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DATE | 2009-01-29 |
FROM | Ronny Abraham
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] can someone here help me?
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From lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Jan 29 15:50:12 2009 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0TKo9wu032443 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:11 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n0TKo9Rx032442 for hangout-outgoings; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:09 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lest-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0TKo6rf032439 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:08 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so50556wah.21 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:50:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MVZHx6wARN8jzrfCQ4FS6GnQlOL7NLGsSGB1bj7NwbM=; b=aUfI2ZV+u7Q8JoUtN3vXMACsRhuS7CawlnmrDilCyz54n7gu21dcWZJfAMBwNFx6Y8 +J/tTWDcQh1vA5uvbkhMXcHSlHfu03crDfcdBT6WT4ev2lzaZFPCYUZULmTHcqwL9Z4t o+WhPfDiT6+J0/xZRkLaVNfwwFw3Q+zCM7Uqc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ba8f0xbRfi5ErNsVfoZ8Ej4wdUBu4Dfq8qVS6iOE20Xg8dkn9rutzOpF1c0st5cYWL WxvpZ8yk4H6ZCGscotcM+a4/3JzrFt7HOze/BejMWqGDrmajsheh8/+DO1S7m9IAbIKt afD3mA7ajxT3nmRrnxrlGuE/KfD9uvu8+eFtI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.127.1 with SMTP id z1mr271123wac.3.1233262200848; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:50:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4981FEA4.4070904-at-vnetworx.net> References: <1899202984-1233235361-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-708354516--at-bxe161.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <7405d1440901290530g234931d4x309eef0e293985b4-at-mail.gmail.com> <7405d1440901290531w695404ccq9c9fa9a91c6dcfc1-at-mail.gmail.com> <4981FEA4.4070904-at-vnetworx.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:00 -0500 Message-ID: <7405d1440901291250m167dcc99pe5337eea2b735012-at-mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] can someone here help me? From: Ronny Abraham To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Believe me, you have no idea how true that is. I'll admit when I first wrote that email I was freaking out on coffee, sleep deprivation and a few weeks of frustration. But the truth is, I've spent a crazy amount of time trying to get the most basic tasks done. And it's not just me. Search after search show the same problems among a number of users.
The ease of use only exists if you do what they want in precisely the way they want you to do it. I also get the impression that some languages on this platform are, shall we say, "more equal than others". Objective C is the classic example.
I like the hardware, but that's about it. Well, that and the Wi-fi connectivity is much better than Ubuntu. The interface is admittedly pretty, but I could have easily reconfigured the gnome desktop to look just as good in a quarter of the time I've been spending on this thing. At this point the only thing keeping me with this system is the $1400 I shelled out for CS4.
Let me just add that there's also something creepy about the fanbase when a developer writes that since the mac is too difficult to configure to use a necessary library in language X, then he'll probably have to switch to a different language. I've actually seen two or three posts like that.
-ron
> This may well be some edge case I happened to witness, but the fact > remains, Apple's reputation exceeds reality every time I've been in a > position to observe one of these things in action. > > - Ron >
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