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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Subject: Re: I hate the Mac
- Message-ID: <tubs0kc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: SGI TechPubs
- References: <1992Dec21.235636.19915@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:36:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.235636.19915@vpnet.chi.il.us>, orc@vpnet.chi.il.us writes:
- |Every single manager in my office uses a Mac. None of them can
- |read mail, because it isn't on a Mac, and they can't deal with
- |talking to Unix to get it. All the secretaries in my office use
- |Macs, and get very confused when I try to give them documents in
- |any form other than Mac-foo format.
-
- |I used to like the Mac. I thought it was cute. This is obviously
- |part of the plan - Apple is the figurehead of some alien invasion,
- |and the real aliens will arrive when the country has come to a
- |stop, with people drooling mindlessly over Mac icons.
-
- Your mistake here is in blaming the Mac instead of the idiots
- you work with. Can you *imagine* these people trying to use a
- Unix machine? They have trouble understanding the visual folder
- hierarchy. Are they going to grasp Unix directories? They
- can't use MSMail. Are they going to cope with /usr/bin/mail?
- The Finder mystifies them. Are they going to be power csh
- users?
-
- The Macintosh allows people who would otherwise never touch
- a computer to use a computer to do actual work. It doesn't
- change the people.
-
- You should conclude, therefore, that you hate people. Ordinary
- people. People who aren't nerdy weenies like you & me.
-
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- c j silverio
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