All I can say is the US has become one truly pathetic country.
I'm courious as to why you thnk this. Personally I think it's been pathetic for a long tyme. These laws banning online gambling are just more steps of good intention leading to hell. The USA used to be the nation of the free wherein people could do what they wanted as long as they didn't harm another, but no more.
the question evolution fails to answer and which makes it counterintuitive is "Where/How/When did it all start"
Eveolution DOES NOT try to answer how things, life, started. That is not it's purpose. Evolution seeks to explain how we got here and where we are headed. At least that's how I look at it.
Our country's science education could benefit more by including other, maybe lesser known or less supported, theories. It would be better for the students to look at the different alternatives and decide for themselves based on the evidence.
I'm not a scientist or high level scholor, but there are some holes in evolution just like there are some holes in creationism, but saying that just because there is some evidence to support evolution doesn't mean that creationism is bunk either.
That makes religious facts much more convenient. It doesn't take hard work to actually believe them, you can simply lean back and nod your head.
Oh but belief, as in faith in something, is hard, "you don't choose the things you believe in, they choose you". Once you have belief then things get easy, "It's that way because X wants it that way."
Love isn't just a noun, it's a verb. Too many people seem to lose touch with how deep the meaning of love can be.
Actually this brings up a deficiency in English. While English speakers usr "love" in various circumstances othe languages have different words for different meanings. For instance in Greek there are 7 different words that depending on the context English speakers would use the one word "love". In Chinese there are 5 different words. English words also can have different meanings depending on the context, heck the same spelling can be pronounced differently too and will then have a differnt meaning.
What a crazy language English is. If the plural of tooth is teeth then why isn't the plural of booth beeth? Or why do feet smell while noses run?
it's been suggested that relying upon Science requires no less faith than relying upon the Bible--I'm inclined to agree.
Science is testable and verifiable, I have yet to see how a belief in a "God" can do either. At least without using the Socratic method and drinking hemlock tea.
I hoped Omni Graffe would work for me... it did many things better than Visio... but smart blocks from Visio weren't compatible in it. Other programs I have tried like Excel substitutes (Mariner Calc was one) couldn't even handle merged cells in a spreadsheet.
I've heard similar things from others. One thing that bewilders me is that I've heard there's even incompatibility issues between Office for Windows and Office for Macs. One was that Windows macros won't work on Macs. Also I heard MS was dropping VB, used in Office, for Macs.
Again, for myself, I can work around limitations... but many of my co-workers can't. I hope things get better over the next year.
This is a big reason I'd love to see both Linux and Macs gain a much bigger share of the desktop market. With more competition MS may be forced to release better software with better interoperability. Also with larger markets current Windows only software companies may feel the need to release Mac and/or Linux versions as well.
Egads - you must have used NT 4.0 post SP1. The initial release was guaranteed to BSOD if you kept it up and running, and didn't run on laptops worth a crap.
I've got SP3 installed.
Of course, if it craps out now I'm up shit creek because MS doesn't support it anymore and I don't have a disk for SP3.
There is a very real market for a Mac mini-tower-- smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a Mac Pro, but bigger, more powerful, and more serviceable than a Mac mini, and with no monitor attached
I think that's a big market segment Apple is missing. If Apple offered one I'd be real tempted to get one and I've heard the same from others. Another segment they are missing I think is a laptop with a monitor smaller than 13", say 11 or 12".
I've been using macs for the bulk of my computing for over a decade, so I'm well aware that there's plenty of software available for most every need. Most of my issues have been with a few very specific pieces of software, but unfortunately life puts me in positions where I can't always choose how I'm going to solve a problem.
You showed my point, it's not so much that Macs can't do what's needed or don't have the apps to do them, it all boils down to what apps the employer demands be used. You say you're an architect and use AutoCAD, is there anything AutoCAD can do that CAD software for Macs can't do? I don't know if you know of it but there is a community of Mac users of CAD program, Architosh. I found it when I searched for CAD programs for Macs, I plan on getting a Mac and wanted to see what CAD was available for Macs. Also though AutoCAD is probably the most widely known CAD isn't CATIA the 800 lb gorilla?
Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you want to look a it, currently I am on disability and don't work but I'm hoping to start my own business this year so I'll be in a position to decide what sort of software will do what I want then choose the hardware and OS based on that. So far I haven't found any software app I will need that is not available for Macs. Linux is another matter, it has some but not the big or important app I'll want to get, Photoshop, otherwise it would work for me. What I want to do is to become a pro photographer as well as develop websites for other photographers.
All of these were specific apps not tasks the apps needed to be able to do however of the three one specific app does have a Mac version and the two other have equivilent programs. In each case a Mac can to the task needed.
Ubuntu is living proof that Linux can be well-received by the desktop market. Apple's 'premium computers' will remain in wealthy households because they're expensive as hell... Price is important to many people- not everyone is willing to spend twice as much for out-dated hardware simply for the logo and UI- especially when they do work that requires windows products or play games, etc.
If you really believe this then you haven't checked the prices of Macs lately. Their prices are comparable to similarly equipped PCs from Windows OEMs.
We're probably a generation or two away from someone finally nailing the easy, accessible open source desktop.
We're almost there now. There's Ubuntu/Kububuntu, which though I haven't seen never mind used it yet I'd heard is almost ready for primetime. I have Linspire and I'd say it is ready. Though icons have different names the Linspire desktop even looks like the Windows desktop.
If people care about the software, they'll be using Microsoft- Apple is still a toy if you're not a creative professional.
I care about software and I see nothing I can't do on a Mac I can do on a Windows PC. Actually some of what I see is better on the Mac.
Apple's growth will remain dependent on a rise in creative markets and very wealthy non-technical users.
I am a Windows user but I am leaving Windows to Linux for my desktop and a Macbook Pro for a laptop. And this is for one, well two really, very important reason(s). I HATE MS's policy of spying on it customers and requiring Activation as well as WGA/WPA. As long as I legally buy a product I do not believe a company has any right to spy on me or make me constantly prove I have the right to use the product. Yet that's exactly what MS is doing. Also I hate constantly having a hazzle with Windows crashing. And don't say that's was in the past, the first tyme I used XP it failed to fully bootup when I first turned it on. It was installed on a brand new PC from Dell not some no name off brand brand.
If anything Microsoft should be happy that Mac users still need to own a Windows license to run apps in Parallels. It may mean that more people will buy Macs because they like the hardware and OS X, but simply owning a Mac with Parallels does not remove the user's need to run Windows apps, and therefore pay Microsoft for a license.
However with an increase in Mac's market share more software businesses will come think it's tyme they start compiling programs for Macs. Then as more programs are available less people will want to run Windows on their Macs.
I had a Gateway for a while in the 90's. I agree that they were absolutely terrible! I hadn't thought about it from a Mac to PC perspective. Well, you can always switch back right?
Yes I am switching, though I'm more switching away from Windows than to Macs. Several months ago I got a desktop, well tower really, PC with Linux preinstalled. And for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro.
Then why can't I find a DL DVD RW for my Lnux box?
Beats me. You must not be looking in the right place.
I've spent many hours searching my distro's website, Linux Questions, Google, and other websites along with asking linux users irl.
I've had a Cyberdog DL DVD RW (it reports itself as a NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A)
Thanks, I'll check it out. Actually that's part of why I posted what I did, so I could get recommendations.
I've also got a Samsung Writemaster that similarly works just fine with Linux, picked up from Microcenter in OEM packaging for about $40.
Microcenter was one of the places I went to asking about Linux compatible dl dvd rws. They didn't have any Cyberdog drive I saw but one guy there recommended Maddog drives and said most should be compatible.
Now you use Parallels and buy a copy of Windows to put in there.
GAME OVER.
*MICROSOFT* doesn't care what HARDWARE you run their OS on. Running Parallels on a Mac doesn't hurt MICROSOFT in the slightest.
