On May 31, 2010, at 11:22 , P. J. Alling wrote:
On 5/31/2010 2:06 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-05-30 18:53 , William Robb wrote:
It couldn't possibly be a problem with his vaunted Mac being
unable to
install a piece of software, so it must be Adobe's fault.
i can't vouch for the dude on the blog (are those raspberry
seedlings in the grass a metaphor for software packages that don't
mix?) -- something is wrong with his description because there's no
way the InDesign CS3 installer would ask him for the Photoshop CS4
disk -- maybe something else on his machine asked for it, but not
the CS3 installer
but from long experience, and confirmed by the experience of many
others with whom i correspond on InDesign and Mac OS X lists, Adobe
has among the worst Mac installers of any major software distributor
Anyway, during conversation, he mentioned some study or other where
researchers had found that Mac users typically are somewhat less
intelligent than PC users.
citation please, or it's balderdash; best i can find is a 2002
study that says Mac users (then, at least) were richer and better
educated
<http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-943519.html>
Richer and better educated doesn't necessarly translate to more
intellegent. The money could be inherieted and one of my favorite
quotes, which seems to bear out more often than not is "Seriousness
is stupidity sent to college." This is not to cast aspersions on
Mac users. Though it used to be that Mac users didn't want to know
anything about the mechanics of their boxes and Dos/Windows users
were forced to.
I'm nowadays in the minority but I had finished a college course in
digital electronics in 1973, and absorbed the Apple ][ and it's ][+
upgrades as they came out. I knew every trace on the motherboard,
every chip in it's sockets, and the hex output of the keyboard.
I became an Apple Developer in 1979 or 80 so I could get the circuit
and timing data I needed to prototype and ultimately produce several
dozen custom cards, write and compile a software program that ran
under CP/M on a cloned Microsoft card (direct from some garage in
Cupertino) which would automatically test and document a series of
AT&T contracted parallel connected plates with 4 punch-down blocks on
each module as they came off the assembly line. Pretty simple,
actually, but in those days it took some study to come up with the
proper chipset to perform the tasks, save the result, and print out
the serialized documentation.
When the johnny come lately outfit came out with the PC in 1981, by
1982 I was assembling clones from Asian parts in the basement of a co-
worker that would far outperform any IBM machine.
1984, the Mac arrives, and I had my first one torn apart within a few
months to speed it up. And many of my friends did the same thing.
As I aged, however, I became more and more pleased that Apple made the
machines unpack and plug-in to play. Why screw around if you don't
have to. :-)
Joseph McAllister
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“ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are
the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost
by unskilled workers!”
— Martin G. Wolf, PhD
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