Let me reprise a comment of mine from several months previous:
Ford didn't invent the assembly line. The Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane. Wanamaker didn't invent the department store. Edison didn't invent the light bulb.
All these people derived inspiration from their contemporaries. All they did was "steal" ideas from others and make them better.
Steve Jobs' saying, that "real artists ship," is right on the money. Production, after all, has a more lasting impact than theory and prototype.
Clue for you: Ford didn't invent the assembly line. The Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane. Wanamaker didn't invent the department store. Edison didn't invent the light bulb.
All these people derived inspiration from their contemporaries. All they did was "steal" ideas from others and make them better.
Steve Jobs' saying, that "real artists ship," is right on the money. Production, after all, has a more lasting impact than theory and prototype. Now let's hear from you an example of Linux community innovation even by the diminished standards set by the aforementioned inventors, or fail.
No, Mac users are just blessed with greater creativity. You'd never see a PC user come up with this kind of solution. Don't believe me? IBM's been building motion sensors into their ThinkPads for years, but it took a Mac user to make it sing. Further examples abound.
In other words, PC users contribute nothing to humanity beyond mechanical number-crunching and associated squareness. It's the Mac users of the world without whom all would be indistinguishable grey.
Weird, there were no first generation kinks with my Dell Inspiron.
I've got news for you: Nothing in your Inspiron is first-generation technology. Everything Dell churns out was done to death over and over long before Dell got its filthy PC fingers anywhere near.
I'm glad you recognize that people like yourself should stay on the platform that best meets their needs. As an unoriginal thinker, Windows is much more closely tailored to your lifestyle and work habits. (Linux, too.)
Yeah, except Consumer Reports disagrees with you time and time again, most recently just last month. Apple consistently ranks at or near the top for free tech support; Dell at or near rock-bottom.
(Sorry about the link, I couldn't find a working non-registration page.)
I was tired and was facing a three hour drive home...
The rest of your story is much more believable in this context. It's unwritten Apple policy to discourage red-state rednecks like you from buying Macs and thus polluting our userbase with dimwits and dweebs. See, if you Republicans were to start flooding the platform, our favorite applications would begin losing their distinctive Mac character and flair. That's why most of us longtime Mac users fully support this disincentive. Go back to Utah, hick.
As I already wrote elsewhere: Too bad nobody, but nobody, ever actually uses it in that sense. Nevertheless, I took pains to include "almost" in "almost universally" specifically in hopes of appeasing dimwits such as yourself; a futile effort, I should have known.
And might I suggest you read the article summary? The church is under no threat of losing its official status under the Finnish state, and the topic of disestablishment is therefore entirely offtopic in this discussion.
It's correct whether repeated or not; my hope is that the repetition will assist its penetration through your cinderblock cranium, though it does appear to be rather too thick.
Too bad nobody, but nobody, ever actually uses it in that sense. Nevertheless, I took pains to include "almost" in "almost universally" specifically in hopes of appeasing dimwits such as yourself; a futile effort, I should have known.
"Deconstruction" is almost universally understood to refer to a specific sort of literary analysis. No reasonably well-educated English speaker should mistake it as a synonym for "destruction" or "dismantlement."
I suspect a more appropriate word in the title would have used a form of the verb "to erode," thus: "Internet Eroding State Church in Finland."
Slashcode turned my "does not equal" sign into a question mark. Deconstruct != dismantle. Contrary to the implication of the title, this article has nothing to do with deconstruction.
Given your username, and the fact that Firefox is anything and everything but Aqua, is spellcheck really the "one feature" that's kept you from using it? Personally, Firefox would have to see a complete philosophical overhaul before I ever considered touching it again.
The big secret is that "people who think the way Apple thinks" actually includes the vast majority of humanity, that is, people who aren't necessarily programmers and techno-geeks. "The rest of us," according to that old Apple slogan. So the iPod does, in fact, belong to the platform of products made for "people who think the way Apple thinks." The Mac too is part of that platform.
Microsoft's platform, by extension, consists of products designed for people who are programmers and techno-geeks, which is why the right-brained half of humanity finds their crap marginally usable at best.
Apple's "platform" is the Apple experience: products made for people who think like Apple thinks, do things the way Apple does. You know, architects and dilettantes.
Somehow, actually, the thought of an Apple hipster representative reaching into her tummy in court and ripping out her ovaries is a real turn-on. But maybe it's just me.
I think what they're trying to tell you is that "most people" do not, in fact, think Olive Garden is fancy. And so your analogy falls apart: "most people" do gravitate towards what you refer to as "bells and whistles," whether in restaurants or consoles.
FWIW, I see Nintendo as the classy, upscale choice in this round of consoles. Just because it's inexpensive doesn't mean it's not designed and presented well--just like because sushi is small doesn't mean it's lacking in taste or artfulness.