Actually here IS a reason for MS to be concerned, maybe you overlooked it or didn't think of it. But what happen when many people switch to Macs then software companies see the market share of Macs grow? Won't more of them be tempted to compile programs for Macs? Then as more and more businesse do so won't this convince even more people to switch?
I'm not saying it will happen but it's it possible that people will come to the point where they think MS is irrelevant? Though I wouldn't want to see it happen I don't delude myself that it can't happen. What I would like to see is for Linux and OSX to gain more market share. With said competition MS will have to improve their offerings. Competition is GOOD.
I use a mac for most of my computing needs, but there's still a few pieces of windows only software that I have to use.
I'm courious, what apps do you need that there is not a Mac equivilent app? Mind you I'm not asking for specific programs like Office but instead what you need to do with the program such as word processing/writing. While there may be specific programs that are highly tailered for a specific industry, say maybe for drycleaners or machine control, that is Windows only I know of no general consumer or business app where a Mac version does not exist. Linux yes, it is missing some apps like a photo editor for pro photograhers, but not for Macs.
imagine that most people would run Windows in Parallels do you think that programmers would even bother to write/compile programs for Windows or they would write them directly for Mac (or Linux)?
I don't know how things will work out but isn't it possible programmers will just say they can create programs for Windows then if a Mac user want to run it then they can just run it in Parallels? As for myself, I'm switching from Windows to both Linux and Macs, a few months ago I got a new tower PC with Linux preinstalled and for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro. If the tyme comes when I need to run a Windows program, and I don't believe there is a Windows app that an equivilent app does not exist for Linux or Macs, then I'll run it in Crossover.
I haven't found the hardware to be better than anything else either. In fact my experience with Apple hardware has been that it breaks more often than other brands. My iBook has the only LCD display I own with dead pixels. Everyone I know with Macs has had it in the shop at one point or another (everyone in my company has a Mac, among other computers). They're like Ferrari's, nice to look at but a bitch to keep running.
My experience with Macs is the opposite of your's. When I was a heavy user of Macs, from the mid '80s to the mid '90s, I never had either hardware or software problems with a Mac. I bought my first Mac in 1992. It was a used Mac SE30 and I used it until the floppy drive died in 2000, 8 years it lasted me and the only problem I had with it was the fd dying. My second Mac I also bought used, it's a PowerMac 7300/200 I bought after the SE30 died in 2000. I used it until January 2006, last year. I got more than 5 years use out of it.
However with Windows PCs my experiences have been much worse. I bought my first Windows PCs in 1997, a brand new tower and laptop. In the first year the laptop's motherboard and hdd had to be replaced. And it wasn't a no name off brand PC, it was from a then leading PC OEM, Gateway. I replaced it in 2000 with an HP Pavilion. Unfortunately it too had the hdd and motherboard die in the first year. Since then I have replaced the hdd twice and RAM three tymes. The only PC I have not had hardware problems with is the first tower I got, back in 1997. However it has a DEC Alpha cpu running NT 4.0 and was built by Microway. Because the cpu's an Alpha not an Intel or AMD I was not able to install many of the programs I tried to install therefore I have hardly used it.
Don't get me wrong, they've got some slick shit, but again, that just doesn't matter. Besides, my shit is slick, extendable, reconfigurable, and cost me one piss of a lot less than anything comparably from Apple. And I'm talking home computer, laptop, mp3, and cell phone. (Not that the iPhone is out yet, but for the stated reasons, I'll never buy one)
I agree Apple does not offer the configurability and extendability many other OEMs do. Nor as wide a range of offerings, specially they don't have something between the all-in-one iMac and the Mac Pro that is upgradable. But for what they do offer their prices are right in line with PC OEMs. Unlike what those like you say, Macs are not a lot more expensive than Windows PCs. iPods and when released the iPhone, yes but not Macs.
Windows would be infinitely more stable and an infinitely more consistent user experience if it weren't for the fact that it's made to run on *everything*.
