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Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again
gsfprez writes "Its been a while ... and strangely, the world almost seemed empty without the constant drumbeat of how Apple is on the verge of going out of business. If you're a fan like i am, then you're in luck, because this Canadian tech journalist didn't get the memo that Apple's been going out of business longer than most tech journalists have been in business. And besides, someone needs to let Robert Thomson know: when writing a story on how Apple is about to die,
you have to
call
them "beleaguered". Come on, that's Tech Journalism 101, people. In any case, he brings up no new points to bolster his argument: he confuses his personal inability to use third-party software that works fine for most of us with legitimate bad third-party support, and uses this to draw his illogical conclusion. Illogical because it's the same reasons/unrealized conclusions that were the staple of tech journalism from 1985-1999."
Actually, he does use the word "beleaguered," but in describing his old PowerMac.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
It really shouldn't be necessary to point out that Debian, Slackware, RedHat, Mandrake, et al, all have distro releases made in the last 6 months. On the other hand, there's been hardly even any bug patches released from MS in that long. Software from a decade and a half ago does not quantify as a choice any more than software that's 5 years old - unless, of course, you have a 33MHz system as your primary desktop.
Please, get a clue. Not that you'd know how.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Probaly not, since this seems to be the only of over a dozen BMW sites with this "feature".
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck