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Take a Mac User to Lunch
A Slashdot reader writes "LinuxWorld is running a story explaining how Mac OS X may help break down the walls for non-Windows operating systems, including Linux."
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Because those walls contain Windows.
The answer is, "This operating system will open up the path for non-MS operating systems."
BZZZZ. What is "Any operating system that ISN'T Microsoft??!?!"
Correct for $400.
... Knowing most Linux users, since they want everything for free they'll almost certainly try and stick the Mac user with the bill. And he/she will pay it too, but not without a _whole_lot_ of whining after they find out their free lunch isn't free anymore.
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
A single button mac mouse is reason enough to avoid macs in general, at least for now.
Which is, of course, no reason at all. This has been beaten to death already, but you can buy any number of mult-button mice for your Mac, even straight from the Apple Store.
Let me know when when you want to go. And no cheap stuff; I'm a Mac user, I have expensive tastes... ;-)
open sauce!
boom boom
more importantly, bring along your smart, cute, single, forgiving, sarcastic female friends and / or relatives so lunch will be more fun.
Can travel.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I put the CD in the tray but the icon doesn't appear on my desktop like the manual said it would. I'd like to switch to Mac OS, but it seems harder to install than any distro I use. Please help, it cost over $130.
Apple Running Out Of Macintosh Users For "Switch" Commercials
In a surprise announcement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Friday that Kansas resident Carmen Inez is the only Macintosh user that hasn't starred in one of the new Mac "switch" commercials.
The "switch" commercials were designed to encourage Windows users to abandon Microsoft's proprietary operating systems in favor of Apple's proprietary operating system by showing actual Macintosh users talking about how easy "the switch" was.
Despite the high cuteness factor of the iMac and the opensource appeal of OS-X's Darwin, Macintosh's userbase has steadily declined over the years, and recently fell to a total of 10 users, a fact which wasn't discovered until the commercials were already underway.
"It's really quite embarrassing," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs, "we started the new ad campaign thinking it'd be nice to showcase our diverse userbase, but we ran out of users in very short order."
Macintosh user Carmen Inez declined to be in the commercials, saying "I've just got a bunch of old Mac Word Perfect files that I keep on there. It's really nothing to get excited about."
The fate of Apple's next line of commercials, which were to feature programmers pretending to like Macintosh's FreeBSD spin-off, Darwin, instead of actually getting FreeBSD, has not been decided.
I Love being able to run MS Word, Powerpoint and multiple vim, ssh etc sessions on the same screen.
:-)
You mean just like I do on my Win2k box?
Woops, forgot what crowd hangs out here, mod me down
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...