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February 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Please don’t tell me you actually paid for it.
February 9th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Laugh; it’s parody!
February 9th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Naşpah.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
“Wow!” Haha!
February 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
So it’s all everybody said it would be :) And you still bought it.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Hook, line, and sinker!
February 9th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Right… Try to make it look like you weren’t instantly converted.
February 9th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
You know me; DRoMericaned!
February 9th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Visa wasn’t available until a few days after I bought this thing. I considered waiting so that I could have it. Now, I feel good about myself.
February 10th, 2007 at 5:15 am
it just seems they are getting a vista into your computer…watch out..big brother is watching…no wait…he’s movin in…
February 10th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Mist - Lucky you! It’d have taken a summer internship at a winery to get over that gaffe.
Ron - Are you authorized to view this website, User 32948238294382306?
February 10th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I’ll bring my authorization with me on march 5th…speaking of which…so far the only beer that will be in my bag is some redhook and a few cherry wheat….maybe good old Jose will make the trip too…any last minute requests? by the way how long have you been residing in Romania? I need a nudge in the direction of legalizing myself there…for our future move..any help?
I hear you reach the 60’s the other day…seems like we should pack summer clothes….global warming is just in our heads huh?
February 11th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Microsoft wants to be your “best friend”. (whether YOU want to or not) :-D
February 13th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Meanwhile- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html
I have to agree with Brooker, but am also not going to downgrade to Vista.
(Youll notice lots of Mac users proving his point in the comments)
February 13th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I find it silly to attack Mac users, per se. There’s a greater number of Windows apologists who strain their vocal chords and froth at the mouth in defense of the operating system.
It might be somewhatishly correct to say many Mac users are smug. I happen to think it’s for a reason. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux. Windows is the weakest of the three. But only in the last few years and only for the next many years.
After that, much of this may very well be a non-issue. *cue the sound of penguins*
February 14th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
There’s a greater number of Windows apologists who strain their vocal chords and froth at the mouth in defense of the operating system.
You see that’s absolutely not my experience at all. The evangelicals I have encountered are all Mac users. Windows users tend to apologise rather than go on about it. (In my experience obviously)
February 14th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
While it could be said that the majority of Windows users buy and use the OS without any critical thinking, like so many cows chewing their cud because they see the other sheeple doing the same, there are -in raw numbers- a larger population of Windows freaks waxing endlessly about various benefits to be found in Microsoft products (of which, I definitely have agreed with some).
They’re just as high-pitched and haughty. Easily found in any flock of geek poseurs and occasionally found intermixed with ubergeeks. The most common points to flaunt revolve around game variety, Exchange, and familiarity.
I spent years playing devil’s advocate with a close friend of mine who is a Mac purist of the evangelical sort. Mostly, it was to piss him off with mindboggling logic. I enjoyed this nerdly behavior immensely.
But the fact is that I don’t care if Mac users are smug. That doesn’t affect me in the least. BMW drivers might be smug. Airplane pilots might be smug. Master divers might be smug. Leonardo Da Vinci was probably a smug prig.
Is the product better? I say that trying a Mac, exclusively, for 30-90 days will give your answer. It’s just most people are afraid to try anything new.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
[…] But these are temporary times of new opportunity for Apple to gain marketshare while Microsoft’s horrid Vista product reveals itself to be the flop that it is. A moment in time where people, in larger numbers than previously, say to themselves, “you know, I should dump this Windows junk, but what is my alternative?” […]
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Ok for all who think that its so hard too upgrade and I can’t take pain once in a while we just buy a new PC from a Sam’s Club or somthing and get one with Windows Vista installed on it. Now if you don’t know how to use a Windows computer in the first place read the manuael if you dont feel like doing that well then you will get crappy results. If you have used windows before alot of the stuff that miss priss complained about can be fixed with two clicks. Windows Vista can be soo much better if you use it right and not think that its a child and think its retarded and needs help or i can’t change the most simple setting cause its not a apple. Get Vista and use it right or dont get it at all for all mac users that have seen Vista in a screenshot and have never used it for more than one day DONT COMMENT. For all mac users stick a cork in it.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Bryan: Meet my good friend. His name is Parody, and I don’t believe you’ve ever met.