Comments on: Switcher poser http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/ Full of sound and furry Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dhrakar http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1263 Dhrakar Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:24:42 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1263 *sigh* A couple of folks have sent me links to that article ... along with tongue-clicking noises and "see! told you folks would switch to VIsta" The problem is that none of them have gotten past the first sentence (or even the headline). Thus, even though Hutsko may go back to his Mac in the end, it still winds up looking like a win for Vista. Grrrr... :-P *sigh* A couple of folks have sent me links to that article … along with tongue-clicking noises and “see! told you folks would switch to VIsta” The problem is that none of them have gotten past the first sentence (or even the headline). Thus, even though Hutsko may go back to his Mac in the end, it still winds up looking like a win for Vista. Grrrr… :-P

]]> By: Billy K http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1262 Billy K Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:40:10 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1262 @Church of Apple My ashtray in the darkness means I've always got ashes on the carpet. :( @Church of Apple

My ashtray in the darkness means I’ve always got ashes on the carpet. :(

]]> By: Church of Apple http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1261 Church of Apple Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:36:29 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1261 Ridicule Hutsko if you like, however his is clearly a tale of the Apple prodigal son. Such odd behavior is has already been illuminated upon in the Book of Jobs: “…Lo I say unto you my Faithful, there may come a time when one of you will desert me. He shall be led astray into the darkness and his judgment shall be blinded by vicissitude. Novelty, however, may not always embody progress, simplification or improvement and he shall discover he hath gained nothing yet become lost and despondent. And as he wanders aimlessly in the darkness, in his most desperate hour, I shall a light onto him shine so that he may find his way home to me. And he shall not suffer distance from Apple nor want of intuitiveness or ease-of-use again for I have delivered him from the shadows…” Jobs 18:29-34 We should be celebrating Hutsko’s return! For once he was lost but now has been delivered back into the Light of Apple. Hurray! @ Scotty Your devotion is well commended. Your name and good works are spoken highly of in the halls of the Church of Apple as of late. We encourage you to continue your missionary in bringing the Light of Apple to the misguided. Ridicule Hutsko if you like, however his is clearly a tale of the Apple prodigal son. Such odd behavior is has already been illuminated upon in the Book of Jobs:

“…Lo I say unto you my Faithful, there may come a time when one of you will desert me. He shall be led astray into the darkness and his judgment shall be blinded by vicissitude. Novelty, however, may not always embody progress, simplification or improvement and he shall discover he hath gained nothing yet become lost and despondent. And as he wanders aimlessly in the darkness, in his most desperate hour, I shall a light onto him shine so that he may find his way home to me. And he shall not suffer distance from Apple nor want of intuitiveness or ease-of-use again for I have delivered him from the shadows…”

Jobs 18:29-34

We should be celebrating Hutsko’s return! For once he was lost but now has been delivered back into the Light of Apple. Hurray!

@ Scotty

Your devotion is well commended. Your name and good works are spoken highly of in the halls of the Church of Apple as of late. We encourage you to continue your missionary in bringing the Light of Apple to the misguided.

]]> By: Donn http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1260 Donn Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:13:53 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1260 I glad the Macalope calls it on both sides of the aisle. I glad the Macalope calls it on both sides of the aisle.

]]> By: jack http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1259 jack Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:13:13 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1259 And what is up with your verb tense in those two paragraphs? You “miss” the Mac that you’re writing on? Wha-huh? I got the impression that he missed his 12" PowerBook, not the new MacBook he purchased (that he wrote the article on...) And what is up with your verb tense in those two paragraphs? You “miss” the Mac that you’re writing on? Wha-huh?

I got the impression that he missed his 12″ PowerBook, not the new MacBook he purchased (that he wrote the article on…)

]]> By: Billy K http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1258 Billy K Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:22:25 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1258 For a guy who goes to great lengths to tell us he's a reporter ("It’s called reporting."), there sure are a lot of errors in this story - in grammar, accuracy and just plain being misleading. I tried to read with an open mind (despite the fact this is on a MS-sponsored news site), but I just had to stop at page two. Someone explain to me why the author felt a plug for Zune neceassary in a Vista review? Someone explain to me how he can claim, "I don’t subscribe to a certain technology or gadget for my own day to day use." then at the end he explains how much he likes his MacBook. Someone please...PLEASE...explain to me how GraphicConverter is a substitue for iPhoto. Please explain this to me, because it seems to me the author has no idea what this program does, yet he writes about it with "authority." "And then it hit me, the reason why I switched from Mac to Windows Vista. Because it is new." No, you switched because you wanted to be paid to write a story. What an ass. For a guy who goes to great lengths to tell us he’s a reporter (“It’s called reporting.”), there sure are a lot of errors in this story – in grammar, accuracy and just plain being misleading. I tried to read with an open mind (despite the fact this is on a MS-sponsored news site), but I just had to stop at page two.

Someone explain to me why the author felt a plug for Zune neceassary in a Vista review?

Someone explain to me how he can claim, “I don’t subscribe to a certain technology or gadget for my own day to day use.” then at the end he explains how much he likes his MacBook.

Someone please…PLEASE…explain to me how GraphicConverter is a substitue for iPhoto. Please explain this to me, because it seems to me the author has no idea what this program does, yet he writes about it with “authority.”

“And then it hit me, the reason why I switched from Mac to Windows Vista. Because it is new.”

No, you switched because you wanted to be paid to write a story.

What an ass.

]]> By: Bill Scott http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1257 Bill Scott Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:04:15 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1257 His story looks like one more attempt to get hits for a website by inciting the Mac community. When will we stop feeding these guys' egos? His story looks like one more attempt to get hits for a website by inciting the Mac community. When will we stop feeding these guys’ egos?

]]> By: scotty http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1256 scotty Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:46:42 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1256 I was going to send this to you, but you beat me to it. I love it: he doesn't even switch! I was in the big mall near my work here in Vienna, Austria yesterday. There was a special tradeshow style booth set up for the Vista introduction (just across from the 1,000 Euro waterbeds booth). It was a frickin' ghost town: nothing there but a few polo shirt wearing sales guys. I commented to my coworkers that were this the launch of leopard, there'd be a line out the door. THey didn't believe me, so I've been sending them links all day of people camping out for Mac stuff! Also, I am circling the weak members of the herd. I have isolated one guy and today gave him a tour of my Powerbook. He got all swoony on me. I think he'll turn soon. I was going to send this to you, but you beat me to it. I love it: he doesn’t even switch!

I was in the big mall near my work here in Vienna, Austria yesterday. There was a special tradeshow style booth set up for the Vista introduction (just across from the 1,000 Euro waterbeds booth). It was a frickin’ ghost town: nothing there but a few polo shirt wearing sales guys. I commented to my coworkers that were this the launch of leopard, there’d be a line out the door. THey didn’t believe me, so I’ve been sending them links all day of people camping out for Mac stuff!

Also, I am circling the weak members of the herd. I have isolated one guy and today gave him a tour of my Powerbook. He got all swoony on me. I think he’ll turn soon.

]]> By: Chicken2nite http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1255 Chicken2nite Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:46:22 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1255 While OS X has a built in spell checker, it doesn't have a grammar check worth a damn. Perhaps he should have used that Word 2007 he was talking about... Lazy bastard can't get anyone to proof read. Isn't that what editors are for? While OS X has a built in spell checker, it doesn’t have a grammar check worth a damn. Perhaps he should have used that Word 2007 he was talking about…

Lazy bastard can’t get anyone to proof read. Isn’t that what editors are for?

]]> By: andrew harrison http://www.macalope.com/2007/01/30/switcher-poser/#comment-1254 andrew harrison Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:45:34 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=157#comment-1254 forget incorrect tense in the last paragraph, his spelling and grammar throughout the whole piece are atrocious forget incorrect tense in the last paragraph, his spelling and grammar throughout the whole piece are atrocious

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