Posted on 04/01/2009 11:26:51 AM PDT by altsehastiin
I am looking for a humorous photo. The photo is of a 20-something year old white kid sitting in an auditorium with an Apple laptop. The caption is something like "Liberal Liveblogging - because when the revolution comes, I already know which Starbucks window I'm going to smash with my bike lock"
Seems apropos of the G20 protest.
Can someone help me out?
ping to see photo
Well..., using an Apple Macintosh as a symbol of liberal blogging is the wrong one to portray, since you’ll find many of the Freepers, here, using those very same machines... :-)
I like that.
I happily use a Mac.
I dumped Windows and never looked back (no need to).
Yes, it does seem that the Windows users are coming over to the Apple Macintosh in droves. It’s good and bad, depending on how you look at it. I’ve been using the Macintosh since 1986 (a couple of years after being introduced), and the influx of Windows users does seem to have changed the dynamic of the Mac community. But, maybe the Internet has done that, too.
I remember that the user groups used to be quite a bit more prominent than they are now, and also it seems that Apple (although still very good) is simply becoming a brand (although, like I said, a good brand). But, the “community” seems to have changed...
As long as Apple keeps building their fantastically good computers and making them as marvelous as they have been doing, I’m going to keep buying them.
That's great, but when you're turning the computer inventory every 3 years to stay in warranty paying a premium for a Mac doesn't make much sense.
I've watched one of the last Mac-centric industries - biotech - move away from Macs over the past 10 years. Kind of a bummer actually.
I think it's referring back to Apple's counter-culture image. Remember the whole 'Think Different' campaign? And these were the guys who flew that big pirate flag out at Infine Loop in Cupertino.
You were saying — “That’s great, but when you’re turning the computer inventory every 3 years to stay in warranty paying a premium for a Mac doesn’t make much sense.”
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Here’s where a company is buying Macs, but running on a “Windows” paradigm or mentality. I don’t think it’s necessary to keep turning the computer inventory every three years. Perhaps bigger companies have gotten into this kind of mentality from what they’ve found out in the past from Windows machines. I don’t believe it’s necessary for the Macintosh machines. They do last a lot longer and therefore one won’t have anywhere near the kinds of breakdowns or repairs that they might have with the other ones.
If a company does pay for some kind of extended repair and/or warranty to extend it past those three years, there’s no way it should cost anywhere near the cost of doing the same thing with the other machines. It should be dramatically less, and therefore save the company a lot of money.
I believe that smaller outfits (not the real big companies) have found this out already and do that very thing. And also, by moving machines around, as they age, to lesser demanding tasks and/or personnel (that don’t demand as much computing power for their particular jobs), one can also save quite a bit of money.
It’s a completely different way of managing those same machines. It wouldn’t work in the “Windows world” of machines....
You were saying — “I think it’s referring back to Apple’s counter-culture image. Remember the whole ‘Think Different’ campaign? And these were the guys who flew that big pirate flag out at Infine Loop in Cupertino.”
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Yep, I’ve been around in the Macintosh world for a very long time... :-)
And “think different” is appropriate. It should still be the motto that one uses today. I’ve always thought that the computers should “work for the people” — instead of the people “working for the machines” — as seems to be the mentality of a lot of Windows geeks. Talk about “thinking different”... how about getting the computers to *make things easier* for the computer-user in “using them” — instead of “living for the machines”... LOL... Now, that’s “think different”, for sure...
That has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative, but being “stupid or smart”... :-)
I mean, the old motto was “live for your machine” — while the “think different” message is that the “machine lives for you”...
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