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From: Peter Casserole on 17 Nov 2009 05:57 On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:22 GMT, Clive Sinclair wrote: > Apple learn from Microsoft? Very little. I know it's not constructive... > > I chuckle everytime I watch my wife boot her 5 month old laptop into > Windows 7 takes forever. Well, your wife thinks you take forever too, but she's not chuckling. > > My 2yr old Mackbook Pro loads 10.6.2 is ready to use in about 40sec from > power on. So what's so great about that? I can get a hard on in 20 seconds.
From: Clive Sinclair on 17 Nov 2009 09:33 Peter Casserole wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:22 GMT, Clive Sinclair wrote: > >> Apple learn from Microsoft? Very little. I know it's not constructive... >> >> I chuckle everytime I watch my wife boot her 5 month old laptop into >> Windows 7 takes forever. > > Well, your wife thinks you take forever too, but she's not chuckling. > >> My 2yr old Mackbook Pro loads 10.6.2 is ready to use in about 40sec from >> power on. > > So what's so great about that? I can get a hard on in 20 seconds. > > > Never mentioned hard on it was POWER on. See, wanking does make you blind. -- Clive We don't die, we just stop paying taxes.
From: chris on 17 Nov 2009 10:04 Ben Shimmin wrote: > Perhaps Apple could implement the Windows Update feature of popping > up a dialog box every five minutes asking you to update now or later. > I love that feature. Yeah, it's especially comical when it pops up during a visitor's presentation.
From: Peter Casserole on 17 Nov 2009 12:34 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:33:11 GMT, Clive Sinclair wrote: > Peter Casserole wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:05:22 GMT, Clive Sinclair wrote: >> >>> Apple learn from Microsoft? Very little. I know it's not constructive... >>> >>> I chuckle everytime I watch my wife boot her 5 month old laptop into >>> Windows 7 takes forever. >> >> Well, your wife thinks you take forever too, but she's not chuckling. >> >>> My 2yr old Mackbook Pro loads 10.6.2 is ready to use in about 40sec from >>> power on. >> >> So what's so great about that? I can get a hard on in 20 seconds. >> >> > > Never mentioned hard on it was POWER on. See, wanking does make you blind. No need to apologize. Believe me, your wife is more interested in the former than the later.
From: zoara on 17 Nov 2009 16:29
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>: > > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > >> [...] > >> > I was making a distinction between SL's implementation (which > >> > requires > >> > the distinct click-and-hold interaction per application) and > > > > Windows > >> > 7's > >> > implementation, which does not. At first blush it would seem the > >> > latter > >> > is better, but I'm not sure. > > NewsTap's quoting really could do with work. Ah, happy memories of > OE-QuoteFix. Are you talking about the single-word-to-a-line problem? I can't see that in NewsTap as it uses format=flowed - it looks like this: http://emberapp.com/zoara/images/untitled > >> I find the Windows 7 preview thing bloody irritating. > > > > So the question is whether I'm more of a Ben or a Woody. I think I'd > > find it irritating. > > Windows 7's `Show Desktop' thing is also amazingly ill-conceived. > Basically it's a small, blank rectangle at the very far right of the > Taskbar. Clearly this has been extremely popular with users, given > how most of the Google hits for `Windows 7 show desktop' are about > how to get the old `Show Desktop' button back into the Taskbar[1]. Hmmm. It's wrong that they've made it look like a piece of window furniture but it *is* well-placed. It's out of the way but infinitely-sized (throw the mouse in the corner to "peek", throw and click to show the desktop). They could have just added an icon to it and solved the issue. Perhaps an icon you could turn off to save space? -zoara- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |