On 6/1/2010 11:13 PM, William Robb 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....
Some file systems don't use extensions, they associate programs and data
using other methods. I don't know how Apple did it in the pre OS-X
days, (I didn't care enough to actually learn), but Now I assume they
use the Unix conventions. Which don't necessarily need file extensions,
there are a variety of methods that would work without extensions that
don't involve magic. I find it very annoying that Microsoft wants to
look like Apple so much that they hide file extensions by default, even
though the extensions are there.
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