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Fuck Apple. They will never set foot in my living room.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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lol, roflmao, lmfao, lmao, lolz, i cant stop laughing at the pathetic market share that apple has in pc and phone sales, lol again!

anyway now ive stopped laughing, apple products are allways a rip-off, thats why i never buy them, i can get MP3/4 players for the cost of an ipod with twice the storage, i can get a PC with twice the specs of a similarly priced mac as well, as for the iphone, i dont really see the point in shelling out twice my current monthly contract to get a phone that offers next to nothing more than my current phone (N95)



It is pretty laughable how small the Apple market share is in the PC market. I swear I thought they had at least 10%. Less than 5% for how big Macs have been recently is just plain pathetic.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

rocketpig said:
dib8rman said:

Sure I love eating sushi and your right I'd have to be bat-shit crazy to be munching on bowling balls.

Who said we were talking about eating? Maybe I wanted to go bowling with the sushi. Maybe I was talking about playing guitar or any other random topic.

That's the point. You're bringing up a multimedia interface and comparing it to something entirely different that wasn't even in the conversation to begin with. Comparisons make no sense in this case.

 


Ok sorry for the delay rocketpig after my last post I left work. >.>

Look OSX and XMB share one thing in common, they are interfaces that allow easy access to apps (GUI). By that standard I have just as much right to compare the two, though as I've said many, many times already I'm comparing them based on my experiences.

As far as your retwisting the analogy, your actually proving my point from a previos post about apples and oranges before. You should really take your own wisdom for advice on this one.



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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

dib8rman said:
rocketpig said:
dib8rman said:

Sure I love eating sushi and your right I'd have to be bat-shit crazy to be munching on bowling balls.

Who said we were talking about eating? Maybe I wanted to go bowling with the sushi. Maybe I was talking about playing guitar or any other random topic.

That's the point. You're bringing up a multimedia interface and comparing it to something entirely different that wasn't even in the conversation to begin with. Comparisons make no sense in this case.

 


Ok sorry for the delay rocketpig after my last post I left work. >.>

Look OSX and XMB share one thing in common, they are interfaces that allow easy access to apps (GUI). By that standard I have just as much right to compare the two, though as I've said many, many times already I'm comparing them based on my experiences.

As far as your retwisting the analogy, your actually proving my point from a previos post about apples and oranges before. You should really take your own wisdom for advice on this one.

 

The problem is that they are not comparable.  OSX is a mouse based GUI that, like most computer screen GUIs, is designed to allow the user to organize a wide variety of applications and documents in any way they see fit while keeping a consistant mouse based control scheme through all the menus and applications.  XMB is designed to allow users to access a much more narrow range of applications and options.  In that function, it can narrow the menus more focused options.  If XMB had to organize hundreds of documents along with several running applications it would quickly show that is not what it is designed for.  Similarly, OSX would not work as well with a controller as it does with a mouse.  So, to say that one is better than the other makes little sense since they are designed for different purposes with different demands.

I give that post a 9.3.

 



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dib8rman said:
rocketpig said:
dib8rman said:

Sure I love eating sushi and your right I'd have to be bat-shit crazy to be munching on bowling balls.

Who said we were talking about eating? Maybe I wanted to go bowling with the sushi. Maybe I was talking about playing guitar or any other random topic.

That's the point. You're bringing up a multimedia interface and comparing it to something entirely different that wasn't even in the conversation to begin with. Comparisons make no sense in this case.

 


Ok sorry for the delay rocketpig after my last post I left work. >.>

Look OSX and XMB share one thing in common, they are interfaces that allow easy access to apps (GUI). By that standard I have just as much right to compare the two, though as I've said many, many times already I'm comparing them based on my experiences.

As far as your retwisting the analogy, your actually proving my point from a previos post about apples and oranges before. You should really take your own wisdom for advice on this one.

I didn't want to get involved in this, but that is just plain and flat-out wrong. OS X is an operating system, and an operating system != GUI. Similarily, PS3 has an operating system, and the XMB is simply an application that provides a GUI for certain, limited set of operations. That's why your basic premise is wrong, you're comparing an application to an operating system. Though I do understand your point, which is that for purely multimedia purposes, it is simpler to pick-up and start using XMB, an application tailored just for that, rather than OS X, an operating system that can do infinitely more. Your result is hardly surprising, I believe the same holds for Vista and Linux as well. The situation would be different if you had picked up the IR remote that comes with every Mac and used Front Row, which is the OS X equivalent of XMB, or close to anyway.

And now, with the OS X Mobile 2.0, you could download and use the Remote application for controlling the multimedia functions of your Mac/Apple TV from your iPhone/iTouch, which would be a yet another comparison.