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Nick S Bensema

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The old ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.

The new ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
Regardless of whether that happens, as time passes, the chat becomes
slower and slower, performing some weird garbage-collecting task and
cycling the mouse pointer every time someone sends a line. Eventually,
when the chat log has become nice, long, interesting and saveable, an
Abnormal Program Termination suddenly occurs, crashing the ICQ clients of
everyone in the entire chat room and forcing everyone to reload ICQ.

And there are stupid action/emotion functions that nobody uses. Or
rather, that nobody uses after they find out how it looks when you use
them.

I guess we'll have to wait until ICQ 2000 for them to maybe fix it.

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Inflatable Space Bunny

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[|>I guess we'll have to wait until ICQ 2000 for them to maybe fix it.

Happychat?

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Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote in message
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> The old ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
>
> The new ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
> Regardless of whether that happens, as time passes, the chat becomes
> slower and slower, performing some weird garbage-collecting task and
> cycling the mouse pointer every time someone sends a line. Eventually,
> when the chat log has become nice, long, interesting and saveable

"Saveable"?? SAVEABLE?!? Nick, what the hell do you do with all your ICQ
chat archives? Do you save every chat you've ever had?? Do you look back
at them with fondness, weeks or months after they occur? Do you get joy
from having bunches of your hard drive devoted to archives of me going "DUH!
DUH! DUH! DUH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THE END! I LiKe ChEeSe! DOIDY DOIDY"?

Nick S Bensema

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In article <7ghsa2$4g2$1...@q.seanet.com>, Leah Verre <flea...@seanet.com> wrote:
>Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote
>> The new ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
>> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
>> Regardless of whether that happens, as time passes, the chat becomes
>> slower and slower, performing some weird garbage-collecting task and
>> cycling the mouse pointer every time someone sends a line. Eventually,
>> when the chat log has become nice, long, interesting and saveable
>
>"Saveable"?? SAVEABLE?!? Nick, what the hell do you do with all your ICQ
>chat archives? Do you save every chat you've ever had?? Do you look back
>at them with fondness, weeks or months after they occur? Do you get joy
>from having bunches of your hard drive devoted to archives of me going "DUH!
>DUH! DUH! DUH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THE END! I LiKe ChEeSe! DOIDY DOIDY"?

That last one.

Sometimes I think "Hmm, maybe I will read these chat logs later."

But I still haven't read my copy of The Cuckoo's Egg, or that book on
which I have a report due Wednesday.

Jeremy Reimer

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Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote in message
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| That last one.
|
| Sometimes I think "Hmm, maybe I will read these chat logs later."
|
| But I still haven't read my copy of The Cuckoo's Egg, or that book on
| which I have a report due Wednesday.

Read the Cuckoo's Egg first. It's no Nobel Prize for Literature, but it's
an honest account of how one egghead singlehandedly brought down an entire
German hacking ring (financed by the KGB!!)

D00D!!


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Louis Nick III

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In alt.religion.kibology, flea...@seanet.com wrote:
>
>Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote in message
>news:7ggsit$i6l$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com...
>> The old ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible

>> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
>>
>> The new ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
>> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
>> Regardless of whether that happens, as time passes, the chat becomes
>> slower and slower, performing some weird garbage-collecting task and
>> cycling the mouse pointer every time someone sends a line. Eventually,
>> when the chat log has become nice, long, interesting and saveable
>
>"Saveable"?? SAVEABLE?!? Nick, what the hell do you do with all your ICQ
>chat archives? Do you save every chat you've ever had?? Do you look back
>at them with fondness, weeks or months after they occur? Do you get joy
>from having bunches of your hard drive devoted to archives of me going "DUH!
>DUH! DUH! DUH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THE END! I LiKe ChEeSe! DOIDY DOIDY"?

The new chat version lets you take a saved chat and replay it, so you can
re-live those classic moments, except that now, it's kind of like reading
a.r.k as a big long text file (like I did one entire summer) or otherwise
in a straight jacket that won't let you contribute or post.

So you just drink whiskey and watch. Of course, you can drink lots more
whiskey when you're watching a chat and don't have to be able to type.

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E Teflon Piano

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In article <7ggsit$i6l$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, ni...@primenet.com (Nick S
Bensema) wrote:


}I guess we'll have to wait until ICQ 2000 for them to maybe fix it.

Get a Mac.

