Return of the Mac 1499
Ben Gutierrez writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on the Return of the Mac which begins with: 'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.' Tim O'Reilly said some similar things in Watching Alpha Geeks . From the article: "My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get."
Captain Obvious Strikes Again (Score:4, Funny)
Funny... (Score:4, Funny)
Of course. (Score:5, Funny)
All the hackers egh ? (Score:2, Funny)
well that accounts for 0.0000001% of the worlds population, whooo revolution, in your face Amiga !!!
Let the flame war commence! (Score:5, Funny)
Foaming-at-the-mouth Linux zealots in another.
This could get ugly, folks. I'm sure the *BSD crowd would chime in too, except that a judge recently orderd the feeding tube to be removed.
Expose (Score:4, Funny)
No need to buy a mac (Score:1, Funny)
Oh that's why "all the best hackers" are buying Macs. They've finally resigned themselves to never having a girlfriend.
Boring article really...
Oblig... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:unix laptop = key (Score:0, Funny)
From me, while you're at work...
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:4, Funny)
Marketing people love you! (Score:5, Funny)
This is an example of Principle of Similarity and Principle of Social Proof including "The Number of Sources" Effect.
> Most of the top dogs in the industry.
This is an example of influence using authority, including High Status
> That prompted me to buy a PowerMac.
Aha! The requested target action!
> It's the best computing decision I've ever made.
Principle of Consistency
p.s., I'm not mocking you. I just noticed a bunch of statements that match the midterm I have Thursday night. Thus, this post counts as "studying"
p.p.s., I love my PowerBook
p.p.p.s., Please note, reading the above post qualifies you to place out of a graduate level Consumer Behavior marketing class.
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:5, Funny)
Tell your kid brother that I and all my geeky friends would like our lunch money from the last six months back, uh... please?
All your BSD's belong to us. (Score:1, Funny)
"All the best..." originally switched from their respective platforms to Linux. Now that Linux is popular (with all that, that brings), they're switching to Macs (or you could say that indirectly they're switching to BSD). Kind of validates the BSD philosophy.
Re:Oblig... (Score:2, Funny)
I for one welcome the prophet Steve Jobs Mac Overlord, For he calleth out in dessert "a computer for everyone and good music, but it'll cost you"
Re:Let the flame war commence! (Score:5, Funny)
FreeBSD compiling a kernel to my right And behind me I have an x86 laptop running a Dist-upgrade to an install of Debian (unstable)... Its sitting on my sparc server running solaris 8
So what corner do I go to
Ive been running around in circles for half and hour now!!
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Marketing people love you! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:1, Funny)
Want to buy a $200 computer? Knock yourself out. Stop whining about how 'expensive' the mini is. Hell, Steve could bring one to your house and offer you a blowjob, and it still wouldn't be cool enough for you...
Re:What amazes me most (Score:3, Funny)
LK
Re:Let the flame war commence! (Score:2, Funny)
"Foaming-at-the-mouth Linux zealots in another."
Re:Marketing people love you! (Score:4, Funny)
> which it appears your Consumer Behaviour class is teaching
> you to exploit.
You're correct except for fact you misspelled "behavior"[1]
> A logic course would teach you the same thing, minus the
> exploiting part.
I look a logic class as an undergrad -- in Electrical Engineering, that was the idea of a "fun" elective -- and you're absolutely correct.
Basically if everyone who ever had to purchase anything registered for a logics class, passed it, and retained enough information to recognize a logical fallacy, advertisements as we know it would cease. Plus, no one would vote Republican[2]. Short of that, everyone should take a consumer behavior class. It was very enlightening.
Basically Advertising is the reason why Capitalism in practice doesn't work as well as you'd think it would in theory [3].
Thanks for reading this post [4]
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[1] Note, this is flamebait to people outside the U.S.
[2] Another flamebait, albeit "kidding on the square"
[3] Not flamebait since MBAs are automatically allowed to say things like this and not be accused of being socialists
[4] Moderators should mod this as overrated since it's clearly pandering to moderators by mentioning moderation at all[5]
[5] See [4] above
Re:Marketing people love you! (Score:5, Funny)
"Marketing Principle" = "Logical Fallacy".
It makes a strange and liberating kind of sense.
Re:Malware, Viruses (Score:4, Funny)
Damn. You sold your wife? Ruthless.
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:3, Funny)
one can type fine looking letters with wordpad.
windows does not however come with iTunes (sure it includes "disappearing border" WMP), iMovie (as opposed to "how many times can i crash a 299 Dell Box" Movie Maker), GarageBand (hmm Recorder?) a calendar, cron, webserver, ssh server, perl interpreter, and let's not forget the secure and tabbed browser (Yikes!!!).
However the 299 windows box does include a 2 button mouse and probably an evaluation copy of Norton antivirus.
Well, sure. (Score:1, Funny)
(Just so everyone's aware: just kidding... mostly.)
Re:Malware, Viruses (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let the flame war commence! (Score:3, Funny)
>Foaming-at-the-mouth Linux zealots in another.
Windows users hiding in the closet...
long background in C (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I would buy a Mac... (Score:1, Funny)
No apostrophe for plurals, please.
Re:Can I switch? (Score:3, Funny)
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We have identified that 90% of the programs you have running are unavailable on the Macintosh platform. These programs were:
Bonzi Buddy
CoolWebSearch
DateTime
Gator
W32/Bagle.
W32/Netsky.p@MM
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Re:great hardware (Score:2, Funny)
You literally get to have your cake and eat it, too? And the icing is Mac on Linux? Sounds a little, uh, crunchy and plasticky...
Does the cake come in a cellophane wrapper inside the box, or do they give you a coupon for redemption at a local bakery?
Totally OT, The Return of the Mac? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Totally OT, The Return of the Mac? (Score:4, Funny)
"Help me Steve Wozniak, you're my only hope..."