And rightly so. Whilst Windows platforms offer ease of use(and unfortunatley ease of destruction...) that my mum can tackle - MacOS (and Linux) are just so much more "correct". I thought a few years back that Windows would dominate for the foreseeable future.......but the current trends of ASUS eeepc's, major vendors like Dell providing Linux solutions(albeit badly - but it's getting there) and the development towards more Windows-like operation with the rock solid base of MacOSes and Linux under the hood I really believe windows is on the way out as the leader.
iphones are also beating blackberries into submission although that isn't as obvious yet - but check the new touchscreen blackberries. We've quite a few in work and they are an absolute knee-jerk reaction to the iphone stealing a few major contracts in the US. Unlike Windows though, I actually like Blackberries and am sad to see them in such a losing position.
So yeah - I'm celebrating with a few cold ones. Big up the MAC!!!!!!!(and Linux/Unix)
Rantaliscious :)
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
"In the UK, science-fiction author author Douglas Adams was the first to buy one of the original Macintosh machines. Second in line was Stephen Fry."
If that's actually true..........it's pretty cool and amzing.
Stephen Fry(and Hugh Laurie) are just top-notch and Douglas Adams........genius.
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
He didn't just use them to not write his manuscripts either. He was a bit of a closet coder. From Last Chance to See:
I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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I?ve just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was. It?s a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I suppose, is that I cannot conceive of any future occasion that I am likely to need to know the volume of a megapode nest, but no matter: the volume of this mound is a little over nine cubic yards.
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Sorry, offtopic I know. But it might make the world a happier place, or something.
She was cute, but it would have made more sense to have a MBP running OS X to compare against System 1.
And rightly so. Whilst Windows platforms offer ease of use(and unfortunatley ease of destruction...) that my mum can tackle - MacOS (and Linux) are just so much more "correct". I thought a few years back that Windows would dominate for the foreseeable future.......but the current trends of ASUS eeepc's, major vendors like Dell providing Linux solutions(albeit badly - but it's getting there) and the development towards more Windows-like operation with the rock solid base of MacOSes and Linux under the hood I really believe windows is on the way out as the leader.
iphones are also beating blackberries into submission although that isn't as obvious yet - but check the new touchscreen blackberries. We've quite a few in work and they are an absolute knee-jerk reaction to the iphone stealing a few major contracts in the US. Unlike Windows though, I actually like Blackberries and am sad to see them in such a losing position.
So yeah - I'm celebrating with a few cold ones. Big up the MAC!!!!!!!(and Linux/Unix)
Rantaliscious :)
"In the UK, science-fiction author author Douglas Adams was the first to buy one of the original Macintosh machines. Second in line was Stephen Fry."
If that's actually true..........it's pretty cool and amzing.
Stephen Fry(and Hugh Laurie) are just top-notch and Douglas Adams........genius.
He didn't just use them to not write his manuscripts either. He was a bit of a closet coder. From Last Chance to See:
I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
...
I?ve just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was. It?s a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I suppose, is that I cannot conceive of any future occasion that I am likely to need to know the volume of a megapode nest, but no matter: the volume of this mound is a little over nine cubic yards.