>I can feel your pain, and it so happens that my pain happens in Germany >too. When I visit my daughter in Dresden for a week or so at a time, I >have to use her PC to check my mail, and it drives me nuts. How do people >live like that?
I think people live like that because they are simply ignorant that there is an option and that the option may be better. I can't tell you how often I talk to PC users who bitch that the web is too full of popup windows. Heck, ISPs now offer "popup blocker" services. I tell them to simply NOT use Internet Explorer, as just about every other browser available has a preference choice to stop popup windows. They give me a blank look (very much like the confused dog look you get if you ask a question at Radio Shack), and say "What do you mean use another browser... what would I use if not IE". These same people bitch about virus problems and ask how to stop them. I tell them to not use Outlook or Outlook Express for email. I get the same blank look followed by "What do you mean don't use Outlook, how would I check my email". I would love to blame MS for this, but I think rather it is just a symptom of society (at least in the USA) and how people just don't care to know anything that isn't spoon fed to them. >Of course I've tried to be fair and at least consider the possibility >that if I had started out on a PC and was used to it, it wouldn't seem so >bad, but I don't want to put in the time to see if I can adjust. Let me tell you, I use a PC right along side with my Mac, every day, all day. Its been that way as long as I can remember (well, maybe not that long, but at least back into the mid eighties... I started supporting PCs just before my farewell to the Apple II, which occurred in 1987/88 I think about a year after I bought my SE to upgrade my sagging 128 which I had since summer of 1984 (which was an experimental side grade to my Apple II that dated from 1977)). So I'd like to think I have a fair bit of experience with the PC, and in particular windows (which I started toying with at version 3.11, and then full time at Win95). And with all this time to "get used to it", I can still tell you... WINDOWS SUCKS!!! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
