[G4] Have to be able to laugh at ourselves....

[Dominic Ibarra]

I found it hilarious! But I also find Mexican jokes funny and I am 
Mexican. Of course its biased, that is the point. He is making fun of 
the whole Mac "experience," of our near zealot loyalty to Apple and how 
we have these secret keyboard maneuvers and what not. He did not even 
get to the super-secret Flash the PRAM trick! Its mostly dated OS9 
stuff, but come on, how can you not laugh at some of his jabs. I am 
sure the dude was an actor and this was a gag by some production 
company with too much time on their hands.

To satisfy those that have little sense of humor in regards to our 
beloved Mac, here was the response from our Mac department:

Is Windows a Virus?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

1.They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

2.Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as 
they do so - okay, Windows does that.

3.Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows 
does that too.

4.Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable 
programs and systems. Sigh. Windows does that, too.

5.Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too 
slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, Windows does 
that, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental 
differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running 
on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and 
they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.

It's a bug.
 
Dominic


On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 04:20 PM, S. Stanley wrote:

> I did not mean to imply that Mac does not have those problems.  I just 
> meant, I thought what the guy was saying was biased because, the 
> problems you would face in Windows would often be just as annoying if 
> not worse.  That mixed with his whiney voice is what made him sound 
> like an idiot.
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