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Jan. 29th, 2003 09:16 amdarth fishie: i've never used bbedit. i use ultraedit on windows, and i like it rather a lot.
why in the world are you switching from mac to windows?
darth jodawi:
ultraedit is ok, but i don't remember it being pretty. i'm all about waking up in the morning and singing, "I feel pretty! Oh so pretty!"
Switching:
- Windows XP is the first Windows that doesn't completely suck. It just mostly sucks, which makes it mostly equivalent to all other OSes. It's the first one that looks moderately pretty, frex.
- I use two stock market programs that aren't available on Mac.
- Printing photos from my Mac resulted in bizarre color artifacts; printing from Windows was flawless.
- Mac software for my scanner is unuseable. Windows software is usable.
- MacOS X wants me to type my password 300,000,000 times per day.
- I want to be a millionaire as that's the only way to besport my vasty plans for world domination, and i'm likely to make more money in the Windows world, and the development process is likely to be easier. Getting an interesting job in Portland would also be easier in non-Mac land.
- Unix is fun on the Mac, but when i can't get a thing like lynx to run (or was it something else... don't remember) it's mostly just an amusement rather than a reliable useful tool. I can get a dual-boot machine, or VirtualPC with Linux on Windows.
- Applescript sucks.
- Tired of games coming out a year and a half later (not that i currently play them, but moo) at full price when at the same time the Windows version has been marked down to half price or less because it's old news.
- Steve Jobs doesn't have a personality that inspires confidence in me. Reminds me of the coach of the losing team on the one Superbowl i forced myself to watch carefully, and reminds me of a used car salespeep.
- I want to start doing Nifty Computer Things, and i feel like XP is the best base for hatching them plottings.
- Any remaining Windows ugliness is an opportunity for me to make money.
- As a professor of Eclectic University, i have to be able to run the software my pupils run.
- Most everyone i help with computers is Windowsy, and it's easier to provide tech support if i'm more familiar with things.
- I was a Mac user because it was the least sucky choice. I stared in disbelief at the people looking at character-based fake GUI screens with giant wall charts showing which command went with which Fkey, or trying to decipher IRQs and jumpers and device conflicts. I've always been more efficient at everything on Macs, even with 20 crashes a day. But that's starting to change. IMO, MacOS + hardware started out way way above the competition, but has been climbing in quality only gradually since then. DOS/Windows started out in the depths of hell, but has been climbing more steeply, and i think with XP they've reached equivalent status, and they're likely to keep climbing steeply while Apple has less and less to distinguish it. Apple's only hope i think is to transition OSX to a shell on top of Linux, and to start selling software for Windows. And to learn how to make money from its cool ideas (Newton/Palm).
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Also: Visual Assist on Windows to make colors appear and browse info usable, so i can code without being handicapped by blindness.
why in the world are you switching from mac to windows?
darth jodawi:
ultraedit is ok, but i don't remember it being pretty. i'm all about waking up in the morning and singing, "I feel pretty! Oh so pretty!"
Switching:
- Windows XP is the first Windows that doesn't completely suck. It just mostly sucks, which makes it mostly equivalent to all other OSes. It's the first one that looks moderately pretty, frex.
- I use two stock market programs that aren't available on Mac.
- Printing photos from my Mac resulted in bizarre color artifacts; printing from Windows was flawless.
- Mac software for my scanner is unuseable. Windows software is usable.
- MacOS X wants me to type my password 300,000,000 times per day.
- I want to be a millionaire as that's the only way to besport my vasty plans for world domination, and i'm likely to make more money in the Windows world, and the development process is likely to be easier. Getting an interesting job in Portland would also be easier in non-Mac land.
- Unix is fun on the Mac, but when i can't get a thing like lynx to run (or was it something else... don't remember) it's mostly just an amusement rather than a reliable useful tool. I can get a dual-boot machine, or VirtualPC with Linux on Windows.
- Applescript sucks.
- Tired of games coming out a year and a half later (not that i currently play them, but moo) at full price when at the same time the Windows version has been marked down to half price or less because it's old news.
- Steve Jobs doesn't have a personality that inspires confidence in me. Reminds me of the coach of the losing team on the one Superbowl i forced myself to watch carefully, and reminds me of a used car salespeep.
- I want to start doing Nifty Computer Things, and i feel like XP is the best base for hatching them plottings.
- Any remaining Windows ugliness is an opportunity for me to make money.
- As a professor of Eclectic University, i have to be able to run the software my pupils run.
- Most everyone i help with computers is Windowsy, and it's easier to provide tech support if i'm more familiar with things.
- I was a Mac user because it was the least sucky choice. I stared in disbelief at the people looking at character-based fake GUI screens with giant wall charts showing which command went with which Fkey, or trying to decipher IRQs and jumpers and device conflicts. I've always been more efficient at everything on Macs, even with 20 crashes a day. But that's starting to change. IMO, MacOS + hardware started out way way above the competition, but has been climbing in quality only gradually since then. DOS/Windows started out in the depths of hell, but has been climbing more steeply, and i think with XP they've reached equivalent status, and they're likely to keep climbing steeply while Apple has less and less to distinguish it. Apple's only hope i think is to transition OSX to a shell on top of Linux, and to start selling software for Windows. And to learn how to make money from its cool ideas (Newton/Palm).
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Also: Visual Assist on Windows to make colors appear and browse info usable, so i can code without being handicapped by blindness.
