More Flame Bait — (Why Mac)

Charlie's Diary ^ | 01/17/2010 | Charles Stross

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

im no pc wizrd - but managed to set up my wifes macbook and my imac no problems...even set up my printer wirelessly to share...was actually pretty intuitive

With Macintosh -- "it just works"... and that's the way it is...

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

And don't say "a**hole" when you mean "pedant".

Well, I'm saving them from the pedant a**holes from the Windows world who will come around and berate them for not knowing that... LOL...

[Star Traveler]

I actually worked on one of these “kinds” of computers in school back in 1967, a machine that the school got for an experimental class and it cost them around $50,000 at the time.

It was bigger than that, and had only red lights to show the register contents (no CRT and no printer and no hard drive). We saved our programs on punched-paper tape. The “language” to program it was BASE 2 and you made it up “on the fly” as you went. We had to program it to multiply and divide (didn’t have that instruction set in the CPU back then... LOL...). That was one of the first assignments for the class... :-)

[vox_freedom]

From article:
All too often, PC vendors market their products by over-emphasizing the technology that goes into them, rather than by making the damn things useful. And then they look down their nose at anyone who complains that this stuff is hard.

That!!!

[Revelation 911]

i hooked it up and when i was done scratchin my hump on the post it beeped and commenced to printin

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

[tacticalogic]

Well, I'm saving them from the pedant a**holes from the Windows world who will come around and berate them for not knowing that... LOL...

Ah. A messiah complex.

[PA Engineer]

Good points. I got one of the first Airs when they came out. I never heard the term “war-driving”. The Air is a great device for that (and the iPhone). I don’t know how many here have an Air, but I found I will never own any other model again. The solid state Air was pure genius and a blessing while traveling.

[grwcfl537]

My wife's MacBook Pro works exceedingly well in my otherwise Linux network. Finds her local printer as well as the networked duplex. CLI works for the right purposes, there are things that GUIs don't do well.

Mel

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Ah. A messiah complex.

No, actually I'm just familiar with the a**hole complex that many Windows users have... LOL...

[tacticalogic]

No, actually I'm just familiar with the a**hole complex that many Windows users have... LOL...

Of course. Anytime you set out to fix everyone else, you start from the premise that everybody is screwed up except you.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Of course. Anytime you set out to fix everyone else, you start from the premise that everybody is screwed up except you.

The Windows a**holes don't even let anyone get to that point before they start showing their true colors... With them, all you have to get to is the "Mac" part on the word "Macintosh"... LOL...

[tacticalogic]

The Windows a**holes don't even let anyone get to that point before they start showing their true colors... With them, all you have to get to is the "Mac" part on the word "Macintosh"... LOL...

They have to be a**holes. You can't save the world if they don't need saving.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

They have to be a**holes.

I'd say they chose to be and they obviously enjoy the "behind-position", that they've chosen...

[tacticalogic]

I'd say they chose to be and they obviously enjoy the "behind-position", that they've chosen...

Of course. You can't save the world if they don't need saving.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Of course. You can't save the world if they don't need saving.

If they wouldn't come on these "Mac threads" and say, "Help me, I'm a stupid a**shole and I need saving from my idiotic Windows operating system..." -- I would probably ignore them... LOL...

What the heck! You'll find with Macintosh users and other users of Apple products, that they have enough fun on their own, without saving any idiotic Windows users... :-)

[tacticalogic]

If they wouldn't come on these "Mac threads" and say, "Help me, I'm a stupid a**shole and I need saving from my idiotic Windows operating system..." -- I would probably ignore them... LOL...

Oddly, a test search returns no matches on that string, other than yours.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Oddly, a test search returns no matches on that string, other than yours.

It's more like, "You need to get rid of your idiotic operating system get with a 'real one' like we have..." LOL...

And what Macintosh users hear them saying is, "Kick me; I'm a stupid Windows a**hole!".... :-)

[tacticalogic]

And what Macintosh users hear them saying is, "Kick me; I'm a stupid Windows a**hole!".... :-)

There does seem to be a substantial discrepancy between what is said and what is heard.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

There does seem to be a substantial discrepancy between what is said and what is heard.

It's the Windows a**hole savior complex that you were really trying to describe back then, except it's those "Kick me! It feels so good" people who are saving the world by coming into the Macintosh threads to "save them" doncha know... LOL...