Its my favorite form of humor to act deadly serious about stupid or ridiculous things and world watch peoples smiles get wiped off their faces. When I joke, NOBODY gets it by thinking Im being serious, and that is funny to me.
__________________
Intel I7 920 D0 + Asus Triton 88
Gigabyte GA X58 - UD5
6x2 GB Geil Ultra Series PC3-17000
2x1 GB Sapphire HD 5770
2x1 TB Samsung F1
Gigaworks THX 7.1 Speakers
OCZ ModXStream 780 Watt
Antec P182
Acer G24
Razer Deathadder GW edition
Saitek Cyborg keyboard
Windows 7 Proffesional
Best episode ever when bart accidentally moons the flag and they then take the complete piss out of the American legal system and the general publics failure at satire. And then the magical fish while they are working in Japan ... THE MAGICAL FISH!!! ...
Knife goes in, guts come out =D =D =D
Way off topic, but that episode is epic awesome.
__________________
Intel I7 920 D0 + Asus Triton 88
Gigabyte GA X58 - UD5
6x2 GB Geil Ultra Series PC3-17000
2x1 GB Sapphire HD 5770
2x1 TB Samsung F1
Gigaworks THX 7.1 Speakers
OCZ ModXStream 780 Watt
Antec P182
Acer G24
Razer Deathadder GW edition
Saitek Cyborg keyboard
Windows 7 Proffesional
At first i was like "wah everyone i know is getting it" and then i saw "Inquirer" Weird, if this considered British humor since i usually don't like it, unless it's Monty Python...........
Even though I think Vista was essentially a botched and difficult to use beta for Windows 7, I find it quite amusing that when Vista sold moderately well at launch people blamed it on the fact that OEMs were forced/encouraged to bundle it by M$, now Windows 7 is selling reasonably well it seems to be wholly on it's own merits.
Windows 7 is a far better operating system they fixed the vast majority of the little niggles of Vista and they didn't hype the launch so much, but it's still interesting both how much venom [most but not all of it deserved] people developed towards M$ and Vista and how they instantly forgot all of that as soon as the Windows 7 RC came out.
__________________
Main Rig:
Phenom II 940, Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, Radeon 4850 CF, 6GB OCZ Platinum, 1x 1TB WD Black / 4x 320GB 7200.10s, Silverstone OP1000, CM Stacker.
There are people that missed that this article was meant to be tongue firmly planted in cheek? Seriously? I mean I know that English is a second, third or even later language for some of our posters, but surely nobody else actually thought the article was meant to be serious.
Amen to that. Seriously people, loosen up a bit!
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by b@llz0r
i didnt have a girlfriend before i got into watercooling....
... now I have a cat.... her name is mittens
HW: E8600@4GHz||DFI JR-P45 T2RS||ATi HD4870||4GB Corsair 8500C5DF||640GB WD6400AAKS||Vista Home Premium x64 WC: EK Supreme||EK-NB S-Max||EK-FC 4870||PA120.3||DDC3.2+Petra's top||EK 150 res
the list for the worst people to make an operating system are:
1) Apple
2) Satan
3) Poop throwing monkeys
4) morons randomly throwing darts at a code board
5) Microsoft
6) Intergalactic Digital research
7) The company contracted by the DOD to make an Operating system in COBOL
And all of that source is portable, except for this tiny kernel that you can (provably: I did it) re-write totally from scratch in less than a year without having /any/ prior knowledge.
-Linus Torvalds
I get that it's supposed to be a joke but that article is so childish. I know the inq isn't exactly synonymous with journalistic integrity but really, really?
the list for the worst people to make an operating system are:
1) Apple
2) Satan
3) Poop throwing monkeys
4) morons randomly throwing darts at a code board
5) Microsoft
6) Intergalactic Digital research
7) The company contracted by the DOD to make an Operating system in COBOL
All you Mac bashers seem to share a similar something: When Apple does something, it's stupid but when Microsoft does the same thing, it's great.
For all the love that Windows 7 gets, it is the most similar OS to Mac's OSX that Microsoft has ever released. I use win 7 and the first thing I noticed was how eerily similar it was to OSX.
Things such as:
1) new dock
2) flip3d (expose)
3) aero vs aqua
4) GPU accelerated rendering
5) multitouch support
6) sidebar gadgets
These are all things Mac had in their OS for a long time. XP lacked all of these, and Vista implemented some. But Win7 took it to another level.
I suppose love of Win7 is subconscious love of Mac.
I suppose love of Win7 is subconscious love of Mac.
And that's exactly why some hate people who use Mac...
I mean what kind of thinking is that?
__________________ Alden Whitman. How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? Vladimir Nabokov. I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile
some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket,
which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
Nabokov V. Strong Opinions. April 1969 interview. : ) İ
Apple - take the same above average components, slap a fairly decent os on top, throw it all in a shiny box and that's your mac. Nice, but still overpriced.
