[V8] C4

[Dave Saad]

... a Mac is just a computer.  It is the software that makes it a mac - so when the machine is running windows, it is a windows machine. Actually, they perform very well with the usual benchmark tests while running windows.

On the lender thing - I guess it comes down to who do you trust.  I was dealing with what I thought was a professional - who flat out lied to me.
Another person may have taken the bait.
Are you saying that people who CAN be taken advantage of, SHOULD be taken advantage of?

Is that situation any different than a crooked mechanic telling a gullible customer she needs a whole new set of  muffler bearings installed ASAP or she may just lose all of her headlight fluid? Would the trusting but gullible customer be getting what she deserves?


On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> Re: Microsoft, from a software development point of view...  I wonder if a
> "mac running native windows7" is truly a valid test.  Merely playing devil's
> advocate, no intention to support Windows or malign Mac.
> 
> Re: the lender thing... absolutely all due empathy etc but... still... you
> can't always believe evertything you're told.  If it didn't feel right... to
> the extent that the question was asked... "do people really spend 80% of
> their monthly income on a house payment?" Is there not some responsibility
> on the part of the party who went ahead on the advise of someone who stood
> to benefit from the advancement of the transaction???
> 
> I'm just saying...
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> Dave Saad
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:27 PM
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> 
> 
> OK Mike and Bryan - you guys are cracking me up -
> 
> On the microsoft thing, I will buy the first shell. I just spent the weekend
> writing three identical functionality programs demonstrating "threads" in
> windows, MacOS X, and Linux, using Java, C, and C++ (on windows). Windows
> was by far the slowest performing. This was all done on my mac running
> native windows7, OSX, and Linux FDC13 - so the hardware remains the same for
> all tests. That is hardly my reason for detesting the Redmond Empire though.
> That goes back about 20 years. (test results - processing about 60 megabytes
> of data in about 20 files resulted in times of about 5 seconds for Mac and
> Linux (c and java) and about 10 seconds on windows7)
> 
> On the lender thing, I was most definitely coerced, pushed, tempted, and
> lied to by a lender to buy more house than I could afford.  I specifically
> asked the lender - "do people really spend 80% of their monthly income on a
> house payment?" to which she very sincerely said yes.  There are plenty of
> gullible and just plain stupid people out there who would easily fall for
> this scam.  It is not the governments fault that people are greedy - but it
> is their job to pick up the pieces and try to make it all better.  I don't
> have a solution, but not regulating the industry has thus far not worked out
> so well.  Maybe a little over regulation is in order for a while.
> 
> Dave
> (oh - and I drive an Audi with no C4)
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