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To: Don W; dayglored; max americana

I do live under a rock (and I kinda like it), and am currently unemployed, and this is only the second time I have found a thread on FR about it.

I have been building/using/programming computers of all kinds since I was a child. I worked for large companies and government agencies, and we had mainframes, minicomputers, IBM/clone PC’s and MACs.

One of the things I found out was that people defend vigorously, and often blindly, the thing with which they are MOST FAMILIAR. The younger they were, the more they claimed to know.

Whether it be hardware, or software, or even how they manually do their job, most of them become locked into the idea that they ‘know it all’.

I’ve had people tell me that a well known graphics software was the best. It was the software, of course, they were using to do their job. I asked one of these people what other product had he used. The answer was ‘none’.

So.... a real computer genius knows this.

If you haven’t used both a MAC and PC you should. Both have their advantages. There is a reason there isn’t just one model of car on the road. The competitiveness between the two, is a good thing. Some people choose a PC or MAC based on a truly educated plan, and others do so because their friend has one.

A REAL computer genius, would have, and use, both.


52 posted on 05/27/2011 9:06:17 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2
Sounds like we have similar though not identical backgrounds. These days I use Windows, Mac, Linux, NetBSD every day, all day, both at home and at work. And a number of small proprietary and/or embedded systems from time to time.... and have been doing it since my Fortran days in the early 70's...

See my FR profile:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~dayglored#Computer

79 posted on 05/27/2011 12:53:23 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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