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Is the Mac a PC 2578
No my posts here consist of me saying that Macs are now clones. EFI and BIOS have...
Is the Mac a PC 2579
Not all of them. Itanium systems don't use BIOS but they're clones. Not at all but...
Is the Mac a PC 2580
That's a strange way to look at it. Are you saying that the word 'clone' -- the word used to describe how the hardware is compatible with what other PC makers build -- is...
Is the Mac a PC 2581
Here you'ver hit the nail on the head. Slade insists on calling Intel Macs "clones" as way...
Is the Mac a PC 2582
Mitch In my other reply to Znu I outlined my thinking on how back in the day clones were...
Is the Mac a PC 2583
These are good points, but I'd like to show some differences: It is most definitely a Macintosh, because it embodies EVERYTHING that Macintosh has always meant -- quality hardware, quality...
Is the Mac a PC 2584
ZnU If it's not native, it's not a clone, it's an emulator. The compatibility test is about how well the hardware is a...
Is the Mac a PC 2585
Mike True. But Apple is doing an excellent job with its current offerings. I'd love to be able to put together an OS X box from parts from newegg... ...but you can't findanymajor OEM...
Is the Mac a PC 2586
Itanium systems have the x86 instruction set. You should know that. Sure they did. BIOS...
Is the Mac a PC 2587
Check this out. I just read this on Wikipedia. "EFI was originally created for Intel's IA-64 architecture. Since then, it has also been added...
Is the Mac a PC 2588
I'm sorry, Mike, but you're wrong. MacOSX makes the Mac NOT a clone. It makes it a Mac with an Intel processor. Hell, it won't even run Windows without an...
Is the Mac a PC 2589
Ok I read it wrong. But it still remains that EFI machines can be clones as long as they are...
No Creative Suite 3 until late 2007
George Graves But this isn't due to the "paradigm change", per se, rather it's due to Apple's abusing its position as sole Mac OS supplier by denying any other dev tools the knowledege of...
Is the Windows task bar usable
Here's an honest question for the Windows people. Are you really able to quickly switch between programs by...
Is the Windows task bar usable
You have that wrong. Open windows shoyuld not appear in the Dock because they already appear on the desktop -- the point is to have them appear...
Is the Windows task bar usable 2593
Let me clarify my exact point. When you have 10 tabs at the bottom in Windows 2000 Professional - The tabs are not tall enough. They are taller in XP - The icon...
Is the Windows task bar usable 2594
Mitch Yes it does. Yes it was. "Oh, and another annoyance was that there didn't seem to be a way to arrange the order of the tabs at the...
Is the Windows task bar usable 2595
James Davis Yes, it's surprising just how lame Microsoft can be in gui design. The company has been trying...
Is the Windows task bar usable 2596
Addle Jones Here's the solution in XP: Create a folder. Place Aliases of the programs you wish to see in a Taskbar grouping into this folder. Right-click...
Is the Windows task bar usable 2597
Edwin Uh, I think you're treading on thin ice here. I'm the one who stated the issue you tried to address, and I think I'm able to judge whether you've addressed it...
Apple's Sweatshops 2598
I've done all the research I need. It's usually not a good thing to warehouse your workers on the factory grounds. That usually speaks...
Apple's Sweatshops 2599
ed It's been investigated previously, as have Foxconn's other facilities. Google if you want to do something other than...
Apple's Sweatshops 2600
RichardK how 'bout a link? i can't find anything to show that facility has been investigated... i have friends that currently work in malaysia and china, either directly contracting...
Apple's Sweatshops 2601
ed No, they don't. You have NO idea of the costs of living in the...
Apple's Sweatshops 2602
ed If you're at the low end, no. You get paid by the HOUR. Rent costs about the...
Apple's Sweatshops 2603
do you even know what outstanding wages ARE? say you work 40hrs-week and get paid every other week. you work the first...
