Shame there's not a patch for being an antisocial elitist.

Aside from all the porn-deleting goodies, it's actually a fantastic file manager. Options out the wazoo, scriptable, extendable, and configurable down to the pixel.

I don't leave home without it.

You can't respond to quotes you made up yourself, you retarded fucking cretin.

The 'X just called and wants X' meme just tweeted that you need to go back to the nineties when it was only 10 years old.

I'm sure I remember him (mIRC creator) saying at one point that he would be risher if he'd worked at McDonalds.

A shame. If he got even $0.50 per copy downloaded, or had adverts, he'd be as rich as shit.

Agreed. The Windows 7 explorer isn't great for me. It's better than the Vista one, but it's still not enough.

I'm a fan of Directory Opus, an old Amiga throwback that has more options than you'd know what to do with. Price is competetive too. I've been using it since XP. Simply having favourites is enough for most people. The built in viewers and plug in options will be enough for every one else.

Google for it, you won't be disappointed.

To be honest, shitty file explorers are one of the reason I hate my Mac, and can't be arsed to install another release of Linux.

Easy on the rage-tears there, chief. Wouldn't want you to short circuit anything, and perhaps, die. Would we?

Watch out, he'll call you a 'fanboi' next. Or a shill. Those are good counter-arguments around here, right?

TouchFlo was a dog. I was so glad when I disabled it.

People write software for 'Nix because they need to do something, and nobody else wrote a program for it.

People write software for Macs because they need to do something, and think it would be funny to charge a fortune to let other people use it ($20-30 for a tool to unfuck the mouse acceleration)

People write software for Windows because they like money.

On the PS3, it's locked to your PSN account.

The copy you downloaded is locked to your console, but if you get a new console, you can just download it again. This is how the PSN game sharing works.

I have the other consoles, but I have no idea what the DL policy is.

I'm in the same boat as this guy. I have no love for Apple. They can't even make a decent UK-spec keyboard, for fucks sake. There is nothing more annoying than a Mac user telling me my keys are 'all switched around'. I bought a Mini off eBay to develop a game for the phone, but as soon as I'm done, it's going straight back on eBay. I can't stand it.

I felt the same about the phone too. The main problems were Apples horrible marketing, and Apple fans.

It turns out that the phone is actually very good. My last 4 phones were HTC WinMo smartphones, the most recent was a Touch Diamond. It was fucking atrocious. They tried (like everyone else) to rip off the iPhone interface, and while it works fairly well on a brand new, just rebooted phone, performance soon degraded past the point of frustration. And yes, I was clearing out background tasks, it didn't help. The whole experience was terrible. I removed the 'touch' UI, and went back to the standard winMo interface, and it was better, but I still didn't use it for anything more than a telephone, it was unresponsive.

My brother had an iPhone (which I naturally derided him for for quite some time), and tried it after the 3.0 update. It did everything I expected. The touch/interface was spot on. You didn't have to go far to find apps, some of the games were quite excellent (seriously, flight control is the shit), and I didn't have to ask a single question about anything, it is the very essence of intuitive.

Now I have a mail app that covers 5 mail accounts, an IM client that covers 6 IM accounts, and a ton of other shit. This may have been possible on WinMo, but I really couldn't be arsed to look. Before the iPhone, nobody was offering unlimited internet on phone plans, so there was no real reason to get an IM client.

My next phone will probably be an Android, because I do like HTC's phones, but they tried to make WinMo into something it wasn't and they failed. Hopefully they can do better with android. I've still got 18 months to go on my 3GS though, so I'm not too worried yet.

I can understand the general dislike for the iPhone, but Slashdots general seething hatred of iPhones is really getting out of hand. Seriously, take a step back, you're making the console wars look like a game of tiddlywinks.

I assumed you hunkered down and worked hard, like you suggested (hence 'doing what you did'), but I didn't expect you to be offended by it.

In fact:

"Maybe I can understand the anger at the trust fund babies that just had money handed to them"

Covers most of what I said.

Basically, If everyone hunkers down, works hard to get their scholarships, etc., there won't suddenly be more scholarships available. Working hard at something isn't always enough.