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Mark Berger

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In article <7ggsit$i6l$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, ni...@primenet.com (Nick S
Bensema) wrote:

> The old ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
>
> The new ICQ: Every so often someone in the chat would become invisible
> and you'd have to quit and rejoin to be in on the whole conversation.
> Regardless of whether that happens, as time passes, the chat becomes
> slower and slower, performing some weird garbage-collecting task and
> cycling the mouse pointer every time someone sends a line. Eventually,

> when the chat log has become nice, long, interesting and saveable, an
> Abnormal Program Termination suddenly occurs, crashing the ICQ clients of
> everyone in the entire chat room and forcing everyone to reload ICQ.
>
> And there are stupid action/emotion functions that nobody uses. Or
> rather, that nobody uses after they find out how it looks when you use
> them.
>

> I guess we'll have to wait until ICQ 2000 for them to maybe fix it.

Don't you mean ICQ 100? ^_^

Mark "Official Laughing Boy of the New Millennium" Berger

"I invented the Macintosh. Hey, it worked for Al Gore..." :)

Shice Beoney

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And now for something completely different by
mberg...@nova.winona.msus.edu (Mark Berger), written on Mon, 03 May
1999 11:01:16 -0500:

>In article <7ggsit$i6l$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, ni...@primenet.com (Nick S
>Bensema) wrote:
>

<snip>

>"I invented the Macintosh. Hey, it worked for Al Gore..." :)

You are a very, very courageous person for taking the blame... I mean
*credit* for the debacle we know as the Crapple Macintrash. A lesser
man would have balked at such an idea.
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rules that don't work out in real life? ...Oh yeah, Christianity."

Nick S Bensema

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In article <etp-020599...@ppp229.bcpl.net>,

E Teflon Piano <rgrif...@ubmail.ubalt.edu> wrote:
>In article <7ggsit$i6l$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, ni...@primenet.com (Nick S
>Bensema) wrote:
>
>}I guess we'll have to wait until ICQ 2000 for them to maybe fix it.
>
> Get a Mac.

Yeah, if I had a Mac, I'd get to use the old 1997 version of ICQ that
has only the original bug!

Thanks.

Next time I'm going to just tell everyone to go to an IRC channel with
me or something. IRC rarely crashes, unless some 13-year-old hacker
winnukes you when you don't have your OS patched.

VstevenV

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Shice Beoney wrote in message

>>"I invented the Macintosh. Hey, it worked for Al Gore..." :)

>
>You are a very, very courageous person for taking the blame... I mean
>*credit* for the debacle we know as the Crapple Macintrash. A lesser
>man would have balked at such an idea.


Personaly I have never used a Mac. But I know most professional people that
use computers for graphic representation and dozens of other graphic related
work, swear by a Mac. Also, I know that school kids, who have Mac's in the
classroom, and then go to PC's in real life come away saying that a PC is
junk and much harder to use than a PC.

Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what they
know that we don't.

Regards
Steve

The Player to be Named Later

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Inflatable Space Bunny wrote:
>
> [|>Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what they

> [|>know that we don't.
>
> How to piss away a market advantage and a five-year lead.
>
> Do you think Apple will come up with operating system that advances the
> state of the art past 1964? By the end of the millenium? I mean by 3000.

You 'are' being optimistic, aren't you?

I take one look at the 'iMac'; and LMAO!

But, then again; there's a sucker born every day!

Lee

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Inflatable Space Bunny

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[|>Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what they
[|>know that we don't.

How to piss away a market advantage and a five-year lead.

Do you think Apple will come up with operating system that advances the
state of the art past 1964? By the end of the millenium? I mean by 3000.

--

VstevenV

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Inflatable Space Bunny wrote in message ...


>[|>Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what
they
>[|>know that we don't.
>
>How to piss away a market advantage and a five-year lead.

Agreed


>
>Do you think Apple will come up with operating system that advances the
>state of the art past 1964? By the end of the millenium? I mean by 3000.


Well like I said, I never used a Mac. But this I do know. I have read so
many comments about how shitty Windows is as an OS. I have well over $25K
worth of software on my computer and experience so much problems that I am
switching to NT. But I have never heard of the same type of problems with a
MAC. It sure makes me wonder why all the professionals that are into
grapjics are using a MAC and refuse to use a PC. The biggest complaints I
hear about MAC is that it is not compatable with so much of the software
that is available on the market today.
Regards
Steve

M. Otis Beard

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'The Player to be Named Later' wrote in message
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>
>I take one look at the 'iMac'; and LMAO!
>
>But, then again; there's a sucker born every day!

