You treat 'em differently when (a) you don't like 'em, and (b) they belong to
the boss.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor
> > > 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.
>
The absence of such tools with which to foul things up was considered one of
the "good" choices made by Apple Computer Co with respect to the
GUI-computers. I'm not sure I agree, but I can see why one might believe
that. My recollection of the early days of the PC is that most of the
problems were user-induced via config.sys, autoexec.bat, or simple
typer-geographical errors. The PC folks took a while figuring out that having
a seriously damaging command only one typo away from a common but innocuous
one was "not so good."
>
> 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.
>
That's the state of things now. It's been a long and winding road getting
here, though.
>
> 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 - 14:37:43 BST