Apple going out of computer business
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Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote:
But why can't I build a network with Macs?
i dunno. as i said at my first office job, they had a network of apples.
i don't know if apple still has any real advantages over pcs in terms of graphics and ease of use. they all seem to run the same programs such as word and excel anyway.
as usual it is up to you. either one of those funky looking imacs, or a normal pc. as for laptops i don't know. everybody i know who has one of those has a pc laptop.
I'd prefer a laptop. But from what I understand, I can get a lot more computer for the same price with a desktop. 
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: I'd prefer a laptop. But from what I understand, I can get a lot more computer for the same price with a desktop.
yup, same price double the memory if not more, but would you really use all that. i suppose you would with your collecion of blue movies. :D
Binocher wrote: Windows Rules
PC's kill Mac's, from the experiences I've had. My dad's got a Mac laptop and I just hate using it because this PC is sooooo much easier and better. The only Apple thing I own is my iPod Video, which I LOVE to bits, I dunno what I'd do without it.
So I guess them not making any more computers doesn't affect me.
State of Love and Trust wrote:
Binocher wrote: Windows Rules
PC's kill Mac's, from the experiences I've had. My dad's got a Mac laptop and I just hate using it because this PC is sooooo much easier and better. The only Apple thing I own is my iPod Video, which I LOVE to bits, I dunno what I'd do without it.
So I guess them not making any more computers doesn't affect me.
PC's are mint. Havnt used a Mac in ages nthough, to be fair. And dude, they aint going out of the computer business.
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: OK, Dr. Whoever. I'm considering buying a computer soon. What's your advice, and why (*try* to offer this advice in English, btw-- geekspeak not understood here :D )? Laptop or desktop? Mac, PC or ????
Sorry for delay....odd weekend.
If you want to twat around, and try a million things and generally mess wth yur machine.....go PC. If you want a machine that does one or two things very well, get a mac....the question is, what do you want it for.
NEVER buy a prebuilt PC unless it's from a VERy top brand....even then...well it's like this.....
If you build your own, you will know what's in it in great deail. It is NOT hard to put one together because everything only goes in one hole (ooooerr), and more to the point you can pick bits to suit you. Also being there for the birth of your windows is a good thing....you get to stop it going whacky. Preloaded systems are like wearing someone else's shoes/knickers.
as for lappers....well....do u need it to move around? if not, you'll save a PILE of cash.....laptops are always less bang for buck.
Steve Campbell wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: OK, Dr. Whoever. I'm considering buying a computer soon. What's your advice, and why (*try* to offer this advice in English, btw-- geekspeak not understood here :D )? Laptop or desktop? Mac, PC or ????
Sorry for delay....odd weekend.
If you want to twat around, and try a million things and generally mess wth yur machine.....go PC. If you want a machine that does one or two things very well, get a mac....the question is, what do you want it for.
NEVER buy a prebuilt PC unless it's from a VERy top brand....even then...well it's like this.....
If you build your own, you will know what's in it in great deail. It is NOT hard to put one together because everything only goes in one hole (ooooerr), and more to the point you can pick bits to suit you. Also being there for the birth of your windows is a good thing....you get to stop it going whacky. Preloaded systems are like wearing someone else's shoes/knickers.
as for lappers....well....do u need it to move around? if not, you'll save a PILE of cash.....laptops are always less bang for buck.
Never mind all this technical stuff- you're brain is requested elsewhere- check your mail!:D
J.A.K wrote: they should just stick to what they do best - - juice.
their records were quite good too.
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote: they should just stick to what they do best - - juice.
their records were quite good too.
great to see my hero Digger Barnes on your Avatar. Get Paid!!
J.A.K wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote: they should just stick to what they do best - - juice.
their records were quite good too.
great to see my hero Digger Barnes on your Avatar. Get Paid!!
is he still doing football commentary as was seen in Bend it like Beckham?
