Uh, you can put the Windows Taskbar on the left, right, top (!!!), or bottom of the screen, AND you can have it hidden except when you bring your cursor to the side of the screen where it is located.
It sounds essentially the same as the 'dock' except- how come the 'dock' can't be placed at the top of the screen? (my understanding is that the 'top of screen' is a sacred area in Apple legacy)
We now are 15 years into the Age of Linux...and Linux *still* has a 'way to go',
Yes, but OSS is a 'convergent' software system. It continuously gets incrementally better. MacOS and Windows, on the other hand, are closed binary systems, developed by teams whose management have a 'rip it out, throw it away, and start all over again' mentality. It's only a matter of time before OSS 'catches up' with whatever big wad of binaries Microsoft and Apple are touting.
I bought some PIC controller chips from somebody in the UK on eBay recently. I think the exchange rate was soemthing like US $1 =.8 Euro.
And what with the new 'Airbus' situation (the economic ruin caused by that 'Brilliant new European Union cooperative venture) I will probably be about to buy a BUNCH of euros pretty cheap in the future.
because when shit hits the fan, I had to maintain it.
Conversely, when a prebuilt machine fails, I don't know as much about the components inside it and can't repair it myself. And the proprietary parts can only be ordered from a single vendor.
I have a 'portable' Sun Workstation. It has a cage where you can install up to six VME cards in it. The front face is a huge LCD display, and the mammoth keyboard hinges down from it.
I am pretty certain that when it was new it cost the government as much as a mid-priced BMW, maybe even more.
Even the first generation IBM Laptop (the PC Convertible, about a generation newer than the 'Portable') was one heck of a lug to carry around. I still have one. It's got a nice 'hard case' to transport it in that makes it about twice the size of a briefcase.
No. The 'popular' meaning of the phrase anti-semite is essentially the only meaning. It's a phrase, not 'anti-' prepended onto semite. There is no historical meaning to the phrase anti-semite the way you are trying to define it.
People will 'go on using it that way' because it's the only way it's ever been used.
As I said, quoting you, 'people trying to sound educated.' It's very *clever* to say 'but arabs are semites, too.'
the imac overnight became a significant market for USB device manufacturers.
I distinctly remember that the 'USB market' you mention helped flesh out the 1/2 aisle of Apple hardware/software at stores like CompUSA. Remarkably, Apple buyers now actually had REAL CHOICES, choices beyond paying 70% more for the same US Robotics external modem. It was an exciting time to be a Mac owner. I guess.
I just used the KVM switch to bip over to the Windows 2000 machine here. I opened explorer by clicking 'My Computer' and it instantly popped up the window showing all the drives, without touching the A: drive at all and with no delay whatsoever.
repurposing the old Ford Taurus plant to make Ferrari's.
The BMW/Ferrari meme has gotten tired and old. Apple's product line is NOT the equivalent of a Ferrari.
Further, if offered the choice of a new Ferrari or a new Taurus, if required to actually use the vehicle for an extended period of time after being given it, most intelligent people would take the Taurus. A Ferrari is a fussy high end piece of equipment that isn't practical if you don't have a bundle of money to budget for maintenance. A Taurus is a good practical vehicle that is useful for the purposes most people acquire vehicles for.
A more proper comparison would be "Mac=Buick and Dell=Chevy." Because everybody (except for Buick drivers) knows that Buick owners who 'cop an attitude' are arrogant pricks, and that there's not a lot of difference between Chevys and Buicks.
Actually, in common usage for over a century 'anti-Semitic' has meant anti-Jewish.
Then some people decided to get clever and dig into the obsolete roots of the term 'semite' to extend the meaning to a meaningless point.
And then people like you, ironically, bought into the scheme and to sound educated or something harp into a discussions parroting the 'arabs are semites, too' revisionism.
It's more complex than that. The thing that BIY customers get that you can't get from Apple is a lower-tiered machine that is still new.
I am one of those people who bought a Pentium 75 MHz processor when the Penitum 133 was the 'standard fare' from the prebuilt-box companies. I got a Pentium III 450 when the Pentium III 800 was the 'standard fare.' Doing this, I traditionally have spent less than half as much as people buying the 'latest leading edge' crap. The 'leading edge' hardware has the much higher margins built in. Apple can only compete in that market segment, since they can only compete with that tier of cloner (i.e. Dell).
