My Bad... Oompa Loompas are from Warner Brothers and not Disney... confused with the 7 Dwarves in disguise... Maybe Oompa Loompa clones? Dolly the Oompa Loompa? Hmmm:-)
I have not been hit up by a troll in some time, but I am feeling particularly spunky today.
Perhaps it is that my household is about a week away from being 100% Microsoft Free! It is amazing, but for all the press that Windows gets as being superior, my wife's computer (Windows) Is the only one out of the one server, three desktops, three laptops that I have had to do any maintainance on... Otherwise known as four hours wasted out of my life.
Sure I will admit like the original author states that lots of people like Windows, and think it is great, the bee's knees and the best thing since sliced bread. Then again lots of people like smoking even though it is killing them and those who are around them (In Windows case the LAN/WAN). But us Mac users are wasting our breath trying to tell them this, after all, ever try to get a friend to seriously quit smoking?
As far as the whole Bill Gates = Borg rumors? Well as far as I am concerned, both Apple and Microsoft have their respective heads shoved up their rectum so far that air has to be piped in through their navel.
Both companies are manipulative, domineering / controlling and taking away user rights left and right in the name of making an extra buck. Not to mention both are way too much in bed with the RIAA/MPAA for comfort. Of course it winds up that it is both Mac and Windows users who get screwed by this, though Microsoft currently leads in the screwage. But I digress, the bottom line is that both companies have crafted their policies to reduce the rights of users, and maximize profit at the user's expense.
Take for example when Apple released Tiger (OS 10.4 for you Windows users). They placed an artificial stipulation that only systems with Bluetooth could install this beast. This way it would force those holdouts with their modified and improved G3s to buy (guess what) another Mac if they wanted to upgrade. Personally, I think that the whole move to Intel was a mass screw of the G4 - G5 users as they will be obsolete in a few years and will need to buy a new Mac. Anyway, back to Tiger. Well for those of us who decided to do a little modification and re-burning of CDs found out, Tiger will work just fine on Lombard and Wallstreet G3s. Artificial and planned obsolescence is the one of the names of Apple's game. Though maybe now they can just make their products so they will automatically break in 3 years and 2 weeks... that should take them out of Apple's warranty and still keep people coming back.
The mainstay of Apple is their secretiveness, and Gestapo tactics to maintain their clandestine products in development (and the Oompah-Loompahs (Borrowed from Disney) who make them. Can we say "civil and legal rights? never heard of them, unless you are talking about Apple's rights of course." If Apple does not tell you what is coming, or when it is due out, then you cannot plan your purchases and will buy products which can become obsolete in a week reducing our warehouse stock. It is logical in Applethink I guess.
How many people bought their brand new G5s only to find out that Apple has really moved to Intel this time? Anyone want to place a bet which OS X will be for Intel only? My bet is on 10.6, maybe 10.7. Anyone else besides me remember when Macs used to hold their value for years after purchase? Now it seems that Macs are becoming outdated before their warranty runs out. My personal pet is a Macbook Pro, one of the 2GHz Core Duos and before my warranty ran out Apple released the Core 2 Duos with dual layer DVD burning etc... etc... Now I am seeing the resell price for my notebook down about $600.00 (sigh). Now I am going to buy my wife an Intel iMac with DL DVD and all that... of course in a little while they will have 802.11n and faster processors as well as Blue-Ray or HDDVD capabilities but I am going to buy her one anyway.
Ok, off my soapbox for the moment. Lets just say that Mac is a plastic company that is no more about puppies, rainbows, a green Earth, happy families and world peace t
I have heard stories about Intel for years, and have even taken the trouble to test and verify some of them on my own before I got tired of the whole deal and switched to Macs a year ago. Now like a piece of bad fish, the subject has come back up with Steve Jobs announcement of Apple going to Intel.
With the predatory behavior of Intel, I have to wonder how much of this was in the way of "Special Deals" by Intel and maybe a little friendly coercion.
I admit I am a little biased as I would have loved to see Apple go AMD which IMHO is a much better processor company than Intel.
I think the guy should turn around and look at slapping a suit on Tom Hays and the department..
As a Director of an I.T. department in California (and being originally a Buckeye), the stupidity of making such a comment to the press puts Tom Hayes in a potentially actionable position.
I know that if I made such an "unwise" comment after firing someone, my job would be the next one advertised.
Ah well, we can hope I guess.
Actually after long thought, I started moving the desktops in my house over to G5 iMacs, and just keeping my servers x86 and Linux. I am not sure if Linux will ever make it in any big way on the desktop (though I hope it will) I just not it is not there now, and I am tired of Windows problems and SP2 was the last straw. I agree with several posters I have seen that one of the reasons that OS X has few problems is that Apple does control the main hardware (though the prices could come down). One poster who commented that Apple is twice the price for half the system I agreed with until I figured out the cost of the time I spent in a year cleaning adware, spyware, viruses, ad nauseum off my windows system. Hmmm but I digress... I am not sure that OS-X on x86 platforms would solve much except be a midstep on moving people from Windows to OS X on RISC.