That doesn't explain why Linux -- which runs on more hardware even than Windows -- is more stable than Windows.
Then why can't I find a DL DVD RW for my Lnux box? Several months ago I bought a PC with Linux preinstalled however it only came with a CD so I've been looking for a dual/double layer DVD to install but haven't found one that I know will work with Linux. Basically I want a dvd drive for backup purposes but seeing as how I've got more than 100 GBs on my hdd using a dl dvd to make backups is a lot better than using an old dvd drive.
I can see the logic in your reply; Windows users especially have a tough time with the Maximize button on OSX windows. Windows users expect that Maximize means take up the entire screen (which is where I agree with your point).
I suppose I'll adjust to how Macs maximize windows when I get a new one. However when I basically switched from Macs to Windows PCs there wasn't really an adjustment needed for this. And yes, I switched from Macs to Windows years ago. I was using Macs before MS even released Windows. However when it actually came tyme for me to buy a system I made the mistake of buying a Windows PC and not a Mac. At that tyme though Gateway was buying the Amiga from Escom the German company that owned the Amiga and I thought they would revitalize it, bring it back from the dead, and Amigas were my favorite Computer/OS. In getting a Gateway I thought I could use it as credit when they released a new Amiga. I could then run Amiga OS, MacOS, and Windows on the same computer. BIG mistake, Gateway wasted their money and did nothing with it, thier tech support sucks as well. Unfortunately I compounded my mistake by staying with Windows.
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All I can say is the US has become one truly pathetic country.
I'm courious as to why you thnk this. Personally I think it's been pathetic for a long tyme. These laws banning online gambling are just more steps of good intention leading to hell. The USA used to be the nation of the free wherein people could do what they wanted as long as they didn't harm another, but no more.
FalconWhat do they take on faith?
it is easier to believe than an external being creating life in its full form
What created that being?
FalconThe vatican gets it, but I guess the people who don't get it are the same people who think that being religious and being pro any kind of war can mix.
Unfortunately as some think the Vatican is Devil's spawn, this wouldn't work for them. Actually it may reinforce their belief.
Falconthe question evolution fails to answer and which makes it counterintuitive is "Where/How/When did it all start"
Eveolution DOES NOT try to answer how things, life, started. That is not it's purpose. Evolution seeks to explain how we got here and where we are headed. At least that's how I look at it.
FalconOur country's science education could benefit more by including other, maybe lesser known or less supported, theories. It would be better for the students to look at the different alternatives and decide for themselves based on the evidence.
And what are these other scientific theories?
FalconI'm not a scientist or high level scholor, but there are some holes in evolution just like there are some holes in creationism, but saying that just because there is some evidence to support evolution doesn't mean that creationism is bunk either.
Can you point out these holes?
FalconThat makes religious facts much more convenient. It doesn't take hard work to actually believe them, you can simply lean back and nod your head.
Oh but belief, as in faith in something, is hard, "you don't choose the things you believe in, they choose you". Once you have belief then things get easy, "It's that way because X wants it that way."
FalconLove isn't just a noun, it's a verb. Too many people seem to lose touch with how deep the meaning of love can be.
Actually this brings up a deficiency in English. While English speakers usr "love" in various circumstances othe languages have different words for different meanings. For instance in Greek there are 7 different words that depending on the context English speakers would use the one word "love". In Chinese there are 5 different words. English words also can have different meanings depending on the context, heck the same spelling can be pronounced differently too and will then have a differnt meaning.
What a crazy language English is. If the plural of tooth is teeth then why isn't the plural of booth beeth? Or why do feet smell while noses run?
it's been suggested that relying upon Science requires no less faith than relying upon the Bible--I'm inclined to agree.
Science is testable and verifiable, I have yet to see how a belief in a "God" can do either. At least without using the Socratic method and drinking hemlock tea.
FalconCopy the disk! :) Or, better yet, ask some friends. I'm sure I'm not the only one that still has his 3.51, 4.0 and Win2K disks in a set of sleeves.
