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condorstats:
Just a little note. I had the Mandrake disks for a while, jsut never used then.
sway:
quote:Originally posted by bubaslubas:
OK, has ANY of you guys had contact with XP? I mean, real contact?
It's easiness to use is at a level that has never been achieved on any of the previous versions of Win. It even tied on CNET's deathmatch against OS X (note that CNET has always thrashed Windows when against Mac OS.) OS X is spectacular (I should know, I own a G4) but XP is a darn good try by the Microshit guys (i like them as much as you do, but we have to give credit for their attempt). Just don't thrash the OS just because it's built by M$.
I just wished my os x had mp3 tags support in Finder.
Oh, I really don't care if many of its ideas have been stolen from Apple - just appraise them for having the good-sense of following innovation.
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the last version of windows i used was ME, which in my eyes was "okay" - i would only prefer it over older versions of MacOS (9.x). i've heard XP was better than ME, so i guess it can't be that bad, but i'm very happy with OSX so i doubt i'll ever give XP a try.
condorstats:
I wish I had paid more attention to Mac. I have just bought my new Athlon System, which of course cannot run X, which I would like to play with.
sway:
quote:Originally posted by condorstats:
I wish I had paid more attention to Mac. I have just bought my new Athlon System, which of course cannot run X, which I would like to play with.
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i never payed attention to Apple either, untill i seen the OSX-beta news, and then about a month after i went and got an iMac, but didn't actually start running OSX untill 10.1, and so far i have had no problems with it, besides the fact that Quicktime runs kinda weird on it for me, but i can live with that.
gump420:
quote:Originally posted by condorstats:
I wish I had paid more attention to Mac. I have just bought my new Athlon System, which of course cannot run X, which I would like to play with.
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A note on terminology. "X" usually means "X-Windows", which can be installed on just about any *NIX system. "OS X" usually means "Mac OS X", which is what you meant. Why the confusion? Well, X-Windows has existed for ages, but would Apple let that stop them from using some silly marketing gimmick? Nah.
quote:Originally posted by Black Vise:
First of all, bubaslubas never wanted to say that WinXP is perfect. Microsoft promises a lot, yes. But go to any security site, and count how many exploits are there for *nix systems. And they too advertised it was "safe". Safer than MS's ones, yes, maybe. Safe, no.
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First of all, the number of security holes in the various *NIX systems is lower than the holes in Winblows by several orders of magnitude. Secondly, *NIX OSes are patched many times faster than Winblows is. Thirdly, you sound like you have a pole stuck up your ass. How does that relate to the debate? It doesn't; I just felt like throwing some mud-slinging into the mix.
quote:Why does it bundle low-quality products? Because it once bundled a very nice browser, and Netscape took them to court, ending up in a forced division and a heavy bill to pay (the court decision was overrided some time ago and Microsoft won't be splitted).
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No, Netscape went out of business. The government sued Microsoft. Why did the government give a shit about Netscape going out of business? They couldn't care less. No, the real story is that the only reason Internet Exploiter is a quality product is because M$ needs a monopoly in WWW browsers in order to make .NET work; the government sued Microsoft for using their monopoly in operating systems to gain a monopoly in browsers, which is exactly what happened you ignorant fuckface. In any case, the abysmal turn of events in said court case since the Republicans gained control of the White House is almost enough to make me turn into a Democrat. Hell, if it weren't for the fact that I believe Bush is right on with the military campaing currently in progress in Afghanistan, then I probably _would_ become a Democrat.
[ December 22, 2001: Message edited by: gump420 ]
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