Hello Ben:
I realize that you haven't the advantages of an historical viewpoint,
however there are some things you should know about Apple, and specifically
Macintosh computers.
1. Apple created the first really effective and widespread personal computer.
2. Macintosh redefined the entire computer world.
3. Macintoshes were developed for people who have lives.
4. Macintosh defined user-friendly.
5. Modern PCs, in all of their iterations, are all Macintosh clones when
defined by functionality.
6. A very tiny portion of the world's computer users gives a damn about
how or why computers work. For the remainder, see point 3.
John McEwen
>At 10:26 PM 12/4/97 -0000, you wrote:
>>Just been watching the X-files. Scully linked a PowerBook upto the
>>Internet in about 1 second. It takes my Mac about 40 seconds to make a
>>connection on a normal phone line. Now if this is real-life America, I'm
>>moving over! ;-)
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>... and now for something COMPLETELY different...
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>No. It's a totally made up fallacy.
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>Macintoshes almost never work they way you're told they do. They're really
>keen subliminal devices. They make you think that you're doing work, while
>in reality you're just staring at a blank screen, and a bunch of elves do
>your calculations on an abacus. When you need to print, they wheel in an
>old XT with a laser printer and print something out that LOOKS like it
>could have been done on an Apple. All the money you pay to Apple to keep
>your machines running just goes into gas money for the elves (do they drive
>LBCs?) and for Steve Jobs to build his house to one-up Bill Gates.
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>Apple is the greatest conspiracy of the 20th Century.
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>er, flame away!
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>BEN RUSET
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