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote: they should just stick to what they do best - - juice.
their records were quite good too.
great to see my hero Digger Barnes on your Avatar. Get Paid!!
is he still doing football commentary as was seen in Bend it like Beckham?
sort of. in a way. he presents late (and i mean late) night footy coverage on channel 5. almost worse than the graveyard shift. He's terrible on the autocue and is dead slow. its painful to watch. he's a much better rapper than he is a football presenter. So that tells you something. He's still Johnny Barnes to me though. Left Wing Legend of LFC. I still see him cutting and swaying thru the QPR defence at anfield in 1987, as he rifles past David Seaman in goal. one of my favourite Digger goals.
J.A.K wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
J.A.K wrote: they should just stick to what they do best - - juice.
their records were quite good too.
great to see my hero Digger Barnes on your Avatar. Get Paid!!
is he still doing football commentary as was seen in Bend it like Beckham?
sort of. in a way. he presents late (and i mean late) night footy coverage on channel 5. almost worse than the graveyard shift. He's terrible on the autocue and is dead slow. its painful to watch. he's a much better rapper than he is a football presenter. So that tells you something. He's still Johnny Barnes to me though. Left Wing Legend of LFC. I still see him cutting and swaying thru the QPR defence at anfield in 1987, as he rifles past David Seaman in goal. one of my favourite Digger goals.
ah well at least he is gainfully employed. there's nothing worse than a from er spots star with nothing to do.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: How does an IBM compare to an Apple?
An IBM is a computer, an Apple is a fruit.
Missy Jem wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: How does an IBM compare to an Apple?
An IBM is a computer, an Apple is a fruit.
Steve Campbell wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: OK, Dr. Whoever. I'm considering buying a computer soon. What's your advice, and why (*try* to offer this advice in English, btw-- geekspeak not understood here :D )? Laptop or desktop? Mac, PC or ????
Sorry for delay....odd weekend.
If you want to twat around, and try a million things and generally mess wth yur machine.....go PC. If you want a machine that does one or two things very well, get a mac....the question is, what do you want it for.
NEVER buy a prebuilt PC unless it's from a VERy top brand....even then...well it's like this.....
If you build your own, you will know what's in it in great deail. It is NOT hard to put one together because everything only goes in one hole (ooooerr), and more to the point you can pick bits to suit you. Also being there for the birth of your windows is a good thing....you get to stop it going whacky. Preloaded systems are like wearing someone else's shoes/knickers.
as for lappers....well....do u need it to move around? if not, you'll save a PILE of cash.....laptops are always less bang for buck.
If I build my own, I'll never get 'round to doing the work I need the computer for... 
Joined this thread half-way through. Blue movies, macs, lap-tops??????
Are we by any chance discussing "original sin" and its consequences (you know, Apple, Adam & Eve, Serpent...) or just the release of Basic Instinct 2? H
With their recent iPod successes, Apple have moved closer and closer to MS's monopolist attitudes. They're no longer the cool fringe player but a greedy corporate machine trying to consume the rest of the market.
Case in point: if I buy a tune off Apple on iTunes, I should be able to play it wherever the fcuk I want, whenever I want, on whatever I want, as many times as I want. It's a purchase agreement, not a loan. They're charging close to retail after all. Don't they appreciate that we don't have to pay for the freakin' content. The Soulseeks, Shareazas and Azureus' will always exist for the disenchanted consumer.
Or consider how you can plug almost any known mp3 player or gadget with a USB port into the XBox360 - apart from the iPod (ie the one most people have). Apple refused to interface with it. That's gone down really well. Their elitist, protectionist attitudes are beginning to backfire.
I'm looking forward to the days of more global iPod backlash. Can't stand commonplace attitudes of "if it's not iPod, you suck." There's already a clutch of players that eat iPods for breakfast.
Bring on lunch.
