As always, see for yourself

Post #23,004 by tjsinclair 1/3/02 3:39:48 PM Reply	As always, see for yourself Get over to a CompUSA, Circuit City, MicroCenter, Fry's or, if you're lucky, an Apple store and try one of those puppies out. Ultimately, an OS is a very personal choice, or at least should be. Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits "Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]" -- (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)
Post #23,370 by admin 1/7/02 10:17:24 AM Reply	Mailbag: most mail against the new UI [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/23562.html\|Mailbag] Regards, -scott anderson
Post #23,388 by tjsinclair 1/7/02 3:07:46 PM Reply	Once again--See for yourself, make up your own mind Plus, how many people (like me) actually prefer the UI and didn't bother to write in? Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both. -- (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)
Post #23,390 by admin 1/7/02 3:09:31 PM Reply	That's what I've been saying, isn't it? Especially since my first post on the subject was titled "Don't jump until you try"? :-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #23,417 by Meerkat 1/7/02 5:31:50 PM Reply	IIRC people whinged when Win95 came out. Just because it was all different and strange. For people that have been working with Macs for many years, it's understandable that they wouldn't want to change. I was only an occasional Mac-user before I bought my iBook - my Duo230, Mac SE, and LCIII didn't exactly have enough power to be considered useful for everyday machines. (I acquired them over the last three or four years). So, I wasn't totally into the pre-Aqua interface. It was convenient, did the job, the application-switching menu was kinda groovy, though I missed the at-a-glance view of what applications were running, which you had in Win95. And you have it in Aqua. So I'm happy. Took me about two hours of playing with OS9 on the iBook before I booted into OSX. And have pretty much stayed there ever since. It's not perfect, it does need work, but even as it is I'm quite fond. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,418 by wharris2 1/7/02 5:36:36 PM Reply	And some people are still moaning and griping I still think it's damn peculiar to shut down your computer from the Start menu. The one idiocy I've always bitched about is the stupid Windows NT "Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login". (Or to get out of a password-protected screen saver.) Of all the stupid things to do; why not just do it ala OS/2, where you just hit a return to bring up the password dialog? "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #23,434 by Meerkat 1/7/02 7:23:30 PM Reply	Ctrl-Alt-Del a security measure, of sorts. Something to do with keyboard interrupts that couldn't be hijacked and stuff. I guess someone with a genuine clue will give the proper story. As for Windoze Start to Shutdown, I guess they had to innovate something to work like dragging a disc to the 'Trash' to eject it. In OS X th garbage turns to an 'eject' symbol as soon as you start dragging a disc. Phew. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,447 by tjsinclair 1/7/02 9:33:40 PM Reply	I guess we're just approaching from different directions <g> Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits The Emperor had all the qualifications for a corpse except, as it were, the most vital one. -- (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)

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