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Re: Apple advertisement



 Dr. B0Z0 Ratte spewed forth:

> > (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
> >   'multimedia is standard on macs while you have to install it on PCs'.
> >   News to me. My PC came with a CD-ROM, nice fast video board with MPEG
> >   decompression, sound card, etc. All built in and preinstalled...

And bundled with Windows 95.  The PC producers keep trying to make the
systems simpler to run by already putting everything in they think
you'll need before they sell it to you.  Which wasn't always the case.

    | ad where they show a *Pentium* playing a *CD-ROM* the absolute
    | reference for non-artificial stupidity. This is not possible given
    | the dimensions of a Pentium and those of a CD-ROM.

Wine and wafer, it's all symbolic of one's god and not a literal.  :)

 GVE| Microsoft is asking "Are you clever?" and "where do you want to go
    | today?" and it's none of their business.

If you can decypher the message behind the media, that you are too
clever for them, obviously.  Gotta agree, no one is forcing me to leave
a travelogue with Microsoft before I ship off to Paraguay (physically or
by Internet means) but they will be there when I arrive, I suspect.

The ad which gets me is for USRobotics with <bow down> Woz holding a
//e.  Funny that the machine he's holding won't use one of the x2 modems
he's pimping at anywhere near the modem's full speed w/o modification!!

                                                << mushroom >>

shouting back at the TV with Crow & Servo

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