I can imagine that scenario, sure. However, I'd rather imagine a scenario where the US justice system actually made a plaintiff prove that the defendant did what they said she did prior to charging her, and that the punishment was appropriate for the crime committed. Being pedantic is what the justice system is all about. Being pedantic helps ensure that errors in legal issues happen less often than otherwise.
I mean, come on - imagine you slid on the ice while driving and hit a pedestrian, killing him or her. You want to go to jail for manslaughter or 1st degree murder? The pedestrian is dead, it's your fault, so murder vs. manslaughter is simply an issue of pedantics.
MS products? No, not really. The touchpad is Apple hardware, and it is acting screwy. The mouse is made by MS, sure - but a Kensington single-button USB mouse gives the same erratic behavior, so it is not specific to the MS hardware. (Note also that I pointed out the touchpad and mouse work just fine in Windows under BootCamp. The only time I have problems is when using OS X.) Finally, Boot Camp is an Apple product. Installation going from easy to use in beta to multiple failed attempts in the final version? How is that an MS problem? Having a hard drive partition not show up during boot? Given that MS didn't write the bootloader for the Mac, this is also not an MS product issue there. This isn't specifically an MS issue at all. This is an issue with Leopard shipping with some major issues.
Anyone else notice that disk images are not unmounting / ejecting properly in Leopard? Getting a bit tired of loading DiskUtility to force-unmount the darn things.
I'm not running Unsanity and I don't use Logitech mice. I have a USB MS Intellimouse that worked fine in Tiger and now randomly jumps all over the screen without warning. The 10.5.1 update helped this, but now the touchpad is iffy. During a presentation today the damn thing went into spasms of fading to a blue screen and then blanking out before returning to the slideshow, repeatedly, for no apparent reason. This is on an upgraded MacBook Pro. Try doing illustration work when you have zero control over your mouse pointer. That's a big problem for me. The crap thing is that the hardware works fine in BootCamp, which means that Apple's Windows touchpad drivers are now better than their OS X ones.
My coworker just bought a new MacBook with Tiger pre-installed. Nothing crazy added. Trying to set up BootCamp for her was a huge pain. Easy as pie in Tiger, but Leopard made things really difficult. Took three attempts to get the Windows partition formatted correctly, and now it works but she cannot choose to boot from that partition using the Option key - the system fails to recognize the partition exists until after booting into Leopard. She has to wait for it to fully load the OS, then choose her preferred startup disk in Preferences and reboot if she wants to run Windows. As a new Mac user who needs Windows for a lot of work-related tasks, she is understandably upset. I cannot understand why the BootCamp beta works better than the final release.
As for the networking, you should have heard me swearing bloody murder at my Mac last week while trying to back up files to my home Windows system. The computers sit three feet away from each other hooked to the same router, but it took fifteen minutes, complete disabling of the firewall and a reboot of the Mac to get it to admit that my Windows box existed. That's an improvement? NTFS read-write would have been an improvement, but the current state is not.
The inclusion of an up-to-date Apache build and PHP 5 is an improvement. Adding pointless eye candy, breaking hardware that used to work properly, borking networking, and screwing up BootCamp is not an improvement. The "vocal minority" are vocal because the things that broke are crucial to the work we try to do on our computers.
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I can imagine that scenario, sure. However, I'd rather imagine a scenario where the US justice system actually made a plaintiff prove that the defendant did what they said she did prior to charging her, and that the punishment was appropriate for the crime committed. Being pedantic is what the justice system is all about. Being pedantic helps ensure that errors in legal issues happen less often than otherwise.
I mean, come on - imagine you slid on the ice while driving and hit a pedestrian, killing him or her. You want to go to jail for manslaughter or 1st degree murder? The pedestrian is dead, it's your fault, so murder vs. manslaughter is simply an issue of pedantics.
MS products? No, not really. The touchpad is Apple hardware, and it is acting screwy. The mouse is made by MS, sure - but a Kensington single-button USB mouse gives the same erratic behavior, so it is not specific to the MS hardware. (Note also that I pointed out the touchpad and mouse work just fine in Windows under BootCamp. The only time I have problems is when using OS X.) Finally, Boot Camp is an Apple product. Installation going from easy to use in beta to multiple failed attempts in the final version? How is that an MS problem? Having a hard drive partition not show up during boot? Given that MS didn't write the bootloader for the Mac, this is also not an MS product issue there. This isn't specifically an MS issue at all. This is an issue with Leopard shipping with some major issues.
Anyone else notice that disk images are not unmounting / ejecting properly in Leopard? Getting a bit tired of loading DiskUtility to force-unmount the darn things.
I'm not running Unsanity and I don't use Logitech mice. I have a USB MS Intellimouse that worked fine in Tiger and now randomly jumps all over the screen without warning. The 10.5.1 update helped this, but now the touchpad is iffy. During a presentation today the damn thing went into spasms of fading to a blue screen and then blanking out before returning to the slideshow, repeatedly, for no apparent reason. This is on an upgraded MacBook Pro. Try doing illustration work when you have zero control over your mouse pointer. That's a big problem for me. The crap thing is that the hardware works fine in BootCamp, which means that Apple's Windows touchpad drivers are now better than their OS X ones.
My coworker just bought a new MacBook with Tiger pre-installed. Nothing crazy added. Trying to set up BootCamp for her was a huge pain. Easy as pie in Tiger, but Leopard made things really difficult. Took three attempts to get the Windows partition formatted correctly, and now it works but she cannot choose to boot from that partition using the Option key - the system fails to recognize the partition exists until after booting into Leopard. She has to wait for it to fully load the OS, then choose her preferred startup disk in Preferences and reboot if she wants to run Windows. As a new Mac user who needs Windows for a lot of work-related tasks, she is understandably upset. I cannot understand why the BootCamp beta works better than the final release.
As for the networking, you should have heard me swearing bloody murder at my Mac last week while trying to back up files to my home Windows system. The computers sit three feet away from each other hooked to the same router, but it took fifteen minutes, complete disabling of the firewall and a reboot of the Mac to get it to admit that my Windows box existed. That's an improvement? NTFS read-write would have been an improvement, but the current state is not.
The inclusion of an up-to-date Apache build and PHP 5 is an improvement. Adding pointless eye candy, breaking hardware that used to work properly, borking networking, and screwing up BootCamp is not an improvement. The "vocal minority" are vocal because the things that broke are crucial to the work we try to do on our computers.