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How about the PRISM and hardware tracking built into iPhones? edit: let the down votes commence, I've got some karma to burn.
Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…
But apparently it's been removed in Lion: http://myintarweb.com/dispatch/lion-tip
Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…
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> some hopeless ideology The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing. > irrelevant in the desktop space Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league. > hobble my computing experience Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows. It's not necessarily the…
>The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing. Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. Nice try though, I guess. >Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league. Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades". >Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows.…
The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology.
> Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades".
About 10? That's years, not decades. Even 5 years ago they were well under 5% weren't they?
I'm glad to hear that OSX suits you, that's fine. What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. Personally I find that both Unity and OSX have DEs that really get in my way without a lot of tweaking, but both can be made to give a reasonable experience.
I wouldn't have said anything, and just chalked it up as someone making an opinionated comment that I disagree with if it weren't for the ridiculous line about Ubuntu's ideology being hopeless.
Loving this thread and the one from around two and a half years ago. I'm probably missing out on a few things as I'm still running 10.6.8.
Anyone know how to filter a list of files in a Finder window by a string?
Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible. Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed. However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks…
You could click on the translucent bar button on the top right of a DMG-window, then you get the sidebar on the left back. But apparently it's been removed in Lion: http://myintarweb.com/dispatch/lion-tip
Sometimes Stackexchange sites will close a thread, because it's "not a question". Sometime's they won't. Nitpicking, but this is not a question. (Still great answers, though.)
At the end of the day though, if it provides some value to the world, does it matter? I think there is a section of stack overflow moderators who shoot down questions purely due to ego. Someone obviously trying to solicit an answer for their CS homework, close! Intoxicated monkey whacking the keyboard: close!. This: keep it, please! In fact I'm surprised it's still there.
The Apple Stack Exchange community decided that list-style questions are acceptable in very limited quantities. (They tend to be broad, which help avoid the need for too many of them.)
Didn't see this one on the list - while Command+Tabbing, if you hold down Option while letting go of Command at the end, you'll open a new window in the specified application if it currently doesn't have any open. It might sound confusing, but it's quite useful if you've closed all the windows of a given app but still have it running.
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>The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing. Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. Nice try though, I guess. >Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league. Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades". >Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows.…
> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology. > Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades". About 10? That's years, not decades. Even 5 years ago they were well under 5% weren't they? I'm glad to hear that OSX suits you, that's fine. What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. Personally I f…
I might be wrong, but I think he's talking about a future in which Canonical is forced to remove features from Ubuntu due to patents. Whereas Apple would just pay the licensing fees.
I don't see this happening because software patents don't exist in most of the world. The worst thing that could happen is they wouldn't be able to sell phones in the U.S. and other patent-crazy territories.