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Well if anyone can explain why you would chose an OS that costs 10's of thousands of $$ to equip to basic standards over one that comes free, has no viri and doesn't understand the concept of crashing (wonky hardware notwithstanding), I'd love to hear it. Sure linux is hard to install, but so's Xp... in fact i'l gladly enter a race with any winluser (not using Gentoo tho..it DOES take an age to install cos of the source compiled aspect, but it's still EASIER than windows.....it just takes 2 days LOL ). Apple ARE nearly as bad as MS.....right down to stealing stuff from BSD.....most of Lose-Dos's low level components are nicked from BSD..the ftp command for instance still has the Berkley copyright they forgot to hack out of it. And OS-X is well known in the open source community as "not so free BSD". Gotta love the XFCE desktop on OSX tho.
Ms will always be worse tho, if nothing else because of their artificial maintenance of the protection racket with symantec who would go out of business if windows worked as well as linux, osx, bsd, minix(Amiga OS) Tos, sinclair basic, or even CPM (yes I KNOW CPM is 30 years old and windows is based on a 3rd rate reverse engineered hack of it called QDOS ( quick and dirty OS), later MS-DOS.).
The windows apologists should ask themselves one question.....why does no one deploy windows in failure critical environments. I happen to know of at least one case where it has killed someone.....I cannot give details tho cos it envolves my employer, a govt contract and the NHS.
Linux isn't that hard to install. Come on.
No, the headaches arise totally with Window-shite.
Emma Peel wrote: Linux isn't that hard to install. Come on.
No, the headaches arise totally with Window-shite.
My point was that installing is often seen as "harder" by people who've never install DOS-XP.
Gentoo IS hard tho, well not hard...LENGTHY, you're talking 36 hours from blank drive to multimedia desktop.
So worth it after that for the package manager.
want to play tuxracer?
"Emerge tuxracer" and tuxracer aling with anything else needed is downloaded and compiled to order...TWO words....OMG how is that trickier than searching the web, finding the download site, downloading, installing, watching it crash, spending days working out why and getting the fixes...and all the time PAYING for the privellege.
£300 for a CD, and they don't eve give you a manual (apparently there Is a windows manaul but it costs £3000!!!!!!!)
Steve Campbell wrote: Well if anyone can explain why you would chose an OS that costs 10's of thousands of $$ to equip to basic standards over one that comes free, has no viri and doesn't understand the concept of crashing (wonky hardware notwithstanding), I'd love to hear it. Sure linux is hard to install, but so's Xp... in fact i'l gladly enter a race with any winluser (not using Gentoo tho..it DOES take an age to install cos of the source compiled aspect, but it's still EASIER than windows.....it just takes 2 days LOL ). Apple ARE nearly as bad as MS.....right down to stealing stuff from BSD.....most of Lose-Dos's low level components are nicked from BSD..the ftp command for instance still has the Berkley copyright they forgot to hack out of it. And OS-X is well known in the open source community as "not so free BSD". Gotta love the XFCE desktop on OSX tho.
Ms will always be worse tho, if nothing else because of their artificial maintenance of the protection racket with symantec who would go out of business if windows worked as well as linux, osx, bsd, minix(Amiga OS) Tos, sinclair basic, or even CPM (yes I KNOW CPM is 30 years old and windows is based on a 3rd rate reverse engineered hack of it called QDOS ( quick and dirty OS), later MS-DOS.).
The windows apologists should ask themselves one question.....why does no one deploy windows in failure critical environments. I happen to know of at least one case where it has killed someone.....I cannot give details tho cos it envolves my employer, a govt contract and the NHS.
Not so fast, Dr. Whoever!
OK, so why is Linux virus-free? Because it can't be attacked, or because nobody bothers to write viruses for the two of you who have Linux installed? If Linux is installed, does it still make sense to install an anti-virus program?
Now, suppose I, a person who merely wants a computer to download por... err, suppose I, a person who merely wants a computer for word processing, surfing the internet, and perhaps for studio duty (video, music) if I were decide to rebuild my studio someday, were to buy a computer and want Linux installed. How would I go about doing that? Would I buy a computer without an OS (remember, I'm not going to be wasting word processing time building any computers up from scratch), or would I jettison the crappy Gates OS and install Linux? And how would I go about getting Linux?
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: Not so fast, Dr. Whoever!
