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Originally posted by fearless
This a great thing, so POSTMODERN. It's like Hendrix smashing a Strat. To bad this guy's audience was a bit smaller...
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No this is like hitting Hendrix with a Strat! And I'm not talking about a Fender, I'm talking about a Stratovarius! And destroying both!

Originally posted by mangis
I know why most of you are so upset. it's not that someone took something what they have and modified it to their liking. After all, who are we to tell someone not to change something they have? Yeah, he put an inferior engine in a G5 case, so what? The kid likes XP. I think it is rather inventive, and an ambitious undertaking. You want to tell his parents? Do you think they care? He is getting satisfaction out of a gift.

No, the reason you care so much and are acting as irrationally is becuase you are jealous. Get over it. There are rich people in the world. 3 grand means to them what 3 cents does to you. Its his box to modify if he wants. Now the pictures of that processor made me sick, and I would never do that to a G5, but it is not my machine, so who cares.

Actually the green lights in it were kinda cool. I nver thought about letting light shine thru the metal mesh.
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Regardless of how much this means relative to different people's monetary standing (even though from his writing it seems like they worked a lot to buy him that computer or else they probably would have cared less, and doubtfully would care if he "modded" it...), the fact remains that there are people in this world who are not grateful and they ruin things that others should use. Do you think it'd be right if I had enough money to buy everything in a Publix store and then let it all sit out or light it on fire? Yeah that's a great food mod lemme tell you! And then have the audacity to show it in a public forum where a huge amount of hungry starved children and homeless people could watch it all burn down in flames? Is this example that extreme compared to what this kid did? I think not! It's highly relevant to what this idiot did. There are not even enough words in the english language to explain how mind-blowingly stupid this kid is!

Maybe an extreme example might help? If you took every single synonym for the word stupid, and every single synonym for those words and took them all to the superlative degree, and had every single mac user (and a few PC users too it seems :D) yell at the top of their lungs all of the words into a huge funnel with a hose attached to a stethoscope in his ears he'd probably still not understand how stupid he actually is. Forrest Gump has words up on this guy. Next to him, Forrest looks downright gifted...as if he has much potential!
 
Did you all REALLY believe in it? Didn't you wonder why he didn't put a single picture of the dumped G5 parts in it?
 
I feel good for two reasons:
1) I had assumed this was a fake way back when I first read the thread (I swear it go back and check my posts).
2) I think many people realize that maybe we take things a little to seriously sometimes. (I am a Mac Zealot, but I still think it was a funny prank).
3) Now we can all go back to our "New Powerbooks Next Tuesday" threads!
 
Re: Re: It's a hoax

Originally posted by io_burn
I can't help but laugh at all you fanboys who have been debating suicide over all this, despite the fact that it was obviously a hoax since it was originally posted :)

This LOL is for all of you.

LOL.
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I think that most people here, even the 'fanboys' (by the way I really hate that expression) were sickened and angered by this persons apparant stupidity and wastefulness rather than the destruction of a G5. Although that in itself wouldn't be a pleasent site for anyone to see, I don't think it's what caused most of the upset.
 
Re: Re: Re: It's a hoax

Originally posted by TMA
I think that most people here, even the 'fanboys' (by the way I really hate that expression) were sickened and angered by this persons apparant stupidity and wastefulness rather than the destruction of a G5. Although that in itself wouldn't be a pleasent site for anyone to see, I don't think it's what caused most of the upset.
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Agreed as many people at OC.com were just as upset it wasn't a Mac or PC thing it was the level of stupidity shown by the character in the story.
 
here is G5 killers letter of explanation just so you don't have to lick the link.

I have been feeling a little guilty about causing so many people out there to have nightmares, depression and sickness from my little joke. The reaction of people word wide has blown me away. I never intended for such a thing to happen.

My in box went from 1% to 100% in 2 days (1300 messages). So many people were pointing out what a stupid thing to do, so many people were telling me of feeling sick, some even said they cried. I felt bad for those people. It was amusing to read things like "I should be hung by my testicles and lit on fire" or the constant reference to "Taking a Porsche and replacing the engine with a KIAs". Most people cried out in horror and carefully pointed out the error of doing such a silly thing.

I am sure you are wondering why this all took place.

Are the pictures real? Yes.
Is it my own G5 case that has been cut and hacked? Yes.
Did I give away two G5 2GHz processors (IBM PC 970)? No!
So what happened?

