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Scary, But I Could Almost Consider A Mac
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Posted by 22111
Dec 22, 2013 at 08:47 PM
That would have been “denomination” - I pressed some key combination, and my post was gone; it’s now that I realize it was gone to be publicized; all the better.
And then, it would have been, “I’m too OLD to “learn the Mac”.
And I continue:
But then, we all know that ace programmers, or more precisely, ace sw architects, always did their programming work for the Mac. It’s much less so, but for for the unique reason that many excellent Mac programs - but not all - have been “translated” to Windows. (FreeHand, and then Illustrator, were made available for the pc later on, as well as, nowadays, the complete offerings of Adobe, e.g.) As we all know (not implying here that we all acknowledge), Bill Gates is a one-hit wonder, his only smart doing in his entire life being that he did made IBM to accept that he HELD all the rights to his (bought-in!!!) DOS os when he agreed, with IBM, DOS becoming the os for the pc; anything else has been just Machiavellian routine work, his “one hit” being sufficient to make him the richest (and one of the most preposterous men) man in the world.
We all know that ace programmers always looked to the Mac in order to develop outstanding applications; in the outliner / IMS world, that (today “defunct”, not continued at least”, “justanothermacoutliner.com” blog being definite proof for this; I don’t have to remind you of DEVONthink, and all the DEVON range of outstanding sw (and then, Circus Ponies), and I don’t have to remember you of me saying that I consider (and continue to do so) Storyist the most beautiful software available today.
Also, and I said this months ago, from what we hear from the press, the majoriy of today’s university students get Mac’s to bring with to their lectures, and I feel I’d be a damned liar and a real asshole to pretend they’re wrong (the NSA is within all of what you ever produce digitally, independently of your platform).
Thus, the fact that’s withholding me from switching: The SOME knowledge of programming and scripting, I got it within the “Win” framework; I’m always hoping that one day I’ll get to the point of designing the “perfect outliner” (which will be necessarily in Windows since I don’t really know anything else, and very probably within a MS framework and then Python to put it together); and that neither AHK nor AI are available for the Mac - and yes, I bought lots of legitimate sw during those years that will make that switching to Mac would cost me about 5,000 $ or more, and what about all my macros then by which I “spiced” up all these various applications?
I know very well that for one reason or another, most people out there are stuck with this Gates/Ballmer crap (just have a look at them taking away ADS file metadata from us, after XP, isn’t that perfectly a**h****? (don’t bother with their “explanations”, they should have introduced a replacement, and THEN their move would have been ok), and for which the “getting out of it” would be too expensive, as it is, for me, in “life time” I cannot spare anymore to make the move (not speaking of dollars).
Let’s speak plain English again: Jobs was a genius… but he was an asshole, too, and, worse, he was proud of being one: His priority was money (of which he didn’t took any into his premature grave; and then, look at his treating of his “natural” daughter; btw, people being interested in moral considerations should google for “Yves Montand” and then for pictures of his natural daughter (= which so much “clone” her to her father that it renders her almost ugly, as a woman), and the fact that she was rebuffed, by French courts, being an alleged con woman)), NOT the excellence of his os, and that’s why IOS, the core Apple system, has never taker over, and MS ruling ever.
This being said, whenever you have the chance to switch over to Mac, from Windows, DO IT.
And believe an old man who’ll never have that chance, but who’ll envy you any day of his existence.
And yes, I consider Mr. Ballmer what the Nazis called a “Volksschädling”, but on a world-wide level.