on 16/5/02 7:54 pm, J. van Baardwijk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 08:46 14-05-2002 -0500, Marvin Long wrote:
> 
>> But...doesn't someone who buys iMacs and Celine Dion CD's deserve to be
>> punished somehow?  ;-)
> 
> I am not sure an iMac buyer actually needs to buy Celine Dion CD's to
> deserve punishment...   <grin>
> 
> I mean, do iMac buyers realise that an increase in market share for Apple
> will lead to an increase in unemployment among all those overworked and
> underpaid IT people who earn their living thanks to Microsoft products?   :-)

Cruel and barbaric though it may seem, that is the capitalist market system,
all fangy and grrr and dripping the blood of the weak.

> 
> Probably not, but then what would you expect from people who buy a computer
> with a one-button mouse because two buttons on a mouse is too confusing for
> them...   :-)

I think you are probably giving too much significance to a $40 accessory.
And if you really want >1 mouse buttons two is hardly enough. At least three
surely! Solution - go buy 3-button mouse (one of those Microsoft optical
ones will do nicely), plug into iMac. There! Now it has a three button
mouse! Problem solved! [What problem...?]

-- 
William T Goodall
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http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

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