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To: TXnMA
I reiterate: scan this thread: Mac users discuss computers and systems. Judge for yourself what PC/Windows fans discuss...

Neither your post 68 or 89 discussed OS'es so I guess Mac users do discuss things other than the OS in these threads, you included.

You get the last word.

93 posted on 04/18/2009 4:09:46 PM PDT by theymakemesick (You may be a terrorist if you went to church last Sunday or think "shall not be infringed" means it)
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To: theymakemesick; Swordmaker
"Neither your post 68 or 89 discussed OS'es"...

From my #68:

Full disclosure: I do cartography for archaeology (including mapping long-unused pioneer roads). Since Canvas/GIS was bought by a Windows developer company (and, then abandoned) the only good GIS system I've found turns out to be ESRI's ArcGIS series -- which runs only on windows. So I run ArcGIS on VMWare, and then put the complex multilayer map/photo composites together in (the Mac version of) CanvasX.

I also have a Dell with ArcGIS and the Windows version of CanvasXI. My choice is to use the Mac, rather than the PC -- because the Mac allows me to concentrate on work, rather than on futzing with the foibles of the OS. It's my choice -- based on productivity and reduced frustration.

Apologies for my above off-topic discussion of wienerschnitzel and eschatology...

94 posted on 04/18/2009 4:30:04 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: theymakemesick; TXnMA
I guess Mac users do discuss things other than the OS in these threads, you included.

That's another non-sequitur... and a "strawman" argument, another logical fallacy. Bringing up the psychological failings and the earning abilities of people you disagree with is not hte same as discussing "other things." It is meant to insult and belittle those with whom you are having the discussion or to minimize your opponents' arguments and opinions, as being based in either pathology or incompetence, to others who happen to read the discussion.

96 posted on 04/18/2009 4:50:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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