If only... Unfortunately as my version of NT 4 is installed on a DEC Alpha based PC the binaries are incompatible.
FalconI hoped Omni Graffe would work for me... it did many things better than Visio... but smart blocks from Visio weren't compatible in it. Other programs I have tried like Excel substitutes (Mariner Calc was one) couldn't even handle merged cells in a spreadsheet.
I've heard similar things from others. One thing that bewilders me is that I've heard there's even incompatibility issues between Office for Windows and Office for Macs. One was that Windows macros won't work on Macs. Also I heard MS was dropping VB, used in Office, for Macs.
Again, for myself, I can work around limitations... but many of my co-workers can't. I hope things get better over the next year.
This is a big reason I'd love to see both Linux and Macs gain a much bigger share of the desktop market. With more competition MS may be forced to release better software with better interoperability. Also with larger markets current Windows only software companies may feel the need to release Mac and/or Linux versions as well.
FalconEgads - you must have used NT 4.0 post SP1. The initial release was guaranteed to BSOD if you kept it up and running, and didn't run on laptops worth a crap.
I've got SP3 installed.
Of course, if it craps out now I'm up shit creek because MS doesn't support it anymore and I don't have a disk for SP3.
FalconThere is a very real market for a Mac mini-tower-- smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a Mac Pro, but bigger, more powerful, and more serviceable than a Mac mini, and with no monitor attached
I think that's a big market segment Apple is missing. If Apple offered one I'd be real tempted to get one and I've heard the same from others. Another segment they are missing I think is a laptop with a monitor smaller than 13", say 11 or 12".
FalconI've been using macs for the bulk of my computing for over a decade, so I'm well aware that there's plenty of software available for most every need. Most of my issues have been with a few very specific pieces of software, but unfortunately life puts me in positions where I can't always choose how I'm going to solve a problem.
You showed my point, it's not so much that Macs can't do what's needed or don't have the apps to do them, it all boils down to what apps the employer demands be used. You say you're an architect and use AutoCAD, is there anything AutoCAD can do that CAD software for Macs can't do? I don't know if you know of it but there is a community of Mac users of CAD program, Architosh. I found it when I searched for CAD programs for Macs, I plan on getting a Mac and wanted to see what CAD was available for Macs. Also though AutoCAD is probably the most widely known CAD isn't CATIA the 800 lb gorilla?
Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you want to look a it, currently I am on disability and don't work but I'm hoping to start my own business this year so I'll be in a position to decide what sort of software will do what I want then choose the hardware and OS based on that. So far I haven't found any software app I will need that is not available for Macs. Linux is another matter, it has some but not the big or important app I'll want to get, Photoshop, otherwise it would work for me. What I want to do is to become a pro photographer as well as develop websites for other photographers.
FalconAutocad
Architosh is a community Mac users of CAD programs.
Visio
OmniGraffle 4
Primavera
Minimum Requirements: Apple Mac OS X 10.3
All of these were specific apps not tasks the apps needed to be able to do however of the three one specific app does have a Mac version and the two other have equivilent programs. In each case a Mac can to the task needed.
FalconUbuntu is living proof that Linux can be well-received by the desktop market. Apple's 'premium computers' will remain in wealthy households because they're expensive as hell... Price is important to many people- not everyone is willing to spend twice as much for out-dated hardware simply for the logo and UI- especially when they do work that requires windows products or play games, etc.
If you really believe this then you haven't checked the prices of Macs lately. Their prices are comparable to similarly equipped PCs from Windows OEMs.
We're probably a generation or two away from someone finally nailing the easy, accessible open source desktop.
We're almost there now. There's Ubuntu/Kububuntu, which though I haven't seen never mind used it yet I'd heard is almost ready for primetime. I have Linspire and I'd say it is ready. Though icons have different names the Linspire desktop even looks like the Windows desktop.
If people care about the software, they'll be using Microsoft- Apple is still a toy if you're not a creative professional.
