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Windows.. it's like coming home! 3388
Yes. But the G5 desktops were not so bad, and they were making money hand over fist, no? I can understand why they'd transition anyway- better to do...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3389
I suppose because they knew they could get away with it. Let's face it, the current Mac userbase is...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3390
I usually resist this proposition, though I can't disprove it, because I don't like where it leads: that the Mac has already driven off all the 'normal...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3391
No, the Mac user base in merely comprised of a self-selected group of people who value progress over legacy support. You've made it pretty clear that you...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3392
I don't think that follows at all. It mainly excludes the larger enterprise market, which is typically dependent on bespoke applications that must continue to run no matter what. And also businesses...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3393
Does this mean that all the OS 9 userbase is gone now? Those guys sure didn't 'value progress'. :D Well, as I said, I try to resist...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3394
I'm not sure what you mean. Apple has taken a more aggressive approach to trading off compatibility for progress, vs. the Clbuttic Mac OS era, it's true. This probably has resulted in some...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3395
snip- tradeoffs Consider the complaints leveled against OS X by many of the Mac community when it first came out; these people wanted the OS 9 UI replicated on a...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3396
Most of these folks came around in the end, though. You're focusing on internals. These folks, for the most part, where focusing...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3397
they did. They had nowhere else to go. But I don't think this means they 'valued progress'; or at least not progress in the UI. I have been posted quite a...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3398
They didn't at the time. I suspect many of them do now. My impression is that there were very few actually defections from...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3399
One might almost suppose they were Apple fans, first and foremost. :D snip Windows had surprised it by Win95 at least. That is when...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3400
The idea of reducing the number of windows is kinda obvious, and when Mac OS X first...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3401
It does that, but it seems to me that you've depicted an Apple that does not try to retain its customers...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3402
You're buttuming that offering backwards compatibility is a better way to maintain customers than offering great new stuff for them to...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3403
I think I've depicted an Apple that tries to retain its customers by offering them...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3404
Hmm. The Mac natural userbase is the easily distracted rather than the fanatical, then? :D snip How do Apple's...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3405
So I have heard. There's clearly a problem here for Apple, and it's not just one model of laptop that's skanky. That is...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3406
The last PowerBook G4 model before the switch was announced. It's not that old; little more than a year...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3407
Then maybe it's just a matter of perception. No, no Dell laptop does. Exactly! Well, that sort of figures. :P I...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3408
No doubt, if I had owned a MacBook *before* the PowerBook G4, I'd see it very differently! :D snip I don't need a Mac to run Windows. So why should I use a beta product...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3409
You're not following along. If you have a Mac, there is no need to get a PC. We're not talking about what you would do. You said that...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3410
I've got a Mac; a PowerBook G4. It does not run Windows, oddly enough. If I want to have a Windows...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3411
I don't have an Intel Mac! The rules: 1. I post why I'm moving back...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3412
Then it is very kind of you two to liven up my humble little thread with...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3413
snip "The best of any OS" may be going a bit far here, when you have to use beta drivers to run Windows. Still, the thrust of my argument, as it were...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3414
I wouldn't run 'mission critical' stuff on any Mac; not with Apple's compatibility habits. But that's not Apple's market; they target consumers, and to an...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3415
You seem to feel that having OS X available justifies buying a Macintosh to run Windows on. Surely one must *want* to run OS...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3416
You: Little is available, and what is there are ports of older PC games, and they still do...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3417
Steven de Mena Perhaps if we were on the 'majority' platform, it would be cheaper. It's hard to make any meaningful comparison with windows because MS only sells the software. Anyone buying a...
Windows.. it's like coming home! 3418
snip To the right, in the default config. But I do not put any apps in the taskbar; I use it for windows. And I find it handy that windows not minimized are there...
Is this what Apple is claiming 3419
Edwin *up* to 2x faster. Learn to read, clown. Of course, if you restate it correctly to reflect the actual reality of the situation. When the G5 first came out, the dual Xeon...
Is this what Apple is claiming 3420
Anyone with a lick of sense knows that the speed of processors alone are not the measure of the...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3421
Derek Currie: I hear you. I'm not one for conspiracy theories. Oswald acted alone. Wedidland on the moon. Roswell was a weather balloon. There are no aliens at Area 51. In this instance, however...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3422
Then why are the FBI files pertaining to the investigation of the Kennedy liquidate kept secret until 2030ish? Yeah. Yeah...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3423
Tasty. BTW, what democrat voices were dissenting when Clinton: ...planted Serbia 20 years into the past? ...planted Iraq? ...Invaded Somalia? ...Destroyed the EL Shifa medicinal plant in Sudan...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3424
You said "war"; none of those examples was a war. Each of those limited actions (except for El Shifa) was justified. El Shifa was the result of faulty intelligence. I am not about...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3425
Some people don't accept what others label as "facts" until some kind of proof can be shown. You presented your argument which stated that "Bush is guilty of breaking...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3426
Each consbreastuency (returning one member of parliament) will have 60k to 80k electors. There are 650 seats but each is handled independently by each local authority (District...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3427
The registering is done by a number of different enbreasties. Both parties can and so send out people who can register voters. Some of the non-partisan groups also...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3428
Kurt Ullman The registration is done by the county registrar of voters (might be called different things in different states). However, just about anyone can collect registration forms and turn them in to the county...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3429
In the US, the vote totals ARE released by precinct. Thus you get the X% of Y precincts reporting graphic. For instance from the Indiana Sec of State's Website "In most...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3430
Under whose scrutiny? I should also point out that if there are suspicions of fraud over here, that's immediately a police matter under election law - with worse punishments than even the criminal law...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3431
Tim Streater Representatives of the political parties may be present at the count. Also, representatives of the political parties get to review ballot design and other things prior to the election. There...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3432
As a matter of interest, if voting machines are used, what does the count consist of (I mean compared to our count of paper ballots which are sorted by candidate)? But this is my...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3433
Tim Streater For the mechanical voting machines used in some states (each of which may be subject to individual physical inspection) the numbers are read off of counters in a normally concealed part of...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3434
Wes Groleau The original concept of the electors was that they should be free to use their...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3435
Michelle Steiner Funny how times change. This has been going since the beginning of the Union. The smaller states (at...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3436
Jeffrey Goldberg I consider myself conservative. Yet I am very much in favor of freedom of religion, speech, etc. What I don't like is suppressing the "free exercise" of religion in order to avoid...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3438
Well, originally, the senate was supposed to represent the states, and senators were appointed by the governors of the states. If there were...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3439
Michelle Steiner Yes. But it still gives the residents of smaller states a greater voice than those in larger states. We may have "one person...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3440
Michelle Steiner I apologize. I'll try not to do that again. Yes there is. Approximately half of the power of congress is apportioned by state and...
OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3441
Tim Streater I don't think that that is a very useful way to thinking about it. Lobbying...
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