Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? 987
arminw writes "Maybe not smarter, but according to MacNewsWorld they are better at expressing themselves than the average Slashdotter and certainly are better at handling the king's English than the average PC operator." Also, michael is better than CowboyNeal. Mathematical expressions of written style don't lie!
Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
No! (Score:5, Funny)
Sincrly,
PC User
Re:Pudge... (Score:3, Funny)
No (Score:5, Funny)
-Peter
Mac users smarter and more articulate? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh yeah (Score:5, Funny)
I had to buy a BMW because Apple doesn't make speakers yet for my iPod.
PC users. What a bunch of dumbasses.
Proof (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
Oh really? (Score:2, Funny)
- sm
As a Mac user and Apple employee (Score:5, Funny)
LOL U SUK LINUX GRAMMOR N00B.
Sincerely,
- Twid
Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? (Score:0, Funny)
Confirmation (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, y'all get 90-95% of them. But you know what they say about 90-95% of anything, right?
Better question... (Score:5, Funny)
Thatsa lotta words. (Score:2, Funny)
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
The funniest part (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac users smarter and more articulate? (Score:5, Funny)
Better talking does not equate smarter! I'm deeply injured by that insidiation. On behalve of every one like me, I would like to make known: Plees have regard for speeking-impared peoples. And also riting-impared. This is an outage!
How to get the Mac experience without buying a Mac (Score:1, Funny)
- Buy a really nice PC.
- Install the Linux distro of your choice.
- Install VMWare
- Run Windows XP inside VMWare
Tada! Nice GUI on a strong Linux base. If won't run all of your games, and it may be a bit slow, but we are trying to make it Mac-like.Re:Those who are truly intellegent... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, you can't spell. Unless you were talking to a fish.
What do you expect? (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:5, Funny)
I doubt it. (Score:3, Funny)
On MacNewsWorld's part, I suspect... I suspect... Damn. What's that thing they call it when you hire your own family to work for you?
Neopolitanism. That's it. I suspect *that*.
Re:Oh yeah (Score:3, Funny)
Zork
Breakout
Super Breakout
ummm.....
*Photoshop?*
(My apologies to Gus).
The Snowsports Analogy (Score:5, Funny)
Windows users are alpine skiers. They're the most common, they're generally well-behaved and not big risk-takers, and they're looked down on by the other groups. They also tend to crash a lot. Grandma is an alpine skier.
Linux users are snowboarders. They tend to be younger, out-of-control, risk-takers, they don't really crash as much, and they annoy the skiers (for no good reason, they're just annoying). Teenage boys with eyebrow piercings are snowboarders.
Mac users are telemark skiers. They aren't as adventurous as the snowboarders, and they have more in common with the skiers, but they also have this smooth, sophisticated sheen of coolness about them that neither of the other two groups have. Barbara Streisand is probably a telemarker.
Tele skiers get invited to the highest-class parties; snowboarders throw the best parties; alpine skiers have to get the kids in bed because there's school tomorrow. :)
Smarter? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That makes sense to me. (Score:2, Funny)
better style can result in better communication
... and a better chance of getting a date.
CrayNewsWorld sez they're smartest (Score:2, Funny)
It did however note that Mac users were the hands down winners in the arena of trendy fashion, and then showed a picture of a guy with spikey hair and wearing cool yellow tinted glasses (even though he had 20/20 vision)
Obviously.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Michael smart? (Score:5, Funny)
That was the first thing I thought of too. And not just the h4x0r-speak, but most posts are fired off pretty quickly and carlessly, and often with a focus on being funny or interesting, and not on making sense. I wonder how "In Soviet Russia, our new overlord Beowolf clusters don't have an imagination to imagine you, you insensitive clod!" (or other nonsense) would rate on one of these systems. It doesn't check for content, right?
Anyway, the funniest thing about this article has to be this guy's picture. I keep thinking he looks like my grandfather, stoned, being distracted by 'pretty lights'.
Re:I say no (Score:3, Funny)
He faints dead away, knowing that his expansive vocabulary, and advanced writing skills were useless...
Re:Please, kill the author... thank you. (Score:5, Funny)
It's in the "It's Funny. Laugh." section - this is supposed to provoke a flamewar just for the sheer hell of it. As a Mac, PC, Solaris and Linux user, I intend to sit back, have a chuckle, and toast the marshmellows using the searing heat radiating from my browser window...
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
In the works of Steve Wozniak, a predominant concept is the distinction between figure and ground. Woz suggests the use of the neostructural paradigm of narrative to read and analyse class. But if the Macintosh camp holds, we have to choose between the Jobist image and capitalist subconceptual theory.
"Reality is part of the dialectic of language," says Jordan Hubbard. Hubbard implies that the works of Jobism are empowering. Thus, an abundance of theories concerning cultural deconstructivism may be discovered.
In the works of Steve Jobs, a predominant concept is the concept of patriarchialist culture. Hubbard uses the term 'Jobist image' to denote a posttextual paradox. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a capitalist discourse that includes sexuality as a totality.
