In article <slrng6qfc1.2ues.foo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ian
Gregory <foo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Some Mac users do file compression quite a lot,
> > using the built-in "Compress" utility of OS X
> > which is available from the OS X "File" menu.
>
> But almost all of them only compress files containing data that is of
> interest to them. Your predilection for compressing huge files that
> contain only small blocks of data that are of any interest to you makes
> you relatively unique here, and your personal workaround largely
> irrelevant to readers. To post such a "solution" once is excusable but a
> search of the c.s.m.s archives will reveal that you have done it umpteen
> times now and I always think "oh no, here we go again". It is not like
> anyone has ever posted a question here for which your method is the
> answer, it is not a FAQ but a NAQ, a Never Asked Question, for which you
> seem to take great delight in repeatedly providing the always unwanted
> answer.
My, my, such a tirade.
You just can't grasp the Big Picture, so guess I will do a public
service and spell it out for you:
1) Mac users can expand what their Mac does by running
Vista in a high speed partition created by Boot Camp.
2) With CPU extensive app's such as Dragon, they run
roughly twice as fast compared to virtualization
software, such as Parallels.
3) It is almost impossible to backup/restore Vista
on a Mac, the common utils for doing so, such as
"Ghost", just do not work when using
Mac hardware and a Boot Camp created partition.
4) Vista attracts all sorts of malware that can screw
it up, plus the mere act of installing Vista app's
can also screw up Vista, because of oppressive
installation policies by both Microsoft and the
PC software vendors.
This makes it even more im****tant for Vista to be
backed up, to avoid weeks of re-installing Vista
and re-configuring/"activating"/"training" such
app's as the $1,400 Dragon medical dictation app'
along with the complex driver programs for the
additional cheapy $500 digital recorders used
with Dragon - - - and Dragon is just _one_ app.
Now granted that very few Mac users have any
need or desire to run Dragon, but they _do_
have their own preferences as to which Vista
app's that they want to run, such as one Mac user
who says that there are better astronomy app's
for Windows, compared to Macs.
Now when you advocate appealing to the lowest
common denominator by only discussing the
general stuff that appeals to "most" Mac users,
you effectively squeeze out everyone else who has
unique offbeat uses for their Macs.
Look at it this way, Apple themselves grosses
about 20 billion dollars a year all told, if I
remember correctly.
Just _one_ aspect of Dragon, the medical
transcription market, garners the same amount.
Ignoring Dragon altogether, there are thousands
of other specialties in science, business, arts,
government, etc. where Mac users can extend
their "Mac experience" by using Vista.
....and you advocate keeping them from doing
that? - - - in the name of appealing to the
"average" Mac user instead?
How shortsighted!
> ...and your personal workaround largely
> irrelevant to readers.
So what. I said upfront that my "next"post
would only concern a very limited group
of Mac users, once I got away from discussing
the general topic of efficient file compressing.
My exact words:
> Next post will only be of interest
> to Mac users running the Vista/Boot-Camp
> combination, so only glance at it if you
> are one of those very few Mac people.
Mark-
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