RE: New Poll : Who really hate windows XP????

["Tony Cacciarelli" <tonycac(at)2gdigital.com>]

the mac OS has XP beat hands-down in the 'I'm trying to help you' category.

 

I'll site my favorite example:

 

I had a .wav file on a mac.

I wanted to burn it to a data CD for transport to another system [yes, I realize there are other ways to do this but bear with me].

I put a blank CD in the drive and drag the file to it.

helpful mac offers [correctly] to burn a CD

I hit 'record' and the CD is burned.

but, it's an audio CD, not a data CD.

put in another fresh CD and repeat.

now search for 20 minutes to find a way to tell this helpful mac that I want a data CD and not an audio CD.

but, helpful mac insists that it knows what I want better than me and continues to switch back to burning audio CDs whenever the .wav file is dragged over.

 

now, I'm sure there's a way to get it to burn a data CD of a .wav file.

it's not that the mac doesn't have the capability it's just that the OS works so hard to protect you from yourself that as soon as you try to do something that the ordinary joe-blow wouldn't want to do you seem to hit all kinds of barriers.

 

this is why I am perfectly happy with DS on windows.

it ain't perfect but it beats the heck out of trying to fight with an OS all day long.

other folks use macs and love them. that's great for them but I just don't think the same way a mac thinks and so I fight with it.

 

:::braces for incoming long list of windows shortcomings:::

 

tony cacciarelli

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of editorphil
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:36 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: New Poll : Who really hate windows XP????

 

I like XP for the DS, however, since converting over to OS X and usingFCP for fun and profit, I have no problem with Mac or OS X, now beforeOS X FORGET IT.  I wonder how stable anOS X DS would be over my VERYSTABLE XP DS . . . .   hmmmm, I think I will stick with XP, at leastfor the first version - and the bugs are worked out . . . .

 

 

On 11/15/05, Chasteen, Howard <Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org> wrote:>> I don't "hate" it.>> It is marginally better than Win 98 and W2K but that is about it:>> Over the years the one thing I have hated most about Windows is the Gates> obsession with trying to make the OS so apparently smart that it solves> "problems" without being asked. Until true "intelligent" computing is rolled> out I seem to spend way too much time fixing things that XP has screwed up> by assuming what I am trying to do with the machine and then performing some> auto-routine. I understand that Billy has the idea that he will build> machines that interact realistically and in a "infallible but human"> fashion.>> My answer to that is "Hey if I want to relate to someone I can relate to my> wife or kids or co-workers. Give me a break.>> No thank you! I do not want to auto install drivers for every piece of> hardware it can find>> I do not wand it to assume anything! XP is a master at that game>> I do wish to se !

 the "critical system files" as the default>> I do want to use occasionally use legacy hardware and MS should know that.> Using it is why I bought it!>> I Want the classic GUI and do not like it defaulting to a new one.>> I DO want to know what routines are running in the background and what data> they are gathering>> I will happily continue to use Mozilla and other superior browsers and avoid> that huge security backdoor that> Windows has.>> I do not like having to use Outlook and having it too closely integrated as> the mail server of choice. It is not secure enough for me.>> I think the messenger service is a huge backdoor that needs fixing. Ever> notice those persistent little pop-ups that your pop-up blocker does not> stop? Some of them ride into your PC on the messenger service.>> I never appreciated the inventor of Cookies [ I realize it was not MS] or> the fact that nowadays MS and even Macs accommodate them and several other> mechanisms to glean data from machines>>!

  I get bored with ET having to call home every single time I r!

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 the> OS. [There is a hack for this]>> So,>> I really do like XP but.............>>> ;-)))>>>>>  ________________________________>  From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of> Victor Wolansky> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:00 PM> To: DS(at)Softimage.COM> Subject: New Poll : Who really hate windows XP????>>>>>>>> Me…..>>>>>>> Victor Wolansky>> DS VFX Artist>> WEBsite>> Demo Reel>> 815 Slaters Lane>> Alexandria. VA.>> 443-797-3507>>>>

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