arrghh.. how do you reason with Mac users!

[nightkhaos]

Abaxas, it appears you crossed the line. I can't help you anymore.

I warned you. I tried to tell you be more dipolimatc, but you didn't listen. Now you're been Zak-slapped. You are therefore dead to me.

RIP Abaxas.

[Perfectionist]

Abaxas, I take it you're a Mac user, and one that is unfortunately not in contact with reality. I pitty you. I have nothing against your choice of religion, in fact I use Mac OS X on occasion, only your attudite to those, whom you consider to be, less enlightened than yourself.

Fixed. :/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm just kind of sick of this.. and needed somewhere to rant..

Mac fanboys in biochem labs are everywhere now.. its like a plague..

Even my boss is a Mac fan, a new one I should say.. Now 40% of my lab are Mac users..

Fair deal, I like the Mac simplistic interface as well.. but gosh can the lab Mac users habit get any foul smelling than this..

Its like a chain of never ending repeating prerecorded counter rant about how bad windows is or how unfriendly our redhat host is whenever they are supposedly forced to used these systems.... and lunchtime while collecting laughing at windows users with their dell/asus/vaio laptops (which ironically, other than browsing the internet, and a couple of things written in broken perl... none of the proper work-not-dic*ing-around softwares is written for Mac, and is now all Win Server and Linux hosted)

'Blluueeghhhg... windows *****, sorry yen but Mac is way better.. ***** to be you Yen *by the way its referring me.*'

'We should write a letter to Apple and ask them to write these softwares in Mac, so we can rid of all the windows/linux machine forever...'

'Linux is like a Mac stripped useless'

On and on and on and on.... every f****** day...

My desk has been surrounded by avid, newly recruited Mac lovers... if you guys want windows and linux admin people to butter you up just because you own a Mac.. THEN DO IT AT HOME with your kids!! Infect them with your propaganda... stop doing it in the labs!

It is funny how many bio scientists use Macs. I thing it is the user interface which endears them to many and the fact that applications like Photoshop have for a long time worked better on them(probably not true for the later releases I think). TBH,I like Macs as they do work very well for the applications you buy them for,the user interface is simple to understand and they look nice too. In some cases too like with the original Mac Pro it was actually cheaper to buy one than a similarly specced Dell workstation!

OTH,I like tinkering with software and computer hardware so a Mac is not for me.

However since the best software for most of the equipment we used at work ran only on PCs we only had a few Macs.

[abaxas]

if in doubt.... use photoshopped images for your cause...

[zak edit]boobs removed[zak edit]

[Zak33]

/\ unhelpful, and too close to the mark... subject will be closed soon cos it's got silly.

[abaxas]

/\ unhelpful, and too close to the mark... subject will be closed soon cos it's got silly.

If I may ask... What power do you hold? And what rules have we/I broken?

[Zadock]

what's a Mac?

This is a Mac


What is PC?

This is PC


Is it worth fighting over?



Do I use a Mac?

No.....

why?

Cos I don't have a huge beard with squirrels in it, and I don't smell of stale wee wee.

I like nothing better than building my own PC with a dizzying array of components that may never actually work properly together, and eventually have to come here to HEXUS and ask Agent to mend it all for me.

So... if anyone choose to disrespect Agent, even via someone else's Sig... expect a slap.

Thanks for that Zak you just made me laugh out loud, sarcastic and off the wall I love it.

IMO vista really isn't that bad, sure it had some teething problems. OSX has more than its fair share of faults I'm sure? I seem to remember there being an update that broke some mac books not that long ago and apple only have to deal with a small number of hardware configurations.

There really is no need to argue its just personal preference... the only point I will make is that PCs are better for games than Mac and you can't aruge with that. Both do everything else equally well.

Oh and Zak is a moderator (And then some hence the orange text... Hexus staff? (without checking)) abaxas, he isn't saying you are breaking the rules you are just aggrevating other hexites and he is indicating that he will close the topic before it goes too far and someone does break the rules.

[Steve]

If I may ask... What power do you hold? And what rules have we/I broken?

Zak33 is an admin, and you broke the gratuitious use of boobs rule.

I am Staff, and I support Zak33's decision.

[PeteSmith]

Who would of thought such a topic would of sparked such debate. What a shocker.

[sawyen]

I suppose I am at fault for starting this thread.. all I wanted was some ranting space, but never expected things to go so hostile..

I'm just mostly sick of a significant proportion of apple mac users religious preaching and requesting that gravity to be centered around Jobs..

Just to correct for this, I believe its time to close this thread, as I've just got my pitiful revenge as one of them mac users just got the royal lecture session with the boss due to low productivity in his research... *most probably due to his mac.. hehe.. sorry my bad*

Zak, if you could do the honours...

[aidanjt]

Me?.. I thought it was mostly fun and friendly barbs.

[nightkhaos]

Me?.. I thought it was mostly fun and friendly barbs.

+1

I don't think we did that much harm. I mean Abaxas (may Jobs rest his soul) got Zak-slapped, but that's the only serious thing that happened.

[Zak33]

If I may ask... What power do you hold? And what rules have we/I broken?

power? None... I hold no power.

But I do hold P()\/\/4 and it's to be F3AR3D

or something like that....

rules... ? that's harder. Some rules aren't written down anywhere... but they just "exist"

It's quite legal to buy a Mac, for example... but it doesn't make it right now does it?

[nightkhaos]

It's quite legal to buy a Mac, for example... but it doesn't make it right now does it?

You got the color wrong. Try this one instead.

[jim]

So in conclusion, Macs suck, Linux sucks, Windows sucks, and we should all have a massive e-fight, before wiping our bloody noses and having a big e-hug and agreeing to accept each others' choices of operating systems?

Sometimes I'm proud to be a member of geekdom (and hence Hexus).

On another note, I missed my 1,000th post. ******* puffins conspiring against me again.

[nightkhaos]

So in conclusion, Macs suck, Linux sucks, Windows sucks, and we should all have a massive e-fight, before wiping our bloody noses and having a big e-hug and agreeing to accept each others' choices of operating systems?

Sometimes I'm proud to be a member of geekdom (and hence Hexus).

You forgot BSD, which also sucks.