Dear Mr. Later,

As executor to the estate of Mr. P.T. Barnum, I feel it only fair to warn
you that any further incidents of slanderous anti-Barnum propagandizing will
only land you in hot water. Our legal department is ferocious and
well-financed, and like Mr. Barnum himself, will not hesitate to strip you
of every dime you've ever even thought of earning.

Just to set the record straight, there are 1,440 suckers born every day.


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The Player to be Named Later

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"M. Otis Beard" wrote:
>
> 'The Player to be Named Later' wrote in message
> <372E984F...@azstarnet.com>...
> >
> >I take one look at the 'iMac'; and LMAO!
> >
> >But, then again; there's a sucker born every day!
>
> Dear Mr. Later,
>
> As executor to the estate of Mr. P.T. Barnum, I feel it only fair to warn
> you that any further incidents of slanderous anti-Barnum propagandizing will
> only land you in hot water. Our legal department is ferocious and
> well-financed, and like Mr. Barnum himself, will not hesitate to strip you
> of every dime you've ever even thought of earning.
>
> Just to set the record straight, there are 1,440 suckers born every day.

Scary thought [or, statistic]..

But, it figures..

Scott Gibson

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On Mon, 03 May 1999 23:48:47 -0700, 'The Player to be Named Later'
<hus...@azstarnet.com> wrote:


>
>You 'are' being optimistic, aren't you?
>

>I take one look at the 'iMac'; and LMAO!
>
>But, then again; there's a sucker born every day!
>

I think PT's original quote was, "There's a sucker born every minute."
This is a little off-topic, but since I consider Macs and AOL made for
each other, maybe not. I had to buy my stepmother an iMac when they
first came out. I took it to her house and set it up. I looked at it,
and looked at it, and still couldn't find a floppy drive. I call the
dealer, "No sir, the iMac doesn't come with a floppy drive but we can
sell you one that will plug into a USB port for $150.00. That is when
we get them in." Okay, well that sucks. Stepmother decides she doesn't
need a floppy drive. She does need a printer though. Her Apple
BubbleJet will not work with it. Another call to the dealer, "No sir,
Apple does not make a printer for the iMac, but they will real soon."
I explain that I need a printer now, salesdroid at the other end
replies, "I'm sorry sir but there are no printers on the market for
the iMac however, we do expect to have some Epson printers and a USB
conversion cable for them by next week." Okay, this also sucks, but we
wait the week. I go in to buy the printer and ask them, "This will
plug right into the iMac and work, right?" Not exactly. There are no
drivers available for use with the printer, but Epson is working on
them and they should be out any day. Just keep checking with us or
Epson's web site if I feel adventurous. Days later the drivers appear
on Epson's web site with a slight caveat. You have to download an OS
update from Apple before the printer drivers will work. I download the
OS update and run it. I restart the machine and download the printer
drivers and install them. I restart the machine and finally they have
a printer. This procedure was required on a computer aimed at neophyte
cmputer users. I suspect most iMac buyers don't know what a floppy
drive is anyway. It has crappy sound, a small low quality monitor, a
ridiculous round mouse (you can't tell which way it is pointing by
feel), and a tiny PowerBook keyboard. Someone with hands my size can
barely type on it at all. Like I said, I consider Macs, especially
iMacs, the AOL of PCs. Sorry for the diversion. Flames will be
cheerfully ignored.

Scott Gibson

Jim Hunter

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In article <3730e19b...@news1.lig.bellsouth.net>, wsco...@bellsouth.net
while gesticulating wildly screamed the following abuse...

No flames, agree with you completely about Apple's products.

JM Hunter

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Gary Williams

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VstevenV wrote:
<snip>

> Personaly I have never used a Mac. But I know most professional people that
> use computers for graphic representation and dozens of other graphic related
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the Mac's seem to have gotten into art stuff first, so they've got a
lead
in this area (because the software is done on Mac and then ported to
the PC). now, have you ever heard of praising a graphic artist
for intelligence, writing skill, business sense or anything else
except "artistic talent"?

