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Well, here's the problem. The Mac desktop, and in fact the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a menu bar spanning the width of the screen and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

In summary, unattractive squares like you should stick to Linux and Windows. Fitts' Law is for different thinkers.

Well, here's the problem. The Mac desktop, and in fact the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a menu bar spanning the width of the screen and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

In summary, unattractive squares like you should stick to Linux and Windows. Fitts' Law is for different thinkers.

Well, here's the problem. The Mac desktop, and in fact the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a menu bar spanning the width of the screen and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

In summary, unattractive squares like you should stick to Linux and Windows. Fitts' Law is for different thinkers.

You forgot "artistic."

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Apple's customers are like no others -- a rich blend of the most sociologically elite with those seeking elegant, simple computing. ... Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters . The activities they enjoy are unique in the the way that they more often incorporate rich media such as video and music as well as more active prosumer behavior than many more passive Windows [and Linux] users.

-- MetaFacts, Inc.

With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [is] very attractive [intellectually as well as physically.]

-- Nielsen/NetRatings (as quoted by C|NET)

Some of us, however, know depraved oblivion when we see it.

http://dogcow.atspace.com/bleeder.html

The evidence presented by parent shows us just what's up with mac users of the world.

Invite-only is a good start, but it'll never catch on if it only works with IE6, even if it later opens up to other browsers. Trendsetters are overwhelmingly Mac users, and the site's initial aesthetic impoverishment (that is, excluding Safari) speaks volumes about the philosophy and direction of the service. It is sure to appeal only to Linux and Windows users, and bound for failure. It can hope to become another Dell, at best.

Invite-only is a good start, but it'll never catch on if it only works with IE6, even if it later opens up to other browsers. Trendsetters are overwhelmingly Mac users, and the site's initial aesthetic impoverishment (that is, excluding Safari) speaks volumes about the philosophy and direction of the service. It is sure to appeal only to Linux and Windows users, and bound for failure. It can hope to become another Dell, at best.

Invite-only is a good start, but it'll never catch on if it only works with IE6, even if it later opens up to other browsers. Trendsetters are overwhelmingly Mac users, and the site's initial aesthetic impoverishment (that is, excluding Safari) speaks volumes about the philosophy and direction of the service. It is sure to appeal only to Linux and Windows users, and bound for failure. It can hope to become another Dell, at best.

Invite-only is a good start, but it'll never catch on if it only works with IE6, even if it later opens up to other browsers. Trendsetters are overwhelmingly Mac users, and the site's initial aesthetic impoverishment (that is, excluding Safari) speaks volumes about the philosophy and direction of the service. It is sure to appeal only to Linux and Windows users, and bound for failure. It can hope to become another Dell, at best.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

The answer is no. Creative work simply doesn't interface with Linux or Windows. In fact, if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind using one of those operating systems, you have little hope in this lifetime of creating much of value. The best you can do is retread the work of the truly innovative among us, the ones with GarageBand and Reason: the Mac users of the world.

As a Linux or Windows user, alas, you will never rise to their level. Hackery is your miserable fate--for a Mac user is born, not made.

You believe everything you read in the dictionary? Those things are for accountants, Windows users, and other such squares. You are obviously no Mac user.

I would have modded it funny! However, if leaving out this image from the post was an attempt to avoid the flamebait mod it didn't work very well :-D

People using Windows don't mind the aesthetic mediocrity that permeates the Windows philosophy--bugginess, superfluous and distracting animation, gratuitous gradients, ugly icons, egregiously unintuitive behavior--because they don't expect or demand excellence in their daily lives. They, the undiscriminating masses, don't even know what to look for. Therefore, there will be no reason for them to seek out an upgrade; Vista will only catch on as Dell begins bundling it with their $199 shitbox-of-the-week.

Some of us are different. Some of us know beauty when we see it, and we are naturally drawn towards quality. We are the Mac users of the world, and we'll be chasing big cats even as the rest of you people sink lower and lower into your cloacina of depraved oblivion.

