whoa! I actually understood this... :)
On 3/20/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230844 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
