You know, I just wanted to let you know that we yanks know perfectly well what an arse is, we don't need to have your mystical moon-man speak translated for us.

Yes yes yes, it must make you feel all high-falutin-etc to condescend to let us in on your colloquialisms. But it's not a secret. We know what arse means. We also know that you call a car's trunk a "boot", and that you like to spell color with a 'u'.

We get it. Carry on.

Absolutely true, but I want to point out that Apple's just trying to make simple things easy -- they're not trying to say that they've finally solved truly capital-h Hard concurrency problems.

2 things:

1) You'd better figure out how to keep the world from just getting hotter and hotter. That free energy's being turned into work, after all.

2) You're using what would be the greatest advancement in the entirety of human history, to play a prank? On all of humankind?

Sir, you have my respect.

Americans only, eh? I forgot about how nobody else uses timber for anything, ever.

We call that "gopher".

It's also one of the finest games ever made ( well, in my opinion ).

Replace the "4" with "10" and you have OSX...

One man's "stupid gimmicks" is another man's graceful and easy-to-use system.

I know the above sounds snarky, but I worked on Mac OS Classic for years, and was a linux user at home for years as well. I was *very* put off at first by OS X's eye candy and general fooferah. And then I actually used it ( 8 hours a day at work ), and realized it was fantastic. I ditched my Slackware running thinkpad for a powerbook, and never looked back.