Naked Mac-bashing
When will the Mac-bashing ever end? Why do my ‘friends’ feel the need to send me random emails telling me I’m a moron for using a Mac? I get my work done on it, and you use a PC. Great. Fuck off.
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because they are insecure with their OS choice… ehheh
that’s what i’m thinking… i got 3-year old arguments and ‘macs suck cock’ as the main thread points.
I can accomplish anything more quickly on a 1GHZ Windows PC than on a G4. I’d bet the same is true for the G5. Running any Mac OS.
The reason is simple. The user interface is slower. Yes, you can turn off all the transitions and you can make folders open up in the same windows. You can do all of that, but noone seems to actually do it.
They talk about the cool colors and the “style” of it all. The actual Mac worker bees themselves don’t seem to care about the extra 10 seconds they waste every time they have to get to a file. Accessing hundreds of files a day, you’re talking minutes, then hours over the course of a month or so. for no other reason than a springy iDock looks cool? and its neat to clamshell a folder open. bah.
Professionals should not be using this OS. Period. It wastes too much time.
seeing as how the work you do can be accomplished on a calculator outfitted with a text editor…
But I only run my own freelance web design and development company. I don’t work for someone else whose company was started with at least 50% of its owners on Macs. I don’t drive an Audi or Land Rover or own a tiny, yappy dog. I’m clearly not a professional, so I’ll keep using MacOS X. I’ll keep writing web-applications (including J2EE, PHP and ColdFusion, ODBC, JDBC, Oracle 9i, PERL, and Python) on it, learning Objective C and Java on it, compiling UNIX apps on it and using the fasttrack network without the added benefit of spyware on it while running Photoshop in the background.
Meanwhile, you can keep hacking CSS (which was first introuduced to you by whom, again..?) in order to teach MSIE how to display boxes with fucking fixed widths properly. I’ll keep using the highest number of standards-compliant browsers available for any platform in the world. If I need to write a document or put together a spreadsheet, I’ll pop open Apple’s native implementation of X11 that’s distributed with the beta version of OSX I’m using and use the open-source, free versions of the office applications supplied by YOUR OS vendor. And I can do all this with the utmost in usable interfaces, whether you think they’re slow or not. Give me real-world file access and application launch numbers on comparable machines and we’ll talk.
And in my spare time, I can IM the current song in iTunes to a friend while its playing, use the world’s first no-setup network protocol to drop files onto my other house-hold Macs and Linux boxes, and wirelessly do so on the first widely-adopted wireless protocol that was first built into Mac products. When I’m done with that, I’ll make sure my bluetooth phone’s address book is synced with my Mac’s address book and go out on the town. If I think an important email has come in, I’ll use the SSH client on my phone to shell into my Mac and use PINE to read the mail in my email client. You know, those are things idiots and children do with their G4s that “can’t open files as fast as a PC can.”
Glad the professionals of the world save hours and HOURS of time each month by using Windows, only to have those same hours sucked away downlaoding patches and service packs from the mothership Microsoft in order to keep attachments from opening themselves and spreading throughout the world like the fucking plague.
If professionals use Windows, call me an amateur. I’ll still be virus-free and productive at the end of the day.
My predisposition for stacking boxes notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is that the biggest limitation of the OS would be the attitude and aptitude of the humans involved. The hours I choose to save by using a calculator with a text editor i spend outside, enjoying nature. Well, not actually, but i could, in theory…
I would not waste time being a whiny zealot in an unimportant war, bitching about how the world is run by assholes and how the people who don’t get it are somehow less competent.
I can design, build, and execute all the solutions i need to make all the money i want. Just like you. I don’t need to use this forum as my personal monster.com. And because i’m not hung up on trying to tie my whole life together using an OS that appeals to the lowest common denominator, i have more time to spend NOT working.
I run my own freelance web development company as well, and if i could design (which I don’t pretend to be able to do), i’m sure i could do it on a PC as well as a Mac… again, probably faster.
That I’ve chosen to engage in this retarded flame war with you will probably be the undoing of my own argument, since I’ve probably wasted all the time I purported to save today typing into your tiny comment box.
Perhaps that’s the difference. I just see computers as a tool to fund my lifestyle, you see them as a lifestyle in and of itself.
aw… let’s kiss and make up. you can even include your yappy dog.
my dog weighs like 70 pounds…
and he mostly just does that weird speaky thing…
unless he’s riding around in my Range Rover…
In which case he’s completely silent, since his whole life is tied together by a single operating system called Nature.
Nature XP, SP4, actually.
that dog does not weigh 70 pounds.
open files on a pc faster?
You are a crack smoker if you think thats true. Drag and drop … one click .. app open… PC’s …. drag, hold, wait for it to unminimize and then drop … etc…
Get over it. Your Windows PC sucks as bad as you secretly know it does.
And the fade in of menus … come on… XP copied it 5 minutes after apple showed it … if thats slowing you down you are pathetic and shouldnt be using a computer.
i’m not saying it slowed me down, i’m saying i turned it off, and eventually went back to Win2K. And for that I am measurably faster. You see, the part where XP copied the Mac OS was a terrible, rterrible thing, and everyone who took a step closer to Mac usability became slower that day. And although mac users could do turn off the transitions, they don’t, because the beveled, drop-shadowed lifestyle choice is more important than navigating to the file quickly.
Actually, i just navigate quickly to any file and double-click. The correct app (which I can specify, by the way) automatically opens with the file already in it.
But of course, you already know that, and were just testing me, right?
bitch.
And my dog does weigh 70 pounds now. You see, they grow when you have a job and can afford to feed them.
slut.
nah nee nah nee pooh pooh.
i think that’s how you spell it, anyway…
kevin, you have kids… spellcheck?
>Nature XP, SP4, actually.
… right …. and we live through our Macs?
hey, you two keep it down back there or i’ll turn this whole damn thing around.
sorry, my <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags got filtered out…
clues, $1… anyone?
I like this Naked guy.
Fight the power!
I know, I still read this site all the time… just to pick on Mac users. I’m pathetic.
no argument here