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Worst Things About Windows XP

Originally posted by Kiwi-Todd
Linky

Thanks for that clarification.

I hadn't really distilled my post down to your salient interpretation, but I guess in retrospect you are correct! --Macs are for simple-minded folks not powerusers - shucks and there I was thinking video compositing was fairly intense work ....... while PeeCees appear to be suited for semi-literates for whom "technoligy" is a "hoby".

Yes I want it ALL, I want it NOW and I want it for ME, ME, ME - because I PAID for it!!
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thank you for makeing my point for me :)

edit: i just want to make it clear that im not really here to argue, im trying to draw my own conclusions by asking questions, some people here are overly defensive, im honestly just trying to ask a few questions, your need to attack anyone who disagree's with you is not really helping
 
Originally posted by Kiwi-Todd
MAV... my dear



Shucks Mav - i'm glad that I busted you up - must happen a fair bit - looking down from your lofty heights at us plebes who don't own or use XP CORPORATE SP1 INTEGRATED - hell, I'm so dumb I'd never even heard of that !

My downright pig ignorance busts up a lot of people - I guess I am just a 20th century village idiot!

Unlike you integrated CORPORATE types my poor dumb family runs meagre ol' XP home - just like most people who use their PC at home? (guessing... but I'm probably wrong there too).

My post was about observations that I had made over a two week period at home over christmas - you see being the most ignorant and slowest of my family my wintel box only runs 98SE (and I really have no big gripes with it - I was actually hugely anti-mac only 2 years ago).

I digress -sorry my mind wanders...back on track;



You are dead right! - i didn't realise that they were one and the same - for these minor reasons:

1) They have different names.
2) They look different and show different things (not just drives on my version of My Computer either mate)
3) One has the heirarchical tree system to the left - which I like for moving files about - the other doesn't (I now learn from another post that I can get this on My computer through a menu item)

My point is that I used windows for 6 years as an everyday user (limited experience means I don't understand the workings of Windows) and found Explorer invaluable and My computer fairly hopeless for organising files.

As for me not being able to find the CD-ROM Drive - read again buddy - it wasn't me - it was your beloved XP (home) that couldn't find it.

Windows explorer could find the drive - but My Computer (which is of course the same thing, only different) couldn't!! But hell - I guess I'm just a dumbass again - oh thats right - My Computer shows DRIVES!

iTunes could see the drive - but Roxio couldn't - service pack downloads, Driver updates and firmware updates didn't resolve the problem - can you guess what did?

A $NZ350 upgrade to XP Professional (still not CORPORATE I know).

Now I will finish in your terms and tone:

MAV you are the funniest guy (or gal) that I have come across in, like forever!

Of course you don't know or understand that most computer user's idea of a great night out is NOT building a PC at home.

It is clear that your intellectual superiority renders you simply incapable of understanding that human opinions are formed through experiences. Most morons like me have real world experiences with computers (Macs included) that leave us frustrated with technology, from these we form impressions and opinions (rightly or wrongly).

Perhaps your difficulty in comprehending this concept is linked to the inordinate amount of time you seem to spend posting on forums

But let me say this: for a simpleton from down-under you are just the funniest thing I have come across in month's - you bust me up MAV!
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Hey, thanks for taking the time for writing a great post. I guess you are making fun of not just me, but the other top forum posters when you say "inordinate amount of time spent posting on the forums". I am no where near the top poster on this forum, so it looks like you are making fun of your fellow MacRumors members that made the top 50 Posters of 2003 in that regard. I congratulate you for disrespecting all on this forum that take more time than even I do to help other MacRumors members with their computer problems. Seriously, congratulations on your condescending attitude toward active posters. You really deserve a medal.

Oh man, addressing me as dear? Are you my mother? I have never seen anyone address my as "my dear" but those who resort to childish name-calling as a last resort.

I also appreciate your generalization that building a PC takes an entire night. It takes a bit less than an hour to be fully assembled and formated. Of course, your stereotypes, generalizations, and bigotry blind you from seeing this. And then, like a high schooler (are you in high school), you believe (or ignorantly conjure in your brain) that I am one of those nerds who stays at home fiddling his thumbs or playing with his PC.

Again, congratulations on your horrible misconceptions. It deserves a gold medal.
 
mmmm on reflection I just realized that in all honesty I don't like Windows either.

Problem is - I'm not really sure why - call it a gut reaction (The desire to vomit!)

Sorry for being so diplomatic up till now.
 
Um Kiwi, you just attacked me based on your OWN differing opinions. You have not shown a bit of indifference, so do not be the arbitrator in this situation.
 
It's starting to get a bit childish now, this new argument reminds me of a grade school playground fight.

If you don't like Windows or if you do like Windows, it's personal preference. I agree that there are issues inherent to any OS and if Kiwi says his computer couldn't find the CD drive, then maybe it didn't. On the reverse side, if someone says they can build a working PC in an hour, that's wonderful. It's just two sides of the spectrum.
 
I took those out because I didn't want a 3 pages to be used for my single post. If you want me to show you your original comments (or should i say jokes) about XP, I can do that for you.

If you do not want to learn, then there is nothing i can do. This thread is over.
 
Hey Linky

You really should try Darwin and OSX, the underlying technologies are very powerful and are merely a flavor of *NIX. I know several sysadmins who use iBooks and Powerbooks using the CLIE and they really like the system.
Go to your local Apple store or CompUSA and boot into terminal and watch the employees freak out while you enable root.
In fact this is my advice for any OS in fact even WinXP. Try Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.) try Unix (Sun, whatever) Windows (98, 2k, even ME if you're bored) try Palm, try Pocket PC, try a boot Linux CD on an Xbox, if you're really interested in computers as a hobby I think you should try to experience as much as possible, then your opinion about one or another has more weight. I've tried Windows 98 - XP, Linux (Red Hat, Yellow Dog) and OS9 - OSX.3.2 and in my opinion OSX.3.2 is the best game in town, but that's me.
So Linky, really go out and try an OSX box, I think you will be really surprised by what Apple has managed to do with the old NeXT software and frameworks and build them into a great OS.
Plus, OSX has a universal spell-checker, which you desperately need, no offense. :D
Mav, really you 'da man, keep those Windows boxes tame.
 
Re: Hey Linky

Originally posted by hulugu
You really should try Darwin and OSX, the underlying technologies are very powerful and are merely a flavor of *NIX. I know several sysadmins who use iBooks and Powerbooks using the CLIE and they really like the system.
Go to your local Apple store or CompUSA and boot into terminal and watch the employees freak out while you enable root.
In fact this is my advice for any OS in fact even WinXP. Try Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.) try Unix (Sun, whatever) Windows (98, 2k, even ME if you're bored) try Palm, try Pocket PC, try a boot Linux CD on an Xbox, if you're really interested in computers as a hobby I think you should try to experience as much as possible, then your opinion about one or another has more weight. I've tried Windows 98 - XP, Linux (Red Hat, Yellow Dog) and OS9 - OSX.3.2 and in my opinion OSX.3.2 is the best game in town, but that's me.
So Linky, really go out and try an OSX box, I think you will be really surprised by what Apple has managed to do with the old NeXT software and frameworks and build them into a great OS.
Plus, OSX has a universal spell-checker, which you desperately need, no offense. :D
Mav, really you 'da man, keep those Windows boxes tame.
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haha yes, i do like to play around with as much technoligy as possible - this is my whole reason for getting a mac to begin with

and as for my spelling, i apoligize, english is not my strongest language but i try and spell well enough to get by :D
 
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