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Windows Vista Will Lose to Linux 1826
asj No one has claimed that Linux is the equal of windows for gaming. We are talking about serious use of a machine. If you are serious about gaming, get a playstation or an gamecube...
Windows Vista Will Lose to Linux
snipped, and moved below Thanks for that. I actually like the iTunes media player. There's a few things I'd like added (better...
Windows Vista Will Lose to Linux 1828
On Tue, 30 May 2006 14:42:18 +0000, Oliver Wong My kids like it, but the...
battery life on the MBP... 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
It's phenomenal. Easily over 5 hours under normal use. I haven't tried spinning a DVD for a long time yet, but I am really amazed at the power management...
Apple's Pippin console makes list "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
PC World says Apple's Pippin is the "worst" Posted May 28th 2006 11:00PM by Christopher Grant Filed under: Mac, Retro PC World magazine listed Apple's ill-fated game console, the Pippin...
Apple's Pippin console makes list "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
Well they do their "PC World" job too, Real player was shown like dead or something. So, it makes...
Weekly Statistics for alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk: week ending 26 May 2006. 1832
On Mon, 29 May 2006 00:33:33 -0700, Onideus Mad Hatter no, matthew, i meant i have a life. if i was suicidal, the song would go something like this: kill meeeeeeeee kill meeeeeeeee ... i guess...
Weekly Statistics for alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk: week ending 26 May 2006. 1833
thats very kind of you to worry about my times, pony, er konehead, er kony, or whatever. but i choose to spend my time this way because it amuses me. if it...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1835
No. Most people never even think about a Mac when contemplating a computer purchase. The same would be true even if Macs were significantly cheaper than Windows boxes. People have to know that Macs...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1836
George Graves i gotta disagree- i work wa bunch of engineers, and being a bunch of geeks, they all pretty much like cool toys. practically all of them are aware of macs, have played with...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1837
So you think that that the engineers-geeks that you work with represent the bulk of...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1838
George Graves i think they're pretty representative of a lot more people than you think- educated folks who know about computers. this isn't 1987 when only a few...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1839
3%-5% of all buyers. Most haven't a clue. Maybe in the US, but certainly not the rest of the world. Also, the...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1840
Sorry. Missed that one. We've become a nation of sheep? People buy what they have at work? Americans are cheapskates...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1841
Whose fault is that then? Maybe Apple should have some realistic advertising. Stoned girls saying "beep beep my homework disappeared" doesn't cut it. Obviously. We'll never know, will we...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1842
Not a good analogy as stated, but I can make it a fair analogy for illustrative purposes. What if no $8...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1843
I've got few theories about choices the mbuttes make. And I think you both have a point... Joe Schmoe...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1844
I know what you mean, but it's not about selling boxes in that market. It is understandable why...
Most common tasks Which is more efficient, Mac or PC Which is less expensive... Mac
As I see it these are the kinds of things "most" users do with their computers: 1 - sending-receiving e-mail 2 - web searching, buying-selling things (via ebay, craigs-list etc...
M$ "Mystery insider"... 1846
Office? Word and Excel were cool in the mid '80s when they were new. Eventually they were ported to Windows and started to get huge...
M$ "Mystery insider"... 1847
And are still great products. Or is something only "cool when it's new"? Really? I have no problems bringing a work laptop...
M$ "Mystery insider"... 1848
That's the first time I've heard that particular definition. So, by your criteria, Apple's Copland OS wasn't...
M$ "Mystery insider"... 1849
Moving goalposts, I see. I make the point that most Windows users don't really "choose" Windows, they choose from among Windows computer brands. and you come back with an argument about...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1850
Not at all. It *is* a choice - even if it's the only choice they know about! If they don't know about Macs - whose fault...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1851
That's more like it. "The rest" as you call them, make up the lion's share of computer users. They made no choice because they don't know that there is one. Now, I'm not arguing that...
MS "Mystery insider"... 1852
Details then, please. Perhaps I can help? So "spending lots of money" on SQL Server is wrong, but it's OK for Oracle? How come "cheap" doesn't change...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 1853
asj Means very little. I always browse the web, identifying my firefox as a Internet...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 1854
Mike "Linux servers continued to grow at 17 percent and now carries 12.2 percent of all server revenue. " "Linux and other Open Source Software (OSS...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 1855
Mike So there is some "special rule" that allows you to reference something from 2 years ago to suit your...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 1856
No special rules. Those are simply the latest Google numbers. I posted them to make a point - that being that they rather closely match the numbers from the same period at: Having...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 1857
Mike said the following on 29-05-2006 06:35 pm: quoting again from the above which you quoted and we must...
Apple hardware quality redux. &A#JD1Tg!d8
Redux? Knowing NashtOn, this is just an attempt at Apple bashing. I, on the other hand, applaud...
Mac Fanboys and Advocacy
Brian: 1) This is not thhe forum to seriously ask for help. That would be comp.sys.mac.hardware or comp.sys.mac.system. 2) When you come here with a chip on your shoulder and word...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1860
I meant how do you know he felt it necessary for the reason of curbing email? He may have another motive. He said he got these emails from...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1861
Is it not your contention that he cared for this reason (being unfairly targeted)? Logic dictates that you should be the person answering the question you've...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1862
What is? What? You are treated badly because you are a troll. You are treated badly...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1863
BS claims? WTF are you babbling about? As anyone rational person can plainly see, I'm asking him a legitimate and pertinent question based on a thread *he* created... and he obviously doesn't appear very willing...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1864
Do you know how old the negative connotations are? Yup... and that's my point here. You said it's a slur, I'm saying it isn't limited to being a slur. By writing this you're essentially...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1865
No one, that's just Mayor's mischaracterization... spurred on by the other half of his brain cell (Snit). As...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1866
chose to bless us with the following wisdom: You're not really this stupid are you? Here's another little bit of trivia for you...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1867
snip) I'm stupid because I suggest that the targets of slurs probably wouldn't find such slurs acceptable? The Beverly Hillbillies ran for a decade, that's a *great* run for any show. What took them...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1868
I have supported it fully, as I always do. What's wrong with my newsreader? Yeah, I know. It's not bad - but it doesn't validate very good. That's because the system that does the...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1869
What does that have to do with what I said? I don't expect you to. Look the term...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1870
How did I run? Where did I whine? Of course not - it's the system that generates the code - and I have built the system. Fixing the HTML to be...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1871
I.e. my point was made perfectly. Thanks. In reality, I have pointed to all of them. You are incorrect about most of these. Are you drunk? It validates perfectly. Haha! You better now...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1872
Then I'll have to call foul here on Josh. Unless he contacted the author and can show such evidence he had no right to enbreastle the thread...
Maccies aren't fanatical 1873
Steve Carroll Then you're going to have to call "foul" on an awful lot of people, as nobody here has ever contacted an author to receive proof about what...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1874
I have when I've seen it. It's not relevant to Josh enbreastling a thread the way he has with...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1875
On Fri, 26 May 2006 15:19:01 -0600, Steve Carroll The only thing there is no proof of is that the guy is lying...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1876
Let's try this another way.... How many threats did he receive? What were the nature...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1877
On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:48:45 -0600, Steve Carroll Irrelevant. One is too many over a consumer...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1878
So, if he received one (or ten, or thirty) that backs the implication by McKee that *all* "Maccies" are fanatics? This makes sense to you? I fail to see how it...
Maccies aren't fanatical by the way, what is a "Maccie 1879
chose to bless us with the following wisdom: No one has made the buttertion that all...
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