My iBook has crashed once since I purchased it in March 2006. You don't want to know how many times Windows has crashed on me on the many computers I work on. In fact I couldn't tell you. I've lost count.
Windows is great, sure. There's a lot of hardware out there, some users need a particular extension to their computer and chances are Windows can drive it. In my opinion, Macs don't even want to go there. They want to run on what they know they can run on, and run well. Because the operating system is designed around a very specific hardware model, they can increase performance and stability. They can ensure that their OS can run on that hardware smoothly. And because of that, they can support it better.
Windows on the other hand caters for so many different hardware setups. Different motherboard chipsets, different network controllers, different monitors and graphics cards. To ensure it runs on all of those is a massive task. They do it rather well, I think, considering the multitude of permutations.
So, when you buy a Mac, you buy it because you know what it can do, not what it could do if you added something. You buy a Mac based on particular requirements, the same reason you buy anything. Macs are reputable for being an out-of-the-box solution for common computing tasks; emails, word processing, internet surfing, photo sharing etc.
Each time I install XP, I am bombarded with the same questions over and over. It's the typical scenario to get anything to work in Windows. "Next, next, I agree, next, next, next, yes, next, next, reboot." You don't do that with a Mac. Hell, to install Office (or just about any app) on a Mac you drag it from the source/CD into your Applications folder. That makes a fucking shitload of sense. It's what you should do. On Windows, it's the whole "next, next" bullshit.
Here's the conclusion. You don't need to know how to use a computer to use a Mac. Everything is either explained in plain English or implemented so intuitively that it doesn't need an explanation. You can't possibly tell me that it is the same scenario for Windows.
You either ((watch too much Pinky and the Brain) || (Bill's best friend since he was so excellently portrayed)) || ((All of the above) && (have too much time on your hands)).
Do you have any Idea how manny people will try that command. For those who don't understand don't try that command, it will in efect wipe out your command.com on the root of c:
Which is only an issue if you are running Windows 95/98/Me.
I worked in retail once. We sold Office 2003 for $199 NZD. We made about $14 per copy, so we stopped selling software. The computer industry in general never gave retailers much in terms of margins. Laptops etc. would make sometimes less than half of what other products would at the same selling price.
Still . . . if you don't stock it, that's $14 in someone else's till. Well at least that's what my boss always used to say. I told him it's not worth the time and effort for $14. Software and IT weren't really our clientele anyway.
[Insert a story that goes on and on about a guy who works in a retail store here.]
So the moral is . . . if you work in retail (or in my case, an independent retailer belonging to an appliance group), then don't stock software. Bananas, bonsai trees, and corrugated iron sheets also don't seem to belong in retail, but I found that out the hard way.
No, you're missing the point now. Consumers and companies regardless, I said that it would be better to start again and provide a suitable virtual machine so that customers could get all the benefits of the brand new operating system while still being able to run their 10 year old retail management apps (or whatever).
This is what Apple has done. I've heard that some apps don't run under Apple's VM but those very few customers were simply forced to buy something more recent, or simply use older versions of Mac OS.
It's even a lot easier on PC because you can dual boot (well, you can now too with the latest Macs). You can dual boot your way until you no longer need that particular app, and that's only if that app won't run on the VM in the first place.
Instead, Microsoft chose to simply take what they had and tried to expand on it. Just like they've always done. They had 5 years and thousands (?) of developers. If I had that sort of manpower and time I'd definitely come up with something better than Vista.
Microsoft seem to think that that's all consumers want . . . more features without losing the ones they already have. Look where that's taken them to; a bloated, expensive, delayed operating system that has lost all hype. If they'd gone the way of Apple and started again, instead promising features they could actually deliver, features that are demanded nowadays and not both nowadays and thenadays, they might actually have a product worth buying. Why is there still 16-bit API functions in a 32-bit or even 64-bit OS? If those people want to live in the past with their 16-bit apps, let them use a 16-bit OS as well. How old is 16-bit now? Ancient. Get with the times. Backwards compatibility is great but guess what? Nobody is going to buy a NZD$1000+ OS just to run their 16-bit apps on. The wheel is good enough, you can't make it better simply by decorating it. Make something else for a change.
It's the fact that the backwards compatibility is still there. C:\PROGRA~1 etc is fucking ugly and confusing for the new user. They stole long file names from other OSs but implemented it poorly. They need to take the same route as OSX. Start from scratch (sort of) and forget backwards compatibility for once. Allow good implementation of a virtual machine for that sort of crap. You can't get rid of the burdens from your old OS if you allow backwards compatibilty. 8.3 filenames are just one of the burdens.
Some Windows API functions having two versions, 16-bit and 32-bit versions, purely for compatibility.
