🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:54:38 +0000 (UTC), nonesuch@place.com (Adrian)
wrote:

>Rev Turd Fredericks <nick_ballsack@forcedshaving.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure it is, but not for me, that was over and done with over 25
>> years ago. Although if you were really an adult you would be using an
>> adult computer.  I am sure that when you "come to terms", get a job
>> and move out into the real world you will have to learn how to use a
>> real computer, one with a multi-button mouse rather than a one button
>> extra large playschool mouse.
>
>I am genuinely surprised to learn that you are over the age of 15.
>Please accept my apologies for this slur on your adulthood. However,
>given the uninformed nonsense you spout, it was an easy mistake to make.
>Your posts seem to imply that you might be frightened of something,
>perhaps. You are clearly not happy.

Uninformed nonsense? prove it wrong.
>
>Do you have a mouse detection system built into your Usenet news reader?

Yes, and it tells me you have a cyclopian mouse attached to your mac.

>If not, I can't imagine how you can tell how many buttons my computer's
>mouse has. Maybe you didn't know that Mac users have had the option to
>use fully functional multi button mice for at least 10 years. 
But few of them use one.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39773,00.html

>Showing no
>particular prejudice I rather like my Microsoft branded optical wheel
>mouse for my Mac (3 buttons, 1 wheel). I also own a Windows PC, use
>Windows and Mac in the work situation, and own older Apple hardware (I
>had an installation of Linux on a PPC9600) as well as my current dual
>processor G5. 
Gee, how much did you pay for that? Seems like such a waste of money
since you can't really run much software with it.

>All these are real computers, all have their pros and
>cons. My preference 95 percent of the time happens to be for the
>Macintosh. What on earth has this preference got to do with you? Why
>should you care?
Yeah, as I always say, use the best tool for the job. So far though, I
have not seen a single thing that a mac could do that a proper
computer can't. 

>
>Go on, prove that you are more than a troll - give me a reasoned
>argument to support your point of view. Alternatively, keep on with your
>current approach and guarantee a place in the kill file, whence peace
>will be restored! Smile, and the world may just smile with you!
That's fine mr ostrich, killfile me, that's your prerogative. But I
leave you with just a few of the reason's I don't like macs, and why I
avoid them at all costs.

1) Macs are way over priced and underpowered
2) they are costly to fix
3) both hardware and OS are proprietary which means you must depend on
the notoriously fickle Apple corp for virtually everything from
security patches to processors.
4) lack of viable software, what software is available is very costly
and unstable. Because there is virtually no competition there is no
motivation for software companies to improve their software when users
experience problems. Instead they release an "upgrade" which they
charge you for but is really just a patch for what they did wrong in
the first place. Ever wonder why photoshop is much more stable on
windows than mac?  
5) frequent crashes and lockups, perhaps due to shoddy memory
management and/or poor proprietary software 
6) poor security: security through obscurity is the worst possible
security model there is. That is Apple's philosophy, says so right on
their web page. It takes them months after publicized security flaws
to fix those flaws. This makes Apple totally unsuitable for a server
platform and just as unsuitable for an "always on" desktop.
7)  one button mouse. You say there are multibutton mice but I have
yet to see one attached to an actual mac. Aside from the constant
lockups this is the most annoying "feature" that macs have.