When the Mac came out, every software user's manual had to explain how to use a mouse. I witnessed early Mac users would couldn't grasp the idea that the pointer on screen was controlled by their hand on the mouse. People would watch their hand moving instead of watching the mouse pointer on screen. A single button was the right choice in 1984. Nothing stops you from connecting a multi-button mouse to your Mac, and all of the buttons and scroll wheel work swimmingly.

People still don't understand double-click vs. single click. My father is brilliant, but he double clicks everything out of habit.

And what is "maximize" good for. Isn't it ironic for someone who derides a one button mouse to want a one window GUI ?

Smaller screen than an iPod Touch, Windows CE, Microsoft App Store - Lame.

Forgetting that both iPhone and Mac can be programmed with C/C++ and OpenGL for games...

Oh, you mean like id games:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/25/carmack-quake-live-on-mac-linux-high-on-my-priority-list/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_engine "Originally developed on NeXT computers"

Or maybe you meant http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Business/NuclearStrike.html

There doesn't seem to be a shortage iPhone games...

Plus, Objective-C and Cocoa are Awesome(tm)

Let's have zero corporate tax. No more depreciation schedules. No more 200 page tax returns that take all year to prepare. The income that is passed on to shareholders can be taxed at regular personal rates. Money that is reinvested is reinvested. Yah!

Let's end double taxation and make the U.S.A. the most popular place to incorporate. European companies will buy or build even more facilities in the U.S.A. and employ more people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_I._Schwartz

I have crossed paths with Schwartz a few times, and my impression was that he is a technologist's technologist. He's one of the nerds. He fits in well when programmers get together for a beer. He can debate which Enterprise captan was best. I think he has had the pony tail for at least 15 years. He certainly recognizes great technology when he sees it. Did you know the MS Visio is a sad copy of Schwartz's Diagram!

I have no idea what Schwartz'b business skills may be, but I don't think you can claim he is pretending to be a tech/hippie. I think it's more likely he pretended to be a CEO.

You mean "an already established low-power design house like" PAsemi http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-pasemi-tech-ebiz-cz_eb_0422apple.html

I interview 30+ people every year for programming positions. The number one attribute we desire is "smart." If you are smart, we can teach you, and you will learn. We find that completion of an engineering, physics, math, or computer science degree usually implies "smart." We have hired smart fine arts majors, smart psychology majors, and even a former priest. Second, we want "motivated." We like people who attack every challenge with creativity and resourcefulness. We shy away from negativity and reluctance to try new approaches. When a stupid new process is forced on us from above, we want employees who say, if we change this or that it will be so much easier to follow and provide better results. Then we can push changes back up as "process improvements." We don't like it when people just complain without suggesting a better way. Third, we like nice people who will get along with the current employees and be fun at lunch and the holiday party. As a distant fourth, we look for directly relevant experience. Sometimes that experience is FPGA programming or power supply engineering or signal processing expertise or C++ programming for embedded systems or Java GUI applications. However, we routinely solve problems that have never been solved before. As an indication of company culture, there are more patent award plaques than pictures on our walls. For us, relevant experience for a senior position could be "what have you invented lately?"

And yes, we are currently advertising 22 open positions, but I am not alowed to tell you where I work in this forum.

Protectionism deepened and worsened the Great Depression.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/17606.htm
"...beggar-thy-neighbor" policies of the 1930s. ... For example, U.S. imports from Europe declined from a 1929 high of $1,334 million to just $390 million in 1932, while U.S. exports to Europe fell from $2,341 million in 1929 to $784 million in 1932. Overall, world trade declined by some 66% between 1929 and 1934."

Is it April Fool's day already ?

What about the poem I composed in the margins of my notes ?
What about the bank account numbers I wrote down because I was thinking about economics ? What about the pictures I doodled because I was bored ?

The teacher shouldn't be sued. She should be arrested for petty theft. Students have a right to be secure in the papers and affects.

Microsoft copied the recycle icon from NeXTstep which of course became Mac OS X.
http://www.andrewnotarian.com/blog/images/win95nextStep.gif

See a visual comparison of Windows 95 and NeXTstep which preceded it.
http://www.andrewnotarian.com/blog/images/win95nextStep.gif

Mac OS X used to be called NeXTstep, and NeXTstep had a dock which Windows 95 copied to create the task bar. The Windows 95 look which came to be called the Windows classic look which was in fact a shameless but inferior copy of the NeXTstep look from 1988.

Think Windows 95 copied from NextStep, starting with the "Recycle bin" and the recycle logo, the use of a square and a X in the title bar, bezeled window borders, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Dock
http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/OpenStep/screenShots/
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/applicationmanager