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Unibody Imperfections

Apple Corps said:
Let me expand on my earlier point:

Go do something IMPORTANT with your Mac. Steve's quote:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” - Steve Jobs

Tremendous insight for all to consider. Quit wasting time - you will be dead soon. What will be your legacy - nitpicking surface deviations on a laptop?

BTW - this is an older quote not related to his medical leave!!!!
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YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME DUDE! You really just quoted Steve Jobs. Apple/Steve don't need you to defend them. You either spent way too much time researching that quote or you are just such a loser and obsessed with Steve that you remembered it.

Using that quote is the same as using a flashlight to look for flaws, get a hobby.

If Steve really felt this way maybe he would consider charging us a more reasonable price for their computers.

WOW
 
Apple Corps said:
Nothing to be ashamed of at all - and you obviously don't know what you are talking about. Having worked 15 years in a tertiary acute care center one deals with many types of patients and the symptomatic traits of their disorder. Fixation on the type of minutia is common in both disorders as well as several other disease processes.
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yes but you should have some respect. you are using it to mock the OP and also insulting them at the same time. so grow up and stop insulting entire groups of people
 
Another interesting observation related to the never ending:

"I've paid a lot of hard earned money for this computer and it better be perfect" argument.

People fixated on such irrelevant minutia will likely never earn the standard of living that could otherwise achieved by focusing on far more productive areas.

It is what you do with the computer that makes the difference - not the minutia represented by so many of these posts.
 
Apple Corps said:
Nothing to be ashamed of at all - and you obviously don't know what you are talking about. Having worked 15 years in a tertiary acute care center one deals with many types of patients and the symptomatic traits of their disorder. Fixation on the type of minutia is common in both disorders as well as several other disease processes.
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I guess you just find that on a wiki. Let me tell you this, maybe you are what you say you are. But I happen to have a brother who has autism, and I am with him all of my life, and being the older brother to him I need to know anything about autism. And using autism as an example then you brag about working on a acute care center for 15 years. you should know the difference of having OCD and being Autism. you should know that better. Thats why you should be ashame of yourself. Using OCD and Autism in one sentence
 
Apple Corps said:
Nothing to be ashamed of at all - and you obviously don't know what you are talking about. Having worked 15 years in a tertiary acute care center one deals with many types of patients and the symptomatic traits of their disorder. Fixation on the type of minutia is common in both disorders as well as several other disease processes.
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just b/c you work there does not mean you know anything about it. hope you have a psych degree to back up your statements
 
mykelala01 said:
I guess you just find that on a wiki. Let me tell you this, maybe you are what you say you are. But I happen to have a brother who has autism, and I am with him all of my life, and being the older brother to him I need to know anything about autism. And using autism as an example then you brag about working on a acute care center for 15 years. you should know the difference of having OCD and being Autism. you should know that better. Thats why you should be ashame of yourself. Using OCD and Autism in one sentence
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You appear to have an emotional control issue. OCD and autism are very different disorders but exhibit some of the same characteristics. There was no bragging about my work - just a statement of fact. I have a family member who is near genius level in certain areas but suffers from Aspergers Syndrome or mild autism - it is increasingly thought of as a spectrum of disorders / traits. The obsession with minutia is a characteristic that I have personally observed and dealt with. Searching for surface flaws is EXACTLY one of the symptoms that we have seen - so get off your high horse - it is a very accurate and appropriate observation regarding the minutia issue. I know it perhaps as closely as you do.
 
mikes70mustang said:
Apple Corps said:
You appear to have an emotional control issue.

now your diagnosing people, id like to see that degree sir
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No diagnosis was given - simply an opinion of an emotional control issue. My comments on the medical issue were not from Wiki but from many years in the acute health care field and personal experience with a family member exhibiting such traits. No need to try and diminish the feedback or knowledge by saying it was gained from Wiki - that was my point.

The individual in our family with this disorder would also go out after the lawn had been mowed and raked and find some type of grass that - with this disorder - believed did not belong in the yard. We would come back to the yard an hour or so later to find all of these little clumps pulled out and laying on top of the freshly mowed grass. It is an obsession with some type of "order" that has to be met.

And - it is very closely linked to OCD, Asperger's Syndrome and mild to sever autism. Sadly - it is a topic I know a lot about and how much of a waster of human talent it really is.
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Apple Corps said:
mikes70mustang said:
No diagnosis was given - simply an opinion of an emotional control issue. My comments on the medical issue were not from Wiki but from many years in the acute health care field and personal experience with a family member exhibiting such traits. No need to try and diminish the feedback or knowledge by saying it was gained from Wiki - that was my point.

