Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Forrest <squitaur@net-gate.com>]

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Perry Dueck wrote:

> Hrrrmmm...my Mac always spits the floppy disk out automatically when I
> choose "Shut Down" from the Finder's 'Special' Menu. Which, incidentally,
> is the proper way to shut down a Mac (not just flipping the on/off switch
> of off any old time).

  Which, I feel obliged to say, is the most stupid intentional design 
flaw ever foisted on the computing public.  Since power failures can 
happen at any time, and since total system lockups can happen
at any time, the only rational way to design a
computer system is to keep things as stable as possible as much of the
time as possible; instead Apple seems to have gone out of its way to do 
the exact opposite.  And the idea seems to have spread all over the place.

--
First it forces you to shut down by the emergency power button on the 
back, and then at restart complains that you did so.  Yep, sounds insanely 
great to me, Steve.