Maybe I did not get my point across but that is pretty much what I meant in as many words.
I know PC users who will not touch Windows because they prefer DOS. They hate Windows for the same reason they hate the Mac. I have also seen many PC users dissing the Mac for no reason other than it is not a PC.
That is not to say that they do have some valid points about the Mac OS. Just as I have valid points about the Windows OS. Since I have used it everyday and have since its inception.
I have my PC for the few apps that can't be replicated on the Mac....mostly some Audio Apps and of course some games.
Google would be a great deal if Microsoft could purchase it. Look at all that white space on the main search page. Just think how many Microsoft ads could fill that space. It would be better ad space the MSN messenger is.
With googles technology MS could weed out redundant and taboo topics like Linux, UNIX, Mac, Opera, Quicken and the like. Add MS.net technology to the pages and Google would only work with a Windows PC running IE.
Of course right now Google is designed to be quick loading, simple and efficient which pretty much goes against Microsoft software guidelines. Then again it might be better if Google had a search wizard and a paper clip avatar showing you how to search the net.
Any PC user that I know that has spent any amount of time on the Mac (more than just moving the mouse around at the local best buy) really has nothing bad to say about it and usually likes it.
A lot of them switch over to the Mac after a while or use both. Some do not switch but still don't rag on it and are honest about the flaws of both platforms.
I remember going into a computer store in the 80's and someone was showing me Windows 1.0. She was telling how bad the Mac was and how powerful Windows 1.0 was. I said show me something this can do the Mac cannot. She said, "Well you can use a mouse and it has this neat little calculator". I said "And?" She said "Well you can run programs". I said "And?", She said "Well that is more than the Mac can do" and she cheerfully went about playing with the Calculator.
I wonder if she ever went on to work in Redmond.
I have talked to a lot of MS junkies and most really don't know what they are talking about. Stuff they rave over we have been doing for years on the Mac. Since I have used PC since day one and Macs as well. I can usually tell when someone is clueless about the other platform. I use both Panther and XP Pro on my Mac and PC and there is no contest as to which one is better or more stable. MacOS X wins that hands down.
Those that do know both and work with them in their jobs like MS for one reason and one reason only. Without MS they would not have a job....Macs network too easily and don't need to be maintain as a much as a network of PC's.
It makes them kings in their own little world and thus indispensable to a company or institution. We call it Microsoft, they call it job security.
If M$ deploys this in longhorn and incorporates into to their web development tools then M$ will be another step closer to owning something they could not buy....the internet.
They are already doing this for the most part. A lot of their web development tools are generating code and services that are Windows and IE only. Some content generated by these products are viewable on no other platform or browser other then what Microsoft puts out, for no other reason than they were created with MS products. What a way to control the net....want to view this page? Then buy Windows. Forget that the web was built on open standards, M$ will try to make it M$internet any way they can. Do you think that they will strive to make it run on other platforms like Macromedia has? Does Balmer have hair?
This may sound like a conspiracy theory but have you tried to complain to the government about Microsofts compliance to the anti-trust lawsuit from the webpage MS has set up? If you are not running windows it can't be done.
It is hard for Micosoft to write a secure operating system and have total control of your PC at the same time. After all, if they made an OS that no one could hack into how would they keep tabs on what your doing with their software.
Of course it is limiting to Windows users.....it works the first time and the don't have to mess with it to get it working, which to some windows users is the Holy Grail.
Actually, Microsoft should not complain, they now have something good to copy to make a music store and jukebox the right way....but knowing MS they will still screw it up.
Speaking of clueless windows bozos check this guy out at USAToday. His facts are sooo bad he deserves the Jayson Blair award for reporting excellence!
http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20031016006/tscript.htm
Jack should keep using his Macs and let the terrorist use Windows boxes. Maybe the terrorist could use Windows to make a virus or Trojan horse that takes advantage of security holes in the OS that would costs businesses and governments all over the world billions and billions of dollars!
What....it has already been done? Well who said Hollywood uses original ideas.
For any use on a submarine quite and reliable are the biggest concerns. You do have to wonder about what "images" they will be working on since most submarines running at working depth are "blind" as far as the visual sense in concerned. Makes me think they are using passive sonar to build a picture of their surroundings.
The mind wobbles.
No wonder they have gotten only 10 or so web form replies.
