benlangdon
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will have to try one day, maybe in the next couple of years i will actually have to use windows, which i highly doubt and not looking forward to except to try that out
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How has Mac Changed You?
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will have to try one day, maybe in the next couple of years i will actually have to use windows, which i highly doubt and not looking forward to except to try that out
displaced
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I don't mind coming home from work and using a computer any more 🙂
7 years of using OS X has also made me a much better software developer -- I write corporate apps for Windows using .NET.
I'm much more of a perfectionist in my application design. I'll rip an app of mine to shreds and put it back together again just to get the right 'feel'. I hate unneeded complexity in user interfaces. If an application is, by its nature, complicated, I'll spend a large amount of time working to ensure the UI makes the complexity straight-forward in use. Like OS X and the best of OS X apps, I've learnt to code 'intelligence' into my apps -- they should behave how the user expects and intuits, not how I as the developer think is the easiest way to expose the functionality of the program.
My users are happy users 🙂 My managers were initially a bit boggled about why I wasn't quickly bashing out applications and tools. But once they saw them in use they understood.
7 years of using OS X has also made me a much better software developer -- I write corporate apps for Windows using .NET.
I'm much more of a perfectionist in my application design. I'll rip an app of mine to shreds and put it back together again just to get the right 'feel'. I hate unneeded complexity in user interfaces. If an application is, by its nature, complicated, I'll spend a large amount of time working to ensure the UI makes the complexity straight-forward in use. Like OS X and the best of OS X apps, I've learnt to code 'intelligence' into my apps -- they should behave how the user expects and intuits, not how I as the developer think is the easiest way to expose the functionality of the program.
My users are happy users 🙂 My managers were initially a bit boggled about why I wasn't quickly bashing out applications and tools. But once they saw them in use they understood.
benlangdon
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seriously same thing happened to me when i make anything anymore. i mean anything. i have just kept telling myself, something should work how it is supposed to
benlangdon
macrumors 65816
macs have changed me to think that people will actually help me and want to.
i sent apple an email regarding a problem with my express card.
someone, not the website sent me an email back with his phone number, not corporate, and wanted to help me.
this just happened and do not know the outcome yet
since i have been a mac owner if any problems appear i go to the genius bar, windows would send me to someone else, and have to pay just too look at it, that is why the genius bar is called the genius bar, because its there not because of the people helping you
i sent apple an email regarding a problem with my express card.
someone, not the website sent me an email back with his phone number, not corporate, and wanted to help me.
this just happened and do not know the outcome yet
since i have been a mac owner if any problems appear i go to the genius bar, windows would send me to someone else, and have to pay just too look at it, that is why the genius bar is called the genius bar, because its there not because of the people helping you
Click = Click
Double Click = Double Click
Shift-Click = multi-select all files in range
Ctrl-Click = multi-select the single files/folders you clicked
Right-button Click = context menu
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A little different to Mac, but having worked with Windows since version 2 I would have expected to have a much harder time adjusting to the clicks in OS X than the other way around.
I've also been programming DOS and Windows for some 15 years now, and I also try to create intelligent programs. Most of the programming I do lately is for use in the anti-malware fight on the Microsoft platform, so lately I've gone back to coding tiny commandline programs.displaced said:
I've recently added the XCode tools to my computer, and will be messing with that in the near future as well.
benlangdon
macrumors 65816
duhh i am retarded i use those everyday, i have no clue what i was thinking
ya xcode is nice if you know the exact code your writing as there are many choices, i mean many, it took me at least a half hour to find just basic c++
Well... It's gonna be a bigger change for me anyway. About 95% of what I do professionally is in Delphi, the remaining 5% in Assembly as I don't see the need to start optimizing in C and then redo it all in Assembly when the C variant proves still too slow.
First thing I'll have to find out is database awareness in XCode, one that is compatible with Windows as well (sorta like MySQL, but that is overkill). Then I'll write a first simple phonebook style thingy to see how it all works. After I played that game I'll start rewriting one of the progams I use under Windows so I don't need to be in a Virtual Machine when I need that proggie. But now I'm going way off-topic, so I'll shut up.😀
frozentoast
macrumors 6502
I believe a greater appreciation for design is one of the changes new Mac users go through. Like members before me have pointed out: perfectionism overcomes you and settling for mediocrity isn't an option anymore.
benlangdon
macrumors 65816
ya...
isn't assembly binary? or is that machine
anyway, its just that there is like c++ something, c++ carbon, c++ carbon enhanced, its like that for every code but they are randomly placed
Watabou
macrumors 68040
When I was in my dell laptop, i accidently used two fingers to right click and tried it at least 5 times before I realized that this was not my MBP.
