Phill
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The Microsoft platform took over because they sold it and licensed it to computer manufactures. Apple didn't want to take this approach, it wanted to ensure their OS ran how they want it to, well. It's because Apple make the software and the hardware, the two come together and work so well. No hunting for drivers if you wanna update, everything really is plug and play. Just because Microsoft has the larger share, doesn't make it superior in terms of how well it works. Microsoft has always been playing catchup with Apple, and probably always will. Apple comes up with Widgets, Microsoft releases two years later Gadgets, etc. End of the day, we've chosen to use a Mac, we like the integration of everything. So we can't use the 'full' features of the Microsoft MSN, but you know what, we have iChat which is miles better, it's just a shame it uses AIM, which is only big in the US. So you can keep your PC with your firewalls and virus software, and buggy OS, really, that's fine by me, and we'll just keep on using OSX. Thanks.
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What the f**k are you on? OS X isn't designed to run on anything else other than a Mac. Doing so violates the EULA, which is why Apple is suing Pystar Computers into oblivion for making knock off Macs. As for why the Mac is a revolution, it's because it changed the way people saw personal computing. The first iMac came in bright colours, was easy to use, and could get on the internet with little setup, thus 'I' = 'internetMac'. 'I' also represents it's you, as it stores the things you love, it made digital photography easy for everyone, editing a video. This is all stuff Windows tried to replicate later on with 'Movie Maker', and 'Photo Studio' or what ever it was. Go back further to the first ever Macintosh, it was the first ever computer to have a MOUSE, a graphical user interface, fonts, display images, the jpeg, the mov file, it was there first.
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...and since OS X only runs on a Mac, it makes sense to ask who has a Mac. A Mac is more, it's great design, everything built in (Camera, Mic, IR, Bluetooth, Wifi, etc).The site I was testing was a template for the up-comming Chessington Mania, which passed validation, which means it was an IE fault for it crashing. Now stop trolling this topic and make your own.
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Urr no, I gave you a very loose example. In reality it'll be doing a whole lot more, monitoring activity on that application, checking if it's performing tasks, how long it's been idle, do other applications require those resources, etc etc. And good for you, but for me just last night when I was testing a site in IE7 it crashed, then RCT3 hung, I couldn't kill the process cos the CPU was at full whack and so couldn't open the task manager, leading me to a hard restart. Great that Windows works for you, it's fab you love it, but we love Macs. This topic was asking who had a Mac, not who had a Windows.
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I'm afraid it isn't bollocks, take it from someone who is doing computer science. UNIX and Windows are very very very very different under the hood. Think of it this way. UNIX makes an allocated space for each application, its own environment for that application. It says to the application, ok you can have X amount of CPU, RAM, etc. If the application goes crazy, it can't take any more resources than what UNIX has allocated to it, it can only have more resources if the application asks for it, and since it's frozen, it can't ask for more, so the program quits.Winodws however, it's a free reign, the application can take as much resources as it likes, so when it does crazy, your CPU shoots up, causing the entire system to hang. Windows is very poor handling resources. It's not being a MacBumBoy, it's the basic facts, and fundamental differences between UNIX and Windows.
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Windows and OS X handle applications very differently. If a program hangs on Windows, it's likely that it'll affect the whole system, as in it'll freeze stuck on that program, the task bar comes unresponsive, the window turns white, yadayada it's pretty nasty. If a program crashes on OS X, only that program is affected, the system is still responsive and tasks can be carried on. This is because it's built on UNIX which allows multi-thread processes (windows can to an extent, but isn't graceful at all), and some other wicked s**t. So don't call me a dip s**t.
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The one at the 'S&S playground' was sold to Six Flags Astroworld and given a god awful paint job and was called SWAT. Astroworld then closed down, so it was moved to Six Flags New England and renamed Catapult. Slammer and Catapult are the only Sky Swats in the world.
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End of the day was an original composition, so out of luck with that one!
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Like I got off and there was a tree branch impaled through my skull.
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The font is called, wait for it... CHESSINGTON. http://forum.maniahub.com/test/?text=LOL%20OMFG
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It's quite a nice font. May look familiar to some of yoo too...
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Away with the blood. Give your page a good refresh to rinse. Yummy is gone.
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Haha was in a rush to get it out, it's only in the banner, which will be taken down tonight. Thanks none the less.