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# Dock Items Bounce Indefinitely
# Programs Force Themselves to the Forefront
# Trashed Items Cant Be Opened
# Software Update Off-Limits to Third-Parties
# Dashboard Widgets are Modal
# Painful Pinwheel Pauses
# Permission Roadblocks
# Exposing Package Contents is Confusing
# Dumb Deleting
# Sidebar Items Cant Be Rename

Windows does those first two as well.

Of course, windows items don't bounce, but they do flash annoyingly. It's very distracting. Sometimes the system tray looks like the nuclear power plant warning panel in "The China Syndrome." Trouble is, none of that flashing stuff is EVER important.

AS to the second one, sometimes called "focus theft," well, what can I say? I'm a touch typist. It can be pretty f***ing frustrating to look up at the screen and see half of the sentence went into a pointless dialog box.

The easiest thing about Mac OSX is installing and removing programs. You just drop and drag the mounted installer icon into the Applications Folder and watch it auto-install. And then you can keep the program in the Dock if you like it. You can get rid of it the same way by just dragging the icon from the Applications Folder to the Trash. I'm writing this on my Mac Mini. I don't have to worry about viruses, worms or spyware or about downtime. Like Mac fans say, one you've set it up, it just plain works!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

# Dock Items Bounce Indefinitely
-Turn bouncing off. Find your dock preferences and turn it off. Nothing more annoying than bouncing dock items.
-Make a list of the software that does this, make sure you have the latest versions.
-Update and optimize your operating system.

# Programs Force Themselves to the Forefront
-Which programs? And why? And how do these programs act any differently in any other operating system?

# Trashed Items Cant Be Opened
-Security. Something in your trash should not be executable or readable.

# Software Update Off-Limits to Third-Parties
-Again, security. The same password that allows software updates allows the installation of all software that modifies the system.

# Dashboard Widgets are Modal
-What's your actual complaint about this setup?

# Painful Pinwheel Pauses
-This I can agree with. Most of the time I can track the problem down to a program that is eating up processor cycles or disk access time.

# Permission Roadblocks
-In this day and age, permissions are important in keeping your data secure from network system crackers.

# Exposing Package Contents is Confusing
-Control-Click on the package and "Show Package Contents". Simple as that.

# Dumb Deleting
-???

# Sidebar Items Cant Be Rename
-Are you thinking you want quick access to your "Ladies" folder but you don't want it to be obviously labeled as such in the Sidebar?

# Trashed Items Cant Be Opened # Software Update Off-Limits to Third-Parties

On the first one, all you have to do is drag the item out of the trashcan and onto the desktop and it works. I actually prefer it. And on two, not sure what you expect. By third party I assume you mean someone you have shared your software with, which means you are doing something illegal and now you expect Apple to update it as well?