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moot
Apr 14, 2006, 12:41 PM
What's up with this guy? Did Apple ruin his life or something?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2006-04-13-boot-camp_x.htm

But the notion put forward by some Mac folks — that Boot Camp will improve the Mac's position in the business and gaming marketplace — is backward. Instead, it's more likely to convince Mac users to switch to Windows once they've used it long enough to be deprogrammed.

Seems like he is the one who needs to be deprogrammed.


IJ Reilly
Apr 14, 2006, 12:47 PM
What an idiot. I like where he claims that a mini with a keyboard, a $150 monitor, and XP, would cost $1,100. Just like the rest of the column, it doesn't add up.
yellow
Apr 14, 2006, 12:51 PM
Ah.. I get to use my word again:

FUDtard™
moot
Apr 14, 2006, 01:10 PM
Ah.. I get to use my word again:

FUDtard™

Sorry. It must be late :confused: What does that actually mean?
yellow
Apr 14, 2006, 01:12 PM
FUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD) + Retardation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation) = FUDtard™

Which is what Kantor is.. a FUDtard™.

His arguments are spurious at worst, poorly concluded anti-Apple/pro-Microsoft logic at best.
IJ Reilly
Apr 14, 2006, 01:18 PM
My frequent lament: people like Kantor are actually paid by large and theoretically respectable publications to write such mindless trash.
yellow
Apr 14, 2006, 01:19 PM
My frequent lament:

Too true.. Roanoke isn't too far from me, maybe I could egg his house. :)
IJ Reilly
Apr 14, 2006, 01:28 PM
Too true.. Roanoke isn't too far from me, maybe I could egg his house. :)

I certainly couldn't ask you to, but it would make me feel a little better to know it had been done. ;)

Seriously, the market for freelance tech writing has almost completely vanished over the last couple of years. You'd think that the stuff still being published would be the cream of the crop. Then you read a piece as lame as this one, in USA Today no less, and one has to wonder how he got through the door ahead of anyone.
2nyRiggz
Apr 14, 2006, 01:29 PM
I will help you let get dome dog poo and brown bag his house too....well oncer again i will say...some people are stupid.

You can always tell when someone have it bad for something..


Bless
Benjamin
Apr 14, 2006, 03:25 PM
Ah.. I get to use my word again:

FUDtard™

LOL, urban dictionary that lol...