Not really, just a higher order of evolution. :)
What you have to watch out for is the Mass Spawn.
Thats where a person becomes a super geek.
A super geek is one who has certifications and such.
That allow him to teach others to become certified
super geeks and so on and thats how they replicate,
or spawn.
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At 11:45 PM 12/4/97 -0500, John McEwen wrote:
>Hello Listers:
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>One of the great things about todays nerds is that they no longer talk
>English or anyother recognizable means of human communication. Does this
>mean that they evolved into a new species. I hope this won't mean
>intermarriage.
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>John
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>>J. Neil Doane wrote:
>>> And we all know Macs come with faster hard drives (SCSI built onboard,
>>> which _few_ PCs have)...
>>
>> That's a grossly unfair statement.
>>
>> PC users have the choice between economical EIDE or
>>faster SCSI. Mac users have no such choice.
>>
>> I have an all SCSI PC (running Linux).
>>
>>> And Macs are much more expandable than
>>> PCs...more devices will fit on the integrated SCSI bus than the EIDE bus
>>> on PCs.
>>
>> That statement is very wrong. Again, SCSI is SCSI, and
>>as for expandability, most PCs have a row of slots that
>>can handle millions of products. Most macs have a slot
>>or two that not many products work with.
>>
>>> I mean, hardware-wise, they are superior in almost every
>>> conceivable way.
>>
>> Simply, no.
>>
>>> Many of the comments so far have involved comments about Macs from a
>>> perspective of the OS. Granted, we all know that MacOS is slow and
>>> cumbersome and _doesn't_ perform as reliably as would we would like it to
>>> sometimes
>>
>> ...and the problem is that with Macs, that is what you
>>are pretty much stuck with.
>>
>> There are more OSs available for Intel hardware than Mac
>>hardware. Not that it matters because everybody should just
>>run Linux anyways. ;>
>>
>>> BeOS and Linux also run on PowerPCs which makes for _powerful_
>>> servers...
>>
>> But the Mac version of Linux lags WAY behind the Intel
>>version, and also has no versions of a lot of software that
>>is only distributed in binary form.
>>
>>> I'm not sure I can think of any
>>> non-Windows95/98/NT OS that will run on an x86-based machine that won't
>>> run on a Mac better actually.
>>
>> Linux obviously. Hell, just about anything. What runs better
>>on a Mac than a PC?
>>
>>>(And I can run Windows 95 with VirtualPC on
>>> our G3 _faster_ than it will run on a Pentium 166...and that's while
>>> running MacOS _at the same time_.)
>>
>> So? Your Mac cost twice as much as that P-166, that's
>>no feat. "For twice the price I can run your software".
>>
>> And I run Mac software on my Intel Linux PC. Well, not
>>a lot of mac software because there isn't any.
>>
>>> Agreed, Windows 95 has more applications, but just because the parts are
>>> more available for a Chevy Camaro doesn't mean it's a better car than a
>>> Shelby or Lotus.
>>
>> Parts is an incorrect analogy.
>>
>> Roads are a better analogy. Owning a Mac is extremely
>>limiting in so many ways. A weak OS, weak software support,
>>and pricy hardware.
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Boicey
>>Ottawa, Canada
>>tboicey@brit.ca
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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