Stop Technological Dogma Now! (470 hits)
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Submitted by EvolvedChicken (View user info) at 2006-11-11 22:41:33 EST
I'll be quite truthful. I don't like this site. This is the website where it seems almost nobody really understands what sarcasm and satire is. Which is why I haven't posted in a long time. But tonight, I have reached motivation to write one more post.
I just finished reading the post "Fuck you single-button mouse" in which the author attempted to slam the Mac users. At first, I just wanted to pass it along and forget it, but after reading the comments, I knew this was completely wrong.
As I see that Apple is gaining more popularity (mainly because of the iPod), both Mac and PC users are reaching to each other by the throats. The PC users complain how Macs can't have sound card and graphics card changed. Mac users complain about how PCs need constant upgrades and have too many problems. However, when somebody really looks at the situation people should choose a computer based on what they do with it.
I am a gamer. But I am also a console gamer. However if ever playing games, using a PC instead of Mac would always seem like a smarter idea since changing the graphics and sound cards are easier. Of course Macs weren't built as the perfect game player. That's just how it goes for now.
Sure using a PC for gaming does have it's advantage but Macs do have their advantages. When buying a Mac, the consumer may have everything they need right when buying the product. Besides, if another OS comes out it can be installed as easily as installing Windows. When it comes to my lifestyle, Macs let me do everything I need to. This is pretty much all I do.
-Check updates on sites. (Destructoid, Maddox etc)
-Use iTunes
-Update my iPod
-Make documents or slideshows for either school projects of just my own amusement.
-Use Garage Band
Almost everything I listed here can be done on a PC just as well as a Mac. But for some reason, I feel safe using Mac. It just gives that secure feeling. However, PCs have that clunky and insecure feeling. It feels like everything I do could have some type of screw up.
When it all comes down to it, just use judgment based on what you do in your daily life. Macs are meant more for doing projects. They were actually used to make the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. However, this is a world that is used to using Windows which actually works on Mac too.
But what everyone needs to remember right now is to stop using technological dogma. Being happy with what you use doesn't mean you have to bash other products just because it's not yours. If you're uncomfortable with using a Mac, just use a PC and move on. We know right now it's the cool kid thing to say that Macs suck and all users are stuck up. But who cares? We should all unite as computer users.
STOP TECHNOLOGICAL DOGMA NOW!
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Submitted by bart (user info) at 2006-11-15 05:23:26 EST (#)
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I have two macs at home and one at work. I would prefer any of them over a brand new PC.
First and foremost, there is no part of the OS that relies on Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player, and it doesn't try to install Outlook Express every time I reboot the computer.
OSX is UNIX at its core, so it is much more stable at its core and standardized with the rest of the world than is the PC which is only standardized with whatever Microsoft wants to standardize.
The Mac can easily run Firefox, Tomcat, Eclipse, MySQL, Apache, perl, bash, and a billion other open source applications. In general, the use of these kinds of things on a Mac is identical to a Linux server making the Mac a fantastic system for doing server application development. The PC can run some of these, but it always has a duct tape feel to it because nothing on the PC works the same way... it's still based on DOS, file names are case insensitive, the directory separator is backwards, the root partition starts with "C:", and on and on.
Plus, the Mac always looks better than the PC and at this point I think the Mac is even cheaper. Microsoft has spent the last few years making Vista which is essentially a rehash of some of the features that Apple has had in OSX for years, only not done quite as well. They've hitched their future to their whole crackpot DRM scheme, so expect that your system, software, and any music/movies you've bought from a "trusted" supplier will just stop working one day when you accidentally change the system clock or swap out that graphics card.
Christ, I am a fucking loser.
Submitted by Snuffleupagus (user info) at 2006-11-15 03:58:31 EST (#)
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This is Evolvedchicken on the right sleeping with another man, a fat man no less.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-11-13 20:06:50 EST (#)
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I'll be quite truthful. I don't like this site.
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Let me guess, a lot of peeps -2d you, you had a hissy fit and went and cried in your mothers bosom.
Pussy.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-11-13 19:54:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by EvolvedChicken (user info) at 2006-11-12 00:50:03 (#)
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Apollo88, you probably never did catch on to my sarcasm and satire. If you believe you've seen it all, don't claim that ubersite has done so. Speak for yourself. """
i have seen it all and am better than you at everything.
how's that?
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-11-13 07:34:26 EST (#)
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a pair of tits look like a pair of tits regardless of what computah you use.
Submitted by thesushiking (user info) at 2006-11-12 19:58:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by Snuffleupagus (user info) at 2006-11-12 18:25:35 EST (#)
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Sorry bro, this post sucked. You could have stated what you said without all the craptastic changes in tenses and random switches in topic in one sentence, tops.
Submitted by RjFnC (user info) at 2006-11-12 15:13:41 EST (#)
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I agree with you that you must look at what you are going to be doing before you get a PC or a Mac. While I myself am a PC user because I am a gamer I do understand the advantages of a Mac. But recently Mac's new Intel base system is now more than ever "PC like" you have to ability to play the latest and greatest games on a Mac.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-11-12 14:46:59 EST (#)
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"I have had to buy two external hard drives to accomodate my mac's crashes. "
What?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-11-12 14:44:57 EST (#)
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It's based on Unix as well - which is probably the most flexible operating system out there.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-11-12 14:44:05 EST (#)
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You realise of course that firewire is not a competitor for USB2? It is designed for a completely different set of applications.
The graphics cards etc in a mac are - of course - made by the same manufacturers as in pcs.
