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Sunday, August 03, 2003

Men Without Hats on Mac OS X and more
In an interview with AppleLinks (a lame Apple newbie site), Men Without Hats' Stefan Doroschuk explains that he only installed OS X because he needed it for a digital camera. And that's all he uses it for. "[Mac OS X] has a loud and ugly interface with all of those huge icons at the bottom, and if I have a non-X program (98% of my stuff), it opens in classic mode anyways, which is absurd, so I use up a lot more memory having the two OSs open, which is bullshit," he says. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, but now it's broke for sure and needs to be fixed. Oh yeah, and I can't surf the internet with X because it was too stupid to find all of the prefs that were used by OS 9, and I can't figure out how to get it to work (and I'm no computer dummy!). So if Apple can't make X easier/better/nicer than 9, why bother? I don't know why they even felt like they had to change everything. 9 looked fine, worked fine and nobody was even asking them to change anything. X is a complete disaster, 0 out of 10." Doroschuk also has some very interesting things to say about the history of music singles and how much they made off "The Safety Dance." Fascinating stuff.

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