GO LINUX!!
Posted on 10/14/2002 7:47:55 PM PDT by chance33_98
Red-Faced Microsoft Pulls Controversial Ad Spot Featured PR Agency Employee
POSTED: 9:28 p.m. EDT October 14, 2002
WASHINGTON -- Red-faced Microsoft executives have pulled an ad that purports to show a free-lance writer who switched to Windows from rival Macintosh.
There were questions about whether the woman actually existed.
It turns out she works at a public relations company hired by Microsoft. The Associated Press tracked her down by examining personal data hidden within documents that Microsoft published with its ad.
She says, "It was me. I made the switch."
Microsoft's ad was apparently a response to a national campaign by Apple that features names, photographs and testimonials from people who began using Macintosh technology because they were frustrated with Windows.
My understanding is that the vacuum tube is only in the audio portion of the motherboard. Its for an amplifier section that supposedly produces a "warmer" sound.
That's "...arguing the merits of Mac vs PC..."
I am not a Microsoft fanatic. I prefer using Linux on servers, for example. At the end of setting up my new wireless network, the only company I'm really enthusiastic about is Netgear.
Regards, Ivan
It's bad enought that they rip off Apple's designs, it's even worse that they are trying to rip off their ads now. Reminds me of Of Mice and Men.
GO LINUX!!
Bill Gates is going to get a Mac and pet him and hold him and call him George?"
Like what? You have all the MS apps that matter (and some very nice ones from MS that aren't even available on a PC). All the usual business apps. All the graphics/multimedia software. Better audio software. All the UNIX tools and development environments plus all the NextStep stuff. What, precisely, is missing?
You'll have to explain this; the old Mac APIs were a turd. I'm not sure how they could be failure beyond the fact that they are so new that many developers aren't comfortable with the Cocoa framework. The framework itself is elegant, and the underlying Unix architecture is practically the definition of elegant from a developer's standpoint. I develop for a lot of different platforms, and MacOS X Jaguar is actually very nice if you use the native APIs and POSIX libs (instead of the API bridges like Carbon, which are a bit gross).
There have been many issues - perhaps the biggest is the fact that the Apple tools no longer work consistently across different platforms. I have to keep separate versions of source for different OS versions. It shouldn't be that way. Jaguar also broke graphics manipluation (NSImage, and NSBitmapRepresentation) big time. Spent months chasing down bugs when the Apple release Notes for Jaguar concede that there was a change and ("This shouldn't affect anyone!") Ha! They are getting way too sloppy.
They have major security holes that the OS system will not install on many systems listed by Apple as being supported, the graphics drawing is extrmemly inconsistent across Apple hardware; simple code compiled under the new tools behaves differently on different hardware; compiler optimizations are completely broken; the 10.2 server is 25% stable as in previous verions; the mail app in 10.2 won't reliably download my mail. None of these problems existed on 10.1.5. On top of that Apple Developer Support doesn't havea clue - their responses to bug reports indicate that they don't even read them and its clear they've never tested this OS on over half the machines they say support it.
Its the worst release of OS X since the second public beta. I've been working with it since before public beta.
No I was thinking Microsoft is a lot like Lenny. It's bigger and stronger than Apple (George), but it really wants to be everything that Apple (George) is so it imitates them. The only difference is that the ending of Microsoft's dominance by Apple, Linux, etc won't be quite so dramatic as Of Mice and Men's.
Disclaimer: I'm running OSX 10.2.1 on a PowerMac G3 350 with 512mb of RAM and 40GB 7200 RPM hdd.
All security updates work fine for me
Graphics drawing IS CONSISTANT across the platform. It is your box that has the problem, not the platform as a whole. I have worked for an apple reseller before and the demo units worked just fine. My PowerMac and PowerBook (both G3 models) work just fine. My neighbor's G4 iMac works just fine. My friends' Power(Mac || Book) G4s work just fine. $hit, if it works on my old hardware then it isn't a problem that exist in the wild for most users!!!!
Funny, all of the code I've tried works just fine. Most of the mac users I know are running some UNIX software on their boxes without a problem. I run Python 2.2 and the CVS code just fine along with stuff like NCFTP, SSH and Apache just fine. Same with a few of my friends.
Can't speak for the compiler optimizations because I only have a light knowledge of GCC. Most of my Makefiles are pretty basic.
OSX Server: no comment as I have no experience with it
Mail client. It grabs my IMAP mail from my university mail account without a problem.
No offense, but you sound a lot like an art major I know who installed OS 9 and OSX on the same HFS+ partition then tried to "remove OSX" by dropping all of its system files into the trash. And she called me up crying the night before a MAJOR project was due the next day. Oh and she hadn't printed out her drawing before she decided to rip her OS a new one.
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The whole history of the Windows OS has been one lie after another to consumers. So what would you expect but more deception from Microsoft. Totally despicable. |
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