OK, so why is Linux virus-free? Because it can't be attacked, or because nobody bothers to write viruses for the two of you who have Linux installed? If Linux is installed, does it still make sense to install an anti-virus program?
It's a little of both...it's harder to attack for two (main) reasons, firstly it's system of file and folder permissions is shit hot....you will be logged in as comrade...comrade can fuck over comrades files, but never touch anything related to the system, only root can do that (also handy for being shitfaced...you can't accidentaly delete half your system, at least not without supply a password)...so a virus you receive can only twat your own user over...also because no two linux systems are quite the same, the damage it can do is heavily limited (it doesn't know where to strike). Of course there are holes,ways to grab root access, or freak something out and bring the system down, but most of these require someone to be logged in to the system rather than via some annoying email attachment. And this brings me to the 2nd point...anyone and everyone can see the source code for every linux package...if someone spots a weakness, it's fixed the next morning...and even those who don;t apply the fix are aided because no one will bother to use the exploit.
Now, suppose I, a person who merely wants a computer to download por... err, suppose I, a person who merely wants a computer for word processing, surfing the internet, and perhaps for studio duty (video, music) if I were decide to rebuild my studio someday, were to buy a computer and want Linux installed. How would I go about doing that? Would I buy a computer without an OS (remember, I'm not going to be wasting word processing time building any computers up from scratch), or would I jettison the crappy Gates OS and install Linux? And how would I go about getting Linux?
Etc. Etc. Etc.
First....I know sod all about music stuff in linux, cos I'm a cubase head, and can use nothing else on any platform with any degree of elegance....but what I do know is that it's less than optimal, in that you are in non standard territory since none of the big name programs run on linux. I know a guy who does all his work in it tho and swears by it.
It's an exceptionally good OS for "word processing" 
since none of the dodgy viri one finds in "word processing tutorial videos" function there, nor can webpages steal your credit card number off your hard drive and all the other wonderous things activeX enables in windows (in fairness that was patched in Xp SP1). It's a "lovely" OS for watching movies and the like, it's TV output quality and colour tone is quite beautiful (it's been a while since I had a good comparison tho because i have an ATI radeon in the windows box....oh FUCK the TV out is VILE!!!!! but it was vile on that card in linux)....in fact in general, everyone I've evern sat down at my 2 machines has said that for some reason they cannot define, the linux one always looks sort of slicker and prettier.
As for ging about getting it.....well it's free...you just download it, or order a copy from a burning service for a nominal fee. (you can also pay daft money for manuals and stuff if you like, but all the docs are on the discs anyway).
But, why bother testing it unless it's safe....so....
that's the knoppix "livecd"....you use your PC like a games console....switch off, put this in the drive and switch on, it runs entirely from the CD so you can see what all the fuss is about without doing anything too scarey. Certainly you woun't see the speed because CD's are slower than HD's and I'm not sure they have a license to distribute the full 3d accelerator drivers for things like nvidia and ati yet....but you'll get a beautiful KDE desktop, and a ton of apps to try out. Remember it does not even allow itself write access to the existsing HD, in fact it will run in a box with no HD...tho you CAN speed things up by offering it some swap space I think)
You can even install it from the live cd, but if you were considering an installation, I would look at Mandriva, a real newbie friendly distro (there are numerous distribution of linux, each put together as someone's perfect idea, and with their own quirks and ways of handling certain things), it has good software management, and lots of helpful point and drool "wizards" for those who don't like to talk to computers with text like I do. My lovely gentoo, is by far the best I have tried, but I'd be a damned liar if i said the install was for novices, or the impatient (36hours is typical...most of it spent with white text streaking up the screen). Once it's in, it just WORKS, and has done since day one, barring one or two attempts by yours truly to lobotomize it. I can't honestly remember the last time the machince crashed for any non hardware reason (fuckin video card and dvdburner hate me).
just stick a knoppix cd in the nearest PC and see what YOU think. (oh...linuc loves ram, uses lots f it, but uses it wisely.....give it plenty and it zings)
Whats with all the long posts? Im too tired/lazy to read them so i guess ill never know, rendering this post useless...
