"For years I tried to determine how fast Macs really were, and all I could find were Photoshop benchmarks... a program which I have never used."
Most Windows software is nothing a Mac user would want to use, either. Application development on Windows is aimed at the fratboy demographic, more or less, and Macs have never been for fratboys. Software for artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, and other creative types has always been written first for Macs; much of the best is still Mac-only. It's just a fact of life.
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I agree with you about Hillary. Honestly, I think the Democrats' biggest problem is an empty message, as much as I hate to admit it, that seems based on opposition alone. And there's slim pickings for a decent candidate. Hillary's an animated skeleton. (Schumer's even worse, the noxious gasbag.) Feingold's cool, but what I'm really hoping is that Al Gore steps in and sweeps the nomination and rides a tidal wave to victory, righting (lefting) wrongs, paving the way for a Spitzer victory in 2016. A Gore/Bloomberg ticket would suit me fine. Is that too much to hope for?:-)
In college, I took a course called Gandhi's India, about--what else?--the life of Gandhi, and Gandhi's contributions to modern India. Come the day of the midterm, the class swelled to twice its usual size; most of the new faces spelled his name "Ghandi" in their essays. My professor didn't look too kindly on these idiots. Damn if she didn't look good otherwise.
"And people have been sent back, even if they'll be killed by their family for converting to Christianity (danish link, sorry)"
Isn't Denmark especially anti-immigrant/xenophobic, even by Western European standards? It's hard to imagine the same thing happening in Britain, for example.
Not to get into a pissing match, but that sounds like a combination of OpenDoc and the "Stationery Pad" feature that's been part of the Mac OS since the days of System 7. In fact, with OpenDoc, you'd use stationery to create a new document.
Good for you. Many Mac applications, likewise, have no PC equivalents, or were Mac-only to begin with and remain best on the Mac. SubEthaEdit. Final Cut Pro. Salling Clicker. Aperture. Keynote. iTunes. Quicksilver. Adobe Creative Suite (with Colorsync). Shake. Logic Pro. Even Microsoft Office, after all these years, is still far superior on the Mac.
But if you're a pencil-pusher type, then I'm happy you've found a solution that works for you: a home in staid mediocrity. Different platforms for different people.
You miss the crucial point that fratboys and sorority girls, as a whole, care not a whit for aesthetics. The 20 year old state college student with an Xbox and a beer belly? Poster on the wall celebrating the virtues of marijuana? I guarantee you that's a PC user. That's just a fact.
Mac users are more into heroin and cocaine than weed, and we partake on the sly. That's the difference. It's really no big deal.
If you really can't find a Mac equivalent or a more Mac-like way of doing what you're accustomed to on Windows, Q is a Cocoa port of QEMU, and apparently it works fairly well. YMMV.
Software written for Windows isn't usually anything a Mac user would want to use, anyway. Windows software is software aimed at the fratboy demographic, essentially, and Macs have never been for fratboys. The best applications in arts, design, music, and other creative pursuits always come out for Macs first, and Windows later, if ever.
Your problem is you think like a PC user. It's probably not your fault, but with an outlook on life crippled by poor taste, you really shouldn't bother trying to use a Mac.
Reliable, rugged, inexpensive... aren't you describing a mobile phone?:-)
If you're a farmer in Sudan who doesn't need, want, or have electricity at home, you'll still make a trip to the nearest town every week to sell your produce, to get news, etc.--and while you're there, you can recharge your phone. This is exactly what happens in the countryside throughout the region. And hand-cranked chargers do exist (if overpriced for first-world consumption).
In Bangladesh a couple years ago, rural villagers used to buy phones on credit, then recoup the costs by sharing them among the rest of the village. Handsets nowadays cost around $20-25, which makes them even more accessible.
Microsoft is fundamentally insecure; they have this pressing need to prove they're better. (Of course, they think bigger is better.) It's borderline pathological.
Most people in economically underdeveloped Africa aren't completely bereft of access to an electrical grid, only a reliable grid. A phone that you only have to recharge every week or two, like most handsets in the African countryside, poses absolutely no problem in convenience compared to a laptop you'd have to crank manually in a blackout lasting more than a few hours.
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To be fair, Firefox on any platform is "a bit slow," if you get my drift.
"For years I tried to determine how fast Macs really were, and all I could find were Photoshop benchmarks... a program which I have never used."
