totoro wrote: > I more or less agree about the fanboy thing. I am aware of the attempted > irony. > > > But someone who is claiming that using windows is "thinking differently" > is being recursively meta-ironic. I mean seriously, I've never had the > it trolls at any company I've worked at try to force me to use Osx. I > have had that experience with windows, even when the software I was > writing would end up running on some kind of unix. Windows owes its > dominance, to a great degree, to the dumbing-down of system > administration as a job. Thanks to the fashion for apple, and the fact > that all the executives want to use macbooks and ipads, corporate > networks are becoming less monocultural, and I'm more likely to NOT have > to listen to a lot of shit when I insist on loading ubuntu on my > workstation. I'd call that a win. >
Sounds good to me. While I may do my best to trash Apple every chance I get, I make it a point not to throw the first punch. In the case of this thread I was merely pointing out that Apple products and the Apple universe do have their fair share of problems/issues, just as Windows does and unix too. What makes Apple different is that they do a great job of hiding the shortcomings from the user. Back to the original theme of this thread, sure now that just about every computer, audio and video equipment manufacturer has some kind of network enabled device that can be used to play the music collection on one's computer does not make the Squeezebox family of devices less useful. Instead most of these devices only help to show how far ahead of everyone else Logitech is when it comes to streaming audio. Sure I can stream mp3s using my $59 networked blu-ray player but there is no way that this device makes doing so as easy as streaming is with a SB Touch. Plus the networked blu-ray player doesn't play flac, ogg, etc., and high resolution files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95286 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
