Uh - Asher, while Microsoft definitely does not charge for the most recent service packs, and is doing a better job of supporting their obsolete OS's - their service packs don't make other people's programs not work. Do I need to post the most recent link, from the MS's own site, about the number of programs XP sp2 nukes?
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Originally posted by shawnmmcc
Uh - Asher, while Microsoft definitely does not charge for the most recent service packs, and is doing a better job of supporting their obsolete OS's - their service packs don't make other people's programs not work. Do I need to post the most recent link, from the MS's own site, about the number of programs XP sp2 nukes?
Apple changes **** just for the hell of it."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Just for the hell of it? Um ... right. Look, I don't particularly have a dog in this fight, but in my experience, a company doesn't just change things "just for the hell of it."
A company's logic might be twisted, but it's there. Somewhere.
Gatekeeper"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
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My interpretation is there's no point in most of the stuff they change, they just like to be edgy and fresh. Their engineers also clearly don't give a rats ass about backwards compatibility like MS' did -- which is one reason Apple is a niche market today."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Well, I have to be honest: The seemingly continual updates to X is annoying, and is one reason I haven't upgraded my existing iMac or bought a new iMac. For a while there, it seemed like Apple was releasing an OS update every four to six months.
Hell, I'm still using 8.6 and it's been a good workhorse.
Gatekeeper"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
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Windows XP was a service update to Windows 2000.
Win2K = WinNT 5.0
WinXP = WinNT 5.1
It's true that Apple charges an arm and a leg for it's incrimental fixes, but so does MS.
This says nothing about whether or not Apple sucks in general though. Apple is a great concept twenty years ago, which has been poorly handled, surpassed, and kept alive only by a rabid fan base.
MS, on the other hand, stole its technology when it could get away with it, bought it when it got caught, and used an illegal business practices to create a monopoly which it has used to extend monopolies over other spheres of software.
LINUX doesn't work well yet, and may never.
BSD is too nerdy.
BeOS went out of business.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Windows XP was a service update to Windows 2000.
Win2K = WinNT 5.0
WinXP = WinNT 5.1
It's true that Apple charges an arm and a leg for it's incrimental fixes, but so does MS.
This says nothing about whether or not Apple sucks in general though. Apple is a great concept twenty years ago, which has been poorly handled, surpassed, and kept alive only by a rabid fan base.
MS, on the other hand, stole its technology when it could get away with it, bought it when it got caught, and used an illegal business practices to create a monopoly which it has used to extend monopolies over other spheres of software.
LINUX doesn't work well yet, and may never.
BSD is too nerdy.
BeOS went out of business."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Umm, Asher, I believe many of your criticisms of Linux concern changes to "just the kernel." Methinks your protesting too much - and I must grant Che a very nice and succinct summarization, without name calling, of the currect state of OS's.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Windows XP was a service update to Windows 2000.
Win2K = WinNT 5.0
WinXP = WinNT 5.1
It's true that Apple charges an arm and a leg for it's incrimental fixes, but so does MS.
This says nothing about whether or not Apple sucks in general though. Apple is a great concept twenty years ago, which has been poorly handled, surpassed, and kept alive only by a rabid fan base.
MS, on the other hand, stole its technology when it could get away with it, bought it when it got caught, and used an illegal business practices to create a monopoly which it has used to extend monopolies over other spheres of software.
LINUX doesn't work well yet, and may never.
BSD is too nerdy.
BeOS went out of business.
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For one they have to upgrade because of the unpatched security vulnerabilities as Asher has pointed out. Failing to fix security problems in Apple's products is not Apple's business?
Apple's security updates are not limited to the latest version of the OS.
In any case, security is not really a problem on the virus and spyware free mac platform.
Windows is a poorly thought out joke that doesn't work properly. Try to do anything that requires multiple languages or rare non-roman characters on Windows... what a ****ing joke that is. I suppose that one could refuse to think that eating **** was a horrible thing, or at least maintain so in print. But the facts speak otherwise. Same goes for Windows. It's just silly.
As it stands, apart from the 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2 updates (the central one of which was free to all users) Apple has been going along at an update every two years. The next one will be about 2 1/2 years after the intro of the current system.
Microsoft used to do that before they **** their pants and made a mess of Longshot or whatever it is called.Only feebs vote.
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Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Just for the hell of it? Um ... right. Look, I don't particularly have a dog in this fight, but in my experience, a company doesn't just change things "just for the hell of it."
A company's logic might be twisted, but it's there. Somewhere.B♭3
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Windows XP was a service update to Windows 2000.
Win2K = WinNT 5.0
WinXP = WinNT 5.1
It's true that Apple charges an arm and a leg for it's incrimental fixes, but so does MS.
It's a much larger change than the OS X updates; indeed, it's as much of a leap as OS 9 was to OS X. On the other hand, the incremental updates (SP1, SP2), which are tantamount to OS X 10.1, OS X 10.2, and so on, are free.
BeOS went out of business.B♭3
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Originally posted by Agathon
For one they have to upgrade because of the unpatched security vulnerabilities as Asher has pointed out. Failing to fix security problems in Apple's products is not Apple's business?
Apple's security updates are not limited to the latest version of the OS.
In any case, security is not really a problem on the virus and spyware free mac platform.
Windows is a poorly thought out joke that doesn't work properly. Try to do anything that requires multiple languages or rare non-roman characters on Windows... what a ****ing joke that is. I suppose that one could refuse to think that eating **** was a horrible thing, or at least maintain so in print. But the facts speak otherwise. Same goes for Windows. It's just silly.
OTOH, my parents had problems on the classic OS and MS Outlook Express receiving emails containing spanish text (I don't know the coding)... all the accentuated characters got lost, so I made the very opposite experience than you described. Most probably the truth is somewhere in between.
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