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July 11 = End of the road for Windows 98, 98SE, and ME
And that 3-5% makes Apple one of the largest computer vendors in the world, they are ranked 8th in size of all...
July 11 = End of the road for Windows 98, 98SE, and ME
Boy, I think you're way, way off track here. From many perspectives, Microsoft should have dumped every...
July 11 = End of the road for Windows 98, 98SE, and ME
After being smacked around silly in other threads, Snit tries to hijack other threads to push his agenda by...
ANyone still using OS 9 Does TIGER X.4 have CLbuttIC 377
Can you point to a reference? Going by the "forced obsolesence" of recent Mac OS X releases, there has been at least a four year window back to the point at which...
ANyone still using OS 9 Does TIGER X.4 have CLbuttIC 378
Yes. Absolutely! I've got my system as close to problem-free working order as I probably ever will. I've come to accept the very few problems I still experience with it...
ANyone still using OS 9 Does TIGER X.4 have CLbuttIC
My recollection is that early Mac models with built-in USB can't boot from it at all. This feature was added...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 380
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE You seem quite limited in awareness. War was declared on us, explicitly. Holy war. Infatadah, rest to the Infidel. The authors of 9-11 declared the action an act...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 381
Intafadah is not Jihad, learn the difference. Only nation state can declare war. Religious criminals in the caves of Afghanistan are not a nation state. Even the Taliban government of...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 382
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:45:57 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 383
Stop right there. WHERE are these documents? WHERE ARE THESE WEAPONS? WHY HAVE THE PUBLIC NOT BEEN MADE PRIVY TO THESE...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 384
Deuteros Al Qaeda did a little more than just declare war. Do you have any idea who those "innocent civilians" in the house with Zarqawi were? The first clue that they weren't...
Fox Proposes Office of Censorship 385
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Deuteros wrote on 04 Jul 2006 19:53:52 GMT An interesting conundrum. Saddam is now in...
M$ gets sued over WGA
from a yahoo group posting: The WGA controversy took a new turn, as a Windows user filed...
Gore Fest 387
Well, I'm afraid this writer is correct. Whether GW is a real man-made phenomenon or is merely part of...
Gore Fest 388
Not many would argue that global warming is NOT occurring. What is very much in debate is WHAT is causing it...
Gore Fest 389
I haven't "jumped" anywhere. First of all I've never denied that we are undergoing a climate change an that the world is warming up. What I do question is the data that...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog
I am a former Linux user who was conned into buying a MacBook with claims that it was...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 391
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:37:36 +0000 (UTC), bill "Apple Technical support; may I help you?" "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with my Mac." "What sort of trouble?" "Well, I was...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 392
That's really funny. "Maximize its profit". Adding optional Apple memory INCREASES Apple's profit, not LOWERS it. Having already installed Vista on my Intel iMac, I can attest to the fact...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 393
bill Here, Finder uses 30 MB for 3 users, according to Top. OS X is snappy even on my...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 394
bill Have you ever read the article: It's points are in agreement with my experience running Linux for many years. The author concludes...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 395
It *is* pretty amazing how fast those quotes - if they were really ever uttered by anyone - go out of date! At the time of the supposed...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 396
I was half-ways serious. Nope, and I never will. But to get back to the similarities: "Another criticism is a claim by some that Windows Vista emulates specific features in Apple Computer's...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 397
Memory management or no memory management, the undeniable fact is that the Mac is s-l-o-w. Waiting 3-5 seconds per mouse click *at least*, with such few applications running, is...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 398
Do you really, honestly believe that all Mac users are somehow in on a conspiracy to keep "3-5 seconds per mouse click" a secret? Do you honestly think anyone would just...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 399
I don't "hate Linux". I think its the best solution there is for a server OS. OTOH, it IS fairly useless as a SERIOUS desktop OS. I have...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 400
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:55:17 +0000, George Graves Have you actually tried it? Well...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 401
I use GIMP on X11 daily, and I've never had a Microsoft Office file that NeoOfficeJ couldn't cope with. But if these apps aren't good enough for you then fine, use...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 402
understand what they see in a system with such limited support. I mean, the whole idea of a computer platform is to...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 403
You only need one GOOD one. Unfortunately, none I've ever tried is pro quality. I can't, for instance, use Scribus as a replacement for either InDesign or Quark. Heck, its not as comprehensive as...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 404
Open Office or StarOffice is good IMO. In fact, I've started documents on my Windows box here at work, found Word really annoying, and moved over to my Linux box...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 405
Fine. But what it means is that there are likely lots of jobs that Linux...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 406
You seemed to be saying Linux on the desktop isn't good at all. I was countering that statement. There...
