Posted on 10/30/2001 7:38:52 AM PST by SlickWillard
I haven't tried loading Need For Speed 5 yet. NFS5 is not compatible with Windows 2000 but I needed the stability rather than the gaming capacity. Hopefully I can get both now.
Apple's best reason yet to pitch your Pentium
James CoatesOctober 28, 2001
With the arrival of Windows XP, Microsoft's superb new personal computer operating system, there rarely has been a more appropriate time to consider dumping Bill Gates' enormously popular world of Windows and moving over to the Macintosh minority.
That's right, now may be the time to pitch your Pentium. Maybe you should whisk Windows into the recycle bin and get yourself one of the equally powerful computers based on the PowerPC chip line offered by Apple Computer Inc. of 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif. The reasoning is as simple as second-grade show and tell, friends and neighbors. Since Microsoft pitches the move from all other flavors of Windows to Windows XP as an elemental change that will alter our computing lives forever, why not go hog wild?
How about a sea change that really will alter our computing lives forever? Why not move to Mac OS X? (MORE....)
I've shared much of this path the author has walked (I was doing Vaxes while he was doing mainframes), and I must say that the neat stuff is still there just as long as one doesn't get caught up in the "suit stuff".
I do, however, miss the days of "Creative Computing Magazine" - when it seemed there was a new breakthrough every week!
If he hadn't put the ME on his system that would have helped too. My 98 still works just fine. The only reason I'll put XP on is that I got a good deal on XP Pro because I work for a channel partner of MS.
ARRRRGGHHHH!!!! There is no end to my hatred for Bill Gates, Microsoft and the WHOLE #O*(#$)(OIF COMPUTER INDUSTRY. I want my life back.
Pretty soon, I thought, Gee, I should ping SlickWillard.
But then, guess who . . .
I work on the things every day, and I try and tell my bosses and customers (they're really the same), about how incredible are the many more fiascos which Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, et all, have dreamed up.
The lack of thoroughness is astonishing.
In the last two weeks, I have called and talked to the hard drives special section of technical support at I.B.M. And their responses to me have been that I know more about the drives than do they!
I constantly run across instructions manuals which have conflicting information: Given devices A and B, one manual says to turn ON, first A, then B; while the other manual says to turn ON, first B, then A.
Software which is supposedly compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, must actually be run by using a Windows '98 startup floppy diskette.
The list of incompatibilities with the PC structure as a whole, is fissionable in reaction.
Whatever "standards" once meant, is now meaning-less, literally.
And then, when I am desparate for at least something interesting in the news, in traffic, I turn on the radio and hear the Maja Rushies lecturing us about how Microsoft is "innovative?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Computer industry experts have forgotten:
The purpose of computers and computer programs, is to substitute for human effort.
The darned things do not work; rather, they just consume.
For the inputs, very little outputs.
It's like that pretty much anywhere you work nowadays. Public education coming home to roost. I expect that unless some miracle happens, we won't be able to build cars or get a Space Shuttle off the ground in the not too distant future.
Yes and if Apple hadn't decided to emulate Sony Beta and kill itself off, more of us might be enjoying Apple machines.
Closed system? Outrageous prices?
Some of us have to spend our own money and don't have an unlimited supply.
We also have better things to do with it given a choice.
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