Comments on: Mac vs. Windows (/ducking)

By: Alanna

Alanna — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:22:05 +0000

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By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:22:58 +0000

Windows is the U.S. Post Office. Mac is FedEx. Linux is the internets.

Windows is Ford. Mac is Toyota. Linux is Cessna.

Windows is Bush. Mac is Obama. Linux is Feingold.

By: H. Mann

H. Mann — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:07:44 +0000

The year is 1952. Windows is Stalinist Russia. Mac is the Mediterranean playgrounds of the rich and famous. Linux is the concept of a united Europe.

By: Bjorn Watland

Bjorn Watland — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:53:52 +0000

Where does that leave the Newton?

By: Zirp

Zirp — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:42:43 +0000

How about

Macintosh System File 1.x-2.x: Pre-Axial Age European folk religion, just as “religion” per religion was an alien concept in that era, Apple eschewed the term “Operating System”, seeing the system file as simply one aspect of a seamless, all-encompassing Macintoshness.

System 5.x – 6.x: Classical folk religion

System 7.x – 9.x: Medieval folk religion, waning dramatically toward the end.

OS X: Wicca, a new creation, styling itself the successor to the old folk religion but really more like its Axial rivals (BSD Unix)

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:16:39 +0000

Protowicca then.

By: Zirp

Zirp — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:15:14 +0000

Bjorn, I would prefer to think of Windows as the Roman Catholic Church, the Mac as the wicca and other similar groups around Europe, all at a time a century or two earlier than you are talking about.

Didn’t wicca begin in the 19th century?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:08:24 +0000

Bjorn: No, wait, wait, I’ve got it. Thought this up while taking a shower …

Macs are the … oh, no, wait, that won’t work…

Never mind.

By: Zirp

Zirp — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:01:58 +0000

Given that Mac is so proprietary, I'll never know what it's like unless they open up to the "clone" market again. *cough*

By: Bjorn Watland

Bjorn Watland — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:47:57 +0000

Ok, Windows is the RCC, Macs are the Jews, get it, they started first. Xerox Alto is the Babylonians, which the Jews got their ideas from. Linux is so platform agnostic it should be some sort of anarchistic atheist grassroots movement of slack jawed hippies (desktops) who mooch off of their capitalist parents (servers).