I tried to submit a complaint and it would not let me because of certain fields in the form, which were not displayed on the page, were not filled in!
Of course I was using a third party browser so the page may have not displayed correctly because of some of Microsofts proprietary web coding....which was what I was going to complain about!
Yep, and since we were doing it over radio we had wireless networks long before the rest of the computer world caught up.
Packet radio was good for email and jumping digipeaters but not very good for file transfers. TCP/IP networks were available in many areas that went a little farther than the standard ax25 networks that most hams used.
Also there is a lot more than just music and news broadcasts on shortwave. Spy stations and digital diplomatic traffic are there as well as a host of other things to listen to. The digitally controlled receivers make listening to and decoding these signals much easier.
As far as noise goes it depends on how well built the PC you are using is....as stated before Macs seem much better for this purpose....less RF interference. Even if the programs are for windows, Virtual PC will run them just fine.
I lived in Oregon for a couple of years and they have some of the weirdest laws. No sales tax, which is cool. Government run liquor stores, which is also cool..(sorry don't drink), cannot pump your own gas...the whole state is full service, not so cool.
They used to gauge property taxes by the appearance of the outside of your house. Hence there were some dumpy shacks that looked like mansions on the inside...they did away with that one. One of the years I lived there they forbid children from working in the fields. The strawberry harvest took place about the same time school let out for summer. The kids loved it because they made cash for the summer and the farmers had a fresh batch of labor always ready for picking. It was win/win for everyone. The state passed the law a week or two before harvest season began. The farmers lost a bundle that year....the kids lost out as well.
The same year they were talking about charging out-of-state motorist to use their rest areas along side the interstates. Not sure if that one passed...we left!
The Oregonians have always hated Californians but we Californians always said that Oregon would be a nice place if not for the Oregonians.
This maybe the application that Microsoft gets to work correctly and the music might not be copyable....well it could happen
Also if you purchase 100 songs a year then go off the service with Apple you still have 100 songs and only spent 99 bucks. With pressplay you have spent 120 and have no songs.
As someone else has stated, this is around right now and MS is not coming up with anything new. Since the iPod is doing well with Windows users I think iTunes will too!
It is not so much the bug but how the are handled. Some errors would not be so bad if they were handled correctly when the happen. I was talking to customer relations at Dr. Pepper and the person I was talking to put an '*" in the address field of the program she was running. The whole customer relations computer network crashed when she did this, causing lost time and money for the employees maning the phones, extra phone charges for the company and lost time for the customers on the phone.
A simple error like this should have been handled by the software company that wrote the program. Even when I was writing basic language programs I took into account bad data input. It may have looked like spaghetti code to some, but it never crashed.
Well we have all those people who voted for Gov. Lowbeam. I think all those that voted for him should pony up the tax money.
When a Governor goes from a 10billion dollar surplus to a 35billion dollar deficit in 4 years and STILL wins re-election it goes to prove that there is nothing dumber than a California democrat.
VHS did not beat beta because of video quality. It was because of sony pulling the machine of the market because of a copyright lawsuit (sound familiar?). VHS went ahead and put out its inferior machines in spite of the lawsuit and won the toe hold in the American home.
In any video studio beta was king and probably still is in some. What is the point of this article? Crappy is good enough for most people?
That would explain the popularity of Microsoft;-)
I had a deal with an ebay seller..for a 4X4X16 scsi CD-RW. I promptly sent my money within 5 minute of the end of auction. I received a message saying that it was on the way. A week later nothing had shown up. I continued to email the seller......nothing. I made copies of the 7 emails I sent. He claims he received none. My last email was a deadline, respond or I will take action. He did not, I did, starting with a negative feedback. Once the feedback it the website I finally got an email from him saying he had a death in the family and that he would be sending it shortly, even though he stated before that it was already "in the mail"...also berating me for leaving bad feedback and contacting ebay and paypal. 14 days later after calling the dogs off him and still not getting the drive I paid for I emailed him again...the drive is in the mail..several days later...no drive.
After a few more days I contacted ebay and paypal and told them if I did not get a package tracking number within 24 hours that they could go ahead with charges....Like magic I got the tracking number. A few days later a 4x8 CD burner arrived..not the 4X4X16 that he advertised. I told him that the drive he shipped was not the one at auction, but I would keep it because I was tired of his lies and dealing with him.