The individual in our family with this disorder would also go out after the lawn had been mowed and raked and find some type of grass that - with this disorder - believed did not belong in the yard. We would come back to the yard an hour or so later to find all of these little clumps pulled out and laying on top of the freshly mowed grass. It is an obsession with some type of "order" that has to be met.

And - it is very closely linked to OCD, Asperger's Syndrome and mild to sever autism. Sadly - it is a topic I know a lot about and how much of a waster of human talent it really is.
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Id like to hear you opinion on autism as it relates to thimerosal- i expect riveting feedback
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Mike - I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion - you appear to simply be trolling at this point.

The examples are real and not funny to deal with in the least.

Back to the bigger issue - people obsessing on minutia (surface variances due to cnc milling, top case is off by 1 mm to lower case, gasket off by "x" amount) are - IMO - spending time on very non-productive areas by choice or perhaps have some mild form of any of several of the disorders that have been mentioned.
 
Someone's got a case of the Monday's

Maybe your computer was built on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon (providing China has the same working schedule as the US (I highly doubt it though)).:eek:
 
Apple Corps said:
Mike - I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion - you appear to simply be trolling at this point.

The examples are real and not funny to deal with in the least.

Back to the bigger issue - people obsessing on minutia (surface variances due to cnc milling, top case is off by 1 mm to lower case, gasket off by "x" amount) are - IMO - spending time on very non-productive areas by choice or perhaps have some mild form of any of several of the disorders that have been mentioned.
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The problem here isn't your view, but the offensive and rude way you express it. It's fine to tell the OP to not work himself over about the minuta, but he paid over $2,000 for a STANDARDIZED factory product (it's not homemade, buddy) and it should not have cosmetic imperfections like small dents. Diagnosing people of having major psychological disorders is fairly offensive and completely inappropriate to make on an online forum. He's entitled to have his concerns and obsessions over such a large investment, so just play nice or lay off.
 
Unprocessed1 said:
The problem here isn't your view, but the offensive and rude way you express it. It's fine to tell the OP to not work himself over about the minuta, but he paid over $2,000 for a STANDARDIZED factory product (it's not homemade, buddy) and it should not have cosmetic imperfections like small dents. Diagnosing people of having major psychological disorders is fairly offensive and completely inappropriate to make on an online forum. He's entitled to have his concerns and obsessions over such a large investment, so just play nice or lay off.
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Exactly this said it all. Its all about the benjamins baby. Like on my previous post when you looking for imperfection on a "NETBOOK" I quote that is something else.
 
Apple Corps said:
Mike - I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion - you appear to simply be trolling at this point.

The examples are real and not funny to deal with in the least.

Back to the bigger issue - people obsessing on minutia (surface variances due to cnc milling, top case is off by 1 mm to lower case, gasket off by "x" amount) are - IMO - spending time on very non-productive areas by choice or perhaps have some mild form of any of several of the disorders that have been mentioned.
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Wow, you read wiki as much as the forum rules. Top notch
 
Apple Corps said:
Mike - I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion - you appear to simply be trolling at this point.

The examples are real and not funny to deal with in the least.

Back to the bigger issue - people obsessing on minutia (surface variances due to cnc milling, top case is off by 1 mm to lower case, gasket off by "x" amount) are - IMO - spending time on very non-productive areas by choice or perhaps have some mild form of any of several of the disorders that have been mentioned.
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Just fade into the shadows, no one is having sympathy for you here.
 
Apple Corps said:
Mike - I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion - you appear to simply be trolling at this point.

The examples are real and not funny to deal with in the least.

Back to the bigger issue - people obsessing on minutia (surface variances due to cnc milling, top case is off by 1 mm to lower case, gasket off by "x" amount) are - IMO - spending time on very non-productive areas by choice or perhaps have some mild form of any of several of the disorders that have been mentioned.
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Trolling huh? You're so damn hypocritical. You sir, are the troll. Insulting people by diagnosing them with your opinion and blatantly belligerent attitude. People with your kind of "know it all" mentality are sickening. This kind of attitude would lead me to believe that you are in fact the one with the problem and a large amount of insecurity, not any one else here.
 
wow, i cant believe a thread like this exists. this is very disappointing. I can't find any other way to put it.
 
I used to waste my life away checking for imperfections; now that my life is a waste, I wonder what the heck was I thinking?
 
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