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When Mac Freaks Congregate
abhikhurana writes "Wired.com has an interesting story
about a recent get-together of Mac
Freaks in Amsterdam. Apparently to pass the time, they amused themselves by
tossing Windows PCs, making
Mac porn and holding a look-alike competition to find the best
Ellen Feiss look-alike, the teenage star of one of Apple's new
'Switch' commercials. I especially
enjoyed Mac porn, but hey, if you are under 18, don't click the above link ;-)."
...the Mac guys KNOW there are lots of drugs in Amsterdam
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
You should have also warned about the Ellen Feiss lookalike contest being mostly guys. Scary scary stuff.
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
They could be installing Linux on those Windows PCs.
Not to mention that we shouldn't really be tossing PC's around for the sake of tossing PC's around just because they run windows until everyone has a computer. Lots of people can't afford even cheap 8 year old ebay systems. Assuming those systems being tossed worked.
Looking closely at this picture, it seems like the computers were old 386 era systems. They were probably broken all ready, not really worth the time to fix them. Then again, they probably all broke once Windows 3.11 was installed on them... ;-)
Taking lead from the mac porn site, I experimented with my girlfriend.
I am having conflicts between Lad's Night Out 2.6 and Girlfriend Sex 1.0.
Do you think if I trash Girlfriend 1.0 and get an updated version I'll have more luck?
Any guesses on whether it was the Ellen Feiss link or the Porn link that got macfreaks.org /.ed?
Slashdotted instantly. Damn.
But I don't have, and don't intend to get QuickTime, crossover or not. The Two Towers trailor played better in the DivX version I found anyway, so is there a divx of this advert anywhere? Does a QT Pro owner care to convert it?
They are throwing PC cases , and I didn't see anything inside. Of course, They could have already thrown them a few times, so maybe there were mobos inside, but the ones I saw were just cases. Old cases are pretty fun to throw around actually, and can make good weapons in a pinch!
So take it from me, use your computer to fight crime in Amsterdam!
Now to hit preview to se
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That never worked on me after the first time I mailed the food overseas. My mom never wanted to risk the postal charges and embarrassment at the post office again. I wonder what ever happened to that half eaten casserole I sent to Rwanda...
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Well I sucked real hard on my iBong, and it was like, puff puff puff puff puff, and like, half of my stash was gone. Bummer.
I had to cram it into my cheek when the police pulled me over. And it wasn't as good.
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and its so easy to open them up.
I want 2D games back.
What about my 5 1/4"?
They call me the "commodor"
dont we all
I want 2D games back.
Right. Because this kind of humorous "wasting" is totally equivalent to the negligent wasting typically evident in the western world.
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Uh I did it just for the article
- I doubt they where functional. Who wants to go buy a working computer for any price just to throw it in a parking lot?
- Your comment does nothing but justify these guys actions. The PC zelot crowd would have no problem playing "iMac Toss" (at least ours comes with handles so you have the option). So who cares if the Mac zelots do the same thing?
Keep in mind these guys are not the norm, they are the exception. I'm a Mac "freak" myself, bigtime, but I don't go looking for Ellen look-alikes (uhh BTW Ellen Fiess is 14) or throwing PCs (although I did help some drunken friends film a monitor dropping off a 5th story roof in downtown southie Boston at 3AM, but that's another story...), or making "computer pr0n" by stacking laptops on one another and pluging them together with FireWire cables (although, I do alot of DV editingSeriously though, some Mac zelots are weird. I support Apple as a strong company with good goals, but I dont' have a chunk of carpet in a plastic bag labeled "MacWorld Expo 2001 NYC, stage left (STEVE WAS HERE!!!!!!!)", if you catch my drift...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I'm pretty sure the authors of Mac porn never ever had sex, therefore have no idea what porn means (and they also have a very bizare sense of humor, which also contributes to their solitude). The material is so "safe" that I would even show it to a 5-year old.
The Raven
The Raven
"Come on, join the Mac revolution! You too can perform stupid stunts like tossing old Windows-based PCs and look at porn!"
Read between the lines. This is clearly a "Look how much Macs and the Mac crowd suck!" type of article^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htroll.
This is not the Mac user norm, trust me.
Of course, if I had been smoking opium for 12 hours and had a French Vanilla & Meth at breakfast, I'd probably think CowboyNeal was Ellen Fiess...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Who wants to touch your 3.5" floppy when you can touch a 4.625" hard disc?
It's very simple really. Microsoft abuses it's customers over and over, and almost everyone that has used an M$ product has a big complaint about it and is looking for an alternative. However, there are very few Apple users who have huge issues with Apple and are looking for alternatives. Therefore, M$==bad, Apple==good
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
Windows people are sheeplike.
Linux people are unsociable and scruffy.
Mac people are just plain creepy.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Alrighty then... on this Lookalike wesite, you've got Macheads trying to look like Ellen Feiss. So I mosey over and take a look.
