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So, what's the deal with the "all-forgiving wink"? You use it so often, lotsa, that you sound like the 'Caribou Barbie'. :-)

In other words neither one of you know nothing about what Apple is looking to do with Snow Leopard, thought so.

Oh, and to save you reading the 3-part Goatberg article on the Snow Leopard's about box, the conclusion will be. "In short, after 3 weeks of testing, while I'd have to say that Snow Leopard's About Box text is the best that could ever be written, I'd also thought that about Leopard's About Box and despite raising the bar to unimaginable heights before, Apple did more than I thought was possible. So, to be safe, while I think that Snow Leopard's About Box text IS the bext that can ever be written and raises the bar far beyond what Redmond could ever do, I also have faith that Apple will continue to do the impossible and make the upcoming 10.7 "lolcat" release even more amazing than any of us can imagine." ;-)

And, of course, Apple will issue the following ads: "Shakespeare": PC is standing behind several desks and hundreds of monkeys with quill pen and parchment. Mac asks, "PC, what's with the monkeys?". PC replies, "With Snow Leopard's new About Box text, I couldn't keep up so I hired a room full of monkeys away from a guy who was trying to write a new Shakespeare play to try to catch up." Mac smirks. "Sports car": PC drives into frame in a red convertible wearing a '70s disco shirt and gold chains. When Mac asks what's with the new look, PC says, "With all the people switching to Snow Leopard for the new About Box text, I have to do something to get people to notice me." Mac counters by saying, "Hey, PC, it's OK. I'm sure somebody will still like you for what you are." PC replies hopefully, "Really think so?" and Mac just smirks.

O/T, but loads of fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic7s8Qy9FhE Yes, losta, Canada has the best comedians, but the US has the funniest politicians (they are the biggest joke).

RunTimeError Nonsense, I've been against the Bush family since 1979.

You don't like bush? What do you prefer? a brazillian?

gorath Or a landing strip or just a nice trim...

Shark I'm sure you've talked to people. But since you think that "liberals like to think that every Republican is a bigoted religious nut idiot with a low IQ. " you clearly have been talking not to liberals but to conservatives or GOP partisans who were all too happy to tell you "what liberals think".

First thing I agree with Mike on in well.. ever: Teddy Roosevelt, earns his place on Mt. Rushmore.

RE: McCain, lot of Democrats voted for the Iraq war, including (maybe) future VP, Sen. Biden. There's a reason Democrats liked McCain until 2008 and there's a reason Kerry asked him to be his VP candidate in 2004. There's also a reason most conservatives didn't warm up to McCain until he announced his VP pick.

A clarification: I didn't mean all liberals when I wrote the original comment. Anyway, I'll be glad when these elections are over and we can go back to talking about technology. :-)

"And the problem we have with McCain isn't that we think he's "a bigoted religious nut idiot with a low IQ" Right. It's Sarah Palin who's the bigoted religious nut idiot with the low IQ. Kidding! Just kidding! McCain is an honorable man that I disagree with on most issues. I'll be happy (I hope) to see the return of the distinguished Senator once he escapes from the clutches of the people who ran his campaign and have gotten him portrayed as different person. The guy I used to regard as a principled conservative is still in there somewhere, I think. I hope he goes back to being like John Warner, an old school gentelmen, a man of his word, with views on issues that are not the same as mine. Go look at the Al Smith memorial dinner speech that McCain did a few weeks ago in a joint non-political appearance with Obama (youtube). He was funny, self-deprecating, speared Obama with some good lines, but...it wasn't nasty. He told jokes that had Hillary Clinton in stitches laughing. I'll be so happy when this election is over with and the bashing will just be Macs and PCs.

"Yes, Apple did integrate Spotlight Search into Mac OS X *after* Microsoft announced its intention to do Windows Search in Longhorn" Why not also say that desktop search was not something Microsoft came up with? Other companies had come up with the idea years *before* Microsoft even showed it publicly. So don't try and pass it off as some Microsoft innovation. And just because some other company did it, but not tightly integrated in to the OS, does not mean it was Microsoft's idea. That would be like saying that Microsoft came up with the web browser because they were the first to so tightly integrate it in to the OS. I was searching all my desktop files, including Exchange emails, Office documents (and more) years before Microsoft showed some demo.

robertsjoe, Who gives a damn? A good idea is a good idea wherever it comes from. Otherwise you could only ever have one type of camera, because you couldn't copy the premise of taking a picture. You could never have an more than one type and make of automatic washing machine. One type of vacuum cleaner. One type of petrol motor car. Rubbish. All around us are examples of where an idea originated somewhere, and was then taken by a competitor in its basic sense and 'improved' or 'refined' in some manner, and so the competitive capitalist cycle goes on and on. So I'm not a Microsoft fangirl, but I will say that the Dock ahnd this are similar and that's potentially a bad thing as the Dock is hideous user interface item which combines too many disparate things in an awkward manner. I'm also an Apple user and sadly it's fanatacism and childish 'go on admit it admit it' that makes me hang my head in shame. I also do the same when I see the same religious zeal from MS and Linux fans. It's pointless primate pecking ordering. Get over it, someone once wrote a diary and journal as a web page and it became known as the blog but no one cares who was first. I get no satisfaction from using something because it had it first, I get satisfaction from the tool that gets the job done most effectively but I'm old enough, wise enough and likely ugly enough to know that what works for me doesn't work for everyone.

I wonder if he ever saw windows 1.0?

Oops, forgot to thank Paul for the 7 Wallpaper. Thanks dude! Even the kids like it [for Daddy of course, as my favorite color is blue].

@lilserenity: "Who gives a damn? A good idea is a good idea wherever it comes from" I agree. Paul should stop going on about "Microsoft demoed OS search before Apple" blah blah. Because, as you say "who gives a damn". So either don't mention it - or if you do, you are suggesting that MS thought of it first. So then I mention that desktop search was thought of way before MS even demoed anything. You can't have it both ways. So fine, don't care who was first. But people like Paul do, otherwise they wouldn't always come up with "demoed by MS before Apple". Double standards.