No. You can BUY better desktop support if you want and you are buying a PC.
Better Mac support doesn't exist.
The major companies that sell PC desktops also sell enterprise servers and even Unix servers. They work in an entirely different frame of reference than the consumer doo-dad focus that Apple has these days.
For what Macs cost, the included warranty is actually quite sad.
Also, Macs are the first brand of PC that I have ever had enough trouble with that I would consider recommending the extended warranties rather than avoiding them.
You can be a single person shop or even an individual and get better support options from Dell than what's available from Apple.
It's another one of those things where Apple simply doesn't bother to offer a product. You're expected to adapt to the way that Apple does thing and you are expected to like it and not complain.
If it is a real Trojan than it is infact supposed to be there.
That's what distinguishes a Trojan.
That's why it's more difficult to guard against. On the other hand, you could simply avoid trusting Greeks.
Windows is the cesspit it is because it's an environment that encourages running random sh*t automatically and without the user's knowledge and consent. You get rid of that mentality and a lot of problems go away and malware has a much more hostile environment to try and thrive in.
I only care about emacs vs vi when I am FORCED to use the option that I didn't choose.
This is true of my attitude towards stuff in general. I tend to get cranky any time I am not free to do exactly what I want. If I am herded into making an unpalatable choice by circumstance, I will continue to get more and more cranky until I am able to escape that situation....as long as Apple doesn't poison the rest of the industry, let them eat Big Macs.
Apple might have contributed some slight incremental improvements to the technology but nothing really earth shattering or worthy of following them with religious zeal for ever after.
They make consumer products and should be as easy to discard as a single serve ketchup packet.
No. If you "troll" a group, you are bound to get a response.
Not everyone has a high bullsh*t tolerance. It's safe to say that Slashdot and similar forums just have a higher than average proportion of anal retentives.
Apple is a big fat loser when it comes to remote display. Now many people might be willing to abandon that feature but it can be a very handy thing. In fact, it's such a handy thing that it has been a standard feature for Windows users in corporate environments. I can see how people might criticize the features of remote performance of X when compared to Win7 RDP but this stuff is a disaster in MacOS. It's the sort of afterthought bolt on hack that the OP is whining about....and the wayland idiots seem intent on recreating Apple's mistakes here.
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No. You can BUY better desktop support if you want and you are buying a PC.
Better Mac support doesn't exist.
The major companies that sell PC desktops also sell enterprise servers and even Unix servers. They work in an entirely different frame of reference than the consumer doo-dad focus that Apple has these days.
For what Macs cost, the included warranty is actually quite sad.
Also, Macs are the first brand of PC that I have ever had enough trouble with that I would consider recommending the extended warranties rather than avoiding them.
Never mind a corporation.
You can be a single person shop or even an individual and get better support options from Dell than what's available from Apple.
It's another one of those things where Apple simply doesn't bother to offer a product. You're expected to adapt to the way that Apple does thing and you are expected to like it and not complain.
...except both are still just going to the corner store.
Both adequately address the actual end user requirements. Both accomodate the use case.
You remember the end user, right?
...except a machine like an iMac alters the definition of "inside the machine" somewhat.
By that altered definition, is is quite commonplace for both people and corporations to upgrade "internal" components.
...and the iPod didn't get anywhere until those initial sorts of criticisms were addressed.
Your little sound bite kind of glosses that part over (as all sound bites tend to do).
...and these things aren't particularly new either.
They were just ugly monstrosities that were previously relegated to industrial computers.
The idea of a prettier card cage doesn't excite me much anymore than a warmed over successor to firewire does.
Nope.
No one opposed USB like this. Although they might have opposed the spiteful forceful abandonment of legacy interfaces.
It's the PC approach to new tech versus the Apple approach to new tech.
I have a 2011 motherboard with both USB3 and PS2 ports on it.
Is there such a thing as a bus powered Firewire drive?
