larger area and are a bit more forgiving. File:Close (cmd-W) Window:Minimize (cmd-M) Window:Zoom These menus exists on every app. Yes, I could do it…
  • Of course, it has become broke when they sought to change it. No amount of arrogant dismissal and denial is going to erase that. The UI experts for OSX have been out to lunch for some time, evidently. This is painfully evident when someone chose …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha I'm not really sure I see it as a helping function, to be honest. Train users to expect a 'fuzz factor', and then they'll wonder why it doesn't extend just a *little* bit further. And so on. Clicking on a bu…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Oooooh, what if they all just kinda merged into one another, with no visible boundaries, so if you're just a couple pixels off of Minimize, you end up Closing it! That'd be cool! Not. Discrete boundaries…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Hiro Randycat, multitasking has 2 separate but closely related common uses. The below 2 paras cover those different uses in a way some OS types have proposed to use to remove ambiguity in the use of the term multitask…
  • Quote: Originally posted by onlooker AFAIK Windows XP supposedly can multitask, but it's OS X 's mostly unseen Unix side that makes it a better at it running multiple applications at once. I used to know all the technical aspects of this stuff wh…
  • Heres' the key to our disconnect- no one is arguing that installers should be a necessity. No one is arguing that appreciating the relevance of click-drag is irrelevant. Those precepts are all good things to base an OS. In the same light, it does…
  • Install a document??? Not really the end of the world, imo... I think that is getting to opening a whole new can of worms when you start making comparisons of installing applications vs."installing documents" (even though the user may do the same …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Right, but what I'm pointing out (perhaps not well) is that the fewer inconsistencies you can make in a system, the better. If a user can't handle a file in an image, then they haven't a prayer of figuring out…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha True, but the same questions will be asked about a file inside an image, right? Actually, that is the scenario I was premising those questions against. You never know what level of file saavy the user will…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Yet, I think most people would be fine with dragging a *file* somewhere, no? Applications have this 'air of mystery' about them *because* of installers. Remove the mystery, make it just another file, and pe…
  • While I can appreciate the "purity of design" of not needing an installer/just drag'n'drop the app, I don't think we need to eschew installers entirely. No doubt that anyone here feels perfectly adept to drag the app wherever they wish onto their H…
  • Got to be careful here, as there is an element of "be careful what you ask for". Sometimes the computer just can't tell why something is stalled up fatally or just stalled up momentarily. Just keep an eye on the processes in your Activity Monitor …