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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. What $2500 Will Get You by Silver222 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For $2500, I can put together a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 512MB of RAM, a Pioneer DVD writer, GeForce 3 video, 60GB Hard Drive, 21 inch monitor, and Windows 2000. If you want to drop the DVD writer, you can go SCSI....unless you REALLY want or need OS X, a Mac just isn't worth it.

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    "It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times." Bill Hicks
  2. Boosting pageviews by maggard · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    In order to help /. boost it's ever-dropping revenue I've come up with a number of strategies:

    1. Pop-under ads. Everyone needs an X10 whatsits.
    2. Flash ads. The advertisers needn't know many /.'ers don't have a Flash plugin installed.
    3. Ressurect old flamewars. Mac vs PC. CPU Architectures. How many mouse-buttons. Window managers. Big or little endian. ANSI C. Open Sourcing . BSD vs Sys V.
    4. Articles on old/obscure products with fanatical followings. Amiga. Tandy CoCo. VMS. CP/M. Z80. Toss these folks a bone to gnaw on.
    5. Use misleading headlines or mischaracterize stories. Chapter-11 means "going down in flames." Wall Street Journal saying "Linux not for everyone" is "Capitalist pigs bash plucky OS".
    6. Report on a topic. Follow up with how the topic is overhyped. Followup yet again pointing out how the topic is really important. Repeat ad infinitum. see "Code Red" for tips on this strategy.
    7. Report on "interviews" where someone has selectively edited together various public statements. See Sony Pictures on how to use clips to attribute misleading sayings ("Planet of The Apes... not... as bad... thought.")
    In orfer to boost pageviews these strategies will be rolled out on a daily basis. Expect to see one application every 24 hours. Should our income not rise as projected we will then have to move on to targetted marketing projects with our new "partners".

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    I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
  3. ;^) by Smedrick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When you are down, or frustrated, come here....


    We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are.

    After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together,when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation, or when we retire.

    The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way.

    So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with...and remember that time waits for no one.

    So, stop waiting....
    * until your car or home is paid off
    * until you get a new car or home
    * until your kids leave the house
    * until you go back to school
    * until you finish school
    * until you lose 10 lbs.
    * until you gain 10 lbs.
    * until you get married
    * until you get a divorce
    * until you have kids
    * until you retire
    * until summer
    * until spring
    * until winter
    * until fall
    * until you die

    There is no better time than right now to be happy.

    Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
    So - Work like you don't need money,
    Love like you've never been hurt, and
    dance like no one's watching.
    If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special-I just did.

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    "I strongly urge both the faint of heart and the faint of butt to leave the room at this time."
    - Strong Bad
  4. A bit odd... by pjbass · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This is probably a bit off-topic, but how does a story like this (someone ranting about Mac) get posted, and the article I submitted last week about PCI 3.0 (only the future of next-generation I/O for PC's) doesn't get posted? I believe the gods of priority for "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that matters" have sold out. Sorry for the additional rant, but it is a bit frustrating to be reading something completely and totally useless where something more useful and informative should belong.

  5. All I can say, I'm perfectly happy with my old G3! by _GNU_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My G3/400 (B&W) turns 3 years old next month.. still a very nice workhorse on them adobe apps and I use it heavily with both photoshop and illustrator... it's fun to see the pc (windows) users with their new GHz boxes struggle away... :)