Re: [CGUYS] Security Fraud [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
You might want to go to the site to *see* what i'm talking about before you write. The report on Secunia covers the first 8 months of 2007... Vista was released at the end of January. Reread Mike's post. Read the last sentence most carefully. Then ask yourself, during what part of the same

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
I don't have an iPod and don't particularly want one. So sad. ;( Why is that? Well there could be different motivations so the why part is not so easy to analyze. Hovever I do think that the general term sad is an accurate umbrella for all of them. 1) To hate Apple so much that one would

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread mike
I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And something smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something considerably cheaper. And something with greater battery life. Mike On 10/20/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have an iPod and don't

Re: [CGUYS] Security Fraud [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread mike
Sales were in the area of 20 million in the first month, to quibble, that is twice the total sales all year of mac os x 2005 ending. That's sales to further quibble, as in on the computer, in someones house. Your argument that the numbers don't count because vista only sold 20 million copies

Re: [CGUYS] The Worst Thing about Macs

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2193639,00.asp This is what is known as an ad hominem attack. Instead of focusing on the merits, he attacks the people who own Macs. You must have missed the title of the article: The Worst Thing About Macs. Hint: It was also the subject line. He

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
Mike--Please note that all of those are all inferior design specs. IOW, not invented in Cupertino. -Original Message- I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And something smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something considerably cheaper. And

Re: [CGUYS] BTX vs ATX [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
All Dells are BTX. Does being #2 in PC sales, exponentially greater than all Mac sales, count? -Original Message- Will PC makers contiune to cling to a 10-year-old ATX MoBo design? I will place my bet on lack of innovation. That seems to be endemic in Windows land.

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And something smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something considerably cheaper. And something with greater battery life. It is okay if you tell us the make and model.

[CGUYS] Expert Calls Apple's iPhone 'Perfect Spying Device'

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071017/bs_nf/56074 Moore posted to the site an exploit that would allow a hacker to insert malicious code onto someone's iPhone to access the device's data. Because the flawed TIFF library is used by the iPhone's Web browser, e-mail program, and iTunes software --

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
Someone just posted to macintouch.com a story about buying an iPod clone that he said was almost indistinguishable from a real iPod. It was almost half the price. It does not work with iTunes, but he does not care about that. Alas he did not provide any information to locate the product.

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread mike
Sony-NW-S205F http://mobilnik.ua/mp3/img/Sony-NW-S205F.gif Paid 58 bux at circuit city...one of those one day sale things. Make no doubt, the software from sony is beyond horrible...well that's not true, when I had a sony minidisc that software was beyond horrible, sony has moved up to just