What? Most Mac OS X users I know thought they were utterly pathetic.

I've written 3 rough drafts to children's novels while sitting in the playground watching my children play. I could have used a computer, but than I would have to worry about thieves, sand and rain (I still worried about rain, because I would have hated to get my Moleskin notebook wet). Cursive writing made my writing almost as fast as my thoughts and didn't cramp my hand up.

All signatures on legal documents should be signed in cursive.

You could cross-compile code for Windows and Next Machines in NeXT's version of X-Code back in the day.

Don't forget that it would be trivial to show a "virtual" stack with the spines of all the neighboring books. If they can be catalogued and displayed physically, they can be catalogued and displayed electronically.

I loved "researching" by browsing neighboring books in the stacks. But can't this be done electronically? If the book has a library code, then a computer can easily show what other books are in the same section.

Seeing just how blazingly fast that thing was makes me know that we have absolutely no chance against Skynet.

My comment written in Apples Pages work fine when exported to a Word file.

I write ESL textbooks and workbooks for junior/senior high school. They aren't insanely expensive (around 75-120 SEK around 10-16 USD).

Even if they require a Word file, you can use something else. My editors use Word too, but I don't have MS-Office or Open Office installed on my computer. It's not a problem, unless you want to use LaTeX.

That's better than what I get as a textbook author.

Agree. And it isn't bad for power users either.

I resemble that comment! Grumble, grumble.

As a professional writer, I could use Office all day. Instead I choose to use something different. At my part-time teaching job, I have to use Office occasionally and hate it.

I've used it many times. The problem is you have to first FIND where they have hidden things that you used to know exactly where it was. That usually takes 10-20 EXTRA clicks.