[Tfug] Smoke detectors

[Ben Slote]

I like trains.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Stott, Will <will.stott at ventana.roche.com>wrote:

> I would be bored too. One bad experience that was most likely user error
> does not justify every apple as a lemon. My exposure to macs, and the praise
> I give to others about them, would say just the opposite. I believe any
> linux distro would love to have company commercialize their product and pull
> as much marketshare as apple has taken from microsoft. Of course, apple
> should not take all the credit; vista is apple's mvp...
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> Besides, freebsd is where all the cool people live!
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> Will
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> Sent: Fri Dec 05 19:35:26 2008
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Smoke detectors
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> I'm a little bored. This isn't a perfect response to your post, but here:
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> I'm by no means an expert, or even a techie, but your critique seems
> unnecessarily and overly harsh.
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> > putting pressure on Apple to open OS X up to non-Apple
> > hardware
> I don't have hardware issues, after HP: net, scanner, printer, router, all
> work fine (and have for years). I thinks as long as one picks the right
> hardware... etc.
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> Anyway, so I bought this MacBook, because some software existed only for
> MAC/PC (as ususal), and I was feeling pretty riche.  I thought I would find
> it more appealing than another Windows Xperience; and what happens: after a
> year, the MacBook breaks down, after paying $80 to have it diagnosed, I end
> up spending another 50% of the total value of the machine to get it
> repaired.  Isn't that like buying a $100,000 BMW and then having to shell
> out another $50K to get it fixed? I was pretty disappointed.
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> Totally unfair:the hypocrisy of making a TV commercial attacking Windows
> for baiting customers into situations that will add extra costs and
> commitments.
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> So, they're both the same as far as I'm concerned.  The fact that Mac had
> enough brains to steal Unix parts speaks highly enough of Unix, though.
> Doesn't it?  It's too bad they have to obfuscate everything with proprietary
> jigzaw pieces, and the herd just falls in line because they both have a
> aggressive marketing plans brainwashing consumers.  Maybe Linux would be
> better off if they started their own marketing department. But that would
> just ruin everything.  I like the privacy of a somewhat esoteric operating
> system, and hey it's OPEN!
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> > It should be pretty obvious by now that Linux on the desktop is dead.
> > It's had 10+ years now to take root, grow, stabilize, and be truly
> > competitive...and it simply hasn't.
> Apple has been around for 20+ years. 10 years ago, Mac didn't look so hot
> either. What did?
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> > Linux's "world domination" marketshare
> (???)
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> But who wants world domination, anyway? World Domination is'nt the point; I
> think the point is an operating system.
> > *buying*
> Besides, pretty soon, Linux is all most anyone will be able to afford. Or
> should "pay" for, since most everything else isn't worth the hundreds and
> hundreds of dollars they'll have to spend, and chains of Service Packs, or
> Upgrades, to keep it working.  So, I hope and pray to the forces of creation
> that Linux never goes away... it's been such a wonderful experience, thus
> far.
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