> work, swear by a Mac. Also, I know that school kids, who have Mac's in the

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
because Apple gave 'em to the school in the vain hope that they could
get more business when the kids went to work

> classroom, and then go to PC's in real life come away saying that a PC is

^^^^


> junk and much harder to use than a PC.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
you betcha, Red Rider

>
> Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what they
> know that we don't.
>

> Regards
> Steve

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Jason Wells

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On Tue, 04 May 1999 11:34:31 -0400, Gary Williams <gw...@spectra.net>
wrote:

I have a friend that uses a Mac at work and she has a Dell at home.
She loves her Mac at work because it can do a lot of neat stuff, it
has a lot of programs that PCs don't. The graphics are a lot better
and the sound quality is far superior to a PC. Especially in the new
G3's. When I save up money I plan to buy a Mac. Now the Imacs are a
joke, I will say that. They are for high school kids looking to color
coordinate their outfits. They are also for the average computer user
that does not plan to upgrade in the future. They are great for
little kids though, just give a 10 year old an Imac and AOL and they
will be set! Just kidding

Jeremy Reimer

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Jason Wells <Jas...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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...

| I have a friend that uses a Mac at work and she has a Dell at home.
| She loves her Mac at work because it can do a lot of neat stuff, it
| has a lot of programs that PCs don't. The graphics are a lot better
| and the sound quality is far superior to a PC.

If this isn't a troll, someone needs a new brain installed. Preferably one
that can dynamically allocate memory partitions.

(hint: I run all those neat programs that the PC doesn't have every single
day on Win98 and NT)

The Player to be Named Later

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Jason Wells wrote:
>
> On Tue, 04 May 1999 11:34:31 -0400, Gary Williams <gw...@spectra.net>
> wrote:
>
> >VstevenV wrote:

> ><snip>

> Now the Imacs are a


> joke, I will say that. They are for high school kids looking to color
> coordinate their outfits. They are also for the average computer user
> that does not plan to upgrade in the future. They are great for
> little kids though, just give a 10 year old an Imac and AOL and they
> will be set!

Why does Eric Harris come to mind..

> Just kidding

Thank God! [Oops! Might be the wrong place to say that..]

:Lee

Gary Williams

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Inflatable Space Bunny wrote:
>
> [|>handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in
> [|>Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!
>
> They also have their bytes in the right order.
<snip>

Ah! A BigEnder! A BigEnder!

(Do you know the standard answer to a BigEnder? You say:)
"But it doesn't understand EPSEDIC!"

-- Gary

The Brit

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Jeremy Reimer wrote in message ...

Even in my advanced state of idiocy when it comes to matters concerning
anonymous beige boxes, masquerading as tools to *help* you work rather than
hinder you, I STILL know that just about every piece of software once the
sole preserve of the Mac has since been released for the PC. And for the


handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in
Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!

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>

Inflatable Space Bunny

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[|>handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in

[|>Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!

They also have their bytes in the right order.

--

Nick S Bensema

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In article <3730...@news1.vip.uk.com>,

The Brit <mogg...@breathemail.net> wrote:
>Even in my advanced state of idiocy when it comes to matters concerning
>anonymous beige boxes, masquerading as tools to *help* you work rather than
>hinder you, I STILL know that just about every piece of software once the
>sole preserve of the Mac has since been released for the PC. And for the
>handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in
>Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!

EMULATOR!!!

Heck, the PC can be emulated too. Doidy.

My friend's Linux box can emulate a PC. Or itself.

Jeremy Reimer

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Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote in message
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| In article <3730...@news1.vip.uk.com>,
| The Brit <mogg...@breathemail.net> wrote:
| >Even in my advanced state of idiocy when it comes to matters concerning
| >anonymous beige boxes, masquerading as tools to *help* you work rather
than
| >hinder you, I STILL know that just about every piece of software once the
| >sole preserve of the Mac has since been released for the PC. And for the
| >handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in
| >Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!
|
| EMULATOR!!!
|
| Heck, the PC can be emulated too. Doidy.
|
| My friend's Linux box can emulate a PC. Or itself.

So! I can emulate an emulator emulator! I emulated a Linux box running Mac OS
System 5 running WinUAE running AmigaDOS 3.1 running a DOS emulator running a
C64 emulator just so that I could play Beachhead 2!!11111


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Inflatable Space Bunny

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[|>So! I can emulate an emulator emulator! I emulated a Linux box running Mac OS

[|>System 5 running WinUAE running AmigaDOS 3.1 running a DOS emulator running a
[|>C64 emulator just so that I could play Beachhead 2!!11111

"My, God! It's full of Amigas!"

The Brit

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.....You know what I meant.

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Inflatable Space Bunny wrote in message ...

Sycowulf

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I had a Mac for five years before I got my PC, and I have to say that I wish I
still had the mac... Its OS is MUCH MUCH better than windows, As it should be since
its been doing what Windows is now doing for years. I never once had System 7.5.3
(the last Mac OS that I had) give me a error message, proform an illegal operation,
or just lock up.

