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$200.... I think you meant $2*10^-2 or quite possibly $2/10^2.
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Ouch. Thanks. Guess i'm just a careless geek.
Also, I think that the benefits of multiple user accounts aren't being really well publicized by apple.
Sure, letting multiple PEOPLE use the computer is good, but the real power here is how the system is protected from the apps. The idea of unpriviledged users like "nobody," or special users for special classes of background apps means that poorly coded apps can't destroy your filesystem. The idea that a user doesn't always have superuser priviledges is AMAZING, if only for the reason (among many others) that a truly malicious virus can't do much more than wipe the ~/ directories, if that. (Bad enough, but it is so much worse now).
Promoting the idea of the users logging in as superuser all of the time just destroys all of this built in security the system has. Now, I know this, and most people on these forums seem to know this, but why isn't apple palying up this aspect of multiuser systems? I think that unless people are educated, a lot of OS X 1.0 users will always log in as root for some silly reason, and then we'll start seeing OS X viruses and other bad news that we wouldn't have otherwise.