Author Topic: Capitalist dilemma, what would you choose? (Read 1646 times)

JB73 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 21, 2004, 02:15:43 AM »

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Originally posted by Lizking
There are no monopolies anymore.

time warner

almost no other cable company in the US

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #31 on:** February 21, 2004, 02:40:54 AM »

Microsoft has bound the hardware vendors to provide the computers with MS OS installed, that or they don't get MS products at all.

How's that for fair play?

Nilsen · « **Reply #32 on:** February 21, 2004, 03:38:53 AM »

Im enjoying my new life with mac and OS10, can't see any reason to go back to wind0ws.

After the switch to mac im a more relaxed person, almost all aggression is gone....pheuuu.

Only sad part is no AH on my puter now but hey..can't get it all

jigsaw · « **Reply #33 on:** February 21, 2004, 06:17:10 AM »

Next PC I "buy" will most likely be a Mac for home recording studio. Windows just all around sucks for this. Tried setting up a MOTU 828 under win once. The best "lag" it got was about 1.5 seconds for real time recording. But, still debating on doing the Mac thing or upgrading my roland VS1680 to a VS2480.

Next one I "build" could be win, linux, or OS/2 depending on what I'm doing for kicks at the moment. Back when I was doing the network engineering thing, we all had a win box for reports, Visio, etc, and a linux, BSD, SunOS, or Solaris for doing actual network stuff at our desks. Most of us also had self built non windows boxes at home for those oh so wonderful 3am calls of "something broke." Trying to troubleshoot a network problem with any version of windows is like masturbating with a cheese grater.

Nilsen · « **Reply #34 on:** February 21, 2004, 06:42:49 AM »

jigsaw

I see what you mean. This PB 15" is my first mac. I havent looked back and maybe i neve will.... nobody knows.

Was responisible for the puter system at my university for a short while and everyday someone would come by my office to get help with some win problems or getting online on our network/printers. I never had any mac users comming by, and we had plenty of them.

Started talking to one of those strange mac freaks one day and he gave me a look at his ibook and i understood why they never came by....it just worked

it AINT perfect, but now i spend more time with the apps and less with tinkering and tuning the operating system to get it the way i want it.

I know there is more mac haters than lovers out there but i dont really care as long as im happy

beet1e · « **Reply #35 on:** February 21, 2004, 07:09:57 AM »

I never thought of Microsoft as a monopoly; it's simply the only company doing what it does on that scale. Nothing to stop another such company...

...which reminds me. Don't the US anti-trust laws prevent monopolies?

Microsoft got into hot water for packaging its web browser I.E. along with the operating systems because of killing NetScape. What was the end of that story?

I remember that a little later, IBM started marketing its flagship mainframe database manager - DB2 - without the DB2 utilities, because they didn't want to get into the fix that Microsoft had got into over its OS.