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Alephcat
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posted February 28, 2005 02:39
this is an interesting take on mac useability, but you really can tell that he is mostly a windoze user.
http://www.wrightcomputerconsulting.com/mac.wmv
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Serenak
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posted February 28, 2005 04:37
OMG,
That was hysterical.... I was laughing so hard I had to watch it again to get all the bits I missed.
Thanks Alephcat, I need that one...
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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posted February 28, 2005 05:03
Oh, that's very funny ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif) . And I've hardly even used Macs!
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sosumi
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posted February 28, 2005 05:44
Funny, some of those are the kinds of problems I have when trying to use Windows. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Serenak
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posted February 28, 2005 05:57
Actually I don't really take it as a Mac thing, he could've just said computer and it would still have been hilarious...
I think what makes it so funny is that at one time or another we've probably all watched as someone goes into that sort of a spin IRL - Remember the guy (in Texas I think) who shot his PC with a magnum, because he couldn't get it to do what he wanted?
Actually that sort of computing "experience" is exactly what Jef Raskin railed against.
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Alephcat
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posted February 28, 2005 08:53
a fair ammount of his critisims are aplicable to windos [sic] too, I have not really used mac so I can not say how many of them are valid, but it was very funny.
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posted February 28, 2005 09:26
Actually none of it was valid criticism (except maybe the bit about once it's deleted that's your lot) but that shouldn't get in the way of a good skit...
Actually that probably makes it funnier, because people I've met who are really like that accuse their hardware/software of the most blatantly impossible things and actually believe it...
And when he dropkicked the iMac I was crying with laughter... real tears...
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littlefish
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posted February 28, 2005 15:10
.WMV? ::shudder::
EDIT: I take it everyone has heard how they stole all the insides?
PS The video isn't working for me. I refuse to install WMP, and Mplayer is only givng me audio. Any suggestions? Mac mini/10.3/ Mplayer 2.0b9
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i_need_a_pillow
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posted February 28, 2005 15:16
I haven't had any of the problems he's had, but there are several computers in my school's journalism classroom (a 25-system Mac lab) that I need to drop out of that second-story window.
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Alephcat
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posted February 28, 2005 15:39
quote:
Originally posted by i_need_a_pillow:
I haven't had any of the problems he's had, but there are several computers in my school's journalism classroom (a 25-system Mac lab) that I need to drop out of that second-story window.
that would not work, I know, I have tried it
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dragonman97
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posted February 28, 2005 16:12
*That* was great. And guess what? I watched it on my Mini. In fact, I'm writing this in Firefox on my Mini. The disk recovery thing always makes me laugh at how stupidly frail HFS+ is. I can recover formatted NTFS hard drives in a few hours - I've never really had reason to do so with ext2, but the same software I use to recover FAT & NTFS can recover ext2. (Yes, a lot can be found with just Knoppix, but I do have great software for recovering the aforementioned formats -- but those systems aren't usually rendered inoperable, unlike Mac OS 9 [and probably X.]) Oh...and the bloody file renaming bit - I don't personally get the 'rename willy nilly through double-clicking' "feature."
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