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Macboy Spoofs the New Apple Commercials
Spock the Baptist writes "A big plate of, fresh from the oven, homemade chocolate chip cookies to the person or persons who dreamed up this send-up of Cousin Bill via a spoof of the current crop of Apple commercials. Gotta love it!" Sure, why not? It's Friday! Also included are commercials with the You're Gettin' a Dell dork and Big Brother from the 1984 commercial.
After watching all three, I can definitely confirm that these are amusing. I also like how he can make fun of Mac as well, since by parodying the Pixar logo animation with the new iMac as the jumping lamp, he confirms one of the common appearance jokes I've heard about them.
I wonder if Apple will try to use these at all, perhaps as something included on some CDROM - I'm sure they'd be in trouble if they made the Dell parody themselves, but if someone else did it, I'd think it's fair game.
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Unless by application you mean video games (buy a damn play station) I've had no trouble getting the apps I need on a mac. I fact I've been much happier since the switch.
Sanity is relative. For some of us it's just a distant cousin.
Using Bill Gates to parody one of the new Apple ads has been done before, as he's a very obvious target.
The creators of this clip (lickmysweaty.com) had to remove it from their site because Apple, in their "See no Evil, Hear No Evil" M.O. sent them a C & D letter. Apparently, Apple is unfamiliar with parody and freedom of speech.
Commercial fascism at it's best can be found right in Cupertino apparently...too bad they don't send C & D letters to people that can afford to defend themselves.
You see, people who are actually into model rockets, they go outside and actually build them.
Similarly, people who are really into bass fishing... they use a boat, not a computer.
Now, people who are into downloading things because an epilapsy-inducing banner ad promised that it'd be the greatest program ever made, these are the people who use their computer to catch bass.
I wonder how much the performance of cross-stitching is hindered by running under VirtualPC...
"Is there a way I could meet that DJ chick ..." -- Dell dude
:(
Me and the dell dude think alike. I hang my head in shame
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
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Yeah, because as everyone knows, the Mac doesn't have any kind of presence in mathematically and scientifically intensive fields like, say, bioinformatics.
Oh, wait...
You what the funny thing is.....VirtualPC(Win98) Runs more stable then my windows box it's self sooooooo.... 1) MACs(ALL AROUND BETTER MACHINE, MORE STABLE, MORE RELIABLE, AND NOT CHEAP) 2) Macs will ALWAYS BE A BETTER Machine then a PC 3) And with VirtualPC how can you say that you can't Find SW for a mac? MY MAC IS SO PIMP IT RUNS BOTH.....I would love to see Microsoft TOP THAT.
But, wasn't the Mac heavily used in a little project that had something to do with humans and genomes? Dah, can't remember what that was called, so it must not be important. And then, there's this little organization called ... ooh, SETI, I think. Something like that. Anyways, if I recall correctly, much of the processing time has been done by Macintoshes (disproportionately to market share, in fact).
... and uh ... Windows, windows, no don't start hiding now. I'm sorry ...
And then, remember the whole library of applications that the Mac can use from Unix
I'm not sure if its me or typical Apple-loving by their fans but I've heard some people call this marketing campaign as brilliant. I don't see it.
Now I'm not any kind of professional ad critic but what I've seen from the commercials is "Hello, I'm a looser but I bought a Mac so things are looking up."
First, who's going to believe an Apple ad that Apple computers are easier/better to use? I mean, personally, I'd much rather believe that cow.
Second, why do these ad characters seem so stressed to me? The guy in glasses has that strange look in his face that says something like "dude, I have to vomit."
I've heard people describe marketing campaigns as brilliant before -- but maybe some people just love being advertised to?
And, PEOPLE WILL NEVER TAKE ANYONE SERIOUSLY, who types CERTAIN THINGS in ALL CAPS for NO APPARENT REASON, while making BASELESS CLAIMS and forward looking statements BASED ON EMOTION AND NOT common SENSE.
ok, so it is a compound word. whatever...my question: can you run X windows apps on top of XP? remember there are literally thousands of free BSD ports out there for the taking that work with OS X, many of which are scientific and/or mathematics related (http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net). As I sit here writing this I have two xterm windows up, the GIMP, terminal.app and Mozilla. maybe XP can do that, but really, why bother...it wouldn't "just work". And no, this is not easy. but when you get X working on top of OS X for the first time, it is a rush, lemme tell ya.
Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for. And they sound like the more stupid specimen of our species. Most of them have to think about what their names and titles are for gods sake!
I'd like to see an ad with the programmer dude showing us on his screen why he likes programming on OS X better; I'd like to see the DJ chick show us how she uses her Mac for DJing. Not just a bunch of paid people saying "Hey they're great, trust me, and they're pretty, get them!".
Lies about crimes
I used to use a PC. It was fine, except that it crashed all too often. I will give a real world example as to how I hated Windows, so all you faithful /. folks won't go into the 'troll' and 'give evidence you fag man' train of thought.
Towards the end of my PC days, I used to play UO. Now, when you are hunting Drakes, it is important not to crash. Drakes take some strategy to kill, and when my machine freezes while I am flanking right, things go bad. You log back in after a restart dead, and in the middle of nowhere, with all of your items looted. There is my example. I love my Mac because it works. Sorry, I do not use baseball card collector software, or bass fishing, or cross-stitching, I think the people that do those things do not use computers for them at all. I live in Southeast Texas, I know rednecks and fishing, people that are real fishermen do not use computers to aid them. They drink beer and talk about fishing with their buddies on the front porch in lawn chairs. I use my Mac to do all of my unix things from my linux days, I use it to do all of my imaging things like Photoshop, all of my web things like reading /. and checking up on news, and all of my movie editing. It works better than my PC, I have found all of the applications I need for it, and they work better than the PC versions, in my opinion. iTunes is the best music software I have ever used, I love it dearly. So, IMHO, my Mac is the greatest computer I have ever used. Now, faithful Windows sheep, flame away.
But he was unmoved, and cried: "If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sa
You need a dedicated program for your baseball card collection? How big of a clueless geek are you? Just grab a free database app (like, say, Appleworks) and go.
Maybe the reason Mac users don't need baseball-card-collecting programs is because they're smart enough to realize they don't need one.
--R.J.
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Guess which "looser" is the New Yorker publisher
By the way, it's spelled "loser"
Loser.
Man, I laughed so hard at that!
I can remember using Macs in high school and the damn things were always showing that damn "system bomb" message "Sorry, a system error occurred." Of course, the Macs and MacOS of today are a hell of a lot more stable and don't do stupid shit like that, but still, that brought back memories!
Man, who was the waste of flesh who modded that down as "offtopic"? Maybe it was Pudge! I've noticed just about all posts even remotely critical of Apple or the Mac are summarily modded down, very quickly. Definitely editor moderation. Perhaps Slashdot is trying to create their own little Mac-zealot community here, and suppressing the dissidents is necessary to make the Mac zealots comfortable. Perhaps they're trying to become the Apple weblog. Perhaps they're the ones who "stole" the original MacSlash domain, in an attempt to hobble the competition...!
"A MACINTOSH WILL NOT CRASH, EVER!" I sure hope Apple doesn't attempt to use a slogan like that...
OK, you can mod me down now and continue living in your fake little Mac world.
I used to have a Mac. Then I noticed how hard it was to network the things. Then they switched to a new interface and I had to learn it all over again. Then I noticed how slow it ran and how it was draining all of my money. Now I use Windows. Not only is it the same user interface I've been using at work for the past 7 years, but now I know that I'm not fueling Steve Job's crack habit.
My name is Bob, and I work in the real world.
can you run X windows apps on top of XP?
Yes.