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Wow, it's amazing the dumb and twisted ideas that get lodged in these people's brains. Amazingly ignorant!

They're quoting a nube, who thinks he's an IT guy?

Apple was making computers suitable for a middle-manager's home office before IBM did, and has been writing operating systems longer than icrosoft has.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:43 pm Comment from: MacNScott

I thought this was a joke article. Not to be taken seriously. Wow.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:43 pm Comment from: Davidlow

Since when is Pee-wee Herman in the computer criticism business? And why doesn't he like toys all of a sudden??

Oh wait, that's a different Paul Reubens. Nevermind.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:43 pm Comment from: jjjj

he's just worried about job security.

And it's funny that MS worked on all of those at the same time, and they're all horrible. Maybe not _all_ of them (Windows Server 2008 isn't 100% dog), but most of them. So... what was that point again?!

Paul Rubens = Windoze IT dinosaur & FUD-meister.

MaWo: 'anyone'. As in, "Anyone that believes his crap deserves what they get."

Jul 31, 08 - 01:45 pm Comment from: Andy

So Apple is a toy maker, eh? How does Mr 'expert' explain Windows's obsession with cornering that vital computer game market then? Does Photoshop qualify too? What about MS Paint? Hell, there's even Minesweeper and Solitaire! (And on a Windows ME computer I used to have, some pinball wizard game)...

And by the tone of the article, he probably wants hoards of angry emails to not only inflate his ego, but provide more clueless ranting material about Apple users being cultists and the like.

At the end of the day, it's his loss. If he wants to live in hell, let him be.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:46 pm Comment from: WindozeKiller

I didn't know Pee Wee Herman changed careers.

'Nuff Said.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:46 pm Comment from: Davidlow

"Apple Computer ... dropped the 'Computer' bit from its name in January 2007 as a tacit admission that it was now a consumer gadget maker."

As opposed to Microsoft Computer Corporation?

Jul 31, 08 - 01:48 pm Comment from: Willie G

"During the past two years, it worked on Vista, Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V virtualization system and the Zune — all at the very same time."

Hmm.. so let's see.. 2 failures, and a bare-bones virtualization environment. Yeah, ok.... This guy needs a dose of reality

Jul 31, 08 - 01:49 pm Comment from: sfstevelong

Since when did PeeWee get into IT?

funny but I worked in IT for a large enterprise for a number of years and Macs were used there with no issues. And according to people still there, the number is increasing substantially.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:49 pm Comment from: ericdano

Wow. And who is this "expert" or "Journalist" they have writing for them?

Jul 31, 08 - 01:50 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

Wow, a village has lots its idiot, and we've found him.

Does he make any substantive claims or is it all about gibberish like since iPhone users like to buy Crash Bandicoot, the iPhone is not enterprise-ready? Does he even realize that virtually all business PCs have had solitaire loaded on to them at one time or other? Does that make them silly game devices?

Jul 31, 08 - 01:51 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

Do you know how many people at my mud brick company still carry around PC laptops?

You could probably drown them all in a bathtub. Almost everyone has a MacBook. It's unreal.

Hmmm... I kinda like the idea of Apple being a toy maker.

Why is it that every sentence I read written by Paul Rubens, I hear Derek Zoolander's voice???

hahahahahahahaaaaa...

MaWo: 'away'. As in, where Paul should go.

Jul 31, 08 - 01:55 pm Comment from: Micro Me

I think this guy must have tutored my IT dept. I endured years of petty obstruction, before they finally realised they weren't going to beat me into submission, and grasped the idea that the company wouldn't collapse if they allowed a Mac on the network. And every day, I still observe the hidden costs of my colleagues struggling to achieve simple tasks on their Windoze PCs that are a breeze on my Mac.

Microsoft walking and chewing gum at the same time.

So THAT'S the problem with Vista! Too much gum chewing. Nothing a half billion propaganda campaign won't fix. That'll do it.

More flop sweat from the Microshaft Mediocrity Cult. The more Balmer's toadies puff, the more pathetic they look.