I also tried to find "Cmd" in my Dell laptop. 🙁
Right now, I use my MBP all the time. Dell has been sitting looking stale and unused.
I also tried to find "Cmd" in my Dell laptop. 🙁
Right now, I use my MBP all the time. Dell has been sitting looking stale and unused.
BlakTornado
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Well I'm a better person now.
1. I'm less angry. I don't have to put up with crashes every couple of minutes.
2. I don't steal software. On my PC, I downloaded and bought bootleg copies of programs (although I always had intentions to buy whenever I could, of course). But now I don't pirate software. Everything I have bought has been at least 99% legitimate. I may have found a few loopholes to get the software a bit cheaper, but at the end of the day I payed people for it and it's legal so I'm in the right. And also Mac software is cheap while being good quality, and there are things like Machiest.
3. I have a better outlook on life.
4. I'm more productive but also have more time to relax.
5. I'm happier.
6. I feel more independent. It's hard to not have parents doing things for you or not getting involved when you're not an adult, but I managed to save up for my iMac pretty much on my own (of course, my Mom helped me a little bit but not by lending me money) and I bought it on my own, making my own financial decision about it. And now I have a computer that my family don't know how to use (although my brother DID come into my room and work out where my button to activate spaces was, and thus my sneaky privacy keeping trick is a little less private... until he manages to find where I've moved it to now 😛) and don't need to ask my Mom if it's ok to do ___. While I had my own computer before, I needed to ask my Mom before installing stuff because it was her computer that she gave to me and she didn't want me to wreck it.
7. It turned over a new leaf in my life. I got my iMac just as I started back at school after the summer so it was like the definite start of a new chapter in my life. And a good one.
So yes. Buying a Mac has changed me a lot.
1. I'm less angry. I don't have to put up with crashes every couple of minutes.
2. I don't steal software. On my PC, I downloaded and bought bootleg copies of programs (although I always had intentions to buy whenever I could, of course). But now I don't pirate software. Everything I have bought has been at least 99% legitimate. I may have found a few loopholes to get the software a bit cheaper, but at the end of the day I payed people for it and it's legal so I'm in the right. And also Mac software is cheap while being good quality, and there are things like Machiest.
3. I have a better outlook on life.
4. I'm more productive but also have more time to relax.
5. I'm happier.
6. I feel more independent. It's hard to not have parents doing things for you or not getting involved when you're not an adult, but I managed to save up for my iMac pretty much on my own (of course, my Mom helped me a little bit but not by lending me money) and I bought it on my own, making my own financial decision about it. And now I have a computer that my family don't know how to use (although my brother DID come into my room and work out where my button to activate spaces was, and thus my sneaky privacy keeping trick is a little less private... until he manages to find where I've moved it to now 😛) and don't need to ask my Mom if it's ok to do ___. While I had my own computer before, I needed to ask my Mom before installing stuff because it was her computer that she gave to me and she didn't want me to wreck it.
7. It turned over a new leaf in my life. I got my iMac just as I started back at school after the summer so it was like the definite start of a new chapter in my life. And a good one.
So yes. Buying a Mac has changed me a lot.
benlangdon
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i get angry at other human beings rather than at my pc. PPPPPPc was a good channel for all my anger. at least there's less about humans to get angry about though. so overall, i'm generally less angry. yessir.
Hmm, an interesting question.
I now curse at Steve Jobs and Apple when my Mac hangs or I get the spinning beachball of death, where as before, I would curse Bill Gates and Microsoft when Windows would hang.
I spend more on my computers now than I used to.
I now curse at Steve Jobs and Apple when my Mac hangs or I get the spinning beachball of death, where as before, I would curse Bill Gates and Microsoft when Windows would hang.
I spend more on my computers now than I used to.