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Let me reprise a comment of mine from several months previous:
Ford didn't invent the assembly line. The Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane. Wanamaker didn't invent the department store. Edison didn't invent the light bulb.
All these people derived inspiration from their contemporaries. All they did was "steal" ideas from others and make them better.
Steve Jobs' saying, that "real artists ship," is right on the money. Production, after all, has a more lasting impact than theory and prototype.
It's marked "Offtopic" because the quality of moderation has gone to shit. Don't lose sleep over it.
Clue for you: Ford didn't invent the assembly line. The Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane. Wanamaker didn't invent the department store. Edison didn't invent the light bulb.
All these people derived inspiration from their contemporaries. All they did was "steal" ideas from others and make them better.
Steve Jobs' saying, that "real artists ship," is right on the money. Production, after all, has a more lasting impact than theory and prototype. Now let's hear from you an example of Linux community innovation even by the diminished standards set by the aforementioned inventors, or fail.
No, Mac users are just blessed with greater creativity. You'd never see a PC user come up with this kind of solution. Don't believe me? IBM's been building motion sensors into their ThinkPads for years, but it took a Mac user to make it sing. Further examples abound.
In other words, PC users contribute nothing to humanity beyond mechanical number-crunching and associated squareness. It's the Mac users of the world without whom all would be indistinguishable grey.
I'm glad you recognize that people like yourself should stay on the platform that best meets their needs. As an unoriginal thinker, Windows is much more closely tailored to your lifestyle and work habits. (Linux, too.)
Yeah, except Consumer Reports disagrees with you time and time again, most recently just last month. Apple consistently ranks at or near the top for free tech support; Dell at or near rock-bottom.
(Sorry about the link, I couldn't find a working non-registration page.)
That's because you, like most PC users, are not very demanding.
As I already wrote elsewhere: Too bad nobody, but nobody, ever actually uses it in that sense. Nevertheless, I took pains to include "almost" in "almost universally" specifically in hopes of appeasing dimwits such as yourself; a futile effort, I should have known.
And might I suggest you read the article summary? The church is under no threat of losing its official status under the Finnish state, and the topic of disestablishment is therefore entirely offtopic in this discussion.
It's correct whether repeated or not; my hope is that the repetition will assist its penetration through your cinderblock cranium, though it does appear to be rather too thick.
Too bad nobody, but nobody, ever actually uses it in that sense. Nevertheless, I took pains to include "almost" in "almost universally" specifically in hopes of appeasing dimwits such as yourself; a futile effort, I should have known.
"Deconstruction" is almost universally understood to refer to a specific sort of literary analysis. No reasonably well-educated English speaker should mistake it as a synonym for "destruction" or "dismantlement."
I suspect a more appropriate word in the title would have used a form of the verb "to erode," thus: "Internet Eroding State Church in Finland."
Please educate yourselves.
Yeah—Derrida, Spivak, et al. were nothing if not archetypical PHBs. Again, please educate yourself.
Slashcode turned my "does not equal" sign into a question mark. Deconstruct != dismantle. Contrary to the implication of the title, this article has nothing to do with deconstruction.
At least not in common English. Please educate yourselves.
Given your username, and the fact that Firefox is anything and everything but Aqua, is spellcheck really the "one feature" that's kept you from using it? Personally, Firefox would have to see a complete philosophical overhaul before I ever considered touching it again.
The big secret is that "people who think the way Apple thinks" actually includes the vast majority of humanity, that is, people who aren't necessarily programmers and techno-geeks. "The rest of us," according to that old Apple slogan. So the iPod does, in fact, belong to the platform of products made for "people who think the way Apple thinks." The Mac too is part of that platform.
Microsoft's platform, by extension, consists of products designed for people who are programmers and techno-geeks, which is why the right-brained half of humanity finds their crap marginally usable at best.
Apple's "platform" is the Apple experience: products made for people who think like Apple thinks, do things the way Apple does. You know, architects and dilettantes.
Somehow, actually, the thought of an Apple hipster representative reaching into her tummy in court and ripping out her ovaries is a real turn-on. But maybe it's just me.
What's wrong with that? Three-quarters of a star each sounds fair to me.
I think what they're trying to tell you is that "most people" do not, in fact, think Olive Garden is fancy. And so your analogy falls apart: "most people" do gravitate towards what you refer to as "bells and whistles," whether in restaurants or consoles.
FWIW, I see Nintendo as the classy, upscale choice in this round of consoles. Just because it's inexpensive doesn't mean it's not designed and presented well--just like because sushi is small doesn't mean it's lacking in taste or artfulness.
This entire thread has me laughing my head off. "By fancy, I don't mean Olive Garden"... priceless.
I'll spend my karma bonus on this.
Other than that, thank you for this valuable insight into Apple's inner workings.