On 2 Oct 2006 at 21:33, Richard Baker wrote: > Andrew said: > > > To you, maybe. To put it another way, I take a very engineering view, > > rather than a scientific one to technology. > > Well, that sounds like the sort of attitude that Mac people I know > take.
And in my experience, I do not know a SINGLE Mac user who has that attitude. WTG is a poster child for the "I can't read, it's my dogma" Mac user, IME. (I note he still hasn't addressed ONE actual point of the article I linked, he's done PURE ad hominen attacks based on the personality of the author without having a clue who he is) > OS X, for example, has the advantage over Windows that it's > actually been properly engineered. Betamax was "properly engineered" compared to VHS. Your point? > release dates until it appears to more or less work. Apple, on the > other hand, seem to go out of their way to constantly improve their > software designs (and I'm clearly not just talking about externally ...by hiding the security flaws. Sorry, that doesn't wash. Every single contact I've ever had with the Mac community has been fanatically hostile (as opposed to the almost pathological helpfulness of the Linux community, for example). Add in the inability to run the vast majority of the apps I use on a daily basis and the requirement to purchase expensive hardware and I see no point whatsoever in considering a Mac, or to have patience with the constant chest-beating certain people do about them. 2000AD Developments has 250+ employees. 4 use Mac's - for DTP. All the rest use PC's. Niche market. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
