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Or as I like to call it... Happy Endanger A Turkey Day!!!!

The best news headline ever.

50% done, yay, I'm happy!

For my 100th post I thought 'd share my rough edit of a Little Boots track I just mixed.

Earthquake (Laresy Rough Edit Remix) - Little Boots by jmlares

And I am so, so, so HAPPY about that!

Let's face it, pretty much Snow Leopard was a big flop, even Leopard for that matter. No one wanted to make the switch and there's still that gap where we still have programs that still have not made it past being ready for both OS versions. MacBook Air was a useless product, along with Apple TV and Time Machine, can they really last with just iPod/iPhone updates? I don't think so.

Apple for me has always been about the hardware. You can build a computer that is the fastest and most powerful, but do most even think about the safety precautions? No, and that's the big difference. A Macintosh is most likely to survive an accidental drop than a Compaq, Dell, or HP would because of the way it's put together and the fact that it has censors that will automatically force your hard drive to go off. Now, I'm not telling you to do this, but I have banged my MacBook Pro across the wall and it did shut off instantly. We have found old Macs floating in dumpsters before and just washing them off and letting them dry for a bit usually is the solution to getting them work. You can't say the same for most PC systems as they're just bound together with four screws and everything's just RIGHT there.

Now, I like Windows because not only are their updates done through their updater, but they didn't keep releasing new versions year after year. For me, their operating system hasn't been buggy, and when it was, it was the hardware itself that was the problem. I didn't get viruses or spyware (and I've been using the internet since 3.1), and I wasn't the one who had to keep reinstalling the system every few months, something that I've been doing ever since I got this MacBook Pro.

And I've been going back and forth between the two for all my life. My dad brings one home, then gets rid of it a few months later to replace it with a newer machine, then another, then another. It's not common anymore, okay, so maybe seven machines have made it through our door in the last couple of years, and when I say couple, I do mean couple. I haven't really picked up on another machine since using the Mac though.

The problem with OS X is that while it's a great and powerful system, it doesn't meet demands for the people who've come to love their Windows software, and for the people who like their old Mac applications aswell. I put my Microsoft Entertainment Pack that is of course way back from the 3.1 days and it works amazingly well, and it's proper classic stuff. You can pretty much run most old software without emulators and it still works beautifully as it did running on 8 MB of RAM. That's the thing that gives me the whole 'WOW' factor about Windows, OS X just gives up on the classic stuff and renders it useless, while you can still pop in old DOS/Windows 3.1/and a handful of third party software.

Microsoft was pretty smart about using an external drive/thumb drive as extra memory too. It might be only useful as virtual, but I know it has helped to keep us from having to worry about buying RAM for the 2004 HP machine in the living room that's running Windows 7 smoothly. You can use any machine to run Windows and it doesn't make you get a new one just because they want you to upgrade. I think this was the way for Apple to not have to create this type of feature, which just shows how greedy they are.

I'm already seeing Mac fans backlash against Apple because of their continuing "Hey I'm a Mac and I'm better because you're not" advertisement. It doesn't help that Microsoft just had the best pre-order ever that surpassed the Harry Potter books, and the fact that they have Microsoft Surface floating around. While I love my MacBook Pro and iPhone, I'm really not looking to buy another machine for another ten more years. If it gets to the point that I have to buy another Mac just to run the later versions, I'm just sticking the Windows 7 CD in and going with that. I can fix my own computers, I can do my own upgrades. I cannot sacrifice another $2,000 just to get 4GB worth of software working. This is the best computer to run Windows on, so why not?

Oh, and by the way, am hoping up that my Microsoft shares went up, when Apple starts dying out, then I'll put my money into it. Thinking that people might want to be selling off their stock as it looks as if it'll be going down BIG TIME soon. Microsoft lives on without Bill Gates, but Apple is coreless without Steve Jobs.

Dear Internet Explorer 6 and similar older browsers,

We are tired of you and your unwillingness to get along with our suggestions. You sit there and expect us to figure out your enigma of ways to make our code get along with your framework and it bores me. You've lost me thousands of dollars over the past year, you've made me invest in hair products, and you've ton my family apart because they all think I'm lazy because I'm not making a single dime.

But I'm willing to stick with you on one condition... That you become classified as a mobile web browser, because to be honest that's all you can take. There's no need for us designers to consume time and energy to one browser that only exists because someone couldn't bother to upgrade you in the first place. Plus, considering the fact that most of your users are at work, they shouldn't be on the internet for visual reasons in the first place. Work should be for work and nothing else, thus limiting it to websites that have few images and more text.

That is all.

- The frustrated web designers and developers

My Blog Action Day post is here on my essay blog, if anyone wants to take a look. Peace out.

EDIT: Wrong post, HA. It's fixed now.