Re: Looking at Macs from a PC user's perspective

In article <BF2CFCE3.39DF%wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wally
<wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You claimed to be having Heart surgery, and here you are as large as life
> posting, could you point out where my assumption of a successful procedure
> was in error? (or was this merely another misunderstanding? LOL)
>
> Perhaps the surgeon never intended to operate.....merely diddle a bit? ;=)

You are not far wrong there. My surgeon was ran out of business for
performing unnecessary operations. The hospital was shut down, then
later sold.

In my particular case, the surgeon did good work. Majority of my
symptoms disappeared, scans showed that the stints he implanted opened
up most of my arteries. One artery on backside of my ticker is too
ulcerated to allow stint implantation.




> So this "heck of a lot of computer work in the aircraft, all of it on a
> Mac," is done on your Pismo or Lombard?

On the Lombard. If that really old Mac is stolen or damaged, no big
deal. Any time I need processing horsepower, or want to retrieve a
needed file from my home, I could use Timbuktu in order to slave a big
nasty G5 at my home.

Dropping the TB2 connection is not a problem for me when retrieving
large graphics files, because I always carve up my files into small
pieces using "split" from Terminal, _before_ I transfer the file.




> So your "years of running a Mac" which you claim does not make you a Mac
> user, consists of shoving a few icons around on the screen...LOL

Basically, yes. Being you are bound and determined to ignore the
spirit of this thread and dwell instead on what you perceive as my
flaws and inconsistancies in posting, I will therefore make you happy
with the following admission:

I know extremely little about PCs, Macs, Windows, OS X, and any other
computer topic you care to mention. In the past, I knew a small
amount about such subjects, however in my old age my memory is failing
miserably.

Now you can file that statement and use it later to lambast me, which
seems to give you pleasure.

I hope for you sake that you avoid my plight when you get older,
however there is a definite possibility that you will not.

A 1989 study found that 10 percent of people over 65 and 50 percent of
those over 85 had Alzheimer's disease. (I am 76, so go figure)

....ref pg 11, Summer 2005 issue "AI magazine", an in-house magazine
available for members of AAAI only, but perhaps you can take my word
for the reference.



As long as I am posting references, I want to get a bit closer to the
"spirit" of this thread, by posting one of the many websites that sell
special printers FOR PCs AND WINDOWS ONLY, the kind of printers that
can be used for exotic purposes such as fabricating needed parts or
tools for a colony of people on the planet Mars - - - when it would be
impractical to transport the part from Earth.

Newly designed parts created in a CAD program can be created, or
existing parts can be scanned.

CAD spec's could be sent from Earth to Mars in a matter of hours, an
exact clone of the part could be fabricated on Mars in a few hours.

This "printer" will only run when connected to a PC using Windows-2000
or Windows-NT

This is yet another case where us Mac users are hurting because we have
such a small share of the market, compared to PC users :(


<http://www.lasersharp.com/Z810.htm>


The printer weighs a modest 1,240 pounds. I was afraid to chase down
the price, but I imagine it is in the $100,000 range.



Entry level 3D printers are available from other websites, costing less
than $3,000

The general principle these PC printers work on is laying down thin
layers of powder, then using a laser beam to instantly melt and
solidify the powder in selected areas.

Advanced models of these printers can even handle blind holes and
sealed-off areas.

"Workable" plastic models can often be produced.

The plastic models can also be used to create forms that can be used to
cast metal parts.

Mark-
.

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