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Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature
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it's pronounced "oh es ten" and happened to come out after OS 9 but the X means more than just 10.
would you pronounce Xcode "ten-code?"
what about NeXTSTEP?
also, OS X 10.6 would be redundant.
mostly just playin around. but also sayin
You CAN access FTP via finder; just do the connect to server...
Now, it's not integrated into the main finder window like windows is, but that's also because there's no explorer bar like that; but to a degree I like it better that way. I mean when I connect to a SMB server, I like how it shows up as an additional disk on the desktop, and how I can still access it from the left column... in that regard its not much different from windows, in fact, I find it easier to access drives like that than digging through explorer if I'm constantly going in/out of it.
I agree about the file sharing GUI though, or at least more preferences available via prefpane.
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Regarding iOS and OS X convergence I really hope this isn't the case. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy using iOS on my iPhone and my iPad, but I can scarcely say that I would enjoy using this type of interface on my 24" iMac. Also, another thing that concerns me is that Apple will attempt to apply the App Store to the iMac, which I'm sure developers would like because it would cut down on piracy to some extent, but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of Apple being the deciding factor on what types of programs I can install on my computer. I don't have to big of an issue with them doing this for the iPhone or iPad because the former at it's core is simply a phone and the latter in my case is a media consuming toy. However, my iMac is much more than either of those when it comes to productivity. I would be most unhappy if one day I decided that the iCal app on my iMac just wasn't cutting it for me, but I had to simply settle for it because Apple refused to let any other calendar applications into their App Store. I know that my concerns are likely to never be fulfilled, but it still lingers in the back of my mind when I hear post similar to the ones that are in this forum.
Regarding iOS and OS X convergence I really hope this isn't the case. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy using iOS on my iPhone and my iPad, but I can scarcely say that I would enjoy using this type of interface on my 24" iMac. Also, another thing that concerns me is that Apple will attempt to apply the App Store to the iMac, which I'm sure developers would like because it would cut down on piracy to some extent, but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of Apple being the deciding factor on what types of programs I can install on my computer. I don't have to big of an issue with them doing this for the iPhone or iPad because the former at it's core is simply a phone and the latter in my case is a media consuming toy. However, my iMac is much more than either of those when it comes to productivity. I would be most unhappy if one day I decided that the iCal app on my iMac just wasn't cutting it for me, but I had to simply settle for it because Apple refused to let any other calendar applications into their App Store. I know that my concerns are likely to never be fulfilled, but it still lingers in the back of my mind when I hear post similar to the ones that are in this forum.
Uhm, no. Apple IS first and foremost a hardware company. They care about software, yes, but that's just because it sets them apart form other HW companies. If they where all about SW, why did they price SL so cheap? $29 is quite low. Also, why haven't they licensed Mac OSX to run on PCs?
Because they don't care about licenses! They earn much more money with hardware. You can tell they don't care about software because they do nothing to protect them from piracy either. Mac OS doesn't require any serial or code. Neither does iLife. It doesn't matter much to them. You already payed premium on the HW (You shouldn't pirate though, developers deserve their salary IMO).
The money is in hardware sales.
Mac OS X + iOS = boom
If by boom you mean FAIL, then yes.
Who would buy a computer with a gadget's OS?
I hate to break this to you, but most Windows uninstallers just remove the binaries and resource files. They will leave all their registry entries, and user configuration files orphaned on the disk. This is one of the reasons for registry size bloat over the life of a windows desktop.
You just have the illusion that Windows has real "total uninstall management". Try using one of the products that tracks what files and registry setting are created by an installer and the first run of a program, then compare it with what gets removed when you run the uninstaller.
3D Wigets
It will be a 3D desktop and 3D Wigets... each face of the wiget will have a different function... from the same application.
It will be a 3D desktop and 3D Wigets... each face of the wiget will have a different function... from the same application.
Something you *deliberately* can't do. Because it makes no sense conceptually.
What should happen if after doing the cut action, you copy some text from a browser screen. Should Finder immediately delete the file you cut, or just ignore it like nothing happened? How do you handle the file 'disappearing' on the cut, but still being somewhere so it can be 'pasted'? The answers to these automatically require deviating from the way cut and paste work in every other application. Atempting UI 'consistency' that only produces inconsistency is bad, so since it doesn't make sense to allow 'cut and paste' for files, you have 'copy and move' instead.
(This thread seems to have a lot of people demanding Mac OS should be more like Windows.)
I'm not sure if this is the new feature, but HFS/HFS Plus are very old and in need of a rework. The current file system presents limitations that I'm sure Apple would like to overcome.