Re: Apple issues warning on Vista

Donald L McDaniel wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:39:00 -1000, Mitch <mitch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4vv9v251kevv6kmr9u00ilquerc2footoi@xxxxxxx>, Donald L
McDaniel <orthocross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Guffaw!!! You don't know much about standards do you?
M$ isn't a standard... they are nothing more than a vendor.
OK, "ubiquitous", then.
You MacIdiots just don't like to admit that your daddy only sells 4%-5% of all
computers/OSes, and that Microsoft sells 95% of all OSes, and DOESN'T sell
computers.

But of course, you all identify your OS with a specific computer: Macintosh
PCs. In fact, in your thinking, you are UNABLE to separate your OS from your
computer. Which is why you keep calling normal computers "Windows Vista".

You keep resisting the correction; it is simpler than you are
suggesting.

While it may be a "simple" matter for me to accept your "correction", as you
suggest, I must refrain. And for a very "simple" reason:
"an Operating System is not a "computer". This is my contention. Add in its
corollary, "Windows Vista is not a computer", and you see why I must not receive
your "correction", since it is NOT a "correction" at all, but is simply a
poorly-framed insult.
The word 'standard' means a LOT more than you are trying to use it for.
You aren't justified in using it, execpt that a lot of people before
you have used it improperly, too.
It doesn't have to do with everyone else's denial, or with Mac users or
the attitudes that you imagine them to have.

It is just this: the meaning you are giving it actually belongs to a
different word -- the word COMMON.
And when you use the word 'standard' instead, you seem tempted to
assign the real meaning to your argument -- that in some way, being a
common device justifies everyone calling it the basic standard for
computing.
So it would be better if you used the correct word for what you mean,
or your credibility drops, your arguments weaken, and more people learn
not to read what you write (and I think you want people reading what
you write, right?)

Sir: I do accept that correction, since it is well-aligned in every way: To whit: I certify that I myself, completely unintentionally, misused the word "standard"
(for whatever reason, not inclusive of "malice" or "misdirection") in reference
to a "Windows standard keyboard".

I will from henceforth endeavor to call Microsoft Windows the "common" Operating
System of the great majority of Intel-based computers rather than the "standard"
Operating System of the great majority of Intel-based computers. In fact, over
95% of all Operating System users are users of a Microsoft Operating System as
his or her daily Operating System, usually by his or her own choice.
This is a completely "common" use of the phrase "the standard Operating System",
by the way.

Donald L McDaniel
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God, I can't take any more of this.

*PLONK*

Steve
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