The Mac Worship Thread

Holy shit, are you really that clueless? IIS has been installable on every NT based version of Windows (client and server) since NT4.

All you're doing is yet again demonstrating your lack of simple logical ability. Oblomov claimed all programs that run under Vista can automatically run under XP. I countered that this was not true, because the Direct 3D APIs are different, meaning a program written for them is "vista only".

AKA, an OS has new features, developers write for those features, and the app can't be used on older OS versions without those features. It is perhaps the oldest story in computing... nothing to do with Apple or Windows really.

Filenames with special characters in a unix-like system.

LOL

Because some of us cannot be arsed to always be in the office, like to work at home, and don't have a server OS installed on their laptop, cannot be bothere to run a virtual machine, and so need a locally installed webserver for dev.

Until version 7 came along. Learn things.

Except that you are kind of wrong about this. These API's are backward compatible as far as I'm aware. Like I mentioned before, something written for Direct X 10 will work on lesser versions, it just won't have some of the extra visual effects that DirectX 10 introduced.

Not really. There are "Vista Only" games.

And funny enough, some nerds hacked them in order to run under XP.

No, you are wrong.

Again it isn't a big deal... my point was just to find something. Most developers simply write the program twice, once for 10, once for 9 using two different APIs. To the customer, it is "backward compatible"... but in reality it (Direct 3D 10) is not. Developers could do the same thing for OS X if they wanted to as well… there just is no point since people migrate faster on OSX than from XP to Vista.

Again, it’s a dumb point to make, it’s wrong, and it’s a dumb argument really.

Jesus. This thread is more fucked up than a PC running 2001 Windows XP.

Can anything be done to repair it???

All of these are a better choice for web-serving, remote access on desktop Windows than IIS.

OS X ships with Apache, but you can easily use XAMPP.

It's the most widely used within the windows world. DVI is for Mac. If I want to connect my windows laptop to a sweet Cinema Display, I'd need to buy an adapter too. VGA is old hat and has all but gone the way of the Dodo, technology has moved on.

It's not just the windows world.. VGA is the most common video input for Projectors and is also a popular input TVs (Next to HDMI).
As for adapters for cinema displays, our laptops and desktops at work use DVI and even a bog standard laptop can push a cinema
display without any problems. So go ahead and buy more adapters. Not everybody needs or wants them. VGA is old school, and
it is on the way out. But its also a well tested tride and true connection/spec. As I said almost every new TV comes with it. Very
few come with DVI connections.

Yes, we all know that buying adapters and lugging them around is kinda, you know, sooooo hip. It´s so much fun to arrive at the business hotel with a whole group of people waiting and the assistant hands you a VGA cable and you can proudly say: "That is an old hat, we have moved on. Could everyone try to get a glimpse of my laptop´s monitor now, please?"

This reminds me of this nice MBA parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUkbix0

You young whippersnappers and your march of technological progress! Daggummit, if I can't connect my computer to a 1957 Philco Predicta TV Set, then it's useless to me! Macs!? Phooey! I want cassette drive and 5.25" floppy support! I'll take old tried and trued legacy code Windows any day. Now get me a sarsaparilla or get the fuck off my lawn!

Lugging them around? On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being "LITTLE BITCH" and 10 being "HUGE BITCH", where do you rank?

Actually, Display Port is for the Mac. You need an adapter for DVI. Note there is no Apple adapter for HDMI - the standard that most new TV's or Projectors use.