People using Windows don't mind the aesthetic mediocrity that permeates the Windows philosophy--bugginess, superfluous and distracting animation, gratuitous gradients, ugly icons, egregiously unintuitive behavior--because they don't expect or demand excellence in their daily lives. They, the undiscriminating masses, don't even know what to look for. Therefore, there will be no reason for them to seek out an upgrade; Vista will only catch on as Dell begins bundling it with their $199 shitbox-of-the-week.

Some of us are different. Some of us know beauty when we see it, and we are naturally drawn towards quality. We are the Mac users of the world, and we'll be chasing big cats even as the rest of you people sink lower and lower into your cloacina of depraved oblivion.

People using Windows don't mind the aesthetic mediocrity that permeates the Windows philosophy--bugginess, superfluous and distracting animation, gratuitous gradients, ugly icons, egregiously unintuitive behavior--because they don't expect or demand excellence in their daily lives. They, the undiscriminating masses, don't even know what to look for. Therefore, there will be no reason for them to seek out an upgrade; Vista will only catch on as Dell begins bundling it with their $199 shitbox-of-the-week.

Some of us are different. Some of us know beauty when we see it, and we are naturally drawn towards quality. We are the Mac users of the world, and we'll be chasing big cats even as the rest of you people sink lower and lower into your cloacina of depraved oblivion.

People using Windows don't mind the aesthetic mediocrity that permeates the Windows philosophy--bugginess, superfluous and distracting animation, gratuitous gradients, ugly icons, egregiously unintuitive behavior--because they don't expect or demand excellence in their daily lives. They, the undiscriminating masses, don't even know what to look for. Therefore, there will be no reason for them to seek out an upgrade; Vista will only catch on as Dell begins bundling it with their $199 shitbox-of-the-week.

Some of us are different. Some of us know beauty when we see it, and we are naturally drawn towards quality. We are the Mac users of the world, and we'll be chasing big cats even as the rest of you people sink lower and lower into your cloacina of depraved oblivion.

Because it is the aesthetically correct thing to do.

Yeah, but did the Apple experience turn you into one of these--i.e., an intelligent, well-rounded aesthete with a sense of style? My guess is no. You've either got it or you don't. So if you weren't born with that special je ne sais quoi that makes a Mac user a Mac user, don't even bother trying, because in the end, Macs are for different thinkers.

* * * gallery updated Nov. 5, 2005 * * *

Yeah, but did the Apple experience turn you into one of these--i.e., an intelligent, well-rounded aesthete with a sense of style? My guess is no. You've either got it or you don't. So if you weren't born with that special je ne sais quoi that makes a Mac user a Mac user, don't even bother trying, because in the end, Macs are for different thinkers.

* * * gallery updated Nov. 5, 2005 * * *

Yeah, but did the Apple experience turn you into one of these--i.e., an intelligent, well-rounded aesthete with a sense of style? My guess is no. You've either got it or you don't. So if you weren't born with that special je ne sais quoi that makes a Mac user a Mac user, don't even bother trying, because in the end, Macs are for different thinkers.

* * * gallery updated Nov. 5, 2005 * * *

Yeah, but did the Apple experience turn you into one of these--i.e., an intelligent, well-rounded aesthete with a sense of style? My guess is no. You've either got it or you don't. So if you weren't born with that special je ne sais quoi that makes a Mac user a Mac user, don't even bother trying, because in the end, Macs are for different thinkers.

* * * gallery updated Nov. 5, 2005 * * *

Yeah, but did the Apple experience turn you into one of these--i.e., an intelligent, well-rounded aesthete with a sense of style? My guess is no. You've either got it or you don't. So if you weren't born with that special je ne sais quoi that makes a Mac user a Mac user, don't even bother trying, because in the end, Macs are for different thinkers.

* * * gallery updated Nov. 5, 2005 * * *

Well, here's the problem. Mac OS X, and in fact the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a 12-inch PowerBook running the iLife suite on Tiger and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

I used to own a Mac, but I got too many girls pregnant and caught herpes, so I switched back to Linux.

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"I don't particuarly care for OS X at all... it's such a different UI for me that I'm just not all that comfortable using it."

"Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."