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striker100 · Apr 17, 2005, 09:14 PM

Is there a difference in the Tiger start up screen from Panther? Was there any difference between the Tiger beta and Panther? Just curious.

ManOfSteal · Apr 17, 2005, 10:31 PM

Hopefully it is so much faster you won't be able to tell...

Big Mac · Apr 17, 2005, 11:51 PM

Hopefully the Internet in "Internet Services" will be capitalized. A lowercase i in internet is annoying, although maybe Apple wants everyone to start using a lowercase i as in iMac.

jon l. dawson · Apr 18, 2005, 09:57 AM

Internet doesn't necessarily need to be capitalized... It's a matter of personal preference.

Millennium · Apr 18, 2005, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by jon l. dawson

Internet doesn't necessarily need to be capitalized... It's a matter of personal preference.

"Internet" is the proper name of a particular computer network. As a proper name, it should be capitalized. This is not a matter of personal preference, at least not in written English.

mitchell_pgh · Apr 18, 2005, 10:30 AM

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

P.S. People once capitalized radio and cinima.

macmike42 · Apr 18, 2005, 06:38 PM

How long does anyone see the startup splash screen anymore anyway? I see mine for 1 second saying "Waiting for local disks" and another half second "Wating for network initialization", then my desktop background appears. This is on an iBook G4 1.2GHz, pretty much the lowest of the low end available today. Plus I reboot only for OS updates or the occasional pre-binding mishap. I guess I just don't see much need for additional work on this part of the OS.

icibaqu · Apr 18, 2005, 07:27 PM

just for a second the words

SEXY TIME!

flash onto the screen.

i swear, a developer told me.

JHromadka · Apr 19, 2005, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by macmike42

How long does anyone see the startup splash screen anymore anyway? I see mine for 1 second saying "Waiting for local disks" and another half second "Wating for network initialization", then my desktop background appears. This is on an iBook G4 1.2GHz, pretty much the lowest of the low end available today. Plus I reboot only for OS updates or the occasional pre-binding mishap. I guess I just don't see much need for additional work on this part of the OS.

I logon for security reasons so I get to see the pretty screen.

Millennium · Apr 19, 2005, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

P.S. People once capitalized radio and cinima.

"Radio" and "cinema" were never proper names (though both have been commonly used as part of proper names, and are still used in this context). "Internet" is another matter, however. Unfortunately, it seems as though "tony long" does not understand this basic grammatical concept.

Peabo · Apr 19, 2005, 09:45 AM

I believe it won't say 'Internet Sevices' anymore anyway. It just says 'Starting Mac OS X' or something the whole time the bar moves across the screen

awaspaas · Apr 19, 2005, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Millennium

"Radio" and "cinema" were never proper names (though both have been commonly used as part of proper names, and are still used in this context). "Internet" is another matter, however. Unfortunately, it seems as though "tony long" does not understand this basic grammatical concept.

Yeah, what would a copy editor of a major magazine know about grammar?

Cadaver · Apr 21, 2005, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by icibaqu

just for a second the words

SEXY TIME!

flash onto the screen.

i swear, a developer told me.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Apr 21, 2005, 09:19 AM

Actually you are all wrong. It doesn't show the individual names of what is starting up anymore, it just says "starting Mac OS X" and it 3 times faster than 10.3

Yes I am serious.

ManOfSteal · Apr 21, 2005, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually you are all wrong. It doesn't show the individual names of what is starting up anymore, it just says "starting Mac OS X" and it 3 times faster than 10.3

Yes I am serious.

Hardcore.

OreoCookie · Apr 21, 2005, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually you are all wrong. It doesn't show the individual names of what is starting up anymore, it just says "starting Mac OS X" and it 3 times faster than 10.3

Yes I am serious.

Does it make your coffee in the meantime, too?

Dang, that would be a feature.

Peabo · Apr 21, 2005, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually you are all wrong. It doesn't show the individual names of what is starting up anymore, it just says "starting Mac OS X" and it 3 times faster than 10.3

Yes I am serious.

you obviously missed my post

Originally Posted by z0ne81

I believe it won't say 'Internet Sevices' anymore anyway. It just says 'Starting Mac OS X' or something the whole time the bar moves across the screen

zepkin · Apr 21, 2005, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Hopefully the Internet in "Internet Services" will be capitalized. A lowercase i in internet is annoying, although maybe Apple wants everyone to start using a lowercase i as in iMac.

Internet should not be capitalized and writers are coming around to not capitalizing it. What is the justification for capitalizing it?

Kerrigan · Apr 21, 2005, 03:19 PM

I believe the OP asked "how does Tiger start up screen differ from Panthwire"? Not, "will you please turn this into a boring discussion about capitalising proper nouns"?

chris v · Apr 21, 2005, 04:02 PM

Will Tiger Capitalize All My Psots?

Millennium · Apr 21, 2005, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

Yeah, what would a copy editor of a major magazine know about grammar?

When he's unprofessional enough to let his personal aesthetic sense get in the way of proper grammar with no stylistic justification given, how much he knows doesn't matter, because he's already shown that he doesn't care. It's nothing more than incomeptence.

Millennium · Apr 21, 2005, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by zepkin

Internet should not be capitalized and writers are coming around to not capitalizing it. What is the justification for capitalizing it?

In English, proper names are capitalized. "Internet" is the proper name of a particular computer network. Ergo, "Internet" should be capitalized. This is elementary-school-level logic. Just because you can't be bothered to hold down the Shift key for one lousy keystroke doesn't make you correct.

MartiNZ · Apr 21, 2005, 05:25 PM

Exactly!

But this is just another example of plummeting grammar abilities that raise their heads just about everywhere one looks, and as has been said in other places, the MS Word 'grammar check', i.e. check to make sure that it's wrong, is at least in a small part to blame, as are such apps overall, in that they make it far too easy to write copious amounts and then just print!

moonmonkey · Apr 21, 2005, 06:38 PM

Jesus, its like a staff room in here.

adambooth · Apr 21, 2005, 10:46 PM

It's just the usual progress bar, but it just reads "Starting OS X" and mine fills a little less than a quarter before the screen changes. It's quite fast just like Panther, so I hardly even notice it.

Big Mac · Apr 21, 2005, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually you are all wrong. It doesn't show the individual names of what is starting up anymore, it just says "starting Mac OS X" and it 3 times faster than 10.3

Yes I am serious.

I kind of liked it when it displayed the names of the services. . . Maybe I need to turn on verbose mode.