Apple products no longer "green"

Aoxomoxoa said:
Don't you have an iPhone? Anyway, I think you are wrong.

In my experience, it is mostly the label obsessed that love Apple products, techies prefer droids.
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this is also a retarded generalization. at least the first part. I can't decide who's being more retarded in this thread.
 
Granule said:
No - how silly to go overboard with planet green hysterics. Where is the Day after Tomorrow, liberal?
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Dying coral reefs, wildfires out of control, disappearing coastline, more frequent & intense storms, longer heatwaves, lost habitat, polluted waterways.

I dunno - you tell me.
 
King of Owls said:
actually most people in the tech community hate apple.

hardware geeks consider them overpriced part for part
software geeks hate the closed garden and locked down nature that apple always has with its products

there is a niche though. but yeah, you are wrong darla.
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Anytime I am in a CIO's office they have a Mac on their desks. I really don't know what the tech community consists of, but that is simply a fact. And any time I have discussed it with one, and I've only discussed it with a few, they have nothing good to say about pc's. If you know any IT guys who are using pc's they arent around here.
 
Darla said:
Why is this even ironic? Do you people know any IT people? They are mostly geeky, womanless, Libertarian types? They almost all swear by Apple. IT boys are infamous for being sexist Libertarians. I mean, this is amazing to me. Do you fools ever leave your homes?

There's nothing ironic about this. It's just pure stupidity.
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With Green-minded people all touching up their screens... It is ironic. It isn't techies that swear by Apple, it's the popularists... the "in" people.
 
King of Owls said:
actually most people in the tech community hate apple.

hardware geeks consider them overpriced part for part
software geeks hate the closed garden and locked down nature that apple always has with its products

there is a niche though. but yeah, you are wrong darla.
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The super-techies will constantly rant on about the superiority of Linux... yet all the boxes they care for at their place of work are all PCs with the firewall or other smaller pieces of technology being Unix/Linux.

The places of work that I have seen most populated by Apple were Real Estate offices. I swear it was about half and half, they'd mix them up. Back in the day when I built computers and put together networks for a living I had a bunch of them for some reason. I had to use Apple Talk, etc. to get them to talk to each other...
 
Damocles said:
The super-techies will constantly rant on about the superiority of Linux... yet all the boxes they care for at their place of work are all PCs with the firewall or other smaller pieces of technology being Unix/Linux.

The places of work that I have seen most populated by Apple were Real Estate offices. I swear it was about half and half, they'd mix them up. Back in the day when I built computers and put together networks for a living I had a bunch of them for some reason. I had to use Apple Talk, etc. to get them to talk to each other...
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Umm the Apple OS is Unix....
 
Occupant said:
Umm the Apple OS is Unix....
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With the overlay... Nowadays. They sneer at it, it's made to be "intuitive" and easy and isn't the full version of Unix.

Linux with its open-sourcing is their "gem"... yet, again, the computers they oversee all turn out to be PCs. With a pure Unix or Linux box/es in the background as firewalls.
 
Darla said:
You know a lot about computers USC? I didn't know that. I don't even know what linux is!
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Yah. I started on computers in the mid 70's when a powerful computer had a whopping 32K of magnetic core ram.
Finished out my career as a software project engineer working on the largest client server system in the USA.
Sun was making the biggest fastest honkin servers for us that they could.
 
Occupant said:
Yah. I started on computers in the mid 70's when a powerful computer had a whopping 32K of magnetic core ram.
Finished out my career as a software project engineer working on the largest client server system in the USA.
Sun was making the biggest fastest honkin servers for us that they could.
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My first computer was an Apple IIc. The first modem I had was one you had to put the telephone receiver into a cradle to connect. It was all text and virtually no pics. I think I was cooking along at like 900 baud.
 
Damocles said:
Which changes nothing of what I said about it. A truncated version of Unix underlay is not the fave of techies. Open-source is what they preach and what Apple will never give.
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Yaah on the apple not giving in to open source, but it is a much more sound os than Winderz.

And I am not an Apple fan by any means.
 
WinterBorn said:
My first computer was an Apple IIc. The first modem I had was one you had to put the telephone receiver into a cradle to connect. It was all text and virtually no pics. I think I was cooking along at like 900 baud.
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I worked at CompuServe when 14.4K was just coming out, one of my first jobs... I've been a techie ever since. I use anything though, Unix/Linux/Apple/PC it makes no difference to me, I've even set up networks with Novell pieces...

I have both apple and pcs (even one using Linux) on my network at home... I don't buy Apple products though, Apple is overpriced and isn't provably "better" than any of the other products.
 
I must admit, this made me laugh. Bad karma will now be headed my way.


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