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Subject:Re: NVC - MS vs Mac
From:honemastert
Date:Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:58 -0700

One poster did comment..

"enjoy the single button mouse"

I hate he single button mouse..
I use a USB Logitech Trackman Wheel

The single button mouse is stupid, plain and
simple.

how many fingers do you have on your hand..
go take a look right now!?  One?  not unless you're
a retired wood shop teacher ;-)

despite what Apple's Human Interface fancy schmancy
400+ page tome of a justification says.

   http://tinyurl.com/6dcmm

A multi-button mouse is more efficient.  Heck
give me keyboard shortcuts.. (yes I'm a recovering
GNU Emacs user) so I never have to move my hands
from the keyboard.

BTW  Where is my decent voice recognition?  Mac OS
and Mac OS X have had a primitive form of this
for years.  You can surf the web and command your
browser to scroll up down, back, forwards etc: with
just your voice.

This stuff should be improved on.. I want fluid dictation
why have to type at all???

The one other b**ch about Mac OS X?

If you a WinDOHs! Alt-Tab freak.. this one
will  annoy you to no end.  (read on)

Yes you can Alt-Tab to your hearts content
on Mac OS X, but what if you've iconized an
application/hid it in the Mac OS X Dock?

All the Alt-Tabbing in the world wont bring it
up, without moving your hands from the keyboard.

WTF? Steve Jobs.. R U Listening? :-)

Probably not.. it was Woz that was more into
the VW Bus thing I think?

I think there is a productivity app called 'Quicksilver'
that you can use to enable this, but I'm not sure
a colleague of mine ever got it working satisfactorially.

Those are my *only* two complaints/areas that I feel
Windows / Micro$haft has it over Mac OS X.

BTW  Did you see that M$loth is working on buying
        Yahoo?  Interesting..