Most Windows software is nothing a Mac user would want to use, either. Application development on Windows is aimed at the fratboy demographic, more or less, and Macs have never been for fratboys. Software for artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, and other creative types has always been written first for Macs; much of the best is still Mac-only. It's just a fact of life.
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I agree with you about Hillary. Honestly, I think the Democrats' biggest problem is an empty message, as much as I hate to admit it, that seems based on opposition alone. And there's slim pickings for a decent candidate. Hillary's an animated skeleton. (Schumer's even worse, the noxious gasbag.) Feingold's cool, but what I'm really hoping is that Al Gore steps in and sweeps the nomination and rides a tidal wave to victory, righting (lefting) wrongs, paving the way for a Spitzer victory in 2016. A Gore/Bloomberg ticket would suit me fine. Is that too much to hope for?
Gandhi. G-A-N-D-H-I.
In college, I took a course called Gandhi's India, about--what else?--the life of Gandhi, and Gandhi's contributions to modern India. Come the day of the midterm, the class swelled to twice its usual size; most of the new faces spelled his name "Ghandi" in their essays. My professor didn't look too kindly on these idiots. Damn if she didn't look good otherwise.
"And people have been sent back, even if they'll be killed by their family for converting to Christianity (danish link, sorry)"
Isn't Denmark especially anti-immigrant/xenophobic, even by Western European standards? It's hard to imagine the same thing happening in Britain, for example.
Not to get into a pissing match, but that sounds like a combination of OpenDoc and the "Stationery Pad" feature that's been part of the Mac OS since the days of System 7. In fact, with OpenDoc, you'd use stationery to create a new document.
Good for you. Many Mac applications, likewise, have no PC equivalents, or were Mac-only to begin with and remain best on the Mac. SubEthaEdit. Final Cut Pro. Salling Clicker. Aperture. Keynote. iTunes. Quicksilver. Adobe Creative Suite (with Colorsync). Shake. Logic Pro. Even Microsoft Office, after all these years, is still far superior on the Mac.
But if you're a pencil-pusher type, then I'm happy you've found a solution that works for you: a home in staid mediocrity. Different platforms for different people.
You miss the crucial point that fratboys and sorority girls, as a whole, care not a whit for aesthetics. The 20 year old state college student with an Xbox and a beer belly? Poster on the wall celebrating the virtues of marijuana? I guarantee you that's a PC user. That's just a fact.
Mac users are more into heroin and cocaine than weed, and we partake on the sly. That's the difference. It's really no big deal.
If you really can't find a Mac equivalent or a more Mac-like way of doing what you're accustomed to on Windows, Q is a Cocoa port of QEMU, and apparently it works fairly well. YMMV.
Software written for Windows isn't usually anything a Mac user would want to use, anyway. Windows software is software aimed at the fratboy demographic, essentially, and Macs have never been for fratboys. The best applications in arts, design, music, and other creative pursuits always come out for Macs first, and Windows later, if ever.
Why would you want to run Windows on a Mac?
Answer: Some people just have no taste.
Your problem is you think like a PC user. It's probably not your fault, but with an outlook on life crippled by poor taste, you really shouldn't bother trying to use a Mac.
Vista is looking more and more like a ripoff of Apple's own pioneering death march towards a complete OS rewrite of its own. Ten years later, natch.
Ahh, Microsoft. Have they no shame at all?
Reliable, rugged, inexpensive... aren't you describing a mobile phone? :-)
If you're a farmer in Sudan who doesn't need, want, or have electricity at home, you'll still make a trip to the nearest town every week to sell your produce, to get news, etc.--and while you're there, you can recharge your phone. This is exactly what happens in the countryside throughout the region. And hand-cranked chargers do exist (if overpriced for first-world consumption).
In Bangladesh a couple years ago, rural villagers used to buy phones on credit, then recoup the costs by sharing them among the rest of the village. Handsets nowadays cost around $20-25, which makes them even more accessible.
Microsoft is fundamentally insecure; they have this pressing need to prove they're better. (Of course, they think bigger is better.) It's borderline pathological.
Most people in economically underdeveloped Africa aren't completely bereft of access to an electrical grid, only a reliable grid. A phone that you only have to recharge every week or two, like most handsets in the African countryside, poses absolutely no problem in convenience compared to a laptop you'd have to crank manually in a blackout lasting more than a few hours.
Yours doesn't, mine doesn't, but phones marketed to rural sub-Saharan Africans do last two weeks, and more, on a single charge.