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VISTA is nice! 1613
Um. What? This is just incredibly wrong. The major Windows rewrite (re-implementing a big chunk of the system on top of .NET and replacing the UI...
VISTA is nice! 1614
No matter WHAT you want to call Vista, it's HERE NOW. Microsoft announced the PUBLIC availablility of Vista Beta 2 to the general...
VISTA is nice! 1615
It is standard in the industry to call a product finished, complete, or available ONLY AFTER it goes...
VISTA is nice! 1616
Nor am I attempting to prove anyone's superiority. I am only trying to show that Vista IS available to the General Public NOW. IN addition, Microsoft betas, since Beta...
VISTA is nice! 1617
Close -- Vista Public Preview is available. Since it isn't complete and isn't finished in important ways (according to Microsoft) YOU have to buttume this is NOT what the product will be when released...
VISTA is nice! 1618
And even afterward, since neither OS X nor Windows are certainly not "bug-free" after being Released to Manufacturing. You're use of...
VISTA is nice! 1619
Yeah, I know what you mean -- it wasn't even and unemotional logic that wrote that. It was a response to all the stuff I...
VISTA is nice! 1620
Oh, come on, Znu. You know better than to lie to me. I will see right through your lies every time. 1) I am NOT a...
VISTA is nice! 1621
By using the Vista Hardware compatibility check application, publically on Microsoft's web site. You say tomayto, I say tomahto, you say potayto, I say potahto. Let's...
Vista is nice! 1622
Well, it's been separated from the product, which is where it would have been most important and useful. Last I read it was being considered for release about the same time, which suggests that...
Vista is nice! 1623
Only major versions of Windows have a chargte. WinFS will be released in a Service Pack, which are ALWAYS free to Windows licensees. Microsoft seems to be making a HUGE amount...
Vista is nice! 1624
Why not at the same time? Why shold someone come first? What do betas or previews have to do with this thread about the installation methods? Sorry...
Vista is nice! 1625
You know, "Prissy", if you actually meant that because you were truly an advocate for the General Public, I could agree with you. But you aren't. You are a hypocritical...
Vista is nice! 1626
What does their profit have to do with anything? I was writing about how WinFS should be...
VISTA is nice! 1627
They DO pay the public for their services, by giving them the OS for free for at least a year. Tell me, oh so knowledgeable...
VISTA is nice! 1628
That's not compensation in the spirit of doing that service, and you know it. Beta-testing takes WORK, and merely getting to use that product in the mean...
VISTA is nice! 1629
Oh, WOW! They give out a buggy o-s for free as payment? Guffaw!!! If they are trully interested in useful feedback, they'd pay handsomely for someone to point...
Technology Companies 2006: Best and Worst
Trail blazers—A ~ Apple, Google Anytime you hear about awards for best design, coolest interface or most innovative...
Technology Companies 2006: Best and Worst
What does Google Earth have to do with searching for content on the Internet? So, in the last three years, what has Apple introduced to take...
Is it legal to post Tim Crowley's arrest record
Unfortunately, this butthole may be speaking the truth here (for once). I think that there are many millions of folks who feel this...
Latest New York Cube
So, anyway, I went down today, got there about 3:00 PM. Had to wait in line about 20 minutes, and the store was completely...
Crazy Apple! Crazier Mac kOOks. 1634
NashtOn I'm a 'loyal kook' yet I bought, and am very happy with, the CoreDuo iMac...
Crazy Apple! Crazier Mac kOOks. 1635
Actually, a 2 GHz Core Duo is about on par with a 2 GHz dual core G5, from the benchmarks I've seen. That makes it...
Crazy Apple! Crazier Mac kOOks. 1636
I generally recommend the G5 towers to people. Why? 1) I'm not that sure that the first generation Intel Macs work all that well, and 2) there...
OSX's amazing resize! 1637
Why? You still have access to all of the menus (surely you haven't given up using menus?), the contextual menu, and the...
OSX's amazing resize! 1638
It's unfair (and especially inaccurate) to paint me with that brush. I explained reasonably why I thought so -- why did you have to make a personal attack? You've gotten meaner this week...
