ATTN: Firefox Users

[Arthur]

You say you don't care for PC users, then wibble on about PCs, Windows and telling people to convert. Which gives proof that you do quite clearly 'care'.

Are you counting your IA-32 Intel Standard Architechture powered Mac (if its made after 2006...) in your number of PCs? Because it is just a PC, running one of many UNIX-derived operating systems for IA-32.

oh, and as reference for the about 3 people who'll know what this means:

Last login: Tue Jun 17 21:10:48 on ttys000
bluefear:~ cianduffy$ uname -a
Darwin bluefear.local 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

I'm posting this from one of my PC laptops, it just happens to be running the OS that its vendor supplied with it rather than Windows (which it also quite happily runs).

Bully for you! And no I don't care.......I just pity!

 

[Cian]

Bully for you! And no I don't care.......I just pity!

Pity is care. If you didn't care, you wouldn't barge in to any mention of them on here and start spouting standard Apple lover bile.

 

[Arthur]

Pity is care. If you didn't care, you wouldn't barge in to any mention of them on here and start spouting standard Apple lover bile.

Barged? No, don't think so.

Defending my corner which dial-a-bride kicked off, Yes!

 

[Cian]

Barged? No, don't think so.

Defending my corner which dial-a-bride kicked off, Yes!

"Your corner" being down to the fact that Macheads appear to think a slight against their (aging UNIX) platform is a personal attack...

 

[bhaexpress]

Barged? No, don't think so.

Defending my corner which dial-a-bride kicked off, Yes!

Well Arthur, I do hope that one day I get the 'pleasure' of meeting you personally. Thanks again for f***ing up a perfectly civil thread.

 

[Arthur]

"Your corner" being down to the fact that Macheads appear to think a slight against their (aging UNIX) platform is a personal attack...

Hmmmmm

Blimey, you mean there really are Mac users who don't know everything ? I am shocked

You're right wasn't a personal attack, more of a generalisation. I apologise!

 

[bhaexpress]

Yes well we all know you're a miserable git from your sporadic (and usually pointless) posts on other threads.

 

[Arthur]

Well Arthur, I do hope that one day I get the 'pleasure' of meeting you personally. Thanks again for f***ing up a perfectly civil thread.

You're welcome! Will you bring the wife along? I'd love to see what you get for your money!

 

[bhaexpress]

You're welcome! Will you bring the wife along? I'd love to see what you get for your money!

Well I will probably fall about laughing as I've never seen a giant virgina before, not even your mother's.

 

[Marc]

wheres NETSCAPE gone

 

[Cian]

wheres NETSCAPE gone

Bought by AOL, product started tanking, source was opened and became Mozilla

Netscape 9 was the last branded product and was equivalent to Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Firefox 3.0 is basically Netscape 10.

 

[adrian29uk]

No operating is better than the other, they do well at particular jobs

Windows - General Usage & Games
Mac - Graphic Design, Media
Linux, Free BSD, Sun - Servers

There you are this should stop all arguments for many years to come.

 

[Frutos]

There you are this should stop all arguments for many years to come.

I wouldn't hold your breath.

 

[adrian29uk]

Can someone please explain to me why a MAC server is better than

1) Linux, Free BSD, Sun?

 

[Cian]

Can someone please explain to me why a MAC server is better than

1) Linux, Free BSD, Sun?

Its shinier.

 

[adrian29uk]

Great a might buy one.

 

[adrian29uk]

Ok next question?

Why is a Mac better for Graphic Design?

Is the quality of your art work only as good as the machine it is printed on?

 

[Marc]

Bought by AOL, product started tanking, source was opened and became Mozilla

Netscape 9 was the last branded product and was equivalent to Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Firefox 3.0 is basically Netscape 10.

i was taking the piss dumbass

christ I used Netscape YEARS before you knew what a keyboard looked like

 

[Cian]

i was taking the piss dumbass

christ I used Netscape YEARS before you knew what a keyboard looked like

Netscape didn't even come out until after I had my first PC of my own....

 

[bhaexpress]

I wouldn't hold your breath.

Dreaming ! Actually I like the look of Macs but the one I use at work has the world's worst keyboard and Mouse. I also wonder how many Mac owners have built one from scratch (that's actually a serious question). PC users used to build their PCs from bits but these days that's really not cost effective especially as I have said elsewhere, with Vista. You're really better of buying a whole new machine unless you really need to know more about what can go wrong like me.

The bottom line is that PCs probably outnumber Mac 100 to 1 and that's due to the fact that they are cheaper. Additionally years ago when PC networks started to appear Macs were not very good at connecting to other computer networks, be they IBM Mainframe, OS/2, Unix, Vax or Novell amongst others. That plus the cost made most organizations go over to PCs. The first contract I ever did back in 1995 was a site, Cable and Wireless (later NTL and then Virgin) scrapping their Macs to replace them with the cheaper and more flexible PC. What's rather ironic was that in those days for a lot of applications including anything that used graphics the Mac pissed all over the PC. Also, whilst Windows 95 was nowhere near as flakey as Windows 3.11 it was still a far cry from Windows XP which few can argue is pretty stable.

The biggest problem with Vista is the lack of drivers. As has also been said elsewhere the biggest problem is with the 64 bit version as a whole host of manufacturers just don't produce 64 bit drivers, especially with older hardware.

At the end of the day there's pros and cons but I know that I won't as good a living supporting Macs as I can supporting PCs.