I'm on a Mac, too, running Tiger, with Win2kPro in VPC, and Ubuntu Linux jammed into a ten gig partition (bootable), and the guy's an idiot, at best, and a troll, most likely.
I've had the same type of pdf support in Office 2000, and 2004, in OS X (puma, jaguar, panther, and tiger). It's also in Office 2003 Enterprise (in my VPC setup).
As for Linux, it's right around where windows and the mac are at, yes you can open anything (I use gpdf, or oo2), and no, if the guy who put together the original pdf left out a letter of a partially-embedded font, everybody is screwed, unless they have Acrobat Pro, and can really substitute another (complete) font.
If MS puts in a licensed driver to print straight to pdf, without going through a distiller plugin, then they'll have one up on the Macintosh OS, (for a week, maybe).
"Preview", on the Mac, blows, also.
Doesn't this Mac vs. Windows shit get old, or is just me?
All the systems are 'flawed', one way or the other. Be glad. If that weren't the case, all the code jockeys in C, C++, and C# (whatever) would be driving cabs.
...scientific observer types, was the 'tool', they expected to see a rock used as a hammer, or something similar... so when the gorilla busted out a Black & Decker cordless drill, and then changed the friggin' bit on it, well, you can imagine the astonishment, eh? The Creationists responsible for 'spin', or 'new' science, have their work cut out for them, no doubt about it.
Why do people defend the $1 price so much?....IMHO, I think labels will succeed in implementing a new online pricing strategy, as well as forcing hardware and software vendors to introduce compatibility between players.
Well, to give credit, you said 'humble', rather than well thought-out. But guess what? The history of record pricing (I worked inventory/sales at Warner Bros - Burbank -i.e. WEA - for year), is one where 'catalog' sales [you know, 'old sftuff'] was consistently priced lower, so by that reasoning a huge chunk of the iTunes songs should be priced below $1.
Have a look at the numbers of songs and albums being distributed through the Usenet (sounds.mp3.19xx's) sometime. What do you see? Catalog stuff, my friend. For every 'brand new' release being traded, for 'free', there are thousands of catalog items being traded. That's where the market should be at, also.
Hollywood was built by black sheep sons of wealthy East Coast families. But the difference with the Bronfman story is that Edgar, Jr. didn' 'move' to Hollywood, and content himself with banging starlets and going overboard in cocaine, AND he was given access to the family fortune, itself, not just some "Shut up and go away' money. He didn't 'inherit' shit, in the true sense. Dad and the uncles gave him Seagram's which included the Dupont stock. Charles B. and the uncles are more to blame for the squandering of the fortune, than Edgar jr. They should have known better.
As for 'forcing' compatability, tell it to Microsoft, Real, and all the others, pal. Let's start with file formats and standards, then we'll talk about retail paradigms, okay?
Ah hah, I saw the bug reported with zero comments. If i don't log in I'm seeing 10 pages on this article (signified by: |1|2|3|...|10|) at the top of the page. But as soon as I login the numeric series of 'pages' runs from 1 to 35 , instead of 1 to 10. That's pretty odd, considering I can find no place in Preferences where I might have over-ridden the 'default' display.
I was really hoping that the little numbers, which supposedly relate to the pages of the specific articles, would bear some relation to the actual pages, but no. Same as always, Nums 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc are all ref'd to Page 1. Nice way to burn through the subscription deal that 'counts pages' to figure when you've used up your page count, though. Good one.
Meanwhile, although certain aspects of the interface look nicer, the 'go to' pages are drawing very oddly in Opera 8.5, which is odd, considering it usually draws anything, well, that comes anywhere's near being within wide limits of transitional code, or whatever. Find myself going to the 'next' page, seeing nothing all down the 'left' column, and hitting 'reload' every time.
Still, it's a step in the right direction... as far it goes, just hope you guys didn't break the code for all the 'other' browsers out here just to fix the crappy display that was happening before, in that other browser that's so happening/cool/great because it's 'better than IE", that everyone's so ga-ga about.
And still with the pukey Green... What's up with that? Don't tell me...um, your landlord/slumlord got a deal on ghetto green cuz it was a bit too dark for the projects? No? Okay, one of the 'designers' [term is used 'loosely'] spent some formative years in reform school, or did a stretch in juvey? Oh well, ya lose some, ya lose some.
Hey, thinking back to von Braun's, "Vee verh trying to hit the Moon, but hit London, instead"... if they can get the pizzas here at 20 degrees over room temperature it'll have been worth it.