I hjave used OS X Server in my company and I hardly ever went down to computer room, a.k.a. freezer, my Win peers were there constantly.

So... Apple's computers shouldn't be used in IT departments because the company is successful doing other things. I see. People are abandoning Windows and switching to Macs because...?

This shit is so funny, this guy is not talking serious, is it? UNIX a toy OS? or this guy is a complete ignorant o he is just joking.

M$ sells Zune and Xbox, are those not toys? And they don't have Computer in their name either.

"Because the truth is, Apple is not really a computer company. It makes toys.

No Paul, the truth is you are a prehistoric ignoramus that knows nothing about what Apple makes apparently! Companies like Genentech have been using OSX and Mac computers for years. The scientists actually prefer Macs over PC's.
The only toy out there is you Paul!

As the public becomes more aware of what using a Mac is really like, two things are happening; people realize how deficient Windows is, and these Microsoft shills quickly lose any credibility they might have had, until they are simply written off as mindless loonies shouting at mailboxes.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:03 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

What the hell! So the XBox is sold by who?

I'll bet Rubens and Enderle are playing Twister right now.
Both are using the old 69 move.

Last time I checked, Microsoft was also heavily invested in making "boys toys"...maybe the author never heard of the XBox?

Jul 31, 08 - 02:05 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

"During the past two years, it worked on Vista, Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V virtualization system and the Zune — all at the very same time."

So, since Vista has been a disappointment, and Zune has been a screaming brown failure, I have just one question:

Is it true that when you were born, the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?

Seriously. I want to know, Paul. If you can tear yourself away from WoW and cheese doodles for a minute, could you email me? kthxbai.

This Rubens goober anticipated the Microsoft's Zune toy with the ultrasophisticated argument that, "Microsoft can walk and chew gum at the same time".

Lol!

During the past two years, Apple worked on the iPod, iPhone, Macbook, iMac, Mac mini, TV, Airport Extreme, Airport Express, XServ, OS X Leopard, iLife, iWork, iTunes, App Store, and probably some other things I forgot...ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:09 pm Comment from: wyorancher

Heh - he mentioned Zune as if it was a success. Lessee - what is the date today? Ahhhh - the checks from Redmond must have arrived. If this guy wasn't writing these wonderful articles he would be saying "did you want to super-size those fries?"

Jul 31, 08 - 02:10 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Holy shit, did you see this assholes picture.

It looks like one of those pedophile mug shots on the evening news.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:11 pm Comment from: Macromancer

Hello? The 90's called, they want that attitude back.

This is an outrage!

Paul Rubens is not an idiot, ignoramus, stupid, or a tech dinosaur.
Paul Rubens simply knows which side of his bread the butter is on.

Like so many others, he'll lie, fabricate, obfuscate and spread FUD, until, like the mouldy bread crusts thrown from the King's kitchen to the muck-clawing peasants, the last Microsoft dollar has been tossed his way.

WRONG!
Apple is a toy machine, no doubt.
I love the rock hard stability of the core kernel, don't get me wrong but...
you know it is just not that zippy. I can feel the eye candy weighing some functions down. I wish I could just turn some shit off sometimes. I wish I could do things with my Apple equipment that they did not intend or design.
Apple loves control and they want to weird you down their path of enlightened operation. Sometimes, most times, I am in lock step--like its a no-brainier, DUH! but often I feel like---"this is my computer you arrogant fucks! Let me do what I want."
However, Windows just plain sucks, so what are you gonna do?

Jul 31, 08 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Macromancer

"Microsoft is huge, and it is quite capable of doing more than one thing at a time,"

FAIL. Walking and chewing gum are TWO separate things

Jul 31, 08 - 02:15 pm Comment from: Me In LA

That's f*cking scary.
And it's why we have the battles we have with "IT"
There are so many of those knob-sucking MS pussies, that nothing gets done in corporate America, unless you work at Apple, Google, etc.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:16 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

ChrissyOne,

"If you can tear yourself away from WoW and cheese doodles ..."

I peg this guy for a Sims player who eats boogers. Probably gets off exposing himself to cartoon characters. Freakin' deviant.

