“I bought an Apple [Macintosh]. ‘Wimp,’ said a computer geek at work. I sensed the fear. You see, he makes his living from the Microsoft Industrial Complex. It has piled so many worthless programs into your computer that an entire digital bureaucracy has developed in the hard drive to manage it. And like any bureaucracy it is unwieldy, inefficient and impenetrable,” Mike Thomas writes for The Orlando Sentinel.
Thomas writes, “Hence, we must have geeks to serve as our intermediaries. Lots of geeks. Every time the evil geeks in Singapore find another hole in Windows, through which they can invade our homes, it creates more jobs for the good geeks. The entire national economy, in fact, depends on the incompetence of Microsoft. If everyone switched to Apple, the unemployment rate would skyrocket and we would fall into a depression. The government would be forced to give away Microsoft-based computers to stimulate the economy.”
“Be that as it may, I wanted a computer that would obey me at least as well as my Labrador puppy. I spent most of my time with the old computer trying to figure out how to do stuff rather than actually doing it,” Thomas writes. “God bless Apple.”
Full article, highly recommended, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Brother Thomas! We see you are doubting no longer. Go forth and spread the Word. Your rewards today are numerous, they will take the form of MDN referrals. Okay, who’s NeXT?
“the Microsoft Industrial Complex” HAHAHAHAHAHaaaaa i like that, reminds me of a house of cards, lets find the one at the bottom and distroy em
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Reverse engineering is what Microsoft did to learn what makes the Mac tick. They did it by luring Steve Jobs to allow them to write MS Word for Mac who then allowed Gates to walk away with the prototype of the Mac.
hehehe, I get it “Okay, who’s NeXT?” that is funny, with Steve running NeXT, oh that’s good, hehehehe!
Eric,
Al_Joe beat me to it. WindowShade is an excellent utility, but i do disagree that transparent windows get old after a while; I make use of that feature every day. It’s invaluable to me for copying text from a window beneath the one I’m using. The ability to shrink a window to the title bar, as well as minimize them to the desktop are also features that make life much, much easier with a smaller monitor (I use a PowerBook). Coupled with Expos�, Desktop Manager (which adds virtual desktops), and Ittec (navigate your entire file system from contextual menus), my workflow has dramatically improved. I no longer have to move windows aside to see what I’m doing, and I have dedicated workspaces for email, browsing, graphics, music and *choke* productive work. I just leave the app windows open and switch among the various desktops with hotkeys. WindowShade, Desktop Manager and Ittec have become must-have utilities for me, and I wonder how I managed without them before.
Nonesense,
Obviously you’re too moronic to appreciate the difference between market share and profitability, otherwise you’d understand that the former is meaningless to the viability of a manufacturing company, despite what anyone says. If you’re so dead set against Apple and Macs why the hell have you been wasting your time and ours on this site for the last three years? Do you seriously think that your puerile rants are going to convince anyone here to buy a PC? We know better, and a know-nothing microbe-brained Microsoft fanboy like you isn’t going to change the fact that OS X is better than Windows, period. And the word is spelled “nonsense” by the way; with two E’s, not three. Appropriate nickname. Now go back to your malware-riddled hell and leave us the fuck alone.
Eric,
Al_Joe was also a bit mistaken about WindowShade making Finder windows transparent. It makes all windows transparent.
thanks for all the info. have looked into Window Shade and i think i’m gonna pass. Expos� is enough for what i need.
i just tested it o out. it has conflict with LimeWire so i deleted it.
Nonesense [sic],
I, for one, want to thank you for visiting this site. I understand how you must be feeling. The sense of frustration and betrayal by your Windows PC can be a very unsettling thing.
I know that thinking about switching to a Mac is not an easy thing, but I believe that once you get enough information and finally decide to take the plunge, you’ll be asking yourself why you hadn’t done it a long time ago.
MDN often posts articles on how to ‘add a Mac to your computing arsenal’ on a regular basis. Please feel free to check those out as often as you like and, and remember, although we Mac users can be very passionate and vocal about Apple and the Mac, we are not without an understanding of your predicament.
Many of the regular posters here are trained professionals with many years of Mac experience. They can be very, very helpful in helping you work through this time in your life. When you are ready to come in off the ledge, we will be here for you.
We have counselors standing by…
these PeeCee users are afraid to switch because they are afraid to realise that since they wont be tweedling with OSX, they will be forced to actually do some work and use real productive software like a spreadsheet or wordprocessor or whatever software they use at work. and since all they did in the windows environment was tinker with the OS, they never really developped enough proficiency to do real work using productivity software. reality can be tough to face sometimes.
Hey Eric24601:
Acquisition is, IMHO, a much better program than Limewire. It has a more Mac-y interface, and takes up less system resources. It is shareware, not free, so that may affect you. Overall, though, a better program.
Eric,
Regarding LimeWire, I find it painfully slow. Have you tried Acquisition? It’s fast and slick with a nice interface. It’s written by the same person who wrote the very nice news reader NewsFire.
thanks for the tip, but as paleobiology guessed, the shareware fee is an issue for me. i’ll stick with the slowness of LimeWire. I just leave it on all the time.
fandango wrote:
“We have counselors standing by…”
I like your attitude. Wish I had that zen-like style when under pressure.
Ok, now I’m getting a little worried! You see, I’ve been using Apple computers since the days of the Apple II. I love my Macs for many reasons. 1) They work; 2) I just love promoting a product that is “special”; 3) (and this is a point that Thomas mentioned, with his “thank goodness there isn’t as much software as Windows line) Macs don’t come with their own pre-defined jungle of add-ons, techs, certifications, etc etc. Well, not really.
So what happens when Apple’s marketshare gets really big? Are things going to get ugly? Steve, if you’re listening — and this is critical — don’t screw it up like MS did. Because if you do, I’ll have no choice but to join the Linux, or YellowTab guys. Keep making Macs the way you always have, and damn the torpedoes.
Chrisnorth,
When he said ‘thank goodness there isn’t as much software’ wasn’t he referring to all of the malware that is written for Windows and not for Macs?
Al, well done.
As I’ve written in posts past, when I was at a MacWorld Expo, I was behind a couple of consultants talking about their business.
They both loved Macs and would love to recommend them to customers. But they recommended and installed networks of Windows computers because of the guarenteed return visits to fix things. The Mac would run trouble-free thus denying them additional revenue.