Well, glad to be of help. To be honest I have no idea what the chit chat re: 'zero installation' is about. I guess they mean web services, you know remote login , app on the server...whatever, I'm way behind the times.
I know I am very opposed to any apps that require root escalation, (admin passwords, etc), and am fine with simple 'drag to directory of choice' installs...the way it ought to be.:)
As for the email client, here, it looks promising from a fast, lean java app comparison to some others, but it does have that outlook express-clone look to it, you know, which is somewhat generic, and reasonable (the tree, 3-pane aspect, etc). I use Eudora Pro (paid)....it's the killer, but I always check out the OpenSource and java stuff. Meanwhile, i may go the source/build route with Columba, just to see if a compile cuts it, and gives me menu access...thinking about it anyway. Thanks for the replies.
No. To all those questions. That was also interesting, not like most java app installs, to my memory, anyway. In the manual, it said that one file (directory?), that would be created in my home directory, would have to be renamed from USER to my login shortname, and there was no such file to rename.
The only thing I did, on my own, in response to no input from the installer-there was no 'installer', per se-was to move the un-zipped folder to my/user/name/Applications directory. Double-clicking the primary.jar 'name' launched the account setup, and I sent/rec'd my 1st 'test' msg, immediately. It was a very rapid launch, and initialization. I'm still impressed with that aspect, no question about it. It is only the absolute lack of menu function that has me stymied.
None of the other.jar files in the main lib directory would open either. I thought a jar was a jar, but only the main columba.jar file was launched with a simple double-click.
It is probably apparent that I am no java whiz, by any stretch, however I do have fully-working java apps and utilities here, that required more complex installs, and am also used to running xml parsers from the run CLI in Windows as well as off CLI in X. Nevertheless, as is obvious, I am a bit stumped here.
Heheh, I'm not arguing with anybody, but I have a question: I d-loaded the generic binary and it launched instantly in OS X here. I mean immediately, and 30 seconds later i did a successful Send/receive thru yahoo pop/smtp servers. So far so good, but there is zero action happening on any of the drop down menus. I mean, none. The toolbars (send, forward, reply, etc) all work fine. The relevant directories were all auto-created in/home, so does anyone have an idea what I'm screwing up on here? Thanks.
PACCAR, the large truck concern, has had a hydrogen conversion device, available on many test vehicles,made by a group of engineers in Tacoma, for a couple of years. It runs on airflow, while the vehicle is in motion. There are actually stationary versions in use out in the boonies in Oregon and Washington State, also, in use on generators for remote wood-chipping machines and whatnot. The engineers have a small company called Aegis, made up o a couple retired Naval captains, a old head engineering guy from IBM, and a few others.
You cynical asshats need to do a little more research, looks like, especially the guys with the huge 'grasp' of scientific reasoning as to why it won't work.
"Microsoft will expose application programming
interfaces, or APIs, for MSN Search using SOAP. MSN Virtual Earth, Desktop Search and MSN Messenger will all be opened up for outside developers to extend."
Good now maybe a 12-yr old can write in some lines of code to bring video to Messenger on the Apple..., it's about time.
Personally I think that media companies can put whatever restrictions they like on the media they publish.
Exactly right...except for one thing...this argument that the piracy/copyright/fair use issue is about the 5 big media companies right to charge whatever they wish, with the force of law to back them, is neither capitalism, not marxism...it is highway robbery.
I worked for decades in music, as a collector of records, a musician, producer, and have sat (on both sides of the table) in on recording contract negotiations, and believe me, what the Big 5 fear, the most, is losing their stranglehold on the means of distribution
Marx was on about workers taking control of the means of production. Well guess what? Anyone with a PC, Mac, or whatever, can produce 'art' that is up to the technical standards of the industry, already. That takes care of 'production'.
Most of the recording artists are on 'work for hire' contracts. It is heartbreaking to watch a young songwriter trade away their 'publishing' rights, just to get a shot at making these Big 5 guys wealthier. And, meanwhile, the kids who download Top 40 stuff, are already buying everything (including the shirts, dolls, posters, underwear, whatever) that is part of the whole 'fandom' process. making the downloads' impact on the industry, as a whole, trivial
What WON'T be trivial is when the the Next Big Thing distributes online, from Day 1, and tours and sells clothes, and bypasses the Big 5 totally. I just hope I live long enough to see that come to pass, because that is the way it will be, one way or the other, and I want to see what those vampires in Burbank, New York, London, Berlin, and Tokyo look like when that shit hits the fan on a regular basis. Oh yeah...please God, let me hang in, I'll do the 'elderly diapers' routine, just wanna see the day...
how about someone who wants to call all 50 states and canada 24/7 for $25/month? and two cents a nminute to paris, for example? try that on yer cel phone pal
will be on all the other asswipes out there that have the same crap to deal with for cancellations. This move by Spitzer, against a former high-flyer, and a 'still' household name, will send a clear message to all the others out there.
wrong. 'shrinkage', as a term, covers everything from shoplifting, being shorted on goods shipped-in versus goods paid for, employee theft, to typos on shipping/receiving, etc.