So Paul "started his IT career sitting in front of a PDP-11 in 1979", if his bio is to be believed. Too bad he hasn't learned anything in 29 years.

I started my It career sitting in front of an IBM 1620 in 1966. One thing I've learned in 42 years is that Unix is not bullet proof, but nuclear war proof, when configured properly. OS X is not similar to Unix, not a stripped down version of Unix, but a full, industrial strength, rock solid, POSIX compliant, certified version of Unix with the world's most advanced and intuitive GUI riveted on top of it. It can be configured to run your wrist watch or a steel mill.

Windows is an overblown toy OS, an expansion of DOS, which was written when the average consumer PC was incapable of running Unix. Over the years it's been remodeled, patched, and glued together in ever increasingly complex, Rube Goldberg fashion, until today, I suspect that NOBODY at Microsoft really understands how it's supposed to work anymore.

I have investigated on my own every major security breach, like credit card number theft that's happened in the last 5 years, and at the root of every one is a Microsoft server system, often running an IE web app for user connectivity. How insane is that?!!!

Microsoft is the past. Apple is the future in IT, as well as gaming, and entertainment.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:19 pm Comment from: Andy

@ Sir Gill Bates

Someone ought to get him a more prominent MS 'evangelist' spot, then. Imagine his mugshot all over MS products! Along with Ballmer, he'll take MS into brave new lows!

Jul 31, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ Zeke:

I Command-C and Command-V your post!

@CCAP1:

"I love the rock hard stability of the core kernel, don't get me wrong but...
you know it is just not that zippy. I can feel the eye candy weighing some functions down. I wish I could just turn some shit off sometimes. I wish I could do things with my Apple equipment that they did not intend or design.
Apple loves control and they want to weird you down their path of enlightened operation. Sometimes, most times, I am in lock step--like its a no-brainier, DUH! but often I feel like---"this is my computer you arrogant fucks! Let me do what I want."
However, Windows just plain sucks, so what are you gonna do?"

How about you go buy a copy of "Unix for Dummies", fire up "Terminal" on your Mac, log in as "root", and hack away at your Mac OS all you want. Customize it to your heart's content. It's Unix, after all. You have access to just about every parameter and setting. Stay in Unix command line mode forever, if that floats your boat. Try getting that level of access to your Windows OS. Let me know how that works for ya.

Jul 31, 08 - 02:24 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

Thank you, Mr. Rubens for courageously telling the truth. Read it and weep, MAC dorks. MACs are toys and shouldn't be allowed inside the hallowed halls of business. Stick to what you're good at: wasting time with that rock and roll music on your Zune wannabe I-Pods.

Avid Windows enthusiasts get it. I don't know why you MAC lemmings don't get it. Suck it, MAC dorks!

Your potential. Our passion.™

Jul 31, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Sir Gill Bates

Careful. You'll offend the deviants.

I think it's a mistake to analyze this guy's logic. There are many, many people who amaze me with their factual or logical errors. But this guy knows better. He's just trying to get hits.

I'm really sorry that getting hits is used to judge web sites and/or gain ad revenue. It rewards jerks for being jerks. The best way to hurt this guy is to ignore him.

fuk dat man

Jul 31, 08 - 02:29 pm Comment from: Cubert

"It makes toys."

Way to blow your credibility right off the bat there, PeeWee!

@$$ munch!

Jul 31, 08 - 02:29 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ ZT®

"1. Microsoft treats its customers like they're stupid."

Can you blame them?

"During the past two years, it worked on Vista, Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V virtualization system and the Zune — all at the very same time."

1) The company I work for ain't switching from XP to Vista any time soon, explanations VISTA IS A POS! Me thinks XP is a POS too
2) We were supposed to be switching over to Windows Server 2008, but we are not, why, because the POS is millions timers slower than Windows Server 2000 another POS from Microcrap
3) This asshole must go and hang himself a million times
4) Zune is a piece of shit
5) Fuck Microsoft and Balmer too, I will die and resurrect and die again before I buy their shitty products!