Not that this detracts from your point... in fact it emphasizes it since Win95 was a venture into unknown technology, just like Vista.
There's nothing "unknown" about copying someone else's ideas shamelessly.
I really wouldn't mind except that they did such a frustratingly bad job of it and act so smugly about their new and improved features.
"caught up in the whole Apple marketing machine" please, this is just silly. maybe the real machine is complaining about Apple because it's the trendy thing to do.
Tell your friend:
Step 1: go to library.
Step 2: borrow CDs for free to maybe.50 YMMV
Step 3: Rip at rate you desire.
"After doing the necessary research to make sure that I could actually get work done on a Mac, I whipped out the trusty credit card and decided to give the experiment a try.
That single sentence gives quite a bit of insight into a very major reason that Windows is so popular. The very fact that one has to research into applications is a drawbridge for many would-be switchers. With Windows, you have no doubts that there is going to be an application out there, already written, somewhere in cyberland...all you need to do is download (or buy). Gamers and "specialists", who require either very today-trendy or very specific function software, are turned off by the belief (or disbelief, possibly) that Linux and Mac simply can't support their needs."
Now wait a minute.
The only thing that sentence proves it that there is WAY too much ignorance as too the change in program availability brought out from the change to OS X.
That said: I agree wit hthe end statement. I beleieve that it's not evidence of lack of applications, it's proof that old FUD dies hard.
It seems to me that movies like this have a higher possible failure rate due to the fact that the intended audience is split.
Explanation: Fantastic four was a comic book decades ago when the adventures and characters seemed "Fatastical" and the enemies were distinct abstractions of curent relevant conditions.
Now take those characters commit to the formula of failure:
Old characters, in a modern setting with old enemies with agendas that no longer fit the current times.
However... I think that given the current uncertain and violent world condition these situations could certainly be viable.
And I'm not about to rule out the fact that escaping into an old favorite is a good cure for the occasional stressful day.:-)
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Not that this detracts from your point... in fact it emphasizes it since Win95 was a venture into unknown technology, just like Vista.
There's nothing "unknown" about copying someone else's ideas shamelessly.
I really wouldn't mind except that they did such a frustratingly bad job of it and act so smugly about their new and improved features.
"caught up in the whole Apple marketing machine" please, this is just silly. maybe the real machine is complaining about Apple because it's the trendy thing to do. Tell your friend: Step 1: go to library. Step 2: borrow CDs for free to maybe .50 YMMV
Step 3: Rip at rate you desire.
"After doing the necessary research to make sure that I could actually get work done on a Mac, I whipped out the trusty credit card and decided to give the experiment a try.
That single sentence gives quite a bit of insight into a very major reason that Windows is so popular. The very fact that one has to research into applications is a drawbridge for many would-be switchers. With Windows, you have no doubts that there is going to be an application out there, already written, somewhere in cyberland...all you need to do is download (or buy). Gamers and "specialists", who require either very today-trendy or very specific function software, are turned off by the belief (or disbelief, possibly) that Linux and Mac simply can't support their needs."
Now wait a minute.
The only thing that sentence proves it that there is WAY too much ignorance as too the change in program availability brought out from the change to OS X.
That said: I agree wit hthe end statement. I beleieve that it's not evidence of lack of applications, it's proof that old FUD dies hard.
It seems to me that movies like this have a higher possible failure rate due to the fact that the intended audience is split. Explanation: Fantastic four was a comic book decades ago when the adventures and characters seemed "Fatastical" and the enemies were distinct abstractions of curent relevant conditions. Now take those characters commit to the formula of failure: Old characters, in a modern setting with old enemies with agendas that no longer fit the current times. However... I think that given the current uncertain and violent world condition these situations could certainly be viable. And I'm not about to rule out the fact that escaping into an old favorite is a good cure for the occasional stressful day. :-)