On 3/20/07, Jim Davis wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gruss G > > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:44 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: New MacBook Pro 15! > > > > > Nick wrote: > > > Which you could do in virtually any OS. > > > > > > > Uh, maybe, but the other real options are Linux or Windows. I have no > > idea about that crazy windows command line crap, but it's crazy. I > > know enough to get my network config and that's about it. > > DOS command line is NOT Windows Shell. > > Windows Scripting host is an open architecture: Jscript and VBScript out > of > the box, other languages available. Very flexible, very useful.
Have you used applescript at all? I'd be interested in what you think of the differences... and if you think picking up "natural language" languages, like applescript or ruby is easier for the neophyte. I don't know, I was raised on command prompts, batch files and shell scripts (& not much LISP ;). To be blunt, I think Apple is /better than ever/. Seriously, this is a platform I've watched since it was around, and it's NEVER been this cool before, nor have you gotten as much bang for the buck before... and a big part of the picture is that THEY'RE NOT MS! Image, which we like to downplay. Who cares what "people think", right? I used to hate apple with a passion. I'd get into sick debates, I mean, I was a PC nazi. Not MS, mind, I was never a ms lackey-- I watched them eat alive too many promising things, or whatnot. Sorta like Syler. ;-) Apple, I hated, because it was "closed architecture", meaning, if you wanted to do anything, you had to ask apple. Clones tho-- hell, whatever you could think of you could get (or build!). Many OS choices, even. Maybe it was being forced to write pascal on the mac as a form of punishment... (and the dude never wrote back! ;) Anyways, I thought Apple had killed itself, by being anal, and was like, "just desserts" (again), but then OS X came out, they started climbing (again), and after seeing what OS X was (the best front end to a flavor of BSD *I'd* ever seen), I had to start giving props. The hardware is the most open it's been, and it's about to get a hell of a lot "opener"-- I hear you can just drop a new processor into some of the intel-macs, something unheard of in my time. I wonder if the main thing stopping HW now is SW, i.e. Drivers, vs. actual HW incompatibilities. Maybe it won't be long till you can put more varied cards in there and have 'em work (without some crazy driver hack job type deal.) Anyways, Apple seems to be on a pretty kick-ass path. I would personally probably not use an Apple for a gaming platform, mostly because of shortage of titles. America's Army plays fine, note. ;-) BSD is a hugely powerful OS, with great stuff. The Apple UI kicks ass, with more options for customization than I can shake a stick at. But mostly, I just love me a system that comes with SSH. Does Vista come with SSH? That would be so cool. I think that BSD is more configurable than MS is, so theoretically, you could be more productive, if you take the time to set things up how you want. It is pretty cool how you can be like "Tell iTunes Open playlist & for each song play 30 seconds" with applescript. A lot of the proggies have tie-ins with AppleScript too, sorta APIs-- are MS products doing that type of stuff too? I would assume so. Still, I feel better about running OS X than Vista, spiritually. Gates is doing a lot to counter the PURE EVIL his company perpetrated, with the charity stuff, but still... ;-) I've seriously been thinking about a Mac for the home... they look pretty, the monitors are second to none, and they are pretty damn user friendly ( iLife, ho! ;-)... I can feel the game comment, but I can't feel the multimedia comment. I think they kick MS's ass in the multimedia department. Haven't they always? Wasn't that the one argument a PC head "always" lost? ;-) Plus, Apple is 'bout the DRM, but my god, MS is 'bout it 'bout it! And I HATE DRM too, obviously, as it's an attempt to keep stuff "closed". MS seems to have built it into the OS at a deep level? Not sure, just what I'm hearing. Anyways, sorry for the long one, but as a former Hater, I just wanted to chime in, and say I don't hate any platform anymore. And if I was MS, I'd phear Apple, big time. I'd be scampering to a new model as fast as my overworked coders could scamp. :] Yup, I'm proud of 'em. WOulda bought stock when the bubble burst, if I'd had the loot. Knew they'd be back fast... *sigh* oh well. If I'd really wanted to, I probably would've. Neh? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230841 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
