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| Re: PIECE. OF. SHIT. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/29/2013, 6:29am PDT | ||||
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Entropy Stew wrote:Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) wrote: First, because you can't even calmly discuss the matter without insulting me, your own lack of maturity and thus unreliability shows. If you can't even explain, without resorting to ad-hominem attacks, why should I believe anything you have to say? Clearly you lack the ability or intelligence to make your point without resorting to personal attacks. You may very well be right, but you're not going to convince someone of that if the first three words you use include "fucking retard." Spitting in someone's face is not going to make your opinions agreeable to them. If I made an error, a mistake or did something stupid, that means I did something stupid, it does not mean I have less than normal intelligence. Again you show your, not just ignorance, but arrogant ignorance, I am not writing code in Assembly language, so the underlying processor the machine uses is completely irrelevant. If I can use the machine to get work done, then, again, it doesn't matter what the underlying processor is. I am trying to learn how the Macintosh interface works and what it is capable of doing. And in that, the software I have downloaded and installed would allow me to use it as a production machine. The machine runs Apache Open Office so I have a word processor and spreadsheet program; it runs Firefox so I could use it to do web surfing; it runs VLC so if I want I could listen to music on it or watch videos; it runs Inkscape so I can edit SVG vector drawings; it runs The Gimp so if I need a huge Photoshop clone I have that; it operates wirelessly using a cheap USB networking device so I don't have to run an Ethernet cable to it; it runs VNC so I can put it in another room, headless, and use the mouse and keyboard on my desk through this Windows box to operate it; it runs XAMPP so I can use it as a web development system - again, programming in PHP and MySQL as a database, not in Power PC Assembler - to do web testing and development without having to depend on connecting through the Internet. It supports the latest release of the Lazarus IDE for the Free Pascal Compiler so I can use it to test developing apps for OS X and probably using the same code base I'm developing for on Windows. All this software was available, and could and did install on it. I have a machine that allows me to get my feet wet with the OS X interface and net cost, even with the extra cable I bought in error, is less than $180. Tell me how I could have done it cheaper, that I can verify was possible, then I'll accept that I made a mistake. Don't forget, I'm in a power wheelchair and have to use public transportation, walking places and carrying stuff around, unless it's in the 20-pounds and under class, is not in the picture. I carried both of the Windows boxes, the laser printer and HP all-in-one inkjet printer I've bought over the last four years, home from the stores on anywhere from one bus straight all the way to two buses and a train, so I'm not crippled. Carrying light loads is not out of the question, but I have limitations. In my case, sometimes my limitations mean I have to choose a less-than-optimum solution or pay a little more to accomplish things than people who are not disabled. In short, I can get real work done on this Macintosh, or, as you'd probably call it (and I used to call them) , Macintrash. And, in the end, that's what matters, being able to get real work accomplished. I'm not going to use it to do video editing or high-end stuff, I just need something I can use to discover how Macintosh's interface works and get some exposure to programming it. you cannot run any modern version of Xcode, I installed some version of Xcode because something I was going to use or would be using said it needed it, and maybe it's not the latest and greatest, but I am able to use Lazarus (the IDE for Free Pascal) and Free Pascal (the compiler) on the machine. I'm not planning to write code in C. and so are locked out of any sort of development relevant to the present, I suspect that not to be the case, but we shall see. I am working on a game I started writing on the PC, I suspect I will be able to port it and run it on the Mac, even though it's a different processor, with the same code base and probably with minimal changes. (Unix-based machines don't need a registry to store data.) and that processor is not worth the wattage it pulls down. How much electricity does it use? Oh, and by the way, I don't pay for electricity directly, it's included in the rent. You bought a dead end. So, apparently, is anyone buying a single-core 32-bit machine, but there are still some people who buy them because they can get some things done (like people who want inexpensive laptops). In retrospect, it's the perfect machine for you. So again I will repeat what I said before, and I'll scream it from the housetops. IF THE COMPUTER I BOUGHT IS A WORTHLESS PIECE OF GARBAGE - WHICH, BY DEFINITION THAT IS WHAT "A PIECE OF SHIT" IS - AND NOT WORTH THE $180 NET I PAID TO BUY IT AND SET IT UP SO I WOULD BE ABLE TO USE IT, TELL ME HOW I COULD HAVE OBTAINED A MACHINE RUNNING MAC OS X FOR LESS THAN $180? IF YOU CAN'T PROVIDE A WORKABLE ANSWER THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SOLVE MY PROBLEM AND THIS SOLUTION - WHICH YOU CONSIDER WORTHLESS - DOES. SO TELL ME, SINCE YOU KNOW SO MUCH, HOW COULD I DO I DO IT CHEAPER OR HOW COULD I HAVE DONE IT CHEAPER? How? How? Tell me, I'm all ears. I'd like to know so that when I get to the point I want to go to an Intel-based Mac I don't have to spend upwards of $600, which is what they're going for (and out of my price range), used. |
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