[Ti] what to say to Windows users:

[cbirds]

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 03:16  PM, b wrote:
>
> Like:
>
> * Making a pdf from anything one can print? From applications all 
> across the board?
>
> * Or maybe it's possible on windoze to test an authored web site on 
> Unix, Win95 -XP, Mac OS 7 - 10.2 browsers, on one machine, for 
> browser/coding compatibility? When did MS start that? I do it all the 
> time on a single laptop.
>
> My neighbor is a web designer with partitions running Unix, OS X, and 
> 6 varieties of complete windows OS's...on  a $400 (used) G3 from 
> Apple. <--an oldie, that
>
> * Or, did Microsoft get their Color Calibration sorted out while i was 
> sleeping last night? Have they 'discovered' Pantone yet? <laughs>
>
> * Are they including sound and video editing software (free of charge) 
> that works yet?
>
> * And how about Fonts? Would you like to buy the fonts Apple includes, 
> for free? If a Windows user needed pro fonts they could buy two 
> fully-loaded G5's for the roughly 10 grand that TT equivalents would 
> cost, but I wouldn't suggest it, as their own version of Palatino 
> can't even display correctly on the most tricked-out (i.e. expensive) 
> XP Pro-equipped box in the world. We've taken sound, graphics and 
> color calibration for granted for over a decade, and they still don't 
> have it right.
>
> When did they clear up that built-in virus network called outlook? 
> yesterday? Mail.app is leaner, more powerful, and more secure.
>
> let me go check and see if there's a 'security update' that came out 
> this morning that includes column browsing in its system file 
> navigation....oops, not yet.... They must be too busy 'innovating'..
>
> Where's the "Services" function that allows proprietary and 
> third-party apps to share system resources, without respect to who 
> made what?

The above is great...........tell me more!

> Face it, Eduardo, in the same manner as most Wintel trolls, you 
> mistake slightly out-dated advantages in the gaming market for 
> 'serious' business, design, and research, computing. And so do the 
> 'defensive' Windows users and Mac apologists. When you corner these 
> guys it always comes down to "There's more games on a PC".  This, from 
> the same folks who brought you the "Mac is a toy" BS. Which is it?

I LOVE IT!

> The whole "why do you use a Mac?" thing reminds me of what Louis 
> Armstrong said in reply to , "What is jazz?" He said, "If you have to 
> ask, you'll never know."
>
> So, let 'em have their viruses and Nascar 2525's and SubUrban 
> LumberYard ProXP.exe's, Eduard, and have fun. Now, I have work to do.
>
> ~flipper

BRAVO!