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deathboyApple says: Tiger users could upgrade to Snow Leopard for £25 - but mustn't
I think that if Leopard's taken off the market, you could basically go swing if you expected me to pay for the box of software I didn't want.
Good work for not technologically enforcing the upgrade path, but poor show for the box set and the weaselly PR.
Gushing fanboy replies will get you banned, btw.
I'm getting to grips with my mac-based dev environment, and yep, it's an OK piece of kit, but (apart from my actual mates whose help I appreciate greatly) I have read enough apple-smugness on the net in the last two weeks, I don't have the stomach for more.
I think that if Leopard's taken off the market, you could basically go swing if you expected me to pay for the box of software I didn't want.
Good work for not technologically enforcing the upgrade path, but poor show for the box set and the weaselly PR.
Gushing fanboy replies will get you banned, btw.
I'm getting to grips with my mac-based dev environment, and yep, it's an OK piece of kit, but (apart from my actual mates whose help I appreciate greatly) I have read enough apple-smugness on the net in the last two weeks, I don't have the stomach for more.
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Date: 2009-09-20 03:51 pm (UTC)Also, 1997 called. They have the Jerk Store on the line, and they want YOU back.
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Date: 2009-09-20 04:07 pm (UTC)However I see now that you're not so good at this whole joke concept; not understanding concepts like "internal consistency", "making sense", and "actually the slightest bit funny" so as it's wrong of me to make fun of the disadvantaged I'll stop.
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Date: 2009-09-20 04:27 pm (UTC)In one episode, a somewhat bumbling, buffoonish character named George Costanza is in a business meeting, making a pig of himself with the complimentary shrimp, when another business associate in the meeting says 'Hey George - the ocean called - they're running out of shrimp!' This causes much laughter and derision at George's expense. On his way home from the meeting, in a case of l'esprit d'escalier, George hits upon the comeback 'The Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you!'
Several times throughout the episode it's pointed out that this is not a good line, and in fact makes little sense.
With this in mind, it becomes apparent that my joke was, in fact, intended to be a deliberately crap joke both acknowledging my own cliched joke about Apple and pointing out that you're using the hackneyed 'X called, they want Y' joke setup to point out that I'm being unoriginal.
Part of the reason I did this was because I thought making light of the whole thing would be kinda funny and because at first glance you seemed like you might be pretty cool. From your reply, I see you're actually just an idiot who thinks he's the arbiter of comedy.
Also, you're fat.
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Date: 2009-09-20 04:51 pm (UTC)seldom have I been able to inspire what I believe is known in PC terms as a "lez-off".
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Date: 2009-09-20 06:41 am (UTC)Schoolboy error right there. No good can come of it. Stop it right now.
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Date: 2009-09-20 08:21 am (UTC)Three words: "Windows Genuine Advantage"
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Date: 2009-09-20 12:41 pm (UTC)I'm totally thinking that the win/apple thing is a matter of paradigms that are by definition mutually incompatible to just the level that will drive you nuts. they have to be similar enough that you can actually do shit, because they both have to take on the main body of technological Good Things at any time, but then as soon as they can, they diverge quite a bit. All great if you only use one of them heavily. Psychologically, it gives you that "ew god. ok, done that now. back to my safe place. ahhhhhh. that's right." feeling. well, it does me :P
google mublinder for WGA, btw (yepyep, shouldn't have to crack it, i know!)
am kinda bearing up with my mac experience, finally, you know!
though we could just save the heart-ache and trade jobs? :)
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Date: 2009-09-20 09:10 am (UTC)Fucking m1cro$h4ft n00b lolz u need the istomach touch. its wey betta m8.
...I threw up in my mouth a little bit typing that.
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Date: 2009-09-20 12:53 pm (UTC)typing this made me weep
Date: 2009-09-20 12:44 pm (UTC)lol if apple wanted u to stomach it theyd have preinstalled istomach into snow lepid u n00b
stop doin things apple dun want u 2 u fukin idyit this aint wind0z3 lolololol
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Date: 2009-09-20 10:45 am (UTC)Leopard costs £125
Snow Leopard costs £25
…so you’re already looking at £150 without iLife and iWork.
Realistically, though, they could get away with a “£75 upgrade for Tiger users”… but then people would probably complain that the upgrade for Tiger users and upgrade for Leopard users were identical in every respect except the price. At least the box set has some degree of differentiation.
Either way, they’re going to piss somebody off by having the 10.6 upgrade at a low price.
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Date: 2009-09-20 12:49 pm (UTC)anyhooz, apple do charge for major firmware upgrades ont' ipod, innit.
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Date: 2009-09-20 12:55 pm (UTC)(could be, though, I hadn't heard!)
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Date: 2009-09-20 03:53 pm (UTC)I think Brooker nails that Mac smugness with perfection. Likening them adult Fisher Price Play Centres is pure genius.
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Date: 2009-09-20 04:34 pm (UTC)I'm getting used to it, and it's nae bad, but some mac users... gawd.
I'm lucky that my mates tend NOT to be that type and actually dish out good advice, but trawling through forums for info, the attitude is crushing.
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Date: 2009-09-21 07:29 am (UTC)MIND YOU, my cursory glances over the years haven’t found them to be noticeably worse than those devoted to Linux (ahem… GNU/Linux, sweet lords).