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My Bad... Oompa Loompas are from Warner Brothers and not Disney... confused with the 7 Dwarves in disguise... Maybe Oompa Loompa clones? Dolly the Oompa Loompa? Hmmm :-)
Perhaps it is that my household is about a week away from being 100% Microsoft Free! It is amazing, but for all the press that Windows gets as being superior, my wife's computer (Windows) Is the only one out of the one server, three desktops, three laptops that I have had to do any maintainance on... Otherwise known as four hours wasted out of my life.
Sure I will admit like the original author states that lots of people like Windows, and think it is great, the bee's knees and the best thing since sliced bread. Then again lots of people like smoking even though it is killing them and those who are around them (In Windows case the LAN/WAN). But us Mac users are wasting our breath trying to tell them this, after all, ever try to get a friend to seriously quit smoking?
As far as the whole Bill Gates = Borg rumors? Well as far as I am concerned, both Apple and Microsoft have their respective heads shoved up their rectum so far that air has to be piped in through their navel.
Both companies are manipulative, domineering / controlling and taking away user rights left and right in the name of making an extra buck. Not to mention both are way too much in bed with the RIAA/MPAA for comfort. Of course it winds up that it is both Mac and Windows users who get screwed by this, though Microsoft currently leads in the screwage. But I digress, the bottom line is that both companies have crafted their policies to reduce the rights of users, and maximize profit at the user's expense.
Take for example when Apple released Tiger (OS 10.4 for you Windows users). They placed an artificial stipulation that only systems with Bluetooth could install this beast. This way it would force those holdouts with their modified and improved G3s to buy (guess what) another Mac if they wanted to upgrade. Personally, I think that the whole move to Intel was a mass screw of the G4 - G5 users as they will be obsolete in a few years and will need to buy a new Mac. Anyway, back to Tiger. Well for those of us who decided to do a little modification and re-burning of CDs found out, Tiger will work just fine on Lombard and Wallstreet G3s. Artificial and planned obsolescence is the one of the names of Apple's game. Though maybe now they can just make their products so they will automatically break in 3 years and 2 weeks... that should take them out of Apple's warranty and still keep people coming back.
The mainstay of Apple is their secretiveness, and Gestapo tactics to maintain their clandestine products in development (and the Oompah-Loompahs (Borrowed from Disney) who make them. Can we say "civil and legal rights? never heard of them, unless you are talking about Apple's rights of course." If Apple does not tell you what is coming, or when it is due out, then you cannot plan your purchases and will buy products which can become obsolete in a week reducing our warehouse stock. It is logical in Applethink I guess.
How many people bought their brand new G5s only to find out that Apple has really moved to Intel this time? Anyone want to place a bet which OS X will be for Intel only? My bet is on 10.6, maybe 10.7. Anyone else besides me remember when Macs used to hold their value for years after purchase? Now it seems that Macs are becoming outdated before their warranty runs out. My personal pet is a Macbook Pro, one of the 2GHz Core Duos and before my warranty ran out Apple released the Core 2 Duos with dual layer DVD burning etc... etc... Now I am seeing the resell price for my notebook down about $600.00 (sigh). Now I am going to buy my wife an Intel iMac with DL DVD and all that... of course in a little while they will have 802.11n and faster processors as well as Blue-Ray or HDDVD capabilities but I am going to buy her one anyway.
Ok, off my soapbox for the moment. Lets just say that Mac is a plastic company that is no more about puppies, rainbows, a green Earth, happy families and world peace t
I have heard stories about Intel for years, and have even taken the trouble to test and verify some of them on my own before I got tired of the whole deal and switched to Macs a year ago. Now like a piece of bad fish, the subject has come back up with Steve Jobs announcement of Apple going to Intel. With the predatory behavior of Intel, I have to wonder how much of this was in the way of "Special Deals" by Intel and maybe a little friendly coercion. I admit I am a little biased as I would have loved to see Apple go AMD which IMHO is a much better processor company than Intel.
I think the guy should turn around and look at slapping a suit on Tom Hays and the department.. As a Director of an I.T. department in California (and being originally a Buckeye), the stupidity of making such a comment to the press puts Tom Hayes in a potentially actionable position. I know that if I made such an "unwise" comment after firing someone, my job would be the next one advertised. Ah well, we can hope I guess.
Actually after long thought, I started moving the desktops in my house over to G5 iMacs, and just keeping my servers x86 and Linux. I am not sure if Linux will ever make it in any big way on the desktop (though I hope it will) I just not it is not there now, and I am tired of Windows problems and SP2 was the last straw. I agree with several posters I have seen that one of the reasons that OS X has few problems is that Apple does control the main hardware (though the prices could come down). One poster who commented that Apple is twice the price for half the system I agreed with until I figured out the cost of the time I spent in a year cleaning adware, spyware, viruses, ad nauseum off my windows system. Hmmm but I digress... I am not sure that OS-X on x86 platforms would solve much except be a midstep on moving people from Windows to OS X on RISC.