Of course this has to be the case. I think most of us walk around with with mobile phones that have memory and processing power more powerful than all of the computers available before 1990.
Some of the things that seem difficult in Lion and are nanny-state-ish such as automatic file versioning (not that I am running Lion yet, mind) - well is it the case that all of the experts on the CCP4BB have _never_ deleted a file they didn't mean to delete? _Never_ had Word (O, Coot) crash taking with it 6 hours worth of changes that should have been saved but weren't? If so, I feel humbled because I have made these mistakes and more. Adrian On 19 Sep 2011, at 14:31, Richard Gillilan wrote: > Listening to Jobs speak recently, I got the distinct impression that the end > of the era of general desktop computers "PC's" may be on the horizon. Of > course that's iPad sales rhetoric, but it may be that the public moves away > from general computers and that surely will have implications for scientific > computing. > > Richard > > On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > >> I've bitched enough about all things Mac, but this one's just too good to >> pass on (from the article that Peter linked to): >> >> "The fundamental issue here is Lion's assumption that you don't know what >> you're doing, and it's going to ensure you're protected from cock-ups that, >> in your ignorance, you may make." >> >> The first half of that sentence has always been my major gripe with Mac OS. >> If there just were a Pro version for those that know what they're doing, but >> the iPadification of computing goes exactly the opposite way. >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >
