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Return of the Mac
Ben Gutierrez writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on the Return of the Mac which begins with: 'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.' Tim O'Reilly said some similar things in Watching Alpha Geeks . From the article: "My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get."
In other news, open source fanatics dislike Microsoft.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
...as this is the first time I read slashdot on my new Mac Mini.
It's UNIX-based! What hacker doesn't want something that uses UNIX. Besides... Linux is sooooooo 90s.
In America, you spam computers In Soviet Russia, computers spam you!
well that accounts for 0.0000001% of the worlds population, whooo revolution, in your face Amiga !!!
Self-righteous Apple fanboys in one corner.
Foaming-at-the-mouth Linux zealots in another.
This could get ugly, folks. I'm sure the *BSD crowd would chime in too, except that a judge recently orderd the feeding tube to be removed.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I'm sure we'll see a sharp decline in the number of ingenious hacks out there as these developers spend their days holding shift and watching expose in slow motion.
Get a girlfriend. Girls like Macs. Borrow girlfriends computer when you need to test your code on a Mac.
Oh that's why "all the best hackers" are buying Macs. They've finally resigned themselves to never having a girlfriend.
Boring article really...
I welcome our Mac overlords...
I have worse karma than M$.
she gets what she needs.
From me, while you're at work...
I would say if you have to make a choice between wife and cool mac os x - you are in wrong boat already.
He said one, not half of one.
> Last year's Usenix conference was full of Powerbooks.
This is an example of Principle of Similarity and Principle of Social Proof including "The Number of Sources" Effect.
> Most of the top dogs in the industry.
This is an example of influence using authority, including High Status
> That prompted me to buy a PowerMac.
Aha! The requested target action!
> It's the best computing decision I've ever made.
Principle of Consistency
p.s., I'm not mocking you. I just noticed a bunch of statements that match the midterm I have Thursday night. Thus, this post counts as "studying"
p.p.s., I love my PowerBook
p.p.p.s., Please note, reading the above post qualifies you to place out of a graduate level Consumer Behavior marketing class.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
My kid brother can aforde a mac mini on lunch money...
Tell your kid brother that I and all my geeky friends would like our lunch money from the last six months back, uh... please?
"'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs."
"All the best..." originally switched from their respective platforms to Linux. Now that Linux is popular (with all that, that brings), they're switching to Macs (or you could say that indirectly they're switching to BSD). Kind of validates the BSD philosophy.
..how am I gonna convince my wife that I should.. - why, refuse her sex for a change! *smirk*
Unable to read configuration file '/bigassraid/htdig//conf/14229.conf'
Geocrawler error message.
Gainful employment is reserved for the elite now? Wow, the American dream really HAS died.
That was classic intercourse!
Do you have any sort of justification for your totally made up numbers? You couldn't cover the R&D for OS X and iLife for $199. You also couldn't get much of a monitor for less than $100.
Want to buy a $200 computer? Knock yourself out. Stop whining about how 'expensive' the mini is. Hell, Steve could bring one to your house and offer you a blowjob, and it still wouldn't be cool enough for you...
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I had Rhapsody DR1 running on a PowerMac 7300. Now THAT was more like a beta.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Maybe you can sell your wife the same way I did.
Damn. You sold your wife? Ruthless.
why do you even need word perfect?
one can type fine looking letters with wordpad.
windows does not however come with iTunes (sure it includes "disappearing border" WMP), iMovie (as opposed to "how many times can i crash a 299 Dell Box" Movie Maker), GarageBand (hmm Recorder?) a calendar, cron, webserver, ssh server, perl interpreter, and let's not forget the secure and tabbed browser (Yikes!!!).
However the 299 windows box does include a 2 button mouse and probably an evaluation copy of Norton antivirus.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
They want the xterms to look pretty while they're logging in to the Linux box across the room. ;-)
(Just so everyone's aware: just kidding... mostly.)
Ruthless, maybe, but if she's good looking enough, screw the mini, you could buy the dual G5!
Heck, it's even attractive to those of us whose background in C is more of the "int" variety.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
crawling with grammer nazi's these days
No apostrophe for plurals, please.
MAC APP TESTER OUTPUT
d ldr
=====================
We have identified that 90% of the programs you have running are unavailable on the Macintosh platform. These programs were:
Bonzi Buddy
CoolWebSearch
DateTime
Gator
W32/Bagle.
W32/Netsky.p@MM
...
--Muzz
You literally get to have your cake and eat it, too? And the icing is Mac on Linux? Sounds a little, uh, crunchy and plasticky...
Does the cake come in a cellophane wrapper inside the box, or do they give you a coupon for redemption at a local bakery?
With great power comes great fan noise.
I missed the first two installments of this slashdot story, i.e., The Fellowship of the GUI, and The Two Kernels. I can't find the links. Can anyone help me?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.