On 3/23/07, Jim D wrote: .... > On everything, no - of course not. But blind, ignorant extremism in any > form just plain pisses me off. I'll gladly study up to fight it where I > find it - especially when I know something about the topic at hand. > > And, just so we're clear: what you think doesn't enter into it.
Just to be clear, what you think /does/ enter into it, which is why fighters such as yourself are so dangerous. :-) You're biased, Jim! Not nearly as bad as Nick, but still. The benchmarking links were all bad :-/ but I thought it was funny that the entry from OSx86 re: 10.5 says "Note: requires a real mac" How does my argument of "same hardware, better testing" do? What did my argument of "a set configuration makes a difference" do? E.g. Dave's link about DVD drives? Are you really going to type with a straight face that knowing the target doesn't make for a more optimized delivery/execution? I think Dave's point, that it's "not the same" has some merit. Even from a "but it's all the same basic parts" standpoint. I'm one of those brave souls who tried to put OSX on a PC. Only wanked for a bit on it, cuz that was real fun, and I have work to do... :-) but anyways, it's not like installing BSD on an x86 ;-) There are all kinds of crazy little "gotchas", which lead me to believe that a "real mac" might indeed function quite a bit different from a Faux Mac. I was unable to do it in under a couple of hours. I have a mac to use, so it wasn't a need, just a want. :-)) I think the point that Dave is getting at is that it's a different experience/world, on the Mac side. One that many people find to be "better" than the equiv PC experience. I know if I had to choose between Vista and OS X, I'd go OS X. But I like SSH, and open source, and BSD, and powerful operating systems. Course, if I had to choose between vista and linux, I'd go linux. That's what's going on *this* bad boy I'm typing on, whenever I get around to the next wipe. Hell, maybe I'll try installing OS X... Should be a snap by now, neh? ;-) Just because I have plenty of windows machines, and I've wanked with windows plenty... and it's not really free, no matter how it appears. OS X might be more free, I dunno, but the underlying stuff is, no doubt. That *stokens* me. *That* is the direction I want things to go. Thus, I "like" Apple better than Microsoft. As Jim "likes" Microsoft better than Apple. I wish I was an orator... *sigh* Nick and Dave are rabid, perhaps even fanbois (LOL, sorry dudes)-- It's fun to argue sides, personally I think I want a world with both, I wouldn't want Apple to take over-- I've seen what it's like when there is too much power in one place... Eh. Yeah, I think time will evolve both, and we'll see what happens, but I wanna give props to Apple and OS X-- It truly was innovative, and pretty swell. How many years did it take for Vista to get here? Where is my DB driven file system?!?!? ;-) OS X is ALIVE! Wooters, I love it. Great stuff. Like this age old debate! Crazy how it's morphed over the years... crazy how I've morphed over the years... =] I came I saw I conquered / Record Sales / Sold out Concerts --Awesome Remix by some DJ named Danger Mouse... ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
