Too Bad
Alas, after all these years, Tammy Bruce still plays for the other team. I was hoping she might switch teams, but it was not to be. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised; very few people switch teams, and half of those who do are just kidding themselves anyway.
November 20th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
You got me there. I was thinking of an entirely different analogy. I don’t think she is making that switch either.
November 20th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Very clever.
November 20th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Some people would prefer to be switch-hitters……
November 20th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
No such thing. Emulation is the closest it gets, which some do well and others, not so well. AFAIK even that option only exists for her team, not mine. And besides, what’s the point? If you’re going to spend all that time and effort pretending to play for the other team, why not just join the other team?
November 21st, 2005 at 7:55 pm
I’m a switch-hitter by circumstance, not by choice. I have been using Macs for over 16 years — even programmed Macs professionally for a stretch — but since I started up my restaurant company, I am forced to used Windows at work. The POS software and a few other things only run on Windows.
So, I’ve got Macs at home and only work on The Dark Side when I’m at work. Sure, I’d rather use Macs at the office, too, but that’s not an option. And I use Windows enough to know why I hate it.
Just don’t flame me for my choice. Live and let live :)
November 23rd, 2005 at 5:55 pm
The Great Divide has always puzzled me. Why people would get an emotional, almost religious attachment to their computers is beyond all understanding.
Except for the mouse - why Jobs insisted on that Cyclopean one-button thing is another Mystery of the Universe - as is his contempt for color - until he saw which way the world was spinning. What you see on the screen is what counts, along with how quickly you can get it there, and from where.
There are 1 or 2 (OK, maybe 3) graphics applications where the Mac shines. Other than that, a computer is a computer is a …
My Win2000 PC at work has never ever crashed. I have no idea what the fabled “blue screen of death” looks like. And I can buy a ton of other stuff with the money left over from buying a PC box instead of a Mac.
(Hmmm… Maybe I do understand the attachment…..)
November 23rd, 2005 at 6:48 pm
People who work with computers think they are all about the same. People who work on computers know better.
Most computer users do not come anywhere near the parts of the system that are fundamentally different; it’s all user interface, and the user interfaces have mostly converged. Those interfaces are no longer significantly limited by computer resource constraints (CPU time, memory, graphics), which prevents the underlying architecture from intruding too much into the experience. If all you need are a few common applications, there really isn’t much practical difference. But if you stress the system, or go outside the common applications, there is definitely a big difference.
Most people who get worked up about the remaining differences are coming from the days when those differences were still readily apparant to an ordinary user. I come from those days myself, I’ve just stopped screaming about it.