If Microsoft has finally managed to adopt the slash as a path delimiter instead of the backslash, I'm willing to overlook the other... oh... 15 years of inane Windows quirks.
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Jul 22 2007, 2:06 pm
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Disturbed Puppy
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As bad as windows is, at least it has the right-click(Apple needs to step up and adopt the 2 sided mouse)
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The Mac I saw at London Drugs had a two-button mouse.
But you did remind me of one of my favourite bash.org quotes: #462310 < robT> Name ONE thing that your windows comp can do that my MAC cant < bawss> Right click. | |
Haha, I remember that quote.
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I love it when people spread horribly incorrect stereotypes.
Disturbed Puppy wrote: As bad as windows is, at least it has the right-click(Apple needs to step up and adopt the 2 sided mouse) Perhaps you need to step up and move ahead 10 years to 2007. Macs have supported right-click since 1997. Yes, the horrible classic MacOS supported it. Mac OS X, being unix, has supported it from day one. Of course, right-click (or contextual) menus are one of the worst UI design elements in existence. While it's fine to provide shortcuts there for commands that are available through more visible UI paths, too many developers provide access to features only through contextual menus. Users are forced to hunt and randomly right-click window elements in hopes of finding the hidden command they want. This includes Apple themselves, who, despite a stellar reputation for design, are in my opinion one of the worst UI designers out there. They've coasted on that reputation for years (from back when they were actually consistent and much better than anyone else) and have turned out some of the most inconsistent user interfaces ever made. And the fanboys keep turning a blind eye to the crap they produce, praising it as "elegant". Hey, there's yet another horribly incorrect stereotype for you. | |
Well, let me rephrase this, so I'm not spreading these horrible things...
My school needs to step up and get mouses that right click, and then get rid of the buggy and over cluttered Windows Vista. | |
Disturbed Puppy wrote:
Well, let me rephrase this, so I'm not spreading these horrible things... It should happen the next time they purchase new iMacs. They come with the mighty mouse, that has 2/3 buttons, the ability to detect when it's squeezed, and a 2-dimensional scroll-ball (which is also the 3rdish button). The scroll ball can be more of a curse than a blessing in some cases though. Windows CAD (& similar) programs that make extensive use of the vertical scrolling ignore horizontal or even diagonal scrolling totally. | |
Bah, I'll be long graduated, the just upgraded to some new i-Macs last year, so it'll be a couple years. Theres always college though >_>
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Anyway, all this discussion about Mac is well and good, but no one actually confirmed whether Windows now uses slashes or not. I suppose I should have explicitly asked the question. ;-)
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C:/Users is the same as C:\Users on my Vista installation.
But C:/boot is the same as C:\boot on my XP installation. Is that what you were looking for? | |
Vista isn't that bad, you talk all this crap about it and have yet to use it on a day to day basis. If you have the power to run it, I totally recommend it, it is a major improvement over XP. Sure there is the annoying prompts but those can be disabled in like 5 seconds. And the new windows explorer is much better.
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I don't talk much crap about Vista, to be honest, because I don't talk much about Vista at all... you might be thinking of someone else. ;-)
"Improvements" aren't necessarily improvements, I might add. I can make a city improvement that costs thousands of dollars and turns a crack-filled empty lot into a crack-filled apartment building. Even though there's now a building there, everyone's still high. =P | |
Oh, I wasn't referring to you at all JT.
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Jtgibson wrote:
Even though there's now a building there, everyone's still high. =P But they aren't out on the street putting themselves or others at risk. So it's still worthwhile. | |
Windows has supported forward slashes as an equivalent for backslashes in path names for quite a while now. I'm not 100% sure whether the Windows 9x series supported them, but I think they did.
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Yeah, but it's which format they natively use that matters. If they're still using backslashes just to say "hey, we're different", they're costing themselves some money from me. Given how overpriced Vista is, I imagine that might actually hurt them a bit. ;-)
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It shows backslashes by default. But if you can use normal slashes, then I don't see what the problem is. Heck, you can even use a combination of backslashes and normal slashes in the one path directory.
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At this point I think backwards compatibility with previous Windows versions and applications (there are probably some applications that assume only backslashes will work) is more important than changing to match Linux. Honestly, I don't see what the problem is. Forward slashes work fine, so what more do you need?
Now if they'd just fix Notepad to recognise CR and LF line endings as well as CRLF line endings... | |
It's a small price to pay for not having to use a mac.
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Jtgibson wrote:
Yeah, but it's which format they natively use that matters. If they're still using backslashes just to say "hey, we're different", they're costing themselves some money from me. Given how overpriced Vista is, I imagine that might actually hurt them a bit. ;-) XP was roughly the same price as Vista is now when it was first released, was it not? | |