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John Steinberg wrote:
Have a nice day!

Nice personal attack there John. And you claim I'm humorless? Please,
instead of more personal attacks, why not explain to the rest of us why
it is ok for you to vent your frustrations about operating systems here
on SAA, over and over again? Why is that ok? To do so is to show zero
respect at all for the others here. Like I said, there are more
appropriate venues for the discussion of computer operating systems,
particularly when those discussions and self-described trolls and have
absolutely nothing to do with astronomy.

Greg Crinklaw:
...why not explain to the rest of us why
it is ok for you to vent your frustrations about operating systems here
on SAA, over and over again? Why is that ok? To do so is to show zero
respect at all for the others here.

Self-appointed Usenet cops come across as being self-righteous. If you
attended a business meeting and someone said "Hello! Nice to see you
again. How's the family?" would you slam them for being off-topic?

Furthermore, telling other SAA participants that the Mac is a better
alternative to the Typhoid Mary of computer operating systems does a
service to those who are sufficiently open-minded to investigate for
themselves.

Like I said, there are more
appropriate venues for the discussion of computer operating systems,
particularly when those discussions and self-described trolls and have
absolutely nothing to do with astronomy.

Once again, you knew the subject of this thread -- which is very much
on-topic, because it has to do with the great majority of participants
in SAA. If you consider it off-topic, one wonders why you spent the
time to read it and then took more time to reply.

Davoud

"When I learned to use [my new computer] and found out what Microsoft
Windows does best, I felt like I had paid $700.00 for a deck of cards."
‹ Windows user, quoted by an Information Technology (IT) manager.

Dr. Steven Beckwith, Director of the Space Telescope Science
Institute, uses a Mac. http://www.annapolisappleslice.com/who.html

Dr. John C. Mather, Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space
Telescope, uses a Mac. http://www.annapolisappleslice.com/who.html

"...yes, 'PC World' is produced on Macs." ‹ PC World Senior Editor
Rebecca Freed, January 30, 2004.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114464,00.asp

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Hey, I didn't just fall off a bloodless gorn flaggon. And, anyways, Uncle
Blothar already explained it to me.What I don't get is why all those angry
little people were bothering him like that. But, like Mom says, he's your
brother so I quess that explains it.

Speaking of bloodless gorns, Mom says to bring home a dozen.

Hey Pops, why don't the Intelites use AV, FW, and Updates to spare
themselves all the frabblegrazen? I run ALL my favorite interstellar comm
and pixel gear on one and I've never had even a glimmtark of a problem - and
that's going way back deep into the previous millenia. Are we just a smarter
all around species or do the machines just know what we'd do to them if they
even looked at us spectrallaxed?


-Junior


"John Steinberg" wrote in message
...
Junior wrote:

Uncle Blothar says the Fetts on Nimp are still worth a tumble.

In a few years time I hope to be able to explain to you that when you
overheard that conversation about crabs and Uncle Blothar, we weren't
discussing crustaceans.

- Pops

Davoud wrote in message
...

Dr. Steven Beckwith, Director of the Space Telescope Science
Institute, uses a Mac. http://www.annapolisappleslice.com/who.html

From that page:

# But the Mac’s Market Share is so Small -- Apple could go out of
# business. The Apple Macintosh share of the worldwide personal computer
# market is greater than the combined share of BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti,
# Lexus, and Merecedes Benz in the worldwide automobile market. Yes,
# Yugos outsell BMWs.

You've used the BMW/Apple market share analogy repeatedly, but frankly,
I think that is bogus. In the computer industry, market share is
EVERYTHING. Imagine if each make of car had to use its own particular
type of fuel (software). Supplying/building gas stations would then
be a problem for BMW and such cars would not be viable. Apple has
proven that it can sustain its small market share, which is a fantastic
achievement, considering all the other computer companies that have
fallen by the wayside. I'm therefore puzzled as to why you feel you
have to resort to such ****-poor analogies.

# "When I learned to use [my new computer] and found out what Microsoft
# Windows does best, I felt like I had paid $700.00 for a deck of cards."
# - Windows user, quoted by an Information Technology (IT) manager.

LOL! Which version of Windows does this mystery user refer to? If it
was Win95/98/ME, it's not relevant any more, since those are obsolete
versions. I'm sure you would think it was unfair if someone said the
Mac was crash-prone based on a quote about OS 9. In any case, do you
have a reference for that quote? How about even just a name for the
IT manager?! Come on, I'm sure you could come up with a better quote;
Microsoft has had plenty of bad press over the years.

"When I learned to use [my new computer] and found out what Macintosh
does best, I felt like I had paid $2000.00 for a fancy paperweight."
- Macintosh user, quoted by an Information Technology (IT) Manager.

See? Pretty meaningless without any names or attributions, huh?

How about:
"I think Microsoft make outstanding applications. But my biggest problem
with Microsoft is that their Operating Systems, just, well... suck."
- Linus Torvalds, creater of Linux, speaking on 'Connect' TV series, 08/99.