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Windows or Macbook - what do you use and why?
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A:I, ringo_24601, et al,
Have any of you ever tried scuba diving off a coral reef, tobogganing down the Cresta Run, following the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, flying a helicopter through the Grand Canyon, barefoot water-skiing before breakfast, driving the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, riding a wave at Waimea Bay... (we'd better spare anewhope any suggestion of libidinous activity that might get him reaching for the smelling salts and the comfort of his Microsoft EULA)... or actually doing anything like that for real?
Or do you, instead, spend your leisure time playing fantasy games with a plastic box and getting excited by computer code error messages?
Take no offence; I'm just curious to know.
Macs are for people who prefer to spend their computer time doing constructive things in the real world.
To those for whom Macs appeal, a "gaming machine" is the saddest thing in the universe.
Sorry, Leopard you generally have pretty sound, well constructed arguments but that is pathetic. You don't like PC games so people who do are sad and apparently you've checked this with every Mac user and they all agree. I think I can think of sadder things in the universe as well.
For the record I haven't done any of those things, and have no real desire to, have youdone them? I have however spent large parts of my life hanging off mountains in Britain and the Alps so I have managed to drag myself away from the PC occasionally.
Ringo, I cant agree with option 4. I really don't like AIX, I'd go for option 5 of HP-UX although since we've migrated nearly everything to Solaris now I suppose I ought to go with that as option 6 instead.It's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
And it's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die0 -
BillScarab wrote: »
Sorry, Leopard you generally have pretty sound, well constructed arguments but that is pathetic. You don't like PC games so people who do are sad and apparently you've checked this with every Mac user and they all agree. I think I can think of sadder things in the universe as well.
For the record I haven't done any of those things, and have no real desire to, have youdone them? I have however spent large parts of my life hanging off mountains in Britain and the Alps so I have managed to drag myself away from the PC occasionally.
Ringo, I cant agree with option 4. I really don't like AIX, I'd go for option 5 of HP-UX although since we've migrated nearly everything to Solaris now I suppose I ought to go with that as option 6 instead.
BillScarab,
Since you ask, yes; I have done all of them - although I was a lot younger when I did some of them!
And so, I'll bet, have many others here.
What's really sad is that anewhope looks on doing such things for real as "Walter Mitty fantasies".
(But then, he's pretentious enough to regard "getting excited by computer code error messages" as a "vocation".)
I can't see myself still going barefoot waterskiing in my sixties but I certainly plan to lap the Nordschleife in under 12 minutes in something fast on my 65th birthday - if I'm not scuba diving off a coral reef.
It would be nice to hope that Steve Jobs will be able to do the same - he's in a bad state health-wise at only 53, poor guy.
I admire Donnie for realising the fragility of the human condition and going out and doing these things while he's still young and fit. (And while his Gordon Brown mini-£ still enables him to.)
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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BillScarab,
What's really sad is that anewhope looks on doing such things for real as "Walter Mitty fantasies".
(But then, he's pretentious enough to regard "getting excited by computer code error messages" as a "vocation".)
I'm really interested in how you don't view being a Software Engineer as a vocation0 -
As usual, a question and discussion on Macs and PCs degenerates into farce.
And both supporters are to blame, you get stupid comments made by Mac and Windows "fans".
I must be unemployeed then as software engineering apparently isn't a vocation... lucky my lifestyle shows otherwise, rolls eyes and vows not to return. Bets are on that 50% of contributors are sad teenage fantasists without girlfriends!0 -
I'm really interested in how you don't view being a Software Engineer as a vocation
I'm mildly interested in why you think it is.
It's just a routine job that you've learned how to do. :rolleyes:
Being a gifted fighter pilot is a vocation: servicing a 747 is a job.
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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As usual, a question and discussion on Macs and PCs degenerates into farce.
And both supporters are to blame, you get stupid comments made by Mac and Windows "fans".
I must be unemployeed then as software engineering apparently isn't a vocation... lucky my lifestyle shows otherwise, rolls eyes and vows not to return. Bets are on that 50% of contributors are sad teenage fantasists without girlfriends!
Would that be the (almost) 50% that have voted for Windows, because they can indulge their fantasies by "gaming" on a plastic box, while Mac voters prefer to go out and do the real thing?
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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As usual, a question and discussion on Macs and PCs degenerates into farce.
And both supporters are to blame, you get stupid comments made by Mac and Windows "fans".
I must be unemployeed then as software engineering apparently isn't a vocation... lucky my lifestyle shows otherwise, rolls eyes and vows not to return. Bets are on that 50% of contributors are sad teenage fantasists without girlfriends!
Well it's a long time since I was a teenager. I don't have a girlfriend either as my wife won't let me.
To be honest I think this [strike]Spectrum/C64 [/strike], [strike] ST/Amiga [/strike] Mac/PC debate has stayed reasonably civil. My favourite arghument was on the Guardian site following Charlie Brooker's infamous article. It's a funny article but definately not to be taken seriously , even as someone who's not a Mac fan I think it's silly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.mediaIt's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
And it's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die0 -
Have you ever serviced a Boeing 747, Leopard? Gifted or otherwise, a fighter pilot is trained to do a job or profession. Please tell me you used to be a fighter pilot, it would explain sooooooooooo much!!!!0
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