Interesting? I say unto you foolish moderators No! and again No! Oh ignorant mods, how can a posting that confuses trademarks with copyright be "interesting".
Now mpost4 I sentence you to 5 Hail Marys and 6 Hail Falwells.
In reverse order: BeOS it comes from there not being very many people using it (any?) so firstly it's not installed on very main variants of hardware. The people using will tend to be people who a) know what they're doing and b) have quality kit because they are geeks and care about such stuff. Finally fewer people simply means fewer eyeballs.
OS/2 is due to the effects of memory. I used it and whilst it was better than Windows at the time it still wasn't that hot. Also people running it tended to run it on IBM kit (the only time *I* ran it I worked for IBM...)
Linux, well there's a good one. Firstly, remember I only put 50% of the problems down to kit: the other 50% is the OS's, ie Windows fault. In any case, comparing Linux to Windows is hardly fair. One is an unusable piece of software with no user functionality ie it's only a kernel and the other is a full blown GUI OS with all kinds of stuff running on it and being done to it.
Now if you actually meant GNU/Linux then which distro' exactly? And was it setup by someone who knew what they were doing? The main advantage I see of GNU/Linux over Windows is that, like OSX, the core OS and the GUI skin aren't intimately tied: if the GUI breaks (which i have had happen all too often with both SuSE and RH) then it doesn't always bring the whole box down.
So in short, why is GNU/Linux better quality than Windows on, allegedy the same kit: because it's better written.
That said, OSX is still much better as a user's OS than any of the above.
It's a shame your PC didn't come pre-installed with a spul chuker: who are you going to blame for that?
If you want the best computer you pay for it. I bought a Mac (several in fact) because I value quality and I'm prepared to and able to pay for it.
If you're happy, as most people are, to have something that works-kind-of-well-enough-as-long-as-I-squint-at-i t-as-long-as it's-CHEAP then you buy a Windows PC.
What too many of you WinDOH!s wheeniers don't understand is that a big chunk of that quality comes from Apple having a known, quality, hardware base upon which they can build their OS.
If Apple had to write an OS to run on any old shit (like this crap Dell work provides me) it would not run as reliably as it does on my PB or G5 or my wife's iMac. Half the problem (but only half!) with Windows is the fact that cheap-arsed muppets like you will buy any old crap and expect Windows to run on it.
Well I currently have: a company car (they pay the insurance and maintenance), a guaranteed 10% of salary additional bonus for each full year I stay, full health care for me and the wife, 24 days holiday. Oh and pension scheme that the employer contributes 5% of my salary to.
I think that's pretty much standard in the UK- the only thing that's changed for me after 3 months on the dole about 2 years ago was I lost my long service leave entitlement (it used to be 27 days).
I'm as much an Apple fan boy as the next guy and can count 2 PBs, a dp G5 and an iPod to my name but even I wouldn't claim Panther is 64bit, sorry it isn't. And even Tiger, which will be much more 64bit still won't be 100%.
I asked a similar question on spymac a while ago (when I first bought a PB and was puzzled why people would install Linux). The answer I got then was to keep ancient Mac hardware useful.
But if YD is dropping support for even moderately old boxes and adding 64-bit support then what's the point? Well one I can think of (sitting here typing on my shitty work Dell laptop and dreaming of the Al PB and DP G5 I have at home) is for the quality of the hardware. If I *wanted* specifically to run Linux then I would choose to run it on a Mac because the hardware is so much better than any PC box: this is especially true of laptops. Even IBM's rather nice Thinkpads.
Last time I checked, Norway was not a member of the EU and not therefore obliged to enact any EU legislation. (Norway has, in my opinion, the best of both worlds: a free trade agreement with the EU without the ridiculous EU taxes, CAP etc etc).
That's only true of the current generation of tedious "treadmill" MMORPGs like EQ and UO and Galaxies. If you cut out a lot of this boring crap (eg camping spot X for 3 weeks to kill uber-dragon xyzzy and get the uber-sword of leetness or spending days killing rats when you first start) and you'd have an MMORPG that could be played without committing hours and hours to playing.
No single player game would get away with putting their players through this sort of crap. Can you imagine the outrage if to play Doom 3 you first had to spend 2 weeks stabbing demon rats with a sharpened stick?
Anyway, to debunk your argument: it's based on a fallacy: that you had the right to "stop me from eating ice cream" in the first place. You don't, regardless of whether or not I have the right to eat the stuff.
"I reserve the right to punch you in the face if you". It's a bollocks as your comment because I never had the right in the first place. The modifier has no rights, other than those granted by the license. Consider if you tried to modify Windows XP and then tried to distribute it...
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Interesting? I say unto you foolish moderators No! and again No! Oh ignorant mods, how can a posting that confuses trademarks with copyright be "interesting".
Now mpost4 I sentence you to 5 Hail Marys and 6 Hail Falwells.
Ah we can all dream. Personally mine tend to involve fast cars, fast computers and fast red-heads with nice legs.
In reverse order: BeOS it comes from there not being very many people using it (any?) so firstly it's not installed on very main variants of hardware. The people using will tend to be people who a) know what they're doing and b) have quality kit because they are geeks and care about such stuff. Finally fewer people simply means fewer eyeballs.
OS/2 is due to the effects of memory. I used it and whilst it was better than Windows at the time it still wasn't that hot. Also people running it tended to run it on IBM kit (the only time *I* ran it I worked for IBM...)
