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...and siejones stop taking everything so personally, it's all a bit of fun and every Mac/PC thread ends up with some sort of odd comment from yourself!
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Right of coarse being called a troll (regared as highly insulting on the net) which impliments me to others as the kind of person who just enters a thread with intent to argue and cause trouble is fine. As long as it has a smiley face or a tongue on the end it's fine...."they were only joking". I hadn't realised the power of such a gesture. Right I am off to hurl personnel abuse at everyone most probably believeing or meaning what I say to them but at the end just about as I am gonna get battered I will smile and put my tongue out. I am sure they will stop laugh and say sorry mate I didn't realise you were joking.
I am not sure in what context petemc made his comment but considering our past and how easy it is to misinterperate text maybe he should have thought twice making it. I could only presume that an intellegent guy (that he is) would know this and realise how it would come across. Here's a saying for you "There is many a true word said in jest". Some people use indicated humour to say things they couldn't get away with unless they were presumably joking.
As far as the mac/pc debate goes well I was going to make a polite and probably useful argument before I was stopped in my tracks. I tested the water and it turned out murky.
I have used, installed, supported, setup, hardware maintained, developed and programed on more computer hardware and operating systems that I care to mention in my twenty odd years using computers. One of the largest regional newspapers in the midlands trusts my opinion and experiance and makes large financial decisions on my word. I would have thought that enough credentials for me to offer my advice to the less experianced on here. Notice the word newspaper....this is the media industry. Around 10 years ago it was just mac's as mac's ruled the roost when it came to media. I worked on nothing but them for the longest time and during that time I learnt all I need to know and care to know about them.
That's my credentials but I am not going to go over old ground and just reiterrate what I have already said on here as some people don't want to listen to fact and only hear what they wanna hear when it comes to there beloved mac's
Slate a PC of Windows and it's a joke but slate a mac in the same jest and your the devil incarnate.
Heres an analogy that sums up my thought on mac's. The mac is like the compact camera in that's it's quick and easy at the press of a button and great for taking snaphots. It does a good job and if your happy with just taking snapshots then that's just dandy and most people are. There is none of this changing lenses and other fiddly bits. They come in a neat little package in a pretty little case but that's pretty much it. As you learn more you may want to do more with your photography. You may want to use the array on lenses on offer or filters. Switch off auto mode and get your teeth into manual mode and do things you just can't do in auto. If your one of these people then it's time to progress on and get an SLR (PC) but be warned...in manual mode things get harder to do and you will go wrong lots but if give it the time and effort to learn how it really works then you won't have too many problems and produce an end results you just could not have done before.If you have experiance of both and really think about it this analogy works perfectly on many levels. Oh apart from in this case the compact is more expensive