This story is complete garbage... i cant believe i wasted my time reading it. Just dont let this comment section turn into a flame war. Remember arguing on the internet is like the special olympics even if you win, your still retarded.
Yeah what a wanker, if he feels more comftable using microsofts copy of other products then good for him. But at least he does know both sides well before commentating though.
Nice article. I agree with a lot of his points.Macs/PCs are about as stable as each other. I find PCs more stable as when one breaks I can take it apart and see if I can fix the issue.I used Macs when I was at college. The art/design studio just HAD to have them. They were pretty bad. I lost SO much work becuase of them crashing and curruping things. They looked nice at least, lovely screens.
I agree with the first comment i think this is a plant to get some attention for one side or the other without any element of truth. I am a strong windows and mac user for years, I love both what can I say. And most of what he is commenting about is so inaccurate it sounds more like a microsoft fanboy trying to make up negatives that don't exist. ("If I take a few screen shots, paste them into a PowerPoint For Mac presentation and send them off, and no one can see them because the images have defaulted to some wacky Quicktime tiff" Mac has never made its images tiff's, its an option but only if the user diggs deep in the system to enable it. On top of that .tiffs are not a mac thing they are a standard file format out there in the images world, ask any digital photo buff, pc or mac. This is just one of many sentances in his arguement of why this guy is making #$@ up.) And if they do exist he sounds like a guy who spent years knowing how to make windows run smoothly (which i can do as well) and only spent a short time the mac thereby screwing it up royally. We have all screwed up windows systems when we first learning them as kids. This guy has very little credibility in mind, I don't mind that he wants to go to windows, let him. But don't give this guy any credibility in a mac vs windows arguement.
I switched from "Briefs" to "Boxers"... Please digg me!!!Some of the reasons (Mac OS X = Boxers)- boxers are more colorful, they come in variety of differnt prints on them.. I can find one that fits me- all my white briefs are turning "yellow" or "beige"- boxers feels better, especially when I sit on my butt all day infront of my computer- Girls like boxers!!!
Wow, this guy has some "really good reasons" to go back to PCs, it was a great laugh. Oh, he was serious? ... I'm not saying that Windows is a bad OS or anything, but going back to Windows because of those reasons is pretty silly. A couple of those options can be fixed to his specifications (He can make screenshots into a few different formats, like PNG and Halo was a bad port, try Unreal Tournament 2004 or 2003). He also didn't elaborate on some points very well, he would just say some features suck. Though he did have a few good points, most of them were uninformed and irrelevant (the whole thing with Halo, .Mac, and taking screenshots).
il0vemymacnot likely,macs have there place, but are hardly flexible enough for the many applications the computers are used for. and Linux is killing MS slowly, if MS does not rethink there business plan they will be gone in a few years,
"What an idiot. Have fun going back to .DLL Hell, where instead of removing an app by dragging it to the trash, you're scouring your registry for files after your uninstaller crashed leaving you with a bunch of random resource files you dont know what the hell they do."I can't believe that someone is using the "I can drag an app into the trash to remove it" argument.Let's see, we drag the app into the trash, then the surrounding folder, then let's go into the system folder, drag the pref files into the trash. Depending on the app, there might be files left all over the system. I can do the same thing on XP, manually remove the traces of the program, but I would much rather launch an uninstaller and have the program do all the work for me.If an uninstaller crashes, it is probably because you tried to drag the app to the recycle bin.Millions of applications are available for XP, maybe a few thousand available for OSX. The companies that release OSX software typically have the money to spend on cross platform development, so needless to say some of the OSX software is more reliable. Let's say I want to convert multiple images to a different format and compress them. If I am running XP, I might have 100 different applications availble to do the job. If I try running 100 applications on XP, chances are several of them will be buggy and crash happy. If I want to accomplish the same task on OSX, only 5 applications may be available to do the job. Chances are, all 5 will work properly. It's just a law of percentages. More people use XP so there are more people not satisfied with the end user experience. If you have 100 people in a room, 94 of them use XP and 10 of the 94 are unhappy campers. 5 of the 100 use Mac OSX and it's rare but 1 of 5 might be an unhappy camper. 1 of the 100 use Linux and if they are unhappy, they just don't tell anyone about it.I assume the reason Mac users get so upset when one of their own wants to abandon the platform is because it reveals a much greater percentage of dissatisfaction with OSX than previously admitted.
if windows or a Mac crashes it is either a hardware problem or the computer need a nap,if Linux crashes it is either a hardware problem or the user needs a nap.
