Here's an idea, Apple: Stop pissing people off - Page 3

Urban Ranger · July 11, 2003, 23:42

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
Apple does that very same thing, UR...

Not to such an extend - remember Netscape?

The main point is: pot, kettle, black. Or in this case, the thing that calls the other thing black is in fact much blacker. Apple is only slightly grey in comparison to MS.

Q Classic · July 11, 2003, 23:44

i can safely say that no mac has ever done that to me either. and the only windows to ever give me grief was winme, which i chalk up to it being the dumbass of the family.

linux is the only one that's cost me data, and that's because i was stupid and dead tired, and typed:

Code:

rm *.* .txt

rather than

Code:

rm *.doc *.txt

Q Classic · July 11, 2003, 23:47

people still use netscape/mozilla. people still use aim, winamp, roxio, and other programs.

apple once had some media programs. i vaguely remember something like macamp. it's gone now. people are using ichat in droves... meaning that aim is struggling to be used, and other third party chat programs have vanished. safari is dominating, eliminating ie and any other third-party browser in its path.
the only thing apple hasn't taken to is incorporating burning software into its os, afaik.

Urban Ranger · July 11, 2003, 23:47

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
linux is the only one that's cost me data, and that's because i was stupid and dead tired, and typed:

Code:

rm *.* .txt

rather than

Code:

rm *.doc *.txt

Yeah, that's why a lot of people add checks against rm in their shell profiles.

Q Classic · July 11, 2003, 23:51

yeah, well.

i got tired of having to type
rm -rf
every single time, or pressing
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
y
repeatedly...

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 00:35

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the only thing apple hasn't taken to is incorporating burning software into its os, afaik.

Burning is handled by iTunes, so Apple has that covered as well.

Urban Ranger · July 12, 2003, 00:43

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
with windows, you at least have a fighting chance. maybe not much of one, but it's not a guaranteed kill. look at symantec and it's disk software... or roxio and nero and their cd software...

Symantec is Paul Allen's, who happens to own a share of Microsoft as well in addition to being Bill's buddy.

IIRC, WMP can burn CD as well, just not as good. You have to remember too, CD-R burners come with either Nero or EZ CD Creator nowadays.

Urban Ranger · July 12, 2003, 00:46

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
people still use netscape/mozilla. people still use aim, winamp, roxio, and other programs.

However, Netscape had ceased to be a viable commercial entity for quite some time now.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 00:50

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Am I the only one who found this statement ironic when it came from a MS fanboy?

* Meanwhile, MSFT destroys more third party developers by ~~including~~integrating more "features" into Windows.

Yeah, everyone knows how much of a problem third party support is on the Windows platform.

Once again, an intellectually stunning argument from the master.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 00:51

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Not to such an extend - remember Netscape?

Netscape? You mean the company that is still around? The same company that still makes their products for Windows?

What an amazing way to back up your argument!

Asher · July 12, 2003, 00:56

As for Cloud9's post, I didn't think it was possible but his posts become more senseless every time.

People don't want to configure their computers?

God forbid you give them options to configure! If they didn't want to configure it, they wouldn't have to! Configuration options exist for people who want to only. Man, I'm a genius...

Asher · July 12, 2003, 00:57

Maybe we should send out a search party for a possible Mac user who can make coherent arguments.

Surely we're bound to find someone, just by luck.

Q Classic · July 12, 2003, 01:15

well, cloud9's right. mac users are a different culture, by and large.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:16

Of course, as are people who are mentally defficient and incestuous.

But I don't see what that has to do with Apple pissing people off.

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 01:19

Jesus, Dave, you're the most pathetic individual I've ever seen. It's like you get off on putting people down for which computer they use. "Tool" doesn't even begin to describe someone like you.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:20

Exhibit A: Mentally defficient; incapable of understanding what a wink smilie means.

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 01:21

You didn't have a winking smilie on the post before that, genius.

St Leo · July 12, 2003, 01:21

IBM and Sun are cool.

Yes, Apple is eviller than Microsoft because they are a VERTICAL company. They make the hardware and the software. They would be a much worse monopoly.

However:
- Microsoft is a monopoly and it does leverage its market share to kill off superior competition. For example, it recently undercut a done deal in Thailand by selling its software for pennies to the Thai government. Obviously, their price will be higher once the Thais are locked in while the competition will have been hobbled.
-Mac OS X is architecturally superior to WinXP. BeOS was superior to both, but Microsoft killed it off with draconian anti-dualbooting clauses in its OEM agreements.

BTW, I bet that this utility would have lived for much longer had it been called YBar instead of Y'z Dock. This is like Windows and Lindows, except that the Lindows guys didn't give up at the first C&D.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:22

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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You didn't have a winking smilie on the post before that, genius.

Why don't you prove me wrong?

