Posted on 02/09/2012 1:13:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“Gates hasnt had an OS since DOS 6.22, the rest is simply DOS with Gloss, pathetic ”
Shows what you know of Windows NT. Just another ignorant person thinking Windows NT is like Windows 3.11 running on top of DOS.
“It will not be possible to port existing Windows apps to the new platform. Its a total rewrite”
We do it every day. A single code base that supports dozens of platforms and hundreds of hardware devices platform known to man. Ya just gotta know what yer doin’!
Don’t forget he bought DOS in the first place from one of the competing initial DOS’es that first existed.
“Apple will continue to dominate the tech landscape whether you like it or not. :-)”
Let’s see now, we heard that about dozens of products and companies no longer in business. Apple has a good market share but that can be easy shrunk in two years or less as people tend to replace devices that quickly.
Hahahahaha...
Should read... "Apple has a good market share but that can be easy shrunk in two years or less as WINDOZE people tend to replace WINDOZE devices that quickly."
At an online auction that closed today, a 7 year old G4 17" Powerbook, (which can only use an OS version Apple no longer supports) sold for $430.
Apple folk also get to use their equipment without virus protection, and that equipment has a much longer useful life. I am typing this on my 3 year old 24" iMac. I also own a 17" Powerbook older than the one sold, and have some antique Powerbooks from the 90's that still surf the web and when new created some marvelous work product. I shelved my MacBook 13" for an iPad, since I rarely need portability for more than browsing and email. I also have an iPhone 4, for which I pay Verizon an extra $20 a month for wifi hotspotting...
I doubt you can find a single Microsoft driven laptop of equal age to that PowerBook which will even be useful for more than a boat anchor.
“I doubt you can find a single Microsoft driven laptop of equal age to that PowerBook which will even be useful for more than a boat anchor. “
Apple is just a company. You really can’t have sex with it.
I happen to have a HP 17” laptop I bought in April 2004. Works great still and plenty powerful. 8 years old and still kicing perfectly. Wife has her Dell 17” laptop from December 2004. Same thing; works great. We both have 13” lightweight ones we bought last year and even a iPad, but they are all tools, not something to get off about.
So much for your Apple humping.
Dumbest post on this subject ever. Seriously.
Gee, what a good argument...
I speak of a good computer system, and you equate that with sex. I doubt you have the ability to reasonable argument, so I will just give you credit for being witless.
BTW, I bet you could maybe get $50 for your 17" HP... or the Dell!!!
Apple is just a company, which has managed to gain enough buyers of their equipment to create a fabulous generator of wealth for lots of lots of Americans... and that speaks of all I need to know!
Apple stock closed today at $493.17, up 3.46%, with a Mkt Cap of $459.82B. Dell closed at $18.06, HP at $29.11, and Microcrap at $30.77!
Keep feeling good about your ability to post mindless drivel. You are most excellent at it... and fun to drive up the wall!
I wouldn't want to be short 100 shares of Apple right now that is for sure!"
That’s quite correct esp in the area of security. MS failed so badly for so long that several companies est themselves are are still profitable. Then there’s the problem of keeping the registry correct and on and on and...
This is a paraphrased conversation I had with a Apple cultist at lunch.
AC: "I've downloaded an app that allow me to use my ipad as a remote"!
Me: "Uhm...don't you watch movies on your Ipad already?"
AC: "Well only when traveling and stuff, at home I have a huge flat screen" Me: "Don't you have a logitech remote already?"
AC: "you don't understand...this is an app that let's my ipad be a remote" Me: "So you replaced your $200 remote with a $700 remote?" AC: "You don't get it...you've been corrupted by microsoft" Me: "I work mostly Aix which is unix" AC: "Unix! that's old...blah blah" Me: "That is what the latest Apple OS is based on" AC: "..." ME: "Maybe you could find an app that would allow your iPhone to be a remote"
AC: "why would I want to do that?" Me: "...uhm...I don't know"
Thats quite correct esp in the area of security. MS failed so badly for so long that several companies est themselves are are still profitable. Then theres the problem of keeping the registry correct and on and on and...
One of my favorite security types is a fellow by the name of Bruce Schneier who has a pretty extensive security/crypto blog at http://www.schneier.com/
Schneir wrote a piece fairly recently that I wasn't able to unearth in a 5 minute quick look about Security Essentials (he writes a ton of stuff). It was his claim that MS had finally gotten security right and that third party antivirus software was no longer necessary or useful for MS OS's with SE installed.
I'm a fan of the penguin myself but I have installed SE on relative's machines some time ago and things appear to be working smoothly.
Strange, I never mentioned Apple in my post...nor was I thinking of them. To be clear I was thinking about S/W engineering & design as a scientific discipline vs that of jerk-knee idea de jour. I worked at MS for a time and the closer I looked the bigger, nastier and more plentiful the warts were. If they’ve hired the best people I never met them. I could never recommend MS....ever.
Now Ill mention Apple. I use a Mac rather than a PC for real work vs tech-toy. Its not that I have a great love for Apple products but I do like the idea of unix under the covers.
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