MajesticTreeFrog

The best OS in the world will eventually be linux. EVENTUALLY. Not now. At some point, enough work will have been done to allow the user interface of linux to catch up to windows or mac. When it does, its all over for microsoft, and possibly Apple(though apple seems much better than MS at branching out into different things, in particular software like final cut pro that just won't exist for a VERY long time on linux, at least as open source). It will be an interesting time, and i look forward to it.

It depends. What applescript does is automate tasks. Its sorta like a shell scripting language, if you have ever used unix or linux. Chances are, you don't need to at all. But, i understand knowing how to use it allows you to do very powerfull customized things.

The new one is much much cleaner and more professional looking.

The reason why someone goes from open hardware+closed OS to Open OS + Closed hardware(though Mac OSX is hardly truly open), is that some people don't care all that much about the open/closed debate. They want something that gives them no **** and does what they want. Windows will usually do what you want, at least kinda, but has a long history of either giving you **** itself or being virus ridden or having other random problems. Linux gives you **** in that its not very intuitive at all. Instead of doing your work or what have you the user has to Go Learn Linux, which can be no easy task. Then, on linux, while there is lots of software, there isn't photoshop(GIMP doesnt count, not by a long shot), dreamweaver, etc etc etc. So, after you learn linux, you have to Go Learn New Programs, which may or may not have the ease of use/features you require. Which all adds up to a huge hassle for someone who, like most people, just wants to use their computer to do their work and be done with it.

I use win2k and a OS X. The windows box is good for running the assorted and random stuff that I occasionaly feel the itch to mess with, the Mac is for getting work done, without the BS. People who have not used OSX for an extended period of time often do not appreciate the non obvious advantages to the OS, such as never having to defragment your hard drive, not getting viruses, not having your computer slow to a crawl such that it is difficult to switch between programs, etc. etc. The only real complaints I hear about macs are the 'lack of software' and the lack of games. the lack of games is real, but then again, this is my 'work computer'. Don't buy a mac for games, buy it for work. In terms of lack of software, I wonder what they are talking about. All the large software packages exist on the mac, the only things that might be missing are the more obscure. If you NEED said peice of obscurity, then fine. But that isn't 99% of people who aren't spending all day on CS.

and Mac OS should really be split into two: OS X and OS9 and earlier. They are completely different OS's. Granted, OS9 and earlier would lose. But just letting you know.

how did you get photoshop and indesign for free? Let me know cause I want in!

yay for mac!

OK.....what sort of buddhist are you? The events and descriptions of things that occur in the first 5 books, (in particular things like genesis) conflict pretty directly with the pali cannon. Which is fine, but perhaps you should consider your beliefs on both these religions more carefully. On another note, someone mentioned that if you were going faster than light and came around in a circle or something like that you would have gone backwards in time. Not really, thats not how it works. If that is even possible(which it looks like it isn't, at least not as described) what would happen is the person doing the orbit would age backwards and arrive younger than they were when they left. Everyone else would have aged.

except the gimp doesn't have the easy learning curve, the plugins, the nice user interface, etc.

You know, having a good sound card won't help much if your speakers are crap. No matter how pretty the sound coming out of the card is, if the speakers can't produce that quality, its all for nothing. If you are going to invest in a good soundcard like an audigy 2 or better, then you should really go buy nice speakers. If you are thinking of upgrading from a decent midrange soundcard(like 30-50 bucks) to a newer card, it might be a better use of money to go get real speakers. For instance, before I upgraded to an Audigy 2 soundcard, I bought a pair of paradigm atom v3 speakers and a cambridge audio a500 amp. Go luck up reviews on those. Granted the pair of speakers and the amp were both $200 bucks. But DVDs and music are perfect.

hmm, my last reply in this thread was meant to go somewhere else, but I don't remember where. In any case here is my reply to THIS topic. For 50 bucks, you will have a computer that runs. The end. Finding software for Mac OS's earlier than OSX or maybe OS9 will be hard. Frankly, unless you want it for the hell of owning an old mac, you would probably be better off spending the 50 bucks on something else. I assume since you are on these boards that you have a computer of your own. If so, you don't need that machine, its not worth it. If you DON'T have a computer, it may be worth it if you can't scrounge the parts to build a PC that runs linux or something for free. Make sure it has software coming with it though.

Frankly, if anyone is having their Mac crash under OSX, it is the owners fault(or whoever is admining the machine). FreeBSD, as a general rule, doesn't crash. If PROGRAMS are crashing, thats the program's fault. OSX doesn't use shared memory, so other programs can't be the cause of it, none of that cascading crash BS like on windows.

the main thing to do is figure out what layout you need. As in, how many menus there will ever be(including sub menu's), how many options there will be in those menus, and so on. At that point, you have narrowed down the number of possible layouts there are(realistically) to choose from. Pick the layout that makes the most sense for your content/audience and go with it. This will give you a decent site. Write it with as much CSS as possible, so that if you decide there is a more optimal way of doing things, you only have to mess with the CSS file once and be done with it.

Ok, Macs now run OSX, which is based on FreeBSD, a unix version that is VERY good for servers. Apple even has a division which sells xservers which are macs dedicated to being servers. As far as being servers, they have the advantages of unix(difficulty of attack, exploits) and the benefits of easy administration. The downside is that you need a Mac to do the serving with. That being said, you probably don't have a mac lying around, so go download redhat or something similar. Or browse around the web and see if there is a distribution that has good and easy to use serving utilities that don't have bad defaults(I assume you don't know a lot about linux, and therefore don't want to mess with low level config files that much).

go get photoshop elements if you can't afford the full version of photoshop. Elements has most if not all of the funtions people here are going to use(unless you guys are doing color correction for print magazines or something).

I shall try this 1st page of which you speak. I also found BBedit for Mac, just in case anyone is interested. Not exactly free, but at least rather cheap, a lot cheaper than dreamweaver

I could never figure out that game. Not to mention the interminable and idiotic training BS.

Wow, then you did get ripped. Apparently you went to a terrible karate school. Granted, there are LOTS of terrible karate schools. But thats because karate is no longer really a martial art, its more a sport that pretends its a martial art, just like tae kwon do.

ok, did you copy paste this?

Well yes, but I think they were talking graphic designer. What you might be thinking of is 'software architect'. This is a different form of design. A graphic designer might make your interface look pretty, but a software architect would hire say, a useability expert to design the human interface and then send those specifications to a graphic artist to 'pretty up'.

if you REALLY want to challenge the limits, go get some flavor of BSD unix. Go all the way, go HARDCORE!

I don't know if its iomega, but yes, someone is/has released a 1 terabyte HD. Its insanely expensive though.

This is a usefull find, thanks for letting me us know

This is why I say run both of em. Adaware gets more than spybot, but I believe spybot occasionally gets some adaware doesnt. After that, run hijack this.Also, run Zonealarm and a good virus scanner.