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Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
The Guardian ^ | 9/28/09 | Charlie Brooker

Posted on 09/28/2009 4:49:55 AM PDT by LibWhacker

Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever.

I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.

Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I'm not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you've got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There's a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; brotherhood; ilovebillgates; iwanthim; iwanthimbad; mac; microsoft; microsoftfanboys; robots; toxicthread
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To: dorothy
Yep. I watched the video. Guess Microsoft’s just working on its new slogan — “Windows 7, the new Tupperware.”

I saw a study recently, that over 60% of TV commercials have an African American in them. Funny that with what 14% of the population and of that 50% below the poverty line you need to ram that demographic down our throats? I don’t mind the people of any color, its the left wing media trying to install some permanent Black Socialist Hegemony at the top of our political and economic structure. Sorry but when 90%+ of the black community supports an avowed socialist I can’t help thinking, as a culture they all think that way. Reminds me of the Nazi posters with all those blonde haired square jawed men. Pandering a trendy racial stereotype for some ulterior motive.

41 posted on 09/28/2009 6:20:46 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: garyhope

Great microcosm of this whole argument.

As a ‘pc’, you (or others):
1. want to build/change computers
2. run software on windows
3. game

then, go on to tell mac folks to not ‘feel compelled to tell me about it or tell me it’s better for me’.

It is ok if you want to use a pc. really. you don’t have to justify it. and I won’t justify my more expensive mac purchases. nor start threads just to go ‘neener neener neener’. really...it is ok...


42 posted on 09/28/2009 6:25:34 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: usmcobra

And linux is that Cobra kit car you have in the garage, which you’re forever tinkering with, upgrading, and trying to get the fuse block wired right on, but which absolutely smokes the chevy or the corolla.


43 posted on 09/28/2009 6:26:43 AM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

44 posted on 09/28/2009 6:29:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: usmcobra

Oh, and I’d put the Mac more into the Prius category, because it is a car you turn on, not start, and has a lot of whizbang gadgets, many of which are just eye candy. The technology is cool, but it isn’t really much better than any other vehicle at being transportation.


45 posted on 09/28/2009 6:29:34 AM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

46 posted on 09/28/2009 6:30:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

47 posted on 09/28/2009 6:32:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

48 posted on 09/28/2009 6:34:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

49 posted on 09/28/2009 6:34:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: MortMan

MAC genius says, “If it breaks, ghost it.”


50 posted on 09/28/2009 6:34:49 AM PDT by sbMKE
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To: BikerJoe

FWIW, my son said he wants windows for WoW. He hates playing it on the Mac.

He’s saving up for it and I’m matching him dollar for dollar.


51 posted on 09/28/2009 6:35:54 AM PDT by stentorian conservative (Obama is sinking the boat that was built to stay afloat.)
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To: stentorian conservative
Vista, not imonks or isnobbery, is why I bought a Mac.

I have had no problems with my Vista machine. I am, however, looking forward to Windows 7.

52 posted on 09/28/2009 6:36:43 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Lazamataz

What guy?

(PS: Now that you mention it, it could be a racism test, too.)


53 posted on 09/28/2009 6:40:40 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: IYAS9YAS

“I have had no problems with my Vista machine.”

I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate for 2 years now. It runs perfect. It took me about a week to beat it into working the way I wanted it to but I like a lot of customized options. Little stuff that I liked on XP. But once I got it there it has been rock solid. I reboot like once a month. When I do from power on to desktop is 31 seconds. I install and uninstall tons of games. I install test and remove lots of software (I used my computer as a first level sandbox for new software at work).

As always YMMV but I have Windows Vista running on my home PC’s and two laptops and have been very happy with it.


54 posted on 09/28/2009 6:50:23 AM PDT by Syntyr (If its too loud your too old...)
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To: PreciousLiberty
I have to agree with this. I have been a PC/Windows user for most of my life. I built a consulting business from the time I was 13 repairing PCs, and installing (mostly) Windows-based networks.

I was always drawn to Unix/Linux, and usually had a copy running in some form or another, but never could switch full-time, mostly due to the "oh but so and so won't run on it" excuse. Of course, I wouldn't even consider Macs and the pile of excrement that was OS 9, which lets face it, by any technical standards was a terribly dated OS towards the end.

Last year, in my first semester of graduate school (I am working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science), I decided that enough was enough, and I was done with Windows. I needed a new computer, and had been playing with a few Mac OS X machines at college. I took the plunge and bought a used Mac.

Now, I can't see myself going back. The quality of the OS is superb, it has a standard UNIX system under the hood (Mach kernel), a standard UNIX (FreeBSD) userspace, X11 support, and it runs all the programs I need. If I find something that needs Windows, I fire up a VM. If it's something that needs UNIX, chances are I can recompile it and it will work fine. Also, in my office, I have a departmental Linux machine. Almost everything I do here can come home with me in some way.

Also, did I mention that I happen to be a conservative? :-P

55 posted on 09/28/2009 6:53:22 AM PDT by billakay
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To: PreciousLiberty
OK, fine.
“Get yourself a real computer, kid!”
There, happy now? Go away. :^)


Boy, you iSnobs are really getting touchy.
56 posted on 09/28/2009 7:01:06 AM PDT by mkjessup (Coming SOON for you iSnobs, it's the latest Apple software, the "iSneer", get it today!)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Looking through the comments I just found this image.
57 posted on 09/28/2009 7:01:57 AM PDT by Syntyr (If its too loud your too old...)
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To: mkjessup
Looks like Apple's been pissing all over themselves for more than 3 years now.

Wow, you still don't get it, do you? The computer that can do "all the above" is the better computer. Apple can even do Windows whereas Windows even has trouble doing Windows.
58 posted on 09/28/2009 7:02:00 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: gop4lyf

Games? Isn’t that what consoles are for? I have not played a game on a PC since the Mechwarrior series in the 90’s.

Now, here is what we did with our Mac centric home set-up, all without breaking a sweat...

We had the Church’s Youth Group end of year and start of year parties at our house. Each party went on for hours. Parents and kids came and went, most with some sort of digital camera. Prior to each person leaving, we hooked up their camera to our Mac Mini in the office and downloaded the pictures into iPhoto. No drivers, no software required. It just works. After each download, iTunes would then sync the new photos from the Mac Mini (via our Time Capsule) to our AppleTV, which displayed the photos in a random order on our Plasma TV in the great room for the parents to see what they have missed.

During that time, I had a “Youth Group Pool Party Mix” playing via AirTunes from the Mac Mini wirelessly to the pool stereo via an Airport Express.

After the party, we pushed the photos to our MobileMe account and e-maild to all youth group parents the link to see and download the photos.

It. Just. Works. I would hate to try this on a Windows eco-system...


59 posted on 09/28/2009 7:04:14 AM PDT by ace2u_in_MD (You missed something...)
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To: aruanan
No, it is YOU who manifested yourself as did Pogo, i.e. "you has met the enemy and he is you", you were chortling about Windows 'smelling like urine in a subway' and now you're all flustered because Apple itself introduced software to allow it's machines to run Windows after they began using (ahem) Intel processors.

Give your head a shake, caress your iMouse while murmuring soft iNothings into your iMicrophone, professing your eternal love for all things Apple.

And lighten up Francis.
60 posted on 09/28/2009 7:13:17 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is doing to the economy what Roman Polanski did to his victim. And without lube.)
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