Got Mac?

[vampireuk]

http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/archived/20021126.gif

:D

[netviper13]

Bwahahaha, now that's humor!

[stncttr908]

It's funny because its true. :cool:

[***CENSORED***]

My father once said the funniest things were those that were most true. ;)

[Starscream]

ha!

[Nephilim]

Apple, bringing unix to the masses
:D

[Son Goku]

Mac and AO-Hell users... I used to get the Mac user who would try to convince me to switch when I told them I didn't like how easily Windows 95 could crash. At which point (I had by then got Windows NT 4.0 after upgrading my hardware so as not to have to use win95 mostly) I told them "Well I happen to care about software compatibility. If I didn't, I would just get an Alpha and run Alpha NT on it. With FX32! there would be a chance for many of my win32 apps to still run. With Mac no software I own would run".

I could have mentioned how much I disliked Mac OS (OK this was prior to OS X which I, admittedly haven't looked at first hand), but that probably would have been pushing it with die hard Mac heads.

Though some Mac users knew what a DEC Alpha was, other more clueless Mac users thought their Mac was loads better then it, and would run faster too LOL

[Darth Rancid]

Apple seems to think you can't edit film on PCs... I hate that.

[de><ta]

Me want 17" power book with superdrive. Me want 17' powerboo with superdrive....

Apple computers are good, but the people who use them like are kinda "inbred" (a bit like the Apple Computer company) , if i offend the intelects who use them, pardon me. But some apple users dont know squat about computers, did any of you read that article on slash about that lady baking an Apple powerbook... wtf :mad:

Being a computer engineer i fully appreciate the Apple (esp powerbook) as one of the best laptops. But there arent any OEM's for apple, it is all inbred produced by probably one assembling joint (full of wozniak and job's drones). If there were more OEM's for apple i am sure the powerbook would not be so freakin expenisive. Must buy 17' powerbook, pretty blue light....

[Son Goku]

Someone baking their Apple powerbook LOL Sounds like this one guy I ran into on Battle.net several years ago.

I used to have a T3 connection (back when I lived in the dorms) and was playing Diablo. Got sick of people with slow connections comming in and lagging the games to hell.

So I created this game called "Lag Sucks ISDN or better Plz". The first person joined and had DSL and all was OK. The second person joined and had a cable modem and still OK. But then, this person joined and the game lagged to hell. There was a freakin hour glass on the screen 99% of the time and it was impossible to do almost anything.

So I asked them their connection, and they insisted they couldn't lag it must be one of us. I told them that there was no lag until they joined, and I seriously doubted that my T3 connection, this other person's DSL connection, or the other guy's cable modem connection just lagged the game to hell when he joined. At this point he said

I don't know what a T3 is, but it has to be slower then my 28.8 modem because AOL said I have the fastest Internet connection in the world. No way can your T3 be faster then my turbo Internet, you are lagging, not me.

ROFL, some people...

[vampireuk]

I don't know what a T3 is, but it has to be slower then my 28.8 modem because AOL said I have the fastest Internet connection in the world. No way can your T3 be faster then my turbo Internet, you are lagging, not me.

roflmfao:D

Some people should not be allowed on computers:D

[saturnotaku]

I don't know what a T3 is, but it has to be slower then my 28.8 modem because AOL said I have the fastest Internet connection in the world. No way can your T3 be faster then my turbo Internet, you are lagging, not me.

I would love to know what you said in response to this.

Some people's children...sheesh.

[vampireuk]

About a year ago, I was called out to do field service. When I got to the lady's house and was let in, the first thing I noticed was the smell of gunpowder. The second, the double barreled 12-gauge shotgun lying on the couch. Third, the big gaping hole in the side of her computer. (It was one of those Macs where the CPU and monitor are in the same housing.)

I looked at her. She was a little grey haired woman, around 60 or so. Had she? Not possible. Still, I had to ask.


Me: "Did you shoot...?"
Customer: "Yes, I got a little mad at it. They told me I couldn't hurt it, but I think they were wrong. Can you salvage anything?"
I mumbled something about not being a Mac tech and told her I would send one out as soon as I could. Then I burned rubber out of there.

About a month later, my boss called me in; he had the woman on hold. She had apparently complained that I was not competent and that I had lied when I said I would send out a competent Mac tech -- or perhaps I just hadn't been able to find anyone competent working for us. I filled him in. He paused for a second, picked up the phone, and said, "Ma'am? Did you put a shotshell into your computer? ... Uh huh...I'm sorry, ma'am, we really can't...well, no.... I'll try to send one out.... Nice doing business with you...." He hung up, looked at me, and said, "You think any of our Mac techs will go?" I shook my head. "Me neither."

We heard from her again last week, when my boss told me that the woman had called up to cuss me out, saying not only was I a "young whippersnapper" but also a liar, since one of our competitors had fixed her computer just fine, even fixing the little scratches and stuff on the monitor glass. That sounded fishy, so I went over and talked with the techs. After a case of canned drinks and a few bags of junk food, I wormed the whole story out of them. Apparently, about the only salvagable part was the hard drive (which the buckshot had missed), so they took it out, went out and bought a whole new computer, slapped the hard drive in, and presented it to the lady as her repaired computer -- of course charging her an arm and a leg.

