I read this and I immediately thought of the scene in First Contact where
James Cromwell tells Jonathon Frakes, 'Damn, you're heroic.'

MIke

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> Over twenty years ago Apple made a quiet innovation. When presenting a
> dialog box full of check boxes, radio buttons, and menus they took the
> trouble to make all the initial settings the most likely settings. This
> broke from the earlier tradition of always presenting the user with the
> most unlikely and destructive settings pre-checked. I don't think Apple's
> change was a bad one.
>
> I think that Apple's updater has pre-checked what a typical person would
> want to check. Why should they cater their settings to please a small
> number of Apple haters?
>
>


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