Windows 7
Microsoft's Windows 7 will be available in early October. I have been using a beta and a release candidate for a while with no problems whatsoever. It is a great OS.
Question: Whenever a new refrigerator or TV is announced by a manufacturer by another company than the one you bought yours from, do you make a point to be as public as possible about how you don't currently have and would never have that other brand?
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Anyone who knows machine language gets to be a Fanboy. Those who piss all over Windows because Facebook looks prettier in Safari is who I am looking at. And it is a good percentage of the installed base.
It is the difference between an anti-war protester and an anti-war protester who is a decorated veteran.
(S.A. filled me in sometime ago on your coding bonifides.)
Having been in the ad biddness for over 40 years ,I have a somewhat "jaundiced" view of product claims . This in no ways means I dislike hearing about new products and services. Hell , I even liked to listen to door-to-door salesmen's presentations to see if they had arguments for products/services I could steal !
No mas !
I have come to that point in my life where I am comfortable with what I have and what I know and have NO intention of even trying to keep up with the Jones.
I am not "locked in" to the brands I currently use , but it would take a really compelling argument to get me to change !
On another note.. (Possible Hijack Alert....) Did anyone notice in the MRT a few days ago about the EXPANSION or routes on the Empty Rider Busses ? And todays paper sayin' fares in Midland/Odessa are now DOWN 15% from last year ????????
Indeed , we have Bozos on this bus.
Wals , get Ospurt on this asap...it's , once again , "Fun With Numbers Time" !
Walsingham, thanks. At college one of my specialities was compiler construction. The sole reason that I chose Macs is that in 1978 I got the instruction manual (the book that tells you how to write a compiler for the machine) for the 8088/8086 and in 1980 the 68000. The first, the ancestor of Windows, would not I saw lend itself to a compiler for a recursive language, which is utterly necessary and Windows' growing pains were testimony. The second, the first of the three Mac processors, would.
And Otto, I'm with you on utility. If it works, it works. The computer ought to be a tool. Something very strange in my head delights at seeing the television say "36-bit" when a Blu-ray mounts, even though there is no 36-bit software.
Slightly excusable fanboy?
Sorry. The mention of machine language is to me like the bugle to Buchephalus. It makes me roll my eyes, stamp my feet, and witter on about NDPDAs and CFLs...
Had family illness not intervened, I'd probably be a professor. In a small college because my very definitely non-PC opinions would bar me from other ones.
I think I'll lie down now before I start hyperventilating.
No. And I haven't seen those Mac/PC commercials in a while. I think it's the namby-pamby music which bugs me.
What I find amusing are the commercials of people going into Best Buy for a computer, looking at a Mac, and saying that it's for the style, but they can get what they want from a PC.
They don't want to pay the so-called "Apple tax." Fair enough. But they set me rolling. "It can do what I want to do" and implied is "It'll do okay."
But then I'm a fanboy.