On 2/11/2014 9:27 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/11/2014 6:55 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/11/14, 4:11 AM, KC wrote:


Sigh. Yet more problems for Windozes users. Meanwhile, an Apple
software
developer called me this morning to let me know he'd be emailing me a
small test program which he thinks will take care of a minor glitch I
had with a bit of hardware. Oh, he was in North Carolina and spoke
"Americanese." And what did I pay for my copy of Apple Mavericks OS
that
I installed on my laptop? Why...nothing.

Thank you, Microsoft.


This get's funnier and funnier every time.. Now you have a personal tech
guy just to fix a "minor glitch" (aka, lobsta boat) on your "hardware"
(also lobsta boat)... I have been running my machine for years. Got a
video card changed a couple years back, still doing fine. Today I was at
a client running Paint shop Pro, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash Maker,
Any video converter, Firefox, Chrome, a text editor, and downloading
movies from the customer computer.... all at the same time while hooked
up to a verison wireless router and doing live edits to his website
adding video and photos... .. No crashes.. I just don't see what the big
deal is with you guys...



Ahh, but you see, Apple products come with first-rate customer care.
When I couldn't get my Canon camera to link up properly over WiFi with
my new iMac, no matter what I did, I called AppleCare and the case was
assigned to one of its contract developers, who made some suggestions
and when they didn't work, he escalated it to a workgroup, a member of
whom called me and emailed a utility to me that Apple has to download
and transmit certain files from my machine. It took two days for the
tech to get back to me with a file he emailed and I loaded. Solved the
problem.

But, of course, Windows XP is sooooo much mo'betta, and so is the highly
touted Microsoft support, so long as you want to deal with guys whose
first and second languages ain't English and whose ultimate answer
usually is, "Well, just reload windows."

Have a nice day.



Now, I know the great Windoze gurus here could have solved the problem
as easily as a roomful of monkeys sitting at typewriters could write
Joyce's Ulysses, right, because the gurus here are so up to date and
experienced in coding contemporary software that interfaces with Apple's
OS. Right?


The last time I tried coding software was in the late 1980s. Oh .. I
also html coded the original "boats of rec boats" website because
canned website building software was just starting to be developed.

Since then, I've had no reason or requirement (as a computer user) to
"code" anything. Any issues with using an external device with Windows
either works fine or has had minor configuration issues to resolve. They
don't require writing code or calling Microsoft for a custom written
software update.

Geeze. You're starting to make me concerned about my iMac. For the
price she paid, the damn thing should perform as advertised without
having to resort to calling Apple Care or installing custom software
patches.




I just finished a minimal site developed with a "canned site"... Not all
it's cracked up to be really. A collection of scripts that lead to empty
boxes and tags that you have to move from page to page and
div class= tags everywhere.... I took a lot of time because I put
scripts inside of scripts and had to still have everything line up.

Spent two weeks, 12+ hours a day because of the learning curve with the
different scripts that came in the package, but at the same time now I
know how to write flash movies, and such... etc...