4. That's the number of chicks I saw in this contest. The rest are males, trying to look like a chick. 26 of 'em, I believe.
Remind me never to go to a Mac users group meeting.
-- El Sacarino tiene gusto de la chocha
Hmm, so the 4 year countdown begins now? :) If there isn't a site counting down the days already..
(I'm joking. Although, come to think of it, not about there probably being a site already doing it..)
Last PC users' "get together" I went to was AMD's thing where I was at the Altemonte Springs, FL (USA) parking lot at like 6:00AM listening to AMD's marketing schpeel. There was no free food, no music, no activites other than AMD's raffle, it was freezing cold out (okay, wussy Florida-type cold, but it SEEMED freezing) and worse, there were no hot topless women. Say what you will about Apple, but they sure know how to make a get together event fun...
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Siggy, siggy, siggy, can't you see? Sometimes your puns just irritate me.
I wonder how many bandaids they got through?
:)
I know when we chuck a load of our old kit away in the summer break, we typically fill up a skip of old 14" monitors and crappy & dead base units - been more than a few injuries where the razor like case edging slices down your finger as you launch a unit from the back of the truck - still, its all good fun
Did any one else feel a little disturbed by the mac porn though..
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
...Like dumping a giant Internet Explorer "E" on Netscape's lawn?
Nah, they never do goofy shit either...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
that way, if something had gone wrong, Janie Porche could have showed up and saved it.
Was Gianni Jackone on hand to manage them all, or are track suits illegal in Amsterdam?
Track suits are, afterall, the official uniform of the state of New Jersey.
"All I ever wanted was to see Larry Wall give Bill Gates a Perl necklace."
http://www.eisenschmidt.org/jweisen
Now, I approve of the concept of computer porn, but the example above is just derivative of far better porn sites. I mean, the Unix Sex site(not entirely work safe) has been around far longer, and their selection of photos are far superior. You people call yourselves geeks, and yet you don't even know of good places to find man on pdp11 photos, sheesh.
(my karma is so dead for this one)
(uhh BTW Ellen Fiess is 14)
She's like bleep-beep-beep-bleep-beep 14. It was a really good 14 years. Her not being 18 it's kind of... a bummer.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Oh, that'll keep the minors away, I'm sure.
Check this out (only for adults) Shes nude here Alright you idiots - stop talking about the girl already - shes ugly...oh yeah beat me about the bush and put this thing as offtopic but im sick of Ellen Feiss on /.
>>This is exactly why Apple computers do not ship with floppies.
You missed that most of the pics were from the era when they did.
I wonder if any of those macs had RAM Doubler installed on their Hard Drives?
- sorry, I'll be quiet now
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will! - Antonio Gramsci.
I dunno, I think that is kind of an homage to the pranks that happen each yeat at MIT.
That was a prank with a somewhat goofy purpose.
But Mac Porn?
Seriously..
"Don't mess with him, he taunts the happy fun ball."
You're obviously confused - weight doesn't tell you much about a systems speed. You're confused by Intel's Mega-Weight Myth. You have to consider pipeline length as well.
That's those evil Mac peeps and their Photoshop - probably used it to show how fast their systems are. (Did the composite before the PC hit the ground or something).
(Serious question - why would anyone super impose the PCs in the picture?)
Yeah they probably just wiped the mud off and plugged it back in!
And Macs run other OSes too. Including Linux - maybe it's a Mac? Anyway is this actually important? Who said it was their server?
Aren't we all taking this too seriously? It's meant to be funny - and a huge excuse to drink beer from the looks of those pictures (and that doesn't sound all bad to me).
Darwin (the core) of Mac OS X is Open Source.
If you want to see a Unix-like OS that's implemented in quite a different way to Linux take a look at this. On a related note - you don't need a Mac to do this, Darwin also runs on a PC. Of course if you want to run Mac OS (9 or X) software you'll need a Mac with a full copy, but that's another story.
Of course there is a slew of Open Source OSes for PC (and Macs) out there so Linux ISN'T your only choice (not that it's a bad one).
You can't get hold of old Macs, they've all got fish in them.
I would dismiss it as just such a "read between the lines" article bashing the Mac - except Wired, of all magazines, broke the story.
As you surely must admit, Wired has traditionally been very much a "pro Mac" magazine since its inception. I own every one of Wired's issues for the first 3 years they were published, and I often recall being a bit frustrated at their editorial bias towards the Mac, without giving any real justifications for it.
Wired is very much a magazine concerned with a "hip, techno-savvy image" - and focuses in on the artistic and creative (even concerned enough with that to print itself on expensive glossy paper). This is quite often the crowd that aligns itself with the Mac, since the Mac is traditionally seen as an "artist-friendly" platform.
Furthermore, Slashdot tends to run stories that feature anything non-Windows in nature - so once again, you can count on a bit of a pro-Mac bias. (It ain't Linux, but OSX is closer than Windows, right?)
