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    Lost User
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    I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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      I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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      Maximilien
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      PC zealotsusers have been saying that for the last 20 years. Please, find something new. P.S. Mac zealotsusers have been saying the opposite for the last 20 years either.


      Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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        I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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        tgrt
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        Add me to the "I hate Macs" club.

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          I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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          Pete OHanlon
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          I was going to quote the same bit of the article. It is just so devastatingly accurate. I used a Mac for a while, and I hated it. Like the author, I felt like I'd "lost a limb" looking for that missing mouse button. Perhaps it's just saying that Mac users can't cope with the exta button. Maybe they feel that two is just too overpowering.

          the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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            I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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            Jonathan Darka
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            I don't actually hate Macs, they are not important enough to be hated - simply ignored.


            Jonathan Wilkes Darka [Xanya.net]

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            • L Lost User

              I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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              stephen hazel
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              The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.

              I'm sorry to have to say this. But I found the above quote VERY funny ;P

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                I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                Marc Clifton
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                Ah, too much hate.

                Rob Caldecott wrote:

                computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work

                And a proper computer is what, like the Linux world where they tell you "oh, just download the source and compile it"? Yeah, that's productive. Marc

                Thyme In The Country

                People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                • L Lost User

                  I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                  Dan Neely
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                  Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. I think this is brilliant.

                  -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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                    I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                    Christopher Duncan
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                    Macs are so cute. Can you still get software for those things?

                    Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com

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                      Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. I think this is brilliant.

                      -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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                      dan neely wrote:

                      the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.

                      This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.

                      -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                        dan neely wrote:

                        the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.

                        This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.

                        -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                        Richie308 wrote:

                        As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.

                        Can't they be a cool jerk?

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                          Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. I think this is brilliant.

                          -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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                          Chris Losinger
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                          someone wrote:

                          Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.

                          of course they do. people "define themselves" by the things they purchase all the time. if we didn't, we'd all be driving the same car, live in the same style and color house, wear the same clothes, use the same cell phones, and run the exact same kind of computer, in the same 1950's style case, using the same desktop scheme and colors. we don't. why? does everybody in the world have a mental illness? or is this guy just a whiny misanthrope?

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                            dan neely wrote:

                            the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.

                            This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.

                            -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                            Chris Losinger
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                            Richie308 wrote:

                            What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person?

                            people who buy product A often think themselves superior to people who buy product B. the rule works in both directions, of course.

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                              I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                              Chris Losinger
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                              i hate people who think so much of their computer that they feel it necessary to rag on anyone else who thinks a lot of their computer.

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                                Ah, too much hate.

                                Rob Caldecott wrote:

                                computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work

                                And a proper computer is what, like the Linux world where they tell you "oh, just download the source and compile it"? Yeah, that's productive. Marc

                                Thyme In The Country

                                People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                                There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                                People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                                Ed Poore
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                                Marc Clifton wrote:

                                Yeah, that's productive.

                                No, but it gives you a huge sense of satisfaction when you compile an entire OS from the ground up (ps, you get lots of coffee breaks when you start on Gnome or KDE :rolleyes:).

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                                  I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                                  Shog9 0
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                                  I hate computers.

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                                    The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.

                                    I'm sorry to have to say this. But I found the above quote VERY funny ;P

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                                    I used to like the old email tagline: "I used to miss my Mac, but my aim is getting better"

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                                      I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                                      JimmyRopes
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                                      Rob Caldecott wrote:

                                      computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui

                                      :laugh::laugh::laugh:

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                                        I hate computers.

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                                        Gary Wheeler
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                                        Computers hate me.


                                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                                        • L Lost User

                                          I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

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                                          CastorTiu
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                                          Two buttons in a mouse is too complicated for a Mac user, also mice with only one button are cuter so Mac users don't cares what you can do with two. :laugh:

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