Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant

2007-04-17 Thread Pete Rozanski
Isn't that the reason people don't use Mac? The applications they need are available on Windows, not the Mac. Man, if my applications would run on a Mac, I would use them. No virus problems, and their ease of use is legendary, they practically run them selves. Who needs stupid users? As and

Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
The cynic sez that all business have just one aim: Earn as much money as is possible. ...Hewlett-Packard realized that they were in the money business, and prospered. Does Hewlett-Packard still make instruments? I don't know, but I'll bet that they don't care, one way or the other. HP is an

Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant

2007-04-17 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, John A. Newitt wrote: At 1:05 AM -0400 4/17/07, Alvin Auerbach wrote: Does Hewlett-Packard still make instruments? I don't know, but I'll bet that they don't care, one way or the other. While not for electrical engineers, HP did continue to make analytical instruments

Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant

2007-04-16 Thread mike
Aren't apple tools all free and MS charges for them? Mike On 4/16/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't really care what the future of Apple is but the question of how closed an OS the Mac has might concern friends of Apple. It seems to me that one of the reason OS/2 died was

Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant

2007-04-16 Thread Alvin Auerbach
The cynic sez that all business have just one aim: Earn as much money as is possible. So Apple never was a computer company. They were a money company which started out manufacturing computers. If they have a reasonably safe opportunity to earn money by changing what they have been doing, they