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March 26, 2003
Flame wars
On MacSlash there was an article about the fact that Adobe has decided to publish some PC vs Mac benchmarks to demonstrate that the PC is faster for some tasks that a Mac. The reason for interest in the claim is that it coincided with Adobe promoting the sale of DELL PCs. The suggestion was that perhaps the choice of what benchmarks to publish may have been influenced by commercial realities.
This rapidly degenerated into a flame war between PC and Mac bigots each trying to claim that either they had a "bigger one" or "wider one" or "faster one" or "more handsome one" or something.
An annonymous coward published the following perfect (unedited) comment:
OK, everybody, the reality check has bounced.
Now, simmer down and repeat after me:
IT'S JUST A FREAKIN' BOX OF ELECTRONIC PARTS THAT WAS OBSOLETE BEFORE IT SHIPPED TO ME. MY COMPUTER CHOICE IS INSIGNIFICANT IN THE LARGER SCHEME OF THE COSMOS. I WILL FIND SOMETHING MEANINGUL FOR MY LIFE OTHER THEN BITCHING AND MOANING ABOUT WHICH COMPUTER IS FASTER OR BETTER BECAUSE MY LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO SPEND IT FLAMING MESSAGE BOARDS WITH MY IGNORANT AND/OR INSIGNIFICANT EPHEMORAL OPINION.
Now, don't you feel better?
Posted by Ozguru at March 26, 2003 08:03 AM
