To: 1234; 6SJ7; Action-America; af_vet_rr; afnamvet; Alexander Rubin; anonymous_user; ...
Some carefully hidden FUD... but FUD none-the-less... PING!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
2 posted on
08/01/2006 9:26:37 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!")
To: Swordmaker
gee...I've never seen this thread before...../wise crack
3 posted on
08/01/2006 9:31:53 PM PDT by
Khurkris
(Things look different from over here.)
To: Swordmaker
The next box I buy will be a Mac. Im sick and tierd of desktop hijacks, worms, trojans, viruses and how totally FUBAR the registry gets, blah blah, blah blah, etc, etc....
If a Mac will at least do what it is advertised to do, RELIABLY, It will be more than worth the extra cost. My time alone spent "administating" my home network is worth at least that much.
4 posted on
08/01/2006 9:44:21 PM PDT by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: Swordmaker
If Apple would make an inexpensive x86 tower that had upgradable graphics I would buy one.
But they don't.
12 posted on
08/01/2006 11:33:58 PM PDT by
RFC_Gal
(It's not just a boulder; It's a rock! A ro-o-ock. The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!)
To: Swordmaker
Viruses: PCs are more vulnerable. That's not a PC flaw. It's a reality of hackers targeting the biggest market. Logic says more-popular Macs will attract more viruses. Optimism says they'll stand strong.The first sentance is correct. The second is only partially correct. It's not a PC flaw. It's an MS-Windows flaw. OS/X and Linux are inherrantly more resistant to viruses because they do a better job of separating and enforcing the difference between root and a user.
21 posted on
08/02/2006 6:39:00 AM PDT by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
To: All
Some people would have you believe it's merely a coincidence that Mac users and homosexuals constitute the same percentage of the population.
(j/k... sorta)
25 posted on
08/02/2006 7:03:23 AM PDT by
Sloth
('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
To: Swordmaker
While your artsy types are still largely enamored of the Mac, the Uber-Geek now calls the Mac home too, because of it's Unix foundations. When people say that PC people were the geeks, well, that's been changing for years. There were some harcore DOS geeks, but the real computer science types started using Linux and BSD years ago. When OSX came along, they had the best of both worlds. OSX is not really a Mac OS, not really an Apple, if you know the history behind it. It's an evolved version of Steve Jobs' old NeXTstep OS (which he convinced Apple to buy in 1996)...the "true" Mac OS (last seen in version 9.2.2) is an evolutionary dead end; like Microsoft's Windows 9X line, the more features they added, the less stable it got. So while Apple bought NeXT, the reality is, NeXT swallowed Apple whole. And NeXT was the coolest of hardcore geek companies...the smartest minds in computer science (and in science generally) used NeXT machines in the universities. Tim Berners Lee created the world wide web on a NeXT machine. NeXT made the first computers that had both rock-solid Unix operating systems, and attractive graphical interfaces. Apple's OSX is a direct descendant. Go to any Linux user group meeting, and you'll find a lot of the guys with Apple laptops now....they run their servers on Linux, but use OSX for day to day computing.
Ironically, with the vast improvements in Windows with XP, Windows is now the "easy to use" computer. There are power users on Windows, but power users tend to drift to Macs or other Unix boxes now.
26 posted on
08/02/2006 7:37:52 AM PDT by
DesScorp
To: Swordmaker
30 posted on
08/02/2006 8:31:41 AM PDT by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
To: Swordmaker
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