🚀 go-pugleaf

Geo H wrote:

> Here's the problem I have...Getting Mr Gates and Mr Jobs to bury the
> hatchet (preferably in each other's heads) and make UNIFORM software
> application that will run on either machine and solve this problem and
> witless discussion once and for all..I mean Im tired of having things at
> either location (home or work) that I cant translate between the two!!!
> 
> SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING...BUT NOOOOOOO.... these two guys have to go on
> pointing fingers, name calling making bad jokes about each others mother
> and who does it benefit?...no one, no one but their bank books, and who
> do it hurt?  US !!!!!!
> 
> Come on people, grow up!  stop the arguing between ourselves and start
> arguing at the heads of the Computer state...
> 
> WE WANT UNIFORM FUNCTIONING APPLICATION THAT WILL RUN ON ALL MACHINES!!!

Uhh...it's called Java.  It's not just applets, as the language
progresses entire applications in Java will be possible.

That aside, I think it's pretty clear from this thread that people tend
to prefer a little variety.

As I'm sure everyone here has seen, there's a million things wrong with
the Mac, just as there are a million things wrong with the PC.  There's
also a million great things about each.  It's really a matter of, say it
with me...

PERSONAL PREFERENCE.  Grow up.

With that said, let me share a bizzare anecdote that will no doubt cause
a new round of flames:

Yesterday I receive in email a Word for Windows file.  I use a Mac, but
my partner's machine is running NT 4 server, so he's got Mac file
services, and I can just drop files on his hard drive (I don't have a
copy of Word for the Mac).  This usually works with out a hitch, but
this time (drumroll)...
NT 4.0 server crashed.  Completely.  Blanked out to a blue screen, then
tried to reboot itself before locking up altogether.  Because it was in
the middle of a file transfer, it brought down my Mac as well.  Now
that's a hard crash!  And yes, I guess you could theorise that it might
have been the Mac's fault, but that's not the point.  NT crashed!

So I guess NT isn't quite as rock-solid stable as the hype would
maintain.

This is another reason why for our mission-critical web server we dumped
NT and use Linux.  That's why I find this whole Mac-Windows thing so
pointless.  In any case where the OS truly makes a _critical
difference_, neither is adequate.

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