[X4U] Flushed his toilet

keith_w keith_w at dslextreme.com
Wed Jan 24 01:23:27 PST 2007


Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jan 2007, at 15:23, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>> ...
>> It turned out that he lived in a rural area with water
>> supplied by a well with an electric pump. Every time he
>> flushed, it would turn on the pump, causing a dip in the
>> electric power, which in turn would cause the computer
>> to restart itself.

> This put a smile on my face.

>> Must have been a PC.

> This lowered my opinion of you.
> 
> Was there any need for that?
> 
> Was the whole purpose of your post to denigrate PCs?
> Because by extension, denigrating PCs denigrates their users. There may 
> be no need for it to do so, but any Windows user reading that post will 
> think "what's wrong with the nice new PC I just bought last year? it 
> works for me". And any Windows "enthusiast" reading your post would be 
> quite entitled to think "what an arrogant bunch those Mac users are! how 
> smug to think that computers which can't even right-click can possibly 
> be better".

Oh c'mon, it was a joke!
PC and Mac folks regularly get in small digs at each other's choices of 
computer. No need to get all bent out of shape for something like that, 
as tho' it were personal or something.

> I frequently suggest to my PC-using customers that they get a Mac, and 
> they just look at me sideways and say "but it won't be compatible". 
> Really, this is extremely fortunate for me, because I make my living out 
> of PCs, and the one customer who took my advice has not needed to call 
> me in the two years since. But is it surprising that Windows users don't 
> understand Macs, if Mac users must always be so condescending?

Mountain out of molehill, Stroller... Cool your jets!

> If you wish to encourage wider Mac use then I suggest you are less 
> divisive with your comments in future. And should you ever kerb the 
> current to your Macintosh you will find that it, too, will not run with 
> insufficient power.
> 
> And your story is an old one, anyway; do you still work with Mr 
> Danielsson? 
> <http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci966002,00.html>
> 
> Stroller.

keith whaley


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