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That's a "sponsored link". That pays for the 2 story house DDG calls headquarters.

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Am I supposed to demonstrate my intelligence and wisdom by publicly announcing that I will abandon Windows on the basis of statements from people who know ever so much more than I do?

I have yet to hear a /good/ reason why I should switch to Linux (or the Mac, for that matter). And I mean a /good/ one. If Linux is categorically better than Windows or the Mac OS, you should have no difficulty convincing me and others.

I can just imagine your reaction if I visited your homes and suggested you throw out whatever speakers you currently own and buy QUADs or Martin-Logans.

Or, to improve the analogy slightly, Bose.

That destroys the analogy.

:-) Now they *should* be free like Linux :-)

Trevor.

I'm forever amazed by these kinds of pissing contests. Reminds me of the Ford/Chevy bareknuckle brawls that used to erupt in my neighborhood in the 50s/60s. My old man stopped speaking to the guy next door over it. And this kind of crap went on for 30 years. There never seems an end to it.

He never said a word to me about my Studebaker, though.

First sign of wisdom I'd seen from the man.

You know, you likes what you likes. You uses what you uses. Sometimes the reasons are logical. Sometimes they're not. And rarely does it matter.

Geez.

Better, faster, smoother, cleaner. User friendly, technically advanced. Cures frustrations, cancer, baldness, hot checks and door to door salesmen.

Really.

The only thing that matters is the purpose for which an OS is selected, and the effectiveness in the hands of the person driving the bus.

Any opinions, recommendations, insistences, condemnations, verifications, or screaming fits of cannabinol induced engineering are only so much noise.

Seriously. Mac-Windows-Ford-Chevy-infinity. Dr. Casey, you may open. I bid 4 no trump.

And for the record, I have Altec-Lansing A7's, 846's, 503's, 105's, JBL L200T3's, Klipsch 1.5's, Heresy II's, KP-250's, and Apogee Duettas. I don't care for Martin Logans in theatre applications.

And I use Shure SE846 in-ears when I'm working. Or mowing the lawn.

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Even then, they'd be overpriced.

I couldn't care less what people use at home, it's when they drag these systems into the workplace it becomes my problem. Apple and Microsoft are not professional products. They're fine for the home, and I wish to hell they'd stay there.

Martin-Logan original CLS in a non-theater application. Luv 'em.

Western Electric 509W's with Sennheiser drivers, the original fiddly bits carefully preserved.

Agreed. And I didn't start this particular urinary exchange.

That's really an eclectic mixture. (I assume you aren't mixing Apogee and Klipsch in the same system.)

I don't understand what you mean by "drag into the workplace". Are you talking about people using their own computers and the security/maintenance problems this causes? Or something else?

Actually, you did. This is your thread, William. I vote for Cambridge Audio Model Six.

I didn't start the argument about the superiority of one OS over another. I am no more responsible than the people who build highways are for auto accidents.

Henry was clever, wasn't he? I have not only the original KLH Model 11 FM, but the sourceless recreation of it, the Cambridge SoundWorks Model 11. I'm currently restoring a pair of original Advents. It's probably the "biggest bang for the buck" speaker ever, and certainly one of the most-"listenable".

Now, THAT's something I've not tried.

Interesting.

Um....No. The Apogees are in their own, acoustically modified room.

Crude? Are you a Nun?

Something else, something far more insidious -- the belief that because their chosen platform works fine for them at home, it oughta be just peachy in any enviroment. It becomes tiring explaining to bean counters that, yes you can buy 3TB disk drives for $100, no they won't work here and the ones I need are a lot more expensive. Yes, Netgear switches are a tenth the cost of a Cisco, no we can't get by with Netgear.

It's as if people believed Yugos, Ferraris, and Mack trucks were all the same because they all have four wheels.

Developers are just as bad. The application worked fine on their garage peecee, why is it a problem that it only runs on a Mac? Well, I need my machines to play well with others, and Macs don't. Certain applications now only run under MacOSX 10.7. I run a CXFS shop. CXFS5.7 doesn't support MacOSX 10.7. So now I have to upgrade a core infrastructure of 40 machines just because of one developer.

(As if nuns are notoriously prudish or something.) I like to think as professionals we should exhibit a modicum of common decency and show some respect for the craft and the readers and each other. I'm not trying to go all Clifton Webb on you or anything, but as a talk show host from before the mandatory dump button I still get an epinephrine jolt when somebody lets a "7 deadly" (or something close) fly.

If that is your custom I apologize for misunderstanding your culture.

I'm going to hang-up on myself now.