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- From: smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon)
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.173535.23023@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:35:35 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Jul24111236@loiosh.eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >
- > Sang> == Sang J. Moon <smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- >
- > Sang> You have never rebuilt your desktop in system 7 so you don't know
- > Sang> what you are talking about. As far as I know, there is no
- > Sang> modifier key you can hold down in System 7 to rebuild the
- > Sang> desktop.
- >
- > Funny, I just hold down command-option while booting, and it rebuilds
- > the desktop *just fine*.
-
- My mistake. An extension called Desktop Reset(tm) was installed on my
- machine, and I thought it was the source of the ability to reset the
- desktop. However, if you have checked your hard drive with ResEdit, you
- should see that your deleted statement about there being no Desktop file
- was incorrect.
-
- > Sang> So far you've given opinions without substance. Installing software on
- > Sang> a mac can be as much a chore as on a PC.
- >
- > Sang> Example: Symantic Antivirus for the Macintosh
- >
- > Sang> Installing software on a mac can take definitely much more than a few
- > Sang> minutes, and just clicking on the installer is not enough.
- >
- > Sang> Example: Microsoft Word 5.0, Microsoft Excel 4.0, etc.
- >
- > Ah, yes, lovely examples, Microsoft software, and a commercial virus
- > program. How long does Disinfectant take to install? How about
- > WriteNow or Nisus?
-
- You conveniently deleted your original statement that my post was in
- response to in which you made absolute statements that mac applications
- were all point and click installations and the worst case mac application
- installation was a few minutes. I was giving examples to prove the point
- that installation takes just as much time and effort for either machines
- in general. You can always find exceptions for specific software, but
- installation of software in general takes just about the same time on
- either machine.
-
- This in turn is to point out that time "fiddling" with a PC is not really
- a cost factor because in the long run it is insignificant, and just as
- much time is spent on "fiddling" with the mac albeit not in the exactly
- same ways (different machines after all).
-
- > --
- > Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- > ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
- > point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
- > to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
-
- Sang J. Moon
-
-