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Jef Raskin On The Mac
der Kopf writes "Jeff Raskin, one of the creators of the Macintosh and inventor of the click-and-drag interface, states in an interview for the British newspaper The Guardian that "the Mac is now a mess. A third party manual (Pogue's The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine."" While I think Raskin has some good points, I think there's a far cry between the Mac & XP.
Trolling will be re-born.
A New Era dawns. The future grows near.
The Revolution will be devastating. The Rebirth will be glorious.
The End Is Near.
The Revolution: December 31st, 2002
The Rebirth: January 1st, 2003
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January 1st, 2003.
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Here is some information on VladeKua5y . Expect more people like Rusty Foster to be added soon.
NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby
NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay
NAME: Corrigan, Barry E-MAIL: barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk, bc@adequacy.org ALIASES: bc, ktb (Kiss the Blade), Lover's Arrival, Euroderf, Erbert Paget-Paget, Anya
NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas
NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com, flikee@xmission.com ALIASES: flikx
NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter
NAME: Huston, Bill E-MAIL: bozoman@vlad.geekizoid.com, ALIASES: bozoman
NAME: Johnson, Peter E-MAIL: peter.johnson@voicestream.com, shoeboy@adequacy.org ALIASES: Shoeboy, Peter Johnson
NAME: Lockwood, Scott E-MAIL: wsl3@attbi.com, vlad@geekizoid.com ALIASES: Vladinator, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, Quick Star, Pinkerton Floyd, etc.
NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll
NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan
NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy
NAME: Nelson, Brian E-MAIL: elenchos@adequacy.org ALIASES: Elenchos
NAME: Osborne, Michaell E-MAIL: osborm@yahoo.com, dmg@adequacy.org,
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( and often posts communications between them to make them appear to be more than one person!!! ):
Why do macs still ship with one button mice? Is it anything more than stubborness? Seriously. Here's the reasons I've seen:
1) One button is all you need.
In a way that's true but two buttons sure as hell are more convenient. You don't need digits on a keyboard or a keypad either but they're also sure as hell convenient.
2) You can buy a replacement mouse anywhere/we have other mice laying around.
That's nice. Part of the purchase price for your Apple machine went towards the manufacturing and design cost of your mouse. If Dell shipped useless 12" monitors with their computers I don't think people would be too pleased if they added a cent to the purchase price.
3) Some people still like the one-button mice.
Is it a majority? I doubt it.
-- Posting anonymously as not to face the wrath of zealot mods.
You guys sure seem to spend alot of time with "grandma"...
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