nootch> As for my teacher comment, my mother works in the NYC BOE and runs a computer lab that is used to educate teachers. Needless to say, she works closely with many of the NYC school system's top computer people. Since she works with them, I've been exposed to them.
Students look to teachers to be an authority on the subject which they teach. I can safely say that the teachers in the NYC school system are some of the most uninformed and undereducated when it comes to technology. It's frightening at the lack of knowledge that is present in the school system.
Last week, for example, my mother forwarded me a virus alert email. From the message headers, I could see that this particular email had started in the BOE's IT department, and had circulated to at least 200 people with ufttc.org (United Federation of Teachers - Teacher Center) email addresses. It took me under 20 seconds to go to Symantec's site and bring up the page listing this particular email as a known hoax. One would think that someone working in an IT department would have the intelligence to verify a virus alert before propogating it to every teacher under their charge, right?
I didn't intend to imply that EVERY teacher is uninformed about technology, but if the top of the chain of command is any indication, then they're horribly behind the curve.
To expand on my original statement, if you were to check to see which computing platform is used primarily in this country's schools, you would find that over 80% are Macs. The reason so many educational facilities chose Macs in the first place is because of their user friendliness, ease of use, and reliability.
If these people who are so undereducated when it comes to technology can comfortably navigate their way around the Mac platform, what does it say about someone who claims to be tech savvy that cannot? Sure, there are aspects about the MacOS that are confusing, but the same argument can easily be made about the Windows platform. The same argument can be made about the Linux platform. The same argument can be made about Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and just about any other OS/hardware platform out there today. Does that mean that those other platforms are bad? Of course not!
As for me sounding frustrated, yes, I get frustrated when someone bashes something without showing any real evidence as to the cause of their dislike. I don't want to equate the platform war to racism, but the argument "There's something about them I just don't like" sounds horribly ignorant in either case, doesn't it?
Mac Gaming> Sorry Nap, but you're totally off in criticizing the Mac platform for lack of games.
http://www.compuexpert.com/html/mac_explorer.shtml
Without even delving too much into that page, I can see that Q3A, Deus Ex, Diablo II, Rouge Spear, Driver, and Star Trek: Elite Forces are all available for the Mac.
These don't even require emulators to play, as JH pointed out could be done.
Not enough games for you? They don't look like elementary school puzzle games to me.
As I stated before, you're not wrong for not liking a particular platform, or prefering one platform over another. But at least have a logical reason as to why you feel that way if you're going to bring it up for discussion.
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