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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo It does show one, two or three borders. Not more. So 3+ windows will give you a stack of three glass borders. But I thinks that's just fine. Seems reasonable. (OTOH, the UI designer in me says "Then wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo There is really not much of a difference to how it was in previous versions. You are able to pin links to the taskbar like before inside the QuickStart toolbar. Right, so it's a merging of the previous co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac A couple of years ago Apple was rumored to be working with Mercedes Benz on a NAV/entertainment system. But nothing seems to have happened. I don't know why Apple haven't entered this market. They could e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo I haven't talked about window access. But again, you can't see THAT there are windows open because on Mac OS an app does not need a window to run. I'm curious - in Win7, it was my understanding that the T…
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I'm beginning to think that the folks saying that the only window access in the Dock is to minimized windows have never ctrl- or right-clicked on a Dock app icon. Try it. You have a contextual menu of actions you can take with the app, and a lis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by visionary If Apple has all the source code for Windows, then wouldn't it have the ability to probe the source code for flaws? They could then create viruses to hack away at MS. Or just give a bunch of hackers the sou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by visionary Ireland has gone missing. It is because we hit the nail on the head? What is he to say? Jobs sent the goon squad after him.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin They only have a license for stuff up to 2002 so they can't go beyond XP. For most things they wouldn't need to though. ... If they nail XP compatibility, it covers a huge amount of software. Bingo. They don…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT Well, here is a screenshot. As I recall, the new UI in the NeXTSTEP 4 beta caused much consternation and complaining. It was a very controversial change at the time on the order of OS 9 to OS X, but NeXT never w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Errm. No. Maintaining an OS is an expensive thing to do. Soooooo... not pure profit then. Quote: Which is why finding more customers to pay for it is clever. Unless the ensuing support costs (…
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat You simply want to believe Microsoft copied Apple so you're backfilling with reasons that don't meet the accusation. And this is where pretty much every one of our discussions ends. You ascribe intent that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by meelash Yeah, but I'm not sure what that license means. Is doing something like CrossOver included, or only making other programs using that API. If it were as simple as paying Windows some licensing fees, I would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dutch pear I have plenty of files I might tag, my Aperture library (thousands of pics), my Music (70+ Gb), my gmail (thousands of emails), but tagging al that, do it completely and accurately, would take me a month or …
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MacFUSE may be your best bet, but even then it states that dynamic NTFS disks must be converted to basic first. Here's one (highly dangerous) way to do this: http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/convert...rase-data.html Sounds like you've got a bit of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat How about Windows 1.0? And even now comparisons with the NeXT shelf are unwarranted, because the NeXT shelf was a file management tool, not a window management tool (like the Windows taskbar). You could d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat And this is built on the assumption that NeXT somehow originated this idea which then, in a linear fashion, made it to Windows 7. Both ideas are, of course, unsupportable except in the context of a desired out…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jazz4ivo Dude OS X is not a letter it stands for OS 10 using roman numeral characters... Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow No. The "X" stands for "Unix." The number following the X is the OS version, curr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat The Win7 taskbar is not a dock rip-off. The dock wasn't even original in its own right. Accusations of theft are for the weak in this regard, and Apple certainly has no grounds for lobbing such accusations. …
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Well I wrote that specifically to see if anyone would bite... It's C, but then they added a Smalltalk run time environment, complete with dynamic typing, new syntax, etc. or... It's a reduced Smalltalk, but they added a small statically co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 XCode won't convert but I'm surprised to find somebody else thinking the same way. That is Smalltalk the language. It would mesh well with iPhone and be good for quick programs and scripts. If I had a ch…