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Mac Owners Are Snobs
The Street ^ | 2/16/2008 | Brittany Umar

Posted on 02/18/2008 8:43:10 AM PST by rivercat

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To: Swordmaker

I’m speaking strictly about what was depicted in the film.


421 posted on 02/19/2008 2:52:42 AM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: dcam
Hey,lay off...besides my PC I have a Mac 7100 and an Amiga2000 and an Amiga1200.
The Amiga was the first computer to have a G.U.I. and a mouse.Here is a link to an Amiga Emulator you can run on your PC=
http://uae.coresystems.de/

422 posted on 02/19/2008 3:26:53 AM PST by cavador (I am NOT the boy who cried WOLF!)
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To: redangus

You haven’t listed seven steps to open an email attachment. When I get a pdf attachment I either save it to the desktop and open it later or I click on the pdf icon in the text box and Acrobat Reader opens it. Same with a jpeg or gif, except they frequently appear in the text box when the email is opened, no clicking required (only if I want to save to the desktop). Don’t know what WMP is, and nothing is downloaded to preview. You do appear to have the only Mac that doesn’t work right.


423 posted on 02/19/2008 4:34:32 AM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: dcam

Gee, I’m the opposite of what they say I should be, and we’ve got 4 Macs and 5 iPods!


424 posted on 02/19/2008 4:36:37 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: dcam

Gee, I’m the opposite of what they say I should be, and we’ve got 4 Macs and 5 iPods!


425 posted on 02/19/2008 4:37:32 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: dcam

Gee, I’m the opposite of what they say I should be, and we’ve got 4 Macs and 5 iPods!


426 posted on 02/19/2008 4:37:44 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: wbill
Only a lib company with lib users would do something like that.

No, only a GOOD company would do something like that. Nothing quite like the iPhone existed at the time it was released, so there was no market to base the price. Apple realized they made a mistake, and corrected it.
427 posted on 02/19/2008 6:13:00 AM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: HAL9000

Thank you - that may have been what was going on.


428 posted on 02/19/2008 6:18:30 AM PST by Joann37
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To: Fishrrman

I might just have to do that. That’s how I taught myself to use a computer back in 1998. I’’d never turned one on prior to that.


429 posted on 02/19/2008 7:05:34 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Swordmaker

You had to have been there....


430 posted on 02/19/2008 7:37:09 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: HAL9000

I know this woman lawyer who switched who office over to macs because they go with the decor better. literally.

Then again she is mostly wordprocessing and bookkeeping. No intensive power usage.

Marketing is fun.


431 posted on 02/19/2008 7:53:05 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: BJungNan
XP was the final perfection to all that fiddling in 95, 98 and 2000.

Actually, XP is NT 6.0. Win2K definitely shows itself as NT5 in the folders.

I've used NT since 4.0 and never had any of the problems people complain about with 95, 98 and ME.

432 posted on 02/19/2008 7:54:13 AM PST by js1138
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To: longtermmemmory
I know this woman lawyer who switched who office over to macs because they go with the decor better. literally.

Apple's investment in good industrial design is an effective marketing tactic.

433 posted on 02/19/2008 8:07:38 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: Swordmaker

Well, you seem very passionate about your Mac. The point I was making earlier was that for software pusposes, Mac is usually limited when compared to PC due to the number of developers.


434 posted on 02/19/2008 8:18:42 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Galena Nevada
Don’t compare Vista to Mac OS. Vista sucks.

Ouch. Read my post again. I did not compare Vista to Mac OS. The person I quoted (in italics) did.

435 posted on 02/19/2008 8:28:42 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Disgruntled about it all. None of the above.)
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To: Swordmaker
Would you decide you don't want the Mona Lisa because someone drew a stick figure? Microsoft tried to emulate a Mac and failed miserably.

It was just an flippant quip. Gee, you Mac users are not only "snobby" but touchy, too.

436 posted on 02/19/2008 8:31:32 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Disgruntled about it all. None of the above.)
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl

WMP is Windows Media Player which is needed to open attachment of WMV Windows Media Video.


437 posted on 02/19/2008 9:02:13 AM PST by redangus
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To: HAL9000

I have downloaded WMP for Mac though it took 2 tries and I had to download something called Suffit to make it work, and it took 3-4 tries to get that to open and work right.


438 posted on 02/19/2008 9:03:50 AM PST by redangus
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To: Swordmaker

“When it doesn’t run like Windows you blame it.”

Let’s shorten that to “when it doesn’t run”


439 posted on 02/19/2008 9:05:21 AM PST by redangus
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To: redangus

Yes, Microsoft used an inconvenient archive format to package their software - the old StuffIt format. I’m glad you got past that, and hope your videos will work correctly now.


440 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:28 AM PST by HAL9000
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