Microsoft - iffy os but you can install it on almost anything. BUT WAIT! HERE'S WINDOWS 7! The os isn't so iffy anymore... anyone know where to get a shiny box?
Apple ought to unlock osx to general hardware. Then we can talk apples to apples
I never understood why people get so heated over like this. I have a macbook pro, a win 7 pc, an android phone. Of all the things we use to form our identities, why let what OS we use be one of them.
Maybe it's based on future events where the majority must go so a minority can live a decent life. As in 6 billion should be exterminated, so that 1 billion could represent the future of the human race in the years to come.
All you Mac bashers seem to share a similar something: When Apple does something, it's stupid but when Microsoft does the same thing, it's great.
For all the love that Windows 7 gets, it is the most similar OS to Mac's OSX that Microsoft has ever released. I use win 7 and the first thing I noticed was how eerily similar it was to OSX.
Things such as:
1) new dock
2) flip3d (expose)
3) aero vs aqua
4) GPU accelerated rendering
5) multitouch support
6) sidebar gadgets
These are all things Mac had in their OS for a long time. XP lacked all of these, and Vista implemented some. But Win7 took it to another level.
I suppose love of Win7 is subconscious love of Mac.
Windows users dislike Mac for two reasons, the first being the users are a bunch of idiots!
I mean seriously, you pay probably about double the price (or at least a $300 premium) and all you get is a different OS which most will argue is not better since more and more people are writing viruses for mac OS now and any app written for Mac OS has a better or similar version for Windows.
The second reason is the mac ads, how many times can you repeat the same untrue statement? Infact, that's why they are banned in the UK
Having said that, they own the smartphone and mp3 player market.
Actually, they don't even own that...at least not the smartphone market. They've gained some nice market share in the US, but they're not even close to owning the market worldwide...not by longshot. Nokia owns 40% of the market and Rim has 20%. Apple is just under 11%, but the fastest growth this year was by Samsung with a 138% increase.
Motorola has the Droid coming out shortly and HTC has the HD2, both with potential to further increase their market share and erode Apple's with twice the processing power of any of the iPhones and a helluva lot more features.
iPhone's only really saving grace, even with the current generation of competitors, is their ap store. Once Google's OS gains more popularity, even that isn't going to be an advantage.
peace,
Aielman
__________________ Project ChAos...under way. Phase 1 - Get it running...complete. MM UFO CYO\Asus P6T6 WS Revolution\Core i7 920 D0\EVGA GTX 285 x2\Corsair HX1000\Corsair Dominator PC3 12800\VelociRaptor 150, Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB\HP 36G 15k SAS x2 Phase 2 - Cool it...still to come Planned for dual TC loops, Typhoon III w/D5 Vario x2, HK Rev3.0 LT, HK GP-X2 x2
I mean seriously, you pay probably about double the price (or at least a $300 premium) and all you get is a different OS which most will argue is not better since more and more people are writing viruses for mac OS now and any app written for Mac OS has a better or similar version for Windows.
In other news: a Porsche Cayenne is more expensive than a VW Tuareg or a Audi Q7 while being build in the same factory. *yawn* There, I did it, there's the car analogy.
What's your problem that people pay more for computers then they are worth if you just count in the pure hardware? This doesn't necessarily mean they are stupid and don't know anything about computers. In fact, I know many who own Macs and PCs and I know Mac-users that are editors for computer websites and print magazines about computer hardware.
It's not just black and white. Yes, there are those die-hard fanatics that worship Jobs but don't take them as an example of a typical Mac-user.
Furthermore, show me apps like Typinator, Skitch, LaTexIt or Automator for Windows. I've been searching for such programs since I own a MacBook. This would be great.
All you Mac bashers seem to share a similar something: When Apple does something, it's stupid but when Microsoft does the same thing, it's great.
For all the love that Windows 7 gets, it is the most similar OS to Mac's OSX that Microsoft has ever released. I use win 7 and the first thing I noticed was how eerily similar it was to OSX.
Things such as:
1) new dock
2) flip3d (expose)
3) aero vs aqua
4) GPU accelerated rendering
5) multitouch support
6) sidebar gadgets
These are all things Mac had in their OS for a long time. XP lacked all of these, and Vista implemented some. But Win7 took it to another level.
I suppose love of Win7 is subconscious love of Mac.
The day Apple provides full source code under the GNU GPL is the day I stop complaining about Apple's Draconian behavior related to their products.
If you don't believe me, read up on the PReP/CHRP platforms and how Apple specifically demanded changes just to keep other companies for writing a different operating system for their platform (BeOS)
And please don't bother bringing up the Apple Public Source License, which honestly compared to GPL, MIT, BSD or even Apache is a bad joke.