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imanzSep 26, 2005
This story is complete garbage... i cant believe i wasted my time reading it. Just dont let this comment section turn into a flame war. Remember arguing on the internet is like the special olympics even if you win, your still retarded.
saggygrandmaSep 26, 2005
Yeah what a wanker, if he feels more comftable using microsofts copy of other products then good for him. But at least he does know both sides well before commentating though.
mkjonesSep 26, 2005
Nice article. I agree with a lot of his points.Macs/PCs are about as stable as each other. I find PCs more stable as when one breaks I can take it apart and see if I can fix the issue.I used Macs when I was at college. The art/design studio just HAD to have them. They were pretty bad. I lost SO much work becuase of them crashing and curruping things. They looked nice at least, lovely screens.
althe3rduwwSep 26, 2005
I agree with the first comment i think this is a plant to get some attention for one side or the other without any element of truth. I am a strong windows and mac user for years, I love both what can I say. And most of what he is commenting about is so inaccurate it sounds more like a microsoft fanboy trying to make up negatives that don't exist. ("If I take a few screen shots, paste them into a PowerPoint For Mac presentation and send them off, and no one can see them because the images have defaulted to some wacky Quicktime tiff" Mac has never made its images tiff's, its an option but only if the user diggs deep in the system to enable it. On top of that .tiffs are not a mac thing they are a standard file format out there in the images world, ask any digital photo buff, pc or mac. This is just one of many sentances in his arguement of why this guy is making #$@ up.) And if they do exist he sounds like a guy who spent years knowing how to make windows run smoothly (which i can do as well) and only spent a short time the mac thereby screwing it up royally. We have all screwed up windows systems when we first learning them as kids. This guy has very little credibility in mind, I don't mind that he wants to go to windows, let him. But don't give this guy any credibility in a mac vs windows arguement.
akira117Sep 26, 2005
I swiching form windows Don't see me on the front of digg.com
eggyacidSep 26, 2005
I switched from "Briefs" to "Boxers"... Please digg me!!!Some of the reasons (Mac OS X = Boxers)- boxers are more colorful, they come in variety of differnt prints on them.. I can find one that fits me- all my white briefs are turning "yellow" or "beige"- boxers feels better, especially when I sit on my butt all day infront of my computer- Girls like boxers!!!
archfiendSep 26, 2005
Wow, this guy has some "really good reasons" to go back to PCs, it was a great laugh. Oh, he was serious? ... I'm not saying that Windows is a bad OS or anything, but going back to Windows because of those reasons is pretty silly. A couple of those options can be fixed to his specifications (He can make screenshots into a few different formats, like PNG and Halo was a bad port, try Unreal Tournament 2004 or 2003). He also didn't elaborate on some points very well, he would just say some features suck. Though he did have a few good points, most of them were uninformed and irrelevant (the whole thing with Halo, .Mac, and taking screenshots).
ebullitSep 26, 2005
il0vemymacnot likely,macs have there place, but are hardly flexible enough for the many applications the computers are used for. and Linux is killing MS slowly, if MS does not rethink there business plan they will be gone in a few years,
seatonSep 27, 2005
"What an idiot. Have fun going back to .DLL Hell, where instead of removing an app by dragging it to the trash, you're scouring your registry for files after your uninstaller crashed leaving you with a bunch of random resource files you dont know what the hell they do."I can't believe that someone is using the "I can drag an app into the trash to remove it" argument.Let's see, we drag the app into the trash, then the surrounding folder, then let's go into the system folder, drag the pref files into the trash. Depending on the app, there might be files left all over the system. I can do the same thing on XP, manually remove the traces of the program, but I would much rather launch an uninstaller and have the program do all the work for me.If an uninstaller crashes, it is probably because you tried to drag the app to the recycle bin.Millions of applications are available for XP, maybe a few thousand available for OSX. The companies that release OSX software typically have the money to spend on cross platform development, so needless to say some of the OSX software is more reliable. Let's say I want to convert multiple images to a different format and compress them. If I am running XP, I might have 100 different applications availble to do the job. If I try running 100 applications on XP, chances are several of them will be buggy and crash happy. If I want to accomplish the same task on OSX, only 5 applications may be available to do the job. Chances are, all 5 will work properly. It's just a law of percentages. More people use XP so there are more people not satisfied with the end user experience. If you have 100 people in a room, 94 of them use XP and 10 of the 94 are unhappy campers. 5 of the 100 use Mac OSX and it's rare but 1 of 5 might be an unhappy camper. 1 of the 100 use Linux and if they are unhappy, they just don't tell anyone about it.I assume the reason Mac users get so upset when one of their own wants to abandon the platform is because it reveals a much greater percentage of dissatisfaction with OSX than previously admitted.
ebullitSep 27, 2005
if windows or a Mac crashes it is either a hardware problem or the computer need a nap,if Linux crashes it is either a hardware problem or the user needs a nap.