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In the Shallow End 3067
See, I can take exactly the same facts and paint a very different picture. Microsoft is interested in buzzword-compliant, technically complex solutions, and largely uninterested in (or at any rate...
In the Shallow End 3068
Just as Apple wants it. Yes, but it illustrates the 2 approaches, one is quick, light and stable and the other (Vista) is slow, monolithic and flawed. Which approach is best? Most...
In the Shallow End 3069
One can always do that! I don't think you are on solid ground here. MS's UI is, arguable, not as good...
In the Shallow End 3070
This is not always the case, sadly. Consider the fact that many people in this newsgroup, despite the fact that virtually everyone here probably know Windows better than 80% of the Windows-using...
In the Shallow End 3071
That's not because they don't know Windows has backup software. It's because people are unsure what Time Machine is; many have buttumed it must be like Windows...
In the Shallow End 3072
Um. What? What you're claiming here seems to have no relationship to reality. Pretty much everyone (as far as I've seen) understands exactly...
In the Shallow End 3073
Just to add a little more to this... another trend we've seen a lot of recently (and one that's particularly part of the Ruby and...
In the Shallow End 3074
Depends enormously on the the back-end environment you're using of the complexity. Even a framework like Struts, while hardly...
In the Shallow End 3075
Dan Johnson I'd say that the end user does care when problems start showing up. The Seattle Times had an excellent article on...
In the Shallow End 3076
Well, everyone had some kind of searching. The big difference is the UI; XP has a really terrible one involving...
VISTA AMD DELL
Exactly, which is cheaper than the latest major update of your toy OS. Unfortunately, you couldn't get a major update...
Welcome to the Herd, Maccies
Edwin Google groups is buggy. There's overwhelming evidence of that. That's why it's a Beta. Linking directly to posts in thread view doesn't work. Had I known this before I posted the link, I...
Thurrottism
I wrote a couple articles refuting ideas Paul Thurrott left hanging in the air recently: Windows 5x More Expensive than...
firefox addons and os x permissions
Tim Murray Thanks. I made another admin account and tried installing the plug-in there...
History of the Living Dead 3081
Alan Baker But did they sell any more after that? I see you chose to stop quoting right before the article turned negative: "Seventy-four days after the introduction of...
History of the Living Dead 3082
Yup. "1984: Apple sells the 250,000th Macintosh system." "74 days after the introduction of the Macintosh...
iMac is rife with bugs
So far, software update is broken (can't download any updates without getting an error message, so I have to dl them individually from the Apple site) which is a major PITA...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3084
Nashton reinstall. I've seen the same problem; reinstall. I've seen the same problem with my iMac ... I tried to use a wireless bridge to my cable router, but the connection would drop whenever...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3085
poor Nashton... they should issue a license to drive this much power. you clearly are a beginner...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3086
Wegie Poor Weggie. I've owned Macs longer than you've been dragging your knuckles. There is no error message, it just stops and I get the...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3087
Did 2 Archive and Installs. For some reason, it's better now. Since I managed to actually download the 10.4.7 combo with the help of Speed Download. Encouraging. Already have...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3088
Nashton Don't. Just install from scratch. Not that I've seen this problem, but I don't trust any sort of merging of system settings...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3089
Elijah Baley Do you need the serial number of my iMac, Mac Jihadist? Why not just google the questions I asked in various forums for help. And another thing I forgot. The built...
iMac is rife with bugs. 3090
Wegie Actually, no, it doesn't. When the slider is set to the left and it says...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3091
The technology used isn't the issue. The point is that these individuals are not going to use two operating systems based solely on the idea that the Mac is not Windows. They want to...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3092
A couple of people who are already Apple users doesn't go far in discounting what I've said. That's their choice. Most people...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3093
Edwin is a maroon, anyway. I'm surprised anyone takes him seriously. That Apple does not "force me to...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3094
Edwin, *Windows* doesn't support the hardware. Bootcamp isn't some form of layer that lies between Windows and the Mac hardware that prevents Windows from supporting hardware it otherwise would support. Bootcamp is basically...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3095
Sandman When did I say it does? Nobody said that it "prevents" hardware from being supported. It fails...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3096
You didn't. I just wanted to make it clear that BootCamp isn't something that has to support something. Bootcamp doesn't support anything. It's a parbreastion program. It isn't something that has to support anything...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3097
Sandman Why would you try to make that "clear?" BootCamp has to support hardware for Windows. It is the hardware drivers for Windows. Yes it does. It's also the hardware drivers for Windows. You...
