Re: Playing Hold 'em with Mac OS X???

You're right - there are too many clowns in the WinDoze world, and you
simply can't win. Best to move up to a mac.


David Watts <puevf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Irish Mike


"Raider Fan" <raidersgotscrewed1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 4 2006 12:04 PM, Phillip Vandergras wrote:

Is there any one out there who thinks that Norman Chad is
even slightly entertaining?

I can honestly say I enjoy Norman. I said that even before I got my $1.25
for having a question published.

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Kenneth Sloan <sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joe Long <nospam@xxxxxxxx> writes:

David Watts wrote:
Yes. They're the computers that don't crash.

MACs not only don't crash, but don't get viruses, don't require regular
rebooting, start up quickly when you do choose to shut them down, and
are speedy.

Funny - sounds just like all the WinDoze machines I use - they don't
carsh, don't get viruses, don't require regular rebooting, start up
quickly, etc.

How do you keep them from getting corrupted/stale/screwed up
registries? Seriously. Is this something that an average user
can figure out? I'm a bit better educated than the average user
but I hate getting anywhere near the Windoze registry, and the
XP machines I've had have routinely started going south after
about six months of use due to registry rot.

And, to be perfectly honest, XP's uptime sucks ass compared to
the Darwin kernel (or just about any other Unix kernel). That's
just a fact, even though XP was a giant step forward for the
Windows world.

If it works for you - use it. If it doesn't, don't.

but perhaps consider - why is is so important to you to be *right* about
it?

Now the conversation starts to sound like one between a NLHE fan and a
LHE fan. Both will now carefully explain why "mine's better, yours
sucks".

As for the problems you mention - my machines have "just worked". I
tend to use both WinDoze machines and macs in "dumb consumer mode.
Serious work is done on a collection of (mostly linux) other machines.
In my house, we use whatever machine fits the task. That means that
right now I'm playing two tables at PokerStars (wait...Kings...damn
flush), while at the same time running an X11 Server so that I can read
news over an SSH connection to my office machine. Downstairs, my wife
is using BootCamp to run a niche-program that's "PC only" (damn...Kings
AGAIN - and an A on the river - but I'm brave, and win!) on her brand
new macbook pro (her G5 died with some hardware ailment that Apple could
not diagnose).

Remember - you can't (damn - KK AGAIN??? - three out lf last 4 hands! -
another A on the river, and this time my opponent raises...I'm toast)
put any miles on the odometer if you are constantly raising the hood,
examining the engine, and exclaiming about how it gets much better
milage than a Chevy).

A hard fact for Mac-cultists to swallow is that people buy PCs to get
work done (kinda like a pick-up truck), while *some* people buy Macs to
look cool (like a Mini Cooper). Sure, a Mini Cooper is waycool better
than a pickup truck - if you are just posing.

[and, yes - there *are* legitimate reasons to select macs (or Mini
Coopers) - it's just that there's no call for pointing and giggling at
people hauling equipment in their pickups, laughing at what rotten 0-60
times they have]

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Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/
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