Apple's Sweatshops 2604
ed That happens here too, but I suspect that the buttumption is that you are paid monthly, and don't get paid that month's pay. So you don't...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2605
Okay I'll try clearing up some of this since I actually USE a Tricaster It is a Windows PC running Windows XP Service Pack 2 and a SOFTWARE program...
Help arrives for CSMA's weak Mac advocates was What has Apple got to match this
Edwin Well, since the Maccies here have nothing to counter me with but sour grapes, I'll have to provide the counter answer myself. Sheesh! "Union 2.0 - Now Available for Mac and...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2607
Alan Baker So Final Cut Pro does none of these things: Live Production Live Internet streaming Professional breastling Video Capture Network Input Media Editing Virtual VCR playback Picture...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2608
Nope. Nope. Not in a live production and live streaming context. Yup. This is a product for doing live work. It is essentially a digital version of a video mixing board. Yes, it...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2609
Alan Baker Taking you at your word, there are some things TriCaster does that FCP...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2610
So you have learned that some functions are useful at more than one end of...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2611
Nope. There are lots of things my computer does that an alarm clock does, or that a paper calendar does, but that does put them in...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2612
Alan Baker Both products can capture video from multiple sources, save it to disk, mix them, and edit them, and store the final product. That puts them in the same market, your...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2613
No, entirely UNLIKE FCP. You'd have to know more about video editing to understand the difference, but it's HUGE. Enormous. Like the difference between a deluxe Mr Microphone and a tape editing booth. I didn't...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2614
Mitch So FCP does none of these things? Live Production Live Internet streaming Professional breastling Video Capture Network Input Media Editing Virtual VCR playback Picture...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2615
No, you have to show that the cited object has an advantage over the mac-FCP solution -- because THAT was your point. The TriCaster solution is more expensive...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2616
Mitch Who said it was a "general computer package?" I said it's a PC-based solution. I'm asking what Apple has to match this. If that's nothing, just say "nothing." It's not...
What has Apple got to match this PC 2617
And it isn't. You also asked what Apple offers to match it -- and Apple makes general...
I have succeeded in driving them off of csma 2618
So, you've lost your Freedom of Speech. Believe me, its nothing about which to brag. I strongly suspect that in 50 years The EU will be totalitarian to the point where both Nazi...
I have succeeded in driving them off of csma 2619
George Graves said the following on 07-06-2006 04:11 pm: I was not bragging! And yes I think the EU...
crappy iPod! 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
How about this, from a blog on the MSDN site by Chris Wilson: ***** I want to be clear...
Those new mac ads are hilarious... 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
Sandman wrote It's not an issue of advocacy, or performance in this case, but rather security. Microsoft has not demonstrated ANY ABILITY...
Those new mac ads are hilarious
The above only applies *if you use them*. I'm not sure I agree that MS OFfice for the Mac is unsecure, but even if it is, just having it installed won't make you less...
Too bad the MBP 15" doesn't have FW800
I just bought myself a HDV video camera, the Sony HDR-HC3. It's an excellent camera. My old...
What does this say about users 2624
chose to bless us with the following wisdom: Were you not a Maccie I would dismiss this bit of sophistry as a joke. Not in my experience, both in...
What does this say about users 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2625
Mayor of R'lyeh wrote The vast majority of people that run Macs I know never spend day one on Usenet. They...
What does this say about users 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2626
They like to play games easily mastered by elementary school students. Sheep buy what they are told to buy. Mcdonald's hamburgers and Pizza...
What does this say about users 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2627
George Graves wrote (in article People still do. Sailers universally despise powerboats. You're sitting in a beautiful, out of the way...
What does this say about users 2628
They do when you get kicked out of Exeter and Dublin Academy. Yeah my brother got way better grades and Ivy League degrees; I...
What does this say about users 2632
So which delusion of yours am I supposed to believe this time? That you have a few free minutes (that's a damn funny one, by the way;) or That...
What does this say about users 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2633
KenS wrote (in article Expect that to increase now with products like Parallels and Boot Camp. There is literally no...
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