18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
10:22 p.m.
Well, they cribbed from the best. I like to annoy
Macintosh zealots by
reminding them that, for over a decade, you put a file in the Trash to delete
it, but when you put a disk in the Trash, it... pops out of the machine. One
would assume putting a disk in the Trash would format/erase it.
I believe the original rationale for this was "putting it away." I'm done
with a file, so I'll trash it; I'm done with the disk, so I'll trash it.
Not saying this made sense (or maybe it did with a little Mary Jane), but I
think that was the intention.
Note that OS X turns the trash can into an Eject icon when you start dragging
a volume around, so it looks like this concept has since been abandoned.
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