The Big Mac Hoax. aka OS X is a dog 407
I disagree. I cannot imagine anything more boring than reading these guys going on-and-on about how great they think Windows is. I use Windows every day and I, as well as quite...
Question for Steve Carroll
Thanks for the example for the Objective Troll Criteria. It's being automatically appended as a link with this reply. Snit Objective Troll Criteria Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Obfuscation 2 X Antagonizing threads 3...
Widget Debate: Final update
the facts are that a guy named Macslut posed the following: "How many brain cells does it take to be able to remove a widget from its folder and relaunch...
Dreamweaver Debate 410
Hahahahah and what method will Snit employ to do that? Usually Snit can be seen taking what someone has *actually* stated as their opinion and applying the Snit 'magic dust' to it and then...
Dreamweaver Debate 411
Thanks for the example of why you're a troll. Snit Objective Troll Criteria Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Obfuscation 2 X Antagonizing threads 3 Ignoring evidence...
Dreamweaver Debate 412
So what! Sandman was only concerned with web design PS was your strawman! Logic dictates that had Sandman noticed that you had dishonestly attributed a word to him that he did not use...
Dreamweaver Debate 413
You have shown countless times that for your argument to work one has to believe that...
Dreamweaver Debate 414
I disagree with that because I tend to pee off the kind of web site designer who thinks he's working with a piece of paper one specific size. I tend to make my...
Dreamweaver Debate 415
Hmm. I tend to deliver mostly fixed-width web pages for clients. I'd prefer not to, honestly, but the issue is, IE...
Dreamweaver Debate 416
But unlike you it is not a one trick pony! are you in any doubt that an app can be an image editing program...
Dreamweaver Debate 417
It can't handle complex applications. BBEdit can, since it doesn't try to visually represent things it has no chance of ever visually representing. DW does. This is why: That's...
France surrenders again . . . this time to Apple 418
But it sure is fun. Hell, we Americans aren't the only ones who do it. Jeremy Clarkson of "Top Gear...
France surrenders again . . . this time to Apple 419
It might have been if it was friendly, like the mutual British French bashing, or the mutual Norwegian Swede bashing. But this is beyond that. The French-bashing of the neo-cons is closer to...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 420
C Lund Yet an arsehole like you has the gall to constantly demand documentation from me and others...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 421
Sorry, but that is precisely the same kind of shallow non-analysis as you've just performed. It doesn't actually state the language of Apple and Apple Corp's...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 422
Well, I have put a bit of money into it... I did that back when...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 423
snip) In your opinion. And that's makes you less a Wintroll how? As to back peddling, you'd better get a move on cuz there's a step missing here. You're supposed to show all...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 424
Because to the extent that Macs and OS X are even on the radar screens of most of the computer using public (i.e., very little), Linux is nowhere to...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 425
Alan Baker Not by any information the movie watching public is aware of. Now you're back to lying again. The "proof" you first presented was want ads from Pixar, not a resume, and when...
Security firm suggests Windows users switch to Macs 426
Sandman You knew the answer from the start, but pretended you didn't. Yet you have the gall to deny being willfully stupid. Sure, why not? It's not your money. Is...
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