Can we kill this thread, or what? It basically turned to name-calling quite some time ago.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Brendan Meutzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Are you kidding me? If I follow what you're saying, you've had Windows > run crash free for 3-5 months? If so, you should contact Microsoft so they > can make a commercial about you... might halt some of the abandonment from > Windows to Mac if people actually believed that. > Sorry to sound so cynical here, but the unavoidable truth is that Mac is > much much less prone to crashing (at the OS level) than Windows. Sure, > applications still crash, but when they do they don't pull down the entire > OS in the process. > > Interestingly, nobody (including myself in a previous post on this thread) > has brought up the fact that Mac is also not susceptible to the > Virus/Spyware issues that Windows is, so I'll add it now. Not trying to > sound like a Mac commercial, and also understanding that this point is not > directly relevant to the initial question about Win vs Mac as development > environment, but the fact I don't have Norton/McAfee/Live OneCare/etc... > running on my machine helps networking and performance on my machine too :-) > > Brendan > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Dmitri Girski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, >> "ross_w_henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dealing with multiple daily crashes/freezes was something I had >> become> used to. >> >> Hmmm, my development PC with WinXP has usual uptime 90-150 days and >> not because of the crashes/freezes, but because of the system updates >> which require reboots. >> >> Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong? >> I feel kind of avoided by something very important. >> >> Cheers, >> Dmitri. >> >> > > > -- > Brendan Meutzner > http://www.meutzner.com/blog/ > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/