Seriously, no Mac user, ever, has given a coherent argument relevant to the discussion on Apolyton.

I'm still waiting for it, but all you're doing is proving my point.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:25

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Originally posted by St Leo
However:
- Microsoft is a monopoly and it does leverage its market share to kill off superior competition. For example, it recently undercut a done deal in Thailand by selling its software for pennies to the Thai government. Obviously, their price will be higher once the Thais are locked in while the competition will have been hobbled.

Perhaps you do not understand this, but B does not follow from A here. An example of MS using a monopoly to kill off "superior" competition would be MS using IE to "kill off" Netscape 4.x. But, the problem with this of course, is Netscape 4.x sucks royal ass, Netscape didn't have a new product out for ages, and Netscape is still around.

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-Mac OS X is architecturally superior to WinXP.

I strongly disagree, but hey? That's not what this thread is about? You think a kernel design from 1970 is "architecturally superior", and I think differently.

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BTW, I bet that this utility would have lived for much longer had it been called YBar instead of Y'z Dock. This is like Windows and Lindows, except that the Lindows guys didn't give up at the first C&D.

Lindows is a commercial product, Y'z Dock is some guy's freeware program for a market Apple doesn't even compete in.

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 01:31

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Seriously, no Mac user, ever, has given a coherent argument relevant to the discussion on Apolyton.

I've given you plenty in the past, but you've always been so arrogant as to consider any opinion that differs from your own to be "illogical" and "incoherent." I got tired of trying. I don't like people like you in real life, so I don't see why I should talk to them online either.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:33

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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I've given you plenty in the past, but you've always been so arrogant as to consider any opinion that differs from your own to be "illogical" and "incoherent." I got tired of trying.

You've never posted an argument, you've always been the homosexual cheerleader slapping Agathon's ass in debates.

And Agathon goes on and on about things he doesn't understand, like Fitts' Law. He even claims my complaints about OS X' GUI were "invalid", but the second Apple addresses them in OS 10.3 they're suddenly very welcome changes!

All the same, all the same...

Apple users like Macs because:

"They're purty"

They're what they're used to

They buy into the psychological bull that higher price = better quality

The crap about them being faster, or even better, are complete bull and are easily debunkable.

If Apple users stick to the emotional side of the debate more often I'd agree with them.

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I don't like people like you in real life, so I don't see why I should talk to them online either.

Yet you still participate in the threads, doubling as a cheerleader for the people making tremendously stupid arguments and someone who pops his head up and flames.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:37

And frankly, anyone who uses "tool" as an insult insults themselves.

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 01:40

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You've never posted an argument

You've got a pretty short memory.

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And frankly, anyone who uses "tool" as an insult insults themselves.

So do gays who use "homosexual" as an insult. You're hurting the agenda.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:42

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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You've got a pretty short memory.

And you obviously underestimate the intelligence of anyone reading this, because it's clear that you never contribute to these threads save for flames. And responding "You have a short memory!" is nothing more than a laughable deflection.

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So do gays who use "homosexual" as an insult. You're hurting the agenda.

Eh? "Homosexual cheerleader" wasn't the insult, it merely set up the mental image. "Slapping Agathon's ass", now there's an insult. Have you seen his picture? *shudder*

Q Classic · July 12, 2003, 01:42

i like tools.

especially those battery-powered screwdrivers, or those ratchet sets...
especially when they have torx, phillips, and slot heads that are tiny enough to take apart hard disks.

Drake Tungsten · July 12, 2003, 01:47

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And responding "You have a short memory!" is nothing more than a laughable deflection.

No, it's merely pointing out that you don't remember some of the knock-down, drag-out "debates" we had when I first got to Poly. Eventually I learned that you're just a waste of time, but I did argue with you before then.

Asher · July 12, 2003, 01:51

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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
No, it's merely pointing out that you don't remember some of the knock-down, drag-out "debates" we had when I first got to Poly. Eventually I learned that you're just a waste of time, but I did argue with you before then.

I'm confuzzled -- what exactly are you doing right now?

You and I still argue, it's just that you always avoid factual arguments. And for good reason.

DRoseDARs · July 12, 2003, 01:54

Yep, nothing quite like a thread about Apple computers to bring harmonious unite to the Apolyton Off-Topic community...

St Leo · July 12, 2003, 01:58

Lindows is a commercial product, Y'z Dock is some guy's freeware program for a market Apple doesn't even compete in.

What's your point? I am saying that naming a toolbar utility "*Dock" is like naming a consumer-grade operating system "*indows".

Perhaps you do not understand this, but B does not follow from A here.

Actually, it does. The government had already cut a deal to use a distribution of equivalent open source products. Microsoft price-fixed their way into overturning that deal. Price-fixing is immoral.

You think a kernel design from 1970 is "architecturally superior", and I think differently.

At least it has a design.:P