Comments on: Rotten Apple http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html seanobrien.org Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sean http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-150 Sean Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:20:36 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-150 Yup, a 7800 will handle the full Vista Aero Glass treatment. Yup, a 7800 will handle the full Vista Aero Glass treatment.

]]> By: Biggerboat http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-149 Biggerboat Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:37:18 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-149 <strong>Big Mac...</strong> Sean has written a post about the current Apple ad campaign over on OB1og. Go read it. It's not very long. I'll wait right here. Have you read it all? Good. The ads star, as Sean so aptly put it,...... Big Mac…

Sean has written a post about the current Apple ad campaign over on OB1og. Go read it. It’s not very long. I’ll wait right here. Have you read it all? Good. The ads star, as Sean so aptly put it,……

]]> By: JFCC http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-148 JFCC Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:36:35 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-148 Hey, I just built this machine myself last December. It's got an Nvidia GeForce 7800--I would hope it can handle some glass graphics. And as for mice--well, I actually prefer trackballs, and my trackball has no fewer than four buttons (five counting the scroll wheel). Hey, I just built this machine myself last December. It’s got an Nvidia GeForce 7800–I would hope it can handle some glass graphics.

And as for mice–well, I actually prefer trackballs, and my trackball has no fewer than four buttons (five counting the scroll wheel).

]]> By: Sean http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-146 Sean Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:02:42 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-146 Hmm... I wonder what you are going to think about Vista then. It's got a lot of new UI things going on too. One thing that is already annoying is you can't readily tell which window is the active one because they all do the translucent glass thing. You'll see what I mean if your PC graphics can even handle the glass. As for right-click, it is arguably the best invention of the last ten years, actually longer since Win 95 is older than that. Why Apple hasn't gotten on-board this yet, I don't know. They have copied lots of other things and I think their new "Mighty Mouse" even has two buttons now. They copy lots of other MS stuff, lots of Vista innovations are already in OSX because they are faster to market, but refuse to let go of their "simple" one button mouse. Hmm… I wonder what you are going to think about Vista then. It’s got a lot of new UI things going on too. One thing that is already annoying is you can’t readily tell which window is the active one because they all do the translucent glass thing. You’ll see what I mean if your PC graphics can even handle the glass.

As for right-click, it is arguably the best invention of the last ten years, actually longer since Win 95 is older than that. Why Apple hasn’t gotten on-board this yet, I don’t know. They have copied lots of other things and I think their new “Mighty Mouse” even has two buttons now. They copy lots of other MS stuff, lots of Vista innovations are already in OSX because they are faster to market, but refuse to let go of their “simple” one button mouse.

]]> By: JFCC http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-145 JFCC Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:16:30 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/rotten-apple.html#comment-145 I agree those Mac ads are annoying, smug, and downright patronizing. Here's my problem with Macs. I hate the UI. I had to use Macs all through my program at Emerson, and I just couldn't get used to not having a second mouse button. To select an item from a menu, you highlight the item and click, and then when you let go, it flashes for about a second before whatever you want to happen happens. As I would use programs such as Photoshop which would require many such clicks, all I could think about was the minutes of my life which were ticking away as I waited for that stupid flickering to finish up. The thought of working with that all day, every day was maddening. I realize it could just be that I grew up with a Windows interface, just like I grew up speaking English and not Spanish. But I find the Mac UI to be slow, confusing, and counter-intuitive. I agree those Mac ads are annoying, smug, and downright patronizing.

Here’s my problem with Macs. I hate the UI. I had to use Macs all through my program at Emerson, and I just couldn’t get used to not having a second mouse button. To select an item from a menu, you highlight the item and click, and then when you let go, it flashes for about a second before whatever you want to happen happens. As I would use programs such as Photoshop which would require many such clicks, all I could think about was the minutes of my life which were ticking away as I waited for that stupid flickering to finish up. The thought of working with that all day, every day was maddening.

I realize it could just be that I grew up with a Windows interface, just like I grew up speaking English and not Spanish. But I find the Mac UI to be slow, confusing, and counter-intuitive.

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