100,000 copies of Paralells sold 3098
No, Boot Camp is an application. The drivers are seperate from Boot Camp. When you have booted into Windows, the application Boot Camp is not running (since it is an OSX application...
Mac vs. PC System Shootouts $3,200 Workstations 3099
This was actually a fairly balanced and accurate comparison. It probably would have been better to compare the Mac Pro...
Mac vs. PC System Shootouts $3,200 Workstations 3100
I don't think the MacWorld guy was purposefully trying to be confusing, instead I think he...
Mac vs. PC System Shootouts $3,200 Workstations 3101
Tim, Come on man, this artical isn't even trying to be fair in the comparision. First, the author picked the 1Kw with SLI 68 plus 10 and added $300 and...
Mac vs. PC System Shootouts $3,200 Workstations 3102
The upgrade was to get, as I see it anyway, graphic cards as close to one another as possible. Since the Apple card offers "256MB, 1 dual-link, 1 single" they picked the same...
Mac vs. PC System Shootouts $3,200 Workstations 3103
Looking at only the amount of RAM and the support of dual link DVI in the video cards and ignoring the GPU is...
Apple vs. Newegg 3104
Sure, if you add 4GB of Apple-priced memory, forget about quality audio, go with a crappy $70...
Apple vs. Newegg 3105
Snit About what? SLED vs. Windows XP? That would qualify as it's very own thread, and such has been made many times in the past. Or until...
Apple vs. Newegg 3106
What are you smoking, and where can I get some? It might be better than that...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule
Sandman The rest of the Macintosh was not impressive at all. It went out with a whimper. After more than 20 years of scraping along as a...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3108
Whatever I am, I don't like trolls. I enjoy an honest, open debate with others about the merits of Mac vs PC and any other topic you can name...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3109
Mike There is a difference between OS and DOS, but DOS was an OS. Where you run an OS from is largely irrelevant. It is software that...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3110
Yes, exactly. A Disk Operating System operates the disks - and that's all that DOS directly controls. Everything else - printers, video, memory...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3111
Hayes) Actually, "DOS" is "command.com", "msdos.sys", and "io.sys" combined. "command.com" is just the command interpreter (shell). msdos.sys...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3112
Why would I believe anything a MacDroid says about Microsoft? I wouldn't believe it if they published it in the Enclycopaedia Brittanica, much less in a Mac Advocacy newsgroup. And if it were...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3113
Donald McDaniel "Seattle Computer Products", not Seattle Micro. That is grossly misrepresenting what occurred. Microsoft licensed QDOS for a pittance, turned around and...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3114
Greycloud!!! You went and did it! You FINALLY admitted that Apples are ALSO "PCs"!!!. Watchout, my friend. The rest of the Mac crowd in here is liable to start thinking you're in the Windows camp...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3115
Donald McDaniel Are you nuts? All machines that the majority can afford to own and run are PCs. I can't afford a DEC VAX 6000 tho. So this makes it a big mini...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3116
Actually, the term "PC", CAN'T be used to get a trademark (or one which would...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3117
No, it was a DOS. It was called MS-DOS for a reason. Notice that it wasn't called MS-OS. Similarly, OS-2 (and OS X) are...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3118
Mike Originally, DOS was QDOS for Quick and Dirty Operating System. Just because they emphasized...
The Mac is Dead! Long Live the Wintel PC! was Apple ahead of schedule 3119
Your opinion is meaningless. As someone else pointed out today, "Mac" and "Macintosh" are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Corp. Whatever they choose to call a Mac IS a Mac, by definition...
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