This thread would make for an interesting thread in the fields of communications, psychology, philosophy and human relations. Certainly it reveals some of the difficulties that technical people have in conveying what they are trying to say in non-technical terms. :-) The problem may have started by someone in the academic world implying that they worked in the"real life" world. :-) Perhaps this was doubly galling since we see so much SPAM and Popup ads destroying the credibility of an otherwise honorable university. :-) Regardless, there a few things in life for which a 10% failure rate is deemed acceptable (although I think we might welcome a return to that for marriages). :-) Keep smiling. LOL and enjoying the pissing contests. Don
>> Bruce, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> In real life, most people have few problems with OS X. >> >> let me guess, "real life" is lives approved by.... you? How do you=20 >> find >> the time for all this approval business? >> >> I have few problems with OS X. Is that enough to become approved? > > Since Bruce is a system administrator where he works, I would assume=20= > that > when he says "real life", he's probably thinking about the users he=20 > has to > support. But that's just wishful thinking from me... That's the experience I was talking from, that and the shared=20 experiences of our Mac admins group on campus. We find that, in the=20 main, we don't have to do a whole lot, since the Macs don't seem to=20 break very often; when they do, it's often easy to fix. Sometimes we get seemingly hard ones, but even they often turn out to=20 have simple fixes. Moreover, either because Mac users are naturally more intelligent ;-),=20= they're more used to fixing things themselves, living in a computing=20 ghetto that they do, or that macs are easier to deal with in the first=20= place (or a combination of all three), we find that one reason we're so=20= rarely fixing problems is that the users themselves fix the problems=20 when they arise. I'm not offended my Mikael's remarks, what bothers me is the seeming=20 attitude by many that the mac is just beset with horrible problems,=20 because they go looking for the people having those problems. (like=20 hitting MacFixit every day, and such.) It's a biased view, and after a=20= while, if those are the sites you frequent, it seems like it's the only=20= view. It's like the many, many PC users I've run into who are genuinely=20 surprised, when I tell them I didn't have to worry about viruses on my=20= Mac. They see nothing but all the news coverage about this or that new=20= virus sweeping the worlds computers, and never seem to read to the last=20= line where the obligatory "Macs and Linux systems are not affected." (A problem not confined merely to computers in this media-soaked age) > -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar macy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
