And if I may second you again (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210972& cid=17188244/), it's all well and good to want to "Think Different", but at some point you're going to have to link back into the dominant platform, especially as a professional. VBA allowed you to do that, relatively cheaply, on a Mac in exchange of purchasing just one licence from Microsoft (for MS-Office). Now you're going to have to purchase two (Windows, Office for Windows) or three (if you still want the VBA-less Office for Mac) plus a virtualization solution such as Parallels. For that price, it may be cheaper just to get a Windows machine sold with a special deal on MS-Office. The good thing about VBA for Mac was that you could integrate with the IT-people at your firm every knowing that you were on an alternative platform - for which they are deaf anyway.
"... professionals who insist on using Macs off the platform." This is what I wanted to get at with my post: As a translator, I use Windows at a large firm in conjunction with the translation memory tool TRADOS. TRADOS only runs on Windows. At home I use a Mac. The only TRADOS-compatible translation memory software is Wordfast http://www.wordfast.net/), which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac as a VBA application. As a Mac user, I make the best of the Windows/Word dominance through the VBA integration of Wordfast. This compatibility, this way of hooking onto the dominant platform is now closed with the abandonment of VBA for Mac. This in effect forces me back into the Windows/Word fold via a licence for Windows and a licence for Word for Windows in conjunction with Parallels Workstation. Microsoft now has got people like me back on Windows - on my Mac! People who praise virtualization solutions such as Parallels have to realize that - in instances such as these at least - this gets us back to where Microsoft wants us.
at least do it right:
1. Learn Latin so you understand the grammatical structure and meaning of the expression "exempli grata".
2. Learn how to spell: "i.e.", "e.g.". Without the abbreviating periods, the sequences of letters "ie", "eg" don't mean anything in English. "Latin" should be capitalized in English.
The iPod - and the Walkman before it - in many ways replaced the boombox. No longer would travelers or commuters force their own choice of music on others. Exit audio pollution, hello visual pollution!
Although I don't have detailed information and haven't seen one of these, I believe that an "iPod connector" in cars means an interface integration, i.e. a dock for the iPod and a way to display and operate the iPod's interface via the audio system's interface. Simply plugging in the 1/8" stereo jack, wouldn't allow you to control the iPod from the host device.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/21bmw.htm l
Due to their space-saving and stylish design, these machines make nice communications terminals (or music servers) that can be placed unobtrusively anywhere in the house. So after 3 to 5 years - or whenever you judge your machine to be 'obsolete' - just give it to your parents or grandparents and get them into multi-party iChat video-conferencing with the family. It's working for me!
Offering someone protection for a fee when you're part of the danger to that person means that you're running a protection racket. For a fee, MS offers to close the holes which it leaves in its operating system. I think that you see this kind of scheme at work all over the computer industry. The pushing of upgrades of software and hardware as a fix against problems is of a similar nature.
Before everyone gets too excited, perhaps this claim can be read to refer to 'non-technical knowledge'. Being in the minority, even average - i.e. 'non-technical' - Mac users at least tend to know about alternatives. That is to say, they tend to know something about the 'other' operating platform, for either they are switchers or they use Windows at work or they were strongly advised not to buy a Mac by Windows users who claim that there are no programs for the Mac, that Macs are slow, that they suck etc. Moreover, I would venture to guess that Mac users tend to know what a web browser is, i.e. that there are alternative browsers such as Safari, Firefox, Explorer, Camino etc. In my experience, many Windows users at the same 'non-technical' level of expertise don't even know what a browser is even though they use it every day. This is because IE is so tightly integrated into Windows (desktop icon, can't be uninstalled) that many users simply equate the internet with IE, just as AOL users used to equate the internet with what was offered by their service provider. Mac users, I would say, generally don't have this non-reflective sense of 'givenness'.
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Well translators use it. See my above post http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210972&c id=17188244/. For users of the Wordfast http://www.wordfast.net/ translation memory package, VBA is not a "one off" application.
And if I may second you again (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210972& cid=17188244/), it's all well and good to want to "Think Different", but at some point you're going to have to link back into the dominant platform, especially as a professional. VBA allowed you to do that, relatively cheaply, on a Mac in exchange of purchasing just one licence from Microsoft (for MS-Office). Now you're going to have to purchase two (Windows, Office for Windows) or three (if you still want the VBA-less Office for Mac) plus a virtualization solution such as Parallels. For that price, it may be cheaper just to get a Windows machine sold with a special deal on MS-Office. The good thing about VBA for Mac was that you could integrate with the IT-people at your firm every knowing that you were on an alternative platform - for which they are deaf anyway.
"... professionals who insist on using Macs off the platform." This is what I wanted to get at with my post: As a translator, I use Windows at a large firm in conjunction with the translation memory tool TRADOS. TRADOS only runs on Windows. At home I use a Mac. The only TRADOS-compatible translation memory software is Wordfast http://www.wordfast.net/), which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac as a VBA application. As a Mac user, I make the best of the Windows/Word dominance through the VBA integration of Wordfast. This compatibility, this way of hooking onto the dominant platform is now closed with the abandonment of VBA for Mac. This in effect forces me back into the Windows/Word fold via a licence for Windows and a licence for Word for Windows in conjunction with Parallels Workstation. Microsoft now has got people like me back on Windows - on my Mac! People who praise virtualization solutions such as Parallels have to realize that - in instances such as these at least - this gets us back to where Microsoft wants us.
at least do it right: 1. Learn Latin so you understand the grammatical structure and meaning of the expression "exempli grata". 2. Learn how to spell: "i.e.", "e.g.". Without the abbreviating periods, the sequences of letters "ie", "eg" don't mean anything in English. "Latin" should be capitalized in English.
The iPod - and the Walkman before it - in many ways replaced the boombox. No longer would travelers or commuters force their own choice of music on others. Exit audio pollution, hello visual pollution!
Although I don't have detailed information and haven't seen one of these, I believe that an "iPod connector" in cars means an interface integration, i.e. a dock for the iPod and a way to display and operate the iPod's interface via the audio system's interface. Simply plugging in the 1/8" stereo jack, wouldn't allow you to control the iPod from the host device. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/21bmw.htm l
Due to their space-saving and stylish design, these machines make nice communications terminals (or music servers) that can be placed unobtrusively anywhere in the house. So after 3 to 5 years - or whenever you judge your machine to be 'obsolete' - just give it to your parents or grandparents and get them into multi-party iChat video-conferencing with the family. It's working for me!
Offering someone protection for a fee when you're part of the danger to that person means that you're running a protection racket. For a fee, MS offers to close the holes which it leaves in its operating system. I think that you see this kind of scheme at work all over the computer industry. The pushing of upgrades of software and hardware as a fix against problems is of a similar nature.
Before everyone gets too excited, perhaps this claim can be read to refer to 'non-technical knowledge'. Being in the minority, even average - i.e. 'non-technical' - Mac users at least tend to know about alternatives. That is to say, they tend to know something about the 'other' operating platform, for either they are switchers or they use Windows at work or they were strongly advised not to buy a Mac by Windows users who claim that there are no programs for the Mac, that Macs are slow, that they suck etc. Moreover, I would venture to guess that Mac users tend to know what a web browser is, i.e. that there are alternative browsers such as Safari, Firefox, Explorer, Camino etc. In my experience, many Windows users at the same 'non-technical' level of expertise don't even know what a browser is even though they use it every day. This is because IE is so tightly integrated into Windows (desktop icon, can't be uninstalled) that many users simply equate the internet with IE, just as AOL users used to equate the internet with what was offered by their service provider. Mac users, I would say, generally don't have this non-reflective sense of 'givenness'.