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It's pretty popular in some scientific fields. At NASA, almost every astrophysicist I saw had an Apple computer

Kaladin wrote:
almost every astrophysicist I saw had an Apple computer

That must be a throwback to the days when apple machines were better for painting graphics and "shopping" photographs, since that appears to be a major function of astrophysicists.

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Until a few years ago they were guilty of about 99% of the Quicktime videos that showed up in my browser. Thankfully that's finally over and they're using standard video formats now instead of a cancerous plugin.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Dan Neely wrote:
cancerous

That's a perfect descriptive for quicktime.

I remember having to remove (you couldn't uninstall it, most of the time) three separate instances of quicktime from a win'95 machine, each of which associated itself with every graphic and video file type when it was opened by some stupid web-site.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

I had a similar experience on my XP box. The crApple update mangler wouldn't let me change any settings (including a monthlyish nag to install several other unrelated bits of Cupertino crapware) because it claimed my admin account didn't have admin rights. OMG | :OMG:

By some strange coincidence that was the last system I ever had QT installed on. $Shucks | :-\$

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Dan Neely wrote:
The crApple update mangler wouldn't let me change any settings

Yup.

You had to log on as an administrator, open the registry, and change the permissions on the registry entries.

That, above all else, imbued me with a hatred for apple -- HOW DARE THEY lock registry keys on my machines!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Congrats. I never figured out how to fix it and just cursed Apple monthly until I built a new machine. (Probably Vista64, don't think I made another XP box before needing more ram than 32bit OSes could provided.)

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

From ~11am friday to 5pm yesterday I was. My windows PC bricked its OS, and it took less time to remember I had a macbook under a pile of crap (from when I was planned to be doing an android port of a Xamarin.IOS app and needed to see what the existing code did) and get the VM I was using for rails running on it than it took our highly overworked 1 man IT dept to get me a loaner PC (still needed wiped from its last use and Dell was being DHell as usual). I got my PC fixed yesterday morning, but the inability to copy the VM over (I assumed it was crappy wifi breaking the transfer at the time) meant instead of switching over at lunch time I was on the mac all afternoon too.

Dead | X|

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Yep.. code in Swift and build mobile apps in Xamarin there too.. They have nice screens, keyboards and trackpads too so I quite like doing my JS there (using JetBrains WebStorm).

Once you get used to it (if you spend the time learning how to use it and don't expect it to be "just like Windows") things flow a lot quicker than on Windows. Most people are happy to stick with what they know - there is a learning curve to using Macs just like anything else. Smile | :)

Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.

modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.

Yup, the one that annoyed me the most were the different keyboard shortcuts for editing text. Most would've been livable with more time to learn them (and assuming I could've changed the key mapping in the Ubuntu VM to match); the exception is that on my external keyboard cut was mapped to Win-X, and unlike copy and paste those two keys are too close together to hit with the pinky and index finger of my left hand. (Dunno if it'd be any less painful on an Apple keyboard, I didn't have an external one from them and the macbook was sitting on a 4 book monitor stand to put its screen at a comfortable height rendering they keyboard unusable.)

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Quote:
"They're a curious bunch," she said. "They're kind of like teenagers. And I think they were following this thing around because they couldn't figure out what the heck it was."

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«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal

They look like they are mobbing it.

For some reason, cattle don't seem to like small animals - we had a couple of stray kittens that took to following us around and one day they followed us up while we checked on the cattle. The cows went absolutely wild and chased them all over the field - surprised human and feline alike!

Cattle are the most unpredictable of animals, particularly if they have young. In the UK, it is not unknown for people and particularly dogs to be killed by cattle even when they are using public footpaths. Not that the cattle know they are public footpaths. The cattle will surround the "intruder" and either herd them away from the calves or just trample them. Some years ago, a woman and her dog was herded by cattle into the River Severn near Worcester, when it was running high and fast after heavy rain. The lady's body was finally found miles downstream. They never found the dog.

*Not to change the topic, but will people ever realize that most videos look better when shot in landscape mode?

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

Better yet, why don't the phone makers just translate the image to landscape automatically?

because the sensor is oriented with the screen, so if the user is holding the phone in portrait mode so is the sensor. Theoretically they could crop ~2/3rds of the data away, but showing that on the phone while in portrait mode would look like crap. Also what happens if the user rotates the phone or holds it at a significant angle while recording. (No. Before you say it, breaking their fingers or fondle slab are not actions the phone maker can take to stop this.)

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen?

Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO.

I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open.

I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.

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Full screen: None. Only videos. I don't care about anyhting else when watching a movie.
Maximized: Browser, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio. Anyhting that is worth taking up the space. I don't use them in full screen since I'm likely to hop around the filesystem while I use them - Otherwise I'd have to leave FS everytime.

Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote:
SQL Server Management Studio

I can't use that in any size other than "as big as I can get it" -- which, on a KVM, is still too damned small.

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
what kinds of program do you use full-screen

Almost everything... But I have 3 screens to spread application on...

[EDIT]
Reading Marco's replace: I mixed full-screen with maximized... Se answer as corrected...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
I mixed full-screen with maximized

OK, so, for the sake of argument and less confusion, let's class them together (although the control toolbox makes a big difference, to me).

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I concur with this... I tend to maximize on side monitors in full screen mode and have tiled apps in the center monitor when I'm not in full bore developer mode. At the point that I do flip that switch all three become full screen and I strategically place windows in various monitors so as I need to switch beyond the three up on the screens that they are convenient to cross reference or copy from one to the next.

I also have three monitors, and do most things maximized to full screen. On the left, portrait-oriented monitor is web browser, Adobe reader, or Word, whichever I am using at that time. On the right, landscape-orientated monitor is email, calendar, or Excel, again whichever I am using. In the middle, landscape-oriented widescreen is SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, or Remote Desktop. Other stuff I may need, such as File Explorer or a mainframe screen, I just pop up windows overlaying one of the other screens which is least important at that moment.

Movies, Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, and sometimes VIM when I need to work in multiple files. Everything else I try to keep restricted to one half or one quarter of a screen.

It still annoys me that Stack Overflow doesn't fit nicely into half of a 1080p screen.

Dar Brett wrote:
It still annoys me that Stack Overflow doesn't fit nicely into half of a 1080p screen.

Hey, SO is run by developers; they know better than their users.

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