Can of Worms Now Open: Mac vs. PC

[robogone]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Up to his usual standard.

[mcnoone]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Yes. Buying a computer is not like buying a burger.
One gets eaten and s**t out.
The other does not.

[Gamma-UT]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Yes. Buying a computer is not like buying a burger.
One gets eaten and s**t out.
The other does not.

Unless it was M. Mangetout:

[Gamma-UT]

oh, c'mon. plists are like self-documenting man... any 3 year old can understand the lot of them...

The advantage of plists is that if you trash the one associated with a given application, you stand a reasonable chance of fixing short-term corruption without affecting any other applications (assuming you don't wipe out the entire Preferences folder in doing so). Searching for registry keys is somewhat more involved unless things have changed radically in the past few years.

OTOH, when you drop a folder on top of a duplicate, Windows will attempt to merge the contents, which is probably what you want. OS X will just blithely overwrite the destination. Swings, roundabouts, etc.

[Xenobt]

That's not accurate, when you drop a folder on an identically named one, you'll be prompted with a pop-up asking if you want to overwrite the existing one. I'd rather have that than the OS merging folder contents automatically.

And nothing on my system is blithe!

KVR/eSoundz: Xenobt

[whyterabbyt]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Yes. Buying a computer is not like buying a burger.
One gets eaten and s**t out.
The other does not.

I know its a bit of a stretch, and call me crazy to mention it, but I once heard of this thing called an 'analogy'. Its a really weird thing, and hardly anyone has ever heard of it, but its a way of highlighting something by putting it into a different context. I know, like anyone would want to do that, eh?

Anyway, long story short... so for example, someone might want to highlight a comparison between two things by making the same comparison between two other completely different things. Like cars. The few people that have ever heard of analogies like to use cars for some reason. Its probably because they know someone with a car or something.

And the really strange thing about these analogy things is that its not actually saying that the first two things are exactly the same in every single last possible factor as the second two things. Because if they were, and get this... you would just use the original two things they were talking about. But you didnt, thats why its an analogy.

And you know what? Some people actually understand that this analogy thing is being used, and, like, miss out on the totally obvious step of pointing out that the second two things arent exactly like the first two things. Cos, like if they were they'd be first two things, instead of being cars. See how confusing that is... its total madness.

Anyway, analogies. They may be unusual, but they're out there, But that doesnt mean everything is exactly the same as a car. Except maybe other cars. Though they might be different if they're not the exact same type of car. Whoah! I can see why this stuff never caught on.

Analogies, man. They spread like germs. Except they're not actually germs.

[Gamma-UT]

That's not accurate, when you drop a folder on an identically named one, you'll be prompted with a pop-up asking if you want to overwrite the existing one. I'd rather have that than the OS merging folder contents automatically.

OK Mr Picky. I think Windows asks as well, but I can't be arsed to open up Parallels to check.

[EvilDragon]

Windows asks too, yes.

[whyterabbyt]

oh, c'mon. plists are like self-documenting man... any 3 year old can understand the lot of them...

The advantage of plists is that if you trash the one associated with a given application, you stand a reasonable chance of fixing short-term corruption without affecting any other applications (assuming you don't wipe out the entire Preferences folder in doing so). Searching for registry keys is somewhat more involved unless things have changed radically in the past few years.

You just compared trashing something to finding it.

I might have missed what you meant, but as far as I know, you'd kinda have to know which plist needs editing to do stuff, same as with registry keys. The search mechanism I'd use to work out which one is just as fast either way... Google

[mcnoone]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Yes. Buying a computer is not like buying a burger.
One gets eaten and s**t out.
The other does not.

I know its a bit of a stretch, and call me crazy to mention it, but I once heard of this thing called an 'analogy'.

But that one was only part of an analogy...it barely made ana1

[Wormhelmet]

It's like ordering a hamburger...

Here's the thing about that...
NO! it's not.

Compelling rebuttal, dude.

Yes. Buying a computer is not like buying a burger.
One gets eaten and s**t out.
The other does not.

I know its a bit of a stretch, and call me crazy to mention it, but I once heard of this thing called an 'analogy'. Its a really weird thing, and hardly anyone has ever heard of it, but its a way of highlighting something by putting it into a different context. I know, like anyone would want to do that, eh?

Anyway, long story short... so for example, someone might want to highlight a comparison between two things by making the same comparison between two other completely different things. Like cars. The few people that have ever heard of analogies like to use cars for some reason. Its probably because they know someone with a car or something.

And the really strange thing about these analogy things is that its not actually saying that the first two things are exactly the same in every single last possible factor as the second two things. Because if they were, and get this... you would just use the original two things they were talking about. But you didnt, thats why its an analogy.

And you know what? Some people actually understand that this analogy thing is being used, and, like, miss out on the totally obvious step of pointing out that the second two things arent exactly like the first two things. Cos, like if they were they'd be first two things, instead of being cars. See how confusing that is... its total madness.

Anyway, analogies. They may be unusual, but they're out there, But that doesnt mean everything is exactly the same as a car. Except maybe other cars. Though they might be different if they're not the exact same type of car. Whoah! I can see why this stuff never caught on.

Analogies, man. They spread like germs. Except they're not actually germs.

[EvilDragon]

That's post of the month, whyterabbyt.

[Gamma-UT]

You just compared trashing something to finding it.

I might have missed what you meant, but as far as I know, you'd kinda have to know which plist needs editing to do stuff, same as with registry keys. The search mechanism I'd use to work out which one is just as fast either way... Google

I was referring to the #2 fix for wayward apps on OS X - trash its preference file, which happens to be a plist. To be fair, on Windows, you probably wouldn't bother deleting registry keys manually, just run the uninstaller and perhaps clean up the registry afterwards. I think the only time I've ever edited a plist was to change the destination folders for NI and Spectrasonics samples.

[whyterabbyt]

You just compared trashing something to finding it.

I might have missed what you meant, but as far as I know, you'd kinda have to know which plist needs editing to do stuff, same as with registry keys. The search mechanism I'd use to work out which one is just as fast either way... Google

I was referring to the #2 fix for wayward apps on OS X - trash its preference file, which happens to be a plist.

Ah I see.

Put your hand up if you remember when telling people to zap the P-RAM was #1

[Gamma-UT]

You just compared trashing something to finding it.

I might have missed what you meant, but as far as I know, you'd kinda have to know which plist needs editing to do stuff, same as with registry keys. The search mechanism I'd use to work out which one is just as fast either way... Google

I was referring to the #2 fix for wayward apps on OS X - trash its preference file, which happens to be a plist.

Ah I see.

Put your hand up if you remember when telling people to zap the P-RAM was #1

I remember those days. I think it's now #5 on the hit parade, except it's now "reset the SMC".