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Chickenhawk wrote:

pirloui wrote:

Would be nice to scrap the finder and traditional tree based filesystem, I'd love a purely spotlight / keyword based file navigation...

oh god no.

please god no.

LukeLucas wrote:

this just makes my head hurt.

We'll see in 10 years where we are.
Arborescence is a totally retro, rooted in the physical world way of doing.
There is no reason a computer file should be in one precise "place", that's a restriction from physics. "one cabinet, one drawer, one folder".

And yes spotlight sucks right now, that doesn't mean it's gonna suck forever. Besides, it wouldn't need to be a search based acces, but for example a keyword cloud, or a hierarchy of keyword relation.

So please, tell me your problem, instead of doing the prima donnas.

pkmgarf wrote:

The only problems will be that older video cards (like ones that came with the PPC machines) will be far outdated for some of the newer software.  Basically, other components will limit compatibility before non-PPC support does.

When was the last time Apple offered an AGP videocard, even as an upgrade kit?

Alien wrote:

What part op "option" are you having trouble understanding?

.tsooJ

No trouble. But my not using such an option would not prevent OTHERS from using it. I do computer support for all branches of my family and a large portion of my friends. This sorting method pisses me off every time I see it, and having it's ill though out stupidity creep into OSX would piss me off even more.

pirloui wrote:

Chickenhawk wrote:

pirloui wrote:

Would be nice to scrap the finder and traditional tree based filesystem, I'd love a purely spotlight / keyword based file navigation...

oh god no.

please god no.

LukeLucas wrote:

this just makes my head hurt.

We'll see in 10 years where we are.
Arborescence is a totally retro, rooted in the physical world way of doing.
There is no reason a computer file should be in one precise "place", that's a restriction from physics. "one cabinet, one drawer, one folder".

Actually, there are very, very good reasons.

Tallgeese wrote:

Actually, there are very, very good reasons.

I don't agree...

The illusion of the window being the folder is broken allready, and we're in a messy in the middle thing right now. If one need a mental handle to the file, let it be so, and it will be represented by an icon. But I don't think we're so incapable of adapting that we won't be able to quit folder based navigation, as it's restrictive and counter productive, in the sense that your classification has physical limits.
It might take a little while for dusty people to adapt, but we've come a long way allready, and it's not like it's going to stop now.

Besides, it would / could be a unified / coherent experience, which we don't have now.

Last edited by pirloui (2008-04-14 10:18 pm)

dvpierce wrote:

Sounds like you work for a bunch of not very tech-savvy people.

they are a bunch of sexy cutting edge people.  and not the tech cutting edge, as long as it is new and fresh

that wasnt a huge problem with g3 g4 g5 upgrades.  so they may have expected similar results.

i really wished that they made a suck @$$ g5 for laptops and a cooler[as in temp] architechture for g6 if it happened

i also don't beleive that 10.4.11 is perfect which it should be.  the jump from 10 to 10.4 were huge but the jump to 10.5 is galactic.  it could be a trend with 10.6 only going with g5's like some speculate here, and 10.6 could just want vista like specs

NSX wrote:

dvpierce wrote:

Sounds like you work for a bunch of not very tech-savvy people.

they are a bunch of sexy cutting edge people.  and not the tech cutting edge, as long as it is new and fresh

Ignorant and proud!

that wasnt a huge problem with g3 g4 g5 upgrades.  so they may have expected similar results.

If they're so cutting edge, I'm surprised they even remember the G3s.

i really wished that they made a suck @$$ g5 for laptops and a cooler[as in temp] architechture for g6 if it happened

PPC is dead. Get over it.

i also don't beleive that 10.4.11 is perfect which it should be.

Nothing is perfect, least of all a computer OS.

You should probably hire a decidedly unsexy, tech cutting edge troll of a man to keep you from making stupid mistakes like that again.

NSX wrote:

dvpierce wrote:

If they're so cutting edge, I'm surprised they even remember the G3s.

You should probably hire a decidedly unsexy, tech cutting edge troll of a man to keep you from making stupid mistakes like that again.

im not arguing with you i'm just tellin you guys my horrible experience.

they dont remember g3's i'm talking about the transitions. and what i mean by cutting edge is whatever is new is gold even if it sucks.  a glam type definition very much like paying attention to wot kind of halliburton the next exec has.  impulsive and always trying to top the rest no matter the consequence.

secondly i am not in human resources or anything like that, just the creative part. so, i have no power in finances.  meaning i can't hire those people.  i can hire an artist no prob.

i dunno wot ure talking about making a mistake.  i couldnt make that mistake if i wanted to

I mean "you" collectively, as in your company or organization. Like "y'all."

user wrote:

10.6 Ceiling Cat

So . . . my iSight will be on all the time? 

DukeofNuke wrote:

A decent built-in solitaire game

what?

now you want to play GAMES on the Mac?

TEH HORRORZ

10.6 Alley Cat

OSX .6 Bob cat ... for the new line of headless macs ... budump ching