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Mac Rants

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-gonna-get-toasty dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Therein lies the dilemna by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Funny
    We would need a value per dollar metric to compare systems, then. What value?

    Well, if the value metric is how well your computer complements a black turtleneck sweater, then a Mac has to win hands down. :-)

  2. Re:/. hacked. by hokie93 · · Score: 2, Funny

    > 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.

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  3. Dear Scott... by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
    John C. Dvorak does this better than you.

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  4. Re:Submit it to K5 by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Funny
    Your perception is correct, much of what K5 is about is having your wordy, literary-type posts validated by the praise and consequent wordy replies of other users. In other realms this kind of behavior is known as a 'circle-jerk'.

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  5. Ticked off users by AIXadmin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Steve Jobs... by _GNU_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    *shudder*

    It was fun when I overclocked my old LC III to 33MHz and it reported as a performa 460 ;) almost went back to 25MHz because of that ;)

  7. Flame bait... by mobiux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have never seen a post that even compares to this article in the flame bait arena.

  8. Mac vs PC by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must be a really slow news day.

    What next? Big endian vs. little endian? Vi vs. Emacs?

  9. I know. by J.C.B. · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.