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I thought the cartoon was funny too. I can take a good ribbing on occasion.
(And just for the record, OS X 10.2 includes full SAMBA compatability for normal networking between Windows and Mac.)
Last night I had a whole shitload of apps running:
Camino (a Mozilla flavor) Mail Palm Desktop MSN Messenger iTunes 4 -- *while* streaming some MP3's to my sister's computer on our home's wireless LAN Dreamweaver MX BBEdit Transmit (FTP transfer) Microsoft Word v.X ScreenWriter 2000 Adobe Acrobat 5 SETI@home command line client (in background)
Now, folks, I'm running on a processor that's essentially 5-year-old technology. The G3/600 mHz is a relatively old processor technology -- heck, they're probably going to be announcing the G5 this summer -- and I've "only" got 384 MB of RAM, to boot!
Uhh... what were we talking about? Oh yeah, networking.
Windows networking is fully built in to the current versions of OS X... link up the two with a cable, and you can transfer stuff as easily as between two Windows machines. (Of course, that's what you're having trouble with right now, isn't it? )
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Yeah, but I bet your Mac can't run Deer Hunter 3: Rise of the Death Jeep.
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::sigh:: I miss my old Apple IIe. I had really cool games for it.
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My primary school had an old Apple IIe... they had some incredible games back then. The one I remember best was called "Think Quick." No idea now what it was about, aside from running around in mazes trying to avoid day-glo worms...
Yeah, I must admit that the gaming situation for Macs these days still sucks. Although I've heard that it's supposed to be a lot easier to port PC games to OS X than it was to the classic MacOS... but that's moot if the game publishers aren't willing to put the effort into getting it done.
Civilization III came out for the Mac "only" about one month behind the Windows release, but we're currently running a full patch behind the Win release (Win 1.29, Mac 1.21), and that Windows patch was posted about eight months ago. I'm playing CivIII with a beta version of the latest patch (Mac 1.29), which a generous soul over at the Mac porting company is writing in his spare time. The first CivIII expansion pack came out months ago with no committment to a Mac version (though it's been promised), and the SECOND pack was recently announced -- naturally, no promise of Mac support.
Then there's SimCity 4 that recently came out. The minimum recommended system is the specs of a (portable) computer that came out only ONE YEAR AGO. (If it's a desktop model, it's up to two years. Whoopee! -- My dad's still using a five-year-old machine, and there's a ten-year-old machine in the basement that's probably still operable.) My 18-month-old iBook -- which was a middle-level model when I bought it, mind you, not the cheap end -- only has a quarter of the graphics memory that's "required" -- and I'm loathe to buy the game only to find out that playing it sucks on an older system.
On a more positive note, I *am* still able to play "Star Trek 25th Anniversary" on my current computer when I boot up Classic mode... that game NEVER gets old!
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Omega, those emulators for Mac you linked to are all at least three or four years out of date, and all of those would require booting up Classic, which is basically an OS 9 emulator for the older programs, inside OS X. Running an emulator inside another emulator isn't exactly a good idea.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: "My PC wasn't Plug-n-Play. It was Plug-n-Get-Mad." -- Janie Porche
If you're going to quote a joke, please make sure it's funny. Or if you can't manage that, please make sure it works. Honestly, "play" becomes "get mad"? Even if it's the "there's no connection between the phrases hence there is shock value", it's still shitter than listening to whiny Mac wankfans going on and on about how their computers are so great and wonderful and give regular blow jobs and everything.
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Uh, I presume you know what "Plug-n-Play" means, right?
Plug-n-Play: Connect a USB device to the computer, and have it instantly available for use.
Plug-n-Get-Mad: What happens when Plug-n-Play doesn't work. A frequent occurrence on many Windows machines, I'm told.
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I might have considered getting a Mac for the blow jobs, but I have had experiences with them proving that the enjoyment of said blow jobs from the Macs are worse than just sticking your penis in a vacuum cleaner. In my experience, they've gone down more often than a crack whore but fall asleep once they get down there.
On the flip side, the only major problems I've ever had with Windows is the annoying Windows Messenger in XP Pro and a buggy version of Back-Up in Windows 95. Oh, and Paintbrush's color eraser would occassionally do funky things in Windows 3.11.
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quote:I might have considered getting a Mac for the blow jobs...
I'm sorry, Sieggy, but I can't resist making that one my new sig!
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