I care about software and I see nothing I can't do on a Mac I can do on a Windows PC. Actually some of what I see is better on the Mac.
Apple's growth will remain dependent on a rise in creative markets and very wealthy non-technical users.
I am a Windows user but I am leaving Windows to Linux for my desktop and a Macbook Pro for a laptop. And this is for one, well two really, very important reason(s). I HATE MS's policy of spying on it customers and requiring Activation as well as WGA/WPA. As long as I legally buy a product I do not believe a company has any right to spy on me or make me constantly prove I have the right to use the product. Yet that's exactly what MS is doing. Also I hate constantly having a hazzle with Windows crashing. And don't say that's was in the past, the first tyme I used XP it failed to fully bootup when I first turned it on. It was installed on a brand new PC from Dell not some no name off brand brand.
FalconIf anything Microsoft should be happy that Mac users still need to own a Windows license to run apps in Parallels. It may mean that more people will buy Macs because they like the hardware and OS X, but simply owning a Mac with Parallels does not remove the user's need to run Windows apps, and therefore pay Microsoft for a license.
However with an increase in Mac's market share more software businesses will come think it's tyme they start compiling programs for Macs. Then as more programs are available less people will want to run Windows on their Macs.
FalconI had a Gateway for a while in the 90's. I agree that they were absolutely terrible! I hadn't thought about it from a Mac to PC perspective. Well, you can always switch back right?
Yes I am switching, though I'm more switching away from Windows than to Macs. Several months ago I got a desktop, well tower really, PC with Linux preinstalled. And for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro.
FalconThen why can't I find a DL DVD RW for my Lnux box?
Beats me. You must not be looking in the right place.
I've spent many hours searching my distro's website, Linux Questions, Google, and other websites along with asking linux users irl.
I've had a Cyberdog DL DVD RW (it reports itself as a NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A)
Thanks, I'll check it out. Actually that's part of why I posted what I did, so I could get recommendations.
I've also got a Samsung Writemaster that similarly works just fine with Linux, picked up from Microcenter in OEM packaging for about $40.
Microcenter was one of the places I went to asking about Linux compatible dl dvd rws. They didn't have any Cyberdog drive I saw but one guy there recommended Maddog drives and said most should be compatible.
FalconNow you use Parallels and buy a copy of Windows to put in there.
GAME OVER.
*MICROSOFT* doesn't care what HARDWARE you run their OS on. Running Parallels on a Mac doesn't hurt MICROSOFT in the slightest.
Actually here IS a reason for MS to be concerned, maybe you overlooked it or didn't think of it. But what happen when many people switch to Macs then software companies see the market share of Macs grow? Won't more of them be tempted to compile programs for Macs? Then as more and more businesse do so won't this convince even more people to switch?
I'm not saying it will happen but it's it possible that people will come to the point where they think MS is irrelevant? Though I wouldn't want to see it happen I don't delude myself that it can't happen. What I would like to see is for Linux and OSX to gain more market share. With said competition MS will have to improve their offerings. Competition is GOOD.
FalconI use a mac for most of my computing needs, but there's still a few pieces of windows only software that I have to use.
I'm courious, what apps do you need that there is not a Mac equivilent app? Mind you I'm not asking for specific programs like Office but instead what you need to do with the program such as word processing/writing. While there may be specific programs that are highly tailered for a specific industry, say maybe for drycleaners or machine control, that is Windows only I know of no general consumer or business app where a Mac version does not exist. Linux yes, it is missing some apps like a photo editor for pro photograhers, but not for Macs.
Falconimagine that most people would run Windows in Parallels do you think that programmers would even bother to write/compile programs for Windows or they would write them directly for Mac (or Linux)?
I don't know how things will work out but isn't it possible programmers will just say they can create programs for Windows then if a Mac user want to run it then they can just run it in Parallels? As for myself, I'm switching from Windows to both Linux and Macs, a few months ago I got a new tower PC with Linux preinstalled and for a laptop I plan on getting a Macbook Pro. If the tyme comes when I need to run a Windows program, and I don't believe there is a Windows app that an equivilent app does not exist for Linux or Macs, then I'll run it in Crossover.
