12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
7:59 a.m.
2009/6/12 John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Liam
Proven<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, speak for yourself! :?) I use the keystrokes myself and find
Spaces considerably more efficient than the virtual-desktop system in
GNOME, for instance.
2009/6/12 Kirn Gill <segin2005 at
gmail.com>:
It's shiny.
But on the other hand, nobody moves slower than a Mac user. "free, powerful and useful" does not
describe any viable consumer OS
at the moment.
At point, the only consumer OSes really worth considering (more than
7.5% market share) are Windows and Mac OS X.
If you are trying to apply "free, powerful and useful" to Windows, you
need your head examined.
Well, as the man said, two out of three ain't bad.
It's powerful and it's useful. And in practice, for most people, it
*is* free, because it comes with the computer.
Mac OS X... is an abomination. A design (look and
feel) that sucks
using a interface toolkit (Cocoa) that sucks written in a language
(Objective-C) that sucks.
I am not a programmer, so I have no experience of OS X's development
tools. I've been using it since the first version, though, and I think
it's the least-sucky OS in the world today. In my opinion, it looks
beautiful - the most elegant, stylish and attractive GUI there has
ever been, thus far, and in use, it's the most polished and friendly
OS there has ever been. Its only serious rival in simplicity and ease
of use was its own predecessor, classic MacOS.
Also, if you're getting kicked/slashed as you ride
past people, you're
riding waaaay too close to pedestrians, especially what are apparently
stupid chav pedestrians.
They certainly were the latter.
In this instance, actually, I was on a cycle path along Cable Street
in East London, and as it was a one-way street at that point, I had no
choice but to use the cycle path. And, unfortunately, pedestrians tend
to ignore cycle paths and blithely walk along them.
But they had to run at me with the knife, as it happens.
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