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John explains the how and why of pissing off Mac users. (Actually an imposter)
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Actually what really pisses this Mac user off is a video where the lips are not synced with the audio. Ugly!
#1. God you must be a Mac user. Only one of your kind would be so flaming persnickety! Let me guess, you fold your socks too?
John C. just won me over… I’m a fan for life
#2 – He does not fold his socks. He has sock hangers for them.
#1, you’re wrong. pissess off PC users too.
Yo SN, can this be fixed?
Thanks.
#2. I fold my t-shirts, too, thanks to this video http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4232
Isn’t this site all about folding clothes?
And even if you aren’t a Mac user, don’t tell me you actually sit through YouTube videos with out of sync audio. Come on, folks, just do a quick check of the last minute of your video before you upload it.
#3
Just FYI… John C. Dvorak didn’t invent the Dvorak simplified keyboard. 😉
SN: Yeah, I fold my socks. After 20+ years of PCs and PC-like computers I bought a Mac because Mac users are silly intolerant assholes, just like me.
Oh, and I like the computers.
#7…thanks captain obvious…i think he was referring to the mac sledging.
#9
What’s so obvious about it? I had to look it up, mr Besserwisser.
John cracking a smile?!!!!
I use both a PC and a Mac so I don’t really give a shit about this computer war. Have fun messing with people.
John C. Troll-ak?
J/P=?
I’m taking notes. 🙂
Great stuff…who cares if he’s being serious or not, it tags the mac users *perfectly*.
As for the Dvorak keyboard — do you anyone who uses it? It seems like such a great idea but I just absolutely can’t make the switch. My brain got wired QWERTY back in high school typing class. I’ve tried, even when I was a much younger man.
Dvorak Keyboards and Esperanto — ideas that make so much sense but will probably never happen.
As for the Dvorak keyboard — do you anyone who uses it?
Actually, “Piers Anthony”, writer of the Xanth series and other fantasy books, and some SciFi, uses one. He goes on in some of the author’s afterwords about how he has a customized system, from typewriter up to his current computer. ( I don’t know what the latest is, they’re usually in the Xanth books… and I stopped those some time back)
J/P=?
I’ve used both Mac’s and PCs. I use PCs because I have too at work, a result of market dominance. It’s interesting, very often in the hard sciences I find most people prefer a Mac over a PC.
Basically popularity and pervasiveness generally trumps design and engineering excellence in the market place. MS made the PC popular because of it’s low cost and initially IBM brand name. Low cost, marketing (brand name) and good lawyers are so important and that’s where MS shines, not in product excellence.
PC mavins exemplify “Cognitive Dissonance”; the descriptive phrase of individuals who invent rational explanations for conflicts between obvious facts that contradicted their feelings. That is when PC feelings and Mac facts are in opposition, PC people will find — or invent — a way to reconcile them.
I wonder if Mr Dovrak understands intellectual honesty. By his own words I don’t think so. The problem with lies is you start to believe them and report them out so others can justify them.
#18
I use Windows, Mac and Linux — all the time.
I’m sick of them all!
I want simple — SIMPLE SIMPLE SIMPLE. As simple as my Play Station One was. No manuals; no installations; no upgrades, no boot up times, no virus worries, etc tec. Just press a button or two and the app is running.
#18
Another Mac vs. PC war… Oh yummy…
I was a Mac user, kinda zealot in a way… but after buying Macs for home and for my company I’m sick of them. Engineering excellence my foot. They are superbly designed, well built and engineered allright, but usually are not leading edge. And are expensive.
But what bugs me the most about them is the AURA! – Every mac user acts like he’s found God in the tip of it’s fingers…
In my view of things Macs are the most effectively marketed computer ever. So well done that every flaw they have is touted as an advantage by the loyal flock.
#19 Greg, I’m with you… I’m sick of this “beer goggle” approach.
They all suck in a way or another…
Maybe you can devise a console type of PC:
-“The Office PC” a playstation like PC, totally built under the keyboard, that could connect to any display and with cable/Dsl/analog modem ports, that can connect to the net. And wireless, of course. And with Office on Flash ROM, that can be updated but never removed. Of course it will cost $199.
I use both Macs and PC’s, but to me they’re just tools. It’s the fanatics that JCD enjoys jerking around.
You dudes just got fish-hooked BIGTIME and don’t even realize it.
mac users are assholes!
#23- just like a train wreck- you can’t stop watching.
I’m a mac user, and I like John C. Dvorak. I’m getting a little tired of all the mac-user stereotypes floating around. I’ve used many PCs in my days as well.
The only question I have is, Is this supposed to be serious, or just a gag? I wanted to REALLY do this with my mac’s wireless keyboard, but was not sure how to make the OS recognize the correct strokes. Is there a keyboard remapping software available for Mac?
I’ve been using the dvorak keyboard for a little over a month now. . . started it the last time there was a post about it on this blog.
It really isn’t that hard to learn. Took a little over an hour and I was up to 30 words a minute. I’m now typing at the same speed I had on the qwerty setup (~85wpm) and I could fully expect it to get faster.
All Hail Dvorak Keyboards.
i think hillary c has a place for you on her campaign staff john if you ever tire of working the mac ppls…
Geeze, it seems that John has it down on how to piss off EVERYONE!
OMFG, reading all those posts confirms my theory on why nobody makes Mac viruses.
It’s way too easy to infuriate Mac users to the point that it’s boring 😉
I’ve seen DVORAK keyboards used by office clerks and office secretaries who do a LOT of typing and need to get things done fast often when taking dictation (but shorthand is better for dictation).
Doing something over 200 words per minute on those keyboards. It’s amazing. Though in this day and age it’s probably less of an issue with computers and laser printers.
So I always wondered if John C Dvorak was the same Dvorak that invented the keyboard style, but John seems to young to have been that same person; since this keyboard type has been around since around World War I. Maybe John is related to this man?