Windows API having two functions for the same string-based task, one for ASCII and one for UTF-16 (e.g. GetOpenFileNameA and GetOpenFileNameW). Now that they've done it this way, it will be very troublesome to support the industry standard UTF-8 and drop the deprecated UTF-16, as all strings passed to the UTF-16 version must be 16-bits per character.
Really? That sounds like a warranty to me, which they are obligated to provide anyway. What they are doing now seems more like selling a product that they know nothing about . . . unless you pay them more money. Support and warranty are two different things. Warranty ensures that the product works. Support ensures the user can use it.
I think you mean PATA or SATA. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics and simply means that the controller for the hard drive is on-board, and requires a suitable host. PATA and SATA are simply two different for the host to communicate with an IDE drive.
We are used to equating IDE and PATA because PATA was the only widespread method of connection between the host and the drive. So while we all understand what you imply by saying "IDE or SATA", it is more correct to say "PATA or SATA". In fact the term PATA was coined only after the invention of SATA.
Damn straight! I would think of it as buying an 802.11n wireless card for NZD$7.22. Considering the cheapest a/b/g card I can find is NZD$21.04, that's a bargain.
Yes it is. If you bought the hardware you paid for everything. There are no 'free parts' - all the components are part of a whole. The fact that something isn't enabled is completely irrelevant - you were charged for it and paid for it.
Not necessarily. Imagine if there were license costs involved. Apple didn't want to add that to the cost of the Mac as this would decrease revenue and not everyone would use it. If you don't want to use it, you don't pay the licensing fee. So in a sense, you weren't charged for it.
Think of it like an XBox Live subscription. All XBoxes have the ability/capability to use the Live service, but you need to pay a fee to use it. It's not included in the price you pay (excluding any bundled deals) because not everyone will use it.
The same example could be said about many things. You commonly buy a collective of objects, but don't always use them all.
...but the 7-11's in Japan don't sell Slurpees. I mean, one could hardly call a 7-11 "7-11," if they ain't got no Slurpees!
But they don't call themselves "seven eleven", it's sebun erebun. No kidding. In katakana (UTF-8, here we go), it's . I'm not sure if they sell suraapii (Slurpee) though.
That's so cool. But you left out the real problem:
How to get Windows to run long enough to view a web site?
You have to download it and save it locally while still running *nix, burn it to a CD with mkisofs -R -J . ..| cdrecord, then rm -Rf/ then install Windows (might have to wait overnight for it to finish). Once installed, disable all network adaptors, physically remove any CAT 5/6 cables just in case, then boot into Safe Mode, and view it from the CD. You should have about 4 minutes before you get the W32.Blaster worm.
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My iBook has crashed once since I purchased it in March 2006. You don't want to know how many times Windows has crashed on me on the many computers I work on. In fact I couldn't tell you. I've lost count.
Windows is great, sure. There's a lot of hardware out there, some users need a particular extension to their computer and chances are Windows can drive it. In my opinion, Macs don't even want to go there. They want to run on what they know they can run on, and run well. Because the operating system is designed around a very specific hardware model, they can increase performance and stability. They can ensure that their OS can run on that hardware smoothly. And because of that, they can support it better.
Windows on the other hand caters for so many different hardware setups. Different motherboard chipsets, different network controllers, different monitors and graphics cards. To ensure it runs on all of those is a massive task. They do it rather well, I think, considering the multitude of permutations.
So, when you buy a Mac, you buy it because you know what it can do, not what it could do if you added something. You buy a Mac based on particular requirements, the same reason you buy anything. Macs are reputable for being an out-of-the-box solution for common computing tasks; emails, word processing, internet surfing, photo sharing etc.
Each time I install XP, I am bombarded with the same questions over and over. It's the typical scenario to get anything to work in Windows. "Next, next, I agree, next, next, next, yes, next, next, reboot." You don't do that with a Mac. Hell, to install Office (or just about any app) on a Mac you drag it from the source/CD into your Applications folder. That makes a fucking shitload of sense. It's what you should do. On Windows, it's the whole "next, next" bullshit.
Here's the conclusion. You don't need to know how to use a computer to use a Mac. Everything is either explained in plain English or implemented so intuitively that it doesn't need an explanation. You can't possibly tell me that it is the same scenario for Windows.
Neither, it's the cost of making profit.
Windows Vista Home Graph Edition? Or Windows Vista Maths Centre Edition? Just keep in mind that only Maths Centre comes with Aero.
You either ((watch too much Pinky and the Brain) || (Bill's best friend since he was so excellently portrayed)) || ((All of the above) && (have too much time on your hands)).
Really? I found this in one of the leaked Microsoft emails:
Mr Ballmer's To Do List
I heard that all of the programmers suffered head injuries from having chairs thrown at them.
Dammit, if only I had mod points!