I worked for a big west coast retail record chain,before going to warner bros, and the 'pro' record 'boosters' could do in 15 minutes, more 'damage' than 500 ordinary steal-a-record amateurs...any day of the week.
Is it 'ethically' okay to steal one item, instead of 500? No. But to call a one-off shoplifter 'unethical' is a judgement call based on the 'ethics' of the 'judge', because if a kid thinks it's 'okay to steal from a big store', he's entirely within 'his own ethical belief structure'. Period.
A 'better' blanket statement (still debatable) would revolve around morals, not ethics, and, to be even more solid, would hinge on 'legality', the ramifications of taking 'shortcuts', etc. Ethics, by their nature, are subjective.
The military generally hits them either through negligence or in the process of trying to hit legitimate targets.
Not quite as simple as that.
US military, onboard (meaning 'in the field', rear support, helis and jets, etc), targeting and warfare management computing programs all employ the use of 'civilian' kill rates, which are very flexible, in terms of 'weighting', depending on the mission, and other imperatives.
"Targeting" factors are interesting. The US also includes things like "How long (in seconds) has enemy been observed to be able to deploy gas masks, etc." Hmmm...
Is any one else tired of hearing this shit about how Apple ripped off Xerox?
the answer to that is yes, and on top of everything else. it was Xerox's idea/proposal, in the first place. They wanted some Apple stock, and they were pissed that all their R&D money was 'pissed away' on crazy shit that the higher-ups at Xerox saw no value in.
They were "The Document People", remember?
jesus, talk about missing the friggin' boat...
Mr. Jobs was never really too fond of diluting his own Apple holdings, (which he really got nailed on, later). But the Xerox PROPOSAL was just too compelling to walk away from.
The original 'myth' went something like: "Xerox said something like, 'you can come in and have carte blanche to see, ask, and develop later, but no physical notes or cameras', and he would roar back to the Apple shed and tell engineers what he'd seen, from memory."... I always liked that story, but it was not accurate. Oh well.
That's big of you...now, try 1870, Rockefeller...Standard Oil...better known, in it's various forms, today, as: Amoco, Mobil, Esso, Conoco, Chevron, and of course, Exxon.
Research, and business, not exactly your strong suits, eh buddy>
I'm far, far more comfortable in either KDE or Gnome than I'm likely to ever be dealing with a flakey 1-button mouse and a dock that won't stay the same size or keep frequently used icons in the same spot.
The one-button mouse? What are you a retard? Buy a fucking mouse or a trackball, and don't worry you can plug in your new one without rebooting....NeXT
And I'm a lot more comfortable doing a lot of tasks from the CLI than from any desktop. And I'm sure as hell not happy with all the parts of the filesystem that OSX hides and the UNIX commands that I'm locked out of and all the other eccentricities of the system.
Okay, CLI brainiac, so use the console to see everything, or enable show invisibles in the Finder, or use a pure NeXT file finder. So fuckin' 'smart' with terminals you can't run ls and top. get the fugouddahere with the crybaby shit, did ya tell Mom you spent 20 seconds on a Mac and it wasn't cool? Poor baby...back to butt-ugly flaky linux, boy.HAHAHAHAHAHA
And I could do without the damned genie crap and the other icandy too.
One word for you, lamer: defaults. What a toad...stay away from debian, we got enough suicidally depressed 'smart' guys already, heheh
Now you can like OSX all you want, but don't tell me I can't call it a pain in my ass. That's for my ass to tell me.
Tell me somethin'...when your ass is giving you opinions on stuff your mental midget's brain can't handle...um, is the advice/opinion accompanied by a bad odor, and an echo? I think I might know what's going on there. So pull yer head outta there, take a long hot bath, and find a girl (fer christ's sake) with a room temperature IQ to explain OS X to ya. Loser
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You do???
Let me see if I have this straight... one guy is an asshole, so 25 million people are therefor assholes, also, because they have the same appliances?