No? Then it's Firewire that's the gruel and it's the vanishingly small number of Firewire fanboys that are the ones with no taste.
Sure. Firewire is technically better in some ways but only marginally so.
I gave up bothering to seek out the "better" option a long time ago.
...at which point people just move on to eSATA.
Then again, Apple doesn't include these kinds of connections. Got one on my cheap crappy nettop though.
On the other hand, some stuff is forever expensive and never catches on with consumer users ever really.
SCSI is a great example of this.
Even Firewire is a pretty good example of this too despite the fact that Apple tried to shove it down at least their own captive users' throats.
...except it's a lot easier to stuff your face when your hands are actually free.
Nevermind Civ4. Try Civ.
Don't recall 2600 games being particularly stimulating to the appetite either.
Yeah... but it seems to be too much for these researchers to grasp.
Either that or they are just fixated on their political agenda to the exclusion of all else.
If it is a real Trojan than it is infact supposed to be there.
That's what distinguishes a Trojan.
That's why it's more difficult to guard against. On the other hand, you could simply avoid trusting Greeks.
Windows is the cesspit it is because it's an environment that encourages running random sh*t automatically and without the user's knowledge and consent. You get rid of that mentality and a lot of problems go away and malware has a much more hostile environment to try and thrive in.
Precisely. The use cases for which VOIP makes more sense than a conventional land line are vanishingly small.
Skype does have some advantages over conventional operators in certain niche areas where Skype can be more price competitive.
> it's slightly sluggish
That is putting it mildly.
It is painfully slow. It's too slow to be useful even on a fast wired LAN.
If you are putting up with it and even defending it then I would characterize that as religious self flaggelation.
X and Windows are engineered specifically to accomodate the remote GUI use case and it really shows.
Console apps can already respond to the mouse in useful ways.
You don't use console apps do you?
No. Not wanting to spend $2400 on your computer versus $500 is not being "religious".
It's being a cheap bastard.
People and corporations do all sorts of "weird things" to avoid spending a buck.
> Why is it that atheists on the internet spend so much more time talking about god on the internet than people of faith
They don't. That's just your worldview distorting the facts.
I only care about emacs vs vi when I am FORCED to use the option that I didn't choose.
This is true of my attitude towards stuff in general. I tend to get cranky any time I am not free to do exactly what I want. If I am herded into making an unpalatable choice by circumstance, I will continue to get more and more cranky until I am able to escape that situation. ...as long as Apple doesn't poison the rest of the industry, let them eat Big Macs.
The problem with a Mac is that it doesn't matter how clever you are.
You simply have no power.
You can be just as stupid with a PC and spend less. In fact, I believe the OP implied just this very thing.
This helps the Mac user to be numb from the fact that they are paying 2x or 3x for the same thing.
No. Yours is the perfect example of fanboyism.
Apple might have contributed some slight incremental improvements to the technology but nothing really earth shattering or worthy of following them with religious zeal for ever after.
They make consumer products and should be as easy to discard as a single serve ketchup packet.
No. If you "troll" a group, you are bound to get a response.
Not everyone has a high bullsh*t tolerance. It's safe to say that Slashdot and similar forums just have a higher than average proportion of anal retentives.
Not believing in god is no different than not believing in Odin, Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
There's just not the same level of cultural investment in the Tooth Fairy as there are in deities.
It takes no great "faith" to disbelieve the unproven regardless of what that happens to be.
It takes a bit of courage and virtue to admit that you are going to contradict everyone but that's not quite the same thing as "faith".
Apple is a big fat loser when it comes to remote display. Now many people might be willing to abandon that feature but it can be a very handy thing. In fact, it's such a handy thing that it has been a standard feature for Windows users in corporate environments. I can see how people might criticize the features of remote performance of X when compared to Win7 RDP but this stuff is a disaster in MacOS. It's the sort of afterthought bolt on hack that the OP is whining about. ...and the wayland idiots seem intent on recreating Apple's mistakes here.