Tyrphanax

Ah yeah that’s it, then, sorry and thanks for clarifying.

The thing is that if I’m using a specific program, I’m probably going to keep it maximized since I’m likely working on/reading/whatevering something I want to see all of.

In other cases, as a lifetime PC user, I’ve gotten so used to doing it the Windows Way™ that when I started using that Mac at work it it took me a minute to figure out where the File Menu was. It just boils down to what you’re used to, really.

Most of the useful tasks that you need to use in programs like Office or Windows Explorer are all on the “Ribbon” now, which I like quite a bit.

Lemme try to run it down as I’m understanding it…

You were saying that the Mac icon menu makes a Mac easier to use because the Windows Explorer File Menu isn’t docked to the top of the screen (and maybe because it doesn’t have the same functionality?).

I was saying that the Windows Start Menu has nearly-identical function to the Mac icon menu, it’s just docked on the bottom (I can move it to the top if I wanted though…) and that the File Menu in Windows Explorer isn’t something I have much of a use for in general.

I’m just so tired I’m missing the point of contention I guess? Apples and Apples, isn’t it (haha pun)?

yhwx said:

Tyrphanax said:

Ages might have been an exaggeration, but as I almost never use the File menu in Windows Explorer, I never thought to look up there for common system functions. For specific program functions, sure (like saving a file in Photoshop for instance), but never for anything pertaining to the system itself since that’s what the Start menu is for (and if you right-click the Start menu, you get a menu that’s very similar to the Mac version). Being so used to Windows, my eye automatically looks down for important system things, which inevitably led me to the dock instead of the top bar.

It’s not so different on a Mac, just upside-down, though I still sometimes forget that that top bar is context-sensitive on Macs depending on if a program is open or not.

Also, whoever decided the icons on the dock should change sizes and move by default should be shot.

I might be missing something, but I also haven’t slept today. So let me know.

It’s the Apple menu. The one with the Apple logo.

I’m lost now.

New Order was better.

I like Joy Division, but I would rate New Order as “Objectively Better”.

Ages might have been an exaggeration, but as I almost never use the File menu in Windows Explorer, I never thought to look up there for common system functions. For specific program functions, sure (like saving a file in Photoshop for instance), but never for anything pertaining to the system itself since that’s what the Start menu is for (and if you right-click the Start menu, you get a menu that’s very similar to the Mac version). Being so used to Windows, my eye automatically looks down for important system things, which inevitably led me to the dock instead of the top bar.

It’s not so different on a Mac, just upside-down, though I still sometimes forget that that top bar is context-sensitive on Macs depending on if a program is open or not.

Also, whoever decided the icons on the dock should change sizes and move by default should be shot.

I might be missing something, but I also haven’t slept today. So let me know.

Look over there…

Almost forgot!

76-79

This is the continuation of one of my favourite parts of the book, and our first taste of the Muldoon/Gennaro Dream Team! The discovery of Nedry is a bit more humourous here than in the book, which is alright with me, but (so far) the river ride is almost verbatim from the book. Ellie digging deeper into the stegosaurus affliction is different than the book and the film, but interesting as well. We end just as the Rex feels the dart, another great scene from the book!

I definitely want to pick the book up again now. I usually re-read it once a year, because Jurassic Park had a very large role in my formative years and thus holds a very special place in my heart. Plus it’s a great book!

Yeah, it’s funny that computers aren’t a specialty thing anymore.

We joke about how “old folks” don’t know how to use their computers, but I think we’re raising a generation that uses them daily and doesn’t know the first thing about how they work. They’re like cars: in the early days of the automobile, to own and run one, you had to know how to tinker with it and make it work and fix and replace components, and then the car became commonplace for the masses and less and less people knew what to tinker with and how.

The majority of people want something they can just boot up and go with, which is why tablets are so popular.

Allow me to dig up an old fossil to continue the circlejerking:

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

I find the Mac vs PC debate often pretty tedious. They’re for different types of people, looking for different things in their computers.

Some things are just better on the Mac. For example, this:

is better than this.

Why? Because the menu bar on the Mac allows you to be lazy: you can just move your mouse up the top very quickly. Much easier than carefully controlling your mouse to a moving target. (This is a problem with the Dock on OS X)

So, all in all, the Mac just works better. This is why so many Apple fans are so bitter about Microsoft “winning” the Mac—PC war. The better-designed product lost.

Er… you mean like this?

There’s been a shortcut to settings (usually through the Control Panel) on the Start menu of every Windows machine I’ve used by default. And if there isn’t, it’s not too difficult to add it.