To my surprise he roasted me with his feedback and I had little recourse to explain it a single line what he had done. To this day I think that he beleives he has done no wrong and was very upset the I brought down his rating. In fact he wrote ebay to have it removed.....they did not comply.
Well, we already have websites out there that ONLY work with Microsoft windows and IE. So it is not hard to believe that if Microsoft did crush...um er...buy Macromedia that it would PC only, they have done it before.
You also mention the Sun java lawsuit, and why are they being sued? You just shot your own point in the foot.
Actually, Salon is due to be kicked out of the NASDAQ listings. I believe that had till the first of the year to get their stock price to over a dollar per share, if not they would be history. In recent weeks it has been as low as a penney a share. In other words there is no way they are going to make the deadline. This latest ploy is just a way to save a little face before 2003.
I think they will go under by March, if they last that long.
Yes at 802.11b frequencies the radio waves do not bounce, the will pretty much head out into space. At these frequencies it is pretty much line of sight, you may get a little bending in the wave but not much. You will need height at the transmit/receive site to overcome the horizion. Southern California does have one seasonal effect on radio waves however. In the summer when a high pressure area sits in the pacific ocean radio links between the west coast and hawaii are possible. This is called Troposhperic Ducting and people in So-Cal may hear radio stations both AM and FM coming in from Maui. The stronger the duct, the higher the frequency that can be passed between two points.
I had a 2 meter repeater (Amatuer Radio) that was meant to be low-level, local area only. When ducting was happen my range went from about 20miles to well over 400miles. It would cover the entire Sacramento/ San Joaqiun valley stoping only when you went out of the duct. People 400 miles away sounded as if the were next door.
In comparing my 800Mhz eMac to my 1.4Ghz Athlon home built running Windows XP Pro, I would say the machines are roughly equal. The Mac is slow in some instances but then so is the PC.
There is one instance the the Mac has won in so far. MacOSX has never crashed on me, not once! I wish I could say the Windows could make this claim.
Most apps that I run, QuarkXpress, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and the lot are still about the same on both platforms. MacOSX could use a speed boost in some areas, but then so could windows!
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Maybe I did not get my point across but that is pretty much what I meant in as many words.
I know PC users who will not touch Windows because they prefer DOS. They hate Windows for the same reason they hate the Mac. I have also seen many PC users dissing the Mac for no reason other than it is not a PC.
That is not to say that they do have some valid points about the Mac OS. Just as I have valid points about the Windows OS. Since I have used it everyday and have since its inception.
I have my PC for the few apps that can't be replicated on the Mac....mostly some Audio Apps and of course some games.
Google would be a great deal if Microsoft could purchase it. Look at all that white space on the main search page. Just think how many Microsoft ads could fill that space. It would be better ad space the MSN messenger is. .net technology to the pages and Google would only work with a Windows PC running IE.
With googles technology MS could weed out redundant and taboo topics like Linux, UNIX, Mac, Opera, Quicken and the like. Add MS
Of course right now Google is designed to be quick loading, simple and efficient which pretty much goes against Microsoft software guidelines. Then again it might be better if Google had a search wizard and a paper clip avatar showing you how to search the net.
Any PC user that I know that has spent any amount of time on the Mac (more than just moving the mouse around at the local best buy) really has nothing bad to say about it and usually likes it.
A lot of them switch over to the Mac after a while or use both. Some do not switch but still don't rag on it and are honest about the flaws of both platforms.
I remember going into a computer store in the 80's and someone was showing me Windows 1.0. She was telling how bad the Mac was and how powerful Windows 1.0 was. I said show me something this can do the Mac cannot. She said, "Well you can use a mouse and it has this neat little calculator". I said "And?" She said "Well you can run programs". I said "And?", She said "Well that is more than the Mac can do" and she cheerfully went about playing with the Calculator.
I wonder if she ever went on to work in Redmond.
I have talked to a lot of MS junkies and most really don't know what they are talking about. Stuff they rave over we have been doing for years on the Mac. Since I have used PC since day one and Macs as well. I can usually tell when someone is clueless about the other platform. I use both Panther and XP Pro on my Mac and PC and there is no contest as to which one is better or more stable. MacOS X wins that hands down. Those that do know both and work with them in their jobs like MS for one reason and one reason only. Without MS they would not have a job....Macs network too easily and don't need to be maintain as a much as a network of PC's. It makes them kings in their own little world and thus indispensable to a company or institution. We call it Microsoft, they call it job security.
