Why I know pedantic mac users are a new phenomenon

[strobe]

You "Ten Ten" people are pissing me off. Did you know Apple marketing tried to pronounce SCSI as "sexy"?

Yea, sure Apple. I'm glad mac users weren't so pedantic back then:

"Hand me the sexy dongle"

"I can't mount my sexy hard drive"

"My sexy bus isn't terminated at both ends"

"My new sexy adaptor does it's job in half the time as my old sexy setup"

"My sexy box is running too hot"

"I can't dismount my sexy hard disk"

"Sexy cabes are too thick"

"Sexy cables can only be 12' long"

"My removable sexy Jaz™ ejects when I turn it on"

"My sexy male connector has a broken pin"

You get the idea...pure disaster!

Ignore Apple Marketing, It's "Oh Ess Ex" dammit!!!!!!!

[zaustin]

ITS OH ESS TEN FOR GOD SAKES. 8, 9, Ex? No, 8, 9, Ten!

[AdmiralAK]

MAN THIS IS HILLARIOUS!!!!
I dropped down laughing :-p

btw I think it's og ess ex (X for uniX :-p )


Admiral

[endian]

it's Mac O'Sex as in 'will there be Mac O'Sex drivers for my Ultra Sexy card?'

[Hurricane Floyd]

Originally posted by endian
it's Mac O'Sex as in 'will there be Mac O'Sex drivers for my Ultra Sexy card?'

I wish sex could always feel as slow motion as OSX under Aqua (on my dualproc G4). Yaaaawn, I think I fell asleep sweetheart.

Just installed the dev final release: my DVD player will not work (even under Classic), power users will freak about functionality decreases... I haven't used a Mac that felt this slow since running Photoshop in the days of 6.x. My menu is gigantic play-skool kiddy mac and very little is customizable. Bleck. Blindly hoping consumer version will be more complete.

The best thing about OSX is that I can choose to startup without it.

Give Apple your $120 bucks to save the company and use the CD as a coaster until OSX 12.0 or whatever comes out.

[endian]

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[thedbp]

This conversation is particularly amusing, because the use of the word pedantic, while an admirable try, not to mention a glorius attempt to impress the rest of us with your knowledge of minutae of the english language, was used horribly incorrectly.

Rather than explain the meaning here, I'll let the author, and the various readers, look up this word on their own. I believe that word definitions are still best clarified in hardcover.

By the way, does it really matter what the OS is called, or, rather, pronounced? And who the hell is really going to believe that Apple tried to market SCSI as "sexy?" Even if it IS true, it still beats "Scuzzy!" Personally, I prefer to pronounce it "Skizzy." Then again, I also prefer to have my raw ass spanked with peanut butter coated herrings, so there ya go.

And as a last little side note, I must say that I prefer to call this new OS one thing, and one thing only:

GOD!
thank you.
zjd

B&W G3 350/384 RAM / OS 9.1 / OS X PB
8600/300 / 128 RAM / OS 9.1 / OS 8.1
Quadra 660av / 54 RAM / OS 8.1

[Hobeaux]

This version of the Mac OS has never been called Mac OS Ex. From the very first announcement that Apple made about the product, it was pronounced "ten."

Mac OS Ex sounds too much like Mac OSSex -- which is something that Apple would like to avoid... not to mention it makes it sound like another Linux clone rather than a forward-thinking, next-generation operating system.