Linux, well there's a good one. Firstly, remember I only put 50% of the problems down to kit: the other 50% is the OS's, ie Windows fault. In any case, comparing Linux to Windows is hardly fair. One is an unusable piece of software with no user functionality ie it's only a kernel and the other is a full blown GUI OS with all kinds of stuff running on it and being done to it.
Now if you actually meant GNU/Linux then which distro' exactly? And was it setup by someone who knew what they were doing? The main advantage I see of GNU/Linux over Windows is that, like OSX, the core OS and the GUI skin aren't intimately tied: if the GUI breaks (which i have had happen all too often with both SuSE and RH) then it doesn't always bring the whole box down.
So in short, why is GNU/Linux better quality than Windows on, allegedy the same kit: because it's better written.
That said, OSX is still much better as a user's OS than any of the above.
Who wants to take a guess as to when Roxio aka Napster will be making an appearance as an official fucked company?
Ah the joy of baiting WinDOH!s lusers :-)
Haven't you got a Windows PC that needs re-formatting or some drivers that need re-installing?
Your reasons are tired and plain wrong.
He's a Windows user: he's certainly not going to do it for himself.
You know, you could try READING a post before replying to it.
He was explaining why the poster's reasons were wrong. Just because they're "personal" doesn't make them infallible.
Nor was he "dictating to him his own personal reasons" (what a tortuous piece of English: I take it it's not your native language?).
It's a shame your PC didn't come pre-installed with a spul chuker: who are you going to blame for that?
If you want the best computer you pay for it. I bought a Mac (several in fact) because I value quality and I'm prepared to and able to pay for it.
If you're happy, as most people are, to have something that works-kind-of-well-enough-as-long-as-I-squint-at-i t-as-long-as it's-CHEAP then you buy a Windows PC.
What too many of you WinDOH!s wheeniers don't understand is that a big chunk of that quality comes from Apple having a known, quality, hardware base upon which they can build their OS.
If Apple had to write an OS to run on any old shit (like this crap Dell work provides me) it would not run as reliably as it does on my PB or G5 or my wife's iMac. Half the problem (but only half!) with Windows is the fact that cheap-arsed muppets like you will buy any old crap and expect Windows to run on it.
From the article you provided a link to ;-)
In the UK such contractual clauses are explicitly null and void: it's called restraint of trade.
Well I currently have: a company car (they pay the insurance and maintenance), a guaranteed 10% of salary additional bonus for each full year I stay, full health care for me and the wife, 24 days holiday. Oh and pension scheme that the employer contributes 5% of my salary to.
I think that's pretty much standard in the UK- the only thing that's changed for me after 3 months on the dole about 2 years ago was I lost my long service leave entitlement (it used to be 27 days).
First $134M worth of shares is NOT a significant chunk of a multi-billion dollar company. Second, Microsoft sold those shares a long, long time ago.
But nice try at spreading some FUD, you should at least try to make it plausible.
I'm as much an Apple fan boy as the next guy and can count 2 PBs, a dp G5 and an iPod to my name but even I wouldn't claim Panther is 64bit, sorry it isn't. And even Tiger, which will be much more 64bit still won't be 100%.
Edward
I asked a similar question on spymac a while ago (when I first bought a PB and was puzzled why people would install Linux). The answer I got then was to keep ancient Mac hardware useful.
But if YD is dropping support for even moderately old boxes and adding 64-bit support then what's the point? Well one I can think of (sitting here typing on my shitty work Dell laptop and dreaming of the Al PB and DP G5 I have at home) is for the quality of the hardware. If I *wanted* specifically to run Linux then I would choose to run it on a Mac because the hardware is so much better than any PC box: this is especially true of laptops. Even IBM's rather nice Thinkpads.
Edward
Last time I checked, Norway was not a member of the EU and not therefore obliged to enact any EU legislation. (Norway has, in my opinion, the best of both worlds: a free trade agreement with the EU without the ridiculous EU taxes, CAP etc etc).
That's only true of the current generation of tedious "treadmill" MMORPGs like EQ and UO and Galaxies. If you cut out a lot of this boring crap (eg camping spot X for 3 weeks to kill uber-dragon xyzzy and get the uber-sword of leetness or spending days killing rats when you first start) and you'd have an MMORPG that could be played without committing hours and hours to playing.
No single player game would get away with putting their players through this sort of crap. Can you imagine the outrage if to play Doom 3 you first had to spend 2 weeks stabbing demon rats with a sharpened stick?
Try OSX. That has WiFi built into the OS and you can turn it on/off reliably from the desktop.
Where are my "-1 flamebaiting, self-important moron" mod points when I need them?
Yeah and if you drove a car along a crowded pavement you'd kill and injure a lot of people, ergo you should never be allowed to drive a car.
Or someone that actually knows what they're doing could use CSS and not turn away people who don't want to download another pos (Flash) from the Web.
Perhaps becaue English isn't a phonetic language. For example Xenophobe (which is a synonym for Replublican isn't it?)
Idiot. If it isn't enforced then it effectively isn't the law.
The courts decide the law in the UK: not some random writer's opinion on a technology web site.
Sounds like teenager philosophy and logic to me.
Anyway, to debunk your argument: it's based on a fallacy: that you had the right to "stop me from eating ice cream" in the first place. You don't, regardless of whether or not I have the right to eat the stuff.
"I reserve the right to punch you in the face if you". It's a bollocks as your comment because I never had the right in the first place. The modifier has no rights, other than those granted by the license. Consider if you tried to modify Windows XP and then tried to distribute it...