In short - I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Submitted by thesushiking (user info) at 2006-11-12 14:37:28 EST (#)
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Of course there's pros and cons to both, but when you talk about dogma I think the conversation should also include the providers of the products. Macs are not designed to be taken apart, and alot of their hardware is incompatible with other systems.
This extends beyond sound and graphics cards (which are sitll important), but also to small situations like: their six-pin firewire design that they pioneered to "set their products apart" or something. The operating systems are not as flexible and sometimes I have trouble with file management. I thinks the user is stupid and does everything behind the scenes which just makes it hard to fix problems without going to the apple store.
"Almost everything I listed here can be done on a PC just as well as a Mac. But for some reason, I feel safe using Mac. It just gives that secure feeling. However, PCs have that clunky and insecure feeling. It feels like everything I do could have some type of screw up." - Rounded edges on the interface do not make a computer less flukey. The only reason your mac does not screw up is because you use really basic software. That's like saying that someone who has a PC that only plays minesweeper, uses microsoft word, and checks their email is going to have alot of problems. That is not the case. This feeling is an affect of their marketing strategies.
I do multimedia. I bought a VAIO in 2000 and I was forced to buy a Mac laptop g4 by my school, with a rented software package. I used to use freeware applications with PC that I just can't seem to find for mac. It's nice that I have these programs with the Mac, and the support of the in-school technician, but once I graduate, all I will have is stupid garageband and will have to deal with the mac store. The mac is always breaking, and it's really hard to tell why exactly "an unknown error ocurred" sometimes. I know it gives you a reference number sometimes, but other times not. Mac people don't think that macs break, but they do. PC's let you know what's going on. It's easier to get yourself into trouble with a PC because there's more that you can do. My PC still works however, and Best Buy (the bastards) stopped my service warrantee after some year and a half. I've been servicing it myself (and I don't know shit) with not alot of problems. I have had to buy two external hard drives to accomodate my mac's crashes.
Mac's marketing is definitely dogmatic, is basically what I am saying. I think that Mac users are definitely the ones who hate on PC more. Just look at the mac ads where the people say they are computers. Not only are they stupid, they are also dogmatic. Just look around. There is a split, and it regards freedom of information and utility. Mac wants it one way. Steve Jobbs is not some noble ass dude, bringing awesomeness to the world of computers. He wants to make alot of money and he's going to tell you somethings subliminally in order to do it. He might try and make his computer seem safer.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2006-11-12 13:55:34 EST (#)
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Submitted by EvolvedChicken (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:58:41 (#)
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...you probably never did catch on to my sarcasm and satire. If you believe you've seen it all, don't claim that ubersite has done so. Speak for yourself.
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Thanks, but I really didn't know for the moment how to state it better. In a way, I half-assed it.
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This was half-assed indeed. Tell me, is you ellusive sarcasm and satire entertaining in some way?
This post was relatively boring and sophmoric.
Perhaps if folks like you tried a little harder this site would be more 'likable'.
Submitted by Sandecki (user info) at 2006-11-12 13:05:34 EST (#)
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I still think macs suck.
Submitted by Newty (user info) at 2006-11-12 10:02:57 EST (#)
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but it's fun to say Microsoft is crap
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-11-12 07:06:49 EST (#)
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I do like a Big Mac more than an Apple...
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2006-11-12 06:24:40 EST (#)
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And on the seventh day, God create you and statedeth from the heavens that thou shalt suck.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-11-12 02:16:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-11-12 00:40:09 (#)
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no.
this is a site that has an equisite sense of sarcasm and satire.
you just can't keep up.
it's not because ubersite doesn't 'get it' it's because ubersite has seen and created it all.
fag.
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That's quite true, isn't it. I'd forgotten how good we are.
Submitted by EvolvedChicken (user info) at 2006-11-12 00:50:03 EST (#)
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Apollo88, you probably never did catch on to my sarcasm and satire. If you believe you've seen it all, don't claim that ubersite has done so. Speak for yourself.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-11-12 00:40:09 EST (#)
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no.
this is a site that has an equisite sense of sarcasm and satire.
you just can't keep up.
it's not because ubersite doesn't 'get it' it's because ubersite has seen and created it all.
fag.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-11-11 23:08:36 EST (#)
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While your feeling of safety exists, it is only there because of your lack of education or confidence in slight technological matters.
You could just as easily learn and evolve yourself as you could by letting a tech somewhere do it, and you have to suffer for their innacuraccy, mishaps, and errors.
You also can do a lot of the same damage, if not more, on a Mac with using the "run" command that should be shown if you press your start button and then type in "regedit" and go from there, not to mention the fact that DOS is still usable by anyone why wants to, which can allow entire drives to be deleted with a few simple keystrokes.
I suggest you better learn the subject of what you are talking about before you attempt to discuss it with others.
Submitted by marginwalker (user info) at 2006-11-11 23:05:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:42:48 (#)
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Die in a fire.
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You're caustic
Submitted by EvolvedChicken (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:58:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:49:04 (#)
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I agree with your position on the subject, but you stated it poorly...
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Thanks, but I really didn't know for the moment how to state it better. In a way, I half-assed it.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:49:04 EST (#)
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I agree with your position on the subject, but you stated it poorly...
Submitted by EvolvedChicken (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:43:52 EST (#)
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Hey, sorry for forgetting to double space between paragraphs. I haven't been here for so long that I forgot that I need to manually separate each paragraph so readers can tell which paragraph begins and ends.
Sorry.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-11-11 22:42:48 EST (#)
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Die in a fire.