Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread mike
I figured you had pulled this one from your nether regions...just wanted to hear you say it. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: And where are your surveys that they stay in service for twice as long? Please provide irrefutable evidence of your existence.

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread Jeff Miles
Please remind me where this comes from. I'm trying to think. Mason Williams comes to mind. There are no empty tabasco sauce bottles. Jeff M On May 19, 2009, at 10:12 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I don't just think I AM, I know I AM, that is why I wrote I AM. (It is also a theological pun) Stewart At 12:12 AM 5/20/2009, you wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote: I AM. Therefore I exist. I think therefore I am, I think. --

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread mike
Pot calling kettle... I give what I get from Tom. I asked nicely, he non answered in his own smartass way. I replied in kind. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Perhaps the fact that you seem to go out of your way to disparage him may have

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
I figured you had pulled this one from your nether regions...just wanted to hear you say it. I know your shtick. Challenge everything. Deny everything. The classic OJ defense. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread mike
I know your shtick, make up everything, prove nothing...keep moving and jabbing till they give up on trying to get some truth out of you. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: I figured you had pulled this one from your nether regions...just wanted to hear you say

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Perhaps the fact that you seem to go out of your way to disparage him may have something to do with how he addresses you? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Thanks...that's all I was asking. Instead we get more smartass from Tom.

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-20 Thread mike
Thanks...that's all I was asking. Instead we get more smartass from Tom. Thanks, Betty. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:04 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: And where are your surveys that they stay in service for twice as long? The Gartner Group has done several detailed studies and

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
So, I guess the cons/neocons don't say Better dead than Red! anymore? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- I may have mixed up my colors, ... Yeah, I do that too. It's the exact opposite of what you'd expect as far as the colors' symbolism. Blue is liberal and red is

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. Well, if this were actually true, MS's 90% market share (or whatever it is) would mean that ~90% of the electorate is

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Dunford
Wait just a minute. A huge percentage of computers sold with the Windows OS installed are in business and government offices. It is quite possible that most Windows machines are not owned by individuals. Well, I don't know about that. The vast majority of people I know use PCs at home. My

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
I think Chris is correct on this. I have met many conservatives who use Macs, liberals who use PCs and vice-versa. Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- All I'm getting at is that I don't believe we can say Liberals use Macs and conservatives use PCs. That perception may be a side

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: All I'm getting at is that I don't believe we can say Liberals use Macs and conservatives use PCs. That perception may be a side effect of the image created by Apple's marketing (cool people are always liberal, of course),

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Jeff Miles
I've been doing a lot of traveling lately. I've been using many airports and ferries. I've also been paying attention to the laptops people are using. While I know the Mac market share is approaching 10% I found it strange the about 50% of the laptops I saw where Macs. Could be Mac users

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew Taylor
I work at a community college. Well over half the laptops I see students sitting around with are Macs. ISTR reading a year ago that Macs dominated the market for college age student/family purchased (as opposed to college issued - there are some that do) laptops were Macs. In my social

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
While I know the Mac market share is approaching 10% I found it strange the about 50% of the laptops I saw where Macs. Could be Mac users just like to travel more? Mac fans have said for many years that market share figures are slanted in favor of Windows because surverys measure the wrong

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
And where are your surveys that they stay in service for twice as long? Please provide irrefutable evidence of your existence. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I AM. Therefore I exist. Stewart At 07:30 PM 5/19/2009, you wrote: And where are your surveys that they stay in service for twice as long? Please provide irrefutable evidence of your existence. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-19 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote: I AM. Therefore I exist. I think therefore I am, I think. -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Matthew Taylor
I used to be, but I could not get much help wrt hardware - they mostly argued about which languages were better. On May 18, 2009, at 3:00 PM, mike wrote: Anyone out there on a politics list? Do they ever break out into computer subjects?

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there on a politics list?  Do they ever break out into computer subjects? Absolutely. Let me say this about computers and politics and why they are linked. The old Mac versus Windows/DOS/PC flame wars have always

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Wright
Anyone out there on a politics list?  Do they ever break out into computer subjects? On a political blog I frequent, the topic can change from a serious discussion on whatever the post topic is to discussions of Star Trek or SF in general, movie trivia, sex, zombies, cars, arguments over

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Matthew Taylor
If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. On May 18, 2009, at 3:27 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: The old Mac versus Windows/DOS/PC flame wars have always been, in great part, about conservatives and liberals. The conservatives,

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Taylor taylorsmatt...@gmail.com wrote: If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. I have been paying attention on this forum. I have also been paying attention to the rest of the world as well. On

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Matthew Taylor wrote: If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. Yes, Matt here is pretty conservative, but uses a Mac. Chris Dunford seems rather liberal, but uses Windows. I personally use Linux when I can (personal

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Jeff Miles
Compu-racial profiling, I love it. On May 18, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Vicky Staubly wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Matthew Taylor wrote: If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. Yes, Matt here is pretty conservative, but uses a Mac. Chris

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Dunford
If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying attention on this forum. Well, if this were actually true, MS's 90% market share (or whatever it is) would mean that ~90% of the electorate is conservative, which makes the results of the last election somewhat surprising.

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Yes and no. If you look at a Blue/Red map of the last election the red is concentrated in urban areas with a high density of population and the blue is in most of the rest of the area. So if you extrapolate the data and say higher income or more urban people use Mac's and the less urban

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Dunford
If you look at a Blue/Red map of the last election the red is concentrated in urban areas with a high density of population and the blue is in most of the rest of the area. Rev, are you sure about that? You're saying that urban areas voted Republican and rural areas voted Democratic? I'll

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I may have mixed up my colors, but the urban areas (high density population/cities) voted overwhelmingly democratic while the less dense areas (rural/suburban) areas voted overwhelmingly republican. The map I saw showed about 80% of the land mass voted republican and 20% voted democratic.

Re: [CGUYS] I wonder

2009-05-18 Thread Eric S. Sande
I may have mixed up my colors, ... Yeah, I do that too. It's the exact opposite of what you'd expect as far as the colors' symbolism. Blue is liberal and red is conservative. To make it even more confusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectionMapPurpleCounty.jpg