Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-23 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As too often occurs, you've added much more to my post than was actually in it. Have I written to you and done this before? Look again: nowhere does it say that I have never had a virus on my hard drive; I have. Then my

RE: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rev killing the Mac platform? Richard Gaskin writes: Alex Rice wrote: Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than to move over to Windows for my main development platform

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-23 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My reply was a succinct, direct reponse to a likewise succinct, direct comment. When formulating a reply, I read nothing into the comment, nor attempted some type of exegesis. miscdas miscdas, in western cultures, TIME = MONEY is

[OT] Win security (was: Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?)

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/23/1240259.shtml?tid=126tid=172tid=185 tid=190tid=201tid=93 CNET is carrying an article about a new (albeit simplistic) method used to hack alphanumeric Windows passwords in a matter of seconds , rather than

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-23 Thread Judy Perry
Wow, miscdas! Perhaps our sysAdmin should have your experience; he spends a considerable amount of time patching the various nasty Windows security holes that are legendary even among PC users and for a long time assigned a mere student assistant to maintain our Mac lab during those few times that

Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Barry Levine
Just in case you haven't given this more thought, the Studio edition pricing seems to indicate that if I wish to develop on the Mac but do any final tweaks to my Windows distribution, I must do it on my Mac. Currently I have Rev installed on both my Mac -and- my PC. Of course, as I have a KVM

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Barry Levine wrote: With Macs at under 4% of the market, guess what I'll have to choose? Apple would not be pleased. So how is Rev Rev killing the Mac platform? This doesn't make sense and it's not fair. In my eyes RR seems to be a huge advocate of Mac OS

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than to move over to Windows for my main development platform. If you move your email to Windows as well you'll pay far more than $75 dealing with viruses. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Barry Levine
). Perhaps I'll complain less when the special pricing for renewals is posted. Regards, Barry On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 10:02 America/Denver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:26:08 -0600 Subject: Re: Rev killing the Mac platform? From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
The Mac becomes the best universal platform to develop on. I've written a number of apps on the Mac and then test them on other platforms. On the few occasions where I see a problem I simply make a change to the code on the Mac and do another test build and test the standalone on the target

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Barry Levine wrote: If I follow what you are saying, I need to buy an Express license so I can continue my final development/tweaking under Windows, then transfer the project back to my Mac for the final distribution build so I won't get the annoying

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread miscdas
Richard Gaskin writes: Alex Rice wrote: Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than to move over to Windows for my main development platform. If you move your email to Windows as well you'll pay far more than $75 dealing with viruses. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Gaskin writes: Alex Rice wrote: Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than to move over to Windows for my main development platform. If you move your email to Windows as well you'll pay far more than $75 dealing with viruses. ;)

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you move your email to Windows as well you'll pay far more than $75 dealing with viruses. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 02:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost urban legend-like statement! However, as a Windows user for all but the first year it came out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding viruses or by problems caused by

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 02:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost urban legend-like statement! However, as a Windows user for all but the first year it came out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding viruses or by problems caused by

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Joel Rees
Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost urban legend-like statement! However, as a Windows user for all but the first year it came out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding viruses or by problems caused by viruses on any of my Windows systems! In the gray-hat world,

RE: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread Chipp Walters
for viruses than Windows. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rev killing the Mac platform? Richard Gaskin writes: Alex Rice wrote: Personally

Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?

2003-07-22 Thread miscdas
Mark Brownell writes: On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 02:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow Richard, that is s definitive sounding almost urban legend-like statement! However, as a Windows user for all but the first year it came out, I have not spent dollar one in either avoiding viruses or