On Jun 1, 2010, at 20:13 , William Robb wrote:
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....
As you probably already know, the Mac OS gives the user a choice of
showing the file extensions or not. The premise being, as you say, you
just click on it and it knows what app to launch to view it. Just like
in Windows.
The majority of what you see and how it's used in Windows was borrowed
from the Mac GUI, and yes, it was borrowed in the first place. Sort of
like when I type this, I am borrowing the use of the alphabetical
letters someone thought up a long time ago as a way to communicate.
Don't have to pay a fee to use them either, other than to read your
distain of people using computers who occasionally wear tie died T's
and don't need to be told that a Doc file is a Doc file. After all,
the ICON is a page with lines of type on it! Something will open when
I click it!
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
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