Doing better? I may be reading things wrong, but there doesn't appear to have been any changes made in the last 12 months...

You really expect the powers-that-be to actually consider bug reports and feature requests from we lowly users? o_0

It's never too late! ;^)

Multiply has much better privacy tools than Slashdot and I am sure the former-Slashdot crowd over there would welcome you with open arms. ;^)

You do realise that any USB mouse will work just fine on a Mac? If you don't like the mouse, plug your favourite mouse in and problem solved!

If that's true then it's the first thing Windows has got right in a bloody long time. Previous versions of Windows however are just like Mac and *nix - if you yank the drive out prematurely you run the risk of file corruption. Of course, it is dead easy to correctly eject a USB drive on a Mac, so long as you are not a brain-dead luser as Barbie seems to be - you just click Eject from the context menu (right mouse button, or ctrl-click for single button mouses), or click the Eject icon beside the drive in Finder, or press Cmd-E, or if you really want, drag the icon the the trash. The dragging to trash method is from the very early days of Mac OS and was one of the ways you could eject a 3.5" floppy.

Anyone who claims there is only one way to do something on a Mac has no idea how to use a Mac...

I use Pixelmator. It isn't free, but is a danged fine image editor.

Yeah, you definitely need to add an "easy" mode with fewer tiles and an optional preview thumbnail (not too small though!) to make it a bit easier. But for a basic jigsaw puzzle it is reasonably neat. One problem I did have though was sometimes the tiles randomly disappear and/or show the wrong piece - sometimes you get duplicate pieces on screen, but when you move one of the dupes it reverts back to the piece it should be...

And the reason for my "laundry list" is that they just work so darned well I upgraded reasonably often! (Okay, the multiple shuffles were just a vanity/convenience thing - one for audiobooks, one for music and a couple of different colours just because. ;^) )

Add me to the list of non-negative experiences: Half a dozen iPods, four iPod Shuffles, an iPhone, Mac mini, iBook G4, MacBook pro, iMac and I've had no real problems with any of these. The iPods still work fine with no battery issues, even the second oldest (the oldest I sold, so I don't know how that one is going) at just over five years old is still working fine and holds its charge well. My MBP does need a new battery, but it does get a helluva lot of work, so I'm not too worried about that...

At least I have the balls to put a name to my trolling! ;^)

Quit the "quota" bullshit. Unless you can provide evidence that your mythical quotas exist, stick to the facts. he was trying to arrest people who had broken the law, they got uppity, started acting like dicks and got what was coming. Fuck 'em all.

Besides, you probably broke at least one law today. With the number of laws on the books, it's almost impossible not to.

Maybe that is true, but if a police officer tried to detain me for questioning or to arrestme, I wouldn't act like complete fucktard and start screaming at him and abusing him. There's a little thing called respect - you obviously have not heard of this concept but you really should try it some time.

The reason there appears to be a problem with black people being "victimised" is that they have no fucking respect and feel that they are entitled to get away with breaking any fucking law they choose because of the colour of their skin. Show a little respect to authority figures and they will return the favour.

I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but...

Quota? What fucking quota? He saw four fucktards breaking the law and tried to apprehend them. Next you'll be saying that if a single police officer sees four men raping four seperate women, he should only try to apprehend one of them? Pull your head out of your fucking ass and have a look at the real world for a change.

Here's a simple solution which will help avoid these situations in the future: Don't break the law! and if you do break the law and a police officer tries to apprehend you, don't try to resist arrest or he will be forced to use stronger tactics to restrain you. And if after breaking the law and subsequently resisting arrest you get "hurt", don't go screaming to the media about how the police are using strong-arm tactics on the poor, oppressed minorities. Black or white if you break the law and resist arrest you will be treated the same.