Why isn't M$ doing this? Is it b/c it's impossible? Or too many people make too much money off of anti-virus software?
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Why isn't M$ doing this? Is it b/c it's impossible? Or too many people make too much money off of anti-virus software?
Has anyone heard any talk of Apple coming out with high density displays? This push for resolution independence seems to imply that Apple is planning to up their dot pitch-- have we heard anything on when?
The short answer is probably that they don't need to. People whine about security, but we've yet to see Microsoft's dominance threatened by the problem.Why isn't M$ doing this? Is it b/c it's impossible? Or too many people make too much money off of anti-virus software?
Firewall 'allow once'
It's nice to see that the builtin firewall is improving (will it make LittleSnitch obsolete?), but I do hope that they have an 'allow once' option in the application firewall.
It's nice to see that the builtin firewall is improving (will it make LittleSnitch obsolete?), but I do hope that they have an 'allow once' option in the application firewall.
Free, pirated software > viruses + spyware, apparently.
The only thing I've seen that might have given anyone pause was when Sophos, the anti-virus vendor, said that consumers running a computer should switch from Windows to Mac OS X.
Leopard will most likely cost US$129. If you are a University student or teacher you can get an education discount that reduces the price to US$69. At least, those were the prices last time when 10.4 came out.
OK, so I wasn't completely dim about the point of doing calculations in Spotlight and very few people were being ironic (loved the Bash post though).
But I still can't for the life of me imagine using it - Calculator lives in the dock or, dare I say it, in my desk drawer (that's a real desk, made of wood-ish stuff, and a real calculator made of plastic and silicon).
But then I'm just a scientist. And I use Spotlight about once a week, if that.
The GUI stuff looks cool though.
But I still can't for the life of me imagine using it - Calculator lives in the dock or, dare I say it, in my desk drawer (that's a real desk, made of wood-ish stuff, and a real calculator made of plastic and silicon).
But then I'm just a scientist. And I use Spotlight about once a week, if that.
The GUI stuff looks cool though.
See, for me Spotlight was a god send. Searching through endless scientific journal articles for the snippets of information suitable for my labwork suddenly got a whole lot easier when I could just type in a phrase or name I remembered and go straight to it.
To help explain the calculator thing here.The only reason one sees the calculation in spotlight is because spotlight will be "spotlighting" everything.If you type in a calculation it naturally finds calculator so the calculation shows up.
Same with PDF docs..If you start to type in a sentence that happens to be in a PDF document it will show up also.
Not sure if Leopard has got to that point yet.
Same with PDF docs..If you start to type in a sentence that happens to be in a PDF document it will show up also.
Not sure if Leopard has got to that point yet.
A good idea is a good idea. I sure as heck hope MS or Apple never avoids adding a good feature because the competition's fans are ravonous about screeching that they copied Y's feature. As an example Fast user switching and hibernation mode are two examples off the top of my head that MS had first. Again a good feature is a good feature.
Absolutely. I'd say that we should all be to the point where computers are tools and not religions and whatever helps us get out jobs done more accurately, quickly, and without bumps and bruises is a win for everyone.
I keep wishing that Apple would change the save dialog box so that you can at least rename an item. If they would add the capability to delete and include the open dialog box, it would save a lot of time. They changed the dialog boxes for Mac OS 8.x, and it really wouldn't hurt to change them 7 years later. It might also take some heat off fixing the Finder since they haven't found that one great idea.
Still not seeing any major compelling reason to upgrade. $10 says that those top secret features Jobs was talking about was a result of his RDF.
i concur
It looks good but you can't really make it much more secure. They have created what appear to be safeguards against things we know exist already. The problem with security exploits and viruses is that they take advantage of the things nobody saw coming. As obvious as that sounds, stop for a second and consider that.
The more complicated an OS gets, the more likelihood there will be little holes and problems that someone can take advantage of. So in a sense, the more they add features, the better the chances are that someone will find some way to get in there and cause problems.
I enjoy working in OS X and Apple makes great products, but I'm always vaguely concerned when I see Mac users being lulled into this sense of false security. Make no mistake, someday, somewhere, someone will figure out a way to take OS X down.
Eh? Kinda like DOS? Yeuch! No way! Didn't Apple bring windows and drag and drop copying and the like to the masses to make life easier?
Eh? Kinda like DOS? Yeuch! No way! Didn't Apple bring windows and drag and drop copying and the like to the masses to make life easier?
Drag and drop copying is easier with few files but with many files, you can end up trying to copy some twice and others not at all. If there is a certain pattern, it's much easier to use cp to copy files. Also, you can programatically, automatically, and repeatedly copy files using a shell script.
You might not need such things but other people do and thankfully, Mac OS X gives us the ability to do it without having to add anything to the system. If they were available from Spotlight, it would be useful, especially since we'd already generated the search pattern.
There is a nice thing called the number pad on full sized keyboards for that reason =)
Well put. Spotlight is evolving into what Finder is now. I think apple is going to step finder up to a more advanced, as well as user friendly system. I personally use Pathfinder to essentially replace finder in a variety of situations, and prefer it over it's default counterpart quite heavily.
To help explain the calculator thing here.The only reason one sees the calculation in spotlight is because spotlight will be "spotlighting" everything.If you type in a calculation it naturally finds calculator so the calculation shows up.
Same with PDF docs..If you start to type in a sentence that happens to be in a PDF document it will show up also.
Not sure if Leopard has got to that point yet.
Well, my tiger spotlight has been indexing and searching PDF's for the last 14 months... i certainly hope Apple doesn't take that feature away
Following the thread, i also think spotlight will eventually replace finder, it could do it by using multiple key combinations to search and open automatically different items, let's say, apple-space for the common spotlight, apple-a for applications, apple-f for files, apple-s for web pages, etcetera...
Leo