Now would you please give it rest? The majority of your posts are fine but you have an annoying propensity to dump a load of shit at the mere mention of “computer”. And the smilies don’t make such posts any less annoying.
A few times I’ve seen him have some pretty good rebuttals for a PC-geek doing some yuk-yuk drive-by slam against Macs. I get sick of the PC-geeks too and their little sly insults. I’m not pointing fingers towards anyone in particular, but there are a few who seem to stand out in my memory as having a habit of doing this.
So, for your responses to these types of lame PC-geeks, rjung, I salute you.
You know, I took more time to look at the links in the OP.
One OP was about Macs. Oh, pardon rjung for participating in a Mac thread. :rolleyes:
One was about computers in general. Oh, pardon rjung for participating in a thread about computers by talking about . . . computers. (A Mac is a computer too, people, no matter what some of the PC-geeks say.)
A few were kind of gratuitous. But several were not.
Are you trying to say that anytime that there’s a thread about computers that none of us Mac folk can’t mention our computers?
You know, sometimes someone starts a thread in CafePress about “What’s your favorite band?” I usually pipe up and say “Los Angeles Philharmonic.” Or, “What’s your favorite song?” I’ll answer “Symphony #4 by Sibelius” or, “Something by Handel.” Because while I don’t really listen to bands and a lot of my favorite types of music are not in the form of a song, I do listen to music. And I feel entitled to participate in threads about music just as much as anyone else. And I kind of think that sometimes, at least, this is what rjung is doing with computers.
Not all computers are PCs. When discussing computers on a thread, you might, horror of horrors, encounter a Mac user! That Mac user might mention their Mac. They might mention how Macs work. Deal with it.
Its more a matter of motivation, I think. If it is his impression that a Mac is, by definition, a superior machine, I find that highly debateable and necessarily dependent on certain personal preferences.
If it is, however, based on the certain knowledge that Microsoft is the nexus of all that is evil and corrupt, thats an entirely different kettle of piranha.
[QUOTE=yosemitebabeSo, for your responses to these types of lame PC-geeks, rjung, I salute you.[/QUOTE]
I have no problem with giving hell to PC-geeks but it would be nice if he could stop with the yuk-yuk PC slams.
Jeff, I agree that comments that are soley meant to be a drive-by slam against Mac or PC are tiresome.
Here’s some examples of comments that I pesronally would not fiind inappropriate, even if some PC-geeks might be irritated. Let me know what you think:
OP: “That horrible new virus is going around! Has anyone noticed it? What are you doing about it?” Mac user: "It’s been filling up my mailbox, but since I use a Mac I’m not really worried about it.
OP: “What kind of computer should I get?” Mac user: “Get a Mac! You can use iDVD and Garageband if you get a Mac!”
OP: “What do you think of this [computerese gobbleygook] new development?” Mac user: “Well, on a Mac, it does this.” or, "Well, Macs don’t have that problem because . . . "
Used to be that Microsoft could stay out of Anti-Competitive problems by allowing Apple to exist. Now that this is no longer true, I don’t know why Bill doesn’t crush them like a Saturday night tractor pull. Hell, I’d pony up to catch it on pay-per-view.
There once was a time when Apples had niches where they could out-perform Windows, graphics, desktop publishing, etc. Now all those niches are gone. Every one of them. So now Apple is just a big compatibility wart on the face of computing, existing only because of initeria.
If the question is about running Photoshop on your computer, or which computer runs Photoshop the best, or something like that, then no. It’s on-topic.
But if the comment is just plopped in there out of the blue, then it’s gratuitous.
Bill H: What exactly did your comments have to do, directly, with the complaints in the OP? Other than prove yourself to be one of the aforementioned (and particularly obnoxious in this case) PC-geeks that I was talking about, that is . . .
Must be a slow news day if this OP is what passes for a pitting. Sheesh, where’s the profanity, or the wild-assed hyperbole? At least throw out some stupid “Macs would have more viruses if they had more marketshare” nonsense, willya?
It’s based on 25+ years of computer experience, two degrees in compsci, and enough TLAs in NET and C++ and JSP and PHP and ASP and OOL and GCC and BSD and SQL to choke a MCSE. Microsoft as the nexus of all evil is just a bonus.
I’ll tell you what, if I could choose the parts I want from a list of competitors, put 'em together myself, and play all the latest games on it, I’d build my own Mac tomorrow. I greatly admire its user friendliness, multimedia capabilities, and interesting file management system.
I’m duly impressed with Windows XP, too, but I harbor a deep resentment for Microsoft. Windows XP is the stable, reliable operating system Microsoft promised us in 1995. I’ll not soon forget half a decade of tangling with–and often losing to–W9x.
Yo, Jobs! Fucking port OS X over to the PC, man! What are you waiting for?
I think porting OSX would be a neat parlor trick. Apple makes an OS that runs on their hardware, not one that could run on literally thousands of different configurations with crappy third party hardware. I believe this is why you won’t see a port anytime soon, and if you did, it would be no better then XP.
The “vice versa” saves it from being PC-bashing. He’s saying that asking a user of one platform (Mac or PC) about cross-platform issues is not going to help you. I think that’s probably true a lot of the time. Either they’ll be ignorant and be of no help because of their ignorance, or they’ll have a bias.
Yes, gratuitous.
Somewhat gratuitous. But no, the OP did not (at least not in the first post) ask only about PCs. The OP asked about what we were getting in our mailboxes. I could have just as easily responded to that question with some mention of what was filling my mailbox, but that I was not worried because I had a Mac. The “why don’t you folks stop using Windows?” comment was obviously gratuitous. However, no matter how you slice it, virtually not having to worry about updating virus software or opening attachments is nice. I work on my PC and Mac side-by-side. I notice the difference in how I handle email with my Mac vs. my PC. It’s nicer on the Mac. It’s bound to be. That’s just a fact.
World Eater, Sofa King, I’m not in the know about such things (rjung is ;)), but I don’t think that OS X is going to be seen on PCs. Speaking for myself, I don’t really want it to be on PCs either. I would love to hear rjung’s take on the idea, though.
Well, World Eater, I’m inclined to agree with you, but it would be really really nice if they tried. Both Microsoft and Apple have virtues the other lacks.
That sort of makes neither one an ideal choice for me. And a lot of other people, too, I’ll warrant.
I’ll tell you what, though. Microsoft is swiftly closing the gaps that once lay between their bullshit and Apple. I fear that if they don’t do something soon they’ll continue to fade away, despite their loyal fans.
I’m afraid I don’t see the logic here. Does that mean that if someone creates a thread in CS on “What’s your favorite 18th-Century composer?” that it’s not inappropriate to respond “Britney Spears”? Or a reponse of “I don’t like sci-fi, but The Godfather was a great movie” to the question “What’s the greatest sci-fi epic of all time?” is okay because both the answer and question are related to movies?
Sheesh, where’s the profanity, or the wild-assed hyperbole? At least throw out some stupid “Macs would have more viruses if they had more marketshare” nonsense, willya? 