Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Ron Maxwell <rmaxwell@nycpinball.com>]

Since you mentioned '1984' this actually fits well.

One minute you are at war with Eastasia the next minute
you are at peace with Eastasia.Yet nothing has changed
because you are still at war.

Microsof tells us "this is the most secure operating system ever!"
and people believe them, and go out and buy it. Why because they say
so.  Deep down in our hearts people know it is not true but they still
buy it.

Would that make Linus Torvalds (sp?) the Emmanuel Goldstein
of the Operating System war? The open Source Programming
community the Proletariat (Proles)?

Better yet we already use a programming language called 'C Double Plus'
(C++).
Forgive me my Newspeak is a little rusty.


Hmmmmmmm.

Looks to me double plus ungood!

Unperson Ron #4711

Supertimer wrote:

> Remember back in 1983-1984.  Steve Jobs at
> Apple and his obsession with the anti-IBM
> crusade.  Remeber the 1984 commercial with
> the hammer being thrown at "Big Brother" and
> the intro of the Mac.
>
> Remember when Jobs pitted the Mac division
> against the Apple II division because he felt
> the Apple II represented the old school of
> thought like IBM.
>
> Now it is 2003 and things have turned come
> back full circle.  Now IBM is the savior of
> Apple.  Funny how in the latest issue of PC
> Magazine is a two page advertisement for
> the G5 Mac extolling the virtues of the G5,
> bragging about how IBM designed it based
> on their Power4 architecture.
>
> Hmm.  Now IBM is the good guy.
>
> Also, the claim that the G5 is the first PC
> 64-bit processor is also wrong.  That title
> belongs to AMD's Opteron chip which was
> released in April, several months ahead of
> the G5.