Posts by Armando 123

Is it just me

or is the UI one place you can look at and see why Apple has succeeded where MS has failed? I'm not saying this to rag on MS or praise Apple, I think it shows what happens when you play to your strength vs playing to someone else's strength. Seriously, like Louie Armstrong, Apple has figured out what to leave out, and that makes their interfaces so much better than MS', IMnsHO.

I've been using Lion and Mountain Lion for a while on my laptop, and while there are things about the interface that aren't the chioce I'd make, or I wonder why I'd want a certain feature, the overall UI has a consistency and a logic to it. Where certain gestures from iOS made sense to incorporate, they were added to the desktop OS. Where they didn't make sense, they were left out. That shows a lot of design, thinking, engineering, testing, re-engineering, etc. Apple isn't perfect, and like I said, they don't always make the choice I would, but those differences are few and minor, and I think a lot of that is as much my taste as their choices.

MS UIs feel to me like it was all slapped together under a deadline, using whatever already existed whether it made sense or not, then bolting/duct taping/soldering/ bailing wiring whatever feature list marketing said onto it.

And for the record, I use Ubuntu Unity, Windows XP & 7, and RedHat at work, OS X at home. I develop on all those platforms. So I do have some idea of what living with ech one is like.

"beautiful girl"?

Isn't that what got Rob Lowe, Mark Chmura, and Roman Polanski in trouble?

Huh

We've had OnStar in a Gm car for about five years and it's been great. When a faulty gas tank detector went phut, my wife was in the middle of nowhere and out of gas on a holiday weekend. AAA would have taken two hours to respond, OnStar got someone there within 20 minutes. We once called when it looked like we were heading into a potential tornado/massive storm when outside of 3G coverage and got an update (and alternate route) from them. And the autocalling from the car when the accelerometers detect a crash is a feature I'm glad to buy and hope I never need.

However, all the multimedia shove-in-the-features don't seem to be a great addition. We've got XM and iPods for music (communal and personal) and a $100 portable video player for the boys (not to mention iPod touches). None of this seems to be a real value-add.

Personally, I would hope Toyota would do some research into better brakes and having more room for those of us over 5'8".

Wow

"in an effort to follow Apple and Google into the workplace."

Did you think you'd see that description of an MS action back in 2001?

Harumph, I say!

“Maybe that’s not all bad and if that’s the worst it gets, it will be fine. You can either adapt, or you go extinct, or you can move, and there’s not a lot of place to move anymore, so I think it’s a matter of adaptation and becoming smaller.”

As someone of Anglo-Viking ancestry, I find this racist and plan to kill the wanker via the Flying Eagle! Hand me the battle axe. Or chainsaw.

They may be right, but ...

Never underestimate the ingenuity of geeks with insight + businessmen who can sniff profit. That is one potent combination.

Gun owner here

As someone who shoots pistols for sport, has a rifle for squirrel hunting, one for deer hunting, and two handed down through the family (one a Kentucky long rifle, one a Henry rifle used in the Civil War), I admire his restraint.