Jason Wells wrote:

> On Tue, 04 May 1999 11:34:31 -0400, Gary Williams <gw...@spectra.net>
> wrote:
>
> >VstevenV wrote:
> ><snip>

> >> Personaly I have never used a Mac. But I know most professional people that
> >> use computers for graphic representation and dozens of other graphic related
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >the Mac's seem to have gotten into art stuff first, so they've got a
> >lead
> >in this area (because the software is done on Mac and then ported to
> >the PC). now, have you ever heard of praising a graphic artist
> >for intelligence, writing skill, business sense or anything else
> >except "artistic talent"?
> >
> >> work, swear by a Mac. Also, I know that school kids, who have Mac's in the
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >because Apple gave 'em to the school in the vain hope that they could
> >get more business when the kids went to work
> >
> >> classroom, and then go to PC's in real life come away saying that a PC is
> > ^^^^
> >> junk and much harder to use than a PC.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >you betcha, Red Rider
> >
> >>
> >> Like I said, I have never used a Mac. But I can't help wondering what they
> >> know that we don't.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Steve
> >

> >--
> >"...it still reeks of forced angst and bitter Twinkies."
> > -- The Avacado Avenger
>

> I have a friend that uses a Mac at work and she has a Dell at home.
> She loves her Mac at work because it can do a lot of neat stuff, it
> has a lot of programs that PCs don't. The graphics are a lot better

> and the sound quality is far superior to a PC. Especially in the new

> G3's. When I save up money I plan to buy a Mac. Now the Imacs are a


> joke, I will say that. They are for high school kids looking to color
> coordinate their outfits. They are also for the average computer user
> that does not plan to upgrade in the future. They are great for
> little kids though, just give a 10 year old an Imac and AOL and they

> will be set! Just kidding


Jeremy Reimer

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Sycowulf <syco...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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| I had a Mac for five years before I got my PC, and I have to say that I
wish I
| still had the mac... Its OS is MUCH MUCH better than windows, As it should
be since
| its been doing what Windows is now doing for years. I never once had
System 7.5.3
| (the last Mac OS that I had) give me a error message, proform an illegal
operation,
| or just lock up.

That's funny, because when I last used Mac System 7.5.x, that's _all_ it
would do!

Jay

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Sorry, but the Mac is a far superior productivity machine.

The Brit wrote:

> Jeremy Reimer wrote in message ...
> >Jason Wells <Jas...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:372f8565...@news.swbell.net...
> >...

> >| I have a friend that uses a Mac at work and she has a Dell at home.
> >| She loves her Mac at work because it can do a lot of neat stuff, it
> >| has a lot of programs that PCs don't. The graphics are a lot better
> >| and the sound quality is far superior to a PC.
> >

> >If this isn't a troll, someone needs a new brain installed. Preferably one
> >that can dynamically allocate memory partitions.
> >
> >(hint: I run all those neat programs that the PC doesn't have every single
> >day on Win98 and NT)
> >
> >
> >--
> >----
> >Jeremy Reimer
> >jrei...@home.com
> >http://members.home.net/jreimeris
> >
>

> Even in my advanced state of idiocy when it comes to matters concerning
> anonymous beige boxes, masquerading as tools to *help* you work rather than
> hinder you, I STILL know that just about every piece of software once the
> sole preserve of the Mac has since been released for the PC. And for the
> handful that are not, aint there some form of emulator? The only thing in
> Mac's favour is at least they come in prettier colours!

rscamer...@frontiernet.net

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On Sat, 08 May 1999 17:56:16 -0400, Jay <jay1...@aol.com> wrote:

>Sorry, but the Mac is a far superior productivity machine.
>

o.k. i'll byte (pun intended) i'll admit that i'm not good at any
thing to do with processors,but why is the Mac better than the AMD or
Pentium processors. just asking for personal information....Ron
68 Camaro 327
68 RS Camaro[project]

Brack!

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On Sun, 09 May 1999 01:41:02 GMT, rscamer...@frontiernet.net
wrote:

Having used both a mac and a pc... I can definitely agree with Jay's
post above. All my games run on the PC, thus hardly any work gets done
if I work on it.

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Jay <jay1...@aol.com> wrote in message news:3734B2F2...@aol.com...

| Sorry, but the Mac is a far superior productivity machine.

Yes, it is.

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IF YOU ARE A MINDLESS TROLL!!!111


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oliver1

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In article <7gmpsh$ol6$1...@athena.netset.com>, james_m...@usa.net (Jim
Hunter) wrote:

shut up, cunter.


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