Therefore, no - I really have to assume some people think this type of get-together helps sell the Mac as the computer of a "hipper, more fun" crowd. Sorry, I'll pass on that....
Ok, I see I touched a nerve with some people. (Being modded down as "flamebait" is usually a good indicator, in and of itself.)
But yes, United Devices appears to be an actual *corporation*.
(See: http://www.ud.com/company/)
The only reason I brought up SETI@home is because it was the first successful, wide-scale implementation of a distributed computing client that conveniently runs as a screen saver. I think that, in itself, was quite significant. It paved the way for others to do the same with a more useful computing project behind it. (I will admit, the search for alien life using their methods seems pretty unlikely to pan out.)
I didn't even realize they did a Mac port of SETI, but obviously they did. I'm quite certain it wasn't available at the same time they first released the PC version, though. (They even has OS/2 ports of SETI after a long enough delay....)
Also, I fail to see how you can make your claim that running distributed computing clients is a task "the G4 does better and faster than any other processor"??
What are you benchmarking against? It's pretty much cold, hard fact that the latest P4 processors outperform anything in the G4 series. That's why Apple was considering the idea of possibly moving towards an Intel-based Mac someday. They have a CPU that won't scale as far, and doesn't perform as well as what Intel has.
You assume that people who can't afford an 8 year old ebay system would actually derive some kind of utility from them.
Bullshit, I says; 3 reasons:
1. People don't need computers. People need food, water, shelter and family.
2. Try to run Mandrake 9 or Red Hat 8 on these systems--it just won't work. Try to run an older distribution on them, people just won't know how to use the computer.
3. You need to organize some way of getting these computers to the people who need them instead of making some grandstand bullshit critique of other people. I'm sure if it came down to donating the computer or using it for a punching-bag, there would be no question where the computer would go. But you aren't organizing, are you?
Ultimately, things like this can raise money for people to use in more meaningful ways, like a fundraiser to buy food for a family. But to say that the computers themselves have an implicit value is complete bullshit.
Average people need solutions to their problems, not more problems to deal with. They don't need to spend months learning how to use their computer before they can use it. They don't need to deal with headache upon headache trying to get their computer to run right.
This "Let them eat computers" pseudo-liberal bullshit doesn't do anyone any good. Unless you're willing to give up a couple of years of your life to teach these people how to run Red Hat 5, OpenBSD, or Debian Linux, these old computers aren't going to do them any good.
I mean, really--do you really expect people to derive some kind of monetary income from having one of these machines? Do you really think that it's going to liberate them, or bring them something they need? If they want to compile any of the major software products for Linux, they'll be waiting days.
I don't mean to flame here, if you're working on a way for these computers to be useful (other than as terminal servers) then great, I'll eat every word here.
Your argument reminds me a lot of my mother telling me, "Eat all the brussel sprouts on your plate, for people in Africa are starving."
To which I says, "well send them to Africa."
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If macs get you that excited, shouldn't you call it "apple juice"?
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Dudes!
;-) Guy or girl, does it really matter?
;-) Quite some people that commented can use a good laugh, as I see it.... Life is not always serious!
I must say I have laughed very hard on all your comments and complaints about this topic. Let me explain what happened in the Netherlands on October 19th.
That was the day that the Dutch and Belgian people that often meet each other online at our forum had the chance to meet each other in real life. All other events on that day were just to spice it all up a little. And that worked! We got attention in national newspapers and radio, and about the worldwide attention on websites we can't complain either. Cool but not the most important, that was the fun to see and meet online friends!
* Old Dutch PC Throwing
Yes, there were 5 old PC's striped from any component used for this. There was no way that these machines could be used for any useful use. Yes, we know there are other OS'es that can run on those PC's besides Windows, but they didn't run Mac OS, so that was good enough for us.
We did even donated some working PC's to a hospital. So don't blame us for having some fun with old cases. Btw, IBM's cases were the strongest! And all mess was cleared.
The winner won a printer! Freely made available by a kind sponsor! And even with this price, it was all A JOKE!
* Ellen Feiss
What to say? It is A JOKE! People! It is A JOKE! Besides, Holland has to keep up its image on _legal_ stickies, right?
* Sleazy.MacFreak.org
This initiative of Peter Villevoye was put up for entertainment purposes only... What else to say? It is A JOKE! People! It is A JOKE!
* MacFreak.org hosted on Linux
Yes, true. And we aren't ashamed of it. We are happy enough with our host that provides the space for free! Even better, soon they'll be moving us to a XServe machine!
* MacFreak Day
Just to let you know: next year we likely repeat this event. Join us next time!
Greetings from the entire MacFreak Crew!
MacFreak.org
So that is supposed to be some kind of an insult? Being young is not synonymous with being wrong. Anyone who thinks so is likely at the point in their life where dreams have turned to regrets and there are fewer days ahead than behind.
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