25-03-2005 09:32									#31
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OS X still exists??

	25-03-2005 09:35									#32
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or OS2?

	25-03-2005 09:36									#33
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OS X is mac

JM

	25-03-2005 09:59									#34
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wtf??

	25-03-2005 10:01									#35
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Navy,

OSX is the newest OS that runs on Macs.


You are probably thinking of the 10-15 year old OS2 that IBM made.

	25-03-2005 10:02									#36
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10-15 years? wtf? where does the time go??

	25-03-2005 10:03									#37
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Who's that ****ing dude who's got that saucy look on his face in your avatar?

	25-03-2005 10:05									#38
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That's John Stewart man!!!!!

	25-03-2005 10:06									#39
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uh oh

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	25-03-2005 10:15									#40
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I like the mirror shot of the ass.

	25-03-2005 11:52									#41
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Yeah, it's the best part.

	25-03-2005 12:04									#42
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd Intelligent people use real player.

I've never found any reason to use real player but I've found several reasons not to use real plaer.

	25-03-2005 22:33									#43
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name one intelligent person who uses RealPlayer.

not Helix, but Real.

	26-03-2005 02:01									#44
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I know lots of intelligent people who use RealPlayer. You wouldn't recognise their names, they're friends. They don't know any better.

SP

	26-03-2005 02:03									#45
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Point taken, Fve.

name one intelligent person who uses RealPlayer when he/she knows better.

	26-03-2005 02:31									#46
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Does Realplayer for Windows still install that horrible download manager and all that other crap?

	27-03-2005 08:18									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Whaleboy I don't get it, other companies are free to bundle their products? In effect, anti-monopoly/pro-competition laws are just using the law to reduce the quality of a product... or am I way out here?

You are way out, so out that you are outside of the solar system

First of all, there is no reason why removing certain items bundled together with an operating system will adversely affect the function of the OS itself. The only cause for this is because Microsoft mingled code from various parts in a huge mess. This is just a Microsoft policy to straddle a user with various junk regardless of the user's preferences. Thus, you are stuck with IE even if you use Firefox. This is also a stupid decision because it completely violates one of the fundamental principles of programming.

Secondly, speaking about the quality of MS products is so ironic.

	27-03-2005 08:23									#48
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quote: Originally posted by aneeshm The antitrust case against MS is BS in the first place . AFAIK , value addition was not a crime the last time I checked .

It is when such practices are used to squeeze the competitors out of business by unfair competition.

	27-03-2005 13:41									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger First of all, there is no reason why removing certain items bundled together with an operating system will adversely affect the function of the OS itself.

Let me get this straight - removing functionality from the OS (like, say, an HTML parsing engine in the form of IE) should not affect the function of the OS itself?

quote: The only cause for this is because Microsoft mingled code from various parts in a huge mess. This is just a Microsoft policy to straddle a user with various junk regardless of the user's preferences. Thus, you are stuck with IE even if you use Firefox. This is also a stupid decision because it completely violates one of the fundamental principles of programming.

What, modularity?

IE is modular, it can be removed from the OS. It has been done. The problem is, when you do that, you break all applications that depend on the IE DLLs for a built-in HTML parser and renderer for the OS. That was the problem, and that's why the solution is to just remove references to IE even though it'll still be there -- removing it would break programs, including MS' competitors (like winamp).

quote: Secondly, speaking about the quality of MS products is so ironic.

If only Windows was as polished as Gnome and KDE are, and MS Office as polished as OpenOffice.

Your ridiculous bias is showing, old man.