more annyoing OSX stuff.

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MuahMan.

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Windows rip-offf? Hah! Try this: Pop in a CD. Now drag it to the ... eject 
button?

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What I find "annyoing" is that, apparently, neither OS X nor XP have 
spell check for the subject line. :-)

Would Apple have sued Microsoft if they called it a trashcan?

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Peter

That's one small disadvantage of OS X - it doesn't come with a newsreader.

(For the purposes of this discussion, assume OE is a newsreader...).

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Click the little icon to the left of the URL?  

I prefer it that way because if I want to replace an entire URL I can 
click there, or if I want to change a small part of a URL I can click in 
the address bar and not have to click again to de-select the entire URL 
before I begin editing.

Paul
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On 2005-10-07 13:06:39 -0400, "MuahMan" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > said:



LOL! Please tell me you're kidding!



No it would suck, why do you think we're using Macs?


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Peter: "I'll tell you what it's NOT for and then you'll know why I can 
never go back to Sea World."

yeah, and I tend to overlook a windows user's innate fear of installing 
anything new, for the likely possibility it will{*filter*}up his/her 
machine. they have been conditioned to "fail", abort, retry, fail is 
burned into their tiny brains... little does he know he can install all 
the browsers he wants, test each one, all without fear. OSX is just like 
that.


yeah, it and the Mac version of Internet Explorer :)

when in reality there are about 40 web browsers on OSX.

 http://www.**--****.com/ %20browser

For you... just go to Netscapes site and download Netscape
for OS X.
It has the browser and newsreader and mail app rolled into
one.
The rest should be easy as it works just like the windows
version.

I found that out after I got the wife her Mac.  But I just
downloaded netscape for her and problems were solved.  Funny
that they don't include a newsreader.

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Does that have anything to do with Apple's technical superiority?

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On 2005-10-08 00:23:28 -0700, Timberwoof < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > said:




It's not that "there is something wrong with Windows" in the way it 
prevents people learning these sorts of things",  since it is not 
Windows which prevents them from learning its features, its the users 
themselves.)  Its more that many "Windows users are just as stupid 
about computers  as many Mac users."

Most people are basically Luddites when it comes to computers because 
it takes time to learn them (Windows as well as OS X), time they would 
rather spend making love to their girlfriends, or getting drunk down at 
the Pub.  In addition, computers have an air of mystery about them, and 
our popular culture has programmed them to believe that it somehow 
takes some kind of genius to use them.  They are afraid of computers.  
They are especially afraid that somehow they can destroy an expensive 
computer by pressing the wrong button.  I mean, most novices are seldom 
taught to even use a keyboard, and they handle mice as if they are some 
kind of magical device.

When I was in school, most students in the classes I shared  were just 
plain stupid.  I spent hours pulling out my hair trying to explain even 
the simplist things to them, such as saving files or the file system.  
This was probably because of my own attitude (I really thought I was 
something hot in those days.)

I have since come to the conclusion that I am more gifted when it comes 
to computers, and using them is a simple matter to me, while they are 
more gifted when it comes to human relationships, and they make friends 
easily.

I do know that returning insults for insults will only lead to further 
escalation of name-calling and bad feelings between human beings.  
There is enough of that in the world already.  Why add more?

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On 2005-10-08 04:10:31 -0700, Peter Hayes < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > said:





At least Outlook Express (Windows) has a decent boolean views editor, 
and pretty extensive filtering.   Something every OS X newsreader I've 
tried seems to leave out.  Instead, users have to do things only the 
way the programmers want them to do them, rather than the way the users 
may want to do them.  With no other choices.

At least Windows Usenet clients give their users choices in the way 
they present their data.

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Microsoft could've called it the "Trash" or the "Trashcan", that's more
descriptive of its functionality, but doubtless in this litigious age
Apple would've sued.

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Peter