Steve Jobs is iDead

[Joe Redifer]

Well, since the Mac "just works", the gum is supposed to open and chew itself.

[jperryss]

Well, since the Mac "just works", the gum is supposed to open and chew itself.

Any company can make a pack of gum, but Apple did it right.

[vestcoat]

My friend just bought a new $2000 Mac because he couldn't upgrade to Pro Tools 9 on his $2000 G5.  When I asked why not, he said, "because PT9 requires the new OS and the new OS isn't compatible with my processor."  I said "why don't you just upgrade your processor, it's really easy."  He said, "I can't.  It's a Mac."

f*ck that.

[geise]

actually he could upgrade the processor if it's the same socket set, unless they put a really shitty power supply in there.

[BlueBMW]

"What's that Sansa MP3 player?  It must suck."

Wow, so I'm not the only one out there that thought the Sansa line of MP3 players were downright awesome?!

[Joe Redifer]

Xeons (which Mac Pros use) have their own weird-ass socket.  He might be able to use a different processor but I've never heard of anyone doing it.  The Intel Macs are much more "serviceable" in this regard than the old G5s.  The G5 may have been $2000 when he bought it, but that's like saying you replaced your $25,000 car with another $25,000 car therefore "f*ck that".  Or maybe that you replaced your $100 graphics card with another $100 graphics card, therefore f*ck that.  That argument doesn't hold a lot of weight.  He's obviously willing to pay the price. Does he deserve to be berated for it?  No.  It's his money and he can buy what he wants.  You see, the mindset of an average Apple user may be douchey, but the average mindset of a PC user (from what I've seen on the internet) certainly isn't better.  Arkhan comes off as a foul human being with his rants.  And similar diatribe doesn't really help anything.  Let people spend money on what they want.  Who gives a f*ck?  You're no better than they are.  I don't hear this same bitchiness from people who spend $30,000 on a car when a $500 Yugo could get them to the same place just as well.

[nodtveidt]

The argument holds plenty of weight. He's not griping that the *other* guy spent such a ridiculously stupid amount of money on a disposable machine, he's saying that he himself would never do something so ridiculously stupid. It's this kind of "can't upgrade it so we have to throw it away" attitude that led to the rise of the Walmart society, where everything is disposable and no one gives a shit about anything anymore. Because of this, companies stopped caring and now only produce cheap, low-grade products that are tossable rather than creating stuff that lasts.

[nectarsis]

I don't hear this same bitchiness from people who spend $30,000 on a car when a $500 Yugo could get them to the same place just as well.

You've obviously NEVER been in a Yugo.  Good/well will never enter that equation LOL

[Arkhan]

You see, the mindset of an average Apple user may be douchey, but the average mindset of a PC user (from what I've seen on the internet) certainly isn't better.  Arkhan comes off as a foul human being with his rants.  And similar diatribe doesn't really help anything.  Let people spend money on what they want.  Who gives a f*ck?  You're no better than they are.  I don't hear this same bitchiness from people who spend $30,000 on a car when a $500 Yugo could get them to the same place just as well.

You call it being a foul human being, I call it being brutally honest and not sugar coating it.  I am far better than the Appletard Cult.  I don't repeat lame commercials and use them to form the basis for my love of the platform, and I don't talk about how Bill Gates is the messiah and a huge inspiration, and all of that bullshit.  And you know what?  Apple started all of the bullshit.  They're the morons that chose to "be different" by basically flaming the other party.  They asked for it every time they released a HULLO IM A HIP MAC, and I'm a boring PC commercial. 

Sorry, my clear blue computer with blue LEDs all the f*ck over it, hooked up to a tron keyboard and mouse, playing games at max settings is a lot more hip and cool than a toaster looking machine with a screen on it that can't do shit except Photoshop and cut up videos.  Guess what, my bluebox of doom can run the entire Adobe line, and probably runs it better because I have SLI'd GTX 480s in the f*cker right now. 

I just loves me some IBM compatibles and love being able to do whatever the f*ck I want to them without needing some special, retarded screw driver just to get into the thing.  Ever try opening a Macbook?  Its a real punch in the cock. 

I stated my reasons for dislike pretty bluntly.  You won't hear me *only* giving the typical anti PC (Apple computers are PCs, lolol)/M$ propaganda nonsense like the iCultists.  All they can do is repeat commercials and have no idea what they're talking about.  The blind leading the blind.  At least my "diatribe" has valid reasoning.  I'm not just hating to hate.  There are reasons.  I tried Mac, I tried putting up with the morons, I gave it all a shot.  And the results are in: The stuff blows.  I even performed an experiment.  I successfully talked 5 people into buying Macbooks by simply repeating the commercials after buying my Macbook.  All I did was repeat all of the crap, and putz around on the thing.  Before I knew it, everyone went and took out Apple credit cards and got Macbooks.  3 of those 5 people regret the living shit out of it.

I don't care if they're buying the stuff.  Go ahead.  It just gives me more reasons to call the people complete dumbf*cks.  *shrug*. 



http://www.gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs




Insanity was programmed on a 1ghz NEC (f*ck yeah) laptop w/ Linux for about 70% of it, and then moved to an HP w/ Vista/Win7.  Suck it, Apple.  No turbob for you.

[nat]

http://www.gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs

Quote from article:

He has no public record of giving to charity over the years

HA HA, what the hell? They devoted three paragraphs in that article to discussing this. Who gives a flying f*ck?

He must be an awful guy, there is no "public record" of any donations to charity. People are really worried about this? Please.

There is no "public record" of any (albeit small) donations I've made to charities in my life. Anyone who is worried about what someone else is doing with their own money, the money they earned, ought to take a long, hard look at their own life and perhaps reconsider their priorities.

I bet there is no public record of him helping little old ladies cross the street, either. What a f*cking DICK.

[Joe Redifer]

There is no "public record" of any donations I've made to charities in my life.

What?  No charity?  I hate you.  I am going to waste my time and emotions on hating you.  I don't know why everyone else thinks you're god.

[Arkhan]

I think the reason they focused on that is because typically when big businesses/famous people make donations, they are well, big.  They don't fly under the radar.  Maybe he did, but I wouldn't be shocked if he didn't donate to charity. 

He spent his early years being a tool for various personal/business reasons, and spent his later years going off the deep end.  Oh well.

When I go, I want people to exclaim that I was a dick.  trollface.jpg better be on the little cards at the funeral, lol.

[Joe Redifer]

Those donations don't fly under the radar because usually the person doing the donating doesn't want them to fly under the radar.  They want it known how great of a person they are.

[nodtveidt]

Those donations don't fly under the radar because usually the person doing the donating doesn't want them to fly under the radar.  They want it known how great of a person they are.

So true. But in cases like this, you'd assume scumsuckers like Pat Robertson would be all over this... except he's never given to charity either.

[nat]

I think the reason they focused on that is because typically when big businesses/famous people make donations, they are well, big.  They don't fly under the radar.  Maybe he did, but I wouldn't be shocked if he didn't donate to charity. 

You're missing my point.

Who cares if he donated to charity or not? Donations are nobody's business but the person who is making the donation.

I'm guessing he probably did donate, quietly, but even if he didn't, what difference does it make? What bearing does it have on ANYTHING?

These people are making it out like a lack of charitable donations somehow belittles any of the man's life accomplishments. I find it hilarious.