Posted by Philoman on January 25, 19101 at 08:12:12:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS - anyone for expanding the metaphor? posted by johnboy on January 24, 19101 at 19:10:53:
jboy wrote:
: something tells me Philoman is sandbagging us and has an expanded master paradigm on a storyboard
The wheels are spinning, jboy (btw, welcome to the discussion), but I don't have the grand schematic all sketched out yet. Maybe at the end, by way of summarizing. I'm still learning from the interaction, here.
: and I do understand your excitement, running Windows on your Mac instead of OS 9.x for the first time --- you've got to feel the same way those apostles felt at the Transfiguration!
Actually, I hardly ever boot up the Windows OS, and when I do, I always return to my Mac more grateful than ever that I'm still able to get my work done without using a Wintel box.
When I install software on my Mac, I get an application, some documentation, and a preference file in my System folder. When I install the same app on Windows, it puts 15,000 files all over the place, any one of which can bring the damned thing down. It's not that Win doesn't run well, however; amazingly, it does! It just seems like such a left-brain machine, and I feel like I have much more control over my Mac.
But I digress . . .
: btw, Philo, wasn't it when Eve gave Adam an Apple IIe that we were all kicked out of cyberparadise! of course, you'll reply: "What a felix culpa! For there never would have been a PxOS!"
I've often wondered about that kind of logic. Who knows where we'd be if that hadn't happened! I'm not ready to say that God uses evil to bring forth good, or that God writes straight with crooked lines, as the overused saying puts it.
Hope to hear more from you,
Philoman