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There's a piece by Scott Wasson regarding the claims of Apple, of late, and his...feelings on it. It's a pretty ranty piece, as he says in the beginning, but it's a good discussion starting piece - even tho' I disagree with him to a degree.
Well, if the value metric is how well your computer complements a black turtleneck sweater, then a Mac has to win hands down. :-)
> tomorrow zdnet stories will be posted ad nausem
Not exactly, they'll somehow manage to mispell a few words and probably give an unsupported opinion
as well.
Don't read this sig cause it's not worth it.
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Not to forget that if you have a Mac, it's impossible to play any games on the thing. Apple's done a poor job of seeing what people want in their computers. Pong for the Mac Game Designer - "Well, to make the thing profitable, we had to remove the little ball." Gamer - How do you play it? Game Designer - "Well, you do have to move the paddles up and down pretending that the ball is there, but it's almost the same."
*Supply-Sided economics rock my world*
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Two types of administrators will be coming to ten. The Mac weenie, and the Unix weenie. The mac weenie will enjoy his GUI tools. A portion of the Mac weenies will think "Wow this my oppurtunity to learn some Unix." The other portion will sit their and bitch and wine. The portion that does not bitch and whine will learn shell, perl, and python. And learn that they know have a OS with a GUI that Grandma likes. And the ability to write a python script that can run as a cron job and fix her computer every night. The Unix weenies will rejoice at having Unix and MS Office on the same computer, and push Apple to include features found in other Unix's. These two groups will meet up at a weenie roast, and the Mac users will be telling the Unix users of all these great features that Darwin has, and the Unix people will simply respond with a resounding "DUH, where have you been!!!" PS. All VMS weenies will still be pissed off after the weenie roast.
This sums it up...
Macintosh for Productivity,
Linux for Development,
Palm for Mobility, and
Windows for Solitaire.
*shudder*
;) almost went back to 25MHz because of that ;)
It was fun when I overclocked my old LC III to 33MHz and it reported as a performa 460
I have never seen a post that even compares to this article in the flame bait arena.
Don't make me prove it with a VisiCalc chart that compares the number of cooling slots and the physical size of the ram chips.
-- Spaz!
Must be a really slow news day.
What next? Big endian vs. little endian? Vi vs. Emacs?
Who let the mac heads out...who who who who let the mac heads out...who who who Must mac heads I know only think they are hackers. I just can't wait for all the misconfigured OS X boxes to hit the net. ...what's that?.... ...mac on has a 2% share...
Well, guess I'll just have to stick hacking all the misconfigured windows boxes.
fighting big business seems to be the primary news for them now.
K5 doesn't nearly have enough linux news, linux advocacy, first posts, hot grits, and Jon Katz. And everyone knows that's all that matters.