FalconI haven't found the hardware to be better than anything else either. In fact my experience with Apple hardware has been that it breaks more often than other brands. My iBook has the only LCD display I own with dead pixels. Everyone I know with Macs has had it in the shop at one point or another (everyone in my company has a Mac, among other computers). They're like Ferrari's, nice to look at but a bitch to keep running.
My experience with Macs is the opposite of your's. When I was a heavy user of Macs, from the mid '80s to the mid '90s, I never had either hardware or software problems with a Mac. I bought my first Mac in 1992. It was a used Mac SE30 and I used it until the floppy drive died in 2000, 8 years it lasted me and the only problem I had with it was the fd dying. My second Mac I also bought used, it's a PowerMac 7300/200 I bought after the SE30 died in 2000. I used it until January 2006, last year. I got more than 5 years use out of it.
However with Windows PCs my experiences have been much worse. I bought my first Windows PCs in 1997, a brand new tower and laptop. In the first year the laptop's motherboard and hdd had to be replaced. And it wasn't a no name off brand PC, it was from a then leading PC OEM, Gateway. I replaced it in 2000 with an HP Pavilion. Unfortunately it too had the hdd and motherboard die in the first year. Since then I have replaced the hdd twice and RAM three tymes. The only PC I have not had hardware problems with is the first tower I got, back in 1997. However it has a DEC Alpha cpu running NT 4.0 and was built by Microway. Because the cpu's an Alpha not an Intel or AMD I was not able to install many of the programs I tried to install therefore I have hardly used it.
FalconDon't get me wrong, they've got some slick shit, but again, that just doesn't matter. Besides, my shit is slick, extendable, reconfigurable, and cost me one piss of a lot less than anything comparably from Apple. And I'm talking home computer, laptop, mp3, and cell phone. (Not that the iPhone is out yet, but for the stated reasons, I'll never buy one)
I agree Apple does not offer the configurability and extendability many other OEMs do. Nor as wide a range of offerings, specially they don't have something between the all-in-one iMac and the Mac Pro that is upgradable. But for what they do offer their prices are right in line with PC OEMs. Unlike what those like you say, Macs are not a lot more expensive than Windows PCs. iPods and when released the iPhone, yes but not Macs.
FalconWindows would be infinitely more stable and an infinitely more consistent user experience if it weren't for the fact that it's made to run on *everything*.
That doesn't explain why Linux -- which runs on more hardware even than Windows -- is more stable than Windows.
Then why can't I find a DL DVD RW for my Lnux box? Several months ago I bought a PC with Linux preinstalled however it only came with a CD so I've been looking for a dual/double layer DVD to install but haven't found one that I know will work with Linux. Basically I want a dvd drive for backup purposes but seeing as how I've got more than 100 GBs on my hdd using a dl dvd to make backups is a lot better than using an old dvd drive.
FalconI can see the logic in your reply; Windows users especially have a tough time with the Maximize button on OSX windows. Windows users expect that Maximize means take up the entire screen (which is where I agree with your point).
I suppose I'll adjust to how Macs maximize windows when I get a new one. However when I basically switched from Macs to Windows PCs there wasn't really an adjustment needed for this. And yes, I switched from Macs to Windows years ago. I was using Macs before MS even released Windows. However when it actually came tyme for me to buy a system I made the mistake of buying a Windows PC and not a Mac. At that tyme though Gateway was buying the Amiga from Escom the German company that owned the Amiga and I thought they would revitalize it, bring it back from the dead, and Amigas were my favorite Computer/OS. In getting a Gateway I thought I could use it as credit when they released a new Amiga. I could then run Amiga OS, MacOS, and Windows on the same computer. BIG mistake, Gateway wasted their money and did nothing with it, thier tech support sucks as well. Unfortunately I compounded my mistake by staying with Windows.
Falcon