You seem to be taking this awfully personal ...
Sure, you may call me a die-hard Mac fanatic, I however am able to see flaws in Mac OS X, and Apples products. I like Mac OS X since it gives me a stable work environment that I don't need to sit around and tweak, or worry about the registry, or compiling new packages. But give me FreeBSD any other time of the day. I much prefer it over Mac OS X, but usability comes before play, especially when one needs to get work done.
That being said, BootCamp has absolutely nothing to do with the OS running on top of it once the OS is booted. Over the years I have had trouble using Windows on standard off the shelf hardware, including the things you mention. DirectX 9 not installing, games not installing, or something along those lines. All of them were solved by either figuring out what I had done wrong, or by re-installing the OS (which should never be the solution).
You are quick to point the finger at BootCamp as the culprit, but you seem to be unable to come up with something that actually concretely proves your point.
MathCad is a Windows application, so off course it will run fine on Windows. Once again I say, BootCamp has nothing to do with the OS once the OS is booted. All it does is emulate the BIOS so that Windows XP is able to boot. I still FAIL to see how BootCamp is the source of problems with installing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and or DirectX 9 (Which BTW is part of Windows XP, since SP2, so it is already installed).
As for problems with printers, that is an entirely different story. Having to work with my Mac on my schools network I have had to find ways around problems that exist in Mac OS X. Bonjour enabled printers work just perfectly fine, which is most HP printers these days.
You seem to take this very personal, yet this is supposed to be
a guy in your class (not even a friend it seems). You seem to specify that you are telling the truth multiple times, which if you were you would not be concerned about. Seems rather odd.
Look, I ain't no idiot on this, so please stop talking to me like I am. [...]
You asked me to stop talking to you like you did not know anything, yet I had only posted one reply. I never questioned your knowledge in any of my post, other than that what BootCamp is and how it works.
Like I said, I've been using computers for a long time now. About 12 years - 4 of these on a high-level of understanding most things about them. I'm not inexperienced in any way, so please get that thought out of your head.
As for experience, high-level understanding? What is that supposed to mean? Even if you are not inexperienced, you seem to have mistaken BootCamp for something it is not. Once Windows XP is running on Mac hardware (be it MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac or any other Apple hardware that supports it), it is just Windows. BootCamp does not even come back into play. So saying there are incompatibilities between BootCamp and Windows does not make sense, especially since BootCamp has nothing to do with DirectX 9 or any games the user installs.
My reaction was not "this guy is inexperienced", my thought was "this guy has been misinformed, let me reply tongue-in-cheek" after which you took it seriously since the Internet is serious business.
Really, I don't really care how long or how experienced you are in the field of computers, there is always something you will be wrong on, something you will learn. I have an extensive background in computers, and am going to the University to study Software Engineering, Robotics and Embedded systems. That does not mean squat unless I can prove it.
I am sorry that you feel that I have an attitude with new members, really I don't. It is part of my personality to just speak my mind, I feel that tip-toeing around in a circle is not going to do me much good. If you are unable to take criticism and a bit of sarcasm that is not my problem.
Give me specific examples of how Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and or DirectX 9 not installing are problems within BootCamp, and I will gracefully accept that I was wrong, and award you the proper recognition you deserve.
If this is the kind of attitude you, an admin, have towards new members, who are telling the truth, then I don't want to be here. Keep it up with this kind of friendliness towards other people, and I'm sure you'll make it some day. Or not. Pathetic...
I already am making it. I won't need to wait till "some day". If you feel the need to leave, please don't let the door hit you on the way out. It would be a shame if it was accidently damaged.