I got a free G5 shell from a buddy of mine and pulled a prank on a Mac loving friend. He got so upset. I wrote up a little story, my imagination and warped sense of humor kicked in. I sent it to OC.com just to see the reaction. I honestly didn't think it was going to be posted. I cannot believe how fast or how far it has spread on the internet. There are an amazing number of people who are emotionally attached to inanimate objects such as computers. Mac fans seem to be much worse that I ever expected. The G5 is amazing, I would never dream of really doing that ;)

Andy - G5 Killer" "I have been feeling a little guilty about causing so many people out there to have nightmares, depression and sickness from my little joke. The reaction of people word wide has blown me away. I never intended for such a thing to happen.

My in box went from 1% to 100% in 2 days (1300 messages). So many people were pointing out what a stupid thing to do, so many people were telling me of feeling sick, some even said they cried. I felt bad for those people. It was amusing to read things like "I should be hung by my testicles and lit on fire" or the constant reference to "Taking a Porsche and replacing the engine with a KIAs". Most people cried out in horror and carefully pointed out the error of doing such a silly thing.

I am sure you are wondering why this all took place.

Are the pictures real? Yes.
Is it my own G5 case that has been cut and hacked? Yes.
Did I give away two G5 2GHz processors (IBM PC 970)? No!
So what happened?

I got a free G5 shell from a buddy of mine and pulled a prank on a Mac loving friend. He got so upset. I wrote up a little story, my imagination and warped sense of humor kicked in. I sent it to OC.com just to see the reaction. I honestly didn't think it was going to be posted. I cannot believe how fast or how far it has spread on the internet. There are an amazing number of people who are emotionally attached to inanimate objects such as computers. Mac fans seem to be much worse that I ever expected. The G5 is amazing, I would never dream of really doing that ;)

Andy - G5 Killer
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Re: Re: Re: Re: It's a hoax

Originally posted by MacBandit
Agreed as many people at OC.com were just as upset it wasn't a Mac or PC thing it was the level of stupidity shown by the character in the story.
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and ... a lot of us argued for the disrespect it showed for his parents by being an ungrateful brat.
 
I don't really care whether this was a hoax or not. I guess that probably wasn't obvious in my posts, I was going based on the asumption that it was real despite it sounding pretty fake....in any case....I'm still pissed! Why? That case is still worthy of much better parts than that! I mean geez....

I think however that it would be somewhat funny if his hoax letter was a hoax just so we'll stop emailing him and he is that much of an idiot :D Still, the case is worth much, much more than those parts than he put into it! I don't even think he deserves the case!
 
Originally posted by zync
I don't really care whether this was a hoax or not. I guess that probably wasn't obvious in my posts, I was going based on the asumption that it was real despite it sounding pretty fake....in any case....I'm still pissed! Why? That case is still worthy of much better parts than that! I mean geez....

I think however that it would be somewhat funny if his hoax letter was a hoax just so we'll stop emailing him and he is that much of an idiot :D Still, the case is worth much, much more than those parts than he put into it! I don't even think he deserves the case!
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Who cares what he does with it. At least we now know he has a concept of the value. We know he isn't a flaming idiot which is what I took offense to not the fact that he had supposedly destroyed a very nice computer.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Who cares what he does with it. At least we now know he has a concept of the value. We know he isn't a flaming idiot which is what I took offense to not the fact that he had supposedly destroyed a very nice computer.
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I took an offense to both :D And, in addition, to the blatant disregard for other people, like his parents and the thousands saving up to buy G5s....
 
I didn't over react like others did but just found it stupid for a few reasons:

1. I couldn't believe anyone could be so heartless towards a gift like that. If my parents were to give me even a crappy eMachines, I'd still tell them how much I loved it and put it to use because I know they aren't rich and know that they try hard to do good when they find me a gift and I appreciate their efforts.

2. He said he wanted a Dell then said he wanted an AMD box. Dell doesn't make AMD, so what the heck?

3. He said he couldn't use a Mac because he didn't have the right software for it. At the end of the article he said all he does on his new "PC" was basically internet and DVD ripping. All Macs come with 2 web browsers installed (Safari and IE) and you could download 1,000's of internet applications for free for OS X and there are plenty of free DVD programs out there to do anything you wish, which are also all for free. In the end, a PowerMac could do everything he said he did without having to spend a single penny on any program.
 
Originally posted by zync
I took an offense to both :D And, in addition, to the blatant disregard for other people, like his parents and the thousands saving up to buy G5s....
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Actually, on second thought, I didn't take offense. I never take offense to anything unless it's directed toward me (I don't understand how certain things offed people, like Janet's boob....how does that "offend" someone?) However I did hate that this guy, even by doing a hoax (which is probably even worse), continues to advance America's (and probably other places as well) biggest problem...the plague of our time, actually the plague of all American time: IDIOCY! :D
 
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