The main theme of the works of the Jobist is the role of the observer as participant. In The Cry of Jobs, Hubbard examines the macintosh camp. The meaninglessness, and subsequent paradigm, of cultural deconstructivism depicted in Jobs' "Art in Technology" is also evident in The Moor's Last Sigh, although in a more mythopoetical sense. However, Wozniak suggests the use of the Jobist image to read class.
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No they just make more money (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
(Written on a 2x2.0 G5. But you knew that already, I'm sure.)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:2, Funny)
Grade level of Slashdot posts (Score:4, Funny)
We're going to be revamping the moderation system [slashdot.org] in the months to come, and we should totally provide a bonus for people who manage to write at higher than a fifth grade level. Well, that'd probably be way too easy to game, but still, it'd be interesting to see if that would improve the quality of discussion...
As we say at the mac user's forum . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Having both. (Score:4, Funny)
Are Mac Users Trolling PC Users? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:3, Funny)
Not to mention the way these places keep crapflooding the industry by advertising on radio and TV that computer people are in demand and highly paid: Come to DeVry and within a year you'll begin your new career as a highly paid Information Technology Specialist! [cut to footage of guy wearing suit & tie standing over a computer while holding a multimeter]
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:1, Funny)
Floccinaucinihilipilifist.
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
sovereignty and linguistic minutiae (Score:3, Funny)
king's English
This may be picking nits and I'm sure some English major will correct me but shouldn't it be Queen's English? There hasn't been a king in England for quite some time.
(BTW, if I'm right then must be a mac user cause I have a 17" iMac. If I'm wrong then I'm a PC user because I have a Dell as well. If I get flamed for either I do have a linux box or two under the desk.)
Re:Macs are chick magnets (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
> Sesequepedalianism? That's not even in most dictionaries!
Even more disturbing, check out the first google result! [google.com]
Re:Better question... (Score:5, Funny)
Not smarter, but crack users sure do talk faster.
Re:Flamebait (Score:1, Funny)
Hahahahahha [redvsblue.com]
Re:Proof (Score:1, Funny)
Heh heh heh [time.com]
Re:Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
Someone was doing their homework!"
Obviously not, because you don't need the -print. Mac users eh...
Re:Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
I get SPAM e-mails with all those words in them. I just thought they were putting random words in the message, I didn't realize that it's Mac users who are peddling Viagra.
Think Different... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Macs are chick magnets (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure that needs any kind of qualification, or even comment.
Re:It's economics really... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
PC user.
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:1, Funny)
Not Viagra, Orexis [gallview.com]! Can't you read?
PC Users are smarter, I'll tell you why... (Score:3, Funny)
My experiences:
I spent a little time on a PowerBook G4 and Apple has written the OS to do everything for me (or the user).
I own a Dell i8600 with Windows XP and I enjoy it. I don't have any problems because I reserve a small portion of my time to maintain the PC. I clean up empty subdirectories, clean up errant files, update virus protection, clean ad-ware, et al. Some guys work on their cars, some guys build ships in bottles, some guys build ships, I keep a highly stable and secure Windows installation. At school, if anyone has computer problems like they can't print, or won't boot, they ask to use my computer because they know it's stable and won't let them down because it never lets me down.
My conclusion:
Apple removes all challenge and problem solving from computing. I didn't get a chance to, but I hear to install a program in OS X, you drag and drop the CD-ROM onto the Finder? I know if I had a Mac fulltime, that I'd feel like I was in the rubber-room of computing. An Apple would literally make me feel stupid because it wouldn't challenge me.
On my Dell, it runs fine. No BSOD, only crashes I see are third-party applications I chose to put on there (and are usually removed). I feel I'm very good at problem solving (almost finished my second engineering degree) and I like the challenge Windows sometimes gives to me. When I do solve the challenge, whatever it is, I feel smart because I solved a real world problem others probably have.
My conclusion:
If I owned a Mac, I'd feel like OS X thought I was some menacing child that needs protection from myself. I own a PC and the occaisional problems I face challenge me and entice me to fix. The solutions to those problems reward me for fixing something myself and when the solutions are shared to others with the same problem, it enhances my social situation with friends. My PC reinforces my confidence in myself in not only computing, but maybe mechanical tasks like fixing something complex on a car, or something else.
One distinction between Mac and PC users (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It must be true. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Flamebait (Score:2, Funny)
We're all proud of you.
Macs, PCs? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:3, Funny)
Look at the source articles and you get very different results because, of course, most are professionally written or edited -- although there is an interesting oddity in that ratings for files made up by pasting together stories posted by "Michael" are consistently at least one school year higher than comparable accumulations made from postings (other than press releases) by "Cowboyneal."
Re:It must be true. (Score:2, Funny)
Y'arr. The world, she be circular after all!
Re:Maybe it's not that simple (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait, if I recall back a few years ago they did put out a line of home user based computers that did come in various colors. That must be what you are refering to.
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Flamebait (Score:3, Funny)
How does this fit your money/intelligence theory?