If M$ deploys this in longhorn and incorporates into to their web development tools then M$ will be another step closer to owning something they could not buy....the internet. They are already doing this for the most part. A lot of their web development tools are generating code and services that are Windows and IE only. Some content generated by these products are viewable on no other platform or browser other then what Microsoft puts out, for no other reason than they were created with MS products. What a way to control the net....want to view this page? Then buy Windows. Forget that the web was built on open standards, M$ will try to make it M$internet any way they can. Do you think that they will strive to make it run on other platforms like Macromedia has? Does Balmer have hair? This may sound like a conspiracy theory but have you tried to complain to the government about Microsofts compliance to the anti-trust lawsuit from the webpage MS has set up? If you are not running windows it can't be done.
It is hard for Micosoft to write a secure operating system and have total control of your PC at the same time. After all, if they made an OS that no one could hack into how would they keep tabs on what your doing with their software.
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Of course it is limiting to Windows users.....it works the first time and the don't have to mess with it to get it working, which to some windows users is the Holy Grail. Actually, Microsoft should not complain, they now have something good to copy to make a music store and jukebox the right way....but knowing MS they will still screw it up. Speaking of clueless windows bozos check this guy out at USAToday. His facts are sooo bad he deserves the Jayson Blair award for reporting excellence! http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20031016006/tscript .htm
Jack should keep using his Macs and let the terrorist use Windows boxes. Maybe the terrorist could use Windows to make a virus or Trojan horse that takes advantage of security holes in the OS that would costs businesses and governments all over the world billions and billions of dollars! What....it has already been done? Well who said Hollywood uses original ideas.
Yeah, they are running linux and not OS X. What is your point? That they are not using intel hardware?
For any use on a submarine quite and reliable are the biggest concerns. You do have to wonder about what "images" they will be working on since most submarines running at working depth are "blind" as far as the visual sense in concerned. Makes me think they are using passive sonar to build a picture of their surroundings. The mind wobbles.
No wonder they have gotten only 10 or so web form replies. I tried to submit a complaint and it would not let me because of certain fields in the form, which were not displayed on the page, were not filled in! Of course I was using a third party browser so the page may have not displayed correctly because of some of Microsofts proprietary web coding....which was what I was going to complain about!
Yep, and since we were doing it over radio we had wireless networks long before the rest of the computer world caught up. Packet radio was good for email and jumping digipeaters but not very good for file transfers. TCP/IP networks were available in many areas that went a little farther than the standard ax25 networks that most hams used. Also there is a lot more than just music and news broadcasts on shortwave. Spy stations and digital diplomatic traffic are there as well as a host of other things to listen to. The digitally controlled receivers make listening to and decoding these signals much easier. As far as noise goes it depends on how well built the PC you are using is....as stated before Macs seem much better for this purpose....less RF interference. Even if the programs are for windows, Virtual PC will run them just fine.
I lived in Oregon for a couple of years and they have some of the weirdest laws. No sales tax, which is cool. Government run liquor stores, which is also cool..(sorry don't drink), cannot pump your own gas...the whole state is full service, not so cool. They used to gauge property taxes by the appearance of the outside of your house. Hence there were some dumpy shacks that looked like mansions on the inside...they did away with that one. One of the years I lived there they forbid children from working in the fields. The strawberry harvest took place about the same time school let out for summer. The kids loved it because they made cash for the summer and the farmers had a fresh batch of labor always ready for picking. It was win/win for everyone. The state passed the law a week or two before harvest season began. The farmers lost a bundle that year....the kids lost out as well. The same year they were talking about charging out-of-state motorist to use their rest areas along side the interstates. Not sure if that one passed...we left! The Oregonians have always hated Californians but we Californians always said that Oregon would be a nice place if not for the Oregonians.
This maybe the application that Microsoft gets to work correctly and the music might not be copyable....well it could happen Also if you purchase 100 songs a year then go off the service with Apple you still have 100 songs and only spent 99 bucks. With pressplay you have spent 120 and have no songs. As someone else has stated, this is around right now and MS is not coming up with anything new. Since the iPod is doing well with Windows users I think iTunes will too!
