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Posted on 10/21/2007 8:20:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
he doesn’t sound too serious
or even competent, for that matter.
If I could use my mac at work, I would be much more productive.
My Dell PC is a piece of junk. I spend more time rebooting then entering my reports.
Crash, crash, crash.
You’re not going to believe it. I have the TV on, and Jonathan Falwell (Jerry’s son) is giving a sermon on “iTruths”. He’s even got a giant iPod on stage (a monitor they’ve rigged up to look like an iPod). It’s actually a good sermon so far...
My only problem with my mac is that i hate the way that MS-OFFICE for MAC is formatted.
Why not just format it like Office for Windows?
I can’t stand Macs, but after trying out IE 7 I now understand why people HATE Microsoft. Wow that browser is badly designed.
In before some semi-literate nimrod jumps down your throat for hating Macs.
Because then it would work a lot worse. Office/Windows is one of the most horribly laid out things ever.
But, if you must have a work-alike, go download the free OpenOffice suite. It’s a Microsoft Office for Windows workalike. Right down to the byzantine menu structures.
You obviously haven’t tried Office 2007 then... where they hide all the commands you need...
I am use to those Byzantine menu structures.
I was not aware that there was now Open Office for Mac. I will have to check it out.
Not sure why Microsoft wants to force users to do things in their own awkward way, but they do.
That’s like saying “I like being beaten and whipped by a leather clad midget because it feels so good when he stops. And I’m so used to it by now I’d miss the beatings!”
Oh,it’s great. You have to completely retrain most people on how to use the thing.
A number of my clients have taken a hint and rather than retrain everyone have moved to OpenOffice instead.
I am just use to having that tool bar up at the top of the screen all the time no matter what. I hate to have to pull up the tool bar or pallet to do a format change.
I have never used a Mac. My refurbished Dell has served me well, but I hate all those infernal updates and upgrades, I know everytime I let something into my system, I am running a risk of having something go wrong, Java is bugging me to update, should upgrade my Adobe reader, I don't know if I should dl & install flash or not, I just get everything working, and they change it so you have to upgrade whether you want to or not. Real Audio I hate; they keep upgrading to make you pay and I quit so now if it is RA, I can't watch the video.
Right now, I got an external DVD burner, Memorex, don't know if it is any good or not. It comes with Nero6? software. But there are compatibility issues with Roxio cd burner which I love because it is intuitive. If you are going to install Nero, you have to uninstall Roxio. But Roxio's free upgrade won't work, "the burning engine has not been detected". Then there is a Roxizap you are supposed to run because it does not do a clean uninstall. Then if that doesn't work, I go to MS website and print out this awful stuff for backing up the registry (with Win95 I could do a regular backup & restore, not so Win XP), going into dos, restore, sounds like a nightmare to me.
I do a lot of graphics and PS work, and Macs are or were preferred by graphic artists. The problem is that there are more programs for Windows platform than Mac.
I feel for the OP. I really do. I hate constant changes.
For reference, this is Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief:
And, yes, you are out of touch. Ever worked in a drab gray cube farm? Ever worked in a well-designed office? Remember the difference? Design matters.
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