> > Richard... are you being treated for your compulsive liar behavior
> > problems? You can not possibly have 5+ years of daily Mac use
> > under your belt, and show the ignorance of Mac concepts you showed when
> > asking about the AppleVision monitor and the Performa 630 (or whatever
> > model it was you bought).
> Sorry, I have to argue with you here ;)
> The fact (well, at least my opinion) is that Apple makes it easy to
> remain completely ignorant of most important things about their
> computer while still "using" them.
For five years? Granted, I'm a bit more clueful than the average home computer
user, but within weeks I was into the guts of my Macs. Not to the extent I'm
into my C64, but that's a less complex system.
At the very least, in five years he could have learned to write Macintosh
correctly.
[yoink]
> I'd say that Apple even encourages user-ignorance by not including
> applications that will even let you get at the filesystem with their
> O/S -- Finder doesn't count because it won't show desktop (and friends)
> at all, and God help you if you want to set file attributes. With
> OS X, that's hopefully changed.
>
> That lack of utility software, among other things done by Apple (think
> all-in-one, closed box designs) serves to keep users in the dark about
> many things.
Apple actually has very good utility software. MPW has been free for some
time, for example. And there's the Apple Developer Connection, too, which
you can browse freely, and oodles of tech notes and explanations.
Like everything else in life, you get out of the system what you put into it.
> Now, I can't prove this, but I've personally seen it, so take that
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm.
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Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 13:57:08 BST