If I google (or even live search) an error code from Microsoft 9 times out of 10 I'll get a link to a KB.
Good point - when I do that, 9 times out of 10 I'll get a link to a KB mangled beyond incomprehensible by Microsoft's sucky automatic translation - if they cared about usability, they'd check my browser settings instead of guessing that I'm not able to understand English because of my IP address.
Its true that Outlook *currently* uses MAPI and DAV. However, that doesn't have to remain the case. If Microsoft adds a feature to Exchange and Outlook that requires the use of some other protocol, Apple's mail client (and all other clients) will be locked out.
Including all previous versions of Outlook. I'm sure replacing each and every Outlook app even on ancient computers will be a real incentive to use this new Exchange version.
Your argument is correct if there wasn't the internet, but since there is, most people don't need college to learn more about the world, its just as easy to hop on Google and find out more interesting information in a few hours than in a semester of lectures by a professor. All for free.
Like how to be a birther
Or how to scream and disrupt town hall meetings.
Oh come on, who goes to the intarweb for that when he gets it all for free from the TV?
With Windows and OS X, those are the only two choices.
With Linux, there's a third option: Fix it myself.
How likely is it you will introduce at least one new, probably worse bug while trying to fix this bug in code you have never seen before - unlike the guy who originally added it, and all those who checked the code since?
Could that have something to do with the fact that the vulnerability reports for OS X include tons of third party stuff (including Java or things that aren't used by default), that those for Windows don't?
Actually "in September [2008...] Apple instituted a new rule in which customers could only leave reviews on applications they had actually purchased and downloaded.". In February they then deleted older comments by non-buyers. Which BTW were mostly negative, instead of shilling.
And, there is nothing remotely new in this. Marketing agencies have had paid actors posing as real customers for ever. Most of Apple's "Switchers" were paid to say so.
And if they weren't, you'd complain they were so fanatical as to make free advertisement for Apple.
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else.
First of all: why does he even have secondary functions? Why is his full body detachable? Why not just his "head", to be put either in a ship or on any of a wide range of robot bodies?
C-3PO
Again, you're overlooking his primary function. C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." So he's got arthritis, well, you didn't build him to be flexible or fight. You built him to look pretty and translate. Everything else is bells and whistles. I think he was meant to stand in a corner for some rich merchant or politician and translate any language imaginable. Are you going to tell me that my car is flawed because I couldn't afford a $20 toaster to put in the dash?
Actually, even then he should be able to both mix a mean Martini and follow his master and a guest leisurely strolling through a forrest with some dignity instead of moving like a Tele-Tubby in a cast.
Slashdot Mirror
I see its already eating you from inside. BTW, look in the mirror re: smug.
Windows users love to accuse Mac and Linux users of fanaticism
Almost as much as mac users love to claim that windows sucks and everyone should use a mac
Oh, no, not at all. We don't mind certain people suffering. Please go on using Windows.
I would sure love to have a "real" camera from Apple.
Samsung, Nokia, and several other manufacturers already offer 5-8 Mpixel cameras with smart phone capabilities.
So what does one have to do with the other? "Wow, 8 Mpixel, that camera must be good."
"Other people's products" are not Apple's products.
And yet they don't fuck up Apple's page like Microsoft's products fuck up Microsoft's page.
Let's sum up the arguments why Microsoft's page is rightfully so fucked up and inconsistent:
People go to Microsoft's site because they need information about a specific product or are looking for support/documentation.
... because it isn't fucking working.
Well I do. But in addition, I also have arguments about the product. I am tired of brushed metal, anyway.
Brushed metal is out, cheap plastic looking like brushed metal on the new Zune HD is in.
"Apple's site does have fewer things, but it's not because Apple has fewer products." Bullshit. Apple has far few products that Microsoft. Especially if you discount old, discontinued stuff. Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software_applications Apple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Current_products (The formatting is a bit different, but you can tell that MS has a lot more products.)
Yeah, because they count fucking "Microsoft Calculator" as a product.
And you conveniently ignore the fact that Apple also offers other people's products on their page, both in the Store and under downloads.
That's funny.. when I was working for a major video game publisher, it seemed an awful lot like the 360 was the new PS2.
At the time the PS3 came out, I guess.
If I google (or even live search) an error code from Microsoft 9 times out of 10 I'll get a link to a KB.
Good point - when I do that, 9 times out of 10 I'll get a link to a KB mangled beyond incomprehensible by Microsoft's sucky automatic translation - if they cared about usability, they'd check my browser settings instead of guessing that I'm not able to understand English because of my IP address.
Its true that Outlook *currently* uses MAPI and DAV. However, that doesn't have to remain the case. If Microsoft adds a feature to Exchange and Outlook that requires the use of some other protocol, Apple's mail client (and all other clients) will be locked out.
Including all previous versions of Outlook. I'm sure replacing each and every Outlook app even on ancient computers will be a real incentive to use this new Exchange version.
Bamm, the BSODs are back. HTH, HAND.
Your argument is correct if there wasn't the internet, but since there is, most people don't need college to learn more about the world, its just as easy to hop on Google and find out more interesting information in a few hours than in a semester of lectures by a professor. All for free.
Like how to be a birther
Or how to scream and disrupt town hall meetings.
Oh come on, who goes to the intarweb for that when he gets it all for free from the TV?
Not to mention that XP is still the most used Windows version, while people have stopped using 10.1 a long time before Vista came out.
No it's not - why don't you actually RTFA you claim to be quoting?
With Windows and OS X, those are the only two choices.
With Linux, there's a third option: Fix it myself.
How likely is it you will introduce at least one new, probably worse bug while trying to fix this bug in code you have never seen before - unlike the guy who originally added it, and all those who checked the code since?
So was I! But my Mac crashed in the middle of my post so someone else beat me to it while I waited for Windows to boot!
So it took Windows over 10 hours to boot?
Could that have something to do with the fact that the vulnerability reports for OS X include tons of third party stuff (including Java or things that aren't used by default), that those for Windows don't?
n00b. If you'd bought a mouse for the computer, your kitten would still be alive.
Just don't buy a Mighty Mouse, that would beat up your kitten.
Personally, I find the 0 - 3 star ratings more telling about an app than the 4 or 5 star (fanboy) ratings.
It must really piss you off that you were shilled up to +5 Insightful instead of just +3 Interesting.
Actually "in September [2008 ...] Apple instituted a new rule in which customers could only leave reviews on applications they had actually purchased and downloaded.". In February they then deleted older comments by non-buyers. Which BTW were mostly negative, instead of shilling.
And, there is nothing remotely new in this. Marketing agencies have had paid actors posing as real customers for ever. Most of Apple's "Switchers" were paid to say so.
And if they weren't, you'd complain they were so fanatical as to make free advertisement for Apple.
And you needed daringfireball because Apple hid the link to it on the fucking main page.
R2-D2
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else.
First of all: why does he even have secondary functions? Why is his full body detachable? Why not just his "head", to be put either in a ship or on any of a wide range of robot bodies?
C-3PO
Again, you're overlooking his primary function. C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." So he's got arthritis, well, you didn't build him to be flexible or fight. You built him to look pretty and translate. Everything else is bells and whistles. I think he was meant to stand in a corner for some rich merchant or politician and translate any language imaginable. Are you going to tell me that my car is flawed because I couldn't afford a $20 toaster to put in the dash?
Actually, even then he should be able to both mix a mean Martini and follow his master and a guest leisurely strolling through a forrest with some dignity instead of moving like a Tele-Tubby in a cast.
Duh, that's why they send the Foreign Legion.
Conservative commentators must be an endangered species then, because all they talk about lately is the racist government.