hk wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is a
half dozen of one and six of the other.


I really can't figure out why someone would pay close to double the cost
for a MAC laptop, if it was half dozen of one, or six of the other.

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

I have read that some people state it actually runs faster than XP.

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"jps" wrote in message
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Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.



Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of date
with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your hair,
if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.

Don White wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"jps" wrote in message
...
Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.


Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of date
with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your hair,
if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.



I tried that with my wife's cat, who is a tad overweight. Tried it six
times. Cat just sat down and waited until the belt got to the back of
the device and fell off. Six times.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)

"Don White" wrote in message
...

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"jps" wrote in message
...

Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.



Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of
date with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your
hair, if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.


My son and d-i-l's dog "Brandy" is one of Sam Adams' sisters. She loves
the treadmill.
I tried to introduce Sam to ours. He just sat there with a stupid look on
his face, like,
"are you ****ting me?"

Eisboch

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)


I like doing business with Apple. If I have a serious question I cannot
get answered easily on line, I just contact my Apple store and either
get help over the phone directly or pop in the store when I am up at the
mall. With guys who speak English.

I also like the Apple packaging for new machines. Very very few options,
or choices to make, except for the big Mac Pro, because the computers
are complete as they come in the box. All I did with my laptop is add
two gigs of Ram, and that took about five minutes.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:13:45 -0600, thunder wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)

I know how you've lived without it. The one you use is patched before you
know that it could have broke. That's the way mine works.

Don White wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"jps" wrote in message
...
Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.


Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of date
with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your hair,
if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.



What's a "threadmill"? Are you using you dog to make textiles?

Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
hk wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is
a half dozen of one and six of the other.


I really can't figure out why someone would pay close to double the cost
for a MAC laptop, if it was half dozen of one, or six of the other.

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

I have read that some people state it actually runs faster than XP.

Bought my daughter a Dell Inspiron 1525 with a Dual Core 2GHz CPU 3GB
RAM 160GB HD laptop for $459 just before Christmas. It has Vista Home
Premium runs well.

hk wrote:
Don White wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"jps" wrote in message
...
Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.


Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of
retirement adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time
goes on and you realize the company is surviving fine without you,
another sense of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running
your business has been turned down considerably. You start to
realize that there's more to life than being consumed with a business
that frankly was turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start
to become out of date with respect to current technology and you
really don't care. Your hair, if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly
squashed when you start thinking of all the start-up issues
involved. You start exploring and doing things that you never had
time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still
get his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.


I tried that with my wife's cat, who is a tad overweight. Tried it six
times. Cat just sat down and waited until the belt got to the back of
the device and fell off. Six times.


Are you kidding me? Putting a cat or dog on a treadmill? Just feed them
less. Saves you money.