Re: The sock puppet wins

On Wed, 03 May 2006 12:17:31 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

Tell me how this line noise differs from having to define a "drive
letter" (wtf?) in your PC before you can plug in a USB device, or
some-such that was in some other thread??

Because having to define a drive letter before one can plug in a USB device
is a sign of lazy, stupid programming on the part of someone at Microsoft.
As is hte other Windows bugbear that often a USB device will only be
recognised if it is plugged into exactly the same socket every time it is
used.

Why do you put up with this stuff in your Macintosh instead of something intelligable?

Because Regular Expressions are a powerful and compact way of specifying
patterns to use when searching text for a match. If you think this is easy
to do with a GUI approach, you could always code it yourself.
.

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