So the choice for people who spend the way I traditionally have is to buy a stunted little Mac Mini, or a quite old used Mac that might not even properly supported with the latest Mac OS. My newest Mac at the moment is a Beige G3 Tower. (which is actually a pretty nice Mac for classic MacOS use)
Oh, for reference I'm participating in this discussion on Mozilla Seamonkey, on NetBSD 3.0 (FVWM2 desktop, etc. etc.) on a Dell Optiplex P3-450 machine. That I bought at a school auction for under ten dollars. My 'big' machine is a Sempron 2600 box that I have W2K on for those occasions when play games and run legacy Windoze software I don't have (or that I don't have the time to figure out how to set up) over here on NetBSD.
Somebody needs to do a little research and testing, to determine if iTunes and Quicktime and any other Apple software that they distribute to the PC/Windows market is written with attention paid to the complex Microsoft security model.
An out-of-the-box Windows system can easily be secured by managing the rich and powerful security features. This ends quickly when the typical crappy Win32 app is installed (probably not even just third-party apps. Do all the Microsoft offerings embrace the security model?) and requires the user to be 'Administrator' to run it.
Do Apple's offerings for Windows embrace the security model? Does iTunes force the user to run as Administrator? How about Quicktime? Or is Apple just producing 'regular Windows junk' like those they point fingers at?
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, you can put the Windows Taskbar on the left, right, top (!!!), or bottom of the screen, AND you can have it hidden except when you bring your cursor to the side of the screen where it is located.
It sounds essentially the same as the 'dock' except- how come the 'dock' can't be placed at the top of the screen? (my understanding is that the 'top of screen' is a sacred area in Apple legacy)
btw, the entry level Mac mini doesn't have a DVD burner,
Well, you can buy an external one, and have little boxes and cords strewn all about on your work table.
We now are 15 years into the Age of Linux...and Linux *still* has a 'way to go',
Yes, but OSS is a 'convergent' software system. It continuously gets incrementally better. MacOS and Windows, on the other hand, are closed binary systems, developed by teams whose management have a 'rip it out, throw it away, and start all over again' mentality. It's only a matter of time before OSS 'catches up' with whatever big wad of binaries Microsoft and Apple are touting.
I use FVWM, and sometimes even twm. It lets me get productive use of my old Pentium I and even 486 laptops.
I wouldn't think of running anything BUT twm on the Mac SE/30. Unneeded widgets eat up a lot of that tiny one-bit display.
I bought some PIC controller chips from somebody in the UK on eBay recently. I think the exchange rate was soemthing like US $1 = .8 Euro.
And what with the new 'Airbus' situation (the economic ruin caused by that 'Brilliant new European Union cooperative venture) I will probably be about to buy a BUNCH of euros pretty cheap in the future.
because when shit hits the fan, I had to maintain it.
Conversely, when a prebuilt machine fails, I don't know as much about the components inside it and can't repair it myself. And the proprietary parts can only be ordered from a single vendor.
Indeed. He's comparing his current generation Mac to his old PC.
I can do the same. I can compare my new 3.6 GHz Pentium D machine to my old Quadra 650, or to my SE/30 (which runs useful programs very nicely).
Or I can compare my PowerBook 520c to my IBM PC Convertable.
There are countless anecdotal comparisions that can be made.
[Elect who corporation pays for]
Are Labor Unions now considered corporations?
Nice fantasy world. Can I come visit sometime. Sounds like a fun place to spend a short weekend.
I have a 'portable' Sun Workstation. It has a cage where you can install up to six VME cards in it. The front face is a huge LCD display, and the mammoth keyboard hinges down from it.
I am pretty certain that when it was new it cost the government as much as a mid-priced BMW, maybe even more.
Even the first generation IBM Laptop (the PC Convertible, about a generation newer than the 'Portable') was one heck of a lug to carry around. I still have one. It's got a nice 'hard case' to transport it in that makes it about twice the size of a briefcase.
Naw, you can still use your Web 1.2 cable. Your performance will be degraded, of course.
Because it's likely the Apple phone won't suck like today's phones do?
Explain (in some way that doesn't make you sound like a starry-eyed fan of S. Jobs)
Oh, and don't mention 'BMW' or 'Ferrari' in your explanation. That's getting really, really old.
No. The 'popular' meaning of the phrase anti-semite is essentially the only meaning. It's a phrase, not 'anti-' prepended onto semite. There is no historical meaning to the phrase anti-semite the way you are trying to define it.
