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Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu?
Mindpicnic writes "The recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"
Look, up in the sky!!!!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
No! It's the joke!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Let me guess, you put your iPod, containing an HD, in your cup holder in your car and wondered whey it "died" in 18 months.
Am I right? Did you not purchase the extended warranty not expecting to purchase a new iPod in a year?
And no, only the iBook G3 series has an extended repair program due to a problem with the logic board. (pssst, that means it's covered out of warranty)
Did you know that Apple will repair your out of warranty iBook (even if you decided to not purchase the extended warranty) for a flat rate of $280 if there is no physical damage to your laptop (that's pretty fuckin' sweet) even though the logic board costs over $700? Have you ever known a laptop to never have an MLB to go bad? Really!? Damn...
What are you not telling us? Did you really own an iBook or are you just here to bash Apple with false info to get modded up by cohorts who also are unaware of these services?
My guess is that you dropped your iBook down a flight of stairs and Apple quoted you an amount for repair that you didn't want to pay, rendering your machine inoperable, and now blame Apple. Nice.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
Google is your friend. PS2 Emulaters exist as well.
I just don't get the "I can't play games on Linux" trolls. First of all who the hell cares, secondly you CAN play games, tons of them. DOS games, PS1 games, PS2 games, linux games and even lots of windows games. Stop bleating because you can't play THE game on linux, nobody gives a shit about your stupid game.
evil is as evil does
"refusing to release source for a project they've touted for years as their open source jewel in the crown,"
For a small part of it.
Sheesh, you people are a bunch of spoiled brats. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. What makes you think you're *entitled* to constant instant satisfaction?
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