"You can't do anything on a Mac"

[MDLarson]

AARGGHHHTHLLLLLLLFJlsfoiwerjsdfjower (short-circuiting)

That's what I heard one of my co-workers say today. (The subject line, not the short-circuiting )

Read, and I will vent:
Scott, our CAD person who works on a PC has to send a drawing of this machine* to a customer. He prints out a copy and walks over to me and my G3, and asks if I can get a readable digital file out of his drawing (PDF, JPEG). I ask him if he can get me a DXF file which I can then import to Illustrator and save as a PDF, slick as a whistle. So he goes back and checks it out.

As it turns out, he found a way to make an EXE file in which you can zoom in on the drawing and analyze the parts and whatnot. He walks over to our software engineer, Mike (also on a PC) and asks if he can open the file. He can. Scott then says "Ill see if Matt can open it", assuming that I can open EXE files or something. I heard Ed, our electrical engineer, sniff and say "You can't do anything on a Mac."

Scott walks over and asks me if I can read this EXE file. I'm sort of suprised at this, but I explain that I can open EXE files that are really self-extracting zip archives, not the PC program thing. It's like asking if a PC user can read a Mac version of Photoshop.

Anyway, I just had to rant a little. I do find it a little ironic how the PC people sometimes run to me for computer advice and junk, but they scoff at the mention of "Macintosh".

*link posted because I can!
Full web page: http://www.larsonsystems.com

[rinse]

that's the way. show how macs kick ass... that will work more than any ranting or flame war... at my last place of work i turned two MCSE's to the Mac after repeatedly showing them trump card after trump card.

One bought a iMacthe other has a B+W G3 now.

[Joseph Spiros]

What is that? a giant espresso machine? if so, i want it :P

[MDLarson]

Originally posted by Joseph Spiros
What is that? a giant espresso machine? if so, i want it :P

It's actually what we call an ASSP - Automatic Spring Sorting Package.

In spite of the corny acronym, it's a really cool machine that is capable of testing a lot of little springs, all automatically. They go for about $50,000 or more, depending on configuration. Any takers?

[Dak RIT]

Originally posted by MDLarson


It's actually what we call an ASSP - Automatic Spring Sorting Package.

Yes, but can it make espresso? mhm? mhm?

Cheers,
Dak

[edX]

the correct comeback to the next time you hear that is -

"you're right....but I can do just about everything on a mac "

very important that you include the sh*t eating grin that says you are a happy and confidently cocky mac user

[voice-]

Ed, we can't do everything. I've talked to some PC users and we have unitedly come to the conclution that Macs can not write HTML, chat over IRC, view .jpeg pictures, open Flash movies or play mp3s.
Macs also have no good word processor, like Microsoft Word, and we can't edit movies like the guys with Windows XP and Movie Maker.

Seriously, I've heard all of these.

Macs are also incompatible to such neat stuff as 2-buttoned mice and can't run UNIX operating systems because of their slow processors.

[ladavacm]

or the lack of it is very true. Microsoft Word is abysmal word processor.

The upside is that LyX is available, for the cost of X11 installation

The part about slow processor is also true; for most business applications (i.e. integer processing and byte string addressing) x86 and PPC are pretty much MHz per MHz equivalent. Depending on the locality of reference of the executing code, the bigger L2 cache of the older G4 machines puts them more in the Xeon league; new G4's are actually weaker in that respect, even if their L2 cache is faster