I want a Macintosh...

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I swear, computer people have to be the bitchiest, most pathetic people on the entire planet.

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Yes, because wanting to keep my computer secure is totally pathetic. We should just let programs install and run whatever they want without ever asking for permission, just so we can bitch about them afterwards. :rolleyes:

P.S. Everyone hates Real Networks. Or are you living in a world where only uptight computer nerds dislike being bombarded with advertisements, spyware, and other bloated crap? The only difference is that "uptight computer nerds" know to look out for that stuff, while "normal users" don't know any better.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

And I quoted that part because frankly, you calling any group of people pathetic doesn't work. You're as disqualified from judgeing whether or not someone is pathetic as a mad man is for diagnoseing mental illness.

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Name me one group of people who bitch and moan more than computer people? Yes, they are even worse than video game people. I suppose hardcore liberals might be close, but they still aren't of the level of computer dorks.

And I know that I'M not pathetic, because my mother told me so.

Oh well in that case..

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Originally Posted by Mamoscott

Yes, because wanting to keep my computer secure is totally pathetic. We should just let programs install and run whatever they want without ever asking for permission, just so we can bitch about them afterwards. :rolleyes:

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I doubt that anything the iTunes and/or QuickTime has installed with it is risking the security of your computer - let's be realistic here. Annoying, maybe. But you make far too big of a deal out of the situation.

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P.S. Everyone hates Real Networks. Or are you living in a world where only uptight computer nerds dislike being bombarded with advertisements, spyware, and other bloated crap? The only difference is that "uptight computer nerds" know to look out for that stuff, while "normal users" don't know any better.

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I don't hate Real Networks. Call me crazy, but I save "hate" for situations where that emotion is really worthwhile. I don't hate anything involving computers or video games or whatever other forms of entertainment you want to think of. Having that much hate in my life would seriously suck.

But playing semantics games aside, I still don't have any ill feelings towards Real Networks. I'm not a big fan of their product, but why should that make me dislike them? I'm not forced to used it. I use it when I come across a file that requires it, the player plays the file, I'm happy, and I quit out of it.

Maybe I'm lucky, because the Mac version has none of that. The point is still true, though - everybody does not hate Real Networks. Maybe you do, maybe a lot of people do. But speaking for "everybody" is a very dangerous thing, and almost always incorrect.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

Oh well in that case..

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Haha!

shidoshi +1


Anyhow, this thread has turned into pointless bickering that is doing no good to the reason for its orinigal posting. Right after Isreal vs. Palastein, Windows vs. Mac is probably the biggest holy war in existance today. Windows people hate Mac, Mac people hate Windows, blah blah blah.

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Originally Posted by Regus

Did you click the check box that said "Do this in every instance" or whatever?



You go into My computer, right click the CD-Rom, click properties, select the "Autoplay" tab and turn it off from there. Either way, it isn't that big of a problem.

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For how many different file types? And how many times does it come back "on" without you requesting it?

Thought so.

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Originally Posted by Mamoscott

Haohmaru, my experience with OSX and Windows XP is that both are rock solid stable. I had an iBook with OSX and eventually sold it, because honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with OSX (though I liked the iBook hardware). I have had zero issues with Windows XP and Windows 2000, because when the people using these operating systems aren't complete retards, they work fine. Surprising!

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Evaluating OS X with a G3 iBook is like me evaluating XP with a 486 DX. :P

Maybe you've had zero issues with XP because YOU, are in fact, retarded. ;)

Whatever. Be happy with XP, I still prefer OS X and I use both every damn day. =)

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I doubt that anything the iTunes and/or QuickTime has installed with it is risking the security of your computer - let's be realistic here. Annoying, maybe. But you make far too big of a deal out of the situation.



I don't hate Real Networks. Call me crazy, but I save "hate" for situations where that emotion is really worthwhile. I don't hate anything involving computers or video games or whatever other forms of entertainment you want to think of. Having that much hate in my life would seriously suck.

But playing semantics games aside, I still don't have any ill feelings towards Real Networks. I'm not a big fan of their product, but why should that make me dislike them? I'm not forced to used it. I use it when I come across a file that requires it, the player plays the file, I'm happy, and I quit out of it.

Maybe I'm lucky, because the Mac version has none of that. The point is still true, though - everybody does not hate Real Networks. Maybe you do, maybe a lot of people do. But speaking for "everybody" is a very dangerous thing, and almost always incorrect.



Haha!

shidoshi +1


Anyhow, this thread has turned into pointless bickering that is doing no good to the reason for its orinigal posting. Right after Isreal vs. Palastein, Windows vs. Mac is probably the biggest holy war in existance today. Windows people hate Mac, Mac people hate Windows, blah blah blah.

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I can't really say computer people are not pathetic, since that encompasses both Mac and PC people. But I can think of a few groups more pathetic than those two combined. Like... Fatty anime fans who play DDR and include "Kawaii" into thier vernacular. These people would say Akria Toriyama is head and sholders above Renior.

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

For how many different file types? And how many times does it come back "on" without you requesting it?

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Music, Pictures, Videos, Mixed Content, Blank CDs and never.
That sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. If you really wanted to shut them all down it would take all of 30 seconds to do.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

But I can think of a few groups more pathetic than those two combined. Like... Fatty anime fans who play DDR and include "Kawaii" into thier vernacular. These people would say Akria Toriyama is head and sholders above Renior.

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.....*tapping desk*.....


Hmmm.


...*chin resting on hand*.....



You know what? I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong.

I guess, in my defense, I was thinking about online terms. I forgot that real-life holds far more terrible horrors...

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Whenever Im using Apple products I feel like somebody actually sat down and said "okay, how are users gonna be using this?" and design accordingly, and it ends up being very smooth and consistent and logical. Windows, I imagine a bunch of geeks getting together and designing a solution that works, but just okay, and only after you are used to it and fiddle with it a bit.

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:lol: I'm sure Microsoft is the only one that hires geeks to design their stuff.

shidoshi : Those people go online too -_o

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

:lol: I'm sure Microsoft is the only one that hires geeks to design their stuff.

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He's saying the folks at Apple are master craftsmen and compareing a Windows PC to a Mac is tantamount to compareing a ratty paper paperback copy of Old Man and the Sea to an Easton Press copy of the same!