It is not so much the bug but how the are handled. Some errors would not be so bad if they were handled correctly when the happen. I was talking to customer relations at Dr. Pepper and the person I was talking to put an '*" in the address field of the program she was running. The whole customer relations computer network crashed when she did this, causing lost time and money for the employees maning the phones, extra phone charges for the company and lost time for the customers on the phone. A simple error like this should have been handled by the software company that wrote the program. Even when I was writing basic language programs I took into account bad data input. It may have looked like spaghetti code to some, but it never crashed.
This news makes me want to "switch" to the PC.
Well, Microsoft does one thing better than any other company. It can take a bad idea and make it even worse than it was before.
Well we have all those people who voted for Gov. Lowbeam. I think all those that voted for him should pony up the tax money. When a Governor goes from a 10billion dollar surplus to a 35billion dollar deficit in 4 years and STILL wins re-election it goes to prove that there is nothing dumber than a California democrat.
VHS did not beat beta because of video quality. It was because of sony pulling the machine of the market because of a copyright lawsuit (sound familiar?). VHS went ahead and put out its inferior machines in spite of the lawsuit and won the toe hold in the American home. In any video studio beta was king and probably still is in some. What is the point of this article? Crappy is good enough for most people? That would explain the popularity of Microsoft ;-)
I had a deal with an ebay seller..for a 4X4X16 scsi CD-RW. I promptly sent my money within 5 minute of the end of auction. I received a message saying that it was on the way. A week later nothing had shown up. I continued to email the seller......nothing. I made copies of the 7 emails I sent. He claims he received none. My last email was a deadline, respond or I will take action. He did not, I did, starting with a negative feedback. Once the feedback it the website I finally got an email from him saying he had a death in the family and that he would be sending it shortly, even though he stated before that it was already "in the mail"...also berating me for leaving bad feedback and contacting ebay and paypal. 14 days later after calling the dogs off him and still not getting the drive I paid for I emailed him again...the drive is in the mail..several days later...no drive. After a few more days I contacted ebay and paypal and told them if I did not get a package tracking number within 24 hours that they could go ahead with charges....Like magic I got the tracking number. A few days later a 4x8 CD burner arrived..not the 4X4X16 that he advertised. I told him that the drive he shipped was not the one at auction, but I would keep it because I was tired of his lies and dealing with him. To my surprise he roasted me with his feedback and I had little recourse to explain it a single line what he had done. To this day I think that he beleives he has done no wrong and was very upset the I brought down his rating. In fact he wrote ebay to have it removed.....they did not comply.
Well, we already have websites out there that ONLY work with Microsoft windows and IE. So it is not hard to believe that if Microsoft did crush...um er...buy Macromedia that it would PC only, they have done it before. You also mention the Sun java lawsuit, and why are they being sued? You just shot your own point in the foot.
Actually, Salon is due to be kicked out of the NASDAQ listings. I believe that had till the first of the year to get their stock price to over a dollar per share, if not they would be history. In recent weeks it has been as low as a penney a share. In other words there is no way they are going to make the deadline. This latest ploy is just a way to save a little face before 2003. I think they will go under by March, if they last that long.
Yes at 802.11b frequencies the radio waves do not bounce, the will pretty much head out into space. At these frequencies it is pretty much line of sight, you may get a little bending in the wave but not much. You will need height at the transmit/receive site to overcome the horizion. Southern California does have one seasonal effect on radio waves however. In the summer when a high pressure area sits in the pacific ocean radio links between the west coast and hawaii are possible. This is called Troposhperic Ducting and people in So-Cal may hear radio stations both AM and FM coming in from Maui. The stronger the duct, the higher the frequency that can be passed between two points. I had a 2 meter repeater (Amatuer Radio) that was meant to be low-level, local area only. When ducting was happen my range went from about 20miles to well over 400miles. It would cover the entire Sacramento/ San Joaqiun valley stoping only when you went out of the duct. People 400 miles away sounded as if the were next door.
In comparing my 800Mhz eMac to my 1.4Ghz Athlon home built running Windows XP Pro, I would say the machines are roughly equal. The Mac is slow in some instances but then so is the PC. There is one instance the the Mac has won in so far. MacOSX has never crashed on me, not once! I wish I could say the Windows could make this claim. Most apps that I run, QuarkXpress, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and the lot are still about the same on both platforms. MacOSX could use a speed boost in some areas, but then so could windows!