I worked in retail once. We sold Office 2003 for $199 NZD. We made about $14 per copy, so we stopped selling software. The computer industry in general never gave retailers much in terms of margins. Laptops etc. would make sometimes less than half of what other products would at the same selling price.
Still . . . if you don't stock it, that's $14 in someone else's till. Well at least that's what my boss always used to say. I told him it's not worth the time and effort for $14. Software and IT weren't really our clientele anyway.
[Insert a story that goes on and on about a guy who works in a retail store here.]
So the moral is . . . if you work in retail (or in my case, an independent retailer belonging to an appliance group), then don't stock software. Bananas, bonsai trees, and corrugated iron sheets also don't seem to belong in retail, but I found that out the hard way.
Be careful what you say, you don't want a chair thrown at you.
No, you're missing the point now. Consumers and companies regardless, I said that it would be better to start again and provide a suitable virtual machine so that customers could get all the benefits of the brand new operating system while still being able to run their 10 year old retail management apps (or whatever).
This is what Apple has done. I've heard that some apps don't run under Apple's VM but those very few customers were simply forced to buy something more recent, or simply use older versions of Mac OS.
It's even a lot easier on PC because you can dual boot (well, you can now too with the latest Macs). You can dual boot your way until you no longer need that particular app, and that's only if that app won't run on the VM in the first place.
Instead, Microsoft chose to simply take what they had and tried to expand on it. Just like they've always done. They had 5 years and thousands (?) of developers. If I had that sort of manpower and time I'd definitely come up with something better than Vista.
Microsoft seem to think that that's all consumers want . . . more features without losing the ones they already have. Look where that's taken them to; a bloated, expensive, delayed operating system that has lost all hype. If they'd gone the way of Apple and started again, instead promising features they could actually deliver, features that are demanded nowadays and not both nowadays and thenadays, they might actually have a product worth buying. Why is there still 16-bit API functions in a 32-bit or even 64-bit OS? If those people want to live in the past with their 16-bit apps, let them use a 16-bit OS as well. How old is 16-bit now? Ancient. Get with the times. Backwards compatibility is great but guess what? Nobody is going to buy a NZD$1000+ OS just to run their 16-bit apps on. The wheel is good enough, you can't make it better simply by decorating it. Make something else for a change.
It's the fact that the backwards compatibility is still there. C:\PROGRA~1 etc is fucking ugly and confusing for the new user. They stole long file names from other OSs but implemented it poorly. They need to take the same route as OSX. Start from scratch (sort of) and forget backwards compatibility for once. Allow good implementation of a virtual machine for that sort of crap. You can't get rid of the burdens from your old OS if you allow backwards compatibilty. 8.3 filenames are just one of the burdens.
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Or any polar molecule for that matter.
How do you pronounce the 1 in your name?
That sounds like support to me.
Really? That sounds like a warranty to me, which they are obligated to provide anyway. What they are doing now seems more like selling a product that they know nothing about . . . unless you pay them more money. Support and warranty are two different things. Warranty ensures that the product works. Support ensures the user can use it.
That reminds me a lot of when I tried to install StuffIt on OS 7. It was inside a StuffIt archive. And no, it wasn't self-extracting.
I think you mean PATA or SATA. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics and simply means that the controller for the hard drive is on-board, and requires a suitable host. PATA and SATA are simply two different for the host to communicate with an IDE drive.
We are used to equating IDE and PATA because PATA was the only widespread method of connection between the host and the drive. So while we all understand what you imply by saying "IDE or SATA", it is more correct to say "PATA or SATA". In fact the term PATA was coined only after the invention of SATA.
Damn straight! I would think of it as buying an 802.11n wireless card for NZD$7.22. Considering the cheapest a/b/g card I can find is NZD$21.04, that's a bargain.
Not necessarily. Imagine if there were license costs involved. Apple didn't want to add that to the cost of the Mac as this would decrease revenue and not everyone would use it. If you don't want to use it, you don't pay the licensing fee. So in a sense, you weren't charged for it.
Think of it like an XBox Live subscription. All XBoxes have the ability/capability to use the Live service, but you need to pay a fee to use it. It's not included in the price you pay (excluding any bundled deals) because not everyone will use it.
The same example could be said about many things. You commonly buy a collective of objects, but don't always use them all.
Why make trillions when you could make . . . billions?
But they don't call themselves "seven eleven", it's sebun erebun. No kidding. In katakana (UTF-8, here we go), it's . I'm not sure if they sell suraapii (Slurpee) though.
You have to download it and save it locally while still running *nix, burn it to a CD with mkisofs -R -J . . .| cdrecord, then rm -Rf / then install Windows (might have to wait overnight for it to finish). Once installed, disable all network adaptors, physically remove any CAT 5/6 cables just in case, then boot into Safe Mode, and view it from the CD. You should have about 4 minutes before you get the W32.Blaster worm.