Make that "clueless Windows fan" who still complains about the Mac's one button mouse...
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Posted on 01/20/2007 1:24:47 AM PST by Swordmaker
Obviously David deJean did little or no research on modern Macs.
" a comparison of the number of mouse clicks it takes to discover the network address being used by your computer — three for the Mac, six for the PC. Actually, a fluent speaker of Windows can do it in three steps, too:
- Click on the Vista icon
- Type "cmd" in the search box and click on the entry for "cmd.exe" that's highlighted in the results list, or just hit Return
- At the command line, type "ipconfig" and hit Return.
Amazing how "three mouse clicks" is converted to "Windows can do it in three steps." I actually find thirteen discreet movements, counting keystrokes, in the Windows "three steps". It's still 3 clicks on the Mac.
'And is an unlabeled icon shaped like an apple really any more intuitive than a button labeled "Start"?'
Apparently it is... because Windows Vista has replaced the button labeled "Start" with an unlabeled icon shaped like a circle with a Windows logo in it (is that the "Vista icon"?).
Make that "clueless Windows fan" who still complains about the Mac's one button mouse...
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My G4 came with the single "button," tho I upgraded to a cordless mouse and am used to its right button and scroll wheel. I do now recall reading that Tiger has a much more complex mouse . . .And I too loved that comparison of three mouse clicks to one mouse click and two typed instructions.
Is there anything to the claim he makes that Vista lays a serious foundation for applications development and for new hardware? Even if so, I suppose that the proper comparison will not be to Tiger but to Leopard, assuming that comes out on schedule.
Huh? What is the writer taking about? He never does suggest why a Mac user would need to reference an IP address more often. (For that matter, many networks run DHCP, so who cares what the IP addresss is of the machine).
That, and the business about dumping the ipconfig file in Vista. Now that's what I'd call user hostile!
If it continues to cling to its vision of DRM and User Account Control, if it continues to behave as if it had a divine right to 90 percent market share, Microsoft will create a situation that makes inroads by other OSes inevitable.
With what I've read of Vista'a DRM scheme, which appears to have been spec'ed by the media conglomerates and RIAA, this issue alone may be the stumbling block to sales.
I too was going to bring that up. I was going to be generous and give them six steps (counting the typing as single steps).
More problematic are Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista a more secure operating system. Security has never been something Microsoft did well. It has always subordinated practical measures for protecting users of its products against malware to, say, an ideological dedication to the cross-application scripting of Active X controls.With Vista, the company seems not so much to be building in security for users as deniability for itself by explicitly making the user responsible for security wherever it can — and applying a definition of "security" that seems to confuse the safety of its customers' computing environments with its own interests in digital rights management (DRM).
Vista extends the discomfort of Microsoft's existing Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy intrusionware with its Software Protection Platform, which requires even more validation of the software's legality. At the same time, Vista doesn't seem to do much more to protect users' PCs and data from malware attacks than XP. The "OS X Shines" article may be overly strident about whether the new User Account Control (UAC) represents "authentication" or "approval," but it is correct about the result: UAC is certainly annoying.
The superiority of OS X is this quite simple proposition - what Windows Vista sets out to do, and requires at least 2 GB of RAM and massive processor power to accomplish, OS X accomplished 2 years ago and will run nicely on a slower processor with 512 MB to 1 GB of RAM.
Just the facts Mac....
"" The superiority of OS X is this quite simple proposition - what Windows Vista sets out to do, and requires at least 2 GB of RAM and massive processor power to accomplish, OS X accomplished 2 years ago and will run nicely on a slower processor with 512 MB to 1 GB of RAM.
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""A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:
A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
512 MB of system memory.
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable.
A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
1 GB of system memory.
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)2, Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel.
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
DVD-ROM Drive3.
Audio output capability.
Internet access capability. ''
For you macaniacs a Vista capable PC is without Aero.
And a Vista premium PC is with Aero.
Sure it won't be screaming but neither would a Mac with less RAM. Lets not forget Rosetta to slow things down. :-)
I can do it in four: Right-click network (either on the desktop or from the system tray - you pick). Properties. Status. Detail.
Vista is a modest suburban home, with a sprawling, ten story industrial plant stacked on top, capped by an impressive glass and steel spire that rises 1,000 feet in the air but has occasional problems with windows falling out.
Vista's advocates like to brag that Vista is a lot taller than OS/X and thus can hold many more people (support many more applications). Corporate America, being dependent on those applications, has no choice but to lease space in Vista.
But which building would you rather live in? ;)
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So what's the issue? If you don't like DRM, then don't play protected content on your PC. Pretty simple. If you are quite happy with standard definition DVDs, nothing has changed for you, except that Vista Ultimate includes a DVD codec. If you want HD content, then you're subject to whatever protection the publisher demands for their product.
I think it's referred to as the 'jewel' (whatever that means). But, of you mouse over it the tooltip says "Start". Users who don't appreciate irony have always had the option of using Alt+F4 to shut down their computers.
But really, who, aside from mobile users actually turns their computer off anymore? I've got three desktops and four laptops lying around here. Not a single one of them is ever turned off except the one I travel with. The rest quietly go into thier S3 state when not in use and woken up when needed.
The former. Because, the latter is full of people like you.
One button mouse??? HUH??? What do you do if you're left handed?!?!?!?!?!? ;o)
Now that's an easy question.
Just use this:
When will everyone learn?
It's the applications, stupid!
Uh, NO! The whole point of a GUI is to do away with arcane learning curves and make using the computer intuitive.
And if you want to go that way, in OS X you can go to Applications, Utilities, Terminal to open a terminal, and type "ifconfig". Windows' ipconfig is just a later DOS version of this ancient UNIX command.
Windows XP was released the same year, and embodied changes as major as those in OS X. It incorporated the 32-bit NT kernel, and radically reworked the Windows UI.
Sorry, but throwing a Crayola theme on top of Win2K is not a radical reworking of the Windows UI.
Must be a horrible life to have to use something you so obviously hate everyday just to pay the bills. Just goes to show justice can at times be poetic.
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