Waaatch it! Tom C.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:13 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/06/2010 9:01 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> From: Rob Studdert >>> >>> On 01/06/2010, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > 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> >>> >>> But gullible, they don't actually make owners creative. >> >> I've been using the Macs at school for a week now. My first impression >> is either the Mac programmers are idiots or they think their users are. >> >> I have to read a document. It's in PDF format. I double click the icon >> to open it, and it doesn't open, instead I get a dialog box telling me >> it's a PDF document and asking me if I want to open this PDF document? >> >> Nah ... why would I want to do that? I just didn't have anything better >> to do than randomly open folders and double click icons. >> >> Had to buy one of those Le Cie rugged drives to store my files on and to >> use for transferring images from my Windoze box. The first time I >> started it up it had a wizard that allowed me to partition it and make a >> 32GB FAT32 partition both Mac & Windoze can see (Windoze is supposed to >> be able to see it). >> >> That was pretty slick, but now every time I start it up I get a dialog >> asking if I want to use the drive to back up the school's Mac which >> requires re-formatting the entire drive with the Mac file system & I >> wouldn't be able use it to transfer files from my Windoze box to the Mac? >> >> Only gives two options "Cancel" and "Fuck up your hard drive". Why would >> they give you the option to format the drive so it can be used for both >> Mac and Windoze and then NOT give you the option to tell this program NO. >> >> Morons! >> >> I would rather be locked in a phone booth and forced to masturbate a >> rabid mountain lion with a handful of rusty barbed wire than buy a Mac. >> > > Is that a Tom or a Queen you would prefer??? > This sounds like a case of you only get to do what Steve thinks you should > do. > Now I realize that Paul won't believe me, but a few years ago I was talking > about computers with an acquaintance who is both a Mac user and an idiot. I > mentioned something about file extensions and he didn't have a clue what I > was talking about. > He said (and I paraphrase) "we don't use file extensions on Macs, we just > click the icon and it opens. > Apparently Macs just know what the file is by magic.... > > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
