Sometime or other, Steve Checkoway <email@hidden> wrote:
On Jan 1, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
Closing the clamshell is an explicit instruction from the user to
sleep the system.
I don't buy this. Other laptops running other operating systems
(Windows and Linux are the two that I've seen) can handle closing the
laptop without sleeping.
Windows != Linux != Mac OS X.
I did not ever claim that was the case. Please do not misrepresent me.
However, it is now the case that all three of these operating systems
can run on the same hardware and two of the three can do something
that Mac OS X cannot. It's as simple as that.
This has wandered quite a bit off the original topic at this point,
and become another one of those "I don't care what anyone else
thinks, I reckon it should do <blah>" threads.
You're right, from the very beginning, you've said "here's my reason
this is a bad idea" and I think the reason you gave was poor. You
belittled others' opinions and reasons for wanting such a feature.
Saying "this is how it's always been done," while accurate neither
helps anyone nor explains why it is a good idea and changing it is
inherently bad, as you apparently think you've made clear. You have
offered no technical reasons why this is a bad idea and have
contributed nothing to this thread except your opinion, which you've
made abundantly clear, as usual.
--
Steve Checkoway
"Anyone who says that the solution is to educate the users
hasn't ever met an actual user." -- Bruce Schneier
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