Apple has released Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (by far Apple's most inelegant product name). It's a whole bunch of under-the-hood stuff, mostly bug fixes. It adds support for Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian. It's all in Software Update.
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You have overdone it 
He was voicing concern about "Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3", that's 6 words!!! Way too inelegant as for Apple!
Even if we omit Apple (as obviousness) and 10.7.3 (as technical detail), we have:
"Mac OS X Lion"
Why not "OSX Lion"?
JUST that! In ads, events, press materials....
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You mean like they do on their web page? http://www.apple.com/macosx/ :o)
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Uhhhhhh... all I can say to that is:
We know for certain, for instance, for some reason for some time in the beginning there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These insignificant lumps came together to form the first union: our Sun, the heating system. And about this glowing gasbag rotated the Earth.
We were covered with a molten scum of rock, bobbing on the surface like rats. Later, when there was less heat, these giant rock groups settled down among the land masses. During this extinct time, our earth was like a steam room - and no one, not even man, could get in. However, the oceans and the sewers were simmering with a rich protein stew and the mountains moved in to surround and protect them. They didn't know then that living, as we know it, was already taken over.
Animals without backbones hid from each other, or fell down. Clambasaurs and oysterettes appeared as appetizers - then came the sponges, which sucked up about 10 percent of all life. Hundreds of years later, in the late Devouring Period, the fish became obnoxious. Trailerbites, Chickerbites, and Mosqwitoes collided aimlessly in the dense gas. Finally, tiny edible plants sprang up in rows - giving birth to generations of insecticides and other small, dying creatures.
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Yeah, I would use hot pepper names myself, mostly of the Capsicum chinense species. There's nothing cooler than a plant whose mean, colorful, tasty fruit can kick almost any human's or any other animal's ass, royally (birds being the main exclusion). Including those big cats that Apple seems to love naming their desktop OS after.
Mmmm... I wouldn't mind having a chocolate habanero, mustard habanero, peach habanero, red and yellow Scotch bonnets, Bhut jolokia, 7 Pod, tabasco pepper, Harold's St. Barts. Damn it, now I'm hungry...
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Wow, how did you manage to get THIS FAR from the original news ... ? this is beyond my comprehension, but it sounds like a fundamentalism to me.
People are animals whether you or the authors of bible/quran like it/admit it or not. I am truly outraged everytime someone thinks he/she's better than everything else. This is so, so humane ... egocentrism, anthopocentrism, egoism.
BTW don't talk like you got the ultimate truths, because there are no ultimate truths, or - at least - not where you are looking for them.
Besides - you sound like an arrogant human being, another "teacher", another messiah that would like to force his belief system down our throats.
You've choosed wrong place to spread your gospel.
PS I have nothing against you as a person. I just don't like that behaviour.
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Yes, why do people use animal names. It would seem very backward to admire animals, and knowing they can be fierce predators, and lustfollowers.
There may be a point to this of esoteric value though.
As we know Steve Jobs was a fan of LSD, and never went back on giving LSD a status as one of the most siginicant experiences of his life, and the company name "apple" and logo shows an apple with a bite having been taken.
That is a referance to the tree of eternity in the Bible, and the Quran.
Psychoactive mushrooms, often grow near pine trees, and can be seen as fallen fruit from the tree.
That of naming things, or even people according to animals, one also sees among native americans, due to shamanic practises.
And a point of (rather great) esoteric value, is that the shaman (which LSD users really mimick), gains insight into the divine nature of the beast, and such gain great respect for it.
Because that divine nature, is yourself.
And thus, the name of "Lion" may be related to that, but I cannot say that for sure ofcourse.
Psychedelic experiences differ from natural mystical experiences in that divinity often presents itself as animal.
And mainly since there is too much negative statistics involved with psychedelics, nobody can really recommend it to anyone. And in Abrahamic religion it was forbidden with Adam. And possibly a preshamanic culture, and even animism before that were covered over, probably because nobody wanted to know about it.
Eternity is the greatest concept, and ofcourse what we know as "God", or any other equally significant entity.
Also ofcourse in modern times as "the observer creates the universe" of Quantum-mechanics.
Because the outcome of the drug varies greatly, some claim to experience God, and only positive things, while others talk about gods, and worship the mushroom itself as a god, which is kind of fairytale thinking, and at the most extreme, some also kill themselves.
It cannot be recommended for anyone. Eternity is just not something you mess with.
And most popular users show regret, shame and ambivalence related to the drug, and that makes it difficult to face life in a decent society, and life before God, and death itself.
Even so many still use it, and I personally find it to have at times even great esoteric value, although I could never do it myself, simply because I enjoy life with a clean conscience. Once you have purified yourself by living a moral life, these things become absurd.
But art like, for instance in the game, Half Life 2, seems to be inspired by psychedelics. Once you realize that these things are inspired by "the tree of eternity", AKA eternity itself, you can imagine some breathtaking art. Or "impossible objects that if the world knew, they would go mad", as Terence McKenna puts it. Eternity is the greatest concept, and one can understand their reverence of animals, if indeed they represent divine eternal nature, to the namer.
Peace!