I like your points of view, young man ;D Pierre
Le 30 mai 2012 à 02:45, Paul Looney a écrit : > Stephen, Jacque, > > You kids and your new toys! > My daily driver is an 1984 MB 300D - with 514,000 miles (830,000 k). Runs > fine, a joy to drive. Would not hesitate to take it again to Maine, or > Florida, or British Columbia, or Iowa or... any of the other places it's been. > > I AM (proudly) old and I don't change much (wear 40 year old shoes, live in a > 102 year old house, been married for almost 40 years to the same person (in > California!) but... > I like Lion. > > I put it on a partition with Snow Leopard on the other partition. After about > a month, I never went back to SN. > When I installed Lion I decided to try using the default settings. It was a > major adjustment - but it worked and I'm glade I made that commitment. > > The two most difficult changes for me were: > 1. the "reverse" scrolling and > 2. the auto-saving > > Re: #1 I'm with Francois on this. > I started with Mac OS on a pre-release 128 "k" (yes, "k") back in 1983. At > the time, the scrolling seemed to be backwards - but I got used to it. > The Lion scrolling transition was more difficult because I have two 17" > laptops on my desk, one with Tiger and the other with Lion. And they now > scroll opposite directions. Wish I could change the Tiger computer. > > Re: #2 I love it! > One of the things I liked about HyperCard. > One of the aggravations about LiveCode - sometimes autosaves (changing color, > repositioning, etc.) and other times does not. > I'd much rather re-enter something after changing my mind than lose something > because I forgot to save. But maybe I'm just more absent-minded than others. > Which reminds me, I like TimeMachine, too. > > As for Apple: > I've been using their products for almost three decades. They don't listen to > me. Never have. It's annoying. > But Apple doesn't look back, or sideways. They decide where to go, and go > there; past be damned. I understand they have a quote from Henry Ford in the > lobby "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster > horses." > Look at all the care Microsoft took to make their tablet attempts compatible > with their Windows desktop OS. Very considerate. 15 years of crappy tablets. > Apple ignored their competition, customers, current products - and we have > the iPad. > > I try not to judge things by whether they are different but by whether they > are better. For my use Lion is the best OS I've had on a computer. > > Paul Looney > > > On May 29, 2012, at 3:06 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> I've got you beat on that Jacque, my 1988 stick Volvo station wagon is >> still my favorite car, even though I inherited a 2005 Prius. >> >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:52 AM, J. Landman Gay >> <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: >> >>> On 5/29/12 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: >>> >>> I merely tried to use an analogy that people get set in their ways, >>>> especially the longer they have been using something. I hope I haven't >>>> offended any Hot Rodders, as that was not my intent either. >>>> >>> >>> I'm an old hot-rodder. I kept my 17-year-old car until a few months ago >>> because I wasn't willing to give up my manual transmission. >>> >>> I'm getting used to being old. Sort of. Now I'm waiting for respect for >>> the aged to kick in. :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
