Well, he might have come up with some other metaphor, but not one with the same level of resonance as the julted girlfriend.
perhaps it would have had more resonance for me if it weren't at the same time so sexist.
i think it also would have had more resonance if there had been any content in the article. but all it said was "hey Mac users -- there's this thing you may have heard about, and you should find out about it before you start saying bad things about it."
oh, i didn't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with sex-deprived geeks wanting hot chicks to gawk at!:) it's just that there are plenty of other places on the net to find pictures of hot chicks to gawk at.
moreover, articles like this are one of the things which make a lot of women not want to identify as geeks. i'd rather have fewer sexist articles and more women in the idustry, wouldn't you?
I am a fan of both MacOS and Linux; I think that they each have their advantages -- for some things I prefer to use one, for other things I prefer the other. (For example, I prefer to write code in emacs under Linux, but I prefer to write email in Eudora under MacOS, though I certainly can and often do write code in BBEdit and email in pine...) I certainly prefer them both to any version of Windows.
This article is directed at Mac users who know nothing about Linux, and perhaps for them it is a good first thing to read about Linux. But personally, I didn't think it really said anything much at all.
All the stuff comparing the OSes to women was just plain stupid. It didn't serve to make any point that wasn't made just as effectively without the metaphor. As far as I can tell, the only purpose it served was to give sex-deprived geeks some hot chicks to gawk at, and to make the article longer without adding any content.
``And it's still not clear that our customers want to have or want others to have the ability to modify our source code,'' he added. ``Our customers value stability.''
which seems to suggest that microsoft believes (or wants us to believe) that going open source makes software less stable!
The portrayal of Jesse and Eric, although reflecting how some of the people out there will live, is only a small minority of people, even in the geek realm. My take on things is that most of the people that build their own computers and spend time online are not like what is depicted in this article. They are mostly just people like other people. They have problems and they desires like other people.
Who do you think you're disagreeing with in that statement?
I don't think anyone -- Jesse, Eric, JonKatz, Rolling Stone, or anyone else -- is trying to claim that this piece describes anyone but Jesse and Eric. It is simply an in-depth look at the lives of these two people. And I for one found it very interesting.
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Well, he might have come up with some other metaphor, but not one with the same level of resonance as the julted girlfriend.
perhaps it would have had more resonance for me if it weren't at the same time so sexist.
i think it also would have had more resonance if there had been any content in the article. but all it said was "hey Mac users -- there's this thing you may have heard about, and you should find out about it before you start saying bad things about it."
Some of us resemble that remark!
oh, i didn't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with sex-deprived geeks wanting hot chicks to gawk at! :) it's just that there are plenty of other places on the net to find pictures of hot chicks to gawk at.
moreover, articles like this are one of the things which make a lot of women not want to identify as geeks. i'd rather have fewer sexist articles and more women in the idustry, wouldn't you?
I am a fan of both MacOS and Linux; I think that they each have their advantages -- for some things I prefer to use one, for other things I prefer the other. (For example, I prefer to write code in emacs under Linux, but I prefer to write email in Eudora under MacOS, though I certainly can and often do write code in BBEdit and email in pine...) I certainly prefer them both to any version of Windows.
This article is directed at Mac users who know nothing about Linux, and perhaps for them it is a good first thing to read about Linux. But personally, I didn't think it really said anything much at all.
All the stuff comparing the OSes to women was just plain stupid. It didn't serve to make any point that wasn't made just as effectively without the metaphor. As far as I can tell, the only purpose it served was to give sex-deprived geeks some hot chicks to gawk at, and to make the article longer without adding any content.
also in the SJ Mercury article is this little gem:
which seems to suggest that microsoft believes (or wants us to believe) that going open source makes software less stable!Who do you think you're disagreeing with in that statement?
I don't think anyone -- Jesse, Eric, JonKatz, Rolling Stone, or anyone else -- is trying to claim that this piece describes anyone but Jesse and Eric. It is simply an in-depth look at the lives of these two people. And I for one found it very interesting.