[sdiy] Bootcamp . Parallels/ off patch over priced Mac rubbish

[John Richetta]

So far as I can see, this illogical, ignorant, judgmental,  
pretentious, and pointlessly inflammatory thread is WAY off topic.

It's hard to imagine why wee need another one of these animosity- 
breeding, prejudice-reinforcing flame wars.  If you just gotta piss  
off people who've done more for humanly-useful computing than most of  
the rest of the jealous, resentful, copy-cat companies around, then  
please go do it somewhere else.

Libel is so much easier than constructive understanding, work, and  
appreciation, isn't it?

Imagine, for a minute, that someone took something you'd made - which  
must be vastly superior to that which Apple achieves through  
stupendous amounts of effort, design at *many* levels, and deep  
dedication to quality - and they decided to trash it in public, with  
offensive language, and maximally derogatory implications, without any  
trace of accountability or reasonableness.  Do you suppose you'd think  
more or less of how accurately that person really perceives people,  
work, and life in general?  Would you feel any puzzlement over the  
fact that people had to cut down you and your work, rather than simply  
avoid using your achievement?

My opinion, and one you won't soon change, is that you don't know  
squat about Apple and their products.

-jar


On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Paul Burns wrote:
> I have four dead Mac systems on my deck at the moment ...towers and  
> laptops
> both ....
>
> They really are not worth repairing ... mainboards are blown in all  
> four ...
> all the expense goes in the looks , not what is under the  
> bonnet ...they run
> way too hot and burn out ...
>
> So now I understand why there is a market for Parallels and  
> Bootcamp... that
> is so that at least when they are alive any Mac can run Windows and
> something useful like Autocad (I find this really funny in that  
> students all
> want Macs, convince their daddies to buy at horrific prices, but  
> they know
> when they are at Uni they are going to have to get in the real  
> world , hence
> run real world software , ergo have to run Parallels or
> Bootcamp...hilarious)...
>
> I might chop the boxes up and make something useful out of them...  
> some kind
> of rack system, they are pretty enough, if indeed a little to  
> effeminate for
> my tastes, but I am sure they appeal to some... perhaps plant racks  
> or a
> goldfish bowl if I can seal it up. Who knows? I shall recycle  
> somehow ...
>
> regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
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