<OT> Re: Create Photo CDs now: Ric Gone Wild -- as promised!!

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:55 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:

> I think the best features of the Mac multi-media software is (a) it's Good
> Enough(tm) for the average user, (b) is very easy to use, and (c) all the
> iLife programs, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and Garage Band, are
> seamlessly integrated.  There are more advanced programs for professional
> users, Aperture for photos, Final Cut Pro for video, etc., and these are
> supposed to be well integrated, but I can's say for sure as I've never used
> them myself.

Too bad that Butt Monkey Jobs won't open-source it, but then again, he
has "precursors" to his pathology, a history of plundering the
University System for his own gain, and even taught Bill Gates how to do
it. "Gee! Thanks to SPARC for the free nifty mouse, and the free
windowing system to use it! (both paid for by taxpayers) I think I'll go
sell it to make a fortune, so I can walk around barefoot, swilling
liquor off of the backs of those too stupid to sell it themselves, while
pissing on everyone's shoes and saying it's raining. AND, ...they
believe my farts are sacred!" 

Unbelievable. 

I promised ya! You just HAD to go there!! I promised I'd unleash the
verbage I stored away if there were anymore mentions of Apple Inc. Well,
with all this i-this and i-that, here it is!!! You asked for it! You're
getting it. 

The true Genius that put Apple Corp. on the map was Steve Woznak who,
after Jobs took EST and shoved him off the cliff, now teaches
kindergarten kids how to use the safety scissors.  Woznak created
single-handedly the Apple ][ motherboard design AND wrote the assembler
and BASIC to run on it. Jobs marketed it. As Roseanne Rosannadanna would
say "It just goes to show..." Remember the NeXT at 10 grand a pop? I
wonder what his users have to show for it now. Nadda, I would guess. I
bet after that reaming they're trying to figure out how to use the
safety scissors, so they don't have a flashback to the horrors and slash
their wrists. 

I hope and pray that in his next life he comes back as a hamster-subject
in a Cal-Tech lab. BAH! I'll live with Linux and KDE until we have the
nifty stuff too. I'll wait until Hell freezes over. 

Back in the early '80's I formed a computer club in the Johnson Space
Flight area of Nassau Bay, Texas. Since I had a premonition that
software should be free and would be, we kinda MADE software free
(Yo-Ho!) and that got me a mention the Esquire Magazine article by Leo
Gomes about Computer Piracy. (first ever mention in a major magazine) as
being the President of a computer club in Texas. (my name left out) We
grew pretty quickly!! Club meetings where little more than software swap
fests and everyone with an Apple ][ showed up with their machines, $500
floppy drives and boxes of blank disks. When we hit 150 members, which
is damn respectable even nowadays, we had to meet in larger public
places bringing large numbers of drop cords! 

About that time Jobs and Apple Inc. decided to harness our own efforts
for his personal/corporate gain... by starting his own official national
club, Apple Corp., with a slick magazine and even slicker policies. Sure
enough, yours truly got a phone call from Apple Corp. HQ. They pretty
much demanded that I take MY club and MY members and route everything to
them, on a platter. The 'orders' were that I was to start taking dues
payments, funnel the money to them for magazine subscriptions on a
routine basis and I'd receive a official wallet sized member card! GEE!
No KIDDING? WOW! I'll BEND OVER for that and grab my socks! Right? They
didn't KNOW me. 

Wrong! I told them I started the club, it's one of the biggest you got,
and we don't charge dues as we LOVE what we're doing here. They got
huffy and drug out the legal stick to use on me. We could not use the
word APPLE in our group name (Bay Area Apple User Group) or I'd get
personally sued. "Oh HO! You wanna sue ME? HA!" I had used the name
before they banded Apple Corp. and "...do you want to piss 150 loyal
users off, all at once?? You want to see your local ComputerLand shut
down when we all boycott they place? Wanna go to the wall and find
yourselves on TV while we're picketing during a moon launch, right next
door? We have the astronauts kid's for members!! You better be crazier
than me!" I think they became aware that they were dealing with a
madman, and settled for sending me threat letters from time to time. I
mulched one of them next to a fire-ant mound, and they wouldn't touch
it... had Lawyer smell on it.   

Later the local ComputerLand threatened to sue me as he was selling
Verbatim Disks for $40 a box and a member of the club was selling the
same box for $20 at club meetings. So, I called a boycott, we shut his
ass down. Last I saw him he was being wheeled out of his store on a
stretcher, pointing a skinny finger at me and railing vile invectives
about my lack of character and proper breeding. Go figure.  

Later on, as the club went to Hell, as all 150 of us couldn't upgrade by
an Apple Inc. fiat and they threw us off the cliff for support, I later
did some checking into the old member roster. I war-dialed the list with
my $350 internal DC Hayes. Every last one of them went to the XT. You
could open it up, poke around inside pushing those old memory chips back
into their sockets periodically, and shove various cards in to make the
machine do what you wanted it to do... just like the original Apple ][.
You know what? You still can, unless you're into laptops. The PC world
has stuck with Woz's desktop design until this very day. And he's
somewhere in Modesto, I believe, teaching kindergarten kids. You go Woz!
We still love you and hate what they did to you, but you are trying to
make a difference. It's just me, but I'll never own a machine I can't
toss a card into to increase it's usefulness or replace a part myself.
It's a Woz thing. 

That is why I will never use Apple products nor sanction the use of one
to -anyone- who'll listen. They betrayed Woz, betrayed us and all the
subsequent users of Apple Inc. produced 'Gee Whiz This Is The NEXT THING
But It NOW!' wonders from the marvelous mind of Steve Jobs. When he
pisses on my shoes, I won't call it rain. To me, the company has a
pattern of abuse towards their customer base and always will. Like the
battery issue for the Ipod, "Buy a new one, you cheap or something?" is
pretty much their answer to that problem. They do not give loyalty to
their users, but demand it from them as a business model, once again
according to my perspectives. 

IBM? Gives back. Intel? Gives back. Dell at least makes the appearance
of it. HP does a pretty good job of it. The industry is coming around to
giving back. Apple predictably, according to their pathology as a
company, never shall. Enjoy your machine while it is supported. At some
point in the not to distant future, you will be told that your machine
is no longer supported and that they will refuse to deal with you,
unless you buy the next step. Time will show. 

Like I said earlier, I'll wait until Hell freezes over for KDE/Gnome to
come up with the apps I want to use. It might get chilly, but I believe
that Linux will get those apps before I freeze to death. My lips may
become blue, but they'll be smiling. Sweet sweet revenge against ALL the
bastards. So, please don't feed them. It only encourages them to come
back. 

Ric


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