Phones are shit! 

iTunes for Windows is a total pile of shit. Quicktime player for Windows (not the codec itself) is a total pile of shit.

Apple need to hire some competent people to make their Windows software.

There hardware is quite nice I guess. I quite like my nano, though I don't like trying to get files onto it because the software is shit.

p.s. I thought the price of the nano was good actually. 

their hardware.

I know you were all talking about the iPhone in particular, but it started turning into a windows vs mac argument.

Windows is shit, OSX is more modern from what I've seen, but I don't know if I'd say it isn't shit as I've not used it enough. 

I was wondering what you guys thought of these kinds of games. Like starfox 64 and the like... 

Name me one OS that's good.

And then I'll ridicule it and boast how the one I'm using has its problems but is still better than your stupid suggestion.

Necros,

I'd say rail shooters are more of an arcade play style, which isn't necessarily bad - the ones that were good became legenendary. The relatively recent Killer7 was great.

Every once in a while one comes along, and they're generally good because of the immediacy of the play - which allows the team more time to for the polishing of art / AI / cool shit. 

I think I prefered my spam to this discussion :P 

"Apple need to hire some competent people to make their Windows software. "

Stop for a moment and give that one some thought. :) 

I haven't had quicktime for years though as VLC can read that stuff. Qt is a travesty that tries to kill your computer as best as it can. 

It kills Windows. It works great on Mac. :) Although I use VLC on my Mac as well just for convenience. 

yeah, I know they are THE Mac company, but if you are going to release software at all, better at least try and get it right.

Surely they don't write bad Windows software on purpose? 

Nokia 5110 is the best phone ever released.
http://www.compxcell.co.za/images/nokia5110.gif

Even better battery life, [i]much[/i] more durable, and a better keypad that allows for faster messaging. And you can use the screen as a light.

It kills Windows. It works great on Mac. :) Although I use VLC on my Mac as well just for convenience.

Didn't you just reinforce his point? :)

Name me one OS that's good.

VigilOS is pretty great actually, and even better when you use WorldVigilRadiant (WVR) for mapping. 

You can use your 5110 to stab people, and it's heavy enough to cause some damage when thrown. Like a CCW, only you can make calls with it. 

blows. Not sure if it's intentional (doubt that). I guess the problem is that Apple generally has very small teams working on their software, and I don't believe that the Windows team is an exception. 

"Surely they don't write bad Windows software on purpose?"

It wouldn't be surprising. Why spend a lot of time and effort making your competitors OS look more attractive? 

hey, lits close this usless thread! 

Doesn't Windows work hard to make Office work as best as it can for Mac?

I use Quicktime alternative by the way. 

true.
5110 and 6110 are the classics. 3210 is the worst ever. 

Those phones must be consider as massive weapon of destruction, as they look more like coshes than phones :P 

Just glanced down at my 3310 lovingly... 

I doubt apple would make crappy windows software on purpose since all it does is making people doubt the quality of all their software regardless of platform. On the other hand if they made something good you might be more tempted to switch to mac based on your positive experience.

In the itunes case you can argue that the purpose of the windows version is just to be able to put windows support in the ipod boxes but since they're also porting things like Safari it seems very unlikely that they have some kind of deliberate crappy-win-software strategy. 

Work OK on my comp, but its a pretty fast computer. ITunes was a real slow bastard of a program on my XP1700.

Thsi is they spend a lot of time makeing the windows versions look just like the mac versions instead of just using the native windows gui, which involves a lot of graphics which are unnecessary imho... 

http://www.lakescot.co.uk

it's gonna get re-made using tables instead of frames, cause it's not very search engine freindly at the moment.

OH well, my first website....

:E

(its for a company who sells feeds for dairy/beef animals) 

Dont know how it runs on Win, but all XP users can use the latest version of Safari. With Macs, you have to upgrade to the latest version of OSX before you can use the latest Safari. They're giving their own users the rough end of the stick sometimes.

Imho, OSX has solid design foundations (unix). Their kernel is a bit of a technological mess but is constantly being improved. Microsoft, on the other hand... are going backwards with the kernel, and never had a good overall design because of always ensuring compatibility.

Critcism against Apple about hardware reliability and small dev teams sounds fair to me though. 

Posting from a nokia xpressmusic. Will have to wait and see how many times this hits the board 

Hint: Skip the tables part and go straight for proper webdesign (xhtml & css that is). You will get code much nicer to edit/read too. ;)

Do not use counters visible to visitors. Do not use javascript to display the current date to visitors (...). Infact, do not put stuff on the site just because you can.

The animated cow is most probably copyrighted and you do not want to use copyrighted stuff without permission on corporate websites.

The background image is way too big. You must keep dialup people in mind, especially for such a niche.

The fonts and colors are temporary I hope.

I would suggest using a custom google search instead of that picosearch one, as for many people "google = internet", thus they do know how to use and interpret it.