To summarise the Mac culture:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-01-13

and my personal fav:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-02-23&res=l

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Strip it back, put a real *nix distribution on it (YellowDog is a real OS,
> OSX is frankly.. not. I don't care how pretty it is.) And then you can
> cruise around wearing Bow before me for I am r00t t-shirts, grow a
ponytail
> that drips grease and has an extended family of rodents living  out of it,
> go full goth instead of sissy coffeeshop and be to cool to speak to
anybody
> who's not a member of SAGE... But at least you can listen to Kraftwerk or
> Aphex Twin or something instead of bloody sash.
>
> "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Well, a dude i worked with who now resides at "Choice Connections" who I
> > call the "Mac Daddy Pimpst0re" said that you could run Virtual PC, and
> have
> > best of all lands (windows, xwindows, osx) without a performance hit..
> >
> > Now, at the time we only had OS 9 on our iBooks, so i'm curious to see
if
> > this is true? carn do it Andrew.. goin..
> >
> > Cause if it is, by god i'll rape my bank account for one... mainly for
the
> > Photoshop performance / graphic tools i can use.. and it will then
> transform
> > me into this ultra hip cool dude, who drives a VW Bug around while
> listening
> > to Eurotrash techno from the likes of DJ Sash (avalante..*rolls eyes*)..
> oh
> > and i'll get thick framed glasses and dress in skivvies and that black
> > coffee club look.......you know what i'm yabbadoing about..
> >
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Alot of those issues were resolved with OSX and the move to a *nix
> kernel.
> > > Not that we'd suspect that the million monkeys with a million
keyboards
> > and
> > > enough time produced OS9... But we do suspect that said monkeys stole
> alot
> > > of the OS processing utilities and rendering engines, along with a
> decent
> > > hunk of the released open source material for yellowdog to be
> incoporated
> > > intot he OSX kernel.
> > >
> > > But Mac's are still overrated glorified pretty paperweights for
anything
> > > except graphic design. And Even for graphic design I still don't like
> the
> > > damn things. :) But Yellow Dog was kinda cool.
> > >
> > > Ermm.. but aside from anti mac propaganda (Eeeeevil! Studies show that
> > Mac's
> > > are Probably responsible for world hunger and the columbian drug
> cartels!)
> > > the animations in OSx are MUCH nicer then OS9. OS9 was kidna nice for
> > > graphic rendering to begin with. But OSX does allow for significant
> > sexyness
> > > with video and graphic rendering. But I still think you can do it
better
> > on
> > > a real computer. (Eeeeeevil!)
> > > "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > > What about animations? ie is it smooth as a PC?
> > > >
> > > > in OS 9.0 if you load a FlashMovie it was like running a 486 without
a
> > > > math-co-processer.
> > > >
> > > > I remember a dude i worked with who use to Sit in Director 7.0 land
> > > pissin`n
> > > > moaning about how slow it was.
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Andrew Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > > Scott
> > > > >
> > > > > The 800mhz that I had was lightning fast, would easily beat the
Dell
> > > > > laptop that I have hands down.  Every time I submitted the Flash
> form
> > > > > the graph was there almost instantly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Of course CFMX is only developer edition for OS X at this stage...
> > > > >
> > > > > Andrew
> > > > >
> > > > > Scott Barnes wrote:
> > > > > > hehe what clowns use mac's anyway :D
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hows the Macbeast standing up against CFMX/Flash Remoting? also
> does
> > > the
> > > > mac
> > > > > > still render flash slow? or is it just as fast as a PC? they
said
> > they
> > > > > > increased/fixed it in OS X but whether they say and do are two
> diff
> > > > things
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Scott.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Andrew Muller
> > > > > Senior Macromedia Certified Instructor - ColdFusion, Flash
> > > > > Certified Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion Developer
> > > > > Certified Macromedia Flash Developer
> > > > >
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