Posted on 11/01/2010 5:28:00 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I gave my extended family an ultimatum — get a Mac or I drop support. They did and now my phone never rings.
Article happily read on my Linux laptop:)
Essentially--"No more support, no matter what!"
lol!
I gave a few copies of System Mechanic as Christmas presents a couple years ago to relatives, a lot of calls stopped.
Fuel burn rate and trajectory calculations - easy.
Decoding H.262 video at 30 frames per second - hard
What a steaming pile. The average person doesn't know his system is faulty. They don't know how use basic, basic html, or even understand the difference between the BIOS on the computer, windows and a program. This "borg" thinks that everyone should be as geeky as him and actually writes this piece insulting over 90% of computer users. Why? My guess is he has a huge ego.
Testing whether a ship can withstand the space environment—harder than decoding video.
We bout a Toshiba notebook and connected it to the TV but then when it was first turned on in the morning it would soon crash to the blue screen of death but then after that run good for the rest of the day. My wife said to send it in to be fixed but for a few months I was sure I could eventually fix it.
After downloading drivers and patches and surfing the internet, I started messing with startup and configure files and my wife said: you don't have a single clue what you are doing. And I said this is true but as long as you keep a backup then it will be okay.
Finally on Saturday the notebook would not start at all. So I switched it with my wife's computer. That fixed it.
Exactly.
This "borg" thinks that everyone should be as geeky as him and actually writes this piece insulting over 90% of computer users. Why?
Because, like me, he thinks computers are a complex tool that should require training to use. It's like giving a novice a TIG welder and some metal, then buying the first car he produces.
Computers are not toys, as much as most people want to see them that way.
So in other words, why do people use computers?
And please save the “if they had a Mac or a Linux PC, there wouldn’t be any issues”. That just shows the person saying it knows less about computers than the people who keep screwing up their own machines.
Well--not really. You just moved the problem away from your daily experience.
Mainly they use computers because they see them as appliances or as a game machine. It is neither.
As for myself, I would never own anything from Apple, as I started out on the old 8088 machines with DOS.
I have been hosting a visitor for the last two days.
He came with his apple laptop. While I got him connected to
the network, many things that he wanted to do would not work, such as Yahoo.
He gave up and went back to my Windows XP computer.
I know nothing about Apple, but he claims that .exe files do not work on his Apple, and thinks that is why he can not use Yahoo... I do not have a clue.
I am sure the Apple lovers are of a select esoteric group.
Piss on them. I go with what works for me and universally
the world standard.
What's a "surfing pron"?
It is scary what fundamental things people simply don’t understand. However it helps technical types like me make a few bucks when the magic box has a (usually) simple problem.
The people who designed the computers/software for Apollo had it easy. They had a well-defined set of peripheral hardware to deal with, a very limited set of tasks to perform, and plenty of money to pay for exhaustive testing.
The designers of modern operating systems don’t have these advantages.
In this case, "surfing" is a verb, not an adjective. "Pron" is a common misspelling of "porn."
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