I mean, I get it if you don’t know where that stuff is, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It took me ages to find out where any of that stuff was my first time using a Mac (the mouse tracking speed is excruciating by default and even at max it’s still painfully slow).

cough

yhwx said:

Frink is life
Frink loves life
Life loves Frink

Everybody loves life
Everybody loves Frink
Everybody loves love

Love is Frink
Frink will love
Love will Frink

Time is Frink
Now is time
Frink is now

The present does
That’s why we call the present
The Frink.

I figured out why drugs should be illegal.

I just want to know if Toy Story 2 is Objectively Bad or Objectively Good or Subjectively either or “Empirically Bad™”.

I know Frink said Objectively Good, but I want another opinion before I put my eggs in a basket.

Thanks
-Tyr

Not to be flip about this, but I think the take-away from this (much like “never try to catch a knife if you drop it”) is never put yourself between something that doesn’t move and several tons of car.

I feel like he might have just left it in neutral and gotten out, then tried to stop it when it started to roll (I can’t think of any other reason this could have happened by accident). What a terrible way to go.

Hey no worries, I’m just lettin’ you know. You went to the trouble to do the research. Lot of people would just stand around screaming themselves hoarse without making an effort.

I made the “wrong motherboard/CPU combo” myself starting out.

Also the processor won’t fit on that motherboard. <_<

But none of those things affect the cost that much.

yhwx said:

We don’t know exactly how much the exact components, cooling systems, or case on the Mac Pro cost, but Apple could be making quite a tidy profit margin on these Mac Pros.

I think that much is safe to assume, considering their success as a company.

Good post (the fans you chose were redundant with the included case fans, but meh), really nice formatting, btw. Damn.

Definitely be sure to tell your therapist when you’re feeling stuck. And it’s a good plan to show them the writing you did in the depths of a compulsion.

You’re working hard, but it will definitely take time. Just remember it’s only been a week or two that you’ve been really working through this with a therapist and increased meds. I feel like you’ve been doing well in terms of heeding advise and managing it by distracting yourself.

Rewiring your brain is an involved process, but you can do it over time!

The only thing Dell is notable for right now is their displays. Also, the price of that Dell laptop is probably always 2,800 but when the company says there are “added savings” it seems like you’re getting a deal, so it’s not too surprising that the MacBook with better components is almost four hundred bucks more expensive. I can still build you an actual desktop that will outperform any Mac for much less.

Also, I’m well aware that Apple is the parent company and Mac is the product, but I won’t deny my slip-ups there.

And just so I’m on-topic:

This topic is so typical.

Bingowings said:

I thought I was more of an implement, an ancient and versatile agricultural hand tool used to shape the soil, control weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops that sort of thing but dirty and unpleasant.

You’re better than that, my friend!

yhwx said:

ray_afraid said:

yhwx said:

Neglify said:

Exactly.

But then you get a brand new car.

Right. With none of the time-worn comfort you’ve perfected in the old one. With none of the personal customization you’ve put into the old one.

The word “customization” sounds like “chaos” to Mac users.

I had to use a Mac at work for a good amount of time and not being able to do anything to make it work like I wanted it to was infuriating.

And with the price tag of an entire car as opposed to an air filter.

Let’s continue with the car analogy. Most earlier cars were way more customizable and extensible than the modern cars of today. But, those cars broke all the time. Having an integrated system allows you to make the whole package last longer, not just all the individual parts. A car from 2016 is way more reliable than one from 1976. Less customizable, yes, but more reliable.

I mean, unless you build that car with planned obsolescence like Mac does.

Not that PCs don’t become obsolete, but it’s still far easier (and much cheaper) to swap out one or two parts than it is to buy a whole new rig. Mac overcharges you by crazy amounts for their options.

I disagree, but to each their own.

I can’t think of a situation where I’d use a thumbs-up thing, haha.

yhwx said:

Tyrphanax said:

Neglify said:

Haha, there you go.

Put a new graphics card and a closed-loop CPU liquid cooler in earlier in the year. Did a new motherboard, swapped in a new CPU, and got new RAM last year (this was my big bi-yearly upgrade though).

I love it.

I was about to put an emoji here, but then I remembered that PCs don’t support emoji.

I see them when people use them, but we did develop entire languages in order to express ourselves better than pictograms, so thanks for making English great again.

“=P”

Maybe he wrote Toy Story?

Neglify said:

Haha, there you go.

Put a new graphics card and a closed-loop CPU liquid cooler in earlier in the year. Did a new motherboard, swapped in a new CPU, and got new RAM last year (this was my big bi-yearly upgrade though).

I love it.