And all of that source is portable, except for this tiny kernel that you can (provably: I did it) re-write totally from scratch in less than a year without having /any/ prior knowledge.
-Linus Torvalds
All you Mac bashers seem to share a similar something: When Apple does something, it's stupid but when Microsoft does the same thing, it's great.
For all the love that Windows 7 gets, it is the most similar OS to Mac's OSX that Microsoft has ever released. I use win 7 and the first thing I noticed was how eerily similar it was to OSX.
Things such as:
1) new dock
2) flip3d (expose)
3) aero vs aqua
4) GPU accelerated rendering
5) multitouch support
6) sidebar gadgets
These are all things Mac had in their OS for a long time. XP lacked all of these, and Vista implemented some. But Win7 took it to another level.
I suppose love of Win7 is subconscious love of Mac.
1) alt tab preview power toy (xp)
2) extended alt tab power toy (xp)
3) aero, demoed pre win2k was supposed to be in xp but IGPs couldent do it
4) how do u render without gpu acceleration?
5) not OS dependent, and there was no hardware so why include it until now
6) active desktop (win 95)
MS has been on their way to every "mac did it 1st" thing for a long time and had alot of stuff that was optional and people couldent handle it on low end so it wasnt enabled or was removed last minute
and for the apple dose it its stupid windows its great or the other way, apple has the dock, the dock is not like the old start menu, shure u can pin to the start menu and make it like the dock now (stupid IMO) but the previews and stacking are different.
last what about linux they had 3d panning a long time ago
__________________
warning i use sarcasm, alot
coming soon duel dual rad p180 the reckoning, 720BE 0912epmw, gd70 and a new liquid revamp
give a man some juice and he has juice for a day, give him a juicer and he will have juice for life if he has something to juice
1) alt tab preview power toy (xp)
2) extended alt tab power toy (xp)
3) aero, demoed pre win2k was supposed to be in xp but IGPs couldent do it
4) how do u render without gpu acceleration?
5) not OS dependent, and there was no hardware so why include it until now
6) active desktop (win 95)
MS has been on their way to every "mac did it 1st" thing for a long time and had alot of stuff that was optional and people couldent handle it on low end so it wasnt enabled or was removed last minute
and for the apple dose it its stupid windows its great or the other way, apple has the dock, the dock is not like the old start menu, shure u can pin to the start menu and make it like the dock now (stupid IMO) but the previews and stacking are different.
last what about linux they had 3d panning a long time ago
Power toy is an obscure add-on by Microsoft. It was released long after expose was introduced on the Mac in 2003. Probably no one used it and it wasn't included with the OS by default.
XP didn't use GPU rendering so effects like translucent windows could not have been possible because it would be too CPU intensive to be rendered fast. Vista introduced GPU acceleration so you can render translucent windows and menus.
Active desktop is probably the worst feature MS ever invented. It was slow and added no value to the desktop. What apps used active desktop? I like the sidebar gadgets.I have a calendar, the weather, and a clock on the side. Apple's gadget implementation is way better than anything active desktop.
Anyway, I have no hate for Microsoft. I like them very much. My computing days started with DOS > W3.1 > W95 > NT4 > W2000 > Vista > W7
I will say this: Windows 95 I thought was superior to the Mac OS. It had pre-emptive multitasking support, direct X, a better UI with the start menu and task bar. Windows 2000 and XP was light years ahead of Mac because it so much more stable than Os/9. It introduced a protected memory model to the consumer.
After XP(2001) though, MS because lazy and stopped innovating. No new features were added until Vista in 2007. During that time, Apple introduced OS/X, which brought the Mac into the modern age. It became on par with XP technologically. Apple then surpassed it by introducing new features every year or so like Expose, gpu acceleration, time machine, spaces....
Today, OS/X is far ahead of Windows from a design perspective. Engineering wise, Windows might be better but that 's not so important to the average consumer. Design is in, and Apple is light years ahead of MS in that respect.
There are lots of features on the mac that I like, like Expose and Spaces. I wish MS would implement that in their O/S.
the mac people that i know that i have shown win7 to (4 people so far) liked it and 2 of them are going to switch their macbooks to win7, and thx to vista and 7 supporting efi u can do it cleanly now
i honesty dont see the draw of the mac os the only real difference is the dock, its annoying, mac people find it annoying, windows people dont like it and other than that there is no real functional differences. and then there is the keyboard virus and once that happens to a macbook u have a non mac user for life
__________________
warning i use sarcasm, alot
coming soon duel dual rad p180 the reckoning, 720BE 0912epmw, gd70 and a new liquid revamp
give a man some juice and he has juice for a day, give him a juicer and he will have juice for life if he has something to juice
.
Weird, if this considered British humor since i usually don't like it, unless it's Monty Python...........
Linear Mode
