Re: TECH: HELP!! idiotic keyboard problem

Quoting "Ph.D." <phil@...>:

> Roger Mills wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of that, today's Washington Post had an
> > article about electronic filing for a new Govt. grant
> > program; seems all the application forms only work on
> > Windows, not Macs. But most of the folks who'd be
> > interested (scientists, mathematicians) prefer to use
> > Macs.... go figure.
>
>
> I don't want to get a Windows vs. Mac thread going,
> but I'm surprised that you'd say scientists and mathe-
> maticians prefer Macs. I know *artists* (especially
> graphic designers) prefer Macs, but I thought most
> science and math types were satisfied with Windows.
FWIW, my experience is that artistics and humanistics types tend to prefer Macs,
whereas maths/science/tech types tend to prefer Windows, Unix and/or Linux.

The maths dept. here runs entirely on Windows and Unix, and among the computers
available to students on the maths/sci/tech half of the campus, there is one
(1) Mac, against dozens each of Windows and Unix machines.

                                                        Andreas

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