Actually, I can give a reason.
Safari and voiceover don't work with flash content all that well. My
classes are online, and for some godforsaken reason they use flash
for the discussion boards. These boards make up half of our grade.
Unfortunately, I can't get at the info using safari and vo. I can't
get at using jaws and explorer either.
The only combination I've found that works is window-eyes with
explorer. Definitely not my choice of access method, but given it's
that, drop out, withdraw, or fail, I'll take the window-eyes option.
But, since I didn't own a copy of window eyes, it's a rather
expensive solution.
*grumble*
On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
Well, if you don't have any special software that only runs on
windows, I can see no need to do this. Say, however, that you have
a certain piece of software that you need and it only runs on
Windows and there's no real Mac equivalent to it? Yet, you don't
want two computers around. So you make a small Windows installation
and now you can run that program. I know, it's difficult to
imagine, but it is certainly possible--a proprietary windows
database that must be used for your job, for instance, would fall
under this category.
My only question is will Apple provide a filesystem driver so that
you can access all of your documents on your OS X partition under
Windows? Without this I can see its use being a bit of a pain,
though still doable. I don't have an Intel-based Mac or I'd try it
for the hell of it. But I now have an iron-clad excuse to sell my
Windows PCs for good. Finally! Then get myself a nice iMac.
On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, as someone who switched from the PC and Windows to the Mac I
am left wondering why I would want to even bother with this.
Sure, there might be a few things I can more easily do on a
Windows based PC that are more difficult on a Mac but this just
sounds dumb to me. I see the point made here that VR agencies and
others might go for this but aren't you making your beautiful Mac
sesuptable to the very problems we are so proud that our Macs are
free of. Viruses, worms and the like. While my Mac is pre-intel
by a month or two, there is no way in hell I would put Windows XP
on one if I had one. Sounds very strange that anyone on this list
would support this. Sure, it was a neat contest to hack the
Windows and Intel Mac system and I'd try it too if I had the
ability and be happy if I walked away with the $13,000 prize that
was out there. But, its been done and so what. I'm just not sure
why you would do this at all.