It's safe to say Science wasn't your strong suit, eh?
I'm on a Mac, too, running Tiger, with Win2kPro in VPC, and Ubuntu Linux jammed into a ten gig partition (bootable), and the guy's an idiot, at best, and a troll, most likely.
I've had the same type of pdf support in Office 2000, and 2004, in OS X (puma, jaguar, panther, and tiger). It's also in Office 2003 Enterprise (in my VPC setup).
As for Linux, it's right around where windows and the mac are at, yes you can open anything (I use gpdf, or oo2), and no, if the guy who put together the original pdf left out a letter of a partially-embedded font, everybody is screwed, unless they have Acrobat Pro, and can really substitute another (complete) font.
If MS puts in a licensed driver to print straight to pdf, without going through a distiller plugin, then they'll have one up on the Macintosh OS, (for a week, maybe).
"Preview", on the Mac, blows, also.
Doesn't this Mac vs. Windows shit get old, or is just me?
All the systems are 'flawed', one way or the other. Be glad. If that weren't the case, all the code jockeys in C, C++, and C# (whatever) would be driving cabs.
...scientific observer types, was the 'tool', they expected to see a rock used as a hammer, or something similar... so when the gorilla busted out a Black & Decker cordless drill, and then changed the friggin' bit on it, well, you can imagine the astonishment, eh? The Creationists responsible for 'spin', or 'new' science, have their work cut out for them, no doubt about it.
Well, to give credit, you said 'humble', rather than well thought-out. But guess what? The history of record pricing (I worked inventory/sales at Warner Bros - Burbank -i.e. WEA - for year), is one where 'catalog' sales [you know, 'old sftuff'] was consistently priced lower, so by that reasoning a huge chunk of the iTunes songs should be priced below $1.
Have a look at the numbers of songs and albums being distributed through the Usenet (sounds.mp3.19xx's) sometime. What do you see? Catalog stuff, my friend. For every 'brand new' release being traded, for 'free', there are thousands of catalog items being traded. That's where the market should be at, also.
Hollywood was built by black sheep sons of wealthy East Coast families. But the difference with the Bronfman story is that Edgar, Jr. didn' 'move' to Hollywood, and content himself with banging starlets and going overboard in cocaine, AND he was given access to the family fortune, itself, not just some "Shut up and go away' money. He didn't 'inherit' shit, in the true sense. Dad and the uncles gave him Seagram's which included the Dupont stock. Charles B. and the uncles are more to blame for the squandering of the fortune, than Edgar jr. They should have known better.
As for 'forcing' compatability, tell it to Microsoft, Real, and all the others, pal. Let's start with file formats and standards, then we'll talk about retail paradigms, okay?
Ah hah, I saw the bug reported with zero comments. If i don't log in I'm seeing 10 pages on this article (signified by: |1|2|3|...|10|) at the top of the page. But as soon as I login the numeric series of 'pages' runs from 1 to 35 , instead of 1 to 10. That's pretty odd, considering I can find no place in Preferences where I might have over-ridden the 'default' display.
I was really hoping that the little numbers, which supposedly relate to the pages of the specific articles, would bear some relation to the actual pages, but no. Same as always, Nums 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc are all ref'd to Page 1. Nice way to burn through the subscription deal that 'counts pages' to figure when you've used up your page count, though. Good one.
Meanwhile, although certain aspects of the interface look nicer, the 'go to' pages are drawing very oddly in Opera 8.5, which is odd, considering it usually draws anything, well, that comes anywhere's near being within wide limits of transitional code, or whatever. Find myself going to the 'next' page, seeing nothing all down the 'left' column, and hitting 'reload' every time.
Still, it's a step in the right direction... as far it goes, just hope you guys didn't break the code for all the 'other' browsers out here just to fix the crappy display that was happening before, in that other browser that's so happening/cool/great because it's 'better than IE", that everyone's so ga-ga about.
And still with the pukey Green... What's up with that? Don't tell me...um, your landlord/slumlord got a deal on ghetto green cuz it was a bit too dark for the projects? No? Okay, one of the 'designers' [term is used 'loosely'] spent some formative years in reform school, or did a stretch in juvey? Oh well, ya lose some, ya lose some.
ha ha, that's funny, mod this one up, whaddya waitin' for?
Hey, thinking back to von Braun's, "Vee verh trying to hit the Moon, but hit London, instead"... if they can get the pizzas here at 20 degrees over room temperature it'll have been worth it.
