Man This Shit Gets Old

From, where else, another slashdot comment thread

Re: Now is THE Time To be a Mac Developer
by aluminumcube on 8ish

“Or think of it this way; the kind of people who are drawn to the Mac platform are drawn to it precisely because they don't want to fuck around with patches, workarounds and general hackery in order to make their computer run. Here is the test: could you imagine telling your mother to run out, buy a beige box, download some boot hack, install it, then install OS X on top of that?”


Re: I AM your mother
by zo on 3ish

“And I own two G4 Powerbooks, 15 and 17", two partitioned volumes each, running Tiger, max RAM, broadband, wifi/Airport Express, Nokia Bluetooth . . .

Or maybe your grandmother, and what you all need to get is, (who am I talkin' to: dateless geeks) women are not what you think.”