THE TELLING!

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That's kind of funny. All these kids in my school who don't know crap about PCs or Macs, their only response is

"I love macs. They never get viruses"
 
It is a nice little myth that has been going donkey's years.  Macs have their purpose and they have their advantages, but when it comes to games and all the attention they get from developers, professional or otherwise, I am glad I have windows, despite its faults.

Fanboys are a plague.
 
Necroposting is fine in unrelated. Only unrelated.
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I disagree with this - at least if we're talking about 'forum etiquette' rather than 'the rules of Qhimm.com'. I'd rather see necroposting than duplicate threads. And as this is a technical forum, where research can take several years, and vital data can be *so* easily lost, bringing data together into easily-found, consistently titled threads is absolutely *vital*.

It is a nice little myth that has been going donkey's years.  Macs have their purpose and they have their advantages, but when it comes to games and all the attention they get from developers, professional or otherwise, I am glad I have windows, despite its faults.
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Oh, but hadn't you heard? Unix machines are magically immune to malware. No unix server has ever gone down (apart from when they, uh, have), user permissions can't be escalated by glitches, and things like buffer overflows and format string attacks magically resolve themselves when your OS treats everything as a file.

IT JUST WERKS!
 
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Macs have their purpose and they have their advantages
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Indeed! They're a great way to pick up engineers!
 
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ohiseewatudidthere

But, no. That said, he was a narcissistic, preening tosser.
 
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I'm becoming increasingly convinced my boss models himself on Steve Jobs. He's a massive Apple fan, a horrific micro-manager and wears these godawful black turtlenecks.

Now, I admit, I've been regularly convincing him to implement vendor lock-in and restrictions on functionality all under the aegis of 'usability', which makes me something of a hypocrite. Then again, our customer is a c***, and has had it coming for a long time.
 
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I have something to confess...I am Steve jobs...I politely ask you to leave my iphone alone :P
 
I have something to confess...I am Steve jobs...I politely ask you to leave my iphone alone :P
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Orly? I think Steve Jobs is quite a bit balder than you.
 
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Easy I am Apple clone number 023-657 breed specifically for defending the iphone. My OS is sand-kitten.

...Anyway I only posted cause this thred had entirely to much male grunting :P

But, no. That said, he was a narcissistic, preening tosser.
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I once slept with an Apple user.

That didn't last long.
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Did he suffer from premature ejaculation?
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So I thought you guys put on your big boy undies and get over your hate for apple.

Not likely though :/
 
I use an iPhone 3G. I'm no Apple hater.

In the world of computing, the only company really worth hating is Adobe.
 
My distaste for Apple isn't so much for the products, it's more for the idiots that use them because they're shiny, I think I posted about it here before but I told a guy that only used Apple stuff because it's what all the cool kids do, to kill himself because he didn't know the first thing about well, pretty much anything really.


I know a few guys that prefer OSX since that what they used in school or for video editing but I know far more who can't actually explain why.
 
My distaste for Apple isn't so much for the products, it's more for the idiots that use them because they're shiny, I think I posted about it here before but I told a guy that only used Apple stuff because it's what all the cool kids do, to kill himself because he didn't know the first thing about well, pretty much anything really.
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That, and the company's business practices/advertising are the reason for 90% of Apple hate. Mind you, the products are becoming more rageworthy over time, too.

In the world of computing, the only company really worth hating is Adobe.
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Do you mind saying why? If it's the pricing, you have no reason to single them out. For the price of certain other pieces of professional-grade software, such as Maya, Avid and Wolfram Mathematica, you cam buy the whole CS5 Master Collection.

If it's Flash, then you have a partial argument. However, rather than hating Adobe, your energy would be better spent telling the FOSStards at Firefox, Chrome and Opera to allow users to use their h.264 codecs; at the moment, there's no viable alternative to Flash.

The only really rageworthy thing they do is try to sneak a trial copy of McAfee in with their downloads. Cunts.

EDIT: wow, the forum censors mild swear words but doesn't censor that?
 
I don't hate Apple products. I think these are great. BTW, do you know why this is not an entire apple? The creator was gay and, because he had enough, he suicided by eating an apple with poison in it. This is how it came.
 
The creator was gay and, because he had enough, he suicided by eating an apple with poison in it. This is how it came.
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That... that doesn't even make sense.

Anyway, my attitude to Apple, the iMaxiPad, Facebook and the like is spurred by two things:

1. Their fans are smug gits, myopic enough to believe non-users couldn't possibly have legitimate reasons for choosing alternatives / electing not to participate
2. Fear of a 'walled garden' internet, where what are basic tasks in the modern world (sharing information over the net) are subject to an Apple tax. Where a single company determines the data we can and cannot access. Where political pressure groups and interested parties might, through influencing / threatening this single company, seal off portions of the internet as they so choose. A world where goal-focused apps, that simply parse our end desires, rob us of the ability to research, explore, and play in the internet. A world where AOL was never slain, where open source users are f*cked, and where providers have leverage on any data we own.

Point 1 is still important, though.
 
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