[P1] Semi OT : access iDisk through FTP

[patrick fisher]

The days of an operating system coming on 4 floppies is over and has been over for a
decade.

It's a paradigm shift: Ram and hard drives are cheap. Better to have a robust system
that takes care of you (OS X), than to have a "simple" system that you can go and
manipulate everything.

Yes, I have capitulated and I feel better to have done so. I accept the fact that an
OS is going to be 2 gigs in size. OS X has been very nice to me. I can't really go
in and start tweaking like OS 6 on my SE, but I'm happy in a whole, different way!

P


>
> Actually, they did ... but it's still frustratingly slow for dialup
> users. Steve Jobs, like every other tech CEO in the country, figured
> incorrectly that a much higher percentage of the population would be on
> broadband by now. Notice how Software Update thinks nothing of trying
> to get you to download 35+MB files on a routine basis.
>