People will 'go on using it that way' because it's the only way it's ever been used.
As I said, quoting you, 'people trying to sound educated.' It's very *clever* to say 'but arabs are semites, too.'
Correct. He can also, at his option, pay more to do it on an iPod.
"you're soaking your fingers in it."
the imac overnight became a significant market for USB device manufacturers.
I distinctly remember that the 'USB market' you mention helped flesh out the 1/2 aisle of Apple hardware/software at stores like CompUSA. Remarkably, Apple buyers now actually had REAL CHOICES, choices beyond paying 70% more for the same US Robotics external modem. It was an exciting time to be a Mac owner. I guess.
I just used the KVM switch to bip over to the Windows 2000 machine here. I opened explorer by clicking 'My Computer' and it instantly popped up the window showing all the drives, without touching the A: drive at all and with no delay whatsoever.
What the blazes are you talking about??
repurposing the old Ford Taurus plant to make Ferrari's.
The BMW/Ferrari meme has gotten tired and old. Apple's product line is NOT the equivalent of a Ferrari.
Further, if offered the choice of a new Ferrari or a new Taurus, if required to actually use the vehicle for an extended period of time after being given it, most intelligent people would take the Taurus. A Ferrari is a fussy high end piece of equipment that isn't practical if you don't have a bundle of money to budget for maintenance. A Taurus is a good practical vehicle that is useful for the purposes most people acquire vehicles for.
A more proper comparison would be "Mac=Buick and Dell=Chevy." Because everybody (except for Buick drivers) knows that Buick owners who 'cop an attitude' are arrogant pricks, and that there's not a lot of difference between Chevys and Buicks.
Actually, in common usage for over a century 'anti-Semitic' has meant anti-Jewish.
Then some people decided to get clever and dig into the obsolete roots of the term 'semite' to extend the meaning to a meaningless point.
And then people like you, ironically, bought into the scheme and to sound educated or something harp into a discussions parroting the 'arabs are semites, too' revisionism.
So, uh, dude. . .
It's more complex than that. The thing that BIY customers get that you can't get from Apple is a lower-tiered machine that is still new.
I am one of those people who bought a Pentium 75 MHz processor when the Penitum 133 was the 'standard fare' from the prebuilt-box companies. I got a Pentium III 450 when the Pentium III 800 was the 'standard fare.' Doing this, I traditionally have spent less than half as much as people buying the 'latest leading edge' crap. The 'leading edge' hardware has the much higher margins built in. Apple can only compete in that market segment, since they can only compete with that tier of cloner (i.e. Dell).
So the choice for people who spend the way I traditionally have is to buy a stunted little Mac Mini, or a quite old used Mac that might not even properly supported with the latest Mac OS. My newest Mac at the moment is a Beige G3 Tower. (which is actually a pretty nice Mac for classic MacOS use)
Oh, for reference I'm participating in this discussion on Mozilla Seamonkey, on NetBSD 3.0 (FVWM2 desktop, etc. etc.) on a Dell Optiplex P3-450 machine. That I bought at a school auction for under ten dollars. My 'big' machine is a Sempron 2600 box that I have W2K on for those occasions when play games and run legacy Windoze software I don't have (or that I don't have the time to figure out how to set up) over here on NetBSD.
we'll have to wait for the Boomers to die off before things can start to return to normalcy.
We could accelerate the process by killing all the lawyers.
Ummm, it's Windows, so it's full of holes. You may as well ask "why does 2+2 equal 4?"
As recently as fifteen years ago a similar phrase would have been 'It's UNIX, so it's full of holes....'
UNIX historically was considered a swiss cheese of security problems.
Somebody needs to do a little research and testing, to determine if iTunes and Quicktime and any other Apple software that they distribute to the PC/Windows market is written with attention paid to the complex Microsoft security model.
An out-of-the-box Windows system can easily be secured by managing the rich and powerful security features. This ends quickly when the typical crappy Win32 app is installed (probably not even just third-party apps. Do all the Microsoft offerings embrace the security model?) and requires the user to be 'Administrator' to run it.
Do Apple's offerings for Windows embrace the security model? Does iTunes force the user to run as Administrator? How about Quicktime? Or is Apple just producing 'regular Windows junk' like those they point fingers at?
Yep. Those dirty rotten Standards Organizations. Can't we just declare Quicktime a standard and get rid of all that other junk?