It's just a computer. LMAO from your description you would think that that you were describing your new Prozac prescription.
benlangdon
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thejadedmonkey
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Seriously, I get that this place is dedicated to the cult-of-mac™ and all, but isn't this a bit over the top? I mean, a computer is a tool to get a job done. I was able to surf the interwebs on a PC, and I can still connect to the tubes on my mac. I haven't changed my computing habits, and I don't really see how a mac would influence me to.
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Ok, for real I'm a better person. Before I found the cult-of-mac™, I was a heroin abusing druggie, with no chance of making it in life. Once day while I was living in my cardbord box, a strange looking plumber walked up to me with a glowingmushroom apple and said to me "here kid, this'll change your life". Being so doped up on E, I didn't realize what it was. I took it.
The next day, went to a thrift store and got a nice italian made suit for 2¢ and cleaned myself up. By the following week, I was a self made zillionaire, all thanks to that oneshroom apple.
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Ok, for real I'm a better person. Before I found the cult-of-mac™, I was a heroin abusing druggie, with no chance of making it in life. Once day while I was living in my cardbord box, a strange looking plumber walked up to me with a glowing
The next day, went to a thrift store and got a nice italian made suit for 2¢ and cleaned myself up. By the following week, I was a self made zillionaire, all thanks to that one
BlakTornado
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You would think that 😉
But then again, you didn't use my PC. Seriously, it sucked so BADLY.
256MB RAM, about 1GB of Virtual memory (Which slows windows down like a b***h), loads of crapware and bloat, fragmented hard drive, viruses and various other things. Really not good, haha.
My Mac WAS the Prozac 😛
Heh. Sorry if some of us actually take some joy from having a happy computing experience. Also, a car is just a car; a job is just a job; "success" is just too often just a series of numbers preceded by a dollar sign; movies are just movies; and sex, even, is just sex.
When you consider how important computers have become to our everyday lives, and how much time many people spend using them, they really have quite an effect. When lots of things seem to be going wrong, and you have work piling up, many other troubles, and are just downright out-of-luck, it's often nice to have something that "just works." Seriously. I know that sounds dumb. But personally, as a university student right now, worrying about grades, exams, papers, etc., it's good to know I have one tool that won't crap out on me. I have too many friends with PC's that crapped out on them when they needed them most; and it's happened to me plenty of times, too, but my little MacBook has been a very happy little constant in the turmoil of 20 credit hour semesters + research work.
In the end, there's lots of much more important things that factor into happiness. True love, fulfillment, companionship, etc. But there are lots of things that we are forced to use in this technological age, and using bad products can often ruin ones' day. And it just piles up if it happens again, and again, and again. So it's good to have something that just works, in a world where lots of things don't. And so far, that's been my experience. I don't think it's any kind of cult; I've just had a good experience. Maybe you haven't?
My experience? In my experience, my MBP has had just as many problems as the Windows based PC it replaced, both hardware and software. It's froze before when I'm working on something, just to have a snarky "genius" assure it must have been something I did since he couldn't find anything wrong with my machine. My windows machine froze as well. I'm generally heavily multitasking when things like this occur, but It's a god damn 3000$ laptop with top of the line everything it should be able to lol.
But that's neither here or there. My original point wasn't to hurt anyones feelings (even though it's pretty easy on Mac boards) I was just poking fun at someone that says their computer caused them to "3. I have a better outlook on life."
lmao come on man lighten up and realize, that is funny. And yes, it is just a computer.
@ BlakTornado - hehe have you ever considered how much cheaper a prozac script would be compared to your Mac? 😉
That's too bad. In the year I've had my Mac, I haven't really had any major problems with it.
And no hard feelings. I'm perfectly lightened up. I'm just explaining how it can actually be quite a joyous experience. All I know is that I'd be very, very upset if I was ever forced to go back to Windows.
The binary thing is machine language, Assembly is "one step higher" in that it lets you use simpler terms then 31 DF 21 to program things. Assembly is more like
Stolen from an online example. But as it is just one step up from machine code it is the fastest code around if programmed correctly. Higher languages will always build in some safeguards like garbage collection and calling conventions that you can skip in Assembly. Whether that is smart is the second verse though. As I said, I use in "programming emergencies". Delphi is pretty sophisticated and optimized so it creates fast code of itself, but sometimes that is not fast enough.
See! And you are a better person because of that. Just ask any of your tablemates 😉