Well, glad to be of help. To be honest I have no idea what the chit chat re: 'zero installation' is about. I guess they mean web services, you know remote login , app on the server...whatever, I'm way behind the times.
I know I am very opposed to any apps that require root escalation, (admin passwords, etc), and am fine with simple 'drag to directory of choice' installs...the way it ought to be. :)
As for the email client, here, it looks promising from a fast, lean java app comparison to some others, but it does have that outlook express-clone look to it, you know, which is somewhat generic, and reasonable (the tree, 3-pane aspect, etc). I use Eudora Pro (paid)....it's the killer, but I always check out the OpenSource and java stuff. Meanwhile, i may go the source/build route with Columba, just to see if a compile cuts it, and gives me menu access...thinking about it anyway. Thanks for the replies.
No. To all those questions. That was also interesting, not like most java app installs, to my memory, anyway. In the manual, it said that one file (directory?), that would be created in my home directory, would have to be renamed from USER to my login shortname, and there was no such file to rename.
The only thing I did, on my own, in response to no input from the installer-there was no 'installer', per se-was to move the un-zipped folder to my /user/name/Applications directory. Double-clicking the primary .jar 'name' launched the account setup, and I sent/rec'd my 1st 'test' msg, immediately. It was a very rapid launch, and initialization. I'm still impressed with that aspect, no question about it. It is only the absolute lack of menu function that has me stymied.
None of the other .jar files in the main lib directory would open either. I thought a jar was a jar, but only the main columba.jar file was launched with a simple double-click.
It is probably apparent that I am no java whiz, by any stretch, however I do have fully-working java apps and utilities here, that required more complex installs, and am also used to running xml parsers from the run CLI in Windows as well as off CLI in X. Nevertheless, as is obvious, I am a bit stumped here.
Thanks for taking time to reply
Heheh, I'm not arguing with anybody, but I have a question: I d-loaded the generic binary and it launched instantly in OS X here. I mean immediately, and 30 seconds later i did a successful Send/receive thru yahoo pop/smtp servers. So far so good, but there is zero action happening on any of the drop down menus. I mean, none. The toolbars (send, forward, reply, etc) all work fine. The relevant directories were all auto-created in /home, so does anyone have an idea what I'm screwing up on here? Thanks.
PACCAR, the large truck concern, has had a hydrogen conversion device, available on many test vehicles,made by a group of engineers in Tacoma, for a couple of years. It runs on airflow, while the vehicle is in motion. There are actually stationary versions in use out in the boonies in Oregon and Washington State, also, in use on generators for remote wood-chipping machines and whatnot. The engineers have a small company called Aegis, made up o a couple retired Naval captains, a old head engineering guy from IBM, and a few others.
You cynical asshats need to do a little more research, looks like, especially the guys with the huge 'grasp' of scientific reasoning as to why it won't work.
"Microsoft will expose application programming interfaces, or APIs, for MSN Search using SOAP. MSN Virtual Earth, Desktop Search and MSN Messenger will all be opened up for outside developers to extend."
Good now maybe a 12-yr old can write in some lines of code to bring video to Messenger on the Apple..., it's about time.
no shit, add an AR-33 and, Blazango..you're Special Forces. ~flipper
depends on what you mean by 'it' couldn't resist, still my fave Bill quote
Exactly right...except for one thing...this argument that the piracy/copyright/fair use issue is about the 5 big media companies right to charge whatever they wish, with the force of law to back them, is neither capitalism, not marxism...it is highway robbery.
I worked for decades in music, as a collector of records, a musician, producer, and have sat (on both sides of the table) in on recording contract negotiations, and believe me, what the Big 5 fear, the most, is losing their stranglehold on the means of distribution
Marx was on about workers taking control of the means of production. Well guess what? Anyone with a PC, Mac, or whatever, can produce 'art' that is up to the technical standards of the industry, already. That takes care of 'production'.
Most of the recording artists are on 'work for hire' contracts. It is heartbreaking to watch a young songwriter trade away their 'publishing' rights, just to get a shot at making these Big 5 guys wealthier. And, meanwhile, the kids who download Top 40 stuff, are already buying everything (including the shirts, dolls, posters, underwear, whatever) that is part of the whole 'fandom' process. making the downloads' impact on the industry, as a whole, trivial
What WON'T be trivial is when the the Next Big Thing distributes online, from Day 1, and tours and sells clothes, and bypasses the Big 5 totally. I just hope I live long enough to see that come to pass, because that is the way it will be, one way or the other, and I want to see what those vampires in Burbank, New York, London, Berlin, and Tokyo look like when that shit hits the fan on a regular basis. Oh yeah...please God, let me hang in, I'll do the 'elderly diapers' routine, just wanna see the day...
