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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. 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.
  2. 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.