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02-16-2008, 05:42 PM
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With only one week to go before I FINALLY get to order my Mac and finalize my divorce with Bill Gates, I find myself going nuts with anticipation. How do I cope with this excitement?
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02-16-2008, 07:26 PM
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You could go to the Apple store and stare for a couple of hours. Or you could go to Best Buy and tell everyone looking at a PC that you switched to Apple. Of course, you could make some spiritual example out of it and maybe even write a tract to go along with it.
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02-16-2008, 07:45 PM
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Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50.
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02-16-2008, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by fredtgreco  Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50. | 
And then realize the utensils you want to eat with are not compatible. 
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02-16-2008, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by nleshelman Of course, you could make some spiritual example out of it and maybe even write a tract to go along with it. | Umberto Ecco did something like that. He thought Apple was Catholic: Quote:
The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the "ratio studiorum" of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach - if not the Kingdom of Heaven - the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.
DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment.
You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counterreformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It's true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions.....
And machine code, which lies beneath both systems (or environments, if you prefer)? Ah, that is to do with the Old Testament, and is Talmudic and cabalistic. . . .
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02-16-2008, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by fredtgreco Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50. |  
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You could drag out your ol' Apple II+
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02-16-2008, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by fredtgreco Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Seb Quote:
Originally Posted by fredtgreco Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50. |
And then realize the utensils you want to eat with are not compatible. | 
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02-17-2008, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by nleshelman You could go to the Apple store and stare for a couple of hours. Or you could go to Best Buy and tell everyone looking at a PC that you switched to Apple. Of course, you could make some spiritual example out of it and maybe even write a tract to go along with it.
"Why Apple vs. PC is much like the antithetical relationship between the Sons of God and the sons of Adam" by John Bergsing | Now that is an interesting concept! LOL!
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02-17-2008, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by fredtgreco Go to a restaurant and order a $20 dinner. Pay $50. |
And then realize the utensils you want to eat with are not compatible. | Those days are long gone. Compatibility isn't a problem (for most of us end users). And I'll tell you this, I paid the same amount of money for this Vista Hunk-O-Junk that I will the Mac. I'm just so very happy to be leaving Gates 'n' his cronies behind in less than two weeks!
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