OSX's amazing resize! 1639
Screen Capture functions are just as simple: Entire screen as a file : command-shift-3 Entire screen to clipboard : command-shift-option-3 Selected area as a file : command-shift...
OSX's amazing resize! 1640
Weird. In Tiger, at the least, your Help file should have shown: Shortcuts for taking pictures of the screen You...
OSX's amazing resize! 1641
The same logic does apply to XP. I never said that it didn't work. I never go to Windows Newsgropus and tell Windows users that their OS is junk. I just...
OSX's amazing resize! 1642
Let me give you some examples. There are people who actually work with the UI...
OSX's amazing resize! 1643
Thank god I'm not using any applications written by yourself then. Commercial applications by definition are written for the buyers of the product. A sure path to failure is to ignore the needs and desires...
OSX's amazing resize! 1644
I seriously think that if they DO put a ton of resources into designing their interfaces, its largely wasted money. Windows has ALWAYS been ugly, ill-conceived with an inconsistent and poorly defined metaphore to...
OSX's amazing resize! 1645
Where did you get the idea that calling a few people experts meant I didn't care about, or suggested ignoring, the...
OSX's amazing resize! 1646
Mitch Alas, if you do DNA sequencing, you probably do use Windows, since (at least the last time...
Fishing report
Look at the kind of stuff they post and you'll see why. People that are limited in aspects of real life and...
Thanks for Mikey
Hi! I'd give you the benefit of the doubt that for a while someone else was on the line. Maybe there was--and maybe there wasn't. I...
So i'm the only one with MySpace problems 1649
He Pratt: I found one other guy that is having problems with Safari and MySpace. Like you he doesn't use a Mac. Google is your friend: Your search - "safari problems with myspace...
So i'm the only one with MySpace problems 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
MuahMan wrote I dunno, I never use it. After reading and hearring from multiple sources that it's just a haven for children and...
So i'm the only one with MySpace problems 1651
On 24-5-06 6:34 AM, in article There is a problem with your logic, clicking the green button (top l-h-corner) does indeed...
Security Update 2006003: What a disaster &A#JD1Tg!d8
William R. Walsh" 1) An advocacy group is not exactly the best place to ask this question. I suggest: comp.sys.mac.system 2) You need to keep...
Security Update 2006003: What a disaster
Hi! Actually, I've ventured in here before with a few questions and never happened to get "you shouldn't do that - this is CSMA, not tech support". But the...
I priced my PowerBook too low
yes, that's too low, plus never, ever do a buy it now, unless it's something extremely common with a known, set...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1655
yes, I know quite a number of modern AMERICAN Christians who do the same. In fact, I'd go so far as to say MOST Americans who consider themselves Christians have no problem with large portions...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1656
No, I don't think he's lying. I will give Credit Debt to Donald on one front, I believe him to be honest. Its a scary thought that he actually does believe everything he spouts...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1657
Donald L McDaniel You are begging the question. We can't tell for sure if we are actually part of the universe, or have simply convinced ourselves of it. How...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1658
Some atheists do. But I suspect most just don't see any reason to believe. The way you XPNs tried to liquidate all non-XPNs back when you were in control, you mean? You...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1659
Spare me. It is impossible to hate some "ism" without hating those who practice it. How can you "love me"? You don't even know me. And please don't come back and tell me that you...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1660
No, the scientific method can be applied to everything. If your "supernatural" exists, then it is merely something we don't understand yet. Nice try :) To include the supernatural...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1661
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:02:33 -0700, Jamie Hart wrote Whether Paul has or has not been "advocating" such...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1662
You haven't noticed him saying that he believes in an omnipotent God? How strange, of course he has never stated that the universe exists because his god wants...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1663
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:31:21 -0700, C Lund wrote Well, soon, your "morals" WILL be "detrimental to the society you live in", if those...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1664
On Tue, 02 May 2006 09:31:46 -0700, Donald McDaniel If you had provided evidence, this might have been worth reading. Of course, you'll never be able to provide anything but buttertions--after...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 1665
Now wait a minute, who is clbuttifying religion as a sickness? The actual recent finding is that the NEED for religious belief is a genetic predisposition...
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