[Nephilim]

Originally posted by de><ta
Being a computer engineer i fully appreciate the Apple (esp powerbook) as one of the best laptops. But there arent any OEM's for apple, it is all inbred produced by probably one assembling joint (full of wozniak and job's drones). If there were more OEM's for apple i am sure the powerbook would not be so freakin expenisive. Must buy 17' powerbook, pretty blue light....

Having no OEMs is a blessing and a curse. It's a curse for the obvious pricing reasons, but it is a blessing in that you don't get the compatability issues, or voltage issues (geforce/athlon anyone?), or any of the other hardware compatability pitfalls that you have to watch out for with PCs. Apple maintains strict control over the hardware in it's systems for that very reason.

Now, does this mean that you can't upgrade your Mac? Hell no. In fact, with the older G3 powerbooks, you could even upgrade the processors on them quite easily thanks to companies like Sonnet (http://www.sonnettech.com/).

As for the comic....well, I find it kind of silly that it's bashing something because it's easy to use. It's kinda like bashing a car because the wheels are in the right place.

[Nephilim]

Originally posted by vampireuk
About a year ago, I was called out to do field service. When I got to the lady's house and was let in, the first thing I noticed was the smell of gunpowder. The second, the double barreled 12-gauge shotgun lying on the couch. Third, the big gaping hole in the side of her computer. (It was one of those Macs where the CPU and monitor are in the same housing.)

I looked at her. She was a little grey haired woman, around 60 or so. Had she? Not possible. Still, I had to ask.


Me: "Did you shoot...?"
Customer: "Yes, I got a little mad at it. They told me I couldn't hurt it, but I think they were wrong. Can you salvage anything?"
I mumbled something about not being a Mac tech and told her I would send one out as soon as I could. Then I burned rubber out of there.

About a month later, my boss called me in; he had the woman on hold. She had apparently complained that I was not competent and that I had lied when I said I would send out a competent Mac tech -- or perhaps I just hadn't been able to find anyone competent working for us. I filled him in. He paused for a second, picked up the phone, and said, "Ma'am? Did you put a shotshell into your computer? ... Uh huh...I'm sorry, ma'am, we really can't...well, no.... I'll try to send one out.... Nice doing business with you...." He hung up, looked at me, and said, "You think any of our Mac techs will go?" I shook my head. "Me neither."

We heard from her again last week, when my boss told me that the woman had called up to cuss me out, saying not only was I a "young whippersnapper" but also a liar, since one of our competitors had fixed her computer just fine, even fixing the little scratches and stuff on the monitor glass. That sounded fishy, so I went over and talked with the techs. After a case of canned drinks and a few bags of junk food, I wormed the whole story out of them. Apparently, about the only salvagable part was the hard drive (which the buckshot had missed), so they took it out, went out and bought a whole new computer, slapped the hard drive in, and presented it to the lady as her repaired computer -- of course charging her an arm and a leg.

Ahh, so you read Computer Stupidities (http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_abuse.shtml) too.

[Son Goku]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
I would love to know what you said in response to this.

Some people's children...sheesh.

He might have left after that, feeling rather unwelcome...however it was back in 1999. I ran into a few others on battle.net (and have since too). The "my 28.8 modem with AOL is the fastest Internet connection in the world" sort of takes the cake though...

A couple others I ran into were:

- A person who came into game where I was playing Diablo and started begging for me to equip him with all the best stuff, because he was afraid of dieing. I ignored him at first, but he persisted and wouldn't stop pestering me, or leave.

So I finall told him that if he was afraid of dieing, he should just hit Alt + F4 and he wouldn't have to worry about dieing again. Somehow he missed the point because 5 minutes latter he came back complaining that every time he hits Alt + F4 Diablo just disappears off his screen. He had apperently tried it many times and wanted to know if there was another way to hit Alt + F4 so the game would give him items or something?

LOL, he never quite got that I was telling him if he was so afraid of dieing, he should just quit playing :p

- There was one day I decided to try my hand at a rogue. It was a newer character, but hardly my only. In any case some blasted lvl 32 PK came in to kill off my then lvl 2 rogue (unlike Diablo II, Diablo I never had restrictions on PKing).

So I was a bit annoyed with that, left and came back with my lvl 49 sorcerer (lvl 50 was the highest level possible in Diablo I, at least without trainers hacking it).

Anyway, he tried to act all tough, and started demanding I send him a portal, and he'll show me. So I did sent a portal (one could go through portals to PK in Dia 1, but one could also make portals a trap); but with one slight exception. I entirely engulfed the TP in firewall, and my firewall wasn't low level either. BTW, unlike Dia 2 days, firewall didn't die out in a few sencond either, but at higher levels lasted for many minutes...there were also no casting delays prior to when Dia2 xpack came out (in either version)...

When he went through the portal, he got it alright and died instantly. At this point he started whining

No fair!!! You killed me before I could put all my God mode hacks on. Mommy, no fair, no fair. How dare you...

After ranting and whining, he left. So let me get this straight, he came in with a lvl 32 and uses God mode hacks to kill a lvl 2, then whines when he dies? Some PK ROFL

[saturnotaku]

This stuff is why my friends and I avoided Battle.net like the plague.