Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 1088
druid_getafix writes "The first mass market reviews of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are trickling in with a big thumbs up for the release. Walt Mossberg of the WSJ says 'Tiger Leaps Out in Front' but complains about slowness of some applications - notably Mail. David Pogue of NYT says 'But with apologies to Mac-bashers everywhere, Spotlight changes everything. Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth.' In related news Mossberg also covers the rising incidence of spam/virii in the Windows world and says '...consider dumping Windows altogether and switching to Apple's Macintosh...'. Previous reviews of Tiger were covered on /. earlier."
W00t, guess i'll go get it! (Score:5, Funny)
unless there's a torrent..
Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:5, Funny)
You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be "The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up dates in bars but women laugh at you.
You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve" would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he installed Linspire on your machine.
You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading themselves.
You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried to tell you that your house violates every known building code and law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't read those complicated regulatory documents.
Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Gloat (Score:3, Funny)
Apple Tech
NeXT Tech
Dual G5
iPod/iTunes/iTMS
OpenGL
unix Layer
and my copy of Tiger is riding around in a FedEx van at this very moment.
Everything I've ever wanted in a computer system is a few hours away from becoming reality.
You forgot one -- VM/370 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Java 5? (Score:5, Funny)
Does it run on SunOS 2.10? Sorry, I mean, Solaris 10?
You forgot something (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Expose - Slowness (Score:5, Funny)
Well, iPods don't have the best graphics accelerator, so that's probably your difference.
*gets coat*
Re:Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:2, Funny)
Everything you own is at least 20 years old, and you stick with it because "it works". If you need something new, you buy it from an antique shop. Your computer is a 386 with 8MB of RAM. You laugh at anyone who has anything faster, calling them 'lame'. The council are about to demolish your house, but you refuse to move.
Re:I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Gilbert and Sullivan! (Score:5, Funny)
The Safari browser now subscribes to R.S.S. news feeds,
And its "private browsing" mode conceals the tracks of online deeds.
There are archives now, and log files, when you send or get a fax;
You can make the pointer bigger on those Jumbotron-screened Macs.
You can start a full-screen slide show from some photos on demand;
And the voice that reads the screen aloud can lend the blind a hand.
There's a password-phrase suggestor meant to make yours more secure,
And the Grapher module draws equations simple and obscure.
Then the Automator program is a geeky software clerk -
You just choose the steps you want performed, and it does all the work.
There's a lot of miscellany, lots of spit-and-polish stuff,
But it works and doesn't slow you down - and these days, that's enough.
Re:Voice recognition (Score:2, Funny)
"Let's recognize speech!"
now, unless you properly enunciate every word, it might hear "Let's wreck a nice beach."
speech recognition is nowhere near done yet..
Re:Pity (Score:3, Funny)
unfortunately, spotlight won't help you find your files if you name them dyslexically...
ah, calm down... (Score:5, Funny)
Writing "virri" doesn't make you look clever, educated people will laugh at you.
Speak for yourself. Not all of us trot out our soapboxen for such little things.
Re:Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:5, Funny)
Your devotion to the One True Editor is such that you (secretly) don't care what manner of kernel/windowing system you use to light off to run brilliant stuff like Gnus, ECB, or ERC.
You like the substance of the GPL, even if you fall short of the full-on reactionary "ethical" style that some are capable of achieving.
You wonder why the OS can't be as unobtrusive as the BIOS, and just serve Emacs quietly.
Re:port to x86? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How do the judge so fast?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Are you questioning our great benevolent provider Jobs, citizen?
I'm upset that... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is there really a reason to switch? (Score:2, Funny)
Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Ever (Score:1, Funny)
It sounds like he ran the article through the new hyperbolic chamber [theonion.com].
Re:Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:2, Funny)
...
... ;-)
Re:Poor Memory Handling? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:3, Funny)
WHAT THE HELL (Score:3, Funny)
Coleman
PS It scared the crap out of me.
Re:Please, cut the hype... (Score:3, Funny)
But which karma whore is the parent's originator? (Score:2, Funny)
You probably use SuSE or Mandrake, which increases your productivity some 300% over that of any given competing product, or rather would if you wouldn't waste your time copy'n'pasting (yes, X supports it at long last!) stupid second-hand cliches from some lame website into slashdot. You hang around and wait until you get "Score:5, Funny", then you go to the bathroom and jerk off.
Re:How are Mac Minis with Tiger? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah. They came 'round to my house yesterday but I wasn't home so they left a note saying they'd be back again in the morning. "Yeah sure," I thought, but sure enough, there they were! And not only did they turn off the ripple effect, but there was a leaky faucet they tightened up for me on their way out.
Holding out for OS 10.9.8 Liger (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Well the kittens got fed up.
Re:Voice recognition (Score:1, Funny)
With Tiger's new "private browsing" feature it's an even better bedroom PC (nudge-nudge, wink-wink, know-what-I-mean).
Re:what a load... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You're absolutely right (Score:2, Funny)
Back to the other topic at hand, Automator is very cool. Sure, you could accomplish almost everything it does with AppleScript, but this is certainly a better general audience approach. Once developers start writing their own Automator actions, then we'll really see utility take off.
Re:Pity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WHAT THE HELL (Score:3, Funny)
I have a solution for you (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Voice recognition (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pity (Score:4, Funny)
I'm clearly not Steve Jobs.
Making it Cuss (Score:3, Funny)
There was one of the early iMacs which was used for testing...rarely.
Hearing coworkers cussing in their cubicles was never that big of a deal. It happened all of the time. One day, I got off of a call and I heard someone cussing and didn't recognize the voice. It took a few seconds for me to figure out that it sounded familiar. That's when I walked back to the iMac and saw that one of the techs had discovered that you could type cuss words into Simple Text and get the computer to read it out loud.
I told them about using speakable items and about the choices of voices they could use. It was amazing that those features alone suddenly made the Mac more useful to my coworkers.
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Sometimes, when I don't feel like reading article online, I cut and paste artcles into a text editor and just have it read to me using Victoria's voice, Though for articles on politics, I just use the Deranged voice. Everything makes more sense then.
Re:Voice recognition (Score:5, Funny)
Good luck getting that recognized by today's speech recognition systems!
Re:Image ops on powermac 1 ghz g4 (Score:3, Funny)
Jean-Louis Gassee? Is that you?
Re:Voice recognition (Score:5, Funny)
TV: "...we don't have the time..."
Mac: "It's seven thirty two".
Ok, it's not exactly riveting dialogue, but still.. You KNOW you're getting neurotic when your household appliances are having conversations and you start feeling left out.
Re:Voice recognition (Score:2, Funny)
That seems perfectly reasonable to me. When I was there I couldn't understand anybody either.
Re:Pity (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, all my bar-room conversations end up that way.
Re:Virii doesn't make you look clever. (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, old jokes...I'm working towards becoming one.
GNU/Linux (Score:1, Funny)
You have heard of this word 'shower' and seen one of these appliances one or two times but as yet have never used one. You call Apple users gay while only having male aquaintances yourself. You were beaten up at school and in all honesty you know you deserved it. You understand memory paging and can discuss the pros and cons of RISC v CISC but do not know how to change a car tyre. You believe every word should be prefixed with "GNU/", "G" or "K" and be a recursive acronym - that would be so teh cool! You mistakenly think your mother loves you.
Re:Which Karma Whore are you? (Score:4, Funny)