Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users

Slashdot ^ | 4/24/11 | Soulskill

[Clint Williams]

adeelarshad82 writes

"A recent survey conducted on 400,000 people — in which 52% of respondents were self-described PC (Windows) people, 25% were Mac users and 23% were neither — showed that Mac users are more politically liberal than their PC-using counterparts. 58% of Mac users were 'liberal,' as compared to 38% of PC users. Amongst other things, the survey also indicated that Mac users were, on average, more urban, younger and more educated than PC users, which could potentially be a contributing factor toward being more liberal."

[antiRepublicrat]

For application automation, Apple’s Automator is quite awesome, and amazingly easy, no code knowledge necessary. You just build what you want done with the UI. If you need to go a bit more in depth there’s AppleScript, which is like VBScript. If you need more hard-core, you can drop down to the UNIX shell scripting.

For system automation, Windows Powershell is quite good, and I would suggest Windows administrators learn it and replace any VB out there. But Powershell is basically a version of what’s been around for years in UNIX shell scripting, although with some interesting and useful tweaks of its own.

[Rashputin]

Hate threads? Dang, boy, I don't give a whit one way or the other. I worked for a company that owned several Apple stores way back when the Lisa and Mac were rolled out. I don't hate Apple, in fact, I think they're a case study in a company successfully giving up on computers and becoming a consumer electronics company. Hate? Where do you get that from? There's only one reason people who see their favorite little goodie discussed instantly think it's a hate thread.

[AFreeBird]

Your cat FReepMailed me; he’s STILL waiting for you to clean the box.

I suggest hopping to it before you find a mess on your keyboard.

[Rashputin]

Oh geez. Jobs said they took it from Xerox and it was only when they were suing MS that the licenses from Xerox got straightened out. Do forgive me for believing a thing Jobs ever said. I could care less about a battle that took place years ago and that is now so twisted up in legends and BS that it's a joke. I know what I know from living through it not from second hand crap. Since you know better than I, fine, Apple is the company that has brought us flowers, sunshine, and unicorns ever since Jobs and Woz were hustling them at regional get togethers. Feel better?

Man, any way you cut it they saw a good thing and ran with it. Begged, bought, or stolen doesn't make a bit of difference, especially if you read the whole history of the company and the number of times it was nearly bankrupt due to silly crap they did to themselves.

have a nice day

[brytlea]

Apparently you never read the threads....

[TheBattman]

There you go - proof positive that Mac users are libera.....errr... oh... nevermind.

[antiRepublicrat]

LOL. The secret of their success is that they visited Xerox.

Apple started the Lisa project in 1978 going in this user-friendly direction. After the paid visit of Apple engineers to Xerox for some more inspiration, Apple produced something that did much more on less expensive hardware (Lisa was $10,000, Xerox system was $17,000). Apple then managed to squeeze the GUI down into the $2,500 Macintosh at a time when the DOS-based IBM PC/AT, with a slower CPU but with other specs a bit better, cost $4,000.

A bit later, Microsoft tried to copy Apple and produced a far inferior product on equivalent hardware. That's the difference between mere attempts to copy and getting inspiration for further innovation.

[antiRepublicrat]

that the licenses from Xerox got straightened out

There was no license from Xerox. Xerox's suit was dismissed. You don't need legends since court records still exist.