have been privy to this information for centuries.
how about someone who wants to call all 50 states and canada 24/7 for $25/month? and two cents a nminute to paris, for example? try that on yer cel phone pal
will be on all the other asswipes out there that have the same crap to deal with for cancellations. This move by Spitzer, against a former high-flyer, and a 'still' household name, will send a clear message to all the others out there.
wrong. 'shrinkage', as a term, covers everything from shoplifting, being shorted on goods shipped-in versus goods paid for, employee theft, to typos on shipping/receiving, etc.
I worked for a big west coast retail record chain,before going to warner bros, and the 'pro' record 'boosters' could do in 15 minutes, more 'damage' than 500 ordinary steal-a-record amateurs...any day of the week.
Is it 'ethically' okay to steal one item, instead of 500? No. But to call a one-off shoplifter 'unethical' is a judgement call based on the 'ethics' of the 'judge', because if a kid thinks it's 'okay to steal from a big store', he's entirely within 'his own ethical belief structure'. Period.
A 'better' blanket statement (still debatable) would revolve around morals, not ethics, and, to be even more solid, would hinge on 'legality', the ramifications of taking 'shortcuts', etc. Ethics, by their nature, are subjective.
Not quite as simple as that.
US military, onboard (meaning 'in the field', rear support, helis and jets, etc), targeting and warfare management computing programs all employ the use of 'civilian' kill rates, which are very flexible, in terms of 'weighting', depending on the mission, and other imperatives.
"Targeting" factors are interesting. The US also includes things like "How long (in seconds) has enemy been observed to be able to deploy gas masks, etc." Hmmm...
Is that too complex of a notion for you, ya retarded asswipe?
Courts STILL don't know shit about prior art regarding software, 2o years LATER, okay asshat?
the answer to that is yes, and on top of everything else. it was Xerox's idea/proposal, in the first place. They wanted some Apple stock, and they were pissed that all their R&D money was 'pissed away' on crazy shit that the higher-ups at Xerox saw no value in.
They were "The Document People", remember?
jesus, talk about missing the friggin' boat...
Mr. Jobs was never really too fond of diluting his own Apple holdings, (which he really got nailed on, later). But the Xerox PROPOSAL was just too compelling to walk away from.
The original 'myth' went something like: "Xerox said something like, 'you can come in and have carte blanche to see, ask, and develop later, but no physical notes or cameras', and he would roar back to the Apple shed and tell engineers what he'd seen, from memory." ... I always liked that story, but it was not accurate. Oh well.
That's big of you...now, try 1870, Rockefeller...Standard Oil...better known, in it's various forms, today, as: Amoco, Mobil, Esso, Conoco, Chevron, and of course, Exxon.
Research, and business, not exactly your strong suits, eh buddy>
I'm far, far more comfortable in either KDE or Gnome than I'm likely to ever be dealing with a flakey 1-button mouse and a dock that won't stay the same size or keep frequently used icons in the same spot.
The one-button mouse? What are you a retard? Buy a fucking mouse or a trackball, and don't worry you can plug in your new one without rebooting....NeXT
And I'm a lot more comfortable doing a lot of tasks from the CLI than from any desktop. And I'm sure as hell not happy with all the parts of the filesystem that OSX hides and the UNIX commands that I'm locked out of and all the other eccentricities of the system.
Okay, CLI brainiac, so use the console to see everything, or enable show invisibles in the Finder, or use a pure NeXT file finder. So fuckin' 'smart' with terminals you can't run ls and top. get the fugouddahere with the crybaby shit, did ya tell Mom you spent 20 seconds on a Mac and it wasn't cool? Poor baby...back to butt-ugly flaky linux, boy.HAHAHAHAHAHA
And I could do without the damned genie crap and the other icandy too.
One word for you, lamer: defaults. What a toad...stay away from debian, we got enough suicidally depressed 'smart' guys already, heheh
Now you can like OSX all you want, but don't tell me I can't call it a pain in my ass. That's for my ass to tell me.
Tell me somethin'...when your ass is giving you opinions on stuff your mental midget's brain can't handle...um, is the advice/opinion accompanied by a bad odor, and an echo? I think I might know what's going on there. So pull yer head outta there, take a long hot bath, and find a girl (fer christ's sake) with a room temperature IQ to explain OS X to ya. Loser
OS X: Because it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows