Posted on 11/11/2009 9:13:06 PM PST by Gomez
We've been saying it for years, but everyone thought that we Mac-heads had a chip on our shoulder from the once-sour relationship with Microsoft. Finally, however, the truth has come to light; a group manager from Microsoft has gone on record and admitted the source of some of Windows 7's prettier bits and pieces.
Simon Aldous sat down with PCR for an interview and when he was asked to comment on the agility of Redmond's latest operating system, he had this to say:
"What we've tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it's traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel."While I am glad that people at Microsoft are finally accepting the superiority of OS X, it still stung a little when Simon started to backtrack saying that Vista was more stable than OS X.
Here is a list of Job's campaign contributions All very left including Rahm Emanuel. OTOH, he hasn't written a check since 2004.
And here is a list of Bill Gate's contributions Some Pubs but the vast majority for Dems including Nancy Pelosi in 2008, and he's still writing checks.
And Jobs has had the guts to take on that lib scared cow the teachers union and to not let himself be greenmailed by the enviro-whackos.
All in all, I say that in 2009 Jobs is the one doing our side the most good.
And that's not even taking into account Gates' fanaticism for abortion.
Not to mention Apple doing the conservative thing when it comes to pollution. Greenpeace is mad at them for not promising to do things like other computer makers have. Instead they went out and actually did things to make their computers more environmentally friendly.
Very true!
I am now literally laughing out loud.
There is NO professional software developer on earth who actually codes for money that thinks Objective-C is superior in any way, shape, manner, or form to C++.
You’re funny. You should start a blog so I can have a laugh every day.
“There is NO professional software developer on earth who actually codes for money that thinks Objective-C is superior in any way, shape, manner, or form to C++.”
That’s most certainly not true.
You should look into why C++ usage just keeps on dropping year after year. It’s not a good language for large-scale software development, it’s far too abstruse, and major implementations don’t conform to the standard after many years (Visual C++ in particular).
“What I said was that based on the respondent’s logic, Microsoft hadn’t stolen anything.”
And my response simply pointed out the culture of theft at Microsoft. Simple enough, eh?
This is entirely my point. This is an industry of ideas, and the claim made by Applebots that their favorite hardware/software company is this innovation giant is patently absurd. These ideas are stolen all the time -- and the Applebots on this thread are taking the meaning of that word too literally. "Apple didn't steal BSD, it's free." "Apple didn't steal Xerox's ideas, they paid for them." I mean steal in the sense that comedians steal jokes from each other. And they all do that. But Apple fanboys pretend that Apple doesn't do it. It's crap.
As for the claim that Apple did some of the things early, maybe not first but better, OK... sometimes... What I will agree to is that Apple has better marketing and better advertising, and the fact that they're able to sell Intel equipment for much higher prices than their competition is more a tribute to P.T. Barnum's knowledge of human nature than it is to any real innovation: I've had Zunes and I've had iPod Touches and frankly, the Creative Zen -- which no longer exists -- was a better value than either.
Office 2007 is a reason why OpenOffice is becoming more popular. The new interface is atrocious. I still haven’t decoded the underlying paradigm that would allow me to “postulate” where to find various commands and features.
Just locating the File menu is anti-intuitive in that you must click on the logo. Umm... Everyone I talk to has a story about discovering the File menu. It usually begins like this, “I was so frustrated so I started randomly clicking on everything.”
Let's get one thing straight...
I'm the employer...he's the employee. It's not my job to analyze his problem - he's remote from me and it's his job to correct whatever problem he's having. I don't have the need to Google anything concerning his problems.
Next, if the "audio input and output jack are one in the same" then it makes it somewhat difficult to use most stereo headsets that utilize separate jacks for the headphone and mic now doesn't it?
Run off and play now. I think I hear your Master, Mr. Jobs, calling you. Run fast....
C++ usage is dropping because most programmers simply aren't bright enough to code in it, and there are simpler viable alternatives for average coders now available. If most coders were not functioning at the level of 1950's COBOL programmers, Java, to take just one example, would never have existed. Even so, not even 1% of developers on this planet code in objective-C.
Please cite one major programming feature in the C++ standard that Visual C++ doesn't conform to. Just one actually used, please. I've written code for money in just about every language there is, and there is no other with the expressive power or capability of C++. And I have used just about everybody's C++ compiler. They're ALL conformant for practical purposes.
Please do cite for me ONE large scale application actually written in Objective-C. It's a toy language, for applets. No one is going to code a major IT project or even a serious App in Objective-C. If you think even the major Mac applications are coded in Objective-C, you're kidding yourself.
First off, I'm not blind since my employee is remote and I can't see his laptop. You would understand that if you knew anything about the concept of reading.
Next, you Mac-ites seem to know nothing of which you speak. Macbooks do have a "line in" port, but it is unpowered - hence the inability to use a great majority of the common headsets out there.
I guess that I have to do YOUR research for you. This is from a forum that likes to support your Dear Leader:
So, you're calling an unpowered "line in" port equivalent to a standard mic jack found on most PC laptops?
Run off now - I hear that Mr. Jobs is calling you for "servicing".
Oh...that was a "snappy" reply.
I don't know if whether to call you "quick-witted" or, more fittingly, "dim-witted".
My Thursday was going pretty badly before you piped up. Now it’s full of laughs and cheer. Keep going, I need the amusement.
The only thing amusing here is that you are a failure at admitting your own stupidity regarding "powered" mic ports and "unpowered" line-in ports.
You've gone two posts now without addressing that issue. Typical Mac zombie, you like to spout off until you're confronted with the truth.
Ta-ta....you're a waste of my time.
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