Enchantermon on 23/10/2009 at 18:31
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
"Cloud computing" is nothing more than thin-client computing with a fresh coat of marketweasel stank.
True. Our presentation was actually about thin clients; it wasn't until afterwards that I heard of the term "cloud computing" and I thought, "Hey, that's the exact same thing we were talking about."
Quote Posted by DarkForge
Hell, not even the Internet, strictly speaking. Even in this day and age, books still have their uses.
Good point.
:weird:
Despite the good taste both Burger King and Windows 7 leave in my mouth, that's just dumb.
Volitions Advocate on 23/10/2009 at 18:49
Quote Posted by scarykitties
Do discuss. Is Microsoft really under threat, or is its biggest competition its own ineptness in creating consistently good operating systems?
This... pretty much.
To be honest... There is less and less difference between PC's a macs as time goes on. We just had a guest lecturer that uses Win XP on his macbook pro.
I'm in the digital audio arts program at my university so I'm surrounded by a few dozen macfags now. Honestly If i was given a mac. I'd use it. Most of the guys in my program use them, and our terminals at school are mac. Everything else in the school is a PC however, And Mac is no better at networking stability than a PC is. There have been just as many catastrophic data losses. personally my biggest beef now that i'm in this situation is more with Digidesign and their hardware DRM. (yes.. DRM) not to mention they sandbag to sell more hardware. But that's not a PC/Mac issue at all.
Mostly it's the people who complain about the other camp that bug me. Macs aren't useless and they're not bad... they ARE expensive but thats got nothing to do with application. When a professor closes down the workstation at the lecturn and you hear the windows shutdown sound, all the macfags, without fail do this theatrical shudder and mutter something about the devil.
The main difference between a PC and Mac is as follows: We'll use an analogy
A PC is the used car you bought from the auction. and a Mac is a new rolls royce.
The Rolls Royce has the better warranty and ease of use, you get in and you drive it. But you better not mod it.. it'll void the warranty.
The old junker you have to soup up. Get it working with the parts you like and *MAINTAIN* the thing or it stops working. But you can upgrade the engine, get better fuel efficiency, take it to the corner mechanic to get it fixed rather than the dealer, or even fix it yourself.
The Rolls is over priced for what it can do. Would you take a rolls 4x4 ing? no but I'd take a 300 dollar car I bought at an auction through the mud.
You have to love computers to be a PC user that doesn't constantly have problems. Mac users aren't computer savvy for the most part.
Who wants a car that can only drive on pavement that your'e afraid to scratch, let alone dent? who cares if they send a helicopter to you when you break down? O right... people that don't like to drive, that's who.
ZylonBane on 23/10/2009 at 19:01
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
The main difference between a PC and Mac is as follows: We'll use an analogy
A PC is the used car you bought from the auction. and a Mac is a new rolls royce.
In this week's episode of Utterly Failed Analogies...
Renzatic on 23/10/2009 at 19:39
I use Linux on occasion. Ubuntu, to be precise. One thing I've noticed since I installed Ubuntu and spent fifteen hundred fucking hours in Google learning to do stuff is how it's become oh so very easy to not get laid.
Oh well. At least I have Compiz Fusion.
thefonz on 23/10/2009 at 19:47
I'm really enjoying Windows 7, so much more superior to any other OS I've used.
The END.
Ostriig on 23/10/2009 at 19:47
Good OP, would read again. Probably will.
As for W7 - I don't think I've ever been giddy about a new OS before. Reluctant, more likely. With this one, however, I've got the .iso sitting on my hard drive since yesterday evening and I look forward to installing it tomorrow, hopefully. In fact, that's the case with loads of my colleagues at Uni - 10 minutes after a couple of us ran into the staff member responsible and he let us know that W7 was finally up on MSDNAA, the labs were clusterfucked with students emailing the guy to (re)activate their accounts so they could get it.
I got two good years out of Vista, and I've found it more to my liking than XP. If W7 turns out to be even just half of an improvement as many make it out to be, I want it.
Renzatic on 23/10/2009 at 20:01
What? Linux parties? I dunno. I'm not very good with anagrams, and I don't know how to play tabletop D&D very well.
Also, I have my standards.
thefonz on 23/10/2009 at 21:00
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Also, I have my standards.
You took advantage of the recent sale at Tesco aswell?
