Re: I hate the Finder more each day

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: I hate the Finder more each day
Date: 16:57 on 04 Sep 2003
> There could almost be a seperate mailing list for Mac complaints.

I think the thing that bugs me about it is that it's so much closer to
the ideal that the remaining gratuitous stupidity just stands out so
much more.

> I was thinking of getting an iBook, but now I'm not sure.

I could fire up a Windows flame or a UNIX flame for each Mac OS X flame.

Without breaking a sweat.

For example, after the Nth person posted a link to the "Mac Killed My
Inner Child" video, I posted:

   It's not nearly so funny after you've just had Windows pop up
   a dialog box while you're typing and you go "oh, shit, what did
   I just respond to and what did I say?" and the next thing you
   know your VPN link is down and you've got to start over configuring
   that damn router at the other end of it, and you think "damn,
   I wish the VPN client *was* jumping up and down like a Jack
   Russel Terrier instead of slapping a freaking dialog window in
   my face when I'm trying to bloody WORK", and then it hits you
   that he's talking about OS 9 and OS X in the same sentence and
   getting everything mixed up anyway, and you're so bleeding pissed
   with Windows you try and hit the "mute" button and he keeps on
   talking and now he's hidden behind a Word window and you can't
   get it out of the way because there's another dialog box up and
   so you click on the little speaker in the taskbar and you wait
   and wait and wait while Windows thinks about your request and
   plays with itself or whatever it's doing in the several seconds
   between the time you click on that icon and the control comes
   up so you lean over your desk to yank the power cord and pull
   your back and you remember how the goddam workmans comp people
   are still going after you for something that they screwed up 3
   years ago and the next thing you know you're hanging from the
   third floor window trying to keep from getting dragged out after
   the PC by the power cord wrapped around your ankle and your
   back's burning and you wish you had a Mac.

(pause for logo)

   My name's Peter da Silva, and I use Windows.
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