Re: Victory for ignorance

In article
<1776254f-52ec-4443-926e-b4c5b459ebda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
,
jerryeveretts <ifreeley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1) Recent tests proved that Macintosh computers using Apple's
BootCamp run Windows Vista faster than ANY IBM derived PC on the
market.

Not true at all. PCWorld named the MBP the fastest Vista computer it
has ever tested.

I was going to berate you for not providing a reference. But you
are reminding me of the article and I agree. Sorry.


"zara" <stripersw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ROI, or return on investment, is the continuing income derived from invested
principal or capital expense.

Yes! Since when has zara been willing to use intelligence in his
posts? Very bizarre.

The creators of Wikipedia.org also have other sites including
Wiktionary.org where you can look up such stuff. On Mac I highly
recommend grabbing the freeware program OmniDictionary from
OmniGroup.com. It is a hell-of-a-lot more capable than the Oxford
Dictionaries Apple kindly provide in Mac OS X due to it scouring
a wide variety of Internet dictionaries. It works as a great
thesaurus as well.

But then zara went insane again:

"zara" <stripersw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All computers depreciate from day one. There is no ROI, no matter how fast
you dance and spin.

<<shaking head in amazement>>

This is what happens when little trolls are not willing to
understand what they are quoting.


In article <mr-5A9ADD.20060707122007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sandman <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This just may be the most stupid thing every posted on csma...

Exactly. Pitifully sad to see a troll go utterly insane.


In article <jim-AE82CF.19180407122007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ROI = (Gain from investment-cost of investment) / cost of investment

Typically a business makes a capital investment which has direct and
indirect costs along with unexpected costs, repairs and so on. When all
is taken into account and the above formula applied there is an ROI
factor.

<http://www.solutionmatrix.com/return-on-investment.html>
<http://www.rms.net/lc_faq_other_roi.htm>

Thank you as ever Jim.


In article <13ljm9qj9l8i791@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Obviously, there's no point in running Windows on top of OS X on a Mac if
your app is a Windows app; you can just run Windows. Then you have one or
two fewer things to go wrong.

If Apple hardware is what you want, that's fine, but stick to Boot Camp.
That's the real Windows, and no compromises.

Sorry Daniel, but that is NOT what I do. I have one or two
WinDoze-only apps I run on XP inside of Parallels, the hardware
enabled virtualization program. Having to reboot just to run this
WinDoze crap makes zero sense to me when Parallels literally
makes the WinDoze app run transparently at decent speed inside
Mac OS X with WinDoze hidden in the background. (BTW, I have 3 GB
on my MacBook to accommodate running the two OSes at once).

Again, the only reason I would want to use BootCamp is to get
better quality 3D graphics results in WinDoze-only games. And I
don't bother with kiddy stuff any more so I don't do that. In my
case I have Parallels and WinDoze set up on a separate partition
that I access from my separate boot partition. I also have a
second copy of Tiger on that partition that I boot to when I
perform regular repair checkups on my boot volume.


:-Derek

--
Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today?
Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been
equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool,
not a challenge.
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/>
[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'.
He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software
engineering in 1975.]
.

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